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D r . G. C ampbell M organ , one of the world’s most noted Bible teachers, who has become a permanent member of the regular faculty, will speak on Bible subjects at 11:00 A. M. and 7: 30 P. M. from Monday to Friday, June 20 to 24. D r . J ohn M urdoch M ac I nn is , Dean of the Institute, will conduct a series of studies in Bible Psychology and Christian Philosophy from a practical point of view, June 20 to 24. D r . J ohn 'M c N eill ,, the great Scottish preacher, pastor Church of the Open Door, Los Angeles, also a regular member of the faculty, will speak morning and evening, June 27 to July 1. D r . C harles E. H urlburt , Superintendent of the Institute, will speak on “Blessings in High Places” at his morning hour, June 27 to July 1. D r . A rthur I. B rown , widely known surgeon of the Pacific Coast, will speak morning and evening on “Science and the Bible” from July 4 to 8. D r . R alph A tk inson , Associate Dean of the Institute, will conduct daily studies in “Prac tical Problems of Service,” July 4 to 8. CREDITS IN CHR IST IAN EDUCATION COURSE The Summer School classes for which there will be given credit in the National Council of Religious Education will be “The Teaching Values of the Old Testament,” by Rev. Albert E. Kelly; “The Use of the Story in Christian Education,” by Mrs. Laura Haugh; “Jesus, The Master Teacher,” by Miss Florence Chaffee; “Social and Recreational Leadership,” and “Directed Leadership for Girls,” in the afternoons, by Miss Ruth Walter. CREDITS IN MU S IC COURSE Classes will be conducted daily in Harmony, Conducting, Band and Orchestra. There will, also be electives in Counterpoint, Hymnology and Theory, and special coaching will be given in quartet and ensemble interpretation. Private lessons will be given by appointment in Voice, Piano, Pipe Organ, Violin and other orchestral instruments. Credits for work done may apply on Music Credential of the State Board of Education. A registration fee of $1.00 will be required for the Summer School Course. Tuition free except private music lessons, charges for which are nominal. Rooms with hot and cold running water at $4.50 to $6.00 per week, in thirteen story fire proof building. Combine a vacation trip of recreation and Bible study in Southern California’s delightful summer climateI Write for further information, addressing Extension Department, Bible Institute ot Los Angeles 536-558 South Hope Street, Los Angeles, California
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PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY AND REPRESENTING THE BIBLE INSTITUTE OF LOS ANGELES J ohn M urdoch M ac I n n is , .Editor-in-Chief K eith L. B rooks , Managing Editor C harles E. H urlburt , Associate Editor Volume XV III June, 1927 Number 6
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS BIBLE INSTITUTE OF LOS ANGELES J. M. I rvine , President H oward F rost , Vice-President A. A ddison M axwell , Treasurer C. E. F uller , Secretary C. A. Lux, Asst. Secretary H. B. E vans N athan N ewby W illiam H azlett J. M. R ust M rs . L yman S tewart
D r . J ohn M. M ac I n n is , Dean D r . R alph A tkinson , !;;* Associate Dean , ' R ev . J ohn H . H unter , Secretary of Faculty. R ev . W illiam H-. P ik e , Secretary Evening School R ev . A lan S. P earce Secretary Cor. School R ev . A lbert E. K elly , Student Secretary D r . G. C ampbell M organ D r . J ohn M c N eill D r . C harles E. H urlburt C hristian M. B ooks P rof . A lfred A. B utler M iss M arie C arter M iss F lorence C haffee R ev . J ohn A. H ubbard P rof . H. W . K ellogg M iss R uth W alter P rof . H. G. T ovey P rof . J. B. T rowbridge M iss C harlotte L. W oodbridge H . W . B oyd , M. D.
EDITORIALS The Infallible Christ................ ....—— Hams .................................................... Now for the Confessional.................. Is the Bible a Product of Evolution?. A Practical Word to Teachers,—....... All Ready for Another War.............. Sunspot Activity ...........,.......... — - Editorial Flashlights .......................... * * * * ARTICLES The Latest Piffle............................. The King With the Golden Touch ■ - R e v . A. D. Belden ................. Scriptural Psychology—-J. M. M... The Case Against Krishnamurti —Rev. W. C. Kleindienst......... The Prosperity of the Wicked—K. L. B. A Double Blessing—Dr. F. E. Marsh,....... How to be Kept—Rev. H. S. Miller......... ... Children of the Sun.................. ................... In A Far Country—Mrs. A. S. Reitz.,.— . Plain Teachings Concerning Prevalent Sins —Mrs. May HalL............ ..............—...... Behold the Cross—Dr. David J . Burrell.... * ■* * * DEPARTMENTS Defenders Columns ...—....— ...... ............... Passages that Perplex ...........— ................. Finest of the Wheat........................ ,............. Striking Stories of God’s Workings..—..— Children’s Garden ........................................ International Lesson Commentary ....... ...... Prophetic Study-gDavid L. Cooper............ Biola Table Chat....................... ................. — Literature Table ..........................................
