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The Fourth Ml l w " i think the most 1 got out o f Stony Brook was the understand - ing o f the Bible through Mr. --------------- last year and your teaching this year. I have really received something from each chapel service whether it was daily chapel or Sunday School or vespers. I certainly hope that other boys will receive such a blessing from the School, if not better.** This sincere testimony to the value of Christian training at Stony Brook came voluntarily from a recent student. It is typical of other letters re ceived from alumni and their parents. These days of the world tumult have turned many thinking people back to fundamentals—both in education and in religion. Stony Brook empha sizes the traditional Three R’s—reading, ’riting, and Arithmetic—as fundamental to college prepara tion and to life itself. They are tool subjects essen tial to sending a boy to college able to speak, read, and write well, and to use and develop the vital reasoning powers demanded by the study of mathe matics. The “ Fourth R,” however, has always been Stony Brook’s special contribution. Christian edu cation and academic education at Stony Brook go hand in hand. Without the former, what impor tance has the latter? For what is ability without character? AChallengetoYou . . . a -v Send for the new Stony Brook catalog. ^ Read and study it carefully and prayer fully. Then write us for advice about your boy’s education. How about that friend’s boy? Or your neighbor’s boy? Address ^ j i o n y / i r o ok J c h o o l Please mention T hb K ing ’ s B usiness Frank E. Gaebelein, Litt.D., Headmaster, STONY BROOK • LONG ISLAND, N. Y. LILLENAS [ -H YM N B O O K S — i Inereftslng In favor everywhere. SONG BOOKS I lor all DEPARTMENTS of « 10 CHURCH I SEND for FREE CATALOGUE ' I LILLENAS PUBLISHING COMPANY The Best in Gospel Music” ■ Dopt. K. 2923 Troost Ave., Kansas City, Mo. B e s t W i s h e s FROM W. A. BROWN IN SOULS THIS SUMMER Use Gospel Tracts Make your vacation count for Christ. Distribute these vital messages of redemption wherever crowds gather: Bible conferences. World Fairs, Games, Parades, Trailer Camps. Start now. Send 25c for large sample package. F a ith , P ray er and T r a c t League Dept. KB, MUSKEGON HEIGHTS, MICHIGAN
JULY 30, 1939 THE AMBASSADOR 2 C orinthians 5:18-21 Meditation on the Lesson
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An earthly ambassador is Intrusted with the name and the honor, the power and the authority, of his country. Hence comes the weight of those words: "Now then we are ambassadors for Christ.” As His represen tative, each believer in the Lord Jesus is in trusted with a precious privilege and duty. As one whose citizenship is in heaven, he sojourns in a strange land carrying out the will of his Sovereign. He does not go in his own name: rather, he takes the name of Another, and when he bears that name be fore men, he has power to use it before God—even the name of our Lord Jesus Christ (John 14:13, 14). As His ambassadors, have we been faith ful to this great trust? Have we ministered in His name? Have we brought honor to it? Have we borne the word of reconciliation committed unto us? Have we gone forth in His power and authority (Matt. 28:18-20)? Have we truly represented Him? Perhaps, if we have failed, the reason is that we did not study well the Word com mitted unto us; we did not know our Sov ereign’s will. Or perhaps we did not keep the communications clear. Again, it may be that through carelessness of the feelings of those to whom we have been sent, we have lost their confidence. And when an ambas sador becomes, in the language of diploma cy, "persona non grata” (lit., a "person not pleasing”) in the place of his appointment, he has lost his influence. As we realize some of the tremendous possibilities in the message that we bring and the solemnity of the commission delivered unto us, we should be willing to suffer with Paul, even as “an ambassador in bonds,” if need be, knowing that we serve Him “who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords!” Helps for the Leader i A n E xa lted P osition When an earthly sovereign sends a vice roy to a distant province, it is understood that the viceroy advises as to the policy to be adopted, and that that advice is acted on, that he is at liberty to apply for troops and the other means needed for carrying out the policy of maintaining the dignity of the empire. If his policy be not approved of, he is recalled to make way for some one who better understands his sovereign’s de sires; as long as he is trusted, his advice is carried out. As God’s representative . . . redeemed man has by his prayers to deter mine the history of this earth. Man was created, and has now again been redeemed, to pray, and by his prayer to have domin ion.— A ndrew M u rra y .
M inding H is B u sin ess Once when I was working in India, I went to a place near Poona. On Saturday night when I entered the hotel dining room, I found seated at the same table with me a naval officer, an Infantry major and his wife, and a sergeant major and his wife. When th^ conversation started, the naval officer said: "Why don’t these missionaries stay at home and mind their own business? You can get all the converts you want at a rupee a head.” It was the time of the Armenian massa cres, and there were rumors that the British fleet might be ordered to Constantinople. I turned to the naval officer and said: "Sup pose you were ordered to take your battle ship to Constantinople tomorrow, and I would say, ‘Why don’t you stay here and mind your own business? There is no sense in your going to the Bosphorus.’ ” The man's eyes flashed fire as he said, “I would tell you to mind your own business; if we are ordered to go we must go, even if every ship is sunk and every sailor killed." I said, "Quite right, my friend, and I have marching orders from the divine Gov ernment to preach the gospel to every crea ture, and the primary question is whether I am going to obey the last command of my Lord.”— R o bert P. W ilder . and tie the various pictures to threads at tached to the cross. Place the cross and the pictures in a box and wrap as a gift.) Lesson: From the looks of the beautiful wrapping, this surprise package should con tain something very much worth while— and it does—a red cross, reminding us of the cross on which Christ died for our sins. “Is that all?" you ask. Christ is the greatest gift God could pos sibly give us. (Hold the cross above the edge of the box. The threads should be sufficiently long to allow the pictures to re main out of sight.) In Matthew 6:33, we read, “Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you." The Lord Jesus had been speaking about food and clothing and shelter. As I raise the cross, you will notice that pictures of bread, milk, meat, clothing, and a house are attached to it. (Vary the lengths of thread, so the pictures will come out consecutively.) Matthew 6:33 teaches us that if we seek Christ and His salvation first, such material things of life as we really need will be given to us. In 2 Chronicles 17, we are told about Jehoshaphat, a good king who lived in obedience to God, and we find that God kept His promise in supplying the necessary things of life. LESSON COMMENTARY [Continued from page 238]
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