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sion. I am sure that this will be undertaken only with a great deal of prayer and willingness to carefully examine the basic mission of Biola and its great mission for the future. I have been interested in the pro gram and service of Biola for a num ber of years. May I assure you of njy continued interest and prayers that this new vision may find a realization in the very near future. Los Angeles, Calif. Benjamin Weiss, Principal Metropolitan High School I have just read of the tremendous expansion program and want you to know that I rejoice in the vision that God has given to the leadership of Biola. It was at Biola that the spiritual foundation for my life and work was laid and I will ever thank God for
Recently the Bible Institute of Los An geles announced the purchase of 50 acres just outside the downtown congested area. Plans are now going forward for the im mediate construction of a 3 million dollar campus. Here are a few of the letters the school has received commenting on this forward step for Christian education. The information that Biola is plan ning to increase its facilities for stu dent training, including the estab lishment of the school on a campus, was thrilling news. It demonstrates keen foresight and planning on the part of the administration. It seems next to impossible for you to meet the increasing demands for training in your present location, and with your present facilities. An institution like Biola can hardly expect to re main static with the great changes that are taking place in our social order as well as in national and in ternational affairs. The possibility of establishing a campus in the less congested area, which will make possible an increase of your enrollment as well as the type of training you are giving, will make your institution useful not only to the young people who are dedicat ing their lives to the service of God but also to the community and to God. I have been very much interested in your teacher training program. Certainly, if any institution needs the service of consecrated young peo ple it is our public schools. Chris tian leaders have been somewhat re miss in giving attention to this great field of service. There is no other solution recommended at the present time to meet the growing wave of juvenile delinquency and secularism in the lives and interest of youth. I am certain that Christian leaders in many denominations will be deeply interested in your program of expan
the days spent there in the study of His Word. Some of the happiest years of my service were those spent in teaching at Biola. May God bless you as you press forward in faith in this big new enterprise for Him. Taipei, Formosa Dick Hillis With the very rapid development of the area into which you are going with your new campus, I am con fident that there will be a very posi tive contribution made locally. Added facilities will increase the effective ness of the training given the larger number of students who will be trained for Christ in this new site, who would not have the opportunity in the present equipment. I pray God’s richest blessing upon all who are laboring in this onward march. Pasadena, Calif. James Henry Hutchins, Pastor Lake Avenue Congregational Church
Biola President S. H. Sutherland tells a group of highschool young people how new three million dollar campus will adequately meet their needs for a college education.
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F E A T U R E S HYMNS YOU LOVE — Phil Kerr ................ ............................................. 6 FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK .................................................................... 7 UNDER THE PARSONAGE ROOF — Altheo S. Miller | | ............. 8 9 PEOPLE — A monthly column of names in the news .................... ...... 10 READER REACTION ____________________ OUT OF THE LAB — Donald S. Robertson ........................................... 25 TALKING IT OVER — A psychologist answers — Clyde Narramore.. 26 THEOLOGICALLY THINKING — Gerald B. Stanton ........................ 27 BIOLA FAMILY CIRCLE ..........................................—....................... -........... 28 JUNIOR KING'S BUSINESS — Martha S. Hooker ...... 30 BOOK REVIEWS — Donald G. Davis .............................................. ......... 32 ADVERTISERS' INDEX ............................................................ ..................... 50 C H R I S T I A N E D U C A T I O N LOOKING AHEAD IN CHRISTIAN ED — Margaret Jacobsen ......... 35 YOUNG PEOPLE'S TOPICS — Chester J. Padgett .................................. 36 SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSONS — Homer A. Kent, Allison Arrowood .. 38 OBJECT LESSONS — Elmer L. Wilder .................................................. 41 COVER The Rev. Mr. Alfred Glass is one of the few permanent ministers in our nation's National Parks. Since 1944 he has been pastor in California's famed 1,182 square mile Yosemite. His pulpit may be among the gran ite spires in the high country or in the shaded Church Bowl or within the peaceful Old Village Chapel that was built in 1879. He's pictured here in front of his beloved chapel at the base of the Valley's towering granite walls. Fbr the story see page 14. — Photo : Lloyd Hamill DR. TALBOT'S QUESTION BOX .................. 29 WORLD NEWSGRAMS — James O. Henry ........................ 24
