King's Business - 1933-06

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■ ‘Long may- our land be-bright With freedom’s holy light; Protect us by Thy might, Great God, our King."

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Dear Friend:

The school year which has just closed at the Bible Institute has been one of TRIAL and TRIUMPH. Time after time we faced very serious situations and problems which raised the question as to how we could possibly carry on to the end of the year. "But God, who is rich in mercy," heard our cry, and the year came to a close with a large degree of TRIUMPH. The commencement season was the thirteenth in which it has been my privilege to participate, and I can truly say it has been one of the best. This opinion is shared by many others. We know that numbers do not mean everything, but it is significant that the graduating class was the largest since 1928, and the enrollment of the entire stu­ dent body last fall was the largest since the fall of 1923 — quite remarkable in the light of present financial con­ ditions. But what does it all amount to? Is it worth while? A partial answer will be found in the article beginning on page 211 of this issue. By all means read it! To see these young people stepping out by faith, in order to reach people for Christ, heartens us workers to go on with the work of training, and ought to encourage others to continue their indispensable part in prayer and gifts. You have already been informed of the transactions which will, when consummated, take care, in large measure, of our indebtedness. But this will not help us in the mat­ ter of operating expenses. Frankly, the exchequer is depleted, and must be replenished if we are to carry on. The great majority of our first year students have signified their intention of returning in the fall. Many new students have already been accepted, and applications are coming in right along. The working staff stands ready to resume the arduous but blessed service of training these young people. But we must have funds. They are the con­ necting link. Do you not want to have a share in this blessed work? We appeal to you who love our Lord, who love His Word, who love His appearing, who believe in con­ tinuing the testimony concerning "the faith once for all de­ livered to the saints." Whether large or small, send in your gifts without delay. And by all means "continue stead­ fastly in prayer." Yours in His fellowship,

Acting Dean.

How to Destroy The Jews It is the puzzle of the ages. . Hitler can’t solve it, and is. only bungling the job. Egypt ■tried it, but only landed in the bottom o f the Red Sea! But there is a way. Pastor H. O. Van Gilder o f Colum­ bus, Ohio, discovered the secret and allowed us to , print it in a 12-page tract entitled, “ HOW TO DE­ STROY THE JEWS .” Haman would never have hung if he had seen this tract. Hitler needs to know. Every Jew-hater in Amer­ ica needs to read this tract. And certainly every Chris­ tian will be eager to see it. It is yours for 10 cents, in­ cluding a sample copy o f our paper T H E C H O S E N PEOPLE . Just enclose 10 cents in a letter and say, “ Send me How to Destroy the Jews.” And may we remind you also of the continuous needs o f our Missionary undertak­ ings ? Our work merits your every confidence. It is a pro­ gram of world wide Gospel testimony to the Jews.'Your fellowship in prayer and gift is always welcomed and ap­ preciated. THE CHOSEN PEOPLE is o f course sent to all contributors. • AMERICAN BOARDOF MISSIONS 10 THE JEWS, INC. 31 Throop Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y.

Published Monthly by and Represent* ing the Bible Institute of Los Angeles.

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©fieSidle Tamils S ita tine M otto: "Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his oivn blood."—R ev . 1 :5.

Number 6

July, 1933

Volume XXIV

TABLE OF CONTENTS Around the King’s Table— The Editor...............................................210 “ Separated unto the Gospel”— Mildred M. Cook............... ..............211 The Disciplined Life— James Oliver Buswell, Jr..............................214 How God Honors Those Who Honor Him— H. T. Commons.... ...216 The Superkingdom-^Grant Stroh....................................................,...218 Unchanging Things in a Changing World—William M. Anderson..221 Girls’ Query Corner—Myrtle E. Scott..................................... ..........222 Present-Day Fulfillment of Prophecy— Louis S. Bauman...........—.223 Jinsaburo’s Journal— Opal Leonore Gibbs............................-----........226 Living Lessons from the Book of Life and Everyday Life — Roy Talmage Brumbaugh........................... ..............................229 Bible Institute Family Circle.——........——-— —..........-.......................230 Junior King’s Business—Martha S. Hooker................ .......................231 Our Literature Table............................................................. —.............. 233 Homiletical Helps...............................:.........—-—-—-..............———....... 233 Notes on Christian Endeavor— Mary G. Goodner.............................234 International Lesson Commentary...................................... ——— 237 Daily Devotional Readings ....................................................— .....—244-

