PRINCIPLES OF JUSTICE ARE ETERNAL.
The following from J. B. E., Chicago, Ill., to the Christian Herald, is what that paper calls a timely letter:— Enclosed please find check for famine sufferers of China. Israel sinned, and God permitted the famine to come; China sins, and the famine comes. What shall occur to the professing church of to-day, which is largely following the teaching and doctrines of men, instead of following the Word of God? And God has given in Rev. 14:6-12, and elsewhere, the very message which would heal the church if she would but heed it. “Fear God and give glory ‘to Him; for the hour of His judgment is come; ‘and worship Him, that made heaven, and earth, ‘and the sea, and the fountains of waters.” In other words, turn from man and his traditions to the Word of God. It is not the attitude of prayer that counts; it is the condition of heart with which we come to God. Let the disposition, the need, the environments, guide in the attitude; let not the attitude control or direct the petition. We have kneeling, standing, prostrating, postures all recognized in Scripture. The great essentials of prayer are a sense of our need and simple faith in God’s all-wisdom, power, and goodness.