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INTERNAT IONAL CONGRESS ON PROPHECY Calvary Baptist Church
II i s W e ll W illi M y Soul Words by Horatio G. Spafford Music by Philip Bliss I jhe author was a successful Chicago business man (1828- 1888). In 1873 he sent his wife and four children to visit rela tives in Europe. In mid-ocean their vessel (V illa de Havre) col lided with a sailing-vessel (Nov. 21, 1873) and sank within half an hour. The four children per ished, but Mrs. Spafford was res cued. Upon reaching Cardiff, Wales, she cabled her husband “ Saved alone.” He immediately went to Europe to bring her home. Dwight L. Moody met them in London, and found that they were able to say “ It is well; the will of God be done.” It has often been reported that Spafford wrote “ It Is Well With My Soul” immediately after re ceiving his wife’s cable. However, Ira D. Sankey recorded in his Autobiography that the song was written in 1876 (three years la ter) when he was a guest in the Chicago home of Mr. and Mrs. Spafford. The Spaffords believed in the imminent se cond c om in g of Christ. They closed their busi ness in Chicago, and moved to Palestine, there to await His com ing. Spafford died shortly there after, but for many years his wife operated in the Holy Land a widely-known cooperative mis sionary rest home, known as “ The American Colony,” which is still in existence. The four children had been converted in Moody’s revival campaign in Chicago, shortly be fore their ill-fated voyage.
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Dr. John S. Wimbish A T the beginning of this terrifying /I twentieth century, in November, 111918, an historic prophetic confer ence was held at Carnegie Hall in New York City. The last shot of World War I had just been fired when the throngs gathered to con sider the true nature of the age, and the fact that lasting peace would not be attained until the Prince of Peace comes again. Almost a quarter of a century later, in November, 1942, when World War II was raging, another great proph etic conference was held, this time at the Calvary Baptist Church. So com pelling was the desire for a deeper insight into God’s forecast for the future, that one year later the third convocation of this nature was held. Once again, in the fall of 1952, the Calvary Baptist Church of New York was host to another prophetic conference, the first International Congress on Prophecy, under the aus pices of the American Association for Jewish Evangelism. At this meeting, some of the leading scholars of our time interpreted this century’s cata clysmic conditions in the light of the Divine Word. Standing room was at a premium for many of the services. Since 1952, there has been a fright ening acceleration in the race for armed supremacy among the nations. Race suicide appears to be staring us in the face. In this day of confusion and fear, we who believe that God has spoken clearly through His Word have a duty to declare His message for these days. Therefore, a second International Congress on Prophecy, under the same sponsorship as the previous conference in 1952, will con vene during the eight-day period of November 6 through 13 of this year, at the Calvary Baptist Church, 123 W. 57th Street, New York City. Under the able leadership of Dr. V. Raymond Edman, president of Wheaton College, the Committee is inviting twenty outstanding preach ers and Bible scholars to give fresh interpretation of God’s plan for this atomic age. Dr. John S. Wimbish, pastor of the host church, extends to you a cordial invitation to join with thousands of other believers in what the Commit tee sincerely hopes will be the most significant conference ever held on Bible prophecy. For more detailed information, write: Dr. A. B. Machlin, Executive Director THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR JEWISH EVANGELISM Dept. K Winona Lake, Indiana 6
