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June 1928
are indebted for the progress made in civilization, and' to this we must look as our guide in the future.—Ulysses S. Grant. — o — It was for the love o f the truths o f this great and good Book that our fathers abandoned their native shore for the wil derness. Animated by its lofty principles, they toiled and suffered till the desert blossomed as the roseT-Zachary Taylor. The first and almost the only book de serving o f universal attention is the Bible. I speak as a man of the world' to men of the world, and I say to you, “ Search the Scriptures,” . . . The earlier my chil dren begin to read it the more confident will be my hopes that they will prove useful citizens o f their country and re spectable members o f society. — John Quincy Adams. moonlight seemed to a boy kneeling at his bedroom window, dreaming dreams that would not let him go, while all the world seemed asleep and careless o f the beauty that was almost like pain. Another is o f the illimitable number o f the stars when one stood where the whole o f the heavens, not just a fragment o f them, could be seen—-stars without number, stars big and little, bright and dim, but each radioing the message, “ There is, there is something more to life than there seems to b e; keep your eyes on us.” And now we are shutting out the stars, build ing ourselves cities where the millions gather and the garishness o f noonday floods the streets and banishes the kindly, whispering dark, so that no eye can pene trate to the great spaces where troop the stars, or see them in their marching. This is bitter loss; none the less so be cause so many do not know it. The flower may not be conscious of the dry ness creeping about its roots, but it fades. The soul may not miss the sprinkling of the dust from the stars, but something that has no other source is gone—a something that inspires, that conceives dreams, that whispers, “ Never be satis fied.” “ It is no small damage that we city folk lose the stars,” says a metro politan editorial writer. Can it be en tirely accident that the birthplace of great ideas have been so largely spots where skies are clear? Would those somber, glorious figures o f the Hebrew prophets have held the world’s thoughts for nearly thirty centuries so largely in their fingers if the high hills o f Palestine had been forever overcast with clouds? Does the question mean anything to you? Does it remind you that the stars are still there, and the everlasting hills, with their call ing, their consolation, their content? “No country boy,” says the writer just quoted, “ stepping out o f doors on a clear night can miss the knowledge of other worlds than ours.” It is good knowledge to have, and as, this month, we stand night after night where the stars seem very close, we shall hope that you too are wondering about the purposes o f God, and why the Hand that is and holds Beauty should give and withhold not.— Wm. Frederick Bigelow. Shutting Out the Stars 'TP HERE are some things one never for gets. One o f them is how white the
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Apologies to Mr. Knoch The Concordant Version o f the Scrip tures by A. E. Knoch of Los Angeles,’: was reviewed in our April issue by Rev.' Ivan Panin, himself a very careful student of the Hebrew and Greek, and a translator. Mr. Panin has had a reputation for being very exacting and the possibility o f his misquoting Mr. Knoch did not occur to us. Unfortunately Mr. Panin attempted to quote from memory, making the trans lator say “ Good were, it for Judas if the Lord had never been born.” This trans lation was used by Mr. Panin as an illus tration o f the biased translations o f Mr. Knoch, and' hence his general unreliabil ity as a translator. It now appears that Mr. Knoch gave no such rendering and Mr. Panin frankly admits his error. Mr. Knoch declares that he has never taught that it would have been good for Judas if the Lord had never been born, but the very opposite. Naturally he feels in tensely the stigma Mr. Panin’s assertion has attached to him, and the editors of this magazine exceedingly regret the in justice done him. We seek to be fair in our book reviews and would not for the world have done Mr. Knoch such an in jury. While we do not hold with Mr. Knoch in some important points, we believe his version has its valuable features. Like all other such versions, it should be used with caution.:: After re-reading Mr. Panin’s review we deplore its general spirit, which is for eign to the atmosphere of T he K ing ’ s B usiness . , In the multitude o f words upon which an editor must pass, it' seems difficult at times to avoid the entrance of statements not in keeping with our policy. Mr. Knoch assures us he has not made his translation in the interests o f univer- salistic teachings, and if Mr. Panin can show that he has, he will gladly correct them. The editors of this paper certainly do not wish to attribute unworthy motives to Mr. Knoch. If other papers have copied Mr. Panin’s review from his paper ( “Numerics” ) we trust that these 1 editors will follow us in pointing out Mr. Panin’s error.—Editor. Those who have enjoyed the writings of Mr. Brooks will, we believe, pronounce this his classic. It will be difficult to find anywhere, within the compass of a book of this size, so clear and satisfying a testi mony to the Person and work of our Lord Jesus Christ. Christ is revealed in 21 chapters as Inexhaustible, Incomparable, Infinite, Incarnate, Infallible, Immaculate, Immolated, Immortal, Ideal, Invisible, Interceding, Immutable, Indestructible, In fluential, Illustrious, Imperial, Inevitable, Irresistible, Indwelling, Indispensable, and finally as “The I AM,” Ministers who desire to give a series o f sermons upon the, subject of our Lord, will find a veritable store o f suggestive material here, and all believers who read these fascinat ing chapters, printed in a beautiful large- face type, will know that their souls have been fed. Dr. W . E. Blackstone, author Who Is the Great I Am? By K eith L. B rooks
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