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Taranaki Daily News, 19 February 1921, Page 6

MARANATHA. MARANATHA. SIGNS OF CHRIST’S COMING. THE CHURCH SIGN. SERMON on the Book of Jonah. was published last week in a Taranaki paper, in which the preacher stated that “the story of Jonah was not to be read as history or prophecy—it is a work of religious fiction, the story of the larger hope, the freer faith, and the sweeter charity of the Gospel.” This sounds very pretty, but it is preaching sternly denounced by the Apostle Paul. He forewarns us that the time would come when people would/not endure sound doctrine, but, says tbe Apostle, they will “keep 'O themselves teachers having itching ears, and they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.” It is certain that there is no place in the Word of God for fiction of any description; it deals only in facts and plain truths. The story of Jonah was prophecy Written as our Lord tells us to testify to Himself. The people of Nineveh, hearing of the remarkable iffanner in which God had dealt with Jonah, mightily repented and turned to God. The Jews of our Lord’s day were given a like sign in HL Resurrection, but they did not belie that He had risen from the dead, and they perished. The Word of God is exercising probably greater influence to-day than ever before ”in history, and no name stands so high or is so powerful in all the world as that of the Saviour of mankind, our Lord Jesus Christ. The most striking phrases in Mr. Lloyd George’s speeches were borrowed from Scripture. Our Mr. Massey seems a diligent reader of Holy Writ, and Mr. P. Fraser startles us sometimes with his evident familiarity of the words and the teaching of the Son of G-od. We saw in print recently that Gandhi, the Hindu agitator, confessed that he read the Bible more than any other book. Christ is speaking loudly to-day to all. “O, fools and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken!” We are glad to announce that the Rev. W. Lamb, of Sydney, has arrived in New Zealand, and we are looking forward with much expectancy that our annual conference gatherings, which (God willing) are to begin on the 17th instant, in the Concert Chamber of the Wellington Town Hall, may, through the Holy Spirit, produce heart-longings and increased watchfulness for the appearing of the bright and morning star our Lord Jesus Christ. Every man who has diligently and prayerfully read his Bible kiTowf that we are nearing the end of tlus dTf;pe! lsa tion. The great Tribulation Ts near, of that there is no (lanbt. “Watch ye, therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape.”

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