February 28, after an illness of about six months. Dr. MacArthur, greatly beloved in Southern California, was for many years associated with the ministry of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles. In the early days of Biola, Dr. Mac Arthur was greatly interested in boys work and organized scores of boys clubs in the Southern California area. Later, he became pastor of the Fountain Ave nue Baptist Church in Los Angeles and more recently of the Eagle Rock Baptist church. Dr. MacArthur’s influence in the past five or six years has been greatly widened as he with his son, Dr. John MacArthur, broadcast a widely heard radio program called “ The Voice of Calvary.” Mercy Killing A S this issue of the King’s Business goes to press the newspapers are reporting the euthanian trial in New England. Euthana is a transliterated word from the Greek meaning a good or easy death and has been applied to cases where hopelessly ill people have been painlessly delivered from their sufferings. There is quite a divergence of opinion on this matter, as one would naturally expect, due to the fact that suffering is not only hard to endure but hard to behold. Oftentimes it seems not only the humane thing to do, but also the blameless thing to relieve a sufferer from his agony. However, this is not, nor can it ever be a subject for debate. God himself is the master of life and death, and while it is true that in order to preserve society God has delegated to organized government the right to take life for crime (Genesis 9:6) it is not true that God has given to either society or the individual the right to terminate life because of pain or suffer ing. By very little stretch of imagina tion one could conceive the limits to which such permission would go. Before life could be taken who would be the judge of the incurability of the disease, and who is there to say that God could not step in at any time and by His almighty power touch the broken body and make it every whit whole? The depth of human suffering may scream for the release of death, but such death can never be anything else than murder. Sickness, sufferings, pain and tears all stem from the common root of sin and unrighteousness. Thank God, those who know the Lord Jesus Christ as Saviour can look forward to the time when all these things shall be at an end, for Heaven will know none of these things. Rather, in God’s pres ence there will be fullness of joy, and at His right hand pleasures for ever more. New Testament Giving T HERE is a noticeable lack of under standing on the part of many of God’s children with reference to prin ciples of giving under the Dispensation of Grace. Far too many Christian people are still laboring under the old cove- TH E K I N G ' S B U S I N E S S
overwhelming evidence, both circum stantial and logical. Many explanatory theories have been adduced to detract from the point of the story, but each of these theories is shown both to be false and untenable in the light of the sane evidence presented. The lives of Christian people would be stronger and their testimony more powerful if they followed the angel’s dual message, and both came and beheld and went forth to tell. May we suggest at this glad sea son a prayerful, unhurried review of the four-fold account of the resurrection story. Dr. Talbot’s Itinerary R EADERS of these columns will remember that Dr. Louis T. Talbot, who is the President of the Bible Insti tute of Los Angeles, returned early in January from a four-months trip round-the-world in which he visited the various mission fields where Bible Insti tute students are now serving Christ. Dr. Talbot brought back with him some 15,000 feet of colored motion pictures which have subsequently been made into 45-minute films such as, “ I Saw Japan,” “ I Saw Borneo,” “ I Saw India” and others, portraying his visit to the vari ous countries. At the request of literally hundreds of churches and pastors, Dr. Talbot, begins a three-months itinerary to Northern California, Oregon and Wash ington on April 15. Some of the cities which Dr. Talbot will visit first include Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Paso Robles, Monterey, Santa Cruz, San Jose, San Mateo. Later on in the summer he will speak and show pictures in the Bay Area and then move on into the cities of Northern California, Oregon, and Washington. It is suggested that pastors who are interested in having Dr. Talbot come to their communities endeavor to promote a united meeting, securing an adequate auditorium. Meetings which have been held in Southern California have demonstrated the interest of Christian people in present-day missions. All inquiries should be addressed to the Extension Department, Bible Institute of Los Angeles, 558 S. Hope St., Los Angeles 17. Dr. Harry H. MacArthur A NOTHER one of God’s choice serv ants, Dr. Harry H. MacArthur, went to be with his Lord on Tuesday,
Coming Prophetic Series W E are very happy to announce that our good friend and brother, Dr. Louis S. Bauman, for many years the beloved pastor of the First Brethren Church of Long Beach and now pastor of the First Brethren Church of Wash ington, D. C., will present a series of timely studies on prophecy in relation to present-day events. Dr. Bauman has long been recognized as a foremost teacher of the prophetic Word, and God has given to him special insight into the relationship of world happenings with the prophetic portions of the Scriptures; We count ourselves indeed fortunate to have this series of opportune articles from the pen of Dr. Bauman. Beginning with the June issue and continuing through the December issue the following subjects will be pre sented: “ The Hydrogen Bomb” , “ The Death Rattle of Our Age” , “ The Rus sian Bear Prowls Forth to His Doom” , “ Israel Lives Again”, “ The Harlot Mounts the Beast” , “ The Nations Ma neuvering for Armageddon” , “ The Im pending World-State”. Easter’s Two-Fold, Message N EVER underestimate the value of the resurrection message. As God’s standard for power in the Old Testa ment was His ability to lead the children of Israel out of Egypt and to the prom ised land (Ex. 20:2), so His standard of power in the New Testament is His ability to raise Christ from the dead (Eph. 1:20). It is a real blow to the spiritual health and well-being of God’s children that in many churches there is but one resur rection sermon preached each year, whereas God has intended that every Lord’s Day should be a joyful reminder that this same Jesus who died for us on Calvary’s tree, after three days rose gloriously from the tomb. God has desired that we examine minutely to our entire satisfaction the amount of factual material that sur rounds this unique event. You will remember that on the first Easter morning the angels were chosen to present the glad news. Their message was two-fold. First, “ Come and see” , then, “ Go and tell.” The story of the resurrection in itself being a most amaz ing phenomenon, instead of fearing in vestigation, welcomes it. At every point in the story God seems to have placed Page Four
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