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tions that forget God.” You may have lived a very good life outwardly, and may never once have committed any of the glaring outstanding sins of the age, but you have “neglected,” you have “forgotten,” yon have failed to enter the Ark of Safety, Jesus Christ, and there fore you are guilty, and must perish. When God destroyed the cities of the plain, think you that all in Sodom and Gomorrah were equally sinful and de graded? Were there not sinners great and small? Was every man a criminal? And yet all were sinners, and there fore all were guilty before God. And when the fire and brimstone fell, it de stroyed them all alike, old and young, great and small, good and bad. All were in the city and in the same com pany, and all were branded “guilty.” No one would think for a moment of saying that all the first born of Egypt were equally depraved. Many were, no doubt, the finest living men of the land: statesmen, poets, philosophers and priests. But God said “When I see the blood I will pass over you” (Ex. 12: 13). Therefore every house sprinkled by the blood was passed over, and ev ery one not so sprinkled was smitten, and the eldest son slain. It was not a question of the heinousness of sin, it was a question of obedience. Was the" blood there or not? And once again there were only two companies, those sheltered by the blood and those not so covered. My brother, are you sheltered by the blood of Jesus Christ? Remember, “it i* the blood that makes atonement ^pr the soul” (Lev. 17:11).- “And without shedding of blood is no remission” (Heb. 9:22). God bas said in words that no man can alter: “When I see the blood I will pass over you” (Ex. 12:13). Otherwise you must perish. Are you covered by the blood, my sis ter? Has the blood of Jesus Christ, His Son, cleansed you from all sin? (I Jno. 1:7). OSWALD J. SMITH.
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DARWIN AYE you ever carried the Dar winian theory to its logical conclusion? Nietzsche did, and it made him the most extreme of anti-Christians. I had read extracts from his writings— enough to acquaint me with
his sweeping denial of God and of the Saviour—-but not enough to enable me to discuss bis philosophy. As the war progressed I became more and more impressed with the conviction that the German propaganda rested up on a materialistic foundation. I se cured the writings of Nietzsche and found in them a defense, made in ad vance, of all the cruelties and inhumani ties practiced by the militarists of Germany. Nietzsche tried to substitute the worship of “The Superman” for the worship of God. He not only rejected the Creator, but he rejected all moral standards. He praised war and eulo gized hatred because it led to war; he denounced sympathy and pity as attri butes unworthy of man. He believed that the teachings of Christ converted men into degenerates and logical to the end, he regarded Democracy as the refuge of weaklings. He saw in man nothing but the animal and in that ani mal highest virtue was “The Will to Power”—a will which should know no- let or hindrance, no restraint or limita tion. Nietzsche’s philosophy would convert the world into a ferocious conflict .be tween beasts, each beast trampling ruthlessly on anything and everything that stands in his way. In his book, en titled “Joyful Wisdom,” Nietzsche as cribes to Napoleon the very same dream of power—Europe under one sovereign
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