VOL. Vil AUGUST, 1917 No. (as _— Business SSSI) ” | The King’s | [b> from our sins in his own blood.”"—Reu, SS] Gein Hem that toved us, and washed us = AN BIBLE INSTITUTE OF LOS ANGELES LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, U.S. A. f ms Published once a month by the S— 2S a ONE DOLLAR A YEARTHE KING’S BUSINESS VOL. VIII. AUGUST, 1917 No. 8- _ TABLE OF CONTENTS Editorial: ‘“Neither Is There Salvation in Any Other”— —Our Personal Responsibility for Our Doubts—*“What Is Truth?""—The Hope of the Christian and the Hope of the Worldly Politician—Obey the Truth You Know —An Unquestionable Certainty—Booze Still Trium- phant—An Absolute Certainty... What Sort of a Being Is the Devil? By Dr. R. A. Torrey. Saving Chinese Girls. By Martha C. Pohnert. Afloat in China. By Dr. F. A. Keller. Critics Are Perplexed. By Rev. Robert William Dal: Bible Institute Graduation Exercises. Testing the Bible by Experiencé. Dr. William Evans. Through the Bible with Dr. Evans......... Light on Puzzling Passages and Problems. New Method Evangelism. Outline Study of the Book of Job. By Rev. V. V. Morgan Evangelistic Department. By Bible Institute Workers. Two Interesting Questions. By William Evans. The Far Horizon... Sherman Institute. By Edith H. Menzer. Homiletical Helps. By William Evans. The Bible Always Attacked. By William Evan: International Sunday School Lessons. * By Dr. R. A. Torrey and T. C. Horton. Daily Devotional Studies in the New Testament for Individ- ual Meditation and Family Worship. By R. A. Torrey SUBSCRIPTION PRICE In the United States and its Possessions and Mexico, and points in the Central American Postal Uni per year. In all other foreign countries, $1.24 (5s. 2d.). Single copies, 10 cents. Receipts sent on request. See date on address tag. “Sept. 17" means Expires Sept. 1917, ete. PUBLISHED BY THE BIBLE INSTITUTE OF LOS ANGELES 536-558 SOUTH HOPE STREET LOS ANGELES, CAL.674 THE KING’S BUSINESS Our Correspondence School By the Faculty of the BIBLE INSTITUTE OF LOS ANGELES Instruction by correspondence long since ceased to be an experiment and took its well-earned place as a duly accredited method of education. If it lacks the personal touch of the class-room, it intensifies the originality. and determination of the individ: ual student. A student may thus pursue his ordinary occupation while perfecting himself as a Christian worker. Course 1.—Fundamental Doctrines of Christianity By R. A. TORREY, Dean of the Institute This is a careful study of what the upon the doctrine under discussion and Bible teaches on the Christian faith. The from them ascertain and formulate the method pursued is to bring together teaching of the Bible. every statement of Scripture bearing ‘inductive method of study. Course 2.—The Life and Teachings of Our Lord By R. A. TORREY, Dean of the Institute This course presents 2 thorough study tically every verse in the four Gospels. ‘of the life and teachings of our Lord as At the end of each twenty lessons & recorded in the four Gospels. it consist series of questions on the whole section of 140 studies. These studies cover pracy is sent to the student to be answered. ‘Course 3.—Through the Bible by Books and Chapters By JOHN H. HUNTER, Secretary of the Faculty This course carries the student through each chapter in each book analyzed A. the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation, special blank is furnished on which the each book being studied asa whole, and student records the result of his own study. Course 4.—Personal Evangelism and Practical Work By T. C. HORTON, Superintendent of the Institute The business of tvery believer is to be equip for the work of dealing with believ- qualified for service, The work of every ers and unbelievers; second, to direct the believer is soul saving. It will therefore student in the best methods of doing per- be the privilege of the i i sonal work; third, to give suggestions course: first, to put the i concerning ‘the preparation for conduct with the Scripture best calculated to of religious meetings. Other Courses in Preparation TERMS: For Numbers 1, 2 and 3—$5.00 each. For Number 4—$3.00 . SEND FOR PROSPECTUS[rs THE KING'S BUSINESS Vol. 8 AUGUST, 1917 No. 8 (c} (o] ‘ EDITORIAL. It is an easily demonstrable certainty that there is no qi “Neither Is other Saviour from the guilt and power of sin but There Salvation Jesus Christ. It is not only in the Bible that we read in Any Other.” ‘neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name given under heaven among men whereby we must be saved.” we read it in experience also. Christianity has had and has today, many rival claimants. There are many beautiful teachings in some of these other religions, but they all fail at one point—they do mot save. They do not save from the guilt of sin, they do not save from the power of sin, they do not give a guilty conscience peace, they do not deliver men from sin’s awful thraldom. Jesus Christ alone gives ‘the conscience peace, perfect, unbroken peace with God, and Jesus Christ alone sets men free from the bondage of sin. Every man ought to make an honest and diligent Our Personal search for the truth and follow every possible clue Responsibility that promises to lead to it. No man has a right to for Our Doubts. ask the question, “what is truth,” in the spirit in which Pilate asked it, with a toss of the head, and not wait for an answer. No man has a right to give up the search after truth until he has made an honest and diligent search for the truth and followed out every possible clue that may lead to it. Our unbelief is no excuse, but rather a sin for which we ourselves are to blame, until we have made an honest and diligent and thorough search for truth and followed out all possible clues that present themselves to us. Any one who does this will soon come out of the darkness of utter unbelief or agnosticism into the clear light of faith in the great fundamental veriti Pilate asked this question, but waited for no answer to “What Is Truth?” it. He either wished no answer or else despaired of receiving one. Tossed about as he has been by the conflicting claims of the many religions and philosophies with which he had been brought in contact, absolute truth had become to him a shadow without substance. He despaired of finding it, and it is doubtful if he wished to find it. There was never a day in which there were more people in hopeless confusion than the day in which we live. We live in a day when all religions and philosophies are being brought together for comparison. What an. intri-676 THE KINGS BUSINESS cate tangle there seems to be—Christianity, Mohammedanism, Buddhism and Zoroasterism, and all the forms and phases of materialistic and spirit- ualistic philosophy. Then Christianity itself! What a conflict of rival theol- ogies! Where is the truth to be found? “What is truth?’ Like Pilate, many have given it up, some because they fear they cannot find it, and still more because they would rather not find it: The intellectual perplexity in which they find themselves is a comfort to them in their sins, and they hug it to their bosoms, instead of endeavoring to be rid of it and its paralyzing effects. But to every serious minded man and woman it is a great relief, unspeakable joy, to find some certainties among this endless mass of uncer- taintiés, to find something to stand upon and to be able to say, here at last I have solid rock under my feet. Having found one certainty, we can from that vantage ground discover another and from that still another, and so on until the whole glorious sphere of God's eternal truth begins to burst upon one’s enraptured gaze. Whosoever will can find one absolute certainty, and prthat is, that there is an absolute difference between right and wrong. It may be difficult oftentimes to decide what is right and what is wrong in a specific instance but that there is an absolute difference between right and wrong in itself there can be no question. Here then is one certainty to start with, and anyone who will start with that and take his stand upon it with the determina- tion that he will follow the right wherever it carries him, at any cost, will soon find other things that are absolutely certain. A great many of our legislators and apparently most of The Hope of the our great daily newspapers have been quite swept off Christian and the their feet with enthusiasm over the commissions that Hope of the have come to this country from England, France and Worldly Politician. —_ Italy, especially have they been carried away by Mr. Balfour’s expression of confidence in the joint victory of the free peoples of western civilization over German autocracy. The Boston Transcript says regarding these declarations that they seem “almost to create a new citizenship, a new allegiance—the citizenship of a Greater Republic of ultimate democracies and an allegiance to the future League of Peace which shall rest on the understanding that the civic liberties of Europe and America are not again to be disturbed by the attempts at tyrannical domination.” He goes on to say further, “this great Triple Understanding can no more fail than the eventual resplendent rising of the sun upon a long night’s darkness can fail.” We have nothing to say about the rather cheap rhetoric, for a paper of the literary standing of the Transcript, found in these words, but we have something to say about its absolutely baseless and unscriptural hope. A citizen of the U. S. is a citizen of the U. S. and as a citizen he has his responsibilities and his duties, sometimes, as at the present time, very grave responsibilities and very grave duties, but his other citizenship is not in any “Greater Republic of ultimate democracies” but in heaven, and it is from that place of his ultimate citizenship that he is expecting the Saviour to come. (Phil. 3:20, 21). He is the “Sun” of righteousness who is to soon burst upon this earth ‘after its “long night’s darkness,” a darkness which did not begin with the present war, though it has been accentuated by the present war. Our present civilizationTHE KING'S BUSINESS 677 is doomed. If all nations of the earth should become democracies, or if all should gather together in one great democracy, it would not save our present civilization. The only permanent hopé for the world is the coming of a King, that King “whose right it is to reign,” Jesus. Every man ought to obey so much of the truth as he Obey thé*Truth has found. He ought to obey the truth just as fast You Know. as he finds it. Many persons make the things they don’t see an excuse for not living up to the things they do see, This is neither honest nor reasonable, it is manifestly absurd. We are not responsible for the truth we do not have, but we are responsible, and will be held strictly responsible for the truth that we do have. And the fact that we have not as yet other truth is no excuse for not obeying the truth we have. In fact the way to get more truth is by obeying the truth we already possess. Tt was because men when they knew God glorified Him not as God neither gave thanks that they “became vain in their reasonings and their senseless heart was darkened, professing themselves to be wise, they became fools. For this cause God gave them up to ever increasing vileness and sin.” (Rom. 1 :21-27). It is a certainty that admits of no question, that Jesus An Unquestionable saves those who put their trust in Him. Whatever Certainty. our theory about the person of Jesus Christ may be, . j whether we believe that He is Divine or believe that He is merely human, whether we believe there was ever such an historical personage as Jesus of Nazareth or not, or whether we believe that the Gospels give a true record of His life or not, it is a certain fact of repeated experience that He does save. He saves from the guilt of sin, He brings peace to guilty consciences, there is no room to question this. There are millions of instances to prove it. There are multitudes of people in the world today who were once haunted and cursed by their consciences, in a veritable hell of agony because of their accusing cowsciences, who today have perfect peace of con- science through believing in the finished work of Christ. And there are multi- tudes of others who were once in hopeless bondage to sin who have found deliverence from sin’s power through simple faith in that Jesus who died on the cross of Calvary and rose again. Weeks and weeks have passed up to the present time Booze Still (June 12) since every thoughtful man’ in this country Triumphant. has been brought face to face with the fact that the reason for hard times and. insufficient food for our- selves and our allies was principally due to the fact that enough grain was going into booze to incapacitate and destroy men, to furnish eleven million loaves of bread a day. And yet our legislators have not taken one single definite and decided step in the direction of stopping this enormous waste. If the allies, and with them America, are defeated it will be not-by fotce of678 THE KING'S BUSINESS arms but by shortage of food, and this shortage of food in its worst aspects is entirely due to'the waste of foodstuffs in manufacturing them into destroy- ing drink. Our legislators could have stopped this long long ago, but they have not done it. We are beginning to fear that they will not do it soon enough to be of great help. They will have to do it ultimately, but the fear is that they will do it too late. The President of the U. S. has sufficient influence and power if he will exert his influence in that direction as stren- uously and intelligently as he has exerted it in other directions, to put an immediate stop to this waste. We are told that he has said that he is waiting to hear from the country, but why should he wait to hear from the country? He has not waited to hear from the country in other things that he has done where he knew what ought to be done. As far as that is concerned, if he would read the papers he would have heard from the country, and doubtless he knows what the feeling of the overwhelming majority of the country is. ‘Why don't he act? If this country and the allies fail in the present awful conflict, it will be because they are betrayed, and unless something is done immediately to stop this waste of necessary foodstuffs, the betrayers will be the President of the U. S. and our national legislators. It is absolutely certain that every man.is a sinner and An Absolute needs a Saviour. We don’t need to go to the Bible to Certainty. find that out. This truth may have a clearer statement in the Bible than elsewhere, that “all have sinned and y of God” (Rom. 3:23), but we know it without the The consciousness of sin. is come short of the glo Bible, we know it from our own consciousnes: universal. Men may try to persuade themselves by a subtle and thoroughly false philosophy that “sin is an illusion,” that it is only “mortal thought,” that it has no real existence; but in our inmost soul ‘we all know we are sinners. Any philosophy that denies the reality of sin and the guilt of the individual man, is so utterly contrary to the universal consciousness that though we may try to shut our eyes to facts, the consciousness of sin will constantly assert itself, and we can find no abiding peace along that line. The sacrifices that one finds offered in all lands is simply the expression of man’s universal consciousness of sin and the universal sense of the need of a Saviour. Every man knows, no matter how steadfastly he may try to deny it, that he needs a Saviour from the guilt of the sins he is committing. He knows that he needs someone or something to blot out and cover up those sins. Every man also who has ever made a definite attempt to lead a holy life knows that he needs a Saviour from the present power of sin.What Sort of a Being i is the Devil? Te y Dr. R. A. Torrey Dean of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles HE Apostle Paul writes in Eph. 6:10-12: “Be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might. Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of thé devil. For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principal- ities, against the powers, against the world rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.” These are remarkable words and they throw a flood of light upon the question of the existence, personality and power of the Devil. The question of the existence, personality and character of. the Devil is one of fundamental importance. Experi- ence shows that if men are in error in regard to this subject they are pretty sure to be in error in regard to other ques- tions that are fundamental. When men or women begin to question the existence of a personal Devil it is pretty sure that before long they will be questioning a good many other things regarding which a true child of God will have no questions. Doubt of the existence of a personal Devil is wide- spread today. Many preachers: in sup- posedly orthodox pulpits ‘do not hesitate to say, “I do not believe in the existence of PS, a personal Devil.” Denial of the existence of a personal Devil is one of the main points in the system which is so widespread today and which is doing so much evil that with considerable reason it has been called “The Devil's Masterpiece”—Christian Sei- ence. I. Is There a Personal Devil? The first question then that faces us in the consideration of this subject is, Is there a personal Devil? The experience of thoughtful and earnest men and women is proof enough that there is a personal Devil, but we are going to rely upon some- thing far more sure than the experience of thoughtful and earnest men and women, we are going to the Word of God to see what is the clear and unmistakable teaching of that Book upon this very vital subject. That the Bible is the Word of God, that its teachings are exactly true and abso- lutely sure, no matter how difficult to understand or believe they may seem to us to be, admits of no reasonable question. It can be easily proven that the Bible is the Word of God. (see the writer’s book, “The Bible and Its Christ’). Therefore, what the Bible has to say on this subject settles the question, just as what the Bible680 has to say on any other subject settles that question, We will turn first to the teaching of the Lord Jesus Christ Himself, for there are many in these days who say that they accept the teaching of the Lord Jesus even though they are doubtful about the teach- ing of John or Paul or other New Tes- tament or Old Testament writers. Turn first to the 13th chapter of Mat- thew and the 19th verse. “When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the evil one, and snatcheth away that which hath been sown in his heart. This is he that was sown by the way side.” These words are found in the interpreta- tion of the parable of the sower. It is impos- sible to say that they are figurative. In parables we have figures: in the explana- tion of the parables we have the literal facts that the figures symbolize, and these words are not taken from the parable, but from our, Lord's own explanation of the parable, and here we are distinctly told that there is a person who is here called “the evil one” whose business it is to snatch away the Word of God when it has been sown in hearts that do not understand and heed it. If evil is only impersonal and our Lord had only referred to impersonal influences, or human influences, as taking away the word out of the hearts where it had been sown, these words of His would ‘be utterly without meaning. That the Lord Jesus believed that there was a person whom He here speaks of as “the evil one” and whom he elsewhere speaks of, as we shall see directly, as “the Devil," admits of no doubt, if we grant that the Lord Jesus was an honest man. We must, therefore, if we believe in the Lord Jesus, believe that there is a personal Devil. We can deny his existence only by questioning either the honesty or the intelli- gence of our Lord. He certainly taught that there was a personal Devil. But let us read other verses in explanation of another parable, The Parable of the Tares! Matt. 13:37-39: “And he (Jesus) THE KING’S BUSINESS answered and said, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man; (38) and the field is the world; and the good seed, these are the sons of the kingdom; and the tares are the sons of the evil one: (39) and the enemy that sowed them és the Devil; and the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are angels.” I call your attention again to the fact that these words are not found in the parable, but in the explanation of the parable, and our Lord here distinctly teaches that there is a person, named “the Devil” whose work it is to sow tares among the sons of the kingdom. If there is not a personal Devil then our Lord Jesus was either a fool or a fraud. The question of believing in the personality of the Devil involves the honor of our Lord Jesus. If His teaching is not to be trusted on this point it is not to be trusted on any other point, and the denial of a personal Devil involves the trustworthiness of the Lord Jesus as a Teacher and a Saviour at every point; so we see that the question of the existence of a personal Devil is fundamental and of vital import- ance. 2. Now let us turn to the teaching of Peter, Turn first of all to 1 Peter $:8, 9, “Be sober, be watchful: your adversary the devil, asa roaring lion, walketh about, seek- ing whom he may devour. (9) whom withstand steadfast in your faith.” The meaning of these words is evident. They teach us distinctly that there is not merely an impersonal evil that we must withstand, but a person who is himself the embodiment of evil, who is secking our destruction, and whom we must withstand. We have another teaching of Peter on this same point recorded by Luke in the Acts of the Apostles. Acts 5:3: “But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thy heart to lie to the Holy Spirit, and to keep back part of the price of the land?” Here Peter distinctly teaches that it was a person, here cAlled “Satan,” who had filled the heart of Ananias with this awful pur-THE KING'S BUSINESS pose that led to his death. and that of his wife, the purpose to lic to the Holy