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M. The Secret of Holy Living . uch has been said and written during the past month concerning the various ministries o f the Holy Spirit. The nineteen hundredth anniversary of Pentecost gave special occasion for this. To those who gather this month “ around the King’s table,” we present as the first course a paragraph on this subject from the late Charles Inwood, D.D., which, if eaten and digested, will nourish our souls. Speaking from the words of Ephesians 6:18, “ Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit,” Dr. Inwood said: Let me ask you to remember that there is no such thing as a once-for-all fullness. It is a continuous appro­ priation of a continuous supply from Jesus Christ Himself, a moment-by-moment Saviour for a moment-by-moment cleansing and a moment-by-moment filling. As I trust Him, He fills me with His Spirit. The moment I begin to believe, that moment I begin to receive, and so long as I keep believing, I keep receiving. Let us pray that our faith be active. The Spirit-taught believer will recognize in this para­ graph a proper emphasis on faith as the working principle of the Christian life. The constant operation of faith is the secret of abiding in Christ, which in turn leads to holy living and fruitful service. Freedom’s Holy Light T he civil and political liberty that America enjoys is easily traceable to the religious liberty on which human progress proceeds and human happiness depends. Our re­ ligious liberty is in turn traceable to the open Bible. It was this Book that freed the soul o f Martin Luther from the bondage of ecelesiasticism and enabled him to stand fast “ in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free.” Apart from the Protestant Reformation, which began with Luther and has been preserved by noble men and women who knew the truth as it is in Christ, our beautiful hymn, “ America,” could never have been written. As we contem­ plate the future, we may well sing: This holy freedom fires the soul with genuine enthusi­ asm and produces the qualities that make for greatness. No one can dispute the influence that the open Bible has had upon our nation. The Declaration o f Independence, Statue o f Liberty, historical days, great statesmen, and heroic deeds are the outgrowth of the power o f that Book. As we turn to God on our national birthday, we have abundant cause for praise and prayer. Let praise be given for na­ tional as well as spiritual blessings, for things temporal and •for things eternal. Let prayer be made that divine power may be given to our President, that purity o f motive may prevail in our legislative halls, that justice may reign in our ¡courts o f law, that a more elevated tone may characterize our press, that the Lord’s Day may be preserved, and that the sense o f stewardship and mutual obligation may become a felt force in our national life. Long may our land be bright With freedom’s holy light.

Government and National Prosperity T he editor o f the Evangelical Christian, Dr. R. V . Bingham, who is also the general director of the Sudan Interior Mission, has an editorial in the June issue o f his magazine which we hope may be read by every thoughtful person interested in matters of government and national prosperity. After dealing with present conditions, Dr. Bingham points out two things which God provided when He gave to His ancient people, Israel, a perfect model of government and national rule. We quote: In the first place, He arranged for a Sabbatic year to cure all overproductions. Every seventh year was given up to rest—rest of man, rest of beast, and rest of the land. There could be no sowing and only the reaping of that which grew o f itself. The ploughed lands lay fallow. With the Sabbatic year there would be no need for Brazil to burn, millions of tons of coffee in order to bring up prices. There would be no need of proposals to stack up the bales of cotton and put a match to them in our United States. God’s law was a cure for overproduction. It would have silenced all our factory wheels, too, one year in seven, instead of trying to rush through with unbridled increase o f production for a quarter of a century of prosperity. Then, if we were a dictator, we would put our lips to the trumpet and blow the old silver trumpet o f jubilee. And what would it do? Why, in our rural districts, it would send back every farmer to an unencumbered farm. Every mortgage would have to run out. It would make the few selfish landlord farmers drop everything but their homesteads, and release for others the result o f their overgrasping in that direction. Our farmers would have their allotment and no more. But it would be free from every strangling mortgage. It was God’s way of announc­ ing the limitation o f wealth. But the old world yet awaits the first jubilee. It has revolution because it will not heed revelation. These are words in due season, and our national lead­ ers would do well to ponder them. The I. F. C . A . df I nusual interest is attached to the convention o f the 'M Independent Fundamental Churches o f America which is at the time of writing holding its annual gathering in Chicago, 111. The convention may be epoch-making. The report of the Foreign Missions Inquiry Commis­ sion embodied in the book, Rethinking Missions, has brought to the surface certain undercurrents o f religious thought that have been partially submerged for a quarter o f a century and have now gathered sufficient force to assert themselves. The missions report makes unmistak­ ably clear the radical difference between the two groups known as fundamentalists and modernists. A fundamental­ ist is an old-fashioned Christian who believes that the Bible is the Word o f God, that Jesus Christ is the Son of God incarnate, and that redemption from sin is provided only through His shed blood. A modernist is one who de­ nies all this and thereby negatives the Christian position. The book, Rethinking Missions, accentuates the modern view. It states that “ the relation between religions must take increasingly hereafter the form o f a common search for truth.” This o f itself is a surrender o f “ the grand [Continued on page 225]

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1 i k e a banner glorious, there floated, in huge letters suspended above the choir loft where the members o f the twenty-third annual graduating class of the Bible Insti­ tute o f Los Angeles were sitting on the evening of June 1, the meaningful words of their chosen class motto: “ Sep­ arated unto the gospel.” Eager young graduates— 118 of

with the good news, BY GOD ’S GRACE, TH IS BIBLE IN ST ITUTE W ILL GO ON , ever “ separated unto the gospel,” training new recruits for new and waiting fields. Tuition is always absolutely free, and the thousands o f dol­ lars needed for the maintenance o f this great interdenomi­ national enterprize are forthcoming only as God moves

them— each with pur­ poseful step took his or her place under this exalted standard. Significantly, *t h e shadow o f the words fell also on a more ma­ ture company, closely associated w i t h the first, a group seated on the platform and rep­ resenting the Faculty and Board o f Direc­ tors o f the Institute— men and women whose very attitude bespeaks a d e te rm in a tion of

upon the hearts of His stewards and they re­ spond to His will. In a real and prac­ tical sense, the words o f the class motto are also the incentive of every Biola student. Spurred on by them, groups o f graduates a n d undergraduates have traveled or else are planning to go this summer from coast to coast* requiring no re­ muneration beyond the joy o f seeing s o u l s

