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November 1927
T h e
K i n g ' s
B u s i n e s s
(Keystone)
A CHURCH. SERVICE BEING HELD ON BOARD THE SUPERDREADNAUGHT U. S. S. UTAH. THE A.A.A.A. IS DETERMINED TO PUT A STOP TO SUCH SERVICES IN OUR NAVY.
The man, whether atheist or otherwise, who takes no account of such moral and spiritual laws, reveals either his intellectual limitations, or the fact that he has per mitted his mind to be blinded to all Spiritual truth. Convenience of “No H ell” Doctrine “Did you ever hear of a man who was converted from vice by hearing that sin would be lightly punished? Or who, in proportion as he grew purer in life, grew more heterodox in his views ?” . . . “When a man who holds orthodox doctrine backslides and declines, as a general rule, he finds it convenient to adopt some novel hypothesis, in order that he may feel comfortable in his sin. Is it not so ? So far as my observation goes, these modern notions go with looseness of life, with worldliness of heart, with decay of prayerfulness, and with backsliding from the liv ing God.” Thus spoke C. H. Spurgeon. “Consensus Of Opinion” Says The Western Recorder : “We have high respect for scholarship, but scholarship cannot speak with final authority. For one thing, the scholars are never agreed among themselves. There is no real ‘consensus of scholar ship.’ It is a phrase invented chiefly-to scare off inquisi tive minds from investigating all-too-weak scholastic the ories. Bishop Gore calls attention to the fact that many people who reject traditional religious authority with con tempt, promptly jump from the frying-pan into the fire by accepting without serious question the intellectual ‘oracles of the day.’ Reviewing Bishop Gore’s utterance, an ex change well says that ‘if history teaches us anything, it teaches us not to yield excessive deference to current intel lectual fashions.’ Who said ‘The Modern Mind’? This is another bugaboo, the incantation of the agnostic and skeptical intellectualism of the hour. Some people prefer any authority rather than that of the Lord God- Almighty, who has revealed Himself tp man in the Bible. As for us, we prefer to follow the apostolic injunction: ‘Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.’ ”
Christian, he goes directly to heaven, and he gets there by a shorter route. The mother who, living in a country where eagles were known to exist, left her baby in the yard while she went into the house, did a very foolish thing, to say the least. Nothing is gained by laying her folly upon God. It is the nature of eagles to eat flesh. She herself left her baby where the birds and beasts of prey could get it. T h e M in ist r ie s of A ffliction . But there is much more that we need to know about this particular case before we could intelligently discuss it. Was she a wicked woman? In any, case her baby’s spirit was taken to heaven. Had it lived, who knows, what course the life might have taken? And are there not thou sands of hell-bound mothers and fathers who have been checked in their evil ways and turned to God, the only Source of true comfort, by the departure from them of their cherished little ones? The tract at hand does not inform us concerning either the parents’ moral state or what effect the incident had upon their after lives. In any case, it is quite likely that the occurrence served as a warning to other mothers not to neglect their little ones in the same manner, and the loss of one child may have saved scores of others from the same fate. Who knows? On the other hand, was this mother a devoted Chris tian? If so, she knew that "all things work together for good to them that love the Lord” (Rom. 8:28). She knew that “our light affliction is but for a moment and worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory” (2 Cor. 4:17). She knew that her little one was safe in heaven and that God desired to develop in her a higher and nobler character, giving her a compassion and sym pathy for other bereaved mothers, which might be the instrument of saving souls. If there were no suffering in the world, not only would sin go unchecked, but there would be no fortitude, no bravery, no patience, no sympathy, no self-sacrifice for the good of others -, nothing, in fact, that constitutes the highest type of man. Creatures such as we are, can only be made perfect through suffering. Therefore, the per mitting of suffering does not imply a defect in God’s design.
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