678 T HE K I N G ’S B U S I N E S S We teach all to trutft th e ir Bibles from cover to cover— and if they do th a t they will escape many an erro r th a t is abroad in the world. W. S. Merril, President. This last man rings true and it is a pleasure to present his honest convictions. These schools are all Christian schools and are supported by Christian money. You will have noted how few open and definite statements are made. Why should not every man say “ I am an evolutionist” or “ I am not an evolutionist” ? “ We-teach evolution,” or “ We do not teach evolu tion” ? The theory of evolution denies the Genesis statement of creation. The whole Bible is founded on the Genesis statement. The denial of the Genesis statement is a denial of the Bible. And yet hundreds of thousands of dollars are being poured into the coffers' of these schools from the self- sacrifice of Christian people and used to inject the poison of unbelief and rejection of God’s Word into the minds and hearts of the students. If you have been a party to this crime through ignorance, ask God’s forgiveness, and then resolve that you will refuse to give a penny to any work where those who handle the funds will not insure their being used only where God’s holy Word is honored from Genesis 1 to Revelation 22. —T. C. H. ^ ^ 14 . gfe a » THE LAY OF THE LOST LAYMAN Here it is—in the Literary Digest, April 14, 1923! This layman has been traveling around among the churches, trying to find a preacher who will tell him that he is a lost sinner and on his way to hell. He says (the underscoring is ours): “ I have faults, lots of them . Call them sins, ju st for th e sake of argument. I have shopped around In church afte r church, Sunday after Sunday, w ithout hearing th e m a tte r mentioned. Yet it is one of th e most im portant questions in my life—coupled w ith how to get rid of my faults. It would appear as though we in th e pews no longer had sins worth talk ing about. We have m ental com plexes, distorted points of view, and all th a t so rt of thing, bu t as for th e Garden of Eden variety of sins, it seems to be as scarce among u s.as the dodo. Occasion ally an evangelist appears am id clouds of sawdust, trum peting about, th e sins of people in yellow journals. They say some of th e so-called Fundam en talists ta lk about sin, and th a t among certain other ‘schools of though t’ long since de cadent it is an accepted subject. P erhaps it is, bu t it’s a shame th a t such an expressive word should be confined to th e vocabulary of controversy and not used in th e field of practical living. I, for one, yearn to be ‘cussed ou t’; to be drawn over th e coals; to h ea r th e so rt of direct ta lk which called fo rth from one of a Scotch congregation, who was listening to his pastor th e enthusiastic exclamation. ‘Haud ’em ower th e pit, Meenister; haud ’em ower the p it.’ They tell us of lots of things w rong w ith th e social o rder; hu t who composes the social order if no t a lot of us fellows down in the pews? I f th e m inisters convince enough of us w h at’s wrong w ith us, and ‘sell’ us thoroughly on th e way to pu t it righ t, th e re will be slight need to worry about social order or disorder. “ But it would be more th an presumptuous to try and suggest subject m aterial for th e preachers. The im portant th ing is th a t some of us in th e pews are not gripped, stirred , remotivated, by what they say. We go to church to get a certain power, and we come away empty-handed, The rapid life of business rushes us along day afte r day. We have no tim e for doctrinal decisions. We can’t stop to work out all th e world’s problems. Our lives have certain definite impacts. The message of th e Church can help us make them rig h t by pu tting power and sp irit into us. This isn’t done by a long string of negatives.
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