T H E K I N G ’S B U S I N E S S “ If you say you cannot believe all of their dogma, they reply, “ ‘You don’t believe in evolution?’ “ ‘No,’ “ ‘What? You!’ “ ‘No.’ “ ‘A man of your intelligence doesn’t believe in evolution?’ “ ‘No.’ - “ ‘Well, I declare.’ ” “ If that doesn’t convince you,” said Mr. Bryan, “ it ought.” That is all the argument nineteen out of twenty of them have. M M THINGS AS THEY ARE By Hewitt Freeman ods employed, the exaltation of that fanciful thing called “ success” and the steps leading up to the goal, which make men heartless, cruel, selfish, avaricious, conscienceless. The struggle to illustrate the devil and hell rather than Christ and Heaven, yet claiming all this medley culminates in the Christian nation! See the newspapers dealing out their social rot and propaganda, purveyors of the lurid, the sensuous, the demoraliz ing! Men employed to write up sensational ism, debauchery and foulness; to poison men’s minds, to fill them with antagon isms and suspicions. Blatant misrepresentations and lies heralded as the truth, and devoured eag erly by the multitude that feed on froth, slime and muck, the shallow-pated ele ment that seem never to have a sober thought; that live in the “now” ; in whom aspiration and “out-reach” is dead. See society, the daring, glaring sem blance of SOMETHING REAL, yet honey-combed with corruptions, “skele tons,” and “whited sepulchers.” God dishonored by His triumph of creation, man, in church and state! Men worshipping everything but Him, JH the hatreds, the animosities among men today; the bitter ness of competition, the un scrupulous, dishonorable meth
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pursuing their ambitions and lusts; lov ers of self, amusement and pleasure, more than lovers of God. Artificial, unholy, unnatural! Honor and honesty at a premium, when they should be the most natural expres sion of the creatures of a beneficent Cre ator! See the apostate church, masquerad ing in the robes of hypocrisy, guile, de ceit, blasphemy, doing the work of the devil most effectually, and teaching for doctrines, the commandments of men! A complicated, worldly machine; pop ular, ambitious, impotent! Dare any man today who is not a bland optimist, perjurer or ignoramus, say this putrid, festering stream of hu manity is getting better? Or that the mass is reforming? Lying to ourselves doesn’t change the truth, but only makes us more pitiable and depraved. Yet the mercy, and long suffering for bearance of God, has given men 6000 years in which to try out every form of government their wisdom can devise, and all have failed. There is no government, no peace, no progress, no prosperity, apart from the Prince of Peace, and when will men ever learn it? ¿u. isl DANGEROUS MOMENTS - (Matt. 3:17; 4:1.) The voice has just testified, “ This is My beloved Son.” What can the devil have to do with Him then? But it was when Moses was on his way down from the Mount, from holding close converse with God, that he gave way to anger and broke the tables of stone. It was just after the victory on Carmel that Elijah was found under the juniper tree. “ Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona,” was closely followed by “ Get thee hence, Satan.” It is al ways on the eve of a specially bright and joyous experience that Satan needs most vigilant attention. Our foe is most malignant when our spiritual ele vation is at its highest—W. Landels.
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