MARANATHA. SIGNS OF CHRIST’S COMING: THE CHURCH SIGN. Whilst it is becoming painfully and increasingly evident every day that on the part of the mass of professing Christendom there is a decline of spirituality and of real heartfelt devotion to Christ, the lack of true faithful testimony to His Word, all of which may be regarded as a very marked sign o»f the approaching end of the Church’s history in the earth as foreshadowed in Revelations iii., 1548. On the other hand there is a minority who are observing the signs of these times with almost bated breath. Thousands in recent years have been led to believe that they portend the speedy close of the “Times of the Gentiles.” If so, they will usher into time a series of events more wonderful than any that have been since the creation of the world. With gladness inconceivable to all who love our Lord Jesus Christ, and bitterness beyond all that has ever yet been known in the records of human misery to the despisers and rejecters of God’s great salvation. Wrath to come! Wrath to come! Let us bow our heads and lowly ■ worship God for our own safety Lei. us ponder, more deeply on the sad and terrible conditions of millions of our fellow men who, in their callous indifference to these things, are madly rushing forward to the darkness of the terrible tribulation. We are persuaded that the doctrine of the Return of our Lord as we in this humble effort are seeking to emphasise it, is the one great truth most likely to awaken multitudes out of apathy, and we pray God He may, through His Hofy Spirit, so use it. The very God of Peace sanctify you wholly, and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Faithful is. He that ealleth you. Who also will do it.—l. Thessalonians, V. 23-24. At all seasons of the year CAMROC DRY GINGER ALE is welcomed. In the winter it warms; in summer it cools. It is an ideal beverage made from a guaranteed ifirfiUilft-
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Taranaki Daily News, 18 January 1921, Page 8
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