Data publicării
01.07.1904
Volumul
25
Numărul
13
Turnul de veghe
Views from the Watch Tower
Revistele originale Turnul de veghe în limba engleză
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JULY 
1. 
1904 
ZION'S 
Ul'ATCH 
TOWER 
(197-198) 
and 
will 
be, 
so 
tremendous 
as 
to 
modify, 
possibly 
for 
all 
time, 
the 
relation 
of 
Europe 
to 
Asia. 
Until 
that 
battle 
had 
been 
fought 
the 
white 
race, 
though 
deeply 
impressed 
with 
the 
ca­ 
pacIty 
of 
the 
Japanese 
and 
the 
devoted 
courage 
of 
Japanese 
&",ilors, 
was 
still 
unconvinced 
that 
a 
Japanese 
army 
could 
rival 
or 
defeat 
a 
European 
force 
of 
anything 
like 
adequate 
dimen­ 
sions. 
The 
pride 
of 
the 
white 
conti-nent 
had 
for 
three 
centuries 
seemed 
to 
be 
justified 
by 
history, 
and 
it 
created, 
consciously 
or 
unconsciously, 
a 
mass 
of 
belief 
which 
was 
perhaps 
the 
cause 
of 
many 
of 
its 
victories, 
and 
certainly 
of 
much 
of 
its 
daring. 
The 
struggle 
on 
the 
Yalu 
provides 
precisely 
the 
concrete 
evi­ 
dence 
needed 
to 
dissipate 
this 
confidence. 
A 
Japanese 
army 
has 
cros·sed 
a 
mIghty 
river 
in 
the 
teeth 
of 
European 
defenders, 
and 
then 
has 
marched 
upon 
those 
Europeans 
entrenched 
in 
a 
splendid 
hilly 
position; 
has 
driven 
them 
out 
by 
the 
close 
tIght­ 
ing 
which 
we 
still 
call 
fighting 
with 
the 
bayonet; 
has 
over­ 
whelmed 
the 
European 
fire 
by 
the 
superior 
weight 
of 
cannon 
and 
shells 
made 
in 
Japan 
itself; 
has 
captured 
whole 
batteries 
of 
European 
guns; 
has 
driven 
European 
artillerymen 
in 
what 
seems 
to 
have 
been 
headlong 
rout: 
and-most 
notable 
fact 
of 
all-has 
taken 
hundreds 
of 
European 
prisoners. 
who 
have 
sur­ 
rendered, 
not 
by 
a 
capitulation, 
but 
while 
fighting 
on 
the 
field. 
In 
other 
words, 
an 
Asiatic 
Power 
has 
arisen 
which, 
besides 
de­ 
feating 
a 
European 
war-fleet, 
is 
proving 
itself 
able 
to 
use 
three 
great 
armies 
of 
invasion, 
each 
sixty 
thousand 
strong, 
with 
the 
careful 
precision, 
the 
strategic 
skill, 
and 
the 
clenching 
courage 
of 
armies 
directed 
by 
the 
great 
mlliSters 
of 
European 
warfare." 
THE 
HAMILTON 
CONVENTION 
The 
One-Day 
Convention 
held 
at 
Hamilton, 
Canada, 
was 
quite 
a 
success 
in 
its 
way. 
Delegations 
were 
present 
from 
every 
quarter 
of 
Ontario-sixty-seven 
from 
Toronto, 
thll'teen 
from 
Buffalo, 
about 
the 
same 
number 
from 
Brantford, 
and 
ones, 
twos 
and 
threes 
from 
many 
points. 
The 
morning 
session 
was 
for 
the 
interested 
only 
and 
was 
not 
advertIse!l. 
The 
attendance 
was 
about 
400. 
A 
praise 
and 
tes· 
timony 
meeting 
for 
45 
minutes 
was 
followed 
by 
a 
discourse 
on 
the 
dIvine 
promise,-"No 
weapon 
that 
is 
formed 
agamst 
thee 
shall 
prosper, 
and 
every 
tongue 
that 
shall 
rise 
against 
thee 
in 
judgment 
thou 
shalt 
condemn. 
