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
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