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TABLE OF CONTENTS Crumbs from the King’s Table—The Editor...............................435 Present-Day Fulfillment of Prophecy—Louis S. Bauman........... 437 In His Name—Mark A. Matthews................................................ 439 How Prayer Built a Church—^Ella G. Bennett.............................440 Saints that Suffer—Lewis Sperry Chafer.......................................442 The Only Way Back to God—Roy Talmage Brumbaugh...............444 A Few “Nevers” to Remember “Forever”..........................| ......... 445 Exploring Abyssinia—-T. A. Lambie....... ,......................................446 Structure in Scripture—Norman B. Harrison...............................448 The Return of the Tide—Zenobia Bird........................................ 450 Studies in the Epistle to the Hebrews—John C. Page.................452 Heart to Heart with our Young Readers —Florence Nye Whitwell...........................................................454 “Your God . . . Goeth Before You”—Henry W. Frost...............457 Clouds—Canon S. M. Warner................................................ ......... 457 The Bible Institute Family Circld—Cutler B. Whitwell.................458 Our Literature Table............................................. Homilitical Helps ................................................................... Junior King’s Business—Helen Howarth Lemmel..........................461 International Lesson Commentary...................................................463 Notes on Christian Endeavor—Milo F. Jamison.......................... 470 Daily Devotional Readings.................................i ..................... 476

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rumL from THE KING’S TABLE . . . By THE EDITOR

Do You Ever Sigh or Cry?

the Sermon on the Mount. •I find no awakening there. I find great principles, lofty ideals, severe standards, great moral maxims. I bask in the soft, sunny inspiration of the encouragements. I tremble amid the lightning flashes of appalling warnings. My incompleteness yawns before me. All my defects are ragged and jagged in the burning noon, but I do not feel' ashamed of the pain and the hor ribleness and the fearfulness of my sin. It is not other wise when I turn even to the story of the prodigal son.

© o through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.” If a mark should be set upon all “that sigh and that cry” for the sin of the world, upon how many of our

foreheads would the man with the ink- horn set his mark? Did you ever cry over the spiritual condition, of your family, your neighbors, your city, or the world? Are you ever crushed and bur dened by the horrors of sin? Is it the subject of your prayers? Is it the bur den of your sighs? Does it ever cause you the loss of an hour’s sleep? Or is sin an unaffrighting and undisturbing commonplace with which you have be come so familiar that it never startles you into pain? If sin has become a com monplace, our teaching and preaching has become a plaything. If we do not feel its horrors, we shall lose the start ling clarion of the watchman; there will be no urgency in our speech, no vehe mence, no sense of imperious haste. If we think lightly of the disease, we will loiter on the way to the physician. If we do not feel the heat of the consum ing and destructive presence of sin, we will not labor with undivided zeal to pluck our fellow men as brands from the burning fire. If our sense of sin is lax, we may find in that laxity one of the great est causes of our ineffective testimony. I am not surprised that, in his enu

I may be melted into tears, and yet my tears may not help my vision. Many a man has been made homesick by the story of the prodigal, but he has not been made sick of his sin. What I want is not merely-something that will make me homesick, but something that will reveal to me the hatefulness of sin, the leperous disgustingness of sin, that I may not only turn away home, but that I may recoil from sin in contempt, as a healthy man turns from some diseases and frorti disgusting foods. I do not see or fear my sin in the Sermon on the Mount, nor do I fear it in the story of the prodigal son. But when I stand at the cross, when I lift my eyes to the crucified Son of God, when I recall the words that He spoke: “God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son”—in the love that blazed in death, I can see something of the sin for which He died. I see it as I see it nowhere else. When I stand at the cross, I am, in my measure, permitted to see sin through the eyes of my God. The cross is the place of great awakening for sin ners. Nowhere else can I get the pain and the shame and the fear of sin a w a k e n e d at the cross.

