July, 1942
THE K I N G ’ S BUS I NE S S Around the King s Table ' LOUIS T. TALBOT, Editor-In-Chief
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Is Evil Directed? There are those today who, realiz ing that there is a moral order in the universe, are willing, to concede that there must be a personal Supreme Being, the Source of good and the Director of the forces of good in the world. Yet when it comes to evil, they reject the Bible teaching of a personal devil. Evil in’ this world is a far worse thing than most of our pretty human philosophies have been willing to admit. It is a far-reaching scheme of things, and no abstract law can ex plain it. One who has any knowledge of its world-wide working can hardly fail to see. that it is subtly and most intelligently directed f r o m s o m e source—and that source is certainly not impersonal. Conybeare’s translation of Ephe-. sians 6:12 bears out this truth: “The adversaries with whom we wrestle are not flesh and blood, but they are the principalities, the powers, the sovef- eigns of this present darkness, the [ Continued on Page 280] when we were there, were Eng lish-speaking Japanese. They were mum, but took in all said by those drunk, or half-drunk, sail ors when driving them in beauti ful cars out to Pearl Harbor and other places. More than one sol dier or sailor told me that certain Japanese had tried to get them drunk, thus to obtain information. But there ,were enough drunk, it seemed to me, for the Japanese to obtain their information with out having to pay for the drinks!” Even apart from definite enemy planning, the sale of hard liquor or beer is a cause for concern. For de spite all clever advertising and propa ganda to the contrary, beer, in mul tiplied millions of instances, has proved to be habit-forming. And the place..of sale, whether an alien-con trolled beer parlor or the canteen at a United States ‘Army post, does not materially affect the operation of the laws of nature! Knowing well how the taste for beer develops, the brewing interests are not limiting their attention to their present opportunity among serv icemen in the sale of beer within the army camp. In a curious mixture of s^lf-defense and long-range planning for the future, the editorial quoted in the opening paragraph continues (bold face ours): “The army command recog nized beer to be a beverage that is not only completely harmless as far as its alcoholic content is
servative estimate of the mileage in your tires, then reserve a min imum of one-tenth of that mile age for the Lord. If you have ten thousand miles left in your tires, you will, of course, have one thousand miles for traveling to and from your church services. It is the same principle as tithing your money. “By giving the Lord one-tenth of your estimated mileage, you will very probably discover- that the automobile man underesti mated your tire service, and the tire.situation will be cleared up long,before your,-present tires are worn out. Do likewise with your gasoline, and we will see you at church!” "One of the finest things that could have happened to the Brewing Indus try was the insistence by high-rank ing army officers to make beer avail able at army camps." Thus read the opening lines in a full-page editorial published more than a year ago in the Brewers Di gest (May, 1941). But a policy that may have been “fine” for the brew ers has in it the seeds of disaster for America. Easy access to intoxicants —and to the beer ihat cultivates a taste for strong liquor—may or may not cause America’s actual defeat in highly mechanized modern warfare; time will tell. But this is but one aspect of the danger. What Japanese-dispensed liquor did at Peart Harbor, on the pay-day im mediately before December 7 should constitute a terrible warning to Amer ica. Charles A. Leonard, Sr., Who was a missionary in the Hawaiian Islands in the fall of Í941, describes, in a re cent communication, the danger of the use of intoxicants by military men: “Many of the dealers in intoxi cants in the Hawaiian Islands have been enemies of our coun try and are glad to see our men weakened by debauchery. Drunk enness assisted, and still assists, spies in securing information. Drunken service men in saloons, cafes, houses of prostitution/and elsewhere are free with informa tion. Nearly all taxi drivers.
Biola Graduates On the evening of June 11, eighty- two graduates—their pictures appear ing' on the front-cover of this maga zine above their chosen motto, “Vic tory through Christ”—were graduated from the Bible Institute of Los -An geles. This was-one of the largest classes in the history of the school. Space forbids a full description of the service, but for those who were pres ent in the congregation of approxi mately 3,000 that night, the memory of this event will always awaken praise to God. The Baccalaureate address, de livered earlier, appears on pages 248 and 246 of this issue. Thé Commence ment : address, an unusually stirring and challenging appeal by R. P. Shu ler, is expected to be printed in this magazine next môhth. A surprise item on the program was the presentation* to the school of a gift of five hundred, dollars in cash, made’up of small contributions, sacri fia ally given from the meager earn ings of members of the Institute stu dent I>ody. In addition to this gener ous gesture, the seniors presented a pledge to the school—to be paid with in the next twenty.years, should the Lord tarry—amounting to $10,000.00. Several weeks before Commence- ment, the President of the Institute, Louis T. Talbot, had made public his hope that several thousand dollars might be received on this occasion to apply toward the reduction of the fast- diminishing indebtedness on the buildings. The slogan which has been adopted is “No Debt When Jesus Comes.” As a gracious token of the Lord's goodness, amounts were re ceived from many individuals, and it was "possible to announce on Com mencement evening that a total of $15,000.00 was in hand. Not only for this material evidence of the Lord’s favor, but most of all for the spiritual blessings He has bestowed on faculty and students alike, Biola responds in evêr-tncreasing praise for “ Victory through Christ.” , Tithe Your Tires and Gasoline The following item was printed in the weekly bulletin of the Church of the Open Door, Los Angeles: “You p e r h a p s are worrying ■about that automobile of yours, and wondering how you are going to get to church. The problem is hot a difficult one. ■“Go. to your automobile dealer and ask him to give you a con-
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