things which will be profitable to Him as well as providing a blessing to oth ers. How are you using your talent? Are you abusing your gifts with which the Lord has entrusted you? There is a day of reckoning coming which we must all face. God grant that you won’t bury your talent, but that you will invest it wisely for Him. Of a certainty He is coming back again. Will you be ready? HURLING THROUGH SPACE A remarkable event took place near a Nebraska airport where Sergeant Vernon E. Emtrekin was in real dan ger. He was one of the six aboard a craft when the pilot lost his controls about 5,000 feet above the town of Dwight, Nebraska. There was noth ing left but to bail out. Emtrekin’s left foot, however, got caught in the parachute rigging and he went sail ing through space, in the middle of a swirling snowstorm, helplessly comght in his own parachute. In spite of all these fatal hazards, and, although it was Sgt. Emtrekin’s first jump, he somehow managed to keep perfectly calm throughout the terrifying ordeal. A verse from the 115th Psalm kept ringing in his ears, “The Lord up- holdeth all that fall, and raiseth up all those that be bowed down.’’ He prayed for unusual strength to climb back into the harness which he had failed to fasten securely. Gasping for breath in the icy air, and with the last ounce of energy, he doubled his body, caught hold of the harness above his foot and finally was able to get back into a sitting position just a short distance from the ground. He landed safely with a sudden jolt, yet not hurt. In telling of the experience later, he testified that all the strength he had left was spent on saying, “Thank you, Lord!” What a miracle! Today, it may seem as though you are falling into space with no one to catch you, no one to help you, nothing to hold onto. The Lord God, however, is the only One who can help, bringing peace in place of anxiety, satisfaction for frustrations, for “underneath are the everlasting arms.”
Dr. Samuel H. Sutherland (left), Biola President, meets with Rev. and Mrs. Wilbur Nelson following a program they recently presented to the students. Rev. Nelson is director of "the Morning Chapel Hour" radio broadcasts. WHOSE CHILD ARE YOU? There is an intriguing story which has been handed down through the centuries concerning Cyrus the Great. His grandfather was so jealous of anyone that he had the lad’s father killed, and then sought to take the life of the next heir in succession. Can you imagine such a depraved mind, jealous of a baby for fear that some day he might have to step down from his throne ? One of the palace servants overheard his evil desires and spir ited the lad away to a distant city where he was placed in the hands of a shepherd who had no child. As the lad grew, he supposed that the shep herd was really his father. Being taught how to tend the sheep,- he al ways expected that some day he, too, would care for the flocks. The day came, however, when the servant re vealed the real story. His country called for him, and his time of shep herding was over. He ascended to the throne as Cyrus the Great, King of Persia. The transformation all took place when he found out whose child he was. Do you fully realize that you are God’s child and that He has a place for you in His Kingdom? Why not begin today to live as a Prince, as a joint-heir with Jesus Christ, should live. When we forget whose children we are, we stoop to things un worthy of us. How blessed to know that we are children of the King of kings. 6
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