T H E K I N G ' S - B U S I N E S S 549 “Who Is God? Who can tell? Perhaps the two most significant terms that are used in modern times are ‘Universal Soul’ and ‘Infinite Mind’.” “We all think that if Jesus were here today, He would think and act very differently from what He did 2000 years ago.” This was the climax for us. Sometimes enough is too much. We with drew to meditate and pray. A Sunday morning wasted! The Word of God denied! The Christ of God dishonored. The hungry hearts disappointed by the “ middleman’s” tool, instead of being fed by a man of God. Do you wonder that God says, “ Cry aloud! Spare not!” The people o f this country are ministering bountifully and gladly to the starving people of the East, but here at home, in this Bible land, men of this character are permitted to pose as preachers of the Gospel. God help America! —T. C. H. 3 » gfe PAINTING UP THE PUMP I t ’s the Dean of a big seminary again (we don’t like to refer to them so often), but he’s in a place of great power, and he utters “ great swelling words” that influence hundreds of people who do not study their Bibles. This is what he said in the Biblical World: “ We used to regard the foreign missionary as trying to save brands from the burning. Now we can see he is putting out the conflagration. The new social interest of Protestant Christianity wants to save men into heaven by embodying the principles of the kingdom in the state. It is less concerned in rescuing people than in educating them to keep out of danger. ” This is the new view of missions—education, social betterment, economic improvements. We have no time to see that men conceived in sin are regen-, erated by the Spirit of God. We have,no time to tell people there is “ none other name under heaven whereby they must be saved” (Acts 4:12). We are not concerned about the water in the well—the principal thing is to keep the pump shining with fresh green paint. But does increasing intelligence lessen crime in our own country—in foreign countries? We’ll all admit that it increases one’s chance of economic success, but what guarantee can it furnish that the educated citizen will have a new heart—will be a law-abiding citizen? In France they say that with the increase of higher learning the prisons have been more rapidly filled, and with a class of criminals that are even more subtle. The New York World recently pointed out that the worst crimes in America were being committed by men of trained intellects. Isn’t it about time we realize that education that leaves the conscience and the soul of a man untouched, is a subtle instrument of the devil? On top of the big dean’s statements about missions comes this answer from Chinese Christian leaders who were recently asked what kind of mis sionaries were needed in China: “ We must have missionaries who have a deep conviction of the funda mentals of the Bible. No foreigner can win us to a belief in what he only half believes.” Even the Chinese themselves can see the difference be tween purifying the water and painting the pump. —K. L. B.
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