ing system is God’s will and another is totally wrong is saying quite a bit. This year I had to grade on the A B C sys tem. Personally I do not like it, espe cially for smaller children. By the time you get to a C there isn’t much left, and a C is supposed to be an average grade. As for Progressive and Conservative education, both have their faults and good points. However I do believe we have over emphasized book learning and college degrees. C o n s t a n c e B id d le No address given “ Gobbles it up” I want to tell you how much I enjoy your magazine, The King’s Business. I just literally gobble it up the day it comes. How anyone can have the atti tude that one of your readers has is beyond me! I wonder what advertise ments she was referring to in stating they looked like Stalin propaganda, and where she gets the idea you are work ing against the Christian churches. How ever, everyone is entitled to his own opinion and it isn’t for us to criticize. It is for us to pray, rather, that this woman will seek the truth from God and from God’s Word with all her heart. L a v o n n e E . C a k t Canoga Park, Calif. The Hebrew children were delivered and the others in Hebrews obtained a good report. Indeed the Hebrew children gained a greater blessing in the furnace than they might ever have known outside. There walked with them amidst the flames one “ like the Son of God.” They enjoyed a fellowship with the Lord which they would have missed but for the If Not. There is a communion of the sanctuary, of prayer and of meditation but there is also the communion of the furnace. What looked here like disappointment was His appointment, they had an ap pointment with the Son of God in the furnace. When you are in the midst of the “If Not,” He is there too. He himself faced the greatest of all “If Nots:” “ Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt.” In other words, “But if not, Thy will be done.” I would not chill your enthusiasm if you have set out on the high road of faith. God may grant you fame and prosperity or a furnace and obscurity. But be prepared with Faith’s Alterna tive. Whether you stop the mouth of the lion or the lion’s mouth stops you, whichever procession you march in, let that be incidental. Win a good report through faith. Whether He saves you from the furnace or in the furnace, He will not fail those who put their trust in Him. "BUT IF NOT" (Continued from Page 7)
Dite “S W V 51 ” taLô the -A i r and the W a te r
By Martha Sue Ross, Student at The Bible Instituie of Los Angeles
A S a Student Missionary Union of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles, we longed to do something really worth while for missions. In previous years, we had taken offerings and distributed them evenly among all our Biola graduates on all the mission fields. This year we faced a new situation: the Biola missionary family had grown by leaps and bounds, but the offerings did not increase pro portionally; therefore, each individual missionary was receiving a very small amount. We began to pray that the Lord would lay upon our hearts a project which would be of greater use to a larger number of missionaries. Many suggestions were considered, but the one to supply an airplane for the use of Wycliffe Bible Translators in Peru received the warmest response. Since our Missions Director, Dr. Oran Smith, had mentioned it to us and since we had received both verbal and printed reports concerning its usefulness from the missionaries, and from the Wycliffe publication, we prayed very seriously about it. The moving picture, “ 0, for a Thou sand Tongues,” helped us make our de cision. We saw on the screen this $3,- 500.00 Aeronca in action on the field. After we had talked to Mr. William Nyman, a member of the board and secretary-treasurer of Wycliffe, and had made the final decision in favor of the plane, we felt our step was really ap proved of the Lord when we saw an other missionary picture, ‘‘That They Too Might Hear.” This showed the Aeronca’s usefulness in saving those physically as well as spiritually sick. Biola students responded in a grand way. The offerings kept coming right up to the last, but still we lacked a few hundred dollars. Presentation day, April
6th, was only two weeks away. Then we found that the verse, “My God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus” was really true! When the final day came, we had gone over the top. The plane was paid for! It was ours, and on the door is inscribed “ S.M.U. BIOLA 51” ! On April 6th, the last day of our An nual Missionary Conference we were able to present a $3,500.00 check to Mr. E. S. Goodner, the Vice-President of the Wycliffe Bible Translators, for the pur chase of our Aeronca. The presentation was made by the President of the Stu dent Missionary Union, Ervin Jenkins. Many Biola graduates are going to benefit from the use of S.M.U.’s Aeronca; in fact, Linda and Jack Hen derson (S.M.U. President of ‘48— ’49) plan to leave for this field soon. We do pray that this plane will be used to speed the gospel to those who have never heard. Dr. Talbot dedicated this plane on the field. For that story read the account in the Travel Diary, Page 18. — Ed.
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This is a letter long overdue, but neveretheless I feel I must write' it. I wish to write about the article in the February 1951 issue of The King’s Busi ness in the Bible in the News column— “ Three Battles Lost.” I have had two years of college and have just com pleted one year of second grade teach ing. I, too, consider myself a fundamen tal Christian, but to say that one grad
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