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PAID IN FULL How a faithful friend of the Institute is helping us to meet the expenses of our spring term. Says H. C. Hunt, veteran field representative of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles: “This looks a little like real money, and may be better than some, but it helps to convey an important truth. “This friend took out a Biola ‘Go Forward’ pledge about 12 months ago, expecting to pay up the $ 6 6 .0 0 in full in 33 months. Now when told how pressing are our needs, she kindly pays ahead and sends the last $10 .0 0 to cover the five monthly pledge coupons that remain. “Are there others who might rejoice our hearts by doing likewise ?”
T H E spring term is always the most difficult period of the school y ear, financially, at the B ible Institute of Los A ngeles. Christm as, the great donation period of the y ear, is in the past. T h e Institute, which depends en tirely upon freew ill offerings, always finds it a serious p ro b lem to m eet its expenses during the spring. O f course, we know that our friends do n o t realize this fact. T h ey do not know that ten dollars given in Ju n e m ean m ore in en cou ragem en t to the Institute than double th at am ount at Christm as. The Biola Financial Freedom Certifi cate, photograph of which is shown on this page, illustrates the simplest and eas iest plan ever devised for enabling the friends of the Bible Institute of Los An geles to make contributions to its work and to aid in the free training of the hun dreds of young people now attending its classes. Simplicity of the Pledge Plan In ord er to m ake th e plan very clear and simple to understand, w e have a r ranged th a t any one can p articip ate who will observe th e conditions below , p ro vided cash donations a re planned. (M ethods of m aking oth er than cash do nations w ill be described fully on req u est.) A Fin an cial Freedom C ertificate will be granted to each donor who m akes any single paym ent o r series of paym ents of $ 33.00 o r m ore paying m onthly the sum of $ 1.00 or m ore (p refera b ly in multiples of $ 1 . 00 ) each m onth during th e pledge period. O f cou rse paym ents of other am ounts a re accepted . Your Part W e hope you w ill respond today, send ing us w ith the accom pan ying coupon the am ount of you r first paym ent, stating briefly at w hat intervals you w ish to
under United States laws— but one of the “T reasu ry of H eaven“ notes (w ith which most C hristians a re fam iliar) w here the real $ 10.00 bill could have been placed. In telling of the help th e kindness of this donor has brought, it is not th e wish of the Institute to em barrass any friends who may be finding it a real stru ggle to m eet th eir m onthly pledge paym ents. Both kinds of support are needed— the regular, consistent payments as well as the special gifts for times of emergency. And for every friend who recognizes the school’s need, the Institute is deeply grateful to God. issued for gifts not conform ing to this schedule. A bove all, we ask y ou r p rayers that God m ay be glorified in a m ighty deliv era n ce of this Institute. Y ou will receiv e: For $ 1.00 mo., a $ 33.00 Certificate i t 2 . 0 0 i t “ 66.00 t i t i 3.00 i t “ 99.00 * * i t 5.00 t i “ 165.00 ii i t 10.00 ii “ 330.00 a 15.00 B “ 495 .00 a 20.00 a “ 660.00 a 25.00 a “ 825.00 a 50.00 t t “ 1650.00 i t
T h e friend whose certificate is pictured above had been paying ahead on her $ 66.00 pledge as she becam e able to do so. T h en when H . C . Hunt, one of our field representatives, explained the im m ediate need for funds for th e Institute, this donor promptly offered to pay up the full balan ce due on her “Go F o r w ard“ Cam paign pledge, w hich happened to be a b alan ce of $ 1 0 .0 0 . T h is paid her certificate in full. B elieving that others of our well w ishers would be interested in this story, we had the certificate photographed, and we laid, not a real bill— for th at can not be photographed m ake you r succeed ing paym ents, and we will send you a C ertificate. C hu rches, Sunday-school classes, Bible classes, p ra y er groups, and ladies’ aid societies a re invited to oooperate, and if you will send us an estim ate of how m uch you think can b e paid through such a group, w e will issue a B lan k et C ertifi cate (w h ich is not a pledge, but an esti m ate) w hich th e m em bers m ay co llec tively provide. Schedule of Certificates No Financial Freedom Certificate w i$ be issued for less than $ 3 3 .0 0 . T h e table a t the right shows the m onthly paym ents and p a r values on our nine series of C ertificates. Sp ecial C ertificates will be THE BIBLE INSTITUTE 558 South Hope Street
