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T H E K I N G ’S B U S I N E S S good news to a world out of joint, for He who never made anything ‘desolation and waste’ will restore the lost harmony of His creation.”— (Dr. W. P. White.) “May we suggest three fundamental weaknesses of modernism in its failure to attract to church or to win to Christ, viz.: An inadequate evangelistic spirit, method and message. Modernism has but little reputation as a pioneer. Its adherents possess the wells that others have dug. Others have toiled and they enter into their labors. Liberals are great ‘squatters’ and ‘squatter’s rights’ seem largely to constitute their title to the places of power and leadership which they hold. They have many menders of nets but few catchers of fish. Modernism is essentially a preachment of negation; a dilution rather than a declaration; an attenuation rather than an affirmation. Preaching, to be evangelistically success ful, must be positive and authoritative. It must descend from heaven upon men rather than rise out of the opinions and philosophies of men. ‘The orator comes with an inspiration, the prophet comes with a revelation.’ You cannot get peo ple to repent and believe if you offer them only a hypothesis. We are re minded of the farewell message of a man to his Unitarian pastor: ‘If what you have been preaching to us is not true, we do not want you here; and if what you have been preaching is true, we do not need you here.’ People do want to hear the ‘I know’ of revelation rather than the ‘I think’ of human opinion.”— (Dr. J. W. Lawrence.) “Every predicted feature of ‘the last days’ is, obviously, at the present time receiving an unprecedented fulfillment. False doctrine abounds and apostasy is dominant within the professing church. Men have turned from the faith once for all delivered and are substituting other doctrines which, by their very nature, cpuld in reality be of advantage to none other than Satan, for they deny the only
894 upon a wealth of argument the weight of which is as irresistible as would be an avalanche sweeping the sides of Mt. Everest. * * * The proposal of Mr. H. G. Wells to provide a new Bible will pro duce in the thinking world only derision and scorn. Men know that the Bible cannot be improved upon. They know full well that it will never again be equalled. * * * Is there a point at which you can add a solitary jot or tittle to its teaching that would prove of profit to the world? If not, why make a ’ mock of the masterpiece of the ages? If not, why neglect the Book of books? If not, why shut the ears against sentences that are so clearly from God? If not, why sit at the feet of men and permit them, in your presence, to scorn its evident Divin ity? If not, why not accept it as the basis for life-building, as the Pole Star for life’s direction, and as the source of information concerning the life to come?” —(Dr. W. B. Riley.) “We look not for peace through democ racy. We look for peace through Theoc racy. ‘The last Adam’ is to become the earth’s King. ‘The government shall be upon His shoulder; and His name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace —of the increase of His government there shall be no end, upon the Throne of David and upon His kingdom, to es tablish it and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from henceforth even forever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts (not democracy) will perform this.’ This is the Gospel of the Bible: The Son of God is manifested that He might destroy the works of the devil. This, is the good news for the sinner, for it an nounces how God can be just and the justifier of a transgressor; how the sin ner can receive a new nature and come into vital fellowship and relationship with God and His fellows. It is the good news to the nations that bye and bye ‘He will rule the world in righteous ness by that Man, Christ Jesus.’ It is
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