moral reform and social betterment do not constitute the answer to the needs o f the human heart. Thank God for men o f this caliberl \ We thank God, also, for men in high public office in our own government, on the national, state and local levels, who likewise are standing true to the Word o f God and the glorious Gospel re vealed therein. One would dare to hope that words such as these might serve as a solemn warning to the "new evangelicals” who are stressing more and more the "social implications of the Gospel,” and who are at the same time tending more and more to minimize the redemptive program o f the Gospel message. Yes, indeed, man's deepest need is for God ’s forgiveness, for God’s power in his life and for the realization o f the abiding pres ence o f a living Saviour. And the only answer to this need is to be found in the acceptance o f the Lord Jesus Christ as one’s own personal Saviour and the resultant presence of the Holy Spirit in the life of the new-born child o f God. It is perfectly true that there are social implications to the Gospel. But a minister of Jesus Christ perverts his calling and misses his mission when he replaces the Gos pel o f the Lord Jesus Christ with a social gospel message. It is quite true that the Gospel changes not only the human heart but also has a very definite eff ect upon one’s outlook in relation to his environment. But social betterment must always be a by-product o f Christianity. It must never be thought o f as a primary purpose o f our Lord’s coming to the earth. He came to die on Calvary’s cross as an atonement for sin. The failure of modernism, for that is exactly wJjat these eminent statesmen f rom Great Britain were talking about, may be observed and indeed, has been quite readily admitted to be the case in this beloved country o f ours. One dares to hope that since modernism has proven to be such a monumental failure, people would once again turn to the old glorious Gospel message as revealed in the Word o f God and proclaim it from the housetops. But, alas, the neo-orthodox adherents and the new evan gelical exponents once again are merely playing the old tune o f the early days o f the modernism of f if ty years ago. These ministers are sowing new seeds of unbelief which will surely bear fruit in the years that lie ahead in a new wave o f the old modernism which wrought such havoc and produced such spiritual decadence in the dmrch o f Jesus Christ. Tins is a day when laymen ought to speak out boldly in God’s name, demanding o f their ministers that th>ey preach the unsearch able riches o f Christ and refusing to support the program and ac tivities o f a clmrch where the Gospel is not proclaimed in all o f its beauty and saving power. They should assume a place o f spiritual leadership out o f winch all too many ministers o f Jesus Christ have " educated” themselves. May God help us in this dark hour to hold aloft the glorious light o f the Gospel o f our Lord Jesus Christ, who said o f Himself, " I am the Light o f the world.”
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