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I Grumbs GFrom the King’s ^able | g, — By the Editor “ The Greatest of These is ^Love” S R. CHARLES G. TRUMBULL of the Sunday School Times, in reading the thirteenth chapter f| o f First Corinthians to a company the other day, 43read the last verse as follows: “ And now abideth 0 ! fundamentalism, premillennialism, and love, but the greatest of these is love.” Some of us need the lesson taught by such a rendering. “ Now abideth faith.” “ The faith once for all delivered to the saints.” Faith in the authority and the integrity of “ And now abideth hope.” The great hope of the church is the coming of our Lord to meet us in the air. What a precious truth is taught in 1 Thessalonians 4:13-17: “ But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. For if we be lieve that Jesus died and ròse again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming
Scripture; faith in the deity of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; faith in the substitution ary work of the Son of God; faith in His resurrection; faith in the great fundamentals o f the Word. Faith abides. W h y should I knock any sinner down and drag him out, whether he be a modernist or a common ordi nary sinner, because he refuses to accept the truth of God ? “ The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of G od : for they are foolishness unto him: he cannot know them, be cause they: are spiritually dis cerned.” Why should I strike a blind man because he cannot see? As a young preacher I used to get angry with the lost; now I can weep when I see any man or woman hell-bound. I do not mean that we are not to contend earnestly for the faith; we should contend unto death. But that does not mean
of the Lord shall not precede them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of thè archangel, and with the trump of God: and.the dead in Christ shall rise first : Then we which are alive and re main shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air : and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words.” Frankly, . ! do not under stand why every Christian is not a premillennialist. But many Christians are not. There are thousands who love the Lord Jesus.and are walking softly be fore Him who have never heard any Bible teaching on the. sec ond coming of the Lord. How I. wish they knew the comfort o f that precious doctrine ! How I wish they knew how that doc trine opens up and displays the unity of the holy Scripture! J
Perfect Love Oh, Jesus, let Thy dying cry Pierce to the bottom o f my heart, Its evils cure, its wants supply, •And bid my unbelief depart. Slay the dire root and seed o f sin, Prepare for Thee the noblest place, Then, 0 essential Love, come in, And fill Thy house with endless praise. Let me, according to Thy Word, A tender, contrite heart receivers. Which grieves at having grieved its Lord, And never can itself forgive. A heart Thy joys and griefs to feel, A heart that can not faithless prove, A heart where Christ alone may dwell All praise, all meekness,, and all love. W§k-John Wesley..
that we should lose our tempers and' call names, or show our hatred for the one with whom we are contending. God expects us to adorn the Gospel. Do you remember when Paul and Silas were cast into the jail at Philippi? What a testimony they gave, what a sermon they preached! It was a sermon in song. Midnight in a Philippian jail with their feet in the stocks! But there was no anger; there was no resentment—-just a song from two loving hearts. Perhaps it was:
do not know why they are not looking for the imminent’ coming of the Lord. The Bible seems to teach it so plainly; and I want them to know. But no amount of ridicule or abuse will ever lead them to accept the joy and Comfort o f this precious doctrine. A little bit o f love might. I once knew two pastors in the same town, a town ojj less than ten thousand people. One pastor was a moderni ist and a postmillennialist. The other was a fundament talist and a premillennialist. The modernist did not hesi tate to severely criticize publicly his. fundamentalist neigh bor. But one night he and his wife, returning from a club meeting, lighted some*pape* in the fireplace which ignited with the clothing of the minister’s wife. She was horribly burned. Upon hearing of the accident the next morning; the fundamentalist minister went downtown and raised à thousand dollars among his business -friends to secure special medical treatment for the suffering one. He sent the money to the husband: Within half an hour this husband
“O God, our help in ages past, Our hope for years to come, Our shelter from the stormy blast, And our eternal home!”
The unbelieving jailer and his household were led to Christ that night because the jailer saw something he did not have but which he earnestly wanted. Love won him, and he opened his heart willingly to the faith. “ The greatest of these is love.”
