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without shepherds who care for their souls. Never was there a greater need than today for born-again, called of God, and spiritfllled prophets to de clare the glorious Gospel of God’s grace, and shepherd His flock. Two Alternatives To the mass of humanity there are but two alternatives— either a super natural religion or no religion at all. If they ask for bread and receive a stone, or ask for fish and receive a ser pent, they will turn in disgust from the so-called churches, and already they are doing so in great numbers. Many of these cast faith to the winds, while many others seek fellowship with smaller groups of believing Christians, or worship God alone at home. But. it is still true that the common people, as in Christ s time, hear the Gospel message gladly if it is preached with the Holy Ghost sent down from Heaven. • Indeed it is one of the marks of the genuineness of a Christian mis sion that the poor have the Gospel preached unto them. Let us pray, therefore, for a revival of genuine Bible Christianity and do all we can to strengthen the bands of those who are true to the great commission and declare the fundamentals of our faith. "Faith of our fathers, holy faith, We will be true to thee till death. ’
were not the priests, the scribes, the Pharisees, and the doctors of law or divinity, almost all arrayed against Him? Yet we know they were wrong, and Christ’s strongest denunciations were directed against them, because they had the Scriptures and should have known better. Paul says (1 Cor. 1 :26 ): "Not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called.” And again in the same chapter,. "Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the dis- puter of this world? For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wis dom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching (Christ crucified, v. 23) to save them that believe.” But even if it were true that Mod ernists had gained a controlling In fluence over many of the churches and seminaries of the day what, may I ask, Is the position of the great mass of the people? The common people in all ages have been exploited industrially, politically, and religiously, but they still remain the hope of the church as they are the hope of the country. Away down in the heart of the com mon man there is a reverence for God and sacred things. The heart of hu manity is still crying out for God and saying “ Where may I find Him?” They wander like sheep-upon the mountains
He hired a hall and taught his views to those who wished to hear them, at fifty cents admission. I cannot understand the honesty of men, who, after pledging themselves before God and the church to maintain the historic faith rof Christianity and preach the Word of God, now take ad vantage of their position to ridicule and destroy the faith of their fathers, preaching a new ( gospel, which is no gospel at all, whHp they continue to draw their living from the church. However much these pseudo shepherds neglect to feed the sheep they never fall to be on hand at the shearing time (Read Ezek. 34). Modernism denies almost every essential doctrine of the Bible. The Gospel is “ good news” to a lost world, but at best Modernism can only call Itself good advice on moral living. It declares no supernatural regeneration for the soul of man. It does not pro claim the Gospel of God’s grace. It is a new religious cult having for its end the transfer of the organized church to the anti-christ. The claim is made by Modernists that a majority of the best educated ministers and religious leaders hold their views. This statement may need qualification, but even if it be true, this is no proof that these leaders are right. In the days of Christ’s flesh
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and concentrating upon the treatment .of the Inter national Series. We wish it distinctly understood, however, that Thè King’s Business is still in heartiest sympathy and fellowship with Fundamentalists everywhere, and with the World’s Christian Fundamentals Association, in particular. In fact, the Bible Institute of Los Angeles is, so far as we know, the only Bible School which is incorporated upon a definite statement of all the fundamental doctrines, from which it can never depart. It must be remembered that the lessons selected by the International Committee consist of the Bible only, without comment of any kind, and can therefore be used as a basis for a thoroughly fundamental study of the Word of God, such as will be given by the writers in The King’s Business. We are also plan ning a number of valuable additions to this depart ment, so that all grades in the Sunday School, from primary to adult, will be provided for. For those who may desire to go on with the Whole Bible Course we recommend the publications of the Union Gospel Press, Cleveland, Ohio; Primitive Bible School Quarterly (76 cents a year, 20 cents a copy) containing helps for superintendents, teachers, and other adults, and also a section on the lesson in sim ple form for boys and girls; Baptist Bible Union Adult Lesson Leaves (each set, 16 cents a year, or 4 cents a Quarter) ; Baptist Bible Union Junior and Primary Lesson Leaves (each set, 16 cents a year, or 4 cents a Quarter); and the lesson exposition by Dr. Howard A. Banks, in the magazine “ Christ Life” (Monthly, $1.00 a year, 10 cents a copy).
N view of some of the inquiries which have come to us because of our intended discon tinuance after this year of helps on the Whole Bible Series of Sunday School Les sons, and a return to the former method of incorporating the lessons in the magazine itself, instead of issuing them as a separate quarterly, we think it wise to explain, perhaps a little more in detail, our reasons for so doing. We are convinced, after some inquiry and investi gation, that not enough of our subscribers are using the Whole Bible Lessons in their Sunday Schools to warrant the expense of preparing and printing helps for them, especially in view of the fact that there is much duplication of lessons between the Whole Bible and the International Series. For instance, the first thirty lessons in the Whole Bible Course for 1926 paralleled the nine months’ lessons covered by the International Series from July, 1926, to March, 1926, many of the lessons being identical in title and Scrip ture selections. The International lessons for the first three months of 1926 are in John’s Gospel, and the last half of the Whole Bible Series for 1926 are also in John’s Gospel. The editor of this magazine has been one of the warmest supporters and advocates of the Whole Bible Course from its inception, but, from the first, it has been impossible tp get the Lesson Committee to realize the necessity of preparing the outline of lessons far enough in advance to properly provide for the pub lication of lesson helps, and this is one of the reasons given by The Sunday School Times ( December 6, 1926), for discontinuing the Whole Bible Course,
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