THE number of people and organizations that are constantly springing up to advance some reform movement is truly remarkable. Practically every mail brings circulars and communications from these various reformers and reform movements and organizations.
Some of these associations are really worth while, and are doing a great deal of good in the earth. Many of them are fantastic, and represent fanciful notions, that any person may know could never be carried through in a world subject to sin, as this one is.
One of the latest is from a man who is sure he has discovered the very plan by which the world can be made, all right, and proceeds to tell all about it. If we would allow ourselves to be brought wholly under the spell of his influence, we would become convinced that if we did not fall in with his views, we would make the mistake of our lives.
In the meantime, sane Christians can stand squarely on the solid platform of the word of God.
ON BOARD THE WILHELMINA
They may know that there is one name given through which men may have salvation, and they may also know that "there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we may be saved."
The gospel of Jesus Christ is the one remedy for sin, and the power of the gospel is the one agency and the only agency that can work genuine reforms. For the gospel begins its work in the hearts of men, changing their motives and their entire nature, so that they are truly reformed.
Many of the proposed reforms merely lop off some of the branches, but the gospel lays the ax at the root of the tree and destroys the evil completely.
It will be seen, in that soon-coming day when Christ is revealed in all His glory in the clouds of heaven, that they who have been trying to climb up some other way have made the great and eternal mistake.
Jesus has said, "I am the door," and that we must enter in by Him if we would have success in any reform to eradicate sin. And a reform that leaves any root of sin in the human heart is not reform at all.
IN a recent statement, John Fox, general secretary of the American Bible Society, says that 5,250,000 copies of the Bible have been distributed during the year by his society. Fifteen years ago, the society distributed only 1,500,000 Bibles a year. This is indeed a very remarkable growth in the circulation of the great Book. The issue is before the world of the fulfilment of the prophecies which show the second coming of Christ to be very near; and in view of this, it is evident the divine Father has determined that the Bible shall be in the hands of all the people, so that they may judge for themselves of the evidence.