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POLICY AS DEFIN ED BY THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF TH E BIBLE INSTITUTE OF LOS ANGELES (a) To sta n d for th e in fallib le W ord of God and its g re a t fu n d am en tal tru th s , (b) To stre n g th e n th e fa ith of a ll believers, (c) To stir young m en and wom en to fit them selves fo r and engage in definite C h ristia n w ork, (d) To m ake th e Bible In s titu te of Los A ngeles know n, (e) To m agnify God our F a th e r and th e person, w ork and com ing of ou r L ord Je su s C h rist, and to tea cn m e tra n sfo rm in g pow er of th e Holy S p irit in our p re sen t p ra ctic a l life, (f) To em phasize in stro n g , co n stru ctiv e m essages th e g re a t foun d atio n s of C h ristian faith . _____ _____________ __ 536-558 S. Hope Street BIBLE INSTITUTE OF LOS ANGELES Los Angeles, California
OR:THE: FIRST:TIME IN : ITS : HISTORY the B ible I nstitute of L os A ngeles is making a general appeal to the Christian public for funds. While M r. Lyman Stewart lived he very generously cared for the needs of the work and whenever there was a deficit, he usually wrote his personal check to meet it. Now that he is gone, the Institute must look to other friends to take his place. If the Church of Christ is going to measure up to its responsibility in our day, it must have carefully trained teachers and leaders for its Sunday Schools and Young People’s work, as well as for its preaching ministry. These teachers and leaders must be men and women with a genuine Christian experience and a passion for their work. § | The Institute is definitely committed to the task of training such work' ers. It is interdenominational and earnestly seeks to cooperate with and serve all evangelical churches and pastors . . . . This year we are graduating a class of one hundred and forty-nine, twenty-eight of whom have taken the three years course, which means that they have had twenty-seven months o f intensive training. | | We have inherited a magnificently equipped plant worth two and a half million dollars in the very heart of Los Angeles. We have a faculty of conse crated men and women thoroughly prepared for their work and having a whole some passion for soul winning, and among them are some of the greatest teach ers in the world today. A ll of this we are putting at the disposal of Christ and His Church to provide a thoroughly prepared Christian leadership for the work of the Church at home and abroad. 6 % We are not a theological seminary, but our courses in the English Bible, Missions, Christian Education, and practical work, can be a real help to men regularly trained for the ministry. Our Christian Service Medical Course is invaluable to those who are looking forward to the missionary field. In addition to this we have many lines of practical work, such as, for example, nearly one hundred Bible classes weekly among high school boys and girls. | | We are now appealing to the Christian friends to whom God has en trusted money to help us carry on this vital work in the behalf of our young people, and we feel confident that they are not going to disappoint us. We are
asking for Three Hundred Thousand Dollars to carry us over two years . . a mere pittance as compared with what others spend for the ruin of our boys and girls. Will you help? Will you help 7 \[OW?
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not as the scribes.” The words that passed His lips were the words of God, and His every utterance bespeaks One who knew that His words were unchangeable truth. Dr. Josiah Strong says: “Without the broadening of reading; travel, educated companionship, He presents a character, a spirit, a sympathy, a doctrine as broad as man kind and as profound as human need.” . Those who have seen in Christ “the Word made flesh”, (Jn. 1 :14) seek the truth in Him because He is the, truth (Jn. 14:6). His word is their final authority because they have learned that Christ Himself is greater than any statement He made. Hams “Love thinketh no evil, rejoiceth not in iniquity * * * beareth all things" (1 Cor. 13:5-6). S OME of us are geniuses at attributing the worst of motives to another person. We rarely attribute good motives if we can find room for bad ones. We seem to know exactly why others stand up and sit down; why they make this move and tha t; and usually it is for some sub tle purpose. But the love of Christ in the heart keeps one from dwelling upon evil in others. It never makes one feel good over the downfall of another. “Love beareth all things * * * endureth all things.” In English the words “bear” and “endure” are synonym ous. The Greek word translated “beareth” means to “over-roof.” A form of the same word is used in Mk. 2 :4 —“they uncovered the roof.” What does a roof do ? It keeps those' inside sheltered from the storm outside. It catches the storm and turns it aside. “Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins” (Prov. 10:12). Shem and Japheth covered Noah’s sin. Ham went and published it. Are you a Ham? Do you love to hear scandal and roll it as a sweet morsel under your tongue? One may know the Bible “frontwards and backwards,” and be able to repeat the catechism, and still be a Ham. The Christian in whose heart the love of Christ is shed abroad by the Spirit is ever eager to believe the best; hopeth for the best; does not live to unroof the faults of others when, he himself has a beam in either eye. There are some Christians to whom we would never think of going with our tales of scandal. There are plenty who will sit long and let us pour it into their ears. To which class do you belong? Now for th e Confessional T HE most remarkable thing about Dr. Fosdick’s recent proposal to the Protestant Church to put in the Con fessional is the amount of free publicity it has brought him in the secular press. If he means simply that the minister should be a wise and sympathetic adviser to sick, sinful
