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¡deader l^eaction Young People's Articles For some tme I have planned writing about an article that appeared in your November issue entitled, “ Young People, God Has' the Answer!” I loaned my magazine to one of the girls in my office to read and she was so much impressed by that article that she requested the privilege of passing it along to many of the girls in her “ crowd.” Now this girl is not a Christian, and yet she could see the advisability o f letting God direct young people’s amusements. Others in her group were also impressed and they have all asked me to let them read my King’s Business each month. I am pray ing that God through this means may make an entrance into the lives o f these young girls and that they may learn to love Him, and give themselves to Him. I am grateful to Dr. Orr for those “ In formal Chats with Young People.” ' — M rs . R. B. R ichards Omaha, Nebr. I wish I could explain how we appre- ciate that subscription to The King’s Business. The articles about “ Dancing,” “ Movies,” “ Smoking,” “ Cards,” “ Pro fanity,” “ Girl’s Personal Appearance,” “ To Drink or Not to Drink,” certainly did sink in ! They showed both my hus band and me that slang was “ bad,” so we’ve tried to cut it right out of our speech. — M rs . L evi R utan Groton, New York. Dr. Talbot's Missionary Journey One of our co-workers here receives The King’s Business and so we have the joy of reading it. While our two chil dren— 6 and 7 years of age, were home for their three months’ vacation (they just returned to school a week ago) I read them Dr. Talbot’s articles on his trips to Borneo and India. Our little boy was especially interested in them and one day he asked me if Dr. Talbot was back from his trips and I told him that he was. “ Did he really go around the world in his travels?” “Yes.” “ Well, then, why didn’t he come and see us?” — M rs . H arley R utherford Harar, Ethiopia, East Africa. Reading the Bible Through I have never completely read the Bible from beginning to end, consecutively. Your article in The King’s Business, Jan. 1950, Editorially Speaking, “ Have You Ever Read the Bible Through?” was a great blessing and I intend to begin this reading at once. '■ —M rs . L. R. S mith Los Angeles, Calif. Appreciation from an Elderly Reader When The King’s Business comes, we literally devour it. It is so helpful I love every word o f it, from start to finish, (Continued on Page 18) M A Y , 1 9 5 0

BUSINESS

Official Publication of The Bible Institute of Los Angeles, Incorporated

Louis T. Talbot, D.D.

Betty Bruechert Managing Editor

William W . Orr, D.D.

Editor in Chief

Associate Editor

Voi. 41

MAY, 1950

No. 5

YOUTH NUMBER

CONTENTS Reader Reaction ........................................................................................ 3 Dr. Talbot’s Question Box .................................................................. 4 Editorially Speaking .......................................... 5 The Press and the Christian World ..................................................... 6 The Bible in the News, William W. O r r ............................................ 7 I Saw the Place Where the Lord Was Laid, Louis T. Ta lbot ........... 8 How Young People May Know the Will o f God, William W. Orr .. 10 The Lady and the Tigers, Marjorie F. Zimmerman ....................... 13 Can We Interest Our Children In Missions? Norma R. E llis ........ 15 Poem, “ God Closed the Door,” Dorothea Strayer ........................... 16 A Letter From Joseph, Joseph OJcada ................................................ 16 Junior King’s Business: Prairie Dogs, Walter L. W ilson ............... 17 Biola Family Circle .................................................................................... 19 Vivian’s Testimony .................................................................................... 20 Miscellanea ................................................................................................... 21 Book Reviews ....................... 2 .................................................................... 22 Young People’s Topics, WalterL. W ilson ............................................ 24 Sunday School Lessons, Homer A. Kent, AUison Arrowood ............. 28 Object Lessons, Elmer L. W ild er ............................................................ 33 Picture Credits: Cover, Harold M. Lambert, Philadelphia, Pa. P. 11, Eva Luoma, Weirton, W.Va. SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION—“ The King's Business" is published monthy; $2.00, one j six month; 20 cents, single copy. Clubs of three or more at special rates. Write for details. Canadian and foreign subscriptions 25 cents extra. It requires one month for a change of address to become effective. Please send both old and new addresses. REMITTANCES Payable in advance, should be made by bank draft, express, or post office money order payable to “ The King’s Business.’’ Date of expiration will show plainly on outside wrapper or cover of magazine. ADVERTISING—For information, address the Advertising Manager, 6B8 South Hope Street, Los Angeles 17, California. MANUSCRIPTS—“ The King’s Business" cannot aceept responsibility for loss or damage to manuscripts mailed to us for consideration. Entered as second-class matter November 7, 1938, at the Post Office at Los Angeles, Cali- forma, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage provided for in the Act of February 28, 1925, embodied in paragraph 4, section 538, P. L. and R., authorized October 1, 1918, and November 13, 1938. ADDRESS: The King's Business, 558 So. Hope St., Los Angeles 17, California. Page Three