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Atom Bombs and Opportunity jTUhese brief lines are being written as the full significance of the recent I firing o f the latest and greatest atomic bomb grips our land. W ith forked flashes of light visible in more thqn a dozen states, w ith a nuclear mushroom cloud extending eight miles into the sky, with shock waves felt with earthquake intensity 300 miles distant, an explosion was let loose at Yucca Flat, Nev., equivalent in force to 30,000 tons of TNT . And as if this were not startling enough, the Atom ic Energy Commission announced at the same time that our national stockpile contained bombs 20 times more powerful! Wh ile we rejoice for the sake of ourselves and our children that the United States is thus evidently winning the race with godless Communism in the manufacture of nuclear weapons, yet the fact that man has in his hands such forces of destruction cannot fail to strike terror to the heart of any thinking person. As Christians, we naturally turn to the W ord of God for reassurance and direction in times like these. W hat are we to do and be in the face of such deadly potentialities? In Ephesians 5:16 we find these remarkable words which seem most applicable: “ Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.” N ow “ re deeming the time” literally means to “ huy up the opportunity,” which is wholly understandable. But that the incentive for such action should be the wickedness of the times calls for consideration. “ The days are evil” not on ly because we dwell constantly under the threatening shadow o f an all-world atomic war. “ The days are evil” because iniquity abounds on every hand. The spiritual condition of our country is revealed by these late figures from our FBI chief: a major crime is committed every 22 seconds and a murder every 40 minutes; there are 60 suicides daily, and three times as many criminals as college graduates; fo r 'e v e r y $1.00 spent on foreign missions from all denomi nations, $750.00 is expended on pleasures, sin and cosmetics! Yet we are not to give w ay to the black pessimism that fills the hearts of unsaved men who feel we are sitting on the precipice of doom. As children of God, we are to go out fearlessly to meet the challenge of these terrible conditions, armed w ith weapons as m ighty spiritually as are atom bombs physically. W e are to “ buy up the opportunity” first, by living “ . . . soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world” ( Tit. 2 :1 2 j, and then b y w itnessing “ . . . as lights in the world; holding forth the word of life” (Phil. 2 :1 5 ). These two may not be separated, for a testimony not backed up by a consistent Christian life is powerless and a blameless life not channeled into soul-winning is unproductive. By lip and life! That is God’s order. That is the w ay o f victory. It is our responsibility to make certain the world hears our voices declaring His power and our lives showing forth His grace. Then the salvation and security God has given us w ill be passed on to despairing souls, and together we shall “ . . . wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, wh ich delivered us from the wrath to come” (1 Thes. 1 :10 ). Atom bombs are our opportunity—-and His.
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M a g i c D o o r s H ow did that door know we were coming?” The lad stood transfixed watching it s low ly close. This was the first time he had ever gone through a “magic eye” door and the experience was breathtaking to the 6-year-old. Going through the store together Daddy explained to Kent that an electronic devise caused the door to open when people came close enough to be seen by the “ eye” . Mother’s son pondered the wonders of the magic doors for many an hour. He’d speak of it with awe; it was a wonder of the world to him. Then with the swagger of a man of the world he bragged to his younger sisters about his experience with the door. It didn’t take Althea long to let him know she had been through such a door on one of her trips in town with Mother. Leaving the youngsters deep in conversation about the recent dis covery, Mother went about meal- preparation. She pondered on the convenience of that magic eye door when her arms were loaded. Then her heart turned to the Word which promises: “ I will in struct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye” (Ps. 32:8). “ Behold, the eye of the Lord is upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mer cy” (Ps. 33:18). No magic in this, she knew, nor any fear of power- failure. Just precious grace, and a sure conviction that she is never out of the range of God’s eye. A sobering thought, too, for my Father also sees my sins. He un derstands my thoughts afar off, before they ever come to my con scious attention. Dear Father, cleanse my thoughts and purify my ways for Christ’s sake. “ Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength, and my re deemer” (Ps. 19:14).
