Signs of the Times, Vol. 43, No. 18. (5/2/1916)

Signs of the Times

May 2, 1916

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · May 2, 1916

With the Eye on the Masterpiece

By Irwin H. Evans

*Gems from a Discourse Preached at South Lancaster, Massachusetts, January 8, 1916* By IRWIN H. EVANS

It is a wonderful thing to be really in love with a being we have not seen. The secret of true service to God lies in being in love with Him; for service that is not born of love is but the stern performance of duty, and is hard work. A person who truly loves God will strive to serve Him. Apply the rule to your own life. If ever there was a time when you really loved some one, you did not dislike to serve that person. You regretted your inability to do more, no matter what the effort or the self-denial involved. If you did not love that person, the task would be difficult, and you could do it only from the sense of duty.

In spite of suffering, there is joy in the service, for there is love in the heart toward the afflicted one. As truly as a person loves, so truly he cannot help serving.

THE SECRET OF SERVICE

There is not a husband on earth, who truly loves his wife, who feels that he is doing as much for her as he would like to do. So in the service of God. The secret of all acceptable service to Him has its root in love,— a love that consumes self, and impels one to spend and be spent in His service. Then, whatever He requires is not regarded simply as a duty to be performed. It is a joy, a privilege. If this love is burning in our hearts, we will not have to whip ourselves up to service. What we need more than anything else is to come into that relationship, for only thus can we succeed in His service.

THE PERSONIFICATION OF LOVE

I once knew a man who had a child that had been afflicted with meningitis in infancy. I had never seen the child, though I had known the father, who is a successful business man, many years. He took me home to dinner one day; and when I saw the child, I was shocked and horrified. His face was distorted, and he could not speak a word — could not even lift his little finger. He was entirely helpless.

I said to the mother, out of sympathy, “How long has the child been in this condition?”

She replied, “Ever since he was two years old — thirteen years.”

I asked, “Is this little one fifteen years old?”

She did not seem to be looking at her painting at all, but only at the great master painting. That is just what God wants us to do — keep looking at Christ, the Pattern.

“Yes,” she answered, “and he has never been able to speak a word since he was two.”

I suggested, “This must have been a great burden and trial to you all these years.”

The tears sprang to her eyes, and she put her arms around the child, and said: “No, Brother Evans, this child has never been a burden to me. The only regret I have is that I have not had the strength to do more for him.”

That is love; and there are many in this world who have had joy in suffering and in spending their time and strength for some loved one,— a child, a sister, a father or mother.

Just as surely as that passion is burning in the life, just so surely will sin be unable to dominate in the life. The love of Christ will take out of the soul every evil passion of the heart, — impatience, envy, malice, hatred. All these carnal things will die under the flame of love for Jesus Christ. Really, if we have that love burning in the soul to the extent that we think of Him first, last, and all the time, we cannot help serving Him. A man in that condition would go right just as easily as he went wrong before, when he loved himself and the things of the world.

THE SECRET OF PEACE

If God asks for our money, our children, or ourselves, we should be willing to give Him all He requires. Why? — Because we love Him so much that we want Him to have everything we possess. I think that Paul meant something like this when he said, in the twelfth chapter of Hebrews, “Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith”— not looking at each other or our brethren.

When we look at men, we will make mistakes; and we cannot have a great passion of love for Christ in our hearts when we are all the time looking at men. But we are to look to Jesus as our pattern. Then, when we see a man going astray, it will not affect us, except to cause us to desire to save him. We should be just as firmly grounded in our determination to love and serve the Lord when every man of the world goes wrong, because we do not get our religion from men. We get it from God.

In passing through a great trial, in a matter that I could not control, but had done everything I could to prevent, I found that every time I got the picture of Christ before me — and not only Him, but His precious promises — the turmoil would die out, and I would have peace in my heart. There is no other way than just to take Christ, and let Him be the chiefest of all our desires. If we do this, we will surely have peace in our hearts, and will grow like Him.

