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P R A T , Brethren, Pra$ It is not difficult to point to the perils that confront us as a people in our beloved country; nor to the manifold menaces that face us as the fol lowers of Jesus Christ, for never was there so much opposition to the. truth as now. Every daily paper in our great commercial center accentuates- the grave dangers. The risk to human life, to morals, to the perpetuity of the foundations upon which has been built our.government, grows more seri ous with every revolution of the globe. The seed sown by Satanic influ ences has taken deep root. A growing opposition to God, the Bible, mor ality and decency is, with brazen face, asserting itself. Before the war, enrollment in our universities and colleges was 139,000. This year it is 250,000. Once our hearts would have rejoiced greatly over this. Now a great fear possesses us. What does it portend when we con sider the present attitude of so many of the professors toward the Word of God? We know what has been wrought in the last twenty-five years. We can shut our eyes and calmly say “ we hope for the best,” but that does not change the facts. There is a great law of God, unchanging and un changeable—“ sow and reap.” We open wide our eyes and look straight at the seed which will be sown in almost every institute of learning and ask ourselves, and ask God, the question: “ What will the harvest be?” What can we do who hold fast to God’s unerring Word? We can pray. And we can do something else. We can lift our voices and contend for the faith. But we must as believers in the Word and power of God, as those who have a, heart for all men, do the one great thing against which all the powers of Satan and men are as the puny bulwarks of the seashore against the mighty tidal waves of the ocean—pray! When Aaron and Hur upheld the arms' of Moses, Israel prevailed. Let us pray! Let us plead! If God has not been able to soften or break our hearts over the sad, pitiable condition of this poor, sin-sick world, which reels on like a drunken man to its doom, and over the sight of the profess ing church, pliant in the hands of professional religious politicians, then our case would seem hopeless. But His eyes are not blinded. His ears are not heavy. His armds not shortened. His heart is not hardened. Let us gather in the name of Christ, His only-begotten, well-beloved Son, who has said: “ Whatsoever ye shall ask in my Name that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son” ; in the name of our crucified, risen, coming Lord; and let us plead for the outpouring of His Spirit. God’s grace has reached such hearts as hard as that of Saul of Tarsus, the Jerusalem professor and murderer. He can break the stony hearts of college leaders. He reached Nicodemus, and the politicians of the church are not beyond His power. Backsliders, like the poor prodigal, can be brought back to the Father’s house. Sinful men and women in places, high and low, are susceptible to the pleading winning influences of God’s Holy Spirit; but God wants us to take our places at His feet; to confess our own sins, our own indifference, our own selfishness, our own lack of love for lost men, our own blindness to conditions.
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