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“ Even So, Come, Lord Jesus’’-:.:.,.....:...... ........... 269 Educated—What For? .................................. -........269 Higher FundamentalismlS-What Is It?................270 “ A Masked Peril’’— says Dr. Panton.................... 271 Extra-Corpus Benevolence ............-........................272 The Recapitulation Theory ................. :...................272 How Don Marquis Got His Eyes Opened ........... 273 Human Owls .... ................................... .....¿.....2Tb Flashlights —- ..... ........................... .......:.............. ..—274 Peddling the Devil’s Lies -—Statement by the Dean...................... ........— 276 Knowing Christ and the Quickening of the Mind— By the Editor-in-Chief...................... —2 77 Christ in the Prayer Life HE—By Dr. Charles E. Hurlburt....................... ..,..279 Knowing Christ in Regeneration — By Prof. Howard W . Kellogg...................... 281 British-Israelism—A Fanciful Theory — By Henry F. Brown....... .......:.........................282 Christian Education and the Bible S S B y Miss Florence M, Chaffee...... ............... 284 The Men of Nineveh in the Judgment — By Charles H. Leggett................ ...................286 The Curse of Dry-Eyed Christianity — By William E. Booth-Clibborn.......................287 Hymns of John Newton and William Cowper ■—By Prof. J. B. Trowbridge................... .........291 * * * * REGULAR DEPARTMENTS Heart to Heart With Our Young Readers i f f t B y K. L. B ......................................... 283 Passages That Perplex—By K. L. B................. 288 Stories of Our Enduring Hymns..... ,..................289 The B. B. B. B. Page............................................... 290 Striking Stories of God’s Workings.......................293 Hunan Work— By Dr. Frank A . Keller............... .294 Finest of the Wheat............................................... .-..297 The Junior King’s Business — By Mrs. Orah G. Brooks, Editor...... ........... 301 International Lesson Commentary.........................303 Biola Table Chat—By Rev. Albert E. Kelly.......... 311 Notes on C. E. Topics— By Rev. Alan S. Peace-313 Literature Table ..................................... ..........:....... 320 Illustrated Daily Texts ............................................ 322 * * * * ARTICLES
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Educated—What For? O NE of the great educators of past days once counselled a student of the university of which he was the father, in the following words: “ When I was young,” said he, “ I could turn any piece o f Hebrew into .Greek verse with ease, but when my work brought me in touch with the common - people, I was wholly at a loss. I had no furniture. They looked upon me as a very learned man, but that was their ignorance. I knew as little as they did of what it was most important for them to know. Young man, study what you can turn to good account in your future life.” For a long time, some o f our Christian leaders have been trying to point out, not only that our American edu cational system is practically Godless, but that it is turning out a great host o f young men and women who are fitted for nothing but white7collar positions. Prominent edu cators have long sneered at the precept: “ The fear o f the Lord is the beginning o f wisdom,” and. evolutionary teach ing has §ent thousands of our brightest young people into the world to laugh at the faith o f their fathers and mothers and to shun the church. Those acquainted with the Word of God and with human history, have not been deluded as to what the outcome of such educational methods would be, but their protests have often been met with sneers. But now some o f bur American college presidents and professors are beginning to get pessimistic about the trend of the education mania. Within recent months periodicals have been quoting various educators. In our judgment, none o f them go to the roots of the difficulty, but it is at least interesting to see one after another come around to the sentiment long ago expressed by Dryden: . “ By education most have been misled.” Dr. Faunce of Brown University has been quoted as saying that education in America is “ pointless, aimless, indifferent to any specific outcome.” Dr. Steiner o f Grinnel College is quoted in a daily paper as having said that “ education in this country,jg cre ating snobbishness, which may be more destructive than ignorance. It has intensified class consciousness. It has given information but little illumination. It furnishes power, and the power is often more destructive than the unharnessed power of ignorance.” Dean Gauss of Princeton begins to think that if 60,000 of the 100,000 college students had entered the ranks of the economically productive, both they and the world would be better off. Dean Hawkes o f Columbia writes a book : “ Colleges— What’s the Use?” He practically agrees with H. G. Wells, who thinks that colleges are obsolete and that society will be better off when young people go to work instead of taking a four-year loaf. Dr. Charles Mayo, famous surgeon, says our whole educational system is bad. The American Council on Edu cation has about decided that thousands go to college sim ply because “ it is considered the proper thing to do in their social set,” also because they think it is pleasanter and easier than going to work.
Even So, Come, Lord Jesus!
