Why Will They Not Do It?
By Editor
A great many of the misdirected reforms of the present day would be far better managed and less disappointing if they would but recognize the one great fact told us over and over again in the Word of God, and which every man of spiritual experience knows in himself. That fact is God's diagnosis of the human heart, for "the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?" And yet some of these reforms, like Socialism, are based on the idea that if we only had right laws, man would be reformed. There was never a greater fallacy in this world. There are many Socialists that we sympathise with in their diagnosis of conditions in the world at the present time, in their sympathy with the downtrodden, whoever they may be; but we have no sympathy whatever with the remedies, because these remedies are not based in truth. Any political State formed of selfish men will be selfish, and sooner or later will break through every hedge of law, and pervert every right course. The only hope there is for the regeneration of this world, is in Christ Jesus our Lord; and He regenerates not by masses, but by individuals. When the world itself becomes regenerated, it will be at the second coming of Christ.