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saved. During the vacation period, eleven groups, consist­ ing o f eighty or more young people, will engage in definite evangelistic and Bible teaching work. They are variously named: Ambassadors, Calvary Four, Challengers, King’s Highway Quartet, Master’s Messengers, Women’s Quar- etc. Their schedules call for

years, to know nothing “ save Jesus Christ and him cruci­ fied” and to magnify His Word above all His name. They, too, are “ separated unto the gospel”— and to nothing else. They take their places in a noble succession, for since the

day of its founding, a quarter of a cen­ tury ago, the Bible Institute has always had among its leaders those who were willing to live for, to exemplify—and to die for, if need be—the gospel o f the grace of God, untarnished by modern­ ism, untinctured with cold formalism.

tet, Zion’s Watchmen, meetings in prac­ tically all parts of the country. S eparated for S ervice — H ere :- and A far One group of

Humanly speaking, it is their consistent loyalty to the Lord Jesus Christ and to the whole Word of God that has made possible the sending forth of not only a c o m p a n y o f 118 graduates in 1933, but of over 15,000 others who, in day, evening, and corres­ pondence sch oo ls, have here received their tr a in in g for C h ristian w ork . A n d w h e n t h i s year’s c l a s s has sca tte red , n eve r again to be gathered together un til the s o u n d i n g o f the trumpet a n d t h e coming of the Lord shall call them from the four corners of the earth to which they are hastening

D elmar H oward , women’s class speaker and class musician.

six y ou n g men, five of them be­ ing gradua tes, known as Crusa­ ders for Christ, l^ff Los Angeles On the morning

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Crusaders (left to right).: P. Roper, Dick Hillis, N. Foland, Don Hillis, O. Smith, N. Chrisman.

of March 9, trav­ eled 9,970 miles, held 313 meetings o f thirty minutes or longer in thirty towns in ten states. They were singularly disinterested in the keeping of figures, but to their knowl­ edge, there were over 500 definite decisions for Christ. In every city where they held meetings for more than one day, they were invited to teach Bible classes in the public schools. In Wichita, Kan., they reached 6,500 young people in this way, in the five days they were there. How truly these young men were “ separated unto the gospel” may be judged from such letters as the following, which the Insti­ tute has received: “ God has bestowed a wonderful blessing on Waterloo the past week. Six young men have been in Walnut Street Baptist Church. I truly thank God fo r such material that Biola sends out. I have a daughter that is planning on going to Bible college somewhere. Surely, she would make no mistake in going to Biola.” With a record o f blessing attending all their witness-

glo-rie* to chare; Strengthenedwith pow-er from Heav-en a-bove, message to singl Noth-ing with-hold-ing, our all in Hishands, love to His heart; Sealed by His Spir-it that we now for-e'er kept by His love; En • trust-ed by Him this Gos-pel to take, . . . jGj # a» J J t n

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ing, is it not .00 bad, some will say, that this group has broken up? But is it? When one is “ separated unto the gospel,” he is set apart for the field to which the Author of that gospel calls, and when this group dissolved partnership on May 28, it was in order to allow two o f its members to take immediate steps toward the fields afar to which the Lord beckons them— to permit them to join the company o f 300 or more other former Bible Institute students who in past years have gone forth to foreign mission sta­ tions. One returned to Los Angeles and entered the China Inland Mission training home where he joined four other Bible Institute graduates o f the class of ’33—all o f them looking f orward to missionary service in China. This young man’s twin brother has applied to the Ceylon and India General Mission, and each o f the other four members of the team is open-hearted for the Lord’s call anywhere. W hat K ind of Y oung P eople are T hese ? If any one supposes that Bible Institute students are pious, drab, prosaic youth, let him talk to any one o f them ¡§-to the tall dark first tenor who is the leader o f the Calvary Four, for instance— and his opinion will be quickly altered. “ How did you happen to come to the Institute ?” this young aeronautic student was asked. There was a hint o f a smile. “ Well, naturally speak­ ing,” he began, “ two o f us on the team were inveigled into it. There’s Chuck, for instance. He was attending uni­ versity—a marvelous baseball player— looking forward to a career on one o f the big league teams. He came to the Institute one night to attend an evening meeting, and was persuaded to stay overnight and go to some of the classes the next day. That day Chuck Thomas saw life in a new light, a bigger field stretched before him than he had ever hoped to play on, and the thought that a great ‘cloud o f witnesses’—more than filled the grandstands and the bleachers in all the games o f all the world—was concerned in this game influenced him to sign a life contract with the Lord Jesus Christ. He’s in a big league team now, all right, the biggest on earth. “ And I,” the would-be flyer went on, “ came strangely, too. I was born just two blocks from here, and I was born