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knocked at the study door of the man whom he had so severely criticized. He came in and with tears rolling down his cheeks he said, “ May I join your Monday night Bible class, my brother? I want to study your theology; I want to hear your teaching.” Today that man is preach- ing the Gospel of Jesus Christ, a thoroughgoing funda mentalist and premillennialist. Love won him. No Christian has a right to compromise with error, whether that error be modernism, postmillennialism, Pen- tecostalism, or any other ism that is not true to the old Book. But let us not, in holding to the faith and rejoicing in the hope, fail in the exercise of that greatest of all virtues—-love. Love is the greatest fundamental. Worship in the Spirit N OT a ceremonial act, not the curbing of the flesh, not the eating of a wafer. These, may be the signs and symbols of worship but they do not constitute the worship itself. Worship is in the spirit. It is not the attitude of crossed hands or reverent prostration of the body; it is the posture of the soul. “ Know ye not that ye are the tem ple?” That is a great word. If my body is a temple, a church, then the worshiper is within. I f this body is a temple, what sort of service is going on within? Is the holy place dark and silent, or is the service proceeding ? I The Biola E HE past few months of publicity concern- . ing the Biola Challenge have been only preparatory. Yet they have been very fruitful for they have friends throughout the land than we dared to hope. Any institution is rich which can appeal to such a host of friends who are rich in faith and who abound in liberality. They are to be preferred to millions of endowment funds. Mr. Lyman Stewart, who was able to do much toward giving the school its magnificent plant and establishing it as one of the foremost Bible Institutes, was wise in his conclusion that Biola should not trust in en dowments which often hinder faith in God. The members of the Biola family are now be ing informed by specially prepared literature con cerning the financial problem with which the Insti tute is confronted. They are also being told of the high esteem in which the Institute is held by those who know it best, and of the present plans where by it is expected that the financial foundations will be rebuilt. Conclusive evidence that the favor of God is upon the school is the fact that the fall term of 1930 is expected to begin with a considerably larger enrollment than any of the five or six pre ceding years. But this favorable situation is itself a challenge. More students mean more expense, for students are not required to pay tuition or to meet any other obligations of the Institute; their
know the kind of service which was observed in Paul’s temple. We have one or two little glimpses as through an open doorway into the nature of his daily services. Here is an instructive view: “ We thank God without ceas ing.” That is part of the worship which proceeded in the Apostle’s temple. Not only Sunday morning and Sunday evening, but ceaselessly. “We thank God without ceas ing.” Inside that temple the worshiping spirit told the daily tale of the Lord’s mercies and sent back to the Lord a continuous thanksgiving. That is worship in the spirit. Here is another glimpse of the Apostle’s temple service: “ We pray without ceasing.” Inside the temple, the spirit was always on its knees, Always ? Yes. When Paul went from Mars Hill to tent making, his spirit did not alter its postue; it remained upon its kness. When Jesus o f Naza reth passed from the temptation to the marriage in Cana of Galilee, His spirit did not change; the services pro ceeded. The spirit remained upon its knees. That is the very glory of spiritual worship. We can pray without ceasing; we can even now be like the angels in that we can “ serve him day and night in his temple.” When we pass into our places of business, our souls can retain their rev erence ; and even in the commonplace we can be possessed by the consciousness of the presence of God. We can ( Continued on page 456) Challenge only expense is for board and room. The Lord’s stewards are expected to take the burden which the young people are unable to assume. Another matter for encouragement is the fact 1 that the Institute alumni are rallying to the sup port of their alma mater. Alumni associations are being formed in more than a score of the larger cities of America. The climax of the Challenge program will come in a convocation of students, faculty, and Biola friends, to commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Institute. Before this issue of T he K ing ’ s B usiness reaches the readers, this occasion will be a matter of history. Practical plans for the gathering up of the fruits of all the preliminary publicity and prayer will immediately follow the convocation. Those who read these words, although they may be unable to respond to a financial appeal, can do much by giving their moral support and by prayer. If they will kindly send us names and addresses of Christian people who should be informed about the work of the In stitute, it will be greatly appreciated. We have no doubts, for we are certain that He who prompted men of God to found the Institute will move its friends of today to come to its help. “ He who hath begun a good work will perform it.”
