1230 T HE K I NG ' S B U S I N E S S would come to you. Likewise, I think, if you want to learn some things about theology, you should come to me.” The deacon’s reply was obvious and conclusive r “ I would readily con sult you,” said he, ‘‘in regard to merely technical matters, but on funda mental doctrines I claim the right to read the Bible for myself under the guidance of the Holy Spirit. The Bible is the heritage of the people and not merely the appanage of scholars.” The déacon was absolutely right. The great fundamental truths of the Bible that are being so fiercely combatted today, are still open to the test of vital personal experience. A"man does not have to attend a theolog ical seminary in order to learn whether or not the Word of God is quick and powerful. It is a living Book. It works miracles of transformation in the hearts of those who receive it—just as surely today as it did in past ages. A man today who goes humbly, reverently, prayerfully, to the Bible, will come to the conviction that it is the Word of God. So long as its great plan of salvation may be verified in vital experience óf the Holy Ghost, men have a perfect right to reject modernism, root and branch. —K. L. B. At this season of the year we are'given to thinking of Christ as heaven’s gift to the world. It is especially fitting that we should think of Him at the , Christmas season as Bread sent down from above to a famishing humanity. Let it be impressed upon our minds that He did not have His origin here below. He was conceived of the Holy Ghost—God manifest in the flesh. Zoroaster, who lived 700 years before Christ, while contemplating God, declared that God could never be really known unless He would re veal Himself in human flesh. Such a declaration from the lips of the founder of a heathen religion amounts almost to a prophecy. Jesus was God’s co-equal, the Son of God, Father of eternity, the Ancient of Days, the incarnate Word. He cannot be explained without a miraculous birth. His Deity is unquestionable. We ought not to contemplate such a birth without going on to con sider what it means that such a One died upon Calvary’s Cross. It is not the Christ of the Cradle who saves us, but the Christ of the Cross. It was in the work of the cross that He became the Bread of life to man, for “ the Bread is my fleshywhich I will give for the life of the world” (Jn. 6:51). It was His sacrificial death that constituted Him the satisfaction of our souls, while thè life-giving power of His sacrifice lay in the fact that He “ came down from heaven.” If words mean anything, Christ is not the Bread of life to one who rejects His vicarious sacrifice. Such a person has no real cause to celebrate at the Ghristmas time, for the babe of the manger leaves him in his sins. Those who have found Christ as the Bread of life can fully appreciate the glad Christmas season. They have food for their souls that will sustain them forever. The bread of the bakeshop cannot prevent age stealing upon HAVE YOU DONE YOUR PART TOWARDS BREAD COME DOWN FROM HEAVEN “ The bread of God is He which eometh down from heaven and giveth life unto the world” (John 6:33).
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