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was taken when he was rescued by the Roman soldiers from the Hebrew mob in the temple courts. It was from the steps of this tower that he addressed the crowd, and it was into this tower that he was taken and in it was incarcer ated until such time as he was moved, first into northern Palestine and Asia Minor, and later into Rome. The minaret which now stands over this tower is one of the most interesting and picturesque in Jerusalem. It connects directly with a large M o hammedan orphanage, on the reader’s right, and with the offices o f the supreme Moslem council, on the left. Under the skillful direction of Mr. Cuff and his assistants, tourists visiting the H oly Land will miss none of the historic scenes dear to the heart of every Bible-loving Christian. For instance, com ing to Jerusalem, they will walk around the space on the pavement below the present street level on which our Lord stood while Pilate washed his hands. And they will see the arch above the street, through which Pilate came to the platform where he performed hi's mock ceremony. Write Mr. Cuff for full information about the tours. It will be well worth your while.
J L h e r e is probably no spot on the face of the earth of so much historic interest as the temple area in Jerusalem. In the accompanying picture, we have, in the background, a large minaret. This was built over the site o f a semi-fortress tower, which was erected by Herod the Great in honor of his friend, Mark Antony. The T ow er o f Antonia, as it was called, was built after the main edifice o f the temple had been completed. The object o f the T ow er of Antonia was to house a Roman garrison. Apparently, in the actual construction o f the building there re mained a small portion of land in the north western corner of the area which was not being put to any particular use. Thus the tower was built, and across from it and connected with it by an arch over the street was the judgment hall o f Pontius Pilate. The building which we can see just to the right and behind the minaret is this edifice. Th e minaret in the foreground is now owned by the Mohammedan church, and the building in the background is owned by the Roman Catholic church. A t the present time, a narrow street separates the two, but in the time o f Herod the Great there was a wide street known as the Gabatha, which later became the scene of our Lord’s so-called trial. It was into the Tow er of Antonia that Paul
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TABLE OF CONTENTS Crumbs from the King’s Table—The Editor.......... -........................343 When Jesus Speaks to Youth—Harold F. Graham......................... 345 Youth and the Open Door—Louis S. Bauman.... |............................347 Grace Edna Mott, Martyred for Christ.............................................. 350 The Poet Sings of Peace...........................j|......................................... 351 Biola Graduates of ’32 Exalt their Lord............................................ 352 The World and its Wisdom—Roy Talmage Brumbaugh.................355 Present-Day Fulfillment of Prophecy—Louis S. Bauman................356 Studies in the Epistle to the Hebrews—John C. Page....................357 Heart to Heart' with our Young Readers —Florence Nye Whitwell.......................................................... ..359 Homiletical Helps ................. ............................................. -...............362 Junior King’s Business-—Martha S. Hooker ..................................363 In thè Jewish World—rjJ. A. Vaus.................................................... 365 Notes on Christian Endeavor—Mary G. Goodner............................366 International Sunday School Lesson Commentary......... ................369 Daily Devotional Readings............................................ .....|...............376
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nity, however ostentatious and solemn its expression, we are willing that the Scriptures be subjected to the test of experience. How does the Bible wear? Let the old men speak. Let the ancient student reply,;“ The Bible stands every test of experience.” Self-Control e l f - c o n t r o l is a fruit of the Spirit. Silence may be mightier than passion. Looking upon the meek and forbearing man, we might, from a superficial view, accuse him of timidity, whereas in reality his forbearance is a proof of his strength. When a city is broken down and without walls, it is exposed to the attacks of the enemy from every quarter. It is without defense and without security. It offers an easy prey even to the feeblest assail ants. Precisely so is it with him who has no rule over his own spirit. He is excited by the smallest consequences ; he is drawn away by the meanest allurements ; he takes fire on the smallest provocation; he is the victim of his own passionateness. Losing self-control, he loses what little wisdom he has gathered from experience, and so he be comes a prey to the enemy, and is brought to complete destruction. No man can control his own spirit as a mere act of discipline. Up to a given point this may be pos sible, and no doubt great success of a very limited kind has been thus attained, but by control we must understand com plete sovereignty; so that the man shall, in all his pas sions and impulses, be the willing servant of his own rea son and conscience. Such a miracle can be wrought in the human heart only by the Holy Spirit. This is in very deed a conquest of grace, and this is the seal of heaven attesting the reality of otir divine sonship. How easy it is to return evil for evil, to indulge in the spirit of retort and resent ment ! How easy it is to stand upon the perilous ground of “ dignity” !. Oh the other hand,'how poor and feeble a thing it seems to be to hear without speaking, to receive indignities without vengeance, to suffer wrong without in flicting reprisals ! Yet