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EDITORIALS Christ Preeminent.......... ,.................. ....... ¿; ....... . 5 New Year’s Boasters and Believers..........— 5 Remember Jesus Christ........................................... 6 Why Did He Die?.............................................. 6 The Savior’s Sigh...:................................................. 7 Re-crucifying Christ ................. 8 Reflectors of Christ ,......... 8 Editorial Flashlights ..................................................9 sfc * * ARTICLES The Name Above All Names —By Rev. Bob Shuler..... ................................ ....11 The Moral Glories of Christ^Bv. E. Vine........... 12 Christ, Our Passover.:............ ............................ .....13 The Cleansing BloodS-From “Life of Faith”........14 Modern View of Christ—K. L. B..........................15 Christ, Our True Refuge—Rev. Britton Ross; -....17 The Resources of ChristB-W. G. Radley___........ .18 Christ and a Pagan Mystic—J. M. M.................... 19 The Hand of Jesus Christ—Henry O a k l e y . . ...21 The Appearings of Christ gg -Evang . Fred J. Meldau................................... 22 The Moral Reach of Christ—Dr. Joseph Parker....26 Bible Reading for 1928—George T. B. Davis....... 62 * * * REGULAR DEPARTMENTS Gospel Solo—Mrs. Jessie F. Moser and K. L. B.....10 Stories of Enduring Hymns.....................-.............23 Passages that Perplex-^-K. L. B.......... ............. ---24 Heart to Heart with Young Readers.................... .25 B. B. B. B. Page................... ............... ...... .............27 Finest of the Wheat.................................................29 Junior King’s Business—-Orah G. Brooks.............33 International Sunday School Lessons.................. .35 Biola Table Chat—Albert E. Kelly...... ................ 46 Notes on C. E. Topics -Alan S. Pearce...............48 Literature Table .... ,......... ........................ -..............50 Illustrated Daily Texts............:................... ............55
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Christ Preem inent HIS is the “Christ Preeminent Number” of T h e K in g ’ s B u sin e s s . We could conceive of no better way to start the New Year than to give over our entire magazine to the one topic of His Person and work. As we come to our readers January 1, 1928, the highest New Year’s wish that we can make for each one is that he may know the joy of giving Him the preeminence in all things. We are more than ever convinced that as editors, we have no greater message to present than that of Christ and the doctrine of Christ. We were never more tired of con troversy and we never felt so strongly that the supreme need of the world and the church is Christ Himself. We, therefore, take Cpl. 1 :18 as our K ing ’ s B usiness motto for 1928, and ask our readers to pray, that in every issue,
doctrine which He had imparted to them. Again, if it is meant that we must “get back to Jesus” in the sense of discarding the teachings of the Church Epistles, we are reminded that Jesus Himself points to the further revela tion of Christian truth which during His lifetime His disciples had been unable to hear. Our safeguard today is to be found in the personal knowledge and experience of Christ in all His fulness — teaching, crucified, risen, interceding, empowering, com ing again. Those who open wide the heart to Him and to His counsels, will surely be able to testify with Wesley: “Thou, O Christ, art all I want—a |8 More than all in Thee I find.”
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T HE man who makes a lot of New Year’s resolutions in his own strength is going to need a repair-kit with him every hour of the day. The wise man is he who makes his New Year’s Day a day of better believing rather than more boasting. Romaine’s New Year wish for his people was: “God grant that this may be a year famous for believing.” It is faith that links the soul with God. No amount of confidence in one’s self can fake the place of faith in God. It is foolish to cast the anchor into the hold of the ship. Let the anchor of your faith grapple anew the promises of God and you will be held steady on the rolling years. A devoted Christian man, when dying, said: “My last act
we may so exa lt, Him as to draw many to a more vital ex perience of His saving and sanctifying power. Two strange theories are abroad in Christendom today. One is that men may be Chris-, tian without Christ. A Los Angeles preacher recently de voted a sermon to proving that Voltaire was a real Christian without Christ. Dr. Fosdick is telling us that religion, reduced to its simplest terms, means de votion to g o o d n e s s , truth, • beauty and love. “To serve these values,” he says, “is to live a religious life. All men are religious. The religion of Jesus was not something to be believed, but a program of action.” The editors of T h e K in g ’ s B u siness must set