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Sirs: From the Vicar, the British view point For education, a step forward For UCLA, a powerhouse For the parade, a hit Even a literary form (K.B. cover captions) which is for the reading public, a novel and scintillating form, can, when overworked, become for your readers, tired and jocular. Los Angeles, Calif. Vivian McClellan TALKING IT OVER Sirs: We are very thankful for the very real service Dr. Narramore is giving to Christians by way of T h e K in g ’ s B u s in e s s (see monthly question and answer column on page 26). Many have spoken of how much it has helped them in better understanding of problems. San Bernardino, Calif. Mrs. R. E. Hansen CHRISTMAS IN MAY Sirs: K in g ’ s B u s in e s s is a gift I’m proud to give. Already I know what to get for Christmas gifts. Gloversville, N.Y. Shirley Ditmars THIS EARTHLY HOUSE Sirs: There is a wonderful hymn on the same theme as “ This Ole House.” It is called “ This Earthly House” and is written by Beth Coombe Harris with music by Grant Colfax Tullar. I would recommend that Mr. Ham blen procure a copy and compare a sacred song as it should be written and the so-called gospel-boogie, gos pel-jazz trash we hear today. May he produce more songs of the caliber of “ Known Only To Him” and let the world take care of the Hit Parade. Winburne, Pa. Carl M. Wertz Sirs: Thank you for the recent articles on false cults. So many of these re ligions give you just enough to make you think there is no difference be tween them and our way but Dr. Talbot makes their positions clear. Santa Paula, Calif. Mrs. Wesley Smith CULT ARTICLES
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God and Shakespeare and You ^I^Jhe reason W illiam Shakespeare is considered one of the I great writers of all time is that he had a wonderful ability to peer into the very heart of human emotions and then put what he saw into superbly beautiful language. Ham let is m y favorite work of Shakespeare. Each time I read it I become more fascinated with its depth. This morning I was reading A ct III, Scene III where King Claudius is trying to pray for forgiveness for murdering his brother who had been king. On his knees he speaks these words: And what’s in p rayer but this tw ofold force, To be forestalled ere w e com e to fall, Or pardon’d being down? Then I ’ll look up; M y fau lt is past. But, O, what form o f p rayer Can serve m y turn? “ Forgive m e m y fou l murder” ?
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That cannot be; since I am still possess’d O f those effects fo r which I did th e murder, M y crown, m ine own ambition, and m y queen. M a y one be pardon’d and retain th’ offen ce? Then rising the king says: M y words fly up, m y thoughts remain below . W ords w ithout thoughts n ever to heaven go.
Isn’t this a picture of each of us who doesn’t have a right relationship with God? W e realize there is something standing between us and God. W ith King Claudius it was murder and lust and ambition. W ith us it is probably nothing more dis- tateful to society than our own w ill. W e just cannot bear to let loose of our own plans and hopes and ambitions. W e want God’s blessing but we want it to come exactly as we dictate. W e ’re afraid God might make a mistake and take something away from us that we can’t bear to lose. So we hold on like King Claudius and in the end we must come to realize as he did that there is no pardon where there is no surrender. But we need not fear to surrender our w ill to His will. God in Christ has demonstrated His great love for each of us. It has been the delightful experience of all who have given their w ill over to God to find that instead o f losing some won derful aspect of life they gain. And this gain is a life with full- orbed meaning. Life takes on a warm glow and purpose that is outside our own little self. Recall the words o f Jesus: “ He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for m y sake shall find it.” I know this isn’t a very popular concept nowadays. The popular trend is to express yourself, indulge yourself. But Christ said deny self. N ow if we’ve tried indulging self and found that our tender pampering hasn’t brought inner hap piness then let’s make the experiment o f surrendering our will to Christ. It will be the most important experiment you ’ve ever made. — L. H. n
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Secret of Christian Sanctity
By H. C. G. Moule
