436 THE K I N G ’ S B US I NE S S We are in the hands of our friend, the enemy. What shall we do with sp many doctors to doctor us? Those were good old days when we didn t know so much, just had a good appetite and never missed a meal. Just followed the injunction of the Bible, “ Eat what is set before you, asking ho questions for conscience’s sake” , and we had no conscience! Between the food doctors and the fool doctors who are handling the Bible, we are in a mess all the time. What shall we eat? What shall we believe ? Now the Bible makes some claims for itself along the dietary line. It says the Word of God is milk, good for babies; therefore, give it to your children. There is plenty of cream in it and it will make them grow. It is also meat, strong meat, makes men and women, puts red blood into their veins. Eat heartily of it and take time to digest it, and you can laugh at the critics and grow fat. Jesus is in the Book and He says He is the Bread of Life and also the Water of Life, and “ If any man thirst let him come unto Me and drink.” Why go a second time to hear a lecture given by one of these new-fangled divinity doctors with their shorter Bibles* their mouldy bread of stale, threadbare theories, and their dried goat’s meat? “ Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? And your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good and let your soul delight itself in fatness.” (Isa. 55:2). “ He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me and I in him. As the living Father hath sent me and I live by the Father; so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me. This is that bread which came down from heaven; not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead; he that eateth of this bread shall live forever.” (John 6:56-58). This is the kind of food that produced martyrs. The other makes mountebanks. —T. C. H. ’ ^1^. ^>4. M MONET and Men The Interchurch Movement has been wonderfully successful in securing subscriptions by the millions, and if these subscriptions were all to be paid in cold cash into the treasury today, what would be done with the money? Where are the men to do the work? We mean the real work of the church; the work committed to the church to d o ; the giving of the Gospel to the perishing multitudes. Of course there are plenty of people who could use the money in social service; in establishing and maintaining pink teas, oyster suppers, banquets, lectures, entertainments, movies, gymnasiums, etc., but we are talking about the Great Commission from the Great Commissioner; about the Gospel of grace and glory for dying men. Where are the men? There is an appalling shortage for present need. There are thousands of vacant churches throughout the land, and there are great barren fields
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