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social order and securing a permanent peace than they are about having re vivals and seeing individuals con verted. We haven’t had a revival in this church for almost nineteen years. Am .1 right in believing that man made programs never will bring one,, and that church members that Clamor for the things; of the world have very little power with God as intercessors?”
of our churches are letting down on the amusement question... At M---------, where there are a lot qf soldiers, the --------- sponsors d a n c e s on Sunday afternoon and evening. The argu ment given by my pastor is that we are living in a different day now, and thèse things are all right and are necessary. Many of our ministers are more concerned about building a new
DR. TALBOT'S QUESTION BOX ‘ [C on tinu ed from Page 51] ten days : be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown o f life.” These; words were written . to the church at Smyrna. That church, of course, was a literal chürch in Asia, and e x a c t l y what was prophesied happened there. But, in a n o t h e r sense, the letters to the churches, re corded in Révélation, have a mes sage also for the church today. We know that this is true because of the injunction: ■“He that hath an ear, let him hear” (Rev. 2:7,11, etc.). Thus when God wrote to the c h u r c h at Smyrna, He was giving a message to all of us. The “ten days” suggest a little while. This expression, “ a lit tle while,” is found in John 16 and also in Hebrews. How we should thank.God that, for us who are His children through faith in Jesus Christ, all sorrows and difficulties can be only for “ a little while” ! of this country—what an awful thing it is to lose a boy, what an emptiness t h e r e is in your heart and in your home, what a gnawing loneliness c o m e s over you . . . Well, God lost a boy; He lost him when Adam sinned and the fellowship w i t h God was broken. And all the heartbreak since then is traceable to sin." Not only in that message, but also in others delivered the same day, hun dreds of young people and older ones as well heard the voice of the Saviour calling to them, and answered by yielding their lives to Him. The sight was heart-warming. The Bible Insti tute of Los Angeles feels a deep sense of gratitude to God for having had a small part in the training, in 1924 to 1926, of His dynamic servant, Percy Crawford. Through his vast radio ministry heard around the World, he is the Lord’s messenger to “thousands of hearers. Listen to him S u n d a y afternoons at 4:30 p. m. (E. W. T.) over the Mutual Broadcasting System. Pray for him. Thank God for his sane, Scriptural emphasis upon the realities of sin and salvation. “Please send me five extra copies of the January issue,” a mother in Wisconsin, wrote. “I am especially in terested in the article, ‘Dear Soldier,’ as my boy is now in the service, and those are my sentiments. “It is heart-rending to see how some AROUND THE K ING ’S TABLE [C on tinu ed from Page 42] A New Social Order— Or an Oldtime Revival?
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