To abide in the presence of God, until even knowledge of facts is saturated with passion for souls, until the burden of a dying world rolls on us so heavily that the only way to bear is to bear it with Him who bore it up to the cross—that is to find a whole night of prayer a rest and a relief. —A. T. P ierson . which I find

meration of the graces of a sanctified life, the apostle should put in the primary place a heart of pity: “Put ye on compassion.” Compassion is a part of the essential equipment of every true witness of the gospel of Jesus Christ, and it is the part of our equipment which may be most easily and carelessly destroyed. The Gospel of Grace and the Sense of Sin ny doctrine which unveils the holiness of God re veals also the horribleness of sin. If God were merely the easy-going, good-natured, lax and kind ly deity of many modern worshipers, sin would remain forever essentially unrevealed. If God would merely bend over His rebellious children, and say: “My children, I forgive you,” that might ease us, but it would never make us good. Forgiveness is a counterfeit if it decorates the sin it forgives. Such forgiveness only paves the way for a repetition of the offense. Where do we best see the horrors of sin ? They are seen where forgiveness is most truly revealed. I turn to m

Is Your Window Open? B aniel prospered very well in exile and had risen to remarkable power; but chains aré still chains, how ever they be guilded, and Daniel was a prisoner in Babylon. He would never again cross the fords of Jor dan, nor would he ever look again upon the holy city of Jerusalem. His prospects of return were hopeless. He was doomed to a perpetual separation. Yet, though all hope of seeing Jerusalem was vanished, we read that he opened his windows toward Jerusalem; and that his heart yearned as he prayed a't those open windows three .times a day. Every child of God, who is striving to live nobly, is struggling after things he can not reach. He has his Jeru salem ; but it is far away, and he knows that he will not see it on this side of the grave. Dimly, and as in mystical distance, he has grown conscious of an ideal character; but the failure and the flaw of every day, the, recurrent weakness, and the unbridled heart tell him too plainly

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bridle, they sped through the market place of every town and village and shouted the message to the astonished peo ple: “John Knox has come! John Knox has come!” The priests stood shivering and cowed at their fireless altars. The monks drew their cowls in sullen terror over them, and again, in the glad confidence of God’s messenger sent to help her, Scotland took out the solemn league from under her musty cloak and bound to her bosom the gos pel of the free grace of God. The whole land surged with excitement. This happened at the coming of a faithful minister of the cross of Christ. But oh, what will it be to this weary earth when a white cloud appears on the horizon and rolls up to the zenith—when instead of the minister, the Master will come; when instead of the Chris tian, the Christ will appear; when instead of the cry at midday: “John Knox has come,” there will be the cry at midnight : “Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him” ! “Jesus is coming! Shput the glad word! Coming for those He redeemed by His blood; Coming to earth as the glorified Lord. Jesus is coming again! Do not Set Dates e are opposed to date setting. We do not know when our Lord will come. But we are sure that 1936 will not be the year of His coming to reign, for we have no idea of passing through the great tribula tion, or any part of it. We are not looking for the Anti christ. Personally, I hope I shall never see him. He will not be manifest until He that hindereth—the Holy Spirit— shall be taken out of the way. When the Holy Spirit is taken, I do not expect to remain. We are opposed to date setting for the following rea sons : 1. No one on earth may be absolutely sure when our Lord will come. 2. When we make guesses, and our guesses do not come true, we are immediately discredited as de pendable Bible teachers; and we have no right to subject ourselves to just criticism. 3. It has been universally true of those who become interested in date setting that they misinterpret the plainest Scripture passages in trying to prove their point. 4. Date setting robs us of the inspiration of the imminency of Christ’s coming. If our Lord’s coming is to be a year from now, or two years from now, we would not be asking for financial sup port to train young men and women for the mission fields —for our students would never reach their goal. I am looking for the Lord Jesus Christ today. How I wish He would come today! But His coming may be ten or more years in the future. In the meantime, may He give us grace and strength to do exactly the things He wants done, while we wait patiently and confidently. “Jesus is coming! His saints to release;; Coming to bring to this weary world peace. Sinning and dying and sorrow shall cease. Jesus is coming again! “Jesus is coming, is coming again! Jesus is coming, is coming again 1 Shout the glad tidings o’er mountain and plain, Jesus is coming again!”

