forth and feel assured that these silent messengers will do the work that God has planned for them to do? The great field of literature distribu tion is as yet very inadequately cared for by Christians. False cults and dis honest movements have become fully aware of the tremendous potentialities of the printed page. There is no scarcity of misleading literature and, as a mat ter of fact, it would seem that the true is often completely submerged under the flood of the false. Many Christians honestly admit their inability to deal with the unsaved on a personal basis. When it comes to speak ing about Christ, they choke up and cannot find words to say. We believe there is answer to this deficiency in a complete dependence upon the Spirit of God. But for these people there is also another field—that of distributing good gospel literature. One should be exceedingly careful of that which he gives out. Tracts should speak in unmistakable terms of the ne cessity of the blood atonement and the sacrificial work of Christ for sinners, exalt the inspiration of the Scripture and call men and women to godly liv ing. Christian literature should be well- printed and good paper used. Let this then be your field. Take your own funds and purchase suitable litera ture, committing its ministry to God; then undertake, by means of personal distribution, to reach the lost. Heaven alone will reveal the extent of this ministry. God’s Giants Called Home T HE past month has brought to our desk a number of sad announce ments of the home-going of a number of God’s great men. These messages call forth mixed emotions. We are happy for the men themselves who now are able to look into the face of the One whom they have served so faithfully on the earth. We are sad, because of the termination of ministries which have been blessed of God to so many hearts over the. years. Our hearts ache for the near and dear who are left behind to fulfill their courses without the com panionship and comfort of the dear ones who have gone on before. Dr. Lewis Sperry Chafer, President of the Dallas Theological Seminary since its founding in 1924, went to be with the Christ he loved so well August 22, at Seattle, Washington. Certainly here was a man of tremendous stature before God whose life and ministry has influenced more than a thousand young men who are today preaching the un searchable riches of Christ across the world. Dr. Chafer will be longest re membered, no doubt, for the monumental work of his eight-volume Systematic Theology, the climax of a lifetime of study, which was published in 1947. Always a man who lived very close to God, Dr. Chafer’s impression upon the lives of his “ boys” will live forever. Last month, Dr. Robert C. McQuilkin
The Will of God T HERE seems to be little question but that age is associated with wisdom and the passing of the years brings more complete understanding. While it is certainly true that youth has enthusiasm, there is danger that such zeal may be either misguided or fruit less. What is so important in the life of any Christian as that he be in the cen ter of God’s will? This is the place of protection, of true success and of eternal profit. In the last analysis, what else matters to the child of God if he is in the center of God’s will? God plans all things. He plans the small details of insect life, directing the honeybee in her flight, guiding the bur rowing earthworm back and forth, pro viding for the fishes of the sea. The large things of the universe are His also. It is God who undertakes to water this vast universe, drawing up unbe lievable quantities of moisture into the atmosphere and distributing it over the thirsty land. It is God who endowed the moon with power to affect the tides. No one can have his eyes open and fail to observe the multitudinous ways in which God’s wisdom plans the universe and all that is therein. Now man is the highest of God’s created beings. He alone has thinking intelligence; he alone has an apprecia tion of God. Unbelievable as it may seem, it is our understanding that the universe and all that it contains is built around the future of the sons of men. Now with all this being true it is unthinkable that God would not have a carefully-wrought-out blueprint for the life of His children. This does not apply to those outside of Christ, but only for those who have come into the thrilling relationship of a child to a Heavenly Father on the basis of the shed blood of the Lord Jesus. This plan has to be detailed for ofttimes what we consider as unimportant turns out to be of great est importance and God uses small things to bring to pass great happen ings. Nor is there any lack on God’s part. By His omniscience He is able to
care for the multitudinous details in volved in planning a life, and His love dictates a personal interest in working out the very greatest eventual profit for the object of His affection. How then to enter into the immeasur able profits of such a will: that is the problem. Well, thanks be to God, there is no mystery about this; there is no highly esoteric entrance. It is as plain and easy as the mere surrender of one’s will. If the child of God will come through the door of Romans 12:1, 2, noting carefully Philippians 4:6, 7 and every day putting into practice Psalm 37:5 the will of God will be absolutely and automatically operative in his life. Experimentally, the problem is not in the initial committal; rather, it is the question of staying committed. That is something to which the Christian should pay grave heed every day. The Chris tian’s own heart should be reminded that he does not his own will but the will of his heavenly Father and that his responsibility is crystallized in the one term yield. Success in God’s sight is not neces sarily the measure of man’s success. God’s ways are not our ways and His thoughts are not our thoughts. Our vision is but partial and we see through a glass dimly but when we stand in the open place of God’s glory and behold things as they really are, we shall then have cause to rejoice that we have walked in the will, plan and purpose of our Heavenly Father. This is the way of true success; this is the goal of the Christian life. The Ministry of Literature T HE letter read, “ After carefully reading your booklet on how to be come a Christian, I knelt before the Lord and received Christ as my own personal Saviour. From that day I have known real joy and happiness.” Is it not a marvelous thing that we may take a few pieces of paper, cover these pages with quotations from the Word of God and an earnest exhortation to receive Christ as Saviour, send them
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