tand in tKeWays and see, and ask for the old paths, where
is the good 'Way, and walk therein, and $e shall find rest for j)our souls. Jer. 6:16
T o the Bible men will return because the$ cannot do without it. ’ T he true God is, and must be pre-eminently the God of the Bible. MattHew Arnold
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Church as expressed in the Common Creed The N ecessity of the New B irth. The Maintenance^ of Good W orks. The Second Coming of Christ. The Im m ortality of the Spirit. The R esurrection of the Body. The Life Everlasting of Believers. The Endless Punishm ent of the Im penitent. The Reality and Personality of Satan.
W e hold to the H istoric Faith of the of Evangelical Christendom and including: The T rinity of the Godhead. The D eity of the Christ. The Personality of the H oly Ghost. The Supernatural and Plenary authority of the H oly Scriptures. The U nity in D iversity of the Church, the Body and Bride of C hrist. The Substitutionary Atonement.
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1. There is NONE righteous, no, n o t one. 2. There is NONE th a t under- standeth. 3. There is NONE th a t seek- eth a fte r God. 4. They are ALL gone o u t of th e way. 5. They are tog eth er become unprofitable. 6. There is NONE th a t doeth good, no, n o t one. 7. T h eir th ro a t is a n open sepulchre. 8. W ith th e ir tongues they h a re used deceit. 9. The poison of asps is u n d er th e ir lips. 10. Whose m ou th is fu ll of cursing and bitterness. 11. T heir fee t a re sw ift to shed blood. 12. D estruction and m isery a re in th e ir ways. 13. And th e way of peace they h a re n o t known. 14. There is no fe a r of God before th e ir eyes. Rom. 3:10-18.
The Only P eace Covenant fo r th e P resen t: • Take your tru e place as a Guilty Sinner, accept the Provision of God in His Sovereign Grace, th rough faith in the Redeemer’s Blood: “Being ju stified freely by H is Grace th ro u g h th e Redemption th a t is in CHRIST JESUS.”
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and one of tke editors of T ke King’s Business. Departed to be "with tke Lord, June 12, 1919
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.A. “T R U T H and Error” Number We give extra space in this issue to a discussion of some of the erroneous teachings of the day. It is said that one hot day Truth resolved to take a plunge in the lake. He was having a nice swim when Error came along and thought he too would take a swim. When Error discovered that Truth was swimming not far from him, he made haste to get out of the lake, donned Truth’s clothes, leaving his own in their place, and hastened away from the spot. Truth, soon after, upon finding the filthy rags of Error in place of his own clothes, declared, “ I will not wear those clothes if I have to go naked the rest of my days. ” The naked truth concerning man’s moral and spiritual condition is found in the Bible—tha t’s why some men have a quarrel with it. And the naked truth concerning God’s plan of redemption is found in the Bible, hence the hatred of Satan. Error has ever sought to clothe himself in Scrip ture language for the sake of deceiving religious people, but at heart he is the devil incarnate, seeking the destruction of souls. It is noteworthy that he has ever concentrated his supreme efforts against those particular truths vital to salvation, and every modern ism puts a different construction on the work of Calvary’s Cross. The battle has ever waged around the Cross, and it is hotter today than ever before. What cares the devil what moral pre cepts one selects from the Bible, so long as he can get them to ignore the Cross and go sincerely and religiously to hell? Some are saying, “ Leave these cults alone; if they be not of God they will come to naught.” Suppose you see a friend holding in his hand a cup containing poison, under the impression that it is milk. Will you say, “ Go ahead and drink it, brother: if it is not good for you, you will soon throw it up ?” There is but one right action to take, and that is to arouse him from his sincere but erroneous belief—and even, if necessary to dash the cup from his hand. Shall not the Christian raise his voice in protest when friends and relatives about him are sincerely taking the poisonous draught? Is ‘it pos sible to contend for the faith without contending against those things which are against the faith ?—Editors.
