King's Business - 1947-07

Harry S. Truman, the only adequate prayer which he felt could express his desire was one recorded in the Bible—“Give me now wisdom and knowledge, that 1 may go out and come in before this people: for who can judge this thy people, that is so great?” (2 Chron. 1:10). Judge for yourself if some of the greatest minds that America has ever produced do not constitute a united chorus in ascribing honor and praise to the Bible as the greatest, grandest and most valuable book of all ages. ☆ Missionary Statesman Goes Home A NOTHER great missionary states- man, Dr. Robert Hall Glover, of Philadelphia, Pa., Home Director Emeritus of the China Inland Mis­ sion, went in to see the King on March 23, 1947. Dr. Glover was bom in Quebec in 1871, and at the age of 14 heard the call to the foreign field. He then prepared himself for foreign mis­ sionary service, going to China in 1895. Along with other pioneers, he opened up the unreached interior and there wrought valiantly for God. Succeeding to positions of greater and greater responsibility, he jour­ neyed over 100,000 miles through world mission fields. In 1930, Dr. Glover became Home Director of the China Inland Mission. Dr. Glover was also known and loved because of the work of his pen. His volume, The Progress of World-Wide Missions, is used as a textbook in many Bible institutes and seminaries. Dr. Glover was well known at the Bible Institute of Los Angeles, and wrote many interesting articles for The King’s Business. We bow with others in grateful thanksgiving to God for the privilege of knowing this man, so thoroughly humble, yet such a spiritual giant. ☆ “Come Ye Yourselves Apart . . . And Rest a While” rpHESE words were the Lord’s in- -*■ vltation to His disciples whose lives, during those three and one-half years of ministry, were very busy. Because the Lord so graciously heal­ ed the sick and comforted the sor­ rowing, He was greatly sought after by those who desired His minister­ ing touch. So it was that in many cases they had no leisure, no, not so much as even to eat in peace. There were always crowds, people

with questions, parents with prob­ lems and children with needs. Of course we hear no word of censure from our precious Lord. He was the Good Shepherd who had come for the express purpose of caring for the lambs and sheep. But the dis­ ciples were in danger of becoming acrimonious and critical. Too, busy life was bringing the inevitable hypertension, and attendant evils. So the Lord said to them, "Come ye yourselves apart . . . and rest a while,” and the twelve went into a place, away from the crowds where they themselves might sit at thq Lord’s feet, and drink in the precious truth as from an inexhaustible fountain. These too are days of stress, and the “jitters” which have afflicted the world will also affect God’s peo­ ple, if we allow them to do so. It is a good thing for Christians to follow the example of the disciples to go apart and rest a while. This very naturally leads us to say that the Bible Institute of Los Angeles is sponsoring a Biola Bible Conference at beautiful Mount Her- mon Conference Grounds in Central California. This is a very choice spot, located deep in the heart of the tall redwood country near Santa Cruz, California. The Conference days are from Sunday, August 24, to and in­ cluding Labor Day, September 1. The Conference speakers include Dr. W il­ liam Evans, Dr. J. Vernon McGee, Dr. Harry Rimmer and Dr. Louis T. Tal­ bot. Music will be in charge of Dr. Herbert Tovey. All inquiries regarding accommo­ dations should be directed to Rev. Cyrus N. Nelson, c/o Mount Hermon Conference Association, Mount Her­ mon, California. All other inquiries should be directed to the Conference Director, Dr. William Orr, 558 S. Hope St., Los Angeles 13, California. McLean, died recently at the age of sixty. She had been a prominent figure in Washington society fot many years. The priceless diamond weighing 44% karats and valued at $2,000,000, was her most cherished possession. Almost a fortune had been spent in preserving and guard­ ing this gem which was coveted by thousands. Now Mrs. McLean is gone and the jewel is still here, for even 44% karat diamonds cannot be car­ ried with us out of this life. Only the precious gems of unselfish, sacrifical, effectual service for Christ can survive the gates of death. PAGE FIVE ☆ Diamond rpHE OWNER of the fabulous Hope Diamond, Mrs. Evalyn Walsh

ume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands.” Daniel Webster affirmed: “If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering and to success; but if we and our posterity neglect its in­ structions and authority, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us and bury all our glory in profound obscurity. The Bible is the Book of all others for lawyers as well as divines, and I pity the man who cannot find in it a rich supply of thought and rule of con­ duct. I believe Jesus Christ to be the Son of God. The miracles which He wrought establish in my mind His personal authority and r e n d e r it proper for me to believe what He asserts.” • William Jennings Bryan stated: "Wherever the moral standard is be­ ing lifted up; wherever life is be­ coming larger in the v i s i o n that directs it and richer in its fruitage, the improvement is traceable to the Bible and to the influence of the God and Christ of whom the Bible tells . . . To the doubts and ‘I do not knows’ of the a g n o s t i c , the Christian, Bible in hand, answers: I believe.’ ” Theodore Roosevelt wrote: “Sad, patient, kindly Lincoln, who after bearing upon his weary shoulders for four years a greater burden than that borne by any other man of the 19th century, laid down his life for the people whom, living, he had served so well—built up his entire reading upon his early study of the Bible—he mastered it so that he be­ came almost ‘a man of one Book.’ ” Theodore Roosevelt also asserted: “We plead for a closer and wider and deeper study of the Bible, so that our people may be in fact as well as in theory ‘doers of the word and not hearers only.’ ” Woodrow Wilson testified: “The man whose faith is rooted in the Bible knows that reform cannot be stayed; that the finger of God that moves upon the face of the nations is against every man that plots the nation’s downfall or the people’s de­ ceit; that these men are simply groping and staggering in their ignorance to a fearful day of judg­ ment; and that whether one genera­ tion witnesses it or not, the glad day of revelation and of freedom will come in which men will sing of the coming of the Lord in His glory, and all those w ill be forgotten— those little, scheming, contemptible creatures that forgot the image of God and tried to frame men accord­ ing to the image of the evil one.” And who does not recall the fact that when Franklin D. Roosevelt died and the presidency of the U. S. A. fell “like a load of hay” on JULY, 1947

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