THE K I N G ’ S B U S I N E S S 993 someone please tell us how He could have the nations looking upon different stars unless the earth be round? Our Lord in speaking of His second coming (Lk. 17:34-36) declares that at the moment of His coming two men will be sleeping in one bed; two women will be grinding at the mill; two men will be working in the field. The time for sleeping in bed is night. The time for eastern women to grind the day’s flour was in the early morning. The time for men to work in the field is in broad daylight. How could all three of these things take place at the same moment if the earth were flat ? Any schoolboy knows that because the earth is round, the sun’s light can only fall upon half of it at a time, hence when it is midday here, it is midnight at the antipodes, and mid-way between, the day is dawning. Nothing but the rotundity of the earth could explain Christ’s words. Not only does the Bible, plainly teach the rotundity of the earth, but it assumes it in many ways. True, the idea would not have been under stood at the time it was taught the ancients, nevertheless, the prophets made many such statements, entirely out of harmony with the science of their days, and fully verified in only comparatively recent times; I t ’s your move, Prof. Rice. Give us another one. —K. L. B. NOT A WORD OF THE CHRIST ET these words from President C. E. Macartney of Princeton Theological Seminary, published in the Theological Review for July: “How does this broadspread apostate tendency exhibit it self in evangelical pulpits? President Macartney tells of three New York churches in which he attended preaching services on a recent Sunday. In each pulpit a pleasant speaker, a capable dialectician, uttered attractively a fine homily on morals and on sundry social and political problems. But not a word of the Christ, not a word that recognized man’s sinfulness or need of a Saviour. The ‘grand particularities’ of the Christian religion had given place to the ‘spirit of our day.’ “ In his heart-loneliness the great theological school President wan dered into an open Roman Catholic chapel. It was empty. ‘Yet,’ says President Macartney, though he is no believer in Roman images, ‘I felt that I had heard more of the Gospel of Jesus Christ there than in all three Protestant churches, because along the walls of the chapel were beautiful paintings representing One who was wounded for my transgres sions and bruised for my iniquities, One who loved me and gave Himself for me.’ “ The American evangelical pulpit is, in thousands of instances, los ing its distinctively Christian note. It is avoiding or neglecting distinc- tively Christian truth.”
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