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'I " "V TIHIC A M ID ITT) 11 11 iVttlUlPM A Ul I MY M ' li I 'K A VI M S H , t . s, 'M ' . ! I. VMv 1 !. i ! 1 t I 1 t Christ's Second Coming ll Is Now Near a I Hand! CAN I 1 A Mt Startling Ledurc On the Abm Subject Deliverul August S, S's, in Omaha by KMer Luther Warren, of Chicago the Adventist, Christ's Prophecy, Which Is Recorded Matthew 21, Mark 11 and Luke 21 Fulfilled His Return Only Future. Foi nomethlng like two week Hi" Adventint have been holding a rl'.s of meeting In n large tent ' Omaha, at which Kldcr I.uthcr Warren of Chi cago hits liwn Hip principal npeaker. Wo were prenent hint Monday night. IIIh lecture, wa ho full of Intei-entlng statement lhat wo made the follow- InK nynopni of what )if nald: Some people tell nip that they ex pect Chi'lnt to come again; that. Hp tnny come toilay or that Hp may not romp for a tbonnond vein-, but do you think I would Iip looking very imx lounlv for a frlpnd'B mm I fig If I be lieved Iip might come today or that he might not romo for a HioiiHiind year? Wouldn't I Junt miy to myelf If my frlpnd'B coming I ko uncertain a that that I would believe he wan coming whpn I aw him, and not be fore? That I the fane of the people today who believe C'hrlHt may romo to day or that Ho many not romp for a thousand yenr. But there nre ppoplp who believe that Chrlnt I coming noon, that He Ih already at the door. I cannot tell you the day or the hour, or th year that He will romp; no man known tbat. You will find that Hated In Matthew, 2rth chapter, 13th yerw: "Watch therefore; for ye know neither the dav nor the hour wherein the Hon of Man cometh." Hut you will remember that Chrlt had often told HI dlwlplea that He would come again and net up HIh kingdom. HI dlwclple came to him on the Mount of OIIvph and Baked Hlmronecrnlngthoe thing they nnked 1 dtp a three-fold (mention and Jphu answered them, giving n three-fold answer. You will find the report of the ronverxatlon In the 24th chanter of Matthew, the 1.Hh chapter of Mark and the 21t chapter of Luke. If you will read each of (hone chapter you will get HIh an swer In full and know why the nerond coming I near at hand. Jeti hail often referred to the de struction of the temple, of HIh coming and of the end of the world, and HIh dl Iple went unto Him privately Hay ing, "Tell tin, when nhall theno thing be? and what ahull he the lgn of Thy coming and of the end of the world?" And Jphu answered, "Take heed that no man decleve you, for many hall come In My name Haying, 'I am ChrlHt;' and nluill ib-clevo many. And yo ahull hear of war and rumor of warn; are that ye he not troubled; for all theHo thing munt come to pa, but the end Ih not vet; for nation will rleo agalriHt nation, and kingdom RgaliiHt kingdom; Mini there hIihII be famine and penUlcnce, and earlh nunke in diver places. All thene, thing are the beginning of Morrows." All thla ha been proved true. Im mediate), aftor the time of fhrlnt there were tiiunv who rone up and claimed to be ChrlHt, and many were deceived. Then C'hrlHt went on to give them yet another nlgn of HIh coming, of HI near approach. He mild that following the arlwlng of thoao falne ChrlHta this would happen; "Then ahall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and ahall kill you; and yo nhall bo hated of all nation for My name's Bake and then shall mnny bo offended, and ahall betray one another, and Hhall hato one another." Thla Heeond nlgn did imt niiv to the day of the uponih. but to the day Unit were tn follow. Then Christ ivc them a third nlgn by which I bey might know the end wiik near at hand and Hint He would noon, very noon, come and net up Hi kingdom. It wu thin: "And thin go pel of the kingdom hhall be preached in all the world for a witness unto nil nation; and then nhall the end come." The tospel h being preached In all nation today. That Ih the IiihI algn which he gave Hi people HO they mlht know of the ncarucHH of HIh coming. Hut lie w,i not HiitlHfled (hat lie had made It ex actiy lear to HI dlwlpli', ho He went over It ai;iiln In a different way. lie Htarted right In again, a If lie ha not already annwered their fiuentlotm and, Hpeaklng flint to the apoHtlen then to thoHp that followed them, and finally to thone of