BEGIN EVERY NEW DAY IN 1961
L O S T / by Mrs. W . E. Hawkins I n h a d been a quiet restful Sunday afternoon in mid-summer. Day was dying now in the west and I sat on the front lawn of our home watching the shadows lengthen and dusk prepare to fold the earth in its embrace. What a picture of peace and tranquillity, I thought. Suddenly, a car rounded the comer on our quiet street and drew up di rectly in front of our house. A man with ashen face was sitting beside the driver. How shockingly haggard and worn he looked as he leaned out of the car to speak to me. Obviously something was terribly wrong. “ My child is lost . . . have you seen her? . . . a little girl about two years of age . . . curly-headed . . . pretty. She wandered away while we were pre-occupied with guests . . . searching parties out for hours but no trace of her . , .” The anguish in every word wrung my heart but I could not help him. For the father it was stark reality. His little girl was lost! Lost! Yes, and the whole com munity was out searching for the child. There was no rest, no living, no anything until she was found. That has been many years ago. The little girl has doubtless grown to womanhood and is somewhere now. I wonder where. It may be she is lost again, this time not body but soul, far away from God and Home. If she is, I wonder if her father is in any wise so concerned as he was then. What about her mother? Could it be that no one knows she is lost? Could it be that no one cares? It has been said that the peril of today is the peril of unreality. Eter nity and the things of the spirit, the unseen things, have little meaning for us. We are in anguish about the body, indifferent about the soul. Someone has strikingly illustrated this with a modem parable: A householder took a trip into a far country, leaving with his servant a child and the child’s clothes. After a while he returned and, on being questioned, the servant answered his master, “ Sir, here are all the child’s clothes. They are in excellent condi tion, clean and mended and pressed. But as for the child, I know not where he is.” It is an amazing tragedy that so- called Christian mothers can sleep peacefully at night not knowing that the souls of their children may be in utmost peril, without Christ and with out hope. But they can and they do. Do you?
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W I L L I A M C U L B E R T S O N P resid en t, M o o d y B ib le In stitu te speaks on the fundamentals o f the faith. M odern ism and Unbelief “ The Church has always had to face unbelief. Paul spoke of grievous wolves who do not spare the flock, and adHed: ‘From among your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things’ (Acts 20: 30). He also said, ‘There must be also heresies among you’ (I Corinthians 11: 19). But such unbelief is particularly a mark of the last days. ‘The Spirit saith expressly, that in later times some shall fall away from the faith’ (I Timothy 4: 1). One of their characteristics is that they hold a form of godliness, but deny the power thereof (II Timothy 3:5). “ The history of unbelief in the Protes tant Church today goes back to the Ger man rationalism of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Taken up by theolo gians, modernism, as it was called, made conquest after conquest. Do not be misled. It is not dead yet. It infects all views which fall short of the historic orthodox faith—the fundamentals of the Word of God. With unbelieving criticism it deigns to judge the Book by which all will be judged in the last day. “ The fundamentals of the faith are just that. Any ‘Christianity’ that denies or dilutes them is not the Christianity of the Bible. Such a ‘Christianity’ is to be repudi ated, rejected, condemned. It is spurious. The objective, historic revelation of God in the holy Bible— from Genesis to Reve
lation—presents these cardinal doctrines which are part of the warp and woof of genuine Christianity. “ These doctrines have largely to do with the Person of Christ, for Christianity at heart concerns Him. They are the divine inspiration of the Word of God, which is necessary if we are to have an infallible, inerrant revelation of the truth to be be lieved; the virgin birth and sinless life of the Lord Jesus, which is necessary if we are to have a Saviour; the atoning and substitutionary death of the Lord Jesus, which is necessary if men are to have a Redeemer; the glorious resurrection of the Son of God, which is necessary to the establishment of the validity of the cross and to all that that cross guarantees for the future; the ascension and return of the Son of God, which is necessary to the consummation of the purpose of God.” Every Christian should have a copy of William Culbertson’s book God’s Provision for Holy Living , a happy blending of Rible study and practical exhortation. 112 pages, paper bound. For your free copy, write Moody Bible Institute, Dept. K-O-871, 820 North LaSalle Street, Chicago 10, 111.
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