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greater sympathy than before to those who come with the Gospel of Christ. Some are claiming that Christian missions in China have received a severe set-back, if not a death blow. If this were true, and it cannot be admitted, not a. little of the blame would lie at the door of the exponents of the new theology whose concessions to heathenism have perverted the Gospel they were sent to preach, and whose misdi rected though sincere efforts to build a semi-political king dom of God have proved not only useless but positively dangerous. — o — Does Science Abandon Naturalism? T HE idea tharall the forces in nature are controlled by natural law seems about to be abandoned by the new est science. Not long ago the Professor of Physics at Har vard wrote an article in which he argues that behind the atom and the electron is a sphere of action without law. According to the Essenticdist, Professor Compton, of the chair of Physics at Chicago University, has more recently stated “ that the principle of the uniformity of nature is no longer tenable.” He follows this up with significant and startling conclusions. The Essenticdist sums up his conclu sions as follows: First, he affirms that the old conception of evolution, which reduced the universe to the chance result of a con flict of interacting forces, must now be definitely aban doned. Second, he affirms the fact o f intelligence behind the universal process. The universe is being moved by an intelligent force to an intelligently chosen goal. There is purpose in it. Third, Professor Compton affirms that man’s freedom is clearly indicated in experience; that his choice is not controlled by his body, but that, on the con trary, it in part controls his body. The spiritual is thus demonstrably, in some degree, independent of the physical, both of the body and of the brain. He concludes that though physically small, man is, nevertheless, the crown o f being, and that the noblest value in the universe is man’s finished character. Thus again science has had to confess that naturalism provides, no explanation of, the mysteries of nature.. The moment it admits that behind every known law there is dis covered a region in which there is “a principle of uncer tainty,” there is room made for the entrance of the God of the Bible and the Biblical explanation of the beginning of creation; and it makes not only logical but necessary the expectation of immortality. — o — S. D. Gordon’s Theological Views I T seems to be the common lot of Christian writers to have their theological views misunderstood and their statements misinterpreted in spite’ of careful efforts to guard against any appearance of unorthodoxy. Mr. S. D. Gordon feels that such has been his experience. To allay suspicion and silence criticism, he has put in his latest book, “ Quiet Talks on the Bible Story,” a statement of his doctrinal views. It is so courageous, clear cut, and con vincing, that it ought to satisfy the most exacting defender
Chinese Revolution and Missions WO articles on the present Chinese situation ap peared recently in Current History. One was ostensibly from the viewpoint of the Christian church. The other writer speaks of himself as an outside observer. The supposedly Christian viewpoint was given by Dr. Rawlinson, editor of the Chinese Recorder, whose •pronounced liberal theological views are well known. It is disappointing as well as misleading. There are high sound ing phrases about changing conditions and relationships in China, the need of a “ really indigenous Christian message” which should be “ couched in Chinese thought terms,” the importance of evolving a Chinese form of church organi zation which will appeal to the native mind, etc. There is also the familiar liberal dogma that Christianity must recognize the values found in other ancient religions and must reconstruct the Christian system accordingly. It is assumed that the old Gospel message is wholly unsuited to the new age. Not once is it suggested that it is necessary or important to find a Biblical foundation for the Christian message and method. Dr. Rawlinson speaks Correctly when he states that there is uncertainty about the content and meaning of the Christian message, especially “ in the ranks of youth and those given the advantage of modern training.” But he | fails to say that this boasted “ modern training” has been given by liberals like himself. Their method has been first to destroy the foundations of the youth, and then to prate about the need for new “ Chinese word forms” in which to couch the new message. When examined, it is perfectly evident that this involves the surrender of every distinc tive and essential Christian doctrine. The writer of the second article in Current