TRANSFORMED BY A RESISTLESS POWER

“But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.” 2 Cor. 3: 18. We are changed into the same image from glory to glory. How? — By beholding. We say we want to be like Christ; but how can we be like Him when we think only of fallible mortals, and when we give our supreme thought and anxieties to the things of this world? We can, however, be changed from glory to glory if only Christ is before us.

Changed — how? — By a power that is perhaps imperceptible, but still is mighty — a power that nothing can resist. It will subdue the passions of any heart. It will take sin out of any life. There is a transformation that is silent but continual, and that works and works and works, transforming and changing, until, by and by, the image of Christ is reflected.

Nor is there any other way by which we can attain Christian perfection except by looking at Christ. He is the Way, and there is no other. Yet the weakest cannot fail if only we will look at Christ, believing that His righteousness answers for our sins, believing His life to be a substitute for our life, and believing that God imparts His righteousness to us by faith, all the time looking to Christ, that we may be changed and transformed into His image.

KEEP THE EYE ON THE PATTERN

In an art gallery once, I became much interested in the work of a young woman who was copying a painting by one of the masters. The copy was practically completed, and I remember that I thought it was better than the original, or at least equal to it. But as I watched, I saw the artist sitting there with everything ready to paint, but all the time looking at the original.

Moment after moment she sat gazing at the picture. I would wander about a little, and come back, and she would be gazing at the picture still — not at her picture. She did not seem to be looking at her painting at all, but only at the great master painting. Then I saw her work at her paints to get the colors just right. Then she would make a tiny stroke upon the canvas and again would look at the original picture. I wondered at her looking all the time at the original, and not at her own picture; and I thought, That is just what God wants us to do — keep looking at Christ, the Pattern.

I noticed other artists there, who were making great strokes at first, and not paying much attention to the painting; but when it came to the final strokes, they looked carefully at the original. Hours at a time would pass that they did not put a stroke of paint on canvas, but they continued to look at the original. That is what God wants us to do. He wants us to look to Christ continually. When we get to thinking about Him in this way, in communion and prayer, Christ will come so near that we shall feel that He is indeed a present help, near at hand and not afar off, and we can talk to Him, and hear His voice in our hearts.

CHAINING THE MIND DOWN

I once asked a woman who was leading a very consecrated life, “How is it that you have developed such faith?” She said: “I just try all the time to keep Christ before me. I talk with Him as I go about my work, and we hold sweet converse together.” That is what God wants. That is the Christian life. Here we are, surrounded by heavenly intelligences. The Holy Spirit is here. The secret of the Christian life is, to learn to have sweet communion with God, and to have the mind stayed upon Him.

You will say: “But my mind is like a windmill. It beats back and forth, never at rest, and I know not how to control it.” You must chain the mind down. We must learn to control the mind, and stay it on sacred and holy things, instead of letting it get away to worldly, fleshly, and selfish things all the time. Surely we can do this by God's grace. When we give ourselves to Him without reserve, Christ Jesus will become to us the chiefest among ten thousand, the One altogether lovely.

We need this spiritual converse, this uplifting, divine touch, in order that we can keep our minds upon spiritual things, and keep them there more than one or two minutes without letting them drift off across the world. A person is in an awful state when he cannot hold his mind on the word of God while reading it. We must get over these habits, and get our minds fixed on Christ, till He is everything to us, and love Him so ardently that we shall have joy and gladness in the thought that He will some day make us like Himself.

PURIFIED BY AFFLICTION

We want to become like Jesus; and we can become like Him, can be changed into His image, from glory to glory. Christ can become a great, supreme passion with us; and it will not matter whether the world goes right or wrong, or what men may do or may not do. We will be students of Jesus Christ, molded and fashioned into His similitude, and we will long to be more and more like Him. There will be no room in our hearts for self-pity, or envy, or selfish desires.

Sometimes He will mold and fashion us by trials, sometimes by allowing afflictions to come into the life. No one need think that because he is trying to be like Jesus, he will be taken out of this world of suffering and sorrow. These things we shall have to the end. But they will only be allowed in your experience and mine to the extent that they make us more like Christ.