ship, unquestioned orthodoxy, and great usefulness to the church of Christ in leading sinners to the Saviour. More might be said upon this subject, but suffice it to say that millions of Scofield Reference Bibles have been scattered over the earth; and will yet be used to the blessing of multitudes. If I were you, I should use it. God will bless you in such a study of His Word. Please explain John 8 :3b, 35: “ Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever com- mitteth sin is the servant of sin. And the servant abideth not in the house for ever: but the Son abideth ever.” What did the Lord mean when He said, “ The servant abideth not in the house for ever: but the Son abideth ever” ? If you will read this passage in the Revised Version, you will note that the word “ son” in the last clause is written with a small letter, and does net refer to Christ the Son. It refers to a child of God, who is a “ son of God.” The Lord Jesus means that a servant of sin is not to abide forever; “ but the son abideth ever.” The contrast here is in the fact that servitude is temporal, but sonship is eternal; that servitude is not forever; that even though a man is a servant of sin, that position of servi tude can be changed, and that is a blessed thing. Jesus said, “ Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.” But that position of servitude can be changed; “ the servant abideth not in the house for ever.” That is, a man can change masters, but he cannot change fathers. If you are born a child of God, you are born once and forever. God is your Father; and you never can be anything else but a child of God. If you are a servant of sin, you can change that position. You can be taken out of that servitude to sin, and be made a child of God. If accomplished, then it is “ forever.” How could the disciples do greater works than Christ, as He said in John H :12? The disciples were to do greater works than Christ because the Holy Spirit, whom Christ said He would send, was not to be confined by a body to one place. He could so energize believers everywhere that the gospel could spread far more rapidly and more widely than when proclaimed individually by the Lord Himself, and supported by His mighty works. This power was not in the disciples, but in the promised Com forter. The first fulfillment of th's promise is seen in Acts 2, in the mighty power that accompanied Peter’s preach ing. Someone has suggested that soul winning is the greatest work in all the world, greater even than feeding the multitudes and healing the sick . . . James closes his epistle with these sig nificant words: “ He which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.” T H E K I N G ' S B U S I N E S S

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the Lord” (Gen. 4 :1 6 ); and having turned his back upon God, he and his descendants built a godless civiliza tion, which became so corrupt that it had to be wiped out in the flood. My pastor says that the doctrine of the premillennial coming of Christ to the earth is dangerous and. fanatical. He told his people not to use the Scofield Reference Bible for this reason. Your pastor may be orthodox, funda mental, and true to the Word of God in other doctrines; if so, he is a real Christian. But my advice to you would be to “ search the scriptures” for your self. They speak for themselves; and no doctrine is more emphasized in the New Testament than is this one of our Lord’s return to set up His own king dom; yes, and in the Old Testament prophecies, as well, concerning His promises to Israel. It is to be regretted that many of the false cults have incorporated some of this truth in their creeds; but every time, you will note, they have perverted this precious truth. Should their error rob us of our “ blessed hope” ? Assuredly not. Satan is ever alert. He takes Scripture and perverts it, seeking to bring to naught any great work of God. And this is definitely true concerning the doctrine of our Lord’s return. As for the Scofield Reference Bible, it has been used of God to bless multi tudes; and it will continue to be used by Him, critics to the contrary. Attacks on this edition of the King James Ver sion have been let loose, but no good can come of them. In the first place, the ministers who are opposing it have made statements that are untrue, pos sibly having gone on hearsay. They have maintained that Dr. Scofield was not qualified to perform his task. They fail to acknowledge that, even before his conversion, he was a brilliant lawyer, a man of scholarship. They fail to state that he sat at the feet of one of the greatest theologians of any day, the late Rev. James H. Brookes, D.D., of St. Louis, Mo. They are either willfully or ignorantly overlooking the fact that the consulting editors of this edition of the Bible, whose names appear on the open ing pages, are men of profound scholar

Please explain Ephesians b:26, “Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath.” There is such a thing as righteous indignation, and this is what the in spired writer had in mind. When we see an injustice done or a sin com mitted against God and man, it would be a sin not to be angry. The Lord Jesus was righteously indignant when the money changers made His “ Father’s house a den of thieves.” When we are angry because of personal wrongs, we sin and dishonor God. These we should accept as opportunities of showing to the world that Christ is real, and that He enables us to live joyously and victori ously over personal injustice. However, we must guard against all malice and hatred and display of temper, which is anger. These surely are not becoming in a Christian. We often read in the Bible of how people were “ troubled” at the appearance of angels. Was this because the angels were holy, and in their presence man was conscious of his sinfulness? Undoubtedly. And the very fact that the appearances were supernatural also greatly troubled those to whom the holy angels appeared. However, when we get to Heaven, the sight o f all the myriads of angels and of the archangels will not trouble us; for Heaven will be “ home.” Home is ,the place where there is no embarrassment and no strangeness. One of the most beautiful descriptions of Heaven is found in the word “ home.” We shall not be troubled there. We shall rejoice to look upon the sinless Son of God, unafraid in His presence, because we are washed in His precious blood. Was Cain ever saved? There is nothing in all the Bible to indicate that Cain was ever saved; whereas there is everything to imply that he died a lost soul. In the first place, he tried to offer to God a blood less sacrifice, the works of his own hands— and this in open rebellion against God. In the second place, we read that “ Cain went out from the presence of Page Four

