The Bible Family Magazine
SEPTEMBER - 1937
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Philip D. Gendreau, N. T.
Near to localities made familiar by our Lord’s earthly ministry— in fact, situated on the very shores of his toric Galilee— Tiberias is obscure in the Gospel record, though it was chief among the towns of that region.
BIOLAORGANIZES “GOFORWARD”
CAMPAIGN Dr. Rood Announces Program
, October 1 9 Chosen as Opening Date (2 ) To the strengthening o f the an nuity reserve fund and the keeping up o f payments to our aged annuitants. (3 ) T o the reduction o f the Insti tute’s m ortgage indebtedness. (4 ) To such extension work as may be planned.
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It is believed that stewards to whom the Lord has intrusted large sums o f money w ill be encouraged in their g iv ing by the evidence that a large cird a o f praying, giving friends o f the school are sharing in the sense o f responsi bility fo r this great work. Surely the evangelistic m inistry o f the school will be enhanced, and the Lord will be glorified, by an aggressive, prayerful effort to present to the world the testi mony that Biola has met her indebted ness in full. The Bible Institute o f Los Angeles has existed as an organized Christian work fo r more than twenty-nine years. During this period it has given train ing to more than 15,000 people. Sev eral hundreds o f these have become missionaries, pastors, evangelists, or other full-tim e Christian workers, while nearly all, we believe, have exerted a spiritual influence in the life o f their respective communities. In addition to its American labors, the Bible Institute o f Los Angeles car ries on an extensive mission w ork in China through the Hunan Bible Insti tute, located in the populous Chinese city o f Changsha, in Hunan Province, from which a number o f evangelistic bands radiate, doing house-to-house visitation in the more remote sections o f this teem ing Chinese area. Including Biola’s Chinese work, its correspondence school, and its day and evening schools, it is estimated that more than 1,000 present students and their instructors are among those who are most vitally affected by the Insti tute’s program o f extension. W ork o f Biola
L OOKING to the Lord, the Board o f Trustees o f the Bible Insti- tute o f Los Angeles, after months o f prayer, thought, and planning, have fe lt led to act in faith and to inaugurate a thirty-months’ campaign (2% years) along construc tive lines for the restoration o f Biola’s financial structure and the extension o f its ministry. Taking its title in part from God’s command to the chil dren o f Israel (Ex. 14:15), the BIOLA “ GO FORWARD ” C A M P A I G N is undertaken in implicit trust in Him who delights to accomplish tasks hu manly impossible fo r His own glory. For many years the Institute has been hampered in its work o f training w it nesses fo r home and foreign fields be cause o f lack o f funds and heavy debts. Only a concerted, prayerful effort, in full dependence upon God, will avail to lift this burden. The BIOLA “ GO FORWARD ” CAMPAIGN looks to ward JUNE 1, 1940, as the day on which it may please the Lord to grant the consummation so devoutly wished — an Institute free o f financial encum brances. Day o f Fasting and Prayer Friday, October 1, has been appoint ed as a day o f fasting and prayer, to be observed at the Institute, 558 S. Hope St., Los Angeles. W e are par ticularly eager that every friend o f Biola in this region shall come to this gathering. W e are praying that God may pour forth His Spirit upon this assembly, and that men and women shall go from the meeting dedicated to the cause o f Christ in this place, that the Bible Institute, both as an educational and as a missionary en
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terprise, may become a more and more effective agency for reaching the un saved o f the world. Mass Meeting on October 10 On Sunday, October 10, a mass meet ing is scheduled to be held in the main auditorium fo r the presentation o f the thirty-months’ program to be followed. This campaign will, we hope, be comprehensive, and the plan is that it shall reach every friend o f Biola in the United States. The campaign w ill be carried on (1) by letters from the Institute, (2) by reports, stories, and announce ments in the Institute’s official organ, T he K ing ’ s B usiness , (3) by the e f forts o f the Institute's field force and extension department, and (4) by the formation o f volunteer committees authorized b y the Bible Institute wherever workers are found who will undertake the personal canvass o f the Christian people in their vicinity. How Proceeds W ill Be Used The proceeds o f the campaign will be devoted to fou r specific purposes in the follow ing order: (1 ) To the maintenance and opera tion o f the Institute.
