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A Good Vacation
In the y ea rly routine of more and more Christians th e summer B ible conference is becoming increasingly a “must.” M an y are discovering that it is much more worthwhile to be able to look back upon a summer’s vacation as a time of g reat spiritual blessing as well as physical refresh m en t than m erely being able to look back upon the occasion as two weeks of aimless wandering or relatively valueless sight-seeing. T h e summer B ible conference provides the change of pace and change o f activ ity that is needed in the life of the average person, and it also provides an oppor tun ity for concentrated rejuvenation of one’s spiritual life as well. Th ere are m any types of conferences from which to choose. C ertain ly the selection should be made w ith a t least the follow ing values in mind: 1 ) A thorough Bible-centered program which honors and glorifies the Lord Jesus Christ throughout 2 ) A variety of types of meetings which w ill keep the conference from becoming monotonous 3 ) A program that is sufficiently fu ll so th a t one’s tim e does not drag or lack purpose 4 ) Ample opportunity for rest and meditation upon the things which have been heard and learned 5 ) A place sufficiently removed from the ord inary routine of life so th a t a definite change of environment m ay be enjoyed and remembered. In the B ible conference, some messages are directed by the Holy Sp irit p rim arily to fill the needs of particu lar individuals or groups. F o r this reason not all messages are of equal value to each conference member. However the speaker has probably prayed more d iligen tly for the leading of the Holy Sp irit as to what he should say than have any of the listeners; and the one who receives the greatest benefit is the one who recognizes that in every meeting there a re blessings to be received by the one who is seeking such spiritual blessing. It should be recognized th a t no conference program can possibly be arranged th a t would be ju st righ t for every type of individual, because the needs of one person differ from the needs of another. Even during the conference one must make those choices as regards attendance at meetings and other activities wh ich w ill be most d irectly beneficial to him from a spiritual and physical point of view. ADVAN C E IN FORM AT ION E or some time now we have been preparing our third annual Christian ity issue. These are the issues designed en tirely to appeal to those who have not y et received Jesus Christ as th e ir own Saviour. Because of your prayers and backing the first two such special issues were a tremendous success. T h e th ird annual issue now in preparation w ill come out in August. Th is much we can tell you now: it w ill b e com p letely d ifferen t from either of the two earlier Christian ity issues. I t has been designed so it can be sent to those who received the first ones or to those who did not. W e definitely feel this w ill be the most important issue we have published of T h e K in g ’ s B u s in e s s . W on ’t you start praying now for it? — L. H.
DEAF AND DUMB, YET "SPEAKS”
Last summer, at the Christian Youth Camp .*t the foot of majestic Mount Olympus, be etle the blue Aegean Sea, 740 children from the slums and harvest fields of Greece were given a taste of what seemed to them to be heaven on earth. But little 12-year-old George could not laugh and sing with the rest. He was deaf and dumb, but the smartest fellow imagin able. He had no father, and was in danger of being led astray by bad company, when a good Christian friend in America made it possible for him to attend our camp. He could not hear the messages, but the loving, Christ-honoring environment reached his heart and made a marked change in him. Just recently, a woman who attended our Gospel meetings in Thessalonica was asked by one of our workers how she heard about us. We were moved to tears by her reply. "George, my neighbor, the deaf and dumb boy who is now in your Orphanage, led me to you. One day when I was dressed up to go out, he met me outside my house, and, taking me by the hand, pantomined that he wanted to take me somewhere to worship. I went with him and liked it so well that now my children are in the Sunday School too.” Another camp season is almost here and hundreds of eager children who are physic ally and spiritually undernourished are hop ing that they too will be sponsored at camp by some kind friend in America. For only $15 you can make a pale, thin face grow plump and rosy, and a love-starved heart overflow with the joy of Christ the Saviour. W ill some little boy or girl you send to camp include your name in a prayer of thanksgiving to the Heavenly Father this sum mer? Send your gifts to the American Mis sion to Greeks, Inc., Rev. Spiros Zodhiates, General Secretary, Dept. K, P.O. Box 423, New York 36, N.Y. (In Canada: 90 Duplex Ave., Toronto, Ont.)
