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There have been Timothys before this Timothy of Pe king, and to one of them the Apostle Paul wrote twice. Here is what he said: ‘H old f a s t th e fo rm o f so und w o rd s w h ich th ou h a s t h ear d o f m e. **** T h a t g o o d th in g w h ic h th ou h a s t 'com m itted u n to th e e k eep b y th e H o ly G host . T h e th in g s w h ic h th o u h a st h eard o f m e com m it th o u to fa ith fu l m en w h o s h a ll be ab le to te a ch o th e r s a lso . **** Co n tin ue th o u in th e th in g s w h ich th ou h a st- h eard an d h a s b een As sured of , fo r th e tim e w ill com e w h en th e y w ill n o t endu re so und d o ctrin e, bu t s h a ll tu rn aw a y th e ir e a r s from th e tr u th . T ak e h eed u n to th y s e lf an d un to th e d o ctrin e. C on tin u e in th em , fo r in d o in g th is th ou s h a lt b o th sq v e th y s e lf an d th em th a t h ea r th e e .’ ” ( E x tr a c t fro m le tte r w r itte n to th e N o rth C h in a D a ily N ew s, O ct. 1, 1923, b y “A F rie n d o f C h in a.” ) , It would be far better for any believer, if be could not find a satisfactory place to bestow God’s money,' to put it in the furnace and burn it up, or east it into the sea; for.every penny paid to a preacher or pro fessor or worker, who does not stand four-square for the whole Bible, and
BEGGING BELIEVERS TO OPEN THE BAG Most of the Denominational Boards are beginning to feel the pinch which is being put upon their purse strings by some Christian people.. The Boards want the church to deliver the cash to meet the deficit, but many believers cannot believe that they will glorify God by promiscuous giving. They have a question mark about some schools and missionaries on the for eign field, and rightly so. They do not feel called upon to furnish funds to finance those who have one hand-out for their money, while with the other they are injecting the poison of Modernism into the veins of the people to whom they are supposed to minister. These believers know
for all the great funda mental facts Of the Bible, is a blow upon the heart of the. Lord. If necessary, demand a statement of belief from every such per son, and from eyery Board through whom your funds are admin istered, and then—if satisfactory—f o l l o w your gifts with your prayers and look for ward to seeing the re sults when you face the open book at the judg ment. A BLACK OUT LOOK “And if ye go to war in your land against the enemy that opprpsseth. you, then ye shall blow
they must answer to God for the use made of the money with which He has entrusted them, and are assert ing their rightful claim to know where their funds., are going, and to whom. Much of this money is very sacred. It has been set apart from their t i t h e s , which belong to God, and God’s condemna tion would follow its misuse. Other funds have been accumulated through self-sacrifice, gladly made for the Lord and His work, and why should they not demand a certifica tion of its proper use? But Why not trust
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an alarm w i th the trumpets and ye shall he remembered before the Lord your God, and ye shall be saved from your enemies.” Num. 10:9. Rev. Arthur H. Carter, Editor of “The Bible Witness,” England, who was one of the speakers at the World’s Fun damental Conference held in Ft. Worth, Texas, last spring, sends us an appeal for fellowship in prayer with the effort being made by himself and colleagues in England to stem the tide of Modernism there. He says* The Incoming of Modernism Means the Outgoing of Morals Since our return from the United States and Canada, we have been deeply impressed with the urgent necessity for increased activity against the inroads of Modernism. Amer ica today, it is said, faces the fact that twenty millions of her young people are without any religious instruction at all. The peril in England is just as great, and unless the Lord in His mercy is pleased to visit the great English-speaking peoples with revival we shall soon have entered (if we have not already done so) the blackest era in human history. The judgments of the Lord will fall, and His triumphant return is the alone hope and comfort of His people. But while He is pleased to tarry surely we may well utter the heart cry of the Psalmist, “Wilt thou revive us again; that thy people may rejoice in thee?” (Psa. 85:6)
the Boards ? Because they evade the issue and will not insure the investment of these funds. They ask, “ Are we not to be trusted?” and the reply comes, “ No, you cannot be trusted in view of the accumulated facts.” We have many times published facts concerning the schools in China, but here is a fresh one, just from the field, and from an authentic source: “Peking University, a Union Mission enterprise, is ap pealing for funds to the tune of a million dollars. Dr. Timothy Lew, dean of the Theological School (and, I may add in passing, representative in China of the Religious Education Association) in announcing the theological po sition which his department is to take, speaks of ‘the par- rot-like repetition of Set doctrine’; ‘the blind championship of the faith of other people’; ‘slavish acceptance and obedi ence to the deliberations of those who have lived before them’; ‘Our school is to become an efficient laboratory of the investigators and experimenters of truth. They are to build new standards, re-evaluate and reinterpret and accomplish that 'which is urgently needed today, re-state ment. Future generations should find in Peking School o f Theology a place where revelations are not the stories of by-gone days,’ and so on. 4
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