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f§ ‘ ‘^ U have sinned in coming short of the glory of God.” Human laws thank God, restrain men, but they do not regenerate them. You do not change the nature of man by changing his environment, or his condition. Of course, a man is looked upon as innocent until proven guilty but laws are framed with the idea that he may be guilty. The law give's no ma^1 a certificate of honesty. Governments and corporations put a man under bond. The bonding company requires a certificate of character be fore they issue the bond. The bonding company may employ a detective to watch the man they have bonded, and then you look up the standing of tiie bonding company before you pay for their bond ! There is the ring of the street car bell, and the “ ting-a-ling” of the cash register; the inspector that accompanies the railway conductor; the credit man m the business house; the detective in the department store; the man who carefully scrutinizes employees when they leave the store; the auditor who carefully goes over accounts ; the detective that is on the track of the policeman; the plain-clothes man that you never know, and the burglar alarm m the home,—and in spite of them all, the thousands that crowd the jails and penitentiaries all witness against the deluded theologian, and all witness for the Word of God “ No, not one!” __T. C. H.
A PESSIMISTIC HigHer Critic || ,
£ear Preachers who have been trying so hard to persuade themselves that we have already entered the boundaries of the millennium, are some times compelled to voice a false note in their sweet lullaby of “ The World is Getting Better. Mr Henry Van Dyke, erstwhile American Minister to the Netherlands, in an address before The World’s Church Citizenship Confer ence m the City of Pittsburgh, is quoted as saying:
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