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Talbot Theological Seminary has among its teachers outstanding men such as Don ald G. Davis (B.A., M.A., University of Southern California; B.D., Northern Bap tist Theological Seminary; Ph.D., Uni versity of Edinburgh) who teaches church history, practical theology and chaplaincy orientation (for students desiring to ap ply for the chaplaincy). Dr. Davis, who is in his sixth year with the Bible Insti tute o f Los Angeles, Inc., taught pre viously at Wheaton College and Des Moines University. In addition to teach ing at Talbot Theological Seminary, Dr. Davis, who was a chaplain with the United States Army during World War II with service in France and Germany, is a chaplain in the United States Army Reserve and instructs in the Chaplain Branch, Fort MacArthur USAR School. Talbot Theological Seminary is solidly anchored in the Word of God. In addi tion, The Bible Institute of Los Angeles, Inc. which is made up o f Talbot Theo logical Seminary and three other schools, through the years has raised its require ments and now has a prescribed total of 82 hours of Bible, Doctrine, and Theolo gy while in 1916 the prescribed total was 32 hours. Talbot Theological Seminary is located in the sunny Southern California play ground area with mountains, desert, beaches and resort islands easily acces sible. Sports—professional, spectator and participant— of all kinds from archery to swimming and skiing are to be found in abundance. Talbot Theological Seminary builds spir itual ministry based on solid exposition of the Word of God. For more specific information address your inquiries to The Registrar, 558 South Hope Street, Los Angeles 17, California.
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M other recently attended homecom ing activities of a school from which she graduated some years ago. In one student’s room she saw a paper which read in part: “ Stu dents, the Alumnae be upon thee. Are you ready?” Be it said to their credit, they were. Fellow Christians, the new year be upon thee. Are you ready? If our blessed Lord Jesus Whose birth we just celebrated so joyously, should come today or before January of 1956 is history, are you ready? Never mind about the nice “ front” you wear. Only men see that. God sees the heart of you. When you honestly take a look down deep in the recesses of your being, are you ready? For some years Mother ha;s battled three sons who think it highly un necessary to make their beds each morning. The stock argument goes: “ Nobody sees our beds, so why both er?” The fact that such a state vio lates Mother’s principles of house keeping doesn’t seem to bother her sons. The plea to have every part of the house in tip-top order in anticipa tion of friends calling unexpectedly (and what parsopage doesn’t experi ence this?), falls on stony hearts. They are not interested in being ready because the responsibility of keeping house is not theirs. Some day in their own homes the story will be different. The responsibility of keeping your spiritual house is yours. Is it in order? Are you ready to meet your Lord should He come at the beginning of this new year? Students at the school cleaned and polished and discarded junk which cluttered their rooms in honor of alumnae. Mother’s sons make their beds even though she is forced to insist daily. Dare we be less prepared for our Lord than we prepare for men? “ . . . behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of sal vation” (2 Cor. 6:2b). A blessed New Year to our loyal readers from the family Under The Parsonage Roof.