I would! The thirteen-story building with roof garden and chimes atop interested me not a little. When the Super­ intendent asked with casual tact if I would not like to fill out an application blank, ‘just to see whether or not you’ll be accepted,’ I thought it would be a lot o f fun, so I did. Then I forgot all about it. In due time, a letter o f accept­ ance was sent— not to me, but to my father! I shall never forget that day. I can see Father now, my mother and sis­ ters with him, all o f them filing into the room where I was sitting. There was a glint o f a tear in his eye. “ ‘I ’m so glad for what you’ve done, son,’ he said as he laid a hand ori my shoulder. “ ‘Done what ?’ I asked in surprise. " ‘Decided to attend the Bible Institute,’ he replied. And he showed me the papers. “ ‘Well, I ’m in for it,’ I thought. ‘I’ll go for a few

weeks to satisfy everybody, a n d then I’ll quit.’ But the weeks have grown into more t h a n two years — glorious years.” “ B u t w h a t about your aero­ nautics ?” he was asked. “ Oh, I always knew I was cut out to be a pilot, but until I came to the Bible In­

Zion's Watchmen (left to right): N. Crider, C. Koenig, A. Bausman, P. Rouse, H. Steinmetz.

stitute, I didn’t know what kind. I went back to the field one day not long after I had entered school. I settled my­ self in the cockpit and expected to experience the same old thrill as I took off. But it was gone. I knew then that I was to be a pilot— but a sky pilot, traveling by the way o f the cross ” , , t ^ ^ This team is booked for three months’ meetings and expects to keep in the field for a year or more. Another group o f six enthusiastic young men, known as the Challengers, are going east as far as Detroit, then north and west to Bellingham, Wash. One o f them, an ex­ ceptional musician, was for two years a member o f a popu­ lar jazz orchestra—until the music o f heaven touched his heart. Another, strangely enough, dates his salvation from student days at the Bible Institute. While the Institute is careful to admit only those who have a clear testimony re­ garding personal regeneration, occasionally one comes who later finds that he does not possess all he professed to have. This young man came because a relative urged it. For three awful weeks he endured the strain o f fighting against God. Open rebellion and turmoil of heart ruined his days. It was during a corridor prayer meeting, where students meet daily and informally, that the final battle was waged. There by a quick surrender to the Conqueror, the conflict for this boy ended and the turmoil ceased. “ Separated unto the gospel;” his fellow students, with unconscious power, had led hirn to the Lord. “ B y A ll M eans S ave S ome ” Driven by the urge o f love, these young people are going forth, using every possible means, to witness for Christ. Catch a glimpse o f them as they depart. A G ospel C yclist That agile fellow in khaki suit, with strong young face as clean cut as his.uniform, swinging easily onto the bicycle that is already well laden with Christian literature, tracts,

W arren H all , with his bicycle laden with Christian literature, is saying good-by to Dr. John A. Hubbard, Acting Dean of the Institute.

again in the Church of the Open Door, so it was natural that I should feel at home near the Institute. One day, the Superintendent o f Men saw me around the place and asked me if I would riot like to see some o f the rooms. Roy-like,

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“ I am enclosing pictures o f two Daily Vacation Bible Schools which were conducted by two Bible Institute1stu­ dents last June. At Wickersham, they conducted a very fine school in a vacant church, where last fall, as a result of the D.V.B.S., I organized a good Sunday-school.” A group of six choice young women are turning their faces toward the hot dry plains of South Dakota, there to answer as many as possible o f the increasing number o f calls for'summer Bible, schools and.young people’s meet­ ings. A few o f the girls spent a strenuous but wonderfully happy summer there last year, and came home repoicing in having led approximately 162 to the Lord. Space forbids all but the mere mention of other groups. One o f these, the Women’s.Qqartet, accompanied by Miss

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etc., is no amateur cyclist. Last summer he traveled 700 miles in three weeks, and for this vacation he has planned a m u c h longer trip, spending all the time from early June to late September in t h e field, going from Los Angeles to his home in Yakima, Wash., and then into t h e whole central Ore­ gon region. “ You know,” he said with the quiet

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Mabel Culter, Super­ intendent o f Womep, will assist with the music at several Chris­ tian Endeavor conven­ tions, singing espec­ ially in the homes of C. E. members who are shut-ins. Another, a qu a rte t o f y ou n g m e n kn ow n as the King’s Heralds, is be­ ginning a second sum­ mer tour. La st year, in n in e ty days, they covered 8 ,0 0 0 m iles and were instrumental in leading over 100 individuals to Christ. They seek especially neglected communities. In addition to the sev­ eral groups o f students

conviction that characterizes him, “ I feel I must go back. I tramped that country as a boy, unsaved. The people know me. And before I go to the savage tribes of South Amer­ ican Indians—as I will, the Lord willing, as soon as I finish the Medical Missionary course at the Institute— I want to tell my own folk what the Lord Jesus means to me”— sep­ arated unto the gospel now, as well as in the tomorrow o f things! “ T o t h e J e w F ir s t ” See that grqup o f five alert young men. One of them is an outstanding musician. Another gives telling chalk talks. They are Zion’s Watchmen, students of the Jewish Missions course. One o f them is the son o f a prominent Jewish family. His father and his grandfather were rabbis, and he himself spent twelve years in study for the rabbinate, until, through the influence and efforts o f a member of the Institute faculty, his eyes were opened to see the Lord Jesus Christ as Israel’s Messiah and his Saviour. Now a passion to evangelize Israel consumes him. His own family is still without Christ. To them and to the other thousands o f Jews oh the Atlantic coast, this group is hastening with the message dearest o f all to their hearts. M a k i n g P l a y t im e P r o f it a b l e As restless as the sea they love, hundreds o f vacationists —with uncounted boys and girls among them— come each year to Hermosa Beach, California. They are ready for anything, so long as it is consumingly interesting. Bible Institute leaders and students were quick to recognize this unique field for evangelism and were ready to repeat this year the effort carried on so successfully last summer, known as the Children’s Special Service Mission. Lessons

