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beyond this world of ours? Is there a universal mind, a WILL analogous to the will of terrestial beings?

This has been the subject for meditation and investigation by the author, and this book contains the result and the answers to numerous questions asked along this line.

This world war demands an answer. Solicitous fathers, loving mothers, devoted wives, sympathetic brothers, sisters and friends demand an answer. The human soul cannot be satisfied or find repose until the relation of our present and future existence is solved.

Is there a universal plan, resolved, established, and relentlessly prosecuted by a self-existent being, or beings, omnipotent, omnipresent and omniscient; a deity, which has expressed its WILL in a series of revelations, which heeded bring happiness, but unheeded and defied bring suffering and destruction?

Rationalism.

In the days of calm and prosperity, conjectures are many. Then Rabelais, Montaigne, Voltaire, Rousseau, Thomas Paine, Robert Ingersoll and other atheists may be interesting reading for thoughtless and superficial souls. But in coming face to face with death, these rationalists and infidels prove to be fiends instead of friends, destroyers instead of restorers, messengers from hell instead of angels from heaven.

This book is written with a view to encourage the father, mother, brothers, sisters, and friends at home, and the soldier boys at the camps and in the trenches. "What we are actually fighting for?" is the theme.

Belgium, Serbia and than that. To estabYes, that, but infin

What Are We Fighting For? To save Roumania? Yes, that, but infinitely more lish DEMOCRACY throughout the world? itely more than that. To crush militarism, to promote disarmament, to establish a world court or a league of nations, to maintain peace and harmony upon earth? Yes, that, but infinitely more than that.

Why was UNCLE SAM dragged into this horrible war? To maintain our national dignity and the freedom of the seas and protection for our commerce? Yes, that, but infinitely more than that. To save our allies, England and France and Italy, from humiliation and defeat, and to stem the German ambition and progress in subduing the world for its own aggrandisement and benefit? Yes, that, but infinitely more than that.

UNCLE SAM IS DIVINELY APPOINTED AND COMMISSIONED for a great accomplishment. And being assured that we are not vainly trying to induce God to come over to our side to approve our doings, but that we yielded to Him, to His will, and have come over on His side, there is and can not be any question as to the final result. The victory is ours.

The Consciousness

that we are in this war in behalf of our homes, in behalf of our beloved country, in behalf of God's chosen people, and FOR GOD in the restoration of the Promised Land and the re-building of JERUSALEM, the Holy City, which will in due time become the Capital City of the World, and to usher in the millenium, when "nations shall learn to war no more"-such being the object, the actual war-aim, so far as UNCLE SAM is concerned, we esteem it not only a plain duty but rather a great opportunity, a glorious privilege, as American citizens to participate in the realization of such high IDEALS and the accomplishment of such a world-wide transformation.

Great Rewards.

Great will be the reward lavished upon faithful participants, whether they are parents who sacrifice their sons, the faithful, devoted wife sacrificing her husband, the capitalist who converts his treasure into LIBERTY BONDS, or the boys and girls who sacrifice and convert their sweets and dainties and moving-picture show fun into thrift stamps, and, lastly, but not the least, the urchin who converts his roving wasted hours into useful pursuits, earning and investing pennies, nickels and dimes saved into THRIFT-STAMPS until the $5.00 limit is reached, and then another, and still another, and so on until every man and woman, every boy and girl, and every baby-by all means the babies-have become pecuniarily interested with UNCLE SAM and shall have a share with him in the triumph and glory at the CELEBRATION of the attainment of the object or aim pursued. Who would then like to be classed as a non-conformist? Not I, nor anyone of mine.

INTRODUCTION

"BACK TO THE BIBLE is the immediate DUTY of Christendom. It has risen in RENEWED MAJESTY shining a LIGHT CELESTIAL in the gloom of a world war."

So wrote the eminent scientist, Dr. Edgar Lucien Larkin, Director of Mt. Lowe Observatory, in the San Francisco Examiner recently.

President Wilson and the Bible.

The New Testament of the Bible, distributed among the soldiers, has a message from President Wilson on the first page, a message and a testimony from this SCHOLAR and advanced thinker, this close observer and practical teacher-this, together with and standing so prominently by the side of Dr. Larkin's, the eminent scientist's testimony, outweighs a thousand fold anything and everything the Bible critics may spit out from their foul throats. Truly and effectively did the Apostle Paul stigmatize these critics and expounders of the higher criticism when he writes to the Romans in this style:

"Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips; whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness. Their feet are swift to shed blood. Destruction and misery are in their ways: AND THE WAY OF PEACE HAVE THEY NOT KNOWN. There is no fear of God before their eyes." Rom. 3:13-18.

How refreshing then, to see such men of learning and eminence as our beloved and honored President Woodrow Wilson, and the renowned scientist, Dr. Larkin, step forward and openly recommend the Bible as they do.

President Wilson's Message.