that he is far from it. It is when we are keenly sensible to that distance that lye are sometimes tempted to despair. It is in such hours that we fall to lower levels and we grow homesick. We say we shall never see Jerusalem; so let us be content with our little room. God wants us to be like Daniel, flinging wide the lattice toward that which we can never reach in this life—to fling wide our windows toward the unobtainable and, by the open casement, to kneel in prayer. And though the love and purity we long for, and all the depth and strength of perfect character, be as far distant from our hungry heart as Judaea was from the yearning heart of Daniel, yet, in the very crav ing lies nobility and the pledge of that attainment which is to be ours in the tearless morning. Today, in the sunshine and love of God, in the land where there is no fear of death nor need of temple, Daniel possesses and enjoys all that he craved when he opened his windows toward Jerusalem; Theology and Morality lot out the first eleven chapters of Romans. Begin with the twelfth. Begin with what some commenta tors would call the practical portion of the epistle. What then? The practical has become the impracticable. You can not expunge the theology of Romans and main tain the morality. Neither can you make the end of the fifth chapter the starting point in the Epistle to the Gala tians and ignore the previous chapters. Why? The first five chapters contain the root. The rest of the epistle is but the culture of the fruit. The Epistle to the Galatians is a passionate appeal and warning to people out of whose minds the primary truth was fading, and in whose lives moral enthusiasm was de clining. They had begun their religious lives in the power of the gospel of grace and its great truths had energized them with healthy moral passion. We are able to stand firm, strong, and irresistible only when our loins are “girt about with truth.” If we forget the truth, the soul loses its vigor, sinks into moral laxity, becomes sluggish and limp. It is true in the history of the visible church that, when the great doctrines of grace were dethroned, the passion for holiness was chilled. The same thing is true today. When we exalt the fundamental truths of the gospel, moral enthusiasm will abound. When we stress the great doctrines of grace, under the power of the Holy Spirit, consciences will be quickened, the sense of sin will be revived, the chilled passions for holiness will be rekindled and reinflamed. A theology revitalized under the Spirit’s guidance will cre ate a reempowered and unimpaired morality. You may expect a great revival in your congregation when your pastor preaches a series of expository sermons on the Book of Romans or the Epistle to the Galatians. Waiting hen the . cause of Christ was almost dead in old Scotland, a few faithful ones sent an urgent mes sage to John Knox in Geneva, where he was stay ing in exile: “John Knox, come to Scotland.” John Knox accepted the summons and came to Scotland once more. One bright day the news spread through Edinburgh that John Knox was coming up from Leigh. The horsemen sprang to their steeds, and with foam flying from bit and

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CiJt'escn i- CJjav c J ii iß llm en f q / ì PROPHECY ... By LOUIS S. BAUMAN

THE BEGINNING OF SORROWS M atthew 24:6-12; L uke 21 :25-28 m man may boast that he is an unbeliever so far as the Bible is concerned. Yet, how he can read thoughtfully the words of the Master in Matthew 24:6 to 12, and in Luke 21 :25 to 28, and remain without some fear and misgiving, is hard to understand. It is hardly possible to put into words a clearer description of the dark days that have come so suddenly upon the whole world, and of the fears that seem to paralyze the minds of men. It is for the unbeliever to explain how any unin spired writer, living nearly two thousand years ago, could describe so vividly the exact state of the world’s mind today. On the other hand, how any real believer can meditate upon these passages, and not be thrilled to the very core of his being with a glad and glorious expectancy, is like wise hard to understand. For these words came from the lips of the Master, in response to the earnest query of His disciples: “Tell us, . . . what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the age?” Wars and Rumours of Wars nd ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars.” What intelligent reader of the world’s newspapers and magazines does not know that, for the last seventeen years, “wars and rumours of wars” have formed the world’s chief topic of conversation? It is even now nothing less than the “wars” of the immediate past and present that is troubling the whole world, and out of which arise the problems that today stagger the world’s statesmanship. And nothing less than “rumours of wars” impending is striking the heart of the whole world with terror, and paralyzing its industry with haunting fear. “Nation shall rise against nation.” Did we see these words in their literal fulfillment, when nearly all the na tions of the earth sent forth their armies and encircled the earth with their battle-lines from 1914 to 1918? That holocaust, according to one of the very highest authorities, cost the nations of the earth 35,380,000 lives, 9,829,000