SOM E PRA C T ICA L and Wise Women We recently called attention to the necessity of using wisdom in mak ing our gifts for God’s work, stating that many give indiscriminately, and that often such gifts prove to be an unfortunate investment. Money given to schools and colleges and for missionary purposes, that would go into the hands of men and women who deny the faith, would be a serious blunder
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THE K I N G ’S BUS I NES S 695 Breaching an erro r. The tru th is th e pre-m illennial theory, the coming of Christ for H is own, and to fulfill H is prom ise to Israel—K ing and Ruler,— and the sain ts to be caught up to m eet H im in th e air. . . . Then th e g reat tru th came to me and I began to preach it. I was ju s t enough of a th eo rist to say ‘The proof of a -th in g is w hat it does. I am going to see w h at it does.’ I preached to my people. A new sp irit came into th e church. A few months ago I got into a conference where th e re were eight men who were post-m illennarians argu ing ag ain st one pre-m illennarian; eigh t to one. Well, it tak es eight of them to overcome > one of us, then they cannot do it. But th is philosopher said: ‘The only troub le w ith th e pre-m illennial idea is, it cuts the nerve of action. It causes a man to cease his efforts in th is world to bring men to Christ. I t paralyzes activity and makes us visionaries and impracticable; therefo re it cannot he tru e .’ But my experience was th is: I t p u t power into the church; It gave energy for every field of activity. I w ant by th e power of th e Holy Ghost to prepare the bride for th e coming of th e Bridegroom ,— to p rep are th e B ride to he caught up w ith Him. New life came. I began to teach it to men ten years ago,— began w ith ten men in a Bible class to teach th is g reat fundam ental doctrine. Today I have fourteen hundred men in th e largest Bible class in th is country. I began to teach it to women. We sta rted w ith twenty. We now have seven hund red women studying th e Scripture of God — th is great, blessed tru th th a t holds w ith all th a t is in th e Scripture th a t we hold tru e, and th e hope of th e nations, and th e very longing of our h earts th is afternoon. T alk as you please,— Jesu s as th e pre-em inent Lord, Jesus as the eternal, incarnate, perfect Man and very God,— shall come and reign, and then afte r th e m illennium He will bring th e consummation.”—T.C. H. A S IGNAL Honor The great General Assembly of the Presbyterian Chnrch, North, at its gathering in St. Louis, did some notable things: It refused to he drawn into the net of the so-called “ Federation of Churches” ; it rebuked the attitude of the President on the wine and beer question; it planned for a large increase in funds for home and foreign missionary work; and it elected, for the first time in its history, a layman as Moderator. The office of Moderator is the highest possible honor within the power of the Presbyterian church to bestow, and their action in this instance puts this layman in a historic class. John Willis Baer is the name of the man. He is known to the young people of the United States as a former leader of the Y: P. S. C. E., and more recently President of Occidental College in Los Angeles, California, and at the present time, an active hanker in the city of Pasadena. . Dr. Baer is a self-made man, of unusually strong, aggressive, decided character. He has learned to do things by doing them. He is a forceful speaker with an original manner, having been spared the operation of being run through the mould of the schools. He has been the leader of a large Men’s Bible Class in his home church, and we congratulate him as he enters upon these new duties, pregnant with real import to the church and our Lord’s cause. While not a student of the Scriptures in the sense in which some of his predecessors have been, yet he belongs to the school to which three of the recent former Moderators belongs, viz.: Dr. Mark Matthews, Dr. John Timothy Stone and Dr. John A. Marquis, all of whom were dispen- sational teachers and stout pre-millennialists. We congratulate, also, ,the Presbyterian church on this new adventure and look for some very definite and decided forward movement. T. C. H.
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A SCHOO L of Praÿer A “School of P ra y er” has been opened by our good friend, Dr. John H Troy, and is significant as one of th e “ signs of th e tim es.” . We have had schools for everything else. It seems strang e th a t it should be necessary to have a school of p rayer to teach men to pray, b u t th e church is sho rt on prayer, and th is is evidenced by the life of th e church. New tim e. v>,rkLHW t-v. d t po,ss.1.ble t? °Peii a School of P ray er rig h t a t th e gate of the G hetto of r Ê Ê & iB S& l tb ??e who believe in u n in terru p ted and prevailing p ray er m eet from tim e to 4 r ^ „ 0ther th l? gs we are P raying for God’s will in the following sp iritu al objects: ih e following is a copy of th e announcem ent sent to th e w riter by Dr. Troy: ( 1 ) Israel. (2 ) The Second Coming Testament. (3 ) Young men to become studen ts in th e “ School of P ray er,” giving all of th e ir time. (4 ) Grace and tru th for all God’s