1st T H E K I NG ’S B U S I N E S S - m AUGUST, 1917 No. 8 || = - ...................... H m = | Vol. 8 m = E D I T O R I A L It is an easily demonstrable certainty that there is no “Neither Is ^ other Saviour from the guilt and power of sin but There Salvation Jesus Christ. It is not only in the Bible that we read in Any Other.” ‘neither is there,salvation in any other: for there is none other name given under heaven among men whereby we must be saved,” wp read it in experience also. Christianity has had and has today, many rival claimants. There are many beautiful teachings in some of these other religions, but they all fail at one point --they do not save. They do not save from the guilt of sin, they do not saVe from the power of sin, they do not give a guilty conscience peace, they do not deliver men from sin’s awful thraldom. .Jesus Christ alone gives the conscience peace, perfect, unbroken peace with God, and Jesus Christ alone sets men free from the bondage of «sin.
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Every man ought to make an honest and diligent search for the truth and follow every possible clue that promises to lead to it. No man has a right to t ask the question, “what is truth,” in the spirit in which
Our Personal Responsibility i° r Our Doubts.
( Pilate asked it, with a toss of the head, and not wait for' an ansWer. ’ No man has a right to give up the search after truth until he has made an honest and diligent search for the truth and followed out every possible clue that may lead to it. Our unbelief is no excuse,’ but rather a sin for which we ourselves are to blame, until we have made an honest and diligent and thorough search for truth and followed out all possible clues that present themselves to us. Any one who does this will ,Soon come out of the darkness of utter unbelief or agnosticism into the clear light of faith in the great fundamental verities.
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Pilate asked this question, but waited for no answer to it. He either wished no answer or else despaired of receiving one. Tossed about as he has been by the
“What Is Truth?”
conflicting claims of the many religions and philosophies with which he had been brought in contact, absolute truth had become to him a shadow without substance. He despaired of finding it, and' it is doubtful if he wished to find i t There .was never a day in which there were more people in hopeless confusion than the day in which we live. We live in a day when all religions and philosophies are being brought together for comparison. What an intri-
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