M illion and O ne -H a lf D ollar G oa l Set fo r T w o and O ne -H a lf Y ea r Campaign to Culm inate, the L ord W illing , in G reat Day o f Release, June 1, 1940
co-ordinate the efforts o f the various departments o f the Institute and to organize the benefactions o f its friends in such a way that the economical operation o f the Institute may be as sured fo r the future. It is my desire that each friend o f the Institute shall write me personally, offering any suggestions that may oc cur to him or her fo r the more e f fective prosecution o f this program . W e have a deep conviction that the testimony o f this school is greatly needed in these dark days, and we are convinced that it w ill be greatly to the Lord’s glory when Biola can say to all the world that God in His mercy and faithfulness has led His people to meet His requirements fo r blessing and that every financial obligation has been met. The members o f the Institute’s prayer circle and all other friends are urged to make special supplication that God may mercifully see fit to bless the plan which we feel He has led us to inaugurate. May the whole prayer cir cle join with us in asking that this en terprise may redound to H is glory. Faithfully yours,
Freewill Giving— The Institute’ s Only Resource No adequate endowment fund, no denominational subsidies, support this work which depends from day to day upon the freew ill giving o f God’s peo ple everywhere. A recent survey o f the denomina tional colleges o f the United States granting degrees shows that the Insti tute is offering Christian training at a very much lower expense to the student than does the average denominational school o f collegiate grade. Tuition is absolutely free, the only charge being the hospitalization registration fe e of $10.00 per term. An employment service at Biola is always available to students, who usu ally find part-time employment to pay fo r the low cost o f room and board. There are, however, certain inescap able expenses to the Institute, includ ing the charges fo r the training o f stu dents and fo r the general opération o f the w ork in Los Angeles, its department in China, and associated evangelistic enterprises. Thus, dependent upon the aid o f the L ord’s stewards in carrying this heavy burden, Biola is asking Him to g lorify His own name in the supply o f every need. How Contributions May Be Made Contributions fo r this work may be made by (1 ) Direct G ift (2 ) A 2/2 Year Pledge Payable Monthly (3 ) Bequests or Wills (4 ) Purchase o f Annuities Direct Giving D irect giving is divided into occa sional donations, 2% year pledges, indi
vidual pledges, pledges under the Biola Honor Roll plan (regular monthly con tributions o f any stated amount), and Contract Giving, under which last head may be included the transfer o f property to the Institute, real or personal, during the lifetime o f the donor, in the form of an executed g ift, which passes to the Institute upon the giver’s death. Under this last plan, many have relieved themselves o f the care o f properties while retaining the income during their lifetime. Bequests Under Wills Under the direction o f Elmer J. Peterson as Business Manager, the In stitute maintains a staff o f trained field representatives who are experts in giving advice in estate matters. The Institute’s attorney, Claude A . Watson, will, upon request, prepare w ills or trusts under w ills that adequately will meet the need o f the individual donor. Insured Annuities The Institute is now offering what experience has proved to be the safest form o f money investment on earth in the form o f insured annuities, undér the terms o f which a liberal rate o f inter est is paid during the lifetime o f the annuitant. A ll o f the Institute’s annu ities issued under this provision will be insured by the strongest and safest of -the American life insurance companies, a feature not offered by many institu tions in the United States. Co-ordination o f Efforts The purpose o f the financial cam paign that is about to open will be to
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Biola "G o Forward" Campaign Paul W. Rood, President, The Bible Institute of Los Angeles, Inc.,
558 South Hope Street, Los Angeles, California. Dear Dr. Rood:
I hereby subscribe to the BIOLA " S O FO RW ARD " C A M P A IG N and agree to give □ monthly . □ quarterly * ...................................□ semiannually □ annually for two and one-half years (to be fully paid by June I, 1940), until the total of $ ............. has been paid. I am enclosing $ ............. to apply on this gift and pledge. (Can be paid as addition to existing Honor Roll Pledge if desired.) Name.................................................. Address.................................. ............ ENROLL ME IN THE DIVISION CHECKED Honor Roll □ Friend of Institute □ Present student □ Correspondence student □ Former student □ China donor □
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Around the King’s Table— Paul W . Rood .
The Scroll is the most Sacred thing in the Jewish Synagogue. Christ read His introductory message from the scroll in the Synagogue. Every Bible Student ought to have one o f these miniature scrolls. Our Offer We want you to read The Chosen People, edited by Joseph Hoffman Cohn, son of ExRabbi Leopold Cohn, and considered by many Bible stu dents the most helpful paper on prophecy and the Jew published in America. It gives you inspiring re ports of the world-wide activities of the American Board of Missions to the Jews, Inc. Also, we want you to read the life story of ExRabbi Leopold Cohn, written by himself in a sixty-page booklet—one of the most thrilling stories you have ever read. Jews are really accepting the Lord Jesus Christ. The price of the Scroll is 50 cents, and The Chosen People is 50 cents a year. Mr. Cohn’s autobiography is 30 cents. Send us $1 and we will mail you ALL and enter your name for a year’s subscription for The Chosen People; if not satisfied we’ll return your money without a ques tion. And may we remind you also of the continuous need of our Mission ary undertakings? Our work merits your every confidence. It is a pro gram of world-wide Gospel testi mony to the Jews. Your fellowship in prayer and gift is always wel comed and appreciated. The Chosen People is of course sent to all con tributors.
