A VISIT WITH THE LIVING DEAD
THE KING'S BUSINESS Official publication of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles, Inc. Louis T. Talbot, Chancellor S. H. Sutherland, President • Ray A. Myers, Chairman of the Board
"W ith great grief of heart I write of my visit to the leper colony of Athens, where some of the inmates have been confined for a period of 15, 20 or even 30 years. Some go about with their noses eaten away, others with their fingers wasted to mere stubs or blistered and deformed as though by scalding water, some with their ears or an eye missing, many totally blind. Their plight is so tragic that it was quite a while before I could bring myself to attempt a few words of comfort, to distribute New Testaments to some and speak of the love of Christ to others. The children are es pecially pitiful, running away if you attempt to approach them. "Many of these people have no one in this world, and some who do are rarely visited because of their tragic disease. One sight I shall never forget — the ward of the seriously ill. There I saw men and women lying with closed eyes, and if it were not for the slight move ment of the bedclothes caused by their breathing I would have thought them dead. Their faces were pale and their bones protruded through their skin. These were the silent living dead. "I would like to ask you to pray for all of these unfortunate sufferers and to give whatever the Lord may lead you to, for their help. The only relief which we can give them is the comfort of our visits and those of our missionaries, the Word of God and our financial assistance to meet some of their most desperate needs. "H ow I wish you could have seen the joy on their faces when I gave some of them small sums of money froth the Am erican Mission to Greeks. How I wished I had enough to give to all and to supply each one with a Bible or a New Testa ment. Only the love of God and the com passion of Christians can make this pos sible. It may be that you can help me to return to them with the evidences of your love.” How can we close our hearts to these destitute and forgotten outcasts o f earth? Is the Lord laying them upon your heart now, as you read this letter? You can help them through the American Mission to Greeks, Inc., P.O. Box 423, Dept. K, New York 36, N .Y ., Rev. Spiros Zodhi- ates, General Secretary. (In Canada, 90 Duplex Ave., Toronto 7, Ont.) Major Constantine Kalonaros Director of Relief, A.M.G.
MARCH In the year of our Saviour Nineteen Hundred and Fifty-six
Vol. 47, No. 3
Established 1910
Dedicated to the spiritual development of the Christian home
ARTICLES ABOUT TH IS SPECIAL ISSUE .................................................. 4 TH IS TH ING CALLED CH R IST IAN IT Y — Lloyd Hamill .............. 8 THE BENT OF REGENERATION — Oswald Chambers ................. 10 THE W O M A N AT THE WELL — From the Bible ....................... 12 ENTERTAINER A N D CHRIST — How Christianity Works — Stan Freberg ........................ 13 A V IC T IM OF EXCUSES— Richard C. Halverson ....................... 16 THE BUSINESSMAN A N D CHRIST — How Christianity Works — Bruce Bare .......................... 17 REALITY A N D CHRIST — Timothy Fetler ................................ 19 THE C LA IM S OF JESUS CHRIST — Robert Boyd Munger .......... 23 COTTON-PICKING PREACHER — How Christianity Works (photo story) — Lloyd Hamill ...... 36 FEATURES UNDER THE PARSONAGE ROOF — Althea S. Miller ................. 6 LETTERS .................................................. 7 ADVERTISERS' INDEX ........................................................... 42 COVER Migrant Missionary Leon Day (left) listens to the story of an Ala bama man who has brought his family to California to pick cotton. For a six-page photo story on how Christianity works in a migrant camp see pages 36-41. — Design & Photo : Lloyd Hamill
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