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November 1926
T H E K I N G ’ S B U S I N E S S
624
“ Our separate states may provide chaplains for the pris ons and penitentiaries, whose business it is to read the Bible and pray with and for the unfortunate. , “ But Uie ten or fifteen future presidents who are now i ° U“ The>11future senators, representatives, party leaders, o ffic ia ls who are now by the thousands in our public schools—- . , "We must keep the Bible from them. i “We must keep the knowledge of prayer ir01“ J i® !n’hut “We Tre permitted a Christian form of l a m e n t , but we are forced to maintain a pagan public school. "Every president of the United States to date has been reared £ a school that was opened by Bible reading and P “ Why not our future presidents also? "It is a question hammering for an answer from the con science of the American people.” What do you say? Will you help? Then send for our literature on “ The Blasphemous Attack of the A.A.A.A. on the Bible,” and broadcast it “ far as the curse is found.” b e s t b o o k s f o r c h i l d r e n The National Association, of Book Publishers announces a Children’s Book Week, November 7 to 13 and are suggesting to magazines that they emphasize the need of reliable books for children. _ The enemy is hard at work in these days in an effort to undermine the faith of our young people, and Chris tian parents should be wide awake to what this means and seek to forestall the foe by supplying them with the Best Books calculated to develop the nght char- &ct6r The right kind of books can be depended on to sup- nlement the right teaching in the home and Sunday S o ? Child character building is o f the greatest importance, and money spent for Best Books is well spent Buy them and read them with your young peo ple for the trend of the tide today is tremendous and every wise and loyal father and mother should con template what the years from 12 to 18 will mean to the home in which there are young people. A study of the lives of the great Americans reveals the value of Best Books. Biola Book Room will have a “ Book W eek” from November 7 to 13. Send for cir culars and give them to your neighbors who have chil dren, so that they may make their homes such real happy homes that even the devil won t be able to 1 *m the children away. . One o f the greatest assets o f the church, the home and the country is a loyal young person, filled with the Spirit of God, clean living, wisely careful in contact with others, happy in doing the greatest work ever committed to the church—leading souls into the green pastures and beside the still waters. m "Now, will you remember that the Lord Jesus Christ, for whom I plead, looks upon the heart, and a high look and a lofty look are an abomination unto Him. He will go Past us, not withstanding all our physical inches, and all our intellectual endowment, and He will take somebody out of the gutter, lift up that soul, and show that He is beholden absolutely for nothing to pride of mental or bodily girth. He is beholden to Himself, and to Himself alone. Be humble my brother, be lowly and resist pride. 'He giveth grace unto the lowly'.”— J ohn M c N eiu .
themselves or act for themselves or believe for them selves. That would be unfashionable, and to be unfash ionable is not to be thought of. There may, of course, be some odd people m the world. There always have been. But they are to be pitied. No man or woman of any standing would do anything to attract attention such as carrying a Bible on the street on week days or even Sunday. It is not fashionable! No one but an ignorant disciple o f some “ cult” would violate the fashion by doing such a crude thing! . . . . . . . Giving an altar call in church is out of the fashion now. If any one wants to join the church they should be told to see the elders or other church officials. 1hat is the fashion! ... ..TT . . , , , , No one should ever say “ Amen! or Hallelujah! any more in church. It is not the fashion and sounds crude in these enlightened days. You must never speak to people to whom you have not been introduced, and you must never invite people to come to your church unless you are sure they are respectable, for the atmosphere must be kept pure and the standard high! . . , . . . If our Lord were here on earth again and associated with such common men as the fishermen o f Galilee, would He dare to bring them into our. fashionable churches ? , _ This is a new age ! A wonderful age ! Don t quote Scripture to us. We cannot listen to anything so unfashionable! Times have changed. We have our own interpretation o f it? anyway. We have our authority from the schools and we must follow their fashion. With a Twentieth Century Bible, and a Twentieth Century University education, and a Twentieth Cen tury civilization^ and a Twentieth Century fashion, we are perfectlv/satisficd! Don ’t bother us! SHALL W E BURY THE BIBLE? The “ Dearborn Independent” in a recent number contained an item under the title “ Shall we Hide the B ib le !” which, coming as it does from a secular paper, we take pleasure in passing on to our constituency with the hope that it will help to stir the conscience of the American people and arouse them to definite effort to stay the rising tide o f atheism: "No whatever we do, we must not permit the public school generation to see the Bible. We must not*--permit them to see or hear anything concerning the practice of prayer. - "We may still permit the president to take his oath of office on the Holy Bible. ■“ We may still permit the United States Senate to open every session with prayer by a chaplain paid by the govern- “ We may still permit the House of Representatives to open every session with prayer by a chaplain paid by the government. ' . . “We may still permit our ships at sea the services or naval chaplains who read the Bible to the sailors and marines, and pray in their hearing, and are paid by the government. . . , . , “ We may still permit the government to appoint and pay chaplains for our army posts at home and abroad, and main tain an army chaplain’s school for the preparation and train ing of men who read the Bible and pray for and with the United Stated soldier. “ The National Republican Convention may still open Its daily sessions with prayer. __ “ The Democratic National Convention may still open its daily sessions with prayer, yea, though the Convention run for three stormy weeks.
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