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The time to return came. One boy, washing the mud off his feet, dropped his shoe in a pool on the edge of the river. In reaching for it, he fell in and was immediately swept into thq center of the stream. A second boy grabbed for him, missed, became over balanced, and was also carried out. I saw my last conscious sight of them, two little arms upstretched frpm the water. I remember nothing more un til I found myself, a little boy of eleven, stripped naked, crying on the river bank. What I had intended to do, or tried to do, I have no knowledge. Three of us trudged home those weary miles not knowing what to say. A little time after our return, a young mother came in. “Where’s my Jack? Where’s my Jack?” And I stood there with hanging head and said, “He’s drowned.” I was taken back to the spot to identify two little corpses. I will never forget that mother’s wail, “Where’s my Jack?” 'Is it possible that some who have trusted the grace of God for salvation may find themselves through that grace securely and eternally saved when He comes, and yet miss the boys and the girls? Will they wail, “Where’s my boy? Where’s my girl?” Now is the time to cleanse the home from everything that would ensnare young feet, and to dedicate all to the Lord Jesus Christ that He may find no trace of Sodom either in our souls or bur homes “when the Son of man cometh.” bankrupt in its lack of moral control, because men have lost this one essen tial of life.” He then proceeds, in five orderly chapters, to treat this subject of personal salvation through faith in Christ in discourse so logical and con vincing as to be undeniable. Preached under the tension of war, these ser mons are stripped of nonessentials. They set forth eternal values in awe inspiring ruggedness. The remaining chapters of the book are an analytical treatment of various themes. The chapters on “A Pattern Christian” (Andrew) and “The Offence of Christ” are outstandingly rich. 160 pages. Revell Co., New York, N. Y. Cloth. Price $1.50. More Stately Mansions By Brenda Cannon Against a background of romance, the author has painted vividly and convincingly the often pathetic pov-
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ing wrath. The voice of God is resounding to day as never before, “Escape for thy life.” Its equivalent in the New Testa ment for Christians today is, “Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him" (Matt. 25:6). We must be in the way when He comes. We had a terrible fire in Tokyo once. Some four thousand houses were completely destroyed. Our little world of that time went, and all our pos sessions. The first warning wakened me, but sleepily, thinking the fire was a mile or more away, I4went back to bed. But the insistent clamor of the fire alarm finally stirred us and we escaped with our lives. So many today go back to sleep. Our gracious Lord puts, out His help ing hand.' He brings trouble, disturb ance, sickness, poverty, disappoint ment into the home. These are His “hands,” seeking to shake us into con sciousness in readiness for the meet ing with Him. Let us respond to His loving purposes and prepare for Him. He wants our children with us “when He corheth.” Are your boys and girls on the way to heaven, or are they out in Sodom? When I was a small boy of eleven years, I took four friends of the same age for a picnic. I knew the spot; I was the guide. We* walked for miles. It was a place with a deep, swift river on the one hand, a high bank with- a canal above- it on. the other—a grand place for boys. We ate our lunches and played for hours. The “reminiscences” in this book cover a vgide range of subjects and a period of several years. They will be read with interest, for each one is a story well told, and undoubtedly they will lead—as the author hopes—to more concerted soul-winning on the part of the Lord’s people. The book is most attractively printed, illustrated with seven full-page drawings. 176 pages. Loizeaux Bros., New York, N. Y. Cloth. Price $1.00. This Business oi Being Converted By Ralph G. Turnbull “This business of being converted,” can be presented today, as it might not always have been, with the assurance of having a listening audience espe cially among young people. “The pres ent hour,” the author states, “is oppor tune to point out that the world is Random Reminiscences By H. A . Ironside
ship of God, our hope of heaven, and the salvation of our children. The children add their pleas, wanting to drink of this strange excitement which Sodom produces. For the sake of peace in the home, we fling out our girls, our boys, to the ungodly mob which besieges our home. Let them go into the arms of Sodomites, providing of course they are Sodomites in fairly good positions! So long as our own religous life is not disturbed, we stupefy our consciences and try to forget the Day is at hand, and our children are adrift in the company of the men and women of Sodom. A young girl of sixteen came into one of our meetings in Johannesburg, South Africa. She came with fear, for she had been forbidden to go to a religious service. The previous night she had come home too drunk to find the electric light switch. Her parents did, not mind that, but they did object to the disturbing element, religion. They, of course, were of the world, but many a Christian home today is a home f of sorrow, or ought to be, be cause the children are finding all the excitement they want in the arms of Sodom. They learned its ways in the home, read Its literature there, were introduced to its ideas, tasted of its wines there, and so went to Sodom with all the eagerness they had, when father and mother let them go. III. THE ESCAPE FOR LIFE 1. The certainty of destruction. Death is inevitable and destruction foretold. “It is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judg ment”- (Heb. 9:27). Paul, Peter, John, all combine in one similar note of Warning. Sin’s doom is unavoidable. God is not God, if there is no hell, for otherwise how can His holiness, be demonstrated? Sin is sin, whether committed by a Christian or non- Christian. Salvation does not sanctify sin, nor does church membership sanc tify a worldly home. 2. The call to abandon something. God calls us to let go the prizes of this world. What if this leaves us a little poorer? Of what value will these things be when He comes? He calls us to abandon the heart which loves the things of Sodom. The Lord wants us to leave the friends in Sodom who would drag us back. He calls us to search odr homes, and to destroy the things of our Sodom, the unclean, debasing, deadening things of the world which seek to prostitute all the holier instincts of the soul. Cleanse your home, just as truly as you cleanse your souL
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