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dilatory about sending It out so long at there Is a human being on the earth who has not received It? In It, and In the fulfillment of Its prophecies and ever-lasting promises Is the only hope · o! this lost world. Yes, the Bible can speak for itself.
It always has done so. The dtfllculty comes when men set themse.lve11 up to speak for It. And just because It can, and does speak for Itself, the Bible Un– ion of China wants to put on a mighty forward movement to get It to m1ll1on1 o:fl Chinese who have It not.
A Bit of History Rev. John G. Reid, Yakima, Wash.
NE of the outstanding teach– ings of the Scrlptures,-of the New Testament,- at w h I ch our Modernist friends hold
a reflection upon ourselves that we should tolerate such misrepresentations of God" etc., etc. And this, they say, ls "Modern"! How history doth repeat Itself! A. number of years ago, a man who has attained some celebrity In history, hold– ing similar views, came to grief. He, too, "took no stock" In "bloody sacri– fices"; they were revolting to his aes– thetic nature. Why should the life of an Innocent Iamb be sacrificed to ap– pease Deity? Why should the sweet morning air, laden with a thousand perfumes, be polluted with the smell · of blood and the stench of burning flesh? Bah! It smelled of the sham– bles; it was repulsive; he would have none of it! Nor did he so conceive of God. His parents indeed did so, and his brother, a traditionalist, accepted such "ante– quated notions" without protest: But he,-he was "progressive," "modern" of "more advanced thought." He was a farmer, a gardener; he was fond of fruits and flowers; was proud of his success, and rejoiced in the abun– dant gifts of the bountiful Father and Giver of all good. He would offer ap– propriate expression of his dependence, and grateful appreciation of God's fa– vor. So he brought of the fruit of the ground an offering to Jehovah: and re– garded with undisguised disgust his brother who still stuck to the bloody sacrifice, and In blind adhesion to tradl-
up their hands In well-feigned horror and disgust, Is "the abnormal emphasis placed upon the Cross," "the blood of lesus" and "bloody sacrifices,"-"the obnoxious exaggeration of the uplifted Christ" as a writer in the Christian Register expresses it. With a coarseness we should not look for in persons of their superior "cul– ture" and "refinement," and with a hardihood that causes us to stand aghast, they do not scruple to charac– terize it by such coarse phrases as "A Gospel of Gore," "A Slaughter House Religion," etc., counting the "blood of the Covenant," "the precious blood of Christ," "an unholy thing." It Is "grossly repugnant" to their aesthetic taste! It Is "a relic of savag– ery," "of heathenism;" it "smacks of the Druids, or Aztecs," etc. It Is in the Bible, to be sure; but "Modern thought has outgrown all that." One for many years an able, brllliant min– ister in the Presbyterian Church, quot– ing 1 John 1:7, "The blood of Jesus Christ, His Son, cleanseth us from all lin," said with a deprecatory wave ot: his hand, "Nobody believes that sort ot thing nowadays." "It is unworthy o! God as we now know Him, that He ahould need to be so appeased." It ts
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