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“Next Fall May Be Too Late” • In the welter of a world gone mad. of nation rising against nation, of the terror that stalks in the night, of the arrow that flieth by day, of pestil ence, of destruction, of the elements in commotion, is there not a warning in the stark realism of these few senténees taken from a letter recently sent us: “I was going to send the money this fall; but the Lord said. Send it now; next fall may be too late. Wouldn't it be won derful if He came this Feast of the Trumpets, the ingathering of the Harvest! God does all things in order." • And here is something for the earnest child of God to think about. What and if He should come at the time of the blowing of trumpets on the first day of the Month Tishri? What and if you were then suddenly caught up to be with Him? Do you not think it would please Him won derfully that you should now have your part in a testimony that warns Israel of the wrath to come? And do you know a better way to please Him than to snatch a few brands from the burning, a few Jewish souls that will be your trophies when at last you lay your burden down and meet Him face to face? • The time is short. That is why we keep reminding you of the privilege of sharing with Him in His yearning over the lost sheep of the House of Israel; and that is why so many of the Lord's choicest saints are count ing it a joy to fellowship with us in our God-given task of these last days. Perhaps if you will make it a matter of earnest prayer. He will lead you also to become a burden bearer with us; and from experience we can assure you it will be a happy day for you. AMERICAN BOARD OF MISSIONS TO THE JEW S, INC. 31 Throop Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y . Dear Friends: Gladly do I enclose $----........ my gift for Israel’s salvation, “before it is too late.” Name...:.. ......-......—..— ...................... ..... -.......... — Address..... .................. ......... City .................................................. State ..~.~.,~..—
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Number 6
June, 1939
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Around the King’s Table— Editorial .............. -—......—- ...... -.........212 Views and Reviews of Current News— Dan Gilbert .............................213 What I Saw in War-torn China— R obert H all Glover ........................ -214 Daniel’s Prophecy of the Seventy Weeks— A lva J . McClain ................216 What Held Him There?— W illis R . H otchkiss....——...: .............. -....... 2 l9 Broken Life Line^-A Story— Paul Hutchens..... .......................||...........221 Junior King’s¡ Business— Martha S. H ooker ......—................ —.............223 International Lesson Commentary.—........... — ,.¿— '—— 225 Notes on Christian Endeavor— Mary G. Goodner ..............-----.......... --239 Bible Institute Family Circle............... .—............. ...................................... 243 Missions and Bible Conferences...-....,..-—- —,.......................... -............. 244 Our Literature Table.................... . ....................... ........................................ 247
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Around the King's Table E D I T O R I A L
Missions or Munitions Munitions have become the golden calf of the totalitarian section of our interna tional life. Munitions are the voracious idol of national ambition into which millions and billions are being fed. The forgotten word in the vocabulary of the world is "missions.” The missionary en terprise is paid the respect of a patronizing reverence. But aside from this, it is given scant attention by the world. Yet the hope of the world is unquestionably in missions. The race for world supremacy is undoubt edly between munitions and missions. Painful though the reminder may seem, the attention of the church needs to be di rected to its delinquency concerning the missionary program laid down for it by Jesus Christ. The mad race of the arma ment makers puts shame upon the Christian church for its lethargy and indifference in prosecuting the cause of winning men to Christ by an adequate preaching of the gospel in all the world. If the church worked at missions as zealously as the na tions work at munitions, we could evangel ize the world in our present generation. Certainly the cause of missions is more urgent to the peace of the world than are munitions. In fact, if the cause of missions were pressed to the degree of zeal that it merits, munitions would no longer be found necessary for either war or peace. If Christ reigned in the hearts of the nations, peace would be upon their battlefields. Of course, the question will be asked sooner or later, whether missions are not more urgently needed in Europe them in Africa. Europe is a nationalistic madhouse. It is an armed camp. Nations are waiting for the proper "excuse" to spring at neigh bor throats. But an analysis of the situation reveals an interesting fact. The present ag gressor nations are those where Christianity is either completely repudiated or where it is only a cloak of national respectability. Germany’s militarism was born out of the neopaganism and the new Germanic religion which relates her to the gods of force and hate. She needs another Luther. The church faces one of the greatest chal lenges of her career. Her mission is mis sions. The open door of unprecedented opportunity bids her to leave her content ments and her ease and to strike out upon the highway of world-wide evangelism. Missionary giving must no longer be the "beggar’s portion” of church finance. We cannot save the world on church "left overs.” Missions must become the church’s “forethought” and no longer remain her "afterthought.” Missions must be the new incentive not only to save the world but also to save the church. —R oy L. L aurin . Munitions are the fruit of hate. Missions are the fruit of love.
