The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-20
4 II 4

change these principles have always
led to confusion and loss, and al
though it is IAN old story, the
preacher is meeting an urgent need
when he everlastingly repeats that
there is an Almighty and Holy God
who loves Righteousness and in
whose nature and requirements
there is no possibility of change.
AS conditions are today, Gods
witnesses everywhere may well
plead for that elementary right
eousness, the neglect of which is
fast sinking the world to the level
of "Hell's Kitchen" in which the
hand of every man is against his
brother. If there ever was time
for straight dealing, unselfishness
and honor, it is now.
"Same Old Thing"
'The same old thing!" Are we
then now free from sorrow, sickness
and trials? Shall we never again
need comfort, quietness, or require
healing for a troubled mind? Can
we do without guidance as to how
the ills and burdens Of life may be
carried?
"The same old thing" makes men
and women able to work, endure
and achieve, to meet difficulty and
opposition with strength and even
gladness, and to struggle without
whining and everything is against
me, or that never had chance.
1.-THE same old thing" on the
I>oe ir Ioc {c Of tho
pei, is the most up-to-date. There
are those, even amongst the mod
ems, who begin to be anxious, who
feel they have missed the mark;
who are conscience-stricken; who
look beyond the present moment
and think disturbing thoughts; who
have been robbed of dear ones and
wonder to what destination their
friends have gone; who feel them
selves to be as lost as the prodigal
in the far country.
1.-THE same old thing" is for them!
1t is the Gospel. 1t could not be
changed while such people live and
aspire and seek to escape from the
tangle in which they find them
selves. The weary and heavy laden,
the spiritually sick and poor, the
sufferers from loss of spirit and the
sorroWful, are the very folks whom
Christ came from Heaven to help.
They that are whole may laugh
at the old remedies, but the heart
that is wounded, the soul that
would be at rest from itself, the
sin-slave who would be free, and
! morally injured ones who strive in
vain, should hear the old oWrd and
sing the old songs with hope and
joy!
1t is true that many today seem
to regard the Gospel which they do
not accept or practice as kind of
general insurance against the ma
tural results of the follies they so
thoughlessly indulge in, and who
think that Christian leaders exist
chiefly to excuse or forgive their
many violations of the unchanged
laws of God.
True Teaching
True teaching will continue to
sound out the warning that the
wages of sin is death, and that the
Gospel is made known in order to
bring to men a chance for the free
dom and peace only to be found I'M
der respect for the laws of God, and
best of all, to assure them that in
their natural weakness and failure
| Christ can save them.
"The same old thing" was never
more required than now. 1t is
nothing to be ashamed of; nor dc
we have to apologize for it or dress
1t up, explain it away or surround
it with mystery. 1t should be
spoken with plainness and insist
ence and much repetition, and with
conviction born of experience OF
its working. 1t may not be liked
but whether liked or not, the world
must be made to know that it is the
only medicine that can restore tc
it the health it has lost.