"THE SICK MAN"-HIS LAST GASP-WHAT FOLLOWS?

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3636, 21 August 1880, Page 1

"THE SICK MAN"-HIS LAST GASP-WHAT FOLLOWS?

To the Editor of the Evrnnr* Stab. Sim,—Those wh# hire perused my articles upon the Ottoman) Empire, pub* lished in Nos. 10,11,12, and 14of Btoeh, . will be in some measure^ prepared for what I now lay before' the pobhe frthia communication. The crisis of thar earth haatens upon us, and the'more rapidly, aa we.approaoh the specific time appointed by the council of the heavenlies for the end of all the present order of things, Christ command* his disciples, of . iheae last days to "WATCH" and pray alwaya that they might be accounted worthy to escape all the things he had been predicting aa|oomi«g upon the world at it* wind. . vb, tee Matt 24/ Luke 21. Now, those who hare obeyed the command, haviaf watched the umistakeable signs of theas» times, taking heed especially to >-tk* - , predictions of the Christ concerning them ( and who bare compared what^tnajr tee and read about, with fail ominous words, - , are not in the dark as are the great nw of mankind regarding these momenittMs: matters. By oelietingv' by r watobiif\ bj T reflecting and pondenag over out Lord a predictions, thetalearnr all thiafi. These do not fall iuta,the ditch as^ilo the bliuoV teachers of the spurious and vanity-taring churches; and .the giddy masses of the' people in graeta), but ar»-r—enedrfaosa. the coming tribulation ere that tribulation is upoo mankind.' Twrr Km ran Lobd Chbist iv THiUirxr his ptmmna, XVJ> BSCAW tSM TIOUBLB. Moreover these are the pioneers of troth'asd righteousness, and they will reign with •(Jhriit^ih"«h|B'inngdo«^of! riffhlmisßess. They are it is true profliS£< of evil and the destrtte. 1 tion^ fdf evil but they are also prophets of the good time that-conwi, ' afrfTthe evil ana the defenders of evil things !are' destroyed together. These pioneers are of exactly the same character as were the prophets of Israel and "the apostles of theyOhrist, they foil the truth, and as a consequence thejr are unity generally despised and rejeetettMof ami but especially tre they so detpistd by false spurious soft mounted'te^iera, •no their churches for these teachers well know^H that should troth and ", righteouinea^H prevail their salaried billets.would VfJ^^^H and tbair bastard chureoef lfl||^^^H blown to atoms, just *h|^^^^^^^H take place; becanse4kjsjJf^^^^^^^^^H into mere oommeisl^^^^^^^^^^^^l every- thing from^^^^^^^^^^^^^H price and ii boutJ^^^^^^^^^^^^H would bur>J»«*lß^^^^^^^^^^^H cL*ir/>i>~-- *^>re a f^^^^^^^^^^^H Apostolic Churcheij^^^^^^^^^^^H their hirelings a* Pf^^^^^^^^^^H the teaching of the and the prophets ?^^^^^^^^^^^^^^H to conceive. It. l*^^^^^^^^^^^^M that men are sceptics and atheists^^^^^^^^^^^^^f that gold is the pow^^^^^^^^^^^^l eburches and not which was emphatioj^^^^^^^^^^^l Apostolic Churches. '^^J^^^^^^^^^l over the portals of them AirT^^^^^^^H glory has departed, destraetufl^^^^^H them, and it is imminent, 'destrn^^^^^H that unholy prostitute, the p*P*cy the numerous daughters that eftDM^^^^H her, and which bear in so many M'l^^^H the physiognomy and eonteeir «f e«^^^H degenerated parent. The ©otoiog eaJai^M trophe will destroy them all, ansr oor^H advice to thoughtful reflecting Christiana has ever Jieen, and we reiterate that advice, " Come out from among them' and be separate, and touch not the unclean^ things and I willreoeive you," and you have the promise, " I will be a Father" untoyou^and^ye shall be my sons and,^ daughters saith the the Lord Almighty. Christ has no concord* with Beliel and the world; separate yourselves, then, ftoni' c these commnnities of Belial; and: wait for' your Lord from Heaven, but if you remain in them, being parUkert of their Bia«J;oa must receive of their plagues. ' With f 4 these preliminary remarkawe now proceed to our subject—the last gasp of " tke-Bfek *; Man," and what follow*. The " drying up " and fall of the Ottoman Empire ii ta» i lign of all signs of the immediate' end of all the present brdet of things; of the " time'of trouble inch at never was iiuee there was a tiati&n;'*of the 1 detraction of .