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THE KING’S BUSINESS Official publication of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles, inc. Leuis T. Talbot, Chancellor S. H. Sutherland, President • Ray A. Myers, Chairman of the Board
Vol. 47, No. 1
JANUARY, 1956
Established 1910
Dedicated to the spiritual development of the Christian home
ARTICLES TERRY ROSE — How Christianity works ................................................. 10 VICTORY OVER PRAYERLESSNESS — Andrew Murray ..................... 12 THE HOPE WOMAN — Ruth Calderwood .............................................. 15 CULTS OF OUR DAY: UN ITY— Part four— Louis T. Talbot ...... 18 HOW TO HAVE A FAMILY ALTAR — Elizabeth Walker Strachan.. 43 LATIN AMERICAN ENTERPRISE — Photo story .................................. 47 FEATURES UNDER THE PARSONAGE ROOF — Althea S. M iller.......................... 4 FROM THE MANAGING EDITOR ............................................................. 6 PEOPLE — A monthly column of names in the news .......................... 7 HYMNS YOU LOVE — Phil Kerr ............................................................. 8 READER REACTION ......................................................... 9 WORLD NEWSGRAMS — James O. Henry ............................................ 22 THEOLOGICALLY THINKING — Gerald B. Stanton .......................... 23 OUT OF THE LAB — Donald S. Robertson ............................................ 24 WORDS FROM THE WORD — Charles L. Feinberg .......................... 25 JUNIOR KING'S BUSINESS — Martha S. Hooker .................................. 26 DR. TALBOT'S QUESTION BOX .................................................................. 28 TALKING IT OVER — A psychologist answers — Clyde Narramore.. 29 MISSIONS — Oran H. Smith ....................................................................... 30 BOOK REVIEWS — Donald G. Davis ........................................................ 32 CHURCH OF THE MONTH — Philippian Bible Church ..................... 35 SEARCHING THE SCRIPTURES: MATTHEW — Chester J. Padgett.. 36 ADVERTISERS' INDEX .................................................................................... 50 CHRISTIAN EDUCATION THE YOUNG PEOPLE'S TEACHER — Milford S. Sholund ................... 40 OBJECT LESSONS — Elmer Lr Wilder ...................................................... 45 COVER jn 1921 Dr. and Mrs. Harry Strachan founded a work in Latin Amer ica which has grown into a veritable empire. The boys on the cover live at the Latin America Mission orphanage in Costa Rica. For photo story on this and other phases of the work see pages 47-49.
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Is prayer really practical ? By now all of you will have gotten my Christmas letter. You will recall that I headed it with the question, “Is prayer really practical?” I’m sure your faith was once again strengthened as you read how God had miraculously answered prayer for so many of our readers during the past year— a church reunited in Iowa; a divorce prevented in Washington; healing for a dear woman in Georgia; salvation for an alcoholic husband in Canada. Yes, we unequivocally believe that God answers prayer today with the same sure power He always has. If we didn’t believe it we would never run the little monthly notice in which we as a staff invite you to send in your prayer requests. And, of course, every request that comes in is prayed for individually and out loud. Because nearly all of us would like our prayer life to be more as God would desire it we are increasing our editorial coverage on the subject of prayer during the coming months. The first in this new series is a dynamic article by Andrew Murray, “Victory Over Prayerless- ness” (see page 12). The other big editorial emphasis that we’ve planned for 1956 is material to present the claims of Jesus Christ to the non-Christian. On page 10 is the first of a new monthly series of first person accounts of how Christianity works. W e believe the story of Terry Rose is the type of story the non-Christian will read— and one the Holy Spirit can use to point seekers to Jesus Christ. Those of you who were subscribers last August recall that issue was entirely planned for the seeker. Again in March we are planning another entire issue along this line. It’ll be entirely different, of course, but the basic idea will be the same. Won ’t you very definitely pray for this March issue? — L. H. THE KING'S BUSINESS Our March issue
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WHAT IF THIS WERE YOU? “ This letter comes to you from the Sanitarium of Soteria, in Ath ens, Greece, where I am a patient. How I praise God for the salva tion I have found in Christ. I could not live without Him. “ For nine years now I have been struggling against tubercu losis, and I cannot regain my health. My poor children are be ginning to show signs of the dis ease and I am afraid it is because they do not have anything to eat or a Mother’s loving care. Their father has suffered from pleurisy and is unable to work. You can not imagine the suffering in which our little family is found. I just cannot describe it to you. How is it possible for me to get well, knowing that my children lack even their daily bread? I am afraid they will die and I shall never see them again. My despair is beyond d e sc rip tion . Sometimes I feel it would be bet ter for me to die first so that I would not have to endure the sor row of burying my children. Please put yourself in my place for just a little while and you will feel some thing of the untold tragedy that exists in my heart. My clothing is all worn out and my children are almost naked. They are two boys, ages 13 and 15. Please have mercy on them and don’t worry about me. You cannot imagine how a Mother feels when she cannot take care of her own children. Oh, how I wish I could send them some thing to bring just a little joy into their lives! My only comfort is prayer and the reading of God’s Word. I have faith to believe that the day of miracles is not past and that the Lord Jesus Christ is able to restore me to health so that I may return to my family and give them what they have lacked for so many years. “With much respect and much hope,” Mrs. Polyxeni Terzopoulou NOTE: What a despairing cry from the heart of this dear mother! What if this were you? What would you have liked others to do for you? Dare you do less for this dear Christian tubercular mother and her beloved children? The medicine she needs will cost $25, and with $6 a 22-lb. package of warm clothing can be sent, and with $10 they can purchase locally 80 lbs. of nourishing food. There are many like her who constitute a modem Macedonian call, “ Come over and help us.” You can do it through the American Mission to Greeks, Inc., Dept. K, P.O. Box 423, New York 36, N.Y., Rev. Spiros Zodhiates, General Secretary. In Canada write to 90 Duplex Ave., Toronto 7, Ontario.
