The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1922-12-01

@0& u - E2A u scripture
not tell us, but we know that for the
church of God it shall end when that
next prophetic Day-the Day oi
Christ-shall dawn.
Mans Day, like the other days OF
Scripture. has it's own characteristics
all set forth in the Word of God. Ihe
Bible is as fully up to date as though
God had but this morning placed 1t
in our hands, and there Is not design
nor an achievement of man in world
affairs, in politics, in religion, not
world-movement that has not been an
ticipated by Holy Scripture.
The most striking mark Of Mans
Day is the silence of God. In the ages
before the cross God spoke by the
prophets, and in the last OF those days
He spoke by His Son. Since that
blessed voice was stilled at Calvary
God has remained silent and man mas
oeen speaking and manifesting his
folly. "They speak every man vanity
with his neighbor." Processing them
selves to be wise, they became FOOLS,
because "they became vain in their
reasonings and their senseless heart
was darkened." All the powers OF his
soul have been corrupted by sin, yet
ne exalts human reason above all
things, criticizes God, contradicts His
Word, makes light Of His wisdom, re-
jects His Son and laughs at His pre-
cious blood as the divine remedy for
sin. He imagines that God endowed
him with reason to equip him as
"critic" of His Wcrd and His works
and His ways, instead of using this
power along with the other powers
of his soul and spirit, for becoming ac-
quainted with God and finding his
highest Joy in fellowship with Him.
He denies that he is a fallen, ruined
creature, without God and without
hope in the world, and prates OF his
divinity, admitting that the Lord Jesus
is divine only as all men are divine.
He debases God with his pantheism
and speaks, with much show Of learn
ing, of the divine immanence. With
resounding phrases he talks much OF
the dignity and glory of manhood,
while he humanizes God or drags Him
from His throne. He proposes all
sorts of remedies for the evils which
he would fain remove while he SCOTS
at the one only remedy revealed in Holy
Scripture. And the evils increase and
men die in their sins. He talks or
science and education by which he
proposes to lift up the masses. and of
reform and self-culture by which he
promises to empty jails. and peniten-
tiaries. Still the masses are down and
the penitentiaries are full. He boasts
of his science and his progress and
calls his fellOwmen to his fairs that
they may behold the work Of his
hands.
And God remains silent! "These
things hast thou done," says He, "and
1 kept silence. Thou thoughtest that
was altogether such an one as thy
SELF
The reasons for Gods silence are
easy to discover.
1. He has given to men His Word,
complete and final, and confirmed as
to it's truth and trustworthiness by
thousand infallible proofs. The climax
of divine revelation has been reached
and there is no reserve Of mercy yet
to be unfolded. Those who come to
that Word need no other voice, for the
one voice that spoke it in the begin
ming speaketh in it still to all who
have ears to hear. ooh, earth, earth,
earth, hear the word of Jehovah" is
Gods challenge to all the world. LET
God speak," cries the skeptic, "and !
will believe" The answer Is that
"God hath spoken" in His Word.
2. Gods present silence proclaims
this as the accepted time and the day
of His grace. "The longsuffering of
our Lord is salvation" and He en-
dured with much longsuffering the
vessels of wrath fitted (by themselves)
to Instruction. The infinite sacrifice
by which His righteous claims have
been satisfied has been accepted, the
great amnesty has been declared, and
He keeps back the storm Of Judgment
while He waits in grace and mercy to
save. I hear men speak of golden
silence" How golden this silence Of
God! How eloquent for sinners
8. But Gods silence, though 1t has
continued long, Is at length to be
broken. When he speaks again 1t
shall be by that { ne in whom He
spoke last. A moment is coming of
which it is written: "The mighty God
hath spoken and called the earth from
the rising of the sun unto the going
down thereof" Yea, "our God shall
come and shall not keep silence"
"These things hast thou done and
kept silence. But 1 will reprove
thee"
Mans Day is going out in awful
night. Oh soul, while Gods gracious
silence remains, be saved and escape
that night of doom. Accept the wait
ing Savior now and He will accept