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did with His own people of old, when Jerusalem and the Jews refused to listen to the warnings of their prophets.

If we refuse to heed His warnings, refuse to adjust our lives in conformity to His precepts and ordinances, refuse to honor His inspired word as the word of God-He will counteract our refusal by refusing to protect us from our enemies; and this refusal on His part is equal to a deliverance of us into the hands of our dreaded enemies, to kaisers and terrorists, one more brutal and blood-thirsty and cruel than the other, until we shall be thoroughly disgusted with our compromises with the devil and his entire array of perpetrators.

For, remember, there must be a clean sweep of everything corruptible before or at the coming of Christ to establish His kingdom.

One Thing We May, the Other Thing We Must.

If we prayerfully listen to the Holy Ghost; if we submit ourselves to an honest self-examination; if we consider, meditate upon, contemplate seriously the sinfulness of sin and the farreaching effects of sin, as it is revealed to us in the garden of Gethsemane and on Calvary, disturbing the harmony of the universe, on earth and in heaven-if we thus seriously consider, meditate and contemplate, God's hand will be with us for our protection and salvation and against our enemies, and we may save ourselves, our families, our communities, our Nation. Blessed by God. we become a blessing to others. THIS WE MAY.

But, on the other hand, if this our first opportunity and privilege is NOT realized, NOT attended to, results NOT attained, then the other thing MUST come; the thing now in evidence in France, in Belgium, in Serbia, in Roumania and Russia-the thing that happened to Israel, Samaria and Jerusalem when their and our God refused longer to protect an idolatrous, disobedient, iniquitous people. THAT WE MUST.

The First Great Victory.

The first and greatest victory must be attained at home, in our own hearts, among the Allies themselves. For as long as the PULPIT inculcates hatred, contrary to the teaching and example of Christ; as long as church members find greater enjoyment in theaters and playhouses than in the church and prayer meeting; as long as Sunday newspapers and novels, and Sunday parties and excursions have greater attraction than the Holy Bible, and greater force than holy assemblies and divine worship; as long as the saloons and the liquor traffic are allowed to prey on the bodies and the souls of men, and grain, given by Providence for bread to feed the hungry, is permitted to be converted into a body and soul destructive poison; as long as houses of prostitution are allowed to exist to poison the race; as long as gambling of any kind is not thoroughly suppressed; as long as the Paris fashioncraze and open breast and slit skirt iniquity is allowed to play on the vanity of women; as long as the France preventive and

birth control sins are permitted and practiced, interfering with and undoing God's direct order and plan in peopling the earth; as long as dance halls and similar pitfalls for the young are allowed to exist and operate anywhere in the land-in short: as long as our lives individually, socially and nationally do not strictly conform to the word of God, as it is expressed in the divine law by Moses. and expounded by Jesus Christ in His sermon on the mountain and His teaching and example during His life, THE ALLIES WILL BE HARASSED BY THE KAISER OR SOME OTHER TERRORISTS. Rebellion and national and international disturbances are boiling everywhere. But there is nothing that will or can restore order out of chaos save the mighty hand of God.

We Can Not Successfully Fight God and Kaiser at the Same Time.

No; we cannot fight the Kaiser and the LORD GOD of Heaven at the same time. Sooner or later we will discover our mistake if we insist on it.

THE KAISER WOULD NEVER AT ANY TIME OR ANYWHERE HAVE HAD THE UPPER HAND WERE IT NOT FOR OUR SINS AND INIQUITIES.

But the conditions had degenerated fearfully among civilized peoples or nations. In Germany philosophy and the higher criticism had undermined confidence in the Bible, and KULTUR had been substituted for the Gospel of Jesus Christ. This blasphemous heresy spread all over the Protestant nations and peoples and weakened, almost blotted out, the moral accountability and responsibility to God. We have now found out what this much lauded KULTUR amounts to. German atrocities, rape and murder, and the agony, despair and cries of innocent victims stand forth in bloody array to testify.

"YE SHALL KNOW THEM BY THEIR FRUITS. DO MEN GATHER GRAPES OF THORNS OR FIGS OF THISTLES?

"Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but the corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. "Every tree that BRINGETH NOT FORTH GOOD FRUIT is hewn down and cast into the fire.

"WHEREFORE BY THEIR FRUITS YE SHALL KNOW Matt. 7:16-20.

THEM."

Bastard-Kultur-Tree and Fruit.

So it came to pass that German philosophers and divines discovered a wonderful seed in a refuse pile called higher criticism for scientific or rather common sense study of the Bible. This refuse pile contained remnants of all kinds of paganism from Buddhism to Mohammedanism and Kantism down to Wellhausenism.

This seed scientifically and analytically examined was pronounced as belonging to the genus KULTUR, the tree was so named from the seed. Planted in the German soil of constructive theology and fertilized by an English product very effective and

easily and cheaply attainable, Darwinism by name, and watered by copious showers of self-aggrandizement, and, lastly but not the least, invigorated by the warming rays of the sun of world supremacy, not forgetting the refreshing, invigorating breezes of superior excellence, indomitable resolution and world dominion, the tree grew until it reached the skies and spread its branches all over the world, bearing twelvefold fruit every month of the year, and abundantly for all the people and for all the various institutions of the world. The fruit is large, rosy, very beautiful to look at and of delicious flavor to all people of the BASTARD FAMILY or race. But to a certain other class of people, known as Covenanters or Pilgrims, because they have started out from the land of destruction and are on the way to the CELESTIAL CITY, to them, the appearance of this fruit is abominable and the taste of it nauseating.