Spirit. Tt was not an impersonal temptation that came to Ananias, but a temptation from a living person who was opposed to the Lord Jesus and His church, a person known as “the Devil.” Peter's words are mean- ingless, or worse than meaningless, if there is not a persor il. 3. Now wh will turn to the teaching of John the beloved disciple, as to the exist- ence of a personal Devil, and we will find this teaching in John 1. “a “And during supper, the Devil having already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son to betray him.” Here John distinctly teaches that the purpose of betraying the Lord Yesus was not a temptation that came to Judas Iscariot merely through a love of money, but came from a personal enemy—the Devil—that this person put into the heart of Judas Iscariot this infernal purpose to betray his Lord and Master, the Son of God. 4. Now let us turn to the teaching of Paul. We find it in Eph. 6:10-12: “Be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. (11) Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the Devil. (12) For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.” Here Paul distinctly tells us that the great reason why we need to be strong in the Lord and in the strength of His might and why we need to put on the whole armour of God, is because there is a being of great cunning, subtlety and power, named the Devil, and that this being has under him a multitude of other personalities of such dignity and power as to be called “principalities,” “powers,” “spiritual hosts of wicked- ness.” Beyond a question our Lord Jesus, the Apostle Peter, the Apostle John, and the Apostle Paul believed in and taught the 681 existence of a personal Devil. If there is not a personal Devil we may as well give up our Bible as a boole that is full of folly and of fraud. If there is not a per- sonal Devil we must give up our belief in the inspired authority of the Apostle Paul, the Apostle John, the Apostle Peter, and we must give up our faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. No intelligent student of the Bible can retain his faith in the inspiration and authority of that Book, or his faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, if he gives up belief in the existence of a personal Devil. As intelligent men and women we must take our choice between believing im the exist- ence of a personal Devil or giving up our faith in Jesus Christ and Christianity. Any system of doctrine that denies the existence of a personal Devil is radically unchristian, whatever name it may arrogate to itself. I, What Sort of a Being Is the Devil? Having settled the question of the existence of a personal Devil, the next: question that confronts us is, what sort, of a being is he? 1. First of all the Bible teaches us that he is a being of great power and authority. This we learn from Eph. 6:11-12: “Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devi These words make it clear that the Devil is so mighty that the people of God can- not resist his cunning wiles without -hav- ig on “the whole armour of God,” and it is also evident from the tenth verse, “Be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might,” that we cannot resist his power unless we are strengthened with the strength of God. But this is not all. In the 12th verse we read: “For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world- rulers of this darkness, against the spirit- ual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.” These are tremendous words. If they mean anything they certainly mean that682 there are beings of great authority and dignity who are under the leadership of the one supreme being of evil, the Devil. The conflict that we have on hand as believers in Christ is terrific. The con- flict that the Allies have on with the mighty military forces of the Kaiser is nothing to the: battle that we have on with the Devil and his hosts. We are fools if we under-estimate the battle. On the other hand, we must not over-estimate it, While our conflict is with the Devil, and while ‘our wrestling is against “the principalities,” “against the powers,” “against the world rulers” “against the spiritual hosts of wickedness,” nevertheless, He that is for us is far mightier than they. The Devil is mighty but our Saviour is almighty. It is quite possible for one to become morbid over this subject of the Devil, and to become utterly discouraged and even deranged. That is unnecessary and entirely unwarranted. While our conflict is with the Devil and his mighty hosts, God has provided for us a strength and an armour whereby we shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the Evil One and to withstand in the evil day, and having done all to stand. (v. 13) 2. We learn still more about the majesty and dignity of the Devil and the high posi- tion originally occupied by the Devil from Jude 8 “Yet in like manner these also in their dreamings defile the flesh, and set at nought dominion, and rail at dignities (Greek, glories). (9) But Michael the archan- gel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing judgment, but said,The Lord rebuke thee.” From these words it is evident that the position of the Devil was so exalted that even Michael the archangel did not dare to bring a railing judgment against him. The context seems to imply that the posi- tion of the Devil was more exalted than that of Michael the archangel himself. The Devil of the Bible is not at all the Devil ‘of common thought. “He is not a being THE KING’S BUSINESS hideous in appearance with hoofs and horns and tail, He is not even the being of Milton or Bunyan. He is a being of very great original majesty and dignity, a being of great wisdom and power. When people talk lightly and contemptuously about the Devil they display gross ignor- ance of what the Bible teaches about him. It is true that he is evil in character and therefore called “the evil one,” (1 John 5:19, R. V.); it is true he is a liar and a murderer, (John 8:44); it is true that he is full of malignity, (2 Cor. 4:4), but he is a being of great dignity and majesty so that even Michael the archangel durst not bring against him a railing judgment. 3. The Bible teaches us furthermore that the Devil is “the prince of this world.” Our Lord Jesus: Himself taught this. He says in John 12:31: “Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out.” The Greek word translated “world” in this passage is Kosmos, and the thought is of the present world order, and our Lord's teaching is that. the Devil is the prince of the present world order. We have the same teaching of our Lord in John 14:30 where we read: “I will no more speak much with you, for the prince of the world cometh: and he hath nothing in me.” These words of our Lord are found in what many regard as the most precious chapter in the Bible, the 14th chapter of John, and if we give up this teaching of our Lord regarding Satan we must give up, not merely the Bible as a whole, but this most precious chapter in the Bible. We find the Lord teaching the same thing again on the same night, the night before His crucifixion, in John 16:11 where he says: “The prince of this world is judged,” the evident reference being to Satan, How the Devil came to be the prince of this world it may be impossible for us to say, but that he is so admits of no question, if we are to accept the teaching of Jesus Christ, and any one who will study the1 THE KING'S BUSINESS ruling principles of commercial life, and of political life, and above all. of inter- national relations, to such a one it will become perfectly evident that the Devil is the one who is master of the present order of things. If we had ever doubted before that there was a Devil, and just such a Devil as the Bible pictures, we can scarcely doubt it now, when we consider the action of the rulers of the earth in this present mad world war. How could beings so intelligent in matters of science and phil- osophy and economics as the present rulers of the world are, ever be guilty of plung- ing the nations of the earth into this mad war? There is but one reasonable answer: because there is a Devil who rules the present Kosmos, or world order, and he controls the Kaisers and Kings arid Parlia- ments of the world, and will till the true prince comes, the prince of peace, the Lord Jesus Christ. Ill. How the Devil Manifests Himself and Works at the Present Tim We come now to the important practical question as to how the Devil manifests himself and works at the present time, 1, First of all he tempts men to sin. We have a most striking illustration of this in his temptation of our Lord. We have in the Bible three accounts of this temptation. We will look at Matthew's account: Matt. (1) “Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the Devil, (3) And the tempter came and said unto Him, If thou art the Son of God, command that these stones become bread. (5) Then the Devil taketh Him: into the holy city; and he set Him on the pinnacle of the temple. (6) and saith unto Him, If thou art the Son of God, cast thyself down. (8) ‘Again, the Devil taketh Him unto an exceeding high mountain, and showeth Him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; (9) and he said unto Him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me.” 683 We have not time to go into the whole question of our Lord's temptation, but this much is certainly plain, that the Devil is represented as the tempter tempting our Lord. If there is no personal Devil, as so many would have us believe, and if he is not the tempter there would be abso- lutely no reason for bringing him into this account. As the Devil tempted our Lord, so he tempts us today, and it is to be noticed that he does not tempt us mere- ly to gross animal lusts and vile sins, but with subtle spiritual temptations, and above all he tempts us to doubt God’s Word. It was with this form of temptation that he first assaulted our Lord, God had just said to the Lord Jesus at His baptism: “Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased,” (Luke 3:22), and Satan came, insinuating doubt of God's word: “If thou art the Son of God,” he says, and again further down in the temptation he repeats the doubt, saying to the Lord Jesus again, “If thou art the Son of God.” In just the same way Satan began his assault upon Eve in the Garden of Eden, by insinuating a doubt of God’s Word and of God’s goodness, he began by sayinj “Yea, hath God said... . 2” (Gen. 3:2), and further on when Eve stated exactly what God had said, the Devil flatly contradicted and said: “Ye shall not surely die (Dying, thou shalt not die”) when God had said: “Thou shalt surely die (Dying, thou shalt die.”) That is Satan's favorite method today, he gets us to doubt God's Word. Satan’s most effective mode of work is by leading men to doubt, and into error on fundamental points, The saloons and the gambling hells and the brothels are not the chief spheres of Satan’s activities, but the schools and colleges and theological seminaries where he is induc- ing men, women and callow youths and maidens to doubt the truth of God's Word and to reject the fundamental truths of God’s Word and to accept Satan's errors in their place. Satan knows well if he can get men to doubting God’s Word it is easy to lead them into the vilest sins. False684 doctrine has been a more prolifie source of the vilest sins.than even the saloons. 2. But Satan not merely tempts men to sin by insinuating doubts of God's Word, he also has his synagogues and ministers among men to do his work. Let us turn to Rev. 3:9: “Behold, I give of the syn- agogues of Satan, of them that say they are Jews, and they are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that T have loved thee.” What I wish you to notice here is these words, “the synagogue of Satan.” In this case it was a Jewish synagogue, but now- a-days it is often a so-called Christian church, But in 2 Cor, 11:14-15 we have an even more remarkable passage: “For even Satan fashioneth himself into an angel of light. (15) It is no great thing. therefore if his ministers also fashion themselves as ministers of righteousnes whose end shall be according to their works.” Here we are told that Satan has his ministers. They do not advertise them- selves as ministers of Satan, oftentimes they are not even conscious that they are; they put themselves forward as “ministers of rigliteousness.” They advocate “ethical cullure,” a system of salvation without atoning blood. They are frequently men of very attractive personality and great intellectual brilliance and ability, but they are doing the Devil's work. Satan is never so dangerous as when he ‘fashions himself into an angel of light,” and no other minis- ters of his are so dangerous as the men and women of attractive personality and brilliant intellectual gifts who are under- mining the faith of God's children, or who are teaching various forms of seductive and alluring error; “Christian Science,” “New Thought,” (or Spiritualism), “Oc- cultism,” and all those species of cults. 3. We have not time to speak here of Satan's work as the author of sickness, (Acts 10:38; Luke 13:16) and as the one who has the power of death (Heb. 2:14). 4, «But of another work of the Devil we THE KING’S BUSINESS must speak. It is set forth in 2 Cor. 4:3-4 R. V.: “And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled in them that perish: (4) in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of Ged, should not dawn upon them.” ‘We read here that it is the work of Satan to blind the minds of unbelievers in order “that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn upon them.” It is evident then that the Devil is the author of false views, especially false views about Christ. He is the author of Unitarianism, and the denial of the Deity of our Lord in all its forms. He so blinds the minds of men who submit to blinding that the Divine “glory of Christ,” “who is the very image of God,” is hidden from them. This explains why it is that Unitarianism in all its various forms persists even after its folly has been so often exposed. Satan's work along this line is to culminate at the appearing of the Anti-Christ, “Even he, whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power, and signs and of lying wonders, and with «all deceit unrighteousness for them that _peris because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.” (2 Thess. 2:9-10, R. V.). TV. Our Duty Regarding the Devil. In conclusion a few words concerning our duty regarding the Devil. 1. Eph. 4:27 teaches us that we are to give no place to him. That is to say, we are to leave no opening for him. He is ever seeking an opening. We should see to it that he gets none. The context sug- gests that we give an opening to him by being angry ‘and continuing in wrath (v. 26). . This door into the heart is a favorite one with the Devil. 2. Jas. 4:7 teaches-us that we are to “resist the Devil,” and that, if we do resist him, for all his cunning and power, he will flee from us. Although the Devil is strong,THE KING’S BUSINESS it is ours in God’s strength, and by the power of God's Word, to withstand him. 1 John 2:14 teaches us that it is when we feed upon the Word and store the Word of God in our heart that we shall be able + to overcome him. John says: “I have writ- ten unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the Word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the evil one.” If we neglect the study of the Bible for a single day we leave an open door for the Devil to enter. I have been a Christian for 42 years, but I would not dare to neglect the study of God's word for a single day. Why not? Because there is a Devil, and if I neglect the study of the Word of God for a single day I leave a window open for him to enter and leave myself too weak to cope with and conquer him. But if we will feed upon the Word of God and trust in God, we can resist the Devil at every 685 point. Though the Devil is cunning and strong, God is stronger. 3. In Eph. 6:11, we are taught that in order to stand against the wiles of the Devil we must “put on the whole armour of God.” What that armour is is found in the verses that follow. This armour is at our disposal. The fact that there is a Devil, that he is a being of such majesty, dignity, cunning and power, that he is so incessantly plotting our ruin and under- mining our faith, is no reason for fear or discouragement. By taking the shield of faith we shall be “able to quench all the fiery darts of the evil one,” by taking “the helmet of salvation,” and “the sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God,” and by “praying always with all prayer and sup- plication in the Spirit,” it is our privilege to have victory every day of our lives, every hour of the day, and every minute in the hour. ‘ cea Talmage on the Nile HIS is the River Nile. A brown or yellow or silver cord on which are hung more jewels of thrilling interest than on any river that was ever twisted in the sunshine. It ripples through the Book of Ezekiel, and flashes in the Books of Deute- ronomy and Isaiah and Zechariah and Nahum, and on its banks stood the mighties of many ages. It was the crystal cradle of Moses, and on its banks Mary, the refugee, carried the infant Jesus. To find the birthplace of this river was the fascina- tion and defeat of expeditions without number. The greatest’ damage that ever came to Egypt came by the drying up of the River Nile, and the greatest blessing by its healthful and abundant flow. The famine in Joseph’s time came from the lack of sufficient inundation from the Nile. Not enough Nile is drought; too much Nile is freshet and plague. The rivers of the earth are the mothers of its prosperity. y A NAZARETH POTTER HE cover illustration this month 15 that of a potter at work in the town of Nazareth, where Luke tells us Christ “was brought up.” The expertness of these “shapers of clay” is the more remarkable owing to the primitive mechanical appl ances at their command. They deftly produce complicated designs, = using the same type of foot-power that served their forefathers many hundreds of years ago. Read Jere- miah 18:2; 19:1; Romans 9:19-23. im -686 THE KING'S BUSINESS MOST RECENT PICTURE OF THE FISHERMEN’S CLUB-—BIBLE INSTITUTE OF LOS ANGELESeM A Recites NCA ee ee SAVING CHINESE GIRLS Former Student of the Bible Institute er Experiences E By MARTHA C. POHNERT a cnc ccm EM ISS POHNERT, a graduate of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles, and now a missionary at Miyang, China, has written an interesting letter to Superinten- dent Horton, which is here given in part. It is valuable and entertaining for the detail into whieh it enters, as showing the daily life lived by one devoted to the cause of the Master. She begins by telling of the week of evangelism observed throughout the mission, and then of affairs in general as touching upon her work as principal of the girls’ school: ‘The pupil-teacher went out with me. Our near-by neighbors had been on my heart for some time—many of their homes I had not been in. Every one was so glad to see us and as the teacher opened the Word to them they would listen for two and more hours and not move. And would ask many questions about this wonderful saviour of men. Some sit with mouth, eyes and ears open to listen as she teaches. Many say, “How very wonderful.” One said, “where have you been so long?” Others call us on the street, and ask us to re-visit them. They are very much interested in the 21st chapter of Revelation, where we read about the Heavenly home in which those who accept Jesus are going to live. We make the plan of salvation very plain and teach them how to pray. In nearly every home were grandmothers, between 70 and 80 years old, Just ready as it were to drop into the grave. For some years they had not been worshiping the false gods because they felt that there was no power within them to help them, When they ‘heard about Jesus and His great love for them they would fe is the one we want to follow and our trust in.” One old woman cried and cried, to think that these eighty years she had never called on this living powerful Jesus. Another place that we went we asked if there was any one else in the yard, and were told that there was an old deaf woman at the other end of the yard, who never went out so it would be no use to talk to her. “Well,” I said, “she is the very one we want to see.” After leading her out into the yard the teacher sat close to her side and talked to her atthe top of her voice, while I sat at her side asking God to open up her understanding so that she might know what it meant to believe in this Jesus and go to Heaven. After a while her face lit up and she said, “T want to believe in this Jesus and want to go to Heaven.” Remarked that she had been waiting for some time for some one to show her the right road. It would do your hearts good to see many of these old women come into meeting leaning on a long bamboo cane, all smiles, saying, “I could not stay away; had to come and hear more about this Jesus.” One of our school girls by the name of Fan was saved last term from a large wealthy family. Her grandmother, who is the head of the family, has been saved during these meetings. They have a large number of young women in the family, and as they do not go on the street in the day time she has been bringing them over in the evenings and thus they hear the gospel. Last Monday, went to one of our near-by out-stations, just about ten miles. For three days they were holding an open air theatre, people coming for miles to attend. From morning until night the chapel was. filled with women and girls. Many of them had never heard the wonderful story of688 salvation, The pupil-teacher would preach for two or three hours at a time, and then the people would not care to go. In between, I would teach them a hymn. A young woman carrying a little boy went over it again and again remarking that she was going to stay until she had learned it, no matter if everyone else went. The next night she came again, saying that she wanted to recite it again. It is such a sim- ple hymn and yet it has the whole message of salvation in it. The old women who had never read a chapter would go over