264 THE KING’S BUSINESS and “Mother’s Day” and no end of other days. If a minister were to pay heed to all the insistent calls that he observe various days, he would have no time left for his proper business of the systematic teaching of the truth of God to believers and the winning of souls to Christ. These various days may stand for most excellent causes, but the having a day for this, that and the other thing is thoroughly inconsistent with the true spirit of the Gospel. The true believer and the true worker has a life not staked out by festivals and ceremonies but a life of freedom, gov erned by the indwelling God. In spite of all these appeals, let us stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free. Laying the Corner Stone. A S WE go to press arrangements are about perfected for the laying of the corner-stone of the Bible Institute building on May 31st. It is wonderful to us; but “the good hand of our God has been upon “us.” “All things are possible with God,” and we shall never again despise “the day of smalll things.” The Institute began with small things, but laid in the concrete of faith and hope reinforced by “many ex ceeding great and precious promises.” From the beginning the Lord was chosen President, Dean, and Treasurer, and His visible representa tives have been, we believe, appointed and graced by Him. And to Him are due the recognition, sympathy, and encouragement shown, us by the churches, ministers, and laymen of our city and vicinity. Following th§ Lord’s plan of operations, and taking Los Angeles for Jerusalem, the work beginning here has extended through Judea and Galilee, to Samaria, and already is penetrating to the uttermost parts of the earth. To fill the outline so sketched will be a labor of love and patience limited only by the ends of the earth and of the age. Large as our plans may be they are inadequate to future needs. Present possibilities cannot be realized without liberal additions to funds now available. If you are eager for the spread of the old and only word of salvation among them that sit in darkness, and for effective counteraction against the many false gospels that have gone out into the world, we urge upon you the opportunity afforded by the Bible Institute. The Church through its regular channels is not supplying the demand for Christian workers. Doors of opportunity are open with none to occupy them. Experience abundantly proves that thousands of men and women around us possess the will, the natural and spiritual gifts for lives of effective service, whose latent talents will never be developed and made available to the Church, unless, foregoing classical, scientific, and philo sophic culture, under such guidance and direct Biblical and evangelistic instruction as such an Institute affords they are equipped for hand to hand contact with the unsaved. Multitudes of such have gone forth and approved and commissioned by church boards, home and foreign, are recognized and trusted as efficient and fruitful workers.
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