this is the very acme and crown of Christian discipline—the very perfectness of character as formed by fellowship with Jesus Christ. When men have no control over their own spirit, they prove that their pas sion is stronger than their reason, that their self-love over masters their understanding, and that their so-called sensi tiveness, which is but a longer word for vanity, is of more consequence to them than is the proof of the indwelling and all-ruling spirit of gentleness. Are You Right With G od? ONAH p a id his fare. How particular some of us are about these little pedantries o f morality ! Wé think, when we have defied thé Almighty and run away from His presence, that we can go up to the counter like honest men and put down thé fare. Many of üs are making up by pedantries what we are wanting in the principles of dur life. We have good points without having a good soul. We have beautiful characteristics without having a solid and undoubted character. Jonah has paid his fare, has he? Yes, but he has forsaken God. Can a man like that do anything right? No. You cannot have any right if you cut the
W e Can Trust His Wisdom ~1 s G od a l l - w i s e ? Then the darkest providences have meaning. We set ourselves as God’s interpreters, and because we cannot make straight lines out of our crooked lot, we thifik that God has turned our lives into inextric able confusion. The darkest hours in our lives have some intent, and it is really not needful that we should know all at once what that intent is. Let us keep within our own little sphere and live a day at a time, and breathe a breath at a time, and be content with one position at a time, and the interpretation, providence says, will come when God pleases and as He pleases. God is all-wise. Then His plan of salvation is complete and final, and we shall waste our strength and show how great is our folly by all attempts to improve the method of redemption and recovery of the world. What is there of God’s that we can improve? Find any little plant and improve it. Try it. Surely you can make something more out of a primrose than God has made. _Surely you could amend the buttercup and the daisy. Try it. Is there a blade of grass in all the meadows of the earth that we can im prove, looking at it as God constructed it? Can you im prove anything that God has made? Then why seek to improve the method of salvation which He has set up, ac cording, to the revelation of His holy Book, in the person and through the ministry of His Son Jesus Christ? Im prove what is laid down in John 3 :16, “ God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” Improve it, if you can: divine love giving its only begotten Son that whosoever believeth—not payeth, not worketh, not putteth out some external strength, but be lieveth—should not perish, but have everlasting life. It is a marvel that any heart can hear these words without say ing instantly, “ These words shall lie at the very root of my life, and I will live upon them, and I will defy death in their strength.” Testing the Scriptures h a t does the Bible do for men in the daily humdrum of life ? What does it do for men when they are laid low, when they walk in darkness, when they ,cry out in pain, when they seek water and there is none, when they are dying for help and there is no hand to touch them—what is the Bible then? What then do all its testimonies, pre cepts, and songs amount to? By that inquiry we are will ing that the claims of the Bible should be judged. All formulated faith must come to the same test. The faith that looks well as it is outlined in the catechism or in the outlines of theology may read well. There is no break in its broad and noble flow, but how does it answer in the bat tle? How does it stand fire? What is it worth when the storm rages, and the tempest tries the strength? A faith that will not walk as well as fly, fight for God as well as sing for Him, sit up all night with the sufferer for His sake as well as testify before hundreds of admiring saints for His sake is a faith not to be trusted. However pomp ous its expression, however ecclesiastically guarded its dig
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bond that unites you with the throne of God, with the law of right. When men come to understand this, we shall not look at one another through the medium of little things, de tails, and petty momentary associations. The question will be, “ Art thou right with God?” Yes.- Then you can not be wrong with men. A man can do nothing right if he is wrong with God. What he does that is so-called right is right relatively only, secondarily only. It has but a lim ited sphere; it is not set down to the sum total of the worth of a man’s character. Discouragements ‘IT1 is c o u r a g e m e n t s try the quality of men. You cannot tell what some men are when their places of business are thronged from morning until night, and when they are spending the whole of their time receiving money. You might regard them as really very interesting characters; you might be tempted to think you would like to live with them. They are so radiant, so agreeable, so willing to oblige, and they speak so blithely, that you suppose you have fallen upon some descendant of the line of angels. That is quite a mistake on your part. If you could come when business is slack, when there are no clients, custo mers, patrons, or supporters to be seen, you would not know the lovely angels. You would not recognize the per sons whom you thought so delightful. Look at the face, how cloudy; hear the voice, how husky; observe the actions, how impatient; look at the eye, how furtive! Now you see what the man really is. Adversity tries men. We are, in reality, what we are under pressure. The year is not all summer; the year has long rains and heavy snows and bit ing frosts, and the entire year must be taken in if we would make an accurate survey of the whole land. Do not let us deceive ourselves. We have times of a