it a great number of times. One day I got so interested in helping them that I never ate any dinner. Another young woman who had been worshipping false gods three times a day, an hour at a time, thinking that they could heal her eyes, came to know Jesus. They would stay until late at night and come early in the morning to hear about Jesus. The people just treated us royally and after three days meetings did not want us to go home. The people everywhere are ready to hear the gospel but O, the workers are so few. One even- ing we walked out to a near-by village. In a short time we had 100 or more people out to hear, and everyone was as quiet as could be. There were many girls there who would like to have come back with us; many were hindered because they had no money, others their fathers or mothers or some relative was standing in the way, so we need to pray that God will overcome the enemy who is resisting on every side. While out walking one day a year ago, a man spoke to me asking many questions about the school, stating that he had a girl of 11 years who would like to come to school, also inviting us to his village just an hour’s walk from the city. I had for- gotten about the man. The other day he came in to see if his. girl could attend school, as she was very anxious and did not give him any rest about it. Yesterday we went to see the girl and preached Jesus to them, between 200 and 300 people came out to hear the gospel. Many did not go home for dinner; a large number of THE KING’S BUSINESS women between 70 and 80 years sat for hours. God had prepared -their hearts and as soon as they heard the story they said they wanted to accept this Jesus and follow Him. At noon they insisted that we eat their food. The girl is very bright— her father has taught her to read and write. There is a vegetarian doctrine that teaches that if you do not eat meat and certain kind of vegetables, when you die you will turn into god, This little girl had heard about this doctrine, and for three years had eaten no meat. She heard the teacher in the morning preach the foolish- ness of it and that very noon she broke her vow. A week ago Monday, at 5:30 a. m.,, the pupil-teacher and myself started off in our cart for one of our out-statons which is just a day’s journey from our main station. We reached the place at 5 p.m. On the way we learned that there was to be a large open-air theatre held for three days and that crowds would come to the chapel to hear the gospel. We went out at once to visit the homes of two girls, who for a long time had thought of coming to school. We went on purpose to this place to bring four girls who had sent in word several times that they wanted to come, but when the time came they always backed out. All they need was to have some one encourage them. That evening we led a meeting and a goodly number of people were out. The next morning the city was full of people who had come to worship the false gods and attend the theatre. We began at 9:30 a. m., to have a meeting and soon the church was filled and people standing in the doorways and courtyard. They even crowded into the pulpit and would listen for two or three hours at a time. Then the room would again fill up with women and children. After the teacher preached for two hours I would teach them a hymna. It would have done your hearts good to see some of the old women go over’ and over the hymn, sometimes for more than an hour before they would recite it. They were so pleased, to see we did not get tiredTHE KING’S BUSINESS helping. We believe that many heard the gospel for the first time and that a good number had their eyes opened. The next day people began to come carly, and all day long we gave ourselves for the people, not stopping for dinner. Only eternity will prove what the results were. After we had been there but a short time the fathers of the four girls gathered together and we had a mecting with them; told them what was expected of them, and they agreed to send their girls back with us. You will never know what it means to get girls for the school until you really go after them. One hour they were going and the next they were not; then if one was going to back out they all were not going. Then their heathen relations were beginning to tell all kinds of dreadful stories about the foreigner—that we were going to run off with them to U.S. A.,/cut out their hearts and use them for medicine. They are to be pitied because satan has blinded their eyes. Had planned to leave early Thursday, so on Wednesday, in the late afternoon, decided to get the girls together and have them sleep at the Chureh, so that we could leave early. After much prayer, testings and trials of various kinds, managed to get three there. But when 1 went for the fourth she was no where to be found. She had no mother and was stay- ing with heathen relations who did not wish her to go. So while we had the meeting in the afternoon they had taken her out to her grandmother in the country. Well, as her father is a Christian and wanted her in school we felt led to hunt her up. It was then already dark but nevertheless I sent to the oxen stables for amy carter and told him the story and that I would apprecate it very much were he willing to assist in the matter. Taking one of the fathers and two Christian women we started out. The people told us where they had taken her but, alas, it was not the truth, and when we-reached the place, no girl. Then we went in the opposite direc- tion; did not know the road, so got side- tracked twice; had to keep praying that 689 the carter would not get discouraged and give up; also asking God to help me find the girl. We could not have reached the place at a better time. They were all in hed but the grandmother, so she opened the door I made right for the room in the back as I felt she was-there, The grandmother made one grab for my sleeve and I thought she was going to take it off. Well, we found the girl, had her put on her clothes and while she was doing that we tried to tell them that their girl was going to have it better and receive such care and treat- ment as she never had at home. But it was all useless, her brother just screamed and yelled and for a time it seemed sure we were in a pit of darkness. We soon got her off and were glad when we reached the church. It then was 9 p, m. How happy the girls were; they were offering up con- tinval praises. There was little or no sleeping that night; at 3 a. m., they were up. but it was after 5 before the carter came around, and during that time the enemy had a good chance to work, Even at the very last, one mother said, “let the girls who have faith go.” Told them that this could not be as they had promised that they were to go. Praise God for the way the pupil-teacher stood with me through the whole affair. The girls have been here a week now and fit in very nicely. Since they have left home the grandmother of one of the girls has beaten her older sis- ter for letting her come. One has no idea what it means for one of these girls to come to school. The enemy is not willing to give them up or to have this terrible cus- tom broken. The pupil-teacher is daily growing in grace and the knowledge of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. He is teaching her many new lessons. It just seems that every pain and ache she ever had has been visited’ upon her since coming here. When she left home her mother asked. her what she was going to do when she reached here, She told her that she was going to trust Jesus. Now He is taking her at her word. At first she cried for her mother. After690 telling her that her mother could not help her but that Jesus was ever at her side, and what He wanted was that she should praise all the time, and for all things, as this brought much glory to His name. The past week she has gained great victories along this line. Is very faithful and has a desire to see girls saved. Always ready to pray girls over hard places. My heart is daily filled with praise to Him for sending me such a splendd helper. May it be His good pleasure to give us many more like her. . Here are some requests for prayers That God would send me a young foreign woman, who has graduated as a teacher and who can teach music and the organ, leaving me free for the teaching of the THE KING'S BUSINESS Word of God, looking after the business end of the school and visiting in the homes of the girls. For two pupil-teachers, as the school is growing and we need to separate day and hoarding pupils. That about $50 be sent for fixing up a yard, tables and benches for the day school; we have buildings, all they need is repairing. That God would only send those to us whom He has from the foundation of the world chosen should be here. For the homes from which these girls ve come, that they might be given the peace of God that passeth knowledge, that they might be strong enough not to to the dreadful stories that are being spread by the heathen. em Afloat in China By DR. F. A. KELLER River Evangelist of Bible Institute of Los Angeles WE now have three parties at’ work— thirty-nine men in have three promising men in training for the leadership of new parties. We earnestly hope and pray that God may make provisi so that we can add at least two, and if pos- sible, three new parties to our force this year. The leaders being provided, seems a token of His plan. During 1916 the men of our two parties visited 55,572 homes ;—gave away sixty-five Old Testaments, 919 New Testaments, 4,580 Gospels, 67,738 copies of our own pub- lications (topically arranged portions of Scripture) and 31,353 Gospel tracts. The following extracts from recent let- ters received from missionaries, show how eagerly they desire our help and co-operate with the colporteurs, and how richly God is blessing the work: A Wesleyan missionary writes: “May I bring to your notice the populous county of Kiyang in Yungschowfu? ‘There is a large county seat and many large country villages without any foreign missionaries. Tam responsible for that whole area, together with a large part of two other counties. We hope that you can arrange to come to our aid.” What the missionary means by “being responsible for that whole area,” is that he has been assigned by his mission to take charge of the work in this section, being part of the territory assumed by the Human Missionary Conference held some years ago. The territory is greater than they can evangelize for years to come, so that they are glad to have our colporteurs come in and do the pioneer work for them. We have promised them that, God will- ing, we will send a party into the district in October, probably a two year’s task. ItTHE KING'S BUSINESS is for the friends at home to say whether we shall be able to send this party to him or not. Surely the answer cannot be NO! Another missionary writes: “There have been baptized about a dozen persons during the past year whose conversions can be traced directly to the work of your col- porteurs. We now have seven places where your men have gathered believers.” An evangelist connected with one of the leading missions in Hunan writes: “Of fourteen men recently baptized here, nme were the direct result of the colportage work.” Last summer when the evangelist in charge of the Tungshan district heard that the colportage work might have to stop, went up on a mountain, threw himself on the ground and with sobs and tears cried to God that the work might continue, and that a party might be sent into his district. God heard and answered his prayers and a remarkable work followed. One man, a Mr. Lo, who was very angry and abusive when the colporteurs first called at his house, afterwords exclaimed: “Why, if these things you tell me are true, I want to know more about the Gospel.” He was given a New Testament, began to attend evangelistic services, and became one of the most joyous and enthusiastic Christians 1 have ever met. The 1916 Hunan Autumn Bible School was felt to be the best ever held. After his return from this conference the Rev. Li Yoh-han wrote: “My heart was filled with unspeakable joy as I saw the’ work being done there. I have worked in 691 several provinces, but nowhere have I seen such conditions and such earnestness as at Nan Yoh.” During the 1916 session personal conver- sations were held with about 40,000 pil- grims; 39,600 books of Scripture portions and 20,000 Gospel tracts were given them to carry back to their homes. Mr. Liu, a pri was in a home in Liling, performing the idolatrous ceremonies con- nected with his priestly office, when he saw an attractive looking book on the idol’s shrine. He was told that it had been ob- tained at Nan Yoh. He asked to be per- mitted to take it home, which was granted. It was our “Synopsis of the Gospel.” The book was read, and without any human help. Mr. Liu was led to give up his priest- hood and accept Jesus Christ as His Sav- iour. He is 64 years of age, but however stormy the weather, walks ten miles every Sunday into Liling to attend service. If the blessing was greater than usual at Nan Yoh last year, the opposition was also greater, priests being sent out to meet the pilgrims on their way home and urge them to destroy the books that had been given them. This device of Satan is a fresh call to prayer, and in this way our friends at home can have a very vital share in the work at Nan Yoh, as well as in the colport- age work of the entire year. The 1917 session will be held September 13 to October 3. Please join us in earnest, believing prayer that the teachers may be men of God's own choosing, and that His Holy Spirit may be with us in mighty power.BUSINE KING’S THE 692ritics are Perplexed tapered 20 Ho Rev. Robert William Dale Noted Preacher of Birmingham, England, 1829-1895 NOTE—Concerning his extemporaneous preaching, for which he was noted, he once have at your service the noblest language for the orator that was ever spoken by the human race, you should be satisfied with said the threadbare phrases, the tawdry, tarnished finery, the patched and ragged ‘There is no reason why, when you ments, with the smell like that of the stock of a second-hand clothes shop, with which half-educated and ambi thought.” y 4 people who suppose that i fj modern science and modern N criticism have destroyed the DS foundations of faith, and who can not understand how it is possible, in these days. for intelligent, open-minded, educated men to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ. There are many persons who are con- vinced that the ascertained conclusions of modern science and of modern criticism are destructive of the authority which has been attributed both to the Jewish and the Christian Scriptures, that the traditional opinions concerning the authorship and the dates of many of the books of the Old Testament are false; and that most of the writings contained in the New Testament are spurious. Or, if some of the extreme conclusions of the destructive criticism are not regarded as finally established, it is known that great names can be quoted for, as well as against, them. And as it is assumed that the Jewish and the Christian us declaimers are content to cover the nakedness of their HERE are large numbers of Scriptures are the foundation of the Chris- faith, that we must believe in the genuineness and historical trustworthiness of these ancient books, and even in their inspiration, before we can believe in Christ, they argue that, until these discussions are finally closed in favor of the traditional opinions, faith in Christ is impossible. The controversies have not, in any large num- ber of cases, destroyed faith where faith already existed; but where faith does not exist, they appear to very many persons to create an insuperable obstacle to faith. PERSISTENT FAITH To such persons, if they are serious and well informed, there is something perplex- ing in the persistency of the faith of the great majority of Christian _ believers. Among those who remain Christian there are men whose intellectual vigor, patience, and keenness are equal to their own; men who are their equals in general intellectual culture, and who know as much as they know: about the currents of modern thought; candid men; men who are incor tian694 ruptible in their loyalty to truth; men who have a due sense of the immense import- ance, in relation to the higher life of the human race, of the questions at issue: How is it that the faith in Christ of such men is unshaken? The substance of the answer that I make here to the question, why it is that those who helieve in Christ continue to believe, may be given in a single sentence: What- ever may have been the original grounds of their faith, their faith has been verified in their own personal experience. They have trusted in Christ for certain great and wonderful things, and they have received great and wonderful things. They have not perhaps received precisely what they expected when their Christian life began, for the kingdom of heaven cannot be really known until a man has entered into it: but what they have received assures them that Christ is alive, that He is within reach, and that He is the Saviour and Lord of men. That they have received these blessings in answer to their faith in Christ matter of personal consciousness. know it. as they know that fire burns. EXCEPTIONAL DELIVERANCES Their experience varies. Some of them would say they ean recall acts of Christ in which His personal volition and His super- natural power were as definitely manifested as in any of the miracles recorded in the four Gospels. They were struggling unsuc- is a They cessfully with some evil temper—with envy, jealousy, personal ambition—and could not subdue it. They hated it; they hated themselves for heing under its tyranny; but expel it they could not. If it seemed suppressed for a time, it returned ; and returned with its malignant power increased rather than diminished. They scaurged themselves with scorpions for yielding to it; still they yielded. In their despair they appealed to Christ; and in a moment the evil fires were quenched, and they were never rekindled, These instan- taneous deliverances are perhaps excep- tional; but to those who can recall them THE KING'S BUSINESS they carry an irresistible conviction that the living Christ has heard their ery and answered them. The more ordinary experiences of the Christian life. the less striking, are not less conclusive, The proof that Christ has heard prayer is not always concentrated into a moment, but is more commonly spread over large tracts of time. Prayer is offered for an increase of moral strength in resisting temptation, or for the disappear- ance of reluctance in the discharge of duties which are distasteful. or for a more gracious and kindly temper, or for patience and courage in bearing trouble, or for self- control, or for relief from exhausting and fruitless anxiety: and the answer comes. Tt comes gradually, but still it comes. We had lost hope. Tt seemed as if all our moral vigor was dying down, and as if nothing could restore it. The tide was slowly ebbing. and we were powerless to recall the retreating waters: but after we prayed it ceased to ebb; for a time it seemed stationary; then it hegan to flow. the wholesome waters have renewed the energy and the joy of life. LOOSENING CHAINS Or we prayed to Christ to liberate us from some evil habit. The chains did not fall away at His touch, like the chains of Peter at the touch of the angel; but in some mysterious way they were loosened. and at the same time we received accessions of strength. The old habit continued to trouble us; it still impeded our movements: but we could move; we recovered some measure of freedom. and were conscious that we were slaves no longer. There still remained a mechanical and automatic tendency to the evil ways of thinking, speaking. or acting; but we had become vigilant and alert, and were prompt to resist the tendency as soon as it began to work; and we were strong enough to master it. In the course of time the ten- dency became weaker and weaker, and at last, in some cases, it almost disappeared. Some men have appealed to Christ when they have been seized with a great horrorTHE KING'S BUSINESS through the discovery of their guilt. It was not the awful penalty which menaces the impenitent that haunted ‘and terrified them. Nor was their distress occasioned chiefly by the conscittosness of moral evil. They feared the penalty, and they were humiliated and shamed by the contrast between ideal goodness and their own moral and spiritual life; but what stung and tor- tured them, sunk them into despair. filled heaven and earth with a darkness that could be felt, and made life intolerable, was their guilt—guilt which they had incurred by their past sins, and which they contin- ued to incur by their present sinfulness. HARD TO SHAKE OFF When once this sense of guilt fastens itself on a man. he cannot shake it off at will. The keen agony may gradually pass into a dull, dead pain; and after a time, the sensibility of the soul may seem to be wholly lost; but a man can never be sure that the horror will not return, The real nature of this experience is hest seen when it has been occasioned by the grosser and more violent forms of crime. Men who have committed murder, for example, have been driven almost insane by the memory of their evil deed. Their agony may have had nothing in it of the nature of repentance; they were not distressed because their crime had revealed to them the malignity and the fierce strength of their passions; they had no desire to hecome gentle and kindly. They were filled with horror and remorse by their awful guilt. They felt that the crime was theirs, and would always continue to he theirs; that it would be theirs it remained concealed as truly as if it. were known; indeed, it seemed to be in some terrible way more truly theirs so long as the secret was kept. It was not the fear of punishment that convulsed them; they have sometimes brought on themselves public indignation and abhorrence, and have condemned themselves to the gallows by confessing their crime in order to obtain relief from their agony. Suppose that a man possessed by this 695 great horror discovered that, in some won- derful