T H E K I N G ' S B U S I N E S S
December, 1938
WALTER D. KALLENBACH Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania
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fact in blood transfusions that Group B blood can n ot be given to an individual in Group O un der any conditions. If you had Group O blood, and they gave you a transfusion with Group B blood, you would soon be dead. No doctor could have ' helped you in the least. Yet here were mothers and ch ild ren , the mother having Group B blood and the child Group O. The research workers realized there was something wrong with their embryology. The scientists began to make studies and researches, and one day as one of the great embryol ogists was sitting at his break fast table, breaking open a soft- boiled egg, he exclaimed, “I see it! I see it!” He knew
blood of my blood.” Many times they have said, “Blood is thicker than water, and this child is born with my blood.” Today it is a definite scientific fact that children are not born with the mother’s blood. It is true that a mother furnishes blood for nurture and aeration from the nidus through the placenta, but the blood of the mother does not enter into the blood stream of the child. There has been a great deal of research work done in the field of syphilis. As med ical men have gone into this research work in order to stamp out syphilis, they have had to deal with the blood stream, because
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in death they serve the functions of the body. L ife is in the blood. As we turn to the Lord Jesus Christ, we see how His blood cleanses. The blood of the Lord Jesus Christ cleanses you from the germ sin, which diseases your life. "For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord” (Rom. 6:23). Sin brings eternal spiritual death, and the blood of Christ cleanses that sin. That which is sinful, that which causes death, is done away with by the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. Blood not only cleanses, but also nur tures; it gives strength and flexibility. Why is your skin flexible? It is the blood that fills the cells and nerve tissues and keeps your skin flexible. In 1 John 1:9 it is said: "If ivr confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all un righteousness.” Even after their initial salvation, Chris tians experience a continual process of strengthening and cleansing and nurturing. Some of you Christians need to put your wrong conceptions, some of your habits, your sinfulness and failures under the power of the blood. You will never have real strength and power until you are ready to let the power of the blood be effective in .your life in its fullness. Power in the Blood Many of you do not understand the power of the blood. You say, "Why do you have to speak about it so much?” It is repulsive to you. I used to think it was repulsive when I was an atheist. All the talk about the blood sounded like some bacchic cult. I thought some of the hymns about the blood were terrible. I detested them every time I heard them. But when I [C ontinued on p a g e 413]
that the blood did not go through that shell. He knew that when an egg was viewed un-- der a miscroscope, there were no signs of blood on the first day. He knew that on the second and third and fourth and fifth days there were no signs of blood. He also knew that on the sixth day blood spots began to appear. He knew that on the tenth day the shape of the embryo could be seen as it be gan to take on lines. Men realized that here was a truth of nature. They realized that every embryo generates its own blood. As the embryo is carried in the mother’s womb, the mother does not give the child blood, but the child generates its own blood. The Lord Jesus Christ was born of the Virgin Mary, conceived of the Holy Ghost. Did she give her blood to Him? Her blood nurtured and aerated His body, but His blood was generated as an embryo. It was a unique generation. It was a unique blood. It was a blood that was efficacious on Cal vary’s cross. Cleansing by the Blood What is the purpose of the blood? What is the function of the blood? As your blood functions, it has a very definite purpose. It sustains life, because your blood not only nurtures and aerates, but it cleanses as well. The main purpose of blood is to cleanse. In your blood stream are three kinds of little warriors, which we call the lymphocytes, the leucocytes, and the phagocytes. Their purpose is to cleanse. If it were not for these little warriors, you would die in a very few days, because bacteria capable of producing disease frequently gain access to the blood stream. They would gain control, and death from disease would follow soon were it not for these little warriors that cleanse the blood stream. Not only do they serve you in living by killing and destroy ing germs, but as they die they go to the region of the pancreas and liver, and even
and Message Later, wholly blinded as a result of a hunting accident, he responded to God’s offer of salvation and was marvelously converted. He proceeded with his studies and earned university expenses by tutor ing the students who read their lessons— and his—to him in preparation for exam inations. In spite of great handicaps, he was graduated from the University of Virginia with Phi Beta Kappa honors. He later earned Ph.D. and Th.D. degrees. It is with this background of Christian experience and study that Or. Kallen- bach devotes himself to bringing in an ar resting manner the old, old story of the incarnation and death and resurrection of the Son of God. * it ☆ * , ☆ , ☆ ☆ * . -fc * the syphilitic germ is one that lives in the blood stream. For experimental investigation, every mother that was confined in certain hos pitals was given a blood test. As medical men took these tests of the mothers just be fore the children were born, and took tests of the children after birth, they were amaz ed at some of the things they discovered. They did not think much about it at first when in taking these tests they found dis crepancies. V?hcn they found a mother having Group O blood and a child with Group A blood, or a mother having Group B blood and a child Group AB blood, they did not think much about that fact. They considered it a freak of nature. When there were children and mothers, a child having Group O blood and the mother Group B, they were concerned, because it is a known
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