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THE KING’S BUSINESS A publication of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles, Inc. - Louis T. Talbot, Chancellor S. H. Sutherland, President • Ray A. Myers, Chairman of the Board JUNE In the year of our Saviour Vol. 48, No. 6 Nineteen Hundred and Fifty-Seven Established 1910 Dedicated to the spiritual development of the Christian home ART ICLES GOSPEL DISC JOCKEY ............................................................. 10 FOR M E N O N L Y — A man and his doubts .................................. 11 TH E SECRET OF H A V IN G YO U R FAITH STRENGTHENED — George Muller .................................................. 12 M Y SIN — Elisabeth Wilder ...................................................... 14 SOM ET IM E S IT S GOOD TO H A V E DOUBTS — Calvin H. Chambers 16 FELLOW SH IP OF THE HO LY SP IR IT — Robert J. St. Clair 18 HOW DO I LOVE THEE? — Poem — Althea S. Miller ................. 19 W H Y SEV EN TH -D A Y A D V E N T IS M IS NOT EVANG ELIC A L — Conclusion —— Louis T. Talbot ............................ 23 A PERSONAL MESSAGE TO SEV EN TH -D A Y AD V EN T IST S — The Managing Editor ......................................... 31 A PRAYER FOR SELF-FORGETFULNESS — A. W. Tozer .............. 36 SEARCH FOR GOD .................................................................. 37 CONFERENCE D IRECTORY ..................................................... 38 JA C K W Y R T Z E N & H IS W O RD OF LIFE FELLOW SHIP —— Photo Story ...................................................... 48 FEA TU R E S FROM TH E ED ITOR 'S DESK ................................................. 4 PEOPLE — A monthly column of names in the news ..................... 6 UNDER TH E PARSONAGE ROOF — Althea S. Miller ................... 7 READER REACTION ................................................................ 8 H Y M N S YOU LOVE — Phil Kerr .............................................. 9 TH EO LOG IC ALLY T H IN K IN G — Gerald B. Stanton ..................... 20 W O R LD N EW SG R AM S — James O. Henry .................................. 21 W O RD S FROM TH E W O RD — Charles L. Feinberg 22 JU N IO R K IN G 'S BUSINESS ROUND-UP 40 BOOK REVIEW S — Donald G. Davis ......................................... 43 DR. T A L BO T 'S QUESTION BOX ................................................ 46 T A L K IN G IT OVER — A psychologist answers — Clyde Narramore .. 47 CHR IST IAN EDUCATION OBJECT LESSONS — Elmer L. Wilder ................ ........................ 44 Singing Jack — Robert Black .................................. 32 Penny's Vacation — June Ralston ............................ 33 SEA RCH ING THE SCRIPTURES: R O M A N S — Chester J. Padgett
How You can reach Some Seventh-day Adventist now
Would you like to give a clear-cut witness to at least one Seventh-day Adventist ? If you sincerely want to we’ll help you make it possible. Here’s how. This issue contains Dr. Talbot’s final summation on SDA. And in ad dition to this important document we have prepared a special appeal to Seventh-day Adventists. This special appeal appears on page 31. Turn to page 31 now and read this message. Isn’t it the kind you could give to your closest friend and yet not offend him ? Our only aim in writing this special message is to get Adventists to simply read the Bible. That’s all. But Adventists will never see this special message unless you give it * to them. Even if you don’t know a single Adventist you can look in your phone book or local church page of your newspaper and find the name of an Adventist church. Mail a copy to the pastor. Let God’s Word do the rest. Remember what happened to Martin Luther when he read the Word. Just send us the names and addresses together with 25c for each copy and we’ll mail this issue opened to this special page. Please don’t put it off to a more convenient time. That time will never come. Do it now while you’re thinking about it. Thank you. Just write to the Managing Editor, The King’s Business, 558 South Hope St., Los Angeles 17, Calif. Be sure to include the words Managing Editor on the envelope.
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Meropi is only seven years old. She comes from a Jewish family. Her mother accepted the Lord some three years ago, and is a fine Christian woman, who has' joined our refugee church at Lipasmata. Her husband has not yet accepted Christ, but he is kind and good to his wife and children. He does not prohibit or hinder them from coming to church and Sunday school.” Aspasia writes: "W e axe confident that this faithful Christian woman, Chris tina, will in due time lead her husband also to the Lord. They are extremely poor and they suffer for the lack of practically everything. They belong to the few Jews who survived the last War. There are less than three thousand Jews now in Greece. Their economy has been complete ly shattered, and these who are there con tinue to find life extremely hard in a land which itself has little to offer econom ically. Little Meropi attends the Sunday School faithfully, but of late she has been laid up for most of the time with a severe case of osteitis, a malady of the bones due largely to lack of proper nourishment.” Here is a wonderful opportunity to sup port and adopt this child, who loves the Lord, for only ten dollars a month. Then there is Popi Vretakou, who is nine years old. She is pale, thin, and older looking! All four in the family live in one room. Popi has a brother by the name of Nikos, who is twelve years old. The fa ther is out of work. They often go to bed hungry. Popi for some time has been run ning a low fever, and the mother tries to keep her in bed. But not on Sundays! She is in bitter tears if she cannot go to the Sunday School, which she loves more than anything else! Then she walks a long distance to get there.” Popi and Nikos were at the Camp last year, and were a great blessing to all. Shall we be able to send them this year also? They need good food and fresh air so much! This will depend on you. It will take twenty-five dollars for five weeks for each child, and fifty dollars for the two. There is, it seems, an infinite number of pressing needs in our ministry to Greece. W e would stagger under the load if it were not for your faithful cooperation in faith and prayer. You can make the burden lighter by supporting a child, by supplying a hungry soul with a Bible for only $1.00, or you may support a worker for his basic support for only $50.00 a month. However, the greatest need of this work is prayer — believing, earnest, and persevering prayer! W e are confident that as you pray, He will meet all our needs in His abundant way, according to Ephe sians 3:20. Send your contributions to this faith mission, Greek Evangelical Mission, Inc., K. Paul Yphantis, Executive Secre tary, 88 Tremont Street, Boston 8, Mass. Canadian address, Rev. E. S. Kerr, 5275 Earnscliffe Ave., Montreal 29, P. Q. Some of the most outstanding leaders on this continent direct and support this work, such as: Dr. E. Joseph Evans, Dr. V. Raymond Edman, Dr. T. Leonard Lewis, Dr. James H. Hunter, Dr. Wilbur M. Smith, Dr. Louis T. Talbot, Dr. F. Carl ton Booth, Dr. Torrey M. Johnson, Dr. John F. Walvoord. Oldest evangelical mission to Greece. Established in 1920.
