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to speak! What insane folly for man made of clay to endeavor to live more than one day at a time! How God must laugh when this puny creature struts about with declarations of what he is going to do. If there ever was a desirable quality in leaders, it is humility. Men who have become acquainted with the Word of God from earliest childhood are blessed indeed, for in the pages of God’s book the real status of man is revealed. He is but a creature of His hand to whom life is loaned for a time but his very breath and the b e a t of his heart continue only by the permissive .will of God. Let these deaths, be a lesson to all future dictators. ’An Appalling Sin This is the month when the welcome news of victory on the European conti nent and the capitulation of the arm ies of our enemies- has reached the ears of the American people. Many have received it with composure and perhaps from the hearts of more peo ple than we imagine profound thanks to God have been given. But there is a large percentage of our population who has received this wonderful news without any thought of gratitude to God. When the truth is wholly known, unmistakably it will be seen that it was our God Himself who gave us this victory. Yet these blind ones ascribe victory to mere superiority of arms and intelligent military direc tion. But look—not a single bomb has dropped upon our nation! The crops during the war years have exceeded anything that we have known before. No major catastrophe has come upon our land and the reserves of oil, of iron and of coal have not been ex hausted. These things are marks of God’s favor. What base ingratitude, what terrible sin, then, it is for us to receive these blessings from God’s hands without humility and thanks giving. On one occasion when the Lord Jesus healed ten lepers, He mar velled at their ingratitude for only one returned to give Him thanks. Surely God's bounties call for days of national gratitude to our God. ★ ★
Congratulations ! To the seventy-one fine young peo ple in our 1945 graduating class, we offer our very earnest and sincere congratulations. We thank God for the privilege that has been afforded us to have had a part in the molding of your spiritual life, and in the training of your dedicated talents for the work of the ministry to which God has call ed you. Be assured that as you go forth from these halls, our prayers will follow you. We make request of God that He will do great exploits through your lives; that through your preach ing of the Word, He will cause tens of thousands of precious souls to be born into the Kingdom of God; that He will edify and strengthen in the faith other thousands who will be reached by your teaching of the Word; and that your lives as His representatives may be a consistent adornment to the doctrine and to the name of the Lord Jesus, whose you are and whom you serve. May God bless you each and every one. It is with real joy that we catalog the information that two-thirds of this fine class have their faces set toward the mission field. Be assured that it will not be easy, but be further as sured that it will be glorious. The news of the manner in which Benito Mussolini met his death was no shock to those conversant with Bible history, '"here have been other loud-mouthed, blatant, godless men who shouted their intentions just as loudly. However, in every case, the inexorable laws of God’s judgment eventually were executed upon them and most of them suffered complete loss of position and ignominious death. So also ended the life of Mus solini—this man who screamed his defiance of God and man. At the present writing, the details of the death of Adolf Hitler are not known, but his boastful utterances over a decade have been published far and wide. It was he who made laws that the Jehovah of the Jews should have no place in Greater Ger many. Defying God’s revealed will, he proclaimed that the master race would endure for the next thousand years. How utterly ridiculous for man, whose breath is in his nostrils, so Dictators * Deaths
Speed An official of a prominent aircraft company is quoted as having predict ed that within the next ten or fifteen years it will be quite possible to travel at the speed of one thousand miles an hour. We are led to remark in the ver nacular of the school boy: “So what?” What is to be gained by such scien tific advancement? What is even to be gained by traveling one hundred miles an hour? When will the world awaken to the fact that these things are not the goal of life? When will the energies of man be trained to pro duce those simpler virtues which bring peace of mind and satisfaction of heart? When shall our philosophy of life be reversed from materialistic conceptions to spiritual appreciations? The answer, according to the Word of God, is that as long as man sits in the saddle of the universe there will be no change for the better. A rather small booklet which can be purchased for a dime, but the power of which to enlighten, edu cate and bless is all out of proportion to its size, is Dr. C. I. Scofield’s “Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth.” In our own life we give much credit to this booklet for aid irv’establish- ing lines of concept w h i« have re mained steady through tnfe years of further study. We know of no comparable booklet to place in the hands of new Chris tians to produce orderly and sound thinking. Pastors and Christian work ers would do well to have a supply on hand for regular distribution. In this way a real counterbalance is provided against the errors being so widely propagated by the cults of today. ★ ★ Great Little Book
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