The In fa llib le Christ AYS a popular exponent of Modernistic views: “Christ’s authority cannot be invoked to invali date the findings of modern Biblical criticism, neither do we explain His language as an ac commodation to the ignorance of His contem poraries. We must maintain the limitations of the knowledge of Jesus in the interests of intellectual lib erty.”j The failure to acknowledge the final authority of Jesus on every question on which He has spoken is of course due to a refusal to own Him as “God manifest in the flesh.” Take away His claim to deity (in which case there is no alternative but to call Him an impostor), and He has no more authority than any other man. Admit His claim, and there need be no trouble about anything He said. It is therefore of greater importance to know who He was than to know what He said. Dr. R. B. Jones correctly says: “The man Christ Jesus, even though He were not God, brands Modernism as a farce and a lie. His testimony still riddles the Modernist’s position.” Benjamin Carpenter saw the same point when he wrote: “That Jesus, surrounded as He was, could have promulgated a system of morals embodying all that is most valuable in the prior life of the world, and to which nineteen centuries of civilization have not been able to add a thought or impart an ornament, is a fact not to be explained by any ridicule.” To the same point Dr. Newell Dwight Hillis once said: “In view of Christ’s influence upon law, literature, letters and life, it seems hard not to believe in His supremacy in the realm of intellect. For some reason, men have dis cussed His ideas but said little as to the marvelous skill with which He formulated thoughts so melodious that, though they have been translated twice, they still breathe the sound of ethereal music.” There are few of the critics who do not see in Jesus the perfect man. It is claimed that Christ was a real man, therefore did not have perfect knowledge in all things, and that on some points we know better than He. By admitting Him as a perfect man, however, the critic spoils his argument that Jesus was fallible. In his shallow way, the Modernist is thinking in terms of fallen human ity, whereas Christ was God-man, and it was this alone that made Him a perfect man. Though Christ has not spoken on many topics of modern interest, this by no means implies that we know more about those subjects than He knew. “He whom God sent speaketh the words of God” (Jn. 3:34). Whatever Jesus said, it is true and final because of what He was. When He says anything, it is as if God said if. He never dropped a hint that any utterance of His might need revision, and no one has yet discovered the word which He ought not to have said. Not once did He say, like our guessing thinkers of today, “We may well suppose—it may be—possibly.” He never argued any question. He never took back anything. “He spake with authority and
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are common to many lives. Certainly Dr. Fosdick would not give such an institution as the confessional a place in our church life. It would be an invasion of the sacred privacies of our lives, and an outrage on all religious freedom.” 1 H B H Is th e Bible a Product of Evolution? W E have long been hearing from those of liberalist turn of mind that the Bible is not God’s Révéla tion, but simply the “history of man’s successive stages of the discovery o f God.” Dr. Millikan, for instance, in a recent address, ex- ■ pressed this idea, tracing the history of religion from the period of animal and human blood sacrifices to the pres
and puzzled souls, he is doing well to remind preachers of a Scriptural duty which often is not properly regarded. We cannot but feel a sorrow, however, for burdened souls who find their way into the studies of ministers who repudiate the Bible and salvation by grace. If Dr. Fosdick has no “Thus saith the Lord” for the sinsick and afflicted, he has nothing but stones for those who seek bread. We are reminded of the story of the English clergy man, Charles Barry, who told at a ministers’ meeting how he was getting ready for bed one night when a poor woman called him out. “My mother is dying,” she said, “and I want you to come and get her in.” The preacher understood that this dying mother wanted peace regarding the future. But he had become a Modernist. He went
ent-day spiritual con ceptions and desire for social progress, and de clared religion taught the doctrine of evolu tion. “Take, for instance,.- the Santa Claus ideal,” said Dr. Millikan. “At 3 years of age Santa Claus is the most real thing in the world. At 7 years of age the boy has sized up the chim-g ney entrances and the fifty-two inches of the girth of S a n t a Claus and concludes the story is a lie. At 30 years of age the boy has become a father with a 3-year- old boy ' of his own. A g a i n he believes in Santa Claus, and the Christmas spirit is the most beautiful thing in the world.” But—is the B i b l e any such production ? That it is the Book in which God r e v e a l s Himself progressively
and tried to talk to the d y i n g w o m a n . He talked about character and the advantage of having a good record when one is about to face eternity. The poor woman t o s s e d upon her bed and t u r n e d her face a wa y . She found no c o m f o r t . Mr. Barry t h o u g h t d e s p e r a t e l y a n d began finally to quote the words of the old hymn taught him by his own mother: “There is a fountain filled with blood Drawn from Immanuel’s veins, And sinners plunged be neath that flood Lose all their g u i l t y stains.” The very repeating
of the words •seemed to take him back to the days when he preached Christ crucified, and he went on and told the sin-burdened w o m a n of Christ’s dying as the Lamb of God for her.
