October 1931
T h e K i n g ’ s
B u s i n e s s
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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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