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THE KING’S BUSINESS
The weary watches lose their weariness As I take thought—too tardy thought—of Thee, And all the dreary burdens that oppress, Thy pity lifts, and leaves my spirit free How good Thou art, unutterably kind! How patient, endless-patient with Thy child! And I to all Thy loveliness how blind, Against Thy waiting pureness how de filed ! Amid these friendly darknesses I creep Ashamed and worn to Thine enfolding arms; Thy pardon gathers round me like a sleep, Thy tender broodings comfort my alarms. The day is coming. What it coldly brings I know not, and no longer do I care. Deep in my heart my Father’s blessing sings, And all His nights, and all His days, are. fair. —Amos R. Wells. A professor in Auburn Theological Sem inary (Pres.) is quoted as saying: “Popu lar evangelism has often given currency to a form of Christolatry which results in a Jesus-cultus, rather than in the establishing of the great fundamental verities of re ligion. ' Any interpretation of Jesus Christ, which obscures His own supreme empha sis upon His Father God, fails to express the mind of Christ. His passion to reveal His heavenly Father to men, condemns the methods of those who would make the his torical Jesus the center of our human wor ship.” That is good Unitarianism and Anti- christianism; and as such is welcomed by The Christian Register (Unitarian). It shows, too, how just and timely the call, "Back to the Fundamentals," issued by Dr. Mark A. Matthews and scores of Presby terian ministers, is.
A/TEN who know in many an able criti- cism of the hydra' headed monstrosity called Russelism point out that . . . “Pastor” Russell is totally ignorant either of Greek or Hebrew, while claiming to be a great Bible interpreter; that he has been ordained by no church or society; that he has been divorced by his wife; that he is connected with various business corporations, all of which are under his absolute control, and which hold stock valued at millions of dol lars; that his false doctrines include: (1) A denial of the Trinity; (2) of the incarna tion; (3) of the deity of Christ; (4) of the bodily resurrection of Christ; (S) a state ment that the second coming of Christ was in 1874; (6) that the sleeping saints were resurrected in 1878; (7) that the millen nium of universal peace an4 righteousness began in 1914; (8) that the impenitent dead will be given a second probation; (9) that the finally impenitent will be annihilated. Someone has conducted us through the Bible in words something like these: “En tering the portico in Genesis we pass through the portrait galleries of the histori cal books, extending -to the end of the kingdom; find the music room in the Psalms, where the Spirit, sweeping the key board of human nature, touches every chord. We pass through the business office of Proverbs; the chapel, in Ecclesiastes echoing with the voice of the preacher ; the conservatory, in the Song of Solomon, fra grant with the rose of Sharon 'and the lily of the valley, with all trees of frankin cense, with pleasant fruits and with all spices, smelling like Lebanon. Then we look into the observatories of the prophets, with telescopes pointing some toward near and some to distant stars, but all brought to bear upon the bright and morning Star about to rise. Passing on, we enter the audience chamber of the King Himself, in the Gospels ■ see the Holy Spirit perform ing His office work in the Acts; then the correspondence rooms in the Epistjes, fin ally on to the dazzling splendors of the throne room in Revelation.”
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