1916
Dr. Tucker to Preach at Presbyterian Church Sunday
W. Leon Tucker will be the preacher at the Presbyterian church tomorrow at both services. His subject in the morning will be "A Corrupt Leper and Two Clean Birds." His subject in the evening will be "A Heifer Upon Its Haunches." This will be the last opportunity for Tyronians to hear this wonderful Bible teacher.
This evening Mr. Tucker will speak on the "European War in the Light of Prophecy." Does God have anything to say about the times in which we are living now? Do we know anything about our future and the future history of mankind? Do we know anything about the future of the earth on which we are dwelling now? Do you know what God means in the book of the Revelation by the White Horse? The Red Horse? The Black Horse? The Pale Horse? What do these figures mean in plain speech? Mr. Tucker will tell you tonight. Is the world growing better? Will man bring in the golden age? Is there a golden age coming for mankind?
—Tyrone Daily Herald, Tyrone, PA, Nov. 11, 1916, p. 2.
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Thursday, February 28, 2008
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
A Treat Promised
1916
Dr. Tucker to Preach at Presbyterian Church Sunday
W. Leon Tucker will be the preacher at the Presbyterian church tomorrow at both services. His subject in the morning will be "A Corrupt Leper and Two Clean Birds." His subject in the evening will be "A Heifer Upon Its Haunches." This will be the last opportunity for Tyronians to hear this wonderful Bible teacher.
This evening Mr. Tucker will speak on the "European War in the Light of Prophecy." Does God have anything to say about the times in which we are living now? Do we know anything about our future and the future history of mankind? Do we know anything about the future of the earth on which we are dwelling now? Do you know what God means in the book of the Revelation by the White Horse? The Red Horse? The Black Horse? The Pale Horse? What do these figures mean in plain speech? Mr. Tucker will tell you tonight. Is the world growing better? Will man bring in the golden age? Is there a golden age coming for mankind?
Opportunity was represented among the Greeks by a man with a tuft of hair on his forehead and the back of his head was bald. This was what they meant. If you did not catch the man as he passed by, by the tuft of hair in front, when he had passed by, you could not catch him, because there was nothing to get hold of. These are days of opportunity to hear God's word. What have they meant to you? Have you availed yourself of these golden privileges. Go hear Mr. Tucker this evening and go tomorrow morning and evening.
—Tyrone Daily Herald, Tyrone, PA, Nov. 11, 1916, p. 2.
Dr. Tucker to Preach at Presbyterian Church Sunday
W. Leon Tucker will be the preacher at the Presbyterian church tomorrow at both services. His subject in the morning will be "A Corrupt Leper and Two Clean Birds." His subject in the evening will be "A Heifer Upon Its Haunches." This will be the last opportunity for Tyronians to hear this wonderful Bible teacher.
This evening Mr. Tucker will speak on the "European War in the Light of Prophecy." Does God have anything to say about the times in which we are living now? Do we know anything about our future and the future history of mankind? Do we know anything about the future of the earth on which we are dwelling now? Do you know what God means in the book of the Revelation by the White Horse? The Red Horse? The Black Horse? The Pale Horse? What do these figures mean in plain speech? Mr. Tucker will tell you tonight. Is the world growing better? Will man bring in the golden age? Is there a golden age coming for mankind?
Opportunity was represented among the Greeks by a man with a tuft of hair on his forehead and the back of his head was bald. This was what they meant. If you did not catch the man as he passed by, by the tuft of hair in front, when he had passed by, you could not catch him, because there was nothing to get hold of. These are days of opportunity to hear God's word. What have they meant to you? Have you availed yourself of these golden privileges. Go hear Mr. Tucker this evening and go tomorrow morning and evening.
—Tyrone Daily Herald, Tyrone, PA, Nov. 11, 1916, p. 2.
Equal To All Occasions
1915
Great Scotch Lawyer Never at a Loss for an Answer — Samples of Erskine's Wit
A writer in the British Weekly, reviewing a biography of Henry Erskine, lord advocate for Scotland, gives, among others, the following examples of his wit:
A brother advocate who had little or no practice died in embarrassed circumstances. His death was announced to Erskine by Sheriff Anstruther, who added, "They say he has left no effects." "That is not surprising," was the rejoinder. "As he had no causes, he could have no effects."
Erskine did not despise the lowly pun and once inscribed upon a tea-chest the words: Tu doces — Thou teachest.
The lord advocate maintained a great reverence for religion, though surrounded by friends of avowedly skeptic opinions. One of these was Hugo Arnot, an attenuated, lantern faced man, who usually rode a white horse as lanky and sepulchral-looking as himself. Returning from a Sunday afternoon ride, Arnot met Erskine coming from divine service, and called out to him: "Where have you been, Harry? What has a man of your sense to do consorting with a parcel of old women?" Adding with an extra sneer, "What, now, was your text?"
