What Comes o f Building with Untempered Mortar. Some Modern Mixtures Reviewed By BBIf COOK Bloomfield, N. J.
tion, and yet is merely a representation of an oft-repeated occurrence in the Word of God; so common indeed are similar cases both in the life of na tions and in that of individuals as to make specific mention unnecessary'. Is there a present-day application of this object lesson? If so, where is it to be found? The answer is instant, for everywhere today is to be seen the identical wall, with a far greater host of daubers than of old, busy at their unhallowed pur suit. Amid all the multiplied intricacies of thought and teaching in these modern days there is perhaps none that is so universal and popular as that which predicts Peace to a world that is ripen ing for judgment. In the face of seething, world-wide unrest, many actual wars, and many more threatening, including the im pending class, wars in every land, in volving the war of the starving for bread; the shocking lawlessness that is literally shaking the pillars of society; the immorality that is surely poisoning the springs of social life; the problem» which despite centuries of effort to solve have proven insoluble,— notwith standing all these conditions the multi tudes, following their leaders, are still deluding themselves with hopes of peace in point-blank opposition to God’s Word, in which, there is not a single passage or hint that this age is to end in peace and blessing, but which on the contrary abounds in predictions and descriptions of judgment; and these not in enigmatic-
T Is no light thing to disagree with God, for disagreement usually leads to opposition and and for that, if continued, there Is only one ending, viz- condign punishment! The judgment upon those of whom we read in Ezekiel 13:10-16, who dared this attitude of opposition, was destruc tion by being crushed in the *mud of the wall of their own construction. It is one of the most graphic portray als in the Bible,— that Book of dramatic scenes. A company of prophets build ing— as a refuge— a wall of untempered mortar, i. e. lies! because contrary to the clear revelations which God had been pleased to give them. HJis unap peasable wrath is exhibited under the figures of an overflowing shower, great hailstones, and a strong wind. Under this triple assault: the torrent soaking, the hail pounding, the wind rending—- the wall disintegrates, sloughs off and falls to the earth carrying the head strong builders with it to a shameful death! False Message of Peace Their particular sin, or rather crime, lay in giving the false message of Peace as to Israel’s future, whereas God had decreed and declared judgment upon the nation for its many unrepented transgressions. It was a novel scene of intense ac- *“ Mud” is what cement-workers in some localities call their mixture. And this is what it |is in reality when they forget ( !) to put in the required amount of cement, which is frequently the case judging by the appearance of much of the work to be seen. (SEE PAGE 863)
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