specifically instructed in the matter of his association with neighbor nations. He was instructed on the basis of a very rigid prin ciple. It was on this wise; "When the Lord thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee . . . And when the Lord thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor show mercy unto them: Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daugh ter shalt thou take unto thy son. For they will turn aw ay thy son from follow ing me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of the Lord be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly. But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and bum their graven images with fire. For thou art a holy people unto the Lord thy God: the Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a spe cial people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of thé earth” (Deut. 7:1-6). In Jesus Christ’s dealing with the prob lem of toleration, we read of this incident: “And John answered him, saying, Master, we saw one casting out devils in thy name, and he followeth not us; and we forbade him, because he followeth not us. But Jesus said, Forbid him not: for there is no man which shall do a miracle in my name, that can lightly speak evil of me” (Mk. 9:38, 39). But this attitude on the part of Jesus does not give credential for sympathy with all kinds or just any kind of religious enter prise. It probably arose out of a party spirit on the part of the disciples. It was a matter of jealousy.. Jesus undoubtedly knew the in dividual involved and could indorse his activity. W e have enough evidence to know that Jesus would never tolerate com promising the truth. He maintained a rigid defense of the Scriptures. He never left men with the latitude of private opinion. He said, “Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled” (Matt. 5:18). The Lord Jesus Christ was decidedly intol erant with sin, hypocrisy, compromise, apostasy, and tampering with the Scrip tures. Paul expressed himself on another phase of this question in writing to the Gala tians: "But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed" (Gal. 1:8). Here the questions of departure and error and apostasy were involved. Though Paul could tolerate a selfish preaching of Christ,
B IO LA RAD IO VE SP ER S KMTR— 570 Kilocycles 4:00 to 4:30 P.M. Dally, Monday through Friday A delightful half-hour of music, reading, singing, and Scripture meditation presented by the stu dents and faculty of the Bible In stitute of Los Angeles. • M O R N IN G BROADCASTS Hear Louis T. Talbot, Roy L. Laurin, and others in Bible-centered, inspiring messages. V KMPC— 710 Kilocycles 11:00 to 11:30 A.M. Daily, Tuesday through Saturday P R A Y FOR T H E S E B R O A D C A S T S What Is Tolerance? In this day of religious and political ideologies, the old question of tolerance comes to the, fore. W e are seeing senti ment regimented and tolerance organized by national propaganda. Protestant, Cath olic, and Jew are urged to join hands in a country-wide crusade for tolerance. The question of toleration is being intensified further on a broad and national scale with the appearance of political bands and va rious politically minded movements besides the old and new religious orders. There is a place where tolerance becomes compromise, and we must never allow broad feelings to rob us of deep convictions. There is an obligation to keep "the faith” and to "earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.” But there is a way to contend without being contentious, just as it is possible to disagree without being disagreeable. W e should be as undeviating from the body and content and the letter of truth as the Lord Jesus Christ was, but at the same time just as careful as He was in exemplifying the first fundamental of the Christian life, which is love. For our purpose, any adequate answer to the question, “What is tolerance?” must take into account the Christian’s double citizenship. He is a citizen of both earth and heaven. He has but one standard of faith as well as practice—the Word of God. The Christian’s Bible should be his guide when he is confronted with the reli gious departures of today. He should be aware that in the writings of men, beautiful phraseology may cover a multitude of er rors. He must not be moved by diction; he must be guided by principle. T o see what divine principle applies in the case of tolerance, we turn first to the Old Testament. There we find the Israelite
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The Christian can welcome every effort to prevent bitterness between individuals or religious groups. But his tolerance must never extend to approving false ideas. He can never have true fellowship with those who deny either the Word of God or the Person and redeeming work of the Son of God.—R oy L. L aurin .
