T HE K I N G ' S B U S I N E S S 1231 us with a stealthy step, but the Bread from heaven with our increasing age gives increasing spiritual strength and sustains even when we go down into the valley of the shadow ¡of death. Let us, in the light of the-cross, rejoice in the incarnation—the con junction of the divine and the human, which, as Walter Scott says, “ is the mystery of mysteries, the wonder of heaven and earth, each alike aston ished at the union of both, the one everlasting miracle of divine power and love.” - —K. L. B. A LOP-SIDED TEACHING OF GRACE “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He th a t believeth on me, the works th a t I do shall he do also; and g rea ter works shall he do; because I go to tny F ather. . “AND whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, th a t will I do.” (John 14:12-13.) We wonder if many of our readers may have failed to notice that these two promises are inseparably linked. Dr. Andrew Murray was thinking of that connecting word, “ And” when he wrote—“ He that would do' the works of Jesus must pray in His name, and he that would pray in His name must also work in His name.” The devil is ever delighted to push good Christians to extremes. A complaint that we frequently hear concerning certain very spiritual churches is that many good people in them come to a point where they believe there is nothing to be done but to pray. God knows most of us do not pray as much as we should, and it may be a surprise to many to know that there are in these days some who do little else but pray—nevertheless, we know it to be a fact that there is a teaching creeping into some churches today that amounts almost to a heresy. It is a teaching of Grace that has become lop-sided. Some are so taken up with the thought that “ it is all of God and none of self” that they seem to forget that “ God worketh in you to will and to DO of His good pleasure. ’’ The result is that we have some pastors complaining that while some of, their people are wonderfully spir itual, they can never be persuaded to act. They will pray for souls but will not undertake aggressive work to win souls. They will pray about con ditions in the church that call for strong disciplinary action, but they cannot be counted upon to move forward, for they believe that God Himself will, in some miraculous way, attend to the whole matter. As long as Jesus was on earth He engaged in very aggressive works. When He returned to heaven, His followers became His Body. All His work on earth must .be done through that Body, and because He has sent the Holy Spirit to make believers so divinely one with Him, He assures us that He expects even greater works than He did, to be accomplished. We cannot do His work until we have prayed. The purpose of prayer is to fit us for work, and to say that we have prayed and are leaving the work to Him, is an error that "will surely lead to fanaticism. Prayer in the name of Jesus is to be the source of power for service in the name of Jesus. Let us not rend apart the 12th and 13th verses of GETTING THAT 100,000? (See Inside Front Cover)
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