178
T H E K I N G ' S B U S I N E S S
June, 1933
I found to my amazement that as that engine pulled up that hill it was cutting a channel in the hill fifteen or twenty feet deep and about two and one-half feet wide. It would do that Saturday afternoon what it would take 500 men to accomplish—and two men only were managing it. One Sunday morning I was waiting beside my car for my wife to come out o f my son’s home. Hearing a roar and looking up, I saw a flying machine sweeping so low that I feared it was falling and might strike my son’s house. Excitedly, I called the family out side and asked, “ What is the matter with this fellow? Has he lost control ?” My son glanced at him and smilingly answered, “ N o !, He is bugging potatoes.” By the time the answer was made, he had dropped to within three feet o f the ground and slid like a swallow
for in them all, “ fire” is the chief element. It drives the ships o f all navies; it speeds the submarines through the darkness o f the deep, and sends the flying machine through the space o f the heavens; it drives the caterpillar engine over every conceivable obstacle; it voices itself in the dis charge o f every gun; and still further, it was the chief element in the creation of those deadly gases that asphyx iated men by the tens o f thousands in the late World War. Winston Churchill, the English Secretary o f State for War and also the Secretary o f State for Air, said: Let it not be thought for a moment that the danger of another explosion in Europe is past. . . A German recently said to me, “ Some think the next war will be fought with electricity,” and on this a vista opens out of electrical rays which could paralyze engines o f a motor car, could claw down airplanes from the sky, and conceivably be made destructive of human life or human vision. . . . As for poison gas and chemical warfare in all its forms, only the first chapter has been written o f a terrible book. Does it not occur to us that all o f this looks to the
over a fifty-acre patch o f potatoes, followed every inch o f the way by a cloud o f bug powder that was being mechanically re lea sed and doing ten rows on a side. Almost within the time it takes me to tell it, he had bugged the fifty- acre patch, raised on wing, and was off for the next fifty-acre patch. He would bug more potatoes that Sun day morning—when he had no right to work—than 1,000 men could bug on work days and do it better. What are you going to do with the 999 men thus flung out o f a job? Coblentz, commenting on modern machinery, says: The factory system pos itively tends to place a pre mium upon mental limita
speedy fulfillment o f that prophecy in the Apocalypse when the breastplates o f the horses are to be o f fire and brimstone, and their heads as the heads o f lions, and out o f their mouths shall issue fire and smoke, and by them one-third part o f the men on the earth shall be killed by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone ? T he P lan of S alvation The king in his dream saw a stone cut out o f the mountain w ith ou t hands, and it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the sil ver, and the gold; and Daniel says, “ The great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is cer
EH; ,>” >*
m " ■ ■ ■ ■ ■
“Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of. persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness" (2 Pet. 3:11).
tain, and the interpretation thereof sure.” What was the interpretation? “ The stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.” . Mark these facts in passing: First, this stone that the king saw “ was cut out without hands.” Throughout the Bible, the Old Testament and the New alike, the stone is a symbol o f the Son o f God. This, then, is a prophecy con cerning the coming Christ— the stone “ cut out without hands.” What is the significance? Man had nothing to do with His appearance. He “ came down from above” ; He was not even the child o f a man, but “ the seed o f the woman,” instead, and the Son o f God. In His second ap pearance, He comes independently o f all flesh, and “ the stone that smote the image became a great mountain.” Read further and hear: “ And in the days o f these kings shall the God o f heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people.” World governments then, as at present constituted, when they have come to their final ends and have affected their own destruction, shall be suc ceeded by a divine government with God’s Son on the throne; and in the millennial reign that kingdom shall bring to men the realization o f their most Eutopian dreams, and present to the world its first righteous ruler since the day when Saul displeased the King of Glory. [Continued on page 195]
tion; it tends to encourage those o f blunted mentality as the ones best adapted to the simple motions required of the average unskilled laborer. Imagine a man standing for eight hours before a rapidly rotating machine, re quired to perform no task other than to pull a lever at mechanical intervals—surely, here is an occupation in which intelligence is likely only to be in one’s way. W e have glorified mechanical inventions. Now we are being rudely awakened to the fact that, at the very point at which our progress has been most boasted and lauded, we approach a social and economic explosion that will leave the world filled with the fragments o f human minds and bodies; in other words, that will fulfill Daniel’s prophecy o f society and government ground to powder. F uture W arfare Peter, in his epistle, referring to the flood, tells us that “ the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished. But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition o f ungodly men” (2 Pet. 3 :6, 7 ). The wars o f the early centuries, yea, even o f the middle ages, were, speaking comparatively, minor in their effects upon the world population or world governments. But modern science has created such destructive implements of warfare as to give pith and point to Peter’s prophecy,
Made with FlippingBook - Online catalogs