W hat is the true place, in the life lived by faith in the Son of God for motives, for means, for helps? If it is indeed not I, but Christ who liveth in me, what have external aids, supplies and impulses to do for me? Have I any thing to do but to yield myself, in the deep stillness of an exalted mys ticism, to the play and development of that life within me which is not myself after all? Is it so, that I am to be, more diligently than ever, a student of written pages, a suppliant at a Throne of Grace which is quite ex ternal to me, and a plain, humble dependent on the finished work of a guilt-bearing Cross erected ages ago at a city gate far off; not on a vis ioned inward cross on which, so to speak, an atonement is wrought out in me, but on the Tree of Life and Death at Golgotha? Am I to use the fulcrums of motive? Am I to tread the ladder of a patient use of means? Let us endeavor to give some outline of an answer. Two Great Factors The two great factors, surely, in the walk of Christian sanctity are, on this side, self-surrender, on that side the personal power and influ ence of the Lord Jesus Christ in His vital, spiritual union with His ser vant and child whom He has re deemed and saved. Self-surrender, in one of its brightest and truest aspects, is just the unreserved acceptance, without a mental reservation, with out a misgiving, of this sacred and powerful Personal Influence. And it is well, delightfully well, that the soul should habituate itself to the simplest possible attitude, as its pre vailing consciousness, towards this in finitely real and blessed Person. It is well, divinely well, that in our permanently maintained submission
wholly to His holy will and pleasure, to the ordering of all our doings by His guidance, we should think and act in the main with absolute plain ness and directness; going as straight as it is possible to conceive, as a mat ter of consciousness, to Jesus Christ, and thinking as simply as possible just this—Jt is Jesus Christ who lives for me and in me. It is not well, for it surely will not work, that every such act and thought should demand a separate analysis of reasons why, and a separate use of means. I am under the powerful influence of some dear and admirable earthly friend. I thankfully feel and own the impulses he gives my thought and w ill; the strength of his sympathy, the justness of his counsel. I know, if I stop to think, that these things are what they are to me because he is what he is; and I know if I stop to think, that certain simple condi tions are needful if I would put my self beneath their power and feel their good. But, then, I am not al ways stopping to think this. He has become to me a reality which does not need perpetual analysis. It is just him; and I go to him, and come away strong where I was weak, and happy where I was sad, and pure in purpose where I was wavering. Yet, on the other hand, I am sure to feed and develop this delightful average of habit by some definite stoppings here and there to think; by earnest memory of his conduct in the past, by deliberately watching him in the present, by taking pains to ascertain his mind and will if he has expressed it for me in writing, by freely asking him to put out more and more of his personal power upon me, and by the active meeting of his known wishes. Such things will not disturb, but, as I said, enrich and deepen the happy average, the de lightful rule and habit, of personal and simple intercourse with him.
The Ulessed Average So with the soul and the Lord Jesus Christ. Continual and direct going to Him, or let us call it rest upon Him, is to be the blessed average, rule and habit; not a fitful and intermit tent thing, a glimpse of sunshine through the ponderous clouds of a winter day, but a steady ‘light to shine upon the road’ ; a ‘dwelling in the secret place’ of the Lord. We are to ask, and to expect, that His peace shall habitually keep our heart and thoughts in Him. And we are, for our inner rest and outward work alike, to think as directly and simply as possible, while we deny self and accept the daily cross, that He does the work and not us. Can we lie too simply in His hand, as our place of life and peace? Can we be too thor oughly habituated to the attitude of simply knowing, It is the Lord; I am His; He is mine? I think not. If phrases like these are not conven tional but living things, they repre sent, I believe, just that very ele ment which is needed to transform many a life from a course, may I call it, of earnest friction into one of power and peace, in which the Lord is served with a quiet mind. But, then, this does not mean that we must never stop and think. Far from it. If those blissful formulas of life are to be living things and not to become, in their turn, conven tions full of death, we shall often do well, not always, but sometimes, to stop and think. Who is He, that I should believe on Him? What has He done to me and for me, that I should live because of Him? What has He said about His personal action on me, and its modes and its meas ures? What does that mean— I am His? What does that mean—He is mine? Such stoppings for thought, if made in His presence, what will they do? They will not disturb, they will enrich and develop and pro-
