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July 4, 1954.
This book tells the dramatic story of a supernatural
vision-revelation which God gave to me during my campaign with the
Puerto Rican brethren in New York City last winter, a vision which
was revealed to me atop the Empire State Building. Suddenly, the
Lord showed me the entire North American continent, spread before
me as a map on a table. From far to the North, a great black cloud
in the form of a skeleton reached its tentacle arms toward America
to embrace her in the embrace of death. From the gaping mouth and
nostrils drifted white vapors, enveloping the cities, and
strangely affecting the Statue of Liberty! Guided missiles, like
fish leaping out of the water of the oceans, toward America,
carrying their cargoes of death. As the various phases of the
vision unfolded before me, God's voice spoke to me, explaining the
vision in the words of the scripture. Research reveals that not
only are the prophecies of this vision scriptural, but that
scientific and military leaders today are fully aware that these
things are actually COMING TO PASS! One military man, upon hearing
this vision given in a sermon, declared, "Either this man has
truly received a vision from God, or else has somehow come upon
some of the Army’s top military secrets!"
Here is a book which will give you in one, a modern day
vision-revelation of the happenings of the near future, in terms
easily understandable by the modern mind; God's ancient word,
confirming His divine foreknowledge of these events; and a
correlated study of modem scientific research, confirming beyond
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Chapter 1
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"And when he
was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it, If thou had
known in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace...."
Luke 19:41,42.
As I stepped
into the elevator on the ground floor of the Empire State
Building, little did I realize that a supernatural revelation
awaited me, 86 stories above!
Just the day before, I had finished
writing the book, "SEVEN WOMEN SHALL TAKE HOLD OF ONE MAN," a
prophetic book, dealing with the scriptural predictions concerning
the last days. I had spent many hours at research in the word of
God, and hours of prayer while compiling this book. At the same
time, I was in two great services daily, in a Holy Ghost anointed
revival among the Puerto Rican churches in the Bronx. God was
pouring out His Spirit in a marked way. Many declared that such an
outpouring had never before been witnessed in New York City.
Having spent so many hours in careful seeking after God through
prayer and Bible reading, I was not greatly amazed to find that I
felt a mighty moving of the Spirit of the Lord upon me even on the
subway, as I rode into downtown New York, planning that this
particular morning I would go atop the Empire State Building. The
power of God's Spirit upon my life was not a new thing to me, as I
had felt it many times before. But as this mighty presence of God
swept over and over my soul, I felt a deep inward sureness that
God was going to do an unusual thing for me. I thought of course
it would happen in the night service. As I stepped inside the
elevator at the Empire State Building, I never dreamed of the
great experience, which awaited me just 86 stories up.
My ears began to close, due to the sudden increase of altitude, as
the elevator shot upward to the first observatory, 86 floors above
the ground.
This was the first time I had gone atop the Empire State Building,
and it was a trip I had been eager to take, since no first visit
to New York City can be considered complete without a trip to the
observatories up the 1472-foot tall Empire State Building. It is
recommended that one try to see the view from the world's tallest
building among the first of the sights to be seen in the city.
There is no better way of becoming familiar with the city, as all
points of interest, in their relations to each other are visible
through the huge telescopes set in the observatories.
As I stepped off the elevator and went onto the outside terrace, I
went expecting to see all of New York City, New Jersey, Manhattan,
the Bronx, and on across the Hudson River to Westchester in a
great panoramic view. But little did I realize that God had an
even greater view awaiting me there, as, through a supernatural
vision, He would let me see that which is soon to take place on
the whole North American continent!
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Chapter 2
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"Except the
Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except
the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain." Psalms
127:1.
As I stood
there atop the building, just to the south of me, on Bedloe's
Island, I could see the Statue of Liberty, illuminating the
gateway to the new world. To people everywhere, this 300-foot
statue has become the symbol of liberty. It was presented to the
people of the United States by the freedom loving people of France
in 1883.
As I looked
at the torch held high in her right hand, little did I realize
that in a few moments time, that torch, to my eyes, would be
exchanged for a huge cup, out of which would flash a sharp,
dangerous sword.
As I looked
to the north, the atmosphere was hazy with fog. Nevertheless, I
could see across Central Park, past the George Washington Bridge,
up the Hudson River, into Westchester.
I looked to
the east. There I could see the United Nations Building, which has
been called "The last sacred temple for the rediscovery of human
brotherhood." The great statesmen of the world have declared we
must remain at peace with one another or die. With the hope of
peace in mind, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., with the help of the City
of New York, presented to the United Nations a piece of property
on East River Drive, between 42nd and 48th Streets.
The
cornerstone of the United Nations Buildings was laid in October
1949. President Truman spoke of these as the most important
buildings in the world, saying they were, "the centers of man's
hope for peace and a better life." This is the place where the
nations of the world will try to work together to make that hope a
reality.
The Secretariat Building is 37 stories high, with three
sub-basements. It is 544 feet high, 289 feet long, and 72 feet
wide. It will accommodate 4,000 persons. Pneumatic tubes connected
with vertical conveyors will operate from a central plant to speed
handling of documents. There are 18 high-speed elevators. The
other two main buildings are the General Assembly Hall and
Conference Building. The cost of these buildings is approximately
$65 million, the money being loaned by the United States,
tax-free.
Sixty member countries make up the United Nations. The purposes of
the United Nations are to maintain international peace and
security, and to develop friendly relations among nations; to
cooperate internationally in solving economic, social, cultural,
and humanitarian problems, and fostering respect for human rights
and freedoms.
It is man's supreme effort to gain peace without the help of God!
As I look upon these buildings, I am reminded of the words of
Christ, "When they say peace and safety, then sudden destruction
cometh upon them."
Beyond the United Nations Buildings, but obscured by the fog, lay
the La Guardia Airport, one of the world's most famous airports,
and no doubt one of the favored targets of any enemy attack.
To the west, across the Hudson River, I could see parts of New
Jersey. There, huge trans-Atlantic liners were docked at rows of
piers along the west side.
To the south, Lower Manhattan's spires rise against the tip of the
island.
Here spread
before me like an animated map is an area sixty or eighty miles in
diameter, in which 15 million people - one out of every ten
Americans - live and work. From this airplane-level height,
pedestrians look like moving pinpoints. Varicolored buses,
automobiles, and taxicabs are like small insects milling in
orderly lanes through the humming city.
Peter Minuit,
a Dutch settler, bought Manhattan Island for $24.00 in beads and
trinkets, in 1626, one of the greatest bargains in the world. It
was called New Amsterdam until 1664 when the English captured it.
They renamed it New York, after the Duke of York, who later became
James II. Under English rule, following New Amsterdam's surrender
in 1664, two great steps towards freedom were taken here: "A free
press was assured in 1735, as a result of the trial John Peter
Zenger, editor of the New York Weekly Journal and "Liberty of
Worship" was firmly established early in the 18th Century.
The city was
British until the Revolution War, and was the capital for both New
York State and the national government when George Washington took
his oath of office as first president of the United States in
1789.
Today, New
York City is the largest city in the world, with a population of
eight million, crammed into 200,000 acres. It consists of five
boroughs, Manhattan, Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn, and Richmond.
Manhattan is twelve and one-half miles long, one-half mile at the
Battery and two and five-eighths miles at its widest point at 14th
Street.
New York has often been described as
the Wonder City, with its beautiful homes on Park Avenue and 5th
Avenue. It has the finest shops, museums, theaters, large
buildings, hotels and subway systems. It has forty buildings over
four hundred feet high, four hotels with over two thousand rooms.
It is the largest city commercially, financially, and
industrially. It boasts the world's busiest harbor, where
steamships crowd one another and with ferries, subways, bridges,
its traffic is distributed to every section of the nation.
New York City
is an area of 320 square miles with assessed property of over 18
billion dollars. Eighty-two different languages are spoken here.
The Empire
State Building, located on the intersection of 34th Street and
Fifth Avenue, covers only about two acres of ground, yet it is so
high that people in the observatories can see the sun rise a half
hour sooner and set a half hour later than people on the street.
The building
was opened to the public in 1931, after setting construction
records that have never been equaled. It was built of such fine
materials, and is maintained so well, that even though it
celebrated its 20th anniversary in 1951, it is as beautiful as the
day it was opened.
Not only is
Empire State the tallest structure of any kind in the world, but
it is also the center of television transmission for the New York
area. From the 86th floor observatory, if you look up, you will
see the huge television tower rising 222 feet above the previous
height of the building. This tower sends the signals of all of
Manhattan's important TV broadcasters, who have their transmitters
in the building.
The 102nd
floor observatory, 1,250 feet above the street, is glass enclosed
so that one may see in all directions the surrounding areas of the
city.
The 86th
floor observatory has both indoor and outdoor terraces. When you
step out in the 86th floor terrace, you are standing where famous
people from every country of the world have been before you,
including kings and queens, presidents, generals, admirals,
maharajahs, actors and actresses, and champions in all the sports.
In the Lounge, the Tearoom or at the Souvenir Counter, it is
common things to hear foreign languages spoken by visitors and to
see unusual foreign costumes, for visitors from every country in
the world come to the Observatories each month of the year.