“ Come Ye Apart and Rest Awhile” T HESE words fell from the lips of our Lord in the midst of His exceed ingly busy years. Because the Lord was full of compassion, He was constantly beset by those who desired His help and so, lest His disciples should grow weary beyond measure He took them to a desert place for what might have been called a spiritual conference vacation. One of the heartening spiritual signs of our present day is the Bible Confer ence movement. Started by Bible-be- lieving Christians, it is almost wholly supported by those who love the Lord and desire a greater acquaintance with Him. To this end, the Bible Institute of Los Angeles also sponsors a summer conference program inviting folks along the Pacific Coast to plan a vacation with a purpose, a spiritual advance with a time of physical recreation. This year there will be five Biola- sponsored conferences. The first is to be held July 8-14 at beautiful Hume Lake high up in the Sierra Nevada moun tains near General Grant National Park. This conference is for young people and will be led by the Dean of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles, Dr. Samuel H. Sutherland. The second will be a Biola General Conference to be held at Pacific Pali sades Conference Grounds near Santa Monica in Southern California, August 5-9. Dr. Talbot will be showing pictures of his round-the-world trip at the eve ning services. The third and fourth conferences will be held at beautiful Mount Hermon in the tall redwood tree country near San ta Cruz, California. The dates are Au gust 13-20. Two conferences will be held simultaneously, a Young Peoples’ Con ference directed by Rev. Lowell Wendt with high school and college young peo ple invited. The other will be a general conference with Dr. Talbot, Dr. McGee and Dr. Feinberg as speakers. The last conference will be held August 20-27 at Covenant Beach on Puget Sound half way between Seattle and Tacoma. The speakers will include Dr. Louis T. Talbot, Rev. Chester Padgett and Dr. William W. Orr. All the conferences, with the exception of that at Hume Lake, will be privileged to see the beautiful colored motion pic tures obtained by Dr. Talbot on his re cent round-the-world trip. Further information on any of these conferences may be obtained by writing Dr. William W. Orr, Extension Dept., Bible Institute of Los Angeles, 558 S. Hope St., Los Angeles 17. Dr. Talbot Goes North I MMEDIATELY following the Easter season, Dr. Louis T. Talbot, President of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles, will begin a series of Missionary Bible Conferences in the Pacific Coast cities between Los Angeles and San Francisco. Dr. Talbot will be accepting a number of invitations to speak and to show his M A Y , 1 9 5 0

with the One who has come for the express purpose of making that life successful? How many Christians go through life leading a defeated, despair ing and fruitless existence merely be cause they do not know the secret of success which is a day by day surrender to the wisdom and power of the Holy Spirit of God? Let us allow these chap ters to be parables of wisdom to every heart that desires to be approved of God. Science’s Sacred Cow I N two of America’s largest weeklies there recently appeared a review of a new book entitled, “ Science is a Sacred Cow” by Anthony Standen. Dr. Standen is himself a scientist o f high standing, being a chemist of the first rank in St. John’s College in Annapolis, Mary land, who edits a scholarly chemical en cyclopedia at Brooklyn’s Polytechnic In stitute. We must confess that we read the review with not a little satisfaction which has been slightly on the malici ous side. It has long been overdue for someone to stand to his feet and say the things that Scientist Standen has said. For years anyone who has labeled him self a scientist has been considered far above the rank and file of ordinary men, and when the dictum has been propounded “that all scientists agree” no mortal on this sphere dared lift his voice against it. Now comes a man who declares that scientists are overbearing, over-praised, and over-indulged. While individually the scientists are naturally pleasant and even modest, still they are so infatuated with their own scientific minds that they seem to think they are entitled to pass judgment on everything from their very lofty height. The con sequences of such unquestioned venera tion has been that laymen have come to believe that science is a cure-all for mankind, infallible and above criticism. This, says Scientist Standen, is a great delusion. It would be a splendid plan for spiri tual leaders to take heart by reading the aforementioned book, especially in order that we might understand that the truth propounded is sometimes not truth at all but merely a body of well- supported opinion, the veracity of which may be exploded at any time. Over against the science of the day, majestic, alone, stand the Holy Scrip- Page Five

round-the-world trip pictures. Cities which will be included in this itinerary are: Santa Barbara, Bakersfield, Kings- burg, Modesto, Turlock, San Luis Obis po, Paso Robles, Monterey, Santa Cruz, Watsonville, San Mateo, San Jose. Later on in the summer, Dr. Talbot will be visiting the Bay Area cities, in cluding Sacramento, and also Reno, Nevada. Present plans call for him to be speaking in Oregon during the month of September and in Washington during October. It’s The Spirit Which Spells Success T HERE are many Bible teachers who have understood the despair that is. expressed in the seventh chapter of the book of Romans. Very clearly this chap ter demonstrates the apparent hopeless ness of the conflict of the two natures. The Christian is seen to be one engaged in a fruitless warfare which, even after the battle, causes him to cry out, “ O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?” But it is thrilling to get into the eighth chapter of Romans, and there to be taken from that place of hopelessness on to the very heights of victory, with God Himself declaring that He fully justifies every believer in His Son. These two chapters are so different even though they are placed next to each other on the pages of Scripture. It is interesting to note that the words “ I” , “me” , “myself” , occur 47 times in chapter 7, but only three times in chap ter 8. On the other hand, the words, “ we” , “ us” , and “ our” , occur 41 times in chapter 8. The name of the Holy Spirit is found only once in the first seven chapters of Romans, while the eighth chapter is literally filled to ca pacity with references to Him and His work. Herein then is the difference be tween despair and victory. Here is the secret of a Christian’s success. It is our union with One in finitely holy and immeasurably strong. It is our yieldedness to One who is in comparably wise and who loves us with a compassionate, enduring love. Success or failure in the Christian life is to be determined by the Christian’s adjust ment to the Holy Spirit of God. Is this not a quest that every Christian should make? Should not his first desire be to bring his life into the right relationship

