1020 coming moment, exhibit in our lives the “work of faith, and labor of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father” (I. Thess. 1 :3 ). As we hear our Lord say, “Behold! Behold! Surely I come quickly, quickly, quickly," may we respond whole heartedly and longingly, “Even so, Come Lord Jesus” (Rev. 22:7, 12, 20). Amen. _ i p ail NOT THERE WITH THE GOODS The new theology preachers cannot produce revivals of religion in their churches, and in this we find one of the strongest indictments against this the ology. There is nothing in their criti cisms, negations, ethical principles, their contempt for the inspired word of God, their lack of true humility, their air of assumed intellectual superiority and learned criticisms, that can produce re vivals of religion. The result of their message is the very antithesis to re vivals of true religion. The new theol ogy could not possibly produce or con duct a Tent Evangel campaign in New York. Their message would empty this great tabernacle, and produce spiritual paralysis here as it does in the churches where it is defended. The antipathy of this school to evan gelism accounts for the fact that these men cannot win souls to Jesus Christ. Go to the church-prayer-service where the new theology is taught, and what do you find? Not their own converts en gaged in testimony and prayer, for these men have no spiritual converts. The men and women who keep alive the prayer meetings are the converts of the old theology of the Cross; and were it not for these there would be no prayer- services in those churches whose pas tors are teachers of the new theology. Go also to the rescue missions and who are the men who are laboring there? Has any one ever found a drunkard re deemed as the result of the preaching
THE K I N G ’ S B U S I N E S S of this false gospel? Why do redeemed drunkards always attribute their salva tion from sin to the power of the blood of Christ? As well might an army en deavor to conquer Britain by using soft dirt for shells, as the new theology preacher try to win souls to Christ by denying redemption through the re deeming blood of Jesus Christ. Tell a lost sinner that he is saved by the cul tivation of his character, and he is not too benighted to see through this col ossal falsehood. Right well he knows that what he needs is not a eulogy on the divinity of his depravity, but a di vine power to reach him and redeem him from sin. Here then is the unan swerable argument as to the value of the new and the old theology: the old can and does save, the new is powerless to save. It talks fluently about sin, de nounces sin in the Church, in society, in the nation, it calls upon literature and experience to back up its indictment of sin, and yet, at the very moment and place, after it has shown the disease of sin, its hands fall limp, its lips are dumb, it closes the discussion without one true and effective word as to the remedy. The new theology preacher can make a diagnosis, he can tell what the trouble is with this old world, and he professes to have a cure for its sor row, and sin, and guilt; but when he should apply the remedy, he finds he has none.—G. W. McPherson. j>>4. ^4. Wt a» A LIVING VERSION A young man, after hearing a dis cussion as to the Authorized, Revised, and other versions of the Bible, declared! “I prefer my mother’s version to any other. She has translated it into the language of daily life for me ever since I was old enough to understand it. There has never been any obscurity about her version.” All Christians should be “epistles of Christ” (2 Cor 3 :3 ).
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