THE K I N G ’ S B U S I N E S S for your testimony; we take issue with you as to the value of the Book of Rev elation; go on, and take away our part out of the Book of Life, and out of the Holy City!” Do these men remember that not one word of our Lord has ever been broken, and that not one jot or tit tle shall pass until all shall he fulfilled? Are we to understand that this is a challenge from these editors and these Christian Associations to the church of God, and a notice of their affiliation with those who tell us that the sayings of Jesus and of the apostles are no long er of vital import to the church? If so we accept the challenge and We call upon the Most High to vindicate His own word and put these sacriligious audacious, presumptious critics to shame. This “Shorter Bible”,——this emascu lated Bible, this Higher Critic Bible, this aspostate Bible,—should be relegat ed to the ash heap, wherë we trust it will die as speedy a death as it de serves. We lift our voice in warning and urge our readers to use all possible means to meet this new Satanic effort of the enemy, more subtle than any other yet propagated, by which they hope to lead astray from the truth of God our young people. The Pocket Testament League We have had the pleasure of putting into circulation during the last few weeks, in Los Angeles, 25,000 real New Testaments, and we plead with our readers to see that every boy and girl and young man and woman has a New Testament to carry with them, and read a chapter every day. We shall be glad to send to any address a leaflet showing how this can be done, and how it will bring to pass a real revival in any church in which it is properly handled. M & Will you help the Bible Institute of Los Angeles to take the Gospel to the people?
806 the Bible, and which are of Vital inter est and practical value to the present age. We are not questioning the right of any set of men to print portions of Scripture, but the title of this volume is deceiving. It is not the “Shorter Bible’’, hut extracts from the Bible; and it does not give in logical order those parts which are of the most practical value to the present age. The Bible was designed for all ages, and the omit ted parts of the New Testament are those which are most vital for this age. The solemn warnings were designed of God for this age, and the passages con cerning the Lord’s return are the words of hope and comfort for the church. Why leave out 1 Thess. 4:13-18. ‘‘But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep th at ye sorrow not as others which have no hope. For if' we believe th at Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. For this we say unto you by the Word of the Lord th at we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the arch angel and. with the trump of God; and the dead in Christ shall rise first. Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together, with them to meet the Lord in their air,, and so shall we ever be w ith the Lord. 1 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.” Is not this passage one of the sweet est and most comforting in the New Testament for those whose loved ones in Christ have departed to be with Him? The writer has used these verses hun dreds of times to bring solace and com fort to mourning souls. The most blasphemous omission is the 18th and 19th verses of the 22nd chap ter of Revelation: “For I testify unto every man th at heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add 1unto him the plagues th at are w ritten in this book; And if any man shall, take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are w ritten in this book.” This omission is so presumptuous that we marvel that even in this apos tate age men would dare to say to the Lord Jesus Christ: “We do not care
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