One wonders
what Pope Pius XII thought, when as a Cardinal; he gazed out on
this amazing scene. Or what was the reaction of Prime Minister
Nehru, or of Winston Churchill, or of any one of the many great
men and women of the world whose names are among the list of
visitors to Empire State. As I stood there, I was aware that I was
only one of 10 million people representing every nation on earth,
who have visited the Empire State Observatories. But I still
didn't realize that I was to be the only one of that 10 million to
whom God had chosen to give such a revelation, as I was to receive
atop that great building.
There on the
east side of the terrace, I noticed a giant telescope, of the kind
into which you can drop a dime, and see for approximately fifteen
miles. I knew that a dime slipped into that telescope would enable
me to see much farther than the natural eye could reach. I got a
dime from my pocket and held it in my hand, ready to drop it into
the telescope when the man in front of me was through viewing the
scene. I knew that in just a few seconds, the man would be
through, and with great anticipation, I waited for him to step
away from the telescope, so that I could use my dime, and thereby
see the sights that millions of others had seen. As I stood with
my dime between my fingers, waiting my turn, suddenly the spirit
of the Lord came mightily upon me. I noticed the two giant eyes of
the telescope as the man who was manipulating it turned it my
direction. I was amazed that the spirit of the Lord should so move
upon me, there atop the Empire State Building. Why should I feel such a surge of His spirit
and power there?
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Chapter 3
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"And it shall
come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my
Spirit upon all flesh; and your young shall see visions and your
old men shall dream dreams."
Acts 2:1.
Then suddenly I heard the voice of the
Lord. It was as clear and as distinct as a voice could be. It
seemed to come from the very midst of the giant telescope. But
when I looked at the telescope, I knew it hadn’t come from there,
but
directly from heaven. The voice said,
"The eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth,
to show himself strong in behalf of them whose heart is perfect
toward him. Herein thou hast done foolishly. Therefore, from
thenceforth, thou shalt have wars."
Immediately
when I heard the voice of God, I knew this was a quotation of
scripture. But never before I had a thing come to me so forcibly
by the power the spirit. The ticking of the telescope stopped. The
man before me had used up his dime's worth. As he stepped away I
knew that I was next. As I stepped to the telescope and dropped in
my dime, immediately, the ticking started again. This ticking was
an automatic clock, which would allow me to use the telescope for
a definitely limited time only.
As I swung
the telescope to the north, suddenly spirit of God came upon me in
a way that I had never thought of before. Seemingly in the spirit
I was entirely caught away. I knew that the telescope itself had
nothing to do with the distance, which I was suddenly enabled to
see, for I seemed to see things far beyond the range of the
telescope, even on a bright, clear day. It was simply that God had
chosen this time to reveal these things to me, for as I looked
through the telescope; it was not Manhattan Island that I saw, but
a far larger view.
The Empire
State Building is located toward the southern end of Manhattan
Island. Manhattan Island, which is the original New York, is
twelve and one-half miles long and two and five-eighths miles wide
at its widest. Down its west edge runs the Hudson River, and down
its east side, the East River. To the south is a bay, out of which
stands the Statue of Liberty. That morning, much of the view was
impaired by fog. But suddenly as the spirit of the Lord came upon
me the fog seemed to clear, until it seemed that I could see for
thousands of miles.
But that
which I was looking upon was not Manhattan Island. It was the
entire North American continent spread out before me as a map is
spread upon a table. It was not the East River and the Hudson
River that I saw on either side, but the Atlantic and the Pacific
Oceans. And instead of the Statue of Liberty standing there in the
bay on her small island, I saw her standing far out in the Gulf of
Mexico. She was between the United States and me.
I suddenly
realized that the telescope had nothing to do with what I was
seeing, but that it was a vision coming directly from God. And to
prove this to myself, I took my eyes away from the telescope, so
that I was no longer looking through the lens, but the same scene
remained spread before me.
There, clear
and distinct, lay all the North American continent, with all its
great cities. To the north lay the Great Lakes. Far to the
northeast was New York City. I could see Seattle and Portland far
to the northwest. Down the West Coast, there were San Francisco
and Los Angeles. Closer in the foreground, there laid New Orleans,
at the center of the Gulf Coast area. I could see the great
towering ranges of the Rocky Mountains, and trace with my eye the
Continental Divide. All this and more, I could see spread out
before me as a great map upon a table.
And as I
looked, suddenly from the sky I saw a giant hand reach down. That
gigantic hand was reaching out toward the Statue of Liberty. In a
moment her gleaming torch was torn from her hand, and in it
instead was placed a cup. And I saw protruding from that great
cup, a giant sword, shining as if a great light had been turned
upon its glistening edge. Never before had I seen such a sharp,
glistening, dangerous sword. It seemed to threaten the entire
world. As the great cup was placed in the hand of the Statue of
Liberty, I heard these words, "Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Drink
ye and be drunken, spew and fall, and rise no more, because of the
sword which I will send." As I heard these words, I recognized
them as a quotation from Jeremiah 20:7.
I was amazed
to hear the Statue of Liberty speak out in reply, "I WILL NOT
DRINK!"
Then as the
voice of the thunder, I heard again the voice of the Lord, saying,
"Thus saith the Lord of hosts, YE SHALL CERTAINLY DRINK."
(Jeremiah 25:28.) Then suddenly the giant hand forced the cup to
the lips of the Statue of Liberty, and she became powerless to
defend herself. The mighty hand of God forced her to drink every
drop from the cup. As she drank the bitter dregs, these were the
words that I heard, "Should ye be utterly unpunished? Ye shall not
be unpunished: for I will call for a sword upon all the
inhabitants of the earth, saith the Lord of Hosts." (Jeremiah
25:29).
When the cup
was withdrawn from the lips of Statue of Liberty, I noticed the
sword was missing from the cup, which could mean but one thing.
THE CONTENTS OF THE CUP HAD BEEN COMPLETELY CONSUMED! I knew that
the sword merely typified war, death, and destruction, which is no
doubt on the way.
Then as one
drunken on too much wine, I saw the Statue of Liberty become
unsteady on her feet and begin to stagger, and to lose her
balance. I saw her splashing in the Gulf, trying to regain her
balance. I saw her stagger again and again, and fall to her knees.
As I saw her desperate attempts to regain her balance, and rise to
her feet again, my heart was moved as never before with compassion
for her struggles. But as she staggered there in the gulf, once
again I heard these words, "Ye shall drink and be drunken, and
spue, and fall, and rise no more because of the sword that I shall
send among you."
As I watched,
I wondered if the Statue of Liberty would ever be able to regain
her feet - if she would ever stand again. And as I watched, it
seemed that with all her power she struggled to rise, and finally
staggered to her feet again, and stood there swaying drunkenly. I
felt sure that at any moment she would fall again - possibly never
to rise. I seemed overwhelmed with a desire to reach out my hand
to keep her head above water, for I knew that if she ever fell
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Chapter 4
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"Thou shalt
not be afraid for the terror by night, nor, for the pestilence
that waketh in darkness, nor for the destruction that wasteth at
noonday."
Psalms 91:5,6.
Then as I
watched, another amazing thing was taking place. Far to the
northwest, just over Alaska, a huge, black cloud was arising. As
it rose, it was as black as night. It seemed to be in the shape of
a man's head. As it continued to arise, I observed two light spots
in the black cloud. It rose further, and a gaping hole appeared. I
could see that the black cloud was taking the shape of a skull,
for now the huge, white, gaping mouth was plainly visible. Finally
the head was complete. Then the shoulders began to appear, and on
either side, long, black arms.
It seemed
that what I saw was the entire North American continent, spread
out like a map upon table with this terrible skeleton-formed cloud
arising from behind the table. It rose steadily until the form was
visible down to the waist. At the waist, the skeleton seemed to
bend toward the United States, stretching forth a hand toward the
east and one toward the west - one toward New York and one toward
Seattle. As the awful form stretched forward, I could see that its
entire attention seemed to focused upon the United States,
overlooking Canada - at least for the time being. As I saw the
horrible black cloud in the form of a skeleton bending toward
America, bending from the waist over, reaching down toward Chicago
and out toward both coasts, I knew its one interest was to destroy
the multitudes.
As I watched
in horror, the great black cloud stopped just above the Great Lake
region, and turned its face toward New York City. Then out of the
horrible, great, gaping mouth began to appear wisps of white
vapor, which looked like smoke, as a cigarette smoker would blow
puffs of smoke from his mouth. These whitish vapors were being
blown toward New York City. The smoke began to spread, until it
had covered all the eastern part of the United States.
Then the
skeleton turned to the west, and out of the horrible mouth and
nostrils came another great puff of white smoke. This time it was
blown in the direction of the west coast. In a few moments time,
the entire west coast and Los Angeles area was covered with its
vapors.
Then toward
the center came a third great puff. As I watched, St. Louis and
Kansas City were enveloped in its white vapors. Then on it came
toward New Orleans. Then on they swept until they reached the
Statue of Liberty where she stood staggering drunkenly in the blue
waters of the Gulf. As the white vapors began to spread around the
head of the Statue, she took in but one gasping breath, and then
began to cough as though to rid her lungs of the horrible vapors
she had inhaled. One could readily discern by the painful coughing
that those white vapors had seared her lungs.
What were
these white vapors? Could they signify bacteriological warfare
that could destroy multitudes of people in a few moments time? Or
could they be the new G-gas, the horrible nerve gas recently made
known to the American public?
