King's Business - 1923-03

THE K I N G ’ S- B U S I N E S S peace. This only our Saviour Jesus Christ, who is virgin-born, who was cru ­ cified because of our sins and who arose again and is to come again w ith His physical body, can do. Christ must be th e only One to save th is country from the present condition of sin and unrest, darkness and confusion. But what I am going to w rite in th is le tte r is not mentioned yet. You all know th is country has been very good to catch and learn things from other countries. Great p art of letters which are being used now came from China long ago. Buddhism came from India; Confucianism came from China; alm ost all scientific learnings came from Europe ancj your country and C hristian­ ity is spreading now by the faith fu l effort of hundreds of m issionaries from your country. A fter all, my country, so far, has been a country of borrow ing and im­ itation. Here, w e' are in g reat dan­ ger. We have been used to learn from others w ithout exam ination and scrutiny. Good and bad come together. T rue Christianity and false one come to ­ g eth er and are received both w ithout examination. I am only a college boy and have never been to your country so do not know much about th e spiritual condition of your country people, but people coming back from your country and papers say, it is in dangerous con­ dition. The faith , Christian faith, in your country is now marching a wrong way, I feel. (Please excuse me my boldness and impoliteness. I am w riting ju st what I feel and th ink .) The Christian faith of your people of the present time is not th a t of years ago. Of course th ere are tens of thousands of faith fu l and tru e to th e Lord like your In stitu te and Moody’s and others. I am w riting this because the Christianizing of th is little country depends so much on your m is­ sionaries,-and so, n atu rally I am anxious about it. If Christ was not born from Virgin

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Mary; if He is not the Son of God, if He is not th e only necessary and suffi­ cient One who came down from God to be the Redeemer fo r us fallen men; if He did not rise again and if He will not come again in His physical body; then Christianity is nothing bu t a teaching of weak m orality and the Holy Bible be­ comes only a book of ethics of “ do and do-not.” Lord, give repentance to th e Modernists. They do not know what they are doing and saying. They are denying Thy Son! And yet they claim to be Thy children. Christ my Saviour only a man? Man is under no condemnation, needs no re­ pentance? God is too good to punish him? Man is little different from monkey? Christ has come already? He will not come? It is in a sp iritual sense? Lord, send repentance to them before too late, fo r they will all perish, go to hell and will be b u rn t in unquenchable fire! Send Thy Spirit abundantly to Dr. Torrey’s In stitu te, to Mr. Moody’s In stitu te; they are not those of human beings! They are Thine! F o r Thy glory send quick victory to these faith ­ ful In stitu tion s and th e ir people! Though a little boy far away, I am pray­ ing here. Lord, listen and answer my prayers! I t is for Thy glory and for thy Son’s! “The fru its of th e modern m issionary teaching, destructive of Christian, faith as founded upon the Bible, are now de­ veloping so rapidly in certain fields th a t no fair-m inded person can fail to ob­ serve the trend of things.’! Thus the K ing’s Business of September says. And th is is sadly tru e here in th is country too, when th is young boy sees the Chris­ tian work of the present tim e by the missionaries though fo r whom he has so much thankfulness. Of course there are many, many faith fu l ones, some of whom I know. The fallen condition of man in sin, need of repentance and regeneration; faith in Jesus th e Son of God; hope for

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