cThr King a lusinga _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ R. A. TORREY, D. D., Editor T. C. HORTON, J. H. HUNTER, WILLIAM EVANS, D. D„ Associate Editors A. M. ROW,-Managing Editor
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Voi. 9
MARCH, 1918
No. 3
E D I T O R I A L
S erm ons in t r a c t f o rm . A great demand has .arisen for several recent sermons delivered by Dr. R. A. Torrey and they have now been printed in tract form. One tract contains two sermons under the title, “ The Exact Truth about Hell.” Another, “ The Greatest Lessons of 1917.” This address attracted wide attention from ministers and laymen alike, when delivered on the last Sunday of the year, and by request was repeated on the afternoon of Sunday, January 6. Between 3000 and 4000 persons, many of them ministers, filled the Bible Institute Auditorium to hear it. At the morning service, on the same day, he delivered, “ Peanut Patriotism and Pure Patriotism.” All three may now be secured from the Book Room of the Bible Institute. When one reads the appalling accounts of the destruction and misery, the oppression and cruelty, the untold and untellable agonies, that have come out of this war, one is often tempted to wonder why did the loving God, Who rules in human history, ever permit this war. The question is not at all impos sible nor even difficult to answer. The suggestion of a partial answer, giving one of the reasons why Gpd permitted the war, is found in an, address by Harry Lauder. After telling o f his own experience at the front, and how the lives of many men had been changed by the war, he says that “ one night an officer said to me, very quietly: ‘When I see the men this way, I sometimes wonder if this war was not brought about by God as the only jjieans of making the world think of Him and His laws more often!’ ” In the address of Harry Lauder already referred to, he quotes one man as telling him very simply: “ Do you think for a moment that if we thought that life held nothing for us than the earthly body we possess, we would fight with-such a confidence and eagerness? We would not be able to, because we would be doing everything in our power to preserve this life o f ours. But see ing men die as I have seen them, I know better than to disbelieve in a future life. And because we have no fear of death, every one of us, flings himself oyer the banks and on to the Huns with a fierce, almost savage joy. . . . We 1 1 7 H Y DID GOD PERMIT THIS WAR? ' ‘ tJELIEF IN A FUTURE LIFE NECESSARY TO MAKE A GOOD SOLDIER.
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