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come quite obsolete in these days, yet all Scripture is profitable for doctrine, and it might be made profitable for reproof and correction if so used. May- God help the ministry to thus use it. The church, in the same chapter, that has this sin, is called upon to “mourn, that he who hath done this deed might be taken away from among you,)’ verse 2. Howbeit this may be the kind that goeth not out but by fasting and prayer. In the name of the Lord Jesus, verse 5, let us deliver such a one, verse 6 , unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh,'that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. Oh! but who has the courage to thus deal with such a sin? The Word of God commands us, the Spirit of Christ entreats us and the souls of men require’ us. Who dares to do otherwise? Furthermore, do you not know that ,a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump ? This sin in your midst will spoil or ruin the whole; remember Abimelech’s household. Therefore purge it out. No tice Paul does not call, a fornicator a brother, but rather if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator we aré told not to company with him, no, not to eat. In verse 10 Paul makes plain that he means the fornicators in the church and not in the world. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked per son. Hath not God said a bishop then must be the husband of one wife? 1 Tim. 3:2. Likewise a deacon, the husband of one wife. Also Titus 1:7, a bishop (marginal reading, elder) the husband of one wife. The divine order is that bishops, elders and deacons should be the husband of one wife. God’s order for individual lives then is : “What therefore God hath joined to gether, let no man put asunder.” God’s order for the church is, “Be ye clean that bear the vessels of the Lord.” May man’s order be revoked and God’s order restored in the individual lives as well as in the church, “that He might pre sent it to Himself a glorious' church, not having spot or wrinjde, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.” Their Lives Spoke Too Loudly A Hindu teacher said to a missionary one day, “I want to become, a Christian, but I do so in spite of the lives of the Europeans I have seen here. They seem to have two loathings—one is religion and the other is water.” And he did not mean it for bathing, but for drinking pur poses ! This was said in a section of the E a s t—the Straits Settlements—where nearly every European planter had his native concubine. His race prejudices do not-extend as far as his hists.
Plain Teachings Concerning Prevalent Sins B y M iss M ay H all , L os A ngeles G OD has been faithful in warning us B in Hi|?|Word both by precept and example, against the sin of adultery. But Satan has blinded the eyes of some concerning this, thus making the Word of God of none effect. From Genesis to Revelation' God has sounded forth His- warnings and danger signals. “Therefore,, we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard lest at any time we should let them slip.” In Genesis, chapter 20, we find God sending a curse rnpon Abimelech and his household for the sin of taking another man’s wife, though in innocency and integrity of heart he had done this (20:6). If the curse of death is pronounced upon an honest ancj innocent king,.where will the ungodly and sinner appear ? Exodus 20:14. Thou shalt not commit adultery: In Leviticus. -21:7, 13, 14, the priests of the Lord are forbidden to take for a wife a woman who had been put away from her husband, but are to take ’a wife in her virginity. So much for law; what about grace ? Jesus in His first sermon to His disciples, Matthew 5:31-33, forbids divorce, saving for the cause of fornication. If a man put away his wife for any other cause, he causeth her to commit adultery, and who soever marrieth her that is put away com- mitteth adultery. Where then is the in nocent party that we hear talked of? Surely no room here for such. If he puts •away his wife for the cause of fornica tion, she'is an adulteress; if he put her away for any other cause he causes her to commit adultery. Surely, then, both are guilty of this sin. Again Jesus gives us the same truth in Matt. 19:3-10; also Mark 10:1-12. Because of the hardness of your hearts, Moses' allowed divorce, Matt. 5 :31, “but I say unto you” and in 19:8, 9, “but from the beginning it was not so,” thus annulling all grounds for di vorce. God reiterated this truth in Ro mans 7 :1, 2, 3, the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth, loosed only by death, so then if, while her husband liveth she be married to another man she shall be called an adulteress. So God’s Word is in substance, “till death do us part,” and that is the covenant man makes with God. In 1 Cor., fiftti chapter, God rebukes the church for having the sin of fornication, also rebukes the church for not having put this sin from their midst. Church discipline to this extent has jje-
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