HE subject of the whole Bible— in three words— is “Jesus is Coming!” The Old Testament declared in prophecy and type that He would come. The New Testament informs us that He did come as “ the Lamb of God” and that He will come again at the consummation of the age. There are more references to
His second coming in the New Tes tament than there are pages in an ordinary Testament. One out of every 25 verses, we are told, relates to this subject. There is not a Christian grace or virtue but the immi nence o f His coming is used to enforce it (1 Pet. 1:13; 2 Tim. 4 :1 -2 ; 1 Jn. 3 :3 ; 2 :28 ; Tit. 2:12-13). It is bound up with every great doctrine o f the Faith— the atonement (Heb 9 :2 8 ); God’s victory over Satan (Rev. 19:11; 20: 3 ) ; the believer’s perfection as a son (1 Jn. 3 :2 ) ; the overcoming of corruptibility (1 Cor. 15:51-53; Col. 3 :4 ; 1 Thess. 4:16-17). Jesus is coming to Receive His own (Jn. 14:3)|j to Release the bodies of believers (1 Cor. 15:22, 2 3 ); to Reorganise Israel (Rom. 11 :26 ); to Readjust nations. (M t. 25:32) ; to Rebuke the wicked (2 Thess. 2 :8 ) ; to Restore nature (Rom . 8 :22 -23 ); to Reign as King of kings and Lord of lords (Rev. 17:14). The last recorded words of our Lord in the Bible are “ Surely I come quickly” (Rev. 2 2 :20 ). He comes to His Church as “ the bright and morning star” (Rev. 22:16). The Church is the heavenly people,with the heavenly hope. Starlight is for watchers only (Rev. 3 :10). Those who are o f the world’s darkness will not be among the company who shall behold the morning star. “ Be ye ready, fo r in such an hour as ye think not, the Son o f man cometh.” He will come “ quickly.” In these days that word should be ever sounding in the Christian’s ear. We believe His coming close at hand and the epitome of all our prayers is “ Even so, come, Lord Jesus!” What comes to us from heaven as a promise, we cannot but breathe back to heaven as a prayer. God speed the day! It means the extinction o f sorrows, the cessation of pain, the wip ing away of all tears, the perfection of saints, the descent o f the New Jerusalem and the creating anew o f all things. This is our “ blessed hope” (Tit. 2 :13 ), our glorious hope (Phil. 3.20-21), our purifying hope (1 Jn. 3 :1 -3 ), our patient hope (Jas. 5 :7 -8 ), and our comforting hope (1 Thess. 4:13-18). May the Spirit o f God breathe in the heart of every student of our Institute and every reader of T he K ing ’ s B usiness , the response “ Come, Lord Jesus!”
“ Soon will our Saviour from heaven appear, Sweet is the hope and its power to cheer. All will be changed by a glimpse o f His face. ' This is the goal at the end o f our race.”
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One educator criticizes the Ph.D. degree as circum stantial evidence o f a desire to evade the hard knocks of practical life. P. W . Wilson, in Sphere, a London paper, gives his impressions o f America as a land obsessed by an educa tion mania. He is dubious as to what will be the result o f withdrawing so many lives from rough labor, paid by the week. He reminds us that there was a country that believed, hundreds o f years ago, that it could achieve everything by mere education. That country was China. The Pathfinder sums it up as follows: “ Just watch the college students and you will get the impression that education is about the last thing they are interested in. They go wild over football, basketball, baseball, running, jumping, boxing, swimming, rowing, wrestling, hockey and the hurrah sports. They are much interested in social
B usiness ( “ The Higher Fundamentalism” ). “ What can be higher,” he asks, “ than Fundamentalism? Is there any higher truth than the deity o f Christ, the virgin birth, the substitutionary atonement, etc?” In one sense our brother is right. Fundamentalism should include everything that is vital to Christian belief and experience, but unfortunately, whenever a company of believers get together and take to themselves a name, there are always some o f whom it must be said: “ Thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead.” It is no exception with the-word which has been in current use for the past few years—-“ Fundamentalist.” There has been a growing sentiment that greater emphasis must be given to the higher type of Funda mentalism, the kind that gets into heart-experience and
life, fraternities, sororities, dancing, suppers, joy-rid ing, necking a n d other forms of extra-curricula college activities; Some add the hip-flask and ciga rettes' for girls.” The college will no doubt continue in their merry way. It remains for Christian leaders to bring education in America back to first principles. The Bible Institutes are doing much to give young people the right foundation for practical life. Other in stitutions like the new Des Moines University w i l l come into existence in due time.
