of a man who fought his way to com mercial leadership not at the expense, but always in the service of humanity; who wrested the wealth that gave him power to fill his life with good works, only from the hard and hidden treasure house of mother earth. “ Those who gather in sympathy to day, to pay the last honors to Lyman Stewart, will not be thinking of him as the head of a great corporation, who from a single well drilled at Newhall twenty years ago built up the powerful Union Oil Company —r all worthy of praise and honor though he be for so splendid an enterprise. “Nor will they be thinking of the faith and foresight he displayed when after the first discovery of oil in Penn sylvania sixty-four years ago he invested all the slowly-collected savings from his hard earned wages in buying a fraction of a lease in the new fields—though the example is one with a lesson for all the toilers and spinners of today. . “ They will not be thinking of the pluck and endurance that in the early California days saw him win victory from defeat, staking his all on the small loan offered at the eleventh hour by a true friend who knew his worth and believed in his success. “ Rather they will turn their eyes to the building of the Bible Institute that his faith in God and his desire to serve gave as a monument to his memory— such as before all else he desired to leave behind him. And they will recall how continuously and without one thought of self he gave, freely as he had re ceived, to every good object for the ad vancement of a better and brighter world. “Not because of his indomitable spirit, not to glorify his earthly successes would our old friend, we feel sure, wish those who knew him and will miss him to pay their last tribute of sympathy and respect to his mortal remains. But look ing down his spirit would say to them simply: “ ‘Write me as one who loved his fel low man’.” Another School Year B Y the grace of God, the Bible In stitute of Los Angeles opens wide its doors for another school year with an enrollment totaling about 825. We praise God for this further evidence of His grace and we seek His loving favor in order that we may teach these stu dents God’s truth and lead them into the paths of profitable experience. The Bible Institute of Los Angeles continues to follow its original policy of accepting and training young people from any evangelical denomination with out charging the student for his tui tion. With a student body of many hun dreds, and costs rising constantly, it is an ever-increasing reminder to call upon God for His sustaining grace. For the past number of years God has blessed a sponsorship plan whereby in terested people could stand behind the training cost of one student for one year T H E K I N G ' S B U S I N E S S
Dope For Teen-agers O NE of the current campaigns of the public press is being directed against a most alarming symptom of our civilization: the sale to and use of dope by teen-agers. Editors and social workers alike have become tremendously exer cised over this situation and have begun a crusade to acquaint the public with the dangers which are involved. Many newspapers have been printing extensive details, of the alarming inroads of this evil into the lives of our American youth. Certainly narcotics are a menace of the first order to young peoples’ lives and morals. This is a most shameful condition to appear in the enlightened twentieth century. No time should be lost in exercising every agency possible to curb and stamp out this monster which enslaves and which degrades. But we should like to ask a question in this regard, especially of those news papers and magazines that so loudly proclaim their high altruistic interest in the affairs of our youth. What about the menace of liquor? There is no ques tion but that dope constitutes slavery, but the liquor habit is a thousand times more widespread. Teen-agers are acquir ing the liquor habit by leaps and bounds with no one to say “nay.” While “ dope” is sold by shady peddlers on side streets, liquor is openly and brilliantly displayed on billboards, tele vision and radio. The liquor stores are allowed to be open far into the night and no one raises his voice against them. The same newspapers that run pages of copy against the dope habit never so much as mention the liquor habit and the reason is, that on the very same pages where the sordid stories of dope enslavement are shown are also adver tisements of this liquor to the effect that it is the brand which intelligent people use, or the beer which is the choice of the stars. If the “dope” people were carrying large advertisem en ts in the public press perhaps nothing would be said about them, but simply because it is a business which does not threaten any responsible person’s p ock e tb ook , the Page Four
public press may excoriate them as much as they wish. Do not misunderstand. The whole dope activity is desperately bad, and greatly to be deprecated, but the drinking of liquor by teen-agers is a hundred times worse and also worse for adults. Of all the grown-ups in state penitentiaries who are there for passing bad checks, 75% are there because of drinking liq uor. The liquor traffic is a slimy octopus with not eight tenacles, but millions reaching into every nook and cranny of our beloved nation and despoiling all that which is good and high and pure and true. Would to God we had enough right-thinking men and women who, merely on the basis of common sense, would rule this despicable thing from our shores. 28 Years of Glory I T was in the very opening moments of Friday, September 28, 1923, that Lyman Stewart, man of God and great friend of the Bible Institute, went to be with the Lord whom he had served so well for 83 years. As the years pass, Lyman Stewart’s stature continues to grow. More and more do we see the greatness of this business man, who was primarily God’s business man. An edi torial which appeared on the pages of the Los Angeles Times described Lyman Stewart’s home-going in this way: “ LYMAN STEWART PASSES “ After a long life, filled with good works and crowned with success, Lyman Stewart, pioneer, fighter, oil magnate, philanthropist, has passed on. “ Perhaps only some such simple state ment can express that something, tran scending all words, that passes into im mortality with the earthly closing of so useful and so noble a career. “ The record of his life is one of brave struggle, often against overwhelming odds of patient endeavor, often under disheartening circumstances from a poor boy working in a Pennsylvania tannery to the chairmanship of one of the world’s largest oil corporations. “ But the grander part of that record is told in a far better story—the story
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