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The Fundamentals course. Mark 13:32 should stop this nonsense, but alas, it does not. But three years remain of our age. One can readily per- ceive what enthusiasm the nearness of the end must arouse in the hearts of believers in Mr. Russell’s dates. I f but three years lie between us and the cosmical revolutions and con- vulsions which will shake the earth to its foundations, then why should Dawnists cling to their property and tightly grip their money. Soon it will not be needed, wealth will be worth- less and bonds have no market. I t is no surprise, therefore, that Mr. Russell’s followers pour a continuous stream into the Watch Tower treasury, nor that sermons can be printed in multitudes of newspapers all over the land, nor that great halls can be hired for lectures, nor that these volumes can be sold at 37 cents a copy. 8 . A t the final resurrection, which is simultaneous for all the dead save “the little flock”, the Gospel will be preached to the unsaved and the great mass of mankind will accept it and be saved. (Vol. I, Study 6 , 8 , 9.) The preaching to the un- saved dead now at length raised up will last for one hundred years at least, and it may continue throughout the entire day of Christ, i. e., during the Millennium (p. 144). There are two world-wide judgments recorded in the Bible, that of the nations, Matt. 25:31-46; and that of Rev. 20:11-15—the judg- ment before the Great White Throne, and which seems to be confined exclusively to the dead, small and great. The two include the race except the saints who come not into judgment as to life and death (Jno. 5:24). In neither of these judg- ments is there a hint that opportunity will be had for those arrayed before these thrones to repent, believe, and be saved. On the contrary, their eternal destiny is fixed by the Almighty Judge. Note how all-embracing these two judgments are; the one includes “all the nations”, the other, “the dead, small and great”. None escape save those who have part in “the
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