lated “ charity.” But this need not deter the reader from understanding that what is meant there is the same high kind of noble affection which God has for those for whom Christ died and which brought to the earth the Gift of all gifts, His own dear Son. As we examine the characteristics of love in these verses there stands out in our mind the personification of love in the person of Christ. Instead of reading, “ Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,” you could just as easily read, “ Christ suffereth long, and is kind; Christ envieth not; Christ vaunteth not Himself, is not puffed up.” There is a real need on the part of Christian people to re-examine the character of love in order that their own effort, both for God and for their fellow- men, might measure up to the ex alted standard which God has pur posed. Dr. William Evans A NOTHER great giant in God’s . army has gone to be with the Lord in the passing of Dr. William Evans, well-known Bible scholar, author, preacher and teacher. Dr. Evans was among the first to be graduated from the Moody Bible Institute back in its earliest days, was an intimate acquaintance of D. L. Moody and later occupied an honored place on the faculty o f the Moody Bible Institute and the Bible Institute of Los Angeles. For a number of years Dr. Wil liam Evans was Associate Dean of Biola, as well as Associate Editor of The King’s Business. He was a writer of very great ability, and no less than forty books have come from his pen. Many will remember him as the teacher of a Friday night Bible class in the great auditorium of the Church of the Open Door where he pre viewed the coming International Sunday School Lesson. For several years the crowds taxed the capacity of the auditorium and sat with open Bibles and notebooks in order that they might take to their own classes the Bible interpretation of this gifted teacher. The work of Dr. Evans will live on and increase for many years through his books, which are standard texts in many, Bible Institutes and colleges throughout our land. Dr. Evans’ best known book, perhaps, is his “Great Doctrines of the Bible.” T H E K I N G ' S B U S I N E S S
A delightful combination is effected by the offering of a time of relaxa tion physically with a time of in spiration spiritually. Most confer ences combine beautiful vacation facilities with a strong challenging message from the conference pulpit. The Bible Institute of Los Angeles has long realized the value of these meetings and this year offers five different Pacific Coast conferences. One in Southern California at Pacific Palisades near Santa Monica; one at Hume Lake near General Grant Na tional Park; two at Mount Hermon near Santa Cruz in the tall redwood country, and one at Covenant Beach on Puget Sound halfway between Seattle and Tacoma. Further particu lars regarding cost, accommodations, dates and speakers may be obtained by writing to the Extension Depart ment, Bible Institute of Los Angeles, 558 South Hope Street, Los Angeles 17, Calif. The True Character o f Love P ERHAPS the most abused word in the English language today is the word love. Pulled down from its exalted position where God had placed it, love has been dragged in the mire of physical passion and be smirched with the character of lust. Young people in today’s world have almost no conception of the high ideals and the nobility of love. Few have understood that love has come from God and in a strange and par ticular way love is a part of God. In several instances in the Bible, notably 1 John 4:11, God’s pure love is di rectly linked with the love that Chris tians should have one for another. It is good exercise on the part of both young and old to carefully read and re-read the 13th chapter of 1 Corin thians where the Spirit of God sets forth not only the unique importance of this quality of life but also its characteristics. It is rather unfor tunate that in the King James Ver sion the word for love has been trans
President Talbot T HE first of this year saw the completion of a round-the-world trip by Dr. Louis T. Talbot, who is the President of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles. This trip was under taken with a twofold purpose: first, to strengthen the hearts of various missionaries who had taken their training a t, Biola and secondly, to secure a pictorial record of the need of the field and the way in which the need is being met. Since his return Dr. Talbot has been presenting these pictures to audiences in Southern and Central California. There has been an un usual amount of interest awakened, for which we thank God and take courage. Beginning with July, Dr. Talbot will be speaking and showing the pictures in the Bay area, including the Hamilton Square Baptist Church in San Francisco, Twenty-third Ave nue Baptist Church in Oakland, Cal vary Baptist in San Francisco, the Fundamental Church of Santa Rosa, Westminster Presbyterian in San Jose and the First Presbyterian Church of Chowchilla. Dr. Talbot’s August itinerary will be in Biola Summer Conferences. In the month of September he will be speaking in the State of Oregon, and in October and November in the State of Washington. Pastors and churches desiring Dr. Talbot to visit them should write to Dr. William Orr, Extension Depart ment, The Bible Institute of Los Angeles, 558 South Hope Street, Los Angeles 17, California. The Blessings of Summer Conferences O NE of the encouraging signs among many things that are dis couraging in today’s religious world is the popularity of summer Bible Conferences. Across our broad land there are many hundreds of these gatherings for both young and old. Page Four
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