thing but their souls. Living but dying men, insure now for eternity! The storm may wreck your all at any moment.

At a prayer meeting, a young man seemed under conviction, and friends begged him to seek God. But he replied: "No, not to-night; I will when I am through hauling logs. I have one month to work yet." Four weeks from that day, he went in swimming with a friend. He used profane language while undressing. He swam out into deep water, was taken with cramps, screamed wildly for help, then sank to the bottom. He was one month too late. I know of cases where men and women have been but a week too late — yes, only a day or an hour too late. You are playing with life when you put off yielding to your God.

I do not tell you these things to frighten you. One can not be frightened into genuine repentance. But God does appeal to one's fear. I am telling you these experiences to cause you to think of your danger. Think also of the love of God that you are abusing. Make room for God's Spirit in your heart, and He will turn you to Himself.

There is another reason why you should not delay: Time is short! The judgment is here!

It was a grand day when Adam and Eve, made in God's image, stood in that beautiful garden, their reason clear and unruffled by passion, unclouded by prejudice, unimpaired by disease, and looked over a finished world. They saw the mountains, God's thoughts piled up; the valleys, God's thoughts spread out; the rivers, 'God's thoughts in motion; the dewdrops, God's thoughts in pearl; the flowers, God's thoughts in bloom. Everywhere, everything in nature seemed to whisper to them, "The hand that made us is divine."

It was a grand day when the angels sang their evening song and told the waiting shepherds of the Saviour's birth.

But grander than any day this earth has ever yet seen will be that majestic occasion when the judgment is finished and the righteous receive their eternal inheritance. I want to be there; do you not?

Unless you repent, that day will hold only terror for you. You are now standing over the mouth of perdition upon a single plank, and that plank is rotten. You hang over the jaws of death by a solitary rope, and the strands of that rope are snapping one by one. Frailer than a spider's web is your life; yet that is all that divides you from eternity. The tiniest germ may shortly end your ungrateful life. I urge you to seek now Him who came to give men life and to give it to them abundantly.

"I Don't Know Which Church Is

Right"

DON'T know which is the right church.' There are some who offer this merely as an excuse; but there are many who are really troubled over the question. There is good reason why such a doubt should enter your mind. You look about you, and, besides the Roman Catholic Church, you see some six hundred Protestant churches and sects. They can not all be right, for they are all different. If the teaching of any two were identical, there would exist no reason for a separate organization. Therefore I do not wonder that many people are in doubt as to which church teaches the correct doctrine, unmixed with error. Such a church must of necessity be founded by Christ Himself; for an inspired Bible must have an inspired interpretation.

You have noticed that in the foregoing chapters, I have never appealed to you to join any church. I have asked, even urged, that you hasten to join yourself to Christ. I have tried to make it clear that in order to do this in order to be a Christ-ian you must repent of your past sins and utterly forsake them. God's moral law, the Ten Commandments, defines sin. To violate any of these commandments is sin. Here, then, one point at least can be settled: No church that teaches men to disobey any one of these moral precepts can be right. A church whose members do not keep God's Ten Commandments can not be right.

Jesus said, "If any man will do His will, he shall know of the doctrine." John 7: 17. God's will is expressed in His commands. When you are willing to obey God, His Spirit will teach you from the Word and guide you into all truth. But you must follow every ray of light. If you are led to see and to know a truth

which your natural, proud heart is not pleased with, and you refuse to accept it and to walk in the light, the Holy Spirit will lead you no farther; and sooner or later the Spirit of truth will leave you, and the light which is in you will become darkness.

Of many the Bible says, "Because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved, God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie." 2 Thessalonians 2: 10, II. What an awful condition to be in - to believe a lie, and never again be able to know that it is a lie!

Let us review church history a little. We are agreed that there could be nothing wrong with the apostolic church as founded by Christ and built up by His disciples after they had enjoyed the Pentecostal blessing. What, then, were the cardinal beliefs of that early church? A careful study of the Scriptures will reveal these belief in righteousness by faith in Jesus Christ; belief in the Lord's second coming, to put an end to sin and receive His people; in the entire Bible as the Word of God; in the observance of the seventh day (Saturday) as the Sabbath, according to the fourth commandment of Jehovah; in baptism by immersion; in spiritual gifts; and in celebrating the Lord's Supper and the ordinance of humility as memorials.

Had this first church continued as it was first established, we should now have no difficulty in determining which church is right, for there would be but one Christian church.

So long as the church suffered persecution, it remained pure and enjoyed God's blessing in spiritual gifts; as it departed from God's commandments, these gifts were withdrawn. As Christianity rapidly spread and began to be popular, the church united more and more with the world. The apostle Paul saw working even in his day` a power which would eventually corrupt the church. To the believers at Thessalonica, who en

tertained the mistaken idea that Christ was then soon to return, he wrote:

"Be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand. Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshiped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God. . . . The mystery of iniquity doth already work." 2 Thessalonians 2:2-7.

Paul saw clearly that there would be "a falling away" from the true principles of truth; that "the mystery of iniquity," working through the "man of sin," would corrupt the church. How this came about I shall state very briefly. I shall not have space to quote the many passages from history and Scripture which might be given as evidence.

We find that the early church grew until its work was directed by four bishops,- one at Jerusalem, one at Antioch, one at Alexandria, and one at Rome. Of these four bishops, no one had authority over the others. But you recall that at that period, the Roman Empire ruled the world. Civil laws, therefore, issued from Rome; and very naturally men came to look upon the bishop who lived at Rome as having a little higher office than the others. Later the Roman bishop was made the head of the church by the emperor.

In the early years of the fourth century, a Roman emperor, Constantine, nominally accepted Christianity; but he was never converted, as his life record shows. He took upon himself the name of Christ in order to obtain the aid of Christians in securing the throne. After the baptism of this pagan emperor, Christianity spread rapidly; but as thousands with unconverted hearts flocked into the church, the church, already far