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T H E K I N G ’ S
B U S I N E S S
December 1925
(John 5 :46, 47) : “For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me; for he wrote of me. “But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?” (Mark 12:26) : “Have ye-not read in the book of Moses, how in the bush God spake unto him?” (Luke 1 6 :3 1 M “And he said unto them, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded though one rose from the dead.” And now note the testimony of the risen Christ to His loved disciples in Luke 2 4 :27, 44 : “And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the Scriptures the things con cerning Himself. * * * all things must be fulfilled which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms concerning me.” . In these last verses our Lord sets His seal to the whole of the Old Testament Scriptures. But the Mod ernists do not accept Moses’ account of the creation, nor his history of Israel. As a logical consequence, they, are without any Bible as a foundation for their faith. We are sorry for them and can pray for them, but there is a more serious -side to this matter : These men pretend to be scholars. Many of them are preachers and teachers, and by reason of their denial of the authority and inspiration of thé Word of God. they are helping to destroy the foundations of our beloved government, and dragging down with them tens of thousands of innocent, ignorant people who are depending upon them as teachers of the truth. The falsity and fallacy of their position has been shown over and over again, and added proof has been given of the authenticity and authority of thé Bible in a recent cablegram from Berlin, to the effect that Prof. Grimme, who holds the chair of Semitic Philology at the University of Munster, told at a small gathering in the home of a friend of his discovery of a tablet written by Moses fifteen hundred years before Christ. According to Prof. Grimme, the stone tablets, on one of which Moses’ tribute to his royal master was inscribed, were dug up in a buried Egyptian temple on the Serabit El Chadem plateau of Mt, Sinai by Flinders Petrie, an English explorer, in 1905. Unable to remove the stones because of their weight, Petrie photographed and made plaster casts of them and then reburied them. The inscription on the tablets remained a riddle until 1916 when Alan Gardner, an eminent English Egyptologist, managed to establish certain Mosaic con sonants. Dr. Grimme proceeded from this point until he had mastered the entire alphabet and could read all the lines carved on one of the photographed slabs. The message of eternaL gratitude, carved either by Moses himself or at his behést, reads as follows: “I, Manasse, mountain chief and head priest of the tem ple, thank Pharaoh Mischepaut for having drawn me out of the Nile and helped me to attain high dignities.” “ M'y heart stood still as I read’these words,” Prof. Grimme told his auditors. It is. estimated that the tablets were written in the year 1479 B. C., which accords with thç dates of Moses’ life as fixed in the Hible. It is Only necessary to have a fixed faith in the Word of God, and in due Season God will produce all needed proof to its verity.
by a spontaneous heart-offering in behalf of such a memorial. It should be done NOW while hearts are pulsing in real affection for the martyr whose life was lived and laid down as a Bible-defending warrior. Another memorial, not in the form of a university,, but a ‘‘Bryan Bible League,” has been launched hy Rev. Paul Rood, pastor of the Mission Church of Tur lock, California, who has this to say about it in the “ Bryan Broadcaster” : “The Bryan Bible League was formed to honor the mem ory of William Jennings Bryan and to continue the fight he so nobly began in opposing the teaching of evolution in tax-supported schools and in defending the historic position of evangelical Christianity. Nearly a thousand people signed up at the first meeting and other thousands have joined" since. Judging from the spirit of the meeting and after developments, this crusade will spread like fire. We are after a million members.” BEST BOOKS Books come and books go, but the making of many books has no end. The best Book, of course, is the Bible, which is the “ Book of books.” Give it first place in your homes and in your -hearts. Give it a large place in your life and also a loving place, remembering that millions of lives were laid down before we could have it. So do not allow any man or woman, preacher, teacher, friend or enemy to change your mind concern ing the best Book—the Bible. You will never live long enough to master it, but the older you grow and the better you- know it, the more you will be conscious of its value and the closer you will clasp it to your heart. It is not a question of how many verses you read in a day, or how many books of the Bible you read in a year, but how much of the matter which you read do you masticate? Be sure your faith is fixed on the fundamental facts of your security as a saint; your debt of gratitude to God the Father who loved you and to Jesus Christ who died for.you; your obligation of obedience to Him who has commissioned you to carry the Gospel message to a lost world. There are other books which deserve mention as “ best books,®—but the tide was never so great as now. All sorts of “ religious” books,—good, bad and indif ferent—are to be had. Some are only fit for the fire. The poison of asps is between their leaves and a few years ago they would have been rejected by the Post- office Department as unfit for the mails. Some books are so subtle that even the saints will hardly sense the danger, or their deadly Satanic design. So let us be wise in our choice and let no book, however good, separate you from the Best Book—the Word of God. THE MASTER’S MESSAGE TO THE MODERNISTS Our Modernist friends sometimes talk quite seriously and favorably about Jesus Christ, but criticize freely His confirmation of the story of Moses, and this is the basis of our controversy with them. Now, “ to the law. and to the testimony” (John 1:17) : ' ■“For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.” Add to this Jesus’ own testimony in John 7 :19: “Did not Moses give you the law? and yet none of you keepeth! the law. Why go ye about to kill me?”
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