and deplore some of the more modem attempts at translation. Doctrinally, we believe that the Lord Jesus Christ could come at any moment to take all true born-again believers to be with Himself. We believe the Bible to be God’s inerrant, holy, inspired Word, from cover to cover. A faithful evan gelical pastor was once accused of being outmoded and out-of-date by a modem preacher w h o complained, “You still talk about hell and shock cultured people with your doctrine of the blood. You’re just a flat tire. You’re a stick in the mud. You’re so far behind, you’ll never catch up.” Well, of course, the gentle-spirited man smiled kindly and, even though slandered, he gracefully replied to the suave and sedate infidel, “Yes, I guess you’re right, I couldn’t catch up with you even if I doubled my speed, for you see, I ’m not going your way.” May God help us to turn to the Living Word for our strength, and thereby find the complex problems of life dis solved as we look into the face of Him who loved us and gave Himself for us, even our blessed Saviour, the Lord, Jesus Christ. * * * God does not comfort us to make us comfortable, but to make us comforters.
THE LITTLE AND THE BIG Do you ever have a craving for peanuts? Someone has said that a true test of will power is to be able to stop after eating just one salted peanut. This little substance is a tre mendous miracle of God. What mysti fies scientists is how the little nut on the inside of its hard shell can receive nourishment and grow until it is final ly edible without any connection what soever. George Washington Carver discovered how to make more than 300 different items out of peanuts. He prayed to God, “O Lord, what is the universe?” “And the Lord,” he said, answered h im by declaring, “George, that’s too big for your little head to understand. You let me take care of the universe and you select something that you can understand.” Dr. Carver picked out the peanut and as a result of his projects he revolu tionized Southern agriculture. Instead of constant soil depletion by repeated crops of cotton, peanuts were grown to enrich the ground of the southern plantations. Today, peanuts have be come big business. These little won ders of God’s creation are used to make cheese, milk, butter, flour, ink, dyes, soap, stains, insulating board and sev eral hundred other commodities. The reason we mentioned this is because you may feel you have nothing to offer the Lord. But God has given every one a talent. I f you will just give it back to Him, He will multiply it. The little you do faithfully is the big thing with out God. In Job we read these words, “Though thy begin ning is small, yet thy latter end shall greatly increase.” * * * "Horse sense" is the ability to say, "N e igh " to temptation. * * * OLD FASHIONED “The Biola Hour” has often been accused of preaching an “old fash ioned” gospel. This we consider a com plement and not an insult. We believe in the fact that God created all things as they are. We stand by the author ized King James version of the Bible
Biola students, Edyth DeGroff, Whit tier (left), and Pat Dalton, Fullerton, enjoy “time out" from studies for dormi tory fellowship. 14
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