Down to Earth But Heavenly Minded

“If thou warn the wicked . . . thou hast delivered thy soul,” God speaks.

The gospel of Christ is written in letters of heavenly light against the fearful black cloud of human guilt flashing with warnings of coming wrath!

TO THE PREACHERS OF “THE
SOCIAL GOSPEL”

This is the doctrine that Jesus Christ came to reform society (whatever “society” may be!); that He came to abate the evils of selfishness, give a larger “vision” to mankind; and, through His example and precepts, bring about such a change in human affairs, social, political, economic and domestic, as would realize all man’s deep longings for a peaceful, happy existence upon earth, ushering in what these teachers are pleased to call, “the Kingdom of God.”

1. Now, in the first place, Jesus Christ came to save sinners, not “society.” He said, “The Son of Man hath authority on earth to forgive sins.” Now, sins are individual transgressions against a personal God; there is no such thing in Scripture as these social-gospellers dream of,—a condition of “society” to be “changed” or “ameliorated.” All that really exists is the guilt of a vast number of really guilty sinners. “Society” does got exist before God at all; and it is a vain delusion of the devil that sins are dealt with en masse.

2. Sinners, having been pardoned, find themselves in a blessed fellowship, a really heavenly thing, constituted by the Holy Spirit, who indwells each of them. But to confuse this fellowship with what these social-gospellers call “society,” is to forget that “except a man be born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

3. It flatters men’s vanity, of course, and shelters them from conviction, to be dealt with as “society,” and not as guilty souls needing personal pardon through the shed blood of Christ. Therefore this gospel (which is not a gospel, but a lie, a delusion of Satan), draws together vast concourses of unconverted men and women, “church-members” and “non-church-members.” Its preachers are plausible and popular, for if “society” is going to be saved in a mass, individual repentance need not be mentioned. The Jesus of these men,—the Stanley Joneses, the Sherwood Eddys, the Frank Buchmans, the Bishop McConnells, the Kagawas, and a whole host of drifters and on-the-fencers, is not the Lamb of God taking away the sin of the world by an atoning sacrifice, not the One despised, forsaken, smitten of God, of the fifty-third of Isaiah! He is not at all the substitutionary Sacrifice drinking the cup of wrath for man’s guilt! But He is “the Christ of the Indian Road”—or the American road, the Canadian road, the English road, as you please; walking by the wayside, teaching the multitudes, as in the Four Gospels,
BEFORE HE WAS REJECTED AND DIED. He is not the
RISEN CHRIST, with all power in heaven and earth given unto Him, pouring forth the Holy Spirit and doing mighty works, as in the early church days.

I affirm that the present day popular preachers
DO NOT KNOW what human guilt, before God, is!
DO NOT KNOW that Christ really bore wrath under God’s hand for the sin of the world!
DO NOT KNOW that He was forsaken of God, as the whole race, otherwise, must have been! I affirm that they are preaching as if an unrejected, uncrucified Christ were still being offered to the world! They preach the “character” of Jesus, saying “nice things” of Him, and telling people to “follow His example”: while the truly awful fact that Christ “bare our sins in His own body on the tree,” that He was “wounded for our transgressions,” that He was “forsaken of His God”; that “God spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up,”—and that “for our trespasses,” is never told to the poor, wretched people! Nor are they warned of that literal lake of fire and brimstone into which “every one not found written in the book of life” will be cast, and that forever.

One look into the lost eternity to which these last-days “preachers” are leading those who follow them, renders even the briefest consideration of these men who dare to call themselves “preachers of the gospel,” beyond all enduring. As Jeremiah cries:

“Concerning the prophets. My heart within me is broken, all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine hath overcome, because of Jehovah, and because of His holy words. “Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they teach you vanity; they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of Jehovah. They say continually unto them that despise Me, Jehovah hath said, Ye shall have peace; and unto every one that walketh in the stubbornness of his own heart they say, No evil shall come upon you . . . Behold, the tempest of Jehovah, even His wrath, is gone forth, yea, a whirling tempest; it shall burst upon the head of the wicked . . . I sent not these prophets, yet they ran: I spake not unto them, yet they prophesied. But if they had stood in My council, then had they caused My people to hear My words, and had turned them from their evil way, and from the evil of their doings” (Jeremiah 23:9, 16, 17, 19, 21, 22).