You haven't
heard much about this terror weapon to now because Federal Civil
Defense Administration authorities deliberately soft-pedaled it.
They wanted time to work out a defense. Now defense measures have
been worked out, but it may be years before they are produced in
sufficient quantities to protect our civilian population.
Indeed, Val
Peterson, Federal Civil Defense Administrator, estimates that if
an enemy launched an all-out nerve-gas raid against the United
States tomorrow, the death toll could be in the millions. He made
the statement "Nerve gas used by an enemy with maximum efficiency
could be deadlier than an atomic bomb."
Right now you
and your family, all of us, are unprotected against the threat of
this terror weapon.
This weapon
won't demolish buildings or blast whole areas with the scythe like
thoroughness of an A-bomb. It works subtly and more economically.
The Army calls it GB; it's an odorless, colorless, tasteless nerve
gas designed to destroy people with paralyzing suddenness.
We have it;
so do the Russians.
Soviet
possession of GB has some of our top authorities worried. There's
always a chance that a potential enemy might use it in a surprise
attack. G-gas, as nerve gas is sometimes called, is cheap to
produce, a small amount can do the job, and it leaves a nation's
industrial plants, utilities and buildings intact for an occupying
power.
Russia has at
least one nerve-gas factory in full production, and there may be
others. Moreover, Russia announced when she ratified the Geneva
Protocol outlawing gas warfare in 1928 that she would not be bound
by it in any war with a non-ratifying state. The United States
never ratified the protocol; the State Department regards it as
inadequate and ineffective.
"GB," is the
most toxic nerve gas known to military science today. By
conservative estimate, the vapor from as little as three drops of
GB would kill a human in four minutes. It would paralyze the nerve
centers almost instantly, knocking out the brain in 30 seconds and
the lungs a few seconds later. Acute convulsions would develop
within a minute, followed by loss of control over body functions,
then total paralysis and death from suffocation.
An enemy
wouldn't use drops. He would use tons. Our Chemical Warfare
experts estimate that one Russian TU-4, similar to our B-29, could
carry enough GB to the United States to kill everyone within an
area of 100 square miles. For a gas raid, a TU-4 probably would be
loaded with seven tons of bombs, each containing 50 or smaller
canisters of the nerve gas. Each bomb would have a time fuse to
detonate the casing at a predetermined height and scatter the
canisters over a wide area. An explosive charge would shatter each
canister as it hit the ground, releasing the gas fumes in an
invisible cloud.
The
concentration of gas with the miles-square area in which the bombs
fell would be so great that ever unprotected human being there
would die within four minutes. Planeload for planeload under the
right conditions, GB represents as great a threat to the civilian
population as the A-bomb.
The right
conditions for a perfect nerve-gas attack require a fog or smoke
late in the evening hugging the ground as it rolls slowly across
the countryside under a mild three or four-mile-an-hour wind. It's
held there when the temperature of the ground is lower than that
of the air above, and IT OCCURS IN FAIR WEATHER WITH AMAZING
REGULARITY and almost always between dusk and dawn.
Under these
conditions, the gas would drift across the countryside, through
city streets or about factory buildings. Even 50 miles from the
attacked area, the concentration of gas in the cloud would still
be sufficient to kill a man in 15 minutes. Altogether, fumes from
seven tons of gas would be wafted by a mild wind over perhaps 100
square miles during a twelve-hour period before finally
dispersing.
If such ideal
conditions did not exist, of course, the gas would be dispersed
sooner, but it is unlikely an enemy would attempt a raid unless he
felt certain conditions were perfect. Using meteorological devices
and charts, he could plot in advance when the weather conditions
at a target area should be ideal. Once over the target,
meteorological planes accompanying the gas raiders would check
actual ground conditions with automatic reporting devices.
A saboteur
also could use nerve gas. Civil Defense authorities recently
completed a study, which indicated that GB released from a
half-gallon container in the House of Representatives would kill
everyone in the chamber. A saboteur could spray the gas from an
aerosol-type bomb, such as is used for insecticides, into the
air-conditioning system, or leave in the chamber a brief case
containing a gas-filled time bomb.
Quite apart
from the danger posed by the fumes, it's possible that droplets of
the liquid gas from a low bomb burst might spray civilians. Liquid
GB on the skin is painless; it causes no irritation and doesn't
burn or scar. A victim wouldn't know it was there unless he saw it
fall. But if he didn't wash it off at once with soap and water or
a solution of washing soda, it would be absorbed through the skin
into the blood stream and kill him within an hour. How is it
absorbed? Doctors don't know. But they have found that ordinary
clothing, rubber boots, even gloves and laboratory clothing offer
little protection, and it must be continually washed down.
Nerve gas
acts on humans in the same way insecticides work on bugs. The
parallel is more than a coincidence. In the middle thirties, Dr.
Gerhard Schrader of Germany discovered nerve gas during a search
for a new insecticide. The Nazis immediately realized the
potentialities of Dr. Schrader's discovery and in 1939 built a
plant to produce various nerve gases at Dyhernfurth, near the
Polish border. Production got fully under way in 1942, but the
Germans didn't use nerve gas during World War II, presumably
because the Allies' air superiority gave them the power to
retaliate.
After the
war, the Russians took over the Dyhernfurth factory and its
trained personnel. It's been producing nerve gas for the Soviets
ever since.
Possession of
the plant gave the Russians a head start over the U. S. in
nerve-gas research. But after eight years we're now abreast and
may have passed them. Although all nations making nerve gas use
the same formula for GB, our latest version of the gas is believed
to be more potent than that of any other country because of our
improved production methods.
After three
years of experiments, Army and Civil Defense scientists, chemists
and technicians have produced the type of mask that apparently
gives adequate protection against nerve gas. But more tests are
needed before the masks can be turned over to industry for mass
production. Authorities want to be sure that the masks will give
protection against nerve gas, but also all other gasses,
bacteriological warfare agents and radioactive particles from
atomic explosions. "We can't recommend the masks to the American
people until they are foolproof," Defense Administrator Peterson
says. What is holding up the tests? Lack of funds for research,
according to him. He estimates that only a few hundred thousand
dollars more is needed.
"You could
buy a mask right now in your store for a dollar or two if research
funds had been made available earlier," Administrator Peterson
said. "Because of the delay in final tests, however, I honestly
don't know when they will be ready."
Meanwhile,
the American people remain totally unprotected against this type
of gas warfare.
In World War
II, it cost between $10,000,000 and $35,000,000 to eradicate
people and buildings in one square mile of enemy territory by
bombing. The high explosives in the bombs were the cheapest item.
The rest went for the building of plants to make the explosives,
the planes, the training of crews, the transportation of bombs to
the target area and the like. Nerve gas could do the same job for
one-twentieth the amount and leave the buildings and industrial
plants intact for an occupying force to take over.
"Knock out
even 20 per cent of your working force," says General Creasy, "and
the nation would be crippled." As a major weapon, and in the
opinion of many experts, it is second only to atomic weapons.
Nerve gas could be the surprise "secret weapon" of another world.
As I looked
with wonder upon the vision God had give me I wondered could it be
this horrible G Gas, which was causing the Statue of Liberty to
react so violently, as it floated about her head, looking like an
innocent cloud?
Then I heard the voice of God, as He
spoke: "Behold, the Lord maketh
the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down,
and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof."
"And it shall
be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant,
so with his master; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with
the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so
with the giver of usury to him."
"The land
shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the Lord hath
spoken this word."
"The earth
mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away,
the haughty people of the earth do languish."
"The earth
also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have
transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the
everlasting covenant."
"Therefore
bath the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are
desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned and
few men left." (Isaiah 24:14)
As I watched,
the coughing grew worse. It sounded like a person about to cough
out his lungs. The Statue of Liberty was moaning and groaning. She
was in mortal agony. The pain must have been terrific, as again
and again, she tried to clear her lungs of those horrible white
vapors. I watched her there in the Gulf, as she staggered,
clutching her lungs and her breast with her hands. Then she fell
to her knees. In a moment, she gave one final cough, made a last
desperate effort to rise from her knees, and then fell face
forward into the waters of the gulf, and lay still - still as
death. Tears ran down my face as I realized that she was dead!
Only the lapping of the waves, splashing over her body, which was
partly under the water, and partly out of the water, broke the
stillness.
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"A fire
devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth; the land
is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate
wilderness."
Joel 2:3.
Suddenly the
screaming of sirens shattered the silence. Sirens that seemed to
scream "RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!"
Never before
had I heard such shrill, screaming sirens. They seemed to be
everywhere - to the north, the south, the east and the west. There
seemed to be multitudes of sirens. And as I looked, I saw people
everywhere running. But it seemed none of them ran more than a few
paces, and then they fell. And even as I had seen the Statue of
Liberty struggling to regain her poise and balance, and finally
falling for the last time, to die on her face, I now saw millions
of people falling in the streets, on the sidewalks, struggling. I
heard their screams for mercy and help. I heard their horrible
coughing, as though their lungs had been seared with fire. I heard
the moanings and groanings of the doomed and the dying. As I
watched, a few finally readied shelters. But only a few ever got
to the shelters, and above the moaning and the groaning of the
dying multitudes, I heard these words:
"A noise
shall come even to the ends of the earth; for the Lord hath a
controversary with the nations, He will plead with all flesh; He
will give them that are wicked to the sword, saith the Lord.
