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Around the King’s Table —Editorial ......... ........................... ...............282 Significance of the News —Dan Gilbert........ .............................................283 The Distress of Nations— and God’s Answer —Louis T. Talbot ..........284 Science and the Scriptures —Frederic W . Farr ..................................1......285 In Christ’s* Stead —Chester Padgett ....................... ......................................286 Why Attend a Christian College ?—Bob Jones ............. ;......................... 287 God’s Cure for Despondency— F. G. Benskin .......................................... 288 When to Be Brief —Herbert Lockyer ....;................ ."................................290 Bible Institute Family Circle....................... ..................................................292 Junior King’s Business -—Martha S. Hooker. ..................... ........................ 293 International Lesson Commentary........:......................... ......... .......... .’.......296 Notes on Christian Endeavor —Lyman A. Wendt ............... .................... 308 Daily Devotional Readings............................................................................. 313 Girls’ Query Corner —Myrtle E. Scott .....................................................318 Our Literature Table.............................. .......... ........................................... 319 SUBSCHIPTIOA PRICE) “The K ing’s Business” is published monthly. $1.00-r-one year; $1.50— tw o years;. 50 cents— six m onths; 10 cents— single copy. Clubs of five or more at special rates; w rite fo r details. , Canadian and foreign subscriptions 25 cents extra. It requires one month for a change of address to becom e effective. Please send both old and new addresses. REMITTANCE— Payable in advance, should be made by bank draft, express or post office money order payable to “ The K in g ’s Business.” Date o f ex piration w ill show plainly each m onth on outside w rapper or cover of magazine. ADVERTISING-— F or inform ation w ith reference to advertising in “ The K in g ’s Business,” address the A dvertising Manager, 558 South Hope Street, Los Angeles, Calif., or our eastern representative, R eligious Press A sso ciation, 3108-10 Colonial Bldg., 13th and Market Streets, Philadelphia, Pa. MANUSCRIPTS— “The K ing's Business” cannot accept responsibility fo r loss or damage to m anuscripts sent to it for consideration. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in Section 1103. Act of October S, 1917, authorized October 1, 1918. Entered as Second Class Matter November 7, 1938, at the Post Office at, Los Angeles, California, under the Act of March 3, 1879. INFORMATION FOR SUBSCRIBERS
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called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face,, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.’ Lay upon our . hearts, and the hearts of our na- tional leaders, the yearning to turn to Thee, not only in fear, but also in repentance. Make us to acknowl edge our terrible sins of lust and avarice, of desecration of the Lord’s day, of drinking and vice, of ig noring Thy Word, of rejecting Thy Son. “May we get a right view of eter nal consequences that are involved. It is comparatively easy for us to pray for the suffering ones of earth —for wives and husbands who are being torn from each other’s arms, , for little children, like our own pre cious babies, who cannot understand why their daddies do not come home. Yes, we can pray for these, and God grant that we shall, for we know what their pain must be. But, O God, enable us to catch the vision also of the exceedingly great horror, of being separated not only from loved ones, but FROM THEE.” Prayer for leaders of nations occu pied a large part of the day. It was pointed out, with the assurance of faith, that if God could touch the heart of Nebuchadnezzar, and of Constantine, and of others who do not readily choose His will, there can be no dictator on earth today who can withstand the dealing of Almighty God in his life and in his nation. 'Finally, for the members of the body of Christ—particularly those suffering ones in Germany, in Britain, in France, in Russia, in Belgium, in Holland, in Scandinavia, in the Orient—tender and earnest pleading was directed to “the God of all grace.” “Praying in the Holy Ghost” (Jude 20), was the text for a concluding mes sage given by James R. Graham, Jr., a message that put warm love for Christ into the hearts of praying people, and sent them forth to “rejoice evermore” and to “pray without ceasing” (1 Thess. 5:16, 17). The meeting closed with the observance of the Lord’s Supper. It was a beautiful sight to see hundreds of be lievers, their hands clasped while 'they sang “Blest Be the Tie That Binds Our Hearts in Christian Love*' —Louis T> Talbot.