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Heart Disease I N the Digest of July 31 under the caption “ Science and Medicine,” we read, “ The menace of heart disease is by far the hugest—of all diseases of all time — is, too, speedily waxing.” It is estimated that between 2,000,000 and 5,000,- 000 people in the United States have this disorder. The article goes on to state: “ Of every five white males now living, one will die of this malady,” and it adds, “ Our car diac death rate has more than doubled since 1930 and is likely to double again.” The death of Senator Joseph T . Robinson, which was caused by overstrain, gave Sen ator Copeland, who in private life is a physician, occasion to say: “ Out of this dis aster may come a warning which will fend off other disasters. The menace is here in the chamber today.” Heart disease may be due to any one of many causes, but there is prevalent today a weakness of heart which the Word of God clearly shows will characterize the closing days of the age. We are reminded of the words of our Lord found in Luke 21:26: “Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth.” The context plainly reveals that the Lord Jesus is talking about the time of His return as He describes heart failure caused by fear. Unrest in the world and fear regarding the future have their effect upon the human system, and men’s hearts literally are failing them. But believers are not to give in to this fear. “When these things begin to come to pass,” the Christian is to remember Christ’s command: “Look up, and lift up your heads; for your re demption draweth nigh” (Lk. 21:28). Even apart from the present literal and figurative failure of men’s hearts, we must remember that the whole human race is suf fering from heart disease. “ The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?” (Jer. 17:9). Every child of Adam is included in this indictment. We need to study the first three chapters of the Book of Romans to under stand the desperate condition of the natural man, whether he be Jew or Gentile. There must be first a diagnosis of the disease and a recognition of a need before the remedy can be applied. The Holy Spirit gives the diagnosis through the Word of God. The Holy Spirit also reveals and applies the remedy—the precious blood of the Son of God. As the children of Israel who had been bitten by the serpents were healed by looking, in obedience to God’s command, to the brazen serpent, so we are healed by looking to “the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.” Our Lord re ferred to this Old Testament story in His conversation with Nicodemus: “ And as
Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilder ness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life” (John 3:14, 15). Christ is the Great Physician and the only physician who can cure us of our spiritual heart disease. “ Create in me a clean heart” was the prayer of the Psalm ist, and that prayer was answered. Christ will cleanse and heal the heart of every one who will turn to Him in faith and ac cept Him as a personal Saviour. “ Distress o f Nations, with Perplexity” Spoken by our Lord many centuries ago, the words of our title, found in Luke 21:25, come to our minds with fresh meaning as we read the current newspapers and maga zines. Nations indeed are distressed and perplexed in our day. A civil war has raged in Spain for over a year. A million men have died and two million have been wounded. During the second battle of Madrid, declares the Digest: “Men fought with their fists, knives, airplanes, trench-mortars, armored cars, tanks, machine guns, and pent-up hate.” The same periodical compares the battle with the horrors of the Argonne and the smashing of the Hindenburg Line. Statesmen are concerned lest the flame of war spread and set all of Europe on fire. It is generally recognized that another world war would bring on a universal cataclysm. When General John J. Pershing delivered the address at the dedication of the Meuse-Argonne memorial shaft in France, he sounded this note of warning: “ Hatred and suspicion still exist, and armaments at enormous cost continue to grow. And if no cure is discovered for this temporary madness, we are in a hopeless state, for of one thing we may be certain and that is, if another world war takes place, western civilization as we know it, cannot survive.” Not only is the European situation filled with dynamite, but conditions in the Orient also are fraught with danger to the nations of the world. In the Far East, nations now are arrayed against each other in sharp opposition. In the Near East, Palestine is again in the limelight. The British Gov ernment has expressed approval of a plan proposed by the Palestine Royal Commis sion to give two-thirds of Palestine to the Arabs and one-third to the Jews and to allow Great Britain to have a new perma nent mandate over Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and Nazareth, with a corridor to the sea from Jerusalem. The Jews would receive the coastal regions, which are the produc tive parts of the country and which include most of the area covered by present Jewish colonization. There are now 400,000 Jews
in Palestine, and 100,000 of these came into the country during the last two years. Sixty-nine per cent of this last-mentioned group came from Poland and twenty-seven per cent from Germany. The proposal to partition Palestine does not seem to satisfy the Arabs, and the Jews are protesting vigorously. The latter feel that they are being robbed of their holy places, that the area allotted is woefully inadequate, and that the five million per secuted Jews in east central Europe have no place to turn except to the Holy Land. As one of their leaders put it: “ The soul of the Jewish race hangs in the balance as by a single thread it wavers.” A car toon inspired by this proposed partition of Palestine pictures Zionism as a woman kneeling and weeping at the Wailing Wall. Our Lord has instructed us to “behold the fig tree” (Lk. 21:29)—Israel—and we are obeying Him when we watch develop ments among God’s ancient people. As a matter of fact, Israel’s territorial problem will be solved eventually, for God made a covenant with Abraham, saying: “ Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates” (Gen. 15:18). Thus, in the end, Abraham’s seed will possess a far greater area than Palestine. But Israel is to go through “the time of Jacob’s trouble” (Jer. 30:7) before this goal will be reached. Meanwhile, events seem unpredictable to human wisdom. Raymond Clapper recent ly wrote an article on “The Political Puz zle.” We quote from the article: “If you want to be your own political prophet, now is the ideal time. You have the perfect combination of mate rials with which prophets do their stuff —a variety of possibilities and no cer tainties, or rather just one certainty, which -is that nothing is certain. You can write your own ticket . . . Every one realizes that moorings have broken quite generally and that to a consider able extent the future is in, the hands of unpredictable tides . . . Thus, the closer you look, the less you see.” Mr. Clapper refers to conditions in the United States, but his words have a wider application. His words reveal that men who devote( their time to the study of con temporary history and tp the interpretation of present-day events are frankly perplexed. We need, to know God’s explanation of these occurrences. We need to study pres ent-day trends and conditions in the light that streams from the prophetic Lamp, the “ light that shineth in a dark place” (2 Pet. 1:19). If we do, we shall find that the only solution of the world’s prob lems is the second coming of Christ and that His return is imminent. Thus, “Even so, come, Lord Jesus,” is our prayer.