Behold evil shall go forth from nation to nation, and a great
whirlwind shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth. And the
slain Of The Lord shall be at that day from one end of the earth
even unto the other end of the earth: they shall not he lamented,
neither gathered nor burled; they shall be dung upon the ground." (Jeremiah 25:31-33.)
Then suddenly
I saw from the Atlantic and from the Pacific, and out of the Gulf,
rocket-like objects that seemed to come up like fish leaping out
of the water. High into the air they leaped, each headed in a
different direction, but every one toward the United States. On
the ground, the sirens screamed louder. And up from the ground I
saw similar rockets beginning to ascend. To me, these appeared to
be interceptor rockets although they arose from different points
all over the United States. However none of them seemed to be
successful in intercepting the rockets that had risen from the
ocean on every side. These rockets finally reached their maximum
height, slowly turned over, and fell back toward the earth in
defeat. Then suddenly, the rockets, which had leaped out of the
oceans like fish all, exploded at once. The explosion was
earsplitting. The next thing, which I saw, was a huge ball of
fire. The only thing I have ever seen which resembled the thing I
saw in my vision was the picture of the explosion of the H-bomb,
somewhere in the South Pacific some months ago. In my vision, it
was so real I seemed to feel a searing heat from it.
Here I should
like to quote from a recent article by Senator Styles Bridges,
regarding the Hydrogen weapon situation today. America today is
full of conflicting opinions as national experts seek the correct
answer to the problem of national survival. The following is part
of his article on the subject.
"Five days
after Congress adjourned August 1953, Premier Malenkov told a
cheering roomful of Red officials in Moscow that America no longer
had a monopoly on hydrogen weapons." Shortly thereafter the United
States Atomic Energy Commission announced that the Russians had
conducted experiments involving both uranium and hydrogen
reactions. Here was the ultimate threat to our civilization - the
threat of its possible destruction. What should be done: This is
the gravest question of our time.
"The American
community of defense experts spilt.
"The
assumption that someone in the Pentagon or Atomic Energy
Commission would have the answer was not true. Today there are
several conflicting schools, each urging its own answer with the
intensity of men who believe their plan is the best bet to avoid
death. This division of opinion reaches into the Pentagon, the
Cabinet, and the National Security Council and emphatically into
the House and the Senate. No recommendation will be the final
atomic answer; m fact, they will kick off the greatest debates of
our history - the sort of debates that occur when anxiety crawls
in on reason, when honest and able men strive to assure survival
of the country.
"Senators
have been getting the rumblings for months. We have received
enough indications from Pentagon, AEC and the public to know that
the dread of atomic raid will bring about a variety of demands on
Congress.
"The hydrogen
device which we set off November, 1952, on Eniwetok did something
which was not adequately explained.
"It didn't
smash or crumble things. It vaporized them. It didn't melt sand
grains so that they ran together to form lava, as an atomic
explosion would. It converted dirt, trees, rock and metal
machinery to dust and gas. A substantial area composed of hard
physical substances - lumber, earth, steel, copper, lead - was
changed in about 20 seconds into atmosphere. Those who saw the
test wondered what more scientists must do to convince mankind
that an era has ended, and that civilization will end unless men
reconcile their differences peacefully.
"After
Eniwetok, information on the destructive potential of hydrogen
weapons began to reach Capitol Hill. One of the staggering
statistics indicates that any thousand buildings, hotels,
hospitals; warehouses, schools, and churches in major cities could
be wiped out in one hydrogen blast. Damage from such an atomic
raid could reach $14 billion, and that's only property damage. One
study indicates that human casualties could reach 15,000,000.
"The horrible
potentialities of an atomic and hydrogen war has intensified the
interest of every member of the Congress in defense plans, but
there is no over - all agreement on methods. The only basic
agreement is that something must be done.
"There are
several main schools of thought about how our country can be
defended best. One feels that Perimeter Continental Defense is
best. This is, that we continue to rack up more bombs - and more
horrible bombs - than anything Russia could be presumed to
possess, plus superlative bombers for their delivery. Then we keep
her notified that we will retaliate if necessary. This defense
theory has become too great a gamble to most ways of thinking. It
is, according to Winston Churchill, the primary reason why Russia
has not taken Europe thus far. We have kept an air-atomic
combination ready to deliver such horrible retaliation as to
persuade any man in the Kremlin that if he presses the button, he
will cause the destruction of major Russian centers. However, to
trust our lives to the operation of logic in Moscow is criminally
fool - hardy, even with the best of European defense plans, hence
the demand for a separate and additional defense erected in this
hemisphere.
"On the
assumption that Russia would someday achieve nuclear weapons, some
time ago we assigned teams of scientists to determine what defense
is possible - whether a city can ever build anything that will
ward off the force that vaporizes. Several such studies involved
large staffs of physicists, engineers and military men. These
teams explored the possibility of offshore radar-warning networks.
They set out to learn what sorts of interceptors, given such
warning, are needed to protect a country of continental
dimensions. Others studied how guided missiles fit into the
defense wall. Still others investigated the vast subject of
evacuation of cities - whether cities can go underground and
whether there is enough money in the world to pay for such
projects as the dispersal of industries so vital to our existence.
"The secret
reports, their hopes and possibilities, were studied by many. As a
result there is a group spread through Congress, Pentagon and
Cabinet that believe Americans should be told about the defenses
outlined in these studies. That we must pay the fantastic costs,
if necessary to provide these early warning systems, plus the
means to fight off at least most of the attacking planes.
"Since it is
impossible to protect completely a frontier that runs around the
North American continent, some ask, why bother with a partial
defense. They consider the reasoning that urges a rocket fence
wildly illogical because it might only cut the toll of a single
attack from 15 million bodies to 5 million. In spite of radar
bases, rocket fences, interceptors, Russian planes would kill
millions of Americans in one attack.
"This group
advocates the concentration of our defense money in an air-atomic
establishment capable of crushing Russia's war-making potential.
They would re-examine the role of all weapons and gradually shelve
everything not directly in support of air-atomic. This sounds like
a casual statement of military evolution until you stop to think
that what they propose to discard is a large part of the ground
army that fought in Korea. Their purpose for this would be to
build-up the air-atomic arsenal at the expense of the older
weapons without any increase in present spending.
"Such
thinking is considered by those who advocate Balanced Forces to be
criminally stupid. This group argues that it is absurd to talk of
superiority when we can annihilate the Russian cities and they can
annihilate ours. They say we have or will soon have enough atomic
weapons and planes to sustain heavy losses and still blast every
major Russian city into rubble, while on the other hand Russia
will have atomic bombs in stockpile quantities and the planes to
pierce any American defense and deliver enough A-bombs to destroy
at least a part of our nation. We are spending ourselves into an
era of atomic stalemate.
"Under
stalemate, wars will occur and may be fought with non-atomic
weapons. One example was Korea. Russia could have supplied China
with Atomic bombs and poison gas. We too, had both. Yet Korea was
fought largely with tools of World War II, including carbine,
grenade and bayonet. Would the persons directing our defense
establishment give our pilots the atomic bomb and invite atomic
reply? This group says hang onto the Army, Navy and Marines,
regardless of whatever else you buy. Perhaps it would be wise to
try all the methods suggested by the different conflicting
schools, but Mr. Thomas K. Finletter, former Secretary of the Air
Force, claims that we cannot afford to buy all schools of defense
- that if we try to do it we'll collapse from within. We must
choose, he says, from among the defense plans now before us.
"There is
another group who do not break into the open, but wait to see if
some kind of standoff develops that will give them reason to come
forward. They dread the word 'appeasement' but to them, settlement
becomes an unavoidable alternative whenever they hear a
physicist's explanation of vaporization. Their minds jump to
settlement when they learn there is a dispute as to whether the
vast and costly installations proposed for continental defense are
worth a hoot.
"Settlement
springs to mind when they visualize 10 years of atomic race with
Russian leaders who may not understand that the
Communist-capitalist argument, brought to its ultimate conclusion,
could cause a mutation of the human species. They have taken note
of the amounts Russia spends on its own air-atomic force, of the
atomic bombs Russia has in stockpile, of Russia's air force, ready
to deliver. This group has made guarded proposals for something
which they won't call appeasement and which amounts to just that.
The fact that one of the two powers is immoral, an imperialistic
criminal, does not change the fact, they say, that our
inflexibility may cause the vaporization of our cities. At about
this point in reasoning some may soon start to consider
"appeasement" a word with less horror than "vaporization."
"Russia is
advancing rapidly in hydrogen developments. Russia has the older
atomic bomb in stockpile quantity. Russia has planes reasonably
close in size and range to our own, and in numbers that permit
simultaneous attacks over many parts of America. Russia has a
cross section of the whole guided-missiles family.
"Now that
atomic weapons can be carried by submarines, fighter planes and by
rockets, the Reds have recourse to many combinations in shaping an
atomic Pearl Harbor. If they can get through, they will wreck
destruction upon our cities.
"Consider the
pressures the people affected, on our members of government.