When God’s People Pray France has set aside a day for mourn ing. It is an amazing thing that, in this hour of national and international dis tress, no call as yet has issued from Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.—the headquarters of this nation which sol emnly, if only theoretically, proclaims, “In God we trust”—no little word of de sire has come for a national day of humbling before God and of beseeching His favor. But is this failure on the part of gov ernmental leaders to be an excuse for the inactivity of the Lord’s people who know the power of prayer? More than forty pastors in Los Angeles and vicin ity vigorously declared themselves as believing there is no such excuse. In their own churches, many of them had ar ranged for a day, or days, of prayer for the nation and for the world, and had urged for prayer in their church bulle tins and over the radio. And when a great mass meeting for prayer, which would have as its objective world con ditions and world leaders, was called by the pastor of thé Church of the Open Door for Wednesday, June 26, not only did these pastors cooperate hearti ly, but their people also responded, so that in the course of the day, approxi mately 3,000 individuals erxgaged in the intercession. Expressing the opinion of many others, one pastor declared: “I believe that prayer will do more to protect our country than will billions of dollars ¿pent for armaments, and it is the only power that will be able to stop the Çod- denying, Christ-hating, Bible exter minating dictators. LET US EAR NESTLY AND MIGHTILY PRAY!” It was understood that the petitions on this particular day were to be world wide in scope. Written requests for prayer were sent to the patform. “ Oh, let us not pray for ourselves” was the burden of many, “but for our nation and for those in authority that they may know that ‘righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people’ (Prov. 14:34).” Earnestly beseeching God, through the merits of a risen Saviour, one pas tor’s prayer was in reaUty the utterance of a multitude when he prayed: “O gracious Lord, may we con fess our sins—we who call ourselves a Christian nation. We read in Thy Word: ‘If my people, which are
Slow Down! There is a book by David Grayson, en titled Adventures in Solitude, from which we quote the following: “Many times in my life I have repeated Rodin’s saying . . . that ‘slowness is beauty.’ . . . To read slowly, to feel slowly and deeply; what enrichment! “In the past I have been so often greedy. I have gobbled down innu merable facts, ideas, stories, poeti cal illusions—I have gobbled down work—I have even gobbled down my friends!—and indeed had a kind of enjoyment of all of them. But rarely have I tasted the last flavor of anything, the final exquisite sense of personality or spirit that secretes itself in every work that merits se rious attention, in every human be ing at all worth knowing.” * Is there any word more greatly need ed by most Christian people today ? When it comes to the study of the Word of God and fellowship with God’s peo ple, how much we are missing because we take our Bible knowledge in cap sule form from some one else! And we gobble down our Christian friends!. We fail to take time lor true appreciation of their contribution to our lives. How few there are who know the meaning of lying down “in pastures of tender grass” and strolling “beside the waters of rest” (cf. Psa. 23)! The Bible is full of terms like these which call upon God’s people to slow down and take time “to get the flavor.” Can we not get out of this hot noon tide of life and the mad rush of the throng, and under trees that whisper in the breezes where we can rest upon moist herbage and really fathom some of the deep things of God? Have we no time to appreciate our brothers and sisters in Christ whose lives have meaht so much to us? Surely we can all enter into these rich experiences. But only our Good Shep herd can lead us to it. Do we really ask HIM to help us to slow down? —Keith L. Brooks. A Gift That Multiplies Itself THE KING’S BUSINESS recently re ceived the following delightful message: “Enclosed find a check for sixty- five dollars to be used . . . for mis- *From Adventures in Solitude, by David Grayson, copyright, 1931, by Doubleday, Doran, & Co., Inc,
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Significance of the News By DAN GILBERT Washington, D. C., and San Diego, California
cial, and political conquest. Communists are encouraged to join labor unions, fra ternal orders, even churches, in order to poison public opinion from the inside, and to convert these agencies into Com munist propaganda mediums. Radical strategists are “planted” in schools, col leges, and government departments. The technique is to get them placed in key positions, where they can function most effectively for the subversive cause. Propaganda plays an important part in all “fifth column” activity. It is cloaked in appeals to idealism arid high principles, but the cunning aim of the propaganda is always to weaken and demoralize a people in distress. When the nation is fighting for its very life, with its back to the wall, “pacifist” pro paganda will be spread. But when the nation’s interests lie in preserving peace, propaganda for war will be dis seminated. At this very