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TH E K I N G ’ S
B U S I N E S S
January 1925
MORE MISSIONARIES WANTED The g reatest need of our U tah work has always been enough of th e rig h t kind of men to cover th e ground even once in th ree years. There ought to be plenty to give th e ir life to this w o r k b u t if we had even two such to each wagon th e th ird could be tem porary w ithout much loss to th e work. The following item from th e Mission ary H erald repo rt of a m issionary in Africa gives his view and ours also : “Talk about life investmenf=-no- thing in a civilized land can begin to compare w ith it! And yet some young men and women begin a t once to hand ou t some stale stuff about sacrifice, instead of falling over one ano ther for a chance to get into line and throw th e ir lives »where th e re is a real breach in th e world’s need !” W ith such a spirit, genuine conver sion and reasonable health and gump tion, any man can succeed in our work. If th e reader knows of one, young or otherw ise, who m ight fit on th is basis, may we not know of him soon? We wish th a t every read er would th ink ■over possible men in his acquaintance, and bring th e need to th e ir atten tion and them to ours, as soon as may be. — Rev. John D. Nutting, Utah. Gospel Mission, 9277 Amesbury Ave., Cleveland, Ohio. WHY CATECHISMS COUNT Modern educational methods are crowding out th e catechism and label ing it as out of fashion, out of date, and out of place. Charles E liot, the president-em eritus of H arvard Univer sity, speaking on th e education of chil dren, once said w ith academic finality: “We may be perfectly certain th a t no child ever got religion out of a cate chism.” But John P aton, who labored in the cause of the Kingdom for th irty years among the South Sea Island cannibals, w rites emphatically in his autobiography, afte r stating th a t the Catechism was thoroughly and regu larly studied in his home: “ I t has been an amazing th ing to me, occasionally to meet w ith men who blamed this ‘catechising’ for giving them a distaste to religion; everyone in all our circle th ink s and feels exactly the opposite. It laid the solid rock foundation for our religious life. A fteryears have given to these questions and th e ir an swers a deeper or a modified meaning, but none of us have ever once dreamed of w ishing th a t we had been o ther wise train ed .” Very likely. Doctor Eliot, in spite of his intellectual tra in ing, never helped to save a soul, while Missionary P aton was in strum en tal in bringing m ultitudes to th e ir Savior. Do the catechisms count ?S -W alther League Messenger.
THE HARPOON F annie H u rst says th a t motion-pic tu re audiences" average about a 12- year-old brain and she adds th a t the screen offerings we are pu tting out seem like th e crime of selling drugs to minors. The pictures may be a bit druggy, bu t we are not saying th a t they are harm ful. They may pu t folks to sleep, bu t th a t is more likely to be a v irtu e th an a crime. W hat does F annie propose to do about it? She cannot possibly supply the screen w ith its demands.— Exchange. A MOSLEM’S VIEW OF THE MOD ERNIST "The Moslem Sunrise,” a Moham medan monthly magazine, has the fol lowing clear-cut criticism of th e Mod ernists, urging them to get out of the fold of Christianity and “bask in the sunshine of Islam !” and to th is we can say a h ea rty “Am en!” “T h e C h ristia n C h u rch is s p lit b e tw e e n th e ‘F u n d a m e n ta lis ts ' w ho h o ld to th e o ld C h ristia n d o c trin e s of th e B ible, and th e ‘M o d e rn ists’ w h o w a n t to see C h ris tia n ity sh o rn of a ll its d istin c tiv e b eliefs su c h a s th e V irg in B irth , th e M iracu lo u s C o n cep tio n , D eath , R e s u rre c tio n a n d A s cen sio n of J e s u s in to H eav en , O rig in a l S in a n d th e V ic a rio u s S acrifice ex p re sse d in th e com m o n ly k n o w n te rm ‘A to n e m e n t.’ "W e w o n d e r w h a t th e ‘M o d e rn ists’ m ean b y ‘C h ris tia n ity ’ fo r th e y w o u ld ta k e a w a y C h ris t a lto g e th e r, a n d w ith o u t C h r is t th e re c a n be n o C h r is ti a n it y . T h e m e re te a c h in g , is n o th in g , fo r th a t is a ll b o rro w ed . W o u ld th e y p lum e on b o r ro w e d fe a th e r s ? “I t w ill be in te r e s tin g fo r o u r re a d e rs to k n o w h ow th e ‘M o d e rn ists’ v iew th e ■‘F u n d a m e n ta lis ts .’ S ay s T h e C h ristia n R e g is te r, o f B o sto n , in its issu e of J a n u a ry 17, 1924: ‘W h en th e F u n d a m e n ta l ist, w ith h is m ed iev al d o gm a, te lls us e ith e r to b eliev e w h a t h e d em an d s o r g e t o u t o f h is c h u rch , w e s ta n d f a s t a n d te ll h im to h is 'f a c e th a t h is God is n o t o u r God, h is C h rist n o t o u r C h ris t; t h a t U s d o c tr in e is a d e c e it w h ic h d eb ases its b eliev ers. W e w ill n o t g e t o u t! W e w ill m o v e o n ! T h e F u n d a m e n ta lis t is th e cu lp a b le c a u se of th e co n flict of th e p re s e n t h o u r, a n d w e sh a ll y e t sa v e th e c h u rc h e s fro m h is fa ls e te a c h in g . W e m u s t h a v e f r e e d o m ; w e m u st h a v e tru th .* “W ell, th e s e M o d e rn ists can h av e p r o g re s s a s w e ll a s tr u th , b u t th e y m u s t g e t o u t of th e r u t o f C h r is ti a n it y . L e t th em be p u r e t r u t h - s e e k e r s w ith o u t b e in g s h a c k le d b y t r a d i t i o n a l C h r is ti a n it y . T h e S un of Isla m h a s rise n in th e W est, an d b efo re lo n g , th e s e M o d e rn ists w ill see its life -g iv in g ra y s , if th e y o n ly keep- th e ir m in d s op en .” ' It is certainly illum inating to bave th e Mohammedans penetrate the cam ouflage of Modernism, claim its fol lowers as fellow-believers, urging them to come out in the open and affiliate themselves w ith those who will be in perfect sympathy w ith th eir views, instead of posing as Christians while repudiating every fundam ental Christian doctrine.
THE CHURCH THRIVES ON MILITANCY T h at religious in te rest is stirred and church progression enhanced by m ili ta n t ra th e r th a n pacific policies in de- nom inationalism is th e testimony of P ro te sta n t statistics. Tables of in crease and decrease, or ju st about holding the fo rt making contrasts of years, are quoted as showing th a t the fight for and against fundamentalism , instead of being a factor for loss in membership has been a factor for gain wherever it has raged. And wherever it has raged in most w idespread w ar fare and most intensive controversial battle, th e increase of membership in th a t p articu lar denom ination has been largest. F o r instance, th e Baptists, w ithin whose camp th e good fight has been fought w ithout qu arry or conces sion in excess of all sectarian divisions, show th e g reatest grow th by thou sands. The P resbyterians, next in or der of tim e and fierceness of conflict, show next in accretion. - On th e other hand, th e Methodists, who have had no violent eruptions over orthodoxy and heterodoxy and th e other m inor differences th a t have had expression coming hu t recently, reverse th e usual order for many years past. They ex hibit bu t 50 per cent of norm al gain. The P ro te sta n t Episcopal, whose diff erences have been ra th e r confined in area and expression, reg ister about as visual.—Commercial Tribune. JUST AS EASY One can learn to play th e piano or build a bridge by tak ing tw enty les sons by mail. If one seeks a perm an ent wave or a job as designer a short course in a school of correspondence will suffice. One can learn F rench or how to behave a t a banquet by merely giving atten tion to a few practical les sons adm inistered by mail. The graces of a Chesterfield or th e genius of an Edison are a t th e end of any postal route. One can get everything bu t an operation for appendicitis th rough a m ail-order house and th ere is instruc tion to he had by correspondence on every conceivable subject under the sun. One can become a beauty special ist or a U nitarian preacher by tak ing a dozen lessons by long distance. There is train ing for th e Presidency or th e dance hall— anything you want. It Is up to the individual to decide. The re st is easy.— L. A. Times. DIVORCE EVIL GROWING P relim inary figures published by the census bureau show th a t in six E ast ern states in 1,922 th ere were over nine divorces for each 100 m arriages com pared w ith six in 1916. There was an increase in th e number of m arriages in only one state—New Hampshire.— Exchange.
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