History unconsciously reveals how the liberal propaganda has already shown- its dangerous tendencies. He chides the missionaries who enthusiastically backed the Nationalist cause a few years ago and influenced western governments to assume an attitude toward China which later became very embarrassing. He tells how the Nationalists turned upon these same missionaries and struck them a heavy blow. If he had confined his criticisms to the mission aries of the liberal camp, there would have been wisdom and justice in his remarks. Unquestionably, the attitude of the proponents of the new theology has been politically unwise, and has distinctly, although unintentionally, aided the designs of the Bolshevists. In neither of these articles is the situation in China dis cussed from a truly Christian position, There is no need for Christianity in China to change its message. The Gos pel has not lost its. power. The work o f the Spirit-filled .evangelist is still the most essential factor in the regen eration of the individual and the reconstruction of society. While the present unrest has to some extent interrupted the program of evangelization undertaken by many true missionaries and native Christians, reports indicate that the very distress of the people is causing them to turn with
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of orthodoxy.' T he K ing ' s B usiness is glad to pass it on to its readers;— -^Editor. W hat I B elieve Sometimes, some persons, with probably the best inten sion, quite sincerely, take sentences out of their connection, and so fail to understand the connected teaching; and so they are apt to think that there is wrong teaching, or deficient teaching. So I am putting down here this simple plain statement of just what I believe, and have always believed, and tried to teach the best I could by tongue and pen, regarding the essential truths of the old Gospel of Christ. I believe in the Word of God, as inspired directly and fully by the Holy Spirit through the men who wrote. This applies to the entire book, from cover to cover. I believe in the deity of Jesus Christ; that He was very God of very God, born of the virgin Mary by the direct creative act of the Holy Spirit. I believe that Jesus Christ died for our sins on the cross as our substitute Saviour, and only through His precious blood shed is there salvation for any one of all the race. I believe that sin is ah act of rebellion against God’s perfect love-will, and that it is so damnable that there is no escaping the Consequences of it except through the blood of Christ. I believe that every man must make personal choice of Christ as his Saviour for present character and future des tiny ; and only so is there salvation for him from unending death in the future world. I believe in the Pentecostal fulness of the Holy Spirit, and that through this blessed experience one may live a life of purity and holiness, in the purpose of his heart, and increasingly in actual practice. I believe that our Lord Jesus is coming back again in person to bring the Kingdom reign, and His coming is a thing to be expected in our day.—S'. D. Gordon. —o— New Series of Bible Studies I N the December issue of T he K ing ’ s B usiness , Dr. Norman B. Harrison, pastor of the Oliver Presbyterian Church, Minneapolis, will begin a series of articles of un usual value and interest. He speaks of them as “ Studies in Seven, Based upon Scripture’s Numerical Structure.” He finds that because one God made the world and the Bible, the same skill of design is reflected in both. The symmetry of the Bible is plainly due to a structural plan. To see that plan is to discover new truth for the mind, new food for the soul. The studies will cover: God’s Original Week—Gen esis 1; The Book of Genesis; The Tabernacle; The Feasts of the Lord—Leviticus 23; The Parables of the Kingdom —Matthew 13; The Epistles to the Churches; Church History Pre-Written—Revelation 2 and 3; The Book of Revelation; the Bible as a Whole. It is evident that Dn Harrison’s articles will be orig inal and analytical, illuminating and stimulating. Those who know his skill as a teacher of the Word will look for ward to’‘them with keen aritildf^htibh. The Salvation of Scripture H TH E splendid series of articles on “ The Salvation of •*- Scripture,” by Dr. B. B. Sutcliffe, concludes in the present issue. It is hoped that at some time in the future
