440 T HE K I N G ’ S B U S I N E S S Have you noticed that a Bible is like some people^—very shy and retir ing ? Buy one, and in three days you can’t find it. Ah, it has burrowed its way under a pile of newspapers. Or it has hidden behind a popular novel, or climbed into the far corner of the stair closet shelf. How do you account for it? "We must make it feel at home. We must give it first place. We must covenant with God to read it every day. One of our Bible correspondence students writes us of her experience with her Bible and how she has learned to keep the Book ever in the place God intends it to have: “ You sent me a little pamphlet, ‘Our Bible Reading,’ by Rev. F. B. Meyer, B. A., and in it are these words, ‘Though you have failed again and again when you have trusted your own resolutions, you cannot fail when you are simply trust ing Him.’ I had been in the habit of making a resolution at night to get up in the morning to read my Bible; then the next morning it would be cold, or my eyes would feel tired, or I would not wake up, or something or other would be .the matter every morning, so that I accomplished nothing at all by making my reso lution. After reading the above quotation from the pamphlet, I cannot tell you how it was, but I simply asked God to get me up the next morning to read my Bible, then went to sleep not worrying about it. The next morning I woke up on time and without thinking about it at all got up immediately, dressed and studied my Bible until breakfast. I ask God each night to get me up in the morning and without any hesitation get up the next morning at the proper time and have read Deuteronomy through in an unbelievably short time. And the best of it is that I spend no time at all making resolutions or planning just how I am going to make myself get up.” —K. L. B. (Matt. 24:4) “ Handling the Word of God deceitfully” (2 Cor. 4:2)—how else can one who knows something of the Word of God characterize the majority of the so-called Bible study leaflets that are going out over the country from the “ American Institute of Sacred Literature” (Chicago University)? “ Christ’s Interpretation of His Second Coming” is the title of one just fresh from the pen of the Dean of the divinity school. Now, even the ordi nary student knows that Christ had a great deal to say about His second coming, and one might reasonably expect several Scripture quotations on a subject of this kind. The professor begins by informing us that the disciples and the Apos tle Paul, in their expectation of a literal fulfilment of the prophecies re garding Christ’s second coming, were very much mistaken. The fact that Christ did not return during their span of life on earth proves that they were wrong. They inherited these ideas from Judaism and it remained for the Apostle John, the latest of the writers, to set people straight on this matter. The strange thing is that if one appeals to the fourth Gospel to prove the Deity of Christ, this same professor will rule out the testimony as unre liable because John’s writings are too highly colored. Yet when he casts LET NO MAN DECEIVE YOU
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