February, 1841
T H E K I N G ’ S B U S I N E S S
42
Around the King s Table
LOUIS T. TALBOT, Editor-In-Chief
ton Ross,. now a pastor in Glendale, California. Surely in these days of apostasy, those who, by the grace of God, can look back upon a ministry in which they have made the Bible its own com mentary, and thus have been kept from the dangerous' sidetracks injurious to their testimony, have the best of reason for giving praise to His name! It is certain that God wi(l stick to those who stick to His Word. When the psalmist rejoiced that he had “stuck” to-the divine testimonies, he used a word he had just used in another connection (Psa. 119:25): “My soul cleaveth unto the dust.” There is a very real connection between the two statements. Though cleaving to the dust’ of affliction and sorrow, he had kept fast hold upon the divine Word. He had stuck to it for life, come what might. He was not removed from it by any of the reproaches of those who de spised the way of the Lord. Is this your experience; my brother? Can you say: ‘“ I-have stuck unto thy testimonies’ ; I have not put new inter, pretations on old truths” ? The heart of our message is the cross. When everything centers about Calvary, there will be a message which is always bread to the soul. Let us “stick” to this truth!—Keith L. Brooks. Exclusive and Unique “Neither is there salvation dn any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, where by we must be saved” (Acts 4:12). “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me” (John 14:6). The case is stated plainly in the texts cited above. Christ uses the definite article to declare Himself to be the Way, the Truth, and the Life, and He unequivocally affirms, “No man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” Peter asserts with equal clarity and emphasis, “Neither'is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.” One of the essential characteristics of truth ini any field is its almost- haughty aloofness, its inflexible, rigid ity, its regal uniqueness.. Of necessity, truth is invariably exclusive, intol erant. If that which claims to be truth advertises itself as being broad and tolerant, it is only falsehood at a mas-
“They climb the steep ascent of heaven Through peril, toil, and pain;, O God! to us may grace be given To follow in their train!” .“ I Have Stuck” , “I have stuck unto thy testimonies” (Psa. llih siK At a little service of praise the other evening, I heard the first student to be enrolled in the Bible institute of Los Angeles give glory to God that in more than thirty years of public ministry, he, and others whom he could name, had not wavered from those foundation truths of the Word of God which 'were made so clear to him in his Institute days. The speaker was Brit Prayer for Israel By. CLARA BERNHARDT Not just today, but every day, For wand’ring' Israel should I pray! Driven and homeless, lonely too, Their only crime to be born a Jew, Driven and homeless, needing God, Treading the path their Fathers trod, Jesus my Lord was born a Jew! He is my Saviour, and theirs too; All that I am and hope to be, Christ purchased once at Cal vary; In Him is victory and life, Comfort and joy and peace from strife. Father above, the debt I owe Should cause my prayer to ceaseless flow -For this •poor, suffering, needy race. That they may know Messiah’s face; Give me the vision, Lord, to see That love for Jews is love for Thee.
Modern Martyrs Few, even among non-Christians, could read the stirring article in the issue of December 23 of» Time maga zine, entitled “German Martyrs,” with out án awakened sense of the power o f religious convictions in the midst of an iron rule in a totalitarian state. And to believers in the I^ord Jesus Christ, who know why the issue be tween state paganism and loyalty to Him can admit no compromise, the re cital of the sufferings faced by Chris-; tians in concentration camps is an ur gent call to prayer on behalf of these fellow believers. . Declaring that “moré than 80%, of the prisoners in the concentration camps are not Jews but Christians,” Time stated: < “This second Christmas of Hit ler’s war finds Niemoller and up-,* wards of 200,000 other Christians (some estimates run as high as 800,000) behind the barbed wire of the frozen Nazi concentration camps. Here men bear mute wit ness that the Christ—whose birth the outside world celebrates un thinkingly at Christmas—can still inspire a .living faith for wpich men and women even now endure im prisonment, torture and death as bravely as in centuries past . . . Though the Nazis have jailed over . . 10,000 pastors, priests and monks for long or short periods, and an unknown number have been beaten to death, the churches stand - far higher in German esteem today than they did in the easy-going '20s. Church congregations have grown remarkably. Sales Of the Bible have . shot up from 830,000 copies in 1933 to 1,225,000 in 1939, topping Mein Kampf by about 200,000.” It is significant that for its Christ inas issue, this news magazine which is read by thousands, chose to present, in colors, an artist’s portrait of Martin Niemoller, Hitler’s most famous pris oner, shown against a background of Bethlehem angels and a gruesome pris on scene. The startling ' caption was simply “Martyr of 1940.” The clear im plication is that suffering, for Christ’s sake, is not banished from the earth, that men and women still regard as a privilege the necessity of sealing their testimony in their very life blood, that His praise may be glorious.
Made with FlippingBook - Online Brochure Maker