in which He dwells into all the truth? May a man today know the Bible to be indeed the Book of the Holy Gh o s t- not because it " f i n d s" him, but because it is in all reality for him the sword of the Spirit? Unless we are greatly mis- taken, it is just here that for many a day to come the battle will rage. Will the final conflict between the natural man and the spiritual man center round the interpretation of a Bible that can- not be repudiated, and a Christianity that can not be denied? G. C.
who now repeats in lowly hearts the miracle of that interpretation. It is too late in the day to deny the Divinity of the Bible, of to cast doubts upon the redeeming history of our Lord Jesus Christ. No honest mind can re- pudiate or cancel the testimony of mil- lions of enlightened hearts and redeemed lives. The problem now is: Whose* in- terpretation of the Book and of the fact of Christ shall prevail? Did the Spirit of the truth guide the Apostles and writers of the New Testament into all the truth? Does He still guide the heart N otes by the Way. By J. H. The Responsibility of God. Much light talk from weighty sources is heard about the responsibility of God. Now a Review writer speaks in reference to man's obligations, saying, " A more satisfying doctrine teaches not only that man owes a high service to his Maker, but also that 'the Judge of all the earth' feels Himself bound to do right." This is nonsense, and grows out of man's presumptuous opposition to God's sovereignty which leads to the saying. "Why has thou made me t hu s ?" and "Why doth He yet find f a u l t ?" Rom. 9:19, 20. > God Responsible to No One. But to whom must God answer and by whom has He been put under bonds? God will do .right; not because He feels . bound to but becausc right in what God does, and what God does IS right. Man is bound to do right, and must answer for his conduct. But he will never do right till, a partaker of the divine nature, he does it as God does it, not because he feels bound to do ii, but spontaneously, of Himself. This is a foundation question, at the very base of true religion. If God acts from obli- gation He does not act from grace. Let no man imagine that God is bound to save him. or do anything for him; if God saves it will be out of pure free grace alone. Pragmatism. This is the latest tad in philosophy. It teaches that the only real and true is the practical; and that
Sammis. truth is to be found only in the useful. Nothing is worth #hile but that which "gets there," which "does things." It looks like a very commonsense phil- osophy, but that is where its chief dan- ger lies. If men knew all things and could see all ends it would be a very good principle of action. But there is the flaw. What is the practical and the ultimately profitable? Sceptical Criticism. The " c r i t i c s" have failed to disprove the claims of the Bible. The pragmatist professor, press and pulpit now seek to nullify it by saying, "Wh at difference? It is not the doctrines about the Bible or in it that need concern us, let us live right. The ten commandments are good mor- als whether ever there was a Moses or not. The Sermon on the Mount is sound practical wisdom whether the preacher 'spake with authority' or merely 'as the scribes. ' " Pragmatism f says that to bother about doctrines, incarnation, inspiration, justification, theology, is profitless. Live right, do well, and do good, join hands and never mind how your heads differ. What Is Truth? But truth is not truth because it works, but it works because it is true. Sound thinking seeks truth first and applies it afterward. To say that men's ideas of God, and sin, and salvation, and Scripture; of judg- ment to come and its awards are im- practical is as sheer nonsense as it is contrary to experience and history.
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