T H E K I N G ' S B U S I N E S S in the new building. I said to the ring, ‘You are going to be a missionary with Martha Pohnert, so shine your best when she sells you so you’ll buy a lot of bricks for her and in that way win many souls of the Chinese girls for Him.’ The world cannot give any such joy, can it?” Miss Pohnert, who, by the way, is a B.I.O.L.A. graduate, tells us that a lady in New York will sell the ring for $125.00 or more. Diamond rings or deathless souls? Which would you rather have? CAUSE OF THE SPLIT The “ Bible.Call’ relates the follow ing: “We are face to face today with teach ings which present a very blurre’d pic ture of Bible truth; and to this fact must be attributed many a congrega tional split, and many an empty church. We can vouch for the following: “ A young minister was invited to a very influential and united church. His first text was: ‘Behold I make all things new.’ From the very day of the com mencement of his min stry he began to uproot the old faith in the Bible, and to substitute the new-fangled notions of Modernism. This he did on the Sun days; while his Wednesday evening services were devoted to readings from Browning. “ In twelve months his church was split from top to bottom. He had formed a party. A number of young p 'op ’ e, who did not know their Bib’es, hived off with him. A new church was formed. A new building was erected; and new theology had done its destruc tive work. “ Instarces which are essentially the same as this are by no means rare.” iMiitiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiimiiiimwimiiiiitiiitiiiNMiiiiiiiiimtiitiiiiitiiiimiiiiiiiimiiiiitiiiiiiiifiii'iiiiiiiiiir, Jl A Definite Christian Im>esment f || —Send the K. B. to One Who | l| Meeds It. ' I ^iiiiiiiuiiitiiiiiiii>iiim»iiiii>itiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiliuiimiiiiiiimiiiimiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiitiiil:iiiiuiri 960 and Zacharias praised and thanked God, for this little child whom God had given to Zacharias and Elizabeth, was John the Baptist. Prayer. TWO ENGAGEMENT BINGS We have known many beautiful stories concerning love offerings for the Lord’s work, but nothing more beautiful than the two incidents related below. One young woman, when consulted about an engagement ring by the man of her choice, replied that she didn’t care about a diamond ring and would far rath er have the money it would cost invested in one of the native workers in the Bible Institute at Changsha, Hunan Province, China. So the third finger of her left hand is still unadorned 'save for a plain gold wedding ring, while across the wa ter one of Dr. Keller’s colporteur’s tells the sweet, old story, to those who have never heard. The story of the other young woman is best told in her own words, as she told it in a letter to a missionary home from China on a furlough, as follows: “You know, after we came home, we were both wishing we had something to give to your school fund, hut it seemed impossible to do so this year. Then the ‘still, small voice’ came and said: ‘You can give your diamond ring.’ I said, ‘No, surely I can’t give my engagement ring.’ I hesitated for two days and didn’t say anything to Chris, for I knew it would be all settled as soon as I told him. When I did tell him he thought it was just the thing to do and said, ‘The ring won’t make us either happier or less happy, for we have each other and are happy in the Lord, which is far better than a bit of gold and stone.’ “I am sure we cannot sell the ring to as good advantage here as you can, in some of the large cities you will visit, so we are sending it to you. It cost $125 at wholesale five years ago and you ought to get at least $100 for it now. I am so h'appy to think we can have a few bricks
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