802 THE K I N G ’ S B U S I N E S S heathen, and it is to be a church one hundred percent American (more applause.) Every preacher is sooner or later tempted to forget the element of durableness in his preaching. There is a kind, of sermon that sounds “ immense” today, but tomorrow God sends something along that knocks it all into a cocked hat. It is “ cut down and cast into the oven” . It can be said of some sermons, “ all these things shall shortly be dissolved” . Human nature is once more shown to be the same old kaiser and Pharaoh’s big words are shown to have been nothing but noise, lamere spasm of momentary excitement, , There is but one way for the preacher to do business for eternity and that is to preach the Enduring Word. He is the only preacher who will not be obliged to eat his words tomorrow. There are times when we want the trumpet and thunder—-when truth needs to be crowned with adequate pomp, but let’s be sure it is the Truth according to the Word of God, for the promise “ it shall not return unto me void” applies only to that kind of preaching.—K. L. B.
for civic righteousness and social re form. A federated church that expects to es tablish righteousness and peace on earth with Satan enthroned and the Prince of Peace absent from it, is simply tangled up in mental hallucination and lost in the fog of that kind of ‘worldly wis dom’ which is declared in I Cor. 3:19 to he ‘foolishness with God.’ The church’s relation to the consummation of peace and righteousness on earth is not a mat ter for speculative theorizing, but of clearly defined instruction.” All Christians like all Scripture should he God-breathed. Don’t wait ’till a man puts on his wooden overcoat before you give him a kind word.
THE FEDERATION MOVEMENT E. A. Corey, writing in the Alliance Weekly, says some pointed things con cerning the church federation move ment: “The root of this proposed federation is the post-millennarian doctrine that the church is to convert the world and bring it into a state of righteousness and peace before Christ comes hack to reign over it, and in the minds of many of its projectors there seems to he very little faith that He is coming hack at all except in some dim spiritual sense. From such a viewpoint and upon such promises it would seem to be quite rea sonable for the church to consolidate all of its resources of men and property for a great campaign of reformation, a drive
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