so long as Christ was preached (Phil. 1: 15-18), he would not tolerate a departure from the truths o f the gospel. Here Paul was violently intolerant. He was adamant. He was generously liberal in his opinion about methods and manners, but very rigid and undeviating about matters of principle and the content of the message.
Views and Reviews of Current News By D AN GILBERT Washington, D.C., and San Diego, California
FLOP: Although on the surface a success, in so far as a formal accord has been ne gotiated, the frantic effort of Great Britain to line up Soviet Russia in a "stop Hitler" front is already being recognized as fore doomed to ultimate failure. Few observers think Stalin sincere; most of them look for an early “falling through” of the unstable scheme for a Russo-Franco-British tie-up. The London correspondent of Ken maga zine reports, despite the Soviet commitment to stand with Britain against Germany. “There are dark hints that the Russians are really in cahoots with Berlin, through the Red Army and the Reichs- wehr officers, and that any British se crets which are given the Russians in connection with a military alliance would be handed over to Germany.” In England there is felt the same reluctance as Russia feels to the Soviet-British alli ance: "There is still the most important kind of opposition to any real cooperation with the Russians—there will be a tempta tion to the last to renege on whatever kind of arrangement has to be concluded." Time magazine says that, in dickering with Britain and France, Stalin "has alter natives up his sleeve . . . One of these al ternatives has become the nightmare of western diplomacy: the growing possibility o f a Hitler~Stalin alliance." In a recently published book entitled The End o f Economic Man, Peter F. Drucker, famed Austrian economist now residing in America, expresses the view that Russia "has cleared the decks” for a Soviet-Ger man accord, and that Germany will soon be ready for it. He contends, “From every angle the alliance between Germany and Russia seems to be almost unavoidable. Only a war within the very near future could prevent it—1940 might perhaps be considered the latest date.” ALL EYES ABROAD: "W e have about reversed our traditional policy of ‘America First' to make it read ‘America Last,’ ” bitter ly commented a disgusted Senator recently as he observed that our own pressing prob lems are waxing worse and worse, while endless debate revolves around the nature and degree of our meddling in the affairs of foreign nations. It is not clear exactly when Congress will adjourn, but whenever the Congress men go home, they are certain to leave be hind virtually all of the domestic problems
which engaged their attention as they con vened last January. What moves they have made, and are making, toward the solution of our problems here at home have been makeshift, “stop-gap," fumbling, temporary, and inadequate. The great "needs of the hour” remain. Among these are: fair and equitable re vision of the Labor Relations or Wagner Act, sweeping adjustment of our lop-sided and burdensome tax structure, a determined effort in the direction of a balanced budget, a new and adequate agricultural set-up, amendment of the immigration and deporta tion laws to block loopholes, a new ap proach to the whole “relief problem,” and positive legislation to promote recovery. These problems have been largely ig nored, while "foreign policy" commands central attention. But with all the debate and rival proposals, it is unlikely that any definite formulation of foreign policy will result. It is not likely that the Neutrality Law will be changed to fit the Administra tion’s specifications. Our foreign policy will remain in a rather undefined and cha otic state, with the President continuing to push vigorously in one direction and Con gress continuing to hesitate. All Americans are acutely concerned about the European situation. But there seems little evidence that positive good is accomplished by permitting our concern over foreign affairs to distract us from the task of setting our own house in order. As one Representative has put it, “W e are still supposed to be the Congress of the United States, not that of the League of Nations.” NEW DEAL COURT CONTROL: De spite the failure of the attempt to "pack” the Supreme Court, the New Deal charac ter is firmly stamped on the federal judici ary. The addition of Mr. Justice Douglas to the Supreme Court meant that four of the nine judges are Roosevelt appointees. Few presidents have named so many judges to the federal bench. Out of a total of 249 judges now sitting in all United States courts, 111—nearly half—were named by President Roosevelt. Even if he retires from office at the con clusion of. his second term, it is more than likely that he will have had the opportu nity of appointing a clear majority of the federal judges. The President has appoint ed already 36 out of the 58 Circuit judges and 70 out of 182 District judges. Since he