of faith shall be to take the blood of Jesus, as the high priest did when he entered behind the veil; and when I have passed the veil, I would appear with it before the throne.” Is that not a suggestion for us all as we make the tran sit from 1927 to 1928? We may see much of sin in retrospect—many a wasted hour—many a defeated pur- posh—many a rash word. We riiay see much of pride and anger, and doubt and inconsistency. What is our only hope? Is it not the blood of Jesus Christ? Like believing Israel, let us end the old and begin the New Year, by faith bearing the precious blood alnd ‘passing within the veil of the unknown year. Surely, he who has found upon earth some city of his affections, and who knows not the redeeming power of the Cross, is with every onward step advancing into a mist and may well count New Year’s; Day as a day of sorrow. With our eyes upon the Christ of Calvary and of the Throne, we may with real assurance p ray :
themselves dead against any attempt to separate Christ crucified from Christianity. That is exactly what some Modernists are attempting to do, and, as Bishop Moule said long ago: “No surer test can be applied to anything claiming to be Christianity than—Where does it put Christ? Is He something in it, or is He all?” On the other hand we have a group who propose to give the world Christ without Christianity—-simply to present Him as-the ideal man who came to tell us about the love of God and the great brotherhood of man. We can see the wisdom of Dr. Stanley J ones ’1 suggestion that the- wisest approach to those steeped in heathen religions is to present Christ Himself, rather than to attempt to unload upon them much that has gathered around Christianity in nineteen centuries claiming to be an essential part of it, but which ought not to be transported into non-Christian lands. But when some go so far as. to separate “the doc trine of Christ” from Christ Himself, again we must protest, for Christ was preeminently a teacher and com missioned His disciples to go to all nations bearing the
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4. Remember Him as the Risen One. The résurrec tion proved Him “the Son o f God with power” (Rom. 1:4). “He was delivered for our offences and raised for our justification” (Rom. 4:25). All preaching that evap orates the resurrection is in vain (1 Cor. 15 :14). Our new life dates from the tomb. His resurrection certifies and seals His redemption, and, assures all believers that they also shall rise in glory (1 Cor. 15:20). 5. Remember Him as the Ascended One. He is our High Priest at God’s right hand (Eph. 1 :20-21), our Advocate with the Father (1 Jn. 2 :1), who, “because He ever liveth,” can “save us unto the uttermost” (Heb. 7: 25). He is the Christian’s Attorney, Who Himself pre sents before the Father the value of His own sacrifice for us (Rom. 8 :34 ), Live the throne life by living in con scious fellowship with the Intercessor. 6 . Remember Him as the Indwelling One. Gal. 2 :20. We may be fully satisfied with His work for us, but we should never be satisfied with His work in us. Is He really a present Companion? If so, shall be able to “do all things through Him” (Phil. 4:13). 7. Remember Hjm as the Coming 4
“O year that is going, take with you Some evil that dwells in my heart; Let selfishness, doubt, With the old year go out— With joy I would see them depart. “O year that is coming, bring with you Some virtue of which I have need; More patience to bear, And more kindness to share, And more love that is true love, indeed.'
Remember Jesus Christ 2 T im , 2:8 . W HOSOEVER abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God.” Such is the plain statement of Scripture (2 John 9-10). However man may pride himself upon his proficiency in the - advanced thought of the day, God is his-^if he receives not the clearly defined doctrine of God’s Word concerning the person of Hi§ Son Our spiritual condition will depend upon our vision of the Christ. We must see Him in the totality,of His work as re vealed in His Word, to expe rience to the full the power of. His presence for service. The New Testament reveals Him in a seven-fold relation ship. 1. We must, remember Him ’ as the Preexistent One. He is the Christ of Eternity, “whose goings forth have been from ever lasting” (Mie. 5:2). He “came forth from the Father" (Jn. 16:28) and re turned to the “glory which He had before the world was” (Jn. 17:5). He was “in the beginning with.God” Qn. 1 :2). One’s conception of His love loses its unparalleled glory when His preexistence is: denied, for Scripture teaches that He laid aside the gar ments of glory to take: upon Himself the form of m an ' and redeem us. 2. Remember Him as the Virgin-born One. So He was seen by the prophets hundreds of years before His: advent: “A virgin shall conceive , and bear a son, and shall call His name Immanuel” (Isa. 7:14). -The angel informed the Virgin Mary that the Holy Ghost should conceive in her a holy Child, the Son of God (Isa. 9:6). The babe was “God manifest in the flesh” (1 Tim. 3:16). He could not have so lived and died and risen again unless He had been of miraculous origin. : 3. Remember Him as the Crucified Ohe, “Who His dkvn self bore our sins” (1 Pet. 2 :24)—thè One who was “wounded for our transgressions, bruised for our iniqui ties’’ (Isa. 53 :5). Suppose He had seen fit to return to the glory from the Transfiguration. Mount, escaping the Cross. It would have been a logical thing to do, but— He would have gone alone and remained alone. By the way of Calvary, He leads a host with Him to heaven. The cross where hung the “Lamb of God” (Jn. 1:29) was a necessity, not. a second thought.. He came to die, not to rule on earth.
