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December 1928
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exchanges publications. At the anti-religious exhibition in Cologne this year, the USSR had a special section. To the activity of the Association is due the creation of a system of professional anti-religious schools whose pur pose is the creation of anti-religious specialists. * * * The A. A. A. A. has adopted an Atheist flag and pin which they hope will be accepted by Atheists of the entire world. The flag consists of a blue field, with a red star in the center. The pin is a small round button of blue, around a red star. The blue stands for “truth” and the red for “the courage to proclaim it.” H1 * H« A book of Atheist songs is planned. Compositions along this line are being gathered by the 4 A’s. They will be songs of ridicule and hate. How delightful it will be to get together a congregation of the godless and sing blasphemy! Hs * * W must get the boys and girls into The Schoolbag Gospel League. Have you written to the League,; 113 Fulton Street, New York City, for plans of organization and work in your community ? Do it at once! v\t£. Mr Creed W ithou t Deed From Editorial in “Herald of Gospel Liberty ” T OO often it has been the case that those who have had the most to say, and who still have the fnost to say, about spirituality, are the ones who have the poorest brand of it—a brand that is quickly dissipated when they get away from, the prayer-meeting or “revival” or mourner’s bench that was fulsome and noisy with this sort of “spiritual experience.” Equally often have men thought themselves to be highly spiritual when they were damning the Modernists and the Liberals and others who do not believe with them. Such ideas of spir ituality will have to be rooted out of the Church. We have had many and various evidences—within the past year or two some of them quite outstanding—as to how spurious is any such concept of the spiritual life. The Conservatives in the Church are past due for a thorough overhauling of their ideas and practices of spirituality and how it is produced and manifested. But if this be true, so no less are the Liberals dated for the same thing-—and largely because of the same basic reason. They have been as insistent upon “right thinking” as have the Conservatives. In their clearer moments, they realize that religion is a life; but, like the Fundamentalist, they seek that life through intellectual beliefs. But, unlike the Fundamentalists, they have had little to say about spir ituality because they have experimented little in the spir itual-having been too busy in scientific and philosophical research. They have not even had the name of being spiritual, much less the fact. And now come some of their own most clear-eyed prophets seeing the fact that there is no moving passion, no driving voltage, no sufifering- vicariousness in a religion like that to make it a reliant and comforting factor for either an individual or human society in those experiences and crusades for righteous ness in which man and men most need a gripping, holding God. This is no day in which to take pride in one’s aristoc racy of opinion or in one’s exclusiveness from the common crowd —and least of all in the realms of religion.
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L iv ing E p is tle s B y E dythe M. P eterson HOSE acquainted with the manufacture of paper know the many processes that are required WLg^to transform the raw material into the showy white sheets of paper that we write upon-. God said unto his Prophet Jeremiah, “Af ter IT JI those days [meaning the birth of Christ into the world] I wilt put my law in their inward parts and .write it in their hearts” Instead of the Mosaic Law that was written on tables of stone, God would write the new law, the law of Grace, in the hearts of His people, making them living Epistles. Let us consider the human heart and see what God intended it should be. It is the place where God’s natural law is written; but greater still, it became the place of the writing of the law of Grace; it is the secret seat of con science; the field for the seed of the divine word. It is the dwelling place of Christ in u s ; of the Holy Ghost, of God’s peace; the receptacle of the love of God; the closet of the secret communion with God; the center of the life of man; the very hearth of life’s impulse. From this- description will be seen the wonderful possibilities of the heart of man, if controlled by God. And yet we cannot refrain from viewing it from an opposite angle. What a place of rottenness it will be if God is shut out and Satan allowed to reign. Our hearts in themselves are but filthy rags and must first be made white and clean before they can become the dwelling place of God in us. The rags that are used in the manufacture of some paper must be thoroughly cleaned and whitened before they can be used. So must our hearts be made white and pure by the sacrificial blood of the Lamb, before they can be written upon by the Holy Spirit. Even then they must be subjected to a daily cleansing, for they are very easily stained by sin. As God intended us to be living epistles, it should bring to us the importance of taking the greatest care what kind of pages we write each day, that the contents of those pages show forth the unlimited love of God and His mercy toward men. We should take care that we are not books with closed covers but that we are open and easily read by everyone—not like some letters we receive, illegibly written and hard to read. As living epistles we carry with us great responsibility to those who are read ing us, but on the other hand it is a great privilege to bring the Gospel to those who do not know it through the actual living of it. To Our New Readers: If you a re en joy ing the m on th ly visits o f the K. B., w hy no t take advan tage of ou r special offer? See inside back cover of this issue. “
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