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foundly confirm the sweet and noble simplicity of the believer’s spiritual contact with the Lord Jesus Christ as his sanctification. Such is some suggestion of the true place of motives and means. Let me briefly indicate further, a little in de tail. M otives The Word of God is full of the appeal to motives, in the believer’s walk with God. Ye are bought with a price; therefore glorify God; Ye were redeemed with precious blood of Christ; I beseech you by the mer cies of God; He was in all points tempted; let us therefore come bold ly to the throne of grace. Perhaps as pregnant a place as any is Gal. 2:20, where the great Apostle of just- tification discloses to us the glorious secret of his present life of sanctifi cation: not I, but Christ liveth in me; I live my life in the flesh by faith in the Son of God; words im possible to take too absolutely in their blissful reality. May God the Holy Ghost make them for every true disciple the photograph of his own conscious blessedness! But do not for get how the strain closes: Who loved me, and gave Himself for me. Here is motive, not drawn out in argument indeed, but embosomed in living real ization. I am living absolutely upon Him; I am drawing direct from His fulness; but what has brought me into contact, what enriches and de velops my faith, why is Christ in me all this to me? It is because He was all that for me, and towards me. One practical result of this view of the place of motives is, that watch ful and Scriptural meditation must be a very real thing with him who would live by faith in the Son, who would be purified in heart by faith. I mean not artificial and mechanical meditation, but that direct consider ation of our Apostle and High Priest in the light of the Written Word, of which the Epistle to the Hebrews speaks. Let our prayers not fail to have this always as a large element in them — holy contemplation, holy, humble, definite, undoubting avowal before the Lord of what He is, what He has done, what He is doing, for me and to me. And (here is our point) let this be with the object never to terminate the meditation, the ascription, in itself, but to con tribute as it were, just that item of fresh realization to the holy aver age and habit, the inarticulate con sciousness, so to speak, of the soul’s hourly life in and upon Him and His resources for deliverance from sin and ability to walk and to please Him.
Means But I have thus already touched on my second word, means. For medi tation is indeed a means, one of the innumerable means of grace. I do not attempt to speak fully of any of those means, even the chief. It will be enough if one may but emphasize the two words means and grace apart. Of grace, what shall I say? I will dare to say just this, that on the whole, and for the subject we have in hand, it is, in effect, just the work ing of the eternal Spirit the Third Person, who evermore, as the im m ed ia te , the literally immediate, agent, sanctifieth the elect people of God. And by whatever doors of in ner act, or outward ordinance, He evermore comes in to do His work •—with an entrance which is also residence— that is means of grace. Once for all let me reverently do Him His sacred honor, remembering, all through the subject, His work. It is He who mediates, ministers, makes, the presence of the slain and glorified Saviour to and in the soul. If I depart, I will send Him; He shall glorify Me; I will come unto you. But this is just one of those divine truths which are meant not to en cumber but to intensify the soul’s personal and absolutely simple life by faith in the Son of God. Stop and think of it, in the reverent study of the Word, and it will enhance your view of the greatness of the process that is going on; but so as to leave you the more free to act upon that process, to use to the uttermost that contact with Christ which is secured and made divinely virtual and pow erful, by none other than the Holy Spirit. Using the Means Then, remembering Him, use the means by which He loves to do His spiritual work. Pray in the H oly Ghost. Remember that a close walk with God, by faith in His Son, is perfectly sure, if really close, to be a life of watching and Your Prayer Requests Each morning at eight the editor ial staff of King’s Business magazine gathers for prayer. Over the years God has answered the heartcry of thousands. Should you have a re quest we would count it a privilege to take it to the throne of grace. Your request will be held in the strictest confidence. Address: The Editors, King's Business, 558 So. Hope St., Los Angeles 17, Calif.