Chosen But Not Divine DAUGHTER OF NAZARETH by Florence Marvyne Bauer
By sharing the bitter and the lovely experiences of the mother-to-be of Jesus from the time she was promised to Joseph until the momentous climax months later, you will realize the problems faced by the mother of the Saviour of the world. Don’t fail to get your copy of this emotion-filled novel at your favorite bookstore, for the very low price of only $1.50 BROADMAN PRESS Please mention "King 's Business" when writing to advertisers. CONGRESS ON PROPHECY plans to itinerate The capacity day-time attendances and jam-out •evening crowds at the Second International Congress on Prophecy held November 6-13 in Calvary Baptist Church, New York, have induced the American Associa tion Board to authorize the offering of similar Congress programs to other cities. You can arrange for a Congress on Prophecy in your city. To be sure of your choice of dates, we urge that you write us promptly. Place your order now, too, for the book "Understanding The Times" which will present the cream of the Congress addresses. Price $3.00. And write for free copy , of the Manifesto adopted by the Congress, embodying the unanimous eschato logical views of 37 outstanding speakers representing 16 nationally recognized schools. Write to Dept. KB Dr. A. B. Machlin, Executive Director AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR JEWISH EVANGELISM, INC. Winona Lake, Indiana
Peggy as a puppet. nation this winter, dutifully chaper oned by a watchful mother, trying her hand at a one-girl religious show. Peggy’s talent turned out to be wide ly diversified, running thè gamut from piano to violin to vocal and puppets. The puppet act was aimed at the young fry and she appeared to have little difficulty in holding their attention. Christian leaders are calling Billy Graham's recent mission to college stu dents in England the most unusual the young evangelist has yet held. The mission was held at Cambridge and Oxford Universities to packed audiences for more than 10 days. Sev eral hundred students made decisions for Christ at both universities. Among those converted: Dr. Roger Bannister, the British athlete, world-famed for running the four-minute mile. Assist ing Graham was Dr. David Cowie, pas tor of the University Presbyterian Church of Seattle and J. R. W. Stott and Maurice Wood of England.