And Ezekiel:

“And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying, Son of Man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel that prophesy, and say thou unto them that prophesy out of their own heart, Hear ye the word of Jehovah: Thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Woe unto the foolish prophets, that follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing! . . . They have seen falsehood and lying divination, that say, Jehovah saith; but Jehovah hath not sent them: and they have made men to hope that the word could be confirmed. Have ye not seen a false vision, and have ye not spoken a lying divination, in that ye say, Jehovah saith; albeit I have not spoken? “Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, Peace; and there is no peace; and when one buildeth up a wall, behold, they daub it with untempered mortar: say unto them that daub it with untempered mortar, that it shall fall” (Ezekiel 13:1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12-14, 15).

And,

“When I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, thou shalt surely die, and thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way; that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood will I require at thy hand. Nevertheless, if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn from it, and he turn not from his way; he shall die in his iniquity, but thou hast delivered thy soul” (Ezekiel 33:8, 9).

You may say, Those were Old Testament prophets—Jeremiah and Ezekiel; and Those were messages to the Jews. Wait till you meet, as you will shortly, the God Who inspired these prophets. Let us see what you will say to Him,—you who profess to preach the gospel of Christ. and yet preach it not!

And Paul saith: “Though we, or an angel from heaven should preach unto you any gospel other than that which we preached unto you, let him be anathema.” “For I delivered unto you first of all that . . . Christ died for our sins, according to the Scriptures, . . . that He was buried; and that He hath been raised on the third day according to the Scriptures.” This very declaration of the gospel after Christ died, is that atoning death of His. When you leave that out, and prate about the “beautiful life” of Jesus, you are deceived by the devil and are a deceiver of other souls.

4. We know that this “social gospel,” the false news that humanity is to be reached in the mass, and not by individual conviction, individual faith, individual new birth by the Holy Spirit, is a lie, because Scripture directly contradicts any such notion:

Hear Paul: “In the last days, grievous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, haughty, railers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, implacable, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good, traitors, headstrong, puffed up, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God; holding a form of godliness, but having denied the power thereof: from these also turn away!” (II Timothy 3:1-5). Peter also: “In the last days mockers shall come with mockery, walking after their own lusts, and saying. Where is the promise of His coming?” (II Peter 3:3, 4). Paul again: “Evil men and imposters shall wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived” (II Timothy 3:13). And our Lord plainly says: “In the day that Lot went out from Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all: after the same manner shall it be in the day that the Son of Man is revealed” (Luke 17:29, 30).

How dare you call yourself a believer of Scripture, while you deny such plain words as these, and preach a fool’s dream, that the world, with the devil still here, its prince and god; and man still unregenerate—that the world will by some “social gospel” gradually change in character? It is a lie! and those that preach it, preach a lie. The words of God shall be fulfilled, and not the mouthings of a McConnell or the fumings of a Fosdick.

And, O social gospeller, if you are looking for a changed state of “society,” who is going to help you bring it in? The Holy Ghost will not, for He has inspired men to write that the very opposite will occur! that men shall hate one another, and that the world will grow worse, to the very return of Christ. And we know that enlightened Christians will not go about to bring in what they know from God’s Word is not coming in! And ignorant Christians cannot help you,—for they know not how. And we know that this selfish world will not go about to bring in your social dream: for you and we know they are set on their own interests, and will remain so. And Satan cannot do it, if he would!

