Bible Review V15: October 1916 - March 1918 - Iapsop.com

1916 LETTERS
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of the end.
Eventually this country will be involved in
some way. We do not see how it can keep out. The
contending forces are Capital and Labor. Both sides
across the ocean are learning a severe lesson.
to be
It seems
the only way to teach humanity of to-day some
things that they must know before a lasting peace can
be. They have got to be burnt in order to know-in
much the same way as a child gets to know something
for a certainty after he has put his finger on the hot
stove. The Socialists may win out. They may get the
opportunity to try their hand, but they will fail because
not sufliciently well grounded in the Esoteric fundamentals
of their ideals.
Even the great Ecclesiastical Body
aspiring for supremacy, may reach its ambition for a
time, but its failure is inevitable, because its fundamentals
rest upon sand. And then the world must turn to
the 144,000, for they will be the only ones capable of
putting things in order, and of governing with an impartial
justice. They will be the saviors of the world.
Looking at the status of the world to-day, we do not see
how it can turn out any differently.
Yours sincerely,
M. F. Richards.
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Dear Brother Butler:
Ala., September 5th, 1916.
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I think your articles as well as the others in the
September Bible Review are splendid. On page 552
"Eli" says that it is altogether impossible that man can
"be changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye."
Yes, of course, and I think it is not only one of the misconceptions
of the churches, but it seems to me, a misunderstanding
of St. Paul's expression in ICor. xv. 52.