T H E K I N G ’S B U S I N E S S 121 love the truth to turn away from such teachers. One does not have to search far to discover what the apostle meant by the real power of godliness for he says (Eom. 1 :16): “ I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth.” True, it may be that there are some to whom the holding of doctrines is the sufficient achievement, but surely their belief has not gotten below the collar or the power of God would be “ working in them to will and to do of his good pleasure.” But what of the preacher’s declaration that the way of salvation may be found outside the Bible? The same writer from whom he took his text says that saving faith “ cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God.” The Gospel of Christ, which is the power of God unto salvation, repeatedly points out that no man can come to God except through Christ and Him crucified. The words of Jesus are final against this modern notion that it matters not what one believes so long as he is sincere. Neither Christ nor! any of the apostles would grant that man could rise through nature to nature’s God. It is true that in the works of nature one cap see the evidence of the wisdom and almighty power of its Creator, but nature has nothing more to say to man. For all any man can tell from nature, he is no more to God than the moth that flutters for a few hours and is gone forever. Nature unexplained by the Word of God—nature with all its calamities and dis orders, with its mysteries of pain, evil and death, has always led man to think that he was no more than an insect. Nature teaches no man that “ Godis love,” and any preacher who throws aside the Bible and talks about the love of God is simply stealing the sweet fruits of Christianity while he denies its essence and spurns the cross through which God told the story of His love to the world. Nature religions, as history shows, have always led men away from God. Modern evolutionary theories have beeome the religion of many people and already some of the most religious of the evolutionists have ruled God, as a personal supreme Being, out of His universe. It is the old story of nature religions—education without salvation, ever learning yet never able to come to the knowledge of the truth—having a form of godliness but not knowing the power thereof. —K. L. B. J U ST a little help from $ou — ^ would enable us to send the “K. B.” to some lonely missionary.
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