The Press and The Christian W o r ld Word of Life Tent Marking the completion of ten years of radio broadcasting, the Word of Life Hour led by Jack Wyrtzen, plans two great anniversary rallies. On April 22, 2,000 young people from New York City will arrive by special train in Philadel phia and join thousands there for a great rally in Convention Hall. From Philadel phia the team-will move into New Jersey and spend the month of May in similar rallies and high school meetings, com pleting the campaign in the famous Ocean Grove Auditorium on May 27. Davis to Israel Mr. and Mrs. George T. B. Davis of the Pocket Testament Campaign, left New York on March 27 for Haifa, Israel, planning to spend about two months there and six weeks in Europe, taking with them a large quantity of New Test aments in Hebrew, Yiddish and other languages of Israel. Other Pocket Testa ment Campaign reports show that 50,000 Italian Testaments are being distributed in Italy, with another 50,000 in modern Greek on the way to that distressed and war-torn land. France continues to re ceive French New Testaments. Soul Winners in Kansas City Under the direction o f Dr. Walter L. Wilson, a great Soul Winners’ Clinic is planned for Kansas City from June 18 through June 25. The meetings for the entire eight days will be devoted to the ways and means of winning souls to Christ. Speakers will include Rev. Harry Saulnier of Pacific Garden Mission, Dr. T. J. Bach, Dr. Bob Jones, Sr., Dr. Paul Rees, Rev. Douglas Roe and Dr. Wilson. Meetings will be held on the campus of the Kansas City Bible College. Graham Meetings In a recent rally addressed by Evan gelist Billy Graham, 40,000 persons over flowed the South Carolina University Football Stadium. Gov. J. Strom Thur mond estimated that it was the largest crowd ever gathered for any event in the history of South Carolina. To the invitation, 2,000 people assembled in front of the platform to make decisions for Christ. The meetings were notable because of the excellent co-operation of the newspapers and radio. It is estimated that approximately 70% of the total de cisions were for salvation. Youth on the March Dr. Percy Crawford announces that five more stations have been added to the television network, including Cleve land, Ohio, Erie, Pa., San Francisco, Calif., San Diego, Calif., and Memphis, Tenn. The present hook-up is 17 televi sion stations with an estimated looking and listening audience of from 5,000,000 to 10,000,000. The cost is approximately $5,000 a week with $1 reaching at least 1,500 people. Youth on the March is a pioneer in the field of religious television and is well received by all who look and listen. T H E K I N G ' S B U S I N E S S

importance to Peter? How is it that the sepulcher of such a church leader should have remained undiscovered un til this late date? Is all this being done to bolster false doctrine or is this a smoke screen in order that some fur ther “ infallible pronouncements” may be given. Very timely to have “ them bones” show up in a Holy Year, isn’t it? Let Protestants think and think wise ly, and let governments ponder care fully not only the religious implications of this supposed discovery, but the po litical ramifications as well. In the meantime, this may be another step in the setting of the stage for the part the Roman Catholic Church is to play in great end-time Tribulation events. “ I Don’ t Know” I N California’s Mills College a sopho more by the name of Sabina Slotta de cided to conduct a survey for a paper on International Relations, using her fellow students as source material. Her findings rocked the campus! Out of 100 girls, 70 confessed they had no idea what bi-partisan foreign policy was, 28 were “ totally uninformed” about the At lantic pact, 39 could not name the Presi dent of Argentina, 9 never read the pa pers, and 56 merely glanced over the headlines. I f this is ignorance, we wonder how much these girls and America’s 150,000,- 000 citizens know about spiritual things. Christ Himself warned, “ And this is life eternal that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.” Does Prohibition Pay? P RINCE EDWARD Islanders, says a Canadian magazine, adopted prohibi tion in 1900. They believe in and practice it, and here are the consequences: The Island has no unemployment and very little poverty. Though it permits divorce, only one divorce was granted in sixty years. Since 1937 in the whole province there has “ not been a single case of assault on wife, indecent as sault, desertion of family, neglect of children, or contributing to the delin quency of a child.” There are no highwaymen, no gang sters, no commercialized vice, no real crime problem, and no penitentiaries. There are only thirteen policemen for its ninety thousand people, and it hasn’t had an execution in forty years. Per square mile, the island has twice as many people, four times as many cattle, and eight times as much poultry as any other province in Canada. Its per capita savings is greater than in any other Canadian province. With ten thousand motor cars on the island in some years there are as low as two motor car acci dents,