However, the nations are now experiencing the after effects of that "kultur" fruit-no, call it by its right name: the Bastard fruit.

But it had to come to this. It required just that much to convince our high institutions of learning, our theological seminaries, our newspaper editors, our churches and people in general of the effects of this bastard-kultur fruit, to open their eyes to its actual abominable appearance and its nauseating taste and the infectious inhibition.

An Awful Price.

Think of the awful price the world now has to pay for the partaking of that deceitful degenerative fruit. How many of her best sons has England already sacrificed, and how many more will she? How many of her sons will America have to sacrifice to the same idol?

This is a question the answer of which is anxiously looked for by thousands of loving and devoted mothers and wives to-day. The answer is near at hand. And here it is as surely as God is God and His word is true.

Listen:

God's Purpose Attained.

AS SOON AS

GOD'S

GOD'S PURPOSE RESPECTING

HIS

CHURCH AND THE PEOPLE HAS BEEN ATTAINED WILL GOD'S HAND BE OVER US FOR PROTECTION AND AGAINST OUR ENEMIES TO DO ANY HARM.

Or, in other words, when we are willing and ready to return. to the Bible and to acknowledge its contents not only to contain the word of God but to be the inspired word of God, then the God of the Bible will become "our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. He maketh wars to cease unto the ends of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and he cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire." Ps. 46:1, 9.

Democracy a Side Issue.

The able and venerable editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, Mr. Henry Watterson, well known in the United States and England, wrote a remarkable Christmas message and published it in his journal, in which he gives expressions to truths that will live forever. Commenting on the war and war-aims, he writes:

"Surely the future looks black enough, yet it holds a hope, a single hope. One, and one power only, can arrest the descent and save us. That is the Christian religion.

"Democracy is but a side issue. The paramount issue, underlying the issue of democracy, is the religion of Christ and him crucified; the bed-rock of civilization; the source and resource of all that is worth having in the world that is, that gives promise in the world to come; not as an abstraction; not as a huddle of sects and factions; but as a mighty force and principle of being. The Word of God, delivered by the gentle Nazarene upon the hillsides of Judea, sanctified by the Cross of Calvary, has survived every assault. It is now arrayed upon land and sea to meet the deadliest of all assaults, Satan turned loose for one last, final struggle.

"The Kaiser boldly threw down the gage of battle-infidel Germany against the believing world-Kultur against Christianitythe Gospel of Hate against the Gospel of Love. Thus is he Satan personified-'Myself and God,' merely his way of proclaiming it— for his 'God' is Beelzebub, the Angel of Destruction, his creed the devil's own, his aim and end a hell on earth. Never did Crusader lift battle-ax in holier war against the Saracen than is waged by cur soldiers of the Cross against the German. The issues are indeed identical.

"If the world is to be saved from destruction-physical no less than spiritual destruction-it will be saved alone by the Christian religion. That eliminated leaves the earth to eternal war. For fifty years Germany has been organizing and laboring to supplant it with Kultur, the genius of Infidelity. Her college professors have been obsessed with it. Her universities have seethed with it. In acclaiming 'Myself and God,' the Kaiser has put the Imperial seal upon it. When our armies have run it to its lairwhen they have crushed it-naught will have been gained unless the glorious Banner of the Cross is hoisted-even as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness-and the misled masses of Germany are bade to gather about it and beneath it as sadly they collect the debris of their ruin for the reconstruction of the Fatherland.

"Let every American soldier swear this day-this Christmas morn-that he will link him and his with the Christ-child-the Light of Love-that suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried, that descended into Hell, that the third day arose from the dead and ascended into Heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of God, the Father Almighty!"

Thank God for such a clear, unbiased testimony by this godly editor, who cannot help but to exert a beneficient influence to a large circle of readers. If all editors and all professors, teachers and ministers believed as he does and stood as steadfastly by the standard of the CROSS as he does, the populace would soon be won over for Christ and saved and ready to meet the King in His glory. What responsibility there rests upon public men, and newspaper men especially, for they reach more people than any other class of teachers!

Another bright and shining star in the darkness is General Pershing. He has written a letter to the headquarters at Washington, a copy of which has been sent to the various church societies, synods, conferences, etc. as follows:

More Chaplains for the Army.

"The office of the Sacramento church federation has just received a copy of a cablegram from General Pershing, emphasizing the great value of thoroughly equipped chaplains and urging an increase in their number. This message from General Pershing ought to strike a responsive chord which will bring applications from some of our strongest men. The general's recommendation as to the number of chaplains coincides with the bill now in Congress, introduced by the federal council, calling for one chapplain for every 1200 men.

To the Adjutant General, Washington.

For the Secretary of War.

"1. In the fulfillment of its duty to the nation much is expected of our army and nothing should be left undone that will help in keeping it in the highest state of efficiency. I believe the personnel of the army has never been equaled and the conduct has been excellent, but to overcome entirely the conditions found here requires fortitude borne of great courage and lofty spiritual ideas. Counting myself responsible for the welfare of our men in every respect it is my desire to surround them with the best influence possible. In the fulfillment of this solemn trust it seems wise to request the aid of the churches at home.

"2. To this end it is recommended that the number of chaplains in the army be increased for the war to an average of three per regiment with assimilated rank of major and captain in due proportion and that a number be assigned in order to be available for such detached duty as may be required. Men selected should be of the highest character with reputations well established as sensible, practical, active ministers or workers accustomed to dealing with young men. They should be in vigorous health as their services will be needed under most trying circumstances.

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