into the hands and feet. A well-known writer but recently was pleading for “ another Wesley.” “ Oh, for a man of God,” pleads this author, “ who will dare to be misunderstood and misinterpreted and mis quoted of men, but a man mightily used o f God to infuse into the barren pro fession o f our times the spark which will change the blackened wick into an ever-burning flame.” That, dear reader*;: is the “>‘Higher Fundamental ism” advocated in the edi tor’s recent book and for w h i c h " t h i s magazine pleads. Belief in the di vine inspiration of all Scripture, in our Lord’s absolute deity, His vica rious death, His literal res urrection and second com
Dr. D. M . Panton on “ Bullingerism” . “ The gravity of Bullingerism now stands revealed. A sys tem which so divorcés us from our Lord that, as ‘Jewish,’ His commands have for us no binding force, and His steps are steps to be carefully avoided; a system which cuts out all the injunctions involving the Church’s responsibilities, and the passages exposing our spiritual poverty, retaining, almost solely, the passages of grace and privilege; a system which reduces the Scriptures o f all Apostles except Paul to a dead letter, the debris of a defunct dispensation ; a system which banishes the Apocalypse, given explicitly ‘for the churches’ . (Rev. 22:16), and on, which rests a peculiar beatitude for present observance (Rev. 22:7), to the remote and the aca demic ; a system which denies us Baptism and the Lord’s Sup per as carnal ordinances long abrogated, and thus convicts the whole Church o f nineteen centuries o f gigantic error :— such a system, claiming to be peculiarly enlightened, and so critically revolutionary as to free the whole Church from age long bondage, stands forth as one o f the grave but masked perils of today.” While we are trying to save the Bible to the Church, let us not bring in a system o f interpretation that, as effectually as the critic’s pen-knife, robs the Church of seven-tenths of the New Testament.
. Eventually people will learn that no better advice can be given our young people than that once given by the great Spur geon to the young o f his congregation:
ing and the other great Scripture doctrines is indeed vital to the church, but be it remembered that until these doc trines become incarnated in lives like unto that of our Lord, they go not forth td conquer for Him. There are some diseases that are called the reproaches o f physicians and there are many professing Christians who may be called the reproaches of ministers. They are great hearers, great attendants at Bible conferences, great’ talkers about prophecies and dispensations, but never seem to wear the true badge of Christianity which our Lord Himself declared Should identify all His followers (Jn. 13:35), Has ever a man raised his voice against empty shib boleths and called upon the church for Christlike living, that he has not been made the target o f controversialists? Our Lord gave barren Judaism an object lesson by cursing a fig tree laden with nothing but the leaves of profession, and they sought to kill Him. Charles H. Spurgeon cried out against creed without deed, and ministers o f the Gospel railed against him. “ This empty profession,” said he, “ is just painted pagean try to go to hell in : it is like the plumes upon the hearse which bears men to their graves.” The devil has no greater dupes and none serve him so well as those who roar against Modernism and come short
“ Oh, young man! Build thy studio on Calvary; there raise thine observatory, and scan by faith the lofty things o f nature. Take thee a hermit’s cell in Gethsemane and lave thy brow with the waters of Siloa. Let the Bible be thy standard classic, thy last appeal in matters o f con tention ; let its light be thine illumination; and thou shalt become more wise than Plato; more truly learned than the seven sages of antiquity.” m M Higher Fundamentalism—What is It? W E were impressed recently with the comment of Dr. W . H. Fitchett upon the type of Christianity in the day that God brought John Wesley into the scene of action. He said: “ The fatal thing in the religion o f that day was that it had ceased to he a life. It was frozen into a theology. It was not realized as a spiritual deliverance; a deliverance at the very touch of the fingers. Christianity translated into terms of human experience and dwelling as a divine energy in the soul was a forgotten thing. What Wesley did was to pour the mystic current of a divine life through the soul o f a nation and so turn blackness to flame.” One of our orthodox leaders has taken exception to the sub-title of a recent book by the editor of T he K ing ’ s
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o f the type o f life which many Modernists seem to live. Only recently a young man said to the managing editor, referring to a minister who is a notorious liberal, “ I can’t help being drawn to him because o f his noble life.” What an enigma is that to one who has soured upon the church because he has met so many who talk Fundamentalism by the pound and live it by the ounce! “Higher Fundamentalism” will never be a popular thing, but it ought not to be a thing objected to by those who stand in the places o f orthodox leadership. “A Masked PeriT’li-Says Dr. Panton W E have quoted in these columns a portion o f Dr. A . C. Gaebelein’s recent exposure of “ Bullinger- ism” as expressed through the medium of “ The Compan ion Bible,” a series o f books containing Dr. Bullinger’s
