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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!”
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“One more dance in defiance of
the flames!”
Wrath and Mercv.
t
“In wrath remember mercy!”
The turmoil is all about us. It is
the turmoil of broken command
ments, slighted virtue, and a de
spised Jehoyah. 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!
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