Consider America's mayors, who attend civil defense meetings and
learn there is really little that man can do to ward off hydrogen
weapons. They emerge, these mayors, look at their cities and
visualize ruins. Some will be willing to try radar bases, rocket
fences, interceptors, and then pray. Others will demand that the
country follow other recommendations, and still others will begin
to think of Settlement.
"There are
governors who stare at their industrial cities knowing that there
isn't enough money in the world to decentralize certain heavy
industries. There are establishments crucial to our defense in
Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and Chicago and in a hundred other cities
that cannot be put underground without 10 years work and the
expenditure of something that sounds like $200 trillion. They know
that to move, decentralize and re-house even a small labor force
requires at least five years.
"Each
governor, each mayor, each property owner, each editor thus
becomes a member of the nation's defense council, and each is
prepared to argue for what he believes will best assure the
survival of America.
"The truth of
the matter is that many responsible leaders are tired of panic
arguments. When it can be proved that one of the several theories
will be the wisest course, when they are convinced that it will
work, they will inform the Congress, whatever the cost. Pending
such certainty, they aren't buying something that may be obsolete
before completion, something to be abandoned half-finished.
"Our people
are advised to be as calm as they can. The best-informed men and
women in America are doing their utmost to find the best answer,
the logical solution. This threat to our national survival is a
very real one. Everyone in an official position is as anxious as
the ordinary to avoid disaster for our country or any part of it.
"We know the
issue is crucial and impelling. We know that the destiny of our
country, the greatest nation on earth, and the destinies of all
free people hang in the balance. We can only hope to cut through
tangle of conflicting opinions to a solution that will safeguard
our security and the security of our friends."
These are the
words of one of the recognized leaders of our senate!
As the vision spread before my eyes,
and I viewed the widespread desolation brought about by the
terrible explosions, I could not help thinking, "While the
defenders of our nation have quibbled over what means of defense
to use, and neglected the only true means of defense, faith and
dependence upon the true and living God, the thing, which she
greatly feared, has come unto her! How true it has proven that
'Except the Lord keep the city,
the watchman watcheth but in vain.'"
Then as the noise of battle subsided,
to my ears came this quotation from Joel, the second chapter:
"Blow ye the trumpet in Zion,
and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of
the land tremble: for the day of the Lord cometh for it is nigh at
hand.
"A day of
darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness,
as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a
strong: there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any
more after it, even to the years of many generations.
"A fire
devoureth before them: and behind them a flame burneth: the land
is as the Garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate
wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
"The
appearance of them is as the appearance of horses; and as
horsemen, so shall they run.
"Like the
noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, like
the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a
strong people set in baffle array.
"Before their
face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather
blackness.
"They shall
run like mighty men: they shall climb the wall like men of war;
and they shall march every one on his ways, and they shall not
break their ranks:
"Neither
shall one thrust another; they shall walk everyone on in his path:
and when they fall upon the sword, they shall not be wounded.
"The shall
run to and fro in the city; they shall run upon the wall, they
shall climb upon the houses; they shall enter in at the windows
like a thief.
"The earth
shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun and
the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their
shining." Joel 2:1-10.
Then the
voice was still. The earth, too, was silent, the silence, with the
silence of death.
* * * * * * * * * *
And then to
my ears came another sound - a sound of distant singing. It was
the sweetest music I had ever heard. There was joyful shouting,
and sounds of happy laughter. Immediately, I knew it was the
rejoicing of the saints of God. I looked, and there high in the
heaven, above the smoke and poisonous gases, above the noise of
battle, I saw a huge mountain. It seemed to be of solid rock, and
I knew at once that this was the Mountain of the Lord. The sounds
of music and rejoicing were coming from a cleft, high up in the
side of the rock mountain.
It was the
saints of God who were doing the rejoicing. It was God's own
people who were singing and dancing and shouting with joy, safe
from all harm which had come upon the earth, for they were hidden
away in the cleft of the rock. There in the cleft, they were shut
in, protected by a great, giant hand which reached out of the
heavens, and which was none other than the hand of God, shutting
them in, until the storm be over-passed.
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"Be not
deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth that
shall he also reap. For he that soweth to the flesh shall of the
flesh reap corruption."
Galatians 6:7.
No doubt many
who are reading this are wondering, "Will America actually be
invaded? Will she have to pay for her wickedness and sin, and for
turning her back upon God? Will the wrath and fury of God's
judgment fall upon Uncle Sam? Will America be invaded by Russia?
Will Russia use the horrible G gas that can kill millions in a few
seconds time? Will she resort to biological warfare that could
kill literally millions over night? Will Russia resort to the use
of hydrogen weapons? Could God allow such a horrible thing to
happen to America? In reply to all these questions, permit me to
quote a few scriptures, and make a few thought provoking
statements.
America has
been sowing with a free hand, preparing for a tremendous harvest -
but what has she sown? God declares that as sure as America has
sown, SHE SHALL REAP!
"The wicked
shall be turned into Hell, and all nations that forget God." Palms 9:17.
"The hand of
our God is upon all them for good that seek him but his power and
his wrath is against all that forsake him." Ezra 8:22.
"If ye be
willing and obedient ye shall eat the good of the land, but if ye
rebel and refuse, ye shall be devoured with the sword." Isaiah 1:19, 20.
When they
shall say peace and safety, then sudden destruction cometh upon
them as travail upon a woman with child, and they shall not
escape." 1 Thessalonians 5:3.
"We looked
for peace, and no good came; We looked for a time of health, but
behold, trouble." Jeremiah 8:15.
It is my firm
conviction, based upon the authority of God's word, that any
nation which forgets God to the extent that America has forgotten
Him - any nation that rebels and refuses to walk in obedience to
God's word as America has refused and rebelled shall be destroyed,
and that without remedy."
"He that
being often reproved, hardeneth his neck shall suddenly be
destroyed, and that without remedy."
Proverbs 29:1.
In the light
of these scriptures, I am convinced that America is on God's list!
There are
many who do not like to face such issue as this. They will not
confess the truth, but try to make themselves and others believe
America is a Christian nation.
Here let me
say that I thank God for every Christian in America, and for every
church that is ready for the coming of the Lord, and for every
pastor and evangelist that is still preaching the truth. But there
is no point in any one denying that there are millions of
"religious" people in America who have never born again.
America
boasts today of the fact that she manufacture 510 billion
cigarettes per year! That is enough to furnish every boy and girl,
every father and mother, every grandfather and grandmother in the
United States ten cigarettes every day. She also boasts of
manufacturing three billion gallons of liquor each for every man,
woman and child in the United States. One New York officer
estimates that 5,000 of city's 300,000 high school students are
users of narcotics by teenagers in New York City is paralleled by
similar increases in many other cities across the nation.
We are living
in a pleasure-crazed age. Sensuality has become the dominating
passion of America. She is so intoxicated with the quest of
pleasure that moral and spiritual consequences are seldom
considered.
Proof of this
mad pursuit of pleasure is seen in the degree of indulgence and
the fabulous amounts spent. Baseball draws up to 60,000,000 paid
admissions annually. A single day attendance record in the Major
leagues, (on Labor Day, 1947, in Brooklyn, when seven
double-headers and morning and afternoon games attracted 300,825
spectators. The net receipts for that Series games (including
radio and television rights) came to $2,021,348.92.
There are
10,000 professional fighters in the United States and about 100
fight clubs. Fans pay $16,000,000 annually for the pleasure of
seeing these fights.
Sports
participants run into the hundreds of millions, spending billions
of dollars. Facts reveal that in the United States there are
2,500,000 Golfers; 10,000,000 Skiers, creating a billion dollar
business. The United States Department of Commerce indicated that
ski enthusiasts would spend more than $200,000,000 in the Eastern
states alone during one winter season. There are 10,000,000 Table
Tennis players; 20,000,000 play Bingo regularly and twice as many
indulge at sporadic intervals. Approximately 100,000,000 Americans
play 4,000,000 Slot Machines, "One-armed bandits" as they are
called in slang. But law protects these "bandits" in many cases. A
conservative estimate puts the total number of Billiards Parlors
near 14,000; there are 18,500,000 Bowlers, and directed by 33,000
Bowling Leagues sanctioned by the American Bowling Congress.
During one season alone, $200,000,000 was spent for balls, bags
shoes and fees.
There are
450,000 Juke Boxes through out the country and the yearly take is
estimated to be $500,000,000. About 200,000,000 inhabitants in
America cheerfully spend $150,000,000 a year for the mental agony
of roller coasters and other carnival thrills. Part of this amount
is expended on the midway of the almost 2,000 Fairs held annually
in the United States.
For Home
Entertainment, we now own 5,000,000 phonographs, and for these we
have purchased at least $400,000,000 worth of records. We also own
45 per cent of the world's radios and these are provided with
programs from more than 1,300 radio stations. Daytime Soap Operas
have a listening audience of 42,000,000. Not even to mention the
billions spent on television.
To the
millions of pleasure-lusting people whom we just described, add
77,000,000 Americans who attend the Movies each week, and
according to the latest census 11,000 professional actors and
7,000 professional actresses are employed to entertain our
show-going people. The most tragic and dastardly thing about the
movie attendance is that 6,000,000 of those who attend weekly are
under seven years of age; 11,000,000 under 13 years old, and
28,000,000 are under 21 years of age. In other words, over a third
of our movie-going subjects are under 21 years of age. The
moral-destroying, character-assassinating and Christian-cursing
influence of the modern movie is damning our nation by distorting
every moral and spiritual principle in our youth before they
become of age.
