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and the decay of family life? The writer knows of functions in high so ciety having taken place in large cities of this country in recent months, where the guests Indulged in unmentionable practices— not exceeded in lewdness by any recorded in the “ Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.” It has been well said: “ The only hope of Christianity is back, back, back to an incarnate Christ, and the atoning bloody or it is on, on, on, tp atheism, and despair.” Modern religious liberalism puts in terrogation points after the inspiration of the only record God has given the world of His plan of salvation.—an in fallible one if anything— “ It is incon ceivable . . . that God would ac complish the great work of redemption of mankind and reveal to fallen man the true way of salvation, and then leave us with a fallible account of it all— an unreliable record, such as mod ernists believe the Scriptures to be.” In all the centuries there are two things which have undergone no change — the human heart and the gospel of our Lord Jesus Ghrist. With all our boasted Christian civilization it is but a thin veneer and scarcely obscures the same awful depravity which blackens the pages of history of all time. The Only Remedy I am convinced that the only remedy for the cure of the unregenerate human heart is the gospel of a crucified and risen Christ.—“ the power of God unto salvation,” and that by the “ foolishness of preaching” of this same gospel the world will be brought to Christ. If there is one thing more than an other which the gospels reveal, and the epistles emphasize, it is the sufferings, death, resurrection and coming again of Jesus Christ— “ the way of the Cross.” “ It is the blood that maketh an atone ment for the soul.” Why does modern ism in seminary and pulpit so often and
so completely ignore the blood of Christ in the plan of salvation-—the scarlet thread running through the Scripture's from Genesis to Revelation? In the light of recent scientific dis covery the doctrine of the atonement may have a more important and signifi cant meaning than we realize. A sci entist of international reputation has recently discovered a method of ascer taining the nationality of an individual from a single drop of his blood. He proves that the blood mirrors the dis eases of human flesh. I have also seen demonstrated in his laboratory that the blood of a healthy individual carrying on his person a single drop of blood from a person suffering from cancer, shows— from delicate “ electronic reac tions”— the same disease. The cancer ous reaction remains as long as the can cer-tainted blood remains on his person. In the light of the foregoing many portions of God’s Word are invested with new and deep meaning— passages, unfortunately, all too often ignored to day in preaching and teaching. (Lev. 16:14; 17:11; Heb. 13:12; John 1:7.) The Bloodless Gospel How supremely true it is that, the value of the “ life” is the measure of the value of the “ Blood” . This gives the blood of Christ its inconceivable value. It is not the blood in the veins of the sacrifice but the blood upon the altar which is efficacious. The Scripture knows nothing of salvation by the imi tation or influence of Christ’s life, but only that life yielded up on the cross.” The pernicious anemia of a bloodless gospel may be slow in its course, but it is invariably fatal. John Wesley feared that Methodism might become “ a dead sect having the form of religion without the power.”
Modernism in the pulpit, which is cap tivating many good men and religious teachers, has but little to offer the mem bership of evangelical churches. It has We are Counting on YOU— 20,000 NEW Subscribers This Year,
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