King's Business - 1947-05

a throne; He talks to His own; His Son walks up to His throne and takes a scroll out of His right hand and breaks open the seals. He is a Person one can know. Turn to Him and His life-giving balm. God says that men are not in­ herently good (in spite of your metaphysical practitioners), but that “all have sinned” (Rom. 3:23). “Out of the heart [of man] proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, forni­ cations, thefts, false witness, blas­ phemies” (Matt. 15:19). The hu­ man heart is naturally evil, desper­ ately wicked. This soul sickness of all mankind is unto death, and the only remedy is found in the healing blood of God’s Son who shed that precious stream on Calvary’s cross for you and for me! Holding good thoughts will not extricate one from the mire of sin, for one’s own goodness is as filth in God’s eyes. Man lacks the power to lift himself up to God. Rather, it is God who stoops down to you if you submit to His will, but not by virtue of a two dollar prayer. Jesus said, “Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not ... in thy name done many wonder­ ful works?” (Matt. 7:22). But only he who does the Father’s will shall enter the kingdom of heaven. It is the Father’s will that you accept His Son, Jesus Christ. He declares it! You have the right of choice, a free will. Exercise it! Elect eternal life! You must be born again. “Except a man be bom of water and of the Spirit,” Jesus told Nicodemus, “he cannot enter into the kingdom of God” (John 3:5). And you will never find this new birth in 'the realm of metaphysics! Turn away from earth’s seductive frauds! Submit your stubborn will to God’s! We know, from His Holy Word, that all mankind is “appointed once to die.” There is only one hope for man: belief in God and His only begotten Son. And the blind world rejects this only remedy for its mal­ ady! "Many are called; but few are chosen,” we read in our Bibles. Chosen for what? Why, escape—es­ cape from everlasting death, or sep­ aration from "God—into life eternal. Are you one of the few? You may be. It’s as simple as merely taking God’s Christ, abjuring the world’s false saviours. There is no hope for the world—it is doomed! But you can escape! Re­ ceive the Son of God into your heart, confess Him with your mouth, and you will be saved! Save the money you would have spent for a two dol­ lar prayer, read your Bible and in it you will find the way of eternal life. “And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free” (John 8:32). T H E K I N G ’ S B U S I N E S S

Youth Sings

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of Carefully selected hymns and choruses. Your favorites—Both old and new. Excel­ lent for Youth for Christ Rallies.

35c; 3 for $1—Special rates in quantity. Sample books sent to groups on request. P R A IS E B O O K Publications 500 S. 4th St., Minneapolis 15, Minn. Western Office: Saratosa, California

The June issue of The King’s Business will be our special Child Evangelism and Youth Education Number. Watch for it!

Retired M issio n a ry Howard, of Nebraska. Inset: This bright little Michigan chap rides his tricycle two miles to his Union Sunday School. The Backwoods Trail — M E E T M r. D . M a son H o w a rd , a retired

A.S.S.U. Missionary. For twenty-five years he has travelled lonely sand-hill paths winding through vast stretches o f sparsely settled Nebraska cattle country. "B low sand” and blizzards blocked the treacherous roads for days at a time; and often he was told he was the only Christian worker ever to mifiister to those God-forsaken communities. Spending over 1600 nights aw ay from home, often in "old soddies” too small even for the one large family, he won his way into the hearts of the rural people. He knows he led 743 of them to Christ. He made 26,300 such home calls, travelling 322,800 miles. Six church organ­ izations grew from a total o f 260 Sunday Schools organized or reorganized. Four o f these erected church buildings of their own. Nine young men from these schools became ministers; and many other young people entered full-time Christian work. One young man who for fourteen years superintended a little sand-hill Sunday School is now full-time A.S.S.U. Missionary for Northwest Nebraska. Little comment need be made upon such a fruit­ ful life. Declining years will be brightened by endur­ ing friendships and by the sure fulfillment of unfailing promises. "At evening time there shall be light." Yon vuiy be a sponsoring friend'of this con­ structive srork. Jl'rite for Tull information direct to DEPARTMENT OF MISSIONS, Desk K57 IS16 Chestnut Street. Philadelphia 3, Ptfr

Unreached rural America is the chosen field of the A.S.S.U. \Ve establish Sun­ day Schools, Vacation Bible Scnools and Young People's Societies; and arrange Youth Bible Conferences and Sum­ mer Camps for the training of Christian Workers. We also conduct home visita­ tion, and render community welfare aid to the otherwise unreached. Evangelical in purpose, non-sectarian in ^ method, and true to the" Word of God. Wherever we work, we stress regeneration as the only real foundation for the sort o f Christian Character so sorely needed by the nation and the world today.

AMERICAN- Sundäy School

W IT H C H R IS T A L O N G T H E O L D B A C K R O A D PIONEER SUNDAY SCHOOL ORGANIZATION OF THE U. S. A

ESTABLISHED 1817

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