speak of sacrifice, considering the great price paid by Him who left the throne on high to give Himself for us?” This testimony of David Livingstone, the great missionary statesman to Africa, expresses the same viewpoint which through the years Biola students have had as they prepared for the whitened harvest fields around the world. Let’s not say there are a certain number of days, or weeks, or months left before the time of harvest. Our Lord Jesus told us that the crop of potential souls is already over-ripe, and the day for harvesting is fast drawing to a close. Is it too much of a sacrifice to talk to that neighbor, that friend, about whom you have been thinking? I f you don’t, who will? Consider what Christ has done for us and then in Spirit- filled boldness, speak for the Saviour. h * * The reason ideas perish in some heads is because they can't stand solitary con finement. * * * LINKAGE W ITH M A N Almost beyond human comprehen sion are the modem inventions now on the technology drawing boards. For instance, imagine a man’s being able to step over a parked car, uproot a tree, carry a telephone pole up a cliff or slosh easily through an otherwise impassable swamp. Scientists at Gen eral Electric’s advanced technology laboratory in Schenectady, New York are contemplating this very reality. They have designed the pedipulator. This is a 17-foot-high robot which has a room, where an ordinary man’s brain would be, for the human operator. There in the pedipulator’s skull he manipulates the machine through his own arm and leg movements. The robot, you see, amplifies the normal power of a man’8 limbs many times over, thus enabling the huge behemoth-like mon ster to perform superhuman feats. With controls attached to his body when the operator lifts his leg, he may raise it as if he were stepping over a log. The action is so greatly amplified, however, that the robot can leap over a parked car. I f a tree stands in the way the man need only grasp it with his super arms, pull gently, and the tree comes out by the roots. De velopers, of course, are enthusiastic.
One reports, “I t’s extremely difficult to teach a robot to do things, but this joins man’s brain and nervous system with the machine’s su p e r-h um a n strength.” Quite a development of mod em technology! What a linking to gether! Something even more wonder ful than this in the spiritual realm is available to all of us, each one right now, for the Bible clearly shows us how God desires to join Himself to man. This, of course, is an odious com parison to a mere robot. Through new life in the Saviour we say with the Apostle Paul, “I can do allthings through Christ who strengthened me” (Phil. i:13). We are assured in Scrip ture that the Lord delights to do for us that which is “Exceeding abundant ly above all that we ask or think, ac cording to the power that worketh in us" (Eph. 3:20). * * * Jumping to conclusions is not nearly as good exercise as digging for the facts. * * * M A N 'S VALUE Through the years we’ve heard re ports that the various chemical com pounds that make up a man’s body have a possible monetary value of some thing around 98 cents. Prices now have gone up considerably. The component parts naturally are the same, such as the fact, that if reduced to chemical substance, man’s body would contain about enough sulphur to rid a dog of flees, or such valuable statistics that he contains enough lime to whitewash a chicken coop! Scientists at North western University have re-estimated the value of these basic elements. So, today, with inflation, you will be glad to know that the price has jumped to some $31.Ob. This is still not very much. Another group of scientists has considered what man might be worth in the light of atomic power. Here is where the mind reels with the poten tial. Did you know that with the atoms in your body, you could produce 11, b00,000 kilowatts of power per pound? The only thing necessary is a way to harness all of this energy. Let me sug gest that a man weighing 160 pounds would in this way be worth 85 billion, 500 million dollars. All of this, unfor tunately, is highly speculative. Even at this staggering value, still man is
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