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P U B L IS H E D M O N TH LY BY AND R E P R E S E N T IN G T H E B IB L E IN S T IT U T E O F LO S ANGELES J ohn M urdoch M ac I nnis , Editor-in-Chief K eith L. B rooks , Managing Editor C harles E. H urlburt , Associate Editor V o lu m e X V III N o v em b e r , 1 9 2 7 N um b e r 1 I
BOARD OF DIRECTORS BIBLE INSTITUTE OF LOS ANGELES J. M. I rvinë , President H oward F rost , Vice-President J. M. R ust , Treasurer A lexander M ac K eigan Secretary C. A. Lux, Asst. Secretary
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D r . J ohn M. M ac I nnis ; Dean D r . R alph A tkinson , Associate Dean R ev . J ohn H. H unter , Secretary of Faculty R ev . W illiam H. P ike , Secretary Evening School R ev , A lan S. P earce , . Secretary Cor. School R ev . A lbert E. K elly , Student Secretary D r . G. C ampbell M organ D r . J ohn M c N eill D r . C harles E. H urlburt C hristian M. B ooks P rof . A lfred A. B utler M iss M arie C arter M iss F lorence C haffee R ev . J ohn A. H ubbard P rof . H. W . K ellogg M iss R uth W alter P rof . H . G. T ovey P rof . J. B. T rowbridge M iss C harlotte L. W oodbridge H . W . B oyd , M. D.
EDITORIALS The Irresistible Christ............................................697 Thanksgiving—The Christian’s Business.......... .697 Why Tarries the World-Wide Revival?............. 698 A Dentist-Chair Meditation...:.....—................... 698 The Cail to the House of God....................... .....699 The Psychiatrists Are After Us!......................... 699 Coming out of Babylon........ •....—....... ................... 700 Editorial Flashlights ........ ...............1.................... 702 H« * * ARTICLES Fragments and Portions ‘- The Late Dr. Joseph Parker......................... 704. In the Interests of Fair Play—Is There More Than One Side to the Stanley Jones Matter?..708 The Situation at Hunan......................................... 713 Is Speaking In Tongues Essential? —Dr. A. J. McConnelee.:....... 714 Three Aspects of Sacred Song —rCharles F. Reitzel........................................... 716 Absolute Essentials of the Gospel —Dr. Stuart Holden...... ..................... How to Start a Revival—Dr. Len G. Broughton 747 Isaac Watts, Father of English Hymnody •" -—Prof. J. B. Trowbridge....... ........,........ .......:750 How Numerics Establish the Order of Books —Rev. Ivan Panin..................... ............... ;.......753 * * * DEPARTMENTS Passages That Perplex—K. L. B........................718 The B. B. B. B. Page............................................. 720 Finest of the Wheat__,............................ ...721 Striking Stories of God’s Workings,..-............... 725 Children’s Garden ........................... 727 International Lesson Commentary........................729 Biola Table Chat .............................—...................739 Our Literature Table........................... 741 Daily Meditations ............... 758 What Nicolaitanism Does For Us —Charles E. Robinson.............. 706
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