4 THE K I N G ’S BUS I NES S Have you ever looked upon one of the great redwood trees with its head three hundred feet in the air, looking down op the forests? And have you ever looked at the seed of the same tree,—such a little thing compared to an acorn from an ordinary oak tree ? ' In the old pool room God planted a seed so insignificant, giving so lit tle promise, that it was a laughing-stock to many. But God had planted it, and God watered it, and God developed it, and God pushed it up and out, working in and through it to His own glory. What was the seed? God’s Word and a statement of doctrine by which all of its work was to be regulated, and here it is : We hold to the Historic Faith of the Church as expressed in the Common Creed of Evangelical Christendom and including: The Trinity of the Godhead. The Deity of the Christ. The Personality of the Holy Ghost. The Supernatural and Plenary authority of the Holy Scriptures. The Unity in Diversity of the Church, the Body and Bride of Christ. - The Life Everlasting of Believers. The Endless Punishment of the Impeni tent. The Beality and Personality of Satan. Pretty old-fashioned, you say! Yes, as old-fashionedjas His inerrant Word! Look at the building founded on the Word of God. The deed to the property includes this statement of doctrine, and no one can ever preach or teach in the building who does not ring true to that statement. And no funds committed to us can ever be used for any purpose contrary to that statement.f The buildings could not be reproduced today- for two million dollars, and they are free from debt. Look at the corner stone: The Substitutionary Atonement. The Necessity of the New Birth. The Maintenance of Good Works. - The Second Coming of Christ. The Everlasting Existence of the Spirit. The resnrrection of the Body.
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