moment, the radicals of France and Britain are spreading pacifism to undermine the nations in which they live; but here in America, they have been whooping it up for war—since they recognize that our involvement in the war would disrupt and probably destroy our economic sys tem. When peace is not possible—as the situation is with the Allies—they are for peace. When peace is possible—as the situation is with the United States —they are against peace. Communists and Nazis in all “capital istic” countries were confirmed pacifists all during the years after World War I. They wanted all other nations disarmed, at the very time that Russia and Ger many were building up the greatest military machines in all history. The significant thing about the “fifth column” strategy is that both Stalin and Hitler count upon it to produce revolutionary upheaval in the New World. In his autobiography, and espe cially in the confidential plans laid bare by the ex-Nazi leader who wrote The Revolution of Nihilism and The Voice of Destruction, Hitler puts his whole re- , liance in the well-organized “fifth col umn” to produce insurrection in the na tions of North and South America. Ap parently, he does not contemplate out side invasion of the Western hemi sphere. All military men know that this is virtually impossible. Soviet Russia has long contemplated “world revolution”—that is, the setting up of Soviet governments in all nations [Continued on Page 291] v
FIFTH COLUMN: • A new phrase has been built into the English language—“fifth column.” It gained usage as a result of the civil war in Spain. When the first drive on Mad rid was launched by the Franco forces, General Mola exulted; “We have four columns moving against the city. Our fifth column is already within the city—it will arise and make itself felt at the proper time.” It was a happy phrase, but a costly one. Thousands of “fifth columnists” died, in order that our yocabulary might be enriched by this most expressive term. The loyalist government in Madrid recognized at once what General Mola meant. A general round-up of “ rebel sympathizers” was ordered, and thousands were executed or imprisoned. The famous “fifth column” in Madrid was routed, and the promising drive on the city was turned back with crush ing losses. This was early in the war. It was not until many months later, after General Mola himself had been killed in an airplane accident, that Madrid was finally taken by the Franco legions. The “fifth column” strategy has been widely publicized in the press. Traitors within the Norwegian army betrayed their country and handed over to Hitler some of the key defenses. In other cases, Nazi agents had been planted in positions of trust and prominence. Nazi spies committed acts of sabotage, and Nazi propagandists produced demora lization in crucial circumstances. In Norway, the “fifth column” was more important than the military forces themselves in accomplishing the Nazi conquest. In Holland and Belgium, the “fifth column” was equally active, but its effectiveness was reduced by the vigilance of the defenders. The “fifth column” technique was not conceived by the Nazis. The Communists in Russia used it as the main means for putting over the Bolshevik Revolution under Lenin and Trotsky. Communist literature is filled with full and precise instructions as to the manifold ways in which a “fifth column” can be organ ized and operated. The very term “Trojan horse” is frequently used by the Communists. This refers to their boring- from-within tactics. The “Trojan horse” t^hnique is not limited to military projects. It is also utilized as a method of intellectual, so
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A Radio Address Given In Los Angeles
By LOUIS T. TALBOT*
I BELIEVE with all my heart that we are standing at the threshold of vast and far-reaching events that will make an impression on this old world such as has never been made before. Newspaper men and radio commen tators are expressing grave doubt con cerning the ability of statesmen and governments to bring the world back from its danger of ruin. Of course, we who are students of the Bible have long possessed that knowledge, because we have had our eyes on "the prophecies of the Word of God. Everywhere in the world, the hour in which we are speak ing these words is indeed a solemn one. But for us who belieye the Bible, it is also an hour of hope, for we know that the Lord Jesus Christ has, in the Word, associated these very events with the circumstances of His personal return to the earth. Christ’s Sure Return With your open Bible before you, and with the Spirit o f God to guide you, you can see in the Word, from begin ning to end, the transcendent truth that Christ will surely return to this old earth in a personal, visible, bodily man ner to set things right. Who else can do it? Not only was this the personal tes timony of Christ, but all the writers in the New Testament also spoke of- this blessed hope and seemingly bound it up with every doctrine they taught. In regard to conditions that are to prevail at the time of His coming, Christ said: • “As the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be” (Matt. 24:37). •President of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles and Pastor of the Church o f the Open Door.