to man we may grant, for progress of truth there is in the Bible. The germ of all truth is in the opening chapters of Genesis, but the full flower of truth was not beheld by men until the Lord Christ came. This does not mean, however, that the blood sacrifices were “the groping inventions of a people dowered with a genius for religion.” These were God’s appointed means of speaking to the inmost souls of the people of those times- concerning “the Lamb of God,” who “in the fulness of time” should redeem the world. New Testament writers, at great length, show how the Old Testament law was the school-master given of God to teach the world the necessity of dependence upon a Divine Redeemer. Take for instance, the subject of immortality, which is only dimly revealed in the Old Testament. The Late Dr. Joseph Cook, of Boston, was speaking once in the Metro politan Tabernacle on the profound subject of personal immortality. He discoursed for a considerable time on the évidence afforded by the Old Testament, and then said: “Having studied this great question by the light of the moon, let us now pass into the radiant sunshine.”- Thereupon he produced the massive evidence of the New
As he told the story to the ministers, he said with tear- stained face, “Brethren,, it got her in—and whafs more~-$m it got me in too—and I ’m going to preach that the rest of ■my life.” If Dr. Fosdick means, as Romanist papers have been -reporting, that the Church should put in operation such a confessional as the Roman church maintains, with the thought that men should confess their sins to preachers instead of God as the Scripture enjoins—may the Lord deliver u s ! In no sense does any man need a mediator between his soul and God, other than the One who stands a t the right hand of the Throne, nor does God’s Word require any oral statement of our sins to ministers or any looking to them for absolution. Faithful Protestant pastors will certainly minister to burdened souls by praying with them, counseling with them from the Scriptures, and pointing them to the Christ of God, but as Dr. Frank M. Goodchild has put it— “No man should be obliged to receive into his mind, as the confessor must, the stream of impurity and mean ness and littleness and-various kinds of 'wrong doing that'
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A ll’s Ready for Another War D AILY papers and secular magazines have, during recent months, been dropping plenty of hints that another great war in Europe is in the making, and that, in all likelihood, the United States will be involved. That Europe is feverishly preparing for war there can be no doubt. “War Minister Voroshiloff tells Russia that a great war .is impending; that his country must militarize the whole population. King Alfonso extends clemency and. reinstatement to the artillery officers who were punished for last year’s rebellion against the Rivera dictatorship, and tells them they must be prepared to carry out obli gations undertaken in the treaty with Italy. France has her best troops concentrated on the Italian border con fronting Fascist forces which are suspected of designs'to seize Nice and other ‘Italian’ territory. The Polish For-’ eign Minister openly. accuses Germany of intriguing against the League of Nations and Poland, and so men acing the world’s peace, Germany politely declines to meet French and Polish demands for dismantling of the powerful forts on the Polish border, and the French Nationalist press is bitterly charging trickery and bad faith and demanding vigorous measures to meet the Ger man threat to French safety. ‘Virtually every nation in Europe hates the United States, and Europe is, seeking a strong man,' such as Benito Mussolini of Italy, to lead it in knocking Uncle Sam’s block off his shoulder,’ Gen. Payton C. March, former Chief-of-Staff of the,United States Army, said at Deriver a few weeks ago. Gen. March has just completed a five-year tour of the seventeen major countries of Europe. ‘We fought our . great World War so that democracy might live,’ he declared, ‘but the nations of the Old World are through with democracy.. They want a dictator, a one-man government, a political Samson. There are three great “strong men” across the sea today—Mus solini, the greatest of a l l P r i mo de Rivera in Spain, and Kemal in Turkey, another capable fellow. Italy and Spain and Turkey have their dictators; all the other coun tries are waiting with open arms for their own broods to produce "similar great leaders.’ ” Something of what the next war will be like may be judged from the following from an English exchange: “The Commonwealth Premiers, assembled near Aider- shot, saw (in the words of an eye-witness) ‘a terribly and a gripping sight, a leap into the inhuman battlefields of the future. Not a man showed. First came a number of tiny armoured vehicles. One was like an ordinary two- seater with a visor on. Others were simply steel safes, driven by a solitary man. One gave a fleeting impression of a sedan chair ; another of a sort of stove. They came so quickly and scuttled so rapidly over the uneven ground that one hardly grasped their varying peculiarities; one had a general impression of being attacked by a lot of boxes. These were the scouts of 1930. Quickly they scattered to make way for a semi-circle of dark forms that came plunging through the mist. They came down on us, roaring, with the wet, black soil spouting in little waves from either side, heightening the illusion of ves sels. It was-a most fearsome sight, as all the manless engines of battle closed in upon the position' from which the Premiers watched; a sight which surely none placed there in battle would have lived to .gee.’ , This is a day when human strength and valor count for little outside of- the athletic field or -the prize ring. “The invention of gun powder made the trigger finger of a
