July 1927
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Replies to a questionnaire sent out by the International Advertising Association tend to show that college students have not lost all religious faith. Undergraduates of 100 colleges, to the number of 36,000, replied. Ninety percent claimed to believe in God, immortality, and prayer as a means of personal rela tionship with God. The percentage fell, however, on the ques tions of the inspiration of the Scriptures and the deity of Christ. This may well cause us to wonder what the conception of many of them is, as to God. We are being told in these days that the only God there is, is man. It was Christ who came to reveal God, and Scripture declares that the true God is known only by those who know Jesus Christ as “God manifest in the flesh.” * * * In spite of the extraordinary condition of things in China during 1926, the American Bible Society reports the best year in its history. The biggest printing orders it ever placed set the presses humming. The biggest leather binding contracts ex hausted the local leather markets. The biggest circulation fig ures ever totalled record this year-’s work, the year’s distribu tion reaching .3,821,393 Bibles, Testaments and portions of the Scriptures, an increase of close to 100,000 over the preceding year. * * * A secular magazine makes the following quotation from Luther Burbank: I declare with all the force and sincerity I have that no man will receive eternal or any other judgment because of what he believes, but because of how he lives.” Many others have imagined there was great show of wisdom in statements of this kind. After all, is this such a crushing blow at Scripture as they fancy ? “By their fruits ye shall know them!" Faith without works is dead." And was there ever a man who lived right who did not first have right beliefs? Find us a man anywhere, who does not have some kind of a creed! It is |afe to say that the world’s most godly people have been those who have had the most profound belief in the Bible as a divine revelation. * * * Harry Lauder, the Scotch entertainer, is well known in this country. It is interesting to know that recently, when a Sunday- Games protest meeting was held in England, Harry Lauder sent the following letter, which in its determined witness to the divine character of Sunday is worthy of the imitation of many of the professional leaders of Christian thought: I am against Sunday theatre shows, and I have
A STUDY OF KIDDIES . A GIRL OF TH E HILL PEOPLE OF INDIA AND A LAD OF CH INA ‘STOWING AWAY TH E RICE ( k e y s t o n e v ie w s ) ‘ A'lc-■ * Wr A Word to Literary Contributors E DITORS find it extremely embarrassing when articles which have been accepted for publica tion appear simultaneously in several different mag azines. An article which we recently printed we dis covered in six other magazines the same month. As none of these gave credit to any other publica tion it is evident that each editor had accepted the article under the impression that he had been given the exclusive use of it. In two other instances recently after we had gone to the expense of putting articles in type, the same article reached our office in another publication before we had gone to press. This is not good ethics on the part of the con tributor. It places editors in the position of plag iarizing, and furthermore, most editors take pride in a magazine the contents of which are fresh and orig inal. Hereafter this magazine will accept manuscripts only with the understanding that the same article has not been submitted to and accepted by another pub lication, and that exclusive right is given to this paper. In the case of an important announcement the circumstances would, of course, be different. We regret to say also that some fail to realize that the contents of The King’s Business are in the making two months ahead of the publication date. Copy for our July issue, for instance, could not be received later than May 15th. We have failed to publish announcements of several important events because news of them was sent to us too late to be of service. We regret that among these an nouncements was that of the World’s Fundamental ists’ Association Conference, scheduled for May 1st to 8 th. The notice of this did not reach us until our May issue was in print and manifestly the issue ap pearing May 1st could render no service. Those having to do with such matters should favor us as far in advance as possible, otherwise thousands of homes may fail to receive news of important con ferences.
told my fellow artists that if we fail to uphold our religion and our Sunday, men will scorn us, women will weep for us, and children will be taught to hate the name of the theatre; and the curses of the gen erations to come will be for ever at the stage door. “Men who disregard God’s Word and God’s work can never hope to be respected. A man cannot buy respect: he must live the life to win it. When for the first time ! came to America, I had four Sunday performances, and a more miser able engagement I never fulfilled. I felt I was doing something against my religion, something which I had been taught by my mother was wrong. It was unnatural for me to work on the Sabbath, and I felt the shame of it. “I am a Scot, and I will die rather than disre gard God’s Word. “It would be better for me to go back to the mines, where at any rate Sunday is looked upon as God’s gift, and when a man can refresh himself for the next week’s labor.”.
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