tures. Amazing in their content, with almost unbelievable conclusions, the Scriptures have been the best loved and most ridiculed writings of all times. The last 50 years have seen the attack on the Bible come mostly from the camp of the scientists. Now, as with all at tacks, the enemy is shown to be very fallible and as weak as man’s limited opinion, and, as with other victories, this latest victory adds more honor and new stature to this Book of all books, o f which it is written that while heaven and earth may pass away, God’s Word will never pass away. “ Them Bones” F ROM the extensive publicity offices of the Roman Catholic Church come carefully measured rumors concerning the supposed world-shakng announce ment soon to be made by the Pope. For a long time everyone has suspected that the ten years o f digging under St. Peter’s Church in Rome was intended to reveal at long last the bones of St. Peter which supposedly have been quietly resting in the Eternal City throughout the cen turies. Just what has been going on in the agile minds of those who were plan ning this entire matter will never be known, but because of the pitiless searchlight of the newsmen, the stage must be set with great care. When the announcement is made, there must be no chance that the wrong questions will be asked or that there will fail to be an answer for those who are not numbered among the faithful, but dumb. But sup pose the bones are found, what then? And suppose that these were indeed the actual bones of the Apostle Peter? This does not in any way change the infal lible and inerrant truth that Peter has given. No one desires to pull Peter down from that high place to which the Lord elevated him. But the Word of God is very clear as to what was on Peter’s heart. Read his pronouncement in Acts 4:12 where he solemnly declares, “ Neither is there sal vation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.” Or, see Peter’s real concept of the Son of God in First Peter 2:6-7 where Christ is declared to be the chief corner stone, elect and precious. No one can read the inspired words of Peter and at the same time accept the fables of the Roman Catholic Church concerning him. Never, in all his lifetime, did Peter make claim that he was to be the head over anything, not to speak of being the head over the church. Nor is apostolic succession taught at all on the pages of Scripture. There is not the slightest confirmation of the position which the present Pope or any previous Pope has held in regard to him. The finding of Peter’s bones will not change these great truths one iota. And yet, as we consider these things, we wonder how it is that the bones are being found in 1950. Bid not the early Roman Catholic hierarchy attach any Pags Six

Dodds in Korea

Non-Communist Korea will have the opportunity to see and hear Gil Dodds, America’s champion miler and youth speaker. In a recent exhibition run in Japan, Dodds showed his heels to fifteen o f Japan’s top middle-distance runners. Along with Bob Pierce, Dodds is con ducting mass evangelistic rallies in each of Korea’s six free provinces. A Depressant For years drinkers have been ex cusing their drinking by arguing that alcohol gives them “ a lift,” aids diges tion and helps them in making a speech in public. All these are just poor ex cuses according to the current journal of the American Medical Association. Alcohol is not a stimulant but a depres sant. While in the body’s central nervous system drink may masquerade as a stimulant, giving the drinker a false feeling o f well - being, unfortunately along with this goes a loss o f judgment and a retarding of the ability of self- criticism. The depressant action of drink operates first on the higher centers of the brain allowing the more primitive parts of the brain to dominate the drinker’s actions. The journal concludes with the statement, “ This apparent stimulation [in the mind of the drinker] has been aptly compared with a car on a hillside. Alcohol releases the brakes but does not cause the car to run bet ter.” Catholic Church Loses •S* In a recent law, unanimously passed by Poland’s Parliament, the Roman Catholic Church was stripped of all its large estates totaling 700 square miles of land. At the same time, a church fund was established to be financed by pro ceeds from the land and state grants, and to be used for maintenance and reconstruction of churches and other things. One o f the sources of friction between the Catholic Church and gov ernments has always been the rather surreptitious acquisition by the church o f more and more land and property. This process is going on continually in our own country. Dr. Aaron J. Smith announced plans today for another expedition to the top o f Mt. Ararat because he is thoroughly convinced that he will some day find Noah’s ark. This announcement was made coincident with the publication of Dr. Smith’s fifth book on the subject and revealed that permission is being sought from the Turkish government for an other try at the nearly 17,000 ft. peak. Dr. Smith is 62 years old and former dean of the People’s Bible College in Greensboro, N.C. M A Y , 1 9 5 0 Another Ararat Trip

William W. Orr, D.D.

Pre-Humans Stood Erect

MacArthur on Annihilation

For a long time certain scientists have taught that man’s earliest ances tors possessed ape-like bodies and moved around half bent over as apes do today. Apparently this idea is on its way out with the discovery by anthropologist Raymond Dart, of the pelvis of an early ape-man he calls Australopithecus. This hip joint looks remarkably human ac cording to Dart and leads him to sug gest that these ancient men possessed bodies very greatly resembling those of the present day. All this is interesting, and is a swing of the pendulum of scientific thinking in the direction of confirmation of Bible truth. The Scripture states, of course, that man as he is today was created perfect and complete by the hand of God and that apes are in no wise re lated to the human family. I f this be the truth, and we are sure it is, we need not budge an inch to compromise but will patiently wait for God’s truth indelibly written in His creation to prove it. 90% of Blame •S* Judge Lewis W. Clark, Merced, Cali fornia, in his semi-annual report to the City Council places at least 90.6% of the misdemeanor cases handled by the City Court in 1949 at the door of liquor. He stated that the cost to the Merced city taxpayers for that current year was not less than $100,000 and probably nearer $150,000 with the lion’s share of this cost due to intemperance. Judge Clark further reported 71.9% of all ar rests are for intoxication with probably most of the arrests for vagrancy due to the same cause. Other crimes are in fluenced heavily by drink, including assault and battery, bogus check writers, thefts, drunk driving and miscellaneous. This is indeed tragic but how much worse when we remember that, far from discouraging drink, the American nation by advertising and by wide availability almost criminally encourages it.

