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prophetess. Only today I received a postcard with the Startling statement : ‘The day is near at hand. Jesus is coming. Tell the people. Pray the message will be heard through the world.’ Nothing else. No name or address. “The spirit Of Such warnings is false: The words may be true. At least we devoutly hope these are. But we are not dreading the coming of a day. We are not disturbed by its ■ nearness. The only date we have ever- set was ‘today,’ so that we are always on the alert and eager and expectant. However, we are not waiting, for a time but a Person. Throughout this whole administra^ tion of God’s grace, helievers have waited for the Son of God. His return has always been imminent. Nothing has ever been put between His Saints and Himself. This expectation should be a continual source of joy and strength, every ,day of our lives. “1 do not wish to know the day, nor even the year, for it would rob me of the daily and hourly and momentary attitude of joyous expectation. Perhaps, if I were cer tain of its nearness, T would fall into feverish and futile preparations.. Were it far off, I also, like the slaves in the parable,' might take advantage of His, delay. In either casé, it would be an abnormal experience; and not the happy expectation which should be the constant com panion of ali who long for Him Whom they have lea'rned to love, and yearn to be with.” Good Piece of Business Announcement'’has been made that; The ■ Southern Churchman of Richmond, Va., for years a journal of lib eral views, has been purchased by a business man who thus states the doctrinal position he- hereafter expects, his paper to take: “It is our duty to oppose all forces that are now en gaged in attacking the authenticity and credibility of the Bible, or engaged in the so-called ‘reinterpretation’ there o f ; and this paper will stand for an absolute, exact belief in the Apostles’ and Nicene Creeds as the charter of that church, whose one foundation is, Jesus Christ her Lord, which is laid for your faith in his excellent Word. “Armed with the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God, we propose to fight the good fight with all our might, for Christ is our strength and Christ our right. “We believe that God has concealed the great truths from the so-called worldly wise and prudent and revealed them unto those of simple faith. “So long as I have the power of direction, this paper will stand for the simplest evangelical faith, free from the unnecessary and diverting frills of misleading rit- ualisin. “The policy óf this paper will be to oppose all the vagaries and imaginations of the self-styled Modernist and so-called evolutionist who have been working their imagination overtime at the expense of credulous indi viduals. Jüí jig Ju st a Trifling Sin “We should never yield to temptation on the ground’ that the sin "to which we are solicited appears to be a trifle (merely eating a forbidden f ru it) ; or that it is but for once . Remember the O ne offense of one man. How often has a man, or a family, been ruined forever by o n e sin !”— Dr. C. Hodge.
this man has done so much for the cultured Hindus all over India which no other missionary has ever attempted. Of course he seems there to mingle freely with the Hindus and seems to value some of their beliefs, but his chief object is to show Christ in all His beauty and power. “I understand the plan of Dr. Jones. He speaks about the life and power of Jesus, and he believes when once a man accepts that much he is sure to be guided still more. If he speaks point blank that “Jesus is God” these men will not listen to him, and no one could understand him. Let them first know the perfect humanity of Christ, and through that knowledge they will find out He is more than man and ultimately come to the conclusion ‘MY Lord and my God.’ “I am thankful to Gpd that lie ha.s so many open doors among the high and cultured men of India; and he is very much respected by them. It is very easy for outsiders to criticize his method of work, but I know they cannot attempt the work and success he has been achieving among" the educated non-Chris tian public from the Himalayas to the Cape Comorin. “No man’s work is perfect, and it cannot be.; but what Dr. Stanley Jones has been doing is paving the way for a throng to enter into the kingdom of God. They appreciate but hesitate to join any mission or church out of prejudice. Missionary bodies do not like his method of work; for they think that he does not encourage their cause. But they ,must understand he is their helper in tlie way he is removing so many obstacles that stood in their way, of accepting Christ presented by the churches. God is pleased to Usé .him in His own way j; who are we to find fault with him and criticise him when we are not able to do the least of what hé has been doing? He is ai chosen vessel for that par ticular sphere of work.” D r . P. F. S chilling Dr. P. F. Schilling, a Nebraska Baptist minister, writes : “I have recently-talked with one of our missionaries and his wife from India. This missionary gave an address at oUr South western Conference. At the close he was asked whether he would recommend Dr- Jones’ book. ;Without hesitation he .said, “By all means read it.” He was also asked what Dr. Jones’ influence ivas in India. He replied: “There is not a man in India today who has such a good ,influence in reaching the higher classes of Hindus for Jesús Christ as Stanley Jones.” •. —o— P rof . N ewton W ray Prof. Newton Wray, Upland, Indiana, writes us as follows: “E. Stanley Jones was a student, in Asbury ’College when I was head of the Biblical Department there. He was remarkable then for his life of prayer and his devotion to the fundamental truths, “I have followed his career ever since and have no- reason to revise my opinion ’of his staunch orthodoxy. Dr. Jones has been greatly misunderstood. When he emphasizes the fact that the great need is to present Christ as .the obj ect of Faith, he does not mean that doctrine is non-éssential. On p. 163 he says: Do not misunderstand me. The whats of a Christian are important. The body of doctrine is bound to grow up around him. We can not do without doctrine, but I am so anxious for the purity of doctrine that I want it to be held in the white light of His person and under the corrective of His living mind.’ ” —-a— E xtract F rom a R ecent L etter F rom D r . J ones The following extract is taken from a letter written by Dr. Jones to a friend this summer: “I came to the quiet hill station of Almora to begin writing on my new book: ‘Christ at the Indian Round Table.’ I feel that something else beyond what I said in ‘The Christ of. the Indian Road’ should be said, and I am trying to say it in this new book which will probably be published soon.” IH H I 'éS> gâ» W aiting For H is Son O NE of our exchanges, referring to the dogmatic statements which some teachers are making with re gard to the time of our Lord’s second coming, has the foilowing to say: “Such a tense state of expectancy is liable to lead to many extravagances. Not many months ago the air above us f a s filled with flying messengers of doom, dropped from an aeroplane, foretelling the exact day, as received in a vision by one who proclaimed herself a
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