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THE K I NG ' S BUS I NES S les, making new inventions, and God pity the old world and its inhabitants with all their progress in inventive gen ius if you forget that the only salvation for this human race is to satisfy ithe spiritual need and the souls of men. You know th a t Marx, who is the author of all this modern socialism, said there were four things to be got ten rid of before there could be any progress in the human family. F irst of all you had to gelt rid of your abomin able idea of a God; you had to get rid of the superstition of religion; you had to get rid of conscience, and you had to get rid of th e insanity of immortality. Now you have it. That is the foun tain head of all the streams of all social ism th a t have been flowing through Russia. It is to get rid of God, get rid of th e Church and religion, get rid of conscience and get rid of immortality. That is the ashes and the quicksand upon which the Bolshevik! and all the resit are trying to build the structure which they call the social organization and new government and progress of the world. Nine-tenths of the people who are striking in America and those- who are keeping the railroads from run ning and other conditions in peril, are in exactly th a t class. Whether they say it or not, they are there. It is their conviction to get rid of God, get rid of religion, get rid of conscience and get rid of immortality. The throne of God still stands at the center of this Universe, unquestioned in spite of the cry of the Bolsheviki and his kind today throughout the world. The throne of God still stands and we must reckon with it if we have any hope for our future. The changes may come and they are constantly com ing but God still lives and He still swings ithe. sceptre. If you do not be lieve that, all you need to do is to read the history of the Jews. When they went away and went into idolatry and fell down before heathen gods they
329 went into exile. That is the reason ithe Jews, are where they are today. They have left God out. What is the matter with Germany? She had culture and education and music and art. She led the world. We went ithere for almost everything. Alas, we made the mis- takeA we went there for our religion. We forgot God. Germany left God out of the account and then came to rUin. Do not mistake it. The world has no border line on it. It is all one. God is th e same yesterday, today and for ever; and these United States are not separated from the consequences of the Jews and the Germans, from Ephesus and Karnac and Thebes, for your world is simply covered with the ashes of destroyed cities and governments and all for the same reason. With all these changes of thrones going down and gov ernments being destroyed, there is one thing th a t remains. The throne of God still stands and I have that as my great hope and encouragement and comfort. God's Word There is another thing that remains in the midst of the shaking process, th a t is just as evident and has no in terrogation mark after it. The Word of the Lord endureth forever. All other things may go. All other books may go, all other literature disappear, all history even be forgotten, but the Word of God remains. In my brief experience we have had a period of atheism led on by thait mocker and blasphemer of America and some other secondary followers here and some across the water, who gath ered in his fortune from the pockets of his fellowmen and women from whom he stole all their faith and the real riches of their life, and they were fools enough to pay him. His name is al most forgotten. We have no follower of his whatever in this country or the world. He is gone. The young people of this age have never heard his name. I passed through th a t period when this
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