m THE KING'S BUSINESS n ■ —no Vol 7 MAY, 1916. No. 5 HD— " ..... .........d E D I T O R I A L The ideal chairman o f a conference or gathering of The Ideal - any sort is the one who is most successful in keeping Chairman. things running smoothly and on time, and in keeping himself out of sight. The average chairman thinks that he must have something to add to what every speaker says, and therefore, as a rule, he wastes, in the course of a Session, a vast amount of valuable time. Oftentimes he thinks he must say something funny, and then he becomes an unmitigated nuisance. Intelligent people do not go to'a conference to hear the empty flatteries, or the threadbare jokes of the chairman, they g o to -hear the speakers who are announced, and the less time the chairman wastes by unnec essary speeches the better it is for the convention. -We hear much in these days concerning the folly of Where Is There a Christian nations going to war against one-another, Christian Nation? but there is no Christian nation. Really Christian nations would not and could not go to war with one another. A Christian nation would be one which, as a nation, recognized Christ Jesus as the supreme authority in all its legislation and all its conduct, and of course there is no nation that does anything like this. A Christian nation would be one which, in its dealings with other nations, was governed purely by Chris tian principles, such as those stated in the Sermon1on the Mount, and in the second chapter of Philippians, looking out, not merely for its own interests, but even more for the interests of other nations; regarding the interests of others as superior to their own in the decision of their conduct toward them. O-f course there is no such nation. There is no nation where anything like a majority even of its citizens are regenerate men and governed by the Lord Jesus Christ in all the relations of life. The governing principle of every nation on earth today is self-interest, i. e., selfishness, and selfishness is not Christian, but devilish. But some one will say, if there is no Christian nation after nine teen centuries of Christian teaching, then Christianity has failed. No, Chris tianity has not failed. It was not the announced plan or purpose of God in the present dispensation to convert nations as nations.- The purpose of God in the present dispensation, as clearly declared in His Word, was to gather out of all nations a peculiar people for Himself (the church, the body of Christ) and this is being done. When this work has been accomplished, the only work proposed or planned for the present dispensation, then will come the time for the con version of nations as nations. The trouble with men who think that Christianity has failed because the nations, as such, have not been converted, is that they do not read and understand their Bibles. God’s plan is a much larger and better one than theirs. God’s philosophy is much profotmder and more far-sighted than theirs.
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