February 1926
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cradle and ruled the world, spends its time in lighting cig arettes, applying rouge, paste arid seeking new ways by which this pleasure mad age can be led on to destruction. Free Speech, which Was once the heritage of the American born, is now the method utilized to spread the atheistic doctrine of Communism. If Jesus were here he would say to America as He said tq them of old: "Suppose ye that these Europeans were sinners above all the Americans, because they suffered such things? I tell you, nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. Woe unto thee! Woe unto thee! for if the mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Belgium, France, Germany and England, they would have repented long ago in sack cloth and ashes! ” No nation in human history has been more highly favored than America. She has been the special o'bject of Divine grace. Her hour of destiny has come. Only one thing can save her from herself and that is a return to the God of our fathers and to a confidence in His blessed Word wherein is presented the only true method by which man can ascend upward, namely, faith in the Christ of the Virgin Birth; in the Christ of Virtuous Life; in the Christ of Vicarious Atonement; in the Christ of Veritable Resurrection and in the Christ of Victorious Return. UNOFFERED YET “ Yc have not because ye ask not*’—James 4 :2 Unoffered yet,— the prayer your heart is urging That you should take to Him who answers prayer? Has "dull distress and long-time sorrow merging Sealed fast your lips in silence and despair? O, soul, it is the tempter’s art and share, For well he knows the worth of offered prayer. Unoffered yet? He bids you come believing He loves ydu with a love so strong and true, „ Beyond your prayer will be His gracious giving, And no good thing will He withhold from you. All things are His, with every one to share Who puts Him to the test of offered prayer. Unoffered yet? “ Unanswered” do not say; None ever came unanswered from His throne.; „ None empty-handed e’er were turned away;—- How can the Father turn away His own? Make large your suit and larger still prepare, , There’s naught too large for earnest offered prayer. Unoffered yet? No; it shall now be offered, All that for life beyond I crave, All that my-loved Ones need and Jesus suffered On Calvary’s Cross that such as we might have; And, O, I find, beyond the world’s compare, More than I dreamed and sought in offered prayer. — T. S. Hubert, in “ Western Recorder.”
the results of the mills that grind slowly but exceeding fine. And what of Germany? “ He that sltteth In the heavens shall laugh." Who can do despite to the Holy Ghost and to the Word of God and not suffer because of such sin? Rationalism in seminary and college have been her boast. Out of Germany came the blight that made of Jesus, the precious Son of God, nothing more than a Galilean peasant, born out of wedlock. The world is rejoicing just now over the feigning of the Locarno Treaty, but November of 1918 settled nothing in Europe and November of 1925 hds settled nothing at Locarno. The signing of treaties can never obliterate national and racial hatred. Only Christ can make of one blood the nations of the world. The utter futility of human agreements without Christ is clearly seen in the fact that Vhllst France was signing the Locarno Treaty, she was at the same time perpetrating in Syria one of the most dia bolical crimes ever recorded in the annals of history. Up to the present no protest has come, either from the League of Nations, or from the Locarno signatories, concerning the Damascus massacre. Well did the Old Testament prophet set forth the truth when he said, “ Cease from man, whose breath is in his nostrils, for whereof is he to be accpunted? Man without God can never ascend and although treaties •might be signed, mountain high, the whole movement of human history is downward. There are those who delight in telling us that man is in a process of development upward. What a denial the trend of history and the present condition of the world makes of such a theory! The world’s perfect Man was Jesus Christ and if evolution be true and the race has been moving for ward and upward by reason of “ resident forces,” why have we not had an innumerable company of men greater than Christy, The answer is very simple. The whole tendency of man when left to himself is toward evil. As an evidence of this Daniel long ago foretold the course of human his tory. Today we are in the period of the clay and iron of |the image of Daniel. Th|a iron of monarchy struggles with the clay of democracy and yet both are inherently weak. What right have men to expect that our civilization will outlive any other? Why should we believe that the present nations of the world can survive any more than did Egypt, Babylon, Greece and Rome? - Human history is the .grave yard of civilization. The Nile Valley is fertile with the ruins of great-empires. Real estate was worth-just as much in Babylon as it is today in New York. Armaments will not save us. “ They that take the sword shall perish by the sword.” Education will not save us. The world has never seen any greater intellectual power than was manifested by the men of Greece. One thing, and one thing only, will save civilization today and that is the righteousness which alone is found in the Cross. As one returns from Europe he instinctively exclaims “ Thank God for America!” And yet, upon second thought, one wonders how long America can survive the deluge. America is not guiltless. The Word of God is refused entrance into the public school systems of our land and in place of the old time reverence for things high and holy, the Bible is being attacked in high school and college as an outworn fetich. The Lord’s Day, which in the Providence of God was given for worship and praise, is made a vehicle for pleasure seek ing and profitable business ventures. Observance of law has become license,, and it is considered in many circles the height of craftiness to outwit the provisions of the Consti tution. Womanhood, which in former days was sanctified in the glory of the home, refuses any longer the obligations that were God given, and the hand that once rocked the
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