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THE K I N G ’ S BUS I NESS the God of the Bible, the God who does things in answer to prayer, is most con summate folly. Certainly a prayer season at the noon hour is a good thing. The church of which the writer is the pastor has rung its chimes (the only chimes in the city) at the noon hour to summon people to. prayer for many months, and we have reason to believe that much has been accomplished by these noontime prayers, but why will men and women, having gone to God in their extremity, and God having heard their cries, seek to rob God of the glory which is His’ due’ and attribute to the concentration of human minds what is only due to the grace” of God acting in answer to the prayers of His people. This old world will if it can cheat God every time of the glory that belongs to Him. "With the January 1919 number of The King’s Business there will be several changes in the paper. Dr. Torrey will retire from his position as Editor in Chief. The pressure of his work has become so great in various directions that.he has not the time that he thinks the Editor in Chief ought to give to a careful consideration of the details of the paper. He will still continue as a contributing editor and sermons, lectures and articles will appear from time to time. He will not, how ever, contribute the Daily Devotional Studies, but these will continue through the month of January in order to complete the Epistles to the Thessalonians. There will also be some minor changes in other departments. The general policy of the magazine however, will continue as heretofore, and, of course, the magazine will stand as heretofore for the great fundamentals of the faith, and will “ con tend” as “ earnestly” as ever “ for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.”
THE KAISER AND LINCOLN A letter written by the Kaiser to a German woman who has lost nine sons in the war is now going the rounds of the European press. It is particularly interesting to Americans because of its sharp contrast to the famous letter of President Lincoln to Mrs. Bixby dur ing the American Civil War. The Kaiser’s Letter Majesty the Kaiser hears that y f i have sacrificed nine sons in defense M m the Fatherland in the present war. His Majesty '& immensely gratified at thft fact, and |n recognition is pleased toBsenci you his photograph, with frame and autograph signature.” (Frau Mffl8g, who received the letter has now .ioiujjd the street beggars in Dejmeri^ors-Oldenburg, to get a living.) \ Lincoln’s Letter “Dear Madam: I have been shown in the files ’e fth eW a r Department a state- men( offthe Adjutant General of Mass achusetts’' that you are the mother of five son£ who have died gloriously on the field' of battle. I feel how weak and be any words of mine which p.hould [ attempt to beguile you from* the grief of a loss so overwhelm
ing. But I cannot refrain from tender ing to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save. I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement and leave you only the cherishing memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of free dom.” WILSON AND MISSIONARIES President Wilson, in expressing his opinion concerning God’s work abroad during the present war times, has spoken the following words: “ It would be a misfortune of lasting consequence if the missionary program of the world should be interrupted. That the work should be continued seems to me a cap ital necessity. I hope there may be no recession or slackening of any kind.” This is true statesmanship on the Pres ident’s part and his word should go far to constrain us to new endeavor in carrying the message of peace to the uttermost parts of the earth.
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