King's Business - 1923-06

568 T H E K I N G ’ S B U S I N E S S churches and Ministerial Unions composed of wheat and chaff, where the denial of the infallible Word of God is counted as a sure sign of scholar­ ship. And so it is that in the Satanic schools of supercilious suppositions so manifestly prevalent in this “ lime-light age” (whose light comes from him whom God’s Word describes as an angel of light, and whose presence always shadows the gathering of these “ scholars,” ) hearts are filled with hatred for a Christ of virgin birth and lips are loud in denunciation of the doctrine of a blood atonement, and their chief enjoyment is found in mak­ ing fun of the Fundamentalist: Unconsciously they are proving the verity of the Word which thus describes them: “Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance th a t is in them because of th e blindness of th e ir mind, and professing themselves to be wise, they become fools.” And how about the poor, deluded people—both young and old—who are depending upon them for the Bread of Life ? How about them ? What can we say? What can we do? How can we help them? There is one thing we can do—we can preach the Word. We can teach the Word. We can spread the Word through the .printed page. We can witness by lip and life to the verity of the Word. We can do personal work with the Word, and we can pray, pray, PRAY ! that if it please God this tide of unholy rejection of the precious Word may be stayed and that God’s people may prevail for a revival of faith in the infallible Bible and for a re­ vival of real service among all believers. —T. C. H; THE COMING GENERATION—WHAT? “ Th is kn ow a ls o » t ha t in th e l a s t da ys pe rilou s ti m es sha ll b e lover s o f the ir own s e lv e s1* coveto us, boa ste rs, p r o u d , b l a s T O P A R E N T S , unthankful, un ho ly ” (2 T im . 3 :1 -2 ). “Young men are growing better,” says Prof. A lbert Rolfe, of Pottstown, Pa., in a lecture before a women’s club of Philadelphia. “The boys of today are better in nearly every way than the boys of th irty years ago. The present day youth is sound and clean, and in .coming years will help set th e world rig h t.” We would like to believe it. But w ith such statistics as are brought to us through the newspapers and magazines, we can only believe either th a t th e profes­ sor was trying to be nice to a bunch of society mothers, or he has been “kidding him self” too much w ith th e evolutionary theory. When the New Testament prophets looked down to the end of th is age and saw the widespread revolt from the faith in which th e mystery of iniquity would head up, they saw also the decay of morals and a general lawlessness as its blood relatives. Scan some headlines clipped from the daily papers and ask yourself, How is this crime among mere boys to be accounted for? W hat will check it? More than three-fourths of th e male offenders brought into New York crimi­ nal courts last year were boys under 21. The warden of San Quentin prison, California, says th a t 50 per .cent of the prisoners are under 30, a n d '350 of them are boys. The census bureau reveals the fact th a t in one year 1600 boys an d 14,834 girls fifteen and under entered into matrimonial relation. IT COSTS SOMETHING—DOES

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