little excite ment, triumph, and gladness, when people think us kind and amiable and delightful, but we know we are saying within ourselves, “ If only these people could see us at other times when we snap like mad dogs, when nothing pleases us, when feathers are hard, when summer is winter, when our best friends are burdens to us, they would not form such judg ments of our delightful qualities.” The Christian has to show, whatever other men have to do, that Christianity is a religion for night, winter, ill health, loss, and discouragement—a religion that comforts, sustains, and animates under deprivations of the severest kind. What is the cure of the awful disease of discourage ment ? Men are not to be laughed out of their discourage ments as if they were merely illusory, or as if they were assumed for the purpose of affectation. Discouragement is positive and actual to the than who suffers from it. The very first condition o f being able to treat discouragement with real efficiency is to show that we know its nature, that we ourselves have wandered through its darkness, and that we have for the sufferer a most manly and tender sym pathy. What is the discouragement? Loss in business? We have all lost in business. Ill health? We have all suf fered from ill health. Bereavement? Where is there a hand that has not dug a grave? Who lives that has not felt the devil’s hot breath upon his soul ? We have all been tempted. We must be one with the discouraged man. Iden tification is the secret o f sympathy. Then there are encouragements to be recollected in the time o f men’s dejection. Do the clouds really obliterate the stars, or do they only conceal them ? The discouragements can be numbered. Can the encouragements be reckoned—! encouragements of a commercial, educational, social, rela
tive kind, encouragements in the matter o f health or spirits or family delights ? It is rough possibly in the market place, but how tranquil is it at home ? And what is any market place when home is quiet with the peace of heaven ? Are there losses and trials? Possibly, but are there no spir itual gains, acquisitions, subtle accretions of moral power, so that a receding earth means an approaching heaven? Write down your discouragements. On a paper pad that is large enough, and with a pencil that is long enough, put down the whole black list. Now write on a page your encouragements, your sources of happiness, your springs of strength, your inspirations, and your hopes, Put them down with a firm hand. You will use the whole pad. One of the greatest cures for discouragement is a per suasion of being right. We have really very little to do with mere circumstances. We are not masters of the wea ther. W e cannot control the atmosphere. Nor have we any magical wand whereby we can do things which are supernatural. The eternal consolation is in the fact that the purpose is right, and the heart is sound. We should think of the eternal foundations, and not of the changing clouds. “ The foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his.” Bible Institute Faculty for 1932-33 t u d e n t a p p l ic a t io n s are coming in from many young men and women, and the student body prom ises to be as large, if not larger than last year. The follow ing are the members of the faculty for the ensuing year: W il l ia m P. W h i t e , President............... Bible Exposition M e l E. T r o t t e r , Vice-President___Personal Evangelism Louis S. B auman .................................................Prophecy S tanley B ailes ...... ............. .............. Christian Education E. R. B lack ...........................Greek; Christian Psychology M rs . A, L. D ennis .............................Christian Education R obert E vans .................................................The Gospels H arold F. G raham ........ .Homiletics; Youth Evangelism Ross A. H arris , M.D........................Medical Department G ordon E. H ooker ...........................,........... ;........... Music J ohn A. H ubbard .................................. Analysis M ilo F. J amison ...................................................Theology L ucy R. K ilgore , M.D....................Medical Department I one L owman ................ English S tewart P. M ac L ennan ........................ Church History J. B. N ield ...............................Head of Music Department M rs . J. B. N ield .......................................................English J ohn C. P age .............:........................ ................. Synthesis H arry R immer ........................................ Bible and Science H. E. S traub , D.D.S........................Medical Department L ouis T. T albot .......................... ....Personal Evangelism J ames A. V aus ...........Hebrew; Israel in the Plan of God M r s . E d it h G. W a l l a c e ......... Superintendent of Women C u t l e r B. W h i t w e l l ..... .............. Superintendent of Men M r s . E d it h P. Y o u n g k e n .................................... Registrar Vom Bruch Evangelistic Party he H arry V om B ruch Evangelistic Party closed its season’s work at Atlanta, Ga., fulfilling a return engagement in that city. During the year, the party, which is composed o f Dr. Vom Bruch, evangelist, Walter R. MacDonald, song leader, and James C. Davis, pianist, held meetings in Colton, Pomona, Hollywood, San Bernardino, and Long Beach, Calif., and in Newark, N. J., Greensburg, Pa., and Atlanta, Ga. Dr. Vom Bruch will join Dr. Donald Grey Barnhouse in the Revelation Cruise to Bermuda, and will attend Bible conferences in Ocean City, N. J., Bing hamton, N. Y., and Winona Lake, Ind., before beginning the next season’s work.
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Go thy way, sell whatso ever thou hast, and give to the poor .. . and come, take up the cross, and follow me.
There came one running, and kneeled to him, and asked him, Good Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?
