WORLD CONDITIONS

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 69, 23 March 1931, Page 3

WORLD CONDITIONS

ADDRESS BY REV. W. LAMB

The Rev. William Lamb's prophetic lectures were commenced yesterday afternoon in the Concert Chamber of the Town Hall.

After opening exercises of a devotional nature, Mr. G. 3?. Drake, who occupied the chair, introduced the lecturer, who, he said, received his training for the ministry in New Zealand, and had since become well known in Australia, Canada, and England as a preacher, lecturer, and author. He was the editor ot the Advent Herald," published from his headquarters in Sydney. . . Mr Lamb then delivered a stirring address on "Certain Startling World Conditions Which Would Indicate the Near Coming of Christ." The speaker claimed that in every regard the present was _ a time of universal crisis. After reviewing the world depression, Mr. Lamb said that new conditions deepened the sense ot hopelessness in regard to the universal tangle. The League of Nations, the mightiest world political organisation ever known, was frankly bewildered in regard to the universal conditions. "The Bible," he said, "offers an exact description of our universal social condition as it is now. Zachariah 8 and 0 says: 'For before these days there was no hire for man, nor any hire for beast; neither was there any peace to him that went out or came in because of the affliction; for I set all men every one against his neighbour.' The context ot what is here stated precisely shows that the days here mentioned are the days immediately before the return of the Son ot God to this world. Other Scriptures as plainly show that universal social distress is to be the lot of man just before the great event. The Lord Himself affirmed that upon the earth there will be distress of nations, with men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth. James also tells of social upheaval like that which has already happened in Russia when the hitherto leisured class will actually howl for the miseries that were coming upon them. ... In Christendom, a hundred times'more is being spent for luxuries than for foreign mission work. The Jews are going back to the covenant land from which they have suffered age-long exile. Men are flying like birds and chariots are running like the lightnings, and many other similar things are occurring, divinely foretold to indicate the tune when the return of the Lord is to be expected. What He said was, 'When these things begin to come to pass, then look up and lift up your heads for the day of your redemption.'''