THE K I N G ' S BU S I NE S S
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Matthews’ church, or o f the scores o f souls that came to Christ there and in the Swedish Tabernacle, as well as in other churches. The nineteenth annual convention Fundamentalists, o f the World’s Christian Fundamen- on to tals Association will be held in To- Toronto! ronto, Canada, May 3 to 10. The day sessions will be held in the People’s Church, 100 Bloor East, and the evening sessions will be held simultaneously at the People’s Church, the St. John’s Evangelical Church in the east end o f the city, and the High Park Baptist Church in the west end. On the two Sunday evenings, the meetings will be held in Massey Hall, placed at the disposal o f the Association by the city of Toronto. The Windsor Arms at St. Thomas and Sultan Streets will be the official hotel headquarters. The hotel manage ment offers a $2.50 room for $2.00, or at a rate o f $12.00 a week, for those attending the Convention. Each atten dant will make his or her own reservation by communicat ing directly with the hotel. Toronto is strategically located, being 430 miles from Chicago and 330 miles from New York, so that people in the Middle West and East can reach it in a day’s journey. Indications are that there will be large delegations from these areas, and other representatives are expected from more distant places. “ The Evangelization o f the World in this Decade” will be the Convention theme. W e who are concerned in this gathering are meeting in a time o f storm and stress, when the world is asking for the way out. Man has failed in his attempts to solve personal, moral, social, civic, po litical, national, and international problems. W e meet to find God’s answer and His panacea. Two o f the most significant movements o f our day are the Laymen’s Movement and the Child Evangelism Move ment. There is a real awakening among Christian laymen, and they are hearing and heeding the call o f God to evan gelize. Many are being stirred to recognize their respon sibility to the childhood o f the world. The next great re vival will be a laymen’s and children’s revival. W e should be sensitive to the promptings, and movements o f the Holy Spirit. The Toronto Convention will seek to give an impetus to this twofold revival that has begun, and Lay Evan-
gelism and Child Evangelism will be emphasized. From the standpoint o f mechanical aids, the world could be evangelized in ten years because o f modern transportation and communication. And if God’s people could be aroused to recognize the challenge of the present hour, we; cfiuld reach the world in a decade. W e owe every man, woman, and child one opportunity to accept the Lord Jesus Christ; The World’s Christian Fundamentals Association hereby issues a call to ^Christian workers from all part§';pf the world to come to Toronto to confer, pray, ancbplán fot the evangelization o f the world in a decade. The program will be built around this central theme, and the best speakers available are being invited to discuss various phases o f the subject. At least an hour a day will be used for general discussion. W e are expecting the greatest convention in the history o f the movement. Let every evangelical Christian pray for the convention and plan to attend if possible. The program is not complete as yet, but we have reason able assurance that the following speakers will be present: W . B. Riley, pastor o f the First Baptist Church, Minne apolis, and President o f the Northwestern Bible School; Charles G. Trumbull, editor o f the Sunday School Times; W . H. Rogers, pastor o f the First Baptist Church, New York C ity; George Douglas, formerly o f the Faith Mission College, Edinburgh, and the South Wales Bible Training Institute; Donald G. Barnhouse, pastor o f the Tenth Pres byterian Church, P h ila d e lp h ia , Pa.; Ethel S. Low, Sunday-school specialist, Modesto, Calif.; Clifford L. Lewis, director o f the Young People’s Fellowship Club Movement; Howard W . Ferrin, President o f the Provi dence Bible Institute, Providence, R. I., and Paul W . Rood. The following Toronto pastors and leaders have joined Oswald J. Smith, pastor o f the People’s Church and chair man of the Toronto committee, in inviting the convention, and are cooperating in the preparatory w ork : W . H. Adam son, A . W . Banfield, J. A . Barnes, A . G. Bentley, Alfred Bright, E. A . Brownlee, D. N. Cameron, O. S. Clappison, J. H. Cook, G. S. Despard, A . W . Fuller, R. K. Gonder, W . M. Hayler, John F. Holliday, F. W . Hollinrake,. George W . Hunter, John Gibson Inkster, H. N. Konkle, John Linton, David Mason, William A. Nesbit, F. Noel Palmar, William Price, E. J. Pudney, Mr. Roach, R. Thompson, J. B. Thomson, and Ralph Turner. A well-known preacher who is known to Blowing be vitriolic and hypercritical was shaking hands Out with members o f his congregation after the Lights service. A woman who had been a parishoner o f the church in years gone by and who was now engaged in full-time Christian work was in the com pany that was greeted by the pastor. “ Well, Laura, are you still letting your light shine?” asked the preacher. “ Yes, Doctor,” she replied, “ just like you are, and I am blowing out everybody else’s light just like you are.” There is no record of the results o f this rebuke. One o f the greatest tragedies in Christian work today is the jealousy that prevails among Christian workers, and the destructive, sinful criticisim o f fellow workers. Satan must gloat over this phenomenon and the havoc it has wrought. W e must be uncompromising in our loyalty to Christ and the Word and in our hatred o f sin, but this obligation does not mean that we should be harsh and bitter and hypercritical toward our fellows. Let us re member the wise advice: “ We should not add to the offense o f the cross our own offensiveness.” Why should a Christian worker magnify and broad cast the faults and failures o f a fellow worker ? Some be- [Continued on page 159]
People's Church, Toronto, where World's Christian Fundamentals Convention will be held May 3 to 10, 1936.
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