One. Rev. 1 :7. •This hope was made an integral part of the Gospel and " early faith ( 1 Thess. 1 :9-10). If you are con scious of a lack of steadiness and power in testimony, be' sure that you have the three elements Paul here defines. The Holy Spirit attaches some importance to it since it is referred to 318 times in the New Testament and 1527 times in the Old. The Christ formed in Eternity, the Christ revealed in time, is coming again— visibly, personally, even as He went away (Acts 1:10-11).
v Why Did He Die? C HRIST did not die to make it possible for God to save men,” said a modern preacher, “but to remove the obstacles in the Way of men’s believing in God. He gave men a new sense of God’s nearness by dying on the cross as a martyr for great principles.” There are many who seem to exalt the- Cross who give it an entirely different meaning from that given in Scrip ture. Only those who have spiritual discernment become aware of these subtle errors. It is difficult to make many church members realize that these up-to-date versions of the Cross are but presentations of the same counterfeit Gospel that Satan for many centuries has sought to sub stitute for the true. The orthodox doctrine of the Cross, we are told by some of the LiberaliSts, is built upon mistaken ideas of the Apostle Paul. But even though Paul is elbowed out of the way, surely the One who died on the Cross understood the pur pose in it. It was He who declared that His life was to be given as a “ransom” (Mt. 20:28), which means “a price paid to redeem another from the curse of the law” (cf. Gal. 3)10, 13). It was He who said that His blood was to be “shed for the remission of sins” (Mt. 26:28).
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not so grounded are easily led astray by the liberal inter pretations of the day. •’ •I . ' •- JpHi . a» ga» The Savior’s Sigh ;*“And looking up to heaven, He sighed" '-'(.Mk. 7 :34). T HIS was what Jesus did as H e was about to heal a man who was deaf and also had an impediment in his speech. Why should He sigh ? He knew that in another moment the man would be going away, rejoicing. ; Was it not because, in all common sights, our Lord saw more than.idur common eyes can see? The exact relation of all things was before His vision at all times. When ever He saw a symptom, He knew at once the cause back of it. At the roots of all sickness and death, He saw the fact of sin. “He looked up to heaven and sighed.” In the groan of every afflicted body, He heard the cry of all creation for redemption from sin. It was the necessity of the Cross that was ever before Him. He knew that soon He was to take up the whole issue, and perhaps premonitions of Gethsemane and Golgotha were upon Him. This sigh reminds us hoW perfectly our: Savior was; ihan. 'Should we only behold Him stilling tempests, curing: lepers and raising the dead, we should be overcome with the thought of His supernatural majesty. But there comes a sigh, such as only a human breast could heave. In His eyes we see tears, such as only eyes like our own cOuld shed, and instantly it brings Him to our side. Our Christ was and is Himself man and can be touched with all the feeling of our infirmities. He is the
It was He who accepted the designation of “Lamb of God who taketh away the sins of the world” (Jn. 1 :29; cf. Isa. 53:5, 6 ), and who instituted a supper to remind believers of His redeeming work until He should come again (1 Cor. 11:24-26). What Paul and others say is in full accord with Christ’s own doctrine of His cross; With 175 references to our Lord’s death in the New Testament, there can be no difficulty in discovering what' He taught and what was uniformly believed in the early church. Heb. 2:14 shows that His incarnation was for the very purpose of His death. It was not a mere incident of His human life, but the supreme purpose for which He became man. 1 John 4:10 and Rom, 3:25 refer to His death as a “propitiation,” a means of “turning away wrath.” The Scripture teaches that God is holy and must hate sin. His wrath against ‘sin must strike somewhere, either upon the sinner himself or a lawful substitute (cf. Isa. 53:6, 8 , R. V.). The death of Christ had its first cause in the demands of God’s holiness. 2 Cor. 5 :21 declares that He was “made sin for uafti The Sinless One was actually made sin. God dealt with Him, not as though He were a sinner like others, blit as- though He were sin itself, for as our Substitute He be came absolutely identified with our sins. Those who accept His atoning work, therefore, become absolutely identified with His perfect righteousness in the sight of God. Nothing is so vital to the Christian as a-clear Scrip tural conception of the Cross of Christ. Those who are
The Garden of Years B y the late E rnest W. S hurtleff ' I entered the beautiful Garden of Years In the springtime of long ago, Through heaven the breezes, like charioteers, Drove in pageants of cloud white as snow. The sunlight fell soft as the moonlight at eve, And the night was as fair as the day, And I thought there was nothing on earth that could grieve, But that all the sweet world must be gay.