King’s Heralds (standing): H. Remple, W. Retts; (seated) H. Van Loon, J. Wiebe.

that are going forth, scores of other Biola young people will be serving just as effectively in their home towns and churches, witnessing for Christ wherever they are. “ Where is the Lord leading you?” one young woman was asked on the day following graduation. “ He’s leading me right back to the home from which He called me, two years a g o ! I’m going back to the old scenes, the old tasks. But oh, I’m so much richer than when I came away!” And who can say that that humble home, and many others like it, will not partake in generous measure of the riches o f God’s Word and o f His grace that this grateful graduate, and others like her, are going home to share ? F a i t h ’ s A n s w e r t o t h e S e e m i n g l y I m p o s s ib l e “ Are you coming back next fall?” The question trembles on unwilling lips, for however alluring the summer trips may be, B. I. has been home, and it is not easy to leave. •“ Sure, we’re coming back!” Graduates— some o f them— are saying it; last year’s students—most o f them—are saying it. New students are chiming in, “ W e ’re coming, too !” Already at this early date, there is prospect of about. 400 students for the fall. And Biola’s silent corridors, that have witnessed the coming and the going o f warm-hearted youth year after year, are echoing hopeful, tender words, words o f fa ith : “ Yes, you’re coming back!” Dedicated “ unto him that loved us and washed us from our sins in his own precious blood,” Biola will, by His grace and His enabling, swing wide its welcoming arms on September 21 to every young person whose purpose makes him qualify. How it is pos­ sible in the face o f humanly insurmountable difficulties is God’s problem; “ our eyes are unto him.”

and illustrations are in s c r ib e d on the s a n d , in p la ce o f more p r o s a ic black­ boards, with delight­ ful results. And so. they are o f f , Mr. and Mrs. Gordon E. H o o k e r and their four versatile help­ ers, for a novel ex­ perience that prom­ ises rich sp iritu a l returns.

A group in Washington, organized by B. I. students under the American S. S. Union.

T e a c h in g t h e W ord By far the largest number of students, especially of young women, will spend the summer in Daily Vacation Bible School work. Many will serve under the American Sunday School Union. Among them are several young men who are going north to assist Rev. Charles Knautz, the Union’s representative in northwestern Washington. Writ­ ing to the Institute, Mr. Knautz says:

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less understand that it is only among the shallowest pseudo­ scientific psychologists of a repudiated branch of the Freu­ dian school that avoiding “ repression” means the elimina­ tion of self-control and discipline. W h a t is R e p r e s s io n ? In the psychological sense, repression is defined by Webster’s dictionary as, “ A process whereby impulses that are in opposition to one’s ethical and aesthetic ideals are forced into the unconscious.” This does not mean for a moment the process by which one consciously exercises self-control. It is precisely the opposite of the Christian process whereby one frankly recognizes his temptations, confessing them in prayer to the Lord, and conquering them by His enabling grace. Repression is the cowardly process o f seeking to ignore, deny, or forget those things which ought to be frankly acknowledged, faced, and conquered. The psychological process o f repression is sometimes un­ conscious, and sometimes more or less conscious. The following quotation from Abnormal Psychology by Professor William McDougall (page 222) is very illum­ inating in this connection: It seems clear that repression may be and often is effected by a.self-conscious effort; as in the case of the soldier who voluntarily represses (i.e., seeks to ignore and forget) his battle memories and their emotions, and suffers battle dreams in consequence, and who then gets rid of his battle dreams by following the advice to cease his vol­ untary repression. The psychologically sound method and the Christian method of getting rid of an evil memory is not to deny it or to ignore it, but to confess it in prayer, frankly facing the situation and trusting the Lord for victory.

H n tagon ism to discipline in every sphere is very prevalent in our day. A principle of liberty is popu­ larly brought forth which the histor­ ically minded student will recognize under several old names. In the field of theology, this principle would be called antinomianism; in the field f l psychology, it is represented by a certain branch o f Freudiamsm. home

