dispensation, and the Sabbath is there-
fore still the ‘‘ _ord’s day.”
Also the seventh day is the Sabbath
of the new covenant. “For this is the
covenant that I will make, . . . saith
the Lord; T will put My laws into their
mind, and write them in their hearts.”
Hebrews 8:10. God's law written upon
the heart is wichanged even in one jot
or tittle, for thus Christ declares in
Matthew 5:18. All His commandments
“stand fast forever and ever.” Psalms
111: 7, 8. So when He writes this un-
changeable law in our hearts, the fourth
commandment. still reads: ‘The seventh
day is the Sabbath.” Indeed
a universal Sodom wherein the corrupt-
ing vices are spreading over the whole
face of the earth. It is most cheering to
know that these very conditions are
signs of the soon coming of Jesus Christ,
wherein He will put an end to all
wickedness and reign forever and ever.
NDOUBTEDLY at the door of
the parents of today must be laid
a great portion of the cause of the
criminal and social conditions that are
making our times most perilous. Re-
cently Judge William McAdoo, chief
magistrate of New York City, after
with the breakdown of religious faith
and traditional ideals, has been this
collapse of parental control. . . . If one
can point to any one cause more than
another that is responsible for the de-
moralizing of the younger generation,
it is the prevailing lack of faith in
religion. I am a constant attendant,
though not in a technical sense myself a
member of anv church, but I believe in
religion, a belief strengthened and con-
firmed after nineteen years’ experience
in dealing with crime. I have found one
thing more definitely established than
all others; that is, people who go wrong
and drift into crime are
Sunday observance came
too late to get into the new
covenant; for when Christ
died on Friday the new
covenant was sealed, or con-
firmed, by His blood. (Luke
22:20.) It was then forever
too late to add to, or take
from, it. (Galatians 3: 15.)
Hence, as Sunday did not
come into the church until
after His death, it can have
no part in tie new cove-
nant; and therefore Chris-
tians should not keep it.
Save Our Homes
(Continued from page 7)
is not used by our parents,
and the voice of prayer is
seldom known.
Can there be any ques-
tion that we are living in the
midst of the last days on
which the Saviour and all
the holy prophets fixed their
prophetic eyes? How apt
are the words of the prophet
Hosea in this connection:
“Hear the words of the
Lord, ye children of Israel:
for the Lord hath a contro-
versy with the inhahitants
of the land, because there
is no truth, nor mercy, nor
knowledge of God in the
land. By swearing, and
lying, and killing, and steal-
ing, and committing adul-
Truth Never Dies
Truth may be worsted in the fight,
And then in scorn passed by,
Trampled in rage upon the sod,
Neath tyrant’s foot and tyrant’s nod; N
But still it holds the life of God,
And truth can never die!
But all in vain men whet thetr swords,
And raise their battle song;
Behold, it raises from the dust,
The shackles that would bind it rust,
While all the cords of bondage burst,
For truth must conquer wrong!
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Ten thousand foes may plan its doom
Beside the open grave,
Determined that its hallowed light
Must evermore be hid from sight
Within the deepest, darkest night,
Where not a hand can save!
Still vested with the life divine,
Iis fountain fixed on high,
It faces time and scorn and hate,
Careless of high or low estate,
Heedless of all that wills its fate;
For truth can never die!
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those who have lost faith
in God. What inducement is
there to lead a righteous
life, if there is no faith?
Ethics are not a substitute
for the sermon on the
mount. In my dealings
with young criminals, I
find the parents of many
have brought them up
without any spiritual teach-
ings whatever, and this is
not confined to the parents
of boys and girls who be-
come criminal. It prevails
through the higher orders
of society. What this lack
of religious training, of
simple belief in a divine
Creator to whom we are
responsible for what we
make of our lives, brings
about, one can see in the
rampant dissipation, moral
degeneration, and intracta-
bility of the young today.”
The unprecedented revolt
against and the neglect of
the standards of the home
as seen in the lives of most
parents today is being most
definitely reflected in their
offspring. There seems to
have come upon the rising
generation an equal slump
in the recognition of author-
ity in every branch of life,
manifesting itself in im-
patience against all author-
tery, they break out, and
blood toucheth blood. Therefore shall
the land mourn, and every one that
dwelleth therein shall languish, with the
beasts of the field, and with the fowls of
heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also
shall he taken away.” Hosea 4: 1-3.
Who can gainsay that ‘‘swearing, and
lying, and killing, and stealing, and
committing adultery’ are on a most
terrible increase everywhere today? The
sins of Sodom are piling up before God
until one wonders how long the holy
and pure eyes of God can endure it.
How long will it be until the close of the
history of Sodom will be repeated in
the closing up of the world’s history?
There can be no mistake regarding the
fact that we are now living in the midst of
MARCH, 1929
seventeen years of experience as a
judge, wrote:
“As chief magistrate of the City of
New York, through whose courts each
year pass more than a half million cases
ranging from petty larceny to murder,
I can state from observation that most
crimes on the part of young people are
committed by those whose parents have
failed to bring them up according to
religious precepts, or who have lost the
faith of their forefathers. With their
own allegiance to their religious tradi-
tions weakened, they allow too great
laxity to the young. . .. To one who
has viewed the changes that have taken
place since the Armistice one of the most
outstanding manifestations, coincident
ity in religion, hatred of
convention in manners and customs,
and general contempt of technique in
all the arts, “coupled with" as
Cloudesley Brereton writes in the
Contemporary Review ‘‘a sort of fierce
determination to build up everything
de novo.”
T MUST be conceded that the
younger generation, so much dis-
cussed today, is the most important
generation. Upon its estimate of right
ideals, manners, and conduct depends
the character of the days to come.
Anyone who loves the human race can-
not but be interested in the welfare of
the younger set of our times and alarmed
in viewing the lack (Continued on page 34)
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