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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, Cal. · Jun 13, 1906

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 32, No. 23.

HOW CAN THEY DO IT?

THE Word of God clearly teaches that good and evil shall exist in this world till Jesus Christ shall come again. This is clearly taught in every great line of prophecy, in the parables of the wheat and tares and the fish net, and in many other declarations of the Scriptures.

Added to this we have the condition of the world at the present time. Note the revelations of such articles as the "Treason of the Senate," by Philipps, in the Cosmopolitan. View the picture drawn in the April issue of the leader of the Senate. This is one revelation among a score of others. Most of the men who do these things are closely affiliated with religious institutions, oftentimes honored, if not honorable, members of a Christian denomination, yet guilty of crimes of such stupendous magnitude, crimes so utterly and absolutely selfish at the core, that the world stands aghast at the audacity and boldness of them. Courts and juries and legislatures are purchased by wholesale, and the professed church of Christ, whose ministers ought to be faithful sentinels for God and righteousness, protests but feebly against the iniquity, and condones it if it happen to strike near home. And yet out of this evil is coming good, the self-called "optimists" would have us believe! "But is it not possible for all these to become converted?" asks one. It is; but the power of regeneration lies in Jesus Christ and His Word, and these are ignored, rejected.

Man never regenerated himself. No people ever regenerated themselves. It can only be done by the supernatural power and life of God in response to humble faith; but faith in the great mass is so enfeebled as to be accounted dead, beaten to a senseless pulp by the bludgeons of Higher Criticism and Evolution. Yet God still lives and His Word is still potent; but men will not have His salvation. Above it all God reigns. Those identified with the selfish unbelief will perish with it. Those who believe in Christ will rejoice at His coming.