To the sorrowing disciples in the up per room, He gave this comfort: .“If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also" (John 14:3). On the day of His ascension, as the disciples watched His going with up turned heads and straining, tearful eyes, the message of the men in white was this: “This same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven” (Acts 1: 11 ). As Paul wrote to the then recently bereaved Thessalonian Christians, he comforted their hearts with the great est comfort that can be spoken, when he said: “The Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we . which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord” (1 Thess. 4:16, 17). Why, my dear friends, I could show you three hundred and eighty-two pas sages, all within the pages of the New Testament, in which the Holy Spirit speaks specifically and definitely about the return of Christ. This doctrine is taught more emphatically in the New Testament than any other doctrine. In fact, one verse in every twenty-five refers to it. Rules for Interpretation The proper f way to interpret unful filled prophecy is in the light of ful filled ptophecy. That is, in regard to
the prophetic utterances concerning the return of Christ to this earth, we should take as our norm of interpretation the manner in which the prophecies con cerning His first coming have been ful filled. Were the curses upon the Jews literal? Then the blessings will be lit eral. Was the prophecy concerning the scattering of the Jews among all lands actual ? Then the regathering will be just as actual. If the pulling down of Zion was true to fact, then the rebuild ing of Zion will be just as tru'e. In any study of world conditions in the light of the Word of God, there are some outstanding facts that must be kept in mind. The first of these, and one of the most important, is that the time in which we are living is called govemmentally “ the times of the Gentiles.” By this expression is meant that period of time during which the Gentile nations are exercising lordship over the earth, and over the land of Palestine. A significant statement of our Lord is this: “Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled” (Lk. 21:24). The times of the Gentiles had a definite beginning, and they will have a definite ending. They began with Ne buchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, and they wiU close with the return of Christ to the earth as King of kings and Lord of lords. In Luke 21:24-27 and in Matthew' 24 and 25, Christ gives a general de scription of the Gentile nations at the time of the end. Also in the book of Revelation, in Daniel, and in parts of Ezekiel we have presented facts con cerning the times of the Gentiles, show ing the three great Gentile. confedera cies into which the nations shall form themselves at the end time, and which \Cot\finued on Page 291]
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Science and the Scriptures By the Late FREDERIC W . FARR
S CIENCE and the Christian reli gion are found, in the last analysis, to rest upon the same founds#- always been that it stands upon the strictly rational basis of induction, ob servation, and experiment, is found in many instances to rest upon the mys tical foundations of unproved 'and im provable hypotheses. Religion, to be sure, has always pro fessed to be founded upon the unseen. Faith, not reason, has been its guiding star. The Christian worships with ador ing love a Persori whom he has never seen, and on the word of this Being, the Lord Jesus Christ, he confidently believes himself to be the recipient of eternal life on his way to the joyful occupancy of mansions in the skies. Science and the Realm of Mystery This faith has been criticized and satirized and stigmatized by those call ing themselves rational and scientific. These critics find themselves today in a more and more uncomfortable posi tion. If they accept any of the advanced views of modern science, they are obliged to assume more undemonstrable a n d seemingly preposterous premises than any which ever enter into the fab ric of Christian apologetics. Is it not passing strange that a man will believe in the existence of an atom and disbelieve in the existence of a Su