"The Bible is the Word of Life. I beg that you will read it and find this out for yourselves-read, not only little snatches here and there, but long passages that will really be the road to the heart of it.

"You will not only find it full of real men and women, but also of things you have wondered about and been troubled about all your life, as men have been always, and the more you read, the more it will become plain to you what things are worth while and what are not; what things make men happy-loyalty, right dealing, speaking the truth, readiness to give everything for what they think their duty, and, most of all, the wish that they may have the approval of the Christ, who gave everything for them; and the things that are guaranteed to make men unhappy-selfishness, cowardice, greed, and everything that is low and mean.

"When you have read the Bible YOU WILL KNOW THAT IT IS THE WORD OF GOD, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness, and your own duty.

"WOODROW WILSON."

"THE BIBLE IS THE WORD OF LIFE," is the testimony of the President. And further along in his message he says: "When you have read the Bible, YOU WILL KNOW IT IS THE WORD OF GOD;" know it from observation and personal experience, as you know your father, your mother, your brothers, sisters and friends.

And the author recognizes no other authority than the Holy Bible. This world war and everything connected with it is considered and treated from a Biblical point of view, as well respecting its cause as the time and conditions for peace and the results to be attained.

A General House-Cleaning.

When God sent His Son to earth the first time to establish a kingdom of "Peace and good will among men," He sent Him escorted by a few angels. "He came to His own chosen people, but they received Him not." They slandered Him; they defied Him; they scorned Him; they persecuted Him; they, at last, crucified Him. He was given to the world by His Father and He gave himself to the world to be done to as the world pleased. He came to reconcile the world with God, but the world refused to be reconciled. Instead of accepting God's offer and means for reconcilation, God's servant or messenger was dispised and murdered in the most disgraceful and agonizing manner that could be devised.

But having been made a sacrifice for the sins of this wicked world, He manifested by His holy life as well as in His suffering and death, God's mind and disposition and willingness to welcome the prodigal and showed the treatment he would receive if he would only return home and be reconciled. And leaving Himself for His Father's throne in heaven, He extended the invitation tɔ all the world through His apostles by the Gospel Ministry. This has now proceeded for nearly two thousand years, preparatory to His return to the earth to establish His kingdom.

Preparation for Second Coming.

God is not going to send His beloved Son the second time to this earth without a thorough HOUSE-CLEANING. The weeds. shall be weeded out. The chaff shall be gathered and burned. The net is to be pulled ashore, the fishes examined and segregated, the good to be gathered into vessels but to cast the bad ones away. Matt. 13:48.

The preparation of the earth and the inhabitants therein for the coming of Christ to rule as a king has just commenced. Prophecy is being fulfilled, as Dr. Larkin has so effectively set forth, and this is a warning to all peoples that the Bible is the inspired word of God, and that judgments and punishments will be meted out to transgressors in accordance with the plain statements of the Holy Scriptures.

This preparation, or to use a common expression, this housecleaning process concerns the church of Christ in the first place.

"For the time has come that judgment must begin at the HOUSE OF GOD; and if it first begin with us, what shall be the end of them that obey not the Gospel of God?

"And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and sinner appear?" 1 Pet. 4:17, 18.

How is the judgment of the HOUSE OF GOD, as here referred to by the apostle, going to come about? Answer: By trials and suffering.

"My son, dispise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked by him.

"For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.

"If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?

"But if ye be without chastening, whereof all are partakers, then ye are bastards, and not sons." Heb. 12:5-8.

This chastening and scourging may be mental agony, anguish, wailing, and fasting and tears, effected by our own sins and shortcomings, by family sins, by community sins, by state and national sins. Christ wept, seeing the sins and destruction of Jerusalem. Paul wept when he saw enemies to the cross. Ezra, Nehemiah and Daniel wept when they saw the sins and the reward and consequences of sins among the Jewish people.

Weeping and Wailing.

If we were as subtle and susceptible to the prevailing conditions, and to what these conditions are bringing over Christendom, as the prophets of old and as Jesus Christ and His apostles were, there would be much weeping and wailing these days, much humiliation and supplication before God, much broken-hearted confession of sins, much evidence of a contrite spirit and true repentence, resulting in a gracious outpouring of the Holy Ghost and a new birth for efficient missionary work at home and among the heathens. Such attitude of the ministry and the churches would bring on a world revival, greater in scope and deeper and more searching in effect than any since the day of Penticost.

And this would prepare the church herself for the proper state and condition to meet her HEAVENLY BRIDEGROOM on His coming to earth to take possession of His kingdom. Furthermore, we would all have, O so many sheaves with us for the harvest, so many lost sheep and lambs back for the kind shepherd to cheer His loving heart.

Weeping and Gnashing of Teeth.

But if the church continues indolent, indifferent, careless, in Laodicean lukewarmness, refusing or being unfit to become the means or instrumentality to effect this house-cleaning of her own. household, and in the community, state and nation, then God will resort to other means: The sword, famine and pestilence, as He

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