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Then it was that Jesus spoke to youth. The Scripture records the scene with these words: “ Jesus beholding him loved him, and said un to him, Qne thing thou lackest.” J esus B eholding H im , L oved H im The Master looked clear through him. He looked into the very depths of his soul. He saw the sincerity of spirit and the loyalty of purpose. He saw the enthusiasm and the vitality and the life. The saddest condition that prevails in the American home today is the great breach of un derstanding between parents and youth. Parents look with amazement at the vitality and power and enthusiasm of young people. On every hand, you hear the cry, “ What has happened to our young people?” The hardest thing a young fellow has to face in his family is the fact (almost universally true) that no one understands. “ The folks” think that conditions and cir cumstances and temptations are just the same as they always were. It is hard to describe the feeling—but it is just plain aloneness! No one understands. Yet here is One who does understand. “ Jesus behold ing him”— looking through him— “ loved him.” With all his faults and blemishes, Jesus understood him. The thing that meant the most to me when I came to Jesus at the age of sixteen was that here was One who could understand. Here was a Friend I could trust. And that is the Christ I present to you. Remember, when Jesus speaks to youth, He speaks with perfect understanding and in perfect love, for “ Jesus beholding him, loved him,” Parents often make the mistake o f giving the impres-
“ Then Jesus beholding him loved him, and said unto him, One thing thou lackest” (Mk. 10:21). il l you l e t me make a very simple state ment of introduction to this message ? It is this: When Jesus speaks to youth, it is Jesus who speaks. I want you to listen, when Jesus speaks to youth, and I want you to remember who is speaking: the manliest Man who ever walked life’s pathway, the only normal Man who ever breathed, Jesus Christ; not the mild, pale-faced figure you see on Sunday-school picture cards, not the weak, emaciated Jesus of popular concep tion, but the Christ of the Scriptures! This is the Man who went one day into the temple and saw greedy priests making merchandise of His Father’s house, and who stooped down and made a scourge of small cords and advanced to meet the crowd single-handed. His arm rose and fell like flashes of light ning as He faced the mob alone. And when He was through, the courtyard was empty. Jesus Christ, a young Man! Jesus Christ, a strong Man! Jesus Christ, the God-Man! Remember who is speaking, when Jesus speaks to youth. A young man heard that Jesus had been in town. He was a rich young fellow, and did not associate very much with the so-called “ common” people, so he nearly missed out when Jesus came to his town. The Master was just leaving, and the young chap—a sincere fellow he was— ran through the street at top speed to overtake this strange, new Teacher. Breathless, he knelt before Him, out of respect, and said, “ Good Master, what shall I do that I may inherit eter nal life?” c n
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Acuities. They have everything the world can give: educa tion, culture, refinement, ability. And yet in the depths of their souls—as they will confess to you— is a disappoint ment with life. They seek after more than what they have. There is no satisfaction with that very strength which is their glory. One thing they lack, and that one thing is what Jesus puts His finger upon when He speaks to youth. The young man’s question was this: “What good thing shall I do to inherit eternal life?” In other words, said he, “ I’ll pay for what I get. You’ve been opening blind eyes, but I am not blind. You’ve been unstopping deaf ears, but I am not deaf. You have healed
sion to their children that Christianity is a great big system of don’ts. Mr. Sankey once said that such people reminded him of Sanballat and Geshem in the book of Nehemiah. Asked why that was, he replied that Nehemiah was build ing the wall, but Sanballat, who was opposed to the work, sent him this message: “ Come let us meet together in the plains of Ono.” Too many parents expect to counsel with their young people on the “ plane of O -NO” ! All the promises of God are yea and amen in Christ Jesus. Jesus speaks to youth in understanding, and He speaks to youth in love. "IT n Cripple Creek, Colo., there is a Christian lawyer who
the crippled, but I am not lame. You have comforted the poor, but I am not poor. I ’ll stand on two feet, and I’ll do my share. I’ll pour all my strength into it, only show me what I can do! This gospel of grace and salva tion is all right for bums and down-and-outers in B o w e r y Missions, but tell me, Teacher, what good thing shall I do to in- . herit eternal life ?” Then Jesus met him on his own ground. Here was one who dared to climb the heights of the law, so Jesus measured him by the law. Said He, “ Do you love God first? Well, then, go and sell those possessions of yours.” He did not promise him eter nal life for that act. He prom ised him “ treasure in heaven.” Then said Jesus, “ Come, take up the cross, and follow me.” Jesus looked that splendid young man in the eye and said, “ You do not need an in structor. You need a Saviour.” saw the love of money eating into his very soul, He drove to the roots of that cancer, and then offered Himself as the remedy. Young people, are you glad that Jesus Christ understands you ? Remember, He under stands all of you, and loves you. But He will cut to the root of that thing which is keeping you back from a complete surrender to Him and to His fullness. If it is love of money, He knows it. If it is. love of pleasure, He knows it. If it is love of self, Jesus knows and Jesus under stands. And only His presence can dispel those things which keep you away from H im ! You know the rest o f the story. You k n o w h o w that young fellow’s face fell, and how he went away exceedingly [Continued on page 349] t v and
tells this personal experience. He was troubled concerning the relation of his soul to Christ, and he went to see his pastor. The old man simply turned to the Thirty-second Psalm and read him these verses: “ I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt g o : I will counsel thee with mine eye upon thee. Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding; whose trappings must be bit and bridle to hold them in. Else they will not come near unto thee.” Then the old preacher shut up his Bible and turned away. At first, the inquirer resented the pastor’s lack of sympathy, but after thinking it over, it came to him that right there lay the secret he was seeking. He saw that the only way in which God could ever guide a man was not by some mechanical in struction, not by. fitting a bit in to a man’s mouth and pulling him this way and that with the rein, but by planting His Spirit in that heart and letting that Spirit guide. Young people, be ye not as the horse or as the mule. Jesus Christ does not want to put a bit in your teeth. When Jesus speaks to youth, He speaks in sympathy and in understanding and in love. For “ Jesus behold ing him, loved him.” O ne T hing T hou L ackest I have thought of these words scores and scores of times as I have walked and talked and worked with young people. I have seen hundreds of young men (and so have you) who are just like this rich young r u l e r— wonderful y o u t h s , strong, courageous, enthusiastic, unafraid to face the whole world no matter how high the obstacles or how great the dif-
