cult questions. Yet history clearly re veals that none of these nations was ever able to shake off the chains of superstition, pride, and the emptiness of vain religious concepts. “There has never been a nation whose ethics and morality were free from personal aggrandizement and ig noble limitations. The virtues of the IT'S SUMMERTIME There'll be no evening service. The weather, it's too hot; The preacher's gone a fishin', To a cool and shady spot: The members they've gone swimmin',
And the water it's Just fine: There'll be no evening service, It's too hot, it's summertime. There'll be no evening service, The padlock's on the door; Everybody's gone away, Where there is fun galore. The devil, he is happy, He knows that down below There'll be no evening service, It's too hot for folks to go. Now Deacon Jones is happy, He's lying on the sand: Say, this is really livin', . Just like the promised land. His toes are in the water, Cold drinks are just a dime: There'll be no evening service, It's too hot — it's summertime. We all should have our pleasure, It's no sin to go away: But Sunday is for worship, And for folks !o sing and pray. So when the weather gets too hot, Let's always keep in mind We'll have an evening service During the hot summertime.
Mr. John Hunter (left), TorchbearersSociety,England, with Dr. Samuel H. Sutherland,Biola president.
a longing for truth. These are being smothered by the flame of desire and greed. The zeal for virtue becomes deafened by the tempting voice of sin and turns into a mockery as soon as we feel the full impact of life. “Yet the gracious Creator was in capable of hating His handiwork. He wanted to raise it up to Himself so He sent His Son, and causes us to be holy through these words, ‘Now ye are clean through the words I have spoken unto you.’ Our hearts, reason, history, the Word of Christ, all call out to us loudly and convincingly to tell us that union with Him is abso lutely necessary, that without Him, we would be rejected of God. He alone is able to deliver us. In union with Christ we therefore turn our loving eyes toward God, offer Him our fer vent thanks and bow our knees before Him, joyfully. So the union with Christ consists of the most intimate and living communion with Him. We have Him before our eyes and in our 24
— Walt Huntley nations are not the products of the striving after true achievement, but rather are the products of a crude and brutal bigness, a boundless ego ism, and ignoble limitations. Likewise, if we examine the history of man’s nature as an individual, we constantly observe the spark of divinity in his breast, the enthusiasm for what is good, the struggle for wisdom, and
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