So, O social gospeller, who would go about to bring in a “new social order,” you are left to do it yourself, without that regeneration by the Holy Spirit which alone truly saves men; without any message of pardon for guilty souls through the shed blood of a Redeemer (for you do not preach that!) without the help and prayers of true believers: for, these pray, “Thy Kingdom Come”; but they know that Christ must return to earth to bring in that Kingdom; and they know that all other promises are false and lying hopes!

Footnotes:

1
Paul, being really the least, is the greatest of men! The Lord Jesus said, “Among those born of women there hath not arisen a greater than John the Baptist.” But He added immediately, “Yet he that is lesser in the Kingdom of heaven is greater than he.” (Matthew 11:11). Paul names himself “less than the least of all saints,” speaking in the Spirit. When John the Baptist speaks of the place he had, it was, as “the friend of the Bridegroom”; but Paul, of his work, as that of espousing and presenting the saints as a chaste virgin to Christ”! We cannot conceive of a higher honor, than that given to this very least of Christ’s bondservants,—to present His Church to Him; as we believe it will be given Paul to do, at the Marriage of the Lamb! (Revelation 19:6-9;
II Corinthians 11:2)

2

It would be well also here, regarding Paul, to apply Mark 10:43,44: “Whosoever would become great among you, shall be your minister.” The Greek word for “minister” here is the one we translate elsewhere “deacon” (diakonos); but verse 44 goes further and deeper: “And whosoever would be first among you, shall be servant of all.” Here the Greek word is the one always used for a slave under bondage—doulos. And so we find Paul saying to the Corinthians:

“We preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your bondservants far Jesus’ sake . . . Though I was free from all men, I brought myself under bondage to all (verb form of doulos: literally, I became bondslave to all), that I might gain the more . . . I will most gladly spend and be spent out for your souls.” (II Corinthians 4:5; I Corinthians 9:19;
II Corinthians 12:15, Gr.).

No other apostle calls himself “slave of all”: Paul got the first place, by our Lord’s own word,—not that any who choose to be slaves of all for Christ’s sake may not he associated with Paul! Rut he is “less than the least,” even yet!

No wonder, then, that we find Paul speaking with an authority from the Lord such as no other apostle uses. Moses (who had authority in Israel) was “meek above all the men an the face of the earth.” The Lord Jesus Himself is seen, when the Kingdom is handed over to Him, as a Lamb that had been slain (Re 5:6) is ever “meek and lowly in heart.” Thus Paul says, “I am nothing . . . I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the Church of God.” (Here, by the way, was sovereign grace! Christ’s choosing His greatest enemy to be His greatest apostle!)

3
The verb to call (kaleo), is used in this way of Divine sovereign action about forty times; and the cognate noun (klesis), eleven times: always in the sense of Romans 11:29: “The gifts and calling of God are not repented of.”

4
In the book of Acts, Peter and John, together with others of the twelve, and Philip and Stephen, give witness to our Lord’s physical resurrection, and proclaim remission of sins to the Jews and proselytes. Then God, through Peter, (to whom the Lord had given the “keys of the kingdom of heaven”) opens the door of faith to Gentiles (Acts 10). Paul, saved outside Jewish bounds, saw the glorified Christ, and heard His voice (Acts 9). He is sent forth by the Holy Ghost (Acts 13), with the gospel which belongs to this dispensation, wholly apart from the Law of Moses: witnessing first in synagogues, and afterwards, at Ephesus, (Acts 19), bringing believers out into separation from rebellious Judaism. Finally, at Rome (Acts 28), through the awful passage of Isaiah Six, he declares the Jews to be judicially hardened, and “this salvation of God sent to the Gentiles,” Since that day, Jews are invited to believe,—not as Jews, but as sinners!

