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TWO CONFLICTING VOICES. By O. C. S. Wallace, Pastor Westmount Church, Montreal, Canadt. “Except ye repent ye shall like wise perish.” Luke 13-5. “Bailor, my dear boy, 1 have had a longing in mv poor heart to speak te everybody one more time in your dear old Weekly, but have just put it off because it hurts me very bad to write. And then my words have been for many years most the same thing, and are still the same now. Oh, to everybody —studv God’s blessed word and obey it before it is too late. My text is the words of Jesus our blessed Lord and Saviour. He says heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away. Matthew 24-35. I am about to forget my request. I read this in the Christian Index. (Two Con flicting Voices.) The writer tells just how I feel about this vain generation, and of how I wish everybody would read his words and obey them. Now this is what 1 want you to do for me, please put it in The Weekly, for many reads The Weekly that does not take the Index. The following is published by request of Mrs. Shirley Elliott Kelley: Lord, revive Thy work!” —“On with the dance!” these are the two voices which are in conflict now. More than 2500 years ago law lessness and violence in Judah, and the menace of a “bitter and hasty nation,” led Habakkuk to cry, “Oh Lord, revive thy work in the midst of the years; In the midst of the years make known; In wrath remember mercy.” More than one hundred years ago, the eve of the battle of Waterloo, notwithstanding the ' ]oeril of the hour, there was revel ing in Brussels. Byron describes it thus: “Did ye not hear it? No ’twas but the wind, Or the car rattling over the stony street; On with the dance! Let joy be unconlined, No sleep till morn when youth and beauty meet; To chase the glowing nours with flying feet. But hark! The heavy sound breaks in once more As if the clouds its echoes would repeat; A nd nearer, clearer, deadlier than before — Arm! Arm! It is—it is—the canon’s open ing roar!” Even more reckless was the cry of one of the company of dancers in the ballroom of the Kremlin when Moscow was burning in September, 1812. A warning hav ing come that the flames were ap proaching the palace, there was a hush in the ballroom. Then a young man cried, “One more dance in defiance of the flames!” The revelry went on, but ended hor ribly a few minutes later when a spark reached the gunpowder which had been stored peneath the ballroom. Habakkuk Up-to-Date. There is- lawlessness today, and violence, on every hand. Cruel and concienceless men wax worse and worse. Whatever has been the intentions of sowers who went forth to sow; the nations are reap ing the whirlwind. A bitter and hasty people are crouching in hid den places, or when opportunity offers, springing savagely upon communities which cannot resist them. They seize “the dwelling places which are not theirs.” “They are terrible and dreadful.” Thev come all “for violence” They “scoff at kings,” and princes are “ a scorn to them.” They make their power their god. Russia Bgonizes in their grip. Europe shudders at the thought of them. Asia whispers and trembles. Amer ica is on guard. Africa is not neg lected by their emissaries. Civil- overthrow is their pur pose. They hate God, they perse cute the church, they spurn Christ. In the midst of their terror and turmoil, this violence and vice, this lawlessness and godlessness, the enlighted servants and proph ets of God kneel beside the ancient Habakkuk, and their prayer in this hour is: “0 Lord, revive Thy work in the midst of the years; In the midst of the years make known; In wrath remember mercy.” Brussels and Moscow Up-to-Date. Byron’s description of the Brus sel’s dance fits innumerable revel ries throughout our land, and the story of the revelry in Moscow, when that city was burning in 1812, describes a recklessness not greater than that which may be found in London, or Paris, or New \otk, or Montreal. A war begun some years before August, 1914, and we are now amidst the fury of it. Forces which battled fiercely outside and far from the areas of European battlefields five years ago, are siill locked in a deadly embrace. Bolshevism is attempt ing to inject its poison into all in dustries, and especially those in dustries which are most directly related to the structure of organ ized society, and quite apart from this world-wide propaganda, the spirit of bolshevism has invaded family life to an alarming degree. Many parents are helpless in the presence of the wave or indiscip line which is sweeping oyer the land, and reputable heads of schools are condemning fathers and mothers for not controlling their sons and daughters. It is declared that there is increasing truancy, deceit, lying and lack of honor amongst school children and youths. Banditry and burg lary flourish; the commands, in stitutions, and ordinances of God are flouted; godlessness is brazen and blatant. The battle in the grip of which we are, or on the edge of which we stand, means more to the whole world than Waterloo meant to Europe; the flames now spreading all about us are more terrible than the fires set by Russia in Moscow in 1812; the explosives beneath us are im measurably more dangerous than the gunpowder stored in the Krem lin. This is an hour for prayer! Which Voice Shall Prevail? Our hope is in God, and in God alone. Treaties between nations will not saye us. No international league, or association, or alliance, or understanding can be trusted to preserve the peace of the world, and maintain high standards of good-will and honor, unless the hearts of the men making these agreements and forming nations, have been touched by God. The desolations on this earth today are due to departure from God. His tory is repeating itself, and on a scale commensurate with the ma teria! progress which the world has made. In many places on earth the wicked have been turned into hell, and the gates of hell are prevailing. But against a peni tent and praying people the gates of hell shall not prevail. Lawless ness can be checked. Violence can be restrained. Anarchy can be driven cowering back to the noisome places whence it came. The revival of the “work” of God will effect deliverance. That “work” is dead or dying in wide areas; but God can make it alive again. He will do so when His people, relating themselves to Him in righteousness and faith, join in the concerted, importunate suppli cation: “0 Lord, revive Thy work in the midst of the years; In the midst of the years make knowm; In wrath remember mercy.” Up to the present hour only HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY. McDONOUGH. GEORGIA small companies have fallen upon their faces before God, making confession, and offering Habuk kuk’s prayer. Meanwhile, the ballrooms are crowded; the thea tres, in city town and village, are thronged; and enormous profits are pouring coffers of those who exploit pleasure, and human weak nesses, and even animal appetite and passion, for gain. And alas! millions of those who profess and call themselves Christians, instead of joining reyerently and yearn ingly in prayer, “0 Lord, revive Thy work!” are caught in the mad whirl of exces sive gaiety, are blind to the moral perils to which they, and human society, are exposed, and lightly and gayl.y cry, “On with the dance!” We Are Building Them Better Than Ever Before Mm\ Today, more than ever, Goodyear byrxjc Hjj|<\ Tires for passenger cars offer the tyyr ||®|m utmost in economy and satisfaction, /Vv im 1 Improvement after improvement has Vv/O PIS been effected in them in the past few I months. Our clincher type Cords, for 1 example, are now made larger, with (YjA I thicker tread and stronger carcass and jwfyf I bead. Our larger size Cords, our fabric I tires, and our inner tubes, too, are | bigger, stronger, more durable than ICXa I I before. You can get Goodyears, now, u I from your nearest Goodyear Service mmk \m Station Dealer. \M I / The Goodyear Tire &. 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God’s disapprov al of the evil is quick; His abhor rence is real; His antogonism is active. His “wrath” is making for distress of soul, and anguish. But God is merciful. He was merci ful in every past m ide golden and peaceful by His grace: and He is the same yesterday, today and forev r. Let the people pray to thee, O God, let nil the people pray to thee. Then shall l’hy mercy be revealed ui the midst of tile tur moil; Thy work shall be revived; and we shall be saved! Salesman Wanted, to sell tires direct from factory to user. Ex ceptionally good commission. All or spare time. Address, Burr Oak Cord Tire Company, Burr Oak, Michigan. For Dismission. GKORGIA—Henry County. \\ here.'is, J. 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