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T H E K I N G ' S B U S I N E S S
March, 1933
news shall be presented in all the world as a witness to all nations. The trials and anxieties of the world have cCmie to such a pitch that the preaching o f Christianity, to be effectual, must be related to these acute and alarming prob lems. This need is met by the preaching of the crown as well as o f the cross o f Jesus Christ. The true Christian policy certainly is to bring Jesus Christ Himself into connection with the very thoughts and interests which are distracting men from Him. This we can do by preaching the prophecy o f His return. This procla mation o f His glorious coming reign, too often ignored in Christian preaching, finds its supreme necessity in the glory which it casts upon His name.
The Things Not Seen U L | hat we see impresses u s; what we do not see makes little impression.” These are the words of a world-famous journalist. They apply to me as I write, and to you as you read. We see the hunger on the face o f a street-beggar and give him a dime. We see the longing in a child’s face and buy him a toy. But often we fail to think beyond that which we see, we fail to think o f the unseen things— the great darkness in the human heart o f the beggar that knows not God, the dire poverty of a child with a well-fed body and a starved spirit. The misery and squaldr, darkness and degradation, that enshrouds those at home or abroad who neither know nor honor God are often unseen things, and so they impress us little. We content ourselves with “ doing our bit” to ward making living or working conditions better, or our school system more efficient. All this is splendid, and we would not minimize its place ; but these things are the seen things. In the Bible Institute of Los Angeles there is sacrifice, hardship, prayer, and real work going on that young men and women may be prepared to deal with the unseen things. You cannot see the lives of these students and faculty, or the work which they may be called to do. I f you live at a distance, you cannot even see the Institute buildings. But it is all very real. Pray that God may open your eyes to the unseen things. The Bible Institute will welcome your gift, large or small, to be applied to the work of giving the gospel to a world of need. The World’s Best-Seller & n international lecturer on “ How T o Make Money” is now offering his courses to the Los Angeles pub lic. He does not speak on spiritual matters, but when the question reached him through his pre-address question box, “ What book could a young man read that would best ground him for life?” he unhesitatingly replied, “ The Bible.”; - ; Let every scoffer, denier, and “ higher-thinker” who be lieves that the Bible is out-of-date and a literary dream take notice— it was not a preacher who declared this truth but a “ hard-headed business man.” B y C hristabel P ankhurst he world-wide upheaval of this our modern day should have been generally foreseen, because it is clearly predicted in the Bible, which also predicts the ensuing remedy by the personal and powerful return of the Lord Jesus Christ. The vast extent and the many-sidedness of the existing crisis in human affairs, different as it is from any other crisis of times past, justify us in expecting the Lord’s early return. The Zionward aspiration among modern Jewry is another sign and indication o f the approaching fulfillment of the Messianic predictions found in the Old and New Testa ments; The hour has struck for statesmen, business lead ers, lawyers, educationalists, and leaders of opinion gen erally to give serious attention to these many evidences of the truth of Biblical predictions whose fulfillment will cul minate in the divine intervention of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Without the truth of His coming as the righteous King, the Prince of Peace, the Christian message is shorn of a vital appeal. He has imperatively commanded that in the critical upheaval of the latter days, the good Signs of the Lord’s Return T
' . s u s C D r H B t e s u s o ¿ / r i n K S B y A lice E. S herwood i n e
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“1 will not drink henceforth of this fruit o f the vine until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father’s kingdom ” —M att . 26:29. Long years have passed since Jesus sat within the upper room, And ate the sacred Passover, ’mid shadows of the tomb, The morrow, with its tragedy, loomed darkly, just ahead, As Jesus drank the ruby wine and broke memorial bread. The little band, so weak, so small, so anxious and afraid, In sorrow harkened to each word, as promises He made, “ Let not your heart be troubled, in My Father’s home above, Are glorious mansions, I prepare, for these dear ones I love.” ;; He promised strength, and grace, and care, the Holy Spirit’s pow’r, He promised to be with them still, through every anguished . hour. But marvelous the promise which they could not understand, Its glorious mystery withheld from e’en this loved band, “ I will not drink,” the Master said, “ the fruitage o f the vine, Until ‘that day’ I drink it new, with you, the heavenly wine.” Perchance they thought that once again, in some glad fu ture day, They’d sit -around a table, small, in their accustomed way; But could they look adown the years, that stretched so far ahead, And see the vast, vast multitudes, who break memorial bread, Could they, in vision, then, perceive the myriad hosts who heard, And who believed find followed Jesus at their preached word, The men from every tribe and tongue, from every race and clime, Who’ll be assembled in “ that day,” when Jesus drinks the wine? O ye, who love the Lord today, do not your spirits thrill With glorious rapture, when you think that Jesus waited still, Until you, too, could share that feast, the supper of the blest, And, in the Father’s kingdom, know eternal peace and rest ? Oh, rapturous thought, oh, glorious day, oh, festival divine! The Marriage Supper o f the Lamb, when Jesus drinks the wine!
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