way, the dark and damning stain on his conscience had disappeared; that, although he had done the deed. the iron chain which bound him to the criminality of it had been broken; that before God and man and his own conscience he was free from the guilt of it—the supposition, in its completeness, is an impossible one; but if it were possible, the discovery would lift the man out of the darkness of hell into the light of heaven, TRUST IN CHRIST But to large numbers of Christian men a discovery which in substance is identical with this has actually come in response to their trust in Christ. Nothing is more intensely real than the sense of guilt; it is as real as the eternal distinction between right and wrong in which it is rooted. And nothing is more intensely real than the sense of release from guilt which comes from the discovery and assurance of the remission of sins. The evil things which a man has done cannot be undone; but when they have been forgiven through Christ, the iron chain which so bound him to them as to make the guilt of them eter- nally his has been broken; before God and his conscience he is no longer guilty of them. This is the Christian mystery of justification which, according to Paul—and his words have been confirmed in the expe- rience of millions of Christian men—is “the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth.” It changes darkness into light; despair into victorious hope; pros- tration into buoyancy and vigor. It is one of the supreme motives to Christian living, and it makes Christian living possible. The man who has received this great deliver- ance is no longer a convict, painfully observing all prison rules with the hope of shortening hig sentence, but a child in the home of God. There are experiences of another kind by which the faith of Christian men is ver- ified. Of these one of the most decisive and most wonderful is the consciousness that through Christ he has passed into the696, THE KING’S BUSINESS eternal and divine order. He belongs to two worlds. He is just as certain that he is environed by things unseen and exter- nal as that he is environed by things seen and temporal. In the power of the life given to him in the new birth he has entered into the kingdom of God. He is conscious that that diviner region is now the native land of his soul. It is there that he finds perfect rest and perfect fre dom. It is a relief to escape to its eternal peace and glory from the agitations and vicissitudes, the sorrows and successes, of this transitory world. It is not always that he is vividly conscious of belonging to that eternal order; this supreme blessedness is reserved for the great hours of life; but he knows that it lies about him always, and that at any moment the great Apocalypse may come. And even when it is hidden, its “powers” continue to act upon him, as the light and heat of the sun pass through the clouds by which the burning splendor is softdned and concealed. GOD HIMSELF Further, “in Christ” Christian men know God; they know Him for themselves. The mere conception of God is as different from the immediate knowledge of Him as the mere conception of the Matterhorn fram the actual vision of it as an external objec- tive grandeur; and it is not the concep- tion of God, but God Himself, that fills them with awe and wonder. and with a blessedness which trembles into devout fear. Sometimes the “exceeding weight of glory” is too great to bear, and human infirmity is relieved when the vision passes. At other times God’is more than a tran- scendent glory to be contemplated and adored. His infinite love. to use Paul's words, is shed abroad in their hearts, like the sun’s heat under tropical heavens; it is immediately revealed. | How, they can not tell, any more than they can tell how the material world is revealed to sense; they only know that, apart from any self- originated effort, apart from any move- ment of their own towards Him, the eter- nal Spirit draws near to their spirit and reveals God's love to them. It is as if the warm streams of the love which have their foundation in the depths of His infinite life were flowing round them and into them: They are conscious of that love for them of which God is conscious. A COMMON INHERITANCE And this blessedmess is not the preroga- tive of elect saints, or of those who may be said to have a natural genius for spirit- ual thought. It is the common inheritance of all that are “in Christ,” although there is reason to fear that many Christian peo- ple rarely reach the height of its joy. But among those who reach it areamen of every degree of intellectual rank and every vari- ety of moral and spiritual temperament, It is reached by ignorant men, whose thoughts ds are inert. large knowledge great powers of speculation: by men titute of imagination, as well as by are narrow and whose as well as by men with and di men whose imagination kindles as soon as it is touched by the splendors of nature or by the verses of poets. Men whose life moves slowly and sluggishly reach it, as well as men who are impulsive. ardent. and adventurous. And where this expe- rience is known, it becomes an effective force in the moral life, Peter, writing to slaves, says, “For this is acceptable. if through consciousness of God a man endur- eth griefs. suffering wrongfully.” I have said that “in Christ God—not merely through Christ. It is true that during His earthly ministry He revealed God: so that, in answer to the prayer of one of His disciples, “Show us the Father, and it sufficeth u He said, “Have I been so long time with you, and dost thou not know me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father.” That revelation has eternal power and. value; but thete are other words spoken by Christ that same night which suggest that it is not merely by the revelation of God dur- ing His earthly ministry that Christ has made it possible for men to know the Father. He said: “I am the true vine, and ye are the branches . . . Abide in men knowTHE KING’S BUSINESS me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; so neither can ye, except ye abide in me. He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same heareth much fruit: for apart from me ye can do nothing” It is not certain that when Paul wrote his Epistle to the Galatian Christians he had heard of these words; but what they meant he had learned for himself. He said, “I live and yet no longer I, but Christ liveth in me. PAUL'S EXPERIENCE In various measures the experience of Paul has been the experience of Chris tian men ever since. Their relationship to Christ—their conscious relationship to Christ—has been most mysterious, but most intimate and most certain. They have med- itated on the infinite love which moved Him to descend from the heights of God and to become man, upon His graciousness and gentleness, His purity, His sponta- “neous goodness, His pity for suffering, His merciful words to the sinful, His patience and His long-suffering, and His fiery indig- nation against hypocrisy; they have medi- tated on His teaching, on all the words of that have been preserved concerning the love and grace of God, concerning the remission of sins, the gift of eternal life, the judgment to come, the eternal blessed- ness of the righteous, and the doom of the lost; they have felt the spell and the charm of that ideal perfection to-which He calls them in His precepts, and which He illu trated and transcended in His own charac- ter: but they have been conscious that it was not merely by the power of the great and pathetic story of His earthly history, ot by the power of His spiritual and eth- ical teaching, that He gives to men the life of God, and constantly renews, sustains, and augments it. They shared the vety life of their Lord. He lived in them. They lived in Him. And it was in the power of this common life that they knew God. Nor is it only the immediate knowledge of God that is rendered possible by this union with Christ. Christian men are con- 697 scious that they do not receive strength from Christ for common duty, as they might receive strength from One who, while He conferred the grace, stood apart from them, but that in some wonderful way they are strong in the strength of Christ Himself. They are too often drawn down into the region of baser forces, and then they fall; but their very failure veri- fies the truth of their happier experiences, for it brings home to them afresh what they are apart from Christ; and when they recover their union with Him—which indeed had not been lost, though for a time it was not realized—they recover their power. UNDISTURBED BY nt The man who has had, and who still has, such experiences as these will listen with great tranquility to criticisms which are intended to shake the historical credit of - the four Gospels, although the story they contain may have been the original ground of his faith in Christ. The criticism may be vigorous; he may be wholly unable to answer it; but what then? Is he to cease to believe in Christ? Why should he? Let me answer these questions by an illustration, Towards the close of our Lord's ministry, when He was in the neigh- borhood of Jericho—just leaving the city or just entering it—Bartimeus, a blind man, who was begging at the side of the road, heard that Jesus of Nazareth was passing by, and he appealed to the great Prophet to have mercy upon him. Jesus answered his appeal, and gave him sight, Now it is possible that Bartimeus may have been told by some passing traveler, of whom he knew nothing, the story of a similar miracle which Jesus had worked a few weeks before in Jerusalem, and this may have been the ground, and the only ground, of his confidence in our Lord’s super- natural power. If, after he had received his sight, some sagacious friend of his had asked him how it was that he came to believe that the Nazarene Teacher could give sight to the blind, nothing would have been easier than for his friend to show that698 THE KING'S BUSINESS whether the story of the Jerusalem miracle was true or not, Bartimeus had no trust- worthy evidence of its truth. A tale told by an unknown stranger! This was no sufficient reason for believing that Jesus had given sight to a man born blind. Did the stranger who told the tale know the beggar who was said to have been cured? Was it certain that the man was blind? Had the stranger examined his eyes the very morning of the day on which he received sight? Was it certain that the vision was not gradually returning? Was the stranger present when Jesus made the clay, and put it on the blind man's eyes; close enough to see that no delicate opera- tion was performed during the process? The sending of the blind man to wash at the Pool of Siloam was suspicious: what could the washing have to do with the miracle? Did the stranger go with the man to the pool, and keep his eye upon him while he was there? Was it quite certain that the blind beggar who was sent to Siloam was the man who came back to the city and declared that Jesus had healed him? Might not one man have been sent to the pool, and another man have come back to Jerusalem? It looked very much as if there were some previous understanding between the blind man and the Nazarene Prophet. The Prophet had rich friends; they could have made it worth the man's while to come into the plot. Had Bartimeus considered all these difficulties? Was it not more probable that the stran- ger’s story should be false than that the miracle should be true? Would it not he well for Bartimeus to suspend his faith in Jesus until he had made further inquiries about the miracle? We can imagine the answer of Barti- meus. I think that he would have said “At first I believed in the power of Jesus of Nazareth, because I was told that He had given sight to another blind man; now I am sure of His power because He has given sight to me. It is possible, as you say, that the story about the blind man in Jerusalem is not true. You have asked me many questions which I can not answer. T can not explain why he should have been sent to the Pool of Siloam. I acknowledge that the evidence which I have for the miracle is not decisi As Jesus has restored my sight, I think that the story is probably true; but whether the story is true or not can not disturb my faith in Him, for if He did not heal the other man, He has healed me.” And so the faith in the living Christ of those who have had the great experiences ef His power and grace which I have described is not shaken by any assaults on the historical trustworthiness of the story of His earthly ministry. Much less can it be shaken by discussions concerning the nature and origin of the ancient Scrip- tures of the Jewish people, Their confidence in the books, both of the Old Testament and the New, may perhaps haye to be sus- pended until the controversies of scholars are closer, or until, on historical and crit- ical grounds, they can see their own way to firm and definite conclusions about the main questions at. issue; but not their con- fidence in Christ. They may be uncertain about the books; they are sure about Him, Both Christian scholars and the common- alty of Christian people approach the con- troversies on these ancient records with a settled faith in the power and grace and glory of Christ. Their faith in Him rests on foundations which lie far beyond the reach of scientific and historical criticism. They know for themselves that Christ is the Saviour of men; for they have received through Him the remission of their own sins; He has translated them into the divine kingdom; He has given them strength for righteousness, and through Him they have found God.THE KING’S BUSINESS 699 Graduating Exercises Splendid Class Receives Diplomas from ‘The Bible Institute of Loz Angeles THE Soring Term graduating exercises of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles were held on Thursday evening, June 28, in the great Institute Auditorium. The entire body of students were the guests of the Faculty at a reception and banquet given in honor of the graduating class earlier in the evening, accompanied by a _-Drogianime of music and other exercises, Miss Hn Blackman, representing the women 6f the graduating class, spoke inter- ~-esting!f of the incidents of dormitory life. E. W. Hallowell, representing the men, dealt with the principles and aims of the Institute, asking the question: “Have we as students filled our place in the pur- pose of the Bible Institute?” William H. Wertenbaker also spoke on behalf of the graduates, the thought of his address cen- tering about the class motto: “That in all things He might have the pre-emi- nence.” A large framed picture of the graduates was presented to the school, the” presentation address being made by E. B. Hart, president of the class. Mr. Hart also made mention of the fact that the class has contributed one dollar per member, as a gift to the’ Alumni Scholar- ship Fund which was instituted by the class of 1916. Response on behalf of the school was made by Dr. William Evans. The graduation proper took place at 7:45. The address to the graduates was delivered by Dr. Herbert Booth Smith, pastor of Immanuel Presbyterian Church, this city, his theme being, “The Making of Destiny,” based on the text, “Keep thy heart with ence; for out of it are the issues The diplomas were presented by William Evans, Associate Dean of the Institute, to the fifty men and women who had completed the prescribed course of two years, This was followed by the singing of the class song, “He Goeth On Before,” the words of which were written by Dr. Oscar E. Weiss, and the music by Miss Rowene Armstrong both members of the class. At the close of the exercises a reception was held for the friends of the graduates in the foyer of the Auditorium, The baccalaureate sermon was delivered on the preceding Sunday by Dr. Evans, at the morning service of the Church of the Open Door, the subject being, “Christi- anity and the Modern Spirit.” This class is the largest ever graduated by the Institute, and is also the first which has been under the teaching of Dr. Evans during their entire course, he having joined the Faculty in 1915, at which time the present graduates entered as students. As an expression of appreciation for his per- sonal helpfulness and the great benefits received from his instruction, the class unanimously elected Dr. Evans to honorary membership. This is the first time in the history of the Institute that husband and wife have completed the course together; and there are no fewer than three married couples among the graduates. Of the forty-seven members, nine have specialized in Missions, eight in Sunday School work, and three in Music. The class has been brought together from many widely separated points, there being representatives from eighteen States of the Union, besides the following foreign countries: England, Egypt, Australia, Canada, Turkey, Korea, Japan and Mexico. The following denom- inations are represented: Presbyterian, Baptist, Methodist, Episcopal, Congrega- tional, Christian, United Presbyterian,700 THE KING’S BUSINESS Church of the Brethren, Brethren in Christ. Mennonite, Nazarene and Church of God; also the Church of the Open Door (Interdenominational ) It is interesting to note the wide variety of trades and occupations represented by the class, among which are those of grocer, farmer, dressmaker. baker, printer; auto- mobile, steam and electrical engineer. Six were engaged in school-teaching, eight in stenographic and clerical work, and one was cashier of a bank, Nine came directly from other educational institutions, while only three were engaged professionally in religious work before coming to the Bible Institute, two of these as pastors and one as pastor’s wife. In marked contrast with their former employments are their plans for the future. There is not one who does not expect to engage in special Christian work, and forty one of the forty-seven have decided upon definite fields of service. Sixteen have heard the call of the Lord of the Harvest to the foreign mission field, three to Egypt, five to East Africa and the Congo, three to South America, one to China and one to India. One of the graduates is a Korean who before coming to this country was a high-school teacher in the city of Peng Yang, and who is going back to teach the Word in the Bible Institute at Seoul. Another, an Armenian, whose family has suffered indescribable atrocities the hands of the Turks, and many of whom have laid down their lives for their faith in Jesus Christ. expects to return to the Turkish Empire to preach the Gospel Another is a native of Egypt and will go back to carry the Good News to that land. Of those who will remain in the homeland, two plan to work among the mountain whites of the Southeastern States, and one among the Japanese on the Pacific Coast. Eleven will engage in pastoral work, four intend to enter the evangelistic field, and three expect to make Bible Teaching their life work. Twelve, at least, are planning to take further training before beginning work in their chosen fields, some remaining for post-graduate work at the Bible Insti- tute, while others will study in the semi- university, and hospital, Following is a list of the graduates: Andrews, E. E. McKinney, H. C. Arase, Mifune McKinney, Mrs. H.C. Armstrong, Rowene Mead, Helen Balfour, Jennie Miller, Maude Beaty, C, M. Miller, Miriam Blackman, Helen Mitchell, Henry Booth, W. L. Nichols, Ruby Booth, Mrs. W. L. Brown, Jesse Esther Carlstend, Helga Proctor, Geo. Reynolds, Marion Burhans, Rexroat, Faith Rohrbaugh. Olive Chung, James Churchill, Celestia Ross, Nina Rouff, Anna Furuta, C. Snow, Virgil Gates, Howard E, Spooner, Mary Hall, Mary J. Sprout, Chas. Hallowell, E. W. — Suderman, Helen Hammarlund, Elsie Torgerson, Jenni Hart, Edward Urban, C. B. Jones, C. P. Weiss, O. E. Jones, Mary Wilson, Vera Kendall, Will Wertenbaker, W. H. Krikorian, M. P. — Wertenbaker,MrsWH Lamb, Alice Whealy, R. V. Lichtman, B. L. J. Williams, WinifredTesting the Bible By Experience | a te AVA Lae THE way oneself of the reality of the Bible is to see, by putting it to the test, if it can do what it claims to be able to do—to practice its precepts, and thus see if it will produce its promised fruits. The final test of the trustworthi- ness of the Bible lies in the soul's expe- to assure rience of its truth and teaching. If the Bible claims inspiration, and cannot inspire; if it pretends to be a holy book, and cannot sanctify ; if it assumes to be an infallible guide, and yet leads men -into palpable error; if it professes to pilot man’s frail bark of life to its desired haven, and yet lands that life upon the rocks of destruction; if it purports to produce purity, virtue, and chastity, and yet leaves its most prayerful students impious, impure, unchaste—then all its claims, pre- tensions, assumptions, however great, ex- ceeding, paramount, are proven false; it fails, and it ought to! But if, on the other hand, we find that the most prayerful adherents of the Bible are inspired, illumined, purified, and sanc- tified; that they are delivered from sin’s tyranny and power, and filled with joy, peace, and gladness; if we find that, when its counséls have been rightly sought after, they have never failed; if we find that the calls and claims made upon it for neces- sary grace and wisdom in time of need, have always been seasonably answered; if we find that its promises, when truthfully and intelligently laid hold of, have been bona fide and fulfilled to the very letter— then we have an experimental evidence, and an incontrovertible proof of the truth of the Bible which cannot be overthrown, When a man has had this experience of By William Evans, Ph. D., D. D. the truth of the Bible, you cannot under- mine his faith in it as the very Word of God. He knows; he has seen; he has felt. You may steal his Bible, but you cannot steal his vision; you cannot rob him of the experience that has taken place in his soul. You cannot criticize his vision—that is beyond criticism; it has passed into the realm of experience. No man can take love from the heart, devotion the spirit. and trust from the souf Thar God, there is a realm within icht /the’ unholy, , destructive, blighting, blasting thing