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THE K I N G ’ S BUS I NE S S to reject the simple statements of God’s Word and make light of the Fathers. We love these deluded people. We know they are blind, and we long to remove the scales from their eyes, but they resent it. What can we more do? It is Christmas day and we long that the Lord of Christmas might be honored, given the place accorded Him as the One to whom all authority is given—the King of all kings and the Lord of all lords. Pray for all these benighted people in places high and low, near and far. T. C. H. . ¿ife. m m m LEAVENING THE LUMP Much stress is being laid upon the so-ealled good work being done throughout our land through church agencies, which is called a “ leavening o f the lump.” Our friends who are not interested in a verbally inspired Bible use the phrase “ leavening the lump” with great gusto. This phrase was used by Paul in 1 Cor. 5 :6, but perhaps they are not familiar with the circumstances which led to its use. Paul was criticising severely an in cestuous sin which had been permitted by the Corinthian church, and told them he had turned the man over to Satan for the destruction of those im pulses which had led him into such a conspicuous sin, and then he warned the church that a sin of this kind was like leaven, and exclaims: “ Know ye know that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?” Everywhere in Scripture (in fact, more than sixty times) leaven is set forth clearly as typifying an evil principle, both in the Old and in the New Testament. But now we are told that the world is being saved by the leavening process! It is true that “ the woman” is putting the leaven into the lump. M rs Eddy has done her share with a little leaven. The Fox sisters injected a little leaven of Spiritism and Conan Doyle has been busy mixing it into the lump. Madam Blavatsky added a lot and the New Thoughtists have drop ped in their share. The Chicago University has been manufacturing leaven and the preachers and teachers have been having it delivered to them by parcel post. Religious newspapers have been doping out from week to week some of the old stale leaven and religious writers have been palming it off on the unsophisticated, with a little Twentieth Century perfume added. The devil has been busy working the leaven into the lump Until the poor church is pretty well leavened. Most everything is accepted now in the churches excepting the Bible. Our Lord said, “ Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees!” Do you know the Pharisees when you see them? Then beware of them. “ Beware of the leaven of the Sadducees!” Do you know the Sadducees when you see them? They are crooked on the doctrine of the physical resurrection of Jesus Christ. “ Beware of the leaven of the Herodians!” Do you know the Herodians? They are the politicians of the church. Listen to the Lord Jesus: “ Beware!” “ Purge out the old leaven,” says Paul. Clean up! Cut out! Cast away! and save what you can of the lump! When you hear the leaders saying glibly, “ The whole lump is being
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