our day, He mhIiI to the BpOHllen; "When ye therefor. Hhall nee ihe ahoniitiiit Ioiih of deola Hon, ttpoken of by liauiel the prophet Hliind In the holy place, (wIioho read .,1. . .. . . .. ci n, iei mm unucrHiamu, tiien let uiem which be in .Tudea flee into the moun tiilnH, let him which I on the hoilHe- top not come down or lake anything out of hi hoiiHc; neither let him which I In the field return back to take Mh clothe; and woe unto them Hint an with child and to them that give hiick In thoxe dav! Hut oniv ye lhat your iiignt be not. In the winter, neither on the Sabbath day; for then Hhall In reat. mutilation, m h a wa not Kineo ttio iM'Ciniilrig of the world to thl time, no, nor ever Hh nil be.' Luke'H account of thl conversation 2lt. chapter and 20th verne, Inntead of naylng, a Matthew did, that, "When ye therefore nhall nee the abomination of deflation, Kiken of by Daniel the prophet. Htnnd In the holv place," Luke nay, "And when ye ntiall ee .leriiHii lem compaHHed with annle, then know that, the denotation thereof Ih nigh; then let them which are In Jndea (lee to the mountain; and let them which are In the mid! of It depart out. and let not. them that are In the countile enter thereunto." Did thone thing happen? Ye; lift yeiirHiifterfhrlHtTltn marched hi grit army again! Jeru Hiilem and urrounded It, lint yon ma ak If he urrounded it how could the ChrlHilaiiH flew to the mountain? They were to triiHt In Ood and flee t none on I lie liotiHcfopH were not to come down they were to run oitoh's the bonne toward the mountain, lyon know people In Hioho day lived In flat-loppe! hoitHen, and upon their nnf) and Hume In the field were not to return, but. all were to flee Im mediately to the mountain. And when the great, Kotnan army wa ween en compaHlttg JertiHHletn the Chrltlan, remembering Chrlat'a advice, ran to ward Ihe mountalti. I'or norno In Hcrutable reuon. TIIiih, after ur roundlng the city with hi army, with drew, and, after the ('hrlilnn had e- enped, came up a necond lime and hn gan the alcce that Ih memorable In IiIkIoiv beeaiiHe of the Buffering that preceded Hie dcHtriKtlon of the holy city. Mother boiled their own liable and ale them. All! there wa great tribulation, hik-Ii a JeriiHalem had never known up until that time, and Hiich a It. nhall never know again, Thl dlHpoHCH of the Blgti for the a pun He. What, came next? The day of peiHecullon, and C'hrlHt naid: "And except Hiohp day be nhorteneil .there Hhoitld no llenh be Hiived; but for the eet'n nake thone day hall be Hhortened." You will remember, you who were here lant evening, that from 538 A. D for 1,200 year, down to 1798, occurred that long period of per- 5.. Ii W . v-h .Iff . M.'-i: " ..' h fifrV. ,'1 VrfWV-. c .1 J Uncle Sam Can Administer a Death-blow to Jesuitism Now. HfiUII'in when ihotiHiindn, vtn. tnil IIoiih of t'liiini latin liMt. their liven for tlielr faith. There vrrn ti'' pi tnei nl bum bilwteii I'T.'l and 17118, but that wan hecHii" the day of per hi cm lull had been Kliortcued, IjerailH.' Hie Influence of (lie K' foi inat I in wa being felt, and liberty of eopnclence wa taking root In Hie world. Then ("hrlnl Hioke to them of lln hint flay, lie hhiu attain that falic t'litlNl inul fa Imp proplieln would urine who would nliow great nlgn mid wou dern, liiHomucli Unit, If ll were pofel hie, they wuld ileceKe the very elect Then He ml. I; ' Heboid! I have tol l you before; Wherefore If they nhall ray unto you, Ibhold Hp I In the den ert, go not forth; behold. He I In Ho Bperet (hambem; believe It not, for, a the lightning cometh out of t'i" cant, anil nhlnelh even unto Hie wcm, ho nhall Ihe coming of the Sot) of Man be," Yon remember the Denver f'blrnl - Honiooric In to come a t'hrlnt In the great American denert and 1 tell you that there will be a man Hp pear In (ew York, or in Chicago, or nome oihir large city, probably in Om aha, who will perform all the mlnicc, thi.l ChrlHt performed, or npM-ar to, and that the railroad will run excur- lon and many people will go to nee him, Imt go ye not forth. Il will even en line lire to ome down from heaven. Hut I have not. time lo go Into thin fullv tonight; we will have to hurry on. From 1773 to I'M the per ccullon ceaed, and Chrlnl nald. Matthew 24, ill, "Immediately after thone day," (Mark give It, l.'jih chapter, 2tlh verne, 'Hut In thom lay,"; "Hhall HiPHiin be darkened, and the moon nhall not give her light, and Ihe ntnr Khali fall from heaven, and the powir of the heaven nhall be nliaken, and then nhall appear the nlgu of the Son of Man In heaven; arid then nhall all ihe tribe of the earth mourn, and they nhall nee, the Son of Man omlng in the cloud of heaven with power and great glory." Then we may Xpect the nun lo be darkened between 773 and I7S. Ha the nun been darkened? Yen; Mav J9. 