THE K I N G ’S BUS I NES S 797 are always pleased to follow along the popular and. pleasant broadway, and refuse to be warned that it is the way to destruction. The pleasure-loving people are easily drawn into the net cast for their wayward feet. Oh, what an age of pleasure- lovers!” —T. C. H.
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EN EM IE S , Not Friends The Holy Ghost, speaking through the prophet Zechariah, refers to the wounds in Christ’s hands that He received in the house of His friends; and we know that when the Word was made flesh and dwelt among men in the person of Jesus, His bitterest enemies were of His own house hold. There are a great many persons whose names are on the church rolls today that are professedly the friends of Christ and His Word, who are really at heart His greatest enemies. Among them are some really good minds and intelligent people, who are carried away with the scientific sound of higher criticism, and to them seemingly more merciful idea of God in the doctrines of restoration, annihilation, etc. But there are a greater number of little 2 by 4 men, who think it sounds well and looks big to ape these men. They are all persons who have never had much conception of the awfulness of sin or Christ’s atonement for it; nor do they give much weight to the literal and plain rendering of God’s Word, when it goes contrary to their views. They are really, trying to make a saviour of their (imaginary) great intellects. With them it is a big MAN and little christ. We are sad but not surprised to see them. Paul in his epistle to Timothy speaks of this very thing, saying, that in the last days perilous times shall come; men shall be lovers of their own selves, boasters,
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