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March 1926
FAVOR THE BIBLE IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS r» The Sunday School Convention held in the First Presbyterian Church of Glendale strongly urged that the Bible be placed in the libraries of the public schools, in class-rooms and in the hands of teachers to be read at will. Passage of legislation legalizing week day religious instruction for pupils in grammar grades was also advocated by the speakers. Miss Miller, Assemblywoman from Pasadena, was Introduced as one of the advocates of the religious bill that was defeated in the last Legislature. The benefits to be derived from teaching the Bible in schools, Miss Miller de clared, would be that it would make religion a part of the daily life of the pupils, elevate the teaching of religion in the eyes of the children and of the community, reach the unchurched child with religious teaching, allow the child to absorb the ideals of Christianity, and aid in the development of the Christian faith.—News Item. SCORING THE STUDENTS The President of Ann Arbor (Mich.) University gave a convocation address recently to a capacity gathering of stu dents in which he asserted that the quiet university town was borrowing too much! of the complexion of the Rialto’s wickedness. “You students are lazy, you loaf, you gamble, you spend week-ends in Detroit and then you wonder why we don’t want you here!” he declared in his per oration. Burton told the student body in words of one syllable that he intends to sweep the campus clean of roues. Amazing frankness in conversation between men and women not married to each other is a typical trait of the reign of laxity, he asserted. Campus publications outdo the com mercial magazines in stories of sex ap peal, he said, and will be sternly curbed in this. » “We need some of the chivalry of the middle ages,’’ he said, “when men re garded women with respect and a little worship.’’ Without mentioning the name, Bur ton referred scathingly to a “scandal sheet” published anonymously recently by students as one of a series of “shame less” events. The sheet was suppressed by professors in record time, and copies are now at a premium. A decent man or virtuous woman, the president declared, cannot risk crossing the Michigan campus nowadays without seeing something to redden the face with shame. Burton’s remarks are taken to fore shadow a supreme effort to end drink ing by students.—Exchange.
Jesus Christ. This lad has been spon sored and developed by his "discov erer,” Mrs. Annie S. Besant, a leader in the theosophical cult. A recent news dispatch makes this comment: “ Fifteen years ago the Hindu, who is known as Krishna Murti, was dis covered in a school in India, where he had written a book on moral ethics and Christian teachings. The youth Immediately was adopted by the cult and prepared as the ‘reincarnate Christ.’ “ Great secrecy veils the plans con cerning the Hindu. He is being taken around the world by Mrs. Besant to get acquainted with all races and to study culture, philosophy, and the Bible. The youth constantly is in com munication with the beyond, it is said. “ The presentation of the young Hindu to the world as the ’reincarnate Christ’ is expected to take place in Chicago, Aug. 22, 1927, when the re ligious cult will hold a convention. The Hindu then will be 30 years old, the age at which Christ first preached the Gospel.”— Press Dispatch, THE BRAILLE BIBLE Mr. J. Robert Atkinson, of Los An geles, California, head of the Com-* mittee for printing, embossing and binding the King James version of the Bible for the blind, has invented and perfected a machine for this work. In recognition of the efforts of Mr. Atkinson, the association of blind printers paid his expenses back to New York recently, where an exhibition was held, and following this exhibit the American Bible Sobiety placed an order for 200 Braille Bibles. ' Mr. Atkinson, himself blind, has for years, with the aid of his wife, labored to perfect this machine. His work is supported by the Revised Braille Bible Society.' Interest in the work is wide spread as inquirers are constantly re ceived from all parts of the world. What a blessing this blind man has been able to confer on his fellows only eternity will reveal. May the good Lord keep any of the Modernists from producing any new-fangled Bible for blind people which Satan can use to project them into denser darkness.
BATTLING BRYAN Newspaper men all had an amiable feeling for William Jennings Bryan. With the possible exception of Theo dore Roosevelt, he was the most pro lific source of newspaper copy the gen eration has known. He was in the heart of most of the country’s po litical embroilments. T h e r e w a s always a fight in the Bryan sector. The warring was always of words, but words make copy. As an earnest and honest battler he was at the forefront in nearly every forensic disputation the Americans have indulged in dur ing the last three decades. He was always in the harness and he may be said to have died in it.— Exchange. “MISSING LINK” TRIBE SOUGHT In search of a tribe of “ tailed men” in an effort to throw new light on the evolution controversy, W. Loy Hess, 1101 Benito avenue, Alhambra, will lead an expedition in September to a practically unexplored island in the Philippines. According to Hess, the “ tailed men” are primitive and furnish, he believes, the so-called “ missing link.” Hess disagrees with both the funda mentalists and the evolutionists, be lieving that God created man in his image, but that man sinned so much that h e ' became greatly degraded, finally starting to rise to a higher plane, his rise being greatly aided in comparatively recent years by the com ing of Christ.— Exchange. BRAIN VERSUS BRAWN Father Delon, a missionary visiting Los Angeles, tells the story. A .polar bear and an Eskimo looked at each other, both wanting meat. The bear advanced and the Eskimo retreated homeward, losing ground. But before the bear overtook him the Eskimo threw off his fur coat, which Bruin stopped to investigate, while the Eski mo sprinted on. Hearing the bear again at his heels the Eskimo threw off other things and finally reached his igloo, grabbed up his gun and laid in a month’s supply of meat. A book could be written round this simple story, for it shows how a physical weakling with a big brain won the World War against brawn. . — Exchange. CHICAGO IS CHOSEN The city of Chicago has been chosen as the New Jerusalem by the Theoso- phistB, and August 22, 1927, has been designated as the date when a Hindu boy will appear as the Incarnated
A frien<\ in Minnesota voices this estimate of The King’s Business: “ I praise the Lord that there still is a paper to read that is true to God’s Word and that is willing to stand on the promises He has given us.”
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