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of us are inclined to call it by a still older and still more common name, lawlessness. The theory to which we refer is, however, held by many respectable people who seem entirely unconscious o f the nature o f the ideas which they advance. The theory is in brief that rigorous disci­ pline and a well regimented life weaken character. A n A p p e a l t o C o m m o n S e n s e Wheaton College has always stood for the disciplined life, and for a reasonable amount of regularity and regime^ as contributing to the building of good habits and good character. W e believe that an appeal to the general good sense of Christian people will awaken them to the sound­ ness o f this position. A successful business man recently told me that he did not know o f any prominent man in the business world who had attained success, who had displayed valuable initiative and originality in a position of executive responsibility, without having gone through a process of severe and rigorous discipline in his' younger days. This discipline may have been military training, or a factory regime with routine regularity, clock-punching, and the like, but with very few exceptions, the man at the top in the business world has been strengthened by an educa­ tive disciplinary process. A Christian colonel in the army once told me that apart from the grace of God he knew o f no process which would make a man out of a weakling better than a stiff regime of severe military drill. Whatever one may think o f military training, it is certainly laughable from the point of view o f the common sense of one who has had army training to hear the argument that discipline weakens character. A n A p p e a l t o P s y c h o l o g y We fear that a popular misconception of ab­ normal psychology is at the root of the recent out­ break o f the objectionable antinomian theory under discussion. W e have heard much in these days about the evils of “ repression.” A child in a home govern­ ed by some of these popular psychological fallacies once suddenly decided to take a beet from the serv­ ing dish and throw it at a guest at the table. The guest was surprised by this sudden attack and expected that the par­ ents would institute disciplinary proceedings. Instead, how­ ever, the mother appealed to the guest with the words, “ Please do not say anything about the child’s behavior. I am bringing him up without any repressions, and I am studying his tendencies.” The intelligent reader will doubt-

A G limpse of the C ampus , W heaton C ollege , W heaton , III. Although McDougall does not write distinctly from the Christian point of view, he does quite remarkably illustrate the value of Christian principles. The cowardly process called repression often results in paralysis, amnesia, or insanity, or other abnormal physical and psychological symptoms. On page 218, McDougall describes a young man who had been preparing for the ministry before his expe­ rience in the World War. This young man received severe experiences of shock at the front. McDougall says:

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rescue mission workers throughout the country— and these are in a position to know better than any one else— that prohibition was at least 85 per cent effective. He said that the anti-prohibition propaganda has been the greatest fraud ever perpetrated upon the American people. This false propaganda is enormously typical o f the false antinomian philosophy so prevalent in our day. Parents often assume an attitude o f superior wisdom and say in regard to the most vital questions o f faith and of practice, “ W e wish our children to choose for themselves.” This statement has been given to me as an excuse for failure to send children to Sunday-school, failure to keep chil­ dren safely off the streets, failure to conduct them safely through heavy traffic, failure to teach them the catechism or Scripture memory verses, failure to stand for law and order and moral decency in the community, failure to do what every Christian father and mother ought to do in leading the child to a saving knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. A dear mother in Israel recently spoke to a merchant in our city who is selling beer. “ I do not see how you can justify yourself in selling alcoholic liquor,” she said. “ What influence do you think it will have on your young son as he grows to years o f ma­ turity ?” The merchant is not a vicious, man, but he has been fool­ ishly deluded by popular philosophy and psychology. He spoke with an air of superior wisdom. “ I am doing exactly what I think is right. I want my boy to choose for himself.” I wish I had the skill o f a cartoonist. I should like to draw a picture o f a dangerous rocky cave beside the road filled with ferocious beasts and venomous reptiles. Down the road come a troop o f young people, little tots, youths and maidens, young men and young women entering into the responsibilities o f life. In the center o f the road, in the foreground of the picture, stand several individuals. One man is seeking to cry out a warning and to erect such safe­ guards as he may, but the others have him almost bound, and gagged, and helpless. They are tearing dowii his safe­ guards and seeking to beat him into unconsciousness, all the while shouting, “ Our young people must be free to choose for themselves.” Free! Yes, God knows they are free, but so are we older people free, and responsible for our freedom. Is any one actually afraid that there will not be enough tempta­ tions in this old world for the exercise o f moral judgments ? Those who seek to break down law and discipline in the home, in the school, or in the state are like the man who sees a poisonous snake about to spring at his friend and only turns aside with a careless shrug. To our Subscribers: Every subscriber whose subscription expiration date is prior to May, 1934— as shown on maga­ zine wrappers each month—will receive an addi­ tional month’s magazine in order to carry out our promise at the time of combining our April and May, 1933, numbers. This will not o f course apply to short term subscriptions beginning after June 1, 1933. Circulation Manager. S P E C I A L N O T I C E