This 
is 
the 
heritage 
of 
the 
peo­ 
ple 
of 
the 
Lord, 
and 
their 
righteousness 
is 
of 
me, 
saith 
the 
Lord." 
(Isa. 
54: 
Ii) 
A 
full 
report 
of 
this 
discourse 
appeared 
in 
the 
Pittsburgh 
Gazette 
of 
the 
day 
following, 
and 
many 
of 
our 
readers 
thus 
have 
it. 
We 
still 
have 
a 
few 
copies 
of 
the 
Gazette 
and 
will 
be 
pleased 
to 
send 
a 
sample 
on 
request. 
The 
atternoon 
session 
at 
3 
o'clock 
brought 
out 
a 
closely 
packed 
house, 
chairs 
being 
crowded 
in 
the 
aisles 
and 
probably 
fifty 
persons 
were 
seated 
on 
the 
platform 
behind 
the 
speaker. 
The 
friends 
estimated 
that 
at 
least 
1,100 
were 
present. 
Pro­ 
found 
attention 
was 
given 
to 
our 
discourse 
on 
"God's 
Oath­ 
bound 
Covenant 
to 
Abraham 
and 
his 
Seed." 
(Heb. 
6: 
17 
-20) 
This 
discourse 
appeared 
in 
full 
in 
the 
Hamilton 
Times 
of 
the 
next 
day, 
and 
thus 
reached 
many 
more 
than 
were 
able 
to 
hear 
it. 
The 
"truth" 
people 
all 
looked 
and 
felt 
joyful 
in 
the 
Lord, 
and, 
as 
our 
train 
pulled 
away 
from 
the 
station, 
about 
fift1, 
of 
us 
joined 
in 
singing, 
"God 
be 
with 
you 
till 
we 
meet 
again. 
' 
UNIVERSAL 
ANARCHY-JUST 
BEFORE 
OR 
AFTER 
OCTOBER. 
1914 
A. 
D. 
"Yhat 
SE'l'ms 
at 
first 
glance 
the 
veriest 
trifle 
and 
wholly 
un- 
times 
or 
years 
in 
which 
the 
empire 
of 
earth 
would 
be 
in 
the 
related 
to 
the 
matter, 
has 
changed 
our 
conviction 
respecting 
hands 
of 
Gentile 
governments 
was 
a 
fixed 
one 
from 
the 
divine 
the 
time 
when 
universal 
anarchy 
may 
be 
expected 
in 
accord 
standpoint. 
And 
if, 
as 
we 
believe 
the 
Scriptures 
to 
teach, 
Gen­ 
with 
the 
prophetic 
numbers. 
We 
now 
expect 
that 
the 
anarch- 
tile 
domination 
was 
provided 
for 
up 
to 
October, 
1914, 
it 
would 
istic 
culmination 
of 
the 
great 
time 
of 
trouble 
which 
will 
pre- 
seem 
but 
a 
reasonable 
interpretatIOn 
that 
divine 
power 
for 
the 
cede 
the 
Millennial 
blessings 
will 
be 
after 
October, 
1914, 
A. 
D. 
overthrow 
of 
the 
kingdoms 
of 
this 
world 
would 
not 
be 
exercised 
-very 
speedily 
thereafter, 
in 
our 
opinion-"in 
one 
hour," 
to 
their 
dethronement 
until 
after 
the 
time 
allotted 
for 
their 
"suddenly." 
reign 
had 
ended-October, 
1914. 
Our 
readers 
familiar 
with 
the 
presentation 
of 
the 
subject 
True, 
it 
was 
to 
be 
in 
the 
times 
of 
these 
kings 
that 
the 
God 
given 
in 
l\IILLENNIAL 
DAWN 
will 
recall 
that 
the 
date, 
October, 
of 
heaven 
would 
take 
from 
the 
mountain, 
without 
hands 
[not 
1914 
A. 
