918 THE ■K I N G ' S BUS I NE S S the testimony of the historians of the Church like Harnaek -and Mosheim, Bishop Newton, Bishop Russell, Neander and others; in spite of the witness of the reformers and martyrs-—the Waldenses, the Moravians, John Wyelif, Martin Luther, Tyndale, Melancthon, Count Zinzendorf, and others; in spite of the Augsburg Confession of Faith of 1530, the Westminster Confession of 1643; in spite of the fact that the Father of Methodism, Samuel Wesley, and his good sons, John and Charles, were pronounced premillennialists as were also Dean Alford, Richard Baxter, John Bunyan, John Milton, August us Toplady, Horatius and Andrew Bonar, and a hundred other noted theolo gians and commentators whose names are before us, and in spite of the fact that in our own day the men who have stirred the hearts of the Church and the evangelists who have moved the world were premillennialists; the great missionary leaders, such as George Muller, Hudson Taylor; the preach ers like Spurgeon, Talmage, Pierson, and Gordon; the evangelists like Moody, Torrey, Chapman, Munhall, Needham, Sunday and a hundred others of like kind were all pronounced premillennialists. Now these good brethren are finding fault because the dear saints are flocking to hear the preachers and teachers who are premillennialists. We cannot help it, brethren, and we must confess we do not want to help it. They seem to get so much good from the doctrine; it seems to inspire new faith and devotion to the Lord; it seems to draw them out of the ruts into the road. They seem to find a new joy in service and sing a new song; they seem to come out of the pessimistic attitude of trying to convert.the lost world and into that optimistic atmosphere of joyful expectation o f their Lord’s return. They really look for Him and long to see Him and they want to get lost ones—poor sinners,—saved so that the Church, which is His body, may be completed and thus hasten His coming. They have found this doc trine of our Lord’s imminent coming the blessed hope, the inspiration of a self-sacrificing, joyful, Christian life. , Go into one of their meetings and see their faces filled with glad, glowing light. Follow them in their lives of separation from worldly maxims and methods. See them eager to ,save the lost, giving gladly of their means for the spread of the Gospel. See hundreds of young people going to the fields beyond the seas to carry the Gospel. Acquaint yourselves with these facts and you will find that the Premillen- nia'lists are the most optimistic, happy-hearted, joyful people you have ever seen; and you will understand why people will flock to the gatherings where their Bible messages are given.—T. C. H. ON LY Onlookers About fifty well-dressed picnickers, so says a dispatch, were gathered bn ope of the beaches at Lake Minnetonka, Minnesota. Two boats with men fishing from them were near by, when there came the cry of a drowning man about three hundred yards from the shore. A traffic policeman heard the cry and plunged into the lake to go to the rescue. One little boy with an inflated rubber tube thought he might help, and another little boy, in response to the policeman’s cry for help, pushed out in a canoe. The man was rescued when nearly collapsing with heart failure. He was formerly the sheriff of the county. The policeman said that not one of those picnickers
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