Prophecies and Prophecies
A big trust conference will be held May 28-31, in Chicago. It is expected that there will be an attendance from all the great corporations of the country and from all the various states. Government control will be one of the principal subjects of discussion. This conference is a sign of the times. Prophecies and Prophecies.—The daily, and especially the Sunday papers, are noting the fearful forecasts which have been made by Spangler and Madam De Thebes concerning the world and America for the next two or three years. They predict the destruction of New York, Boston, and Chicago, disappearance of the Hudson River, the pushing up of a great mound in the vicinity of Chicago which will utterly destroy that city, the sinking of the entire Atlantic coast line, and many other things. There are thousands upon thousands who will give heed to these predictions, and pay no regard whatever to the prophecies of the word of God. In the Bible, we have the history of this world from its beginning to its close. It is the most up-to-date Book there is in existence to-day. It tells us just what will be the fate of the earth and of those who dwell upon it. Men may seek to confirm it by vision, or set it aside by dreams; it is for the child of wisdom to know what the word declares. "The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that hath My word, let him speak My word faithfully. What is the straw to the wheat? saith Jehovah." Jer. 23:28. A newspaper item recalls what has been stated as a fact that Washington was first called Rome, and that a creek which flowed thru the city was spoken of as the Tiber. It is also stated that the first owner of the land upon which the capital was located was named Pope. There are many who do not know a still more important fact, and that is that the early Republic of Rome is to a great extent typical of the later Republic of America, and that the ending of the latter may be read in that of the former.