The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-15

these assemblages of the people of the
 land of Shinar They had perhaps met In
 a popular assemblage as the American
 patriots gathered in the old town meet
 ing halls of New England before the
 Revolutionary war. And one man would
 rise and say: T wonder what we should
 do If we had another flood. You remem-
 Der now, when the last one came, 1t
 drowned all the people, the horses, the
 cattle and the sheep. Last night in that
 thunderstorm I thought another flood
 was on and we were all going to be
 drowned as the people were hundred
 years ago." And while this speaker was
 talking the assembage would become so
 wrought up that it would be decided then
 and there to build a great tower that would defy any future flood.
 While the debate was going on there
 would be small minority ready to pro-
 test. 'Ts that right?" I think l can hear them say. Does God want us to do that? Did he not send us the rainbow as a divine sign that the earth would never be flooded again? I am going to vote against that proposition" l seem to near them say. Then the leaders of this move- ment would become frightened, and some of these men would come to the obstin- ate minority and say: This movement must go through with a unanimous vote '. If you cannot vote for it. then just keep quiet" And the whole earth was or | one language and one speech And | they said, Go to, let us build city ana | a tower whose top may reach unto | heaven" Is not this the way the majority | in sin try to deal with the minority of | the human race who are trying to live | for God?
 What is the good of being so strict | upon the liquor question: says one. | You know the saloons have come to | stay If you put the thumbscrews upon | your church members on this question: | you are going to drive some of the wealth. | fest members out of your church. What IS | the good of preaching against tainted 1 money? You cannot mix business and re- | ligion. What is the good of talking against progressive euchre parties as l gambling? The age of puritanic laws IS | past Most people of our churches are | growing liberal. It you cannot agree with | the majority. at least do not drive tne | majority" Nay, nay, my friend. That | 1t not Gods way. Man should stand | with God, though he has to defy his
 church and all his friends. There must | have been some people in that land or Shinar who did not believe the people | were doing right when they started to | build the tower of Babel. If there had | been but one man. that man should have | protested, though he stood against the | whole human race. And that is the duty' | my friends, that sometimes you have to | perform.
 l But there is still another fact to bear | in mind about this tower of Babel. Com | paratvely speaking the confusion oi | tongues took place just few years aftef | the earth had been cleansed of the leprous | sin and the protecting power of divine | love had been manifested in the voyage | of the ark which safely landed It's pas | sengers on Ararat. If God ever demon l strated His power to save, 1t was at tha' I time. And yet strange to say, just aftel | this manifestation of Gods power th' 1 men of Shinar started in to build theii tower of Babel and prove themselves Tn l dependent of Gods care. So our greates l sins are often committed after God ha l given to us our greatest spiritual bless ings.
 They Had Forgotten.
 Oh, how often our spiritual lives arr
 like that of King David. One moment w
 seem to be standing as a target for tn javeIin of King Saul and God rescues us the next we are playing the fool down u | King Achish's court How much ou l spiritual lives seem to be like that O | Peter. We seem to be in holy ecstasy | We are lowing at Christ's feet and cry
 ing: My Lord and my God, l will d ] everything for thee" The next minute " are denying that we ever knew him
 while his enemies are leading him ava to execution, and we are denying hir
 with an oath. When the pendulum swing very far in one direction 1t Is apt to swim