The call of the hour to the Church of Christ is for a renewed confidence
in that Guide Book which she has brought with her down the centuries. As
her Divine Lord went away, He commissioned her to carry His good
tidings to all peoples; and so long as she remained true to this
commission and to her instruction book, the world's cunning sophistries
could not deceive her, nor could the cruel power of a world empire
stifle her voice. And now when her absent Lord is about to return again,
it surely behooves her to set her house in order, and to return with
candor and fidelity to that written code of instruction left with her by
her departing Master.
For the old-time friends of the Bible, the night of darkness and doubt
is rapidly passing; the morning of a fuller knowledge and a fuller
confidence is at hand. Gone are those agonies of doubt regarding the
truthfulness of the Bible's history and the adequacy of its ethics for
the needs of our modern world. Abandoned forever are all those futile
attempts at compromise, in a vain and painful endeavor to translate the
record of Creation into the language of a pseudo-science now rapidly
being outgrown, and to adapt the plan of salvation to the false
standards of an artificial age that seems to be rapidly disintegrating
before the Church's very eyes. She now realizes that her Bible is more
accurate than the world's science, her simple gospel wiser than its
philosophy.
The hour has struck; a sublime opportunity is before her; for the God of
nature has Himself opened up before His Church the long-sealed chapters
in His larger book, and is now pointing out the marvellous agreement
between His book of nature and His written record. The strongest
message of the Church has often been heard amid the darkest ages of
apostasy. And the prophecies of the Bible have repeatedly pointed out a
special message that the Church is to bear to the world in that darkest
hour just before the breaking of eternal day,--a message that we now see
is wonderfully adapted to this age of evolutionism in science and
pantheism in philosophy. Looking down along the darkening vistas of the
coming years, the great Jehovah saw how a vastly increased knowledge of
His created works would be perverted into a burlesque of Creation, and
how this would result in a wide-spread apostasy in which His written
Word would be derided and scorned. Thus He timed a special reform for
His faithful people to give to the world just before the end, calling
upon the disbelievers in Creation then living to "worship him that made
heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters" (Rev. 14:
7). And so now, when the darkness of evolutionism and pantheism is most
dense, a light from above has illuminated the record in the book of
nature, the language of which is already more familiar to our modern
world than the language of the book so long distrusted and almost
derided. This message itself from the book of nature is full of the
essential ideas of the Gospel, faith in a Creator, who by His tireless
care for the particles composing our bodies keeps them in order, and by
healing our injuries and curing our diseases inspires us with faith in
Him as our Saviour and Redeemer. And in such an hour, in such a world
crisis, He has placed within the power of His Church these modern means
of travel and quick communication, in order to speed on this last work
of His Church so as to complete it in "this generation."
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