August, 1942 THE KI NG ’ S BUSINESS NOTES on Christian Endèavor FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
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There always have b e e n , certain basic needs, and the mode of satisfac tion of these needs has created the problems—not the needs themselves. The Christian young person finds that for him as a follower of the Lord, in stead of denying or smothering these heeds, the only question is that of how they can be met in such a man ner as to satisfy and yet be consistent in observing the standards of Him who would “sanctify wholly.” For Those Who Have Topics | I. A SAVIOUR WHO UNDERSTANDS YOUTH’S NEEDS. A ll the urges and desires that rise up within' our hearts are familiar to the Lord Jesus Christ, not only be cause He has gone over the same way Himself, but also because “ thy hands have made me and fashioned me” (Psa. 119:73). Who knows more com pletely or intimately the inner and outer workings of, say, a motor, than the one who planned and constructed it? So, the Creator of these human motors—these bodies, souls, and spir its of ours—experienced what are the normal reactions to life. And, as In anticipation of this, Peter tells us, “His divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and god liness” (2 P e t . 1:3). Therefore, He “knows all the answers” to the ques tions of youth and has made ample provision for their needs. II. YOUTH HELD RESPONSIBLE. The writer of Ecclesiastes, in 11:9, from the midst of his evident aware ness of the emptiness and vanity of life apart from God and the joy of youthful years, exhorts: “Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes.” However, attached to this is the warn ing, “ But know thou, that for all these things God w ill bring thee into judg ment.” In other words, have a cars how you walk and how you satisfy the characteristic desires of this age (cf. Eccl. 12:1). For the positive side of the portrait of Christian y o u t h , study Paul’s instructions to Timothy dnd Titus, in the Epistles addressed to them. III. WHOLESOME USE OF LEISURE TIME. One of the problems that persist- Write forFREESample “ T h e D oorstep E v a n g e l’* w id e ly used to w in souls. 4-page M on th ly d istrib uted by Churches, Classes ana in d ivid uals. L o w in cost, H ig h in Results. W iiy not in vestig a te? W rite, en closing s.tamp for, m ailin g, to
Th e W r i t e r s
September 6—RUTH H. WALTER
Miss Walter (Biola ’27) served as Superintendent of Women » at the Bible Institute of Los Angeles from 1927 to 1929. For three years she was a member of the staff at “The Firs” Con ference at Bellingham, Wash., and for the past five years has been Dean of Worpen at the Multnomah School of the Bible, Portland, Ore., ' Miss Locher, who attended the Bible Institute of Los Angeles fronj 1938 to 1940, is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, where she attended the University Bible Club and was for two years president of the college group in a church át Berkeley. At present she is teaching English and journalism at Chaffee Union High School, Ontario, Calif., and has charge of a Bible study group among students of Chaffey Junior College. Miss Uhlinger (Biola ’41) has been taking a pre-nursing course at the University of California at Los Angeles, where she has been working with the Koinonia Bible Club on the campus. She has also been a speaker at various Christian Endeavor meetings, telling of her experiences in Africa as member of a missionary household thérp, where her parents ' have served under the Africa Inland Mission. Miss Sieben (Biola ’29) is an. editorial assistant on the staff of THE KING’S BUSINESS and has been serving as a leader- in Sunday-school, Christian youth groups, and Bible confer ences. v
September 13— ADELAIDE W. LOCHER .
September 20— LOIS UHLINGEB
September 27— IDELLA SIEBEN
here on earth where all of us start as a babe. He developed as any other person by passing from the appealing helplessness of infancy to the delight ful years of childhood and its -adven tures on through to the absorbing ex perience of “growing up.” And be cause He knew the inestimable value of experimental knowledge and, had the loving patience' to give all those years over to learning, among other things, about life in the flesh, we can not but realize how truly “he knoweth the way that I take” (Job 23:10). Modern educators and psychologists talk, at length of “youth problems” which are without any question real and urgent, but how lamentably few recognize the understanding wisdom of Him whose younger years in Naz areth held all the experiences, in es sence, that have been c o m m o n to youth since t he ’ w o r l d began and which (have not changed in this day except in their outer wrappings!
September 6, 1942 HOBBIES FOR ALL , E c c le s ia s te s 11:9 By Ruth H. Walter Introduction
Thè religion o f Jesus Christ is very practical, and a follower of Him finds, that the Lord’s interest and guidance would reach to every phase of his life. “And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul arid body be preserved blameless unto the coming of bur Lord Jesus Christ” (1 Thess. 5:23). Our Lord would sanctify—“set apart” for Himself—the entire person and all his activities. And not only that, but this would be for all the years of life after the individual be comes His. Jesus Christ stooped from the throne of God and clothed Himself with hu man flesh, choosing to begin. His life
THE DOORSTEP EVANGEL Dr. Willard M. Aldrich, Editor
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