I found, in the beautiful Garden of Years, I, too, had a cross I must bear; But whenever I looked for God’s smile through, my tears I found my life’s rainbow was there. And one day I chanced the Wise Gardener to meet, Who taught me what love should have known— That he who from sorrow leads others’ worn feet Shall find paths of peace for his own. And now grander still is the Garden of Years Than in that old springtime sublime, Whose memories fall like a curfew that cheers From the far away towers of Time; For blessed is he who life’s sorrow abates, Forgiving as he is forgiven; For him shall life’s angel, through death, ope’- the gates Of that Garden Eternal called Heaven.
I was only a child in the Garden of Years, And my hopes were in bloom with the rose, And the music of life rang in chimes-in my ears From the dawn of each day to its close; So I played with the butterflies, caroled with birds, And dreamed of the stars while I slept. The language of life was my mother’s kind words, And into God’s bosom I crept. But I learned, as I grew in the Garden of Years, A lesson of mournful surprise— I learned with the hopes of the world there were fears, And I found there were sorrowful eyes ; I found the heart weary in many a breast, And I saw that to many a home Where love had invited some radiant guest The Angel of Sorrow had come.
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exponents of Christianity. Thank God, this is not a com mon thing. It makes one appreciate all the more the thou sands of ministers who stand against the tide of modern unbelief, and loyally contend for the Faith.
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Reflectors of Christ “Nmy are ye light in the Lord', zvalk asf children of light” Eph. 5 : 8 ). D IAMONDS held for a time in the sunlight become luminous. Certainly Christians who walk in the light, who are reflectors of Jesus Christ, the Light of the world, will become luminous for Him. Susie Parker went to China in 1888. She did not know the language. She was riding one day in the same carriage with a prominent Confucianist, and as she rode, she prayed for his salvation. Two years afterward, in a gathering of Confucianists, this very man boldly arose and testified to his conversion to Christianity, It was the face of Susie Parker that had led him to Jesus, although she had not spoken a word. Thus some lives seem ever to be luminous, revealing Christ to those who are in darkness. Why is it that so many of us try to be satisfied with a twilight experience, when we might have the fulness of the Spirit ? The next verse adds: “For the fruit o f the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth.” Who is there who could not bear this fruit if he would only abandon himself to the Spirit’s guidance ? It is well that we should be reminded that goodness, righteousness and truth do not grow upon any other root. We have come upon a time when many argue that if one is good, it matters little what opinions of truth he holds. Here God’s Word tells us plainly that truth is the fruit of the Spirit and connected vitally with goodness and righteousness. The Savior said, “Thy Word is truth.” There can be no separation of truth from goodness and righteousness. Acts of beneficence there may be, which temporarily alleviate suffering and trial; but so far as eternity is concerned, it is but wood, hay and stubble, and cannot abide the rewarding day into which all true be lievers shall come. Hence it is only the “children o f light” who bear the fruit. Years ago Professor Findlay said: “If men have their way and renounce the truth of God, that tree of God’s planting, the vast growth of Christian virtue and benefi cence, will wither to its topmost bough, and the next storm will bring it to the ground, with all its stately strength. Unbelief lays the axe at the root of human society.” So it is proving today. It becomes more and more apparent that liberalism leads to barren living. There must be the life of God within before there can be divine fruitage. Why will men be so deceived and refuse to walk in the light ? S UBSCR IPT IONS fo r m issionaries are ex piring each m o n th an d new nam es a re con stan tly being a d d e d to our list of tho se who are n o t in a financial position to hav e The King’s Business. W e h av e ju st a p p e a led to our Insti tu te em ployees to replenish our m issionary fund an d they h av e re sp o n d ed nobly. W ou ld YOU like a p a rt in service of this ch a ra c ter?