Seventy-year-old General Douglas MacArthur, hero of the Philippines and Occupation Chief in Japan, is a man that has great wisdom and whose words ought to be carefully noted. He reports: “ Arts and sciences have progressed more rapidly than character building. If we had achieved the heights in char acter that we have in the other fields, all would know that war is no solution. “ With present weapons, there no longer is any advantage to winning a war. Everyone loses with the victor only losing a little less than the vanquished. Even in this past war, we found that the destruction requires us to carry new burdens now. “ From the time of David and Go liath, war was a gladiatorial contest. Even when I joined the army, a Colt .45 and a rifle were primary weapons. To day it is not a contest between men, but machines and super bombs. “We will have to find that either war must go or mankind will go.” Sunday School Week In Springfield, Missouri, the week of March 13 to 19 was proclaimed Sunday School Week, according to Hart R. Armstrong, Co-ordinator for the Com mittee. A feature of this week was the reading aloud of a unique hand-written Bible from Seattle, Wash., valued at $2,500.00. The reading was done from the window o f a downtown store on the Public Square with a public address system carrying the words of the Bible outside the store as each reader took his fifteen-minute turn. The week also in cluded a National Sunday School Con vention with a great parade held on Sat urday morning. The parade featured thousands of Sunday School members marching with their Bibles and the week culminated in a rally day with every church in the community working for increased attendance. All of which is a splendid and helpful event for a most noble institution, the Sunday School. Pa^e Seven

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“ Gordon’s Calvary” I N the fall of 1949, at the request of the Board of Directors of my school, I made a four months’ mis sionary journey to the fields where our graduates are laboring, to make a sur vey of the needs and to photograph their work. In the brief time allotted me I covered twelve countries, and from every standpoint I found the conditions appalling. Everywhere were dirt and disease and deviltry and death; the world is in a hopeless state. The only bright spots I saw on earth were the places where the brave and faithful mis sionaries of the cross are preaching the gospel and winning souls for Christ. I came home with a renewed missionary vision, and a “ burning heart,” to pre sent the needs of the world as they really are, and to persuade young people to invest their lives in the missionary enterprise, ere the night falls upon this atomic age, when “ no man can work.” Naturally, there were many thrills on this trip—journeys through jungles, views of breath-taking natural beauty, flights over tens of thousands of islands—but one of the never-to-be-for gotten experiences was the brief time I spent in the Holy Land. It is impossible to put into words the feelings that came into my heart as I set my feet upon the streets and fields where the Lord Jesus Christ had walked, and looked upon scenes which must have met His eyes daily for thirty- three years. Palestine is a living com mentary upon the Old and New Testa ments and makes places and personali ties in the Bible very real and vivid. I shall ever thank God for the honor that was mine to have such a glimpse of Bible lands. I saw Bethlehem, and preached the gospel in the Shepherds’ Fields on Christmas Eve; I visited Bethany and relived the visits of Jesus with His friends. Mary, and Martha, and Laz arus; I sat by Jacob’s Well and thought of the conversion of the Samaritan woman, and the entire city that came to Christ through her testimony. But the two historic spots which made the deep est impression upon my heart were Golgotha and the Tomb, where they laid the body of the Lord.

conclusively that the Damascus Gate near at hand was standing before Roman times and so was there at the time. I could see how ideal a place for public executions this was. The Jews even called it “ the Hill of Stoning.” Overlooked by a large part of the city, almost in the form of a semi-circle, it would serve somewhat on the order of a Roman amphitheatre. It was easy to imagine how “ those that passed by” could have witnessed the crucifixion scene, and taken part in it. The crowds would be making their way along the Roman road which forked here, one branch extending to Galilee, the other around the city to Jericho. The ruins of this road have been excavated at the base of Golgotha. As I stood there gazing at “ the place of a skull,” my mind went back to the events of Jesus’ last week on earth. I thought of the agony of the Garden of Gethsemane, the three long fake trials, the three extended sentences before the Jews. I remembered how He had suffered through the exhausting scenes in the Praetorium; how He had endured the cruel examination by Herod; how He had been brutally de rided by the Sanhedrin and its servants, by Herod’s bodyguard, and by the Roman cohort. I recalled that, pitifully weakened, He so staggered under the weight of the cross that in order not to delay His execution, the Roman sol diers impressed Simon into their service, to bear the cross for Him. “ And they bring Him unto the place Golgotha, which is, being interpreted, the place of a skull” (Mark 15:22). “And when they were come to the place, which is called Calvary, there they cruci fied him, and the malefactors, one on the right hand, the other on the left” (Luke 23:33). It seemed to me as I stood there that day I could see the three crosses laid upon the ground, and see the soldiers nailing the crossbeams to the uprights. I could imagine how they stripped Jesus naked of all His clothes, stretched Him upon that im plement of torture, and, placing huge iron nails in the center of His palms, drove them into the wood with their

