A MESSAGE from the editor Recently BIOLA concluded its first annual missionary rally on the new La Mirada campus. It was the most sat isfactory and satisfying missionary rally the school has yet experienced. There was considerably greater student interest in the meetings, greater student participation, and from all indications there was a greater student response this year than in previous rallies, at least in recent years. For all of this the administration and faculty of the school are profound ly thankful. This is evi dence that the missionary and Bible emphasis, is as strong today at BIOLA as it has ever been! It is a well-established fact that the number of students who volunteer to go to the foreign field as missionaries is greater than the numbers who actually arrive there. The question naturally arises: "Why do not more young people who respond to the missionary call actually go?" The answer is really quite simple; the young people involved answer this question themselves. The fact is that there is not sufficient funds available in the churches and elsewhere to send all of those who offer themselves for missionary service, or to keep them on the fields when they arrive. More foreign missionaries are operating in the free-world today than"ever before in the history of the missionary movement. However, the amount of work that is being done, compared with the amount of work that needs to be done, presents an appalling picture; So these volunteers are desperately needed and who is to sup port them? One very definite fact is that countries to which mis sionaries are going require more and more educational back ground. Mission boards have recognized this fact and are urging their missionary candidates to secure some kind of specialized training, rather than merely being equipped as Bible-trained evangelists and Bible teachers. This means that today young people should have some trade or profession along with their Bible training. Therefore it is imperative for a young 1 person (man or woman) who is contemplating service as a foreign missionary to obtain training and skill in specialized trades. Becoming a missionary today is a more complex and Com plicated procedure than it was a generation ago. The rise of nationalism, the increase in world literacy, the inroads of communism, the astounding means of instant communica tions and speedy travel in this jet age have all had their influences upon the complexity of today's missionary pro gram. Christian people everywhere are urged to pray most earnestly for the splendid young people who will be gradu ating from BIOLA and schools of similar nature during the coming months that the Lord will somehow provide for their every need and that they will be enabled to arrive, in good time, on the field of His appointment—ready to do His work. Dr. Samuel H. Sutherland
D ll. W ILL IAM CULBERTSON P r e s i d e n t , M o o d y B ib le I n s titu te speaks on the fundamentals of the faith. ATONEMENT “The uniform teaching of the Word of God is that the Lord Jesus Christ came into the world that He might die for the sin of men. ‘The Son of man came . . . to give his life a ransom for many’ (M at thew 2 0:28; Mark 10:45). ‘Christ Jesus. . . gave himself a ransom for all* (I Timothy 2 :5, 6 ). W e do not question for one moment that He came to reveal the Father, to do the Father’s will, to fulfill the law, to be the light of the world, to impart life, to witness to the truth, to destroy the works of the devil; but we affirm that basic to all is His atoning death and bodily resurrection. “Men need atonement, for men are lost. M en need to be saved, for men cannot save themselves. Since it is sin which separates from God, the sin question must be settled. God’s answer to men’s sin is the blood of Christ. Wherever else the sacrifice of Christ may be frowned upon and rejected, in heaven it is the song of the redeemed and the vindication of the holiness of God. No wonder it is called ‘precious blood’ (I Peter 1:19). “The sacrificial death of the Lord Jesus was for us; He died in our place. He ‘bare our sins in his own body on the tree’ (I Peter 2 :2 4 ). He ‘suffered for sins, the just for the unjust’ (I Peter 3 :1 8 ). ‘He hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin’ (II Corinthians 5 :21 ). ‘Christ Jesus . . . a ransom for all.’ It is by faith in H im who died and rose again that men find life everlasting (John 3 :1 6 ; 5:24 ; Ephesians 2 :8 , 9 ).” Every Christian should have a copy of Dr. Culbertson’s book God’s Provision for Holy Living , a happy blending of Bible study and practical exhortation. 112 pages, paper bound. For your free copy, write Moody Bible Institute, Dept. K-O-865, 820 N . LaSalle Street, Chicago 10, Illinois.
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