prayer such as never was before; a life in which the very sense of holy joy and possession will instinctively work in you the blessed sensitiveness which must ever ask, while yet you have and rest. Search the Scriptures. For there the Spirit speaketh expressly. The closer the walk with God, by faith in His Son, the stronger will be the holy ap petite for the positive assurances of your inheritance, and the positive precepts of His now delightful will, in His absolutely truthful and au thoritative Word. Worship God in the Spirit. Dream not that the life of. faith can be its true self in neglect of the holy adora tions and praises and confessions of the Lord’s congregation. Expect, rath er, to find in every public prayer, truth and help tenfold. Continue in the breaking of bread. It is your Lord’s ordinance, and there fore divine! At the sacred table, taught b y ' the Spirit, what less do you do than put your finger into the print of the nails, and thrust your hand into His side, and say— as if indeed you saw Him, the slain and risen Lamb—My Lord, and my God? Deep is the blessedness of the com munion-hour, when we are habitual ly living by faith in Him; a blessed ness sure to enrich with new spirit ual realization the daily and hourly contact with the living Lord Jesus Christ. The Real Secret Yet, let us remember it well. Our strength against temptation, our abil ity for true obedience, resides in nothing less, nothing else, than liv ing union and contact with Jesus Christ our Head. That union and con tact is immediate, spiritual. Nothing is to be between; not the most vener able and apostolic organization, not the most precious of Christ-given or dinances. But these things are not therefore nothing. Rightly used, by the spiritually-minded disciple, they have a sacred work to do. They are to be powerful things in the way of assuring the fact of contact, and of promoting, d e ep en in g , enriching, guiding, the sense of it. But the con tact, the union, found and realized, is the vital thing, unique, immedi ate, wholly spiritual. W ill the reader make perfectly sure that this is the possession of his own soul? For nothing less than this is spiritual safety. Nothing else than this can bring spiritual satisfaction. It is in fact the deep secret, the sub stance and the sum, of Christian sanc tity. (Included in “Christ and Sanc tifica tio n P ick e rin g & Inglis, Ltd., London.) END.
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page). There are 22 protestant services each week (there’s even one at remote Chilnualna Falls, a pack camp in the high country). The work was started in 1879 by the California Sunday School Association; is now supported by permanent residents and gifts.
Of the one million tourists who will vacation in Yo- semite National Park this year some 60,000 will at tend protestant church services. Most of these will worship outdoors in the Church Bowl (below); a few in the historic Old Village Chapel (see cover, next
Park's permanent pastor is Alfred G. Glass shown hav ing morning devotions with summer helpers Philip Ei- senhauer (Evangelical & Reformed) and Mason Brown (Baptist). Even during winter months Rev. Glass has nine services a week, with standing-room-only crowds.
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granite walls. Two brief years later Florence died but the Old Village Chapel has continued to minister to the thousands who have come to see the quiet beauty of Yosemite.
Chapel is a bridge with pioneer days. The first white child born in the Valley was Forence Hutchings and for Florence Hutchings the chapel was in a very real way the house of God. In the bright springtime of womanhood Florence tenderly and humbly performed the duties of jan itor and caretaker. Just two years before, when she was 16, Florence had been visiting in San Francisco and attended the First Congregation al Church there where Dwight L. Moody and Ira D. Sankey were hold ing revival meetings. Through these meetings Florence came into a vital relationship with God. In the com ing months part of the evangelistic team (including hymnwriter George Stebbins) visited Florence and her be loved chapel nestled among the tall
his summer Americans will again methodically leave rou tin e s behind and head for their an
nual vacation. And nearly a million of these vacationers will be treking to Yosemite National Park. Here they will find 1,200 square miles of towering granite, plunging waterfalls and quiet, glaciated valleys. And many of these millions will find a little New England style meeting house called the “ Old Village Chap el” (see cover). This simple build ing, resting harmoniously in its set ting of meadow, trees and gray gran ite walls, today is the last man-made guardian of the Valley’s early his tory and the oldest relic still stand ing of those stirring days. Built in 1878, the Old Village