Testament. In this sense there is progress of truth in the Bible. The Bible itself claims to be the revelation of God— final, supreme, absolute. Its climax is Christ, for although “God, at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, He hath in these last times spoken unto us by His Son” (Heb. 1:1, 2). He is the sum of all truth. There is nothing beyond. It remains to us to possess ourselves of the “unsearchable riches” openly displayed before us, nor have we begun to discover the wealth contained for us in, the Bible we have. Those who look upon the Bible as simply a record of the past religious experiences of men, usually proceed to look beyond the Bible for religious truth. As a Unitar ian writer says.: “We get our message from modern prophets arid poets also. Literature is full of the divine thought, and shapes that thought for our own age. The lips of the Eternal have not been silent all these centuries. The canon of Holy Scripture has never been closed.’¡H This, however, is most, subtle error. The canon of divine revelation is closed. Nothing is to be added to it or taken from it. If God has been silent for nearly 2000 years, it is because He has said all that is to be said until His Son comes 'again in power and glory. Age after age, God is bringing forth new light from His Word, and His Spirit is guiding the saints into all truth, but He who looks beyond the Word for the way to heaven is taking the “way that seemeth right unto a man,” but “the end thereof is the way of death.” WM Hi A Practical Word to Sunday School Teachers I T is said of Barnabas that he was “a good man, full of the Holy Ghost and of faith” (Acts 11:24). The result was, we are told, that mariy people were added unto the Lord. Barnabas was just the man to teach the victorious life, for his own life was a confirmation of his teaching. Said a church member of a man who taught a large Sunday School class, “I don’t see why that man doesn’t have more influence over his class of boys. He gives them wonderful lessons, yet none of them ever seem to develop spiritually and he has no control over them.” “Perhaps,” replied a friend, “his- talks are like postage stamps without mucilage. There is nothing" back of them to make them stick.” Let us remember that it is far more important that we should be filled with the Holy Spirit and faith in God’s Word than that we should be brilliant. We can never edify young Christians by means of a stuffed head. There must be an overflowing heart and a life of goodness back of all our teaching. Those who have made any progress in the spiritual life know that they owe much to the tes timony of such men and women, and that without such encouragement they would have been many times tempted to give up. What a great need there is in our churches today for such men! “Real goodness,” said Daniel Webster, “does not attach itself merely to this life,—it points to another world.” God give us more men and women who have the charm of spiritual goodness. and faith about them!
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Tchijovsky then related some of the events to which he alluded. He pointed out the fall of the Moors in Spain, the discovery of America, the Russian revolution, the French revolution, the long series of insurrections of 1306 to 1916, the crusades, the great migrations of nations, persecutions of the Christians, St. Bartholomew’s mass acre, the downfall of Byzantium, the activities of Alaric, Cromwell, Richelieu, Washington and Lenin, etc., etc. “In 1927 to 1929, when the 11-year period of sunspot activity attains its maximum and when this maximum will coincide with the maxima of two other periods of 60 years and 35 years, there will be a great human activity of the highest historical importance, which may change the polit ical chart of the world.” Students of prophecy have had no reason to think, as dòes Henry Ford, that war is doomed. Human nature has not changed ; the truth of God is being more and more rejected, even by churches; the end of the age fast ap proaches ; Satan knows that his time is short ; and man bends all his energies to contriving diabolical instruments of destruction. The age will not end in a Sunday School picnic, but in great tribulation and the coming of the Lord. The true Christian can only pray, “Come quickly, Lord Jesus,” and as he prays, work untiringly for the completion of the Body of Christ. “People will realize that war is economical suicide,” says Mr. Ford. Alas, they have known it for many a cen tury ! About two years before thè World War, Norman Angeli wrote a remarkable book called “The Great Illu sion.” It showed that in this day of international banking and far-flung credits, no country could ruin any other country without ruining itself in the process. The book was translated into every language in Europe and had an enormous sale. They read it, believed it, and then went into the most terrible ‘conflict of history.
crippled dwarf more potent than the strength of the mightiest armored giant,” says Albert Payson Terhune in “The American,” “and almost every invention from that hour on has been directly or indirectly aimed at dis counting mere muscular power, by devising some easy substitute for bulk and for brute' strength. Machinery, electricity, gas, steam—all the rest of the muscle-saving contrivances—are a whack at the Big Guy.” The next war will be a test of hellish machinery, and will spread ruin and death over vast areas within an hour’s time. When the devices perfected since the World War are put info operation, it will hot take long to reduce con tinental Europe to an ashheap. The nations fully realize it, yet are heading straight for it. “From the habit of years,” says Harry Carr, the newswriter, “they have become so enmeshed in hatred and suspicion that the case seems hopeless.' There is nothing for America to do but turn her own face to the sunlight and abandon them to their hatreds.” But it may not be so easy to do this. m . m Sunspot Activity—1927 to 1929 I N connection with the fast-gathering war clouds, the recent declaration, of Prof. Tchijovsky, of the Uni versity of Moscow, before the American Association of Scientists, is interesting: “The fluctuations of history are synchronous with the fluctuations in the physico-chemical processes of the sun’s substances. Investigation shows that human life reaches its fullest development at times of maxima of sunspot activity. During the first period of the minimum of ex citability, there is a lack of unity in the human masses and an indifference to political and military questions. People are tolerant in the second period, when excitement has grown. The people begin to unite. New leaders appear. Political and military orators make their stand. It all re sults in the masses of people becoming impatient and nervous. This is the period of maximum excitability in each cycle, which gives solutions to the greatest problems of humanity. This period inspires nations to the greatest insanities as well as the greatest achievements. The most prominent events in human history occur in this-period. The last period is the subsidence of the excitability.”