— the Mystical Body o f Christ, made up o f Jew and Gen tile; and that even of his Epistles, none but those written after Acts 28—namely, those he wrote in prison— are binding upon the Heavenly Body of Christ, the Church.” Space limits forbid our reproducing at this time all of Dr. Panton’s argument, but we cull the following impor tant paragraph: “ The theory at once receives its death-blow on the roof of a house in Caesarea. For the most graphic revelation God ever gave o f His Eternal Secret— the Church—was given, not to Paul, but to Peter, the Apostle o f the Cir cumcision. Before Peter praying on the house-top, a sheet, stamped all over with the world-number, descends, which is God’s vision o f the world : a sheet let down from the four winds: covering the four quarters of the globe; caught up at the four points o f the compass; and filled with the four divisions o f the animal world (Acts 11:6). In it are not all creatures, but some o f all: so John says,
interpretations a l o n g with the Scripture text. Dr. D. M. Panton, editor o f The Dawn, has now taken up the fight against this school of interpretation. We b e l i e v e Dr. Panton rightly characterizes the . system when he says: “ Such a system, claim ing to be peculiarly en lightened, and so criti cally, revolutionary as to free the w h o l e church from age-long bondage, stands forth as one o f the grave but masked perils o f the day.” What a spec
as he looks into the drawn-up net in Pat- mos, ‘I saw a great multitude- OUT o f all nations and tribes and peoples and ' tongues’ (Rev. 7 :9 ), who (our Eord says) ‘come from the east and from the west, and from the north and from the south’ (Luke 13:29). And the Most High describes them to Peter as ■ ‘what God h a t h CLEANSED ’ ( A c t s 10:15), and therefore what we are to receive: they are in the net solely because m a d e
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tacle it is, then, to see organizations which exist to refute religious cults, and especially Modernism, propagating “ Bullingerism” and urging upon all students of the Word to procure “ The Companion Bible” in order to get a cor rect view o f the Bible. Dr. Panton strikes at the roots of this system when he says: “ Any system o f interpretation which, by defining our Lord’s body of teaching as ‘Jewish,’ contracts the dis ciples o f Christ out from ‘under the law to Christ’ (1 Cor. 9 :21) is self-doomed. W e Christians are disciples to Christ or we are nothing. No apostle would, and no apos tle could lift us to a higher and more spiritual plane of teaching than our Lord’s. ‘One is your teacher, and all ye are brethren’ (Matt. 2 3 :8 ).” Bullingerism, solely the invention of the late E. W . Bullinger, was disseminated over the world by one o f the two monthlies started in the early nineties for the spread o f Second Advent truth— Things to Come. “ He sets out to prove,” says Dr. Panton, “ that the Church in the Pauline sense, did not exist before (in Acts 28) Paul turned finally from Israel; that thus the Church named before that event is a Jewish Ecclesia, or Hebrew con gregation to which— together with ‘Messianic Jews’ at the end of the age—belongs exclusively all our Lord’s teach ing, and that of all the apostles except Paul; that, there fore, baptism and the Lord’s Supper, together with such rules of conduct as the Sermon on the Mount, are not and never have been, applicable to u s ; that to Paul alone o f all the apostles was given the revelation of ‘the mystery’
clean by B lood ; once foul, they are now pure; and they are raptured in a moment— ‘immediately the vessel was received up into heaven.’ This marvelous picture of the Church immediately precipitates a dispensational crisis. Peter expostulates with his whole sou l: three times God as strongly rebukes Peter’s refusal to assimilate Gentiles: Peter capitulates; ‘and the Spirit bade me,’ he says, ‘go with them [Cornelius’s converted Gentiles], making no distinction’ (Acts 11:12). All distinctions therefore, be tween Jew and Gentile, in respect of Christian fellowship, are, from that moment, fundamental overthrows of this revelation of God.” . So far from this revelation being his only (Eph. 3 ), Paul explicitly states it is not: “ which in other generations was not made known unto the sons of men, as it hath now been revealed UNTO H IS HO LY APOSTLES AND PROPHETS ” ; and thus revealed “ in the Spirit” — that is, not through Paul, but by direct inspiration to themselves; “ the mystery which hath been hid from all ages and generations, but now hath' it been manifested TO HIS SA INTS ” (Col. 1:26). This Mystery was fore shadowed at the Ascension, when our Lord commanded the discipling of all nations; it came into actual operation at Caesarea with the first incorporation of Gentiles; its catholic gospel was put peculiarly, though not exclusively, into the hands o f Paul to un fold ; it continues its absorp tion o f Jew and Gentile into the Mystical Body of Christ throughout our Gospel Age.