A monthly column of names in the news In New York, just before the cur rent Billy Graham crusade got under way, a leading Roman Catholic spokes man warned that Graham was “a danger to the faith.” The Catholic spokesman was the Rev. John E. Kel ley, director of the bureau of informa tion of the National Catholic Welfare Conference. He flatly said all Catho lics were forbidden to attend such services because Graham does not ac cept the Roman Catholic position of being the only true church. Death has taken Dr. Peter W. Phil- pott, 91. After leaving the Salvation Army in 1892, Dr. Philpott founded the Gospel Tabernacle in Hamilton, Ontario and later pastored such great churches as Moody in Chicago and Church of the Open Door in Los An geles. In more recent years he had been associated with the Rev. Oswald Smith of the Peoples Church, Toronto. In Glenside, Pa., the Christian Youth Cinema has announced its 7th annual Christian film awards. Best
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Under the Parsonage Roof by Althea S. Miller SHINING SHADOW
A H s Mother stood beside the still form of her beloved first bom her heart was suddenly overwhelmed w ith an intense sense of loss. “Dear Father, you’ve taken my boy away in the flower of his young manhood. Why? Forgive me, Lord. I do not mean to question your wisdom. ‘It is not mine to question the judgments of my Lord; It is but mine to follow the leading of His Word.’ Thank you, Lord, for the privilege of having been the mother of a son like Bobby. From a little child he loved you and seemed destined for an unusual testimony. He bore that testimony even in the shadow of death. It was a shining shadow, Father. Thank you for that com fort.” It seemed as Mother stood there that the years rolled back and she remembered the first Bible verse Bob memorized at the age of four in a vacation Bible school in California. He came home and solemnly an nounced, “God made everything beau tiful” (Eccl. 3 :1 1 ). Daddy and Mother w ill never forget how he pursed those baby lips as he struggled to say “bee- oo-tiful.” Mother was sure that in his span of 20 years Bobby tried to keep everything God made beautiful. From never having known a sick day in his life until the age of 16, God crowded a lifetime of soul win ning and service into Bob’s experience during the four years in which the disease ravaged his body. “O the depth of the riches both of the wis dom and knowledge of God! how un searchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out! . . . For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen” (Rom. 11:33, 36). “If my precious son’s illness, suffering and death w ill redound to your glory, and I believe these w ill, I w ill not wonder at the work of your hand. Thank you for that knowledge. “And as I sing, ‘Thine when temp tations press me, Thine midst the soul’s deep calm, Thine when the tears run down like rain, Thine when I sing my psalm,’ you w ill understand my tears. But we sorrow not as those who have no hope. W e shall be caught up together in the clouds to meet the Lord and so shall we ever be with the Lord [1 Thes. 4:13, 17], Thank you, Lord, for that hope. ‘Even so come quickly, Lord Jesus.’ ”
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Biola says thank you to Dr. G. Archer Weniger, Pastor, Foothill Blvd. The Foothill Blvd. Baptist Church of Oakland is one of the noted evangelical churches of the San Fran cisco bay area. The pas tor is not a graduate of Biola, but like so many other evangelical pastors he’s a staunch friend of this Christian training center. We have received a copy of this church’s publication, Blu-Print, containing the following: "W e wish to pay trib ute to the faithfulness of this great school —- Biola. This combination of several schools actually constitutes a Christian University which has not been blown about by every wind of doctrine and religious fad. Its theological position today is exactly what it was when it was founded by T. C. Horton. It deserves the whole- souled support of God’s people everywhere as it not only trains youth for Christian service but exercises a wholesome influence over the churches , on the Coast . . . ” * * * Biola is made up of four schools: Bible In stitute, School of Mis sionary Medicine, Talbot Theological Seminary and Biola Bible College. Applications are now being considered for the fall semester. BIOLA 55 8 S. Hope St. Los Angeles 17, Calif. Baptist Church, Oakland, Calif.
