"COMING WORLD EMPIRE."

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 19, 24 January 1927, Page 2

"COMING WORLD EMPIRE."

The mighty golden monarchy of Babylon, in on© night of careless revelry^ fell from .world rulership, said Pastor Harvey, preaching at the Canvas Tabernacle, Lower Hutt, on Sunday evening on "The Coming World Empire," from the viewpoint of Daniel's prophecy. Rising on Babylon's ruins, proceeded Mr. Harvey, Medb-Persia swayed the world, but when Darius Codimanus faced the ambitious Alexander on the field of Arbela, 331 B.C it was proved that the Persian Kingdom must give way before the Greeks. As an eagle Alexander soared to the mountain top of world dominion, and in drunken shame tottered and fell, Caesar welded the fragments into a solid empire, but not for eternity. In continuation Pastor Harvey said that the attacks of the barbarous Goths and Huns and others shattered the Empire of the Caesars into ten distinct fragments, which, true to the prophecy of Dan. 2:41-43, have remained distinct to this day. Charlemagne, Charles the Kith, and Napoleon attempted world conquest, but failed; and from Bismarck's time to Kaiser Wilhelm the German Eagle eyed the world with jealousy. These failures, Pastor Harvey said, were the fulfilment of Daniel's prophecy in the second chapter, verses 41-43. In concluding, attention was drawn to verse 44 of Daniel 2, revealing that God's kingdom would be set up while the ten divisions existed. This kingdom would be the subject of Wednesday evening's ad.dress, _ _.. . ...'...