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TH E K I N G ’ S
B U S I N E S S
January 1925
that our Book Room has had a great mission and through it we have reached thousands throughout the world for we have what is recognized as the largest retail exclusively religious book store in the country. We covet the prayers of our friends in behalf of this ministry. LADS AND LASSIES How: we love the lads and lassies! God bless them! We love to see them. We love to talk to them. We love to tell them the story, so strange yet so sweet to their ears, that Christ Jesus was crucified upon the cross for them, and to see their faces brighten as they listen, and hear their voices say.“ yes” to the invitation to receive Him as their own Savior. But there are so many of them who have never been told of His wonderful love for them. Christ said, ‘‘Suf fer them to come unto me, ’’—but fathers and mothers do not obey the command, and allow Satan, to snare them, poison their young minds, and wean them away from the path that leads to pastures green and beside the still waters. • Do you know,- parents,, that Satan has his servants at work as never before in our own beloved land? Do you know that they are selling children in the grade schools candy and chewing gum which contain dope, thus creating an appetite that dooms them, body and, soul, to destruction? It is so, but' fathers, and mothers are so occupied with so many things that there is no time for home life with their children. We often wish that we had a “ loud speaker” and/ through it could reach the whole land with the warning, “ Parents! beware! your chil dren are in danger!” . Some kinds of dope will do more in a week’s time to despoil the body and degrade the mind than a century could, cure. “And, ye fathers, provoke n o t your children to w rath , b u t bring them up in th e n u rtu re and adm onition of th e Lord.” How we wish that every little lad and lassie in this land could be under the tutorage of Mrs. Meader, the wise and efficient editor of “ The Children’s Garden” .(Page 25). If your child is not already interested in it, read it for yourself and get a vision of what it is possible to do in the .way of interesting children in Bible study. THE CITY OF TADMOR We have on our desk an attractive little pamphlet by Dr. W. B. Hinson, Pastor of the East Side Baptist Church, Portland, Oregon, containing a sermon with a text: “ And Solomon *** built Tadmor in the wilderness.” (2 Chronicles 8 :3, 4.) A sermon? Yes, a poem—a sketch—a landscape— full ■of beautiful scenes—-enticingH-exhilarating,—yes, and sterling and strong also. Words are woven into a story inspiring for the sinner and inspirational to the saints. Only one criticism: Too short. We wanted to stay in that wonderful city awhile longer! Pastors—give it to your people. Sunday School Superintendents—give it to your teachers. Teachers— give it to your scholars for Christmas. Order from Biola Book Room.
There is room and place for more than all of the college graduates in the various walks of life, but if the church is to be the specific place for worship and is to be. built up and strengthened in the Word of God, is it not the definite work of the minister to know and declare that Word? Is the weakness of the ministry today a lack of Bible knowledge, and is there hope of better things for the Church without a more specific training of young men and women in the ONE ESSENTIAL,—God’s unerring and unchangeable'Word? Do not these statistics constitute an appeal for a larger ministry of the Word of God in our assemblies and le ss' effort to gratify the supposed intellectual tastes of the people rather to satisfy their souls’ needs? “ Back to the Bible!” and “ Back to the principles and practices of the early church!” should be the church’s cry. “ Back to the simplicity of faith!” “ Back to.a sincere love for the Lord and His Word!” “ Back to a sacrificial life of effort to spread the Gospel so that-hungry-hearted people everywhere may have the Bread of Life!” ■ “ Give YE them to eat.” (Matthew 14:16.) BEST BOOKS vs. BANEFUL BOOKS All so-called “ religious books” are not religious in the true sense of the word. Neither are they necessar ily “ good books,’! and many of them are very far from being “ best books.” Some are, indeed, bad books. As we have been in the book business for a number of years, we have been compelled to make a study of this subject and are confident that our . statement is true. Solomon said: “ Of making many books there is no end” , and John said, “ And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. ’’ Certainly the flood is at high tide now. Times have changed conditions and books have changed. We have had an increasing, volume of trade and as the volume increases we are compelled to use more and more care in. reviewing the books offered for sale. Some writers are good men but they do not ring true to the funda mentals, and we cannot carry any book which is in any way tainted, because our obligation to our statement of doctrine demands it, and because it is so often the case that a bit of poison injected into the mind produces a heart affection which results in a ruined life. There were never before so many subtly pernicious books, but there were never so many valuably good books. The call has been so clear and definite that many men have been constrained to respond and are meeting the need with productions which are construc tively true, clear cut expositions of Bible truth, cover ing every possible demand upon the part of pastors and people. We started our Biola Book Room in a humble way with the slogan “ Best Books” and have consistently striven to maintain that standard. Mr. Revell once told the writer that a retail religious book business would never pay a profit or even meet expenses, and we hafe found this to be true; but we' have also found
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