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August, 1944
Current Business LOUIS T. TALBOT, Editor-In-Chief
CREATOR and REDEEMER “ He showed them his hands” (Lk. 24:40). What glory when I see the hands That formed the seas and all the lands. That molded mighty stars in space • Yet fashioned snowflake’s dainty lace— And how I’ll love Him when I see Those blessed hands, nail- scarred for me! — Charlotte E. Arnold. “To Bedell Smith with affectionate re gards and my complete confidence.” Think what it would mean to have the a f f e c t i o n and "complete confi dence” of “the Chief of Staff of the United States Army! But the child of God has something greater. He has the personal love of the Lord of heaven and earth. And, inexplicable though it be, he has also His confidence. “Ye have not chosen me,” -He declares, “but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should . . . bring forth fruit” (John 15:16). We Christians ought to live under the daily i n s p i r a t i o n of that one blessed Face. We ojight to show to the w o r l d np conflicting interests. There is only One'Person to please: we have His confidence; we have His love. What else can matter? - Biola’s Program I There is evidence that the enroll ment at the Bible Institute of Los An geles and its affiliated Bible Theologi cal Seminary will be the largest in many years. Registration begins on September 5. Three-year diploma courses are of fered in Christian Education, Sacred Music, and Bible. Four-year Theologi cal Seminary courses leading to ap propriate Bachelor degrees are offered in Sacred Music, Christian Education, and Theology. There is no tuition charge. The cost of board and room as well as other expenses are kept to a minimum. Young men especially are invited to come to the Institute for as long a time as may be available to them be fore induction into the armed forces. For men and women alike, training is provided which will furnish the best kind of equipment for witnessing for Christ in the postwar world.
are concerned — may,suddenly close with a bang. Missionaries are continuing to arrive from the Orient by every available ship, and .they do not bring happy re ports. They wish to say no more than is necessary about existing conditions, but it is a stark fact that they feel keenly the smugness of the. church at home, the self-sufficiency that makes for impotency both before God and men. If bloody revolution is to be averted in many lands in the East and in the West at the close of this war, then the c h u r c h must stop dead in her tracks, reverse her program of flip pancy and professionalism and return "with strong crying and tears” ,to the Lord who has been outraged by dis obedience to His commands to evan gelize the world. We do well to recall the words of Peter: “For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of «. God: and if it begin first at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?” (1 Pet. 4:17). Unless the much-talked-of postwar missionary program is the product of ' the church upon its knees, then all the monies poured into its coffers, and all the candidates preparing to go forth with the new equipment of a modem age of science will be useless, for there will be only resentment and refusal on the part of the “newly liberated” peoples to hear the message of love and redemption. Pray for China: pray as never be fore. This is the hour of emergency and of unmatched opportunity. There must be no delay. One Portrait General Eisenhower’s Chief of Staff is himself a remarkable person. This General Walter Bedell Smith, -as one of a handful of strategists, worked out the closely guarded moves for the European invasion. When a definitive history of the operation can be writ ten, it probably will be discovered that General Smith was the man -who saw it most clearly from its inception to the fateful Monday morning when the actual movement for assault was set. This trait of having one straight aim is characteristic of him. It is evi denced in his office, located a few steps from G e n e r a l Eisenhower’s. There on the wall is a single portrait, that of General George Marshall. A visitor sitting beside Smith’s desk has no trouble in reading the inscription:
No Fear One of the signs of thé approach of the end of the age is that men’s hearts shall fail them for fear. But the child of God is to be with out anxiety. He possesses the anti dote for fear; he has confidence in the One who will make “all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.” Does every Christian actually live fearlessly? He should. The world expects and the Lord provides that a testimony be given to unbelievers that will prove that those who put their trust in Christ will have their needs supplied. Viewed this way, all the ter rors of the p r e s e n t day have new meaning. It was the blind and godly George Matheson who once grasped this truth and wrote; O my God, teach me, when the. shadows have gathered, that there is a way through. The shadows tell me that I shall stand one day upon the p e a k s of Olivet, the heights of resurrection glory. But I want more, O my Father; I want Calvary to lead up to it. I want to know that the shadows of this world are the shades of an ave nue—the avenue to the house of my Father. I shall receive no hurt from sorrow if I walk in the midst of the fire. China The picture in China is black. Seven years of warfare have passed for this nation, and in their wake are poverty, injustice, agony of heart, death. At the same time courage has grown, and the will to be free. An indomi table people, the Chinese have suffered bitterly, and their present sorrows are almost beyond comparison. The Japanese have made advances. They have taken Changsha, where the Hunan Bible Institute is located, and thus this C h i n a department of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles is at present in occupied territory. But the testimony of Jesus Christ goes on, and it will continue to do so. Members of the Biola Evangelistic Bands are at work in various regions, and souls are being saved through this and other instrumentalities. It is impossible to explain all that is going on in China, even to under stand it This much we know: Unless the Lord's people take the situation seriously and prayerfully, the door to China—so far as her spiritual needs
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