of which were military deaths. In Europe alone, it left between twelve and fourteen million children orphaned, bereft of parental care, home, comfort, and opportunity— of nearly everything that should be the heritage of a gen eration' destined to be the life of tomorrow. It sent great nations into material bankruptcy, beggaring the children of many for a hundred years ahead. Worse still is the moral and spiritual bankruptcy, beside which the financial bankruptcy is a small item. Surely we are not failing to weigh our words when we say that nothing more is needed to fulfill the prophecy that “nation shall rise against nation.” And if the World War did not completely ful fill it, we. may turn to the statesmen, not a few of whom are anticipating a world cataclysm tomorrow that will fulfill i t ! Famines and Pestilences nd there shall be famines.” Certainly! They always follow in the wake of battle! Since the World War we have had, not one, but half a dozen famines, scarcely equalled in the world’s history. And even now, one fa mine threatens to make any other the world has known look like an insignificant affair. Some months ago, the China Famine Relief, the highest authority on the subject, informed the world that 8,000,000 Chinese have starved to death in the last three years; and that 2,000,000 more probably will have starved to death before the end of 1931. And now as we write, conies news of a disaster of first magnitude, coming right on top of the already seem ingly unbearable sorrows of that unhappy nation. “Thirty millions homeless and fifteen millions destitute,” says one reliable report. Other reports exceed these figures. “Thir ty millions homeless!” One-fourth the population of the United States ! Contemplate it. Conceive of it if you can. “And pestilences.” Certainly! As famine follows war, so pestilence follows famine. And it will not be surprising if a pestilence unequalled in human history shall yet be added to the' terrors now sweeping over China. Be that as it may, there will be few who read this who can not recall the pestilence that swept not only the lands, but also the seas, of the earth, in 1918. In spite of the advanced

W A IT ING , W ATCH ING , W ORK ING B y A nna R. G adsden , # North Finchley, England

V, i f RE we waiting, watching, working, / — For our coming Bridgroom, King — Are our lamps well-trimmed and burning,

There are tumults ’mong the nations, Blinded Israel seek their land, But in spite of lawless progress God has some who understand. Famine, pestilence, and sword, We may wait with calm endurance, To■be caught up to our Lord. ’Mid the awful tribulation,

Do our chastened spirits sing? Signs and portents all around us, Tell us that the hour is near, When with all the hosts of heaven He will in the clouds appear.

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of sorrows” upon an unregenerate generation. The “sor rows” themselves you will never see. To the Christian of Philadelphian heart and mind, the covenant-keeping God has promised: “I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth” (Rev. 3:10). . Again: “Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man (Lk. 21:36). And, “likewise also as it was in the day of Lot . . . the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed” (Lk. 17:28-30). Lot must go out before the judgments fall. God will call the church up to Christ, her Head (1 Thess. 4 :13-18), before the real sorrows of the world’s day of greatest tribulation comes. There is a beautiful legend that comes to us from the orthodox Jews of Poland. A man went to a blaqksmith and asked him what he was doing. “I am shoeing a horse for Messiah to ride, when He comes.” The man went on a little farther and found a weaver. “What are you doing?” he asked. “I am weaving cloth for a coat for Messiah to wear, when He comes.” Again the man went on, and this time he found an embroiderer. “What are you doing ?” he asked. “I am embroidering a coat for Messiah to wear, when He comes,” was the answer. Again and again and again, over and over, in a hun dred different ways, our Heavenly Father is indicating to the world of men that the day of the Messiah is n e a r - nearer than all but a few faithful Simeons may realize. Those that are wise, whether “shoeing” or “weaving” or “embroidering,” should be doing all as unto Him, that they may be ready and not ashamed when He comes. Rev. Frank E. lindgren T he K ing ’ s B usiness desires to announce that Rev. and Mrs. Lindgren are sane and safe evangelists and sing ers..Any congregation that wishes an evangelistic meeting will not be disappointed in securing the services of these worthy people. Address Rev. Frank E. Lindgren, c/o President W. P. White, Bible Institute, 536 South Hope Street, Los Angeles, California. An Encouraging Outlook As T he K ing ’ s B usiness goes to press, the Super intendents of Men and Women of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles report many applications for admission for the fall term. This justifies us in saying that the incoming student body will be the largest in the history of the Insti tute. We have great reason to thank God and to take new courage. The Music Department will be in charge of Professor J. B. Nield, director of the choir of the First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood. A department of Eng lish will be conducted under the direction of Miss Ida Woods. Every branch of the work will be well taken care of. Dr. White is at present in the East, holding Bible con ferences in Winnipeg and Toronto, and speaking also in Montreal, Boston, and New York.

