King's Business - 1948-05

Official Publication of The Bible Institute of Los Angeles, Incorporated

Louis T. Talbot, D.D.

Betty Bruechert Managing Editor

William W . Orr, D.D.

Editor in Chief

Associate Editor

Vol. 39

MAY, 1948 Child and Youth Evangelism Number

No. 5

THE PLASTIC C LA Y

I took a piece of plastic clay And gently fashioned it one day; And as my fingers pressed it still, It moved and yielded at my will. I came again when days were past, The bit of clay was hard at last. The form I gave it still it bore, But I could change that form no more. I took a piece of living clay, And gently formed it day by day, And molded with my power and art A young child’s soft and yielding heart. I came again when days were gone; It was a man I looked upon. He still that early impress wore, And I could change it never more. G OD is not real to many people. He does not seem so real to that man as his difficult task; He does not seem so real to that woman as her work and trials; He does not seem so real to that sufferer as his sickness. How shall we make Him real? The best way I know is to take Him into the things that are real. That headache is real. Take Him into it, and He will be as real as the headache, and a good deal more so, for He -will be there when the headache is gone. That trial is real; it has burned itself into your life; God will be more so. That washing and iron ing are real; take God into your home, and He will be as real. That is what makes Him real—link Him with your life. So the banyan tree grows. First, its trunk and branches shoot up to heaven, and then the branches grow down into the ground and become rooted in the earth. By and by there are a hundred branches interwoven from the ground so that the storm and the winds cannot disturb it, and even the simoom of the Indian Ocean cannot tear it up. It is rooted and bound together by hundreds of interlacing roots and branches. And so when God saves a soul, He plants one branch; but when He comes to fill and sanctify and help in your difficulties, each is another branch. Thus your life becomes rooted and bound to God by a hundred fibers, and all the power of hell cannot break that fellow ship or separate you from His love. — A. B. .Simpson, D.D.

CONTENTS

Editorially Speaking

The Bible in the News, William W. O rr .................. Is Delinquency Juvenile? Herbert G. Tovey ........... Reaching Teen-Agers fo r Christ, Mrs. Richard Cole Poem, How Old Must I B e ? ........................................... Is It R igh t or W rong ? AUison Arrowood ..................

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Poem, The Better G ift, Martha Snell Nicholson .................................... 9 Junior K ing’s Business, Martha S. H o o k e r .................... ........................ 10 Poems, Child’s Vesper Hymn, Francis Turner Palgrave; Children, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; A Child’s Thought o f God, Elizabeth Barrett B row n in g .............. 11 Biola Family C ir c le ............................................................................................ 12 Palestine, Russia and Ezekiel 39, Louis T. Talbot .................................. 13 My Conversion from Mormonism, Einar A nd erson ............................... 14 Dr. Talbot’s Question B o x ............................................................................... 15 Spring Housecleaning, Bess McClennan Antisdale ................................ 16 Biola in China, Charles A . Roberts ............................................................. 17 Biola Doings, Anne and A l ............................................................................. 18 It’s An Idea, Carlton C. Buck ........................................................................ 20 Young People’s Topics, Walter L. W ils on ................................................. 20 Sunday School Lessons, Homer A. Kent, Allison A rr ow o od ............24 Object Lessons, Elmer L. W ild e r .................................... ............................ 28 Picture Credit: Cover, Eva Luoma, Hollidays Cove, W. Va. SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION— “The King’s Business" is published monthly; *2.00, one year; $1.00,,six months; 20 cents, single copy. Clubs of three or more at special rates. Wrtie for details. Canadian and foreign subscriptions 25 cejits extra. It requires one month for a change of address to become effective. Please send both old and new addresses. REM ITTANCES— Payable in advance, should be made by bank draft, express, or post office money order payable to “The King’s Business.” Date of expiration' will show plainly on outside wrapper or cover of magazine. ADVERTISING— For information, address the Advertising Manager, 558 South Hope Street, Los Angeles 13, California. MANUSCRIPTS— '“The King’s Business’’ cannot accept reponsibility for loss or damage to manuscripts mailed to us for consideration. Entered as second-class matter November 7, 1938, at the Post Office at Los Angeles, California, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in the Act of February 28, 1925, embodied in paragraph 4, section 538, P. L and R., authorized October 1, 1918, and November 13, 1938. ADDRESS: The King’s Business, 558 So. Hope St., Los Angeles 13, California.

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