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February 1926
Syrian W e ll« A ’P le n ty , but P rim itiv e M eth od « P re v a il The scene depicted abo've may be multiplied many time* over in that land o f ag e-lon g tragedy and Anal triumph, ual lethargy and Indifference which hinder men, rrom appropriating ine .W i n s water which Christ H im self provides. He it was who made available to mankind that "foun tain ” which has furnished health and h a irin ess, rest and refreshingj to a thirsty world for nineteen centuries past. Let us no longer live a dry and barren life, but utilize those means grace provided fo r the fu llest appropriation of the life giving supply made available exhaustless fountain. Water water everywhere, but-m ost inadequate means in operation for its preservation unwillingness o f the people to use the means available for its easier conservation furnish a si . f th livi g l and utilization. Inability or strik ing parallel to the sp irit
' Thank God for Am e r ica ! . Excerpts of an address Delivered by Dr. G. A. Briegleb Pastor of Westlake Presbyterian Church, Before the Ministerial UnioiF'of Los Angeles, California This address, based upon Dr. Briegleb’s own personal observations during a recent trip to Europe, was highly appreciated and heartily commended by the ministers who, heard it. It suggests the need of the hour in our pulpits— the unfailing Word of Qod ami the prophetic voice. H HERE is a divine order In human existence. “ God is not mocked, and whatsoever a nation soweth, that shall it also reap.” No one can travel throughout Europe without being conscious of the history, and God has left her to stew in the broth of her own making.
In England one is struck by the pessimism and depression manifested everywhere. There are those among the leaders of great Britain who believe that England is done. With one million and a quarter human beings out of employment, with poverty increasing, men are growing restless under the present social conditions. You cannot crowd five thousand men, women and children into a single block, housing them there eight and ten and twelve in a single room, without suffering the consequences. I witnessed, whilst in London, a sight never to be forgotten. On a certain Sunday after noon, five thousand men and women marched down the Strand carrying innumerable red flags, singing the Russian Internationale and damning king and government. V * With her ships lying idle, with the taxation resulting from the Dole and other war indebtedness, England is indeed in a bad way. What she needs is a revival of religion. She has grown Continental in her spirit and forgetful of God. No nation ean ply the opium trade in China and engage in rum running off the American seaboard, or oppress others unjustly, as England did in the Transvaal, without reaping
truth of these statements. Europe is bleeding today and some of the nations are on the verge of social revolution because, in the not dim past, they forgot God. It was Anne of Austria who once said to Cardinal Mazarin, “ God does not pay at the end of every week, but He pays!” We think of the terrible atrocities perpetrated upon Belgium by Ger many during the days of the war and of her present tragic condition, forgetting all the while that it is not so long ago that Belgian atrocities in the Congo became a stench in the nostrils of civilization. The human heart aches as it views the present plight of France. Her fields are devastated, her economic and indus- * trial life is honey-combed with anarchy and socialism, social standards are breaking down because of vice and prostitution, her franc is steadily declining and she is Indeed to be pitied. And yet who will say that she has not brought this condition, to a large extent, upon herself? Infidelity and rationalism have been exalted in her national life and
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