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THE KING’S BUSINESS which are coming on the world,” then is the time when “the Son of Man is coming in a cloud with power and great glory,” when the kinglets of earth who sow this earth with agony and blood that they may obtain glory and power, will suddenly call upon the mountains and rocks to fall upon them and hide them from the face of Him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb. And such are the days when our Lord Himself bids us, “Look up, and lift up your heads; because your redemption draweth nigh” (Luke 21:26-28; Rev. 6:15-17). Many of the homes of my dearest friends across the water are desolate today. I have friends on both sides in this most awful of all wars. The bodies of those I know and love and some of whom I led to Christ lie stark and staring on the cursed battle field. But God still reigns and the Lord Jesus is soon coming, and I rejoice. B ut , once more, this will not remove one jot from the swift and sure and awful curse that those whose Satanic ambition is responsible for this war bring on their own heads. It is easy in these days to believe in hell and to understand the Imprecatory Psalms, but the prayer for the Christian to breathe is found in Luke 23:24. Rebuilding the Family Altar D URING the last few years of his life, as some of our readers who heard him then will doubtless recall, Mr. Moody'kept pressing upon the Chris tian people in his audiences the necessity of rebuilding the family altar; in other words, of reviving the custom of the family gathering- for the reading of the Word and prayer. 6 We all realize how important this custom is and how much is missing in the family where it is not observed, and yet it is a good deal easier to urge people to observe family worship than it is for the average Christian layman to set about doing it in his own home. What is needed is some simple system of Bible reading which will be interesting, instructive, definite, and yet not too long. We believe from years of experience that we have found the thing that will meet the need. We have followed it in our own home for more than ten years. It is the daily Bible readings, with comments, issued by the International Bible Reading Association. This association was founded in London in 1882 by the late Charles Waters, and has now something, over one million members enrolled. The daily readings bear on the International Sunday School lesson for the following Sunday, the lesson portion itself being read on Monday morning. The Scripture portion is followed by a comment of five or six lines in length, e. g .: The lesson for Sunday, September 27th, is the review of the quarter’s lessons. The reading and comment for the day on which this note is being written was as follows: Mark 10:46-52. Blind Bartimaeus. He sat (dejected) heard (interest); cried out the more (persistency) ; rose (alertness) ; came (obedience) ; said (faith) ; received (joy) ; followed gratitude). Concluded on page 537
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