"Our text," replied Erskine, impressively, his eye fixed sternly the while upon the white horse and his rider, "was from the sixth chapter of the Book of Revelation and the eighth verse: "And I looked and beheld a Pale Horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him.'"
Great Scotch Lawyer Never at a Loss for an Answer — Samples of Erskine's Wit
A writer in the British Weekly, reviewing a biography of Henry Erskine, lord advocate for Scotland, gives, among others, the following examples of his wit:
A brother advocate who had little or no practice died in embarrassed circumstances. His death was announced to Erskine by Sheriff Anstruther, who added, "They say he has left no effects." "That is not surprising," was the rejoinder. "As he had no causes, he could have no effects."
Erskine did not despise the lowly pun and once inscribed upon a tea-chest the words: Tu doces — Thou teachest.
The lord advocate maintained a great reverence for religion, though surrounded by friends of avowedly skeptic opinions. One of these was Hugo Arnot, an attenuated, lantern faced man, who usually rode a white horse as lanky and sepulchral-looking as himself. Returning from a Sunday afternoon ride, Arnot met Erskine coming from divine service, and called out to him: "Where have you been, Harry? What has a man of your sense to do consorting with a parcel of old women?" Adding with an extra sneer, "What, now, was your text?"
"Our text," replied Erskine, impressively, his eye fixed sternly the while upon the white horse and his rider, "was from the sixth chapter of the Book of Revelation and the eighth verse: "And I looked and beheld a Pale Horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him.'"
The Quiet Hour
By Rev. L. A. Brunsting
God said that He would chain the devil. The chain is a symbol for binding one's influence. The Devil is a spirit and therefore the chain is spiritual but nevertheless real. Spiritual things are as real as material things and more so.
That binding of Satan would be for one-thousand years. Thousand in the Bible stands for completeness, it is made of the number ten three times. Ten times ten, times ten. A thousand years are as one day with the Lord and one day as a thousand years.
It was God's mercy for Job that Satan was bound then and it is our mercy from God that Satan is bound now. God binds Satan for every believer and He does it completely. That does not mean that no believer has no temptations from Satan. He does, but as with Peter, Christ prays for His own. And the Devil never gets any one of them.
Our boys left us with the ideals of Christ, the church and the Christian home. The devil will not get one of them. We fear those who kill the body but much more him who hath power over soul and body. We pray that all our boys may come back, but and if not, that their souls may go home with the Lord Jesus Christ.
Great enthusiasm has been high with extravagant grief over Lombard, the actress. She was a patriot. Was she also a Christian? Was she also a mother of a son in the army? Did she pray? We pray for the fathers and mothers who have lost their son on the battle field. May they sorrow but not as those who have no hope.
Jesus Christ is the rider of the white horse in Revelation 19. He is called the FAITHFUL and the TRUE. He has the sword of the Word of God. He is crowned with a crown of diadems. He is King of Kings and Lord of Lords. He is over all, the devil and all his works are under His direct control. But do not forget there is another rider also upon a white horse in Revelation 6. There are four judgments under the symbol of four horses. They are all one in cause and purpose, God judging the peoples. And the first rider upon a white horse is dangerous. He conquers many. He has a bow not a sword. He is given a crown but not of diadems. He imitates Christ upon the Real White Horse.
The antichrist is always imitating the real Christ. Antichrist is the false christ. And the false christ is made very much like to the real Christ. As a false coin is made like to a real coin. No one makes square coins, for they would be detected too easily.
Jesus in Matthew 24 records the same direction and order that John does in Revelation 6. First false Christ, the false white horse; then the war, the red horse; then the famines, the white horse of scarcity; and finally pestilences and death, the pale horse.
We are reminded of these things in these times. But God is God, And God has the devil chained completely. It may not so appear for us. From our angle of vision the devil is very much loosed. Job would have made that same observation in his day from his viewpoint. But from God's viewpoint the Devil was completely controlled.
Beware of the rider on the false white horse. The boldless, crossless, atonementless Christianity, Christless preaching of a so-called Christianity. Our boys and we are safe in the CHRIST OF REVELATION 19.
—Sioux Center News, Sioux Center, IA, Feb. 12, 1942, p. 3.
God said that He would chain the devil. The chain is a symbol for binding one's influence. The Devil is a spirit and therefore the chain is spiritual but nevertheless real. Spiritual things are as real as material things and more so.
That binding of Satan would be for one-thousand years. Thousand in the Bible stands for completeness, it is made of the number ten three times. Ten times ten, times ten. A thousand years are as one day with the Lord and one day as a thousand years.
