A n excellent challenge is given to us in I Corinthians 16:13, “Quit you like men.” This means simply to discharge your obligations like men. Tom Thumb, who died at 45, was 20 inches tall. He never weighed over 22 lbs. He was noted for little ness. The need now is for men who are noted for spiritual bigness. Too many today seek compromise and neutrality. We need those who love God more than gold or pleasures. Where are those who will strengthen the defenses of civilization by ac knowledging the claims of Christ? Many live in a world of muddle. Faith’s wings are clipped by rea son’s scissors. Undisciplined liberal ism goes nowhere so fast it arrives out of breath, talking more and more of less and less. Evils that would lead all graces to the grave abound. Our land, muddled by riotous living, by scramble for gain, by insane campaigns for increased consump tion of liquor, have resulted in the largest federal prison population in our history. More lives were lost in the last decade by murder, suicide, homicide, and rapes than all the wars we have ever fought. We have an annual crime bill of $20 billion a year with a “booze” bill of $17 billion and more. Christianity is subjected to merci less analyses. Our world has a fever worse than that of Peter’s wife’s mother; it has a leprosy worse than that of Namaan the Syrian; a blind ness worse than that of eyeless Bar- timaeus; an insanity worse than that of Gadara’s wild man. Such a world lives in the day of judgment and likewise in the day of grace. If we quit ourselves like men, we will be magnificent in manhood like Enoch who walked with God; like
Abraham, the friend of God who had prayer power; like Joseph, who re fused the dirty proposal of Poti- phar’s wife; like Jacob, who con quered crookedness; like Moses, who chose to suffer affliction with God’s people; like Samuel, who lived a holy life; like Caleb, who followed the Lord fully; like Joshua, who never was stopped by obstacles; like Job, who, amid calamities, had faith in God; like Elijah, who faltered not when opposed by superior numbers; like Daniel who would not defile him self with booze; like Jehosophat, who prepared his heart to seek God; like John the Baptist who preferred the duties he owed to God to any danger that came from man; like Barnabas, the good man filled with the Holy Ghost and faith. Yes, we men who serve Christianity by sam ple, not by symbol. One does not encourage others to good health by exhibiting a dissipate ed face and emaciated muscles, nor do we prove the Spirit by the works of the flesh.
Picturedabove is the aproach to Myers Hall, key structure for TalbotTheological Seminary. This important school of Biola has an enroll ment this year of over 130.
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