Follow Me I hear my risen Saviour say, “Follow Me, follow Me, follow Me." His voice is calling all the day, “Follow Me, follow Me, follow Me." For thee I trod the bitter way, For thee I gave my life away, And drank the gall thy debt to pay, “Follow Me, follow Me, follow Me.” Though thou hast sinned, I’ll pardon thee, “Follow Me, follow Me, follow Me.” From every sin I’ll pardon thee, “Follow Me, follow Me, follow Me.” In all thy changing life I’ll be Thy God, Thy guide on land and sea, Thy bliss through all eternity, “Follow Me, follow Me, follow Me." Come, cast on Me thy many cares, “Follow Me, follow Me, follow Me.” Thy heavy load My arm upbears — “Follow Me, follow Me, follow Me.” Lean on My breast, dismiss thy fears, And trust Me with thy future years; My hand shall wipe away all tears. “Follow Me, follow Me, follow Me.” —A non .
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a n y m o n t h s a g o , the door of this Insti tute swung inward, and you young men and women walked through. You came because, at some mother’s knee, or before some altar, or upon some sacred ground, you had already made a great surrender; you had made a consecration o f the powers of spirit, soul, and body, which had brought them into harmony with the everlasting Spirit o f the universe. You came here that, by patient study, you might better understand God, His great purposes and His plans, and that you might develop here, to their fullest possibilities, those powers that you had consecrated. Tonight, the door of this great Institute swings outward for you. Most o f you will go out to poverty—that others may be rich. Once upon a time, in that sacred long ago, the Greatest of all the great came on His way to Jerusalem. A vast multitude “ took branches of palm trees, and went forth to meet him, and cried, Ho sanna: Blessed is the King of Israel that cometh in the name of the Lord.” The Pharisees snarled: “ Behold, the world is gone after him!” Then Jesus, knowing the meaning of their jealous hate, said: “ The hour is come, that the Son of man should be glorified. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it'abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.” How meaningful the words! He sought the glorifica tion which could come to Him only through death. “ He that loveth his life shall lose it; but he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.” And He Him self went before. He went through death to glory, and cried : “ If any man serve me, let him follow m e!” T h r o u g h D e a t h to G l o r y ! George Muller was one o f those noble souls who heard the call, “ Follow me,” and followed on to death! Some one asked George Muller the secret of his service. He answered: “ There was a day when I died—utterly died!” Then, bending lower and lower, until his head almost touched the floor, he continued: “ Died to George Muller, his opinions, preferences, tastes, and will—died to the world, its approval or censure—died to the approval or blame of my brethren and friends; and since then, I have studied only to show myself approved unto God.” Young men and women, if you did not die a death like that, before you walked through these doors, we hope you will utterly so die, even yet tonight, before you pass out. The world is in dire need o f a great many things today. But, oh, how the world needs the spirit of Christ—the spirit of willingness to die that others may live! Only by its possession can any o f us live the abundant life.
In a Storm off the Diamond Shoals o f Eng land, a ship was foundering in the tempest-tossed waves. Captain Pat Etheridge got the lifeboat ready. In the face of the tremendous peril, his crew hesitated. “ Captain Pat,” said one, “ it’s no use in that wind. We can launch the boat, and we can reach the ship, but we can never come back!” “ Boys,” replied the old hero, “ we don’t have to come back!” Heroes, one and all, they launched the boat, they reached the ship, they took off the survi vors; and, after nine hours of terrific battling with the maddened sea, they returned safely to their station. They, too, died —to themselves. Had they not died to themselves, they would have abode alone. Dying to themselves, they passed through death to an abundant life—to glory! If this spirit could be injected into the veins of the great commercial and political worlds, how the troubles of nations would disappear over night! Is T h e r e N o t h in g L e f t t o A c h ie v e ? e c a n n o t understand the mentality of men who feel that everything worth while has been done, and that life is therefore a useless burden. The fact of the matter is that no generation in human history has stood face to 'face with such worth-while tasks, such monumental prob lems, such tremendous opportunities, such absolutely necessary operations calling for the highest faculties and the noblest qualities. The problems which now await solu tion, the tasks which are calling loudly for speedy accom plishment, are making all our modern Edisons and Ein steins stand aghast. And well they may, for the tasks defy the solution of the natural man with his physical instru ments, no matter how cunning their workmanship. The only instruments that will ever successfully perform the necessary operations upon this cancer-smitten old world of ours are spiritual instruments. Yes, problems fraught with staggering difficulties con front the graduate, no matter of what school, the moment he takes his diploma and passes out of the door of his Alma Mater today. Men are saying significantly that we need a superman to successfully grapple with present-day problems. Well, God’s men, “workers together with him,” are always supermen. To God’s men—real, red-blooded, two-fisted, Spirit-filled Joshuas and Daniels and Pauls— mountainous difficulties, such as appear in the pathway before us today, should be but exhilarants. We should count it a joy just to be alive and to have the privilege of letting God manifest His power through u s! The church of Jesus Christ never before faced so glorious an oppor tunity for the manifestation of her divine power. Let us, then, thank God that problems exist. ’ They give
Louis S. B auman Dr. Bauman is a much- sought speaker and writer, $ especially on prophetic themes. The accompanying article is a summary of the com mencement address given at the Bible In stitute on June 1, 1932.