servants everywhere. (5 ) More ligh t on certain difficult passages of Scripture. (6) The separation of th e tru e children of God from th e Apostate church. (7 ) Patience and endurance in persecution and trib u latio n .” Shall we no t p ray th a t th is School of P ray er may be used of th e Lord as the beginning of a new era in prayer? T C H T H E FINAL Peace Covenant In Ezekiel’s vision of the Davidic Kingdom to be set up when Christ shall come again to be the Shepherd of regathered Israel, we find a mention of the final peace covenant” : ‘‘I will make with them a covenant of peace and will cause the evil beasts to cease out of the land and they shall dwell safely in the wilderness IfiS wo°ds. * * * There shall be showers of blessing.” (34:25, 26). , 8 | This.wil1 be the only successful peace covenant. It will be successful because it will have back of it the power of the Prince of Peace. “ His kingdom shall cover the earth as the waters cover the sea.” It will be a secure peace because the evil beasts will cease to be so at His coming. “ The wolf shall dwell with the lamb and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the failing together; and a little child shall lead them. * * * They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain.” (Is, 11:6, 9). For this time all creation longingly waits (Rom. 8:19-22). It will be a satisfying peace, for then Christ, the “ Son of Righteous ness, will have arisen with healing in his wings” (Mai. 4:2). With Him present in person any kind of showers except “ showers of blessing” will be out of the question. How few who sing “ There shall be showers of blessing | know that it looks to the time of Christ’s glorious return. , be a sustaining peace for “ the tree of the field shall then yield her full fruit and the earth shall yield her increase” (v. 27 29). “ There shall be no more curse” (Rev. 23:3). It will be a sudden peace. I t will not be the result of a long drawn
THE K I NG ’S BUS I NES S 697 out conflab around the peace table, neither will it be the result of a millen nium dragged in by the main force of world reformers. The plant ot renown” (v. 29) shall be raised up. He is none other than Christ, whose coming shall be as the lightning out of the east (Matt. 24:27).—K. L. B. ' ^»4. .$*4. as. t..a» . ,tm IS D EM O C R A C Y The Cure-all? According to the Colossus in Daniel 2 the last form of government in this age is a mixture of monarchy and democracy. The fragile clay of the popular will of the people is mixed with the yet hopelessly unamalgamated hard crushing iron of imperialism. The clay seems to be predominating in these days. Democracy is the popular cry. Dr. D. M. Panton says, “ Democ racy is the longsuffering of God granting to the less cultured classes such political power as will prove whether the miscarriage of all human govern ment is due to its form or to its sin. So, that, when moral disaster over takes republics equally with empires, every mouth may_ be stopped, and every order of sinner—whether Chaldean absolutist, Persian satrap, Greek oligarch, Roman militarist, or modern democrat—be proved, by sin, equally incompetent to control the world. To prove whether bad government springs from ancient barriers—monarchy or aristocracy or sex—God grants adult suffrage at last, until the whole Colossus Man collapses in ruin. Notice that in past history, every form of government when adminis tered by righteous men has brought untold blessing. This^ proves it is not the form of government so much as sin that breaks down in disaster when authority is wielded by wicked men. Just at present God is permitting the vacillating populace to rule and a lawless rule it is. And it will not get better, but rather worse, as the years come and go, until people will become so disgusted with their own lawlessness that they will cry for a dictator. Notice in the past that lawlessness has always developed a fearful dictator- ghip in the end. It was the French Revolution that created Napoleon ; as he remarked himself one time—**It was I who closed the crater of anarchy. The pendulum of the national clock will always swing eventually as far one way as it did the other. This world is rapidly turning into a Red Republic. When the freedom of the public will has reached its limit, then the brain of the world will..cry out for a dictator. Then the Superman, the Wicked One, the Man of Sin, the Anti-Christ, the Beast, the World Dictator, will appear. Jesus said in John 5 :43, “ I am come in My Father’s name, and ye receive me not; if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.” No wonder God put this form of government last in His description of world-rule in the Colossus. For no power but God Himself, in the person of His Son, could ever reconstruct society after this scourge had once run over the earth. Godless democracy is bound to develop the most devilish rule this world has ever seen. Nothing will change it but the coming of our Lord Jesus in flaming fire, taking vengeance on them that know not God and obey not our Lord Jesus Christ. The time seems not far distant when the Lawless One will be revealed (2 Thes. 2) “ whom the Lord Jesus will slay with the breath of His mouth, and bring to nought by the manifestation of His Coming.”—W. H. P.
