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KTBI Sold Radio Station KTBI has been sold to the Cord Auto mobile Company. This is a reputable business firm of Los Angeles, handling the Cord and Auburn automobiles. This station will be rebuilt on a much larger scale, and the Bible Institute will broadcast over the new and en larged station several hours each week. We wish to state plainly and frankly the reasons the Bible Institute sold its radio station. We are in a steel-concrete building that is not suitable for radio broadcasting. We are surrounded by several large, high-powered radio stations, and it has been impos sible in recent years for us to be heard outside of south ern California with our present equipment. When our radio was first installed, our broadcast programs could be heard on the Atlantic coast, but now it is impossible to broadcast satisfactorily from the Institute building with out a more powerful equipment which we are not able to acquire or support. We were credibly informed that the Radio Commis sion at Washington is desirous of taking all religious radio stations off the air and of having religious institu tions broadcast their programs over commercial stations, as many now do. We believe that it will not be long before religious radios, as such, will be a thing of the past. We are selling while selling is good, and when the money is so much needed. We could have turned our radio, such as it is, into a commercial station, but it is not the present policy of the directors of the Bible Institute to engage in commer cial enterprises. We are getting rid of our commercial enterprises as fast as possible. The Bible Institute is not justified in diverting money which is given to prepare young men and women for Christian service into any program that will not bring in more money than is spent upon it. We have no right to have $37,000.00 invested in a radio, equipment and to spend in addition $16,000.00 per year to piit a program on the air that does not contribute in some way to thé prepar ation of young people for Christian service. We believe it is impossible to make a religious radiò pay without low ering the dignity that should belong to a Christian insti tution. With the hours each week that we will have over a more powerful station, the Bible Institute of Los Angeles may reach more people than we now do with our limita tions. Our programs over the new station will be the very best in Bible teaching and gospel music. From now until the end of the school year, we will broadcast Dr. Page’s lectures on Tuesdays,- Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays between 10:30 and 11:30 a. m. The new call letters are KFAC (the same spot on the dial as be fore—1,300 kilocycles).
The Haunting Face M ax I. R eich We see him still, the homeless Jew Awandering to and fro; Forever haunted by a face Out of the long ago. The face of One whose tender heart <« ' Broke on the cross alone.; Ah me! for two millenniums The Jew a cross has known! Uncancelled stands the oath of God; He has a work to do; The world will marvel when it learns The mission of the Jew, When penitent, he owns Him Lord Whom long ago he spurned; The One for whom the Jewish heart In secret oft has yearned. Jeshu ha-Nozri, unforgot, Come back unto Thine own; A stumblingblock Thy name has been. Be our Foundation Stone! Our suffering heart can understand Thy deep, mysterious woe; Shine on us, strange, appealing Face Out of the long ago!
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the nations. With the restoration of Israel unto divine favor will be ushered in the day when the Messiah will have the nations for His inheritance and the uttermost parts of the earth for His possession (Psalm 2). With Paul, apostle to the Gentiles though he was, breaking his tender heart over the apostasy of his people from Christ, we too, are beginning to sense the signifi cance of the rapid coming to an end of the Gentile dis pensation, and with him we exclaim: “O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!” (Rom. 11:33). A-Va, 5» Grace Sufficient for Every Burden The following is an excerpt from a letter from a friend of the Bible Institute: “I realized, after five days spent lately at the Bible Institute, the heavy daily burdens that you leaders and employees, are carrying—the lack of money and of outside cooperation, the need of a silent tongue when you are misunderstood and misjudged, the tragedy of seeing the radio and other lines of Christian activity curtailed, etc. I saw that you had realized the imperfectness of the human and had seen the perfection of our Lord. I had a glimpse of some of your burdens, but I was blessed in realizing the sufficiency of our God in enabling us to be victors in Him. In times of stress and trouble, how we turn to H im ! The tragedy of it is that, when things move smoothly, we so often rely on human aid and wisdom in stead of on Him.”
• The Mystery and Romance of Israel (Continued from page 255) T h é C om ing G lory
As the history of this people began with glory, it will begin again with glory, in the light of which the nations will walk. The apostasy of the Jew gave opportunity for the present work of grace among the Gentiles. The rap idly increasing apostasy of Christendom will bring rapidly increasing conversions of Jews and the final rebirth of
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