called criticism can never place its soiled, dirty feet! There is a sanctuary into which we can retire where the voice of unbelief and rationalism is not heard. There is an experience of the heart so real, so true, soedefinite, that time or talk can neither gainsay nor deny. The Bible we want today is “Mother's Bible;” the heart Bible; the Bible that stoops to the life to kiss it and bless it, and lift it up into daily inspiration of divine help, of assurance of immortality; the Bible that opens to the poorest woman, to the tiniest child, to the wisest man; the world’s wide-open book, printed, in infinite letters so that even the blind may see it; “Mother’s Bible,” marked all over with pencil indications, representing help re- ceived and prayers answered in strenuous times, with all the comforting promises marked, and for the finding of which you need no concordance: the fourteenth of John, the forty-third of Isaiah, the twenty- third Psalm—all of which are marked, and blotted, and stained with tears; “Mother's ible"—not the scholar’s Bible merely; no, for our mothers may not have been the702 scholars that we, their children, are; but they were the saints that we, their chil- dren, never will be, unless we get hack to the Bible they loved to read, study, and abey—the Mother's Bible is the Bible that we need today. “Never before.” says Newell Dwight Hillis. “has the Bible been so truly a God- inspired Book. Never before have scien- tists and scholars alike felt the full fasei- nation of its glorious pages. Young men need this Book once hedewed by the sweet mother's tears. Young women and maidens need this Book that lent the revered father his manhood and strength, Poverty needs this Book: childhood needs this Book: liberty and learning need this sacred volume. When its truths fail, if that day should ever come. eloquence will lose its dignity; liberty will lose its glory : and civilization will lose its power. Not until the last wrong has been righted, the last wound healed, the last tear wiped away. will this Book have accomplished its mission. For it is the Book of hope, the Book of character and conduct. the Book of time. the Book of eternity. and, therefore, it is the BOOK OF GOD.” WOULD YOU KNOW JHE TRUTH? Then, when that restless, uneasy feel- ing comes over you. when that sense of the utter emptiness of life envelopes you, when the consciousness of your sin oppresses you, when enemies assail you and friends betray. when hopes deceive and fears annoy, when the sense of your sin and unworthiness hangs over you like a great pall, and you feel as though you were near to the pit of despair and destruction; when some great sorrow casts a gloom over your home; when the sin of a prodigal son or wayward daughter has brought shame upon your honored name; when some loved one in your family is stricken with illness, and you sit and watch and wait fearfully and apprehensively all the long nights through, and when, after all your watching and care, the death angel spreads its wings over the form of your precious loved and you are left one, THE KING’S BUSINESS bereft, orphaned, widowed, _ fatherless, motherless, childless—then, then, ,in that hour of grief and anguish, in that hour when death draws nigh, go throw yourself in your despair, your helplessness, your hopelessness, on your bended knee, open your Bible, and in the agony of your bruised, stricken, and smitten soul, ery out: “O my Father, my God, my heart is broken; my spirit is crushed; the light of my life has gone out; everything is dark as Egyptian midnight: my hopes of life are all extinguished! ©, comfort me from the Word! Let light from its pages bring courage to my depressed spirit! Come to my help. O God!” Then you will find that forth from the Word of God there shall spring light for your darkness, healing for your wound, hope for your despair, com- fort in your sorrow, and relief for your soul. You will hear Ged speaking to you in such words as these: “Fear thou not. for I have redeemed thee; I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine, When thou passest through thé waters, I will be ith thee; and through the rivers. they shall not averflow thee; when thow walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee. For I am the Lord thy God.” “Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God. believe also in me. In my Father's house are many man- sions. I go to prepare a place for you.” “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.” And your troubled heart will be hushed and stilled as a little babe at its mother’s breast. To one with these experiences of the Bible, no doubt can shake, no criticisms invalidate, no sneer destroy the inspiration his life has received from this Book. To him, at least, it is the very Word of God, an inspired Book. Whatever others may say about it, it is the very Book of God to him. He has had the experience of its truth. The Bible has satisfied his long- ings as nothing else could do.THE N EW TESTAMENT COPYRIGHT BY WILLIAM EVANS. FIRST CORINTHIANS Continued HE article on I Corinthians is briefer this month than usual, for the reason that we present the exposition of the Intro- duction (i. 1-9) only. It our desire— in order that the reader may get a com- prehensive grasp of the first section—to reserve the entire exposition of Section 1. (i. 10-iv. 21) for the next issue of the magazine. THE EXPOSITION OF THE BOOK Introduction—i. 1-9. 1. Tre Sacutation (i. 1-3). The salu- tation contains three thoughts: the writer,’ those addressed, and the greeting (a) The Writer (i. 1). Paul. the divinely called and commissioned apostle of Jesus Christ, is declared in the Introduction to be the writer of the epistle, prominent Christian, well-known to the Corinthian church (i. 1; ¢f. Acts xviii. 17). was probably the amanuensis, and is thus associated with Paul in the authorship of this letter, doubtless by courtesy on the part of the apostle, just as Timothy is associated with him in the address of the second epistle to the Corinthians. and Sil- vanus and Timothy in connection with 1 and 2 Thessalonians. (See Introduction) Emphasis is here laid on the fact of the divine call of Paul to the office of apostle- ship. Throughout his epistles Paul: felt the necessity of asserting his apostleship as being equal to that of the twelve (cf. ix. 1-15; xv. 9; 2 Corinthians xi. 5; xii. 11, Sosthenes, a 12; Galatians i. 1-19). The vindication of his apostleship was made necessary because it was challenged by certain false Judaistic teachers. In his epistle to the Romans, in which his Apostolic authority was not questioned, Paul refers to himself simply as “a bondman of Jesus Christ” (Romans 1.1). In 1 Corinthians, however, his apos- tleship had been challenged. He therefore would have them know that “he had been commissioned by a divine call, and that only thus does he speak in the name of God. No self-appointed minister is he (ef. Hebrews v. 1, 4; Jeremiah xiv. 14; xxiii, 21; 1 Corinthians xii. 28) (b) The Persons Addressed (i. 2). “The church of God which is at Corinth.” They are “called saints”—that is to say, they are the “called out” ones. those who. having heard the call of Christ and obeyed it, have separated themselves from the present evil age (cf. 2 Corinthians vi. 14-17). The same grace that called Paul “to be an apostle” (i. 1) called them ‘to be saints,” not by any ability or merit on his or thei part, but by the gracious “will of God. They were not only called to be saints, but were saints in reality. “Beloved, now ‘are we the sons of God” (1 John iii. 1, 2). Every believer is a saint—is sanctified. If a man is not a saint, he is not a Christian; if he is a Christian, he is a saint. Sanctifi- cation, According to the teaching of the New Testament, is used in a threefold‘ 704 sense: First. it is instantaneous and takes place at conversion. and as such is the separating of the sinner from sin unto righteousness, and from the world unto God (cf. vii 11; 1 Peter i. 2; Hebrews x. 10). Second, sanctification is used in the progressive sensc—that is to say, we grow in grace (2 Peter iii, 18; Colossians iii, 10; Ephesians iv. 23, 24) and “follow after +. « sanctification” (Hebrews xii. 14). Third, sanctification will be completed when we shall be presented before the Father in that great day (cf. 1 Thessalonians v. 23 R. V.). Believers, then, being saints, should manifest sanctification in life. This epistle insists, upon such sanctification of life, or else exclusion from the church: “But now I have written unto you not to keep company. if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, of an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one not to eat” (v. 11). The believer is perfectly sanctified in his standing before God; he is growing in sanctification in his state here upon the earth; he is sanctified at the time of his regeneration (vi. 11), He és sanc- tified; he is being sanctified; his sanctifica- tion will be completed at the coming of our Lord “The church of God which is at Corinth with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both their’s and our's” (i. 2). The church at Corinth is but a part of the Church uni- versal. No one church or congregation has a monopoly of faith or of the graces and gifts of the gospel. The message is for believers in every place. We are to understand by these words that the spirit- ual gifts which were enjoyed by the Cor- inthian believers were not limited to that church (cf. iv. 17; vii. 17; x. 16; xiv. 36, 37; xvi. 1). Four things are mentioned in connection with the Corinthian believers: Consecra- tion—“sanctified in Christ Jesus”; holiness ‘called of God to be saint: solidarity —they were part of the church tiniversal —of “all that in every place call upon THE KING'S BUSINESS the Lord Jesus Christ;” unity—they were a unit with the Church of Christ as a whole —“both their Lord and ours.” (c) The Greeting (i. 3). “Grace” and “peace” are Greek and Hebrew salutations. Grace refers to the source. and peace to the consummation of the blessings of the gospel. The favor of God leads to peace of mind. Note the equality of Jesus Christ, the Son, with God, the Father, in which faet lies an argument for the deity of Christ. Note also the emphasis placed upon the person and name of Jesus Christ. No less than ten times in the first ten verses is the name of the Lord Jesus Christ spe- cifically mentioned. 2, Tue Tuanxsawine (i, 4-9), In these verses the apostle gives thanks for the grace of God in Christ Jesus (i. 4, 5) and for the exemplification of the gospel in their lives (i. 6), and particularly with regard to certain gifts of speech and wis- dom (i. 7). The gifts of speech and wis- dom, or utterance and knowledge are men- tioned because of their utility and useful- ness in the propagation of the doctrines of Christianity, The Corinthians had many gifts, but they seemed to lack some of the graces. We should not forget that a man may have all the graces even though he may not have all the gifts. It is clear from the New Testament teaching that the Holy Spirit docs confer gifts upon the believer, even though not necessarily changing his temperament. The grace of God both develops and hestows gifts. The presence of so many gifted ones in the Corinthian church showed that a characteristic of their meetings was the presence and power of the Holy Ghost. Would that it were so today! And yet what abuses followed (cf. chap. xiv). One cannot but be impressed with the mention of the second coming of Christ in connection with the gifts of the Spirit here referred to (i. 7). Would it be going too far to say that the attitude of earnest look- ing, of assiduous waiting, or “waiting it out,” as the Greek word literally means. for our Lord Jesus Christ is to be consid-THE KING'S BUSINESS ered as the highest of all the gifts? Tate, no more becoming posture can be attained by*the believer than this prayer- ful, hopeful attitude of expectation for the day of the revelation of Jesus Christ. The apostle seems to have the approach of that day constantly in his mind in this epistle (cf. ii, 13; iv. 5; vi. 2, 3; vii 29; xi. 26; xv. 51; xvi. 22). While it is true that by the “revelation of- Jesus Christ” may be meant in some instances, according to the context, any revealing of Himself to the believer, we believe the expression in this connection refers to the day of our Lord, probably the judgment seat of Christ (cf. 2 Corinthians v. 10). At any 705 The apostle gives thanks also for the faithfulness of God, being fully assured that He who had begun the good work in them would continue it until the day of Jesus Christ. Any lack of spiritual gifts or graces, therefore, is to be attributed, not to God, but to their own neglect. God will be faithful even though they are not (Philippians i. 6; 1 Thessalonians v. 23, 24). Some day the believer will be pre- sented “unimpeachable,” unreprovable (cf. Romans viii. 33; Colossians i, 22, 28). The word “unimpeachable” suggests a public accusation and intimates that at God’s bar of judgment no one can lay any charge against His elect (cf. Romans v. 1. viii. 1, 33). Back to Palestine ‘OR many years the average person has looked upon the Zionist Movement among the Jews, as a fanatical dream. Even those persons outside the Jewish race, who have faith in prophecy, have not until now seen in the startling events of the age, so many things indicative of the fulfill- ment of prophecy in the second coming of ‘Christ and the restoration of Palestine to this long-exiled people. With the Turks expelled from the Holy Land and the British in possession, there is a concerted awakening among the Jews, in anticipation of realizing their hope long- deferred. For over 1900 years this hope has been kept alive in the hearts of succeed- ing generations of Jews. It has suddenly been fanned into a flame of joyous expec- tancy by the suggestion that England might be influenced to relinguish any claim to the land and to assist i establishing a Jewish Republic, with Jerusalem as its center. There might be human ways in which this can be accomplished. It goes with- out saying, that the Jews cannot flock to Palestine and each seize for himself a par- cel of land and a house—though some of them tindoubtedly have just such vision- ary ideas. The land, however, could be placed in the hands of a representative commission of Jews, with power to parcel it out. It would be a stupendous and almost hopeless task, but if God, in His wisdom, means that it shall be so, He will find a way, and it is not for us to specu- late upon the difficulties of the achieve- ment. Ph. Spievacque, editor of the Jewish ‘vangelist, a Hebrew-Christian publica- tion, published in Brooklyn, N. Y., says: “If there was ever a time during the his- tory of the new dispensation when the great and awful prophecy of Habakkuk was nearing its fulfilment it is now. ‘Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vine; the labor of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls; yet will I rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation’ “There was nothing imaginary in the mind of the prophet but he was expressing the deep truths of God. There was noth- ing figurative about the entire prayer of Habakkuk, however strange it may appear,706 THE KING'S BUSINESS and the condition of famine everywhere account of a lecture given by Dr. G. H. does not need any interpretation, yet God's own people everywhere have at no other time so rejoiced in God, giving Him all the glory as they do now. Mes “Do you know that the Lord more than two thousand years ago gave, through the prophet Daniel. a clear description of the times in which we are now living? “Do you know that this the time whereto the Apostle Peter referred in Acts 3:19-21, where he calls it the times of resti- tution of all. things which God has spoken by the mouth of all the holy phophets? “Do you know that St. Peter there de- clares that these times of blessing will not precede, but will follow, the Second Com- ing of our Lord Jesus? “Do you know that the prophecies and signs which now herald the second advent of Christ are much more distinct than were those signs and prophecies which marked His first advent?” The same publication publishes, also. an Enclow, rabbi of Temple Emanuel, the richest and most influential synagogue in New York City, on “The Significant Signs of the Times” in which he said: csus must mean more than something to the Jews, or we are out of joint with the It can- religious progress of the world. not he hy mere accident that a Jew should have had such incalculable influence in the religious life of the human race. Whether Jesus was original or not; whether He is reported right or wrong, the fact of His influence for good and the fact that He was a Jew, cannot be ignored, Modern Jews cannot shut themselves in the silence of the centuries. It is high time for us to ask, and that most seriously, what do we think of Jesus? Be our answer to the question what it may, we ought to formulate an answer. The object of this lecture course is to make some contribu- tion to those who want to make an intelli- gent answer to the question.” LIGHT ON ~ PUZZLING PASSAGES and PROBLEMS By R. A. TORREY Does Romans 8:11 have reference to the quickening of our present bodies while lit ing here or at the resurrection? The answer to this question is evident from the connection in which the passage is found. As Paul goes on with his teach- ing he says, “For we reckon that the suf- ferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed to usward. For the earnest expectation of the creation waiteth for the revealing of the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but by reason of him who sub- jected it, in hope that the creation itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the liberty of the glory of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. And not only so but we ourselves also, which have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselvesTHE KING’S BUSINESS groan within ourselves, waiting for our adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body, ete.” There can be no question that the quickening referred to in Romans 8:11 is this quickening in “the redemption of our body” which is to take place at the return of our Lord Jesus (Phil. 3:20, 21) and Romans 8:11 has no direct and imme- diate reference to the healing of our bodies by the quickening power of the Holy Spirit in the present dispensation. But it is else- ‘where taught that there is a quickening of our bodies, or a physical strengthening of our bodies, by the Holy Spirit's power. Jesus said in Matt. 12:28 that He cast out ‘demons by the Spirit of God, and in Acts 10:38 we are taught that Jesus of Nazareth was anointed with the Holy Ghost and with power, and because of this power of the Holy Ghost He went about “healing all that were oppressed of the devil,” and in James 5:14 we are instructed when we pray for the sick to anoint them with oil in the name of the Lord. Now oil is a type of the Holy Spirit, and sets forth on one side the healing power of the Holy Ghost in these bodies of ours. Even in the pres- ent life we have the first fruits of the Spirit, we have the earnest of His quickening work which will be completely consum- mated in the resurrection of our bodies, and while it is true that we who do “have the firstfruits of the Spirit” still groan, nevertheless we do have the anticipation of that fullness ‘of physical life that shall be ours when the Lord comes again and per- fectly transforms the body of our humili- ation into the likeness of His glorious body. But we should never go beyond what is written along this line, and take the ground that some do, and which is entirely unwar- ranted by the Scripture, that by the power of the Spirit in the present dispensation every believer may be absolutely free from physical infirmity. What our Lord did when He was here upon earth in the way of giving complete healing to those who came in contact with Him was an anticipa- 707 tion and a prophecy of what He will do when He is here again in person, when all sickness shall flee from His presence. What 4s the significance of the word “witnesses,” in Heb. 12:1? Does it mean that the men of faith spoken of are spec- tators of our acts here below, or: that they, in their day witnessed for God? It means the latter. The twelfth chap- ter must be read connection with the eleventh which immediately precedes it. The verse begins with the word “Wherefore” (R. V.. “Therefore”), pointing us back to what the writer has just been saying. The writer has cited a great many men who bore witness to the truth in their day, and who won victories by faith. Paul speaks of them as “a cloud of witnesses” who compass us about. The word translated “witness” in this passage does not mean witness in the sense in which we use the word “witness” to mean an on-looker, or spectator, it means “witness” in the strict sense, one who testifies. We have no rea- son whatever for supposing that good men and women of the past and saved men and women of the past surround us today and look at us. Such teaching is entirely inconsistent with the general teaching of the Bible regarding the departed. They “depart fo be with Christ” (Phil. 1:23), they do not hover around us here. It is doubtful if they have very much knowledge of what is going on here except as Christ may be pleased to reveal it to them. It is true that there is a record that Samuel came back to Saul, but that was altogether exceptional. Samuel protested against being thus brought back and Saul was destroyed for his action in this matter. Our beloved ones who sleep in Jesus are better occupied than hovering around us here. But the men and women of the past who have been faithful in their witness to the truth and won victories by faith should be an inspira- tion to us in our endeavors to run with patience the race that is set before us.708 THE KING’S BUSINESS The New Method of Evangelism Dr, Oliver in Vancouver EORGE W. HUNTER, who has been representing the Bible Institute for the past year at Seattle, has gone to Van- couver to assist Dr. French E. Oliver in an evangelistic campaign. Miss Marie Carter, one of the Bible women of the