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THE MASTERSHIP OF CHRIST (Continued from Page 139) upon it the yoke of the simplicity of the Cross and became Paul, the apostle to the Gentiles. When we come to our own day, we come face to face with the challenge of the supremacy of Christ in thinking. There are the rationalists. They say, “Whatever appeals to the reason we will accept. Whatever does not appeal to reason we will throw overboard. The miracles are not rea sonable. The virgin birth is not reasonable. The physical resurrection of Christ is not reasonable.” And whatever does not appeal to reason, you see, is cast aside. Reason challenges the place of Christ. I am not here to say a word against reason. God deals with men on the basis of reason, as He deals with beasts on the basis of instinct. The true Christian is the true rationalist, It is the sinner that is irrational. Sin is not only moral obliquity, it is mental aberration. The sinner is not merely a criminal, he is a lunatic. He is beside him self. I would to God that we could get Christian people to do more thinking than they do,— dare to ask the reason more than they do. I confess I tremble when I think of the harm that destructive higher criticism is doing to Christian thinking, but I- tremble too when I think of the harm that is being done by Christians who do not know their Bibles well enough to criticise. This is not a thinking age. It is not a teaching age. It is an age of short stories. An age of amusement. Amuse ment is a clever device to keep people from thinking, and that is why most of the amusements of the world are in the hands of the devil—because he knows perfectly well if he can keep people from thinking, he will keep them from God. Professor Gerald Birney Smith, Professor of Christian (get that word “Christian!” ) Theology at the University of Chicago, has written a book entitled “A Guide Book to the Study of the Christian Religion,” in which he says: “In the light of the new historical criticism the Bible is a natural and not a supernatural book. A religion for the 20th Century must be made by 20th Century people. It was the Bible writers who adopted the myth of the God- man. Our belief'in the Godhead of Christ is a myth. There is now more appreciation of Christ as man and less em phasis on His virgin birth, and His supernatural nature. The statement in the Scriptures that without shedding of blood there is no remission of sins is both foolish and futile.” ; . Now, that is what is being taught in a professedly Chris tian divinity, school under the name of the Christian re ligion. That is a fair expression of the so-called modern mind. Everything that is supernatural and that is mira culous, according to the modern view of natural law must be ruled out of the Bible. Well now, if you begin by deny ing the virgin birth and close by denying the physical res urrection of Christ, it will not be very long till you will be denying all that goes between. That there should be a sinless human being in the midst of a sinning race is as much a miracle in the moral realm as a virgin birth or a resurrection are in the physical realm. There is another competitor to the mastership of Christ in the realm of Christian thinking, and that is evolution. Now, say what we will, evolution is king in the realm of education today. I presume it is fair to say that there is not a book on biology written that is not evolutionary. There are so many conflicting definitions of the theory of evolution that it is difficult to define what it is. But I will (Continued on next Page)
Give Books This Christmas The following are just the kind of books that you would like to have your children read—Good Books—safe, every one of
them—‘‘Pansy’s*’ The King’s Daughter By “P an*y” T h is sto ry deals w ith a young girl called by d u ty from a C h ristian hom e to a po sitio n as housekeeper for h er fa th e r in a village ta v ern. H er v ic to ry over u n fav o rab le circum stan ces in hom e an d in ch u rch is b ro u g h t a b o u t b y h er .work n o t being done in h er own stren g th .__________ C loth, 75c Wise and Otherwise B y “Pansy'* T h is book abounds in keen w it, and show s a w onderful in sig h t in to hum an n atu re. It deals effectively a s well as en tertain in g ly w ith such su b jects a s: a young m inis te r’s wife’s fondness of d re ss; en tertain m en ts . for th o se classed as religious; an d th e po sitio n of women em ployed fo r house w ork. _______ ____________ C loth, 75c Tip Lewis and His Lamp By "P a n sy ” T ip is round a rag g ed boy In a m ission class, deserving his b ad nam e, a n d becom es resp ected a n d h o n o r e d th ro u g h th e teach in g of his sacred "L am p.” H e o v er com es him self a n d w ins his w ay a g a in st unfriendliness a n d disdain. The influence fo r good ex erted b y th is book can n ever be estim ated. C loth, 7Sc Three People B y “P a n sy ” T he "th re e people” are th ree boys b o rn on th e sam e d ay ; one in th e a risto cracy , one in th e w ell-to-do m iddle class, a n d one in th e slum s. T he boy w ith th e least chance is th e one to com e safely to m anhood an d a c t a noble p a rt in helping o th ers. C loth, 78c Julia Reid By “ P an sy ” Ju lia w ishing to be self- su p p o rtin g secures a po si tio n as bookkeeper in a city. Aw ay from hom e a s she is, an d w ith a b eau ty a n d a t tra c tiv e n ess th a t ad m it h er to desirable social circles, Ju lia is soon confronted w ith th e q u estions th a t a C hris tia n girl in th e w orld m u st decide for herself. The s tru g gle betw een conscience, an d p leasu re is a h ard one, b u t th e pow er of early train in g leads Ju lia a rig h t in due tim e. C loth, 75c
Four Girls at Chautauqua By « P an sy "
F our young ladies, for a sum m er o u tin g go to th e g ath erin g a t C h autauqua w ith no o th e r purpose th an th a t of a m erry ”la rk ” in th a t b eautiful sp o t. The sum m er so lig h tly begun, tu rn s o u t to be of m ost w eighty im p o rtan ce a n d also b rin g s genuilfe p leasu re to th e girls. C loth, 75c Judge Burnham’s Daughters By « P an sy " T his splendid sto ry for girls tells of a C hristian step -m o th er’s tria ls w ith tw o b eautiful and w ayw ard siste rs, in full g l o w of early w om anhood. R uth Erskine, w ell-know n a s one of the m em orable “ F o u r G irls a t C h au tau q u a” finds th a t h er efforts have b ro u g h t a resu lt beyond h er expecta tion. ' C loth, 75c Esther Reid , By “ P an sy ” E sth er Ried occupying the responsible position of eldest in th e fam ily, aw akes to the fact th a t she m ight do far more in helping h er younger sisters and b ro th e r to form noble lives. H er ow n life is all too sh o rt, b u t in it she accom plishes a w onderful an d enduring w ork. C loth, 75c Ruth Erskines Crosses By “P a n sy ” R uth Erskine will be re m em bered a s th e m o st s ta te ly an d a risto c ra tic of the well know n “ F o u r G irls a t C hautauqua.” W ell w as it for h er th a t she had a stro n g perso n ality a n d a n indom i table sp irit in view of w hat she w as called upon to en dure. She soon learns the g reat lesson th a t hum ble, p ractical people m ay be the tru e s t an d m o st useful in em ergency. C loth, 75c The Chatauqua Girls at Home By “ P an sy ” This is an entirely inde p en d en t sto ry , alth o u g h it concerns of course, th e well- know n “F our G irls” who w ent to C h autauqua on a p l e a s u r e excursion and Found an influence w hich changed each to an en th u si a stic C hristian. C loth, 75c
A really w onderful selection of w holesom e sto ries w ritten for young people— b o th boys a n d girls— a s only “ P an sy ” can w rite.
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