Just as soon as God sees that the trial has worked the desired effect on the life, He will lift it. Therefore we may, even in manifold temptations, “greatly rejoice,” knowing that the trial of our faith, “being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honor and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ: whom having not seen, ye love.”

Sodom's Great White Way

By J. W. McCord

THE setting sun was gilding with burnished gold the towers and palaces of ancient Sodom. The soft, caressing breeze was laden with the scent of flowers, and vibrant with the hum of insect life. Everywhere were tokens of material prosperity, for the Vale of Sodom was almost as fertile as the garden of the Lord.

In Sodom itself, everything appeared as usual. The streets were lined with people; visitors from surrounding countries were taking in the sights; Sodom's great white way was running at high pressure; everything was wide open. No thought of impending disaster marred the mad revelry of that last night. Yet two angels were in Sodom that night, writing its doom; and before the sun arose, Sodom and its citizens had perished forever.

Thirteen centuries later, an angel hand wrote the doom of Babylon on the walls of King Belshazzar's palace; and that very night, the scepter passed from Babylon to Medo-Persia. A nation had been rejected.

Not only Babylon was found wanting, but also Egypt, Medo-Persia, Grecia, and Rome. Weighed in the balances of the sanctuary, weighed by the standard of God's word, weighed by the precepts of God's law, these nations were found lighter than air; and as universal empires they passed away.

In the case of Babylon, the judgment was personal as well as national. When the king called for the holy vessels that had been taken from the temple at Jerusalem, and polluted these vessels in the sight of his lords, that moment the king crossed the "dead line," and that night Belshazzar died.

Even so it is to-day. The hand that wrote the doom of ancient empires is writing still; and "Weighed and found wanting" is being written on many an individual and institution which to carnal eyes may seem prosperous and enduring. More than this, the hand that is writing to-day is not only writing the doom of a city or an empire; that hand is writing the doom of the world.

Neither the darkness of the blackest night, nor the secrecy of all deceptive arts, can veil one thought from the Eternal. Deeds once done can never be recalled. It is a fearful thing to face the Judgment without a Saviour. Every one who does so, will hear the sentence from the great Judge, "Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting." Dan. 5:27. J. W. McCORD.

Lowly Circumstances, High Thoughts

"Lowly circumstances are no bar to high thoughts."

THE PRELUDE TO ARMAGEDDON

By Arthur G. Daniells

Impelled by Demons, the Nations Are Preparing for the Final Plunge

By ARTHUR G. DANIELLS

The Plain of Esdraelon, north of Jerusalem, in Palestine, the scene of the coming world war of Armageddon.

ALTHOUGH the apostle John is the only Bible writer who uses the word "Armageddon" in foretelling world struggles, he is not the only prophet who foretold the great war of Armageddon. His prophecy agrees in every detail with the prophecies given by other inspired writers centuries before his time.

In John's prophecy of Armageddon, recorded in Rev. 16: 12-16, there are given the following specifications:

1. The drying up of the waters of the Euphrates, to prepare or clear the way for the gathering of the kings of the east. Verse 12.

2. The deceptive working of demon spirits on the minds and hearts of all the kings and nations of the earth, inciting them to war and bloodshed. Verses 13, 14.

3. The gathering of the misled, war-maddened nations of the whole world to fight "the battle of that great day of God Almighty." Verse 14.

4. The place of the battle of Armageddon, in the great Plain of Esdraelon, north of Jerusalem, in Palestine. Verse 16.

5. The time when all this is to take place; namely, when Christ, the Saviour and Deliverer, is about to come. Verse 15.

The Scriptures furnish data for a clear, rational interpretation of each specification in this prophecy.

TURKEY SYMBOLIZED BY THE EUPHRATES

The river Euphrates is mentioned many times in the Scriptures. The name is the same as one of the four rivers that flowed from the Garden of Eden. Starting in the mountains of Armenia, it flows through the Mesopotamian valley to the Persian Gulf. On its banks once stood the city of Babylon, "the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency." To-day the Euphrates is a Turkish river, the land through which it flows being Turkish territory.

