May, 1941
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The Lamps Are Going Out! By HERBERT LOCKYER
E D GREY of Falloiion, the Brit ish Foreign Secretary in 1914, hated war. History records that prevent war with Germany, just as the late Premier Chamberlain labored hard to avoid war with the same country in 1939. After that momentous Cabinet meeting in the summer of 1914, when it was decided to go to war, Lord Grey walked from the Foreign Office along with a friend. It was early morning, and the lamplighter was on his rounds put ting out the gas lamps one by one. Drawing attention to the lamplighter, Lord Grey made the remarkable fore cast to his companion, “The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.” And, truly, darkness covers the earth, seeing that the lamps of freedom and Christian witness are going out. Brutal dictator ships are ruthlessly extinguishing the lights that have long illu minated the world. A sign
decadence in the days of Hezekiah is indicated by the phrase “they have . . . put out the lamps” (2 Chron. 29:7), that is, the lamps that were in the temple. The Lamp of Jewish Freedom Is Going Out Nazism is out to exterminate the J$w. Untold horrors have overtaken multi tudes of Jews in European countries. With our ears to the ground, we can hear the wail of anguish from thousands who are being treated worse than cattle. Truly, the greatest tragedy of the age long history of blood and tears of Israel is being enacted in our own' times. A recent report shows that out of more than 9,000,000 Jews in Europe, less than 1,000,000 are living normal lives. One dare not lift the veil too high upon Jew ish atrocities and tortures, and upon the unspeakable horror and brutality the Jews have been subjected to in Nazi Poland. Not until this total war is over will the full truth of the Jewish tragedy be told. When the Gestapo (secret police) entered Paris to begin their dread work, we are told that over three hundred Jews committed suicide in twenty-four hours. In view of the fact that accord ing to divine prediction the darkest page of Jewish history is yet to be written, it would seem as if the Satanically in spired efforts of Nazism, Fascism, and Communism to exterminate the Jew are preparing the way for “the time of Jacob’s trouble.” But the Jew is indestructible! Pha raoh tried to put out this lamp, but on
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