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The Wealth o f the Years “We spend our years,” as indeed we must: We cannot put them away or hoard. This then is part of our Heavenly T ru sts That we spend them, not for ourselves, but the Lord. “We spend our years,” and what have we bought; Self advancement—and selfish ease: Or more knowledge of Truth, in Scripture taught||i| And new opportunities God to please? “We spend our yearjjp: what have we obtained, At the priceless cost of this precious time; Have we a truer, Christ-life gained; Have purpose and life been made sublime? "We spend our years” : here are minutes new Put into our hands with which to deal: Shall we bargain for shadows, of trade for true And lasting treasures of good and real? How soon will the business' of life be o’er; How soon we shall gage life’s profit and loss! Make us earnest, Lord, as never before; -To spend time for the blessings, Christ won at the Cross. —William Olney. May God give us spiritual hearing to catch the Sav ior’s sigh, that we may realize something of how deeply sin grieves Him, of how He sympathizes with those who must suffer its effects, and of His desire that the day may be hastened when there shall be no more sin, sickness and death, and when all tears shall be wiped away! a&s Re-Crucifying Christ A CCORDING to the statement of Heb. 6 : 6 , it is pos- ^ ¿ \.s ib le to “crucify Christ afresh.” Does that mean that some men have it in their power to reenact the scene of Jesus’ torture—to be in league with the religionists who hated Jesus, and with the scoffing soldiers? We read in this chapter of the apostasy from the faith. Recruci fying Christ is .a thing that is being done in opr days. Remember that the real crucifiers were recognized religious leaders of the day. Those who “crucify Him afresh” are not His open enemies, but often men who have donned the ministerial garb. In a double sense they “put Him to an open shame” ,(v. 6 ), for they practically say to the world: “We have-fully tested the claims of Jesus, and in-our judgment He does not make good. He is not the Son of God; He did not make atonement for sin; He did not rise.” This is the same Judas-like selling of the Master. It is the same preferring of some Barabbas to Christ. It is joining in the blasphemy of those who said Christ was not what He claimed to be, and nailing Him anew to the cross. One shudders to think of the enormity of * such a sin and that it is one committed more often by men who pose as God-man, and therefore able to do for us what mere man would be helpless to do.
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That was a wise word of George Mac Donald’s “The words of the wise are as nails—but their examples are as ham mers that drive the nails home.” * * * God has been calling home some of the great intercessors of earth in recent months. Thomas E. Stephens of the Great Commission Prayer League is gone; Mrs. Penn-Lewis of England is gone; Rev. E. D. Whiteside of Pittsburgh, a great man of prayer of the Christian Alliance Church, has gone. Who will fill their places? * * * Dr. Frank Crane, the clergyman-jour nalist, when asked by a newspaper re cently for his opinion about the science of Genesis, replied: “The Biblical account of creation simply speaks of things that God did—it does not say how He did them. The scientists’ discovery was mere ly the discovery of the manner in which, God works. Science found out that the Creator grows things, but does not make them. God builds a tree by making the oak grow out of the acorn. That is His process.” We are not so sure of Dr. Crane’s statement that the Bible throws no light upon the matter of how things came to be. We are told that “He spake and it was done; He commanded and it stood fast." Of course Dr. Crane is trying to leave the door open for the theory of evolution, yet, strange to say, he talks about “growth.” It takes no scientist to discover that “God grows things,” but growth from acorn to oak furnishes no evidence for evolutionists. Out of the nearly 2 , 000,000 species, not one has ever been known to have evolved from an other. Isa. 45:18 at least makes it clear that God did not create a ball of mud out of which everything else evolved. * * * When the same paper asked the opinion of Vernon Kellogg, zoologist, he came back with an argument long ago shown to be utter nonsense: “It is asked how the scientific theory of world evolution may be harmonized with the Biblical account,” says the professor. “It may well first be asked how the account of creation in the first chapter of Genesis can be harmonized with the account in the second chapter.” The critics attempted to make out that two contradictory accounts of creation, written by different persons, were, by someone, put together. Is it rational to think that anyone would put together in consecutive order two accounts flatly con tradicting one another, and expect it to be accepted as the Word of God? In the first chapter, the calling into being of male and female on the sixth day is re corded to show their place in creation; the details of how they were created are reserved, as is very often done in Scrip ture accounts. * * * ■ The United Presbyterian has called at tention to the fact that the element of hate is necessary to the make-up of an up right individual and of a social group of high standards:
