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mire of spiritual death and destruction. The Lord Jesus Christ, however, has come to bring us newness of life that we might live with Him forevermore. May our testimony be that of the Psalmist who said, “He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a solid rock, and established my goings, and hath put a new song in my heart.”
S U B M E R G E D V A L U E S The date was May, 1915, nearly 55 years ago, when the famous 32,000-ton luxury liner, the Lusitania, was tor pedoed by a German submarine and 124 Americans lost their lives out of nearly 1200 passengers. Only recently the old barnacle-encrusted liner, belong ing to the Cunard Company, was pur chased by a Boston frogman by the name of John Light. He’s 34 years old and he paid $3,000 for the sunken ves sel. It’s now lying in 315 feet of water about 11 miles offshore from a small Irish fishing village. Do you think he got a bargain? It may turn out to be that way. Of course, half-a-century ago things were done a little differently than today. Light believes that there are more than 100 tons of copper throughout the ship which, at today’s prices, would sell for at least a million dollars. Of course, there are some ad mitted handicaps before he can get it. He’ll probably have to blast off the side of the Lusitania’s hull. In addition, there are those four iron manganese bronze propellers, weighing some 14 tons, worth about $50,000 each. He figures these also can be removed by a massive explosive charge. New meth ods of flotation may bring untold other treasures, hardly to be compared with the original three-thousand-dollar price tag. It will require a great deal of par tience, skill, and determination but Light figures it can be done. When we think of our own lives, we can’t help but realize that because of sin we’ve been torpedoed into the quag- 16
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NO E S C A P E ! In the book of Romans, particularly the first three chapters, we are care fully shown that no man, no matter where he lives on the face of this earth, has any possible way of escape without accepting Jesus Christ as Saviour. Be cause of man’s sinfulness, he literally condemns himself to eternal perdition. The heathen in darkest Africa is with out excuse for he has had the light of God’s creative handiwork. The moral man here in the United States, the church memeber, if you please will suf fer the same fatal destiny if he is with out personal, living, vital faith in Jesus Christ. He has had the light of his con science to convict him. The Jewish per son is also guilty before the Lord. He has had the light of God’s divine law to guide him. So in Romans 2:3 there is the positive and correct argument, “And thinkest thou this, 0 man, that
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