Rev. Dr. W.M. Pascoe Goard, L.L.D., F.R.G.S.

Outside of Professor Edward Odlum, and the possible exception of J.W. Parker, Reverend Goard was the most important influence in the early development of this organization. On a world scene, his contribution to the movement was unequalled. Born in 1863 in England, he came to Canada as a young man and engaged in missionary work in the Methodist Church. When our good friend Reverend Merton Smith, also a believer in the Israel Truth, went overseas, Reverend Goard came to Vancouver to preach in his Congregationalist Church. He met Professor Odlum and the two of them worked closely together to strengthen and expand the work both here and abroad.
A great organizer, he was called back to England in 1921 to become Vice-President of the British-Israel-World Federation and remained so until the time of his death in 1937. In due time, he became the Editor of The National Magazine, a director of Covenant Publishing, the Principal of Garrison Bible College and President of World Council of the B.I.W.F. His writings, his radio broadcasts, his lectures, his willingness to travel to expound the message and his inspiration to others made him a key instrument for the tremendous growth of the Israel Truth in the early part of the century. When he died, accolades poured in from everywhere and just as Jefferson said of Washington, it was said of Goard, “Know ye not that there is a great man fallen this day in Israel.”

Reverend Goard wrote many articles, many of which we published and many published in other vehicles, primarily “The National Message.”
 

THE IMAGE OF GOLD
by Rev. Dr. Wm. Pascoe Goard

Editor’s Note: As prophesied in Daniel 5: 25-28, Nebuchadnezzar’s gold system was partially abandoned by the United States in 1933 and further abandoned in 1971 during the Nixon years. Today, gold is again in the news as despite wide swings, it is moving up in price very rapidly.

Examine those who were called to attend the function which inaugurated the Image of Gold. It was a function which many scholars believe was not only carried through in Babylon itself, but was repeated in every province of the Empire.

“Then the princes, the governors, and captains, the judges, the treasurers, the counsellors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces were gathered together unto the dedication of the image of Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up; and they stood before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up.” (Daniel 3:3)

It will be seen that all of those mentioned were administrative and financial officers of the Empire. There is not an ecclesiastic mentioned. As a matter of fact it was setting up Gold as the basis of the economic structure of the Empire economics.

Thereafter Babylon is called in the Bible THE EXACTRESS OF GOLD.

That the system had not the approval of the people of God who were Hebrew children. That God Himself was against the whole concern is manifested by the fact that He revealed Himself as accompanying His faithful servants into the fiery furnace in which they were thrown, because of opposition to the exaltation of the image of gold.
   
   
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