the articles may he gathered together in a booklet and given wide circulation. Dr. Sutcliffe has presented the truth in a clear and impressive way to the edification of many. The readers of T he K ing ’ s B usiness will be glad to know that other contributions from his pen may be ex pected in the not distant future. The prayers of many of God’s people will go with Dr. Sutcliffe as, he takes up the work of evangelization and Bible teaching. His dates for the next two months, as far as arranged, are as follows:. October 5 to 19—Centralia, Wash. October 22 to 26—Victoria, B. C. October 29 to November 7-—Vancouver, B. C. November 10 to 17—Medford, Ore. The Menace of the Movies R EV. W . E. Edmonds, pastor of the Glendale Presby- - terian Church, Glendale, Calif., has published,a pam phlet on this subject which is a synopsis of a Sunday eve ning sermon. It is a careful, impassioned study of the whole problem. It gives information about the dangers that confront our youth, through the motion pictures; and it will cause parents, we trust, to awaken to the tempta tions in the paths of their boys and girls. Testi monies are included from leaders of Scout movements, various city censorship boards and child welfare commis sions, prominent educators, judges of criminal courts’ etc. The pamphlet is published by the author; price two cents a copy. — o— New Jewish Missions Course T HE impression seems to have gone abroad that the Institute has discontinued its Jewish Department, This is not the case. Rev. J. A. Vaus, who was at the head of our Jewish Department for many years, has re turned to the Institute staff, bringing with him the Jewish Mission which he has been conducting in Los Angeles. In addition, he will preside over a Jewish Missions Course in the Institute. More definite information concerning this is given on another page. Mr. Vaus is well qualified, for this important work and will welcome prayerful sym pathy and cooperation. The new effort is commended to all who love God’s ancient people. — W. P. White. New Subscription Rates Beginning October 1, 1930, the subscription rates to. T he K ing ’ s B usiness will be as follows: Single subscription (U. S.) - - $1.50 Two years subscription (U. S.) - - 2.50 Ten annual subscriptions (U. S.) - 10.00 Three months subscription - - - .25 Canadian and foreign subscriptions require twenty- five cents additional per year for postage. Special premiums are offered in connection with clubs of trial subscriptions. See the advertisement on inside back cover of this issue; also advertisement opposite page 411 of the September number. If the magazine has helped you, invite your neighbor to become a subscriber.
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Hankow arriving there on Wednesday afternoon, July 30, with Her party of forty-nine American, British, French, German, Italian and Norwegian missionaries and busi ness men. On Sunday, August 3, Father Biany arrived in Han kow. He had been captured by the Communists and had been detained by them for several days in their headquar ters in the buildings of the Hunan Bible Institute. After his release he went at once to Hankow and as soon as Mr. Roberts learned of his arrival he called on him. Mr. Roberts cannot speak Italian, and Father Biany cannot
LETTER from Dr. F. A. Keller, superintendent of the Hunan Bible Institute, China, posted at Kobe, Japan, August 22, gives authentic and fairly complete information concerning damage idone to mission properties in Changsha during the recent Communistic attack upon that city. It states that the Bible Institute suffered very little loss, and encourages the hope that it may be possible to carry on the activities of the Institute during the coming year with out serious interruption. Dr. Keller, who was at the time en route to China with Mrs. Keller and two new work
speak English ; but both are fluent speak ers of Chinese. By the use of the Chi nese language Mr. Roberts was. able to secure a full and re liable report of the conditions in Chang sha and especially on our own compound from one who had just come from there. On August 5, the Communists w e r e driven from Chang sha and on that very evening some of our faithful employees returned to our build ings. Early the next morning others fol lowed them. Fortu nately, the water be gan to rise in the river and on August 6, a Japanese steamer sailed from Hankow for Changsha. The
ers, Rev. and Mrs. Everett F. Harrison, received his infor mation f r o m Rev. Charles A. Roberts, of the Hunan Bible Institute staff, and Rev. C. C. Talbot, a missionary of t h e Evangelical Church. His letter follows. —Editor. On Sunday after noon, July 27, Mr. Helde of the Y . M. C. A. and our Mr. R o b e r t s walked through the city to investigate t h e ru mors that were be coming m o r e and more serious. They found the people in a state of panic. Im mediately on his re turn, Mr. Roberts packed t w o boxes with a r t i c l e s of special importance so
MISSIONARIES OF THE HUNAN BIBLE INSTITUTE WHO SAILED FOR CHINA FROM VANCOUVER ON AUGUST 7. LEFT TO RIGHT: REV. EVERETT F. HARRISON, MRS. HARRISON, MRS. KELLER, DR. FRANK A. KELLER.
