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T h e K i n g ’ s B u s i n e s s
May 1928
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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