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and they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables" (2 Tim. 4:3, 4). This is God’s description of what is called modernism—that teach ing, as old as sin and Satan, which denies any part of the Word of God. Such unbelief never feeds people, always starves them. Hence modernism in the churches is now creating a market for fundamen talism. Sound Bible teachers, wherever they go, are finding an unprecedented eagerness among church people to hear the truth; there is a pathetic hunger for food, and this has not only been accentuated, but actually caused by the false, teaching of modernists. It would seem that we have come to the time which the Holy Spirit predicted through an Old Testament prophet: “ Behold, the days conye, saith the Lord God, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord; and they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the Lord, and shall not fii^d it" (Amos 8:11, 12). We may well praise God, however, that it is still possible to find the Word of God, set forth without reservation, uncompromisingly and fear lessly, by many true teachers and preachers, while modernism is making its contribu tion to the best things, unconsciously to itself and wholly against its own will, hut in fulfillment of God’s inviolable Word, “Surely the wrath of man shall-praise thee” ( Psa. 76:10).— Selected. Brought to the Front Thou, O Lord, . . . didst turn me around towards myself, taking me from behind my back where I had placed me, unwilling to observe myself, and setting me before my face that I might see how foul I was, how crooked and defiled, be- spotted and ulcerous. And I beheld and stood aghast, and whither to flee from myself I found not. And if I sought to turn mine eye from off myself. . . . Thou again didst set me over against my self and thrustedst me before my eyes, that I might find out my iniquity and hate it. I had known it, but made as though I saw it not, winked at it and for got i t—Augustine. —o— The Praying Mantis This curious little insect, which abounds in Japan, has such a pious appearance that the Japanese Gospel preacher finds it an excellent illustration of a religious hypo crite. It is so named from its two fore feet being constantly in an attitude of humble supplication. In reality it is a most bloodthirsty little creature, its agile, saw-edged praying legs being powerful weapons of destruction. It deceives by its attitude, like the man who professes, but does not possess, Christ .—Christian Her ald and Signs o f our Times.
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doubt, and unbelief, and denial of the Word of God in the teaching and preach ing of professing Christian leaders than ever before. Paul said the time would come—and now the time has come —“when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
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