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Following His Steps By HERBERT LOCKYER Liverpool, England Illustrations by Ransom D . M arvin
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Son of God, He was willing to become the Son of man that He might make the sons of men the sons of God. There you find Him in Bethlehem—the King in disguise. He was born a King, but at the time of His coming what strange surroundings were His! As a King, He must have a palace, and He received a stable. As a King, He must have a throne, and He had it on His mother’s knee. As a King, He must have courtiers, and He had them in the lowly shepherds. Our Lord was willing to humble Himself, to make Himself of no reputation, that He might die as the Sinless Substitute. If we would follow Him, we must begin where our Saviour commenced—to tread the path of lowliness. The Christian life can begin only at the place of the new birth, a place of utter humiliation. We must be stripped of all fancied greatness. T o N azareth From Bethlehem we journey to Nazareth, and, following the steps of the Master, we realize that for Him Nazareth meant patience. We often refer to those thirty years which our Lord spent in Nazareth as the silent years. My friend, if you seem to think the Lord is very slow in pushing you out into what you call Christian serv ice, remember that the Lord Jesus was thirty years preparing for that vital min istry of His of three and one-half years. In Nazareth, you find Him the patient One. He labored at the bench, for was He not a carpenter by trade? Was He not going out into a broken world with power to mend broken lives? Before He entered upon that ministry, he must learn, as a carpenter, to mend broken plows. In that humble home at Nazareth, our Lord had to be patient amid the misunder standings of those who surrounded Him. His mother did not realize the full signif icance of His divine vocation. At the early “Wist ye not that I must be about my age of twelve, He rebuked her, saying:
Father’s business ?” And do we not read that His brothers and His sisters did not believe in Him? He was a mystery to them. As you have it in the Messianic Psalm, He was a stranger unto His brethren, and an alien unto His mother’s children (Psa. 69:8). Still He remained the patient One. He learned obedience by the things which He suffered. Do you find yourself at Nazareth? If so, remember that the Saviour lived there be fore you, and as the Captain of your salva tion He was made perfect through His patient suffering. T o J ordan Following His steps, from Nazareth we go to Jordan, and Jordan stands for endue- ment. At the age of thirty, our Lord turned His back upon His humble home and stepped forth into His ministry. But ere He took up His sacred task, the Holy Spirit came upon Him in peculiar fashion and thereby anointed Him for His mission. The word “Jordan” means “ death,” and our Lord truly died. He died to all thought of reputation, for at Jordan He identified Him self with the sinful race He had come to redeem. For His ministry He required the anointing with the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit had been within the Lord Jesus from the time of His miraculous birth, but it was needful also that the Holy Spirit should come upon Him. At Jordan, the Spirit rested upon Him in the form of a dove, indicating the mission of peace that our Lord was about to enter upon. Have you had a “ Jordan” in your Chris tian experience? Do you know what it is to be anointed with the Holy Spirit for serv ice? God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power, and you can never function as a fruitful branch of the Vine unless you know something of Jordan with its implication of death to self and its enduement with power from on high.
"For even hereunto were ye called: be cause Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps” (1 Pet. 2:21). T HERE is a sense in which following the Lord Jesus is relative. We can not follow Him in respect to His miraculous birth. W e entered the world along the avenue of natural generation. Not so the Lord Jesus. He was “conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary,” and we cannot follow Him there. Neither can we follow Him in respect to His sinlessness. He was “holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens.” We cannot fol low Him in respect to His vicarious suf ferings. The two thieves who endured the same physical agony as the Lord Jesus were dying for their own sin, but the Lord Jesus was dying for the sin of others. Yet there is a sense in which we can follow the actual steps of the Lord Jesus. In his Galatian letter, Paul reminds us that three years after his conversion he went up to Jerusalem and spent fifteen days with Peter, and what wonderful days they must have been 1 What a descriptive guide Peter must have been as he followed the steps of the Lord Jesus and pointed out to Paul the haunts of the Master! They must have been blessed days of fellowship. It is perfectly true that experiences sanc tify places. Some places stand out very prominently in your life and mine because of their happy or sorrowful association. When you come to the life of our blessed Lord, you realize that deep experiences re volve around outstanding places. F ollow H is S teps — to B ethlehem Bethlehem stands for humiliation. Do we realize all that was involved in the incarna tion of our blessed Lord? He humbled Him self, and there you have the commencement of His humiliation. Although He was the