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defects should be recognized and treated. Isn’t it time Chris tian parents and teachers awoke to. this fact also? * ■ * * It has been shown that deaths from heart disease in this country have doubled in the last IS years. Twenty years ago, the death rate from heart disease to each 100,000 population was 103.3, while in 1925. it had risen to 210—an appalling advance. This, rapid increase is thought to be due to the speed of modern living. * * * What a crime that Henry Ward Beecher’s home in Brook lyn, which he occupied for nearly fifty years, should be torn down to be replaced by a building to be used as headquarters of the International Bible Students’ Association (Russellites) I Says'the Presbyterian of the South: “It would be well for them to learn to build upon the religious principles of Beecher, as well as to build upon the foundations of his old home.” * * * Dr. Charles R. Brown, dean of Yale Divinity School, sug gests a path to sleep, calm and rest may often be fo'und in 10 words, each to be thought of slowly and separately Until restless ness disappears and the subject is mentally in harmony with the meaning of the words, which, in order, are: quietly, easily, rest- fully, trustfullyj patiently, serenely, peacefully, joyously, cour ageously, confidently. We wonder if the good doctor ever tried repeating some of the restful promises of the Scriptures. More than once, the writer has gone to sleep on “I will both lay me down in peace and sleep, for thou, Lord, only makest me dwell in safety" * * * Henry S. Whitehead, writing in The Commonwealth, New York, we will have to admit makes' one good score against some churches when he refers to the “cheapness often seen in Amer ican Christianity.” He condemns “the claptrap methods of the cheap-john for the raising of ‘church funds,’ the undignified competition for ‘members,’ and the other characteristic devices identified with sectarianism.” ♦ * >1« How can one help but think of Jas. 5 :l-7 when he learns that in the last twelve years there has been an increase of 6,500 in the number of ihillionaires that the United States pos sesses? At the present time this great country claims to house 11,000 who are in the millionaire class. There are at least 74 people whose net incomes are in excess of a million dollars each. * * * Professor Bendandi, the Italian seismologist, prophesies that the present year will be noted for “great earth paroxysms which will scatter death and destruction to the most distant parts of the world. The year will be an extremely agitated one on all continents. Seismic commotions with volcanic eruptions will be the prelude to vaster activity in the near future, when earth quakes of unprecedented violence will threaten the whole world." * * * If you wish a concrete example of the unscrupulous methods of the tobacco concerns, you have it in the Madame Schumann- Heink case. Her photo appeared in cigarette advertisements which ran through the newspapers, together with an autograph reproduction of her personal recommendation of a certain brand, with the statement that they were “kind to her throat.” How
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’Tis food for soul and food for mind, You’ll find few papers of this kind. Now, what I say I know is true, It’s done me good—-you’ll like it too.” * * * “The most astonishing thing about evolution,” says a Los Angeles paper, “is. the long way ithas yet to go.” * * * An Albany paper suggests that “maybe one reason for the flaming youth epidemic is that the new fashioned razors don’t require the old fashioned razor strop.” ♦ * * Speaking of some who are always crying poverty, an El Paso paper says : “Oftentimes, it’s the mink in the closet that is responsible for the wolf at the door.” A * * * Thomas Carlyle made a sensible resolution. He said on one occasion : “Sarcasm is the language of the devil ; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.” * * * Editor of Detroit News thinks it is a “wonder that any one thought of the phrase ‘the quick and the dead’ before the age of automobiles.” ^ ^ These days much is written about “personal liberty.’f. ; “It may be a good thing,” says the Dallas News, “but deliver us from riding with a driver who is full of it.” * * * A Pittsburgh editor refers to the $28,000,000 collected in cigarette taxes last year, and thinks this greatly increased sum is “one evidence of what women are doing to help their country.” ♦ * ' * Says an exchange : .“The home where the children pay no heed to th e .parents is very likely the same home where in earlier years the parents paid no heed to the children.” ♦ * * A newspaper in Missouri remarks : “Lot’s wife has nothing much on Mrs: Dave Kirk. The former looked back and turned into a pillar of salt; Mrs. Dave looked back and turned into a telephone pole.” * * * There is some real sense in the statement of a Pennsyl vania editor who says that the clergymen who are eliminating the hell of the future should show a little more ability to coun teract some of the hell on earth. * * * How times do change ! It’s the great Southern Methodist Church that rises up to defend evolution in the schools. In session at Memphis, it was resolved that anti-evolution legisla tion interferes with the proper teaching of science in the Amer ican schools and is futile. * * * A recent bulletin of the U. S. children’s bureau says the first five years of a child’s life—called the pre-school years—is the time when.undesirable habits, personality quirks and mental