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away! The punishment of neglecting such privileges is never to meet with them again. The issuing o f annuity bonds by Christian institutions has made giving easy and brought new joys to many who have put money into such bonds. The giver makes over to the institution o f his choice, the amount o f money which he intended to bequeath. The institution has the use o f the money immediately and pays an income to the giver so long ak he lives. Thus the uncertainties of liti gations over wills are removed, the money is put to work for Christ at once, and the giver has the joy o f witnessing the results. Annuity, bonds yield attractive returns, on an insur ance basis, according to the age of the one investing. When the investor dies, the money automatically passes into the control o f the institution issuing the bonds. The Bible Institute of Los Angeles has long issued annuity bonds and has many contented investors. Both large and small amounts may be invested. Information will be gladly furnished by our Annuity Department. The Recapitulation Theory I N Job 10:8-12 we have a wonderful passage with ref erence to the process o f nature regarding the human embryo. It is declared to be a process instituted and sustained by God and kept within divinely prescribed lim its. Emphasis is given to the fact that in every instance life is imparted to this embryo by God Himself. A clear distinction also is made between the spirit and the body. What is said in this passage is in perfect accord with all that is scientifically known about this process. Why is it that some evolutionists still attempt to prove evolution by the process o f nature in the womb? Not many months ago an eminent professor said: “ The human embryo goes through all the stages of evolution in nine months before birth. First a cell and cells, then a worm, a serpent, a fish, a bird, a monkey, then a human being.” This notion was first given out by Haeckel, the German atheistic scientist. He had a row o f pictures made pur porting to show this progressive development, and these were palmed off as exact pictures o f the human being growing toward birth. American university professors were quick to exploit this “ wonderful proof of evolution.” Can it be that they have never learned what happened to Haeckel’s pictures ? Have they never investigated the theory ? Forty years ago Haeckel’s plates were denounced as fraud, and they were withdrawn from the next edition of his book. Nevertheless, devotees o f evolution are still showing the pictures, solemnly swearing by them, and seem to require no further proof for the theory. Embry- ological recapitulation is still taught in colleges. Hundreds o f physicians who have attended mothers with premature births know that when the foetus assumes any form at all, it is a human form and is-never anything else until birth. Gynecologists and other research sci entists long since proved the recapitulation theory a mon strous hoax. Who, with any knowledge of human anatomy, can meditate upon such words as found in Psa. 139:14-16, and not feel that man was created in the image o f God? As Warner says: “ The physical organization o f man infinitely surpasses in skill, contrivance, design and adaptation of means to ends, the most curious and complicated piece o f
These are Gerald B. Winrod’s Words (Editor o f The Defender— Organ of the Kansas Fundamentalists) T he K ing ' s B usiness is published by the Bible Institute o f Los Angeles—a great school with several millions o f dollars investment and large property holdings in the heart o f Los 'Angeles. The present managing editor, Mr. Keith L. Brooks, is a genius at magazine con- . >struction. H e delivers to the readers what competent critics regard as the most readable religious journal published. Dr. John M. Mac- Innis, Dean o f the Institute, is Editor-in-chief. The material is o f the highest type. It is dif ficult to understand how a paper o f this size, style and workmanship can be published for the sum charged. Every number is really the equivalent to a large, beautifully b o u n d volume. Over my signature, I wish to recommend T he K ing ' s B usiness to every Defender reader, as one o f the most helpful magazines before the Christian world today. It is easily worth three times the" price' announced. Gerald j?," Winrod, ' ’Editor-in-Chief: Extra-Corpus Befievolence T HERE is no promise of recompense for extra-corpus benevolence,” the late Dr. A . J. Gordon was wont to say. These are challenging words, worthy to be carefully analyzed by all Christians.' The Scriptures distinctly affirm that we must all appear before the Judgment Seat of Christ, that every one may receive for the deeds done "in the body.” Why is it that so many Christian people deliberately and industriously plan that their greatest good deeds should be done after they get out o f this body? This is what Dr. Gordon called “ extra-corpus benevolence.” How frequently it happens that these benevolences of the dead hand are nullified! A man says he is making his will. But has a dead man a will? Too frequently a man’s “ will” is an ingenious contrivance for getting everything done— except his will. The time to exercise the “ will” is while we have a will to exercise. Our hands may be opened o f our own free will and we may have the joy of seeing good fly forth which can never be recalled. The man who realizes an incentive to give to the cause of Christ ought never to put it off until tomorrow. A thousand devils are at hand to make the heart covetous over night, or to defeat the purposes of a man’s last will and testament. Dr. Beecher truly said, “ Every fresh act o f benevo lence is the herald o f deeper satisfaction.” Tomorrow- may never come. Obligations are infinite. The joy of giv ing is in seeing one’s money at work for God. Oh, how the machinery o f great soul-winning institu tions is slackened by the rigid fingers of Christian people who have means but are holding them for extra-corpus benevolence! And what blessings do these forever forfeit who let such golden opportunities await their passing
