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Edited by Robert Bruce Thurber
Vol. xxxviii, No. &
NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE
August, 1929
Timely Truths
The Christian is sure, the evolutionist is
cocksure.
The Lord helps those who help them-
selves last.
You can’t go far wrong in detail if you
are right in principle.
Being stingy with God is like sowing only
a peck of seed in a ten-acre field.
Christianity cannot be compared with
other religions,— only contrasted.
Personal liberty is a figment of human
fancy. Whoever gave us a right to it?
Rather than needing a new God, we need
more worshipers of Him with new hearts.
Lacking God’s truth for a balance, the
world gets more religious and less moral.
The Sabbath, like the sun, was made for
man, but not to do as he pleases with it.
Letting every man choose his own Sab-
bath 1s like letting every man decide the
length of the day.
He only is educated who learns from his
failures not to try the same course again
in every particular. |
It isn’t that the cigarette has attained
respectable society, but that society has
lost its respectability.
We have heard of the “Four A’s.” Does
that stand for American Aggregation for
Automatic Annihilation?
God asks that we give all we have io
Him, and then gives back to us all we are
able to take care of for Him.
The best way to test the value of a law is
to enforce it strictly until its enforcement
has had time to bring results.
Christ will not come for a thousand years
— to those who die in their sins; and then
He will come to destroy them.
Man does not own the earth; he has it
from God as a lease; and the rent charged
is ten per cent of its value and a liberal
offering besides.
Too many people don’t believe in the
second coming of Christ because they don’t
want Him to come; and they don’t want
Him to come because they are not ready
for Him.
“Dismiss the
[science] may swallow up religion,” says Dr.
Eddington, famous English astronomer. “It
cannot even tackle the multiplication table
singlehanded.”
idea that natural law
Ten thousand scientists who refuse to
accept anything by faith, accept without
question Einstein’s theories of relativity and
unified field, though less than a dozen of
them can understand these theories.
The difference between liberty and license
is the difference between being free to do
what is right, and being free to do what is
wrong; the former must ever be enlarged
and safeguarded, the latter limited and
watched.
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