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What man must do, if he is to escape misery amid plenty, is to create a civilization in which his soul'can live.” The Providence New's offered this reflection: “One note worthy fact is' that they appear to have lost all religious faith before deciding they could no longer face the problems of life. That, we are told, may, and probably does, signify a lot. It is at least certain that where a sane belief in God exists, the tempta tion to suicide can not prevail.” ifc * * According to a communication received by the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, New York City, from Dr. Bercovitz, the authorities of South China assured the foreigners of how the utmost freedom in belief and propaganda in religion was assured. And. yet, on the other hand, he reports' details concerning inci dents in which religious services of the most sacred kind were ruthlessly interfered with. The authorities explain these inter ferences by saying that in order to be perfectly fair they can not prevent propaganda opposing religion any more than they can prevent propaganda favoring religion. In. the light of these facts, we can see how a number of the things that are reported in the daily press may be explained. are ready to do more to enable you to make wider use of The King’s Business. H ere ’ s T h e P roposition For every new full year’s subscription sent us through your efforts, we will advance your own' subscription three months. In order to get this credit, be sure to give your own name and address when sending in a new subscrip tion. I f you prefer a premium book instead of the advance ment of your subscription, you may have your choice of any book in our regular premium list. (See page 389). Furthermore we will accept two years subscriptions at $2.00, saving you 50c. Foreign rate $2.50 for two years. These are standing offers. You can help the cause and help yourself at the same time. Any who wish to take: the agency for a community, to receive a good cash commission, should communicate with our office and secure proper credentials. We are making a new proposition to agents.' Write the Managing Editor about it. Sla in by a Flapper At the asking of a worthless society flapper, the daugh ter of Herodias, the man who Jesus said was the greatest among the sons of men, was foully slain (Mark 6:25-27). The very lips that announced redemption at hand and called men to believe on the Lamb of God, were given into wanton hands, passed about for the gaze of revellers, then delivered to a flapper to be insulted and cast out. The forerunner of the world’s Saviour becomes the victim of the spite of a sinful woman. This is significant. The devil had used a woman to bring sin into the world. God used a woman to bring the Saviour into the world. The devil used a woman to slay the announcer of the Saviour. God raised up another woman to be the first herald of completed redemption. We need not pity John. One stroke of a sword and he was in Paradise. Did he become the Saviour’s fore runner in that realm also ? We are told that while Christ’s body lay in the tomb He heralded the victory of the Cross in the spirit world. Perhaps John had already announced to the waiting ones that the great deliverance was at hand. Shortly afterwards Moses and Elias came from that world to talk with Jesus about his coming decease.
disappointing it was to those who had known of her to learn now that she, was an addict to the cigarette habit 1 Now it ap pears that she had never granted permission to any cigarette Concern to use her picture or her name, and that she had never smoked a cigarette in her life! She was horrified and justly indignant oyer this public slander. * * * Papers and periodicals have widely discussed the epidemic of suicides in schools and colleges. So serious has the situation become that a “National Save-a-Life League” has been organ ized with the purpose of advising would-be-suicides and circulat ing helpful literature. Somehow, many news-writers seem to have a suspicion that there is a general philosophy or attitude among American students that accounts for these suicides. Col lege professors have, been quick to deny!this. But can they t The Schenectady Union Star said: “They represent the ultimate outcome of materialism if it is pursued to its logical conclusion. To the mind that makes a god of that which the human mind can grasp and analyze and solve, there is nothing worth-while ahead. Talking Straight To YOU! N OTHING will be found so effective in stemming the rising tide of Rationalism and Materialism as the dissemination of helpful, logical, constructive literature concerning the Bible and Christianity. Thousands today have heard but one side of the issue. Their ears have been open to Modernism in schools and colleges. They have read nothing but critical literature. These people will not take time to read attacks upon Liberalists. They are not interested in the fight between Fundamentalists and Modernists. It is a waste of good money to put such literature in their hands. We maintain that thé eyès of hundreds of people who are inclined to be skeptical can be caught by a magazine that has something constructive to offer, that is free from bitterness of spirit; that is put up in an attractive, read able form. We are striving to make The King’s Business fit this great need of the hour. We want subscribers to feel that they can put this magazine into the hands of people they wish to help without fear of their being insulted. Now— W hat C an You Do? There are many of your friends who are wholly un aware of the wonders to be found in the Bible—things that could not possibly be accounted for on the basis of human genius. They do not know that God is still at work in the souls of men; doing for them through Jesus Christ, what men could not possibly do for themselves. Through this magazine they will find out some of these things. They will be challenged by undeniable facts. Can you make any more, definite investment in God’s service than to put this magazine into the hands of people who are drifting? Could you not subscribe for several copies which you could circulate among your friends each month? Better still, could you not have the magazines sent direct to the homes of those who need help? , You are already being given nearly twice as much material in each issue of The King’s Business as you get in some other magazines which cost twice as much. Com pare them page for page and see for yourself. Still, we In This Article We Are
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Do We Pray for Our Country? R ECENT developments in China have served to empha- » size to all people interested in foreign missions the importance of such governments as those of England and