For years I had looked forward to seeing these places, and 16ng ago was of the opinion, shared with many Bible teachers and archeologists, that if there were any genuine sites still standing where the crucifixion and resurrection had taken place, they were Gordon’s Calvary and the Garden Tomb. I re ject the theory that the ornate Holy Sepulchre covers those sacred spots. I am thankful that the English Commit tee, which is responsible for the care of Gordon’s Calvary and the Garden Tomb, have not made shrines of them, but instead have preserved them as nearly as possible in their original rug ged state. It seems blasphemous to me that such spots should be made a source of revenue for systems of religion. We do not worship places, but a Person. Of course, no one can be absolutely certain of these' locations which have puzzled archeological authorities for centuries, but if the places I saw are not the exact spots where the great drama of redemp tion took place, they are at least so similar to the original places that it makes no real difference, and the effect upon the heart of a born-again believer is the same. The Place Called Calvary In English it is “ skull” ; in Greek “ Calvary” ; in Hebrew “ Golgotha.” Whatever language is used, it was a dreadful place of death, outside of the walls of Jerusalem. Only one eminence near Jerusalem meets this description today, and that is Gordon’s Calvary. I climbed to the top of the north wall east of the Damascus Gate, and there it was. A hush fell upon my heart. The top was bare, smooth, scalp-like, with deep cavities clearly resembling eyes, a nose, and a mouth. Nothing else is there, but a small Moslem cemetery lies off to the side. One’s entire attention is riveted upon that grim place where Christ was lifted up between earth and heaven as the atoning sacrifice for the sins of the world. It seems to me that this spot fitted into the details of the crucifixion in a most striking way. The ancient founda tions beneath the present surface show

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mallets. I could almost hear Him, as they raised this living burden of flesh, every movement irritating the rents in feet and hands, pleading, “ Father, for give them; for they know not what they do” (Luke 23:34). What a scene of tumult the cruci fixion must have been! That great body o f Jews and Romans gazed upon the Lamb of God, some silently, others mocking. Even the rulers and priests forgot their dignity of office and joined in the abuse. The poor wretches shar ing Hi§ punishment added their insults until one of them, no longer able to resist His love, cried out, “ Lord, re member me when thou comest into thy kingdom. And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise” (Luke 23:42, 43). Surely crucifixion is the cruelest and blackest of punishments for it gives the greatest torture for the longest time. It includes all that pain and death can have that is horrible and ghastly—dizziness, cramp, thirst, starva tion, helplessness, traumatic fever, tet anus, publicity of shame, long continu ance of torment, horror of anticipation, mortification of untended wounds, all intensified just up to the point at which they can be endured at all, but all stop ping just short of the point which would give to the sufferer the relief of uncon sciousness. But only once in all the hours at Golgotha did Jesus make ref erence to His suffering, when He cried, “ I thirst,” for added to all other pangs was that of a raging thirst. I recalled the natural phenomena of that day: the eclipse at noonday when the paschal sun should have been very bright over the Holy City; the rent veil of the temple; the earthquake; the open ing of graves. Then I thought sadly of the betrayal by Judas and the denial of Peter, and of the fact that all of His disciples “ forsook Him and fled” in ti e hour o f His death. More than that, I thought o f m’y own sin, and the part it too had in nailing Him to that cross, and I thanked Him again for dying in my room and stead, to obtain my eternal salvation.

how readily would it let in the rays of the morning sun, which would immedi ately shine upon any body lying in the farther crypt. Now at last I under stood how John could tell at once by looking into the dark tomb, without even entering, that Jesus had risen indeed, leaving His grave clothes, and “ the napkin, that was about his head . . . in a place by itself” (John 20:7). As I had thought of the death of my Lord at Calvary, so now I allowed my mind to dwell upon the resurrection. I walked about the Tomb, seated myself on the ledge where perhaps a white- robed angel had once sat, and con sidered the “ infallible proofs”': the broken Roman seal, the disrupted stone, the orderly graveclothes, the fearful earthquake; the angel visitants; the terrified guards; the frightened women; the dumbfounded disciples; and the manifest lies of the enemies of Christ who gave “ large money unto the sol diers” to publish the fiction that His disciples had made away with His body. Jesus made seventeen personal appear ances after His resurrection before and after His ascension to various persons individually and in groups. In addition, “ He was seen of above five hundred brethren at once” (1 Cor. 15:6). God so multiplied the evidence that the resurrection of Christ has become one o f the most thoroughly attested facts of history. So I rejoiced that day as I stood in the Garden Tomb that it was an empty tomb, that we do not worship a Saviour still hanging on a cross, or lying in a sepulchre. As believers, our own resurrection is guaranteed by Christ’s. “ But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept” (I Cor. 15:20). “ Because I live, ye shall live also” (John 14:19). “ Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?” (John 11:25-26).