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mechanism, not only ever executed by art and man’s de vice, but ever conceived by human imagination.” It is doubtful if we shall ever become wiser than the Psalmist, on the matter o f the origin o f man: "Know ye that the. Lord H e is God : it is H e that hath made us, and not we ourselves” (Psa. 100:3). ¿We. How Don Marquis Got His Eye® Opened T HE Dark Hours” by Don Marquis has been pro nounced one o f three best plays about the Saviour which have in recent years appeared in the English lan guage. It covers the Saviour’s Passion, and while it has not'yet been staged, it has been considered one of the few good dramas written in the United States. W e are not especially in favor o f attempting to dramatize these sacred scenes, but we have been especially struck by the author’s note which appears as the conclu sion o f this book. Don Marquis started out to write under the impression which has biased other writers o f plays about the Saviour, namely, that all men are the sons of God. He had not gotten far in the study of the New Tes tament which was entailed in the preparation of the play, when it dawned upon him that the Sonship of Jesus Christ was absolutely unique. He, therefore, concludes his story in the following paragraphs:
Mockery and snickering were used by the enemies o f Christ and His apostles. It is the weapon of the coarse. As Cowper said: “ A moral, sensible and well-bred man Will not affront me : and no other can.” * Christianity has nothing to fear from sneers, nor need any Christian worker be discouraged if some professing' Christian seeks to hinder his work by trying to make a joke o f him. There is no better proof o f the fact that the opponent is at the end of his own rope. The Herald-Tribune' recently said editorially: “ It is ironic enough that within the last decade, irony has, in so many quarters, come to be identified with wisdom.” A man can be discredited in the minds of many people, and branded a Modernist, if some influential but jealous brother snickers at the mention o f his name. Sarcastic editorials are getting rather common in some Christian papers. Cynical letters are written by Christian people who seem never to write unless they have something about which to complain or some person they desire to scorch. As Christians we need to examine ourselves whether we are becoming infected with this foul disease. Henry Ward Beecher pictured this kind of a man in the fol lowing lines : “ If a man is said to be pure and chaste, he will an swer: ‘ Yes— in the daytime.’ If a woman is pronounced virtuous, he will reply : ‘A s yet.’ Mr. So-and-so is reli gious: ‘ Yes— on Sunday ’ Mr. B. has joined the church: ‘ Yes, election is coming on.’ This man is generous : ‘ Yes — o f other people’s money.’ This man is upright: ‘ Yes, to lull suspicion.’ Thus his eye strains out every good qual ity and takes in every bad one. The live-long day he sits with sneering lip, uttering sharp speeches in the quiet est manner.” The pity of it is that many Christians today can be prejudiced so easily against men and institutions o f God’s owning,, by men who employ such -methods. They seem to require no evidence further than the sneers of some self-appointed champion. Open violence against men is honorable in compar ison with the winks and sneers of human owls, vigilant in darkness, blind to light and continually mousing for vermin. How can a man possibly be called a follower of Jesus Christ who makes use o f such devices to hinder all who do not work according to his particular method? God forbid that we, as followers of Christ, should handle such base weapons. Let us recognize in courtesy as expressed in the Christian life, a practical exhibition of the virtues and graces o f the Gospel. It is one of the deepest qualities o f the soul. The love of Christ cannot dwell in a man who is discourteous and unkind. ¡V « I® Legal Form of Bequest m I give and bequeath to Bible Institute of tin ill? Los Angeles, incorporated under the laws of the State of California |gj[ ®y >| .gsgy liti and I direct the release of the President of MSI the Board of Directors of said Bible Institute l.w IpM pt? of Los Angeles shall be a sufficient discharge eli to my executors in the premises. ;*§',) i.i Ifff’f [Seal] fifì? 'ItS SI è*fi#) 3 %)
“ I believe there is a contemporary school of thought which holds that when Jesus spoke of His Father He meant that God is the Father o f all o f us —the Father of Jesus, and of you, and o f me, and of everybody else, in much the same way. And I rather inclined, myself, to the opinion that such was the meaning of Jesus. But the careful and repeated examination o f the Bible necessary for this play has convinced me that it was not His meaning. I cannot escape the conviction that He intended to convey that He was the Son o f God in a sense special and unique ; that He differed from other men who might call God their Father not merely in the degree of His spir ituality, but also in the character of His relation ship to His Father. “You may or may not believe this, I may or may not believe it—but I cannot evade the belief that Jesus Himself believed it. He seems to me to have been as explicit as possible in this claim; either the four Gospels have not reported Him correctly, or he meant j ust that: at least, I can make nothing else out o f it, and I began an examination of the Bible with a contrary view. It was for this assertion, that He was the Son o f God, that the Sanhedrin con demned Him, for the Sanhedrin considered it blas phemy; if He had meant anything else or anything less He would have answered otherwise when the question was discharged at Him point-blank by Caia- phas, and His life or death hung upon the answer; He died for that belief because it was His belief. To think o f Him as dying for some belief that He did not really hold seems to me to be merely idiocy. “ I make this note merely because I think His claim to be the Son of God, in a special sense, is the central knot of the drama of His closing hours on earth.” Human Owls
T HERE are symptoms that even the so-called ‘sophis ticated’ public is growing weary o f listening to (and reading after) snickering little enemies.” It is a Christian editor speaking, and he is deplor ing the increasing use being made in theological circles o f ridicule, cynicism and sarcasm. Ridicule is the weapon forged by the forces o f evil for their battle with righteousness and truth. Anyone can use it. It is the easiest thing to get hold of. It requires no special wisdom. It takes no skill to use it. “ Who ever can talk can mock.”