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BRITISH ROYALTY EN ROUTE TO C A N A D A Aboard the liner "Empress of Australia" are pictured King George VI and Queen Elizabeth as they made their historic journey to Canada. This first North American visit of a crowned ruler of the British Commonwealth has im pressed many persons with the importance of the Western Hemisphere in British policy. Students of Bible prophecy are watching closely the European threat to London, once within the bounds of the ancient Roman Empire. has consistently followed his stated policy of appointing relatively young men to the federal judiciary, it is apparent that his ap pointees will overshadow the federal courts for probably the next two decades. Although it now seems to have been a rash and unnecessary move, the attempt to enlarge the Supreme Court was the most decisive act of this Administration. Ob servers can trace the fall of the New Deal in public favor to that fatal misstep. The blocking of key New Deal measures in Con gress could not have been effected had not public opinion been extensively alienated by the Court-pack plan, which forced a turning point in the whole course of “lib eralism” in America. It caused the setting in of the slow, but increasing, “swing to con servatism," now so apparent on all sides. RISING TIDE OF JUVENILE DELIN QUENCY: As should be well known to all students of our government, the city of Washington, District of Columbia, is di rectly under the control of Congress. In 1936, two committees of the House of Rep resentatives made a thorough investigation of the "teaching of communism in the pub lic schools of Washington, D.C.” Their investigation revealed that, according to the chairman of one of the committees, Mr. Blanton of Texas, "books advocating im- [Continued on page 247]
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Whangpoo River. Center: In the midst of these awful surroundings the ministry of love is carried on. Courtesy, "China's Millions."
Left: All that remains of a peaceful home after the war-birds have passed. Right: Devasta tion of hundreds of boats jammed in the
What I Saw in War-torn China By ROBERT HALL GLOVER * Philadelphia, Pa.
M Y RECENT journey to China was not my first, but my fifth. I visited China not as a newcomer but as one who previously had lived and labored there for many years, and had traveled in almost every part of the country. My stay this time was brief, and limited to the coast al region because of the war's making in land travel inadvisable. The picture I beheld in China was at once dark and bright, so dark as to be heart breaking, so bright as to be heart-rejoicing. I know this statement is paradoxical, but what follows will explain. I. The Dark Side I saw war, with all its ghastly horrors. No words can describe adequately the dev astation and destruction, the suffering and death which the Japanese invasion has left in its wake. I gazed upon what had been a great and populous city—the native sec tion of Shanghai—but what was now a wide expanse of desolate ruins. Here and there could be seen pitiable survivors searching for some mark of their former homes—but in vain. One scarcely could conceive of any number of bombs and shells as being able to effect such utter desolation. The material loss in destruction of prop erty soars into dimensions beyond any fig ures to express. Property losses in the city of Nanking alone were estimated at $246,- 000,000 in Chinese currency. And Nanking is only one of a score of large cities totally or partially destroyed, not to mention hun-
as those of several other societies, have been completely destroyed, and the plant of the Kiangwan Seminary for young women, a high-grade institution both intellectually and spiritually, has been badly damaged. At Kiangyin, on the lower Yangtze, six days after the Japanese forces had captured the city and when all military resistance had ceased, the entire plant of the Southern Presbyterian Mission, consisting of seven teen good buildings, was deliberately bombed and reduced to ruins. This was the oldest station, and the largest and best equipped, of that Mission, and the loss is irreparable. Thus far thirty-four mission hospitals have been victimized, ten of them destroyed, and the rest damaged, looted, closed, or appropriated by the invaders. The China Inland Mission in common with other missions has suffered considerable loss through the destruction