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be ours. Yet, there is a sense in which we must follow Him to Gethsemane, with its submission to the will of God no matter what that will may mean. It is a very costly thing indeed to discover the will of God for our lives and to fulfill that will. T o C alvary From Gethsemane, we go to Calvary, and Calvary stands for death to self. We know that Jesus Christ, the Sinless One, died for sin, and that is the supreme and the central thought of Calvary. But He also died to self. He who had lived utterly for others and for the glory of His Father faced the supreme test on the cross. Said those who taunted Him: “ Save thyself, and come down from the cross.” But because He was unwilling to save Himself, He stayed there. The cross means that for each one of us in spiritual experience. Said Jesus to His disciples: “ If any man will come after mej let him . . . take up his cross, and follow me.” We cannot be His disciples unless we take up the cross. Often we misrepresent the cross to which our Lord referred. If we have some disap pointment, some adversity, some form of sickness, we say, “Well, I suppose this is my cross and I ' must carry it.” But that is not the cross our Lord had in mind when He told His disciples to take up the cross and follow Him. At the cross there was the denial of self. “ If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.” Have we a Calvary? Do we know what it is to die to all self-dependence and,self pride and self-vanity and self-importance? Do we know what it is to reckon ourselves dead indeed unto self as well as unto sin? Are we truly crucified with Christ? Some Christians are very often cross, but cross Christians and Christians of the cross are totally different.. T o the M ount of O lives Then, from Calvary we go to the Mount of Olives. Now the Mount of Olives can stand for many things when you think of our Blessed Lord. First of all, the Mount of Olives stood for solitude. We read that the people retired to their comfortable homes at eventide, but no one had decency enough to offer the Lord Jesus a bed. “The Son of man hath not where to lay his head.” He retired to the Mount of Olives, and with the darkness of the night as His covering, [Continued on page 366]
meant rejection. We see Him there in the so-called Holy City, weeping over the sins of the people, for “He beheld the city, and wept.” He was wounded in the house of His friends. His deepest sorrow came to Him from the Holy City and from the people therein who were religious. Often the worst foes of our spirituality are religious people, carnally minded people, who have little desire for the deep things of life. Jesus came to Jerusalem. Do you find yourself at Jerusalem in spiritual experience? Is it your desire to follow the Lord and to be obedient to the heavenly vision? You discover that the people who grieve and wound you most are those who carry the name of the Lord. T o B ethany Leaving Jerusalem, we find Him journey ing to Bethany, and Bethany in our Lord’s life stands for fellowship. It was the one oasis in His desert. After our Lord turned His back upon His home, we do not read of His ever returning to it. When He wanted spiritual fellowship, a time of rest ing, we discover Him journeying to Bethany to the home of Martha and Mary and Lazarus. There in that home He seemed to find the sympathy and compassion for which His heart hungered. My friend, if God gives you a Jerusalem —and if you are true to Him you will have one—alongside of the Jerusalem experience, there is always the Bethany. There may be those who stab us in the back and who, although they may be religious, reject us because of our allegiance to the Lord; but, thank God, we always have a Bethany to which we can retreat and find the fellow ship for which our hearts yearn. Let us praise Him for the Bethanys we discover amid the rejection that our witness occasions. T o G ethsemane Follow His steps! From Bethany, we journey with Him to Gethsemane, and Gethsemane represents His agony and sub mission to the will of God. The word “ Geth semane” simply means “olive press,” and it was there that our Lord was pressed, even as the olives were crushed. It was there that He came to face the will of God. And He did not accept the will of God reluctantly; we read that He delighted in the will of His Father, although He knew that that will was the cross with all its anguish and shame. Of course, Christ’s Gethsemane will never
I nto the W ilderness From Jordan, we follow the Lord Jesus into the wilderness, which stands for testing and for victory. We would have thought that our Lord would have gone from Jordan into Galilee, there to exercise His miraculous ministry. But no, as we follow His steps, we realize that He went immediately into the wilderness and tarried there for forty days. Was He not about to proclaim deliver ance to captives? Was He not going lo bring, to those who were Satan-possessed, a life of emancipation? If He would deliver men and women out of the snare of the fowler, He must first of all meet the enemy of souls and triumph gloriously over him. So from His Jordan with its enduement, the Lord Jesus went into the wilderness with its testing. You will discover that in spiritual experi ence the wilderness ever comes as a sequence of Jordan. After a time of exalted spiritual privilege, there is often a season of Satanic antagonism. After the dove, the devil; after the benediction of heaven, there comes the battle with evil forces in the wilderness. But our Lord Jesus in the wilderness met the enemy and triumphed and emerged the Con queror. He was willing to be tempted in all points like as we are, and because He won, He is able to make us “more than con querors” in our wilderness.’ T o G alilee From the wilderness, we go to Galilee. He went there, we are told, and the fame of Him spread abroad. There He made manifest His power over sin and power over sickness and power over demons. Galilee stands for service. And will you remember, as you prayerfully seek to emulate the example of the Lord Jesus, that the divine order is never reversed? Jordan— the wilderness—Galilee; the dove—the devil —and then the dynamic. We can never have power in our Galilee unless we know something of the enduement with power at Jordan, and the testing of the wilderness. The word “ Galilee” simply means “circle.” There is a Galilee for each one of us. We each have a Galilee, a circle in which we strive to serve the Lord. And if we would be fruitful there, we must know something of victory over the enemy and the endue ment of the divine Spirit. T o J erusalem From Galilee, we journey with the Lord to Jerusalem. For the Saviour, Jerusalem