“One of the signs of national decay,” says this writer; “is the decline of anger and the absence of moral indignation. For the physician, nothing is more ominous than the loss of the sense of pain. The superficial observer may think that the patient is better because he is quieter; but the doctor knows that the end is near. “One of the greatest 'needs, of oür day is a revival of social anger. Vice and political corruption have made our cities a disgrace, and yet no blow is struck strong enough to sting the calloused sides of vice protectors’.” It is interesting to note in the advance sheets of statistics of religious bodies of the United States, that the Unitarians had 411 churches in 1916, but now have only 353. That is a net loss of 58 churches in ten years. Their membership has dropped from 82,515 to 60,152, a loss of 22,363, If this ratio .continues, this church will be extinct in 60 years. And now we are wondering how to reconcile these conditions with the warnings so fre quently given out by Unitarian ministers, that if the Protestant ministers do not quit preaching worn-out dogmas and swing over to evolution, their churches will soon be empty. Most of the de nominations seem to be making better progress than the Unitarians. * * * Before us is a Fundamentalist paper in which a whole page is devoted to a criti cism of a Methodist bishop because he has stated that while he cannot align himself with the Fundamentalists, he is neverthe less “an Essentialist." In spite of his statement that he accepts the atonement, deity of Christ, the resurrection, necessity of regeneration, etc., this editor argues that if the bishop really believed in the essentials, he would not be afraid to call himself a Fundamentalist. We think we can understand what a Method ist preacher means by calling himself an Essentialist. He will not accept the dis- pensational ideas of many prominent Fun damentalists, nor does he consider some of the ideas that have grown up around the doctrine of the Second Coming of Christ, essential. But does that make him a Modernist? Must a man be rejected merely because he likes the word “Essen tialist” better than Fundamentalist”? * * * Sadhu John Nelson Christananda, Hindu Christian teacher who recently vis ited the Bible Institute, - expressed his great surprise at our American women in the following language: “Many of your women are excellent, but I find a ten dency to abuse the great liberty that they have been granted. A tree is far more beautiful in the summer when it is cover ed with leaves than when naked in the winter, and yet your women have not learned this simple lesson from nature. Their present mode of dress may be hy gienic, but it is far from common sense, if they really desire the beauty which they say they do.” In this connection, we find a report by Dr. Hoye E. Dearholt, of the Wiscon sin Tuberculosis Association, that for the first time in the history of the association all of his state’s 20 sanatoriums are filled with patients seeking recovery from the white plague. Not only this, but many of the institutions have long waiting lists. Dr. Dearholt holds that the scantiness of modern women’s dress is responsible for this alarming condition. Girls between 15 and 25, striving for a boyish figure and wearing scanty clothing, he says, have lowered their resistance to a point where they are easy prey of tuberculosis. In his 10 January 1928 T h e K i n g ' s B u s i n e s s opinion there is a point in thè race for scanty clothing at which a girl must stop, lest the body be chilled too much, and weakened. * * * An item concerning a recent gathering of the British Association for the Ad vancement of Science, has found front page space on many of our newspapers. It seems that one zoologist, G. P. Bidder, has traced our modern appreciation of dancing and jazz music right back to our jellyfish progenitors, out of which, he says, the race evolved. Didn’t the jellyfish quiver “millions of years ago”? How’s that for scholastic bunk? * * * It was no pessimistic Premillennialist who penned the following lines, but none other than the English statesman, Lord Rothermere; and his words appeared a short time ago in the London Daily Mail :■ “Paramount with the Allies during the Great War was the desire that when peace came it should be permanent. What ever else victory might bring, the men and women of the Allied nations wanted it to ensure that there should be no more Al- (sace-Lorraines to keep the war-spirit smoldering. “It was the professed aim of the Peace Conference, when it gathered in Paris in 1919, to rearrange the map of Europe on a basis of self-determination. But as its work went on this principle faded from sight. The result has been that Central Europe today is piled high with the ma terials of a "new conflagration. “The primary cause of this is the par titioning of the Hungarian nation among its neighbors by the Treaty of Trianon, imposed upon Hungary in June, 1920, whidh transferred—in compact masses contiguous with thè main body of the Hungarian people—600,000 Hungarians to Rumania (out of a total of 1,750,000, most of whom are intermingled with the Ru manians), 1,000,000 to Czecho-Slovakia, and 400,000 to Jugo-Slavia.” * * * We have been reading several articles of late, defending modern youth and at tempting to show that bur young folks are even more fit for life than those of past days. There are, however, some facts which cannot be argued down. A late report from Washington says that How fitting to the New Year season are the_ words of Mrs. Moser in the accompanying song! The omens of our Lord’s coming are everywhere prevalent. We seem to be in the very midst of THE apostasy (2 Thess. 