THE WESLEY COMMEMORATION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23511, 27 May 1938, Page 15

THE WESLEY COMMEMORATION

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Sir—ln the united commemoration service of John Wesley the Rev. Leslie B. Neale, in his introductory remarks, said “ he did not think they were heading either for a cataclysm or a millennium, unless it was a millennium of God on earth.” Many have the idea that by the gospel permeating the nations at last their vision of the “ brotherhood of man ” will be attained, “ and the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord.” The teaching of the Bible is the exact opposite. I do not find any place where the Lord says the world is to grow better and belter. 1 find that the earth is to grow worse and worse. One thousand years after creation, when men had “multiplied on the face of the earth." wickedness had so developed that God had to destroy man off the face of the earth

Five hundred years before Christ, Daniel declared that “ the times of the end ” would be marked by excessive motion and commotion, by excesses of good and evil, the wicked doing more wickedly, and the abomination of desolation in full bloom. No indication of world conversion or an earthly paradise restored. Sixty-six years after Christ, the Chief Prophet of the New Testament describes 20 marks of the last days and concludes with the solemn assertion that “ evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse.” And we see that everything foretold in the Scriptures of truth is being rapidly fulfilled before our very eyes.—l am, etc., j. D. Brown. Mosgiel. May 26.