The Garden Tomb When General Gordon was seeking evidence that this was indeed the genu ine site of the crucifixion, he had the 'entire area investigated for graves. He found what he was looking for in a monolithic tomb in the area. It seemed to him that the words of John 19:41 were thus corroborated: “ Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden; and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein was never man yet laid.” I approached the ancient garden at the foot of the hill. A huge door opened to admit me. Some years ago, removal of tons of debris had disclosed garden paths, an irrigation system, and a wine press. Now well cared for, the beautiful garden is fragrant with zinnias, asters, petunias, chrysanthemums and rose mary growing beneath a few old trees. A high wall now encloses the entire area. There in front of me was the Garden Tomb. What awe filled my heart as I walked over to it, and stooped to enter the low door, even as the disciples had on that first Easter morning. Inside were two compartments, sep arated by a low limestone wall. The outer room in which I was standing was about 7x10 ft. wide with an 8 ft. ceiling. I looked over the wall into the second room as large as the first, and along the wall at the far end was a crypt about six-and-a-half feet long and two feet wide. I said to myself, “ Was that where they laid Him?” At the far end is a rounded depression for the head of the person to rest. A wall runs across it and at each edge is a ledge. This might well have been the place where on the day of the resurrection “ two angels in white were sitting, the one at the head, and the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain” (John 20:12). At the other end of the room were two more unfinished crypts which indicate that only One was ever buried here. One of the things about the Garden Tomb that most impressed me was the square window above the unfinished sec tion. As I gazed upon it, I could see

“ Was this where they laid H im?”

Exterior and Interior o f the Garden Tomb

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First in a New Series o f Intimate Talks with Young People About Their Problems

By W illiam W . Orr, D.D.

God Plans Other Things God is a God of plans. You don’t have to look much further than the end of your nose to see that the world, and what we know about the universe as well, are filled to the brim with evidences of God’s design (Psa. 24:1, 2; 19:1). Everywhere you look you see the marks of God’s planning, the exercise of His will. Consider the beneficence o f the seasons. We know, of course, that the earth is tilted 23%° on its axis, but what remarkable results come from this tilt. Instead of having the monotony o f every day just the same and all parts o f the world exactly alike as far as temperature is concerned, we have the delightful and exhilarating variation of spring and summer, autumn and winter (Gen. 8:22). Or consider how God planned the days and the nights (Gen. 1:5). You see, there is co-ordination in this planning fo r man’s body needs a certain amount of rest, and during the hours of nigbt there is restoration o f strength and recuperation of ability. So, in order that man should have this needed rest, God divided the day from the night. During the daytime there is the brilliance of the sun in the sky which sheds abundant light the world around fo r work and activity. But at night time this light is removed, and in its place there is the soft and soothing illumination of the moon which is conducive to rest and sleep (Psa. 74:16). Don’t you see clearly that God plans everything (Psa. 104:1-35) ? Noti,ce further the beautiful harmony of the earth’s at mosphere and man’s lungs. Everybody knows that our at mosphere is composed of 80 per cent nitrogen, an inert gas. The other 20 per cent is oxygen, a very necessary and highly volatile gas. But this combination is exactly right for our lungs. Were we to have more oxygen as a steady diet, we would be too active and soon burn out, and our lives, instead of being lived their normal span, would be swiftly terminated. Or were we to have less oxygen, we would drag around in a half-dead state day by day with insufficient energy to perform our daily tasks. It would truly be doubly funny if our atmosphere were of two parts nitrogen and one part oxygen, for that is what the dentist uses as “ laughing gas.” Or it would be tragic if our atmosphere were balanced with half nitrogen and half oxygen for this would be nitric oxide and would swiftly choke us. On the other hand, how carefully the lungs of man are con structed to transfer the life-giving oxygen from air to blood stream (Gen. 2 :7 ). You don’t have to possess a microscope or a laboratory full of queer looking bottles to see God’s planning ability. Everything God does is planned and He cares fo r all the details. Nothing is forgotten.

Suppose God Had A Plan for Our Lives? W HAT an immeasurably superior plan it would be. How complete in every detail. How devoid of errors and blunders. It would be perfect. It would be the plan o f all plans. A demonstration of the infinite wisdom of God’s mind. God’s plan would be better because He fully understands us. For it was God who in the beginning made man and breathed into man’s nostrils the breath of life (Gen. 2:7). Man is the product of God’s creative hand. He knows our abilities and He knows our limitations (Psa. 103:14). More than that, God knows about life and its difficulties, and the bearing these hardships have on accomplishments. God’s plan would be better because He sees things in their true focus. God’s throne is at the center of all time. He fully knows the end from the beginning. We rather dimly see the present. God sees all—past, present, future. Nor are there any modifying facts of which He is unaware. If ability to purpose and to plan is based upon proper knowledge and wisdom, then God alone is able to plan for us . . . if He would. God’s plan would be better, too, because of His power to ac complish. God’s universe is so tremendously vast it literally staggers the imagination (Isa. 37:16). Our world seems large and it is; but compared to the giant worlds of the sky, the earth is a mere speck in the universe. There, the billions and billions o f star systems revolve in their orbits at the command of God. He is greater, more powerful, mightier than all the things which He has created. All obey His will. All follow His plan. God’s plan would be better because of His sympathetic ap proach. One might conceive of a wise, powerful God who scorned His creatures. But not our God. He loves us (John 3:16). He wants the very best for our lives (Eph. 1:9, 10). He unselfishly desires not His own advantage, but our advantage. Deep in His heart He wants us to be successful . . . successful in truest sense, successful in the light of eternity. Suppose God did have a plan for our lives? No, there isn’t any supposition about it. God does have a plan, His plan (Prov. 3:5, 6). And this plan is not a better plan . . . it is the BEST plan. Don’t you desire to know about it ?

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