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corruption politically, the lowest and vilest force morally, the strongest enemy relig iously, and that living in the midst of these terrible progenies o f the saloon there are those who say: “ I cannot see any harm in liquor.” ' S aid one, “Tom, you are trying to ex cuse your sins by picking flaws in the Bible; I am excusing my sins by picking flaws in Christians. W e are both in mighty mean business. You are a higher critic and I am a hypercritic. I am afraid both words could be spelled the same way and truly applied to us both, H-y-p-o-c-r-i-t-i-c.’ ” T he preaching of a compromising, ve neered Gospel will never win this world. All this railing against evangelism is simply the trend of the times. A few years ago, Christianity was openly assaulted by brazen infidelity; today the devil has transformed himself into an angel o f light, and assaults aggressive Christianity through the heresies and false doctrines which have just enough religion to float the fallacies.— IF. R. Sun day. “ I have tried to make my ministry a ministry of exposition of Scripture. I know it has failed in many respects, but I will say that I have endeavored from the be ginning to the end to make that the char acteristic o f all my public work. And I’ve tried to preach Jesus Christ, and the Jesus Christ not of the Gospels only, but the Christ of the Gospels and the Epistles, He is the same Christ. I believe that the one thing the world wants is redemption, the power of that Gospel on the individual soul, and that men know they want it.” J esus or B arabbas : Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide, In the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil side: Some great cause, God’s new Messiah, of fering each the bloom or blight. Parts the goats upon the left hand, and the
aminirig Scripture usage we find that the word seal is used in the Word of God in seven senses : 1. Authority, as in Esther 8 :8. 2. Authenticity or attestation as gen uine, John 3:33; 6:27. 3. Inviolability, Matt. 27:66. 4. Approval or sanction, Eph. 1 :13. 5. Completeness, Dan. 9:24. 6. Secrecy, Isa. 29:11. 7. Security, Rev. 7 :3.— A. T. P. A loving trust in the Author of the Bible is the best preparation for a wise study of the Bible.—if. Clay Trumbull. “T he first question that the Sunday school must answer is, ‘What must I do to be saved?’ The next question is, ‘Lord, what wilt thou have me to do ?’ ”— Chicago S. S. Convention. “W e barter life for pottage; sell true bliss For wealth or power, for pleasure or re nown; ; Thus, Esau-like, our Father’s blessing miss, Then wash with fruitless tears our faded crown.” W hen I go down to the grave I can say, like so many others, “ I have finished my day’s work” ; but I cannot say, “ I have fin-| ished my life. My day’s work will begin again the next morning. The tomb is not a blind alley; it is a thoroughfare. It closes with the twilight to open with the dawn.” Victor Hugo. B enjamin H arrison said, “ It is by the influence of Christianity that we shall ap proach universal peace and adopt arbitra tion methods of settling disputes. Our approach is slow. W e are still a long .way off from settling disputes by Christian meth ods- Our only hope is in the “approach” of Christ Himself and His arbitrament. W e should keep these facts before us: The saloon is the greatest burden economi cally, the worst foe socially, a burden of
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