THE KING’S BUSINESS
Vol. 8
JUNE, 1917
No. 6
E D I T O R I A L It,is being urged by many as a reason for going into this war and as an encouragement in going into it, that the result of this awful war will be that all tyrannical government will end and that there will, never be
Will- This Be the Last War?
another war. This is a pleasant hope, but it is absolutely without warrant either iu what we know of man or what we know of the teachings of the Bible. There will be other wars, whatever the issue of the present war may be. God has plainly declared in His word regarding the present dispensation that “even unto the end shall be war” (Dan. 9:26), and it is revealed in God’s word that the present dispensation shall end in terrific conflicts. Let us not deceive ourselves with any fond hopes that any league, or any other organization of any kind, can come out of the present .war that will make future war an impossibility. It is more than likely that a confederacy that will attempt that may result from the present war, but such a confederacy will do more to promote, whr than to suppress it. missions throughout our land have been exceedingly careless in regard to the character of the men and women that they place in positions c?f responsibility and leadership. There has been scandal after scandal, and some missions have been hotbeds of moral rottenness-. Many seem to have thought that if a man has been a thoroughly bad man morally and then gives any evidence of con version, he is just the man to take the leadership in a mission simply because he has been so bad, and if he goes astray, again and then professes to repent, he is again pushed into a place of leadership. The result has been that many of the best people in the land thoroughly distrust rescue mission work. This of course is unjust, because some rescue missions have gone to the bad is no reason for supposing that they all have. But there is a need that rescue mis sions, not only for the sake of the individual men, but for the sake of the work as a whole, should be conducted with the most scrupulous regard to the well- balanced character of those who are in the places of leadership. In some ways there is an advantage in having at the head of a mission a man who has known by bitter experience what the depths of sin are, but it is far better to have some man who has never been down into the depths but whose present character is thoroughly Christian, in the place of leadership, than to have a man who has not only once been an outrageous sinner, but whose present life also falls below a high standard of Christian conduct. Few new forms of activity have been organized in the past few years, that have accomplished more for the salvation of the lost and for the increase of the church of Christ than rescue missions, but many of the rescue Clean Mission Workers.
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