THE KING’S BUSINESS EH -' ■ - ...— = n | Vol 7 JANUARY, 1916. No. 1 ' ........ ........ :-----[ 1 E D I T O R I A L With this, the first number of Volume V II of T he New Year K ing ' s B usiness , it is with pleasure that attention is Improvements. called to the new cover and other improvements in the general make-up of the- magazine. Our friends have been very kind in their expressions of approval, and it is the hope that they will be pleased with the improvements. Special attention is called to the attractive new departments, “ Thro’ the Bible with Dr. Evans,” and “Homiletical Helps.” Both are sure to prove intensely interesting and inspiring. With the able and practical exposition of the International Sunday School Lessons, by Dean Tor- rey and Supt. Horton, and all other departments better than ever, the 1916 volume of T he K ing ’ s B usiness will be most valuable to students, teachers and workers. We solicit the interest of all in extending the circulation. great host of prophets who undertake to tell us what the outcome of the war will be, but we have no reason to suppose that any of these prophets are sent of God. All we can do is to wait as God develops His own plans and purposes. We may be sure that God is back of all conflicting ambitions and passions of monarchs and nations. How the present dispensation will end we know, because that is clearly revealed in the Word of God, just how near we are the end of the dispensation no man can tell. The present war may be followed by a time of wide-spread peace and prosperity, or the present .war may lead up to other wars that will culminate in the awful calamities, national and individual, in which we know the present dispensation will end. No man can tell, but we do know that some day God’s own King is coming and that He will take the reins of government and out of chaos and confusion and the apparent triumph of iniquity will come order, and righteousness, and universal peace and prosper ity. In the meantime, while it is not for us to try to discover “ times or seasons which the Father has set within His own authority,” it is for us to go forth as witnesses, in the power of the Holy Ghost, to the uttermost parts of the earth (Acts 1 :7, 8 ), and each of us should begin in Jerusalem, i. e., where we are. We should use every power, financial, physicial, intellectual, and spiritual, that we possess in making known to others the Gospel of the grace of God. We should make this year which we are now beginning, the most effective that we have ever known in the service of our Master. We are at the beginning of a new year. What this new year may bring no man can foretell. We are in the midst of such a crisis in the affairs of nations as the world has seldom, if ever, seen before. There is a Opening of the New Year.
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