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caught and held his attention. He gazed for hours upon the crucified Christ. There was the blood flowing from His riven side, the thorn-pierced brow, the lacerated hands and feet. As he looked, the full meaning of the picture dawned upon him, and a new conception of the sufferings of Jesus was born within him. When twilight came, it found young Count Zinzendorf on his face in an agony of sorrow, con fessing his sin, and yielding his life to the Son of God. I think of another young man whose life was com pletely transformed, not by looking at a picture of the dying Saviour, but rather by the personal unveiling of the risen Christ to him while on the road to Damascus. Re ferring to the incident later in life, the Apostle Paul speaks of the unveiling in these sublime words: “ It pleased God to reveal his Son in me.” The unveiling of Christ to Paul, as well as to all be lievers, has a threefold aspect. M i s s i o n a r y U n i o n A JL. JL LIVE student body in a living Bible school needs an active student missionary organ ization. Since its inception in 1923, the Student Mis sionary Union of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles has been such an organization. In the past year, there were 220 members, or about sixty-five per cent of the student body. The work of the Union follows four dis tinct lines: 1. Meetings are held each week, at which mission aries from various foreign countries are heard. Dur ing the year, twenty-six such gatherings were held, ad dressed by missionaries from Africa, India, China, Pal estine, Egypt, Korea, and North and South America. 2. Prayer bands assemble regularly for intercession for the missionaries and their needs. The total yearly attendance exceeded 1,250. Besides the weekly meet ings, a group of from four to twelve faithful students met each school day to pray for the needs of the whole world, encircling the globe with their prayers in a sin gle week. 3. Money is voluntarily given by the students for the assistance of those who are out in mission fields. During the year, there were donations made to eigh teen missionary societies and to fourteen former stu dents who, the previous year, had gone forth to the mission field. Three deputation teams, composed of members who are in training at the Institute, are sent forth to churches and communities that invite them. The aim of the members of the teams is to so present Christ and the needs of the world, especially to the young people of Southern California, that there will be a response in consecration of lives to the Lord. Last year’s teams entered 63 churches and held 87 services. There were approximately 162 decisions that were made known, and doubtless many more that were not reported. Fifteen students expected to sail for foreign fields this summer. ,(^5)D= I 4.
History bears record of. many notable unveilings. Since the last great war, there have been innumerable monu ments and paintings unveiled in various cities of the world. Vast sums of money have been expended for this, purpose. Yet where in secular history do we find one unveiling that adequately sets forth the true value of ,human life? How limited and impotent they all are in expressing the real is sues of life! We must turn to the inspired Record of God in order to get a revelation or a picture of the divine ideal. There we find its unfoldings transcending all imagination. Christ, who is the center and circumference of all divine truth, is unveiled to us in type and in prophecy. On every page, we see Him. He stands highest in honor, towering far above all human inventions. The unveiling o f Christ in human flesh, in the mind of God ere the foundations of the world were laid, “ came in the fulness of time.” The fall of man, the curse of sin, and the inability of man to work out his, own righteousness in point of law, led the Eternal Word to reveal Himself, “ Christ Jesus, who being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: but made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.” He lived a sin less life and yet He died for our sinS; For it is written, “ He hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.” This was the great objective in the mind of God in un veiling Christ to a lost world. It is the essence of the gos pel, the good news which is to be preached to all the world. C h r is t U n v e il e d IN us— S u b j e c t iv e l y Some one has said, “ The atqnement of Christ is suf ficient for all, but only efficient to those who will accept it.” In other words, if we are to realise the unveiling of Christ in us, we must first appropriate His unveiling, to us. To rightly understand the Christ of history, we must know the Christ of experience. Dr. Leander Keyser, in his splendid book on The Phil osophy o f Christianity , has stated and illustrated this point very well when he says: “ A man might be highly educated from the academic viewpoint, a veritable savant; and yet might be only an a-b-ce-darian in spiritual lore. A man might be a great astronomer, so that he could talk learnedly about the stars and planets and the heavens and their wonderful movements in the universe; and yet he might not be able to discover the ‘ Star of Bethlehem.’ A man might be a great botanist, able to speak learnedly about all the flowers, plants, and trees, and give their technical scientific names and classifications; and yet he might not be able to identify ‘The Rose of Sharon and the Lily of the Valley.’ Again, a man might be a great geologist, able to discover in an erudite way about rocks and fossils and diversified strata o f the earth’s formation; and yet he might not know how to take his stand upon ‘The Rock of Ages.’ Once more, a man might be a learned mathematician, competent to solve all the problems of his recondite science; and yet he might not be able to solve the most fundamental and im portant problem of them all; namely, what it would ‘profit, a man to gain the whole world and lose his own soul.’ ” History, as well as science, proves to us that no one can become a Christian by a mere intellectual process. For instance, when Paul, the young, zealous, and respected
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