There is no truth more severely assailed in our day than that of the authority of God’s Word. At the first Satan’s temptation was, “Hath God said?” and in these last times, on every hand it is being asked, “Hath God said?” “Higher criticism” calmly assures us God hath not said a very large amount of the Bible, and that all of it is to be measured by human reason! Thus does infidelity take away from the soul the truth of the authority of God’s Word. Romanism and its allies tell us that had not the church so decided, we could not know whether the Bible was God’s Word, and that to the authority of the church we are indebted for our faith in the authority of the Scriptures! Herein do Rome and infidelity show their close relationship, both go to man for authority, both deny the Divine authority.
Happy Servants
Happy servants of the Master are they who, when He comes, will be quietly going on with the work He gave them to do.
He will find some servants quarreling and smiting their fellow-servants; others forgetful of their service, eating and drinking with the drunken.
O! dear young Christian, are you a happy servant of the Lord Jesus Christ, doing what you know He would have you do? He said, “Occupy till I come.”