Institute, has also gone to work among the young women. The campaign is being carried on by Dr. Oliver on a new plan. The churches are uniting on a statement of doctrine, which, of course, eliminates many evan- gelical churches who will not suscribe to the statement. The work is a new form of Evangelism, and well suited to the pres- ent conditions. If churches that stand for the old doc- trines would unite in evangelistic services, there would be a fellowship and a united spiritual power that is impossible to obtain under other circumstances. A_ strong, virile, aggressive evangelism like Dr. Oliv- er’s, with the churches united on the great fundamental doctrines, could not fail to command the largest blessing from the Lord, and would intensify the faith of the believers, and would create an inquiry on the part of others which would lead them to distinguish the difference between the pure, unadulterated truths and the ques- tionable position held by so many with reference to the Deity of our Lord and the full inspiration of the Scriptures. Many people will be watching with great interest the development of this campaign, and we solicit the earnest prayers of our readers on behalf of this new method of evangelism. Mr. Hunter writes that he has never before been in a place where the people displayed such eagerness for Bible knowl- edge as he finds in Vancouver. The people had been praying for years for a spiritual awakening.. In one place they had been conducting prayer meetings for seven years, once every week. In another place, a prayer meetings had been conducted for ten years, but had lapsed once or twice for a short season. The Holy Spirit drew them together again, and they continued in prayer for this spiritual awakening. The committee of seven, composed of men identified with the Baptist, Presby- terian and Anglican churches, were very definitely planning under the guidance of the Holy Spirit for the work. Enough has been subscribed to date to build the taber- nacle and take care of all the expenses, without a dollar having been solicited from any source. People have prayed and God has sent the money. No service is con- ducted in the Tabernacle without being prayed through, and the people attending the meetings are under deep conviction. The present plan is to conduct the meeting through to the end of June, but they may continue longer. It would not be surpris- ing if a campaign covering the whole Can- adian Northwest should develop from the meeting in Vancouver, gt Hopi Indians’ Contribution A letter from H. A. Holcomb, working among the Hopi Indians at Oraibi, Ari- zona, encloses a check for $5, stating that this amount has been contributed by. the Indians under his charge, to the sea- men’s fund. He says: “On receiving the ‘lighthouse’ I had Elizabeth explain to our people and ask them to pray for the work. I thengset the lighthouse on the table and told them they could put in what they wished should go to this work, The enclosed $5 is the amount which we, as a little society, are sending the seamen’s fund. I want our dear people to understand about such work.” The “Elizabeth” mentioned above is a Hopi Indian well known and much beloved by Bible Institute folks, she having spent a season here in the school.THE KING’S BUSINESS 709 Outline Study of The Book of Job By REV. V. V. MORGAN Graduate of Bible Institute of Los Angeles, Class of 1913 Introduction. The book of Job is most extraordinary and unique. It is probably the oldest book in the Bible if not in the world, perhaps written before the Pentateuch. There is no reference to the Law which would be natural in a discussion of Divine govern- ment. Sacrifices were performed by the head of the family instead of by priests. (1:5), This book is a true account of an actual occurrence. Job probably lived about the time of Abraham and was a real person, not a mythical character. In Ezekiel 14:14 we read of Job in connection with Noah and Daniel, who were real persons. Again we find that the Holy Spirit speaking through James (5:11) refers to the patience of Job. Paul, in I. Corinthians 3:19, quotes from Job 5:13, beginning with the words, “It is written.” Our Lord, in Matthew 24:28, very evidently refers te Job 39:30, Job deals with the problem, “Why do the godly suffer?” Perhaps no man has ever suffered as much as Job. “Why?” The question is asked many times throughout the book. Many different theories are given, but not one of them answers the question, We must take the book as a whole to find the answer. Suffering some- times is for the purpose of vindicating a broken law—this is penal. Suffering in eternity will be judicial and penal. Other suffering is paternal and disciplinary: (“Whom the Lord loveth He correcteth.”) Again, suffering may be for the purpose of purging and purifying, or in order to bring to self-judgment. But Job's suffer- ings were for a different and higher pur- pose—that God Himself might be vindi- cated. 1. The Champion. (1:1, 5, 6). “There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil, “And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified’ them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt-offer- ings, according to the number of them all; for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually. “Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan came also among them.” The “sons of God” mentioned are the angels making their reports. How Satan has access to God is a mystery but never- theless a fact. v. 8: “And the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?” Think of Job as God's champion. Bear this thought in mind and it will light up the whole book. Few men have had the lofty privilege of being God’s champion. Il, The Challenge, (1:9-12; 2:4, 5). Satan is here in his capacity as the “accuser of ‘the brethren” and he immedi- ately challenges God's estimate of Job. As Satan had no outward grounds for accu- sation, he assails Job's motives. “Doth Job fear God for nought?” He goes on to say that if all the blessings and rewards for his godliness were taken away Job would turn from God. He hints that theFIG blessings that God had given Job formed a hedge about him. protecting him from Satan. This was a direct insult to God. To say that the best of men loved God just for the blessings he received, and not for God Himself, is to insinuate that God alone is not worthy of love or capable of inspiring it. It would be an insult to hint to a father that all that keeps his family from leaving him is the food and clothing he provides them. If Job served God only for that which he received then God, of Himself, must be lacking in perfection and that which attract’s true devotion. Satan charges God's champion with being mer- cenary and so indirectly assumes that God Jacks that perfection which would inpsire man’s devotion to Himself alone Ml. The Contest. (1:13-38:1). I. The Chatlenge Accepted. God accepted Satan’s challenge. This explains the suffering of Job. God vindi- cates His own honor by permitting Satan to test Job, to put him in his sieve, Job probably never knew until he was in glory why he suffered. It is all very clear to us when we have the whole scene before us. We suffer and ask, “why,” now, but as we stand on the mountain tops of eternity and have the afterview, all will be clear. It was not so much a question of Job’s loyalty as God's honor and power. The question was. “Is the grace of God able to keep one of His servants faithful to Him, though he be stripped of every- thing men count dear?” against Job could be rightfully made against many Christians, If God would suddenly take from them all their bless- ings they would turn from Him. After Abraham, out of the generosity of hi great heart, gave Lot the choice of land, and Lot out of a selfish heart chose the better and richer land of the, plain, leavirig Abraham the hilly country, God appeared and said to Abraham, “Fear not, I am thy shield and thy exceeding great reward.” God and God alone is the Christian's por- tion. Satan's charges THE KING’S BUSINESS 2. The Catastrophe. Satan left God's presence and in rapid succession sent two great calamities upon Job. First all his property was taken from him and then his beloved sons and daugh- ters were snatched away. But Job sins not. Satan appears again before God and God as it were taunts him with the integ- rity of Job. Satan replies, “Skin for skin (life for life), all that a man hath will he give for his life, but put forth thine hand now and touch his bone and his flesh and he will curse thee to thy face.” God then permits Satan to touch Job, to do his worst, but not to take his life. Job is stricken with a malignant form of lepro- sy, his whole body being covered with black. burning boils. This loathsome disease accompanied by intolerable itching. 3. The Charges of Job's three Friends and his caustic replies. (Ch, 24-32), Three of his friends (as was the oriental custom) come to comfort him in his misery. They all believe that Job is a hypocrite and insist that God is just. that He deals with everyone according to his work, that He always rewards the right- cous and punishes the wicked; therefore Job must be guilty of some secret sin. Of this they accuse him and urge him to con- fession. Instead of comforters they are tormentors. Several times Job asks them to go away and leave him to die’ in peace. At times his replies to their accusations reach a height of irony which is superb. (Joh 12:1, 2), In the midst of his suffer- ing the question “Why, why,” is continu- ally before him. The most amazing virtue exhibited perhaps is Job's marvelous faith, When all his property was destroyed and then the heart-breaking news of the death of his children reached him, he said, “The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the Name of the Lord.” “In all this Job sinned not nor charged God foolishly.” When the terrible disease laid hold on him what faith his wife may have had was lost and she advised Job to “curse God and die.” And he replied, “Thou speakest as one of the foolish wom- ‘iTHE KING'S BUSINESS en speaketh. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God and shall we not receive evil?” In all this did not Job sin with his lips. Then again in the midst of his suffering he cried out, “Though He slay me yet will I trust Him.” After Bildad had finished his second discourse, attempt- ing to prove Job's guilt by oriental prov- erbs, Job replies by citing his many miseries and suddenly closing his speech with these sublime words of faith: “For I know that my Redeemer liveth and that He shall stand at the latter day upon the earth; and though after my skin worms destroy this body yet in my flesh shall T see God.” 4. The Convictions of Elihu. (Ch. 32-37.) “So these three men ceased to answer Job. because he was righteous in his own eyes. “Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the kindred of Ram: against Job was his wrath kindled because he justified himself rather than God. “Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job. “Now Elihu had waited till Job had spoken, because they were elder than he.” Elihu’s discourse shows a much higher conception of God than the others, and because of his idea, God does not class him with the three friends. (42:7). Elihu is quite self-assertive and brings mahy charges against Job, but fails to solve Job’s problem, His speech is ended and Job’s sufferings are unaccounted for, IV. The Cri: (38:1; 42:7). Jehovah Himself answers instead of Job but speaking directly to him. ‘The discus- sion has been about God and Divine gov- ernment and now God speaks. Can Job explain the phenomena of Nature? How then can he understand the principles of God's government? If Job cannot explain . vil the mysteries of creation can he govern it better than the Creator? Submission to God's ways and not worry is man’s part. Job was overwhelmed by God's speeches and made very conscious of his presence. “I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eyes seeth thee. “Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.” Job gets a self-defense pse of God, forgets his righteous life. He and catches sight of God and his heart breaks. One good look at God was enough to bring him to seli-judgment and self-abhorance. Christian men and women everywhere need a new and clear vision of God. Such a view would have a wonderfully blessed effect in the church of Christ today. One of the purposes of suffering is that we might he brought to self-judgment. V. The Consummation. (42:7-17). Flow well it all ended. God's model man made good. God’s champion won. God's honor and perfection were vindicated and Satan vanquished. What a glorious vic- tory it was for God. And a man was allowed to win it! What an honor to act as God's champion as Job did! How completely God vindicated Job and how richly He rewarded him! Could God trust us to the extent He trusted Job? What a dignity and glory this puts on suffering! This is truly suffering for His sake. Summary. The Champion—Job an upright man. The Challenge—Satan’s charges concern- ing the motive of Job's godliness and the insult to God Himself. The Contest—The challenge accepted. The calamities sent upon Job. The charges of his three friends and his replies. The convictions of Elihu. The Crisis—The speeches and the pres- ence of God brings self-judgment. The Consummation—Victory.“ BD THE KING’S BUSINESS GROUNDED IN THE FUNDAMENTALS MONG the graduates who have just now received diplomas fram the U. P, Seminary at Xenia, Ohio, is Stewart P. MacLennan, a graduate of the Bible Insti tute of Los Angeles. and who has also just taken charge as pastor of the Pres- byterian church at San Pedro, this city. The following clipping from a Xenia news- paper, referring to a “statement” drawn up by Mr. MacLennan and signed by him- self and his fellow-graditates, indicates that they are firmly grounded in the fun- damentals: A rather unusual meeting took place last week following the graduation exercises of Xenia Seminary. when the young men of the graduating class and the post-graduate students met together for the last time, and drew up a statement of a few things they believed in common. It has lately become quite an ordinary occurrence to read of some Seminary student after his gradua- tion setting out to tell the world just how much he docs not believe. Orthodoxy seems to hold the field in the case of these Xenia students. So much so, that within five minutes after mecting they had signed and issued the following statement: We believe: 1, In the Verbal Inspiration of the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament. 2. In the Deity. Pre-existence. and Incarnation by Virgin Birth of the Lord Jesus Christ 3. We also believe that He lived a si less life, and that His death was Penal, Vicarious, and Expiatory. 4. We believe that He was raised from the dead in the same body in which He suffered. and ascended to the right hand of God, where He is now making inter- cession for the saints. §. And further, we believe in His Immi- nent, Personal and Visible return to raise and reward the saints, and execute judg- ment on the ungodly, We, the undersigned men, covenant with one another, and before God, not only to hold these doctrines, but to preach and teach them to the several congregations to which God may call us. We make the above statement without suggestion from anyone, and without any desire for personal notoriety, but rather in the interest of those Christian truths which we believe stand firm and have not been shaken by any of the results of criticism, and also that we may deny the oft repeated charge that faith in these truths cannot be intelligent. Signed—Alva J. McClain, Stewart P. MacLennan. W. E. McClure. Dewitt Mac- Eachron, Chris G. Lunan, Henry Rankin, W. Greer McCrory. E. M. Duffy. C. E. Hawthorne, C. R. Ferguson, A. G, Mac- Lennan, B. D.; Benjamin H. Somers, RB. D.: William Sutherland. B. D.; H. Framer Smith. B. D. MORNING PRAYER HE following brief morning prayer has been published broadcast. with the recommendation that each person commit it to memory and use it daily: “Our Father, I pray that I may live this day in constant recollection of my true relation, as an individual, to Thee, the Originating and Indwelling Spirit. May my conscious mind perceive that Thy Life, Thy Spirit, Thy Thoughts are within me, and that Thou art secking to realize ‘Thyself and to manifest Thy Love through me. May my mind be a pure dwelling place for Thy Spirit, and_my thoughts only such as will heal and bless. May I remem- ber that anger or unbrotherliness shown to another, under whatever provocation, thwarts Thy divine purpose and grieves Thy Holy Spirit. May my highest aim this day be to manifest God, and make others happy, and may I rise every day into a higher consciousness of Thy Life and Thy Love, through Jesus Christ my Lord. Amen?| EVANGELISTIC DEPARTMENT REVIEW OF THE MONTH'S ACTIVITIES By Bible Institute Workers WORK IN THE SHOPS David Cant, Supt. E were telling some of the dear friends the other day that one of the many happy results of Christian service was in just watching the growth and development in the lives of those who have known the Lord Jesus Christ but a com- paratively short time, and how very keen they are in witnessing out in the great harvest field when once the Word of God gets into the heart; but after all, isn't it but natural that where there is real life in the soul, there necessarily follows the cry. “Come and sce a Man who told me all things that ever I did. Is not this the Christ?” The poor old sad world is groaning beneath its weight of war, and the cry is “no slackers,” and surely God is calling still louder, as we draw nearer and still nearer to the close of His day of grace, fot whole-hearted devotedness, and we do indeed praise Him that the month has brought to us no less of His faithfulness, and the glad joy of witnessing how gra- ciously He has honored His Word, and to see these little ones bowing the neck to receive His yoke. It is less than a month since we were holding a heart-to-heart talk with a fine, cultured, well-dressed young man, who just drifted in. His conversation was profusely sprinkled with the phraseology so common these days, which smells of Eddyism first, last and always, but we finally persuaded _ him to go home and read the first three chapters of Romans and pray, “Oh God, show me miyself.” We likewise went home and prayed the same prayer in his behalf, and the next time we met him—what a change! His face was radiant with a new-found joy, for God had not only shown him himself, but had revealed Him- self, and had given him grace to make a public confession of the Lord Jesus in the Church of the Open Door. We met him again last night at the Fishermen’s Club. “My!” he said, “but it's a fight, a real fight.” He was working at hard manual labor, quite a change from the actor of a few weeks ago. “I know now that there is a personal devil; he certainly is giving me a time of it, but with Jesus Christ on my side I’m sure to win out.” He is working hard every day to get his debts paid, so he and the little wife can come to the school and prepare to give their fives to serve anywhere He leads. We have another young couple also wait- ing for God to open the door for service, \ who only a short time ago were in “the far country.” This is what he writes: “Never have I lived with less regret for the days that are going by, or with greater joy and hope in the expectation of the days that are to come. If the fellows could only see it, how quickly they too would enlist in the army of the Lord Jesus.” Another of our boys, away from God, comes back. It was certainly touching to receive a hastily pencilled letter, scribbled in the rush and hurry of his car “run,” so full of thankfulness and enclosing a dollar bill for fellowship in the work, and, know- ing as we do the dear fellow’s circum- stances, we can but praise God, for with such sacrifices He is well pleased. And here comes another of our fine fire laddies swinging into line, and wanting to74 THE do “his bit.” even to jumping on our gospel auto truck and hurrying off to stand with us us we go to a shop meeting. He gets another good feast at the club that night and yields his life for the call when ever it comes for Christ's service. Some of you will probably recall the conductor mentioned last month, who asked us to visit his home, and we know some have been praying for this home, for after the gospel had heen told in its simplicity. they both sat and looked at us in perfect astonishment. “Why! you don’t mean to say its as easy as all that? We thought it would mean months and months of strug- gle, effort, renunciation, before we could begin to hope. Are you quite sure you are right? It doesn’t seem possible that all we really have to do is just to simply believe in what Jesus has already done.” We gave them the Word from the Gos- KING'S BUSINESS pel of John over and over again. We just left it all with Him, and with them a little copy of John’s Gospel. and soon had the joy of receiving the following note: “My dear friend: After reading the Gospel of John, which you sent me last night, 1 felt that I wanted to give myself to Christ, and falling on my knees, I accept ed Christ as my Saviour. Already the cares are lighter today.” This was signed by the wife, so you see God has answered already for her. Now keep on praying all this month for the husband, who has not yet ‘come out into the clear light, and then next month, please God, we'll tell the result of prevailing. believing prayer offered up in the name of Him, whom the Father delights to honor— “Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today and forever.” WORK IN THE OIL FIELDS By Frank J. Shelley have had as our motto for Oil Fields service the past month, the WwW 3rd chapter of 2nd Corinthians—the great theme of owr partuership with Him: “We are laborers together with God"; the character of that labor, and the fest it will have to stand in order to be pleasing to Him: “The fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is.” And with this word in mind in these fields, which are literally foreign fields, our constant thought hat is best to do; how can we reach them most effectively?” We