THE KING’S BUSINESS TESTIMONY OF A SKEPTIC By JOSEPH MILLER
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A S A result of allowing myself to be guided by the flagrant attacks upon the Bible by both the rabid and bigoted expounders of this untrue teaching and its extensive literature, my faith in the Bible was badly shaken if not wholly destroyed. X looked upon the Christian world as com posed of two classes—the fools and the knaves. This latter class, although they knew better, continued to dispense this mythical story, as it were, for their own material benefit. I began to dabble in the major portion of the new cults which are springing up as a result of people desiring a faith which will not encroach upon their own meanness, but allow them to continue in their deprav ity and viciousness to their hearts’ content; all they have to do is to' take long-distance treatments, or lessons in soul culture. How ever, this rigmarole does not seem to have any effect upon their cussedness. As a result of seeing these shams and hollow mockeries, and realizing that they are a sort of mental gymnastics that they practice, in order to forget their natural meanness, I became disgusted with the whole catalogue. What did more to bring me to my senses than anything, was not masterly use of language by some famous preacher, but some simple, earnest Chris tian, who had the Christ love within him to go and lift a human being who had made himself lower than a beast through his alcoholic stupor, which made him a nui sance to himself and, everybody else. This human wreck, upon whom everybody looked with pity and contempt, but none of whom were willing to soil their hands to lift him up, left him to a surly officer to take and throw him into jail. I did
not see the “New Thoughtist” or “Yoga- ist” or the Christian Scientist come and tell this wretched human being that there is hope for him to redeem himself and make himself a decent member of society. They were busy taking lessons in the art of giving absent treatments for mythical diseases. It took the simple faith of an earnest Christian ,who could see through the ragged exterior a priceless soul for which his Saviour bled and died, and in whom He was as much interested as if he were the greatest of the great. This simple deed does more to convict human hearts than all the scholarly preach ing combined; a real love for humanity is only to be found where the individual is wholly abandoned tp Christ. ------- “0-------- Worthy of Emulation John Sterry, in far-away Mackwood, 'South Australia, in enclosing approxi mately $25 for the Bible Institute harbor work, writes as follows: “I- have been much interested in the harbor work at Los Angeles, as given in T he K ing ’ s B usiness , and am now enclos ing a money order for 5 lbs. sterling, toward the maintenance of* the work, and desife that there may be much blessing in this, which is a wide form of seed-sowing.” The example of this loyal Christian Australian should prove an incentive to many others nearer home. This, and other funds for the support of similar work, and for sending this magazine to missionaries who are themselves unable to pay for it, are crying out for just such splendid dona tions.
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