preme Being ? Why should one who believes in an imponderable ether that never can be demonstrated criticize the credulity of a Christian who believes in a hereafter ? The invisible is mightier than the visible, the eternal than the temporal. Professor Jevons has said: "Science does nothing to reduce the number of strange things we may believe.” In view of the discovery of rays that enable men to pierce even a block of cement, revealing the interior, who can rightly doubt the power of the Almighty to search and see the innermost re cesses of the human soul and discern the thoughts and intents of the heart ? Between true science and religion there is not and never can be irrecon cilable contradiction. Science is the handmaid of religion. The Lord of creation and the God of grace are one and the same. He cannot deny Himself. No matter what discoveries are made in natural science, it will be impossible to impeach the authority of the Word of God, to discount its priceless value, or to discredit its authenticity. The Word of God is like a solid cube of granite. Upset it as often as you
away: But the word of the Lord en- dureth for ever.” There are those who profess to revere the Bible as an ethical standard, but who say that it is filled with errors and that inspired writers were sincere but often mistaken. This we cannot accept, for “false in one—false in all.” The Bible is not a textbook of science, but if it errs in its allusions to scientific matters, it cannot be accepted as iner- rant in spiritual things. To say that the inspired writers were mistaken, is to imply that the God who inspired them was also mistaken. This under mines the whole doctrine of inspiration. Since many of the most vital doc- [Continued on Page 289] Mr. Moon is holding two electrodes in contact, discharging the metal as white- hot vapor with low voltage current dis charged at about 5,000 amperes. While members of the audience observe these feats of science, they hear a true-to- the-Bible message that stresses personal salvation through Christ. Last year, nearly 175,000 persons saw a complete scientific demonstration given by Mr. Moon; 350,000 others en tered the exhibit building at odd times during the day to see the displays, and great numbers of these accepted Chris tian literature. This year, other thou sands of visitors to the Fair are hear
please. It is just as broad and deep and wide and high as it was before. Indeed, something of interest and value previously hidden from sight may have become exposed to view thereby. The statements of science are tenta tive and provisional. Let no one tell you it is otherwise. The unexpected dis covery of a new fact is ever revolution izing some entire department of science and exploding utterly some theory hitherto deemed invincible. The Word of God and Certainty The words of God, on the other hand, are absolute and ultimate. “The Scrip ture cannot be broken.” “The grass Withereth, and the flower thereof falleth
tion. Science, whose haughty boast has
ing the gospel as it is faithfully preached in this u n i q u e and convincing way. This remarkable soul saving ministry is being maintained, humanly, by the Christian Business Men’s Committee of San Francisco. Mr. Moon—an electrical and radio wiz ard since childhood, a graduate of the Bible In stitute of Los Angeles, and for several years a Los Angeles minister —
Sermons from Science V ISITORS to the Sermons from Sci ence building at the Golden Gate International Exposition, at San Fran cisco, Calif., can see 1,240,000 volts of electricity pass through the body of the demonstrator, Irwin A. Moon (lower picture), as he uses this spectacular means of illustrating Biblical truth. The photograph at the upper left depicts the same principle of “tuning” electricity so that a human body can take it. Here
brings his varied demonstrations at 3:00, 6:00, and 8:00 p.m. every day except Monday. Tom M. Olson is business man ager of the exhibit. Four completely different lectures are given in the course of a week. On Saturday and Sunday evenings in particular, the queues of persons waiting for the privilege of oc cupying seats and even standing room attest the interest this presentation has aroused as word about it has spread.