next evening a British steamer, with an armed guard, also sailed from Hankow for Changsha, and our Mr. Roberts was one of the passengers eager to return to his work. They reached Changsha on Saturday evening, but on ac count of the strict martial law they could not go ashore until Sunday morning; After reaching our compound and looking over all the buildings, Mr. Roberts wrote on August 12 : “ We truly have much to be grateful for when we compare the condi tion of our compound with that of other missions. The buildings, including our houses, are all in good condition, except that the walls are decorated with all kinds of slo gans. Even the electric-fittings are untouched and in good order, and practically no furniture has been destroyed or taken away.” Mr. Roberts had not had time to make a thorough investigation of the personal losses of clothing, bedding, dishes and other effects of the various members o f our staff, but he wrote that my steel safe had been broken open
that he m i g h t be p r e p a r e d for emergencies. That same evening, in response to an urgent summons from the British Consul, Mr. Roberts went down to the river with his two boxes. American, British, and other nationals crossed the river safely though bullets were con stantly whizzing by them. They assembled at the British Consulate where soldiers from the American and British gun boats were on guard. A few missionaries, who re mained in the city until Monday morning, had to make their exit hurriedly and empty-handed, and even so were barely able to escape. About midnight a terrific explosion was heard in the city, fallowed by a burst of flames. An attack was being made on the offices of the Governor. Soon another fire broke out, then another, and by morning five huge blazes could be seen in various parts of the city. The water in the river was falling rapidly and on Mon day morning the H.M.S. Aphis was obliged to drop down the river a few miles. On Tuesday morning she sailed for
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and rifled. Some of my books had been destroyed, though the majority of them had not been touched. The contents of the files and desk drawers in my office had been scat tered about and the steel filing cases had suffered consid erable injury. The damage done to mission property, during Com munistic occupation, July 27 to August 5, is reported by Rev. C. C. Talbot, as follows: China Inland Mission. Completely looted and badly damaged; not burned. Hospital not looted; Blind School looted and used as barracks by “ Reds.” Near the Hunan Bible Institute. Norwegian Lutheran Mission. Thoroughly looted; buildings torn down to avoid burning. Outside Liu Yang Gate residences looted and damaged. Near the Hunan Bible Institute. Hunan Bible Institute. School buildings and furniture not damaged. Residences of missionaries and Chinese teachers looted but not damaged. Faith Orphanages. Allan Cameron’s. Petty thieving on July 28. Church o f Sweden Mission. Not damaged. Mission of the Evangelical Church. Tung P ’ai Lou Street premises: Church, residences and Girls’ School not damaged; other buildings torn down to avoid burning; petty thieving. Siao Wu Men Street premises : Only walls and part of roof left. English Wesleyan Mission. Safe, in the residence of Rev. W. H. Pillow, opened and robbed on the night of July 30. Church partly torn down to avoid burning; resi dences not touched. Seventh Day Adventist. Church partly torn down to avoid burning; petty thieving. American Church Mission (Episcopal). Church and small buildings looted and badly damaged on afternoon and night of July 30. School building burned; only part of walls standing. Residence of Rev. Walworth Tyng set on fire; fire extinguished by servants who also saved about one-half of the personal effects of the Tyngs. House and roof badly damaged: American Presbyterian Mission. On July 30, resi dences of Rev. W . H. Lingle, Rev. Ch’en Meng San, and part of the I-Seng School looted and burned. Residences of Rev. W . H. Clark, Miss Davis, and the lady teachers thoroughly looted and damaged. Four buildings of the Fu-Siang Union Girls’ School thoroughly looted and damaged. Ch’en-Chih School looted. New church build ing under construction not touched. Roman Catholic. Church completely looted, July 28 and 29, except one picture. Residence of the Fathers thor oughly looted and damaged, Foundling Home: A large part of the furniture, children’s clothing and bedding, and all drugs stolen. Residence of the Sisters completely looted and badly damaged. Hsiang-Ya Hospital (Hospital of Yale-in-China). Hospital buildings looted,July 28 and 30; all money, drugs and instruments stolen except the contents of two store rooms. Doors and windows broken.0Residences not looted. Petty thieving in Medical School. Yale-in-China. College buildings and residences not touched. Y. M. C. A . and Y. W. C. A. Mission buildings not touched. Y.M.C.A. residences thoroughly looted and dam-, aged. Very near the Hunan Bible Institute.
