INTO THE FUTURE.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 62, Issue 7, 20 October 1941, Page 7

INTO THE FUTURE.

PROPHECIES IN THE BIBLE. ADDRESS BY MR GRIFFIN. The ability to accurately forecast the future is the seal of God’s deity which cannot be counterfeited, and thus has no duplicate in all history, stated Mr C. J. Griffin in his address in the Forester’s Hall, Ashburton, last evening. This remarkable method of eternally authenticating His word compels the ruin of lost empires, and mutilation of States the obliteration of nations and civilisations to witness to the truth of the Bible. All the places famous in antiquity, Egypt, Syria, Phoenicia, Arabia,- Tyre, Sidon, Idumea, Palestine, Babylon, Assyria, Ninevah, Judea, Rome and other countries and cities, were witnesses. In these days of archaeological research they give their evidence with far greater fullness and accuracy than at any former period. Christ repeatedly appealed to fulfilled prophecy as evidence His contemporaries might accept. The Bible contained numerous preditions of events overspreading all time and all nations, the speaker said, events utterly disconnected from any facts existing at the time of their utterance totally unlike anything ever known and the reverse of all experience, in all respects improbable, and often seemingly impossible.

The lecturer read from “Isaiah” the doom of Babylon, the greatest city of antiquity. Bablyon met her fate jfist as the Prophet decreed she would. She still lay in ruins as the Prophet stated she would lie until the end of time. The same seer foretold that in these days the world would be an armed Camp the facilities and travel would be entirely revolutionised. He stated that the chariots would run like the lightnings, bearing flaming torches.

It was reserved for Christianity to present to the world the ideal character, which had shown itself capable of acting oca all ages, nations, temperaments and conditions. It was timely, he said, that the simple record of three short years of active life had done more to regenerate and bless mankind that all the disquisitions of philosophers and all the exhortations of moralists.