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April, 1939
T H E K I N G ' S B U S I N E S S
Around the King's Table E D I T O R I A L
Mission to the Migrants In the broad valleys of California is to be found one of the most challenging miS' sion fields of the world. More than a million indigent migrants are making their homes in the Sacramento, San Joaquin, and Imperial valleys. According to state and federal authorities, another million persons are on their way from the stricken farm areas of the Middle West and the Southwest At present the state has set up some thirty-nine camps in an effort to care for this grave situation. But these camps house a very small portion of the great multitude of homeless and jobless people who are living in disorganized poverty and squalor. Here is a great opportunity for an evan gelistic mission. So far as can be ascer tained, nothing is being done to care for the spiritual needs of this great company of people. T o meet this need, We believe the Lord has given a vision to the leaders of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles. The Institute will conduct what is being called a " Mission to Migrants ." For this mission the school has available twenty-seven young men who have volunteered to devote their three vacation months for service in this needy field. Theirs will be a strictly evangelistic endeavor. The object of the mission will be to conduct Bible classes in the mornings and Child Evangelism classes in the afternoons. The evenings are to be given over to old-fashioned gospel meetings, and the whole program will be augmented by personal evangelism and tract distribution. A mission of this kind not only will serve as a great evangelistic and missionary enterprise to meet the spiritual needs of these shepherdless people, but it also will present by its very nature a strong antidote to the radicalism so destructive to the re ligious and political liberties of our nation. A Child’s Head and a Mother’s Heart "When you put your hand on a child’s head, you put it on a mother's heart." The thoughtful hand, so laid, does more. It not only reaches the mother's heart and glad dens her because of some one's thoughtful attention, but it also reaches the child's heart Great are the consequences of little things, and this little act of thoughtful friendliness to a child may change the course of a whole life. If we would pay more attention to our children and our youth, they would pay more attention to us. Genuine interest in them will give us entrance into their affec tions and attentions. They then will listen gladly when we speak to them about the Lord and about life. They will come to see Christianity as something more them a cold creed full of precepts. It will become a thing of life as they see Christ alive in us. With the spring and summer upon us, the children will be out in the great out- of-doors. W e will pass them on the street emd see them at their play. Let us remem
ber that we were once as they are, and let us consider that they will soon be as we are. They are our greatest responsibility. By a practiced Christianity let us do some preventive evangelism and win them to Christ W e will not then have need of cor rective evangelism to save them out of crime. Ours is a great privilege. Color or Character In the January 9 issue of Time maga zine, mention was made of the apparently increasing racial discrimination now current in our national life. The article referred to one of Chicago’s Negro pastors who had received, by mistake, invitations to join a certain club. The stationery explained that the club is for “white persons only.” The inference of superiority was in the color of the race. The pastor was so disturbed The many friends of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles and the Church of the Open Door will rejoice to learn of the rich blessing that is resting upon the min istry of Roy L. Laurin, recently elected Vice-President of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles and Associate Pastor of the Church of the Open Door. Through the gracious working of the Holy Spirit, Mr. Laurin’s sound, fervent preaching of the gospel and teaching of the Word each Sunday morning and evening have been a source of rich blessing to the three thousand people who hear him at the church services. Not only has the spirit ual life of believers been deepened, but also many unbelievers have been brought to a saving knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ and have made public confession of Him at the close of the services. As Vice-President of the Institute, Mr. Lau rin has been used of God in making a spiritual contribution to faculty and stu dent body alike. It now gives me great plestsure to an nounce to our Institute family that at a recent meeting of the Board of Trustees, Mr. Laurin was appointed to the newly added office of Associate Editor of THE KING’S BUSINESS. Strengthened by his coming, the editorial staff continues as heretofore. This appointment will give our friends who live outside Southern California an opportunity to share in the blessing of Mr. Laurin’s ministry as it will go forth through the pages of this magazine. We feel confident that the Biola family will remember our brother very definitely in prayer as he serves in this threefold capacity in relation to the Institute, the church, and the magazine. Roy L. Laurin’s Call to a Threefold Ministry
that he wrote to the promoters and said: “Check your mailing list and remove my name so I will not receive any more such trash and insults. You have the nerve to say ‘white persons only’ as though being white was a badge of honor. “The enclosed picture of Mary Schuch from the Herald and Examiner is a white person. So was Dillinger and F. Donald Coster who wrecked the 80-million dollar McKesson drug chain recently. “Capone is white; so is ‘Machine Gun’ Kelly . . . In fact all the notorious and world renowned crooks whom I know are white. "Yet, you have the nerve to hold up ‘race’ as a means of evaluating personality.” W e applaud the rebuke as a justifiable reminder that character and not color is the true gauge of man. W e go further than even this evaluation to remind citizens of this nation that it is not race but regenera tion that is of paramount importance. .No matter what the color or the cultural qual ity, human character may be as beautiful as the tracery of frost crystals on a winter’s windowpane; but it is dead to God. What we need is life by the regenerating process of the new birth. This new birth comes by faith and grace through Jesus Christ. In this life there is an elimination of all the castes and strata of society. "There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus” (Gal. 3:28). There are no racial distinctions, no social distinc tions, and no sexual distinctions. It is a new order of society and a new civiliza tion destined to inherit the earth. “You’d Be Surprised” The above caption was the arresting title of a religious news item in Time on Janu ary 30, 1939. Scant notice should be given to what is a bizarre attempt of a university professor to rewrite the Bible into street vernacular, were it not for deeper implications involved. When Ptolemy II assembled seventy-two Hebrew scholars at the great Alexan drian library and the Septuagint Version resulted, there followed an ever-recurring habit on the part of scholars to "translate" the Scriptures. And now the latest is from the hands of a professor who is not even a theologian but claims as his special cre dential the gifts of a linguist. This literary colossus paraphrases the word “gospel” with this literary monstros ity: “You’d be surprised." The author jus tifies his translation by saying, “The orig inal ‘you’d be surprised’s’ were written as news flashes in slangy Hellenistic Greek and Aramaic.” In keeping with this bold type of paraphrase, other expressions are ■[Continued on page 141 ]
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