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S o m e d a y H e ’ l l M a k e I t P l a i n Words by Lida Shivers Leech Music by Adam Geibel T he husband of Dr. Geibel’s only daughter was burned to death in an explosion in a steel mill in which he was a foreman. The couple had recently been married and Dr. Geibel was inconsolable; he could not understand why God had allowed the tragedy—the young man had been an earnest Christian. A few days later he came to his friend, C. Austin Miles, and said, “ I was lying in bed last night, thinking of my sorrow and of my daughter’s terrible distress. I heard a voice say to me, ‘Child, you do not understand it now, but some day you’ll under stand— some day it will all be plain!’ I cried out, ‘Yes, Lord, I believe: help Thou mine unbelief. I know that Thou wilt make it plain to me some day!’ In that moment came a melody into my mind and the sentiment for a song.” He wrote down the time, a rough outline of the lyric he wanted and sent them to Lida Shivers Leech. After three attempts, her fourth poem satisfied Dr. Geibel and the song was published, becoming widely popular. Adam Geibel was born in Germany in 1885, came to America in child hood, became an organist, teacher, conductor, composer and headed the Adam Geibel Music Company (which later merged with the Hall-Mack Company and thence into the Rode- heaver Company). He attained wide spread reputation as an arranger of male quartet selections He was total ly blind, the result of an eye infec tion at the age of eight Death came Aug. 3, 1933 in Philadelphia. More than 500 of Mrs. Leech’s songs have been published, the best- known of which are “ God’s Way Is The Best Way” and “ Some Day He’ll Make It Plain.” More than 1 000 Sun day school drills and recital ions for children have come from her pen, many publishers bidding for her work in that line, especially for Christmas and Easter playlets. She was born in Mayville, N.J., began studying music at the age of 10, was converted at the age of 12. After the family moved to Camden she became organist of the Bethany Methodist Church, to which she still belongs. Her active song and poetry writing career began after she had passed the age of 35, the Hall- Mack Company being her first outlet.
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How C hristianity W orks
TerrRose I looked. And I realized I was a twig on a raging ocean.
Korea seems a long ways off now. But things hap pened there that changed my life. I found that when the knocks fell— rather hard ones— that God took them and softened them. And that’s about all a fellow can ask for. I was born on a ranch near Healdsburg, Calif, on January 14, 1932. I have four brothers and six sisters and each Sunday, as regular as milking time, Mom packed us up in the old family car and drove us 12 miles to the First Baptist Church of Healds burg. The road was sort of twisty and each Sunday I’d get car sickness. During the same trip on a Satur day I’d feel wonderful. It was during a special series of messages by our pastor when I was a high school sophomore that I accepted Jesus Christ as my own personal Saviour. After high school I went to San Francisco and got a job as a file clerk with Southern Pacific. I was saving my money so I could go on to college and in the summer of 1952 I attended San Francisco Baptist College. Then I was drafted. I took infantry training at Fort Ord and on March 30 sailed for Korea on the USS Mitchell. I was assigned to the 7th Division and I moved up with a machine gun squad near the MLR (main line of resistance). There had just been a big attack and that’s all the old outfit talked about. It was enough to scare us new guys to death. I was given a flame-thrower and put in an outpost bunker called Snooks. Around each outpost we had L.P.’s (lookout posts) with telephone and radios to warn us of a sneak night attack by the Chinese. That night the attack came and three of the L.P.’s were killed.
They always got it bad. About 100 Chinese swarmed right into our trenches and bunkers. There were only six of us left and our weapons were all knocked out. But we had grenades and all that night we held them off. For this action we all got bronze stars. After a short period of leadership training behind the lines I was again sent to the front. This time to Pork Chop Hill. It was the first of July and raining hard and everybody was on edge. We knew the Chinese liked to attack in the rain. On the night of July 6 I pulled L.P. duty. It was raining and by 10 P.M. I was soaked to the skin. The blackness was empty and heavy with the rain. At 10:20 artillery and mortar fire began exploding at the base of our hill. The Chinese were methodically "walking” their fire up the hill toward us. I watched the explosions steadily drawing in on us. And I realized I was a twig on a raging ocean. We L.P.’s were ordered in and we ran for it. I got a hold of a kid’s hand from Tennessee and a Korean got a hold of my other hand. W e’d ran until we’d fall in the cold mud and each time we’d fall I’d pray out loud for all three of us. The Korean was killed by fire from our own bunker and for a while I became tangled in barbed wire. I finally made it to our trenches unharmed. By now the Chinese foot soldiers were streaming up the hill using flame throwers. We were overrun. A Chinese grenade hit a lieutenant standing beside me and blew his head off. I only lost my little finger and my helmet. By morning I was so cold and wet and tired I wanted to die. I had no weapon and most of our men were dead around me. Everything was quiet.