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Trained and intelligent chimpanzees, running errands for their masters, carry ing baggage in the railway stations, serv ing as w.atchmen in city buildings or plowing in the farmers’ fields, sweeping the floors or washing the windows in homes, are among the biological “might- have-beens” suggested by a recent remark o f Dr. W. Reid Blair, head of the New York Zoological Park and student of Animal Intelligence, before a section meeting o f the New York Academy o f Medicine. This gentleman believes that if men had selected chimpanzees instead of dogs for domestication, it is impos sible to say how greatly their intelligence might have developed. Exactly so! Per haps by this time they would be sitting in our congressional halls and standing behind our pulpits. It is strange that our Evolutionist friends have been so back ward in getting together with these de lightful creatures! * * * Here’s a news item headed: “ Bryan Could Laugh at ’Em.” It goes on to break the news that the famous “Hespero- pitheous tooth” found in an ancient river bed in Nebraska and put forth by the scientists of the American Museum of Natural History as proof that an ape man lived millions of years ago in America, has positively been identified as the tooth o f a wild pig. That settles an other warm controversy that has been waged among the scientists, and permits the Fundamentalists again to breathe easily. That old tooth was thrown up to Mr. Bryan in his monkey controversy and it was considered especially impor tant that the tooth was dug up in the Com moner’s own state. How little does a pig realize how much trouble and ex pense it may cause the world. * * * Hendrick Van Loon in a magazine article makes the assertion that “anyone now. 45 has’ lived through a more mud dled and disreputable age than any other child eve! born. And curiously enough that very era will be forever associated with the greatest scientific development the world has ever known. I have, come to have very profound and deeprooted doubts,§£ he adds, “whether Science, as practiced at present by the human race, will ever do anything to make the world a better and happier place to live in, or will ever stop contributing to our general misery as whole-heartedly as it has been doing for these last umtedee years.” ♦ * * A .writer in the Pittsburgh Christian Advocate makes the following timely statements: “A lawless age needs to learn Jesus’ unselfish respect for author ity. In His own time the statutes were largely made by a foreign power and the religious rules imposed by a selfish ecclesiasticism, while in our day demo cratic procedure is generally followed both in Church and,State. In disregard ing a few o f the traditions, He obeyed the
soul-winner believes there is going to be a hell for the Christ-rejecter. * * * A few months ago The Bible Cham pion published an attack upon a Methodist leader who termed himself “an Essential- ist,” declaring that if he were - sound in the Faith he would not hesitate to call himself a Fundamentalist. Now we find Dr. Harold Paul Sloan of New Jersey, who is called “the Martin Luther of Methodism,” the outstanding leader of the opposition to Modernism in his church, publishing a magazine called The Essen- tialist. Will the good doctor’s orthodoxy now be called in question ? He is the pro moter o f the organization known as “ The Methodist League for Faith and Life.” ♦ * * Colonel Jeffrey, in a tract which makes a searching examination o f the Modern ist position, quotes the principal o f a large Modernist college as saying:: “While it is correct to say that there is no Mod ernist theology, it would not be correct to say that there are no approximations toward one, or that there will not be one at no distant time.” But may we ask of what earthly use would a •theology be to men who believe that truth is not static but dynamic? According to their own theory, there is no final statement of truth and if the Modernists had a creed they would have to revise it to suit every new pronouncement o f science.”
