THE KING’S BUSINESS
No. 8
Vol 6
AUGUST, 1915
E D I T O R I A L There was never a day in which Christians needed to All Christians are bear in mind that in Christ “there is neither Greek nor One Race and Jew, Barbarian nor Scythian,” English, German or One Family. American, but that we “are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus,” and “all one in Christ Jesus,” more than today (Col. 3:11; Gal. 3:25, 28). Though our kings and emperors and presidents divide, even though we are behind guns in opposing camps, we must never forget we are brethren, and we must show our love for one an other in every way possible. cry for vengeance went up from many hearts and lips in many lands. That is natural; it is human; but it is not Christian. The riots in London and other English cities that were provoked by this disaster, though natural, were not only foolish, but unchristian. “Vengeance” belongs to God, not to us. And He will “repay” (Rom. 12:19). We can safely leave the matter in His hands. Our part is to feed our hungry enemy (Rom. 12:20) and to “over come evil with good.” Man for many years has been making great boasts of Modem Science the what his science has achieved, and science has made Handmaid,- of marvellous advancement. Perhaps her greatest triumphs the Devil have been in the domain of chemistry and mechanics. The greatest marvel of all in mechanics has been the aeroplane and the dirigible. We have been vauntingly told of what great blessings these were to bring to men. Man would no longer travel by land or sea, but fly through the air. But in actual fact what has come of the aeroplane and dirigible? Nothing but terror and destruction. In England, France, Germany and other lands, men, women and children lie down at night not knowing but before morn ing a bomb will fall from the air upon their home to explode, tear, wound, maim and kill. It is the devil’s work. War is hellish enough, The sinking of the Lusitania sent a thrill of horror around the world. A dear friend of the writer, a noble Christian lady of world-wide usefulness, was among the hundreds of victims of that shocking - calamity. A “Avenge Not Yourselves.”
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