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SIXTY" YEARS W ith the Bible—and a Critic! We received some time ago a letter from a man who said that he had formed his views of the Bible after carefully reading William Newton Clarke s book “ Sixty Years with the Bible” . From the title one would judge that the writer had prepared for the Bible student some real food for the soul. Sixty years as a Bible student, and a man ought to leave the world something worth while. But it depends upon whether one has spent the sixty years in trying to find discrepancies in ,the Bible and in endeav oring to fit its teacings to preconceived notions, or-—sixty years as a seeker for truth in the school of the Holy Spirit. Dr. Clarke became a liberalist of the liberalists. The friend who wrote us, by Dr. Clarke’s help, has made up his mind what he wants to believe, and opens^ his Bible to such portions as Dr. Clarke says are fairly reliable when spiritualized. Our friend tells us he now has the only belief that is satisfying to a really intellectual man, which is a gentle way of informing us that all who do not take Dr. Clarké’s position are either putty-heads or Rip Van Winkles. But is it a fact that there is a shortage of scholarship on the side of the Bible? We might give the rest of this magazine to a list of recognized scholars who stand on the side of orthodoxy, and there are many of them who have spent sixty years with the Bible, and the more minutely they have studied it, the more confirmed they have been in the belief that it is a divinely inspired revelation. The dean of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles has not missed a day in forty-one years in which he has not read the Bible both in the original languages and the English. He is a graduate of several of the biggest colleges in America and Europe. He has written scores of books on Biblical subjects, which books are printed in twenty-six, languages and read by many intellectual students the world around. There is scarcely a big college in which he has not lectured on Biblical subjects, and he numbers many college professors among those who have through his teaching acknowledged Jesus Christ as Son of God and personal Saviour. As a scholar and Bible student, he has a world, reputation that William Newton Clarke with his sixty years did not have. . But Tegarding Dr. Clarke’s book, our attention has been called to an article in a Chicago University publication. The party who sends us this periodical is a former student of that seminary and says that the paper has been sent to him gratis for fifteen years. “ It has grown more infidelic,” he says, “ until they are now outspoken against the Bible and their profes sors surpass Tom Paine and Bob Ingersoll in their powers for sowing evil.” Under a head “ Religious Reading for the Home” this periodical advises all to carefully read “ Sixty Years with the Bible” by William Newton Clarke. “This hook” (says th e m agazine). “ brings¿¿into th e foreground th e necessity for intellectual insight in dealing ;w ith ¿the ¿Bible* : ;While th e average read er is no t so fam iliar w ith th e intricacies^df th è process;of .intellectual criticism of the Bible, it is an incredible relief to him to know th a t scholars who have such knowl edge have long since abandoned so un ten ab le a theory as th e verbal inspiration of th e Scriptures. The Bible was originally a hum an book and has passed through many processes which rend er it frequently inaccurate. Dr. C larke’s book h a s an im po rtan t message to th e C h ristian of today. I t shows th a t we should have a sense of freedom tow ard doctrine, even to th e point of differing from th e doctrine held by th e New Testam ent w riters. (In th is they agree perfectly w ith Russellism.
Eddyism, Mormonism, etc.) A doctrine which does n o t accord w ith o u r know ledge of h isto ry And science m u st he rejected. This is the important message Dr. Clarke and the Chicago professors are sending out to the world. The divine commission to read “ Go ye into all the world and tell every creature that the Bible has long since been abandoned as a divine revelation to man. And this is the message that we are told “ brings incredible relief to the Christian. Alfc Al^. H H m BA PT IST S and Christ’s Second Coming The Baptist denomination is now conceded to be numerically the largest in the world. Baptists have always boasted that they have no creed but the New Testament and since they hold to -the literal interpretation of Scripture, they have been more constantly and consistently identified with the Pre-millennial doctrine than any of the reformed sects. We find it embodied in many of their historical confessions. In 1660 a confession of faith was drawn up and signed by John Bunyan and forty others, elders, deacons and brethren,” approved by twenty thousand more, and presented to Charles II in London. It was prefaced by this statement: We are not only resolved to suffer persecution to the loss of our goods, but also Me itself, rather than decline from the same.” It contained the following articles. icie |*g We Relieve th a t th e same Lord Jesus who showed himself alive afte r his passion by many infallible proofs, Acts 1:3, which was tak en up into heaven, shall so come iii like m anner as He was seen going .n to heaven Acts 1-9-11 and when Christ who Is our life, shall appear, we shall also appear w ith H im in glory. Col. 3:4. F 6 r th e kingdom is His, and He is th e governor among th e nations, Psalm 22:28, and th e king over all th e earth , Zech. 14:9, and w^ shall re“gn w ith him on th e earth , Rev. 5:10. The kingdoms of th is world which men so m ightily striv e afte r h ere to enjoy, shall become th e kingdom of : u r t o r mde and°h“s C h riit, Rev. 11:6. F o r a llth in g s are yours, g . th e world) for ye are C h rist’s and Christ is G ods, 1 Cor. 3.21-23. l o r unto tne saints shall be given th e kingdom and th e greatness of the dominion, under the whole heaven Dan. 7:27. Though, alas! ho,w many men be scarce content th a t 7he saints should have so much as being among them , h u t when Christ shall