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'Always when I came to the name of 'Jesus Christ,' I tried to cover it." of Jesus
A Jew and the Name
By DANIEL ROSE Los Angeles, California Illustrations by Ransom D . M arvin
H a v i n g been born o f G e r man Jewish pa rents who were strictly orthodox and very reli gious, I was con tinually hearing from my school mates such ac c us ati ons and names as “ Christ K i l l e r ’ ’ and “ Sheeney.” My f a t h e r had a
would even refrain from cleaning my teeth at those times for fear of accidentally get ting a drop of water down my throat. Numerous people spoke to me of Christ, but I was always resentful and thought they were demented. I learned long afterwards that these same people were praying for me. God was carrying forward His work of leading me into a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ. My sister Carrie and I married a brother and sister—Charles Menard and his sister Selina. None of us knew the Lord, al though each in his own way was striving to know about Him. We were very world ly—drinking, attending theaters, and con tinually using profanity. It was my habit to go to a questionable theater on Sunday evenings. En route to the theater, I always passed a certain church, from which strains of music floated forth to touch my sinful heart. As time went on, I had a longing to stop in to hear more of the hymns that reached my ears as I passed by. Somehow they seemed to still the tumult within me, and they created within me a longing for something unde fined. Finally, I tossed all objections to the winds, and a Jew entered a Christian church. I loved singing, and I soon found myself joining in the songs; but always when I qame to the name of “Jesus Christ,” I tried to cover it, and would pause while the others sang it, and would then rejoin them. Going to the church soon replaced at tendance at the theater, and worldly things began to be distasteful to me, although they were not given up at once. I found myself disliking profanity, although I could not have explained the cause. T he W itness of “T he N ame ” My sister and her husband then moved to an apartment house in another city, where in a neighboring apartment lived a Hebrew Christian who dearly loved his Lord and had a great burden for souls. He and his wife lost no time in speaking with my sis ter about their Saviour, but she resented
their efforts and began to dislike them be cause of their testimony for Jesus Christ, whom she hated. She avoided them when ever possible. fcut God was,dealing with her. “ How unsearchable are his' judgments, and his ways past finding out!” After a time, my sister had a paralytic stroke that affected her entire body and made speech impossible. The neighbor woman asked her whether she would like to have prayer offered for her. She nodded her head in the affirm ative. The Christian friend and others re tired to' another room, and while they were still upon their knees, God touched my sis ter’s body, and speech returned. Later, these friends continued their visits, reading to her from the Old Testament such passages as Isaiah 7:14; 9:6, and Isaiah, chapter 53, as they used these prophecies to present to her the claims of Jesus Christ. After several weeks, she recognized that the Messiah for whom she and her people waited and mourned was none other than the hated Jesus Christ. She opened her heart to Him and was truly regenerated. She was no longer a Jewess seeking to know more about God, and not a Jewess who had abandoned her own religion to embrace that of the hated enemy to the Jew, but a Jewess who had come into her own and had em braced the only true religion, that of Jesus Christ—the Messiah—the Son of God— Elohim Himself—the Jew of all Jews. Her joy was full, and as the days passed, she learned to know Him—not just about Him. She wrote me a letter telling me of the wonderful change that had come into her life, and she asked my opinion of her ac tion. I lost no time in answering, telling her she was old enough to know what she was doing, but that as for me, I was born a Jew and would die a Jew, and would never change my religion. I also said I had nothing in my heart against her, and I invited her to visit us in our new home. When she came we saw a very definite change in her; among other things she re fused liquor, saying she preferred tea or coffee. I was surprised and puzzled. Within a few days, my sister became
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[Mr. Rose is a business man, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles, and a Hebrew Christian whose testimony for the Lord Jesus Christ has touched hundreds of lives. He is the son of the founder of one of the largest and oldest firms of its kind in the United States, the Rose Exterminator Co., with headquar ters in Chicago and branch offices in thir teen other cities. It is the policy of the firm to employ as branch managers only men of approved Christian character who are active in Christian work. For the choice of other employees also, Christian men are sought. The remarkable business success which the company has enjoyed may be attributed to this determination on the part of Mr. Rose and his associates to honor the Lord in all things .—E ditor .] Because my father was religiously ortho dox, I, too, had a great desire to know more about the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. But it was always knowledge about Him that I sought; I was not learning to know Him. With religious zeal I always observed the fast days and holydays. I Mr. Rose deep hatred for Jesus Christ, and naturally* the name con jured up in my mind all the persecutions of my people for centuries past, and I, too, hated Him. I was tempted to place my finger over His name whenever I saw it in print, so as to avoid reading the hated name.