D., 
is 
very 
sharply 
defined 
by 
two 
lines 
of 
evidence: 
by 
human 
power], 
the 
little 
st-one 
which 
should 
eventually 
( 
I) 
The 
Times 
of 
the 
Gentiles---2,520 
years 
from 
the 
overthrow 
smite 
the 
image 
in 
its 
feet. 
True, 
also, 
it 
was 
to 
be 
in 
the 
days 
of 
the 
government 
of 
Zedekiah, 
the 
last 
typical 
king 
of 
the 
of 
these 
last 
kings-rcpresented 
in 
the 
toes 
of 
the 
image--that 
Jews, 
in 
606 
B. 
C.; 
and 
(2) 
the 
Parallels, 
both 
the 
length 
and 
the 
God 
of 
heaven 
should 
set 
up 
his 
kingdom, 
whi0h 
should 
various 
feature.s 
of 
the 
Jewish 
and 
Gospel 
ages. 
We 
have 
found 
break 
in 
pieces 
and 
consume 
all; 
but 
the 
setting' 
up 
of 
that 
no 
flaw 
in 
either 
of 
these 
prophetic 
testimonies, 
nor 
do 
we 
kingdom 
we 
understand 
has 
been 
in 
progress 
throughout 
this 
believe 
that 
fault 
can 
be 
found 
with 
them 
along 
Scriptural 
lines 
harvest 
time, 
especially 
since 
1878, 
since 
which 
time 
we 
believe 
by 
anybody. 
The 
matter 
that 
has 
just 
come 
to 
our 
attention 
that 
all 
the 
overcomers 
of 
the 
church 
who 
die 
faithful 
are 
is 
that 
in 
counting 
the 
forty 
years' 
harvest 
of 
the 
Jewish 
age, 
changed 
"in 
a 
moment, 
in 
the 
twinkling 
of 
an 
eye," 
and 
are 
from 
October, 
A. 
D. 
29, 
to 
October, 
A. 
D. 
69, 
where 
the 
year 
immcdiately 
constituted 
members 
of 
the 
set-up 
kingdom 
on 
the 
70 
in 
Jewish 
reckoning 
began, 
we 
spoke 
of 
that 
harvest 
time 
as 
other 
side 
the 
veil. 
Quite 
probably 
this 
setting 
up 
will 
con· 
ending 
A. 
D. 
70. 
This 
is 
a 
correct 
enough 
statement, 
because 
sume 
nearly 
or 
quite 
all 
of 
the 
forty 
years 
of 
harvest 
time 
ap­ 
the 
full 
end 
of 
69 
A. 
D. 
is 
up 
to 
the 
beginning 
of 
70 
A. 
D. 
We 
portioned 
to 
it; 
but 
in 
any 
event, 
the 
time 
for 
the 
smiting 
of 
pointed 
out 
that 
thp. 
parallels 
of 
time 
in 
the 
harvest 
of 
this 
the 
image 
in 
its 
feet 
will 
not 
come 
until 
October, 
1914 
A. 
D., 
Gospel 
age 
began 
October, 
1874, 
and 
will 
end 
October, 
1914-at 
however 
much 
trouble 
and 
distress 
of 
nations 
may 
result 
from 
the 
beginning 
of 
1915, 
Jewish 
time. 
the 
pl'lor 
awakening 
of 
their 
peoples 
under 
the 
enlightening 
All 
these 
matters 
stand 
just 
as 
they 
were 
-we 
have 
nothing 
influences 
of 
the 
dawning 
of 
the 
l\Iillennial 
morning. 
Already 
to 
fault 
or 
to 
alter. 
But 
in 
a 
recent 
examination 
of 
the 
closing 
such 
distress 
or 
perplexity 
is 
felt 
in 
quarters 
national, 
finanCIal 
of 
the 
Jewish 
harvest, 
with 
a 
view 
to 
closer 
scrutiny 
as 
to 
a.nd 
religious. 
what 
might 
be 
expected 
in 
the 
end 
of 
the 
present 
harvest 
of 
Our 
previous 
expectation 
was 
that 
the 
anarchistic 
period 
Christendom, 
we 
noticed 
that 
the 
actual 
fall 
of 
the 
Jewish 
would 
last 
some 
three 
or 
four 
years, 
and 
in 
our 
mental 
calcu­ 
polity 
was 
not 
at 
the 
beginning 
of 
A. 