Faith Confirmed My faith in the Bible.is confirmed, in personal expe rience, by the adequacy of the good news it brings. It speaks o f pardon, adoption, comfort in sorrow, grace to help, victory in death, life everlasting. This bread satisfies the soul’s hunger; this river of salvation quenches the thirst; this armor of God is invulnerable; this sword of the Spirit is double-edged and invincible. — A . J. F. Behrends, D.D. A Missionary’s Estimate of Gandhi A new subscriber to T he K ing ' s B usiness , writing from India, gives the following interesting estimate of Gandhi and his work. “ May I, as a missionary of nearly thirty-eight years’ experience in India, put in a word concerning Gandhi? I am distressed at the attitude of overseas journalists. Gan dhi is a visionary, one who has undoubtedly the readiness of speech common to Indians; which gift has brought him vast sums of money—for which he never accounts to the public. He is entirely without gratitude to the Empire to which he owes every advantage, educational and otherwise, of his life. In India we have become familiar with him as an agitator for a suicidal policy, who seeks retirement oi arrest directly he realizes his enterprise a failure, and thus proves himself an arrant coward, leaving always be hind him a trail of bloodshed and murder. As missionaries, our work continues untouched by such unrest. In Madras last week an old Telugu military pensioner, a Roman Catholic, sitting by my side in the motor bus, asked if I did not think Gandhi was (an) Antichrist. The poor lepers in the asylums, the consumptives o f the hospitals, welcome the Gospel as before; they would not get it if Gandhi had his way and the white missionaries left India.” — o — hallow all the varied experiences of the common day—our home, our business, our recreations, our politics, our eco nomics, our studies—we can hallow them all by a spirit that never asserts itself in presumption or vulgarity, but which remains upon its knees as ever in the presence of the eternal and holy God. “ Know ye not that ye are the temple?” Have, then, a temple service where prayer pro ceeds without ceasing. Let us walk on into the temple of the Apostle Paul. If he were the temple, who was the priest? “ Present your bodies a living sacrifice.” Did the priest offer sacrifices in his temple? Yes, the fife was never out upon the altar. What did he sacrifice? Himself. “ I am poured out upon the altar.” He offered himself in a ceaseless dedication to his God. These are the temple services of the Apostle Paul. “ We thank God without ceasing.” “ We pray with out ceasing.” “ I am poured out upon the altar.” Thanks giving ! Supplication! Sacrifice! This was the temple ser vice that knew no ending. This is the nature of spiritual life. This is the worship in the spirit. This is the deep secret of home life as opposed to the uncertain life of the streets. “ Know ye not that ye are the temple?” Let your soul be a ceaseless worshiper. “ We worship God in the spirit.” Worship in the Spirit ( Continued from page 452)
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to the foundation, it will tear it out. It must be made strong enough to withstand this service for many years. So we, as Christians, are founded upon the rock Christ Jesus, “ for other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.” With this immovable bed rock, we, as living (or growing) stones, “are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; in whom all the building, fitly framed together, groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord.”