5

“Compare “holy Scriptures” (graphais hagiais) here, with “sacred writings” (hiera grammata) of
II Timothy 3:15, and with the words, “every Scripture is God-breathed” (pisa graphç theopneustos) of the following verse (II Timothy 3:16). We should, in
II Timothy 3:16, supply the substantive verb, “is,” after “Scripture”; and the words “and is” after the word “God,” with the resultant reading: “Every Scripture is inspired of God and is also profitable,” etc. The reading in both the English and American Revisions here is a poor attempt at literalness which avoids the evident meaning of the Holy Spirit, and is, furthermore, not a possible translation in view of the Spirit’s constant use of the word graphç in the New Testament as referring only to the Word of God. To say, “Every graphç inspired of God,” etc., is to insinuate that there may be a graphç uninspired; whereas graphç is God’s technical word for Scripture, for God’s inspired Word, used 51 times in the New Testament as a noun denoting always inspired writings. Its first occurrence is Matthew 21:42; its last, 2 Peter 3:16. Other illustrations are Matthew 26:54, 56; John 10:35; and
II Timothy 3:16.

We may note also, as to “holy writings,” that Paul, if addressing Jews, would have said the holy writings, for they had them; but he is writing to Gentiles, therefore omits the article.

6
Let us beware, however, of misapplying I Corinthians 2:2: “I determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ, and Him crucified.” Paul goes on in verse 6, there, to say: “We speak wisdom, however, among them that are fullgrown”; and in 3:1: “I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, as unto babes in Christ. I fed you with milk.” “Jesus Christ and Him crucified” is the gospel for the sinner and babes in Christ; Christ Jesus and Him glorified is the gospel for instructing and perfecting believers (I Corinthians 2:6-13).

7

“That same energy of the Holy Ghost which had displayed itself in Jesus when He walked in holiness here below, was demonstrated in resurrection; and not merely in His own rising from the dead, but in raising the dead at any time, though most signally and triumphantly displayed in His own resurrection.”—W. Kelly.

I have never seen a fully satisfactory explanation of the words (literally) “marked out as the Son of God with power, according to the Spirit of holiness, by resurrection of dead (ones).” The account of our Lord’s death in Matthew 27:51-54 remarkably corroborates the truth of this great verse. The rent veil, the earthquake, the rent rocks, and the opened tombs: “And many bodies of the saints that had fallen asleep were raised; and coming forth out of the tombs after His resurrection (for He was the First-fruits) they entered into the holy city, and appeared unto man).” And the awed testimony of “the centurion, and they that were with him watching Jesus, when they saw the earthquake, and the things that were done, feared exceedingly, saying, “Truly this was the Son of God.” And as Luke adds: “Certainly this was a righteous man!”

8

“Christ was to be born as Seed of the woman, Seed of Abraham, and Seed of David: as the Seed of the woman to bruise Satan; as the Seed of Abraham, to bring in salvation to the whole household of faith (Galatians 3:16); and Christ was to be the Seed of David, in the actual fulfilment to Israel of all Messianic promises: for He was born into the “house and family” of David. In fact, He is named in the New Testament as Son of David a dozen times. It is from the sixteenth Psalm, concerning David, that Peter quotes in Acts 2:25-36; and Paul calls Christ David’s Seed, quoting from the same Psalm in his first recorded sermon (Acts 13:16-41); although he addresses those Jews in Antioch as “children of the stock of Abraham.” Christ was the Seed of the woman; He was also the Seed of Abraham; but He was born into this world of a virgin of the family of David (her betrothed husband being also of that fami1y), so that they both went to enroll themselves in the city of David, Bethlehem (Luke 2:4, 5).

“There is strong reason to believe that Mary, as well as Joseph, was a descendant of David. This was the persistent tradition of the early Church.” —James Orr.

“I do not doubt that Luke’s is Mary’s genealogy.”—Darby.

9

“By “religion” (thrçskeia): we mean that worship which is conducted through ceremonies. Paul, indeed, calls that worship, in Galatians 1:13, 14 Judaism—(Ioudaismos). James 1:26 uses the word thrçskeia, which primarily means, fear of the gods. The fundamental thought in “religion” is the performance of duties. In fact, the English word “religion” from Latin, religio, a binding, that is, to bind duties on one, and is an accurate setting forth of the original meaning.