a position to appreciate the truths you have written. We heartily agree with your charges. An Adventist of ficial has advised me that “we are not changing our doctrines . . . but . . . clarifying them.” This is a terrible statement and refutes entirely what they have told Bamhouse, Martin, Eternity and Time. Today they have one message they tell the public, one other message they preach to their church members and a third message they teach the natives, who know nothing of the investigative judgment, etc. Our unbiased study of Galatians and Colossians has opened to us the won derful blessings of the finished work of Christ, and we are reveling in our freedom from legalism. The Holy Spirit was given to convict the world of sin and to guide into all truth. It did not take me long to clarify my position, once I started to investigate and the same Spirit would have guided the Adventists, had they asked. The Seventh-day Adventist churches down here are rocked over what has already happened and some more of your literature would help to rock some more. You see, we were so blind ed that we could not imagine Sunday- keepers could have any truth. Now our eyes are opened, I am really amazed at the wealth of literature that is put out . . . . We are brands plucked from the burning and we want to help the many honest-hearted Seventh-day Adventists out of bond age too. Henderson, New Zealand Herbert E. Whitford Word keeps reaching us o f the shake-up in the Seventh-day Advent ist circles and churches in New Zea land as a result o f the dismissal from his leadership last year o f R. A. Grieve, form er president o f the North New Zealand Conference. He was ousted after 30 years’ service with this sect for teaching what the Seventh-day Adventists branded as doctrinal error: the sinlessness o f Christ and the fu ll atonement at the cross, and for ques tioning the i n f a l l i b i l i t y o f Mrs. W hite’s writings. Grieve is now run ning a business in Australia. Another Adventist (Pastor Drain) was dis missed after 16 years’ service for preaching against the investigative judgment and Mrs. W hite’s teachings. T h e City Mission at Auckland City closed when certain staff members repudiated SDA, and we have been informed o f the disintegration o f some SDA churches. W e w ill have a more detailed report in the future. — ED.
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Sirs: Won’t you please let your readers know what happened to Althea M il ler’s son Bob? W ill he be permanent ly blinded? Central Valley, Calif. Mrs. M. E. White Between the writing o f last month’s column and this month’s, Mrs. M iller’s 20-year-old son Bob died. See “Under the Parsonage Roof,” page 7.— ED. For Men Only Sirs: “Those Foreign Cars” [for-men-only feature, April, K.B.] would make a wonderful tract. Many would read it as such who would not open a Christian magazine. If you decide to publish this article in tract form I could use at least 100. Encinitas, Calif. Dr. Alberta Thomas W e are sorry but this article is not in tract form. For this month’s for- men-only article see page 11. — ED. John Brown Sirs: I have especially appreciated the article about John E. Brown by Mar tha S. Hooker in the April issue. As a boy I was saved in one of his meet ings many years ago. Alameda, Calif. Hubert Reiss, M.D. Seventh-day Adventists (cont'd) Sirs: I was hoping that someone would have the courage and daring to answer the misleading statements in Eternity concerning the Seventh-day Advent ists. And you certainly did! More power to you with the truth! Harrisburg, Pa. Dr. Charles R. Beittel Otterbein Evangelical United Brethren Church Sirs: I am a missionary on furlough under The Christian & Missionary Alliance and have served a little over 40 years in Argentina, Ecuador, Co lombia and Puerto Rico. In all of these fields the Seventh-day Adventists have done great harm in several of our congregations. I and some of my brethren with whom I have consulted deeply regret that a magazine like Eternity, so highly respected among evangelicals, should ever have pub lished such articles. Glendora, Calif. Emanuel A. Prentice Sirs: You are doing a notable work. Long Beach, Calif. Dr. Charles Mayes, Pastor First Brethren Church Sirs: After 32 years’ membership with the Seventh-day Adventists, we are in
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T his hymn was written when the author was 22 years of age. So many varying versions of the circumstances of its writing have been told that it w ill p e r h a p s b e b e s t to notice Palmer’s own account: “Immediately a f t e r graduating from Yale, September 1830, the writer went to New York City to spend a year in teaching. . . . Having been accustomed from childhood to the occasional expression of what his heart felt in the form of verse, it was in accordance with this habit and in an hour when Christ, in the riches of His grace and love, was so vividly apprehended as to fill the soul with deep emotion, that the lines were composed. There was not the slightest thought of writing for another eye, least of all writing a hymn for Chris tian worship. Away from outward excitement, in the quiet of his cham ber and with a deep consciousness of his own needs, the writer transferred as faithfully as he could to paper what at the time was passing within him. Six stanzas were composed and imperfectly written, first on a loose sheet and then copied into a small book. “A year or two after . . . and when no one had ever seen it . . . Dr. Lowell Mason met the author in the street in Boston and requested him to furnish some hymns for a Hymn and Tune Book, which, in connection with Dr. Hastings, he was about to publish. The little book containing the hymn was shown him and he asked for a copy. . . . He became so interested in it that he wrote for it the tune Olivet to which it has almost universally been sung. Two or three days later we met again in the street when he earnestly exclaimed, ‘Mr. Palmer, you may live many years and do many things, but I think you w ill be best known to posterity as the author of this song.’ ” Palmer was bom November 12, 1808, the son of a Rhode Island judge. He became a Congregational minister. He published several collections of prose and verse. He would never allow changes made in his writings and would never accept remuneration. He died March 29, 1887 in Newark, N. J.