Thousands of men in similar situations were break­ ing down with all sorts of neurotic disabilities, paralyses, amnesias, and so forth. His conflict found no such partial solution and relief; for his,training had accustomed him to search his own heart, to understand and frankly ex­ amine his motives; therefore the conflict took place in the open, on the plane of full consciousness. The young man described in this case had a severe struggle with himself, but it is McDougall’s opinion as a physician and a psychologist that if this young man had not been in the habit o f thoughtful prayer, confessing his sins and difficulties to the Lord, he would have become a para­ lytic or a victim o f amnesia or insanity. (It must be noted that the Christian doctrine o f con­ fessing our sins to the Lord is not only psychologically sound. It is that, but much more. In Christian prayer, we are talking with a personal Saviour. “ I f we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” ) The interested reader who has been tinctured with a misunderstanding o f psychology ought to read through the work o f McDougall here referred to. Sound scientific psychology furnishes no evidence whatsoever in support of the doctrine o f the undisciplined life. On the other hand, the study o f psychology and the study o f medicine furnish evidence abundant and clear of the old principle announced in the Scriptures: “ Whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap. He that soweth to the flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption.” A n A p p e a l t o t h e C h r is t ia n S t a n d a r d s A fter all, in writing for the readers o f T h e K in g ' s B u s in e s s , our final appeal is to the Bible, the infallible Word o f God. At once we are reminded of the great text, 1 John 3:4 ( R . V . ) : “ Sin is lawlessness” In Ephesians 6:4, we have the true scriptural teaching concerning the training of young people. Remember that, in the context, the word “ children” does not mean only little children: “ And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but rather bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.” The word “ nurture” here literallymeans “ discipline.” I f we wish to know what is the “ discipline and admonition o f the Lord,” we are referred to Hebrews 12 :6 -8 : “ For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. If ye endure chastening, God'deal- eth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.” This passage is a quotation from Proverbs 3 :11 ,12: “ My son, despise not the chastening o f the Lord, neither be weary o f his correction: For whom the Lord loveth he cor- recteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.” In the book o f Proverbs, we find many very striking things pertinent to our subject: “ He that spareth his rod hateth his son : but he that loveth him chasteneth him be­ times” (13 :24 ; cf. 2 2 :1 5 ); “ Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die. Thou shall beat him with the rod, and shalt de­ liver his soul from hell” ( 2 3 :13 ,14) ; “ The rod and re­ proof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame” (2 9 :1 5 ); “ He, that being often re­ proved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy” (2 9 :1 ). These references do not, o f course, refer only to literal corporal punishment. There can be no possible doubt that the educational psy­ chology o f the Bible is on the side o f the disciplined life. A rescue mission worker spoke recently in Wheaton on the subject o f law enforcement and prohibition. He made the statement that it is the unanimous testimony of

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native preachers, manning thirty-four preaching centers, together with Bible women and student evangelists, a work which is resulting in the salvation of hundreds of precious souls every year. At the end of the first year, the group o f missionaries had grown to ten, with a well-established work in full swing at Iloilo, with the new Doane Evangelistic Insti­ tute in the heart o f the city, and student preaching cen­ ters and medico-evangelistic stations at strategic points. Money for all o f this had not been i/iraised” by high- pressure modern business, methods. God sent it in, in answer to the prayers and challenge o f faith that this group made to Him. He never fails His own who are depending on Him, and who are following His program. Numerous friends heard of this “ adventure o f faith,” which was a return to the New Testament message and method. They, too, were getting tired o f giving the Lord’s money to missionary work and having it used for everything but the salvation of souls. They admired the courage and independence o f vthese modern apostles. They found themselves drawn by the Spirit o f God to the prayerful support of this work. Every need was supplied, provision was made for expansion, and God received the glory.

[The Bible Institute of Los Angeles has a special interest in the work described in this article, because of. the fact that one of its graduates, Miss Bethel France, ’24, is serving as Field Treasurer o f the Mission and as a teacher in the Manila Evangelistic Insti­ tute .—E ditor .] J P iv e y e a r s a g o , a little group of consecrated Bap­ tist missionaries at Iloilo were faced with this dilemma: They must give up their work and go home, or they must step out on faith in an independent work and look to God alone for support. To continue longer under exist­ ing conditions forced on them by the “ inclusive policy” and the non-evangelistic, medico-educational program o f the Board was impossible. They could not go on and still be loyal to their Lord. S m a l l B e g in n in g s They prayed, and God answered their prayers by giving them the conviction that they should launch out into the deep alone—alone, in that they had no board back o f them to pay salaries, but not alone, because God was with them and Christ was the Captain of their ship. So in 1927, with only a few individuals in the homeland in sympathetic agreement and support, and with only three experienced missionaries on the field, the Associa­ tion o f Baptists for Evangelism in the Orient was born.

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From this small beginning, God has been pleased to develop in only five years a marvelous work, with almost twenty missionaries on the field, as well as twenty-six *Pastor, First Baptist Church, Atlantic City, N. I., and Secretary o f Executive Committee of Ass’n o f Baptists for Evangelism in the Orient, Inc.

E x p a n s io n There was no Baptist work in Manila, the largest city of the islands, the great university center, with forty thousand students. Many Baptist students, finding them­ selves in Manila with no Baptist church to attend, were weakening in their faith, and some were even returning