and damage of its properties on a number of stations. There is much more that I could tell of what I saw and learned pertaining to the dark side of the picture, instances of horrid cruelty and crime, of bestial behavior on the part of an unrestrained soldiery, and of harsh and arrogant treatment of the popu lace in areas at present controlled by the invading forces. Bat I prefer to say no more just now about this feature, but to turn to the brighter aspect of the situation. II. The Bright Side I found God still in China, and I saw glorious evidences of His working in spite of the war, yes, and actually by means of the war as well. 1. I saw the missionaries still there. The missionaries had been, given the op-
dreds of smaller towns and countless villag es. All along the 120 miles of rail journey I took from Shanghai to Hangchow were to be seen the charred remains of burned hamlets, as well as the. leafless stumps of tens of thousands of mulberry trees wan tonly cut down, entailing the ruin of the extensive silk industry of that region. Be tween two and three million people fled pell-mell from the inferno into which burst ing shells and incendiary bombs turned the native city of Shanghai. Great numbers died during the flight—from wounds, shock, disease, exhaustion. In the first twelve months of war, 79,000 dead bodies were picked up by the municipal police on the streets of Shanghai’s International Settle ment, while 62,000 little children under five years of age died in the refugee camps of that metropolis. The “death trucks” were still making their daily rounds when I was there. Up to the present, fully one-and-a-half million Chinese soldiers and civilians have been killed by the Japanese forces. A large proportion of these perished not within the fighting areas but in inland towns and vil lages far removed from the battlefields, and through the incessant raids of bombing planes cruising in every direction and mercilessly raining wholesale death upon defenseless communities. The total number of homeless and destitute war refugees is estimated to be as high as 60,000,000. All this constitutes a tragedy which has scarce ly a parallel in human history, and the ap palling proportions of which the Western world has not begun to comprehend. Have mission properties been spared from destruction and damage? No, indeed. The fine buildings and equipment of the well- known Bethel Mission at Shanghai, as well
*Home Director for North America, China Inland Mission.
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portunity of withdrawing for their own safety, but they Had deliberately chosen to remain, despite the dangers, discomforts, and hardships involved, and to give them selves unstintingly to the work of caring for the sick and wounded, comforting the dying and bereaved, feeding the hungry, and sheltering the homeless and destitute. And this sacrificial ministry of love and mercy has served as a practical demonstra tion of the gospel and has done more than any amount of mere preaching to convince the Chinese of the genuineness and power of Christianity. Multitudes have been pro foundly impressed, and their distrust and prejudice toward the missionary and his message have given place to esteem, confi dence, and even affection. The bearing of this attitude upon future missionary oppor tunity and results cannot well be overesti mated. 2. 1 saw and heard evidences o f God’s protecting hand. Throughout these twenty- one months of fierce fighting, hundreds of missionaries of the China Inland Mission have been exposed to imminent danger from bombs, shells, and bullets which have wrought fearful destruction and death all around them. And yet not a single mission ary has been killed, or even wounded, or has contracted any of the diseases—small pox, dysentery, typhus, and others—which have been so prevalent in the refugee camps and elsewhere. I heard thrilling recitals of hairbreadth escapes and wonderful deliver ances from dangers and desperate situa tions of various kinds, and for these there can be no satisfactory explanation except the direct and miraculous intervention of God in behalf of His servants. What an impressive and God-glorifying testimony such a record furnishes! 3. I saw and heard o f the mighty work ing o f God’s grace in the Chinese Christians. They have had their full share of the awful afflictions and losses which this cruel war has brought upon the nation. Very many of them have been rendered homeless and destitute, have been bereft of loved ones, have gone through sufferings and trials such as Christians in Western lands have never known. Yet their faith has not failed, but on the contrary has been purified and strengthened. Driven to God as never be fore for comfort and succor, they have found Him their "refuge and strength, a