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Only a few days ago, one of the greatest financial ex perts of the world, writing from Wall Street for The In ternational News Service, said: “ Wall Street is in the frame of mind of not knowing what to expect next. . . . The financial community has reached the point of where values just don’t exist any more.” Without presuming overmuch that our business acu men entitles us to pass judgment on the opinion of a great “ financial expert,” we cannot help wondering whether it was not in 1929 that the values did not exist. Stock values,
us something for which it is preeminently worth while to live, to suffer, to sacrifice, and even to die! They save us from the deadly miasma of cynicism. We thank God for the depression which has shaken us out of our senseless dreaming in a fool’s paradise, restored us to a world of realities, and made us conscious that there are still tasks worthy of our powers. T he P eril of C ynicism r . H arry E merson F osdick , when he lets theology U alone, frequently says something to the youth of of thing which dis turbs me in the younger generation: Prodigals often come home again, but cyn ics are essentially lost souls, and this is the gist o f their dam nation : they have been born in a sig nificant generation, and they find nothing to live for, nothing which it is their glory to believe in a n d to represent, nothing for which they think it is worth while to sac- rificially stand. . . The glory of life lies in believing in some thing e m i n e n t l y worth while, and in standing for it in our generation be fore we fall on sleep!” Dr. Fosdick is absolutely right. The cynical spirit of our younger generation, which represents nothing, be lieves in nothing, is loyal to nothing, sacrifices nothing, lives for nothing, loves nothing, accomplishes nothing, dies for nothing, is the mQst foreboding sign of the hour. And Dr. Fosdick himself admits that cynicism is the result of disbelief in God. What a pity that he has used—uncon sciously, let us hope—his splendid strength of body and mind for the destruction of a really vital, living faith in God! Young men and women, no greater thing have you been taught in this institution than that there are souls worth loving, deeds worth doing, prizes worth gaining, values worth fighting for, convictions worth dying for, and a heaven beyond worth entering! Here your faith has been strengthened immeasurably in the great eternal verities of this universe “whose builder and maker is God.” The enthusiasm which sends you forth with an intense desire to live and to love is not man-made; it is born of a living faith in the eternal worth-while-ness of this old cosmos wherein you, the sons of God, shall endlessly be workers together with God. You are saved from the paralyzing damp of cynicism by the consciousness that you are the sons of an omnipotent Father, and that your labor is not in vain in the Lord. You are buoyed with that invincible faith of the prophets before you, knowing that “ he shall not fail nor be discouraged till he have set justice in the earth.” Ame r i c a which is worth repeating. Not long ago, he said: “ This is the sort
at least, are more real in 1932 than they were in 1929. In 1928 and 1929, the old Ame r i c an eagle was having a great time, far up in the aerial regions somewhere, flapping its wings in a great old financial jam boree, when, sudden ly, he flopped into a n o s e d i v e a n d brought us b a c k down with him to rock-ribbed e a r t h , and the landing has made us all a bit sore. That is the whole true story of it! However, if it is true that material “ values just don’t exist any more,” we may well ask, Why
don’t they exist ? What has destroyed them ?, The answer is not difficult. Material values in no nation, and in no age, have ever been maintained after moral and spiritual values have gone tobogganing—never! When moral and spiritual values are destroyed, faith languishes and dies. Faith is confidence. When moral and spiritual values dwindle, the confidence of man in man, and of nations in nations, also dwindles. T he R eal N eed of the H our uman experience will not allow us to place any large measure of confidence in men, or in the governments of men, whose moral or spiritual standards are low. When, as it sometimes happens, such men or governments are in the ascendancy, we are prone to bundle up whatever re sources we may possess and start for the safety deposit box. And all propaganda against our hoarding will fall upon deaf ears, until we are assured that those who would handle what little we possess have returned to the time- honored ideals of righteousness and possess some fear of God in their hearts. Bruce Barton wrote in the current issue of The American Magazine: “ The economists may continue to write long books, but the simple fact is this: Business is confidence plus activity. Depression is fear and inactivity. Today we are depressed because o f fear.” “ Depressed because we fear” ? But what do we fear? Certainly not that the sun is going to cease to shine, or that the rains shall no longer descend, or that the earth is going to stop pouring forth a superabundance for every
