Frankfort Pilgrim College - Pilgrim Yearbook (Frankfort, IN)

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Uhr, 6512211115 L1terary WHAT TIME IS IT? In order to ascertain time correctly there must be a standard of measure- ment. This standard is given to us by the government as U. S. Naval Ob- servatory time, this time is calculated from the stars and is confided to clocks which run in a vacuum in a place many feet below the surface of the earth at Washington. All our clocks and watches in order to give the correct time, must then be regulated to keep this time. lf they give this time they can be depended upon as correct, and so when asked,ftWhat time is it '? my mind turns at once to my watch Zllld I answer according to what it says as compared with the standard. But if I am asked this same question with regard to'thc time of the age in which we are now living, my answer, to be depended upon, must be made from a correct standard of measurement. God, through our Lord Jesus Christ, has set that standard, set it out from the heavenly city, calculated it from the Star of Bethlehen, set the clocks of the Bible by it and placed them many feet below the surface of the earthly wisdom. Therefore, if 'I am to answer the question, What tin1e is it'? , I will be able to do so only in as far as the Holy Ghost gives me the time from God's clock in the written word. The first clock from which we shall get the time, we shall call God's day clock. In the early part of Genesis, we learn that God wrought mightly works for six consecutive days to rehabilitate an earth wrecked through sin, then rested on the seventh. Man soon spoiled the six days of God's labor and God finally said he would toil six days and rest. on the seventh. We learn in Revelation that this earth is to have a thousand year Sabbath from the power and dominion of sin. Therefore it seems reasonable to infer that as man is to labor six days a week and rest one and as the earth is finally to have a thousand- year Sabbath, that this Sabbath will be preeeeded by one-thousand year days of toil in the midst of sin. Chronology will show that we are approaching the end of this six thousand years. The Jew counted a day from sunset till sunset the next evening. What time is it then by this clock? We answer, t'Satur- day evening near sunset . The second clock we shall consult is God's clock of the watches of the night. The Romans divide the night into four Watches, namely, first watch from six in the evening till nineg second watch from nine P. M. till midnight: third watch from twelve till three A. M.g fourth watch from three A. M. till six. We may call the church age the night of four watches. Let sunset be re- presented by the ascension of our Lord. Then the first watch of six to nine o'clock we will represent by the first to the sixth century and call it the after- glow of sunset. The second watch from nine till twelve o'clock we will repre- sent by the sixth to the sixteenth century when the Dark Ages were on the church and the world. The third watch from twelve till three A. M. let us call the cock-crowing during the sixteenth to eighteenth century of the Re- formation. The fourth watch from three to six A. M. would then include from the eighteenth century to Christ 's coming, the Morning glow of sun rise. What time is it then by this clock, we answer in our judgment about five o'cloek i11 the morning watch. Let us next get the time from God's clock of the seasons, summer, winter, fall and spring. The church was hottest and cleanest during the first three centuries which we may call summer. Then followed the fall of the sowing GQ ff! G3 P vi Q GZ EC, E3 P I Q Q fi Ga 91 Qu EQ fi Q Q21 G: E' vi -39-.

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551121 it Cfflwwe 'kkdily Literary HAPPY TIMES THE CHALLENGE T0 THE FIELD QConc1udedJ strongest calls of the hour. They form a large percent of the population of Mexico, of Guatemala, of Bolivia, of Peru, of the Amazon Valley. No work is more fascinating. Pray the Lord of the harvest . Go ye . Say not that this modern nationalistic spirit in the nations capacitates them to care for their need. They themselves appeal for help! They likewise appeal for the individual recognition that is their due. The native church of these countries desires us to realize that to them belongs in a peculiar way the task in their respective localities and to assist, advise. ,You will note that the plea from every land is for New Testament Chris- tianity, that the native Christian as well as the true Missionary cries for a Christianity and a Holiness that is holy. As Mr. Snead says of Central China we may say of the great Field, 'tThe present situation is a special challenge for us to advance strongly along the line. The Christian task still lies ahead, the great mass and volume of it still unac-coinplishedf' , , Ch, Church of Christ, awake, arise! h - -Elizabeth Bodle, 4 J S

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Uhr Glwmn , Literary C9 WHAT TIME IS IT9 Q, ' E9 CConcludedD of the tarcs of evil doctrines and of the mustard tree of Matthew thirteenth E9 chapter and in the Pergamos epistle of Revelation second chapter. This season G9 Q was followed in turn by the Winter of cold formality, domineering ecclesiasti- P cism and compromise with the world, pictured in Matthew thirteenth chapter TEX in the parable of the meal and leaven and in Revelation by the epistle to the i church at Thyatira. Vxlinter occured during the Dark Ages. Spring began Sf' with the Reformation under Martin Luther given to us in Revelation in the X' J epistle to the Sardian Church. It will end with the summer time of Christ 's return. VVhen spring is approaching its end and summer is nigh, the trees begin ,'-A to show new life from the apparent deadness of winter and begin to put forth V., their leaves. The fig tree in the Bible is the Jewish people. Jesus said when we E9 should see this tree putting forth leaves we would know that summer was Q3 G5 nigh, even at the doors. The Zionist movement sprang up among the Jews in CQ the nineties of the last century. Through it and the Work of God a national consciousness has been restored to thousands of Jews. Many have returned to 2 the land of the fathers. According to a recent report, there are one hundred gf fifty thousand Jews in Palestine, Most of Whom have returned there from the G ,... four corners ofthe earth since the war. Many colonies have been formed. E9 j'JX Almost all the great valley of Esdraelon the future battle ground of the battle of Armageddon, and large tracts of land elsewhere, have been settled with Q Jewish villages. The Hebrew language after a death of about twenty five hun- Q dred years has been revived, is being spoken again, and is now recognized as one of the official languages of the country. Newspapers are printed in it. The latter rains which God had so long withheld in judgment are falling again and the barren soil is becoming fertile. C, After the Wor'ld War a second band similar to those in Numbers thirteenth if J chapter went again to spy out the land of Palestine. A Hebrew Universiy has Q, Q been founded and situated on Mt. Scopus overlooking Jerusalem. Gy It is reported that fifty thousand Jews out of the one hundred fifty thous- f-V and mentioned above are looking for the return of the Messiah. The Mosque gf guitar will lie lIOlill dow? soog aigl alwoncfrful timplle like S0lOIll01E,S will lie ui t t ierefl ia i exc aime a ani as e was oo inc' out over t ie temp e Q areas from the vliiiiicimw of' his synagogue. A class of preizts are being trained, P 1 looking forward to this restored temple service. VVe might add that this will be ja the tribulation temple. All these things indicate that the leaves of the Hg tree lg ' are almost fully out. J What time is it then by Godis season clock? We believe we can safely eg answer May, and summer is at the doors. Q9 ca God has other clocks which we could consult such as the clocks of Democ- racy, World Federation, Capitalism, Doctrines of Demons and Apostaey. But time and space would fail us now to give the time by these. Suffice it to say thatl they all are running in harmony and point to the time of our blessed Lort 's return as near. Q Reader, if you are not saved and sanctitied is it not time to seek the Lord? -Rev. H. A. Shepherd. I2 t 4' Q .-Qot