HEN a college student, I came to Christ very definitely, having before that tried unsuccess fully to live the Christian life without having been born again by the Holy Spirit. As my parents were Orthodox Friends, my first Christian experience was along the line of introspection and seeking holy living. But I found, after some years, that I was simply going in circles and was entirely dissatisfied with my lack of fruitfulness. Although
I believed it because it was in the Bible, I did not see why it was necessary for the Lord Jesus to shed His blood for me. A friend from North Carolina helped me very much by telling me, “ Charles, what I believe thee needs to do is to fix thy gaze upon Jesus Christ hanging up on Calvary’s cross for thee, shedding His precious blood in atonement for thy sins, and believe it just as if thee were the only one concerned in it, and also be lieve it (and-be sure about this) not be cause thee feels it, but because God says it in His Book.” It was quite an effort to change my attitude of mind, but the result was that, obeying John 3:14, 15, I saw that Jesus Christ had borne all my sins and the sins of the whole world. Then I was filled with a desire to bring others to a saving knowledge o f Jesus Christ, and I be came active in Gospel work. S piritual T ruth I llustrated in a S teel M ill I have been engaged during most of my life in iron and steel manufacture. ,1 have found that the iron and steel work ers and the railroad men with whom I have been thrown, have no particular difficulty in believing the realities of the Bible. Furthermore, in the steel mills
I have frequently taken pleasure in showing Christian friends who visit the steel mill a beautiful illustration of the rapture o f the saints. It is a large elec tric magnet,,,shaped like a huge cheese -box, handled by a big Gantry crane which is used for unloading and reload- ing pig iron and scrap for melting in the furnaces. Little pieces of steel or iron fall to the grourid, and accumulate. Some of them are covered with dust. When the operator;, in response to a signal to lower the magnet within a foot of the, ground, turns on the electric current, im mediately all these little particles of steel and iron rise from the dust and cling to the magnet. Copper* silver, nickel or gold coins, thrown on the ground, re main unaffected by the magnet. Once, after I had been showing this to a visiting friend, the operator of the crane came down from his elevated cage and said, “ That is what is going to take place with us Christians when the Lord Himself comes back for us.” T he I mportance of F ire It would be impossible to make iron and steel without flre.. Fire is required, first, to change the iron ore into clean metal. Fire is necessary to refine it,
0 Holy Ghost, arise, Thy temple fill: With cleansing fire baptize My yielded will. Breath from above, refine r My waiting, heart:. Impulse and power divine To me impart. Thou very Light of Light, Poured from, on high, Kindle with vision bright My inward eye. Cleanse, and illume, and fill— It shall be so: Then send me where Thou will And I will go. — A . J. Gordon.
to temper it and make it fit for use. Finally, fire is needed to generate the power to reduce and shape the steel. The iron and steel worker, then, is naturally interested when he sees mention made of fire in the Bible, and after a little study, recognizes the close connection between the priesthood and the priestly sacrifices and the fire. The token of the acceptance of the Old Testament sacrifices was the divine fire that consumed them. For instance, Elijah, in the test with the prophets of Baal, said, “ The God that answereth by fire, let him be God.” The wor shipers of Baal called all day upon their god, but no fire came. Then, at the time of the evening sacrifice, when the sin offering was being sacrificed in the temple in Jerusa lem, Elijah prayed, and the fire of the Lord fell and con sumed the sacrifice and the altar. Abraham and Gideon had similar experiences. David, likewise, in the time of pestilence when thousands of peo- f Continued on pag6 461)
many practical spiritual lessons may be learned. For in stance, in preparing the foundations for machinery and furnaces, wherever possible and practicable, we dig down until we come to solid rock, then build a sub-structure of immense foundations, fastening heavy iron bolts in them from the bottom. These are used to hold down the massive machinery that is placed on top of the foundations ready to roll the steel from large ingots, into the finished product. The machinery is made very strong for the heavy work it has to withstand. The powerful engine has a fly wheel about twenty-five feet in diameter, weighing from fifty to one hundred tons. Its periphery flies around at a speed- of a mile a minute. One can realize that when a large block of hot steel is pushed into the mill rolls, the tremendous power of the engine supplemented by the momentum of this fly wheel, will either draw the steel through the rolls and- reduce its dimensions stage by stage, or, if the machinery has riot sufficient foundation and is not securely anchored
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