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back f a t h e r th a t b ^ j U to th e f irs t ¡ g ^ U ; to T u r L o rd a n d f f i! Apostles, and reaffirm the faith once for all delivered unto the saints We io v aT to ih e filth ra f kthanrd °f the great BaPtist constituency remain S i t0 , the fait* of the fathers even though the new theolosrv mav have istrativ^iM^iinerv08^ ^ ^ Cen? es and sought to gain control of the administrative machinery If at any time m the future, the historic attitude of the tliT authority of W o r d " ? o ‘l disc" ditin* tM ''alidity and repudiating ( S 8 j F Z S S P & B a p « ' S f i M 2 f t & & K ! K be t - r a b .« to portals, ,„ r to boasted bond 0g( a § | ¡ g ™ « “ W o m a n s u f f r a g e and the Bible pnil. ^ E a,n 18 here to stay. And women have now moved for equal rights m the Presbyterian Church, seeking the privilege of holdin» church positions for centuries held only by men g holding to he Tfh °ne be deceiVe,d as t0 what the outcome of these movements is to be. It has grown out of a rejection of the Word and continual!$S53&§ B W “Samst Bible teaching. Leading advocates of " Z righte fo™ women are most open m their ridicule of the Bible. Mrs Laura Fixen of Chicago says: Man has usurped almost everything in religion as well as FORM OF BEQUEST To Bible Institute of Los Angeles I give and bequeath to the Bible Institute of Los Anaeles incorporated under the laws of the State of California & dollars, and I direct that the release of the President o f the Board 0d i^hn ln0rt °f ^ Btbk Institute ° f Los Angeles shall be sufficient discharge to my executors in the premises. ,
THE K I N G ’S BUS I NE S S 701 everything else. In the Bible, God is represented as a man and Christ as a man. The apostles were men. Women are commanded to obey their husbands. Suffragettes cannot accept the Bible literally as a divine inspira tion. We must see that it was written by men at a time when women were their chattels. The position given women in the Bible has kept them from their rights as the equals of men. The Bible needs revision. It is not up to date.” (Mrs. Fixen should try residing in a country where the Bible has not gone.) Hon. Edward Taylor, speaking before the Judiciary Committee of the House of ^Representatives in defense of woman suffrage, said, “ St. Paul’s command that women be in subjection, keep silent and learn from their husbands, has long since lost its authority.” Woman Suffragism has led some to reject the Bible doctrine that both men and women are conceived in sin, hopelessly lost until regenerated. The following utterances are samples: “ Women are better than men inherently.” “ There are certain mental qualities in women which distin guish them from men, but which are not, and connot be, transmitted to her male offspring. Virtue is one of these. The average man is not moral and does not want to be.” UA woman’s superior virtue is inherent in her con stitution. All Jesus’ teachings, when correctly understood, emphasize that character which was primarily developed in the female constitution.” Henry Wood Booth in a recent booklet, “ The Gynocrats” (Eerdmans- Sevenesma Co., Grand Rapids, 25c) says: I t is th e experience of those who have b rough t up larg e fam ilies of children of both sexes, th a t if girls are b rough t up exactly as boys are, they are very likely to he ju s t as bad as boys usually are, and if boys are brough t up w ith th e same care and exclusiveness as girls are, they will certainly be as good as th e average girl. The reason why women have been more generally moral th a n men is because, for nearly 2000 years, men have insisted th a t women and girls shall be k ep t under an en tirely different environm ent th a n men and boys and we are beginning only now to reap th e resu lts of tak ing down th e fence. Men, whatever th e ir a ttitu d e may have been tow ard o th er females, have insisted th a t th e ir brides and th e ir wives who are to be th e mothers of th e ir children, shall be k ep t pure. It h as no t been th e ir superior knowledge of evil, nor th e ir innate dislike for it, th a t has kep t them sexually more v irtuou s.” Any movement that leads to the denial of God’s Word leads to a wreckage of home life. Already stylish women are compelling their hus bands to introduce them as “ My wife, Miss So-and-so” . They refuse to assume their husband’s names. There is a full-fledged rebellion under way, not only against the headship of man in government and church but in the home. Statistics of Yale and Harvard show that women of. the better classes are not having children, the average showing less than one child to a family, and the way in which most of these children are left to grow up, needs no comment. The cultivation of the modern woman’s idea of “ my individuality” is bound to be a destroyer of the home life and a breeder of divorces. We believe the Bihle needs no revision. These conditions are marks of the apostasy. That so many of the prominent characters in the movement are, identified with Christian Science, Theosophy, New Thoughtism, Social ism, Unitarianism and rationalism, is an evidence of the course things are taking. It is also well known that the Roman church, which has such a hold upon its women, is making the most of women’s votes to put its candidates in office and get power to the church, which makes it necessary
