1060 THE KING’S BUSINESS some will be deceived, and that many who might have repented of their sins and accepted Christ as their Saviour, will be led to entertain a false hope and thus go down to eternal darkness through the faithlessness of these ministers who are wearing the livery of God to serve the devil in. If there ever was a time in which ministers should, be faithful and not hesitate to declare the whole counsel of God, it is in the day in which we are now living,, when-so many of our young men are facing sudden death. In all probability hundreds and thou sands of our young men who are now well and strong will lie in their graves twelve months from now. How faithful every minister ought to be in doing everything in his power to lead all the young men he can to accept the Lord Jesus Christ and thus be prepared for life' or death. These are awful times, but they are times of great opportunity and great responsibility. and not evil, is the ‘original’ thing in human nature.” Yes, this would indeed be a great discovery if it were true, but alas the war has not revealed anything of the kind. The war has revealed how brutal and demoniacal man is, even man intellectually at his best; man after he has enjoyed many years of education in philosophy and science in their highest development. When one sees the vilest and crudest atrocities of the present war defended and co-operated in by men high in army and in Government, and even by university professors, yes, even by ministers of Christ, he discovers that the darkest things that John Calvin wrote about man’s moral condition outside of the Gospel are warranted by the facts in the case. Capt. F. J. Moore then goes on to prove his position by citing the fact that, “No matter how they drink or how they swear, or whatever they do, there is a nobler self beneath it all that is capable of the sacrifice of the Cross.” He must be a superficial thinker who does not see that any sacrifice which a soldier who drinks and swears and commits the basest sins of inpurity makes does not lie beneath their swearing and drinking and committing these disgusting sins. Furthermore anyone who compares the sacrifice that soldiers make to the sacrifice that the Lord Jesus Christ made is either an ignoramus or a blasphemer. It is not love for sinners or enemies against themselves that leads soldiers to make the sacrifices or display the heroism that they do. In manv-cases they make the sacrifice because they have to. They are drafted into the army and have to do what the commanders compel them to do; and even where the soldiers are volunteers, their motive for volunteering and for making the sacrifices involved in their volunteering when subjected to careful analysis is not found in very many instances to be of a very lofty character. Not infre quently if is love of adventure, exactly the same motive that leads a man to risk his life in adventures of a far baser character; Oftentimes the motive is love of promotion or a desire for military advancement. Oftentimes the motive is of a different character, but far from that which led the Son of God, .when Hg was “in the form of God,” the center of heaven’s worship, to think it a thing not to be grasped to be on an equality with God, but to empty Himself and take upon Himself the form of a servant and be made in the likeness of man and being found in fashion as a man, became obedient unto death, yea, the death of the cross. An article in the London Nation, by Capt. F. J. Moore, says: “The war has revealed to the world at large, and not' least to the men themselves, that goodness, Original Goodness.
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