^Things Tkat Cannot Be Shaken The Throne of God, the Word of God and The Church of God Will Stand
By DR. CORTLAND MYERS
ficed in every direction, then the peace promise and the quiet of our"world was left in the hands of politicians and greedy eyes searched all over the map of the world and then feet of animal instead of man climbed over into the trough and a sordid, selfish, transaction was immediately on and the old game was being played and the whole pro gram was toward one end— the next election. England had it first and Lloyd George had to be Prime Minister again and he went all over his land making all kinds of promises and he was elected. Then prance immediately had her game and Clemenceau had to be defeated and another politician had to come in and things had to be changed and all kinds of promises were made by the politician. Then they threw the treaty over here to America and the American Congress used it like a foot ball and tried to get inito a good game and a good play and reach the goal. They said, “We will get a touch-down in the next election.” The greatest opportunity this world ever saw to make peace for humanity and no more war and bloodshed has been lost, basely lost, politically losit, worse than lost, and the political ma chinery is making the earth now shake from center to circumference and wise men are wondering whether the old planet will be able to stay in its orbit any longer. Everything has been shaken. Alas, some men’s faith has also been shaken. But I am rejoicing that in the midst of these world conditions and with no
Hebrews 12:27. That those things which cannot be shaken may remain.
QUESTION whether there is any word in our vocabulary th a t would express quite as fully and emphatically the world’s present condition as the word used in this scripture reference, th a t verb which is
freighted with such deep meaning— “shaken.” There has never been a period in human history in which there has been condensed so much of dynamic element to shake this world as In this recent half of a decade. The guns on the battlefield and on the sea shook it and made it unsteady in its pathway. They shook cathedrals from their foundation. They shook factories into ruins. They shook cities into ashes. They shook fields and for ests and orchards into wreckage and ruin. They shook the very rivers until they ran over their boundary lines, and then colored them with crimson. They sent millions of our fellow-men into early graves.. They shook our world into pestilence and famine and* disease, starvation and death. We never dreamed of passing through such a period of shaking*as these recent years. When this process was over and we thought it was all over and peace had a t last dawned for humanity and a permanent peace according to promise and according to dream and the only just answer to the tidal wave of sacri fice, after we had given our billions of money and our millions of young man hood, had given without- limiit, sacri
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