The prophecy foretells the drying up of the water of the Euphrates. Does this mean the drying up of the literal water of the river?—This is not the understanding of the students of prophecy. Water, when used in prophecy, stands for people. This is the interpretation given by the angel to John, as follows: "The waters which thou sawest . . . are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues." Rev. 17: 15. The same interpretation is given by the prophet Isaiah: "Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, even the king of Assyria, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his banks." Isa. 8: 7.

These scriptures establish the fact that water, whether rivers or seas, is used to represent people and nations. When so used, a river would naturally represent the people through whose land it flows. On this principle of interpretation, it is claimed that the river Euphrates, being a Turkish river, would at the present time represent Turkey. The language used, very appropriately describes the drying up, shrinking, disintegrating process that Turkey has been under-going during the last half century. The prediction will be fully met when Turkey comes to his end, as it is expressed by the prophet Daniel, chapter 11: 45.

DRIVEN ON BY DEMONS

It is not claimed that the war now devastating Europe and staggering the whole world is the entire fulfillment of the prediction in reference to the deceptive work of demons by which rulers and people are blinded, maddened, and led into wanton, devastating war. But if ever warring nations seemed to be under the control of satanic powers, it is at this time. This is the view of many who have had the best opportunities for observation. Dr. Courtney, editor of the London Fortnightly Review, in his series of articles entitled "Armageddon and After," says:

"In the clash of the two great European organizations—the Triple Alliance and the Triple Entente—we have all those wild features of universal chaos which the writer of the Apocalypse saw with prophetic eye as ushering in the great day of the Lord, and paving the way for a new heaven and a new earth. It is a universal upheaval."

Dr. Courtney's statement of the present situation is true to the facts, and represents the opinions of many men of keen vision and great opportunities for observation.

Granting that the terrible war now going on is not Armageddon, it certainly seems an alarming prelude to it.

INVOLVES THE ENTIRE WORLD

In "the battle of that great day of God," the whole world will be represented and involved. In the study of this prophecy fifty years ago, it was impossible to suggest the international complications that would drag the whole world into the vortex of war. But the nations have been making history during this last century, and to-day it is not difficult to outline a tangle that would involve every nation in the world. In fact, the tangle is well in sight. What is now going on appears, to many onlookers who have a comprehensive grasp of affairs, to be what the prophets foretold—a world war, Armageddon. Mr. H. G. Wells, of England, describes it in the following terse statement: "This

is already the vastest war in history. It is a war not of nations, but of mankind. It is a war to exorcise a world madness and end an age."

President Wilson says: "The world has never before in the history of mankind seen war on such a scale, seen war with so many terrible features, seen the sweep of destruction comparable to that which is now devastating the fields of Europe. . . . We are witnessing a cataclysm, and God only knows what the issue will be."

Instead of our being unable to see and state conditions that could involve the world in the Armageddon war, it is now very difficult to see how the causes of the war now going on can possibly be prevented from eventually plunging the whole world into the battle of Armageddon.

At least four of the great powers now at war—Russia, Germany, Great Britain, and France—stoutly maintain that they are fighting for their existence. If the claim is true—and it certainly appears as though it were, in each case—how is peace ever to be brought about? Surely there can be no peace among these nations as long as the conditions that imperil their existence continue.

These conditions may be briefly stated as follows:

While possessing one eighth of the land area of the earth, and a population consisting of one ninth of the human race, Russia is practically cut off from the high seas. Without a suitable outlet for a merchant fleet and a navy, she is at the mercy of the other great powers of the world. This is a real peril to her existence. She has realized this for centuries, and all the while has been working with tireless energy to secure suitable and permanent outlet to the open sea and the world's commerce.

While slowly yet surely cutting her way from the Black Sea through the Bosporus and the Dardanelles to the Mediterranean, Russia worked her way across Siberia and down through Manchuria to Port Arthur, on the Gulf of Pechili; but being beaten back by Japan, she turned resolutely to the old, difficult task of pushing through to the Mediterranean.