Now this was exactly what was not done in the gospel. “Religious” duties as Such were wholly set aside, and faith in the living Christ substituted. Strictly speaking, a believer is a man who has a Person, not a religion.

The “Judaizers” were those professing to be Christians who were determined to fasten on Christian believers “Iaudaismos,” as Paul calls it. The cross ended all that: the veil was rent, the way to God made wholly open, apart from “religious duties and ceremonies, days, seasons, months and years”!

10
We might render these expressions: “Jesus Christ’s by calling,” “saints by calling.” Calling, in this sense, is always of God the Father, who appoints to each creature its own manner, character, and sphere of being.

11
“When one puts alongside of this (thanksgiving and prayer) the similar language used by Paul to the Ephesians, the Philippians, the Colossians, and the Thessalonians,—what catholic love, what all-absorbing spirituality, what impassioned devotion to the glory of Christ, what incessant transaction with Heaven about the minutest affairs of the kingdom of Christ upon earth, are thus seen to meet in this wonderful man!”—David Brown.

12
Matthew Henry well remarks, “The church at Rome was then a flourishing church; but since that time, how is the gold become dim! The Epistle to the Romans is now an epistle against the Romans.”

13
“We must keep the personal-letter spirit of Romans before us, if we are to be truly benefited by it. So we shall seek not only to teach doctrine with Paul, but to exhort response with him. We must not only teach, “Paul said so and so to the Roman Christians”; but, “Paul says so and so to us.” And we must remember that as Paul told Timothy to teach, exhort, charge, command, rebuke, to be urgent in season and out of season,—so must we exhort, command, rebuke, who teach Paul to others.

14
To the Jew the whole world was divided into Jews (Ioudaioi) and Greeks (Hellenes), religious prerogative being taken as the line of demarkation. To the Greek and the Roman the world was similarly divided into Greeks (Hellenes) and Barbarians (Barbaroi), civilization and culture being now the criterion of distinction.” —(Lightfoot.)

15
“All philosophy is a perfect delusion; intellect has nothing to do with God at all. Faith is never in the intellect; and, what is more, the intellect never knows a truth. Truth is not the object of intellect, but of testimony. This is where the difference lies. You tell me something and I believe you, but the thing that receives truth (a testimony) is not intellect. Real intelligence of God is in the conscience. The mind is incapable of forming an idea of God, and that is where the philosophers have gone wrong,”—This word by Mr. Darby is the very truth!

16

“Notice, it is not the cross. Romanists put the cross on the top of the cathedral; millions wear a figure of the cross around their necks; but they may never have heard “the word of the cross.” As Paul says further in I Corinthians 1:23, “We preach Chest crucified, [not the cross, merely] unto Jews a stumbling block, and unto gentiles foolishness; but unto them that are saved, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.”

As one has said,

“Not to Thy cross, but to Thyself,
My living Savior, would I cling!
‘Twas Thou, and not Thy cross, that bore
My soul’s dark guilt, sin’s deadly sting.

“A Christless cross no refuge were for me;
A crossless Christ my Savior could not be:
But,
O CHRIST CRUCIFIED, I rest in Thee!”

17
“In these days of “respectable” Christianity, with its great cathedrals, churches, denominations, colleges, seminaries, “uplift movements,” etc., you may say, Men no longer have any temptation to be “ashamed of the gospel.” But lo, and behold, it is not the gospel they preach; but a man-reforming, world-mending message of fallen flesh! Who today preaches of the wrath of God? But Paul speaks of wrath twelve times in Romans, and says: “If God visit not with wrath, He cannot be the Judge of the world.” Who preaches of the awful things we are about to find true of the Gentile world in the end of this chapter? Who preaches, that even among the moral philosophers, the “better” classes (in the first part of Ch. 2); or the “religious” world as represented by the Jew (last part of Ch. 2); or in the whole world (3:10-20), that “none is righteous,” “none doeth good”? Who preaches that the whole world is under the Divine sentence of guilt, and that no man is able to put this guilt away? that the shed blood of Christ as the vicarious sacrifice for human guilt is absolutely the only hope of man? who preaches this, today? Here and there, one! It is blessed for you, brother, if you are preaching the gospel Paul preached, and are not ashamed thereof! It is blessed if you art not sucking the poison-honey of Modernism; nor allured by earth’s Kagawas into the fool’s paradise of the “social-gospellers”; nor deceived by the Neo-Romanists,— the Man-Confessionalists, the Buchmanites (falsely called the “Oxford Movement”). Better be in prison with Paul, with Paul’s gospel!