very present help in trouble.” He has re vealed Himself to them in the fiery furnace, and their spirits have been sustained and en riched. Wrote one missionary after visiting the little flock of believers at an outstation where their chapel had been destroyed, their Bibles and hymn books seized and burned, and they themselves cruelly har assed by depraved soldiers and exposed to dangers from marauding bands of outlaws: “All these troubles and fears seemed quite forgotten while we gathered for worship. The singing of the hymns was joyous, and attention to the mes sage W eis perfect, while the prayers lift ed one into the very Holy of Holies. Eighteen months had passed since this group of believers, fifty in number, had last sat at the Table of the Lord. To worship with such dear, simple-hearted people was a benediction." Reports came from many places of how Christians had carried on the church serv ices without any interruption, in the face of threats and opposition and at no little risk to their personal safety. Missionary after missionary told of all-day gatherings for prayer, arranged and held by Chinese churches or groups, where not a word of bitterness or hatred toward the ruthless op pressors was heard, but there was an out pouring of hearts in humble confession of personal and national sins, and in fervent pleading for God’s forgiveness and for His help and deliverance for their afflicted country. Truly a new and noble chapter of church history is being unconsciously con tributed by the saints of the Lord in China at this time of sore tribulation, and I came away with a stronger assurance than ever before that if every missionary should be driven out of China never to return, the church of the living God would still remain there, firmly planted and established, and destined to grow intensively and extensive ly- 4. 1 saw much o f the work o f relief for war refugees. In Shanghai I visited camp after camp, aggregating even at that time •—more than a year after the fall of the sur rounding area to the Japanese—upwards of 100,000 refugees wholly dependent upon public relief. Many forms of relief work were in evidence. Besides the huge general
refugee camps, there were special hospitals for tubercular patients, lepers, crippled sol diers, and maternity cases. There were also Homes for orphan boys and girls, for babies and wee tots, industrial camps for teaching useful crafts and trades, and so on. Never have I witnessed a finer exhibition of true Christian philanthropy than during my stay in that great, Congested metropolis of Shanghai. The Christian world has good reason to be proud of the missionaries, Chinese Christians, and other public-spirit ed and generous souls who organized and have carried on efficiently and fruitfully this noble work, and on this gigantic scale. Nor has relief work of this kind been con fined to Shanghai; it has been duplicated on a smaller scale in many other large centers, while practically every mission station throughout the war area has been converted for the time into a refugee and relief center for war victims. 5. / saw a wonderful new gospel oppor tunity. The relief work just mentioned had not only material but also spiritual ends in view. Every Christian-controlled refugee camp had a large and attractive chapel where several times a day the gospel was preached to attentive crowds. This preach ing was supplemented by personal work, gospel posters, and Scripture and tract dis tribution. Thus great numbers of Chinese have had the opportunity of hearing the Message of Salvation under the most fa vorable conditions, some of them for the first time in their lives. Moreover, the suf ferings and sorrows of this war period have chastened and humbled many hearts, and have made them more open to the gospel than ever before, with the happy result that thousands have accepted the Saviour. It is a glorious fact that more souls have been won to Christ in China during the past year of war than in any previous year since missionary work was begun. Reports of baptisms in the China Inland Mission during 1938 are not yet all in hand, but there are indications that the total number may be the largest of all the years of the Mission’s long history. What a glory to the Lord and a cause for thanksgiving is this! 6. I saw the brave spirit o f a great na tion. I wonder whether any other nation in [Continued on page 246]
The ruins of Henghsien, Chekiang. (Left) Remains of a Christian hospital. (Center) Three little tots rescued from fire and sword. (Right) All that is left of the China Inland Mission chapel at Hanghsien. Courtesy, "China's Millions."