medical skill of .our own America, great cities had diffi culty in securing coffins for the dead. History does not' record a more far-reaching plague, having a greater num ber of fatalities, than that strange malady known as “the flu.” Earthquakes ~ 7 ~ r nd earthquakes , in divers places.” All through the W 'll ages, earthquakes have terrorized humanity. But, so far as human history records, no generation has ever stood on such a tottering, trembling old earth as has our own. The tragic thing is that the masses of men are so blind to the signs that God is giving to warn them of appalling judg ments ahead, that even the very earth shaking beneath them does not awaken them out of their sleep. They know not that Christ solemnly foretold that a quaking earth would be one of thè last signs God would give the world to • signify “the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain” (Heb. 12:27).' Before “the stone,” as Daniel foretold, falls crashing upon the king doms of the earth, and the wind sweeps them away as chaff from a threshing floor, there is to be a multiplication of earthquakes— a whole world a-tremble. As we write, there lies before us a clipping from the Literary Digest (May 16, 1931). A leading article be gins : “E arthquakes E nough and to S pare .” The first lines read : “Forty-three earthquakes in four months, six of them major disasters to life and property in widely scattered parts of the world, is the appalling seismic record of 1931 to the end of April. Eleven quakes in January, eleven in February, thirteen in March, culminat ing in the catastrophe that on the thirty-first overtook Managua in Nicaragua, and eight in April, tell the story of an abnormally trembling earth.” The article goes on to point out that every land on earth has felt the “abnor mal” shaking, and that two “were midocean earthquakes on opposite sides of the earth.” Since this article was written, many other quakes have gone on record, among them the worst one that Great Britain has ever expe rienced. Since the World War, the two greatest earth quakes of modern times, if not the greatest of all time, have taken place—the one in Japan, when the Pacific Ocean was so disturbed that its waters were hurled even upon the shores of South America, and the other in Kan su, China, when mountains literally were moved two miles, and when 200,000 people were killed. Unrest and disorganization everywhere in human af fairs, unrest and disorganization everywhere in nature— it seems impossible to doubt that, in it all, we have the rumblings of the coming outpouring of the vials of God’s wrath upon a Christ-rejecting world. Since 1914, the greatest war, the greatest famines, the greatest pestilence, and the greatest earthquakes the world has ever known have all occurred. If these things are not to be seriously considered in the light of Christ’s words in Matthew 24 : . 6 to 8, then what sort of events must come before we are to understand them as warnings that “the end of the age” is ,at hand ? The Portion of Believers > / I' ars and rumours of wars,” famines, pestilences, U L J earthquakes—these are but a few of the many signs of which we have been speaking from month to month on this page. But, children of God, let not fear be given a place in your hearts. These things are only “the beginning

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no right to be timid. We have no right to be afraid of anything or anybody. Christ’s name is the banner, and in the authority and power of His name, we march forth without fear. Encouraged by Almighty God and by the language of Christ, who said that the gates of hell should not prevail against His church, we double-quick our pace to the hilltops of complete victory. In whose name, in whose power, under whose banner

