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right that I should be paid for this privilege of witnessing for Christ. I am going to use those dollars to send THE KING’S BUSINESS to some whom I know who are un saved.” The Right to Worship In the following petition,** circu lated in many communities, there is material for seribus thought: “WE, THE UNDERSIGNED Ameri can citizens, petition the Congress of the United States to take what ever steps may be necessary in order to bring about a relaxation in the gasoline rationing program which will permit members of Christian churches to attend church an average of at least two times per week. “We, the undersigned, respectfully call your attention to the fact that the Church is the foundation of our American way of life. Country peo ple and people removed some dis tance from the churches are virtual ly being denied the right of free worship because of the present gaso line rationing program. “It is our conviction that the pres ervation of the Church is more im portant this critical hour than any other one thing in our American communities. If the Church falls, if the Church is bankrupted, because of the inability of the people who attend—then everything for which we fight and everything for which we standees a nation will be for naught. “ It is our conviction that Christ and the Church must come first, whether we be at war or at peace' with the nations of the world.” In some localities, when citizens have asserted themselves in regard .to this important matter, results have been almost immediate and very gratifying. No Christian can afford to take the lazy attitude of doing nothing about it **Issued bg Committee for Preservation of Christ’8 Cause, P. O. Box 90, Englewood, Colo,
Around the King's Table LOUIS T. TALBOT, Editor-in-ChïeF
“In Season and Out of Season” Because of his interest in a certain young convert’s enrolling as a student at the Bible Institute of Los Angeles, a Christian; brother in a Middle West ern state had correspondence with the Institute. One of his letters bore a “postscript” that would put to shame many a fellow believer whose zeal for souls has waned. In his seventy- second year, he is a layman “instant in season - and out of season.” He wrote: “I must tell you of my experience of last Sunday. As I was on my way home from mailing my last let ter’ to you, I was riding along lei surely on my bicycle when a car struck me, not severely. The car was a ------— Cab, with a driver who was a Jew. He had one passenger, a soldier from Oakland, California. “Both men came to my rescue. I found that I had neither bruise nor scratch, and that the bicycle had only the rear mud guard bent. The driver insisted that he call the road man, so that the company would be satisfied there would bfe no com plaint. While we were waiting—at least forty minutes—I sat in the cab telling those two men, Jew and Gentile, how wonderfully the Lord cares for His children. It was a rare opportunity to preach Christ to the unsaved, and I did my best. “When the roadman came, I was asked what was my complaint. I said'I had none, explaining that it was an unavoidable accident for which one could blame only the icy street. “ ‘Well,’ he said, ‘I’m going to give you five dollars whether you want.it or not.’ “Reluctantly I took the money, and thanked him. It did not seem
“He that winneth souls is wise.”
(Proverbs 11:30)
Soul-Winning on Guadalcanal “An Experience with the Lord”— this is the title which Time* gave to a four-paragraph article which has caused many Christian readers to re joice. Not only are the facts of the article significant and heart-warming, but the very fact of their publication in a news magazine, read by millions, is honoring to the Lord Jesus Christ. Following is the item: “ From one of the world’s hottest spots, a letter came last week to the Rev. Edward E. Chipman, pas tor of Brooklyn’s Lefferts Park Bap tist Church. Wrote Chaplain W. Wyeth Willard, with the U. S. Ma rines on Guadalcanal: “This is to notify you that one of your young men, Arthur Shepherd Tripp, of 1599 East 54th St., Brook lyn, was baptized by me in the Lunga River, Guadalcanal, B.S.I. on Dec. 2, 1942. Arthur has had a real experience with the Lord as have many other young men who have had battle experience. . . . A week ago last Sunday, Nov. 27, Arthur came forward with 17 others in his group, and publicly professed Jesus Christ as his own personal Saviour and Lord. Baptism followed on Dec. 2 . . . . “Arthur Tripp has authorized me to submit his name for membership ih the Lefferts Park Baptist Church. Of course, we shall have to wait until after the war is over before you give him the right hand of fel lowship. It has been a joy to wit ness the saving and keeping power of Jesus Christ. In many cases I have been, as it were, speaking as ‘a dying man to dying men.’ Pray that God will give me many souls for the Son of His Loye.” Christian readers should pray ear nestly for men of Chaplain Willard’s type who believe and present the Word “to dying men,” and who exer cise toward them the ministry of undershepherds of the flock.
From Gen. MacArthur's Order of the Day Following the Victory at New Guinea
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