"HETEROGENEOUS ADMIXTURE."

Much of the present day contribution from "pulpit and" and press which, to a large extent, is engaging the attention of the people reminds one of the novice who decided to cook a dish of food. He dumped into the dish most anything and everything in sight. Some of the material that went into the concoction was very good; some of it was very bad.

When the food was finally prepared and cooked, there were just two things to be said of it: it was nameless and useless. In the process of cooking it obnoxiously offended the nasal sensibilities of the countryside; and, when eaten it very thoroughly wrecked the cast iron stomach of the eater.

Here is how the proposition works as regards the many, so-called religious messages: the Scriptures are twisted, dwarfed, juggled, dissected, vivisected, criticized, opinionated, and confounded.

Then, to this ruthless treatment there is added. an abun-
dance of fanciful, frivolous, fictitious, factious, fatuous, man-created theological, theoretical, theosophical, and psychological ideas

As a result of all this what can be expected but a conclusion merging into utter exasperation ?

Thinking man thinks either in conformity with or contrary to the revealed Word of the living God. Cp. Isa. 55:8.

"My thoughts are not your thoughts, saith the Lord." Whenever man's message is made up of man's thoughts as" against the thoughts of God, then that message becomes misleading and destructive.

To be what God intends it, a message must contain and be in harmony with the Word of God. Then again, it must
contain and be in harmony with the Word of God RIGHTLY DIVIDED.

Note the following texts: Deut. 18:19", 20; 1 Cor. 2:13; Eph. 6:19; Col. 4:3; 1 Tim. 2:1; 2 Tim. 2:15, 16.

The further one is from rightly divided truth, the worse the mixture

It is indeed pathetic to find men in the pulpit plunging, grasping, gasping, struggling, staggering, slipping, sliding, stumbling, in an attempt to deliver a message that utterly disregards the Dispen-sational, Distinctions of The Holy Scriptures.

Many preachers take great pride in the number of books they have read or are reading. It is well to read books, but only to the extent that such reading does not deprive one of time and attention that ought to be given to The Book.

When the writings of man predominate in any message, then we may know that the Word of God has been neglected.