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with their failure to recognize Messiah When He came. “Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee” (Psa. 122 : 6 ). • I am thankful that after centuries of neglect and misunderstanding and mis use, the Word of God today is more thoroughly understood by those who love Him than ever in the past, in spite of a spreading apostasy, ] there is a greater knowledge of the Bible by the redeemed, a greater understanding of its message, especially the prophetic message, and a greater corroboration of its authority. For a century the papyri, the stone inscriptions, the clay tablets have all established the historicity and indirectly the validity of the Word of God. When the church of Christ was silent, even the stones have cried out. We live in a day when the love of many has waxed cold, when wickedness has increased, when men have denied the Lord who bought them, even those who have been ordained to preach the gospel. But these .very things have by contrast to those who are wise made even more clear the righteousness of God and the value of the salvation which we have received through Christ. “Bless the Lord, O my soul, and for get not all his benefits” (Psa. 103:2). Westmont College Westmont College, newly organized Christian college located at 231 So. Westmoreland Ave.,Los Angeles, opened its doors Monday, September 23, 1940, to enroll approximately eighty-three students from nineteen states and five foreign countries. Wallace Emerson, Ph.D., is president. Denominations repre sented show a predominance of Baptists and Presbyterians, with eight other de nominations indicated as well. About fifty-one students are working for most or all of their expenses, either at the college or elsewhere. A number of schol arships have been granted to aid de serving students. A brass trio of three young men is being organized for depu tation work, as well as a men’s quartet and a women’s trio. Westmont College has grown out of the former Western Bible College, but has been completely reorganized as a four-year liberal arts college, offering in addition to the usual liberal arts subjects a strong course in Bible and Christian Education. A faculty of very high caliber has been obtained, six of whom have their doctorate degrees, and four of whom expect to receive their doctorates within the year. The range of denominations among the faculty members is wide, with fourteen denomi nations represented in all. Observers interested in the cause of liberal arts training with a definite Christian objective feel that Westmont College has made a very fine start.
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the very poor in America, even so, the poor have better food than the well-to- do in many parts of the world. The day laborer rides to work in an auto mobile. Tenement houses have bath tubs, and tenement districts have play grounds and parks. Those things which are considered luxuries elsewhere are thought of as absolute necessities here. “Blessed be the Lord, who daily load- eth us with benefits” (Psa. 68:19). • We live in a land where great plagues sweeping the country to the destruction of a large part of the population are rare and far between. To be sure, we have had epidemics of influenza, epi demics Of infantile paralysis, epidemics of sleeping sickness; but a very small part of the population has been affected. To have widespread bubonic plague or cholera or malaria of a fatal kind is unknown. We have to thank the med ical profession directly for this, but even the medioal profession should be reminded that it is only out of Chris tian civilization that conditions have arisen to make a medical profession possible. "He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destruc tions” (Psa. 107:20). “Thou shalt not be afraid for the ter ror by night. . . . Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday. A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee” (Psa. 91:5-7). • I am thankful that we live in a coun try in which there are Christian insti-. tutions, the freedom to worship, the freedom to establish Christian colleges and educational institutions; a country
in which there is a minimum of.govern ment control over these institutions. We have heard much of the encroach ment of government upon the affairs of private individuals. In spite of this, (we may thank God that there is still a large measure of individual liberty, of freedom of the press, of free speech, of freedom to gather ourselves together for whatever lawful purpose may unite us. So long as there remains even a residue of Christian influence in the very structure of our governmental in stitutions, we owe thanksgiving to God for the degree of liberty we enjoy. • “Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty” (2 Cor. 3:17). . • I am thankful that so far we have been saved from the curse that follows upon the persecution of God’s ancient people. In a world in which there is a growing tide of anti-Semitism, I count it as one of the major blessings that we have been saved from persecution of those people, and that we have per mitted thousands of them entrance to these shores when they have been per secuted elsewhere. I shall always feel that God still has a measure of mercy for our shortcomings as long as this iniquitous thing does not happen to- us. I am thankful that I have lived to see the day when the promised return of the Jewish people from exile to the land of their fathers has begun, and that even though that return does not yet signify a reconciliation of Jehovah and His people, it is one of the steps that precedes it. I am glad that many of God’s ancient people are beginning to understand that the fall of Jerusalem tind the age-long scattering of the He brew people was somehow connected
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