“SO LITTLE TIME” is being previewed during October and November in such key cities as New York, Toronto, Philadelphia, Detroit, Grand Rapids, Chicago, Seattle and Los Angeles. Thereafter it will be premiered in more than 200 principal cities throughout the United States and Canada. "SO LITTLE TIME” is a dramatic documentary
film of Dr. Bob Pierce’s missionary vision and its
globe-encircling fulfillment through World Vision of which he is president. For a complete schedule of premiere showings and information about request showings write to: WORLD VISION, INC., BOX 0 , PASADENA, CALIF M ? .
“ saint” than to refer to him as a “ sinner” — far more! It’s a common thing for a man to say, “I’m no saint!” He means, of course, that he claims no special piety or goodness. Yet any man who belongs to Christ is, in a scriptural sense, a saint. He is numbered among God’s “holy ones.” Saints are not men who have never sinned. Some saints, in fact, have been very bad sinners. Paul referred to himself as “ the chief of sinners.” In truth, saints are people who are quite conscious of their short comings — and their need of God’s grace to make them what they should be in heaven’s sight. They don’t, you can be sure, go about shouting, “ Look! I’m a saint!” They’d be embarrassed if you ad dressed them as saints — unless you were joking! We refer to the great apostles as “ Saint” Peter and ,“ Saint” Paul; but you never find them signing their names with a “ St.” prefix. Once Paul admitted that he was a saint; but in the same breath he said that he was the least in that blessed company! Saints are not proud people. They know that they are saints, not by miracles which they have wrought, nor by holiness they have achieved, but by the grace of God’s Son. They understand what Moses meant when he sang that all the saints were in the Lord’s hands, and that they sat down at His feet (Deut. 33:3). The primitive Christians knew that saints were not man-made; they are born. And that birth is the gift of God. Being “ b What Makes a Saint (continued) the poor saints which are in Jerusalem” (Rom. 15:26). One can scarcely imagine the apostle’s collecting goods for only a special number of “ canonized” believers rather than for all the needy Christians in Jerusalem. In the same letter Paul asks the church to receive Phoebe in the manner that saints should welcome a sister; he certainly wasn’t thinking of the lady’s being greeted by a committee made up of “ saints” in the Vatican sense! (Rom. 16:1). In the letter to the Ephesians wherein is commended the Christians’ love of “ all the saints” it is obvious that this love was not for an honored few, but for all be lievers in the Christian community (Eph. 1:15). When Jude exhorts his readers to contend earnestly for the “faith which was once delivered unto the saints,” he surely didn’t mean that the gospel had been put into the hands of a select group catalogued by a hierachy! John, recounting his apocalyptic vision on Patmos, declared, “ I heard as it were the voice of a great multi tude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia: f o r t h e Lord God omnipotent reigneth. Let us he glad and rejoice, and give honor to Him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and His wife hath made herself ready. And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white; for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints” (Rev. 19:6-8). One wonders if the Vatican authorities ever thought of comparing this innumerable host of saints that John saw to the 200 some-odd in their canon-catalogue! The comparison would still be interesting even should we add the thousand “ saints” still on Rome’s waiting list! In our day we belittle a man more to dub him a 35 OCTOBER, 1963
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