“And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him” (Col. 3:17). , ll hf . text is all-comprehensive. It says: “Whatsoever ye do in word or deed.” In other words, the whole life must be articulated in Christ. There

has our work been done ? There has been but one per sonality in it all; namely, Jesus Christ. There has been but one purpose—-to serve Him. There has been but one encouraging experience and fact—the presence and power of Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit. We need not recount the past except to acknowledge our profound gratitude for His presence, His powers and His enabling in doing the work that has been done. But let us look to the future. What has been accomplished can be multiplied many fold, pro vided we move forward in His name, by His authority, and in the exercise of His power. P reach ing a F ull G ospel Let us enter the pulpit in the name and the power and the authority of Christ, to preach the full gospel. Let us, without fear or favor, present the fact of sin, the reality of the judgment, and the glorious experience of r edemp t i on through Christ. These three facts, if properly presented, ought to change the face of society. We are convinced that the moral collapse from which the

are no words outside that sphere that one can use, and there are no deeds outside that realm that one can perform. It is an all-comprehensive rule, and it demands a life abso lutely consecrated to Christ. T h e A uthority of th e N ame In the name of Christ is authority. Christ is Lord and Master. He is supreme. He pronounced His absolute au thority when He sent us forth to evangelize the world. He vested His name with super natural authority and said that His name, and His name alone, was to be the credential which we were to offer to the world. That name is sufficient to cause every scepter to sur render, to lift every crown, and to open every door. It is in His name, and by the au thority of His name, that we have moved thus far across the continent of time. We do not go before the world, begging the world to open its doors. We do not beg the world to support us, to de fend us, or to protect us; but in the authority of the name of Christ, we demand that the w o r l d render unto God the t h i n g s that are God’s.

DR. MATTHEWS, PASTOR OF FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, SEATTLE. WASH.

There is supernatural power in the name of Christ. The world knows this and has always known it. That is the reason it hated Christ and wanted to crucify Him. That is the reason it hates the church today and would destroy it if it could. That is the reason the world hates the true ministers of Christ and would burn them at the stake if it dared to do so. That is the meaning of the pas sage in which Christ said, “persecuted for righteousness’ sake.” When we go in the name, in the authority, and in the power of Christ, the enmity and hatred of the world is immediately aroused. There is also encouragement, in His name. We have

country is now suffering is due to the fact that the pulpit has not emphasized the heinousness of sin, the reality of hell and the judgment, and the possibility of instantaneous salvation by belief in Jesus Christ. We have turned to other experiments. We have tried legislation, education, and the glorification of organization without discipline. Legislation and human statutes can not instill principles, can not change hearts, can not build characters. Legisla tion is for the purpose of confining the criminal, not for the purpose of polishing the righteous. Outside of Christ, and outside of the principles of Christianity, legislation is futile and fruitless.

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duties, thinking they will thereby soothe their consciences and be able to say to the world: “We are doing good.” But while they are doing good in a superficial way, they are .abandoning the church; they are neglecting their church obligations; they are getting away from God, es caping responsibility, and repudiating the doctrine of ac countability to God. The church is the only place for the Christian man. In the name and authority of Christ, he can accomplish in the whole field of Christian activities all that God would have him accomplish. R esponsibility to O ur F ellow M en Men are forgetting that they are responsible for their fellow men. Why is the church not actively engaged in the work of rescuing men? Thousands are standing in the bread lines today. One who has occupied the presidential chair says—-and rightly says—that a large percentage of those who are in the bread line are there due to the fact that men have forgotten God and the moral principles involved in the Christian life and experience. Whose fault is it? Have we lost sight of the fact that we are our brother’s keeper? By simply furnishing a soup table for the passing bread line, we are not keeping our brothers. Why have we not evangelized? Why have we not stabil ized, by the inculcation of moral principles, this vast army of men who are today turning against God and against the government? ■ Irt whose name are we going to do this? In the name of Christ, in the authority and power of His name, let Us move forward. The past has been glorious, the present is momentous, and the future is big with possibilities. In His name and authority, let us proceed!