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need of all mankind! N o! What do we fear? After all, what, save human selfishness and greed? What, save “ man’s inhumanity to man” ? What, save sin, and sin alone ? The world, as a whole, and especially our civilized nations, has at its command everything needed to produce the highest degree of prosperity ever conceived by the mind of man. Why, then, the appalling distress? Why the lengthening bread lines ? Why the crashing of great finan cial institutions? Why the thousands moving out of their once happy homes into the streets ? Something is wrong— terribly, cruelly, wickedly wrong! All the stupendous problems which confront mankind today can be summar ized into that one word— sin! And your training, young men and women, in this Institute has had for its outstand ing purpose, the making of you into specialists for dealing with that one terrible malady, sin. With the remedy for that applied, all the rest will be easy. Graduates of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles, a world, grown almost destitute of faith, needs you—needs you more today than it ever has since Luther thundered his anathemas against the iniquities of papal Rome. The world needs a revival of faith. Only faith can beget faith. You have faith. The world needs vision. “ Where there is no vision, the people perish.” . You have vision. The world needs spiritual impulse. “ A golden age can never be made out of leaden instincts.” You have the spiritual impulse. The world needs Jesus Christ. You have Jesus Christ. And “who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?” After all, the real need of this great nation is not gold. It is not a sustained dollar. It is not “ a balanced budget.” It is not employment. It is not a revival of industry. It is not an anti-hoarding campaign. The preeminent need of the United States of America is for more young men and women who have not lost faith in God. We need more young men and women who can stand alone and erect, and walk unsullied on the streets of our modern Babylons. We need more young men and women who have been born from above, who have dug away all the miserable pagan rubbish and have planted their feet firmly on the bed-rock of God’s eternal Word, who know the meaning of His salvation and who can declare it unto others, who are ac quainted with His eternal purposes and plans, who can read the signs of the times, who are sensitive to the Holy Ghost, who do not hesitate to walk with the minority when the minority walks with God, and who, above all, have given the Lord Jesus Christ absolute mastery over their lives! And now, as you are about to receive your diplomas, we pray the benediction of Him whose you are and whom you serve to rest upon you in all its fullness and its rich ness, as you march forth from these doors tonight. You march in the train of a noble host which has gone out of the same doors ahead of you. They are out there at grips with the malignant forces of the enemy, engaged in the greatest business God ever gave man to do, saving men and women from the agonies of death and of hell, receiv ing only the barest necessities of life as their present re ward. Pitifully small are their resources from men. But their resources are not of men, but of God. Many of them, fallen in the battle, fill heroes’ graves. They need you out there, to help and, if need be, to die! They are calling, calling for reinforcements—reinforcements which seem, oh so long in coming! Will you answer their call? Will you go? And, remember, you “ don’ t have to come back!” Will you go? Then, in the name o f Almighty God, for the love of His Christ, and for the sake of humanity, having only the eternal rewards in view, FOR WARD MARCH !
sorrowful because he had great possessions. But that isn’t all the story. The tragedy of that story is not only with the young man, but it is with Jesus, too. If the young man’s face fell, I am sure that the countenance of our Lord was equally saddened, for He was able to fill that void left by the riches abundantly Himself, with the ex ceeding riches of His joy and grace. There was another fellow standing by—not such a young man either, but one who had heard and obeyed those quiet words of the Master, “ Follow me,” His name was Peter. And as he saw the saddened face of Jesus, Peter sought to express his own fidelity and loyalty as a bit of consolation to his Christ. Peter said to Him, “ Lo, we have left all, and have followed thee.” And here is the climax to the whole story, for Jesus answered Peter and said, “ Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel’s, but he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions: and in the world to come eternal life.” Jesus looked down the street at the retreating figure of that young man with his head bent low in meditation and sorrow, and He said, “ He is going back to his tawdry little palace. I had a mansion in glory for him. He is going back to play with his money, which will soon be gone, and I would have given him a hundred times all he has. He is going back to enjoy his wealth for a few short years, and I would have given him eternal riches. Blessed art thou, Peter, for thou hast heard and obeyed My call. Thou hast found Me to satisfy an hundredfold what thou hadst.” Young people, you have often asked this question: “ What will I have to give up, if I accept Jesus Christ?” I do not know, except that He will put His finger upon the very root of the cancer in your heart, and when He has cut that out, He will fill you so full of Himself that He will satisfy you an hundredfold. It isn’t giving u p ; it is gain ing. It is riot doing without; it is doing with Christ. When Jesus speaks to youth, He offers Himself as the full and complete sufficiency of the heart. Columbus discovered America. But what did he know about its great lakes and rivers and mountains and forests ? Many of us think we have discovered something of the riches of life in Jesus Christ. But beyond the horizon of our little vision lie undreamed-of riches which eternity itself will never exhaust. You may amuse yourself for a little while with the pretty toys of the world. But when they are gone, it will all be over. Jesus is speaking to you, and He says, “ One thing thou lackest. You need a Saviour. Come, take up the cross and follow Me.” The Ideal of Preaching The sum of the matter is that preaching, however it is done, is the giving of a word of God to men. The preacher rriust receive the Word himself and give his life to it. And in giving the Word to others, he must give his life with it. His word must be given so that the truth shall be revealed and honored, so that men shall feel that they are receiving the very Word of God.— W atchman -E xaminer .
