May 1926
T H E K I N G ’ S B U S I N E S S
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**> please God by sounding the alarm and demanding that no teacher shall be allowed to allure the youth of our land with their Satanic sophistries. ^ Read the notice in this issue of what the “ Bible Crusaders of America” have accomplished in Mis sissippi by which the teaching of evolution is forbidden in the tax-supported schools of that State. What has been done in Mississippi can^ e done in any State where the citizens are aroused to the danger which threatens our young people. THE WELL WORTH WHILE WORLD-WIDE WORK Our Lord was a worker. With His own hands He
THE PIED PIPER OF PEDAGOGY Who is not familiar with the old tale of The Pied Piper of Hamelin immortalized by Robert Browning in rhyme ? The legend relates how that a certain musi cian, dressed in a fantastic coat, came to the town of Hamelin and, in a spirit of revenge, drew the children, by the magic of the tones of his pipe, to a cavern in the side of a hill which, upon their entrance, closed and shut them in forever. What could be more suggestive than the cartoon Mr. Daniels has given us in helping to visualize the sad story of our student population today t There are probably more than twenty million boys and girls, young men and women, in our State-supported schools,
moulded a n d fash ioned the universe. “ All t h i n g s were made by Him, and without Him was not any thing made that was made.” T h a t statement is about as conclusive as it could be, for it includes “ all things.” God’s plan for this j world was mapped out in eternity, and in the fulness of time He came to the stable in Bethlehem and was bora of a woman. He was known as “ the Carpenter’s son” for thirty years. There is a veil over those years in Nazareth, but we can picture Him at work at the bench. He was a Man, a r e a l Man,' a promised Man, and w h e n the time came for Him to take up the work for which He left the glories of H e a v e n , He an nounced it and took it up in the most definite ly practical manner.
for the construction and support of which we are being heavily taxed. We want our chil dren trained to think and to know funda mental facts in order that they may be qualified to become self-supporting, loyal citizens of our land. History records that, in the past, our public schools h a v e b e e n largely instrumental in- building up o u r sterling citizenship. In those early days, the Bible lay on the teacher’s desk a n d was honored as God’s Word. There was no question as to the in errancy of that Book. Character was formed through faith in the Bible, and its precepts were woven into the lives of our youth; It was never d e n i e d , never treated irrever ently, and because of this we have b e e n b l e s s e d a b o v e all other n a t i o n s .
His work was world-wide work. “ God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.” The world was already under condemnation. Sin had brought the curse, and every child born into the world since Adam’s day has been under the curse. Man could do nothing to lift this curse. Only God’s Son could bring salvation to lost souls, and our Lord gave up Heaven to live a homeless life on this earth. The birds of the air had nests, but the Son of Man had not where to lay His |head. He allied Himself to a band of poor fishermen and set out to tell the story to lost souls. Me mingled with the common people and they heard Him gladly. He was despised and rejected of men, but He continued His work until He bore the sins of the world and paid the penalty by the sacrifice of His own life-blood. He arose from the dead and commissioned His fol-
But today, the Pied Pipers in our institutions of learning, from the grammar schools up, are playing the most dastardly, unholy game ever played. We are paying professors and teachers who delight in under mining the faith of the students. The students listen to their sweet, seductive strains and are led into the dark cavern of doubt and unbelief which ends in hell, while we lie supinely upon our backs and hug the delusive phantom of hope that it will come out all right somehow. Many of these young people go to so-called Sunday Schools and churches where they hear the same kind of music from the lips of pastors and teachers. We read the startling statistics about the lowered stan dard, of morals of the present generation, give a yawn and go to sleep! For God’s sake, let us wake up! Let us demand a change of tune from the lips of the pipers, and let us
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