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the Seventy Weeks* Daniel's Prophecy of
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II. THE PARENTHESIS OF TIME BETWEEN THE SIXTY-NINTH By A LV A J. M cC LA IN Akron, Ohio
in the future. At first sight, to those not familiar with certain characteristics of Messianic prophecy, this will seem a very startling view. And some have earnestly denounced it as a violent expedient of inter pretation. But there are plenty of convinc ing reasons for holding this view. In fact, the deeper one pushes into the prophetic Word, the greater in number and impor tance do these evidences appear. A Clue in the Text 1. Such a gap in time before the 70th week is implied by the most natural reading o f the prophecy. This seems so clear to me today that it is hard to understand how along with many others I could have missed the point so long. But doubtless, like the average English reader, I came to the pas sage with what the late M. G. Kyle used to call “our Anglo-Saxon passion for a con tinuous chronology,” a thing in which the Oriental mind was not greatly interested. It is quite possible that no one would ever have thought of making the last “one week" continuous with the first 69 weeks had it not been for the language of verse 24 where we read that "seventy weeks are determined.” And having read this expression “ seventy weeks,” we at once jumped to the conclu sion that all seventy were continuous, and then carried this erroneous impression throughout the reading of the rest of the prophecy. But let the student now read carefully the analysis of the “weeks” in verses 25 to 27, forgetting if possible the expression of verse 24, and notice the order of events. First, in verse 25 we have a period of 69 weeks ending with a definite historical event, the appearance of Messiah the Prince. Then, "after” these 69 weeks come two other events, the death of Messiah and the destruction of the city (v. 26). And after these two events we come to the final "one week” in verse 27. If we follow the order of the record strictly, both the death of Messiah and the destruction of Jerusalem are placed between the 69th and 70th weeks of the prophecy. This leads directly to a second important argument. The Gap in History 2. A gap in time between the last two weeks is demanded by the historical fulfill ment o f the two predicted events o f verse 26. These events were the death of Messiah and the destruction of Jerusalem, and by the prophecy both of them are placed “after,” not within, the 69 weeks. Now it is a well-known fact of history that A.D. 70 was the time Titus the Roman destroyed the city of Jerusalem and its sanctuary in one of the most frightful sieges of all time. And since it is certain that the first 69 weeks came to an end not later than A.D. 32, the
[The present discussion by the President o f Grace Theological Seminary carries for ward for K ing ’ s B usiness readers a treat ment o f a prophecy that is basic for under standing the purpose o f G od for the present age. T he next installment in this series is scheduled to appear in an early issue. —E ditor .] I N THE earlier articles dealing with the great prophecy of Daniel 9:24-27, which appeared in the preceding two issues of T he K ing ’ s B usiness , the period of the first Sixty-Nine Weeks was discussed. And we found first, that the "weeks" of the prophecy were weeks or “sevens” of years, not days; second, that the length of these prophetic years was 360 days; third, that the entire period of “weeks" began with the "commandment" to rebu ild Jerusalem, which was issued by Artaxerxes on March 14, 445 B.C. (Neh. 2:1-8); fourth, that from this date to the appearance of Messiah as the "Prince” of Israel would be exactly 69 weeks of years, or 483 years (Dan. 9:25); and fifth, that at the end of these 69 weeks of years, to the very day, April 6, 32 A.D., our Lord Jesus Christ rode up to Jerusalem on the “foal of an ass” in fulfillment of the well-known prediction of Zechariah (9 :9 ). Thus we have in past history a complete demonstration of the chronological exact ness of Daniel’s prophecy up to the 70th week. *All rights reserved.
Two Interpretations In the present article we turn our atten tion to this final “week” of the prophecy. And whereas in the interpretation of the first 69 weeks there is general agreement among devout scholars (except in minor details of chronology), the case is totally different when we come to the 70th week. Here the scholars split into two absolutely distinct schools of interpretation, so radi cally different that the results reach far into the field of New Testament eschatology. The one school holds to what I shall call the Continuous interpretation, and the other to the Gap interpretation. According to the Continuous view, the whole period of the Seventy Weeks is con tinuous and unbroken. There is no break anywhere. The 70th week follows the 69th without any gap in time. Regardless of minor differences, according to the Continu ous view the whole prophecy of the Seven ty Weeks has been fulfilled for over nine teen hundred years, and the future contains nothing comprehended within the scope of the prophecy. On the other hand, according to what I have called the Gap interpretation, the 70th week does not immediately follow the 69th week, but there is a great parenthesis of time between these two weeks which has already lasted for over nineteen hundred years, and therefore the 70th week still lies
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