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tions which "outraged every sense," "offered of the firstlings of his flock, and the fat thereof." But somehow, his fine theory did not work. How we are not told, but in some way he was made to see that his aesthetic offering- was not acceptable; that it met neither the requirement, nor the approve! of Jehovah. That, of course, stamped Him as a savage Deity, but nevertheless, "the aesthetic, ad– vanced thinker" was angered,-he was wroth, and his countenance fell,-all the more as his brother's revolting sac– rifice seemed to receive more favorable consideration. The brothers had words over the matter. The "liberal" lost his temper, and effectually squelched the "conser– vative." In that controversy the "Mod– ernist," and not the "Fundamentalist," won out. J ehovah, however, took up the con– troversy : and, with the cry that has
rung down through sixty centuries, "My punishment is greater than I can bear" -CAIN "went forth from the presence of Jehovah" with "the brand of Cain" ·upon him; while the faith of Abel re. mains to this day: and "he, being dead yet speaketh," a message which ha; come down the ages and still proclaims that "not human opinions, nor tastes, !l inferences or theories, or philosophical it speculations," "but that which God has revealed" is the only safe rule for our' faith and conduct in matters of reli- re g~n. f Therefore, we continue to "preach Christ and Him crucified" (1 Cor. 2: G 2) and His "blood shed for the remis- h sion of sins" (Matt. 26: 28) and "re- la demption through His blood" (Eph. !: r 7) "to the J ews a stumbling block,"- u to the Greeks in the pride of their philosophies, "foolishness," but to us, "Christ, the power of God, and the wis– dom of God" (1 Cor. 1:23-24).
The ManWho Has Moved Ireland As it has not been moved for God since 1859 By ]. Kennedy Maclean, in "The Life ti of Faith" (English) O
N my way to the Portstewart Convention I have had the privilege of attending the closing services of the Rev.
The Flowing Tide Mr. Nicholson's activities in Ireland, it is true, have ceased for the time being at any rate, but the tides which, ~ through God, he has set in motion will, h there is every reason to believe, flow unto all eternity. Before dealing with Sunday's scenes and services at Car– rickfergus, I may be permitted a brief word of review. On Saturday after– .noon I spent an hour or two with Mr. Nicholson at Bangor, where he has ha_d a temporary home in the land of his birth, and as we talked of the mighty way in which the Lord has been moving
Wm. P. Nicholson's final evangelistic campaign in Ireland before his r eturn to America, and I am telegraphi_ng the article on Monday morning, in order that the readers of The Life of Faith may know that up to the very end God's hand of power and of blessing was upon this servant. One hesitates to speak of the movement as ended, al– though In one form it has come to a close.
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