“Watchman! What of the night?”

OH! Watchman on the eternal hills, there are traitors in the Camp of God today. The Son of God has been wounded in the house of His so-called friends. We are afraid of German spies in our midst, and there are thousands doubtless, but that is nothing compared to the awful fact that we have among us today the devil’s agents taking the guise of ministers and followers of Christ, who are traitors in thought and word and deed to the Captain of our salvation.
God had to say of a nation in old days, “Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed Me, even this whole nation” (Mal. 3:9). We are robbing God of the glory of His Person if we deny the divinity of His Son. We are robbing God of the glory of His Godhead if we deny the inspiration of His holy Word; we are robbing God of His essential glory if we deny the fall of man and the need of the atoning work of Christ; we are robbing God of His holiness and righteousness if we deny eternal punishment.
We cannot rob God with impunity. As a nation we are becoming more and more Unitarian every day. The great sin of the age is the rejection of Jesus Christ.
God can give no truce to a nation that, under the cloak of religion, denies the divinity of His Son.
The most foul sin of the twentieth century is this blasphemy against the person of Christ, and it was the religious world that crucified Christ; and although a heathen soldier, who watched Him die, said, “Truly this is the Son of God,” and a poor thief dying by His side owns Him Lord, yet the dignitaries of the world’s religions cried aloud to the listening heavens that darkened at their sin, and to the earth that shuddered as it heard, “Away with Him! We will not have this Man to reign over us.”
We are seeking to get rid of Jesus Christ. He is leaving our universities; He is leaving many of our so-called places of worship; He is leaving our homes; He is leaving our centers of governing power. The voice of the ecclesiastic, the voice of the scholar, the voice of the people is blending in one awful cry, “We will not have this Man to reign over us.”
And so the devil reigns. There can be no other alternative: “Not this Man, but Barabbas.” Barabbas was a robber. Not Christ but the devil. We rob God and so put ourselves and our nation into the hands of Satan. This great War is known by many to be a war of Satan against Christ.
The godly in our midst are the forlorn hope of Christendom. Our destiny as a nation is trembling in the balances of God. Our sins are crying aloud for judgment to fall upon us, and if we are to be saved it will be by the prevailing prayer of righteous men and women. Oh! that as a nation we would return to God, saying, “We have sinned against heaven and before Thee.” “If the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?”