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ther and is now alive forevermore at His right hand in Heaven ; and who communicates the power of His own endless life to all those who, in response to His claim, yield to Him the government and guidance of their being, and thus “saves to the uttermost them that come unto God by Him.” This is a brief conspectus of the essential outline of the Christian Gospel which is our entrustment, that God in Christ has done something adequate to reconcile the revolters against His will to that against which they revolted, to redeem them from the consequences to them selves of their alienation, and to recreate their lives around a new center under the imperative of a new and constant motive. Anglo-Saxons^!* ‘B linded in Part” P ALESTINE was never promised to the Jews. God never meant them to have it, but promised it to the tribes of Israel, who are the Anglo-Saxons of today.” This statement from George W. Inglis of Chicago, at the annual convention at Aurora, Illinois, in September, caused prolonged applause. The organization is founded on .the belief that the Anglo-Saxon race is “God’s chosen people” and is to rule the world. “It was promised that Israel should return to the Promised Land, a promise which was fulfilled when the British army marched in and took possession a few years ago,” continued Mr. Inglis. “It also was promised that their enemies, the usurpers of this land, were to be pun ished. These were the Turks, who met defeat at the hands of the British forces.” It is not strange that Satan in the last days should cre ate all kinds of confusion regarding the Bible prophecies relating to the Jews. Have the Anglo-Saxons been “a hiss and a byword” in all the nations whence they have gone ? Has blindness come to the Anglo-Saxons until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in? (Rom. 11:25.) Have the Anglo-Saxons been many centuries without a ruler and without a sacrifice? (Hos. 3:4.) Can it be said of them that among the nations whence they have been driven they can find no ease, always have a trembling heart, failing of eyes and sorrow of mind? (Deut. 28:65.) Do their lives always hang in doubt? (Deut. 28:66.) Are the Anglo-Saxons to be culled from all the nations and put back into the country which God lifted up His hand to give to Israel? (Ezek. 20:42.) Will they be made one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel? (Ezek. 37:22.) And when the Savior comes again will they look upon Him and mourn, Vealizing that they were His murderers? (Zech. 12:10.) Who are the people who are deaf to the claims of Christ in this age? What people are even now preparing Palestine for their homeland? There seem to be plenty of people these days to flock to any banner that may be raised. There have always been those who would claim the blessings promised to Israel, leaving the curses to the Jews; but now we ha-ve a federation of those who seem ingly would appropriate everything directed to Israel, whether or not it fits.
A b s o l u t e E s s e n t i a l s o f t h e G o s p e l B y D r . S tuart H olden In “The Biblical Review”,
HE present age has little consciousness of sin. For the sense of sin, in the individual or the community, is the shadow cast upon the soul by the sense of God ; and where there is no such light there is no such shadow. Nor does there just now seem any likelihood of a general re turn to practical acknowledgment of God’s nature and claims and of man’s accountability to Him. For the mind of the race is not inclined to pick up discarded conceptions, The shrewd observation of a respecfed scientist, Sir Oliver Lodge, that, “the modern man . is not worrying about his sins,” is frequently quoted as implying that neither should the Christian church worry (either itself or him) about them, thus bearing out the opinion cited at the beginning of this paper. As a matter of fact, if the statement is true, it is a very strong reason why we should declare to the modern man on the authority of God’s Holy Word, authenticated as it is by irrefutable experience, the indisputable fact of sin, its inevitable consequence, and its conquest—actual by Jesus Christ and potential by those who unite life with Him. We are, in point of fact, fading in our duty to God, and to the modern man, if we do not. The uselessness of preaching sin apart from the di vine remedy does not need to be labored. For nothing is gained by a mere' convincement of men’s mind as to the reality of their abysmal distance from God and con sequent failure to realize life in its ideal dimensions, ex cept as a preparation for their application and appropria tion of what He has done to bridge the gulf and to repair the sin-made ravages' in men created for fellowship with Himself and His service. To tell men, as it is feared is too often done, that they are really very good fellows on rhe whole, that a little more attention to the external ob servances of religion, a more frequent attendance at the Holy Communion (for which they know themselves to tally unqualified), a keener interest in some'form of so- called Christian or social service, a moral “buck-up” all round, a cultivation of the spirit of the trenches and rest- houses of Flanders, are all they need, is to be unpardon- ably criminal toward them and unspeakably recreant to ward Christ. There are churches, evangelical by designation, into which any self-complacent worldling may go with the certainty that he will not be disturbed by having the fact of his estrangement from God, of his virtual atheism brought home to him or even mentioned. And, by the same token, self-wearied, sin-convicted men go there in wistful quest of peace and assurance, seeking Christ, and never hear anything in the least likely to direct them to Him. My brethren, if men who have not the Spirit of Christ are none of His, are churches from which His Spirit, from which convincing testimony to Himself, are absent, really Christian in any sense that matters? The only remedy for sin that the Bible declares, and hence that the church knows, is the Son of God, who was sent into the world at a definite point of time in its history, by the Father, in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin; who was tempted in all points like as we are, yet without sin; who offered Himself without spot to God as an atonement for thé sin of the world in one sacrifice for ever, who was raised from the dead by the glory of the Fa
“ I Know My D u ty” John Wesley wrote in his diary years ago.: .
“I went to church this morning,\ and I heard a very poor sermon. But I went again this afternoon. Praise God, if the minister does not know his duty I know mine!”
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