112 THE K I N G ’S BUS I NES S There was a three-fold fact which the early disciples brought against the opposition of unbelief: the fact of Christ in His death, resurrection and exaltation. Death meant atonement; resurrection meant life; exaltation meant power. By atonement sins are put away; by life character is built up ; by power all opposition is overcome. And another fact flows from the translation of this fact into ex perience. The disciples were not messenger boys carrying facts; anybody can do that. These disciples were facts Qn feet, with eyes and hayids and hearts; they were the incarnation of the death, resurrection and exaltation of Jesus. In them these facts lived and moved and had their being. “ We can but speak the things that we have seen and heard. ’’ They were men with a vision of Christ and a revelation of God. They had seen' Jesus and heard His voice. This vision and revelation—a very part of them selves—have beep the irresistible facts in the history of Christianity. Speakng without experience is fuel without fire; it may be brilliant, but it is the brilliancy of burnished steel. Speaking withi experience has the brilliancy of the sun that carries with it light and warmth. It is a stream from the fountain that refreshes those who hear. Speaking with out experience is simply dust driven by the wind that blinds and stifles. Are we messenger boys bringing the truth, or are we the truth? Jesus Christ did not say, “ I have the truth,’' but “ I am the truth” ; not “ I have life,” but “ I am life,” and when the Christian can say not simply “ I have the truth, I have life,” but can feel it in his soul and speak it from his heart, God will work through him in mighty power. He can but speak the things which he has seen and heard. —A. C. D.' ■SMs. 3V-- a» WORLD VISION in Prayer There are two classes of people upon the earth that think in world terms, for they are the only people that are trained- along this line. The Jews, because they are scattered throughout the world and because they are clannish, are interested in all their fellow relations the world over. They think of the conditions of their Jewish brothers in the different countries and know the finances of every land. They control in a large measure the money markets of the world and therefore they are trained to think in world terms. But they do very little praying for the world, they rather “ prey” upon it. The other class of world-wide thinkers is composed of Christians who are interested in world-wide missions. Paul thought not within the sphere of Tarsus alone, or of Greece, but the whole then known world. This seems to be the Divine plan, that the Christian be as broad in his vision as the world. Of course there are a few commercial men who have traveled widely who think of the world as a whole in relation to commerce, but, alas, few of these pray. God wants His Church to grasp the whole world in prayer. This was very forcibly illustrated in an appeal for prayer that came through one of our Missionary Boards. It said, “ pray for the political conditions of the world as the work of evangelization depends
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