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TH E K I N G ’ S B U S I N E S S
September 1924
all kinds are increasing in number constantly. The Bible is “ taboo” in the public schools. Sin is rampant. What can be done? Well,—there was the unchanging and unchangeable command—“ GO—GIVE!” Fourteen years ago the Bible Institute of Los Angeles had put a Gospel mes sage into every home in the city, but it was a different proposition now. However, prayer is the solution of all problems for the saints, and prayer suggested that a portion of the Word of God itself be placed in every one of the 200,000 homes in the city. We chose the Gospel of John as especially appropri ate for this purpose, remembering John 20:31: “These things are written that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing ye might have life through His name.” using our own specially prepared edition which, with its attractive' red covers, is definitely designed for use in personal soul-saving work. A day was set apart— Flag Day, Saturday, June 14—and the Bible Institute and the Church of the Open Door (which worships in the great auditorium of the Institute), together with over sixty cooperating evangelical churches, carried out the program, and Saturday and Sunday saw the good work completed. Every Gospel was dedicated to the .Lord. Prayer preceded and followed the distribution. The results of the service can never be tabulated here, but the books in Heaven will record the results. We are giving in another section of the magazine some testimonies from the hundreds which are coming to us of the way in which God blessed His own Word through His workers, and we commend to our readers this plan of seed sowing which is possible of accomplishment in any town, city or hamlet. Remember God has promised “My word ** »shall not return unto me void, but It shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.” Isaiah 55:1.1. THE PLEA OF THE PACIFISTS “ Let us have peace!” That cry would suit the ban dit or the burglar, but instead of peace they deserve the prison or the penitentiary. “ Let us have peace without any price!’ ’ That is the cry of the religious pacifist. Peace is never obtained without a heavy payment. You cannot have peace by merely wanting it. You must create it. There is a law of peace as well as a law for everything else. There aro essential terms of peace of any kind. The rebel lays down his arms, but he does not make the terms of peace. What does the church pacifist mean when he demands peace? Why, he means “ Don’t let us fight. You have your way and I ’ll have mine.” But there is no foundation for peace in that kind of a proposition. If you are a member of an organization and are opposed to its rules and regulations and insist on having your own way, and then say “ Let us have peace!” they will expel you and rightly so. You don’t belong there. Go somewhere else, or make your own organization. The Bolshevists say: “ Don’t say anything against us. We are hard at work breaking down the founda tions of this government, but please don’t disturb us. Let us have peace.” But every true citizen would reply, “ That is impossible. You are declaring war against the Constitution and we must defend it or our country is gone. ’ ’
The Modernists in the church are saying“ 5“ Let us have peace!” and we reply, “ Well, leave your pulpits and your professorships and move out, and we will have peace.” - But they say,.--“ No, we want to stay in our pulpits and our schools and deny the Word of God and the Deity of Jesus Christ, but we want peace. ” Well, just listen to God’s Word: “ As I live, saith the Lord, there is no peace to the wicked. ” ( You are the wicked for you are instruments of Satan. Go where you belong. Join the Unitarians—if they will take you—or organize something else on your own silly, shallow foundation, but do not stay where you are not wanted, violating your own vows and using the livery of the evangelical church to serve Satan. You have done untold harm. You have corrupted the morals of the young. You have taken sacrificial money and used it for illegitimate purposes. Take off the robes you have disgraced, don the red gown of the radicals and have at least a semblance of honesty and manhood. And you, dear brethren, who are true to the Word of God but “ do not want to fight,” —will you not please change your attitude ? Will you not stand by the apos tles and martyrs? Will you not obey the call of your Lord to come out from among the seducers ? Will you not take the sword from the scabbard? What’s the use of a sword if it is not unsheathed? Will you not listen to the warning of Paul: “ Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ!” “ And ye, there fore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also be led away with the error of the wicked and fall from your own steadfastness!” May. the Lord give to us all compassion for all and consistent courage that shall compel us to;come to the help of the Lord against the mighty.
CORRECTING AN UNFOUNDED RUMOR
In order to correct unfounded rumors concerning the work of The Bible Institute of Los Angeles, the Board of Directors at their regular July Monthly Meeting unan imously passed the following resolution: WHEREAS , it has come to the attention of the Board of Directors of the Bible Insti tute of Los Angeles that rumors to the effect that its work and organization is about to be co-ordinated with the work of Mrs. Aimee Semple McPherson, and WHEREAS , there is no connection or affiliation of any character whatsoever between the Bible Institute of Los Angeles and the organization of Mrs. Aimee Semple McPherson, and Whereas, no such connection or affilia tion has been or will be contemplated, NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that all of the friends of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles and the general public be, and they are hereby assured that this Insti tution will continue to conduct its work in the future as in the past.
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