WHY THE NATIONS ARE AT WAR

Although Germany had an outlet to the world, it was considered both insufficient and insecure for the growth and maintenance of the nation. To make her position invulnerable, Germany began, a quarter of a century ago, to make secure a highway from the North Sea eastward to the Persian Gulf.

After years of tireless effort, large expenditures of gold, and far-sighted diplomacy, she placed herself in a dominant position throughout the Turkish empire. The concessions Germany secured from Turkey for the building of the railway to Bagdad, and for mining, dredging, wharf-building, etc., not only gave her a highway from Constantinople to the Persian Gulf, but placed in her hands the resources for maintaining her paramountcy in Asiatic Turkey as far east as the Persian Gulf, and as far south, as the borders of Egypt.

Unlike Russia and Germany, England had unlimited access to the seas. But she saw, in the movements of both Russia and Germany in the Balkan peninsula and Asia Minor, what she considered dangers to her widely extended empire. For years, she feared that if Russia secured the waterway from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean, she might declare the latter a Russian sea, close the entrance at Gibraltar, and take possession of the Suez Canal. This would cut off England's short route to her Indian and Australasian possessions. It would break her hold on Egypt, and seriously imperil her position as a world power.

She saw equal danger in Germany's paramountcy in the Balkan peninsula. A naval base for either Germany or Austria in the vicinity of Saloniki, on the Ægean Sea, would make it possible for these powers to take control of the Mediterranean. Germany's position in Turkey would enable her to get dangerously near to the Suez Canal in the south and England's Indian possessions in the east. Thus in recent years, Germany came to loom up as a greater danger than Russia to the interests of the British empire.

AN UNFORGOTTEN BLOW

The French have never forgotten nor forgiven the blow dealt them by Germany in 1870; and as they have watched the growth of militarism in Germany, and the aggressive policies carried out, they have counted on having to fight, some day, for their existence. Facing these and many other serious complications, the powers have kept themselves busy plotting and intriguing and forming alliances to preserve what they have termed "the balance of power," while making every possible preparation for self-defense.

And now the long looked-for struggle is on. The effects are already terrible beyond expression, and still there is no abatement. In their most recent official statements, each nation declares that its sword shall not be sheathed until it is completely victorious over its enemies.

In view of the complications, the dangers, and the grim determination of each nation to triumph, how can peace be established? Will a present, decisive victory of either side bring peace? — Surely not with anything short of the extermination of the vanquished. It seems doubtful whether either side is prepared to destroy the other so completely as to prevent a renewal of hostilities as soon as preparations can be made for a more deadly conflict and a more decisive victory.

The resolute determination, the colossal preparations, and at last the final plunge into a not far distant struggle, will bring about "the battle of the great day of God," the Armageddon of the Apocalypse.

"Science Falsely So Called"

By Alvin S. Kellogg

Repudiates the Necessity of a Saviour—Denies

All Sin and Pain

By ALVIN S. KELLOGG

"There were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of." 2 Peter 2: 1, 2.

ORIGINATES WITH SATAN

There were false prophets in the past, and there will be false teachers in these days. Peter declares that they will "privily" bring in something. And that which is brought in is declared to be "damnable heresies." Heresy is anything that is contrary to sound doctrine. But note that this is not only heresy, but "damnable heresies"; and that which is damnable must originate with Satan himself.

The only sound doctrine in this world is that which has for its foundation a plain "Thus saith the Lord." Its first principles must rest upon the fundamental truth of all truths, that Jesus is "the Christ, the Son of the living God." Matt. 16: 13-18. It is upon this truth that the church of God now rests, and will rest through the ages. It is this truth that is the true key to the Scriptures and to the kingdom of heaven. And our opening text includes Christian Science.

CUT OFF FROM ETERNAL LIFE

What is the effect of these "damnable heresies"? — They are said to lead those who accept them to "denying the Lord that bought them." Is there anything like that taught in Christian Science? — Yes, emphatically. On page 23 of Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy's book, "Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures," we read: "One sacrifice, however great, is insufficient to pay the debt of sin. The atonement requires constant self-immolation on the sinner's part. That God's wrath should be vented upon His beloved Son, is divinely unnatural. Such a theory is man-made." Again, on page 38: "The eternal Christ, His spiritual selfhood, never suffered." This is a denial of "the Lord that bought us," which cuts off from eternal life the one who knowingly and willfully indorses such teaching, as quickly and surely as did the act of Adam when he partook of the forbidden fruit; and it brings, as stated in 2 Peter 2: 1, last clause, "swift destruction" upon those who accept it. Hence it is an exact fulfillment of this prophecy given by Peter.

