T HE K I N G ’S B U S I N E S S 899 church and the world, God’s message concerning sin and salvation, eternal life* and eternal punishment. Men and women with God’s Book in their hands—the Book which alone can solve the problems for a ruined world. For the last thirty-five years, with increasing volume and velocity, the tide of infidelity has swept over this land of ours. Men upon the watch towers have recognized it and cried over it with broken hearts ; have lifted up their voices and have thrown the power of their influence against it. Mr. Rockefeller endowed with millions a university, professedly for the Lord’s cause, and the devil took possession and installed his representa tives to see that his devilish, deceptive work was carried on in that high place. Mr. Carnegie spent millions for public library buildings, and Satan placed his choicest literature on the shelves. You can think of no avenue of approach to the souls of men in which the devil has not placed his emis saries. The public schools and colleges, the seminaries and universities have slowly, but surely, been permeated with the virus of infidel teaching. Faith in the Word of God has been wantonly destroyed; and boys and girls, young men and women, aping their God-denying teachers, impudently propound questions concerning the. verity and authority of God’s Word. Teachers in the schools take special pains to air their views, and prate before the people in high-sounding, but meaningless phrases, of the so-called “ latest results” of the pretentious critics. The deluded people, with no more knowledge of God’s Word than their teachers, whose livery may be heaven, but whose license is from hell -—people with weary souls, longing for the peace and rest, the comfort and consolation that only the precious Word of God can give—go in and out, finding no pastures green, no waters still ! While the false shepherds keep fooling the sheep with an unwarranted hope, telling them of the “ good day” that is coming, and urging them to keep on pouring their offerings into the treasury; to keep on turning the wheels of churchly activity; to keep looking up and out; to keep going on and on. And the helpless peo ple, ignorant of the Word of God, sick at heart, go wearily on in their wretched way, subject to the snare of every false, devil-devised system that curses the earth. - 1 The ordination vows of preachers are ruthlessly broken. Promises of loyalty to God’s Word, made in the presence of God and His people, are like “ scraps of paper,” and the political-ecclesiastical game to retain a job is played to the finish. The .people of the world have, lost their faith in the church, and why not? The church tries to ape the world, and the world resents and ridicules its apish actions. The world knows the real thing and prefers it to the pretentious performafices of the church. But God in His wisdom, foreseeing and foreknowing the present day apostasy of the professing church, has provided—as He always does—a method of meeting the emergency—a simple, practical, time-honored method. He has ordained Bible Schools and has them ready. Schools for young men and women, and for untrained preachers and missionaries. Schools of the Bible where qualified instructors—believing with their whole heart the whole Word of’God, and knowing from long experience what the Bible will do in and through the lives of devoted men and women—teach them the Word of God, and put them through practical training in ,the use of that Word with saved and unsaved people.
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