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by flashes of wit and periods of burning eloquence. On Fridays at midday he has drawn crowds of City men to Cannon Street Hotél, London; while on Sundays and on Friday evenings about 2,000 people have gathered at his services at Westminster Chapel. Forjifour days he preached twice a day at the great Northend Hat! in Croydon, and so full is his program that during his stay in this country he is preaching or lecturing twelve times a week in various centers, always with crowded audiences. Some peo ple-are puzzled at his popularity. We suggest two reasons— first, he is a great preacher, often dramatic, always sound and Elplid in his “qpening up wf the. Word||s and secondly, he'sup plies the need of the hour in clear and unmistakable exposition of Gospel truth and its application to every-day life: -
And Now I t’s Dr. Morgan’s Turn f g ^A S IN G the story upon a newspaper reporter’s jjrf version of an interview with Dr. G. Campbell Morgan, two or three of our American Christ ¡jzgl tian editors have seen fit to broadcast the W' report that Dr. Morgan had committed himself and the Bible Institute of Los Angeles to a sympathetic relation with modernism and evolution. The interview was taken from The British Weekly, Published in London, where Dr. Morgan has been lecturing on the Bible all summer. For some reason, our friends who
The Life of Faith (London) gives the following report of a great gathering at Metropolitan Tabernacle: At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, last Thursday evening, Dr. Campbell Mor- gal lectured for 'some seventy minutes on “The. Old Bible and the New
have given out this information, have taken no notice of Dr. Morgan’s statement to the reporter that he is a Fundamentalist and that our Institute stands for the conserva tive, evangelical p o s i t i o n , the supernatural position.” H o w one could more explicitly align himself and our Institute, i t Is beyond our ability to compre hend. The particular b o n e o g ||
Child, and How to Keep Them To gether,” to a great assembly which overflowed into the upper gallery. “An audience like this,” he said, as he began “shows.- at least two things--,-first, that the Bible is not out of date,-and second, that the child is still a center of interest." Defining hi||terms, he indicated that by the “old Bible” he meant the Word of God as commonly accepted by the Church of Christ for the last 1,700 y e a r s—un abridged, and uninterfered with by ignorant and impertinent men. By “the new child” he meant “the child of our time and our day.”
contention seems to be the al leged statement of Dr. Mor gan that he and the Dean of our Institute “have no sympa thy with the. attiiudeyof the dogmatic school represented by a certain group.” The Christian editors who have commented upon this have made Dr. .Mor gan mean that he and the Dean of our Institute have no sympathy w i t h the THEOLOGY of this group. The statement of Dr. Mor gan quoted a b o v e safeguards him absolutely upon this point. To disap prove of the ATTITUDE of a certain small group who, as Dr. Morgan indicates, are continually assailing those who do not sub scribe to their leadership, is a very different mat ter from differing with their theology. Yet the editor who started this story, either carelessly or intentionally goes on to. speak of “dissent from their V IEW S .” Dr. Morgan’s meetings in England have been given unusual commendation by three of England’s great Fun damentalist periodicals. From a recent issue of The Chris tian Herald (London) we take the following which leaves no room for doubt as to Dr. Morgan’s position: It is a remarkable sign of the living interest in the Scrip tures that during the past few weeks, when cinema and theater managers were complaining of thin audiences on account of the hot evenings, there were always crowded congregations wherever Dr. Campbell Morgan was announced to deliver a Bible lecture or to preach. Dr. Morgan has a wonderful mastery of the Bible; he believes in its authority and its power. Smaller men have to curtail their sermons, but Dr. Morgan generally preaches for about fifty minutes giving solid exposition of Bible truths, lit up
Although he was lecturing, and not preaching, Dr. Morgan based what he had to' say upon two Scripture passages—2 T im ,-3:14-17 and Prov. 22: 6 . From the first passage, he de duced that the great purpose and goal of the teaching of the'Scriptures to the child was the child’s salvation :• “the Holy Scriptures which are able to make thee wise , unto salvation which is in Christ Jesús.” “Salvation” postulates dan ger, but promises deliverance. “Salvation is what our children supremely need to deliver “them from “the perils and poisons that surround and threaten them.” As those who are born sin ners, the supreme need of the child is not education, but salvation. Every Sunday school teacher should have a very clear and definite idea as to why he was teaching, and what it was he was““after,” or he had better leave the job alone. “In order to teach the Bible intelligently you must understand the child. You must teach the Bible in the way in which the child will appreciate it,-and you must never lose the child’s interest.” Dr. Morgan then turned to the child and its three faculties or elements of intellect, emotion,* volition, and went on to deal with the child (1) of 1 to 7, (2) from 7 or 8 to Í2 or 13, (3) from 12 or 14 to 16 or 17, (4) ¡from 16 or 17 onward. For period (1), his counsel was, “Tell Bible stories—and don’t leave any out” ; (2), the Bible biographies; for (3), the Bible from the standpoint of its historic movement; for (4), everything in the Bible. “You must hold the interest of the child from beginning tc\ end, and, all the way through, never forget that the purpose of it all is that of the child’s salvation through faith in Jesus Christ.”
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