As proof that such teaching is squarely against the word of God, read the following scriptures: Heb. 5: 8, 9; 9: 28; 2: 10-18; 1 Peter 3: 18; 2 Cor. 5: 21. Many others could be cited, but these are enough.

IS THERE NO SIN?

Christian Science denies that sin exists. Ibid., page 472: "Question.—What is error? Answer.—Error is a supposition that pleasure and pain, that intelligence, substance, life, are existent in matter. Error is neither mind nor one of mind's faculties. . . . Error is unreal because untrue. . . . Question.—Is there no sin? Answer.—All reality is in God and His creation, harmonious and eternal. That which He creates is good, and He makes all that is made. Therefore the only reality of sin, sickness, or death is the awful fact that unrealities seem real to human, erring belief, until God strips off their disguise. They are not true, because they are not of God. We learn in Christian Science that all inharmony of mortal mind or body is illusion, possessing neither reality nor identity, though seeming to be real and identical."

How different is all this from the definition given in the word of God, which plainly says, "Sin is the transgression of the law." 1 John 3: 4. Paul says, "I had not known sin, but by the law." Rom. 7: 7. And again, speaking of the result of sin, he says, "Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned." Rom. 5: 12.

Paul again points out the reality of sin when he says there is no way of getting rid of sin, it is so real, unless the old man is crucified: "Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin." Rom. 6: 6. When this is done, then "ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God." Col. 3: 3. This blessed state brings the promise in the following verse: "When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with Him in glory."

In Mrs. Eddy's definition as given above, sin is unreal; therefore it exists only in the imagination. This conception entirely destroys the gospel, which Paul declares is "the power of God unto salvation" (Rom. 1: 16); for if sin be not real, then there is no need of the gospel, no need of a Saviour.

This is "denying the Lord that bought them." And just as surely as it is knowingly accepted by any one, that one has brought upon himself "swift destruction." On page 402 of Mrs. Eddy's book, we read: "The time approaches when mortal mind will forsake its corporeal, structural, and material basis; when immortal mind and its formations will be apprehended in Science, and material beliefs will not interfere with spiritual facts. Man is indestructible and eternal." How strikingly this harmonizes with Gen. 3: 4, "And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die."

OPPOSITIONS OF FALSE SCIENCE

Christ was our example in all things; and when He was on earth, He left us many examples of how to teach. On the memorable resurrection day, we find Him in company with two of His disciples, and He begins to teach them the truth concerning the Messiah. "And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, He expounded unto them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself." What was the effect of such teaching? "And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while He talked with us by the way, and while He opened to us the Scriptures?" Luke 24: 27, 32.

Quite contrary to all this is the teaching of Mrs. Eddy in her "Key to the Scriptures," forsaking and ignoring the plain "Thus saith the Lord," denying and disputing its plainest statements.

In Daniel 1 we read of certain "children in whom was no blemish, but well favored, and skillful in all wisdom, and cunning in knowledge, and understanding science," that "God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom." Verses 4, 17. And of Daniel we read, "We shall not find any occasion against this Daniel, except we find it against him concerning the law of his God." Daniel was a true scientist, and his knowledge of science led him to stand firmly and squarely for, and in harmony with, the law of his God, the transgression of which is sin; the penalty, death.

Paul warned Timothy, and us through him, of a certain thing said by him to be "profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called: which some professing have erred concerning the faith." 1 Tim. 6: 20, 21. There were some professing it in the days of Paul, and Peter says there will be many teaching it in these last days.

A. M. D

By A. M. D.

If I gain the victory once, why can I not gain it every time? It is always gained the same way. "Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you."

A. M. D

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