Writes a disappointed father: “ I sent my boy to college, With a pat upon his back; • I sent ten thousand dollars,' y-. And got—a quarterback.” * * * Why run to catch up with the crowd ? It always turns back. * * * The editor of the Chicago Journal re marks that as some drinks play havoc in an empty stomach, so some ideas act in an empty head. * * * Dr. Woolever is authority for the state ment that “ In the early days of Method ism it was the rule that each member- should get another member every year. In 1926 the Methodist Episcopal Church did not register a net increase of one member for each minister;” * * * Mrs. Helen B. Montgomery has made the statement that “ The^ greatest disaster to Protestantism, is to weaken too much and too rapidly oUr denominational loy alty.” We believe there is 'a great ele ment o f truth in this declaration. There are too many engaged in the wrecking business and far too few devoting them selves to constructive things. Let us be sure; we have something more workable to offer before we start wholesale blast ing o f the evangelical denominations. * * * Have you stopped to think that Atheism is songless, except for its nerve-wracking jazz? Christianity alone abounds in soul stirring song. Heathen religions are not tuneful. Unbelievers have . nothing worthwhile to sing about. An item in The Advance says: “Judaism said: ‘Oh, come, let us sing unto the Lord’ ; and when Christ came the angels greeted His birth with a song, and since then Christian song has gained in fulness and strength of voice with each century.” We will do well to be on our guard against1 modernistic depredations of our hymn books. * * * Why is it that when a man like Dr. Fosdick wants to take a fling at Bible doctrines, he usually bases his attack upon an extreme interpretation and seeks to make it appear that this has been the commonly accepted belief? The doctor recently preached a sermon against the Bible doctrine o f future punishment, quoting an evangelist to the effect that “hell was located 18 miles below the ground and gradually filling up.” As we understand the Scripture teachings, no one has as yet been assigned to hell, spoken of as “ the lake o f fire, which is the second death." I f hell now exists, we certainly do not know where it is lo cated. W e are sure of one thing: every
Make This Your Prayer This beautifully human prayer is nearly 300 years old, having been written by Thomas Elwood in 1639. Oh, that mine eyes might closed be ... To what concerns me not to see; That deafness m i g h t possess mine ear To what concerns me not to hear; That truth my tongue might. always tie; From ever speaking foolishly; That no vain thing might ever rest Or be conceived in my breast; That by each deed and word and thought Glory m a y to. my G o d be brought. But what are wishes? Lord, my eye On Thee is fixed, to Thee I cry; Wash, Lord, \and purify my heart; And make it clean in every part, And, when ’tis clean, Lord, keep it so, For that is more than I can do.
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Arousing the Lost Rev. F. B. Meyer tells o f a woman who was sick and who took five grains of mor phine when she meant to take five grains of quinine. She at once became very sleepy. Her appearance so alarmed them that they sent for a physician, and when the physician came they discovered the mis take, and he, with the husband and friends, endeavored to arouse her from the stupor o f the drug. They shook her andbsprinkled water on her, but-fill', the time she begged to be let alone. “ If I only get to sleep I will get well,” she would say, while the physician said, “ If she ever gets fairly to sleep she will never waken,” and compelling her, they walked with her, one on either side, about the room through one whole night. T o ward morning consciousness began to re turn,’ and she was saved. We do not wonder at this anxiety or this gffort on the part of friends, but we are amazed sometimes if friends become as interested in their loved ones when the drug of sins begins to deaden their sen sibilities; we think it fanaticism if they seek to rouse their loved ones from their lethargy.
Original spirit o f the law. Our courts are crowded with cases where men who call themselves patriotic Americans, are self-, ishly striving to violate the spirit o f the law through technicalities. The Christian patriot o f today must begin where Jesus began and walk with Him along the pa tience-trying road of loving conformity to the laws and customs o f the land before h e.can earn the right to climb with Him the 'high and difficult path of loyal op position to the established order.”: * * * “Without a reservation I want to tell you that I think the magazine the finest, the freshest, the most scholarly. o f any religious publication which has at any time-come to my notice.” Thus writes, an accomplished Christian worker who only recently subscribed- for T he K ing ’ s B usiness . N ow think what she has missed through all these years ! * * * Dr. Amos O, Squire, Physician at Sing Sing : Most women who commit murder are acquitted, and the worst that can be done to them for committing murder is a 52 weeks’ engagement in vaudeville.
T hey S ay ... t ^ J. T. Adams in “Harper’s Magazine” : . “ The average man of today, and some minor scientists, may think that they have re placed a worn-out religious faith by ‘scientific knowl edge,’ . when all they have done is to replace one child like faith by another and one bigotry by another.” * * * Hendrik W. Van Loon in “Plain Talk” '. “ Everything that could pos sibly be diverted from its orig inal and beneficent purpose and turned into an instrument of death or active helpmate of cruelty and injustice has been So used. Now. that further scientific development has be come merely a matter o f pa tience and funds, may heaven help us: Otherwise the chem ists will get busy and invent a new variety of mustard gas and that will be the end o f this cheery little planet.” * * * A. D. R itchieinternationally known Chemist'. “We have succeeded in finding some order in nature, but it is equally obvious that the order liness is not all-pervasive. The fact that the regions, o f na ture actually covered by known laws are few and fragmen tary is concealed by, the natural tendency to crowd our experience into those regions and to avoid those that are unknown.” * * * The British W eekly: “There is a new school of thought regarding the next war. It sees that a war which takes four years to win may not be worth winning. But by sudden attack with thousands of modern aeroplanes, equip ped with deadly poisons, you could bring a nation to its knees in a few hours. During the last war, enemy aero planes dropped explosive bombs on London, but it is very dif ficult to aim accurately at any thing. When they discharge poisons from the air, it will not matter in the least where they fall. A very small quan-. tity will carry suffering and death to a wide area. There is, no possible defense against at tack by aeroplane; the utmost you can do is to make reprisals on enemy capitals ; but if the belligerent who . gets in the first blow is fairly successful there may be no one alive to carry out the reprisals.”
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