need to know the mind of the Spirit and seek to be led of Him: In some places out here it seems almost impossible to find a man or woman who will be sponsor for a Sunday School, so at such places we make it a point to teach the children on the days of our visit. It is not feasible to keep up the Sunday School lesson, so we make it a point to take a simple chapter of the love and grace of God, teach that and trust the Lord to send it home to their hearts. Some Sunday School literature I do not care much for; as a lady gnee said, “Many of our lesson helps are really lesson hindrances.” Per- sonally I prefer to teach the children the simple truths of the gospel, man’s ruin and God's remedy, and try to make them mem- orize Gospel verses. It is most wonderful how God answers prayer. We recall one instance, where we called at a home on the American Oil ease, and gave a gospel tract, but was informed by the lady, “You know I am a Catholic.” The next time we were received by herself and her husband. . After a short conversation, she admitted she was not saved and accepted the Lord. A coupleTHE KING’S BUSINESS of weeks after she left for a sanitarium, no doubt never to return, as she is far gone in tuberculosis, but she said when leaving, “I thank God that you came to our house,” and her husband has asked me to write her a letter occasionally as it comforts her. I am hoping for her hus- band and he has let me pray for him. While she is not as yet entirely clear from Romanism, still she bears the evidences of the new birth. At Bellridge, Lost Hills, Reward, McKitt- rick and many other places, we have held on an average of seven services each week. either teaching the Bible or holding gospel services. It is encouraging to see the in- terest there is in the truth of the Lord’s coming: As one said, “We feel something great is going to happen.” and the world feels it too, A few are taking hold of the truth. We felt quite a little encouraged one evening, when an opportunity was given for those who wished to give thanks to God to speak, as one lady got up and said even if Reward was on the desert, and 715 with all its discomforts, she thanked God she and her husband ever came, as she had learned the truth of God there. These two dear people are planning to give their lives to Christian service. At 25 Hills, (well named for it is “all hill"), which we usually make about once a month, we have a number of devoted people who study God’s Word. We take up the hook of Ephesians this month. This month we have had the usual num- ber of accidents in the fields—four deaths. Just before writing this note we took the hand of a broken hearted wife, as her hus- band fay in his coffin, and tried to give her comfort. The poor fellow had fallen off a rig. And so they are passing out, many dying without Christ. These boys are try- ing to make themselves happy without the Lord Jesus, turning their backs on their best friend; how sad it is! Will you please pray that we may be given wisdom and faith and faithfulness in dealing with men, and that God will give us more of the power of the Spirit in presenting the truth. WORK AT BIOLA CLUB Marion H. Reynolds, Supt. T isa blessed privilege we have day by day, of sowing the seed and reaj it as it springs up into everlasting life. How great is the responsibility of giving out God's Word! It is a saviour of life unto life, or of death unto death. Especially has it been a great blessing the past month. It seems that everyawhere men are begin- ning to listen to the Gospel of the Son of God. Men who would hardly look at a church, much less go to it, are being brought by the Holy Spirit to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ. An illustration of this occurred only last month. An elderly man came into the Club room and sat down. At the close of the meeting he was spoken to about his soul. His reply was that it could not do him any good. After dealing with him for some time it was found that he never had any desire to go to Church. had never gone to a Sunday school, and had never owned a Bible. Think of this! A man in Los Angeles. in the State of Califor who had never had a Bible! But he had read the Gospel on some of the faces of Christians he had known, and could nek overlook that, Let us stop here and ask ourselves,—what kind of a Gospel are peo- ple reading from our faces? He could not get around the fact, how- ever, that there was no peace for the j '716 wicked, and that he, himself, had no peace, At last he said, “If this, Jesus you tell me of, can and will save me, I'll let Him.” It is needless to sey what happened. It will suffice to say that he knew by experimental knowledge that Jesus did save. When saved he was offered some money to live ‘on, but he said, “No, if Jesus can save me He can get me a job.” After asking God's guidance, he left the Club in search of work, a happy man with a handful of tracts to give out. That very same after- moon he came back with the news that God had given him a job, He was so full of joy over his new found Saviour that all He could say was, “Oh if I had only known Him sooner.” Today he still has a job, and at night he is down at the Club THE ‘KING’S BUSINESS helping tell the old, old story of the Sav- iour who died to redeem men from sin and make them what they ought to be. The attendance at the meetings of the Club is not very large but we always find some one to speak to about the Saviour. We had a social time at the Club one night this month, which proved a great success. It was well attended, about fifty-five being present. Some of the fellows who had been won to Christ were there bringing their unconverted friends. It was a fine opportunity to speak a good word for our Lord Jesus Christ. We had a regular good time, and at the close a message on the Gospel of Jesus Christ was given. Do not forget to pray for the work and the work- ers. WORK AMONG THE JEWS James A. Vaus, Supt. URING the past month our hearts D have been gladdened in seeing six of our Jews and Jewesses receive Jesus of Nazareth as their long-looked-for Messiah. It affords us great pleasure to see those whom we have been privileged to lead to the Lord, telling out the old, old story, and thus in ever-widening circles sending out the glorious tidings of salvation to a needy world. Such was the case of one man who, though but a young convert himself, had found the Lord so precious that he felt he must tell others of his new-found joy. In calling on a friend one day, he told of his experience with God and did his utmost to lead his friend to the Lord Jesus. So interested did they become, that their conversation lasted into the hours of the night. The final outcome of it all was, that the friend said, “If you can prove to me from the Jewish Scriptures, that Jesus Christ is the Jewish Messiah and that all these things you have been telling me are true, I too, will believe in him.” This his caller could not do, for, to put it in his own words, he was not “educated enough for that,” but, he said, if the friend desired, he would the next day take him to see a man whom he knew could give him the proof he requested. The next day they presented themselves at the Mission Home, asking that the “mis- sionary” would give them the necessary proof. This, he was more than glad to do, and going through Moses and the Prophets, he expounded the Scriptures concerning Messiah, touching on his nation- ality, birthplace, character (both human and Divine), His miracles, the time of His coming, His atoning death and resurrection, Then, referring to history, he showed the falsity of the claims of many to Messiah- ship on the ground that they did not fit the description of Messiah given in the Jewish Scriptures. Then the claims of Jesus of Nazareth were examined and found to fit perfectly ti. “d TestamentTHE KING'S BUSINESS picture of Messiah, proving conclusively that Messiah had come already and that Jesus of Nazareth is He. From time to time as these things were presented to him, the visitor would ask that some point might be made more clear, and when at last the two pictures, one of ‘Messiah and the other of Jesus were placed side by side, he said he was now fully cdnvinced and perfectly satisfied that Jesus Christ was Israel's Messiah. When urged then and there to receive Jesus Christ as his own personal Saviour, he did so and with a happy face left for home to tell his wife the good news and, if necessary, give her the Scripture proof which had so com- pletely satisfied him. A few days later, on calling at their home, the worker found a7 that the husband must have talked to good purpose with his wife, for she too received Jesiss Christ as her Saviour and Lord. Our regular monthly meeting for Hebrew Christians, which is a feature of the work of our Mission Home, was held last month at the Bible Institute instead of being in the Mission Home as usual. Through the kindness of the Superintendent of the Bible Institute, a splendid supper was served, after which the guests, some forty-odd in number, repaired to the Fishermen's Club Room, where, after listening to some good music by one of the Hebrew Christians present, Dr. Horton addressed them on vital Jewish questions. As a result of that meeting, a Jewish lady who was present, is rejoicing in her new-found Saviour. Sean arny Core THE SPANISH WORK R. H. Bender, Supt. N our work among the Mexicans we are often reminded of Central America, where, through pioneer work, it was our privilege to sow broadcast the living Word of God, and later had the joy of reaping; but don’t let anyone think that we had a big harvest all at once; there had to be the faithful sowing of the seed which with many tears and prayers was watered. In our work among the Mexicans we cannot boast of a great harvest as yet, for our work is but in its infancy, and many whom we have talked with never saw a Bible nor heard the Gospel, They don't know what a Sunday School is until a mis- sionary comes among them. Therefore the superstition and ignorance of Romanism has to be cleared away; it is “line upon line and precept upon precept, here a little and there a little.” Then it is ‘the entrance of His Word that giveth light,” and as the light of the glorious Gospel shines in their hearts, they are made to realize the awful- ness of sin and their need of a Saviour. ¢ ‘To those who are called to be workers together with God, there is not a little comfort derived from that precious word that tells us to “not be weary in well doing, for in due season we shall reap if we faint not.” It was our privilege to do some reaping the past month. A father, mother and son who have been hearing the word for some months, apprised me of the fact that they had received the Lord Jesus Christ, and the son said that he did not go to the picture show any more because, he said, “My life is changed now since I have accepted Christ.” This young man attended the picture show every night— indeed, it was a passion just as some others have passion for other vices. Praise God that He is able to satisfy the young man with Himself, for it is still true that He is a satisfying portion to His people, because He is the One “altogether lovely and the fairest of ten thousand to the soul.” Two men in another camp also testify to the joy of salvation since they have718 received Christ, and say it is so much easier to work now. © With the warm weather, we find many of the camps nearly abandoned, some going to the heet fields and to fruit picking. and not a few have returned to Mexico. so that now we have to follow them to the ranches. On one ranch that we have visited we found five or six families, from 25 to 30 THE KING'S BUSINESS ' altogether, who seem to be isolated from the towns. They seem quite receptive to tha gospel, and said that they had never heard it so plain before. We left some Gospels with them and promised to return. We have been there several times since, and cach time this group of twenty-five come together, We are trusting that many, from this group shall accept the Lord. WORK OF THE BIBLE WOMEN Mrs. T. C. Horton, Supt. NE day we passed a tiny cottage almost hidden with vines on the rear of a long Jot. Something suggested we turn back and go in. did so, and found sad faced heavy burdened woman. At the question, “Do you know Jesus as your friend” she replied wearily, “O! Tam doing the hest I can. and I guess that's all any one can do.” Then we asked her if we might tell her what He had and did mean in our life. And as we told in simple words the plan of salvation and something: of God's great love. the tears ran down her face and she said. “Do you know I never heard it like that before” And when we asked if she would really receive Him as her Saviour, she said. “Yes, indeed.” and we left her with a new light in her eyes anda Gospel of John in her hand that she promised to read Going out one day on the Lord’s business the Spirit led very definitely to a lady in the park sitting on a bench alone. After a short conversation, we found, because of a friend who deceived her, she had fost faith in everyone, even the Lord, whom she had once loved. When asked, was she happy, she said. with tears. “Oh no, I am most miserable,” and then, there under the blue sky, we had the joy of leading the wanderer back to her Father's home. With a smiling face so different from the one that had greeted us, she said, “Oh how glad I am you spoke to me.” In the afternoon Bible Class. a nine year old boy is a regular attendant. He studies the lesson and his chapter summary is exceptionally clear and discriminating This boy's interest hegan through some dispensational studies given with the chart in aC. E. Bible class, which was held in his church, When the studies closed in the church, he came with his mother to the afternoon class. In an evening meet= ing of the class for men and women, this boy accepted Christ and gives evidence of a real work of grace having been done in his heart. In contrast with this beautiful conver- sion is that of an old man ‘eighty-six, who lay dying in a down-town boarding house kept hy Christian Scientists. The Bible Woman was asked to go to see him, and if possible lead him to Christ. When asked if he expected soon to see Jesus, he said, “No. he was not good enough ever to see Jesus." Then the Bible Woman told him how Jesus had come to save sinners, and that God had sent her there just to show him how he might be saved. As simply as possible. the way of salvation was made plain, and then with folded hands and closed eyes, that dear old man prayed this prayer of the Publican, “God be mercifulTHE KING'S BUSINESS 719 to me a sinner.” A few days later, he had gone, as we trust, to be with the Saviour whose words to the thief on the cross were, “Today, shalt thou be with me in Para- dise.” A Bible woman in a meeting where the Spirit of God was working went to a woman who seemed in great distress. She had been a church member for years, but knew she needed a deeper work of grace in her heart and life. After showing her from the Word what God requiréd, she made an unconditional surrender., A little removed from her was an older woman who had the same need, and who also sutrendered to God. Finding they gave the same address, the worker returned to the younger woman, asking if they were friends. “Oh yes,” said the woman, “That is my mother.” By her side now was a young girl, evidently her daughter, asking her if she had accepted Christ; she with tears said, “Oh, I want to know Him,” and she soon was rejoicing in her Saviour. Thus in the same hour daughter, mother, and grandmother came into the fuller light of the gospel, and into iellowship with God. A young man and woman were seeking salvation; thinking they were brother and sister the worker said, “Are you related.” The young woman said, “We are to be married, and we want to start our Chris- tian life together.” So step by step from the Word, they came into the light. He was asked, “Do you believe,” and answered, “I do.” She confessed in the same way, then one after the other they prayed and went out rejoicing together in the Saviour who found them. A young woman touring California, stop- ping near the Bible Institute, dropped into Sunday School one morning, became interested and came again, was soon inter- ested in some week day classes, and pro- longed her stay from week to week, till finally she gave up her other trips abroad and enrolled for regular Bible work. Her testimony , is—“I never saw anything like it, I just cannot get enough, and want you to know it all started in the Sunday School class; am now expecting to return next year and put in a good year’s work, and when I return east all my friends must know about this wonderful work out here.” One Saturday afternoon, a visitor who always takes with her announcements of the coming church services had reduced her supply to one invitation. She was impressed that the Holy Spirit had some special purpose for this invitation, so she did not give it out to the next person she met, but waited to be quite sure. As she walked down the street she saw a man approaching. When they met at the cor- ner of the park, he dropped his valise and stepped in front of her. Madam,” he said, “can you tell me how to tind Bunker Hill street?” She gave him the necessary directions and then handed him the printed announcement, adding to it her personal invitation. He thanked her for it, but said that he was on his way to visit a friend whom he did not suppose would want to attend church, but he would at least ask him. The next morning, as the worker took her seat in the auditorium, she saw her chance acquaintance of the previous day with three young men at his side, She also saw in front of them the teacher of the young men’s class in the Sunday school. As soon as the services were over, she made herself known to the man whom she had invited and asked him to call back the three young men who had already started for the door. Then she spoke to the Sun- day school teacher and succeeded in getting them all together. The names and address- es of the young men were secured and they were cordially invited into the Sunday school and to return for the evening ser- vice. That evening there were a large number of young men’ who responded to the invitation, and we believe that these three were among the number. | i720 THE KING'S BUSINESS SAN QUENTIN PRISON By Loren 8. Hanna OMETIMES I become overflooded with work for San Quentin, On my desk now are applications for work for several men who wish to obtain parole, and I am not able to help them. Several letters from wives, mothers and friends of prison- ers asking me to help, come to me every day; best of all, a great number of whole- hearted letters of affection and apprecia~ tion from prisoners themselves make me realize that San Quentin is a rich harvest field. Occasionally men who have left prison write to me and express their trust in the Lord Jesus Christ, and their warm affection for His servant, your representa- tive. Last week after the regular had another “pop-corn” testimony meeting. The most touching testimony was given by a colored brother. He has recently been disappointed ; he had expected to be granted class we a parole and was told to wait for two years longer. This is the second time he has had that experience. He said that He thanked God for the disappointment, for he is learning through it to trust Him and serve Him better. He is serving our Lord in San Quentin in a magnificent way. Another brother, whose life for a year has counted in a marvelous way within prison walls, has been denied a parole and told to wait for six months longer. The parole board cannot be censured for such an attitude, as the man has been a “dyed- in-the-wool” criminal for many years till he recently accepted our Lord Christ Jesus. We are now studying the subject of the Second Coming of Christ, still using the chart designed and published by the writer. Will you pray that I may be given strength to meet all the demands made upon me these days? WORK IN PACIFIC COAST HARBORS. Oscar Zimmermann, Supt. D URING the last month two large Japanese immigrant ships have put into San Pedro. The “Kiyo Maru” stopped on its return trip from South America and Mexico to Japan. We boarded it and gave out 1,650 tracts, eighteen Gospels of John, twenty-one New Testaments and two Bibles in Japanese and Chinese. One of the Japanese students of the Bible Insti- tute assembled about thirty of his people on the deck, and in their language preached to them Christ crucified and glorified. As a result, three men signified their desire ‘to accept Christ. The other Japanese vessel, the “Anyo Maru,” was on her way to South America. The workers were met at the gangway by the chief officer and given a cordial wel- come when their mission was made known. A sailor was dispatched to go through the Japanese quarters informing the passen- gers of a service to be held, and a room was given us in which to hold the meeting. The same Japanese student gave the mes- sage to about 300 of his people. Eagerly they listened to the words of eternal life, and when a definite invitation was given for a personal acceptance of Christ, about forty-five men and women responded. ‘These converts were given New Testa- ments and were organized into small Bible- study classes and taught briefly how to study, In the meantime, the other workers went over the whole ship and left in theTHE KING’S BUSINESS ins and bunks Gospel literature in Jap- siege and Chinese. In all, 2,600 tracts, 114 New Testaments, 111 Gospels of John, and three Bibles were left on this ship. We had only one Chinese Bible to give away and prayed for guidance that some- one might get it who would use it to glorify God. In the steerage was an aged Chinese woman who could speak a few English words. She professed to be a Christian and asked for a Bible. The worker promised it to her if she wbuld read aloud each day to her fellow-passengers._ This she said she would gladly do, and we fecl sure God will bless the reading of His Word and use this aged servant to touch many sin-cursed hearts. BIOLA HALL, SAN PEDRO L. ELDRIDGE, superintendent of Biola + Hall, San Pedro, writes that the work there is in many ways like the statement in T