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lasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life ; but the wrath of God abideth on him” (John 3:36). “Ye must be born again” (John 3:7). T o J ewish R eaders T o the Jewish reader, let me commend God’s Word as follows: “The life of the flesh is in the blood; and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul” (Lev. 17:11). “It is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins” (Heb. 10:4). “Almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission” (Heb. 9:22). Read the eighth, ninth, and tenth chap ters of the Book of Hebrews in the New Testament for clearness on this subject. May the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob open the eye's of every Jew who earnestly seeks to know the truth. He will then learn that the Messiah for whom he longs is none other than the once-hated Christ, who came to earth over 1,900 years ago. Since I have found Jesus Christ to be the Messiah and High Priest, the Saviour who saves His people from their sins, I have had a deep abiding peace which the world cannot give; a joy which cannot be equaled and which nothing can take from me; and, finally, I have the unshakable as surance that when I am called from this earth, I will spend eternity with Him who gave His life that I might have eternal life with Him. Biola’ s World-W ide Prayer Circle “Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes” (Isa. 54:2). Earnestly desirous of enlarging their ministry of intercession for the Bible In stitute of Los Angeles, many members of Biola’s World-Wide Prayer Circle soon will be entering upon a new phase of their service for this school, through forming Bible Institute prayer bands in various communities. Miss Christina J. Braskamp, Secretary of the Prayer Circle, announces the following plans for the development of prayer groups: “Whoever is able to join with one or more in prayer for the Bible Institute reg ularly each month, is requested to send in the name of the leader, time, and place of meeting (city and state), and the names and addresses of the number present at each prayer meeting. “ Prayer requests from each Bible In stitute Prayer Group will be sent to all other prayer groups organized. Causes for praise for the blessings which come to the Bible Institute, as well as the needs for the work, will be made known regularly to the prayer groups. “T he K ing ’ s B usiness will endeavor to announce the leaders, time, and place of these prayer groups, that other friends in the localities may communicate with the leaders.” The information concerning these groups is to be addressed to Miss Braskamp at 558 S. Hope St., Los Angeles, Calif.
down into the waters of baptism. Thereby we were confessing to all who saw, that we had died and arisen with Christ. A ssurance in the N ame of J esus C hrist Almost three years have passed now since my beloved wife and sister have passed on to meet their Saviour—one preceding the other only a few months. Although I have the natural sorrow of losing the earthly companionship of my beloved ones, I know that we shall be reunited in His blessed presence, and shall never be parted again. We shall sing His praises forever, as only redeemed sinners can. No more is there the hopeless wailing of the Jew, who has no hope of ever seeing his loved ones again; that hopelessness has been replaced by the assurance of reunion. I have failed my Lord often during the past thirty-eight years, but my Lord has never failed me, and I have assurance of
very ill. I loved her dearly, -and I had the Jew’s fear and horror of death. The doctor gave me no hope, and I planned to sell my home as soon as she was gone, for I would never live in it again after she passed on. Having lost hope, I went to her bedside. She was very weak and could not speak above a whisper, but she was humming a a hymn. Singing—while dying! What a revelation to me! I said, “ Carrie, is there anything I can do for you?” " She whispered, “Brother, if you will get down on your knees beside my bed and ac cept my Messiah, Jesus Christ, as your Saviour, God will raise me up.” The words were as startling as a thun derbolt, but I would have done anything to save her life. I dropped to my knees and in my own feeble way offered my first faltering prayer. I told Him I accepted Him, but at that time it was not a sincere, whole-hearted offer. However, God heard and understood, and He continued His wondrous work. Within ten days,, my sister was up again — a miracle of God. She would lay one hand on my wife’s shoulder, the other on mine, and present to us the claims of Christ from the Old Testament—our own Jewish Bible. I was not yet saved, but under such deep conviction that I begged her to dis continue, as I could neither eat nor sleep. The old Jewish customs and traditions die hard, and it is not easy to turn from a background of centuries of bitter hatred for an alleged imposter, and at once to ac cept Him as God Himself, and to love and worship Him as God. C alling to G od in “T he N ame ” After about ten days of suffering the tor tures of Hades, I finally reached the point of saying to myself, in desperation, “ I must do something—either accept Christ, or re ject Him. I can’t remain neutral.” I went into my room, closed the door, dropped to my knees, and said, “ Oh, God, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, I want to know the truth. If Jesus Christ is. Your Son and my Messiah, I will accept Him, but show me the Truth!” Like a flash, God’s Spirit bore witness with my spirit, and the truth was borne upon me with deep conviction that Jesus Christ truly is the Messiah for whom every faithful Jew waits, and I accepted Him then as my Saviour from the penalty of all my hated sins. The floodgates broke, and my soul was released from hell! I arose shouting, and praising His name. The bands of sin had been snapped asunder, and I was born into the kingdom of God— one of His children—no longer a tool of Satan and a slave to sin. I was free— for ever free— from the penalty of death: “ For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord” (Rom. 6:23). For years the Gift had been awaiting me, and I had turned my back upon it. * * # That was thirty-eight years ago. My w ife saw the light soon afterwards, and my joy was full when she accepted her Messiah. My sister’s husband also accepted Christ as his Saviour, and in June of 1899, we four redeemed children of God went
