THE KING’S BUSINESS Vol 7 AUGUST, 1916. No. 8 II
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We wish to call the attention of our readers to the Daily Devotional Studies. We are receiving letters from many parts of the world from those who say that they get greater help in their Bible study from these
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notes than from anything else that they can secure. We wonder if all our readers have studied these notes carefully enough tq know what there is in them. So many religious periodicals are taken in our day that we doubt not that many of our readers have only found time to look at the shorter articles m this magazine, and therefore suggest that for one month at least they study the Daily Notes and judge for themselves whether it will be profitable to read them daily. Many are using them in family worship.
For a generation we have been boasting of our great inventions. We have looked with supercilious con- tempt upon past generations that have not discovered | ° r invented the telephone, the telegraph, the automo
The Devil’s Monopoly.
bile, the aeroplane, wireless telegraphy, etc., These certainly were great dis coveries and inventions, and capable of immeasurable usefulness, but today across the water they are almost entirely monopolized in the service of the destruction of men, women and children. They were taken two or three years ago as sure signs that the world was getting better and that the millennium was just at hand, but now even the Ambassador of our nation cannot have an auto mobile for his own use in Berlin because all the gasoline is monopolized for war automobiles and the destruction of human life attendant upon war. Tele graphic communication by cable and by wireless is largely monopolized in the interests o f the military in the various lands at war. The most notable use of the telephone is in communication between trenches dug for the destruction of the men on the other side. The aeroplane and the dirigible are used almost exclusively for war purposes and are reaping an awful toll of women, children Jmd noncombatants murdered. These are indeed “ grievous times.” If we are in the millennium it is the Devil’s millennium, not Christ’s.
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