T H E K I N G ’S B U S I N E S S way of salvation through the blood of Christ and substitute those elements of human character and works in spite of which the soul must he doomed forever. * * * At the close of his description of those conditions which are to obtain in the world of commerce during the ‘last days,’ James gives particular instruction to the child of God who may be living at that time: ‘Be patient, therefore, breth ren, unto the coming of the Lord.’ The believer is called upon in these days to remember that all the apostasy and wick edness of the earth is according to the permission of God and the fulfillment of prophecy. Only thus can he maintain an attitude of peace in his own soul, or patience toward the wrongs and failures he must behold on every side.”— (Dr. Lewis Sperry Chafer.) “What is God’s plan and purpose as re vealed in His Word? To place a man as head and ruler over this world, and the man of God’s choosing is His only be gotten Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. God’s purpose is to give to Him the headship and authority over every living creature that, at the mention of His name, ‘every knee shall bow.’ Now, what is Satan’s plan? Satan is an imitator and he seeks to imitate God in every possible way. Therefore his plan is to produce from fallen humanity a super-man who will take the government of the whole earth, who will be a world conqueror, and this man is called in Scripture ‘the Anti christ.’ “This conflict between Satan and God is the real cause of the world’s unrest. There has been unrest and disorder in the world ever since the day that Satan brought sin into the Garden of Eden. The reason it has now become universal and world-wide is because the day of the final struggle draws near. How reas
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suring for us to remember that ‘known unto God are all His works from the foundation of the world.’ God can af ford to wait, and at the appointed time He will fulfill His purpose. Meantime, let us remember that whatever may be the condition of the world around us, we who believe in Him are possessors of that peace which He made at the cross of Calvary and are safe and secure from all the storms which are to sweep over this sin-cursed earth.”— (Sidney T. Smith.) It is quite natural for human minds to discredit the supernatural. Most of the Higher Critics do this in their views of inspiration. The miraculous is not necessarily unscientific, not the setting aside or overriding of God’s laws. A miracle is simply God doing something according to certain laws of which we know nothing. To illustrate: If I had said, some years ago, that I had talked with a man a hundred miles away just as though he were tenjfeet distant from me, it would have been called a miracle, and why? Simply because there was then no law of acoustics known by which the human voice could be transmitted one hundred miles. But now, such a law has been discovered and our voices may be heard by our friends a hundred or a thousand miles away and it is not called a miracle. I doubt not that there are ten thousand laws operating in the uni verse of which man knows nothing, but concerning which he may truthfully say, ‘I know the method by which they oper ate.’ The Bible is not a text book upon the physical sciences. However, it has quite a little to say about the works of God and what it does say is said accu rately and well and can be absolutely relied upon.”—(Dr. L. W. Munhall.) J NOTE— Other Extract* will be reported in our Next Issue.
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