State to State, because it is impossible to get Congressional action. The growing apprehension of their purpose fills intelli gent religionists and ardent patriots with alarm. They realize that we are at this very hour facing one of the greatest religious issues of all time. We have been living comfortably in the assur ance that nothing could befall our soul’s liberty. We awake to find it as precarious as it is precious. "In five years the Fundamentalists have captured seven States. In two of them, Tennessee and Mississippi, their dogma has become a statute. In five other States they have taken the public schools, and determined that all the children of the people, of every faith, shall have no instruction that is contrary to their Bible view of human creation. “There has been nothing so profoundly important in reli gious history since the Reformation as the present conflict. Accordingly, the Fundamentalist strategy is not defensive but aggressive. It is a fight for life.. And the advantage is with their side at the outset, because the great majority of the churches are in the hands of ministers, all of whom are either actively or passively favorable to Biblical authority. And incredible and absurd as it may seem, it is nevertheless a fact which no church authority can deny that there is not a man of leadership- and power in any creedal Protestant Church in America who opposes the Fundamentalists. They all prefer to save themselves from ecclesiastical destruction.” T hou S halt N ot C ovet T h e S chools Piffle No. 3, from the B’Nai B’Rith Magazine (Jewish), is the most,unique piqce of logic we have seen in many a day: “A bill for compulsory reading of the Ten Commandments in the New York public schools is* again to be introduced in the State Legislature. If the proponents of this measure have read the Ten Commandments in recent years, they may recall that one of the Commandments reads: ‘Thou shalt not covet.’ This means that thou shalt not covet, not only thy neighbor’s prop erty, but also his rights. One of his rights is to observe or not to observe religious teaching in his own way and to bring up his children in accordance with his own religious opinions. Whoever seeks by compulsion to impose any religious observance upon his neighbor covets his neighbor’s rights. Certainly the champions of the Ten Commandments ought not to covet.” C alls G od A n I rate O ld P arty ' Piffle No. 4 comes from the “Christian Inquirer,” a Canadian Modernist publication. So blasphemous were this editor’s pro ductions that he was arrested under a provision of the Canadian criminal statutes which has rarely been invoked, and which does not permit the blaspheming of Deity. The “beautiful” Modern ist utterance which resulted in this man’s conviction was as follows: “ The God of the Bible walked in the Garden of Eden, talked with a woman, cursed a snake, sewed skins together for clothes, preferred the savory smell of roast cutlets to the odors of boiled cabbage, and sat in a burning bush or popped out from behind the rocks. This irate old party, who thunders imprecations from the mountain or mutters or grouches in the tabernacle, and whom Moses finds so hard to tame, who in His paroxysms of rage has massacred hundreds of thousands of His own chosen people, and would often have slaughtered the whole lot if cun ning old Moses hadn’t kept reminding Him of ‘What will the Egyptians say about it?’—this touchy Jehovah, whom the deluded superstitionists claim to be the Creator of the whole universe, makes one feel utter contempt for the preachers and unfeigned pity for the mental state of those who can retain a serious countenance as they peruse the stories of His peculiar whims, freaks and fancies and His frenzied megalomaniac boast ings of the high displeasure of the Almighty God.”
A m e r i c a treating hea then countries with fairness and kindness. And in each country t h e decision as to w h a t t h a t policy would be has b e e n largely in the hands of the state depart ment without m u c h inter ference 'from Congress or P a rliam e n t. We recognize a l s o t h a t
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while this is a particularly critical time in China in which our government should act promptly and generously to the solution of China’s problem, the past years of apparent quietness have brought about the present situa tion. The conduct of nations sending missionaries has hindered the success of the missionary work. The situation in China is but one example, one illus tration of the effect of government on the conditions that affect evangelism at home and abroad. The enforcement of prohibition, the proposal for a national uniform divorce law, the proposal for national regulation of the moving picture industry, the absence of any Sunday law in the District of Columbia, the policy toward Mexico and Nicaragua—all illustrate the effect of governments on the conditions that affect evangelism. And while we pray for the time when nations shall know the Lord and give a definite allegiance to Him, we should also pray for present wisdom to the officers of our government that God would guide, inspire, and strengthen them to do His will. God answered Washington’s prayer. Do we pray for our country ? “The majority religion: o f America is Fundamentalist (Dr. Riley please take notice), and the majority vote in our Legisla tures, it may be found, is Fundamentalist., ■Fundamentalism is monarchist, both in theory and practice, It is alien to America. It represents treason against the principle of democracy, and betrayal of the religion of lesus. This false religion is ulti mately responsible for all of our intolerance, and only by a new birth of freedom in religionHthat is, in the churches, can we restore America and Christianity from a virtual monarchy to a democracy.”. ‘ , H ark ! H ark ! Y e P atriots ! No. 2 in our Piffle collection is from the columns of Thè Independent (Boston) : “The Fundamentalists have set out to make their doctrines the established religion of the United States. They proceed from The Latest Piffle O UR first amazing bit of Piffle comes from Dr. Diffenbach, Unitarian editor :
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