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back—no better : worse, worse. What about climate, about frost or snow or cold weather, when one’s at home ? I wish I had never left it....... I have no money, and I want to get home, home, home.” This cry for home is more or less in every heart and God answered it when He said in Christ, “Let not your heart be troubled : believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father’s house are many mansions (literally, “abid ing places” ) ....... I go to prepare a place for you, and if I go and prepare à placé for you, I come again and will receive you untp Myself ; that where I atp, there ye may be also.” We' were made for Him and we can never be lonely when we are with Him. The Inner Life Revival D R. S. PARKES CADMAN in a recent number of the Federal Council bulletin (Sept.-Oct. 1926) calls at tention to “the Returning Emphasis on the Inner Life” in England and expresses the hope that he may see this glorious revival in the United S t a t e s of America. In order to make this possible he says that its proclamation will have to be splendidly equipped and well led. “It must assert in intelligent ways the major truths of the. New Testament faith. There must be no dealing with iniquity, no compromise with wrong, no economy of truth, no flattering of error, hence those who align themselves with this crusade must be prepared to take risks. They will have to combat the indifference w h i c h paralyzes countless churches and makes them subservient to 'the dictates of worldly-minded multitudes. They will have to refuse to lower Christ’s claim upon the whole life of mankind by a single iota. They must first deal with the individual if they would bring about that social recon struction in justice, peace and security for which the nations are asking today. This answer is the word of one of the greatest mystics of our' day, and undoubtedly reveals the secret of his long and wonderful service for Christ. In a series of short articles we wish to make a study of Mysticism by introducing some of the great mystics to the King’s Business family circle. Next month we will carry an article on the Christian Mystic in which we will briefly explain what Mysticism is. T he C hristian P hilosopher Christianity has a very definite explanation of our world. It accounts for its origin, its meanings and points out its destiny. That means that it has a philosophy of the world. What is that philosophy? How many Chris tians could intelligently answer this question? In Ja series of short articles on the Christian view of God and the world we shall endeavor to indicate the lines on which the most humble Christian can answer this question. In doing this we shall also e n d e a v o r to show how this philosophy may be vindicated in the light of the most searcing thinking of our day. We especially commend these studies to young-people in High Schools and Col leges. Watch the February issue for the first article. — 83 88
dren unspoiled and unpolluted; a place where age is rever enced, infancy protected, womanhood honored, and human life held in due regard,—when skeptics can find such a place ten miles square on this globe where the Gospel of Christ has not gone before and cleared the way and laid the foundations that made decency and security possible, it will then be in order for these skeptical literati to move thither and there ventilate their views, but so long as these men are dependent upon the very religion, which they dis card for every privilege they enjoy, they may well hesi tate to rob the Christian of his hope, and humanity of faith in that Saviour who alone has given td man that hope of eternal life which makes life tolerable and society possible and robs death of its terrors and the grave of its gloom.” In the light of these sane and memorable words it surely cannot be out of the way for Christians everywhere to do all in their power to put the Bible in the home and in the school and, so far as it is possible, into every phase of the life of the nation. The putting of the Bible where it belongs in the life of the individual, the home and the nation is casting a vote for the recognition of God, and there is nothing that America needs more than the cast ing of this vote at this time. The Cry for Home D AVID GRAY, a young Scottish poet who had been educated for the ministry but chose the life of a literary man and lost his health, wrote from London while in poverty and loneliness one of the most appealing let ters to be found in literature. Among other things he said: “I am coming home—homesick. I cannot stay from home any longer. What’s the good of my being so far from home and sick and ill ? O God! I wish I were home never to leave it more! Tell everybody that I am coming B ible P sychology One of the most subtle and searching attacks being made on Christianity today is made from the point of view of psychology. It does not deny religion but en deavors to explain it on purely naturalistic grounds, seek ing to do away with the supernatural. Psychology is a study of the inner life of man and his behaviour and no book has a more comprehensive study o f that life than the Bible. We are going to outline in a series of articles some of the fundamentals of Bible psych ology. This series will begin next month by an article on “Some Reasons Why Christians should Study Psych ology.” T he C hristian M ystic The Christian mystics have been among the richest and most creative souls in the Christian church. They represent a living experience which has kept the fires on the altars of the church burning through the darkest hours of its history. In a recent number of Th6 Life of Faith it was said by Dr. F. B. Meyer in being interviewed about his trip to this country “that many people wanted to discuss Fundamentalism with him but he invariably declined, pointing out to them that religion is not a matter of argument but a spiritual force which may and should influence all.” æ— - 83-
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