rejoiced in and praised God for this signal victory. It is all the greater due to the fact that other governments have indicated they will follow Britain in this matter. All officers o f the Council were re-elected, headed by Dr. Carl Mclntire, president. Three new vice-presidents were added, one from the Philippines, one from Chile, and one from Brazil. Persons desiring the names o f the officers, or any other information, may write the Inter national Council at its headquarters, Singel 386, Amster dam C, The Netherlands, or the writer o f this article at 7711 Dunbarton Avenue, Los Angeles 45, California. The next congress o f the International Council will be held in July, 1953, somewhere in the United States. One o f the marks o f God’s approval, and a cause for rejoicing, was that, although the Geneva meetings were not intended to be evangelistic, yet souls were saved there. At the close o f one meeting, a resident o f Geneva pre sented himself for further light on how to be saved, and was led to Christ. In one o f the hotels, a bell-boy (we would call him in America) accepted the Lord. Near the close o f the Congress, a young colored man from I-don’t- know-where was brought to me with a request for infor mation on American theological seminaries. He had been brought to the Lord by one o f our men and was feeling the urge to prepare fo r service. Five languages were used: English, Dutch, French, Portuguese, and Spanish. By means o f a modern trans lation system like that used in the United Nations, the words o f the speaker could be heard simultaneously in any o f the five languages. The motto o f the Congress was the same as that of the Reformation in Geneva o f 400 years ago — Post Tenebras Lux (A fter the Darkness Light). On Calvin’s grave we laid a wreath on which were the words, “ He kept the faith.” God’s people everywhere can be thank ful fo r the International Council o f Christian Churches and pray for a great blessing upon its work, especially as it deals with missionary matters. THE LESSON OF THE SERVANT'S EAR (Continued from Page 12) done all the damage he could, the Lord gently healed the servant on the spot, and the right ear of the servant o f the high priest was restored in its proper place. We may be assured that the hearing facility o f that ear was in no way impaired. The ability o f the servant to hear through that ear was as satisfactory as was the ear itself. The Lord Jesus will do the same today. Having “ cut off the ear” by our vain and useless arguments, we can only pursue the one redeeming program. We must confess our failure to Him, and ask that He channel our zeal in His own way, and then ask that He heal that “ cut off” ear in order that the damage that we have done might be re moved. We must seek the face o f our beloved Lord and ask that He, by His own grace and mercy, make o f the ear that we have damaged, an “ ear o f faith,” unto the salva tion o f the one whopi we have damaged, but whom He can heal. We must then re-examine our motives and meth ods for the winning o f others. This thought suggested by F. B. Meyer will provide the basis for our self-examina tion : “ And we who had commenced life full o f harsh judgments and impetuous heat, whilst not relaxing our steadfast allegiance to the truth, learn to deal gently with the erring . . . counting it a greater gain to win a brother than to overcome him in argument or destroy him by sarcasm.” This is the lesson o f the servant’s ear. In our zeal for the gospel, are we to witness and win, or argue and lose souls for whom Christ died? ______________________________________ T H E K I N G ' S B U S I N E S S
ment at its last assembly) and evangelism. On this last matter it was stressed strongly that we should not only be alert and aggressive to give out the gospel, but also that we should take care to conserve the results o f our evan gelistic efforts by seeing to it that the converts were di rected only to churches that were free from modernism or compromise with it. The United Nations is being called on to protect the 600,000 Ambonese, in Indonesia, from further persecu tion and slaughter on account o f the fact that the great majority o f them are Christians. A cable was sent to Gen eral MacArthur stating that the Congress was praying for his success in Korea, and his answer came back the next day stating, “We will not fail.” But probably the most important thing that happened was the announcement o f the information that had just been received that the British government was at long last going to revamp its procedure for admitting mis sionaries to its colonies. For many years there have been recurring disputes between certain mission agencies and the British government as to whether it was necessary fo r them to belong to certain interdenominational organ izations in order to get their privileges and rights. This has been particularly the case in the last two years. In most cases those interdenominational agencies are mod ernist-including, and, furthermore, they usually play the game o f the modernistic ecumenical movement as headed up in the World Council o f Churches and the International Missionary Council. Discerning and uncompromising mis sions cannot conscientiously co-operate with such inter denominational agencies. A case in point has been the refusal o f the Independent Board for Presbyterian For eign Missions to co-operate with the Christian Council o f Kenya. Another case is the refusal o f the Livingstone Memorial Mission, seeking to work in Tanganyika, to co-operate with the Foreign Missions Conference of North America—one o f the organizations scheduled to merge with the Federal Council of Churches in December to form what will be called “ The National Council o f the Churches o f Christ in the United States.” As a consequence o f this refusal to co-operate with modernistic-containing organizations, the Independent Board has been suffering discrimination in Kenya and the Livingstone Memorial Mission has not been allowed to enter Tanganyika. For the past year the International Council has made repeated representations concerning this whole matter to the British authorities. Finally, just a few days before the Geneva meeting, the Council received a letter from the Colonial Office in London stat ing that they had decided to revise their procedures in order to meet our problem. The result is that it will no longer be necessary (to quote their letter) for mis sions “ to apply for sponsorship to bodies which, for doctrinal reasons, are repugnant to them.” Praise the Lord! The representatives o f the Livingstone Memorial Mission and o f the Independent Board were o f course delighted, and now await implementation o f this decision o f the British authorities. Two men were in Geneva who have been kept out o f Africa, as above outlined, but, thanks to the Lord’s use o f the International Council, they will now soon be on their way to preach there the way o f salvation. It all shows that Christians need to be alert to the “ shenanigans” o f the organizations asso ciated with the World Council o f Churches and the Inter national Missionary Council, and that we should stand up to the governments o f the world and insist on our rights to preach the gospel freely without having to join com promise organizations. This is for the salvation o f souls and the glory o f our Lord Jesus Christ. All in Geneva
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