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THE KING’S BUSINESS in the face during the night. The dear lad did not worry much about his own wound, but repeatedly asked if I were safe. When some hours later I was told o f his affection ate anxiety for my safety, I thanked God for the blessed “tie which binds our hearts in Christian love.” May God richly bless our dear brother. Now I fear. I must draw to a close, but one .word more to all the brethren—i» “ Lift up your head and rejoice for your redemption draweth nigh.” It is not only a word o f encouragement,, but a COMMAND. In the midst o f terrible dangers must- we lift up our heads? Yes; God’s way for His people to acquire strength is to become faint, and then to receive His strength. His way for them to become rich is by scat tering all they have. Trust mightily, brethren, in God, and He SHALL deliver you. B e 'o f good courage, lift up your head “ for the Lord God Omnipotent Reigneth.” I extend my , heartfelt sympathy to Brothers Wake and Went. May God be near to them in their- hours of pain and heal their wounds. My thanks to Mr. Bradley and Padre .Morris for their welcome visitations, and with hearty Christian love to you and all the household o f faith. The theatre has been for many years one of the most destructive forces morally in society, but the American stage has never ventured upon the daring indecencies and the outrageous blasphemies that characterize the Movies throughout the land. There is nothing too vile for them to present on the stage, and nothing too sacred for them to attempt to pollute. The dif ferent movie organization^ are vieing with one another to see which can sur pass the other in daring or in blasphemy. In The American Lutheran Survey in the issue for April 4th, the following protest was made against the so-called biblical plays : “A certain minister lay dying. -His friends tried to comfort him with the' most precious passages o f Scripture, but in vain. ‘All these,’ said he, ‘I have used in jests and puns.’ An so, though perhaps not deprived of salvation, he was deprived o f its consolations in his dying hour. Similar judgment will fall upon all who have allowed their ungodly curiosity to lead them to enjoy ‘the much heralded morality ‘play,’ ‘The Wanderer,’ now creeping its slimy way through the theaters of America. It illustrates the impudence of the Devil and his underlings, for it lays unhallowed hands on the sweetest parable o f all, the story of the Prodigal Son. True, ‘the biblical narrative has been so changed and adapted to stage purposes that only in part does it accord with the biblical narrative.’ But what o f that? (Rev. 22:19). Just judgment will fall upon those who have been, the guilty spectators. They will henceforth, to the end o f their days, be unable to listen to the reading of that consolatory gospel story without memory dragging out all the profane embellishments and lustful realism of the play. We do not hesitate, in the interest o f souls that need a place for repentance, to' denounce as diabolical and as an attack on Christ and His Word and the plan o f salvation by grace this ‘biblical play’ and the whole satanic spawn o f biblical plays. The playwrights would better, in biblical phrase, cut off their right hands before writing such rubbish, and the spectators pluck out their right, eyes before gazing upon it. W e can easily imagine the Saviour’s applying to our American cities that ‘pack1 the theaters where such stuff is staged the fierce denunciation he applied to Chorazin, Bethsaida, and his own city Capernaum. When will ‘Christians’ cease to allow themselves.to": be seduced by Satan and his breed?” i ' The movies are rotten root and branch, and- the sooner Christian people absolutely refuse to have anything to do with them the better. 'T'HE OUTRAGEOUS BLASPHEMY OF THE MOVIES.
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We are thoroughly in sympathy with all efforts to promote the well being of our soldiers at home and abroad, their physical Well-being as well as their spiritual interests, but we should always bear in ,mind- that “ there are others,” , and in our devotion to this, glorious work among our soldiers
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