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THE K I N G ’ S B US I NE S S make one effort a week (whether by personal conversation, writing a letter, giving a tract or signing someone up in the Testament League) and suppose that nine-tenths of all these efforts fail, still 260 souls would be saved. Most pastors would drop dead if such a thing happened m one year—even m some of our largest city churches. Yet it could be done—if Christians would do what their Master tells them to do. | . . . . . A salesman is one who goes out after customers. A clerk is one who lets customers come to him. Are you a salesman or a clerk m God s business! An old lady, zealous as a soul winner but quite near sighted, one day spoke to a wooden man in front of a cigar store, and offered a tract. A churc member who saw the incident started to annoy the old lady about it, when she replied, “ I would rather talk to a wooden man^about Christ than be a wooden Christian like you and never talk to anyone. ’ ’ —K. L. B. | m m m LIGHT IS BREAKING But Where From? There is a new giant denominational publication, the result of the consolidation of nearly all of the periodicals of that denomination under one head. The neck that turns this head is a certain University of the “ Windy City” . This is what this new publication tells u s : “ The light is streaming from the cross with a new radiance and its beams will soon brighten the whole world. We are coming into a day of order and the New World Movement will bring it to pass. In college, m the home and in the business world, the morning light is breaking. ” The Bible tells us that we are going to have a day of order, when the beams from the cross will reach to every nook and corner, but for the life of . us we can’t find where it says anything about the New World Movement bringing it to pass. The Bible seems to teach that only the coming of Jesus in power will bring order out of the increasing chaos of the closing days of the age. Mere men, money or movements will not do it. Nor can the church expect to have success in its mission of calling out a people for ms name so long as its ministers and members fail to recognize the leadership of the Holy Spirit, and the fact that they must be baptized with fire and nower in order to meet their responsibilities under the Great Commission. We say A-men to any movement in which consecrated men, united in the great fundamentals of the Bible, are bent on preaching salvation to a lost world Any other kind of a movement is bound to fail. And that the morning light is breaking in the colleges and homes and in the business world, is all news to us. It had seemed to iis that the times were becoming more perilous. According to Dr. James H. Leuba of Bryn Mawr College, only forty-one per cent of the leading American scientists, historians, sociologists and phychologists believe m a personal God. Of those who do believe in a personal God and profess some kind of religio , many are so affected by evolution and other philosophies that they utterly reiect the cardinal doctrines of the faith. The colleges carrying the new and revolutionary creeds are not the minor schools but the vaster ones like Har vard Yale Princeton, Chicago, Columbia and Cornell. In these institutions, free ’thinkers rioting in the mere license of opinion and hungering for notoriety are passing out their denials of the Bible, not to mature men
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