The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-05-21

Jew, with his hypothesis of rela
tivity, hailed by some as onc'
more overturning the foundation
of Christian belief, But. DR.
Einstein was anticipated foul
thousand years by his fellow Jew
the prophet Moses, when he de
clared that "a thousand years IL
thy sight are but as yesterday anG
as a watch in the night" Truly
there is, as Solomon declared
nothing new under the sun. Fol
DR.. Einstein may have the ad-
vantage of the telescope and OF
the science of trigonometry and
calculus. but Moses saw the stars
over the clear atmosphere of
Egypt's desert and declared that
back Of and around those stars
was a Power to whom an aeon
was but a day, cycle moment,
and to whom time and space
themselves were merely relative
ideas: who. from everlasting to
everlasting is still God, the same
today, yesterday and forever; the
God who incarnated Himself in
Jesus of Nazareth, as easily as
He can make the destruction of
mass of atoms tear a world to
pieces. DIR. Eistein's contribution
is valuable, however, as a resur-
rection in the popular mind of an
old truth; and when rightly I'M
derstood, it places Jesus Christ at
the centre of a curve whose ex-
tension no man can limit. To this
world He is the Goldman; what
the Power in Him may be to other
worlds who can tell? Relatively
to US Christians He is our God;
and when DR.. Einstein had to flee
for refuge from the new paganism
of his native land, it is worth not
ing that he found shelter in one
of the oldest Christian Colleges in
America, one which sent a Christ
ian warrior forth to do battle for
the Lord, Woodrow Wilson.
Some one once said that we
Christians worship a dead Jew.
Even if it were true ! should pre-
fer to worship a dead Christ than
any living lie. But even if he was
cut off in His generation, be it
known Pontius Plate could not
cruelty the soul. My own belief,
on grounds chiefly of scientific
probability, is that His body came
forth from the tomb; but what
ever men may say about that, the
immortality of His influence is
the one great outstanding pheno-
menon of the history of the world
since He lived on earth. 1t is
shown not only by the churches
on the thousand hills, the cathed-
rails in the capitals of the world,
by the uniform success of its prog
ress in peace and war, by its
spread to. the remotest jungles of
earth and the farthest islands Of
the sea; but its peculiar glory,
and its vast claim to allegiance
derives from the fact that it has
been regenerating mankind so far,
and is still working as the leaven
in the human soul.
At the Cross that day were two
groups of mankind. The pusillan-
imous multitude had cried "Cruci-
fy Him, Cruelty Him." The dege-
nerate democracy was thanked by
a little group of fearful but faith
full souls who braved the occasion
and went wonderingly and maybe
even hopefully along to the last.
They were sadly disappointed
then: but that little group of dis
ciples was the beginning of re-
generate democracy which was
destined to grow and grow, and
spread and spread. until today it
is shaking the foundations of hell.
Moreover, in the words of John
Paul Jones, they are just begin
ming to fight. If they could reach
dominancy in third of the world
in nineteen centuries, | invite DR..
Einstein, to calculate, with his
tables of mathematical progress
sion, how much longer it will take
them to rule the rest. The Apostle
John saw it in his minds eye,
that vast panorama of the follow
ers of the Lamb assembling at
Armageddon; those souls redeem
ed in the blood of the Lamb gath
ering to sweep away the mermi-
dons of that old evil and to make
the earth clean for Christianity;
and we can discern the signs of
the times from every quarter of
the globe which point. not neces-
sarily to the return of Christ, for
of that knoweth no man, but OF
an acceleration of the inevitable
world conflict between the influ-
ence of the spirit of Jesus of
Nazareth and all those other and
opposing powers once described
as the world. the flesh and the
devil; a conflict with its outcome
as certain as the stars in their
courses. For He that trod the
winepress alone of the fierceness
and wrath of Almighty God has
sent His invincible spirit down the
ages and has decreed that victory
belongeth unto the hosts of the
followers of our God.
The teachings of Jesus of Naz-
areth, and the principles of Christ
ianity developed since His day re-
main now to be applied to that SET
of problems known today as $50
cial security"
They are not new problems
The Egyptians struggled with
them more than four Thousand
years ago. So did the Babylon
: ians, the Greeks, the Romans, anC
their successors in the centres Of
/: later civilizations. My go,oC
friend King Nnombe was u,
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