2:3). Organised Atheism not o n l y spreads poison through the daily press, but takes to the air and broadcasts it into millions of homes. I t seems that man op poses and exalts himself above God, more than ever beforehand while he is ever learning, never seems able to come to the knowl edge of the truth. Pulpit se ducers wax more bold in their assaults upon the Bible, while thousands observe but the form of godliness, having not t h e power thereof. These are the tokens that Satan’s time is grow ing short. It is not strange that many of the Lord’s anointed grow weary o f the conflict. Here are lines of real encour agement from Mrs. Moser, and we have tried to give them a mu sical setting that is simple and usable. This is a good time for all believers to take up the chorus: “Farewell to sorrow and shame! Farewell to sin and its reign! We’ll soon be at home, Never more to roam, ■ We’re almost, almost home.” 118 We’re Almost Home. Jessie F. Moser K eith L,. Brooks -------- —1------- (V— f d . -1 m ------- 1------- r ---- I - , 5 *+ !N p ! ! ! B f ( - -------- - IV ~*1 si si 1 J- m *+ 9 Pf ^ 9 " ! Ï % J m z r ' ’ . - |» f ’ ' ' 1. O wear-y 2 . A n -g e l-ic one, on time’s rough sea, (rough sea,) Lift up thy mu - sic fills the breeze; (the breeze;) Be-hold the 3. C e-les-tia l hosts are clothed in white; (in white;) A -rise! oh ______c___»___ » m ... B • m e i B B K r ------r ---- 1 ‘ a à s m à - ___L___L__ h h— f — r - T .. ? ......: m — 1 — 1 — — r z —^ . , g IT— ■■ \3 i> K ir r an™ . ----------- O — 1 b L i - T--- 4 ----- m J 9 ssH •_ hJ d 9 ' ¿5^*» .. à ë I H H M : ! 1 heart and voice;(and voice;)E - ter- nal shores are beck’ning thee; (tothee;) A- gates a - jar, (a-jar,) And E-den’s love - ly fruits and trees! (andtrees!)We shout and sing!(andsing!)There’s nomorenight;the Lamb’s the Light;(thebight;)Ho- .1 1 o . é J . ..(s 0 ß p ■ 0 0 p g p d ü ä l S -------- f— £ = f — i— l l * ■ H w H — Ì — L - m - - 1 — " - — 1 — 1------ 1------ -p- ----- ------------ 0 — ----- p — — ¡* — r ■■■ I ----------- - C horus __ Û __ U __ 1 . .J J J I l l s v 1 ' ! - h ,- -- ---- < ; ---- - p ---- <* 1 1 A h . . tt* J ""I-- —ë -------- ë m 2 ---- a : I * - L . 9 9 ë d ■ ë ë ë 0 ë r " w” ' b H ! rise, thou, and re - joice. soon shall cross the bar. Fare-well to sor-row and pain! Fare- san - nah to our King! • (andpain!) _____ A.- ¿ s - » 1 w m \ B B R ■ B H H I J H o h 1 1 P P ms ' 'M ë A ¿L R ______ L l ______ r - f- P P P __ P;r 0 F— H : i ls s r r r h r, 1 1 1 J V ê ___ 1 J well to, sin and its réign! (itsreign!)We’ll soon be at Home, nev - er -p- B ¡9 -0- / Cv ■P- M S 9 B 0 0 p P 1 Ü # b p / W - : ' B i - V ~ t ---- "PU H * - L ~ n ~ j- A T - — * - - b u * - — T - - t . « r t - » ---- n -i TT3.—2 5T . 1 ] * 3 d q , _ J. . 4__ • . . . » ___0 J ___________L 9* ___ _____ m d __ more to roam; We’re al - most—AL-MOST HOME! (almost home!) Ü 51 w m ■*- É I Copyright, 1927» by Keith L. Brooks' 3d-----3«------ 1 ■ ^ 11 January 1928 T h e K i n g ' s B u s i n e s s the upper hand. It is about time parents got back to Prov. 13 :24. Perhaps Paul S. Rees puts his finger on the pulse of the situation when he tells of a speaker in a large denominational gathering, who re cently made an experiment. At a certain service those present were divided into two groups, the older people remaining up stairs, while the young people were gath ered downstairs. For the most part those assembled above were the fathers and mothers of those making up the group below. They were parents who were lamenting, they said, the want of spiritual interest, the increasing worldliness, in their children. But mark this. When an inquiry was made among these selfsame parents to determine how far family wor ship was a practice, it was found that only ten per cent of the homes represented held to the family altar. Ninety per cent Of the young people downstairs came from homes where day in and day out no altar of fer vent prayer was reared, no fire of devo tion and faith kindled. is true in California holds true in many other states. Twenty years ago the Sal vation Army “Rescue Homes,” as they were then called, sheltered women from the red-light districts, or those rescued from the back rooms of saloons and from the police-courts. At the present time the same homes, which have doubled in num ber, shelter—whom do you think? School girls. Many of them might be called school children, who have been obliged to leave their desks in school to go to these