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Vol. 8
APRIL, 1917
No. 4
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E D I T O R I A L To please Jesus Christ should be the great ambition of the Christian’s life. Everything that he does should be done as unto the Lord and not unto men, and for that reason, done heartily (Col. 3:23). In our every
Pleasing
Jesus Christ. .
day secular work we should aim to please" Christ. Paul sought just as much to please the Lord when he wove goats hair into tent cloth as when he preached to philosophers on Mars Hill. In our distinctly Christian wdrk our aims should be to please Christ. If we please men, well and good, but please Christ anyway.
A number of friends are submitting manuscripts to us for acceptance for the columns of T he K ing ’ s B usi - ness . We do not doubt that if we made a request for manuscripts1to be submitted that many would come
Manuscripts Not Desired.
of great value, but with our numerous duties we find it impossible to read manuscripts in order to select from the mass of them some that we could use. We therefore pursue the policy of not receiving manuscripts at all. We are forced to dox this for lack of time to give them proper consideration. The policy of the magazine is to write to specific persons from whom we wish manuscripts on any given subject, instead of the policy of having manuscripts submitted to us for approval.
Twelve of the most searching words that Paul ever wrote are found in 2 Tim. 2:11, “If we be dead with Him, we shall also live with Him.” There must.be death before there can be real life. We must be dead
Dead With
Christ.
with Him if we, are to live with him. To be dead with Christ is to have renounced the things that living men ordinarily long for, the things that appeal to them, ease, reputation, wealth, pleasure, comfort, and life, to be dead to the world and its allurements, so that they have no power over us, to be to them as a man literally dead is to them. To be dead with Christ is also to renounce any powers and strength of our own that we possess, or fancy we possess, and let Christ live in us with His power and strength. The Christian worker should be thus dead. The cross of Christ should make him dead to sin, to the world, and to self. One of the greatest needs of the church today is a few dead men, dead in the sense explained above. We have plenty in our churches today who are dead in another sense, but what we need is men “dead with Christ.” Reader, are you dead?
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