What does all
this mean: In comparable figures the following is revealed:
More people
play golf (3,500,000) than go to church on Sunday night
(2,800,000.) There are more than twice as many baseball and
basketball fans (150,000,000) as church members (71,700,000), more
people play Bingo regularly (28,000,000) than go to church on
Sunday morning (15,000,000). Only 15,000,000 boys and girls attend
Sunday School, while 28,000,000 attend movie theaters. Less than
1,500,000 church members attend prayer meeting while 77,000,000
attend picture shows weekly. Eight times as many hours are at the
movies as at Sunday School. Only one out 12 Americans attends
church regularly.
Does a sane person need further facts
to convince him that our nation is pleasure-mad? No words could
more aptly describe our times than these:
"Lovers of pleasure more than lovers of
God."
Someone has
said, "You are what you read." There is more truth in this
statement than fiction. Character is revealed or congealed by the
nature of the literature one regularly reads. As another has said,
"You are known by your reading matter." How true!
Every
civilization of history has been marked by its literature. The
ancient writings of Egypt, Babylon, Persia, Greece, and Rome as
well as nations of more modern times confirm this fact. National
thought is revealed in the literature a nation produces. The moral
character of any nation is ascertained by the nature of its
popular reading matter.
On this
basis, America is morally rotten. Never in the history of American
literature has its publications been so saturated with
obscenities, immorality, and degeneracy as the literary products
of the last twenty years. The contemporary writers of our time
seem to see which can produce the most salacious, perverting, and
character-assassinating "Best Seller." These sordid compositions
fill the mind with filth, corrupt the heart, identify lust with
love, provoke hasty marriage, hold Christianity up to ridicule,
deny God, and in general curse every thing decent, moral,
honorable and worth living for.
The
cantankerous authors of such noxious "copy" have no regard for
morals, honor, or Christian opinion. They are motivated by one
obsessing passion - money. Such filching literary "ready-writers"
are possessed with a warped mind, which sees no criterion but a
swelling bank account. Such shriveled pinheads are completely
devoid of conscience. The perverting of character, destruction of
young minds, and damning of souls means nothing to them.
These
"Satanic Agents" are responsible for distorting the reading habits
of the American public by creating an abnormal reading appetite
for literature that reeks with obscenity, profanity, fantasy,
immorality and prevarication. And this is not just the opinion of
some "straight-laced" preacher, but also the opinion of many that
rank foremost in mental and moral stature.
One such is
Ben Roy Redman, who made a statement in the American Mercury
Magazine to this effect, "During the past twenty years or so -
American fiction has become the most licentious that ever enjoyed
popular distribution."
In the early
days of Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration, a survey was
conducted among the American public to determine what books should
go into the President's library. "Grapes of Wrath," a fair example
of the damnable literature that is classified as a best seller,
was the first choice. The Bible was second, by a narrow margin
over Hitler's "Mein Kampf."
Nations we
look upon as backward, primitive, or illiterate, rise to condemn
us. According to the Religious Digest, the Japanese home office
ordered all editors of children's magazines to "exclude from their
publications stories of gangsters, crime, and gambling, and to
substitute tales of exalting loyalty and public service.
The
Australian Government has banned the American novel, "Forever
Amber." It was called "unreadable" by the Government spokesman,
who said, "The Almighty did not give us eyes to read that
rubbish." Yet in Christian America 750,000 copies of this novel
were sold in one year, and it became a Best Seller.
American
youth's rejection of parental influence evidences a disregard for
moral restraint. When moral restraint is lost, all hope of
Christian conduct is gone.
Now for the
big question: "Why has youth revolted against parental influence?"
The answer lies in the fact that the teachings of Christianity,
the very foundation of all family life, have been woefully
neglected. It is significant that when religious education among
youth decreases, crime among youth increases. In New York City 92
percent of the young people are unreached by any religious
activity whatsoever. Less than 2 per cent of the total youth
population attends any Protestant religious organization or its
events; 4.8 per cent of the city's youth attend Catholic services;
and 1 per cent attends Jewish religious services. A similar
situation prevails in Chicago where 75 per cent of the youth
grammar-school-age never attend church or Sunday school. The
report of Dr. J. W. Behnken, before the Eleventh Annual
reformation gathering of the Missouri Lutheran Synod, revealed,
"17,000,000 American children are growing up without any knowledge
of Christ or God."
This criminal
neglect on the part of parents and the absence of Christian
training has set youth adrift in a world primed for its
destruction.
Education is
no substitute for parental correction and religious training. As
for the building of morale, it offers little promise, but on the
contrary, in many cases it serves to hasten sure damnation.
I charge
modern psychology with greatly sharing in cursing the youth of our
generation. Those professed "social scientists" that are doggedly
teaching "self -expression" for youth are advocating a ruinous
doctrine. A psychiatrist who is an adherent to the teaching of
"self-expression" made this statement, "For many generations we
have bowed our necks to the yoke of conviction of sin, and our
parents and teachers have been largely responsible for this
indoctrination with poisonous ideas about good and evil." This
statement was not made by a moron, but by scientifically trained
psychiatrist. How a man of intelligence could give birth to such
supercilious reasoning is just another proof of the treachery of
sin. But the tragedy is that many of our college professors are
daily indoctrinating our youth with this philosophy of "new
morality" which ridicules chastity as fashioned; which states that
pre-marital sex is "necessary to good health." And these students
are even told that they should not consider until they have "tried
out" their marriage partners.
One of these
professors responsible for teaching this loathsome immorality was
Bertrand Russell. Here is an example of his teaching. "It is
positively desirable that youth should have experience of sex -
abstinence is nervously and mentally undesirable." The hideous
results of this kind of teaching are revealed in the daily
newspapers.
My word
against an array of professors gifted with philosophical
brainstorms would mean nothing, but cold and uncompromising
statistics are irrefutable. Children commit Fifty-six per cent of
our nation's crimes. Seventy-one per cent of all children who are
sent to jail continue on a life of crime, and 70 per cent adult
criminals were delinquent in their youth.
In 1930 the
juvenile delinquency age level was 16-18 years. Today it is 7-15
with the 11-13 age bracket the greatest offenders. The average age
when delinquency begins is 11½ years.
During World
War II, delinquency in the larger cities increased 51 per cent.
During the same time, there were 1,100,000 teen-age girls lured
into vice and immorality; 300,000 teen-agers were afflicted with
social disease and 75,000 teen-age girls had illegitimate
offspring.
The lack of
Godly, parental restraint and religious training aided and abetted
by this satanic doctrine of "free sex-expression" is solely
responsible for loosing the floodgates of juvenile crime and
immorality in our nation. J. Edgar Hoover has well summed it up in
these words, "The youths of today have more information at their
finger-tips, have lived more, and mentally are far advanced over
the youths of any other generation; but physically and spiritually
they are to be pitied."
Promiscuous
immorality has become so common that "Social Scientists" are
teaching that free sex expression is the normal, healthy and moral
expression of life. So immorality, according to the new moral
code, is morality. These prophets of licentiousness are
academically preaching the doctrines of "free love," "companionate
marriage," "trial marriage," and unrestrained promiscuous
immorality daily in our public schools, all the way from high
school to state universities. These diabolic lepers reason
"anything that can be enjoyed and is a normal reaction of the body
cannot be sin." Such satanic philosophy accepted as scientific and
cultural has cursed the moral life of our nation.
Dr. R. N.
Terman's survey reported in the April 1947, issue of "Reader's
Scope" reveals that at the time of World War I only 13 per cent of
the girls taking the marriage vows were non-virgins. By 1922 the
proportion of non-virgins at marriage had rise to about 22 per
cent. In 1932 the rate had risen to 49 per cent. Before World War
II the rate of pre-marital experience among girls had reached
about 65 per cent and it is predicted that virginity at marriage,
if the present percentage of increase continues, will be close to
the vanishing point for girls marrying after 1960.
A recent
current digest magazine states that there are eight million
homosexuals in America today, and that one twentieth of the
population of America are sex perverts. This is the same sin (also
known as sodomy) that brought down the judgment of God gone by
upon the wicked cities of Sodom and Gomorrah.
To show you
the trend of the American people toward the same sins, I quote (in
part) from a newspaper bought at a public newsstand in Los
Angeles, California. The following quotations are FROM ONLY THE
FRONT PAGE. The big black headlines are as follows:
"WOMAN RAPES TEENAGE BOY
Seductress Lures Boy, 16 to Motel
Washington,
D. C. - The amazing story of how a pretty 29 year old married
woman seduced and -"
* * * *
Seven other
articles on the same front page are carried under the following
headings:
* * * *
"GOVERNMENT
EXPERTS HELD FOR STAGING SEX ORGIES."
"PRETTY
REDHEAD STRIPPED NUDE, RAPED IN HILLS."
"GIRL SAYS
BOY RAPED HER FIVE DAYS."
"NAVY WIVES
ATTACKED BY SEX FIEND; RAPIST ENTERS HOME AT NIGHT."
DISCOVERS
SHACK WHERE YOUTHS HELD SEX ORGIES."
