884 T he K i N g ’ 5 è O s i HESS Not only do we need to fight for the faith, but we need the leaders to take up an aggressive work in the giving of the Gospel to the non-church-going people of our land. The Sunday morning Men’s Bible Class of the Church of the Open Door, of Los Angeles, have for six months demonstrated what can be done when competent and Spirit-led leaders give themselves to the work, and we give the report of six months ’ service in which, on Sunday afternoons, they circled a radius of a hundred miles and produced thè following splendid results: O CO Ç*H o 3 •9 ® » ç» g
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8,226 4,186 We shall be glad to respond to any requests for information concerning the methods used. We shall also be glad to give in the department from month to month reports of experiences in this line of work and any helpful suggestions concerning the work of laymen. —-T. C. H. FUNNY FUNDAMENTALS The Fundamentals Movement has excited some good ministers to such an extent that they are feeling the necessity of some kind of basis for their own unbelief and are announcing their fundamentals to the public. We have room for but two illustrations. They are from city pulpits and are perhaps a fair sample of many of the effusions emanating from the dis ordered brain cavities of so-called evangelical ministers. One of these men read the program of the World’s Conference on Funda mentals to his audience and then set forth as the four great fundamentals of the church the following: (1) Faith. “ I believe.” Faith in the home, in the school, in the state, in business, in social life. It is the quality that paints pictures, writes music*, creates kingdoms. “ When the Son of man cometh, shall He find faith on the earth?” (2) God, the source of all things, the explanation of all things, the one whom we adore and serve. (3) The personality of Jesus Christ. Not some theory about Him, not His teaching or His example or even His death, (taken apart from everything else) but He, Himself. (4) Love. The fundamental thing in Christianity is love. Faith, God, the personality of Jesus, love, are the abiding fundamentals. What we have quoted is a verbatim report taken by a stenographer. It would be interesting, as an illustration, to give to you the whole sermon. But it would not edify you. Your hearts would ache with sorrow, for once this man preached the Gospel. * 9,337 71,398 14,835
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