T H E K I N G ’S B U S I N E S S 119 mistic premillennial teaching! Do not allow one of these pernicious preach ers or teachers to soil the steps of your sacred sanctuaries, or pollute the, platform of your pulpits! Do not read their red and lurid literature! Never mind if John Wesley’s father was a premillennialist and if John Wesley himself'said, in Yol. 2, Page 357 of his “ Sermons” : ■ “F rom th e tim e th a t th e Church and State, th e kingdoms of Christ an d th e world, w ere so strangely and unn atu rally blended together, Christianity and heathenism were so thoroughly incorporated w ith each o th er th a t they will hardly ever be divided u n til Christ comes to reign upon e a rth .” ' or if his brother Charles wrote many premillennial hymns, such as “IiO, He comes, w ith clouds descending” and “T ru sting in th e literal Word, We look fo r Christ on e a rth again.” Never mind if many of the' good old-fashioned Methodist ministers and evangelists were premillennialists! Obey your master’s orders! We are living in a new age and know now—what our fathers, knew not—that you cannot believe all that the Bible says. This is an age of ripened scholarship—a rip-roaring age. You are not sufficiently cultured and educated to know what the Bible means. You must take—as do the Roman Catholic followers—what your priests tell you to take and be satisfied. We will teach you and we will handle! your money for you. Now be good and honor your’ sainted leaders. Do not use your own judgment in ecclesiastical matters. You made a grievous mistake at the last General Conference in ordering us to remove Professor Rail’s and other infidel books from our schools. We paid no attention to your request for we knew you were ignorant though you meant well. We will take care of these important matters. All you have to do is to rush in the shekels, keep the band playing and sound the battle cry, ‘‘Down with the Bible Institutes and the premillennial teaching!” ' — T. C. H. (Note: We love the Methodists, all of them , bu t we disagree w ith some of their leaders. We are sorry for them and pray for them .) ^¡fe, ¿sfe ate m m WHERE WE FAILED As the writer approached the -door of the New Year, he was conscious of the fact that his greatest blunder during 1922 was in trying to do the maximum of work on the minimum of prayer. It has probably been our busiest year—greater problems before us, more demands upon us from every side, a year of great activity and some accomplishments. But one thought searches the heart: Has it been a year especially notable for prayer? How shall we answer? What would YOU answer? .Charles Macintosh said: “ God will always have to do in secret with the soul which He intends to serve Him in public. ’’ Edward M. Bounds says: “ Our ability to stay with God in the prayer closet is the measure of our ability to stay with God out of it. To be little with God is to be little for God.” Another has said: “ He that saveth his time from prayer shall lose it.” We are convinced that these sayings aré true'. We have not done the quality of work we might have done. We have been caught in the whirl of $350.00 SCHOLARSHIP. (See Page 141)
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