If you are going to some English- speaking country, you might qualify. To gain the mastery of a new lan guage a t that age would not be easy. Don’t go out to the field by faith, planting yourself at some mission station asking the missionaries to take care of you. Generally, it would seem that a woman over forty might find other avenues of service here in the homeland. There are, of course, many noteworthy exceptions. Q. Reseda, Calif----- “I have heard that the Catholic Church started the wor ship of the Lord on Sunday rather than Saturday. Is this true? Why is it we don’t worship on Saturday when the Bible doesn’t seem to in dicate that Sunday is the proper day?” A. There is no shred of evidence whatsoever that the Catholic Church started worship of the Lord on Sun day. This began with the resurrec tion of our Lord, long before the papacy began. The Roman Catholic Church eventually confirmed the first day of the week as the Christian day of worship since it had been so ob served so long. As to your second
question, the Bible does indicate that Sunday is the proper day. Read the first four books of the New Testa ment, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John. See the emphasis there being placed on the seventh day of the week. En tering the book of Acts, we see the significance of the first day of the week. This revolutionary change re sulted from the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. There is no such thing which we can describe accur ately as a “Christian Sabbath.” I t is the Christian’s Lord’s Day. The Jew ish Sabbath day was an integral and inseparable part of the legal system completely fulfilled in Christ. It was only “a shadow” of spiritual reality (Col. 2:16). Q. North Kingston, R.l. — “Does man have a soul that does not die at death, or is he in a state of unconsciousness only? Is man immortal or is that the prize of eternal life to be gained by t h e believer when Christ comes again?” A, In a real sense the unbeliever’s soul is spiritually dead. He is not responsive to God. The Bible de-
Graduates of this yeaf’s Talbot Theological Seminary gather around Dr. Charles L. Feinberg, Dean (eighthfrom the left seated). At the extreme left is Mr. Robert Bowles who has been graduated from Biola College as wel as Talbot Seminary attending school in his wheelchair. He has just recently been appointed to the staf andfaculty of Biola's afiliate in Phoenix, Arizona Bible College. 17
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