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by using the commercial, financial, social and other wedges. It is well the Church of Jesus Christ realized such pernicious activities and undertook to counteract such efforts. While these statements reveal the activi ties of the enemies of Christ, perhaps it might be well for us to look at the de fenders of the faith once delivered to the saints. We might illustrate that point with this statement: No community is in dan ger from bad citizens, but from the bad citizenship of good citizens. Isn’t it also true that we are not so much in danger from the pernicious activities of the her etics as we are from the inactivity of the God-called, orthodox defenders of the faith? It is folly to criticise and abuse heretics for trying to put their kind into positions of prominence. and power, when you sit idly by, fold your hands and refuse to do your duty, though you are the sworn de fenders of the faith. The pernicious activ ity of the heretic is bad, but the criminal inactivity of the orthodox defender of the faith is a thousand times worse. The faith was not delivered to heretics, but to the saints of God. The saints—the true, tried believers, were made custodians of the Word of God, and entrusted with the duty of spreading the gospel, the whole gospel, the vicarious gospel of Jesus Christ,'to the uttermost parts of the earth. We should not tolerate the pernicious activity of her etics, nor should we tolerate the criminal inactivity of professed leaders, teachers and believers of the Church of Jesus Christ. Awake, the wolves are entering the congregations, the false teachers are climbs ing into your pulpits, seductive influences are cursing your schools and invading the circle of your home. Awake, go forth to battle, repent of your inactivity and become at once a forceful factor in defense of the' faith and the promulgation of the truth.
activities, long enough. They should not have been tolerated; they should not be tolerated now. The time has come for us to say we are either for Jesus Christ, or against Him. You cannot occupy a fifty-fifty place in the religious world any more than you can occupy it in the political world, or in the national government. Those who are her etics should be told they must take their stand with the devil. If they are for Jesus Christ, they must take their stand with the Church and with the saints of God, to whom the faith was once delivered. The reason the time has come for us to take that position is, the heretics .of the country have continued their pernicious activities in their efforts to fill pulpits and chairs in schools and colleges until they have poisoned thousands of people. It is a premeditated and determined effort on their part to force one of their kind into every vacant pulpit, where they can deceive the people, hypnotize sessions and church mem bers, and inveigle congregations into listen ing to their dangerous and disloyal utter ances. The man who denies the deity of Christ, who denies that He is very God of Very God, who denies His vicarious death, who denies that He is man’s absolute substitute, who denies that there is no salvation with out the shedding of blood, who denies the resurrection, who denies the infallibility of God’s word, and who denies the great fundamental truths of the gospel, has no right in any pulpit where immortal souls are to be spoken to and reached. While the man who denies the Bible and the gos pel of Christ has no right and should not be allowed to preach his poisonous doc trines to men and womens the fact remains that the heretics of the country are bound together in a damnable conspiracy to put their kind in every pulpit where it is pos sible for them to enter. They try to enter
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