1 7 s'. I It wa darkened from 10 o'rloek. I You will find an account of In Webnter's die "The I aik Day,1' that, definition you Hint ' the true eaune thin dark day t lonary under (page Hint i. In will nee ll nlal iw of thin remarkable phenomenon I nol known." People thought the world wa coming to an end. Hut It did not; there were other nlgliH to be neen be fore It w a to lie dent roved. The niomi wa to be an blood i.nd not Klve It light, the Mar were to fall and the Word of (iod wan lo be preached In all the world. Ilan the moon refuned to given It light? Yen, the night of the day which wa darkened, May 19, 17,sn it had no liiHlre although It was at Its full. When It. did n mum r - - , it. It wa a a great ball of blood, and you could not dlHtlngulnh the differ ence between a niece of whiin paper iiml a blnrlc cloth hi Id ('? teen lliclien from the eyi H. Alter Hie Hb',11 of the tlliliill will' lo up p'iir the nlgn of the falling of I lii'htai r.. Did that occur? Y''r: November r: ls:i'l, the ntarn fell, put hew'.' Did (hey all fall one way, l.i one direction .' No! Put they fid I Hil way, and tha MY, Ihe 01 and the other; Junt a the tree In orchard rant thelrgi cen ft uli iliirlmi h w'nd, fo were the Mar iunt from heaven. Thone who mw the Mlaih fall Hay they fell in all ilirectioiin, but Hint they all apjiciied to nliiil from wie point. I wonder how many premnt tonight miw ihe Hum full November HI. IN.'l.'l. Who In piei-.irit tonight who aw that nlgn? Here In one; and here In atioiber; two. In an audience of thl nlze there i,re generally from nix to it ilo.eii who miw that nlgn, but they are growing fewer In mini hern em h year, 'they are panning away one by one, but ChrlHt nald "thl generation nhall not pan until all thene thing lie i'i,tii. " You will find that language lined In thl Hitne converaatlon with Ihe Aponllen, ami reported In Mark H, lo, and f.lno In Matthew, c. 24, v. ,';:i and III. A lhat nlgn of Ihe nlar oerurred III IS.'!,'! It will lie (,,', vcar the 1,'ilh dav of next November lnce (iod hung out hln bint nlgn or bin lant ailverllnement, In the hiMiveiiM, of hlncomlngand tho'i "''ii are living who naw It rntint lie over ;,1 yenr of ag, ami thone who naw It i.nd rememlii r It mum have been fi or HI year of age at the (line ll occurred, which would make them ?U or 7."i yenr of age todiy. Yet On, I ha nald, I hln generation nhall not pan until nil thene thing come to pan. The d"Htruction of .leniHiilem wan wt ni nned by Chrlntlati .'!!! year after the prophecy of Jenun Chrlnl ; the pemci ii flon for HIh iiame'n nnl(p occurred be tween the yearn r,;i and W.iH; and Hi" nun fin k been darkened, and the moon refuned to ve her light; the Hl.un nave raiien and the Scripture are h,.. lug preached to all nation, and there are thone living who naw HIh lant. nlgn im win ep me .savior (omlng "in cloud, with great power and glory," although they are 7u and Ml yearn of age. 'Ih! my beloved, are you ready? Are you waiting for hi coming wit i joy and Ihunknglvliig? He love yoir whether you love lllm r not '-lb', love you; and He will forgive vou all your Hlim If joii will nnk Dim, and He will give yf,u portion in Hln king dom If you will believe on Him and in,.-, in commamimentH. Arc ready ? you Are you Intcren ed In thl edl'lonV Do you WBiitnome to distribute hmnrf your friend? 