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