D. 
70, 
but 
towards 
its 
lations 
of 
the 
opportunities 
for 
harvest 
work, 
we 
naturally 
cut 
close, 
nndat 
once 
we 
perceivcd 
that 
the 
forty-year 
harvest 
end- 
off 
those 
years, 
and 
the 
time 
thus 
appeared 
shorter 
to 
us. 
Now, 
ing 
69 
A. 
D. 
closed 
before 
the 
destruction 
in 
its 
fullest 
sense 
however, 
we 
see 
clearly 
that 
for 
some 
of 
the 
church 
there 
prob­ 
came 
upon 
the 
typical 
people. 
Instantly 
we 
thought 
of 
the 
ably 
remain 
fully 
ten 
years 
of 
experience, 
opportunities, 
tcst­ 
parallel 
here 
and 
perceived, 
as 
above 
stated, 
that 
our 
forty 
ings, 
victories, 
joys 
and 
80rrO\\ 
s. 
Each 
year, 
however, 
we 
may 
years' 
harvest, 
ending 
October, 
1914 
A. 
D., 
should 
not 
be 
ex- 
expect 
that 
the 
signs 
of 
the 
times 
will 
more 
and 
morc 
demon­ 
pected 
to 
include 
the 
awful 
period 
of 
anarchy 
which 
the 
Scrip- 
strate 
the 
accuracy 
of 
our 
expectations 
both 
for 
the 
church 
and 
tures 
point 
out 
to 
be 
the 
fate 
of 
Christendom. 
The 
matter 
for 
the 
world. 
As 
already 
pointcd 
out, 
the 
harvest 
date'l 
shown 
seems 
so 
plain 
and 
simple 
now 
that 
we 
wonder 
that 
we 
or 
our 
us 
in 
the 
Scriptures 
are 
October, 
1874, 
as 
the 
bcginnin~ 
of 
the 
many 
critical 
readers 
did 
not 
notice 
it 
long 
ago. 
The 
only 
harvest; 
April, 
1878, 
as 
the 
parallel 
to 
our 
Lord's 
death; 
Ortn­ 
plausible 
explanation 
is 
that 
in 
the 
divine 
will 
our 
eyes 
were 
ber, 
1881, 
as 
the 
parallel 
to 
the 
trrmination 
of 
the 
sperial 
f'l\'or 
holden 
for 
the 
time 
respecting 
this 
matter-possibly 
With 
a 
view 
to 
natur 
. 
.d 
Israelites 
in 
the 
sending' 
of 
the 
Gospel 
to 
the 
Gen­ 
to 
our 
expertations 
that 
the 
harvesting 
opportunities 
would 
tiles, 
Cornelius 
being 
the 
first; 
and 
October, 
1914 
A. 
D., 
as 
the 
sooner 
close, 
causing 
our 
conspquent 
greater 
zeal 
in 
the 
service. 
end 
of 
the 
forty 
years' 
harvest. 
Any 
other 
dates 
than 
these 
are 
Looking 
back 
to 
the 
prophetic 
testimony 
respecting 
the 
purely 
speculative. 
'We 
have 
never 
spt 
forth 
any 
other 
datps 
Times 
of 
the 
Gentiles, 
we 
perceive 
that, 
although 
the 
Lord 
did 
as 
being 
presented 
by 
the 
Scriptures. 