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missionary pilot Nate Saint— wrapped with a Gospel tract dropped from his plane
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Nothing in modem literature has dramatized so strikingly the colli sion of old and new, of faith and fa primitive superstition as T hrough £S G ates of S plendor . . . the saga of g* the five young missionary martyrs who, in their small plane, were the first in centuries to penetrate the dread land of the Auca Indians with the Christian Gospel — only to be ambushed and slain with savage lances. Yet transcending the trag edy of this amazing Christian ad venture — now known to the whole world as “Operation Auca” — was the five’s unquenchable faith in the ultimate purposes of God and their joyous devotion to Christ which constantly break through the epi sodes in this book — much of it ex pressed in their own diaries and messages. Leaders Praise It “T hrough G ates of S plendor proves conclusively that first-cen tury devotion to Christ, even to martyrdom, is still alive.” —V» RAYMOND EDMAN, President of Wheaton College “A powerful portrayal of the Chris tian dedication to which the modern world is a stranger.” — FRANK E. GAEBELEIN, Evangelical Book Club “ Reminiscent of the m issionary stamina and sacrifice of the apos tolic age.” — CARL F. H. HENRY, Editor, Christianity Today T he A uthor , widow of one of the martyred five, is one of the wives who lived in the jungle as active partners in the fateful expedition. 64 Pages of Amazing Photographs by the missionaries and CORNELL CAPA
As m any of you know, radio stations across the coun try are now in the process of taking off evangelical programs. You can help stop th is new trend if you w ill take tim e righ t now to w rite a sincere le tter of thanks to the local station that carries your favorite Christian programs. T h a t’s exactly what M rs. H. C. F lecker of San ta Barbara, Calif, did recently. She told the station manager of K TM S , San ta Barbara, how much she liked th e ir station be cause th ey carried T h e B ible Institu te Hour, Haven of Rest, Old Fashioned Revival Hour, Hour of Decision, Radio B ible Class. A warm , friend ly le tter of thanks from you to you r local station can mean so much righ t now. Don’t w ait un til it’s too late. T h ank you.
“An epic missionary saga.”- " ™ " 1^ | T H R O U G G A T E S O
The Bible Institute Hour Los Angeles 17, Calif.
By ELISABETH ELLIOT Foreword by Abe C. Van Der Puy At your bookseller $3.75 HARPER & BROTHERS, N. Y. 16
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tions. “T h e n ice th ing about adver tising on a program such as ‘Good News in M u sic,’ ” says B lum ay, “is that a sponsor can reach people for God w ithout putting his support on the basis of a contribution or w ith out in terfering w ith his normal chu rch tithe. H e can make an ex penditure for the Lord’s work over and above his normal giving by tak ing it from his advertising budget instead of his tith e and, at the same time, receive a good retu rn for his investment in the same m anner that ¿ie does in sponsoring secular pro gram s.” B lum ay is not a musician but ap preciates good music. H e plays p i ano by ear. However, his mother and a sister are both chu rch organ ists. H is father, once a circu it-rid ing Methodist preacher in the hills of Kentucky, for years has been a noted gospel singer-preacher. In ea rlier years he made V icto r and Rodeheaver records. “W e were always singing or p lay ing hymns at home,” B lum ay says. H e feels this background is inval uable in guiding h im to make his program selections. B lum ay is m arried and the father of th ree children— a daughter, 16, and sons, 14 and 9. He has spent most of his life in California and graduated from the Un iversity of Southern California where he sang in the glee club and m ixed chorus. F o r several years he worked as a sportswriter in Los Angeles on T h e T im es. H e then went into public relations and advertising work and broadcasting. A t one stage he was even doing television commercials. He is an accomplished song lead er, perform ing in m a jo r churches and before well-known religious groups throughout Southern Cali forn ia, another factor th a t aids him in choosing the righ t records for his show. It keeps h im in close touch w ith the modern pulse of re ligious record desires. H e is a dea con and a Sunday school teacher at a large P resby terian church, and he- is past president of the C ivic Center D ivision of In ternational Christian Leadership and has helped start oth er new government IC L groups. He is also a member of the Advisory Committee for Campus Crusade. In addition to his disc jockeying, B lum ay conducts a public relations- advertising business w ith both re ligious and secular clients. END.