"YOUTH 17
HELD FOR MOLESTER OF GIRLS."
"HUSKY
ATHLETE DONS GIRLS CLOTHES, ENTERS GIRLS BED."
The
far-reaching use of tobacco in America is a willful disregard of
the Bible command to preserve the body clean and holy for God.
Paul says in Romans 12:1, "I beseech you... that ye present your
bodies holy, acceptable unto God."
If the money
that American people are wasting for tobacco were invested in
homes, every man and could have a home, free of debt, before
reaching the age of 50. The annual tobacco expense in the United
States would build FOUR Panama Canals. While millions starve in
other lands, Americans spend more on tobacco every year than they
do on bread. This amounts to $2,700,000,000 annually for tobacco.
One tobacco
company alone expended $3,000,000 for advertising in three months.
These ads went to English language daily newspaper in the United
States. The cigarette manufacturers are now starting a
multi-million dollar advertising campaign to increase the use of
cigarettes among American women. It has been discovered that only
about two out of every five women smoke as against three out of
four men.
Due to a
recent shift in public opinion, the "enlightened" American public
has become more and more tolerant of the use of liquor, for we are
now that alcoholism is a disease, rather than a vice, and should
be looked upon with sympathy rather than blame. Does it not seem
strange that in a land where so much money is spent to find cures
for such diseases as tuberculosis and cancer - where foundations
are dedicated to the prevention and cure of diseases like
poliomyelitis - where sanitation measures are strictly enforced in
order to prevent such disease as typhoid fever, and where free
clinics are set up to vaccinate all school children to prevent
smallpox, diphtheria, and the like, that (granting alcoholism is a
disease), more money is spent in propagating the disease of
alcoholism than in the control of all diseases combined. If
alcoholism is a disease, then we would like to compare it with
other sicknesses in seven respects:
But
alcoholism is more than a disease. It is a BONDAGE TO THE DEMON OF
LUST.
While man's law has legalized the
drinking of intoxicating beverages, God's moral order forbids it.
His statutes read, "Be not among
winebibbers," Proverbs 23:20.
"Know ye not that the
unrighteous - fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers nor
thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkard - shall inherit the kingdom of
God," I Corinthians 6:9,10.
God's law is the basis for all moral law. Man's law only takes on
the dignity of law in the degree that it prescribes to God's moral
and social order. Drunkenness violates in every sense the dignity
of moral order. Drunkenness is lawlessness indeed. The facts
reveal how lawless our nation is at this point.
The annual
drink bill in America for every man, woman, and child has shown a
continuous increase as follows:
1939 - $26.00 per capita
1942 - $39.00 per capita
1943 - $46.00 per capita
1945 - -$58.00 per capita
1946 - $63.00 per capita
This means
the total drink bill for the nation in 1943 was $6,000,000,000; in
1945 it was $7,800,000,000 and in 1946 it increased to
$8,770,000,000. This would have been enough to place a new $4.00
Bible in the hands of everyone in the world. It was sufficient to
have supported 4,350,000 missionaries all over the world at the
rate of $2,000 each!
To compare
our American drinking habits with those of other nations we have
only to look at the following figures, showing the average annual
per capita consumption of alcoholic beverages:
America -
1.17 gallons per capita
France - 4.60
gallons per capita
Great Britain
- .93 gallons per capita
Norway - .55
gallons per capita
Holland - .40
gallons per capita
The hardest
drinking areas in the United States are Washington, D. C., Nevada,
and Connecticut. Washington D. C., the seat of our federal
government, has a per capita consumption of 4.09 gallons annually.
During one
year alone, Americans spend nearly eight times as much for
alcoholic drinks as they do for religious causes. Aside from the
money spent on drink itself, other bills chargeable to alcoholism
annually are:
Potential
wage losses....................$432,000,000
Crime.............................................$188,000,000
Accidents.........................................$87,000,000
Maintenance
in local jails...............$25,000,000
Other costs
cannot be reckoned.
To keep
liquor constantly before the eye of the American public, Senator
Capper of Kansas has stated that the "annual expenditures for
liquor advertisements run about 100 million dollars at a
conservative estimate. A nation-wide survey by the Youth
Temperance Council revealed that "more than 1,000,000,000 pages of
paid advertising of whiskies, brandies, gins, beer and wines were
carried by magazines making special appeal to woman and the home.
LIFE magazine alone ran 387 liquor ads, or a total of 318 pages in
one year. At the published rate for advertising, this would mean
the revenue to the publisher for this advertising totaled
$4,400,000.
What has all
of this meant on the American scene? There is now one licensed
retail liquor store, saloon, or beer parlor in the United States
for every 100 families.
The State of
Massachusetts decided to make a survey and find out if the taxes
received from liquor paid for the expense of it. They learned that
in one year the total tangible cost of alcoholism to their state
was $61,000,000, including crime costs, mental cases, and relief
to dependents, due to inebriety. Against this there was an offset
of $13,139,266 received by the Commonwealth and the various cities
and towns from liquor taxes. Legalizing liquor cost this one state
$47,860,734 in one year alone!
In food
products, grain, sugars, syrups, and fruits, used in the making of
alcoholic beverages sold during the year 1945, we wasted 3,339,548
tons. The American Business Men's Research Foundation estimate
that between Pearl Harbor and January 1, 1946, this waste totaled
337,000,000 bushels of grain. This misuse of these grains diverted
from the retail market $26,200,000,000 in money that could have
been used for necessities and harmless luxuries during the same
period.
Since repeal,
the public revenue on alcoholic beverages has exceeded 20 billion
dollars. The total revenue from liquor taxation increased more
than 400 per cent from 1935 to 1945. But repeal did not put an end
to bootlegging. The Government estimates that for every legal
distillery there are a hundred illicit stills. Walter Davenport,
writing in "Collier's," stated that federal agents are grabbing
moon shiners at the rate of a thousand a month. They estimated
that 18,000,000,000 gallons of bootleg liquor were made in 1946 -
enough to have netted the Government $72,000,000 in taxes.
TRAGICALLY ENOUGH, IT IS THE TAX MONEY THE GOVERNMENT IS CONCERNED
WITH, NOT THE IRREPARABLE DAMAGE THAT THE LIQUOR DOES TO THE
SOULS, BODIES, HOMES, AND PROPERTY OF THE PEOPLE.
Fifty million
men and women of drinking age in the United States use alcoholic
beverages; 3,000,000 of these become excessive drinkers and of
these last 750,000 become chronic alcoholics. Nor are all of these
men! Four out of ten chronic alcoholics are women. Fifty per cent
of ALL women in the United States take a drink at least
occasionally. In not much more than ten years, the number of women
patients admitted to mental hospitals for alcoholism has jumped
from 6 to 17 per cent. Alcoholics Anonymous has noted a steady
increase in the number of women applying for treatment. The female
rate of chronic alcoholism jumped 12.6 per cent between 1940 and
1945.
Dr. Robert V.
Seliger, psychiatrist, has stated that more than two-fifths of all
women in jail in America are there because of drunkenness. And in
Chicago, where the ratio of male to female inebriates treated by
the Psychiatric Institute of the Municipal Court stood at 4½ to 1
in 1931; it now has dropped to 2 to 1. It is estimated there are
5,000 female drunkards in Washington, D.C., alone!
Neither may
we limit the drinking habits to adulthood for surveys reveal that
62 per cent of American youths between the ages of 16 and 24 are
drinkers. Seventy-one per cent of all alcoholics had their first
drink between the ages of 10 and 19; 6.1 per cent between the ages
of 10 and 14; and 1 per cent below the age of 10 years.
It would seem
that the starling facts revealed above should be enough to prove
that as a nation, America has heaped up a record of sin such as
has seldom been paralleled in the history of the world. The
judgment of God has been poured out upon nations for less! History
reveals that nation after nation has fallen a position of world
supremacy to one of total decay and defeat because of the very
conditions existing all about us in America today.
Yet to all
these sins there is added another - to the mind of the average
American today, "not very bad," but before God the worst of all
her sins, and the root of all her other sins. AMERICA HAS REJECTED
GOD!
Her beginning
was glorious, because she honored Him. Her victories were
miraculous, when her leaders knew how to pray, and her people were
simple God-fearing people. But America has forgotten the pit from
from which she was digged. She has turned her back upon the source
of her strength. Her constitution, designed to give her people
freedom to worship God, is used today to forbid the teaching of
the word of God to her children in her public schools, even on a
voluntary basis, each learning from the teacher of his choice, on
the grounds that such teaching violates the personal liberty of
the atheist and the infidel! This was the decision upheld by a
justice of the Supreme Court, in a recent widely publicized case,
in the City of Champaigne, Illinois.
But even worse is the condition of her
churches, for while only a small percentage of her population
attend church, even occasionally, the vast majority of those who
do are hearing and following apostate teachers, who openly confess
they do not believe the Bible is the inspired Word of God, and
ridicule the claims of Christ as the Son of God, deny the
possibility of the virgin birth, reject the teaching of the new
birth, and unknowingly fulfill the words of Christ,
"The blind lead the blind and they both
fall into the ditch."
Apostatizing
America! The fact of apostasy in America "the fortress of World
Christianity," may be seen by quoting from a few of the works,
sermons, or political speeches of leading churchmen, professors,
and political figures. Consider the following:
Dr.