Cor. xvi, 9: “For a great door and effect- ual is openel unto me, and there are many adversaries.” That is true concerning this place, yet there is a great opportunity open- ing to reach a multitude of men. We have 300 men here now at the fort, with more coming. Quarters are being fitted up at the outer harbor dock to house 1,000 marines. The great ship-building yards will employ 3,500 men within the year, with a possibility of 6,000 men. Other industries are coming to the harbor, and this vast crowd needs the Gospel, a great door is opened to us here, but in the hurry of the hour and rush of war times it is hard to get men to stop and think about spiritual things. But God has given us some real conversions among soldiers, sailors and men on the shore—real hand- picked fruit. We are going into the shops and canneries and streets with the gospel, 721 and while the adversaries are many, yet God ‘is able to save men if they will give Him the chance. I covet the prayers of the readers of THe Krne’s Business for this work. Here in this harbor city we have 15,000 people and the total church member- ship is less than 500. We have a hall that is well suited to the work, and our prayer is as Paul said in Colossians iv, 3: “With all praying also for us, that God would open unto us a door of utterance, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds.” ——_o—__ A Word From Africa A FEW excerpts are here presented from a recent letter written by Dr. Kenneth W. Allen, medical missionary at ijabe, British East Africa, to his father- in-law, William Schneider, of this city: “We both enjoy the electric flash-light Esther sent. You see, the last month there has been a leopard prowling around here in the night. ‘Leopards don’t like light, and if we leave our bed-room in the night we have to go out doors!” “This (February) should be our month or two of dry, warm weather, but we have had ten days of hard rain. People say the big rains here have started now instead of in March or April, We are getting in our garden.” Speaking of his work in the hospital, Dr. Allen says: “One boy (native helper) stays in with me and questions the patients through the window. If it is merely to get a dose of medicine, he gives it to them. If it is a condition that I should see, he opens the door. We are hindered in many ways. I do not have a working knowledge of the language and we have been terribly short of supplies.”722 THE KING'S BUSINESS, Two Interesting Questions Did Joshua Command the Sun to Stand Still? Did the Whale Swallow Jonah of Joshux Commanding the Sun to Stand Still. This incident in the sacred Scriptures has been cited as a scientific objection .to the authority and integrity of the Word of God. It has been cited as a proof that the Bible is not a reliable revelation; that “it is out of date because it speaks of the sun and moon standing still, whereas any school- boy knows that the sun and moon do not move at all, but that the earth revolves around them.” This sounds clever, but is it? The Bible in-deseribing scientific facts uses the lan- guage of appearances rather than accuracy, just as we do in this advanced scientific age. Take up any daily newspaper in this twentieth century, and you will read, “The sun or the moon rises,” “the sun or the moon sets,” at such and such an hour. But does it? Is not our modern newspaper guilty of a most flagrant scientific mistake, and one which our modern scientist does not seem anxious to correct? Even in this day we speak of the “dew falling,” although we know that the dew does not fall, but, on the contrary, rises. In defense of these (false) scientific statements told that this is the way these things appear to us as we look at them, although in real- ity it is not so; that the language of we are scientific appearance, and not scientific accuracy, is used. Why should we not be as charitable with the Bible, then? Because the Bible in describing facts of science uses the language of appearances rather than scientific accuracy, is it therefore to be called unscientific? The Bible was not written for scientists alone, but for all kinds and conditions of people. Did Joshua command the sun and moon to stand still in the midst of the heavens? It is to be regretted that many of those who By WILLIAM EVANS, Ph. D., D. D. attack certain narratives in the Bible are not more thoroughly acquainted with what the Bible actually says, and especially with the origipal languages in which these events were written. The knowledge of four Heb- rew words used in Joshua’s story would help much in the understanding of that miracle. Because of such ignorance writers have given different positions to the sun at the time of Joshua's command. One so-called scholar writes, “If the expression ‘above Gibeon’ be exact. then the early morning must be intended; if ‘in the midst of the heaven’ then it must be the noon- day.” It does not seem to have occurred to this writer in what a laughable position he thus places himself in that he is thereby picturing Joshua as commanding the sun not to go down early.in the morning, or at its height at noon. The word translated “stand still” means to be dumb, or silent, to wait, to rest, to tarry. Thirty times in the Old Testament it is so rendered; and in no other place, save here, is it translated “stand still” The word, therefore, should be translated “tarry” or “wait.” The words "in the midst of” mean, liter- ally, “the half of” and not the “midst” or the “middle” In more than one hundred and six cases it is so translated (ef. “one half of their beards,” 2 Samuel 10:4, They could not shave off one middle, but one half). Thus the passage in Joshua should read, “Sun reat, wait, tarry, or be still in the half of the heavens.” By the “half of the heavens" is meant, of course, the visible horizon—at least so the ancients who were acquainted with the whole circle of the earth understood it. The command of Joshua, therefore, was for the sun, which was about to go down into the invisible half of the heaven, to remain in sight. aWe are told that the “sun tarried in the half of the heaven, and hasted not to go down.” The words “hasted not” does not mean to stand still absoultely. When we say that a man does not hasten, we do not necessarily mean that he stands still. Liter- ally, the verses may read: “There Joshua is speaking to Jehovah, and says before the eyes of Israel, ‘Sun over Gibeon, tarry; and moon in the valley of Ajalon: and the sun is tarrying, and the moon stays, till the nation is avenged of their enemies. Is not this written in the book of the upright, and the sun is tarrying in the half of the heavens, and it does not hasten to set as (or for) a complete day; and there has not heen as this day before it or after it.” One has well said: “If the sun were near setting the rays would fall on Gibeon on the East. and it would continue in sight. as it does at the pole of the earth for weeks together; and there was no day like it, when, his light shining the night through, two consecutive days formed one day. The\ miracle remains; it was the work of Almighty God. A slight dip of the pole. or deflection of the rays of light. or ways! unknown to men, might have accomplished! this remarkable miracle.” Was there any sufficient reason why God should thus miraculously interpose in the behalf of Istael? We think so. Israel, for probably the first time, was confronted by the combined forces of the Ammonites and the Gibeonites, the objects of whose wor- ship were the sun and moon. In a sense the battle was a battle between the gods of these nations and Jehovah, the God of Israel. This being the case we can see the reason why it should be shown that day who was the-real and true God. The gods of the powerless before the God of Israel, and in- deed were compelled to favor God’s chosen people and minister to the destruction of their own deluded worshipers. The plagues of Egypt were a battle between the gods of Egypt and Jehovah, the God of Israel. Why not this battle then? Ammonites and Gibeonites were THE KING'S BUSINESS 723 JONAH AND THE WHALE IL Did the Whale Swallow Jonah? Objections to the reliability of the Bible revelation have been made on the ground of the unreasonableness of the story of Jonah and the whale. It is contended by some, though their number is not by far so numer- ous as formerly, that the record of this event is not reliable because it is impos- sible for a whale to swallow a man—not having a gullet large enough, Further, it is contended that no man could live in the helly of a whale for so long a time. Since the publication of Bullen's “Cruise of the Cachalot.” in which the author des- cribes his whaling expeditions, and declares facts concerning these sea-monsters which harmonize perfectly with the Bible story, sceptics have been compelled to swallow their own objections. Any one who has read Bullen’s book will have some idea of the size and habits of that mighty sea-monster, the sperm whale. Mr. Bullen is an experienced whaler, and speaks of what he has actually seen. He tells in more places than one how they caught whales of “such gigantic propor- tions” as “over seventy feet long, with a breadth of bulk quite in proportion to such a vast length,” the head of which alone “the skipper himself estimated to weigh fifteen tons.” The eritics of the story of Jonah based their arguments for the impossibility of a whale swallowing a man on their knowl edge of the structure of a Greenland whale only, whereas we now know that there are over sixty kinds of whales, Contrary to the opinion expressed by those who claim it to be a physical impos- sibility for a whale to swallow a man on account of its not having a gullet large enough—that it could not even swallow a herring, much less a man—Dr. Thomas Beale, a surgeon of London, in his work entitled “Observations on the Natural His- tory of the Spermecete Whale’ (Ed. 1849, Pp. 294), in describing a sea-monster of this kind says. “The throat is capacious724 enough to give passage to the body of a man, presenting a strong contrast to the contracted gullet of the Greenland whale.” The idea of a whale’s gullet being inca- pable of admitting any large substance, Mr. Bullen characterizes as “a piece of crass ignorance.” He tells how on one occasion “a shark fifteen feet in length has been found in the stomach of a sperm whale,” and adds this remarkable piece of evidence: “when dying, the sperm whale ejected the contents of its stomach.” He tells of one full-grown whale which was caught and Killed, “the ejected food from whose stom- ach was in masses of enormous size, larger than any we had yet seen on the voyage, some of them being estimated to be of the size of our hatch-house—viz., eight fect by six fect by six feet!” And yet we are asked to believe that a whale could not swallow a man! Mr. Bullen further des- cribes these monsters, which are capable of swallowing substances of such enormous size, “swimming about, the lower jaw hang- ing in its normal position, and its huge gullet gapping lile some submarine cavern,” into which Jonah could have slipped so easily that the whale would scarcely have known it, He tells us that “a whale could swallow—well, a block four or five feet square—a mass which was two feet longer than a tall man, and whose other dimen- sions were about thirth-six feet square, or equal in breadth and width to the bodies of six big, stout men rolled into one.” It ought, to be noted in this connection that the béok of Jonah does not say that it was “a whale,” but “a great fish,” or, as the Revised Version of Matthew translates it, “a sea-monster,” that swallowed the prophet. Surely if God could create a sea- monster at all, He could create one, even a whale, with a mouth and gullet large enough to swallow a man. A sceptic was once arguing against the story of Baalam’s ass speaking. His friend said, “Well, if you will make an ass, I will make him talk.” Ability to create carries with it the power to endow with such powers as the Creator wishes. THE KING’S BUSINESS “There is no miracle in the fact that Jonah was swallowed by ‘a great fish’.” The sea dogs which live in the Mediter- ranean (into which sea, by the way, Jonah was cast) can easily swallow a man. or even a larger object; and they swallow their food without chewing it. Blumen- bach, the eminent German zoologist, says that a horse has been found whole-in the stomach of a sea dog. Other noted natur- alists, such as Lacepede, Gunther, and Bruniche, give confirmatory testimony and cite other instances.” GOD’S SPECIAL INTERVENTION It is remarkable to note that the great fish was “prepared” to swallow Jonah. This word “prepared” occurs four times in Jonah, and only in three other places in the whole Bible, although the ordinary word “prepared” occurs hundreds of times. This word indicates that God appointed in a Special way this fish to swallow Jonah, just as in the New Testament Jesus appointed a special fish to have a coin in its mouth at the appointed time and place (Matthew 17:27), In the book of Jonah God “appointed,” or “prepared,” four special things: “a great fish to swallow Jonah” (1:17); “a gourd... to come up over Jonah" (4:6); “a vehement cast wind” (4:8); “a worm” to smite the gourd (4:7), These four words indicate a miraculous manifestation of God’s power for a spe- cific purpose. “That the Almighty could, if necessary, extemporize a sea-monster for the assigned purpose we should not doubt. To say that God could not do this is to deny God altogether; to say He would not do it is absurd—any one of us would do it in similar circumstances if only he had the Power; to say He did nof do it is a fla~ grant case of begging the question.” —Anderson, JONAH A TYPE OF CHRIST By this extraordinary occurrdnce Jonah became one of the most remarkable types of the death, burial, and resurrection of the Lord Jesus to be found anywhere in the Old Testament Scriptures: “For asTHE KING'S BUSINESS Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth” (Matthew 12:40). And the one is as much a fact as the other. The New Testament refers to Jonah as a prophecy of the resurrection of Christ; for He rose again the third day according to the Seriptures; and where, save in Jonah, shall we find in the Old Testament a plain and clear prophecy of His rising on the third day? It was to the “sign of the prophet Jonah” that Jesus referred. It cannot be that the greatest fact of all history—namely, the resurrection of Jesus Christ—is based upon a myth. The reality of the events of the book of Jonah are attested by the words of Jesus: “The men of Ninevah shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it; because they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and, behold, a greater than Jonah is here.” We should remember that the preserva- 725° tion of Jonah alive for so long a time in the sea-monster was a miraculous event, just as the resurrection of Jesus Christ, of which the story of Jonah was a type, was a miraculous display of God's power; and for this reason it was a sign to the Ninevites. DID JONAH ACTUALLY DIE? There are those who are inclined to think that Jonah really died and was raised again from the dead, and thus was “deliv- ered from corruption,” just as Jesus died and was raised again, and saw no corrup- tion (cf. Jonah 2:2, 6 R. V. and Hebrew). Such persons maintain that in this case Jonah was more accuprately a type of Christ's death, burial, and resurrection. Even if such an-interpretation be valid, the supernatural element in the story would still remain, for. whether Jonah was pre- served alive, or died and was raised from the dead, both actions call for a miraculous display of divine power. ap page ey TESTIMONIALS Ira Long, Harrisonburg, Va: “Amid the tragic unrest, upheavals, universal hard- ships and miseries, and worldwide pande- monium that prevails—calm, serene, and ever faithful, like the lighthouse in the wildest storms, stands Tur Kine’s Bust- ness on the Rock of Ages. May the Lord bless, sustain and keep it until it has accomplished the mission whereunto He has called it” Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Fleming, Kansas City, Mo.: “We have received so much spiritual good from the little magazine that our desire is for others also to be able to have it in their home. Each month we will enclose $1 to you to send the maga- zine to some missionary.” Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Sweet, Hangchow, Chekiang, China: “We want to write and tell you how much we appreciate your mag- azine, Tue Kinc’s Business. ‘Through the Bible with Dr. Evans’ is worth every- thing to us: also ‘Daily Devotional Studies’ by Dr. Torrey. We hope these two helps will be continued until the whole Bible has been gone through. They are not only worth everything to us in our private devotions, but we are giving them to the Chinese. Last term we gave the Gospel of John in a class, and there was not one day during the whole time that the presence of the Holy Spirit was not mani- festly present. This term we are taking Luke in the same way. I wish you could have seen the examination papers at the close of the study of John! The class had such a clear idea of just what John wished to show and the proofs he brought for- ward.”AT TERT The IFaur llorizom A Glance at the Field at Home and Abroad MEXICO. The withdrawal of many of the mis- sionaries from the work in Mexico has called out day-leadership in a numher of stations. In some cases the membership of the churches shows notable increase and laymen are taking up the work of teaching and preaching. These activities would have stopped if the members of the churches had not come forward to carry on this work which was formerly cared for by foreign missionaries. INDIA. If Christ had started on the day of His baptism to preach in the villages of India and had continued since then up to the present, visiting one village each day, he would still have 30,000 villages to visit India has a population of 315,000,000; most of these live in villages. SOUTH INDIA Sixteen of the 45 students who entered the Ramapatnam school this year were women—wives of the men students, They stand equal to their husbands in educa- tion and training. a significant fact in view of the universal ignorance of the women of India a few years ago. AFRICA In connection with the training school at Kimpese. where accommodation is made for the wives and children of the young men students. a large elementary school with about eighty-fiye pupils is now being conducted. It is a practical plan, furnish- ing as it does schooling for the children and practice in teaching for the older students who conduet the classes. ‘At this same place, some of the classes for the wives of students are held, for lack of other room, in the blacksmith shop adjoining the carpentry shop, amidst all the noise of hammering and sawing, I ‘CHINA. Bishop Brent, who has lately visited China, in a recent speech said: “China today presents such an opportunity as I suppose the world hag never seen before in a country that is not Christian. We were thrilled a few years ago. as we heard reports from China after the Republic was established. But let me tell you that the opportunities in China for Christianity today are ten-fold more than they were six years ago. The opportunity is increas- ing by leaps and bounds, Again let me beg of you. in the name of Christ and in the name of the Orient as a whole, not to close the door of opportunity, but to think in the terms of the Kingdom of God first. in dollars and cents afterwards.” JAPAN. The for agressive evangel- ism in Japan was never so great as it is today. We should advance along the line. The leadership of Japan in Asia, during this generation is a settled fact. Nothing on earth can change it. The only question is: “What kind of a Japan is it going to be that will lead Asia?” And the answer to this question depends upon the Christian Church. Now is the time to pour all the missionary force available into Japan, both financial and personal. If it is done ‘ade- quately now, the next generation will settle the question for all time. opportuni CUBA. Cuba is passing through a crisis, or at least stands at the entrance to a new order of things. Whatever the results of the political. social, economical or religious agitation, there will still be room and a larger plea for the simple truths of the Gospel and a larger call for the disciples, better than any other people, can give.THE KING’S BARCELONA. A missionary writes: “One simply cannot help being very happy here at the Colegio. The association with splendid people. the privilege of teaching such eager and interested (and interested as well as interesting) girls, the beauty of the situa- tion and scenery, the opportunities of knowing the girls and teachers so well, and meeting them in such a_ splendid Christian family relationship—with all these what more could one ask?” PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. The Philippine Sunday School Union has just held a rally in Manila, the largest single evangelistic affair ever held in the Islands; 1600 people came in on three trains, arriving at the central station at the same time. One thousand friends, with bands of music, were waiting to welcome thenl. and there was a royal reception and fine parade through the streets to the theater and churches where simultaneous services were held. At the close of one service, where 5000 people were present, the whole crowd knelt for a consecration service, for power to go out and accom- two things—the making of better plish schools and higger schools. A Strong Samoan Church The Samoan Church was early taught that Christianity brought with it respons- ibility to others. Within ten years after they first heard the Gospel Samoans left their land to avenge the death of John Williams by preaching the Gospel of Peace To the evangelization of to the natives of the New Hebrides. their credit lies Rotuma (North: Fiji), Loyalty Islands, Niue, Tokelau, Ellice and Gilbert Islands. Today Samoan Christians are doing great Papua and Northern New Guinea. has undoubtedly been a great factor in building the strong church: in Samoa today. work ‘The missionary spitit

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