THE K I N G ’ S BUS I NESS 2. God has promised a time when there shall be no more war. “ In His days shall the righteous 'flourish, And abundance of peace, till the moon be no more.”— Ps. 72:7. “ They shall beat their swords into plow shares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.”—Micah. 4:3. “ They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain; for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of Jehovah, as the waters cover the sea.” — Isa. 6:9. When will this glad day come? Not when this war is won and the wise men of the world agree on terms which they think will insure peace for centuries. Lasting peace can never be secured by the covenants of sinful men and covetous nations. When will this world peace be enjoyed? When the King of Peace cometh. He will come just as He said, “ This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world for a testimony unto all nations; and then shall the end come” (Matt. 24:14). He was not talking of the end of the world but He was giving an answer to the disciples’ question as to “ The sign of Thy coming and of the consummation of the age.” (Matt. 24: 3). Would you save the world another such war? Then hasten the coming of the King, who will rule in righteous ness and peace, by sending the gospel to the last man and woman in the earth. Multiplied contributions of workers and money and prayers to missions now and after the war will prevent our posterity from drinking another just such a bloody mixture from the cup of God’s wrath against apostate nations. GOD GRANT IT! “ God grant our brave troops may win the reward they deserve!” says the kaiser. Nobody could wish them any worse luck.
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GREATEST SPIRITUAL MOVEMENT What is the greatest spiritual move ment of the century? I speak from the deepest conviction. The Modern Bible Conference, and the Bible and Missionary Training School. The first is a short course in Scrip ture; the second, a more complete training in the same. In them God has flung His lines of defense from sea to sea; the destructive criticism— the enemy that has come in like a flood— is finding the Bible Conference and the Bible School capable of both stubborn and successful resistance. The Conferences and Schools are not the exponents of science, not the special advocates of philosophy, not the instruc tors in history. It is an age of spec ializing, and they have deliberately chosen to specialize in the knowledge of God’s Word. Ours is a great gospel! The people that best proclaim it are marked for progress; and those who most deny it are destined to perish.—Dr. W. B. Riley. ¡ 1 BIGGEST TOBACCO BUYER The following astounding statement appeared in a daily paper several days ago, and thousands of “ war workers” will ask, “ Can it be true?” We quote: “ The Y. M. C. A. has become the larg est customer of tobacco dealers. A sin gle order was recently made for 1,337 tons of tobacco of various sorts. At one time, for instance, the ‘Y’ buys 600 tons of cigarettes, 300 tons of chewing tobacco and 312 tons of smoking tobacco.” & TRUE AND TOLERANT- Let us be faithful but not factious, at once true and tolerant— true to first principles and tolerant towards per sonal opinions on secondary questions. —-U. M. McGuire.
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