January, 1934
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sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed.” In Russia, where men have set out to rid themselves of God and conscience and the Bible, where it is a crime to believe that man is made in the image of God, human life is cheap. Years ago, one of the leaders of this anti-God move ment declared: “When I kill a hen or a rat, no one says any thing. Why do you say anything when I kill a man? He belongs to the animal creation.” That is no light remark. It is something to think about. If what he believes of man is true, then his logic is perfectly sound, and it is not for us to cry out against the killing of a man. If man has no immortal soul, he is only an animal; therefore, kill him if he is in your way. This is the reasoning of Russia, and this is the practice there. But mark you : Wherever you see men scoffing at the Bible, you may put them down as being among those who are abetting the crime wave. In his book, What o f the Night? Dr. Arthur I. Brown gives such statistics as the following: In ten years, crime has increased 400 per cent. In thirty-five years, it has increased 1200 per cent. In 1850, the proportion of prisoners to population was one to 3,000; in 1890, one to 800; in 1932, one to 375. (Continuing at this rate, it will not be long before every one will be in jail!) Divorce has increased 125 per cent since 1890, while sex crimes have jumped 700 per cent since 1900. The World War cost $1,000,000 a day to wage, but the crime bill of the United States has reached the staggering total of $2,000,000 a day. There were 20,000 suicides in 1931, and every year the number of murders increases, while lawlessness holds the reigns of authority. I P Christian people are to protect their boys and girls from this onrushing tide'vif’fiehooves them to build into the character of their children those things that make for righteousness. It is very difficult for a boy or girl to go to hell, if he has lived in a home for eighteen years where the Bible has been consistently honored in daily life as well as read at the family a lta rj. The memory of a godly father and mother and the early acceptance of Jesus Christ as a personal Saviour constitute an insurmountable barrier be tween the youth and those damning influences that are abroad in the world today. It is significant to note that after the Apostle Paul gives a description of the end time, with all the lawless ness, intrigue, and human wreckage that combine to make that time “perilous,” he gives to Timothy this secret of victory: “Continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them; and that from a child thou hast known the holy Scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.” In an other passage, he speaks of Timothy’s godly mother and grandmother from whom he had received his knowledge of the Word of God. ^ 10 is in the youth of today that the principles of right eousness must be implanted, if the rising generation is to be enabled to breast the tide of crime and wickedness that is rapidly rising and engulfiing the u n w a r 3-S3 / > / fi- 2 We are_ facing a new year. Only Goa knows what it shall contain—but He does! Tremendous issues are in volved. [The world is seething in unrest, rushing blindly to destruction. It is time for every follower of the Lord Jesus Christ to be alive, alert, active, snatching brands from the burning while he 3 ~ s i / , | />. i
o n e wants to know the signifi cance of the movements of men today, the best place for enlightenment is the Word of God, for[God has given in the pages of His Word a perfect outline of the march of the ages and the trend of the t i m e s Z - 2 0 / / / /»• ^ This fact is illustrated in the life of our Lord. Hundreds of years be fore He came into the world, the Spirit of God drew a portrait of the Son of God—of His character, His ministry, His death, and His resurrection—and every detail was minutely fulfilled. It is illustrated also in the great Gentile empires. Hundreds of years before they came into existence, God foretold the close of the times of the Gentiles and the conditions that would prevail in the empires that would be prominent in those times. It is demonstrated also in the Jewish nation. What God has written aforetime in regard to the Jew has been and is being fulfilled to the letter.
L ouis T. T albot “This one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize” (Phil. 3:13, 14). Herein is the secret of Paul's remarkable life. He concentrated on just one thing. He cultivated a wise forgetfulness. Like a trained runner, he kept his eye always . on the goal—the judgment seat of Christ. There is need today for men and women to share Paul’s secret! This is a good time to put real concentration into the task of forgetting the past—and of pressing for ward in the strength of the Lord.
The cause of the present crime wave is also clearly shown in the Word of God. Jesus Christ said that as it was in the days of Noah, so should it be at the coming of the Son of man. The days of Noah, described in the sixth chapter of Genesis, were days in which the earth was filled with violence. There were men of renown in those days, but not one of them, evidently, was able to cope with the violence and crime that surrounded him. Similar condi tions exist today. We have great scientists, great states men, great politicians, yet every one of them stands im potent before a wave of crime, the like of which the world has never seen. What are the underlying causes of these conditions? The first cause, from which the others spring, is the system of teaching called rationalism. The advocates of this per nicious teaching—the men and women who are attacking the Word of God and taking from the youth of our day all fear of God—are among the chief producers of crime. When a man rids himself of God, all restraining influences are immediately withdrawn, and it is easy for the devil to lead him into a life of crime. [Look at Germany. Luther turned that nation back to God, and during that period, it prospered and God honored it. But later the philosophy of Nietzsche crept in. It turned Germany in the direction of barbarism, and forged the sword that put ten million boys beneath the so ij5 -3 a /> /» Loeb and Leopold, the notorious Chicago slayers of r' Bobbie Franks, admitted that they had accepted the philos ophy of Nietzsche—that man is just a brute beast with a little higher intelligence than other beasts. Our President today is seeking to raise the value of the dollar. What is needed more sadly is a rise in value of a human life ! And the latter is possible only through the realization that man was created in the image of God, and that so serious a crime is murder, in God’s sight, that He has given as the first governmental law : “Whoso
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