It was God's mercy for Job that Satan was bound then and it is our mercy from God that Satan is bound now. God binds Satan for every believer and He does it completely. That does not mean that no believer has no temptations from Satan. He does, but as with Peter, Christ prays for His own. And the Devil never gets any one of them.
Our boys left us with the ideals of Christ, the church and the Christian home. The devil will not get one of them. We fear those who kill the body but much more him who hath power over soul and body. We pray that all our boys may come back, but and if not, that their souls may go home with the Lord Jesus Christ.
Great enthusiasm has been high with extravagant grief over Lombard, the actress. She was a patriot. Was she also a Christian? Was she also a mother of a son in the army? Did she pray? We pray for the fathers and mothers who have lost their son on the battle field. May they sorrow but not as those who have no hope.
Jesus Christ is the rider of the white horse in Revelation 19. He is called the FAITHFUL and the TRUE. He has the sword of the Word of God. He is crowned with a crown of diadems. He is King of Kings and Lord of Lords. He is over all, the devil and all his works are under His direct control. But do not forget there is another rider also upon a white horse in Revelation 6. There are four judgments under the symbol of four horses. They are all one in cause and purpose, God judging the peoples. And the first rider upon a white horse is dangerous. He conquers many. He has a bow not a sword. He is given a crown but not of diadems. He imitates Christ upon the Real White Horse.
The antichrist is always imitating the real Christ. Antichrist is the false christ. And the false christ is made very much like to the real Christ. As a false coin is made like to a real coin. No one makes square coins, for they would be detected too easily.
Jesus in Matthew 24 records the same direction and order that John does in Revelation 6. First false Christ, the false white horse; then the war, the red horse; then the famines, the white horse of scarcity; and finally pestilences and death, the pale horse.
We are reminded of these things in these times. But God is God, And God has the devil chained completely. It may not so appear for us. From our angle of vision the devil is very much loosed. Job would have made that same observation in his day from his viewpoint. But from God's viewpoint the Devil was completely controlled.
Beware of the rider on the false white horse. The boldless, crossless, atonementless Christianity, Christless preaching of a so-called Christianity. Our boys and we are safe in the CHRIST OF REVELATION 19.
—Sioux Center News, Sioux Center, IA, Feb. 12, 1942, p. 3.
The Rider on the White Horse (chapter 6)
Through the Lamb's opening of the seals, the darkest book has become most clear — the book of the world's history, in its enigmatical, fearful and gloomy phenomena. The very fact that the book is sealed is a ray of light for us; the highest hand has shut it up, intending that it shall presently be opened. Another hopeful fact is that the Seals are seven, i.e., the riddle is a holy one, and when it reaches its final term it shall meet with a festal solution. The loosing of the very first seal sheds a joyful light over the whole dark history of the world. The Rider upon the white horse rides at the head of all the others. The mere fact that the train is one of horsemen calms our apprehensions; the horses denote the rapid movement of great phenomena of life or death; no one of these phenomena hangs stationary over the world. They all, in their riders, have their governors. Wild though the course of some may seem on earth, their management, their direction, their career, and their limit are fixed in Heaven. But at the head of all is the Rider on the white horse. He is the Prince; the rest are esquires. Thus, all apparently fatal events must serve His purposes, and those purposes are still redemption and its diffusion through the world — not yet judgment, as at His forthgoing in ch. xix. 11. The horse of the first Rider is white; holy and pure as heavenly light is the dynamical fundamental movement which governs all other and more conspicuous movements. The Rider is Christ; to Him, therefore, to His power, His rule, all subsequent facts are subject; not only the three riders, His servants, but also the facts of the fifth, sixth, and seventh seals, the latter of which embraces all items subsequent to its opening. His bow is the bow with the sure arrows of the word; His wreath or crown is the diadem of His principial victory over all the power of the world and of darkness, and when He, notwithstanding, again goes forth to conquer, it is in order to the necessary development and consummation of His principial conflict and victory in a grand succession of world-historical conflicts and victories. He has no need of many attributes; a leading attribute is this: that the three other riders are not before, but behind Him.
—John Peter Lange, The Book of Revelation, 1874, pp. 164f.
—John Peter Lange, The Book of Revelation, 1874, pp. 164f.
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Answers to Questions
1939
Q. Please name the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. — M. K.
A. Conquest, Slaughter, Famine, and Death appeared in the Apocalypse (Revelation) on white, red, black, and pale gray horses respectively. They typify the evils of war. — Frederic J. Haskin.
Q. Please name the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. — M. K.
A. Conquest, Slaughter, Famine, and Death appeared in the Apocalypse (Revelation) on white, red, black, and pale gray horses respectively. They typify the evils of war. — Frederic J. Haskin.
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