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2 N O W
President Roosevelt
Thrives On Crises
The press has been remarking recently
that President Roosevelt seems to thrive
on emergencies. He enjoys them. Time
says he has a "peculiar capacity for being
comforted by crises." During his years in
the White House he has faced many.
Among the most recent are the sinking of
the U. S. gunboat Panay by Japanese air-
planes and the sharp decline in business,
which the President has labeled a reces-
sion.
A wide difference of opinion exists as
to his success in coping with these emer-
gencies. Some critics declare his remedies
worse than the ailments, and even hold
him responsible for creating crises, par-
ticularly the present business decline.
Others are convinced that he is the one
man who could have dealt with these
troublous times.
Unquestionably his decisions are far-
reaching, affecting not alone the lives of
all U. S. citizens, but in many cases those
of citizens of other lands and of persons
as yet unborn.
Whether he was raised up for the
present critical period in U. S. and world
affairs, it is certain that One did come to
this earth solely to meet a crisis. And His
action in that crisis affected every person
on earth at that time, every person born
thereafter and yet to be born, every per-
son who was born before though then
dead a day or four thousand years, and
all the universe.
That One was He Who was born in
Bethlehem to the Virgin Mary about
1,938 years ago. His earthly days all
pointed toward that crisis which would
end them. His steps all led to the Gar-
den of Gethsemane and to the Place of a
Skull outside Jerusalem.
It was not a "comforting" crisis to
which He came in early manhood, after
years spent always in the will of God His
Father and in service to man. It was a
cruel and shameful crisis, and as it drew
near He said: "Now is My soul troubled;
and what shall I say? Father, save Mefrom this hour? but for this cause came
I unto this hour."
The situation was this: Man had re-
belled against a loving, but holy and just
God, had sold himself into slavery to
Satan and sin. God's love longed to re-
deem and forgive the rebel. God's holi-
ness could have no fellowship with him
as a sinner. God's justice demanded his
punishment. Before the foundation of
the world God in His marvelous grace
and wisdom had devised a plan whereby
love, holiness and justice could be satis-
fied.
His own beloved Son would take upon
Him flesh and blood that as the Lamb of
God, the one perfect, sinless, spotless
sacrifice, He might in His death bear
away the sin of the world.
Justice would be satisfied because the
punishment for sin would be fully borne.
Holiness would be satisfied because every
vestige of sin would be blotted out. Love
would be satisfied because the sinner
would be redeemed and reconciled.
So to Calvary's cross the Lord Jesus
Christ went. He bore without one mur-
mur the taunts,- the scoffing, the scorn,
the spitting of wicked man, all the pain
of crucifixion, separation from God and
all the terrible weight of all our sin.
Thereby He won liberty from Satan's
chains for everyone of every age who
would by faith receive Him; He won for
them eternal life; He won for them the
power to become the sons of God. The
faith of all who had died in past ages
trusting that God would provide Him-
self a Lamb for a sacrifice was vindicated.
That crisis affects you more than any other
crisis in the world's history. What have you
done about it? You must make one of two de-
cisions-you must either accept the Lord Jesus
Christ as your Redeemer and your Lord, or
you must reject Him. According to your own
decision, you will dwell through eternity either
in the Father's house or in the place prepared
for the devil and his angels.
Do you want to accept Him? This is how
you can: "If thou shalt confess with thy
mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in
thine heart that God hath raised Him from
the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the
heart man believeth unto righteousness; and
with the mouth confession is made unto sal-
vation" (Romans 10:9, 10).
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