18
Note, it is the righteousness of God, not the righteousness of Christ. It is God’s acting righteously upon the basis of Christ’s redeeming work.

19

A word concerning the preposition ek as used in verse 17, “a righteousness of God from (ek) faith,” etc., or “faithwise.” There has been much objection to the translation of ek by “on the principle of”; yet that is about the expression nearest to the truth of any we have found, unless it be “faithwise.” Literally, ek means out of, or from. We ourselves use “out of” thus: “He acted out of prudence,” —(as animated by that principle) or, “He gave out of kindness.”

But it is of imperative importance that we get the great fact quickly and forever fixed in our hearts that God declares men righteous not by faith as the procuring cause, for the blood of Christ was that; not by faith as the putting forth of a certain faculty innate in man, much less by the keeping of divine commands, however holy and just; but out of reliance upon His own word as true, and on that alone.

20
Divinity (theiotçs)—what pertains to God; rather than deity (theotçs)—“the state of being God”:—the Godhead. That there is divinity, men know from creation; God,—the Godhead, Deity, is known by His saints.

21

We cannot refrain from quoting here Joseph Addison’s beautiful hymn. Would that it were widely learned and sung today!

The spacious firmament on high,
With all the blue ethereal sky,
And spangled heavens, a shining frame,
Their great Original proclaim.
The unwearied sun, from day to day,
Doth his Creator’s power display,
And publishes to every land,
The work of an Almighty Hand.

Soon as the evening shades prevail,
The moon takes up the wondrous tale,
And nightly to the listening earth
Repeats the story of her birth;
Whilst all the stars that round her burn,
And all the planets in their turn,
Confirm the tidings as they roll,
And spread the truth from pole to pole.

What though in solemn silence all
Move round this dark terrestrial ball?
What though no real voice nor sound
Amidst their radiant orbs be found?
In reason’s ear they all rejoice,
And utter forth a glorious voice:
Forever singing, as they shine,
“The Hand that made us is Divine.”

22
Read “Does Science Support Evolution” by Dr. E. Ralph Hooper, for many years Demonstrator of Anatomy at the University of Toronto (The Defender Publishers, Wichita, Kansas, U. S. A.; 50 cents). It gives an astonishing amount of accurate testimony.

23
“Fools”: “This is Paul, the writer’s (that is, to say God’s) estimate of the philosophers and religious leaders of the race. Paul knew the boasted wisdom of the Euphrates and of the Nile, the learning of Hellas, and of Rome. We know it today. But there is this difference: there are those in our time who see no generic difference between these ethnic sages and the prophets of God, while Paul declares the former to be but ‘fools’.”—(Stifler).

24
Crucifying Christ in Our Colleges, by Dan Gilbert, shows the monstrous doctrines of this evil “educator,” whose influence is so great with many colleges and universities in the United States today. May God keep Freud’s filthy feet from our shores!

25
Mahatma Gandhi, he of the horrible, toothless, diabolical grin of conceited folly; having been educated in England, and having heard the gospel and read the Scriptures, and rejected their light: sits on the deck of the steamer returning from India—doing what? Forming mud images with his own hands! A self-advertising illustration of the idolater’s heart-conception of the glorious incorruptible God.