institutions. Forty-two per cent, nearly one-half of the unmarried mothers who go to these homes, are school girls, their average age being sixteen years. That fact suggests the large number of these girls who must be under sixteen. These girls, according to a report in The War Cry, have been carefully inter viewed during the past two years, and in a majority of cases the- girl admits that automobile rides were the cause of her downfall. This is the “unspanked generation,” and it is no wonder flaming, youth-is getting crime, as evidenced by admissions to state prisons, is growing, faster than the popu lation of the United States. Complete re turns from thirty-one states, covering fifty-eight of a total of ninety-nine state prisons and reformatories, list 27,018 new prisoners received by these institutions in 1926 as compared with 21,054 in 1923, the first prison census year, or an increase of 28.3 per cent. There were 34.1 prisoners per 100,000 population jailed last year as against 27.9 in 1923. The records of the California Bureau of Criminal Identification show a steady increase in juvenile delinquency for three years. The increase in delinquency among young girls is particularly marked, the number being doubled during that period. A state official says that joyriders, “pet- ters,” “cuddlers,” etc., were reported for 85 per cent of the automobiles stolen in California last year. “Lovelorn- swains, light of pocketbook, but long on nerve,” said Snook, “appropriated 18,115 auto mobiles during the year, in order that flaming youth might have its fling.” What The Name Above A ll Names B y R ev . B ob S huler Trinity Methodist Church, Los Angeles ' f KNOW a name worthy of the adoration of every heart that beats true. It is the name of the great est Teacher that ever came the way of the world’s philosophers. He taught as never man had taught, as never man will teach, as never mere man can teach. He taught a philosophy of life and the tile soil than any lessons of life and living that have ever come from the world’s wisest. He taught a man how to love his brother. He taught a man how to identify his brother. He taught a man how to love his friend. He taught a man how to love his enemy. He taught a man how to love his God and every crea ture that his God had pronounced good. This mighty Teacher taught men the highway of a mighty sacrifice. Those who have learned of Him and from Him will not throttle their nation and undermine its constitution, merely that they may satisfy their thirst or appease a fleeting desire. Such men as know this Teacher of the ages are ever ready to lay down their own that the greatest good to their fellow man may come. It was this Teacher who flung into the heart of man the challenge of his brother’s need. He smiled and announced the glorious truism. It was from His lips that all mankind came to know that every man who is of God is his brother’s keeper. It was this Teacher who called the warrior, who would not dishonor the, sword he unsheathes to battle against those agencies and institutions that prey upon the weak and defenseless. My, what a Teacher ! Oh, how this tottering world needs to know the lessons that have come from out His heart! And this was the Teacher who lived what He taught. No pretense came from His lips. No boastings were His. He opened not His mouth to laud Himself. He lived. He lived so gloriously that even those who have sought to discredit His name have never dared deny His genuine ness. He lived so loud, though He opened not His mouth in His defense, that the echo of His life has never ceased, nor will the last day of time fail to hear its clear acclaim. It is my purpose to announce the name of the One who taught and lived, the One who taught not one great truth that He did not carry into practical application, the One whose lessons, though the mightiest that the world has ever known, were not more mighty than His daily walk. And yet I must pronounce one final truth before I pen His name. ' Had He not taught the matchless lessons that men stand in awe before, had He not lived the perfect life that all mankind admires, He would have brought the way of this old world its only abiding hope. For it was not His teachings and it was not His life that point to Him today as mankind’s greatest friend. It was the sacrifice He made. It was His dying on a tree. It was the load He staggered under as He climbed Golgotha. ; It was the fact that on His shoulders and His heart my sins reposed. It was.the victorious manner of His taking off, the while all hell shuddered. It was His victory over death that men might never die. It was His conquest of sin that you and I might live forevermore. Destroy the Sermon on the Mount and yet, there stands Calvary. Wipe out the record of His life, and yet, all men will see that form hanging in the storm, while the earthquake shook Mt. Golgotha. He died and paid thè debt. This is the message that can never die concerning him. Oh, matchless name ! Oh, mighty conqueror!... Oh, Savior of a lost and ruined world! For lo, his name is Jesus. living of it that goes deeper and roots itself into more fer
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