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Alithony Kozlownkl, former jit'lert at St. Stntili.laiiH Church, Chlcugo, may now regard hlumelf an iibnolutely and finally cut off from the Roman Cut It olic Church, 't he edict of exiommiiii batlon agaliiHi him ban Ix-en read In all the Catholic rburriieH of lllllioln, and wan read on Sunday lo all Catli idle congregation In the northern In diana dlocene, an It will he In tin ihiirclie throughout (he country. The reading of thl pontifical flat ha aroiiHi'd much Interest in and out of the Human Catholic Church. Tlu chief point of dlnhlmllarlty between thin particular baiilnlim ut ami the many liiHlalice In which rebellion pi'lenl have been rlinfroi ked I the od liim which In thl cane aiiaclien to any member of the Catholic Church who In any way aid, coiintennnceH, or hold wllh Kolownki commiiiileiitloii of any kind whatever. The pernon no doing In Included In the bull of ex-conimuii ballon directed again! Ihe ex-prleni. It I nald thin I Hie flint cane In America of "major excommunication," Kozlownkl Ih now conducting an In dependent church at I.ubeck ntrcct and Hoyne avenue. The edict of cx omiiiutilcatloii In a follow: "WhereiiH, ll ban been made known to the Holy See from undoubted doc ument that prlent, Anthony Kolow. nkl, by origin n pole, now being In the aichdlinene of Clilcar.o, ha contu inacioUHly rebelled again) leKtlmn)p ei clenlantb at authority, and, more over, call himnelf PlHlmp of the Cath olic Independent Diocewe of ('Mini,,. ban pllbllnhed a letter which he cull a pantom), In which he nay that he received KplHiopnl ronnecriitlon from certain herellcal Hlnhop in Rwlizer land. "Our Mont Holy Pat her. Pope Heo XIII , In nn audience of the 2'iih day of April, isris, ordered that In hi name, by the prenent decree of I Ms yacred congr'gatlnn de propagandn fide, ll nhould be declared that the pHoinlo Hlshop Kozlownkl ha InciirreJ 'major excommunication' renerved In the Homati constitution 'Apontollcae Sedl.' "Moreover, hi Holtnen command Will lie Do It? III. ill II,,, u, 1.1 ,, it ,,in., I,.. I l,n he pnhlh.licd with proper liiHlne lion not only by the ordinary of Chicago, in hi (lloiewe, lull iiImo by each and every otm of the oidlnarle of tho I lilted Ht-'le of North America. "tllven tit Koine from the Palace of ihe Hacred CongreKatlon de I'lopagan mi ride, on the 2d day of May, IV.iK. "M. CAltll. I.KDOC1IOWHKI, Pref. "A. AUCIII'.P. I.AKISH, Sec." In connection with the proniiilgu Hon of the papal edict, Hie following; loiter wa m ill to the varlou church e In the dlocee liy the Archblxhop: "Itcvercnd and Dear Sir: Hy order of our Holy Father, the Pope, the In cloned document are to be piihllnheil In all the (hurche of the archdloce of Chicago. On next Sunday, there fore, yon will have them read publicly In your church at all the ma', Th flrnl 1 a letter from the Cardinal Pre feet of the Propaganda. The Hecori'l I a decree in Hip name ami hy the au thority of the Pope, excommunicating by name,' hy 'major excommunica tion,' the pHiieiio-1111 ip, Anthony Ko.lownkl. '...I excommunication 1 by the fill ut H ii I Ion 'Apontollcae Seill' re nerved to the Pope alone. It, I (he greatc!, the hcvitcnI punmhtnent thfl church can Inlllcf, It. I the expiillon from the exterior and Interior rneiri liernhlp of Hie chiin Ii, the complete withdrawal of all giace and privi lege neipilred by baptinm, the nepar- iiHon from the living body of Chrlnt, and a thruntlng hack Into the iepei nlale of unredeemed man. "Hy the picHcn! decree Anthony Kozlownkl, excommunicated by nami) by Hie pope by major excommunica tion, I iipended ah officio et bene, ficlo; hence he cannot nay man nor mlmltilHter nor receive the nacrnment, oor perform any other nucred func tion; neither can he cxerclne any ee- clenlallcHl oftlce, dignity, or bctieflce. If he nhould attempt to hear ronfc- nlon hi almolufloti would be Inviilbl. lie In excluded from all hare In the public prayer of the church. Hp can not iihhIhI at mtiHH or other cccIchIii- IIcmI function. If he nhould die In that Mate he nhould be deprived of Chrl tlau burial. Ml who old and abet him In tint i lime for which he ha been excom municated by name hy Hie Sovereign Pontiff iilno Incur maj ir excommuni cation and all H effect The faith ful under grave penalty are iibnolute ly forbidden to have any Intercourne or communication with him. You will ideane rein! the f i i;ol n k and ttiak" the whole matter perfectly clear and intelligible id all the people. f re main, reverend and dear nlr, your obedient nerviint in Chrlnt, "P. A, I'KKHAN. Archhlntiop of Chicago, " In the "Klement of rebglastlcal (Continued onPaije 4 ) JL