THE K I NG ' S B U S I N E S S 1229 One of the most remarkable-illustrations we have ever known of a perfectly harmonious life was that of a colored woman whom God Himself had taught to read. She was a washer woman. She had a place for her Bible over her washtub and read it as she washed. She had a place for it while she ironed. She would not have a book or paper of any kind in her house. She never failed to bring some deeply spiritual lesson when she came to a class. Her life exemplified Paul’s rule—no undue care about any thing, prayerful in everything, and thankful for anything; and there was a garrison about her that gave her perfect peace. Her’s was a simple life ; a deeply spiritual life ; a natural life ; and, best of all, she never once, so far as wé know, boasted of it. She knew nothing of any rules for living a spiritual life. She just read the Word, believed it, appropriated it and lived it. . Get out your harp and touch the strings. “ Let your mouth he filled with His praise all the day” and “ praying always, with all prayer and sup plication in the Spirit and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints” make melody in your heart unto the Lord. —T. C. H. A CORNER ON BRAINS There seems to be no end of the bombastic pronouncements against what is termed “ antiquated theology”. The orthodox faith is coming in for a good pounding at the hands of some who seem to have had the ‘‘advantages of education.” It won’t do to take issue with modernism, unless you do , not mind being cried down as an ignoramus, incapable of understanding “ modern philosophy” , unfamiliar with the “ discoveries of science” . Hon. William J. and many others whom we had all thought had been to school some and had kept abreast of good literature, are all now placed in the ignoramus class. The editor of the Methodist paper, ‘1CHRISTIAN GUARDIAN” , gets so hot that he says, “ MOST of what Dr. Torrey says is better forgotten.” And many other such men who have been preaching the Gospel of the New Testament are placed with the doctor in the Rip Van Winkle class. What puzzles us is how these gentlemen got this corner on brains. Who is the high authority that O. K. ’s them and gives them the password to this great circle of the learned? Or, are they just self ap pointed? Hundreds of laymen are believing that it is the latter and they are becoming nauseated. They are thinking that this idea of laughing out of court all those who will not subscribe to the present theory of evolution with its attendant théology is insufferable impertinence. Even some of our young fellows fresh from seminary are getting infected with this intel lectual superiority bug. We have just read of a young theologian, fresh from a critical school, who found himsélf at loggerheads with his deacons regarding certain views which he was teaching. His deacons reasoned with him all in vain. At length, he turned to one of them and said, “ Now, Mr. A., you are a draper and I am a theologian. If I wanted to learn anything about drapery, I
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