In writing the following paragraph the hand trembles, for we report what seems to be the height of the blasphemous utterances of our times. The same Atheistic leaflet announces that on Thanksgiving Day, November 24th the Atheists will hold in New York City their “Second Annual Trial of God.” It is to be a “Blame-giving Service.” Then follows this:
“Prayer to the Lord”
(Repeated in Unison by the Audience)
Our Father which are in heaven, respected be our name. Thy children come to see that done on earth, that is done in heaven. Give us this day our common sense to condemn Thee Thy trespasses as we condemn others that trespass against us, and lead Thyself not into temptation, but deliver Thyself from evil, for ours is the courage to call Thee to account. Amen.”
We do not comment on it, but recite a few Scriptures.
“They overpass the deeds of the wicked.... Shall I not visit for these things? saith the Lord; shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?” (Jer. 5:28-29).
“Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out” (Job 18:5). “The Triumphing of the wicked is short” (Job 20:5). “The wicked is reserved to the day of destruction. They shall be brought forth to the day of wrath” (Job 21:30). “The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God” (Psa. 3:3). “The wicked shall be turned into hell” (Psa. 9:17). “I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree. Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not; yea I sought him and he could not be found” (Psa. 38:35). “When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity flourish; then shall they be destroyed forever” (Psa. 92:7). “The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram. And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up the wicked” (106:17-18).
Let the God-deniers and the wicked remember that in hundreds of passages in God’s holy and everlasting Word the fate of the wicked is written large. God Himself will see to it that in His own time the deserved judgment will fall upon them. — Our Hope.