King's Business - 1920-01

THE K I NG ' S BUS I NESS ANOTHER YEAR FOR JESUS What if it be my last! I’ll fill each year with service sweet My willing tasks He will complete While fly the glad hours past. —Nell R. Rolfe.

. 11 wisdom religion” and wasting their breath and energy babbling about karma, illusions, astral projections, etc.; etc., would spend a little more time keeping their houses clean and their children tidy they would be laying up treasures both on earth and in heaven, whereas now they are only building cobwebs in their mental attics.— L. A. Times.

COBWEBS IN THE ATTIC If some of these women who are dab­ bling in so-called mysticism, wearing their eyes out reading books on “ the

Send T h e “ K . . B . ” For Ckristmas

Dr. Case Fails to Prove His Case But Incidentally Helps to Fulfill Prophecy DECRIES FEAR OF WORLD CATACLYSM DR. CASE SAYS OLD SUPER­ STITION HAS CAUSED MIS­ BIBLE WARNS OF WORLD CATACLYSM ALSO SAYS LATTER-DAY HIGH­ BROWS WILL REFER TO THE BELIEF AS AN* “ OLD BOGY.” (Peter by the Holy Ghost) ERABLE FATALISM. (By A. P. Night Wire)

CHICAGO, Nov. T-SThe belief that the world will end in a catar clysm by the hand of' God was ttermed an “ old bogy’! that had caused unrest and despair by Dr. Shirley Jackson Case of the Chi­ cago Divinity School at the Uni­ versity of Chicago today. He spoke in explanation of the New Testament’s book of Revelations, which, he said, was the only scriptural basis for the generally accepted belief in a final world catastrophe. Dispel the “ bogy,'” he said, and vast social and ma­ terial changes might follow. “ Fear of the end of the world in the last 2000 years has been a palsy on the human spirit,” said Dr. Case. “ It has made millions of human beings exist in a sort of ‘what’s the use?’ frame of mind, and has been of no good to Chris­ tianity or anything else.”

3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, 4 And saying. Where is the promise of his coming ? 1for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. 5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: 6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: 7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men. 14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless. 4 But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a' thief. 5 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day; we are not of the night, nor of darkness. 6 Therefore let us not sleep as do others; but let us watch and be sober. 9 For God hath not appointed us to wrath* but to ^obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ. »

CASE N O W IN THE H A N D S OF THE JURY

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