218 T HE K I N G ' S B U S I N E S S Considerable interest in Bible Conferences has been aroused by some • of our religious leaders recently. They have preached fundamental truths with the earnestness of men of purpose and destiny, but I feel that if some of the money that is being invested in conferences in America and China could be put into text books written from a scriptural standpoint, and placed in the hands of the few remaining colleges which have respect for the faith of the young men and women, we could make an impression upon the generation following. The claim, of educated infidels in our churches and educational centres is, that the “ scientific viewpoint” eliminates the Bible story of creation! This is the work of the devil, and those institu tions which have sold their birthright for a mess of Carnegie financial pottage have done so on the basis of denying God’s authority in all human affairs. —F. E. 0 . F iz z , Figures and Facts The Methodist Bishop, H. M. DuBose, sent out a Christmas message to the world in which he said: “ Christ has come to the world at this Christmastide of 1920 in a sense fuller than ever before. He has more truly bruised the head of the serpent and war. He has given to men a deeper sense of sin, a more certain yearning for peace. I feel the pulse of a coming resurgence. The reddest vial of the world’s woe has been poured out, its Golgotha is newly past; the numbering and testing days of the sepulchre are not wholly spent, yet the resurrection is nigh. The world is not a criminal bound in the chains of hopelessness, but is a, corrected child, not yet fully conscious of the sin which prevents the coming to it of the Galilean life. The heresy of modern premillennialism is near akin to Antichrist. It reads over the Bethlehem cradle the horoscope of failure. It ascribes to it the portent of might without the power of fulfilment.” Literary Digest, same week say s: “Human life was never as insecure as it is today. * * Veritable epidemic of crime throughout the world. * * All large cities complaining of crime, one fea ture of which is the extent of youthful criminality. * * The ease with which thugs and gunmen can make their escape in automobiles after a crime is a factor in the situation-crime is easier. * * *A regular deluge of murders, burglaries, robberies and every kind of violence and lawlessness. * * * In New. York City the past year, 100 unsolved murders; unrecovered losses through thefts, $3,- 100,000. * * * In Chicago 68 unsolved murders. * * * in Philadel phia 100 murders in eleven months and as many as 50 holdups in one day. * * * Pittsburg, 20 per cent increase in crime, with 13 unsolved murders at present; * * * Boston, holdups by gunmen increasingly numerous. * * * San Francisco, crimes of violence greatly increased since advent of prohibition, etc, etc, throughout the world. Bible, same week sa y s: “Iniquity shall abound—the love of many shall wax cold.” * * * “Evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse.” * * * “i n the last days perilous times shall come.”; * * * “As in the days that were before the flood, they were eating and drinking and marrying and giving in marriage until the day that Noah entered into the ark and knew not until the flood came and took them all away, so shall also the coming of the Son of Man be.” * * * “When they shall say peace and safety, sudden destruction cometh upon them.” * * * “That day shall not come except there come a falling away first and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition.” * * * “Nevertheless when the Son of Man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?”
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