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T H E K I N G ’ S B U S I N E S S
October 1926
...... .........LOOKING FORWARD TO CHRISTMAS H u h books will make splendid presents “Best” Books o f Present Day Interest Each one worth a place in your library The Modem Triangle Evolution, Philosophy, and Criticism By S. J. Bole While much has been written along these lines within the recent past, here is a new book that gives added em phasis and strength to the cause of orthodoxy. It dis cusses this trinity of enemies to the Christian religion from both a scientific and a Christian standpoint. The author is a Professor of Biology of Wheaton College, Wheaton, 111., and seems well qualified to speak on the theme of the book. Both old and new arguments for evo lution are taken up and shown to be entirely unproved. Perhaps the greatest value of the book is the compara tively simple manner in which the subjects are discussed. It is thorough, yet brief, and may be read intelligently by the average reader who is not familiar with scientific terms. It is quite readable for all who are interested in this subject. It deserves a wide circulation, and should be the means of strengthening the faith of many young people who are on the borderland of doubt. Cloth $1.80 Every-Member Evangelism By J. E. Conant Once in a while a book appears that will mark an epoch in the lives of those who grasp its message— Dr. Conant's is such a book. The author goes to the very heart of what is involved in our Christian profession. The work of the church, he argues, must be done, if it is done at all, according to the Divine Program given by Jesus. This book is more than a treatise upon “ personal work.” It is a monumental milestone in the Christian literature of this period. If every pastor and three church members in each church in the land were provided with this book and mastered its contents, such a revival would probably result as North America has never seen. Cloth $1.80 Enlisting fo r Christ and the Church By Howard Agnew Johnston Here you have 105 chapters of ntost amazingly, search ing and inspiring material. A s you read your soul will be stirred to the depths and you will be given a desire t o be of service yourself and an intense longing to enlist others. This book is arranged f o r daily study— a chapter a day——and digs deep into even the most “ accustomed- to-service” Christian. The subjects are such as:—— If out of Christ, We are Lost," “Every One is Serving— Who is the Master)” , 'T h e Crime of Unconcern” , "The Need of Intelligent Preparation” , “ A Program for Quiet, ^Intensive Work” , “Deepening our Friendship with Christ.” Every Christian worker needs this book— especially those who are interested in young people. Cloth $1.00 The Christ o f the Indian Road By E. Stanley Jones A Missionary Book that is decidedly different and intensely interesting. After a long and fruitful experience as a missionary in India, whose special sphere of service has been in the field of evan gelism, Dr. Jones has arrived at some very definite convictione concerning the attitude of India toward Christianity. He says: "Standing amid the shadows of Western civilization India has seen a Figure who has attracted her. She has hesitated in regard to any allegiance to Him, for India has thought that if she took one she would have to take both. She has thought Christ and Western Civilization went together. Now it is dawn ing upon the mind of India that she can have one without the other—Christ without Western Civilization. That dawning is of tremendous significance to them—and to us." Cloth $1-00 If money does not accompany order, goods will be sent C. O. D. If books are to come by mall add 10% for postage. B I O L A B O O K R O O M Bible Institute, Los Angeles, Cel.
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Lowell, and they can pick the volume off the shelf in an instant, and the next instant they have the book open at your quotation. But quote Jude, or Enoch, or Job on salt with our eggs, and they go fumbling about in the mazes of Leviti'cus, or the Minor Prophets.” He laughed, not maliciously, but with a certain pitying contempt, as he said: “ The average professing Christian is about as much like the New Testament model of what he should be, as is the straw-stuffed scarecrow in the field, in the pockets of the costume of which the birds conceive it to be the latest Joke to build. But I am digressing. I was beginning about the ‘days of Noah’ and their near future repetition on the earth.” “ ‘Near repetition?’ How do you mean, Colonel?" Judith Montmarte leaned a little eagerly toward him. In the ordinary way, alone with a man of his type she would have played the coquette. Today she thought nothing of such trifling. There was something so different in his manner, as he spoke of the things thaft were engaging them, to even the ordinary preacher. The pair were as utterly alone as though they had been on the wide, wide sea together in an open boat. She had said truly, over-night, "no one ever comes near the library.” “ I mean," he said, replying to her question, "that the seven chief causes of the apostasy which brought down God’s wrath upon the Antediluvians, have already begun to manifest themselves upon the earth, in such a measure as to warrant one’s saying that ‘as it was in the days of Noah, so it is again today,’ and if the New Testament is true in every letter— we may expect the Return of the Christ at any moment.” She was staring amazedly at him— enquiring, eager, but evidently puzzled. But she made no sound or sign of inter ruption, and he went on: “ The first element of the Antediluvian apostasy was the worship of God as Creator and Benefactor, and not as the Jehovah-God of Covenant and Mercy. And surelj* that is what we find everywhere today. People acknowledge a Supreme Being, and accept Christ as a model man, but they flatly deny the Fall, Hereditary Sin, the need of an Atone ment, and all else that is connected with the Great Evangel. The second cause of Antediluvian apostasy was the dis regard of the original law of marriage, and the increased prominence of the female sex.” Judith Montmarte smiled back into his face, as she said: “ Oh that you would propound that in a convention of New Women! And yet— yet— yes, you are right, as to your fact, as regards life, today.” The pair had a merry, friendly spar for a moment or two, then at her request he resumed his subject, and for a full half hour he amazed her with his comparisons of the Antediluvian age with the present time. He was an inter esting speaker and she enjoyed the time immensely. But presently, when he came to his seventh and last likeness between the two ages, since it had to do with a curious phase of Spiritism, she became more intensely interested. “ There seems to me,” he said, “ but one correct way of interpreting that historical item of those strange, Ante diluvian days: ‘The sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.’ The superficial rendering of this, sometimes
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