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thankful that all saloons close next July. We only wish they would close immedi ately. This month Bible study classes were started in thè homes on various leases, and hope to continue them during the winter. There is a very great need along this line, for few Christians seem to know the sim ple Gospel. We are using the Scofield sys tem and it seems to hold the interest and is blessed of the Lord. . Good open air meetings have been held at different points, and at the Sunday baseball games. The Gospel is preached from à Ford car and Gospel hymns played on the phonograph. The fields are full of backsliders and those who have departe’d from God. How solemn the word in 2 Chron. 28, where the wicked Ahaz “Sacrificed unto the gods of
Damascus, which smote him, for he said, Because the gods of the kings of Syria help them, therefore will I sacrifice unto them that they may help me; but they were the ruin of him and of all Israel.’’ What a picture of these; last days! This wicked Ahaz answers well to Mary Baker Eddy, who, through her blasphemy, has shut up many a “door of the house of the Lord, and put out the lamps.” Only last week a printed Gospel message was offered to one of her follow ers: “Would you accept a little message from the Word of God?” She answered in a scornful way: “You can keep your mes sage; I am interested in nothing but Sci ence.” We replied, “He that rejecteth me and my words, hath one that judgeth him; the Word which I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.”
A. The Bible a Revelation of and from God. I. Has God Spoken? 1. Reasonable, being a Father, to suppose so. 2. Incredible to believe otherwise if we are morally responsible beings. 3. Necessary to and demanded by our moral consciousness and needs. H. Through What Media Has God Spoken? ■ 1. The answer of the Naturalist: God speaks through Nature. 2. The answer of the Historian: God
speaks through Providence. 3. The answer of the Rationalist: God speaks through Reason. 4. The answer of the Moralist: God speaks through Conscience; moral law. 5. The answer of the Religionist: God speaks through Sacred books.'- 6 . The answer of the Christian: God speaks through Christ, especially as recorded in the New Testament. The measure of truth in 1-5; the sense in which 6 supercedes all. III. The Scriptures, Especially the New Testament, Then, Being the Record
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