Disc Jockey Blumay: Father was a circuit-riding preacher.
Gospel Disc Jockey
I n the broadcasting business Carl B lum ay is what is known as a disc jockey. H e spins records, but in stead of tw irling the latest pop p lat ters he sticks to sacred and gospel tunes. Th is selection of records in itself is somewhat unusual but the thing th a t is baffling the so-called experts is that the program has reg u lar commercial sponsors. Sponsors ju st a ren ’t supposed to go for such programs. D isc Jo ckey B lum ay is on the air Monday through F rid ay from Long Beach , Calif. (KG ER , 1 :1 5 -2 :4 5 )
and he calls his record program “Good News in M u sic.” An indication of ju st how unusu al such a program is can be seen in that while it is a strictly local a f fa ir it has gained nationwide pub licity . One magazine of over a m il lion circu lation recen tly featured B lum ay and his records, and the show business trade publications B illb o a rd and V a riety have both carried write-ups. T h e standard way for religious programs to gain support is by ask ing the listeners to send in dona
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A for-men-only feature dealing with basic Christianity/by Lloyd Hamill
A man and his doubts
I recently got a letter from a man who was extremely worried because he had doubts about the Christian faith. He des perately wanted a right relationship with God but he openly admitted his doubts were preventing such a relationship. When I read this man’s letter I immediately felt an in stinctive like for him. He was honest. To have doubts is the most normal thing in the world. Not to have doubts about the great issues of life simply shows a lack of thinking. It shows a withdrawal from reality. With stinging bitterness Bertrand Russell said, "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the in telligent full of doubt.” You recall the great philosopher Descartes built his philos ophy upon doubts. He systematically doubted everything right down to his own existence. At this point his system produced the kernel of truth he was seeking. He found that the very fact that he could doubt his own existence proved to him that he did exist. Most of us won’t care to go to the philosophical lengths of Descartes, but nevertheless if we are honest with ourselves we will have our doubts. Especially in religion. On another page in this issue Calvin Chambers says, "What the Christian faith fears more than anything else is that kind of unbelief that knows not, that cares not and that will not even take the trouble to be skeptical.” A lot of us somehow have the idea that in the realm of religion we must obediently accept what we are told or what we read. If we question religion then we are either great sinners or, at best, agnostics. This idea is utterly untrue. It is good to have doubts. It is right that we should be skeptical about a thing before we accept it. And the more important the issue, the more important it is to question it. And I cannot think of anything more im portant to a man than his relationship with God. But in my experience I’ve found it almost always true that men apart from a right relationship with God do not take time to doubt the Christian faith. You cannot honestly doubt the Christian faith unless you have tested it. Recently a Southern California theologian wrote a letter to some 500 scientists listed in Who’s Who. He asked each if he believed
that Jesus Christ lived and died and arose again from the dead. Nineteen (including a Nobel Prize winner) said they did. Some 120 said they didn’t. The others did not answer. Many of those who said they didn’t believe that Jesus Christ lived and died and arose from the dead took time to write rather detailed reasons for their belief. But not a one o f them said he had studied the historical proofs pertaining to the subject. This is nothing short of amazing. Brilliant men in one field rejecting the Christian record without ever examining the facts. Would it not be better for each man to first ex amine the records of the Christian faith and then state his doubts? I think so. And each of us can examine the record. It’s written in the Bible, the best established historical document possessed by man. You may not agree with what the Bible says but you rfmnot disagree with its being a genuine historical document. No man’s education is complete until he has thoughtfully and honestly read what Christianity claims for itself. Start with the New Testament. Or if you like to dig into such things on a smaller scale, start with the little book of St. John in the New Testament. Read it through four or five times. As you read, forget all your preconceived ideas. As best you can, approach it as something you never thought about before. See firsthand what the record says. And as you read, keep paper and pencil handy. Write down all your doubts. Question anything that doesn’t make sense. Note the things that do make sense. Each time, as you start reading, say a word or two to God something along this line: "God, I’m not sure o f my rela tionship with you. I have some doubts. 1 sincerely want to know the truth, if there indeed is such a thing. I f you show me the way I am willing to follow .” The Bible says (the Book of John, Berkeley Version), " If anyone wills to do His will he shall understand the teaching . . . .” It also says (Jesus Christ speaking), "I am the Way and the Truth and the Life; no one comes to the Father ex cept through Me.” These words somehow are not easy to dismiss. And they are part of the record of the Christian faith. END.