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A friend of ours, a few Sundays ago, stopped a small boy on the street and asked him what Sunday School he was bound for. He replied that he was going to the Christian Science Sunday School. “ Do you like to go there?” he was asked. “ Yes,” replied the boy. “ And why?” our friend asked. “ Because,” said the lad, “I don’t have to take castor oil any more. ’’ This may sound to some like a joke, but the boy was in dead earnest, and there is a point that wise people will not miss. Why is it that the boy is no longer compelled to take the simple remedies that any child occa sionally needs? Is it because Christian Science now serves the purpose— or because his foolish mother cannot now consistently recognize the medic inal value of the oil? This lad, like many other children of Eddyite parents, may be left to die for the want of one of the simple remedies that God has put in the earth for man’s use. One of the most appalling things about this false system is the suffering that is caused to innocent children, simply because their parents have been duped. Doctors and nurses in almost every city and town can tell the awful story as it has been seen again and again, where, as a last resort, they have been called to Christian Science homes.*—K. L. B. Growing ou t of th e article in th e Ju ly number on “ Imm ortality” , and in an- swer to some questions which have come to us,— we desire to sta te th a t th e Bible In stitu te, its faculty and ofli- cers, as well as th e editors of The K ing’s Business, believe th a t immedi ately upon th e death, or “ falling asleep” of believers, th e ir sp irits do imm ediately go to be w ith th e Lord, as set fo rth in Phil. 1:23. The doctrinal statem en t of th e Bible In stitu te of Los Angeles can always be found on th e inside of th e fron t cover of the magazine, and is such as to sa t isfy all who believe in th e g reat funda mentals of th e Scripture. THE ONE WORLD-WIDE L IFE T ran slate th e words of Christ into w hat country’s language you will, he m ight have been th e joffspring of th a t country. Date them by w hat century of the world you will, they belong to th a t century as much as to any other. There is nothing of n ationality about Christ. He was th e child of every age and nation. His was a life world-wide. —F. W. Robertson. Do Tou Ha^e Dailÿ Family Devotions in You Home? See the Devotional Readings in this Magazine In Ind iana is a German saloonkeeper whose first nam e is August. He now has a card in his window upon which he yields up th e ghost afte r th is fashion: “The F irs t of Ju ly will he th e last of August." L IFE AND IMMORTALITY LAST OF AUGUST
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There is more fear th a t we will not h ea r th e Lord th a n th a t th e Lord will no t h ear us. If we reverently open one of God’s callings, we shall find it a storehouse of th e needed strength. Conscience is a still sm all voice, bu t h alf th e tim e when it trie s to speak it finds th a t th e line is busy. The man who would have God’s guid ance m ust be w illing to make sp iritu al things his m ain business. If we do no t catch men we are in danger of losing even the desire to catch them . There are m ultitudes who cry “ God be m erciful” who never cry “ God be p raised ” . Measure your possibilities not accord ing to w hat you see in yourself, bu t according to w hat you see in God for you. Every sinning soul carries w ithin itself all th e necessary elements of hell. The key th a t unlocks heaven doesn’t unlock every church door. P lenty of music will keep the hus band a t home, b u t no t if it’s chin music. L et your life speak for Christ, b u t let no t your lips be silent. To kindle hope in a fain ting soul is far more precious th a n to adorn the w eary pilgrim w ith dazzling gems. There Is no b etter way to show our tru s t in God th a n to busy ourselves w ith th e things He asks us to do. T h at man most fully serves his own generation who most fully serve» the will of God. To spend and be spent in w h a t' is called th e Lord’s work when our life is prayerless an d ou t of touch w ith God is a pet delusion of th e devil.
Life w ith God is an endless hope; w ithout H im it is a hopeless end. The Bible in the memory is better th a n th e Bible in th e book case. We shall have all etern ity to celebrate th e victories, b u t we have only th e few hou rs before sun set to win them . The present circum stance which presses so h ard against you, may be th e best shaped tool in th e F a th e r’s hand to chisel you for etern ity . Do not push away th e in strum en t lest you lose its work. God’s house is a hive for workers, no t a nest for drones. We shall never have a unified hum an ity dwelling in peace, un til th e Chris tia n ity of the Bible becomes th e Chris tia n ity of th e churchman. The taleb earer carries th e devil in his tongue and th e taleh earer carries th e devil in his ear. He who would deceive God is him self already most grossly deceived. I t is no t safe to ea t a t “th e devil’s mess though th e spoon be ever so long. Hypocritical piety is double iniquity. Have Jesus Christ in your soul and a tongue to tell it. It is th e Word of God preached in th e power of th e Spirit th a t th e people w ant to h ear and no t a goody-goody little serm onette delivered by a theolog ical jelly-fish. H eathens aré tru e to false gods while professed Christians are false to the tru e God. You may no t be held accountable for your weaknesses, b u t you will be held accountable for fooling w ith them . The only difference between a d runk ard and a m oralist is th a t one reels into hell and th e o ther w alks in.