26
The Greek words used here are not the noble ones meaning men and women; but those denoting sex only, as in lower creatures. (For many examples, see thçleioi and arsenes in Liddell and Scott’s Lexicon.) This passage has deep significance in this day of the “sex-craze”: when, as some one says, “Human beings seem to be just beginning to realize that they are male and female.” The first of Romans warns of what such a craze will end in!

27
The Greek words used here are not the noble ones meaning men and women; but those denoting sex only, as in lower creatures. (For many examples, see thçleioi and arsenes in Liddell and Scott’s Lexicon.) This passage has deep significance in this day of the “sex-craze”: when, as some one says, “Human beings seem to be just beginning to realize that they are male and female.” The first of Romans warns of what such a craze will end in!

28
The expression in
II Thess. 2:11 is exactly the same: God sends them who refuse the love of the truth “a working of error, that they should believe the lie”: in this final case it is the apotheosis of idolatry,— Satan’s false Christ, the Antichrist, himself a lost man, whom they worship!

29
There is no Scripture record of idolatry before the Flood. The solemn presence of the Cherubim at the gate of Eden, probably continued long. Sin was increasing, but the Spirit was striving with man (Genesis 6:3 Then the 120 years passed; man was given up and the Deluge-judgment came. After the Deluge, came Nimrod, son of Cush (hence Bar-Cush, which becomes Bacchus), and the Satan-invented plan of idols to obscure God,—by demons (I Corinthians 10:20). God permitted this as a judgment on a race that did not desire knowledge of Him.

30

“Few, perhaps, realize what is going on right here in America (not Russia) in these last days. Read these two extracts:

From Children of the Jungle, by Thos. Minbaugh, Prof. of Sociology, University of Minnesota. (Reprinted in Reader’s Digest, 1935):

“Child tramps learn all about life—and who can do that and ignore sex? More and more girls are following their brethren on the bum; about one tribe in ten has female members. About one child tramp in 20 is a girl, disguised usually in breeches, but just as appallingly homeless as the boys, and young— under twenty. They live in the jungles and boxcars, serving as mistresses and maids, sharing the joys and sorrows of life on the roads. They treat all boys and men alike; the girls are available to any and all in the camp. Occasionally a pair of girls travel with a gang for weeks; others prefer variety. They go from jungle to jungle without discrimination; they know they will be welcome.”

From The Disinherited, by J. Pegano, Scribner’s, also reprinted in Reader’s Digest:

“I visited the ‘jungle,’ a mile or so out of town. All men who are ‘on the bum’ have a certain similarity—a lean and sullen look. [Describes some] . . . and a hatchet-faced man whom I recognized to be what is known among men on the bum, as a wolf. A ‘wolf’ is a man who picks up young boys on the road, for reasons it is not necessary to go into. There are hundreds of ‘wolves’ on the road, and thousands of boys fall a prey to them.”

31
1. adikia; 2. poneria; 3. pleonexia; 4. kakia; 5. phthonou; 6. phonou; 7. eridos; 8. dolou; 9. kakoçtheias; 10. psithuristas; 11. katalalous; 12. theostugeis; 13. hybristas; 14. hyperçphanous; 15. aladzonas; 16. epheuretas kakôn; 17. goneusin apeitheis; 18. asunetous; 19. asunethetous; 20. astorgous; 21. asponpdous; 22. aneleçmonas

32
‘In the six words of which this is the first, God emphasizes the negative, or stubborn quality of badness Each of these words begins with the Greek alpha, which has the force here of alpha privative: denial or negation of the quality expressed in the word. Therefore we have translated the first letter in all six “without,”—a rendering consistent rather than elegant, as accuracy of interpretation, rather than “excellency of speech” should be sought here.

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“I stood several years ago upon “Starved Rock,” near LaSalle, Illinois, a beautiful hill with precipitous sides, where in 1769 the entire tribe of the “Illinois” Indians were starved, almost to the last man, and the tribe practically exterminated, by other Indian tribes besieging the rock. You say, But those were Indians: I am civilized. No, God says, “There is no distinction; for all sinned.” And even Paul cried, “I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwelleth no good thing.”