THE KING’S BUSINESS 463 This statement is utterly untrue, if the founder of the Christian religion our Lord Jesus Himself, be accepted as authority. It is true that love of God and love to man properly defined “includes all” of the law (Matt. 22:37-40), but law is not all there is. Love to God and love to man are not part of the Gospel. God’s love to us, manifested in the atoning sacrifice of His Son includes all, the Gospel (John 3:16) in germ. Love to God and love to man! while it includes all the law, does not include all of man’s duty, nor even man’s first duty under the present dispensation. “If the founder of the Christian religion be accepted as authority,” then the one thing that God demands of men today is not love to Himself, nor love to his fellowman, it is belief on Him whom He Himself sent, i. e., on Jesus Christ. “The founder of the Christian religion” says in John 6 :23, 29, “This is the work of God, that ye believe on Him whom He hath sent. If we do not thus believe on Him no amount of effort to attain unto love to God or love to!our fellowman will ever succeed. We do not begin by loving God, we begin by believing in God’s love to us manifested in the atoning death of His Son, and by believing in this wonderful love of God to us we come to love God (1 John 4:19). The confusion of thought exhibited in this editorial is not found merely among “Christian Scientists,” where it might be expected, for their system is one of confusion from start to finish, but it is found also among Unitarians, among new theologians of all types, and even among people who are supposedly orthodox. — --------O------------ AN APPEAL FOR HELP
'T 'H E demands upon the pocketbooks of God’s people are numerous and great at thp present time. The majority have responded magnificently to the various war drives, and should continue to respond to the limit of ability until the awful business is over. However, we must not forget in such an hour that one o f the most vital necessities is to keep up the spiritual inter ests of the land, and especially should God’s people be alert to the urgent necessity of enabling the institutions that stand unmis takably for the “Old Book and the Old Faith” to prosecute their work on a bigger scale, according to the call of the times. When a convention of ministers in Eng land recently wired a British general, ask ing what they could do to help, the answer came back : “Make England spiritual.” That should be the Christian’s concern now. The Bible Institute of Los Angeles is equipping and sending out into the camps, the mission fields, the home fields, the busi ness world and into the homes, hundreds of men and women who know the Scrip tures and are trained to use them in defi
nite soul-winning work. The printed page from the Institution presses is bearing the Gospel message to millions, both at home and in heathen lands. Where could an investment of money count more for the glory of God? Many could say they have already given to various causes more than they ever gave before in all their lives, but in an hour when there is so urgent a call for propa gating the Gospel, it should be remembered that God takes more notice of what we have left than of what we have given. Last month we presented the urgent need of $50,000 for operating expenses, which are always kept at the lowest possible figure. We are thankful for the excellent response, but there is yet a large amount to’ be raised at once. We always appreciate the bequeathing of money to the Institute work, but the kind of generosity that is most appreciated just now is that which God’s people c^n give while they are alive— RIGHT NOW. He gives twice who gives NOW. The work is big, the opportuni ties glorious—will you enable us to push the work?
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