August 1930
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Biola Challenge R EPEATED statements concerning the Biola Chal lenge are justified because only so can the prayerful sympathy and practical help of the many friends of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles be enlisted. The responsi bility for the continuance and the enlargement of the min istry of the Institute rests, after all, not upon a few mem bers of the official family located at Los Angeles, but upon the world-wide circle of brethren in the Lord who believe that Biola has had a worth while record and that it can have much larger usefulness in the future. Names of many new friends are coming every day from far and near. No appeals for money have been made; but some have anticipated the needs with their offer ings. For this we are grateful. A National Advisory Committee is being formed. Well-known Christian laymen, residing in all sections of America, form this group. Further, special effort is being made in California, with good success, to obtain expressions of appreciation from, outstanding Christian men which show how highly the Institute is esteemed at home. In the early fall the climax of all these preparations and plans will come in a convocation at Los Angeles at which time, without improper publicity or unworthy meth ods, the good will of the community can be crystallized. The readers of The King’s Business will recognize from the various statements that have been made that the main purpose of all the effort is to obtain the support o f many thousands of God’s children who will pray us through to larger and better things. A rich endowment of such friends Bible Institute. Prospective Student Enrollment M OST cheering news comes from the Institute staff concerning the outlook for next year. In former years the rush of applications from intending students has generally come during the month of August. This summer as many new students had been accepted before May 15th as have usually been received by August 15th. Early in July there had already been as many reservations of rooms in the Women’s Building for next year as were in use at any time by students last winter. This goes to show that Biola is in favor with young people who desire training for Christian service. They are coming for the next school opening, September 17, 1930, in larger numbers than have appeared any opening day during the past six or seven years. It is quite within the range of possibility that the attendance during the new year will nearly approach if not equal the highest record of the Institute’s history. The announcement of the new Bible Collegiate Course has been most heartily received. Christian parents and young people are impressed with the possibility of obtain ing the cultural value of a college course with a Biblical background: The subjects of the first three years will be offered next year. • Friends and supporters of the Institute will thank God for this manifest evidence of ‘the Lord’s blessing. If He sends the students for training, as He is surely doing, He can be trusted to meet every need, ’temporal and spiritual.
years. Earthly possessions and acquisitions, however choice, have worth only as they are transmuted to these immortal traits of character. Nothing has permanent value that will not bear transportation when we leave this world. . T he N atural M an and the T hings of G od “ The natural man receiveth not the things o f the Spirit of God : for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.” Sup pose that a physicist comes to lecture before a highly edu cated blind man upon the properties of light and color. The blind man is charmed with his excellency of speech, but when the lecturer leaves, a chimney sweep comes along and says, “ You know a great deal, but you do not know the first thing about color. You are blind. Come with me to a man who will give you sight.” At first the blind man is indignant, but at last he is convinced, and he goes. His sight is restored, and when the light bursts in upon him he thanks God that the chimney sweep lifted him to the level of the light instead of trying to bring the light down to the level of his blindness. Has wisdom then no place in the matter of salvation? No and yes. No, because the world through its wisdom knew not God. Yes, because we get a superior wisdom from our Lord Jesus. The apostle Paul explains it in 1 Corinthians 2 :6: “Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom o f this world, nor of the princes o f this world, that come to naught : but we speak the wisdom o f God in a mystery, irven the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory, which none o f the princes o f tins world knew : -for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord o f glory.” Surely that chimney sweep was wiser than the physicist. The physicist could not give light, but the chimney sweep could lead to the sight giver, and one hour of direct vision is worth an hundred years o f groping in darkness. A philosopher was crossing a stream. As he entered the ferryboat he picked up a pebble and said to the ferry man, “ Do you know geology?” The ferryman replied, “ No.” The learned man said, “ One quarter of your life is lost.” As they went on thè philosopher picked up a leaf that was floating in the stream and said, “ Do you know . botany?” • 1 The ferryman replied, “ No.” “ Then one half of your life is lost.” By and by they reached midstream and the philosopher, looking up to the starry heavens, said, “ Do you know astronomy ? “ No, sir.” “ Then,” said the philosopher, “ three quarters of your life is lost.” Just then the ferryman looked up the stream and saw a wall of water coming down upon them. The dam had burst. Turning to the philosopher he said, “ Sir, do you know how to swim?” “ No.” “ Thdn,” said the ferryman, “ the whole of your life is lost.” There are crises, when knowledge of botany, geology and astronomy are of no avail and the only thing that will suffice is the wisdom that cometh from above. God only is our sufficiency.
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