We 
did 
indeed 
call 
atten­ 
not 
give 
to 
worldly 
governments 
a 
definite 
lease 
of 
power 
until 
tion 
to 
the 
date 
sugge~ted 
bv 
one 
of 
the 
measurements 
through 
1914. 
nevertheless 
our 
Lord's 
words, 
"Jerusalem 
shall 
be 
trod- 
the 
upper 
step 
of 
the 
Great 
Pyramid's 
"Grand 
Gallery," 
but 
in 
den 
down 
of 
the 
Gpntiles 
until 
the 
times 
of 
the 
Gentiles 
be 
filled 
conjunction 
with 
the 
suggestion 
we 
particularly 
intimated 
that 
full," 
gives 
the 
intimation 
broadly 
enough 
that 
the 
determined 
it 
was 
merely 
speculative. 
1V-41 
[3389] 
Jury 1, 1904 and will be, so tremendous as to modify, possibly for all time, the relation of Europe to Asia. Until that battle had been fought the white race, though deeply impressed with the capacity of the Japanese and the devoted courage of Japanese sailors, was still unconvinced that a Japanese army could rival or defeat a European force of anything like adequate dimensions. The pride of the white continent had for three centuries seemed to be justified by history, and it created, consciously or unconsciously, a mass of belief which was perhaps the cause of many of its victories, and certainly of much of its daring. The struggle on the Yalu provides precisely the concrete evidence needed to dissipate this confidence. A Japanese army has crossed a mighty river in the teeth of European defenders, and then has marched upon those Europeans entrenched in a THE HAMILTON The One-Day Convention held at Hamilton, Canada, was quite a success in its way. Delegations were present from every quarter of Ontario—sixty-seven from Toronto, thirteen from Buffalo, about the same number from Brantford, and ones, twos and threes from many points. The morning session was for the interested only and was not advertised. The attendance was about 400. A praise and testimony meeting for 45 minutes was followed by a discourse on the divine promise,—‘No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper, and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the people of the Lord, and their righteousness is of me, saith the Lord.” (Isa. 54:17) A full report of this discourse appeared in the Pittsburgh Gazette of the day following, and many of ZION’S WATCH TOWER (197-198) splendid hilly position; has driven them out by the close nghting which we still call fighting with the bayonet; has overwhelmed the European fire by the superior weight of cannon and shells made in Japan itself; has captured whole batteries of European guns; has driven European artillerymen in what seems to have been headlong rout: and—most notable fact of all—has taken hundreds of European prisoners, who have surrendered, not by a capitulation, but while fighting on the field. In other words, an Asiatic Power has arisen which, besides defeating a European war-fleet, is proving itself able to use three great armies of invasion, each sixty thousand strong, with the careful precision, the strategic skill, and the clenching courage of armies directed by the great masters of European warfare.” CONVENTION our readers thus have it. We still have a few copies of the Gazette and will be pleased to send a sample on request. The atternoon session at 3 o’clock brought out a closely packed house, chairs being crowded in the aisles and probably fifty persons were seated on the platform behind the speaker. The friends estimated that at least 1,100 were present. Profound attention was given to our discourse on “God’s Oathbound Covenant to Abraham and his Seed.” (Heb. 6:17-20) This discourse appeared in full in the Hamilton Times of the mext day, and thus reached many more than were able to hear it. The “truth” people all looked and felt joyful in the Lord, and, as our train pulled away from the station, about fifty of us joined in singing, “God be with you till we meet again.” UNIVERSAL ANARCHY—JUST BEFORE OR AFTER OCTOBER, 1914 A. D. What seems at first glance the veriest trifle and wholly unrelated to the matter, has changed our conviction respecting the time when universal anarchy may be expected in accord with the prophetic numbers. We now expect that the anarchistic culmination of the great time of trouble which will precede the Millennial blessings will be after October, 1914, A. D. —very speedily thereafter, in our opinion—“in one hour,” “suddenly.” Our readers familiar with the presentation of the subject given in MiILLenniaAL Daww will recall that the date, October, 1914 A. D., is very sharply defined by two lines of evidence: (1) The Times of the Gentiles—2,520 years from the overthrow of the government of Zedekiah, the last typical king of the Jews, in 606 B. C.; and (2) the Parallels, both the length and various features of the Jewish and Gospel ages. We have found no flaw in either of these prophetic testimonies, nor do we believe that fault can be found with them along Scriptural lines by anybody. The matter that has just come to our attention is that in counting the forty years’ harvest of the Jewish age, from