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K HE purpose of this message is to emphasize four truths which are given in the passage of Scrip selected its motto: “In Christ’s Stead.” These four truths should be kept - con stantly in the mind of each member of this class, and 'in the mind of every Christian who would effectively repre sent the Lord Jesus Christ. May I enumerate them before I stress each one separately? In the first place, we are in Christ’s stead as living miracles;, second, we are in Christ’s stead with an impelling mo tive; third, we are in Christ’s stead with a gjorious message; and finally, we are in Christ’s stead with an unfailing Mas ter. It will not be necessary;, for us to dwell upon the evident fact that we are in Christ’s stead; the text chosen by the graduating class plainly declares that we are. Paul said, “Now then we
Christian service. At regeneration, the Holy Spirit moves in to take up His abode in the body of the believer. In John 16:7, the Lord Jesus said: “Nevertheless I will tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you.” If this prom ise of the Saviour had not been ful filled, His work on thg cross never would have become effective in your life and mine. There could have been no new creation. We would now be utterly helpless, without a spiritual teacher, without a guide, without a comforter, and more than that, without power. Thank God tonight for the truth of Acts 1:8 where the Son of God said: “But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.” Witnessing for Jesus Christ is the
essence of spiritual ambassadorship, and apart from the new birth and the pres ence and power of the Holy Spirit in our lives, we may as well forget even attempting to serve the King of kings and the Lord of lords. The only serv ant this greatest of all kings will honor is one who is himself a living miracle, a new creation in Christ Jesus. An Impelling Motive In the second place,, we are in Christ’s stead with an impelling motive. This motive is given in 2 Corinthians 5:14: “For the love of Christ constraineth us.” . , Some time ago, a candidate for a mis sion field was being questioned by mem bers of the board to which he )iad ap plied. “Is your -impelling motive a love for the heathen?” he was asked. “Nor’’ came back the startling an swer. “Then why are you going to the mis sion field?” “Because I love
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Living Miracles In the first place, we are in Christ’s stead as living mir acles. This truth is found in 2 Corinthi ans 5:17: “T h e r e fore, if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.” The believer’s new birth is the g r e a t dynamic of are ambassadors for Christ,^ as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God” (2 Cor. 5:20). However, for our mutual help, and I trust for our mutual encouragement, we shall consider to gether t h e f o u r wonderful truths al ready mentioned.
the L o r d Jesus Christ,” w a s t h e candidate’s answer to the board. When the faithful Holy S p i r i t im presses upon our hearts and minds the meaning of Cal vary and the shed blood of the Lamb o f God, and when He implants within our hearts the im pelling love of Jesus Christ, we can do the impossible for Christ’s sake. It is a comparatively easy thing to sacrifice life’s dearest trea sures when we real ize that we do it in order to obey the voice of Him who loved us and gave Himself for us.
A Glorious Message
The third truth is t h a t we are in Christ’s stead with a glorious message
*Class Day representa tive of the Class of 1940, Bible Institute of Los Angeles,
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the blessed invitation of the Son of God for us to become yokefellows with Him, partners in this business of living and serving. I understand that on the farm, the farmer will work two horses together— one anf old, experienced, steady horse, the other a young, active, and impetu ous one. The one acts as a Check On the other. He takes the greater part of the load; he teaches the younger to pull evenly and steadily; he trains him in the best way to pull the load so that it does not increase the burden or cause a strain. So it must be in our work with Christ. We must allow ourselves to be yokefellows with -Him if victory and success are to attend our way. It is our firm conviction that in the life of each member of this graduating I N MY evangelistic work which has taken me into all sections of the United States and into a number of foreign lands, I have met many young people who were reared in Christian homes, and who went away to a college or a university and came back home with their faith shattered and in some cases with their morals wrecked. Please re member that a college is not necessarily a Christian institution because it is a church school. I have met more young people who lost their faith while attend ing denominational schools than those who had the same experience while at tending state institutions. When a young person goes to a state institution, his pa rents can explainvto him that in the United States we have separation of church and state, and that he will have to look out after his own religion. When parents send their sons and daughters to their denominational school, natur ally these young people expect to receive Christian training, and when they re ceive false and unchristian teaching in stead, their faith is usually shattered. No parent has any right to sacrifice the faith of a child on the altar of a false church loyalty. An institution, to’ Ife Christian, of course must definitely accept an ortho dox Christian creed. But it is possible to give mental assent to orthodox the ology and at the same time to reject the Christian philosophy. The “ School” Christ Founded The Lord Jesus Christ, measured by the best standards of pedagogy, was the greatest Teacher the world ever knew. Jesus knew His subject, He knew His *Founder of Bob Jonet College, Cleveland, Tenn.
