536 T H E K I N G ’ S B U S I N E S S of them have never been beyond the grade schools. Most of the officers of our churches and teachers in our Sunday Schools 'have never been college trained. Yet some of these self-important leaders assume the prerogative of demanding that young men applying for ministerial service must have college and seminary training before they can be ordained. They say that men who have had two years of definite Bible training, such as is not given in any seminary, will not qualify thesa- men for the ministry; that the people are so highly cultured that they demand highly cultured preachers. Well, some of them are so highly cultured that they are “ up in the a ir” most of the time! '. Can you see the devil’s purpose to wreck our land? Is it not the same old game, which the devil played in Israel with the false shepherds, and which he played in Christ’s day when they said, “ Have any of the rulers of the Pharisees believed on Him?” ^ Moses was “ learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians” and yet God had to send him to keep sheep for forty years and help him to forget some of the things he had learned, before he was ready for His service. Paul was taught at the feet of Gamaliel. That would have satisfied the Pharisees, but God had to send him into the desert for three and a half years and there teach him that it was not the wisdom of men but the wisdom of God that would fit him to preach the Gospel “ in demonstration of the Spirit and of power.’” (1 Cor. 2:1-16). , And what is true of Moses and of Paul, is no less true ot Spurgeon, of Moody, and of hundreds of other men of lesser note who have known but little of the wisdom to be/found in schools and colleges and seminaries but who have been mightily used of God in the saying of souls. Are we, to whom has been committed a heritage purchased by our fathers and founded upon the open Bible for all the people, to be traitors to such a holy trust? Or are we to be Protestants and enter our protest, demanding that vacant churches shall be filled with godly men, Bible in hand, who will carry out the orders from our Captain, “ Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel;” “ Ye shall be witnesses unto me—unto the uttermost parts of the earth” ? Wake u p ! If you love your children; if you love your country; it you love yQur Lord! ■ . Who are these leaders who assume to lord it over God s* heritage? Pray for them. Plead with them. Put the facts squarely before them. Quit you like men! Be strong! . : ; T. C. H. I I H e THE CULTS HAVE US ON THE RUN It seems fitting that in our soul winners’ number we should stress the importance of tract distribution as a means of evangelism. A comparatively small number of Christian people realize the opportunity for effective service in the judicious use of well prepared tracts. The efficiency of the printed page in these times as a means of converting people is beyond question. The principal explanation of the rapid spread of heresy in the past few years has been their wise use of attractively printed,:; right to the point literature. It is strange that some Christian people have not awak ened to the value of this method.
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