October, A. D. 29, to October, A. D. 69, where the year 70 in Jewish reckoning began, we spoke of that harvest time as ending A. D. 70. This is a correct enough statement, because the full end of 69 A. D. is up to the beginning of 70 A.D. We pointed out that the parallels of time in the harvest of this Gospel age began October, 1874, and will end October, 1914—at the beginning of 1915, Jewish time. All these matters stand just as they were —we have nothing to fault or to alter. But in a recent examination of the closing of the Jewish harvest, with a view to closer scrutiny as to what might be expected in the end of the present harvest of Christendom, we noticed that the actual fall of the Jewish polity was not at the beginning of A. D. 70, but towards its close, and at once we perceived that the forty-year harvest ending 69 A. D. closed before the destruction in its fullest sense came upon the typical people. Instantly we thought of the parallel here and perceived, as above stated, that our forty years’ harvest, ending October, 1914 A. D., should not be expected to include the awful period of anarchy which the Seriptures point out to be the fate of Christendom. The matter seems so plain and simple now that we wonder that we or our many critical readers did not notice it long ago. The only plausible explanation is that in the divine will our eyes were holden for the time respecting this matter—possibly with a view to our expectations that the harvesting opportunities would sooner close, causing our consequent greater zealin the service. Looking back to the prophetic testimony respecting the Times of the Gentiles, we perceive that, although the Lord did not give to worldly governments a definite lease of power until 1914, nevertheless our Lord’s words, ‘Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles be filled full,” gives the intimation broadly enough that the determined Iv—41 times or years in which the empire of earth would be in the hands of Gentile governments was a fixed one from the divine standpoint. And if, as we believe the Scriptures to teach, Gentile domination was provided for up to October, 1914, it would seem but a reasonable interpretation that divine power for the overthrow of the kingdoms of this world would not be exercised to their dethronement until after the time allotted for their reign had ended—October, 1914, True, it was to be in the times of these kings that the God of heaven would take from the mountain, without hands [not by human power], the little stone which should eventually smite the image in its feet. True, also, it was to be in the days of these last kings—represented in the toes of the image—that the God of heaven should set up his kingdom, which should break in pieces and consume all; but the setting up of that kingdom we understand has been in progress throughout this harvest time, especially since 1878, since which time we believe that all the overcomers of the church who die faithful are changed “in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye,” and are immediately constituted members of the set-up kingdom on the other side the veil. Quite probably this setting up will consume nearly or quite all of the forty years of harvest time apportioned to it; but in any event, the time for the smiting of the image in its feet will not come until October, 1914 A. D., however much trouble and distress of nations may result from the prior awakening of their peoples under the enlightening influences of the dawning of the Millennial morning. Already such distress or perplexity is felt in quarters national, financial and religious. Our previous expectation was that the anarchistie period would last some three or four years, and in our mental caleulations of the opportunities for harvest work, we naturally cut off those years, and the time thus appeared shorter to us. Now, however, we see clearly that for some of the chureh there probably remain fully ten years of experience, opportunities, testings, victories, joys and sorrows. Lach year, however, we may expect that the signs of the times will more and more demonstrate the accuracy of our expectations both for the church and for the world. As already pointed out, the harvest dates shown us in the Scriptures are October, 1874, as the beginning of the harvest; April, 1878, as the parallel to our Lord’s death; October, 1881, as the parallel to the tremination of the special favor to naturul Israelites in the sending of the Gospel to the Gentiles, Cornelius being the first; and October, 1914 A. D., as the end of the forty years’ harvest. Any other dates than these are purely speculative. We have never set forth any other dates as being presented by the Scriptures. We did indeed call attention to the date suggested bv one of the measurements through the upper step of the Great Pyramid’s “Grand Gallery,” but in conjunction with the suggestion we particularly intimated that it was merely speculative. [3389]

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