class of 1940 these four truths even now play a very dominant part. Each of us is in Christ’s stead as a living miracle. We need no other dynamic than that of the indwelling Person of the Holy Spirit. We are in Christ’s stead with an impelling motive; the love of Christ constrains us. We are in Christ’s stead with a glorious message of reconcilia tion. And we are in Christ’s stead, working together with One who never has lost a battle. May the blessing of God rest upon us. If we never meet again until we reach the other shore, may we gather then with a song in our hearts and upon our lips, knowing that we have faithfully performed- our God- given task, that by His matchless grace we have been good ambassadors in Christ’s stead. pupil, and He lived what He taught. Ha founded a “small school” in which He enrolled only twelve students. He set up high standards of living. He was training leaders and, therefore, did not wish to build a big school. He had no intercollegiate athletics. The only en dowment He had was the money He got out of a fish’s mouth when He had to pay taxes. His classroom was a dusty highway, a seashore, and a mountain top. His library was the Old Testament and the birds, the flowers, the fish in the sea, and the other commonplace things which are in men’s daily 'lives. He told those who enrolled in His school that He had no dormitories. He said, “The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.” When some one wanted to enroll in the school which Jesus established, He said, in ef fect, “Get a cross, and come on and die with Me.” He taught that is better to die for something than it is to live for nothing. As careful as Jesus was? He got one bad student, Judas Iscariot, who had to be “shipped” and who ended his life a suicide. This left eleven pupils who were graduated from the school that the Lord Jesus founded—eleven men who turned the current of history and shook the foundations of empires. Jesus taught the importance of the right kind of creed. He said, “If ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins.” He taught, in addition to this, a philosophy of self-denial, self- control, self-restraint. Many of the eafly school teachers Of America were Christians. But, of course, some were not. However, even those who did not accept the Christian theology accepted [i Continued on Page 317]
—a message portrayed In 2 Corinthians 5:18-20: “And all things are of God, *ft ho hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their tres passes unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation. Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye recon ciled to God.” Several years ago, while I was driv ing across the beautiful Golden Gate bridge in San Francisco, an occupant of my car told me an amazing thing about the bridge. He said that one part of that engineering marvel was begun on one side of the mainland, and the other half on the other side of the channel at the same time. The workmen built until those two halves were brought together over the' center of the huge expanse. So carefully and accurately was the work done that there was only a fraction of an inch of deviation when the two masses of steel and cable merged. This account-brought to my mind the story of a far greater “engineering feat” than this o f the Golden Gate. Back in eternity, God, the Master En gineer, worked out a plan of redemp tion that would link a lost and fallen world with Himself. There was God, away- over on one part of the main land, and here, separated by an im passable gulf of human sin, was man. The Lord Jesus came and died, and by His matchless sacrifice erected, not a Golden Gate, but, thank God, He tore down a gate and erected a golden lad der, a ladder that stretches from this sin-cursed world to thè very throne and heart of God. Jesus Christ is the only means of access into the favor and the presence of God. No one else could ever say, “I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture” (John 10:9). An Unfailing Master The fourth and last truth which we wish to stress is that we are in Christ’s stead with an unfailing Master. In 2 Corinthians 6:1 this truth is pointed out in a beautiful way. The inspired writer uses the words, “workers togeth er with him.” There is a tremendous need in the church today, not of work done for Christ, but ot work done with Chfist. I do not know of any truth that ought to be emphasized more strongly and more frequently in our thinking, as we face a life of ambassadorship for Christ, than the truth expressed in the words of the Son of God: “Apart from me ye can do nothing" (John 15:5, ft.V.). No effort put forth is worth the expenditure of energy unless the Lord Jesus Christ is in it. We have
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TH E K I N G ’ S B U S I N E S S August, 1940 God's Cure for Despondency By F. G. BENSKIN- Bristol, England t I N THE lives of all great men there come times of spiritual crisis, sometimes inexplicable in their or
