June 1926
T H E K I N G ’ S B U S I N E S S
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TH E SEED SOW IN G AN D H A R R O W IN G H A R V E ST
thing to fall into the hands of the living God.” With many of them it is pure braggadocio, but the Govern ment should keep an eye upon them, for in seeking to destroy faith in God and in His Word they are lay ing the foundations for immorality, lawlessness and anarchy, and, if they could realize their ideal, would bring about the same conditions which are found today in Russia. . .■ We are glad to know that Dr. T. T . Martin, that valiant warrior of the Lord, who brought about the passage of the Anti-evolution bill in Mississippi recently, has issued a challenge to these blatant athe ists to debate with his associates “ 1 to 6, for a period of 12, 18 or 24 months,” the question: “ Should the Teaching of Evolution (that man is evolved from the lower orders of animals) be excluded from our tax-supported schools,” and has received an acceptance from them, for how ever only one. The debates were to have begun May 3, and we shall watch with keen anticipation to see how long-the “ American Association for the Advance ment of Atheism” will stay with the proposition. We prophesy that the history of this series of debates will be similar to that of the debates arranged between Dr. W . B. Riley, head of the Christian Funda mentals Association, and Mr. Maynard Shipley, head of the Science League of America, which has now passed into history. . . The first of these debates was held in the auditorium of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles before an audience of over four thousand people. Although every effort had been made by the “ Science League” to get out their followers, it resulted in a most disastrous defeat for Mr. Shipley, with the result that, though similar debates had been scheduled to be held in many other Pacific Coast cities, they were cancelled by Mr. Shipley after another defeat at Oakland (his own .home town). Those who attended these debates will not soon forget the pathetic picture of the “ great scientist” ( !) as he sought to prove the truth of evolution by telling the story of the five-toed hors6 (“ eohippus” ) which had evdlved into the one-toed noble steed with which we were once so familiar before its evolution into the “ ford-hippus” of the present day. Dr. Martin is wise in attacking at the fountain head this question of the right to teach the children in tax- supported schools the utterly unproved and unprovable theory of evolution. For Evolution is the child of Atheism, and Modernism is the child of Evolution. Even though some so-called Christians are seeking to pose as “ theistic evolutionists,” the two cannot be reconciled. We are glad that the supporters of evolu tion are to be forced to take their place where they belong—with the avowed atheists. We know that every loyal “ Defender of the Faith” will be praying With us that God will give as great and glorious a victory to Dr. Martin and his associates, in this combat, as He did in the recent fight ’in Missis sippi, and that it may result in arousing every Christian citizen to the dangers of indifference to the perils which confront us as embodied in those agencies, under whatever designation, which are seeking to eliminate God*and the Bible from our national life.
There are two outstanding ‘agencies in our country which are sowing the seed of disintegration. One is the “ American Civil Liberties Union” which, with its allied organizations, such as “ The League for Indus trial Democracy,” “ Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom,” “ National Council for Preven tion of W ar,” “ Fellowship of Reconciliation,” “ The Fellowship of Youth for Peace,” “ Young Workers’ League,” etc., etc., is disseminating its propaganda throughout the colleges and universities of our land. There is no evidence of any desire for righteous results, and but one motive controls them all the breaking down of our national foundations and allying us with the Bolshevism of Russia. Our country is so occupied with making money and having a “ good time” that but few of our citizens are conscious of the “ red flag” which is hidden behind the seed-sowing which is carried on with such intense and indefatigable persistence. Some Americans are awake to the peril, but they are few. The Better Amer ica Federation issues its warnings weekly and has been able to arouse some. But busy days and increasing calls upon the business man, leave but little time for the contemplation of the shaking structure of our civil ization. But now a word about the second of these destruc tive agencies, which with Satanic cunning is aiding and abetting the other. The first lays its horny hand upon the outside of the structure, but the second works ffcom within, taking away the Heaven-born faith of the people and robbing them of their Lord and Saviour. The first cloaks its red garment with the plausible pretext of “ Liberty for a ll!” the latter, with holy and pious pretensions, breaks the binding of the Bible, eliminates from it the Virgin-born Son of God, denies the inerrancy of the Book’ itself, and would leave us shipwrecked, without chart, compass or rudder, and all in the name of Jehovah. The first is to be deplored; the last, despised. The first has but a limited field of action; the second broad casts its blustering burlesque far and near until even the people of other lands, whose lives have been revo lutionized by the Gospel of the grace of God, have been poisoned by the platitudes of these religious propa gandists and their faith wrecked. The first bring their money with them for their work; the second take money from even the infants and children in the Sunday School, and from ignorant and deceived church members. The first, thank God, can be curbed and should be and will be, if the people are enlightened regarding their real purpose; but the last, alas, are the most subtle enemies the church and nation have ever had. It is no time for soft speeches. We must lift our voices in warning. All that we hold dear is involved. We are trusting in the shed blood of the crucified Christ,— God manifest in the flesh. These emissaries of Satan are taking Him away and making Him, at best, but a martyr to a misconceived idea. What are they doing f They are maneuvering under a mask, mutilating the Bible, muddling the minds of
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