THE K I NG ' S BUS I NESS Just because the Methodist Church turned down the dance at its general conference this year, the American As sociation of Dancing Masters got to gether and named a new dance “the Wesleyan” in honor of John Wesley. Dr. John R. Straton of New York in a sermon characterized their act as “slimy, silly, a sensuous stream of moral infamy,” and added that he expected the dance would soon be called the “Wes leyan wiggle,” and that others would take such names as “the Episcopal em brace,” “The Congregational canter,” and “The Baptist bounce.” He left out the “Presbyterian Petticoat Parade.’” Sir Conan Doyle takes to himself the title of “Missionary of the New Revela tion” and is embarking on a missionary enterprise for Spiritism. No, he is a missionary of the “old delusion.” Spir itism is no “new revelation"—it is as old as sin and one of the Worst forms of sin. The Roman hierarchy in England is said to have formed an employment bu reau to place papist Irish girls as domes tics in the homes of protestants. We’ll have to hand the pope the palm for ef ficiency of manipulation. Seems to be nothing in public, business or domestic life that is too big or little for his majesty to look after and land for a Romanist if possible. Do you know that there is an active Mohammedan missionary propaganda going on in the United States? Liter ature is being circulated to tell the peo ple that the “Islam that has been pic tured by the Christian missionary is not the real Islam but only a mutilated rep resentation of it.” They are boosting the “real Islam” as a priceless repository of spiritual truth. If the Lord tarries, it won’t be long before China or Japan will be sending Christian missionaries to this country. A preacher at a church conference recently said, “Were Christ to return in the flesh it would wreck Christianity,” What a brilliant statement! The speak er continued to parody the faith of those who have believed the Bible statements about Christ’s coming by saying, “There are some people who seem to live in ex pectation of a cablegram some of these days that Christ has returned and set up His throne in Jerusalem. The fir#st thing that would happen would be that numbers of slippery, slimy public men would throng to Jerusalem and explain
1179 how they had been waiting and working for Him. Angels would patrol the streets, the red light districts would dis appear, even blind pigs would be wiped out. There would be universal good ness and the whole of it would be good for nothing. All men would embrace Christianity with their lips.” Such is the silly kind of argument some very wise preachers use in their attempt to get rid of the Bible teaching on the Second Coming. Oh, fierce it is these days to live! The price one has to pay for everything is like a sieve that saps one’s coin away. “We cannot save a single cent,” the struggling masses cry; “For simple food and clothes and rent our paltry earn ings fly.” (Yet statistics state that in the last year the American people spent something like $25,000,000 for chewing gum.) Charles M. Alexander’s new method of evangelism is beginning to get recog nition everywhere. It has grown- out of the Pocket, Testament League work. When Mr. Alexander was holding meet ings for the Bible Institute in Los An geles, it was suggested to him by Mr. Horton that the giving out of Testa ments should be employed as a method of definite soul-winning work. Mr. Alexander now goes about holding “Bible revivals.” He begins by enroll ing the pastors and their wives, the sex ton and his wife, and all the official board and their wives in the Pocket Testament League, personally present ing a Testament to each, and securing their signatures to the following state ment, which is printed on the fly-leaf of the League Testament: “I hereby ac cept membership in the Pocket Testa ment League, by making it, the rule of my life to read at least one chapter in the Bible each day, and to carry a Bible or Testament with me wherever I go.” This is followed by similarly enrolling a large percentage of both church and Sunday-school membership. The people are then urged to purchase Testaments to present to unsaved people and in do ing so to get them to place their name in the blank space left in the middle of John 3:16, taking the place of the word “whosoever.” This makes a fine way to approach to a soul and is an excellent way to get them to accept Christ. Many who are unwilling to put their name in the verse, will agree to read the gift Testament and the Word itself leads scores to Christ. Try it. K. L. B.
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