SCRIPTURAL PROPHECIES

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 22 July 1929, Page 2

SCRIPTURAL PROPHECIES

ABOUT THE END OF THE WORLD ADDRESS IN RICHMOND BAPTIST CHURCH Tn the Richmond Baptist Church yesterday morning, in speaking on the subject which lias frequently been lienrd of late, the Rev. Fred C. Every remarked that great misconception exists concerning the phrase appearing in St. Matthew 13, 39, “The harvest is the end of the world.” Some ridiculed the idea, he said, of there being any end to a world of matter which they declared to be indestructible, but they did so because they failed to understand the meaning of the word “world” as used in that'scripture. This word was not always a correct rendering of the words used in the original where there were three — oikoumene, kosmos and aeon —all alike rendered world in our Bible. Continuing be stated that there was an impression among many that this age ended in 1917 when, without a single shot being fired either in its capture or in its defence the Turks suddenly and unexpectedly surrendered Jerusalem the “Holy City ’ to General Allenby, thus bringing the Gentile dominion over the land of the Jews to a sudden and dramatic end. “If tliis is so many ask,” he said, “why hasn’t the end appeared, why hasn’t the < Lord come?” Mr Everv’s reply was given by a reference to a common business custom. If one had a bill falling due to him on say the 15th day of the month and it was not paid' on that or upon the following day lie did not immediately fly to the Court and issue a summons against the man who had not paid the hill. He had to wait until the full time of grace as allowed by the law had ended before he could proceed to collect. “And so in like manner,” he said, “God’s (r race may be extended to mankind over the end of one age or dispensation into the next. Though things in our eyes may appear to “continue as the} 7 were from the beginning” yet in the eyes and purposes of God they may have already ooine to an end. Many “signs of the end” times were quoted from the scriptures, notably “rumours of wars, pestilences, famines and earthquakes in divers places.” The address was illustrated by a monster chart giving in outline the Divine plan of the ages and this lias aroused such interest that a luithei address will be given in the said cliurch on Tuesday evening next to which all interested arc cordially invited to attend.