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April 13, 1910.
THE FUTU
In the prophecy of Amo?
hold the days come, saith th
a famine in the land, not a
lor water, but of hearing 1
they shall wander from sea
even to the east?they slial
word of the Lord and shall
Perhaps the greatest extr
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The fiercest calamity that <
ine.. It is true that it is
plague or contagion literj
and thousands of our fello\
and sorrow among the sti
rible thing when war overv
pillage and burn and desti
fearful when a cyclone, wi
tanic fury, hurls homes to
from our breasts, spreadin
wake for miles. It is app
an earthquake and fire vis
Francisco and leaves it a n
hul cuinparauie vu a iamine
There have been many <
dawn of history, and the
enumerates 350, beginning
Scripture in Palestine durii
Jacob, the seven years in
Kingdom, the 34 in India, ;
ly in China. When Amos
famine, no doubt the peop!
oft before told of a comin
had sometimes repented a
gencies, awful and monst
them to understand that a j
for bread was about to be
words of the Lord: Behol
Lord God, that I will send
famine for bread nor thirs
the words of the Lord; an
shall wander from sea to :
the east, and shall seek the
not be able to find it."
Famine in the land! X
know what it meftns, fatli
mothers shivering and dy
the table for bread till th<
there is no help. Cattle lov
in the stall and the heavens
ing the fields, and nothing
ing, starving, men faint an
able from weakness to bun
is reeking with fumes and
and tears and blood. Is
this? Yes. It is a
Famine for th<
Jesus the Master said: )
and alone; but by ev<
from the mouth of God.
famine for the word of th
thirst of spirit that would
isfied; and death, spiritua
THE PRESBYTERIAJ
RE FAMINE.
; we read these words: Bee
Lord God, that I will send
famine for bread nor a thirst
the words of the Lord; and
t to sea, and from the north
1 run to and fro and seek the
. not find it.
emity to which a community
for bread or thirst for water,
can befall a people is a fam;
a horrible time when the
illv sweeps away hundreds
vmen and entails heartbreak
icken families. It is a tervhelms
a people and soldiers
rov property and life. It is
th monster strength and tipieces
and tears loved ones
g suffering and havoc in its
ailing when a calamity like
its a beautiful city like San
lass of ruins. But these are
desolating famines from the
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with those spoken of in the
ng the time of Abraham and
Egypt, those in the United
ind the terrible famines latebegan
to prophesy a coming
le began to listen. God had
g pestilence, and the people
nd been saved from continrous.
But Amos soon had
greater calamity than famine
in the land. "Hear ye the
ia tne aavs come, saitn the
a famine in the land; not a
;t for water, but of hearing
id men shall run to and fro,
sea, and from north even to
: word of the Lord and shall
lcn shudder to hear. They
ers fainting with hunger,
ing, children crying around
i parents' hearts break, and
mig in tnc streets, and dying
; as brass and the sun parchto
eat; hut starving, starvd
die and the living are unr
the dead till the whole land
want and disease and death
there anything worse than
e Word of God.
Man shall not live by bread
;ry word that proceedeth
And now there is to be a
e Lord, a hunger of soul, a
I not and could not be sat1
death, abroad everywhere,
J OF THE SOUTH.
and men dying for want of
children dying and being lo
There has never been a
Bibles, nor the knowledge (
n nrl vpf tliprp line nntfor
lion in Germany that evidei
the word of God. This is
grant, but unless there is a 1
the literary culture of the
culture will shine like an e
yard, and our boasted civil
and Rome that preceded it,
anarchy and blood.
Talking wih a learned crii
ago, he pointed out an art
called my attention to it,
weightiest argument he had
And the subject was
The Invisib
the deadly onslaught of infi
ism that was taking hold c
and from them would sprea
tial influence, over the worl
lege bred men and women t
significance to the old myth
of ancient literature, conco
?s the word of the Lord,
thought. It was a fearful a
idents, teachers and govern
lievers, are undermining th
ing of our children placed
soberly believe that, person:
child to a pest house than t
under such tutelage and inf
I think we can find in this
for us of the twentieth cent
being endowed, and monet
equip and endow them, gr
state universities; and yet
college is poorly equipped
there are few of the wealthy
of money to endow them,
secret. After all, we may
secret of the
Dearth o
is found partly in this fact,
no longer a place in the p
children finish there, they a
or universities where the 1
the shades, and its sacred a
nized, and its solemn teachi
In this do we find one c
a . coming famine for the >
been the reasons advanced
for the ministry. Much ha:
the most enthusiastic camp
our denominational rnlloa-p
be overtaken. It has beei
small. But who would ser
aspersion on noble men of
say that the ministry is so
Never has there been a day
have not been willing to de
might honor Him who love<
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tlie truth and women and
st forever without hope!
i day when we had more
if God so widely scattered ;
n a day since the Reformanced
a greater ignorance of
a great day of culture, we
cnowledge of the Lord with
day, our boasted light and
lectric over a moral graveization
like that of Greece
will go down ultimately in
:ic on the train a few weeks
icle in a leading' magazine.
and said that it was the
read in life on the subject.
le Crusade,
delity, skepticism and athe)f
our college bred women. '
d as an invisible, yet potenId.
He contended that col:oday
refused to place great
ological stories and legends
cted and gathered together
1 almost trembled at the
irraignment of college ores
ors, who, themselves unbee
faith and hope and trainunder
their care; and I do
illv, I would rather send my
o send her to an institution
luence!
; old prophecy of Amos food
:ury. Great institutions are
r can be liad like water to
eat secular institutions and
the smaller denominational
and poorly endowed, and
class who leave great sums
We can find in this a great
perhaps find that the great
f Ministers.
In our cities the Bible has
ublic school, and after onr
re sent- elsewhere to schools
iible is wholly relegated to
uthority is no longer recogng
no longer impressed,
f the srongest evidences of
A'ord of God. Many have
for the scarcity of students
s been written about it, and
laign has been instituted in
:s that this deficiency may
n said that the pay is too
iously dare to cast such an
iiocl! \\ ho would dare to
light for loaves and fishes?
when the followers of Jesus
nv themselves all. that they
cl them and died for them.