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schools, colleges and universities for both young men and young women, our church papers and magazines, much of our Sunday School literature; and in part some of our great organizations that are the children of the evangelical Church of Christ; and above all many — perhaps the majority— of our theo logical seminaries. But as to our depleted numbers, God is on the side of those who honor His word. And He works, not only “ by many” but also “ by few,” by a nation or a remnant of a nation. And all through the ages his blessing has been poured in mighty power upon remnants of churches that dared to stand for the whole truth. Moreover, there are seven times seven thousand in his Israel of today who have not bowed the knee to the Baal Modern ism. Thousands of Evangelicals are Paci fists when they should be warriors; they are forgetting God’s order, “ First pure, then peaceable” ; forgetting that “ there is a time to every purpose” ; that while there is a time for peace in the service of Christ, there is also a time for war; that the sword must often make the pruning hook possible. Was not this what Jesus the Prince of Peace meant when he said to his disciples, “ I came not to bring peace on earth, but a sword?” There are many hundreds of pacifists in evangelical ranks. So there were in America, but when actual conditions were made known, thousands of them became warriors in a day. Our enemies are within our lines. “ Even modern warfare, with all its de vices for the destruction of an army has been able to hit upon nothing more eftectlve than to get an army within the camp. No men were able in our late war to do England injury as those men who dwelt within her borders, even join ing her army, wearing her uniform, but
secretly communicating with, and aiding her enemies.” More Blue in Our Sky We’ve had a Belgian band in the trenches all these years of the encroach ments of Modernism. They with others already constitute a little army in which any Evangelical can enlist. Our South-land has not been swept by the tornado ‘winds of false doctrine’ as have the North and East, and the far West. There are intellectual and doc trinal giants in this section also. And we’ve been mobilizing. Bible Schools and Bible Conferences, evange lical to the heart, have been dotting our country for thirty years. And now “ there is the sound of a go ing in the tops of the mulberry trees.” (2 Sam. 5, 24). The Evangelicals of . the Young Wo men’s Christian Association of England have separated from the Modernists of their organization. Here was but a slender mulberry tree, one bough, let us say, but there’s “ the sound of a going” in it. A World Conference on Fundamentals was held in Philadelphia in the May of 1919. And since then under the auspices of the World Conference Committee 100 conferences on Fundamentals have been held in larger or smaller cities. Surely there's “ The sound of a going” here! In the song of Deborah and Barak there were mentioned, along with tribes and governors and princes, "they that handle the pen of the writer.” In Phila delphia was formed a Committee on the Correlation of Religious Magazines and Periodicals, whose purpose is to resist the tides of Modernism that are flowing through the columns of our avowedly Evangelical Church organs. And to many who are eagerly asking for further information about our doc trinal conditions, we can now reply, “ You can find what you want in “Meth odism Adrift,” by Dr. L. W. Munhall,
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