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Told by a Delivered Concert Together with a Brief Examination of Some of It’s Principal Doctrines Now Being Widely Taught Rev. John D. N utting of th e U tah Gospel Mission says: “The b ro th er who tells th e following touching story of his deception and subsequent enlightenm ent is well known to th e w riter, who also was conversant w ith many of th e facts as they were occurring and is acquainted w ith several of th e persons named. W ere it necessary to bolster up th e tran sp a ren t tru th fu ln ess of th e account itself it could easily be done w ith affidavits a t every point. The au th o r is one of the thousands who have been deceived into a thoroughly sincere belief in th e claims of Mormonism, simply because th e real facts about th is thoroughly false and fra u d u len t religion were no t known to him. His story is given in th e hope th a t it may help o ther souls to understand th is delusion of S atan .” Bj» D . J. C L A IB O R N E
I was born in South Carolina in 1868, and received a common country school education. I came to New York when nineteen years old. F rom childhood I was inclined to be of a religious dispo sition, b u t date my first conversion to Christianity from th e au tum n of 1887 afte r arriv ing in New York, a t a Salva tion Army meeting, afte r which 1 be came a member of th e Mount Morris B ap tist Church (my ancestors had been Baptists for generation s). I lived a fairly consistent Christian life for some years, and then I gradually grew care less and indifferent, and finally ceased to go to church a t all. Previous to this, I had been married, and God had given us th ree little boys to bless our home. A day came when the two oldest were stricken w ith diph th eria, and th e doctor told me he did no t know w hether he could save them. How earnestly I prayed for God to spare them to me; and He did. Even th en I did no t tu rn from the worldly ways into which I had fallen. Some tim e afterw ard one of them was ru p tu red so badly th a t I h ad to send him to a hospital for an operation. On the n igh t before he was to be sent away he
came and p u t his little arm s about my neck and said, “Papa, I love you.” My fa th e r’s h ea rt was deeply touched, and I prom ised God if my boy came back to me in good health, I would try to be a tru e and useful C hristian again. My p rayer was answered once more, but even th en I did no t go to my church and my pastor as I should have done, b u t was under th e conviction th a t I ought to serve God in some way. I was in th is condition, when, a few weeks afterw ards, I m et th e Mormon elders. They were in my neighbor hood d istribu ting trac ts from house to house, and tak in g every advantage of th e opportunities to ta lk and argue w ith people who were w illing to talk to them . They also held meetings in a h all n ear by, and hearing of th is I went to h ear them . I th e re m et an elder named Charles Thomas, of Provo, Utah. He came and sat by me in th e meeting, and talk ed a t every opportunity during and a fte r th e meeting. Scarcely realiz ing it, I gave him much inform ation abou t my religious condition, and estrangem en t from my church and pas tor. As I th in k of it now, the strange p a rt of it is th a t a t first I felt only
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repugnance tow ard him , bu t before we parted, he bad won an invitation from me to my house. A fter th e first call, he and o ther elders were con stan t vis itors, and won my complete confidence. They wielded an influence over me which I can h ard ly understand a t the p resen t time, b u t a t th e same tim e I was no t an easy convert. It took nearly six months of reading Mormon books, and tracts, and num erous talk s in p ri vate and in public. They began w ith a long ta lk on faith, and k ep t th is up un til it was impressed on my mind. About the different sects of Christianity they said th a t th e re should be only one church, and th a t Mormonism was th is one; hiding the fact th a t th e Mormons them selves are split into several sects. Baptism by immersion of course I believed. This rig h t mode of baptism Was a point in th e ir favor. Then came the very allu ring doctrine they teach of repentance afte r death, tak en from pas sages like 1 P eter 4:6. This doctrine practically allows a man to lead a sin ful life in th is world, and also to hope for forgiveness in th e h ereafter. But can any one find it ta u g h t in th e Bible th a t God gives us any such prom ise as th is? By the way they tw ist scriptures to su it themselves I was led to believe th is doctrine to be true. By o ther m isuses of the Scriptures I was gradually led to believe th a t the m inisters of all other churches had absolutely no rig h t to adm in ister the ordinances of the Gospel, th a t is, to baptize and to adm inister th e Lord’s Supper; th a t only th e Mormon “ P riest hood” had th is righ t, which was handed down to them by Joseph Sm ith; and th a t no one can he saved unless he has been baptized by one having th is au tho rity . I was led into accepting all these things, and much more nonsense and Mormon fables, very gently and gradually. It seems to me novr th a t my m ind must have- been as P au l says, 2 Cor. 4:4, “ blinded by th e god of th is w orld.” However th is may be, a t the
