728 sense of sin in every phase of sin. There is the denial of the guilt of sin by m at ing it a mental error, a simple following of natural desires, or » moral disease like the measles that men will easily outgrow. There is the refutation of the corruption and depravity of sin by as serting that man is wholly good or natu rally always so inclined to be. There is the hot denial of sin’s fearful results, either in hells on earth or the eternal hell beyond. And, amazingly, all this theological rot and false Bible teaching at this time when the world is indescribably cursed by the grossest devilishness in all kinds of sin. This flippant waving info thin air of. sin, awful sin, right after the hor rors of the most fearful war of history conceived in colossal sin and crime and demonism, and now in the midst of post war orgies of increase of crimes, lusts, greed, vices, horrible sins of every kind! But this blindness to sin in the very hell of all sin accentuates the serious ness of the spiritual meaning 01 it. Wnat does it signify, we began by asking, as to the spiritual state of the Church at the present time? It means that the Holy Spirit who, ac cording to Christ’s promise when He agreed to send Him, “would convict the world of sin’’ is not in power in the Church today. Jesus did not rely upon the strong preaching of God’s law by His Apostles, nor by preachers at any time to coqvince men that sin is exceed ingly sinful, guilty and corrupt. Such conviction of sin is the exclusive func tion of the Holy Spirit. The Spirit al ways did it and it never was done with out Him. It follows then incontestably that no conviction of sin in the world means the Holy Spirit is not in the Church now as Christ promised. What else ean it mean? Why so blindly refuse to see it? And then why not down upon her knees, the whole Church of God, until the Holy
T HE K I N G ’S B U S I N E S S Spirit comes to terribly convict the world? That will make sin real in God’s own light as guilty, depraved and worthy of hell.—Roads. SPIRITUAL EVERLASTINGS Dr. F. W. Boreham sends forth from Australia “A Bunch of Everlastings.” This is a bouquet of scriptural blooms whose seeds were texts that made his tory. These texts standing alone are inspirational, and when coupled with the lives of men who made them famous they constitute an extraordinary present ation. Their total number is 23 and they include the following: Martin Luther.—The just shall live by faith. Sir John Franklin.—When thou pass- est through the waters, I will be with thee. John Bunyan.—Him that cometh to me, I will in no wise cast out. Sir Walter Scott.—Work while it is called today; for the night cometh wherein no man can work. Oliver Cromwell.—Seek that which will really satisfy. John Knox.—This is life eternal, that they might know thee. David Livingstone.—Lo, I am with you always/even unto the end. C. H. Spurgeon.—Look unto Me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth. John Newton.—Thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondsman in the land of Egypt, and the Lord thy God redeemed thee. Mr. Boreham’s book gives a vivid pic ture of the lives and circumstances at tending the development of the 23 texts., a» gp CHOICE OBSERVATION In the third edition of Science and Health we are favored with this choice observation: It is understood that the heathen na-
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