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T erry R ose : In Korea the L.P.’s always got it bad.
I crept to an opening in the bunker and looked out. The rain had stopped and the sun was coming up and for a minute the world looked warm and happy. Then I saw a Chinese with a rifle not four feet away. Then another Chinese spotted me and tossed a gren ade down on me. I picked the grenade up and heaved it out of the bunker and just as I did the Chinese threw another grenade in. It exploded near my face. I grabbed my face, took two steps and then fell unconscious in the cold mud. Every once in a while I’d come to and I'd think o f God. Later the heat of a flame-thrower aroused me. Our troops had retaken the hill. I staggered down the bunker calling out to our men. Well, that’s about all there was to it. I was taken by tank and jeep and
helicopter to a hospital ship that brought me to Japan. I was flown back to the States and a year later I was home. I’m now a student at the Bible Institute of Los Angeles. I shall never cease to thank God for the way He softened the knocks. That last grenade blinded me and when the Army doctors gave me a cane it felt like a snake. Then one night I had a long talk with my Lord and I thanked Him for what had happened. I knew it was in His plan for me. Others have come to know Christ as their Sav iour because of what happened to me in Korea. And that is enough. I know the Lord can heal me any time He wants, but if He doesn’t in this life I’ll see Him face-to-face someday. A fellow couldn’t ask for anything more. END.
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By Andrew Murray
Victory Over Do you believe that all other blessings come from God
B he greatest stumbling block in the w a y o f v i c t o r y ove r prayerlessness is the secret feeling that we shall never obtain the blessing of being delivered from it. Often have we put forth effort in this direction, but in vain. Old habit and the power of the flesh, our surroundings with their attrac tions, have been too strong for us. What good is it to attempt that which our heart assures us is out of our reach? The change needed in the entire life is too great and too difficult. If the question is put: “ Is a change possible?” our sighing heart says: “ Alas, for me it is en tirely impossible!” Do you know why that reply comes? It is simply because you have received the call to prayer as the voice of Moses and as a command of the law. Moses and his law have never yet given anyone the power to obey. Do you really long for the cour age to believe that deliverance from a prayerless life is possible for you and may become a reality? Then you must learn the great lesson that such a deliverance is included in the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, that it is one of the blessings of the New Covenant which God Himself will impart to you through C h r is t Jesus. As you begin to understand this you will find that the exhortation, “ Pray without ceasing,” conveys a new meaning. Hope begins to spring up in your heart that the Spirit — Who has
been bestowed on you to cry con stantly, “ Abba, Father” — will make a true life of prayer possible for you. Then you will hearken, not in the spirit of discouragement, but in the gladness of hope, to the voice that calls you to repentance. Many a one has turned to his inner chamber, under bitter self accusation that he has prayed so little, arid has resolved for the future to live in a different manner. Yet no blessing has come —-- there was not the strength to continue faithful, and the call to repentance had no power, because his eyes had not been fixed on the Lord Jesus. If he had only understood, he would have said: “ Lord, Thou seest how cold and dark my heart is: I know that I must pray, but I feel I cannot do so; I lack the urgency and desire to pray.” He did not know that at that moment the Lord Jesus in His ten der love was looking down upon him and saying: “ You cannot pray; you feel that all is cold and dark: why not give yourself over into My hands? Only believe that I am ready to help you in prayer; I long greatly to shed abroad My love in your heart, so that you, in the con sciousness of weakness, may confi dently rely on Me to bestow the grace of prayer. Just as I will cleanse you from all other sins, so also will I deliver from the sin of prayerlessness — only do not seek the victory in your own strength.
