To the Editor of the "Norrs-Cutna Dairy News."
Sin,—It is generally known that there are radically different schools of interpretation of prophecy. They all agree in the one important particular that the Return of the Christ who have yet had no opportunity of hearing the Gospel." As I read Scripture, not a single one of such will be destroyed. It _is fonly wilful rejectors and wilful neglectors of the Gospel that will perish, It is only the adequate opportunity of hearing the Gospel that can make possible a_ wilful attitude towards it. And consequently, it is only the plainly foretold and now accomplished fact of the universal preaching of the Gospel that, through its wilful rejection, will occasion the further is imminent. The year 1923/4 are uy, fact that "the slain of the Lord admittedly critical ones and will shall be at that day from one end witness some important crisis i" of the earth even unto the other human affairs: that crisis may be end of the earth." Jer. XXV. 33 the return of the Christ. (vide context). Several Scriptures Mr. Coates says quite positively show that the standard of exempt that in. the next year There wul be tion on the basis indicated will be universal war and that the cer-severe, and will be applied with the tainty of this is divinely cut in rock. inerrant powers of omniscience. Others do not so agree. re may But the ignorant heathen are be some war or other in the next revealed as being spared through year: there has hardly ever been a to become the subjects of the year without one, so there will be millennial kingdom, and the pro-nothing remarkable about that. ocphets picture them as coming with currence. But there is an equally grateful praises to the presence of positive conviction that the univer-the returned King, to make the cal war of Armageddon has been acknowledgement noted in Jer. already fought out and there will XVI. 19, more universal war.
It is the conscious rejection of in God's the 3) years is totally denied by Further Mr. Coates application of tight which constitutes, eyes, sin unto damnation. Ino. others who claim that that period XV. 22, Matt. XI. 20-24. has no application whatsoever to I shall be interested, Sir, te this end of the age and that the read your possibly revised views on period named has already passed the whole subject by next August, away and been fulfilled. if the advance of the present However dogmatic either side may Tribulation of mankind, so long be will not alter the facts, The prophesied and now in action, period named is right here and we still leaves it possible for the daily shall not have to wait very long} press to function. I do not affirm before the arrival and passing of the next 12 months or two years is an event of the past. If no universal war such as Mr. Coates looks for does not take place, it will not affect the truth of prophecy and the near return of the Christ one single iota.
I an, ete., 4. 8. 0. P.
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