There can be no scholarship without a Biblical foun dation. Without a moral and Christian foundation, educa tion results in equipping depraved humanity with expert knowledge and technique that make possible the commis sion of crime. Education alone never changed a depraved heart nor created a right spirit. It can not equip with moral power and technique an immoral character and a degenerate heart. It is folly to establish political government, or any other kind of organization, and to leave out discipline. Authority and responsibility must be followed with ac countability. There must be judgment, there must be pen alties, and there must be enforcement of the penalties. But' if characters are not regenerated, if the individual citizen is not saved, society is not improved by the incar ceration of a few. It is the breaking down of the con sciousness of moral accountability that is destroying the life of this country. M oral and S piritual W ork I nside the C hurch Men must be brought to realize also that their great moral and spiritual work must be done inside the church. There are more pagans today using the service clubs as an excuse and as a solace to their burning con sciences than ever before in the history of the country. The service luncheon club has no authority. It does not teach accountability; it does not speak against the great sins, the moral wrongs, and the social collapses of the day; but it does offer an opportunity to feed a hungry child, to furnish crutches to a crippled man, or to buy a bathing pool for some athletically inclined group. Men eagerly enter into the performance of. those superficial

HOW PRAYER BUILT A CHURCH . . . By ELLA G. BENNETT, * Los Angeles, Calif.

hile in Guatemala, Central America,, as a missionary, I was first located in the little town of Santa Maria de Jesus. At that time, there were: twenty-one Indian believers in this town, and there was a little church partly built. One day I said to the missionary, in charge, “If the Lord should \ send me the money in answer to prayer, might I finish this little church?” He replied, “I should say so! It has stood like this for several years, and the mis sion has not had the money to finish it.”

explained tp the Christians that we would pray that the workmen would not have to leave the work until it was completed, that God would send in all the money needed to pay the workmen at the end of each week, and that enough might also be received to buy materials for the following week. Week after week, the money came as needed. After the church was all inclosed, the car penters still had considerable work to do. They had to put in the windows and make the benches and the pulpit, etc. At this juncture

So we prayed, the Indian believers and myself, that the money would come. •After a short time, enough money was received to enable us to finish the roof and to put in the two ends of the building. Then I sent for carpenters to begin the work, at the same time .telling the Indians not to let the carpenters know that we did not have enough money on hand to finish the church, for they would not stay if they thought we had only a handful of money. I ♦Miss Bennett is a graduate of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles.

they said, “We are going to finish this work by contract.” But I answered, “Oh, I would rather have you go on as you have been doing, by the day.” “No,” they replied, “we want to do it by contract.” “Well,” I said, “how much will the contract cost?” “Seventy-five dollars,” was the answer. “When do you wish the money ?” “When the work is done.” Again I questioned, “When will it be finished?” One of them answere.d, “Two weeks from today.”

