12. Are men's hearts now "failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming
on the earth"?
Answer
Everyone familiar with present-day conditions knows that this is the case.
NOTES - 'We are marching toward the unknown. Who knows what tomorrow has in store for
us?"-Signor Crispi, ex-Prime Minister of Italy.
"In regard to the future I am filled with disquietude when I think how easy it is to fan these
international jealousies, and how difficult it seems to allay them." -Lord Balfour, of England.
"In this world of ours we seem to ' be borne down by commercial and spiritual controversy. . . .
We grope in the daytime with fear and trembling for the future. Poor, distracted man is tossed over the
night to a more distraught tomorrow." John Wanamaker, ex-Postmaster-General of the United States.
"The bonds of society are relaxed; traditional principles are losing their sacredness, and perils
hitherto unknown are menacing the life of the social organism." Archbishop Ireland.
These, with forebodings of coming droughts, famines, fires, storms, earthquakes, tidal waves, and
pestilences, are filling men's hearts with fear.
In symbolic language, what is represented by winds?
What did this power do to the truth?
What will be the standard in the judgment?
How did Christ treat His Father's commandments?
What trying experience did Christ then foretell?
What may be said of the developments in the line of scientific inventions since 1798?
What shows that the actions of men are recorded?
Questions & Answers are from the book Bible Readings for the Home Circle