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T H E WORD OF GOD For tke Present Hour “ W^y do the nations rage, and the peoples imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against thè LORD, and against His anointed, saying, let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us. He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.” Ps. 2:1-4. The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the'strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, come upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell. Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will be confident.” Ps. 27:1-3. , “ Call upon ME in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.” Ps. 50:15. “ Thou, O LORD, art a shield for me: my glory, and the lifter up of my head. I cried unto the LORD with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill. 1 laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the LORD sustained me.” Ps. 3:3-5. L E T ’S Have Done Witk tke Movies Miss Laurence Alma Tadema is reported as saying at Toledo, Ohio: “ In the fourth year o^ a war so fiercely destructive that, even should it cease tomorrow, the whole world must remain scarred throughout the period of reno vation, one supreme task seems to lie before all who are free to lend a hand to the work of reconstruction. * * * * We have learned already that our own gener ation will not know the old forms of happiness again. Music, pictures, plays, poetry, artistic creation of enjoyment, gardens, birds and animals, hours of musing and of leisure— all these sweets of life seem to have been cut away from us forever and to have floated back into the past like a broken dream. The children of the future must be stronger than we were—more sober, better disciplined, better armored. It is not merely for our own children that we must work. We must be careful and troubled about our neighbors’ children also. Governments and indi viduals have understood this and have to go to work already.” There is doubtless a great deal of truth in what Miss Tadema is reported as saying. Certainly life has taken on a seriousness that it has not had for many a year. Certainly the movies with their superficiality, with their appeal to excite ment, and their appeal (in a large share of those that are presented at present) to
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