964 THE KING’ S BUSINESS body, the Church, completed. The next step is to come together in such a meet ing as is proposed, and pray for his soon return. “ False teachings abound regarding ‘that blessed hope/ and false apostles are teaching it adulterated with dreadful heresies, by which meads the truth is discredited with many, and hosts of God’s people are blinded. Political and social upheavals, and the lawlessness, ambition, pride and greed of men have been manifested in the past few- years as never before in the history of the world. The apostasy in the professing Church, and the stirring among the dry bones of God’s ancient people Israel have kept pace with the other signs of the times. Surely, his coming greatly hasteneth, and therefore it is now the time of all times for believers to come together in prayer. When the return from the captivity drew nigh, Daniel prayed (Dan. 9 : 1 ) ; Simeon and Anna fre quented the house'of prayer before our Lord’s first advent (Lk. 2:25-38). Let us also— ‘and so much the Snore as ye see the day approaching’ (Heb. 10:19-25) (P-tell him, and tell one another, of our intense desire for that which he seems about to do.” It is well that we should pray for our Lord’s return. His coming and taking the reins of government is the only solution of the appalling problems that confront the nations of the earth. We may have peace without His com ing, but it will not be lasting peace. The cry of every intelligent Bible student and every really intelligent observer of current events, national and inter national, must be, “ Even so, Come Lord Jesus.” “ Come quickly.” Every war in human history has had itfe origin in the unbridled desire of some man or men to get something that did not belong to them. A large company of commercial adventurers and politicians have fomented revolution after revolution in Mexico, and sought by the most unscrupulous means to embroil our own land with that unfortunate country. It matters not to them that thousands of ignorant Mexicans lose their lives or even that thousands of the flower of our own young manhood perish in an ignoble and unnecessary war, so long as they coin the money that they lust after, or succeed in their political ambitions. , . , At the close of the second Torrey-Alexander Mission Bible Study in Liverpool in 1905, when for three months Dr. Tor- With a Purpose. rey had been preaching afternoons and nights at the great Tournament Hall, commonly reported to seat 20,000 persons, by actual count seating 12,500 persons, a great need was felt that the work be followed up, not merely by individual churches, some of which would do their duty and some of which would not, but also by an organized Christian Workers’ Training Class. It was expected that the work would con tinue a year. In fact it has continued eleven years, and promises to go on indefinitely. The class is conducted by J. Louis Fenn, district secretary of the Evangelization Society. We are just in receipt of the announcement of the twelfth session. It is so full of suggestion that we print parts of it. “ The Liverpool Christian Workers’ Bible Training Class was formed in “ Whence come wars?” asks the Holy Spirit through James, and then He answers His question by asking another: “ Come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?” They certainly do. Whence Come Wars?
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