| America cannot fall - because she is already
fallen! This goes for Britain, too. She cannot go into slavery—because
her people are fettered at the moment in the chains of self-forged,
self-chosen moral anarchy. Here are millions, diseased morally, with
no longing for healing. Here are men paying for shadows at the price
of their immortal souls. An unprecedented tidal wave of
commandment-breaking, God-defying, soul-destroying iniquity sweeps
the ocean of human affairs. Never before have men in the masses sold
their souls to the devil at such bargain prices. "There is none. . .
that stirreth up himself to take hold of Thee" (Isaiah 64:7). What
hell-born mesmerism holds them? How does the spell bind? Who
brainwashed them? Why don't they wake and stir themselves? If the
Church had something vital and victorious to offer, these men who
choose golf clubs by day and night clubs by night, they might be
drawn from these fleshpots.
This is an hour in need of burning hearts, bursting lips and
brimming eyes! If we were a tenth as spiritual as we think we are,
our streets would be filled each Sunday with throngs of believers
marching to Zion - with sacks on their bodies and ashes on their
shaking heads, shaking at the calamity that has brought the Church
to be the unlovely, unnerved, unproductive thing that she is!
If we wept as much in the prayer closet as devout Jews have done
at the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem, we would now be enjoying a
prevailing, purging revival! If we would return to apostolic
practice - waiting upon the Lord for apostolic power - we could then
go forth to apostolic possibilities! This is the hour when we are
asked over and over again, "Is everybody happy?" God's purpose for
us is not happiness, but HOLINESS!
Could a mariner sit idle if he heard the drowning cry?
Could a doctor sit in comfort and just let his patients die?
Could a fireman sit idle, let men burn and give no hand?
Can you sit at ease in Zion with the world around you DAMNED?
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