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I replied, “After you have finished your work tonight, come to my house, and I will give you my answer.” I was much in prayer throughout that day. The one verse which came to my mind repeatedly was this: “And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform.” I did not know how He would per form it, but I felt confident that He would. Surely it would not have been an act of faith to have dismissed the men when the Lord had put His seal upon the work in such a marvelous way. Therefore, when the workmen came to the house that night, I told them to draw up the contract and I would sign it. Within two weeks, I must have seventy-five dollars! The following Friday, I sent my Indian worker, Juan, to Quezaltenango for my mail. He brought me seven or eight letters, but not one of them contained a check. I had thought that the Lord would send me that week at least some of the money necessary for the building of the church. But He did not. It did not matter, however, be cause I had enough' money for food, and the Indian worker did not need to be paid until the next week. The following Friday, Juan again made the trip for the mail, returning with fifteen letters. I spread them out before me to see what the prospects were. One was only a form letter, I thought. That was laid aside; there was no need to open it at all. The other letters were opened one by one. I did not stop to read them. I was looking for checks. In the next to the last envelope there was a check for fifteen dollar's. That was good; it would pay the Indian worker, buy corn for the horse, and provide the missionary’s food for the coming week. Then the last letter was opened. It contained no money. “Well, Juan,” I said, “the money for the church did not come.” “What will you do?” returned Juan. “The Lord is not restricted to means,” I answered. “He does not have to send the money in letters. He can send it in some other way. It does not have to be here until to morrow afternoon at four o’clock. A few days ago, I told you that I knew the money was on the way, for I had the assurance that the Lord had answered our prayer. There fore, I know the money will come.” “Oh,” the Indian replied very expressively. Then he added, “Why don’t you open that other letter?” “Why, Juan,” I told him, “that is only a business letter.” “Well,” said he, “open it anyway.” I did, and I found that it contained a check for sev enty-five dollars! It was from the Student Missionary Union of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles. I had seen a notice in T he K ing ’ s B usiness to the effect that Bible Institute missionaries on the field could become active members of this organization by signing a pledge card, and that they could send in requests for prayer which would be remembered by the members of the student organization. I had written at once: “I want to become an active member. Kindly send me the pledge card. I am sending my request for prayer in advance. Please pray for the needs of the little church which we are building in Santa Maria, that the workmen will not have to leave until the church is finished, and that the money will come in as it is needed.” The week I signed the contract in Central America, the Student Missionary Union received my letter in Los Angeles. The young people prayed about various needs. Some one moved that they send me fifty dollars, and some one else suggested that they make it seventy-five.

The morning after receiving the money, I mounted my horse at four o’clock and rode up the mountain to Qtiezaltenango to cash the checks. I was in the saddle for eight hours—four hours going, and four hours re turning. It was not considered safe for a woman to ride along that road alone, meeting Indians of many different tribes. But I had no fear, for I know the Lord was with me. As I passed the Indians, I said to myself, “They will never believe that a woman is out on this road alone. They will think that I have a guide behind me. And when they, are far enough behind me to find out I have no guide, I will be far enough ahead of them to make it impossible for them to overtake me.” Reaching the city, I cashed the checks and bought my provisions for the week, saving out the required amount for the Indian worker and the horse. I arrived at Santa Maria at exactly five minutes to four, and called, in and paid off the workmen. That night we had a wonderful prayer meeting in the little new church. The building had cost $400.00, and the Lord had sent in every cent ip di rect answer to prayer. Children’s Special Service Mission new work , the Children’s Special Service Mission, is being sponsored by the Bible Institute of Los An geles. This plan, which originated in England, provides for an evangelical, interdenominational work for children to be carried on at the beaches. Branches of the mission are found in England, Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and India. The mission’s first appearance in the United States was made possible through the generosity of a Canadian friend of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles. The work was carried on at Manhattan Beach, Calif-., during the month of July by a group of five Bible Insti tute students with their chaperones. As soon as the blue and white C.S.S.M. banner was seen on the beach, chil dren came running. Meetings were held each morning in which chorus singing, Scripture memorizing, and Bible study had a part. Young people’s meetings were held each week and also a Bible class, for adults. In the afternoons, there were contests and programs of various kinds. These included the making of sand gar dens, the telling of Bible stories, and the finding of “hid den treasure.” Hand work also had a place. Each child who took part in four contests was awarded a prize. Among the most popular contests was that of Scripture writing on the sand. Many texts were very cleverly por trayed. The entries were graded as to neatness and orig inality. As prizes, Bible story books, Scripture painting books, Testaments, texts, and Scripture puzzles were given. The children were greatly interested. At the final meeting, sixteen boys and girls definitely confessed Christ as their Saviour. Many of this number had never attended a Protestant Sunday-school and might never have heard the simple gospel story as they heard it on the beach. The way is open at the present time for the C.S.S.M. to be continued in California next summer. A number of parents have expressed their desire to see the work con tinued. In Canada, where it has been carried on for a number of years, it has been found that some of the most active Christian workers trace their conversion to a C.S.S.M. meeting. Let us pray that the work may not, only be resumed next summer at Manhattan Beach, but that it may spread to other beaches all along the Pacific Coast.

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