of life. It holds in its two hands the fate of the twain and the
fortunes of the race. Would that we might make every mar-
riage eugenic, sagacious, ideal; but the ingredients of mar-
riage have been long preparing in the lives of those who
speak their vows. We have to build tomorrow’s society out
of the stuff that yesterday's and today’s society have made.
So, daughter, for better for worse, marry the man, or else
forever after hold your peace.
Hold the Home Front!
(Continued from page 3)
global war—a part of it, an important part, but only a part.
The greater war is the conflict between good and evil, the
war between God and the devil. Every man, every woman,
every child, every people, every nation that stands for the
principles of right—for free will, good will, truth, kindness,
mercy, ministry, purity, reverence, unselfish love—is on the
side of God. Such champions of the right may be marshaled
in armies that batter down the strongholds of tyranny; or
they may be marshaled in home service, to make the re-
sources, material and spiritual, which not only support the
armies in the field but, even more important, build the moral
fiber of the nation. These latter make the home front.
The enemy is diabolically cunning. He is not weak in
strategy nor limited in tactics. He does not merely stand up
and fight; he infiltrates, he sneaks, he ambushes, he seduces,
he betrays. Nothing pleases him better than to draw our
forces into an exposed front while we leave gaps for infiltra-
tion of his most subtle agents into our inmost strongholds.
In these tactics he is succeeding. While the guns thunder
and the air rains destruction in Tunisia and the Ruhr and
New Guinea, the devil laughs because he is planting avarice
and malice and lust and treason in the minds and lives of
some men and women at home. For out of such evils, un-
checked, will come victory for the forces of autocracy, op-
pression, and tyranny. That is no theological abstraction;
that is the moral factor in politics. This war, as all wars,
will be won or lost not primarily on the fields of battle but in
the moral fabric of the nations’ souls. Let an autocracy be
defeated in war but succeed in implanting its concepts in the
minds of its opponents, and its cause is won. The caption
may be changed, but the substance endures. Great Babylon
ceases to be a geographical point, and becomes the air we
breathe.
We are fighting the battle on the home front as well as on
foreign shores and the high seas. What profit will there be if
our armies and navies smash the forces of tyranny, only to
come home to an America that has lost the battle for liberty,
for law-keeping, for justice, for fairness, for purity, for com-
passion, for the love of God, and has become the habitation
of mean and petty tyrants and of congenital criminals? That
possibility is no figment of the imagination. No thinking
man can look today upon the developments in the industrial
and labor world, without apprehension of a gripping tyranny
that tomorrow can throttle the industrial freedom of every-
one, and with it his right to all freedom. No thinking person
can view today the social conditions that surround and in-
fluence the children of this generation, and the already great
increase in juvenile delinquency, without apprehending a
wave of crime tomorrow that can swamp the nation. For
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the juvenile delinquency of today makes the adult criminality
of tomorrow.
We face the foe in our own institutions and our own
homes. We are forced to join battle. The outcome of this
struggle on the home front is more vital to our fortunes and
to the cause of liberty than is the outcome of the military
struggle. Are we trained and disciplined and spiritually
equipped to meet the enemy and to conquer him? Only if
the answer is Yes, will victory be ours.
(This is the first of four articles by Professor Spalding. The
second will appear in our next issue.)
The Need of Divine Revelation
(Continued from page 13)
live, and of the cause and significance of the existing world
upheaval. Such questions as that of the origin of evil, who
made the devil, why does God permit him to live, and
why the present cataclysm of death and ruin spreading over
the earth, after all that has been done for mankind by modern
civilization, educational advancement, and scientific progress
and enlightenment—questions which must be in many
minds—would have no clear and convincing answer. There
must be something back of the present world situation that
is not understood by statesmen and news interpreters.
There must be some viewpoint from which the reason for
this world crisis can be seen and understood. In the Bible,
and there only, it is to be found.
The Inspired Volume tells us that evil did not originate
with the Creator. It affirms that God made everything per-
fect, but the beings created in His image were given liberty
of thought and action. God did not want us to be automa-
tons. He did not wish to receive from us the service of robots
but the tribute of willing service prompted by love, for He is
a God of love. Thus opportunity was left for disloyalty to
arise in the angelic host, and it was there that evil had its
origin. Lucifer, whose name signifies “‘Light-bearer,™ occu-
pied the exalted position of covering cherub by the throne of
God, and was the leader of the angelic host. He became lifted
up with pride and aspired to be equal with God. Only
Christ, the begotten Son of God, had this equality, and
Lucifer became jealous of Christ. Clear information on this
subject is given in Isaiah 14: 12-15, and Ezekiel 28: 12-19.
Using his great influence with the angels to spread decep-
tion, Lucifer led a vast number of them into disloyalty and
rebellion. Finally God issued against them a decree of
expulsion. ‘“There was war in heaven,” the Divine Word
states. “Michael {Christ} and His angels fought against the
dragon; and the dragon [Satan} fought, and his angels, and
prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in
heaven. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent,
called the devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world:
he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out
with him.” Revelation 12: 7-9.
After being cast out of heaven, Satan led Adam into dis-
obedience, and thus established his kingdom of evil on the
earth; and from that time to this there have been upon the
earth two rival kingdoms—the kingdom of Christ and the
kingdom of Satan—warring against each other. This war-
fare has influenced the course of history, and must be taken
into account today if we would understand what is behind
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