end of about six months, I was ready to be baptized, and on Jun e 22nd, 1901, I was baptized a t th e lower end of J e r sey City in New York Bay, and had hands laid on me “ for th e reception of th e Holy Ghost.” A t once I became an enthusiastic Mormon. I gave ou t Mormon tracts and literatu re , and sent many of them by mail to the South, and I introduced th e elders to many of my friends w ith th e hope th a t they would also become Mormons. I was so active and earnest th a t I was rew arded on December 1st, 1901, by being made an officer in the Sunday School, and being ordained as a “ p riest” a t th e same time. I forgot to say th a t sho rtly before I was baptized I had gone to a m inister to ask some questions about certain passages in th e Bible (a strang e m in ister, not caring to face my own p asto r). I told him th a t I was investigating Mor monism, and afte r answering my ques tions, he told me th a t th e Mormons worshiped Adam as God. I had heard nothing of th is before, and w ent back to the elders, to E lder Thomas, and also to E lder Samuel Neff, th e la tte r being counsellor to the P residen t of this Conference, and both of them flatly and most emphatically denied it. I believed them , th ink ing it a falsehood against my much maligned friends. They never miss a chance to throw a slu r a t the m inisters for preaching for a salary, and boast themselves of preaching w ith out pay. A t the same time, they expect all who are members of th e ir church to pay one-tenth of th e ir incomes into the Mormon treasury. Ju s t where it went to I Was never able to find out. I was told it was used for the vicarious works of the church. I will tell you a t th is point th eir a ttitu d e on polygamy, as ta u g h t me by the elders. They claim th a t no p lu ral m arriages have been celebrated for about eleven years, b u t th a t th e prin ciples of it are unchanged, it being a direct command from God to Joseph
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told me th a t th e m inisters were afraid to m eet them in argum ent, and I was more th a n surprised when he said he would be pleased to m eet th e elders at any tim e. I then trie d in every way to get them to go and see hiin, b u t u tte rly failed to do so. This was early in F ebruary, 1902. Then I trie d to banish Dr. McMillan and his lecture from my mind. One Sunday n igh t I sa t talk ing w ith an elder in my home, and some one knocked on th e door. I opened it to adm it th e Rev. John D. N utting, whom I had never seen before, b u t who had lived some years in U tah, and was doing m issionary work among th e Mormons, and h ad h eard of me th rough my own pastor, Mr. B itting, whom I had slighted and trie d to forget. This was early in th e evening. I had intended going w ith th e elder to a meeting, bu t I le t th e elder go alone, and remained to ta lk to Mr. N utting because courtesy compelled me to do so. He talked for more th a n four hours to me, b u t I was unreasonable. He re-affirmed all th a t Dr. McMillan had said, and added more, and spoke about th e 2,000 changes th a t have been made in th e Book of Mor mon. When he left me he gave me some tracts. One of them contained the exact quotation from a Mormon book called th e “ Jo u rn al of Discourses” where B righam Young said in 1852, in th e Tabernacle in S alt Lake City, “Adam is our God, and th e only God w ith whom we have to do. When he came into th e garden of Eden, he came into it w ith a celestial body, and brought Eve, one of his wives, w ith him .” Now, by th is time, I was getting uneasy about th is blasphemous doctrine. I t had come up so many times, and been denied by th e elders. So I took th e tract, and w ent to a Mormon meeting a t No. 202 W est 23rd S treet, th e house of Mrs. Lane; and th e re m et E lder John G. McQuarrie, th e P residen t of th e E ast ern S tates Mission. I showed him in th e tra c t abou t Adam-God, rem arking
Smith. They hope a t some fu tu re tim e to be able to practice it as of old, and as they do now in th e Mormon colony in th e n o rth ern p a rt of th e Republic of Mexico. This was told me by E lder Clark, of Provo, U tah. I B u t to resum e my story, about two months afte r being ordained to the priesthood, I w ent to h ear an anti-Mor mon lecture a t the H arlem Y. M. C. A. by Dr. D. J. McMillan, of th e New York P resby terian Church, who had lived in U tah for ten years or more. Among o th er things he said, th e re was a sta te m ent about th e aw ful blood-atonement doctrine, ta u g h t first by Brigham Young. Now, I had before had more th a n a h in t about this, as an elder named W illiam Snow h ad given me a small book en titled “ Blood A tonem ent.” Before I had gotten done w ith it, I made comments of astonishm ent about some things it contained. E lder Neff asked me to le t him see it, I did so and have no t seen th e book from th a t day to this. This frig h tfu l doctrine is founded on such passages of Scripture as Heb. 9:22, which read s: “And almost all things are by th e law purged w ith blood, and w ithou t shedding of blood is no rem ission.” However, I did not believe w hat Dr. McMillan said about th is a t th e time. He also spoke of the Adam-God doctrine. I not only did no t believe him , b u t was ind ign an t th a t he made such statem ents. I shook hands and spoke to him a t th e end of th e lecture, and some tim e la ter went to him for a private ta lk a t his own home. My main object was to p ro test again st w hat he had said about th e Adam-God doctrine. He reiterated his statem ent, and said he could show me Sithese things in au then tic Mormon books which he had in his study a t his church only two blocks away from where we sat. He alm ost begged me to go to his study and look a t them , which I firmly refused to do, telling him I would try to get some of th e elders to come over and ta lk to him . Now, they had always
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