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THE KING’S BUSINESS
■fJITILL THE ALLIES WIN?
A few months ago most of us were confident that with the entrance of America into the war, and with the advances that the Allies were making, that the end of the war was in sight, and that victory was assured to the. Entente Allies. Most thoughtful people are not quite so sure of it today as they were a few months ago. Personally, we still think that the Allies will win, though we doubt whether they shall have such a sweeping victory that they will be able to realize the aims that they have had in view. But they may be dèfeated. Suppose they are. Then there will be dark days, very dark days. But even so, the intelligent Christian, the Christian who understands his Bible, need not be in the least down-hearted. Dark days, the darkest this world has ever seen, are sure to come sooner or later, even if we do win in the present war. But these dark days are but the precursors o f the brightest days this world has ever seen. Before the full dawn of that glorious day that is coming, as our Lord Jesus tells us, “ There shall be signs in the sun and moon and stars ; and upon the earth distress of nations, in perplexity of the roaring of the sea and the billows; men fainting for fear, and for expectation of the things which are coming on the world: for the powers of the heavens shall be shaken. And THEN shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.” When these darkest of all dark days come, and there are many indica tions that they are fast drawing on, we do not need to tremble nor fear, nor be down hearted ; on the other hand, in such days as these, as our Lord tells us in the next verse, “When these things begin to come to pass, look up and lift up your heads'; because your redemption draweth nigh” (Luke 21:25-28). When the hearts of men and women in this world, men and women who only look at the things which are before their eyes, and know not God’s, glorious promises about thé future, are fainting, then is just the time when the heart of the Christian should be more expectant and jubilant than ever. 'Lloyd George has recently set a good many people to thinking by charg ing the Allies with having made a fatal mistake up to the present date bv a lack of unity and co-ordifiation among their forces. Certainly this has been a griev - ' ous mistake from the standpoint of military strategy, and it has produced very serious results, but this is not the most fatal mistake of the Allies. Their most fatal mistake is that they have left God out of account in their calculations. It is true that there have been calls to prayer, but largely worded in such a way ks to make merely a convenience of God. There have been no ringing calls to repentance and confession of sin, and humiliation. There has been nothing like national repentance in any one of the Allies. America as well as England and France and the other nations have gone right on in their disregard of God. It is true, as stated above, that they have tried to make a convenience and ally of God by a certain formal praying to Him, but there has been no absolute sur render to God in the conduct of national life, or even of individual life, along the lines of obedience to His will revealed in His word. The war would be brought to a very sudden and a very satisfactory close if the different allied nations would humble themselves before God, confess their sins, acknowledge God’s rights in national, commercial, political, and individual life, and then cr,y to God for His help. HDHE ALLIES’ FATAL MISTAKE.
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