THE K I N G ’S BUS I NES S than the Treaty at Versailles. It has crumbled all to pieces today. Before it was signed it was going to pieces. It was a farce from beginning to end. With all my desire for a world peace, I could never have uttered another word to substantiate my fellow-men’s faith in God if th a t peace treaity had not gone to smash. Why? Because the God at the center of the universe whose throne is immovable, was absolutely ignored. His name was not mentioned, His blessing not asked. Infidelity wrote th a t document and ithen we expect the good God to see it through. You will have to 'change every page of human history, if God did not pass judgment on such a bit of infamy as that. Heathen men would not permit it. One of the Big Three was an atheist and he would not permit it. The others were not men enough to stand up for it. No breath of prayer, was offered for it, and God was ignored. Now we are on the edge of an abyss. Do not imagine this is the result of shallow thinking or of insanity either, because iit is universally agreed upon by thinking men. We are on the edge of an abyss ju st now. I have given you fundamentally the reason for it. This great war broke on the earth be cause nations forgot God. Germany first of all and the rest of them follow ing in the trail. Now we are on the edge of an abyss because ithe recogni tion is not made th a t the great defect is the fhilure to recognize God and the great need of this human family is the spiritual need. ’It is not in'any econom ical program; it is nt>t in any material progress; iit is not in new inventions. God knows if you make them it will make the next war infinitely worse than this last one and I read this last week of the men, and Clemenceau an d Lloyd George were in the list, who said th a t we were getting ready for another war. It was inevitable. They are building bigger navies and creating bigger arm-
328 good outlook for the future, there are some things that cSnnot he shaken, and I am going to mention only those which are fortified and made absolutely se cure by revelation. God’s Throne F irst of all, the throne of God cannot be shaken. No matter what may take place in the world materially, no mat ter what may take place in its ultimate destination, no matter what may take place in any of the starry worlds, they may all disappear from their setting forever and yet the throne of God a t the center of this universe cannot be shak en. We have seen other thrones topple, tremble, itumble and fall. We have seen the crowns kicked around the earth and thrown into the rubbish heap. We have seen the sceptres used by the anarchist a s ' a walking stick. We have seen throne after throne fall in ithe shaking process of these years and some of them were considered the strongest and most durable thrones in the world. But they are gone In the period of a few days. One, two, three, four, five, ten, twenty, all gone. Shaken from their foundation. The thrones of the eanth are apparently insecure, seemingly on the increase of Insecurity. No matter what you may name them. You may call them democratic if you pleh.se and yet you mark them with in stability and insecurity the moment you put them on itop of the planet. It is all shaken, but when the thrones of the earth totter and tumble the throne of God endureth forever. That is what the scripture says. We have been so sadly disappointed over ithe apparent failure as a result of this great world war and this upheaval. The earth was struck with a tidal wave and a volcano and an earthquake all a t once. We supposed some beneficial result was to accrue and the program was to be carried to a finish, and we have been tremendously disappointed, No worse failure was ever put on the table
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