Littlefield, pastor of the Fountain Street Baptist Church of Grand
Rapids, Michigan, is one of the outstanding Modernists of the
denomination. In a sermon (reported in "Prophecy Monthly") he
said, "You should realize that the idea of God as a person is
restricted in the modern world to a very few religions, and to the
minority groups. God, in the religion of the East and the Orient,
is not a person. It is in a large part of Christian development,
and don't assume that because it is Christian it is therefore
right."
Frank C.
Doan, in his book, "Religion and the Modern Mind" says, "Do you
ask me whether God is simply the spirit of humanity? I reply that
God is essentially and simply just that."
One of the
late presidents of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in
America is on record as declaring, "the God of the Old Testament
is a bully who is unworthy of worship."
A short time
ago, the Federal Council of Churches sponsored a Conference on
Evangelism in Los Angeles, California. One of the speakers drew
real applause when he climaxed his speech by saying, "Happily the
day of trying to scare sinners with the torture of hell is past."
Such
statements as the foregoing quotations are enough to provoke the
righteous indignation of every God-fearing, Christ-trusting,
Bible-loving Christian to cry out "Come quickly, Lord Jesus, and
cleanse Thy temple again." The most treacherous foe in America
isn't Communism (as perilous as it may be), Nazism, Fascism, or
any alien ideology, but MODERNISM.
Can a
country, which has denied God a place in its government; its
schools, its business, its homes and its churches escape the
judgment and the wrath of God? No. A million times no! America
will not escape God's wrath. She has sinned, and she must reap
exactly what she has sown.
The reaping?
The reaping
is in the future.
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"And said to
the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of
him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:
For the great day of his wrath is come."
Revelation 6:16, 17.
And as it
took the fire and the brimstone in the days of Sodom and Gomorrah,
it will probably take an atomic war to awaken the people of this
age! Even as the Sodomites, the antediluvians, the rich fool, and
Belshazzar awoke TOO LATE; so no doubt will the vast majority of
the people today. And awaking too late, they will awake in HELL!
It is certain
that Uncle Sam, and by this time Russia as well, is in possession
of secret weapons that could be far more destructive than even the
H-bomb.
This is
something to think about!
Even if the
A-bomb arid the H-bomb should be outlawed, so to speak, there will
remain other secret weapons, such as biological (germ) warfare.
Many leading scientists have already stated that this germ warfare
is far more deadly than either the A-bomb or the H-bomb. Dr.
Theodore Rosenbury, former chief of the U. S. biological warfare
division, said that just one ounce of pure botulinus toxin might
kill 200,000,000 humans. He also said that others might even be
more potent.
Another great
scientist by the name of W. A. Higginbotham, chairman of the
Federation of Atomic Scientists, says that fission product warfare
(atomic poison gas) and biological warfare could be deadlier than
anything now in existence. "Biological warfare," he says, "differs
in two ways from atomic warfare. Through germ war, aerial
attackers or saboteurs could silently set forces to work which
kill men, women, and infants in their homes. After a certain
period of time, the conquerors could then enter the depopulated
areas and find the factories, buildings, and all the resources of
the country ready for their use. Biological warfare could be used
to cut off the food supplies, and radio-active material could be
used to trap people in the bomb shelters and caves."
Listen now to the words of Dr. Bock
Chisholm,
Canadian director-general of the World
Health Organization. "Bacteriological weapons could kill all
living things within six hours and leave the area safe for troops
to occupy within the twelve hours which it takes to oxidize and
disappear. One war may kill as many as 90 per cent of the world's
people. One after that, we may be sure, will be totally
efficient."
Senator Wiley
said some time ago that a sneak Russian attack could kill 30
million of our people, and put a "foreign military commissar" in
charge over the ruins. He stated further, "This is no idle fantasy
but a grim possibility. We should even consider legislation by
television, so that senators and congressmen from thirty to forty
points in the country might be able through the medium of
television to pass the necessary laws in the event of attack. He
said, military and scientific authorities agree that the next war
could be fought with atomic and bacteriological weapons in a
matter of minutes or hours. "Russia," he said, "already is
decentralizing her big cities, while we live in a fool's paradise
of apathy and inertia, as well as in a crazily suicidal
over-centralized condition - ripe for a solar plexus blow by an
aggressor."
General
George C. Marshall, wartime chief of staff, warned the next war
could be the death of all civilization.
Dr. Albert
Einstein warned, "The hysterical armament race between the United
States and Russia "beckons general annihilation." He states
further, "The means to mass destruction are perfected with
feverish haste behind the respective walls of secrecy. The
Hydrogen bomb and its radioactive poisoning of the atmosphere and
hence annihilation of any life on earth has been brought within
the range of technical possibilities.
Niels Bohr,
Danish scientist who was closely associated with the atomic bomb
research, told an assembly of technicians that a defense against
atomic bombs was impossible.
Dr. Harold C.
Urey, navy scientist, warns that when it comes, we might as well
expect losses of at least 15 million persons on the first day.
Meanwhile, sober nuclear scientists assert that the world's time
clock now reads THREE MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT, representing to them
the time left before all civilization will come to an end.
The following
item, clipped from a recent metropolitan newspaper, is typical of
much of the current thought concerning the possibilities for LIFE
AND DEATH.
"WORLD SUICIDE H-BOMB MIGHT KILL
ALL MANKIND
WEAPON COULD EASILY SPREAD LETHAL
DUST OVER GLOBE, SCIENTISTS WARN
- By ALTON L. BLAKESLEE
Associated Press Science Reporter
NEW YORK,
Feb. 26. - The hydrogen bomb could easily be made a suicide bomb
to kill everyone in the world, four top atomic scientists warned
today.
It would kill
slowly by poisoning everything and everyone with radioactive dust.
The dust
would be carried around the world by the winds.
The dust
would be in the air people breathed.
It would
settle on and poison plants and trees, everything humans ate or
used.
You could
intentionally rig an H-bomb to do this, they declared. It would be
simple. You would just put harmless chemical elements around the
H-bomb. The bomb itself would turn these chemicals into the
fantastic killing dust.
You could
have dust that would stay active and kill for a few days, a few
months, or as long as 5,000 years. You could pick the kind of dust
you wanted to create.
The warning
was sounded by Dr. Hans Bethe, physicist of Cornell University;
Dr. Frederick Seitsz, physicist of the University of Illinois; Dr.
Leo Szilard, bio-physicist, and Dr. Harrison Brown, chemist, both
of the University of Chicago.
They told of
the suicide bomb in a University of Chicago Round Table broadcast.
It would take
only 500 tons of heavy hydrogen, in one H-bomb or a number of
them, to make a dust that would kill everyone in the World, Dr.
Szilard declared.
Release of
fifty tons of neutrons, he said, would be enough to make a
radioactive dust that would settle over the world. The dust would
stay lethal for five years.
Any nation
could threaten to use such a bomb, in a suicide-for-everyone
ultimatum, to get what it wanted, the scientists agreed.
One hydrogen
bomb, not rigged for dust-production wouldn't create much danger.
It would make
nitrogen and carbon in the surrounding air radioactive. But a lot
of the H-bombs, used in a war, could create a 5,000-year carbon
dust that would make life impossible, Dr. Bethe said.
The
scientists said they talked about the bomb not to frighten people,
but to inform them of the facts.
Russian
scientists and Soviet leaders know these same facts, they said.
Here are the
facts. Let's face them!
American
military strategists are sure that the Kremlin has marked America
for certain destruction.
One Signal
from the Communists and long-range Red Air Force planes loaded
with "H" and "A" bombs could deliver their deadly freight to every
metropolitan city in America.
Some of the
greatest minds of our day have grown weary and fearful since our
own new H-weapons unleashed furies more savage than man dreamed
of.
Neither
military nor lay authority can accurately gauge the size and force
of the enemy's offensive power, but U.S. intelligence estimates it
to be massive.
Whether we
realize it or not, we are dwelling day and night under the threat
of horrible and complete destruction!
Military
strategy, no matter how accurate or well directed, cannot avert
the judgment of God bearing down upon a sin filled world. We are
living on the ragged edge of time. Only we Americans are free to
turn to God at any time that we choose - to live for Him, to
sacrifice and to give that the true gospel of deliverance might he
preached, to turn the world toward Christ. And unless that
opportunity is used SOON, it will soon have slipped through our
fingers!
Never did a
generation of people live in such critical times. Decay has
already progressed far. Judgment is on the way. And there is only
one hiding place from the wrath of God. That hiding place is in
the cleft of the Rock, Christ Jesus, protected by His mighty hand.
My friend,
have you found the cleft in the rock? Has the mighty protecting
hand of God shut you in? Do you have on the wedding garments? Are
you ready for the wonderful coming of Jesus Christ?
If the storm
should strike tonight, would you be hidden in that cleft in the
rock, which is Christ?
Now is the time to flee to the rock.
Tomorrow may be too late. Even now, as you are reading these last
few lines of this book, why don't you get down on your knees by
your bedside, or there by your chair or find yourself a closet of
prayer, where you can get alone with God and shut the door and cry
out to God while there is yet time?
Seek the Lord while He may be found.
Call upon Him while He is near.
Remember,
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