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From the journal' of George Muller
FAITH /Strengthened
The secret of having your/
B y reading the details of God’s dealings w ith me, I desire that a ll the children of God m ay thereby be led to increased and more simple confidence in God for every thing which th ey m ay need under any circumstances. And m ay these m any answers to p rayer encourage them to pray, p a rticu la rly as it re gards the conversion of th eir friends and relatives, th eir own progress in grace and knowledge, the state of the saints whom th ey m ay know personally, the state of the church of God at large and the success of the preaching of the gospel. Especially I affectionately warn fellow Christians against being led away by the device of Satan to th ink th a t these th ings are pecu liar to m e and cannot be enjoyed by a ll the children of God; for though every believer is not called upon to estab lish orphan-houses, ch a rity schools, etc., and trust in the Lord fo r means, yet all believers are called upon, in the simple confidence of faith , to cast all th e ir burdens upon H im , to trust in H im fo r everything, and not on ly to make everything a sub je c t of p rayer bu t to expect answers to th e ir petitions wh ich th ey have asked according to H is w ill and in the nam e of the Lord Jesus. W h en sometimes all has beep dark, exceedingly dark, w ith re fe r ence to m y service among the saints judging from n atu ral appearances, yea, when I should have been over whelmed indeed in g rief and de spair had I looked a t things a fter the outward appearance, a t such times I have sought to encourage myself in God by lay ing hold in fa ith on His m igh ty power, H is unchange able love and His in fin ite wisdom. I have said to m yself: God is able
ual prosperity of m y work. Do not th ink th a t I have attained in faith (and how much less in other re spects!) to th a t degree to which I m igh t and ought to atta in bu t I thank God for the fa ith which He has given me and I ask H im to up hold and increase it. And on ce m o re, let not Satan d eceiv e y ou in m a k in g y ou th in k that y ou cou ld not h a v e th e sam e fa ith but that it is on ly fo r persons w ho a r e situ ated as I am . And thus in m y temporal and spiritual concerns I p ray to the Lord and expect an answer to m y requests; and m a y not y ou do the same, dear believing reader? Oh! I beseech you, do not th ink m e an extraord inary believer having priv ileges above other of God’s dear children wh ich th ey cannot have, nor look on m y w ay of' acting as something that would not do for other believers. M ake but trial! Do but stand still in the hour of tria l and you w ill see the help of God if you trust in Him . Bu t there is so often a forsaking the ways of the Lord in the hour of tria l and thus the fo o d o f fa ith , the means whereby our fa ith m ay be increased, is lost. Th is leads me to the follow ing important point. You ask, how m ay I, a true believer, have m y fa ith strengthened? The answer is this: “Ev ery good g ift and every per fect g ift is from above, and cometh down from the F a th er of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of tu rn ing” (Jam e s 1 :1 7 ). As the increase of fa ith is a good gift, it must come from God and therefore H e ought to be asked for this blessing. T h e follow ing means, however,
and w illing to deliver me if it be good for m e; for it is w ritten : “He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us a ll, how shall he not w ith him also freely give us a ll th ings?” (Rom . 8 :3 2 .) Th is it was which, being believed by me through grace, kept m y soul in peace. Fu rth er, in connection w ith the orphan-houses, day schools, etc., trials have come upon m e wh ich I cannot even mention. A t these times I believed H is word of promise wh ich was applicable to such cases; I poured out m y soul before God and arose from m y knees in peace, because the trouble th a t was in the soul was in believing p ray er cast upon God and thus I was kept in peace. W h en I needed houses, fellow-laborers, masters and m is tresses fo r the orphans or for the day schools, I have been enabled to look for all to the Lord and trust in H im fo r help. D ea r reader, I m ay seem to boast; but by the grace of God I do not boast in thus speaking. I thought it needful to make these remarks lest anyone should th ink th a t m y depending upon God was a particu la r g ift given to me which other saints have no righ t to look for, or lest it should be thought th a t m y depending upon H im had o n ly to do w ith th e obtain ing o f m on ey by p ra y er an d fa ith . B y th e grace of God I desire that m y fa ith in God should extend towards ev ery th in g , the smallest of m y own temporal and spiritual concerns and the smallest of the temporal and sp irit ual concerns of m y fam ily , towards the saints among whom I labor, the chu rch at large, everything th a t has to do w ith the temporal and sp irit
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every fresh instance in wh ich He helps and delivers m e w ill tend towards the increase of m y faith. On this account, therefore, the believer should not shrink from situ ations, positions, circumstances, in which his fa ith m ay be tried but should cheerfu lly embrace them as opportunities where he m ay see the hand of God stretched out on his behalf, to help and deliver h im and whereby he m ay thus have his faith strengthened. T h e last importan t point fo r the strengthening of our fa ith is th a t we let God work for us when the hour of the tria l of our faith comes and do not work a deliverance of our own. W herever God has given faith, among other reasons, it is for the very purpose of being tried. Y ea, however weak our fa ith m ay be, God w ill tr y it, on ly w ith this restriction, th a t as in every way He leads on gen tly, gradually, patien t ly , so also w ith reference to the tria l of our faith . A t first our fa ith w ill be tried very little in comparison w ith what it m ay be afterwards, fo r God never lays more upon us th an H e is w illing to enable us to bear. Now when the tria l of fa ith comes, we are n a tu ra lly inclined to distrust God and to trust ra th er in ourselves or in our friends o r in circum stances. W e w ill rather work a deliver ance of our own somehow or other than simply look to God and w ait for His help. Bu t if we do not pa tien tly w ait for God’s help, if we work a deliverance of our own, then at the n ex t tria l of our fa ith it w ill be thus again ; we shall be again inclined to deliver ourselves. And thus w ith every fresh instance of th a t kind, our fa ith w ill decrease, whilst on the con trary, were we to stand still in order to see the salva tion of God, to see H is hand stretched out on our behalf, trusting in H im alone, th en our fa ith would be increased ; and w ith every fresh case in which the hand of God is stretched out on our behalf in the hour of the tria l of our faith , our fa ith would be increased y et more. Would the believer, therefore, have his fa ith strengthened, he must especially giv e tim e to G od who tries his fa ith in order to prove to His child in the end how w illing He is to help and deliver him , the moment it is good for him . END.
