LECTURE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2434, 27 May 1922, Page 2

LECTURE.

There was a good, attendance on

Thursday evening in' the Park Street Hall to hear Mr D. B. Forde Carlisle’s lecture on “The Genoa Conference Split and the Reason Why.” The speaker dealt, with his subject mainly from the Biblical standpoint. Scriptures in the Book of Daniel and Ezekiel were read to show Cat there could be no sympather■■ alliance between the East and tl ;> West and it was significant that Russia, an Eastern power, was the main cause of the Genoa split. It was further pointed out that there could be only four great Gentile World Empires, viz., Babylonian, Medo-Persian, Grecian, Roman, the last mentioned yet. to be revived in a ten kingdom form united under one common head. Russia, m/t being a part of the old Russian Empire, could not he included in this future Western confederacy, hence again the Genoa split. A still further reason for the split was that the political interests of the East are diametrically opposed to those elf the West and this opposition of interests makes a great conflict between them inevitable in the last days of this dispensation. This great conflict, said the speaker, is the result of the different, policy pursued by each in reference to the -lew and the land of Palestine, resulting eventually in the armies of the East and West being gathered together in battle array in Palestine, but only to he destroyed by the coming of Christ as “King of Kings <‘iii<l Lord of Lords.” Mr Carlisle closed his address by urging his hearers, in view of the .solemn times

ihead of all the Nations, to see that they were ready for Christ’s coming by the acceptance of Him as their personal Saviour.