"1 was free— forever free— from the penalty of death. . . . For years the Gift had been awaiting me." forgiveness for all errors because He has said in His W ord: “ If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteous ness” (1 John 1:9). Those of you who read this, whether Jew or Gentile, if you are still unregenerated, heed the call of G od: “ All have sinned, and come short of the glory of God” (Rom. 3:23). “There is none righteous, no, not one” (Rom. 3:10). “All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned evary one to his own way” (Isa. 53:6). “Him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out” (John 6:37). “Be ye therefore perfect [ ‘be ye becom ing perfect’—Greek form], even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect” (Matt. 5:48). “What must I do to be saved? . . . Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved” (Acts 16:30, 31). “He that believeth on the Son hath ever-
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By W. D. HERRSTROM Findlay, Ohio
T HERE is movement in the musty graveclothes of an ancient empire. A resurrection miracle is taking place before our eyes. Our hearts are thrilled as we observe the setting of the stage for the fulfillment of prophecies ut tered more than two millenniums ago by holy men of God. F oreto ld b y t h e P ro ph e ts Looking through God’s prophetic tele scope, Daniel observed the course of em pires. He saw great Babylon stripped of her glory. He saw Medo-Persia arise with the power and ponderosity of the bear. He saw her crushed by the power of Alexander who swept over the world with the light ning swiftness of a leopard. He saw the disintegration and collapse of the Grecian Empire. He saw the Roman Empire arise like a terrible beast crushing all foes with her great iron teeth. He saw “Messiah” being “cut off”— Christ nailed to a Roman cross. He saw the Roman Empire plunge to her death. He saw the nations rush madly on toward the end of the age. He saw dictators arise. He saw “the beast.” He saw the resurrection of the Roman Em pire and its final collapse. He saw Christ coming in glory to establish a kingdom that shall never be destroyed. Hundreds of years later, John, the be loved apostle, corroborated the prophecies of Daniel. The God of heaven swung wide the pearly portals of the celestial city and gave John a glimpse of glory and of the future course of empires. John saw the resurrection of the empire represented by the fourth beast. He saw the rise of an emperor who would be Satan incarnate and who would subdue the earth. He saw this usurper dethroned by the coming King of kings. He saw the establishment of the Lord’s kingdom on the earth. A M a r v e l o u s T r a n sf o r m a t io n in I t a l y Through the grace and goodness and guidance of God, the writer was privileged recently to visit much of the territory for merly occupied by the old Roman Empire. During part of that journey, we traveled the length and breadth of the land of Italy—a country considerably smaller than the state of California—spending much of the time [As a Bible teacher, evangelist, and au thor of the "Bible Blue Books” and other books on Biblical and prophetic subjects, Dr. Herrstrom is well known to many K in g ’ s B u sin ess readers. The present article takes the place of one promised earlier entitled “Heading Toward International Suicide.” — E ditor .]
in the larger cities, Naples, Rome, Venice, Florence, and Milan. We witnessed developments in what, is probably the most rapid and complete transforma tion that ever has been wrought in any nation. The people of Italy have bored through the mountains, ex alted the valleys, and built the best of modern railways and highways. The Ghetto and slum sections of Rome have been razed to the ground. Beautiful boule vards and parkways take the place of streets that formerly were narrow and dark. Dilapidated, ram shackle structures have been
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A SLOG AN FOR ITALY'S YOUTH "Believe, obey, fight" is the ideal here set for these lads of the tiny mountain town of Capalbio, Italy, as they line up under one of the Mussolini propaganda signs.
replaced with modern business buildings and apartment houses. This transforma tion is found not only in Rome but in all of Italy as well. In Milan, the great manufacturing center of Italy, entire sec tions of the city have been rebuilt. Block after block of modern apartment buildings, some of them ten stories high, are under construction. E f f e c t o n t h e P eople No longer are the people of Italy wor shiping at the shrine of an ancient glory. They have awakened suddenly to build a new nation— a new empire, and to make it exceed the glory of the former empire. Begging has been abolished by law. Un employment is not in evidence. Crime is practically unknown. There is perfect order everywhere. The people are well fed, well clothed, and well housed. They are neat, clean, congenial, courteous, hospitable, ag gressive, and ambitious. They walk erect with the dignity of royalty and with the confident step of an army that is certain of victory. One can easily discern that the people are inspired, stimulated, and electri fied by the mighty force of the personality of their dynamic and resourceful leader, Mussolini. R e g im e n t a t io n Regimentation is always a characteristic of dictatorship. The boys of Italy from six years of age and upward are being trained for war. Saturday afternoon is the principal time set aside for their train ing. In Venice one Saturday afternoon we saw a huge army of small boys marching in uniform. The girls six years of age and older must submit to a course of train ing which consists mainly of calisthenics. The nation is under military discipline,
Secret service men are everywhere. The people dare not criticise Mussolini or his policies. The penalty for such criticism may be permanent banishment from the country, or a penalty even more severe. M u sso lin i Mussolini is a superstrategist, and with out a doubt the world’s most powerful and influential political and military leader. When Mussolini speaks, Europe trembles and the League o f Nations cowers with fear. He not only rules Italy and her pos sessions, but there is a sense in which he rules the Mediterranean and Europe as well. Before making any important move, the nations ask, “What will be Mussolini’s reaction to this?” They recognize that his power is great. C o m m u n is m C r e a te d F ascism When Mussolini marched into Rome with his Black Shirts in 1922, Italy was on the verge of collapse because of the subversive propaganda of the Communists who were successfully arraying the workingmen against their employers. The Communists were flying the Red flag over the Fiat motor works and other great factories in Italy. There was confusion and disorder everywhere. Had not Mussolini taken the reins of power when he did, Italy no doubt would have succumbed to Communism, and probably by this time most of Europe would have been under the dictatorship of “Red” Russia. However, the laws of self-preser vation operated and produced Fascism to stem the tide of radicalism. Naziism in Germany arose in the same manner. The German government was threatened with being overthrown by the [ Continued on page 358]
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