guilty conscience, th en m y fa ith is weakened by th a t instance o f dis tru st; for faith w ith every fresh tria l of it either increases by trusting God and thus getting help, or it decreases by not trusting Him. T h en there is less and less power of looking simply and d irectly to H im and a hab it of self-dependence is begotten or encouraged. One or the other of these w ill always be the case in each particu lar instance. E ith er we trust in God, and in that case we n either tru st in our selves nor in our fellow men nor in circumstances nor in anyth ing besides, or we do trust in one or more of these and in that case do not trust in God. I f we indeed desire our fa ith to be strengthened, we should not shrink from opportunities where our faith m a y b e t r i e d an d , t h e r e f o r e , through the tria l be strengthened. In our n atu ral state we dislike deal ing w ith God alone. Th rough our natu ral alienation from God we shrink from H im and from eternal realities. Th is cleaves to us more or less even a fter our regeneration. H ence it is th a t more or less, even as believers, we have the same You r Praye r Requests Each morning at eight the editorial staff of T h e K in g ’ s B u s in e s s magazine gathers for prayer. Over the years God has answered the heartcry of thousands. Should you have a request we would count it a privilege to take it to the throne of grace. Your request will be held in the strictest confidence. Address: The Editors, T h e K in g ’ s B u s in e s s , 558 So. Hope St., Los Angeles 17. Phone: MAdison 5-1641. shrinking from standing w ith God alone — from depending upon H im alone; from looking to H im alone - and y et th is is the position in wh ich we ought to be if we w ish our fa ith to be strengthened. T h e more I am in a position to be tried in fa ith w ith reference to m y body, m y fam ily , m y service fo r the Lord, m y business, etc., the more shall I have opportunity o f seeing God’s help and deliverance; and
ought to be used: T h e c a refu l rea d ing o f th e W o rd o f G od com b in ed w ith m ed itation on it. Th rough reading of the W o rd of God, and especially through medi tation on the W ord of God, the believer becomes more and more acquainted w ith the natu re and character of God, and thus sees more and more, besides His holiness and justice, what a kind, loving, gra cious, m ercifu l, m ighty, wise and faith fu l being H e is, and therefore in poverty, affliction o f body, be reavement in h is fam ily , difficulty in his service, w an t of a situation or employment, he w ill repose upon the a b ility and w illingness of God to help him . Th is he w ill do because he has not on ly learned from H is Word that H e is of alm igh ty power and in fin ite wisdom, but he has also seen instance upon instance in the H o ly Scriptures in wh ich H is a l m igh ty power and in fin ite wisdom have been actu a lly exercised in helping and delivering H is people. And the consideration of this, if G od h as b ecom e kn ow n to us through p ra y er an d m ed itation on H is own W ord, w ill lead us, in gen eral a t least, w ith a measure of con fidence to re ly upon H im . And thus the reading of the W ord of God, together w ith meditation on it, w ill be one special means to strengthen our faith . W ith referen ce to the growth of every grace of the Spirit, it is of the utmost importance th a t we seek to m ain tain an upright h eart and a good conscience. And, therefore, we do no t know ingly and hab itually indulge in those things which are con trary to the m ind o f God. T h is is also true w ith reference to th e grow th in fa ith . How can I possibly continue to have fa ith in God concerning any th ing if I am h ab itually grieving H im and seek to detract from the glory and honor of H im in whom I profess to trust, upon whom I pro fess to depend? A ll m y confidence towards God, all m y lean ing upon H im in the hour of tria l w ill be gone if I have a gu ilty conscience, and do not seek to put aw ay this guilty conscience bu t still continue to do the things which are con trary to the m ind of God. And if, in any particu lar instance, I cannot trust in God because of the
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