Bow before Me as one who expects everything from His Saviour. Let your soul keep silence before Me, however sad you feel your state to be. Be assured of this — I will teach you how to pray.” Many a one will acknowledge: “ I see my mistake; I had not thought that the Lord Jesus must deliver and cleanse me from this sin also. I had not understood that He was with me every day in the inner chamber, in His great love ready to keep and bless me, how ever sinful and guilty I felt myself to be. I had not supposed that just as He will give all other grace in answer to prayer, so, above all and before all, He will bestow the grace of a praying heart. What folly to think that all other blessings must come from Him, but that prayer, whereon everything else depends, must be o b ta in e d by personal effort! Thank God I begin to com prehend— the Lord Jesus is Him self in the inner chamber watching over me, and holding Himself responsible to teach me how to approach the Father. This only He demands — that I, with childlike confidence, wait upon Him and glorify Him.” Have we not seriously forgotten this truth? From a defective spirit ual life nothing better can be ex pected than a defective prayer life. It is vain for us, with our defective spiritual life, to endeavor to pray more or better. It is an impossibil-
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Prayerlessness but that prayer must be obtained by personal effort?
before us a widely opened door and receives us into blessed fellowship with Himself. Prayer for the help of the Spirit to pray will no longer be in fear of an effort too great for our power; it will be but falling
y ou have t r ie d and been disappointed,” faith will find its strength, not in the thought of what you will, or do, but in the change less faithfulness and love of Christ. Who afresh has succored you and assured you that those who wait on Him shall not be ashamed. If fear and hesitation still re main, I pray you by the mercies of God in Jesus Christ, and by the unspeakable faithfulness of His tender love, dare to cast yourselves at His feet. Only believe with your whole heart that there is deliver ance from the sin of prayerlessness. “ If we confess our sins, he is faith ful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unright eousness” (1 John 1:9). In His blood and grace there is complete deliverance from all unrighteous ness and from all prayerlessness. How Deliverance May Continue What we have said about deliv erance from the sin of prayerless ness has also application as answer to the question: “How may the ex perience of deliverance be main tained?” Redemption is not granted to us piecemeal, or as something of which we may make use from time to time. It is bestowed as a fullness of grace stored up in the Lord Jesus, which may be enjoyed in a new fellowship with Him every day. It is so necessary that this great truth should be driven home and fastened in our minds CONTINUED
ity. Nothing less is necessary than that we should experience that he who “ is in Christ Jesus is a new creature: old things have passed away; behold, all things are be come new.” This is literally true for the man who understands and experiences what it is to be in Jesus Christ. Our whole relationship to the Lord must be a new thing. I must believe in His infinite love, which really longs to have communion with me every moment and to keep me in the enjoyment of His fellow ship. I must believe in His divine power, which has conquered sin and will truly keep me from it. I must believe in Him Who, as the g rea t In te r c e s s o r , through the Spirit, will inspire each member of His Body with joy and power for communion with God in prayer. My prayer life must be brought en tirely under the control of Christ and His love. Then, for the first time, will prayer become what it really is, the natural and joyous breathing of the spiritual life, by which the heavenly atmosphere is inhaled and then exhaled in prayer. Do you not see that, just as this faith possesses us, the call to a life of prayer which pleases God will be a welcome call? The cry, “ Re pent of the sin of prayerlessness,” will not be responded to by a sigh of helplessness, or by the unwill ingness of the flesh. The voice of the Father will be heard as He sets
Prayer « / Each morning at eight the
editorial staff of King's Busi- ■ ness magazine ga ther s for prayer. Over the years God has answered the heartcry of thou sands. Should you have a request we would count it a privilege to take it to the throne of grace. Your request S will be held in the strictest confidence. Address: The Edi tors, King's Business, 558 So. Hope St., Los Angeles T7, Calif. down in utter weakness at the feet of the Lord Jesus, to find there that victory comes through the might and love which stream from His countenance. If the question arises in our mind: Will this continue? and the fear comes: “ You know how often
