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the united testimony of missionaries that no matter what university degrees and university honors men win, they do not rise above the vices and immorali ties and superstitions of their heathen life unless they receive Jesus Christ as their Saviour and Lord. “ The history of all times,” says one of the leading his torians of missions, “ shows ho example of this, that more civilization has been the means of elevating again a sunken people. . . . Christianity is not the bloom, but the root; culture is not the root, but the bloom of Christianity.” Without the sure and everlasting light that flows from the Word of God, with out the power of Christ and His Gospel, there is no inherent virtue in politics or in commerce or in art or in education to purify society or to refashion hu manity. Consequently if the Bible is ignored or rejected, our civilization will decay. No nation is so advanced in culture or in wisdom that it can improve upon the light that springs from the Scriptures. Any attempt to do so is as senseless as to light a gas lamp on a city street at midday when the sun is brightly shining. Human management of the world has proven a hideous failure, as the recent world-war indicates and as the present world chaos thunders. Bishop Nicholai of Serbia has said that the recent world carnage was a “ natural child of a wicked and Christless peace, Christless educa tion, Christless politics, Christless busi ness and Christless literature on the continent of Europe.” Only a few days ago the Prime Minister of England, Lloyd George, said: “ If this war is not the last war, the next will leave Europe in ashes. It is essential that we should find some means of dragging the nations out of this labyrinth of hatred.” The way out, and the power to use the way out, the Word of God alone reveals. “ Christ is all.” “ In Him are all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge hidden.”
tlon, they assumed a prolonged era of peace. The Bible was ignored and re jected. Christ and His Gospel had no pre-eminent place in the councils and In the commerce of the nations. Then came the deluge of the world-war with its accompanying horrors. Mankind stood up against God and His Word and used every available resource of skill and power, and sank in an ocean of shame and suffering. Then was again fulfilled the Word of the Lord: “ Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant’ pleasant plants, and shalt set i£ with strange slips: in the day thou shalt make thy plant to grow; and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow. Woe to the multitudes of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters! The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirl wind.” (Isa. 17:10-13.) Such Is the harvest nations reap when the people are not right with God. America’s most treacherous and dan gerous enemies are not outside the na tion, but within. The interior foes of unbelief, of selfishness, of self-depend ence, of licentiousness, and of disobedi ence to the light brought into the world by our Lord Jesus Christ, are the ene mies we need chiefly to fear. On every hand is abundant proof that when controlled by the philosophy of this world mankind is doomed. Secular education, apart from the teaching of the Word of God, has proven a failure as a means of social regeneration. It Is
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