To the' Editor of the Sir,—A few weeks ago you kindly afforded me the hospitality of your columns to announce ta interested inquirers the publication of "Fresh Tidings of Christ's Coming." At that time it was promised that two further booklets on the subject would be issued sharily. In view, however, of the shortness of the still remaining time, and the desire of many td forward these publications tod friends in the Homelands, these two additional prints are being issued as ai single booklet of twice the size and price. This may bd ordered from the undersigned by the title of "Armageddon and After," at 20 cents per copy,.or six for $1, post free, this figure just covering net cost of publication, as_ before.
I can also stil] supply copies of the first booklet, "Fresh Tidings," at 10 cents. May I beg your renewed courtesy to insert this?
Some of my friends are beginning t¢ ask, it ~*ew of the present comparatively peaceful international situation, Do 1 still believe that a universal war, as a necessary prelude to Christ's Return this autumn, can break out and run the course indicated in! my letter of September 22 "last, within the still remaining time?
The answer is, as stated in my reply to Archdeacon. Moule's letter in October of last year, that if looked only at present circumstantial indications, and were guided by them, I should say, as human prescience generally is saying, that such an upheaval is altogether improbable. But when I look into the Word of God, I' know beyond any human peradventures that it is going to happen within the next four months.
For the encouragement of those who look for our Saviour's Return at the time indicated; it may be pointed out that (a) The Scriptures implicitly intimate that the Northern Lower wpostrophized) by Jehovah in Ezekiel, with all its traditional ambitions in Palestine, would yet stand hesitating and trembling on the brink to the last, before launcking its armies on this infatuated murch; so much so, that when the dained time came, Jehovah, says, will put hooks in thy jaws, and will drag thee forth.... bring thee upon the mountains of Israel." Ezek. 88: 4, 39: 2 This Power's will to march, as a sudden final impulse, is a part of the judgment upon it for previous unexampled crimes against an elect Nation long resident in its midst. The type is found in the crimes and the subsequent march to a similar doom of the Pharaoric oppressor. Exod. 14: 4.
(b) Of this very time, when" men had been explicitly warned of this upheaval as a premonitory sign, it is intimated that this sign would be so long delayed and precariously missing, that men would be ini the act of saying, Peace and safety," when the judgments accompanying Christ's Coming would be suddenly launched. 1. Thes. 5: 3.
(c) That this war will probably be embarked on with even more of the cunning suddenness that characterized (the last o1 following the lesson well-learned) therefrom} by still more. efficient tacticians. Not again will a Power aiming at world-hegemony obsess and hinder itself with too many preliminary excuses.
(d) That the combined French and British forces in that part of the world can, at the moment writing, only put one mam in thd field to every hundred) men already mobilized by the Northern Power indicated. The resulting tactical situation is distinctly intimated in Ezekiel 38.8 and 11. The advance of the aggressing Power will therefore be corres-pendingly swift and irresistible. Her armies are already placed by treaty under the direction of thd greatest strategists in the world, from another race burning with the passion for revenge. Compard the swiftness of the German advance in France and Belgium in 1914, when much more effectively opposed as to numbers,
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