markable career of the prophet himself. Then there had come reaction—and now Elijah acted like a spoiled child. Elijah -was very much like us—subject to moods, conscious of exhilarations and depressions, aware of the thrill of vic tory, and yet deeply sensible of the pain of seeming defeat. He was “a man of like passions -as we are” (Jas. 5:17). Here was a man who had put the cup of life to his lips and found that it had a jagged rim. Elijah lay down under the shadow of the tree and found merciful sleep, that great restorative for jaded nerves. As he slept, the angels of the Lord came and touched him. That is what God often does in sleep. The angels roused him and bade him eat. This man, for whom the fire of heaven seemed to be an instrument at his command, now was happy to partake of a meal pre pared by the fire of earth. Dangers of Success and Seeming Defeat These are just two stages of our mental development and our actual ex perience when we need the guidance of God’s Word and the pressure of God’s hand. There is the time when it seems as if success has come to us and our cup is filled. Furthermore, there is the time of unconscious achievement, which is also always a time of peril. None of us can attain to any spiritual or in tellectual success without being', in some measure, in danger. For most of us,
spiritual development far greater than anything hitherto known, that he had discovered a way out for his nation, that he was able to accomplish in one day what others had been fumbling about for ages and had never found. Then comes the next stage; there comes that petulancy of spirit, which says, “I have had enough of it; I will do no more.” That condition is observ able often in our lives. We set out to win a temporary victory, and we think that it is the beginning of the great ena. Then we make a tragic discovery, and we feel it is not worth while to continue. We find that the solution to our problems is not so ready to our hand a3 we had supposed, and we be gin to let things go. That was the mooc of Elijah. And when God faced him' on Horeb’s mount, Elijah was honest enough to confess his wrong. It is not always that we are frank with God. There are times in which our sensa tions lay hold of us and become so magnified that they appear to be gi gantic. What we hear is the voice of Jezebel, not the voice of God. What we see are the faces of those around us, not the unseen messengers of grace. We lose our spiritua’ perspective be cause we have lost our spiritual vision. Our sense of values has become distort ed. When a man loses his vision of God, he has lost his opportunity of conquest. The Suffering of Supposed Loneliness Elijah, too, was suffering from a great sense of loneliness. He had been counting heads, and that is always a dangerous thing to do. He had come to believe that he alone stood for God’s truth and God’s cause in the world. In situations like this, Satan the stat istician can work great mischief. Elijah found he had nothing to enumerate. -And yet God said in effect: “I have seven thousand who nave not bowed the knee to Baal.” But Elijah did not see them. It would have made a great deal of difference, perhaps, to him had he known of their existence. Absentees are generally of no account, and they were no factor in Elijah's support and encouragement.- He was downcast be cause he believed himsell to be lonely; and his loneliness was aggravated by the thought of misunderstanding. Here were people wno misinterpreted his aims and questioned his motives. Is there anything more wearisome to a man than to feel that he is solitary and totally misunderstood by those
igin, and often tragic in their results. Brave men are sometimes carried away by tides of cowardice, and men of heroic mold know the ignominy of fear and the agony of despondency. No character is built on quite simple ljnes. David was a spiritual man, but he fell into a sensual sin. John was an apostle of love, yet there was a time when in tolerance marked his speech and deed. Peter was undoubtedly a courageous man, and yet thrice did he play the coward and act a liar’s part. And if we carefully observe ourselves, we shall be conscious of ¿imea when there is a distinct lowering of the spiritual tem perament. There are movements in our hearts out of which there comes at times a great cloud that spreads itself over the firmament of our life. Action— and Reaction There was such a time as this in the career of Elijah. On Carmel’s brow he had won a notable victory. His courage had been remarkable, and his demon stration of the power of God had been devastating. He had faced the prophets o f Baal and in the power of the Lord had vanquished them. He had thrust upon them that which not merely brought to them conviction, but also struck them to the ground. It had been a great achievement, something notable in the annals of Israel, and a conspicu ous and outstanding event in the re
the temptation c o m e s when we feel the thrill of victory on some Carmel height, and we say, “See what I have done!” W e' are in danger of imagin ing that we have done better than t h o s e dear folk who went before us. Too frequently that delu sion is nursed. TJiink of Elijah. No one ever before had acted to ward the priests of Baal as he had. What man had ever faced three hundred prophets of that idol and demonstrated to them that, when he called down'1' fire from heaven, that fire would come down ? No man ever fjad done that b e f o r e , so there was some warrant for think ing that E l i j a h had r e a c h e d a s t a g e of
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