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I commit myself for the day to the Lord Jesus, then I may rest assured that it is His eternal almighty pow er which has taken me under its protection and which will accom plish everything for me. Oh, if we would only take time for the inner chamber so that we might experience in full reality the presence of this Almighty Jesus! What a blessedness would be ours through faith! An unbroken fellow ship with an Omnipresent and Al mighty Lord. 3. The holy love of God. This means that He, with His whole heart, offers all His divine attributes for our service and is prepared to impart Himself to us, Christ is the revelation of His love. He is the Son of His love—the Gift of His love—the Power of His love; and this Jesus, Who has sought on the cross to give an overwhelming proof of His love in His death and blood- shedding, so as to make it impos sible for us not to believe in that love—this Jesus is He Who comes to meet us in the inner chamber, and gives the. positive assurance that unbroken fellowship with Him is our inheritance, and will, through Him, become our experience. The holy love of God which sacrificed everything to conquer sin and bring it to naught, comes to us in Christ to save us from every sin. Take time to think over that word of our Lord: “ Ye believe in God, believe also in me.” “ Believe me that I am in the Father, and ye in me, and I in you.” That is the secret of the life of prayer. Take time in the inner chamber to bow down and worship; and wait on Him till he unveils Himself, and takes possession of you, and goes out with you to show how a man may live and walk in abiding fel lowship with an unseen Lord. Do you long to know how you may always experience deliverance from the sin of prayerlessness? Here you have the secret. Believe in the Son of God, give Him time in the inner chamber to reveal Himself in His ever present near ness, as the Eternal and Almighty One, the Eternal Love Who watches over you. You will experience what, up till now, you have perhaps not known—that it has not entered into the heart of man what God can do for those who love Him. END.
Victory Over Prayerlessness continued that I will once more mention it. Nothing can preserve you from carelessness, or make it possible for you to persevere in living, pow erful prayer, but a daily close fel lowship with Jesus our Lord.
Jesus. It was because of this they were so sorrowful at the thought of His death. They would be de prived of that presence. He would be no longer with them. How, un der these circumstances, did the Lord Jesus comfort them? He prom ised that the Holy Spirit from heaven should so work in them a sense of the fulness of His life and of His personal presence that He would be even more intimately near and have more unbroken fel lowship with them than they ex perienced while He was on earth. This great promise is now the inheritance of every believer, al though so many of them know lit tle about it. Jesus Christ, in His divine personality, in that eternal love which led Him to the cross, longs to have fellowship with us every moment of the day and to keep us in the enjoyment of that fellowship. This ought to be ex plained to every new convert: “ The Lord loves you so that He would have you near Him without a break, that you may have experi ence of His love.” This is what every believer must learn who has felt his powerlessness for a life of prayer, of obedience, and of holi ness. This alone will give us pow er as intercessors to conquer the world and to win souls out of it for our Lord. 2. The omnipotence of God. How wonderful is God’s power! We see it in creation; we see it in the won ders of redemption recorded in the Old Testament. We see it in the wonderful works of Christ which the Father wrought in Him, and above all in His resurrection from the dead. We are called on to be lieve in the Son, just as we believe in the Father. Yes, the Lord Jesus Who, in His love, is so unspeakably near us, is the Almighty One with Whom nothing is impossible. What ever may be in our hearts or flesh, which will not submit to us, He can and will conquer. Everything that is promised in God’s Word, all that is our inheritance as children of the New Covenant, the Almighty Jesus can bestow upon us. If I bow be fore Him in my inner chamber, then I am in contact with the eter nal, unchanging pow er of God. If