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Mott had been engaged in work among the Jew ish women and girls. Until recently, she was liv ing with two missionaries in Radost, about a three-hour journey from Warsaw. In January, she moved to Warsaw to be nearer her work. It was while there that she met the tragic death at the hand of a murderer on the afternoon of April 14, 1932. She was alone at the time, wait ing for the members of her afternoon Bible class to assemble. Just what actuated the murderer has not been definitely learned, but from all reports, it seems that her life was taken by an enraged man soon after the baptism of a young Jewish girl. The details all seem so terrible, for this is but the earthly view; yet as we look heavenward, we know that she had a glorious and abundant en trance into her Saviour’s presence, and for her who has been “ faithful unto death” there awaits the martyr’s crown. A fellow missionary, in writing of Miss Mott’s death and funeral, said of her, “ She was a saint, spending many hours in prayer, and even whole nights. In her walk, she was very strict, giving no offense to any man. Her words were few and decided. Although she had an excellent col lege education, yet she stooped down to clean dirty floors in the poorest Jewish homes, and spent not only her whole strength and life, but all she had, in the service of the Lord.” How much like her Master she was, who being rich became poor for our sakes that we through His poverty might become rich! In a letter to one of her former Bible Institute class mates, written only a few weeks before her death, Miss Mott told of her home and work in Warsaw. In speaking of the small room which was home to her she said,
C O ord has recently been received by members of the Biola family, telling of the tragic death of one of the Bible Institute graduates, Grace Edna Mott. Although many of the Bible Institute graduates have laid down their lives in fields of service for their Lord and Master, Miss Mott is the first to be martyred for His sake, to die for the “word of God and the testimony” which she held. Many sit at Jesus’ table— Few will fast with Him When the sorrow, cup of anguish, Trembles to the brim. Few watch with Him in the garden Who have sung the hymn. But the souls who love supremely Let woe come, or bliss— These will count their dearest heart blood Not their own, but His. Saviour, Thou who thus hast loved me Give me love like this.
G race E. M ott W Graduated from the Bible Institute of Los Angeles in June, 1923, and promoted to Glory on April J 4 ,1932.
O f Grace Mott, it can be truly said that even her very life was not held dear unto herself. She was willing to lay all at His feet. Miss Mott gave up a career of school teaching to enter the Bible Institute o f Los Angeles in September, 1920. She completed the course and graduated with the class of 1923. While in the Bible Institute as a student, she was known as a young woman of prayer and deep consecration to the Lord whom she loved. We remember her as a woman of prayer, taking an active part in the prayer groups for the Lord’s covenant people, the Jews. It was while a student at the Bible Institute that the Lord called her to spend her life in service for His own people. After graduating from the Bible Institute, Miss Mott spent some time in New York City working among the
“ It is a precious privilege to live in a house of the Lord; the place is called in Polish, ‘A House of Prayer.’ May God pour upon us a spirit of prayer and supplication. “ I am living here (at Warsaw) alone, partly that I might have more time with the Lord than I was getting while living in Radost . . . We have two new classes for teen-age girls and women on Tuesdays and Thursdays respectively. Some of those who attend believe in the Lord Jesus, but prayer is needed that they may be truly regenerated. Some time is spent in sewing useful articles of clothing which the maker receives as her [Continued on page 3SS]
Jewish people there. However, her eye was ever looking farther afield, and in the fall of 1928, with two other mission aries, she sailed for Poland under the American European Fellowship. At a farewell service held in New York City just before her sailing, Miss Mott gave her testimony based on Psalm 116. “ It seems,” she said, .“ that the Psalms are almost autobiographies sometimes.” Little did she know how soon the fifteenth verse of that psalm was to be fulfilled in her own life, “ Pre cious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his. saints.” Since her arrival in Poland, Miss
Dying B y M artha S nell N icholson What is it like, this dying? Soul, it is wings—and flying, Light, and an end o f groping, End of the heart’s deep hoping, End o f the spirit’s longing, Dreams come true in the dawning! Living, I taste God’s grace; Dying, I see His face!
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