WORLD EVENTS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 254, 27 October 1939, Page 3

WORLD EVENTS

BIBLE PROPHECY. ADDRESS BY MR. L. J. JONES. A large and appreciative audience at McGiuer’.s Han last Monday night ' heard Mr. Len. .1. Jones, Secretary ior Australia and New Zealand ot the Russian and Eastern European Mission and editor ot The Evidence, speak on world events anti saw the moving film that he took on his last visit Io Europe. Ml'. .Jones, pointed out on a large calico map tne countries visited un his first visit to Europe: Holland, Germany, Danzig. Eastern i-russia, Poland and White Russia, and then the course taken during his last visit, when a more extensive itinerary was planned that included Switzerland, France, Norway and Sweden. The speaker then gave a resume ot the present European situation and asked the question, "Was there any light on the future?" He said there was, and that light was Io be found in one of the most neglected ot ail book - a book that many people were airaid of, and that was tne Bible. He said there were a lot ot pleasant surprises in store lor the person who would take this book down from the bookshelf, blow the dust off, and I examine it to see what it had to say. "But. before you can have confidence in what it says about events that are still future," he said, "he felt that it would be wise to give just four of many statements that had been fulfilled in our day and generation: - it was written that the Jew would' return to Palestine again. This, was : being fulfilled as they were being ; driven out ot Europe to-day. It was written that the River Nile would be dried up. While this had not been fulfilled yet. it was something that could be expected. To show the possibility ol it. he remarked that the River Nile was watered from the Blue Nile that rises in Lake Tana in Abyssinia, and that in the recent Anglo-Italian pact one of the clauses was that Signor Mussolini would not interfere with the waters of the Nile. But. pacts are not made much of in these days and are torn up overnight, he said. A. prophecy was read regarding the ancient, city of Babylon, one of the wonders ot the world, regarding which Herodotus wrote that the walls were 300 feet, high and 7a feet wide, w' h li>o massive gates, everyone of them made of solid brass. This was how the city was when the prophecy was uttered. To-day. although most of lhe other cities are still extanl, the tourist when he leaves Bagdad on nis journey Io lhe ancient city of Babylon. is surprised when lhe partv- stops and lhe guide, pointing to a few heaps of Stones that are piled in the desert, exclaims, "That is Babylon." Another fulfilment was lhe statement that Israel and Judah would be joined together again as the two sticks in the prophet's hand. Believing that Great. Britain to-day was part of the descendants of lhe 10-trlbed house of Israel of old, this ".as being fulfilled, as the Jews. who are descended from Judah of old, were being persecuted in Europe and hunted out, and were going to lhe countries associated with the British Commonwealth of Nations. "So much for what happened in the past,” said the speaker, and what the Scriptures said was still going to happen, would be dealt with in a later meeting, when the present world events would be examined in the light of statements as to what would yet be. Moving film, taken by the lecturer on his last visit to Europe, was then shown, featuring Danzig and the prewar border of Soviet Russia. The following day Mr. Jones left to fulfil lecture appointments at Hawera, Stratford and New Plymo.uth, but has arranged to be back at Wanganui for next Sunday and Monday evenings, when further lectures wil! be given and moving film shown. Advertising can reduce selling costs and lessen the time in which a product proves from factory to consumer.