CULTS S Part 8
Seventh-day Adventism
In this final article on the S even th -day Adven tist Church
Dr . Talbot gives a clear description of this groupes belief
about soul s leep , annihilation and co rrec t dag o f worship
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N ot only does Seventh-day Adventism teach that sin is not fully atoned for as yet, and that in an imaginary "sanctuary” apart from the Father’s presence Christ has carried on His work of "in vestigative judgment” for 19 centuries, but they also believe and declare a terrible heresy that Satan, not Christ, was the sin-bearer. Their basis for this elaborate and fanciful doctrine is characteristic o f the Adventist type of Bible study! It will scarcely be believed but actually they built this upon one word in a marginal reading of the Authorized Version. Here are the verses from Leviticus 16:7-10 which make reference to the sacrifice of the two goats: "And he [Aaron] shall take the two goats, and present them before the Lord at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. "And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats; one lot for the Lord, and the other lot for the scapegoat. "And Aaron shall bring the goat upon which the Lord’s lot fell, and offer him for a sin offering. "But the goat, on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat, shall be presented alive before the Lord, to make an atone ment with him, and to let him go for a scapegoat into the wilderness.” (In the margin of the Authorized Version, there is this note in regard to the word scapegoat : "Heb. Azazel.” Now they have decided that this "Azazel” is Satan and Mrs. Ellen G. White has it all worked out:) "It was seen also that while the sin offering pointed to Christ as the sacrifice, and the high priest represented Christ as a mediator, the scapegoat typified Satan, the author of sin and the one upon whom the sins of the truly penitent will finally be placed. When the high priest removed the sins from the sanctuary, he placed them upon the scapegoat. When Christ by virtue of His own blood removed the sins o f His people from the sanctuary at the close of His min istrations, He will place them upon Satan . . . Satan, bearing the guilt of all the sins which he has caused God’s people to commit . . . will at last suffer the full penalty of sin in the fires that shall destroy the wicked” ( The Great Contro versy, pp. 485, 486).
T here is a long and tedious description of "The Investigative Judgment” in The Great Controversy published by the Pacific Press Publishing Associa tion, pp. 545 to 557. As this is so closely con nected with their conception of Satan as the one to finally bear away the sins of believers, I will take the space to explain this teaching. According to Mrs. White, the work of the "investigative judgment” (not a Scriptural term at all) and the blotting out of sins will be accomplished before the second coming of Christ. Since the dead are to be judged by their records, their sins cannot be removed until after this judgment where their cases are to be reviewed. When this judgment ends, Christ will return, and give out rewards. So far as the sin-bearer is concerned, Mrs. White teaches that as the priest in Old Testament times confessed Israel’s sins upon the head o f a scapegoat, so men’s sins are to be placed upon Satan who will, like the scapegoat, bear them away into the wilderness. He then, not Christ, becomes the sin-bearer. Mrs. White states that Satan is to be confined to the earth for 1,000 years which will then be an uninhabited wilderness and that finally he will bear the full punishment for sin. Here are her words: "Thus the great plan of re demption will reach its accomplishment in the final eradi cation o f sin and the deliverance of all who have been will ing to renounce evil.” She further states that this judgment began in 1844. God’s Word states that our Lord Jesus Christ was the only sin-bearer. ". . . Behold the Lamb of God, which tak- eth away the sin o f the world” (John 1 :29); ", . . The Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all . . . he bare the sin o f many” (Isa. 53:6, 12); "Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree” (1 Pet. 2 :24). Satan is not our saviour nor does he share with Christ in bearing the penalty o f our sin. I wish to quote from Dr. A. C. Gaebelein in his great work on the Pentateuch on this matter o f the two goats. He was an eminent Hebrew scholar and one o f the outstanding teachers on prophetic subjects for the last half century. I believe that this simple explanation, based on both He brew and Greek, will not only satisfy the intellect, but also the hearts of God’s people: "Azazel is not at all an evil being or Satan. The Hebrew
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