miah? What about Constantine, Frederick, Gustavus Adolphus, Cromwell, Washington and Lincoln?

"Praying and Trusting in the Lord."

A young soldier at the front wrote home to his parents recently: "PRAYING AND TRUSTING IN THE LORD AND ALL WILL BE WELL." Father, mother, and sister wept in joy when the essence of the letter was repeated to me.

Yes, pray and trust in the LORD and all will be well. Let every mother, father, brother and sister pray and trust in the LORD and all will be well. Let every soldier, at the front or at home, pray and trust in the LORD and all will be well. Praying armies backed by a praying nation are simply invincible.

Jesus Christ is Coming.

Yes, the world will be made safe for democracy. Nothing can prevent that. The question is only with reference to the SACRIFICE, the cost, the price of attainment.

UNCLE SAM is in it and he cannot get out of it. He must stay with it at whatsoever price or requirement. The world is to be transformed into a better place to live in.

Furthermore, this world is being prepared for the reception of the King of kings and the LORD of lords, Jesus Christ, from heaven to enter into and to take charge of His kingdom upon the earth.

CHAPTER XL.

Jesus Christ Is Coming.

The World Safe for Democracy.

Jesus is coming-but there will be no distilleries, breweries or wineries in His kingdom; no artificial or irritating stimulants of any kind. The question then amounts to this: How much blood shall be shed, how many lives sacrificed, how many of our young men shall be maimed and mutilated, how much property shall be destroyed, and how much the burden of taxation increased before Governments will or can be induced to clean out these institutions from the entire world, beginning at home. Observe: The government of England has more respect and exhibits a higher regard for their brewers than for Almighty God, therefore, their soldiers. can not stand up before their enemies. Read and consider the chapter treating of Achan and the "accursed thing."

Jesus Christ is coming-but there will be no theaters, dancehalls or play-houses in His kingdom. Here is a clean sweep, an absolute requisite. Every theater and dancehall must be converted into a place of worship and every play-house must be thoroughly cleansed and converted into a prayer-house, where prayers and supplication shall be offered by and for perishing sinners. Now the question again arises: How many precious lives and how many maimed and mutilated young men will it require as a sacrifice to accomplish this?

Mothers, wives, sisters, womanhood in general, I appeal to your feminine instincts and sympathy, can you go about your fun and enjoy such carnal pleasures, while the young men of our country are giving their lives and are writhing in agony and moaning in pain on the battlefield as a sacrifice for you and the reform requisite for the reception of our LORD and SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST to the earth to rule in peace and righteousness?

Jesus Christ is coming-but there will be no SABBATH DESECRATION in His kingdom, Sunday ball-playing, Sunday excursions and Sunday-outings, horseracing and Sunday dissipation. "Remember the Sabbath day and keep it holy" is the divine command. Ex. 20:8-11. How many precious lives, how many maimed and mutilated young men, how much destruction of property and how much increased taxation will it require as a sacrifice to stop Sabbath desecration?

Jesus Christ is coming-but there will be no munition factories, nor guns, nor navies, nor swords, nor spears in His kingdom; for the swords shall be made into plowshares and the spears into pruninghooks, and nations shall learn to war no more. For the chorus of the angels shall become a reality and resound upon the earth again "GLORY TO GOD IN THE HIGHEST, ON EARTH PEACE, AND GOOD WILL AMONG MEN." This will come to pass, and it is exactly this we are preparing for-the commission. entrusted to UNCLE SAM to accomplish, but how many of his

own are standing in his way, which have to be removed, and how great will the SACRIFICE have to be for its attainment?

UNCLE SAM'S OWN STANDING IN HIS WAY? Yes. All saloonkepers are standing in his way. All distilleries, breweries and wineries are in the way and retarding success. Every organization and every corporation and every individual that does not confess Jesus Christ the world Savior and who is not ready to "CROWN HIM KING OF ALL," and who does not live up to his doctrine and precepts-all, all such are standing in the way of progress and increase the sacrifices.

Jesus Christ is coming-but there will be no secret societies in His kingdom; for secrecy belongs to the kingdom of darkness, and has been tolerated in by-gone ages, but shall find no room, but will be banished, wholly and absolutely from Christ's kingdom.

"This, then, is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, THAT GOD IS LIGHT, AND IN HIM IS NO DARKNESS AT ALL.

"If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and WALK IN DARKNESS, we lie, and do not the truth.

"But if WE WALK IN THE LIGHT, AS HE IS IN THE LIGHT, we have fellowship one with another, and THE BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST HIS SON CLEANSETH US FROM ALL SIN." 1 John 1:5-7.

In Christ's kingdom will be recognized and promoted

1. The family and the sanctity of family functions.

2. The church and the sanctity and efficacy of the church, of which Jesus Christ is the head and inspiration and the connecting link between earth and heaven.

3. The communities as units growing into states, nations and the grand total, the all-embracing whole into the kingdom of Christ upon the earth, the millenial kingdom now approaching.

Jesus Christ is coming-but there will be no castes, no classes, no peerage, no lordism, no nobility of any kind, no birth-right distinction in His kingdom. This luxury of vanity and indolence will be kept out with the rubbish and refuse of the by-gone ages during the house-cleaning process. But how many young men will have to be sacrificed, how much property destroyed before these things may be accomplished?

The way to greatness leads through humiliation and servitude. World Democracy Means World Regeneration. It means a state of mind, a condition of being, an attitude of behavior compatible with the accepted standard, the high ideals and the enobling excellencies of the Messianic kingdom. For nothing corrupt or defiled or that worketh abomination or maketh a lie shall enter therein.

CONCLUSION

"Finally brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things." Phil. 4:8.

"O that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways!

"I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.

"The haters of the LORD SHOULD HAVE SUBMITTED THEMSELVES UNTO HIM; but their time should have endured forever.

"He should have FED them also with the FINEST OF WHEAT: and with HONEY OUT OF THE ROCK should I have satisfied thee." Ps. 81:13-16.

"Thus saith the LORD, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: I am the LORD thy GOD which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldst go.

"O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea." Isaiah 48:17, 18.

"Verily, verily, I SAY UNTO YOU, HE THAT HEARETH MY WORD, AND BELIEVETH ON HIM THAT SENT ME, HATH EVERLASTING LIFE, AND SHALL NOT COME INTO CONDEMNATION; BUT IS PASSED FROM DEATH UNTO LIFE." JESUS. John 5:24.

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