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to Catholicism. Dr. Thomas, the leader of this group, immediately entered Manila, and in two weeks’ time had organized the First Baptist Church of Manila with thir­ ty-two members, many of them former converts in the Iloilo work. In one year, this church had grown to 120 members, and it now numbers over 400. In addition to this, a girls’ dormitory was established to house students taking university work, and to give them real Christian teaching. The latest development is the Manila Evangelistic Institute, which is now three years old. It has begun to graduate stu­

better used in another way* and the ship was sold for a fishing smack. But God had other plans for her. She was never used as a fishing vessel, and lay idle in Kobe Harbor for three years. When the Asso­ ciation received word from missionaries in Japan suggesting the purchase of this boat for use in the Philippines, it certainly seemed to indicate that the hand o f the Lord was in it. But there was no money ! Thè committee prayed. This work had been begun in faith. Four years o f mar­ velous progress, had been made on faith. The ship captain had applied and had gone

dents with a full Bible and theological training. These will be the real Philippine evangelists o f the future. Last year, Dr. Russel Bradley Jones, pastor o f the University Baptist Church o f Baltimore, Md., who has for two summers sup­ plied Spurgeon’s Tabernacle in London, went out as a mis­ sionary to become pastor o f the First Baptist Church of Manila and superintendent o f the Manila Evangelistic Institute. A C hallenge to F aith Step by step, with absolutely no preconceived plan by any human being, God worked in a marvelous way His won­ ders to perform. One day there applied as a candidate to the Association a sea captain, named Skolfield. He was a lieutenant in the Navy during the World War, subsequently becoming captain o f a merchant ship, later serving in the Coast Guard Service, and finally feeling the call to the min­ istry. He holds a Master’s license to sail a ship under the American flag in any waters. A graduate o f Eastern Bap­ tist Theological Seminary, he was wonderfully qualified in every way. He was appointed as a missionary, and in December, 1930, he and his wife, with their two children, sailed for Manila. This was the first step— the providing of a qualified ship captain who had a heart for the salvation of souls. It did not take long for God to show His hand in a fur­ ther way. Out o f a clear sky came the offer from the Pres­ byterian Board to turn over to this Association a large group o f nearly 100 islands comprising the western part o f the Philippine Archipelago and running south nearly to Borneo. These islands are for the most part inhabited by natives in unadulterated heathenism, untouched even by the Catholics except in certain sections. The Presbyterians, hav­ ing held these islands for twenty-five years without being able to do any extensive work in them because o f lack of resources, asked if this new group could take them over and begin to evangelize them. It did not take long to decide. The islands were accepted. There was the sea captain. There were the islands. There were the unevangelized na­ tives calling. But there was no boat, and without a boat very little work could be done. There was absolutely no money with which to buy a boat. It seemed foolish even to look for one. What a test o f faith that was! G od ’ s P rovision But God was working. Baptists everywhere know about the famous gospel ship, Fukuin Maru, that sailed the Inland Sea o f Japan for years under Captain Bickel, and then under Captain Laughton, Specially constructed for missionary work, with a splendid dispensary and chapel on board, the Fukuin Maru was first given to the American Baptist Foreign Missionary Society by Mr. Allan o f the Allan Steamship Line. She originally cost $42,000. The Baptist Board, placing more and more emphasis on educa­ tional missions and less upon evangelistic missions, felt that the money used to keep the gospel ship operating could be

out on faith. The islands had come, and they had been re­ ceived on faith. Here at last was the ship—and such a ship, just as though it were made to order ! But there was no money. To borrow and incur indebtedness was against the Association’s policy. God seemed to definitely indicate that this ship was to go to the Philippines. But where is the border line between faith and rash presumption ? The only thing to do was to wait and pray in the money. On faith, the committee took a three-months’ option on the ship while negotiating for price. Then one day the mail brought a letter from a lady who had heard about the ship and the Association’s need, and in that letter—does God answer prayer ?Mwas a check for $10,000, just enough to purchase the ship on a cash transaction. It sounds like a romantic piece o f fiction, but God’s truth is often stranger than fiction. To cap the climax, only a few days passed before another person sent in a check for $5,000, which took care o f the overhauling, transfer from Kobe to Manila, and the first few months’ maintenance. P ioneering During the past year, this wonderful little gospel ship has been sailing in and out o f that long chain o f islands in a work o f pioneer evangelism that seems just like a modern replica o f the book o f Acts. Equipped with a native crew o f boys from the Institute, every one on board a Christian, the ship puts in at a harbor, all go ashore and hold meetings, distribute gospels and tracts, give medical attention to the bodies, and feed the multitudes with the Bread o f L ife for their souls. In November, the gospel ship, finding herself at the southern tip o f the island archipelago, and only sixty miles from northern Borneo, sailed over and touched at Sanda- kan, Borneo, establishing first contact with that vast un­ evangelized field which represents one o f the greatest mis- sionaray challenges in the world today. Who knows but that the Lord may enable this Association to establish a real work in Borneo in the years that lie ahead, should our Lord tarry? The’ Association o f Baptists for Evangelism in the Orient, Inc., stands foursquare on the fundamentals o f the “ faith once delivered to the saints.” It has no sympathy with modernism in any form. It has gone on record as totally repudiating the recent Report o f the Appraisal Com­ mission of the Laymen’s Foreign Missions Inquiry as being a betrayal o f the whole foreign mission enterprise and an inquisition o f evangelical missions. Its financial basis is one o f real faith, studiously avoiding indebtedness, and looking to God alone to supply needed funds. It makes no appeals.for money. It invites the prayerful interest and cooperation o f God’s people in these days o f apostasy, that the glorious gospel o f “ the Book, the Blood, and the Blessed Hope” may be broadcast to these long-neglected islands o f the sea as speedily as possible. For further information and literature o f the Associa­ tion, address the office, 705 Schaff Building, Philadel­ phia, Pa.

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