LAW, LOVE, AND RETRIBUTION

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2761, 3 May 1916, Page 6

LAW, LOVE, AND RETRIBUTION

Sir, —I was astounded at the information imparted by "Robbie-", that' law and love are frivolous subjects. Until to-day 1 believed that tho laws of God, tlie Ten Commandments' (Exodus 20) were the foundation principles, the external principles, of truth, and therefore justice (good government). Heroin is unfolded.thc character of God. Oboy theso laws, and righteousness, peace, and plenty, reign, disobey them, and you bavo the sword, famine, and pestilence (Leviticus 26). But God is so long-suffering that the mass of tho people have- come to the conclusion they can go as they pioase, and do as they like. Can they? There is coming, upon the earth "a time of trouble such as never was sinca there was a nation." "They that cast away the law of tlie Lord shall be consumed." "Tho fool hath' said in his heart there is-no God,":and he violates tho whole of tho Ten Commandments. God's word; together With the Great .Pyramid, under wliich New' Zealand's sons sheltered, are two: .witnesses that the close of the year 1914 would mark the beginning of the greatest calamity that ever happened—Retribution.

It is called the Day of the Lord, or Lord's Day (period). "A day of darkness and of gloominess; a day of clouds and thick darkness," cowing in-as "a thiof," subtlefy, suddenly,, "as the lightning." There shall be great tribulation upon tho earth, distress of nations. Christians (Christ's ones) have long known that 1914 would nsber in tlie close of the good times wo. were experiencing, "The Gentiles'' Period,'.' and when the war cloud burst they were prepared for it, as also they are prepared for what is to follow. We also know that men like "Jachin" will be too busy to take stock of -these things. Men shall rush to and fro over tho face of the earth, "the chariots (motor-cars) shall rage.in tho streets; they shall seeni like the torches: they shall run like the. lightnings, the bright sword and the glittering spear', and there is a multitude of slain, and a great ntmv. ber of carcasses, and there is -no end of their corpses." ' •

What is the greatest force in the world? Love! Love worketh no ill to his noighbou r (Rom.' 13.. 10-14)'; and yet "Kobbie", calls it a "frivolous subject." Love toward sin-stricken, dis-ease-smitten humanity drew from the dying Saviour the petition, "father forgive them, for they know what they do." Love to Jesus in days of old enabled the martyrs to face death with fortitude. A mother's love impels her to wrap her babe in her own cloak while she herself perishes. Love of power and fame impels kings to' draw the sword and deluge the earth with blood, and love of home, honour, and liberty impels men to defend their country

:ind overpower the "hate" of,the Kai' scr.' Love of gain, commercialism, impels men and women to sell themselves body and soul tor "a mess of pottage." " Disanso, death, and lieil (war is hell) aro caused by tho love of evil: and when you consider the fart that it has turned England into one vast arsenal, and the whole enonomio structure is trembling in the balance, love is not the "frivolous subject" it would appear to "Robbie," after all: at least, "that is how it presents itseh to JOHN PLOWMAN. P.S. —1 must decline "Robbie's" kind invitation. The nnarinss of our Lord's coming causes Christians' to be very careful where they go, and with whom they associate. If- they jare found in the company of roMs nv that great occasion' thev will be left' outside, "whore there h weeping anH wailwg." -J.P.