He said to His disciples: “Ye believe in God, believe also in me . . . Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me . . . He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do” (John 14 :1 ,11 , 12). The Lord wished to teach His disciples that all they had learned from the Old Testament concern ing the power and holiness and love of God must now be transferred to Him. They must not believe mere ly in certain written documents but in Him personally. They must be lieve that He was in the Father, and the Father in Him, in such a sense that they had one life, one glory. All that they knew about Christ they would find in God. He laid much emphasis on this be cause it was only through such a faith in Him and His divine glory that they could do the works which He did, or even greater works. This faith would lead them to know that just as Christ and the Father are One, so also they were in Christ and Christ was in them. It is this intimate, spiritual, per sonal, uninterrupted relationship to the Lord Jesus which manifests it self powerfully in our lives, and especially in our prayer lives. Let us consider this and see what it means: that all the glorious attrib utes of God are in our Lord Jesus Christ. Think of— 1. God’s omnipresence, with which He fills the world and every moment is present in everything. Just as it is with the Father, so now our Lord Jesus is everywhere present, above all with each of His redeemed ones. This is one of the greatest and most important les sons which our faith must learn. We can clearly understand this from the example of our Lord’s disciples. What was the peculiar privilege of these disciples, who were always in fellowship with Him? It was uninterrupted enjoy ment of the presence of the Lord
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A story o f a girl who was married as a baby and why she is called
The Hope Woman
B y R u t h C a l d e r w o o d
A sha had just received a mar riage proposal. That in itself was good new s to E d ith Moore, p rin c ipa l of the girls’ school Asha attended in the Mar athi district of the central provinces of India. She knew that Samuel was a fine Christian, already in the ministry. But a thought began to haunt her — a fear that need trouble her only in a country like India. She hesitated before intruding with it upon the girl’s blissfully happy state. But she must speak of it and mentioned it as they sat on the bungalow Verandah one sultry afternoon. “ There’s just one possibility that might prevent your marrying Sam uel right away,” she said reluctant ly, noting at once the frightened look that sprang into Asha’s eyes. “You might have been married as a baby.” Asha stared at her incredulously. “ Auntie,” she said, “ that can’t be true. I have no such recollection.” “You know the Hindu custom, Asha. You could have been mar ried as a -mere infant. And Chris tians aren’t married to more than one husband, you know.” The girl’s memory of her early days was hazy. She was called Sar- ji, for an Indian goddess. After her mother died, she was stolen by a strange woman to be sold to a temple in Nagpur.
Abandoned in Akola, (the wo man probably fearing detection in her evil work) Sarji was taken into a Christian home to which she went begging for food. Later she was sent to the mission school in Khamgaon. There she was named Asha, the Hindu word for hope. She became a Christian and one of the most faithful workers in the school. Now Asha looked sober at the possibility of intrusion on her hap piness. “ But, Auntie, what can we do? How can we find out?” “We’ll have to put an ad in the Nagpur papers. We must try to get information.” Miss Moore looked sadly at the downcast face of the girl sitting at her feet. “ If no an swer comes, you can go ahead with wedding plans. I hope we’ll hear nothing — and doubt that we will. But we’ll have done what we could.” Miss Moore placed the ad in the Nagpur papers through a mission ary working near the city. In it she requested information about the father of Sarji. She also asked the other missionary to consult a Hindu Christian lawyer regarding the procedure to follow, should it develop that Asha had been mar ried as a baby. Was she doing the right thing? She had misgivings but concluded that they must try to learn the facts. She prayed and waited anx
iously several days. When no re sponse came from the ad, she began to feel with increased hopefulness that Asha’s plans would not be in terrupted after all. But one afternoon as she sat in her living room a strange voice was heard at the door. A Hindu prof fered her a note stating that a per son unknown to her wanted an appointment to see her. Instinc tively she knew the matter related to Asha, and she experienced for an instant a keen disappointment. The prayer that the ad would bring no results was answered in the negative. She composed herself enough to arrange the hour of meeting with the Hindu servant. During the in tervening time she spent many dis turbed hours wondering about the outcome. Then she began to re member. God was able to help in any situation. Could she forget His deliverance on the ocean trip to India after one of her furloughs? The cotton cargo in the hold of the ship had caught fire in mid-ocean and burned so furiously that the iron sides of the hold became red hot. The captain had asked the m is s io n a r ie s on board to pray. The ship had forged ahead full steam, and she knew it was divine intervention that had held the fire in check until the ship reached port, where fire extinguish ers were ready. Could she not also CONTINUED
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