THE KING’S BUSINESS 677 is doomed. If all nations of. the earth should become democracies, or if all should gather together in one great democracy, it would not save our present civilization. The only permanent hope for the world is the coming of a King, that King “whose right it is to reign,” Jesus.
Every man ought to obey so much of the truth as he has found. He ought to obey the truth just as fast as he finds it. Many persons make the things they don’t see an excuse for not living up to the things they
Obey the Truth You Know.
do see. This is neither honest nor reasonable, it is manifestly absurd. We are not responsible for the truth we do not have, but we are responsible, and will be held strictly responsible for the truth that we do have. And the fact that we have not as yet other truth is no excuse for not obeying the truth we have. In faot the way to get more truth is by obeying the truth we already possess. It was because men when they knew God glorified Him not as God neither gave thanks that they “became vain in their reasonings and their senseless heart was darkened, professing themselves to be wise, they became fools. For this cause God gave them up to ever increasing vileness and sin.” (Rom. 1:21-27).
It is a certainty that admits of no question, that Jesus saves those who put their trust in Him. Whatever our theory about the person of Jesus Christ may be, whether we believe that He is Divine or believe that
An Unquestionable
Certainty.
He is merely human, whether we believe there was ever such an historical personage as Jesus of Nazareth or not, or whether we believe that the Gospels give a true record of His life or not, it is a certain fact of repeated experience that He does save. He saves from the guilt of sin, He brings peace to guilty consciences, there is no room to question this. There are millions of instances to prove it. There are multitudes of people in the world today who were once haunted and cursed by their consciences, in a veritable hell of agony because of their accusing consciences^ who today have perfect peace of con science through believing in the finished work of Christ. And there are multi tudes of others who were once in hopeless bondage to sin who have found deliverence from sin’s power through simple faith in that Jesus who died on the cross of Calvary and rose again.
Weeks and weeks have passed up to the present time (June 12) since every thoughtful man in this country has been brought face to face with the fact that the reason for hard times and insufficient food for our
Booze Still Triumphant.
selves and our allies was principally due to the fact that enough grain was going into booze to incapacitate and destroy men, to furnish eleven million loaves of bread a day. And yet our legislators have not taken one single definite and decided step in the direction of stopping this enormous waste. If the allies, and with them America, are defeated it will be not by force of
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