VOL. VHI FEBRUARY, 1917 No. 2 Cx IC NCSI il{c 1 The King’s Business “Undo him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,”—Rev. 1:5 Published once a month by the BIBLE INSTITUTE OF LOS ANGELES LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, U.S. A. ijt iC a aE =1(@)) ONE DOLLAR A YEAR| THE KING’S BUSINESS VOL. Vill. FEBRUARY, 1917 No. 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS Editorial: A Professor's Responsibility—Wicked Follies of the Rich—The Historical and the Spiritual Christ— Beware of Rome—A Foolish General... 99 Evangelism in the Sunday School. By H. J. Baldwin... The Institute Family... Obedicnes va vs. Undefetanding. By J William n Evans Ph. D. D, Temptation. By Prof. James Stalker. Puzzling Passages and Problems...............2.--2202.--- The Far Horizon. Through the Bible with Dr. Evans... Evangelistic Department. By Bible Institute Worker: Homiletical Helps. By William Evans... International Sunday School Lessons. By R. A. Torrey and T. C. 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This was an exceedingly grave charge to make, and we fear, alas, it is too true, for we have met many such young people—young men and women who left their homes with a con- fidence in spiritual things which was born of faith in God and the supernatural, ~ but who have returned to their parents shipwrecked in faith. Oh, how much such professors will have to answer for in the final reckoning! -What an awful guilt must rest on their consciences as they recall the havoc of faith they have wrought in human lives! No wonder the average Christian parent trembles as he thinks of putting his son or daughter in the hands of just such teachers. There is such a thing as soul-murder. No murderer shall enter the kingdom of heaven. May,God have mercy on those who destroy the faith of our youth! . The Associated Press is just sending out an item which Wicked Follies brings forcibly to mind the inspired words of Jesus, of the Rich. “Go to now, ye rich, weep and how! for your miseries that are coming upon you. Youf riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten. Your gold and your silver are rusted; and their rust shall be for a testimony against you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye have laid up your treasures in the last days. Behold, the hire of the laborers who mowed your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth out; and the cries of them that reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth. “We have lived delicately on the earth, and taken your pleasure; ye have nourished your hearts in a day of slaughter. Ye have condemned, ye have killed the righteous one; he doth not resist you. Be patient therefore, brethren, until the coming of the Lord...... stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord iS at.hand.” This item reads, “A cat.with a diamond-set gold tooth, and other Persians valued at as much as $2,000.00 will be a feature of the Seventh Annual Show of the Pacifte Cat Club to be held here (San Fran- cisco) February 16, 17.” Think of squandering diamonds and gold on the tooth of a cat when children are perishing for lack of food in Germany, Belgium, Poland, and in other lands, to say nothing of the wants of widows and orphans and the sick in our own land. When the rich put on public exhibition cats with diamond set, gold-filled teeth, and bury their pet dogs at an expense of hundreds of dollars, and give dog parties and cat parties at the cost of thousands of"dollars, and deck out their babies in silks and jewels100 THE KING’S BUSINESS at an expenditure that would feed several other babies for a year, is it any wonder that the poorer laboring classes are increasing in discontent and that * many are planning for a social war which no civil war of the past will match in horror? Is it any wonder that a socialist writes in bitterness of soul: “A thousand babes go supperless to bed in order that one monster brat may puke on silk.” The rich with their idleness and display and mad waste of wealth and stuffing of their overfed and diseased bodies, are the real authors of the most desperate and dangerous forms of anarchy. Is it possible to make too much of the “historical” at The Historical and the expense of the “spiritual” Christ? A scholar and the Spiritual Christ. thinker remarked the other day that a very intelligent and religious man who had left one of the orthodox churches to go into Christian Science told him that he thought the reason why many people were leaving the orthodox churches was because they made every- thing of the “historical” Christ and practically nothing of the “spiritual” Christ ; because they were laying emphasis on the Christ of Bethlehem, Nazareth, and Calvary and neglecting the Christ of the present, who is not only near but dwelling within His people. Is this.remark werthy of the attention of the Church? Is it possible that we have been dealing far too little with the spiritual Christ and His imminence with the sons of men? Would it be advisable for us to leave the foundation truths, not forsaking them, but leaving them, as the builder leaves the foundation, to erect the spiritual superstructure, all the time realizing that the foundation is the principal thing, but not the whole thing? Is it possible that we have dwelt too long on what the writer to the Hebrews calls “the first principles of the doctrine of Christ,” and which he advises “leaving” in order that we may “go on unto perfection, not laying again the foundation of repentance . . . of faith . . . of baptisms . .°. of the resurrection of the dead, of eternal judgment?” Has the time come for a reaction from ‘“scholasticism” ici: * the real Christian mysticism which makes not less of the “historical,” but more of the “spiritual” Christ, always recognizing the absolute necessity of the historical facts of the Christian religion, in order to the reception of its deeper spiritual truths? Ought we not to lay more emphasis in our preaching and teaching on the indwelling of Christ in the believer by His Holy Spirit, an indwelling which issues in a victorious life as the result of historical “Christ in you, the hope of glory?” Many of the most thoughtful students of the present Beware war feel that one of the disastrous results of the war of Rome. will be the increase of the political power of the Roman Catholic Church. The war had its origin largely through Roman Catholic intrigues regarding Servia. At the opening of the war the British Government was induced to send an ambassador to the Vatican, contrary to the policy of that Government established by centuries of usage. One Vatican ambassador has recently resigned and the British Government has sent another. While some of the English non-conformists have openly condemned this policy, the Church of England authorities seem to favor this step. It is said furthermore, that both Germany and Austria are putting forward proposals to revive the Papacy as a temporal power. All throughTHE KING’S BUSINESS 101 the war Rome, while preaching peace, has been scheming for the favor of Germany, even to the extent” of sacrificing the interests of the Roman Catholic people of Belgiim. The brave and patriotic Cardinal Mercier has not at all represented the attitude of Rome, Germany and her allies have reciprocated for the political favoritism shown by Rome, and there is reason to think that there is a move on hand by Austria-Hungary, backed by Ger- many, to have the Trentino for which Italy is fighting, ceded to the Church of Rome and made a Papal state. The Roman Catholic Professor Hoeber has published a lecture in which he declares that the time is at hand for reaching a more definite decision regarding the political position of the Pope. This lecture has been received favorably at the Vatican, and a letter has been sent from Rome endorsing this lecture. This letter reads: “I am pleased to notify you that the address delivered by Professor Hoeber has been found very fine and has given much satisfaction here. You are hereby authorized to print and distribute the address... . Only real territorial possession can assure to the Pope the liberty which he absolutely needs for the performance of his high functions. The Pope must be a true sovereign and not merely an honorary sovereign in virtue of rights conceded by a particular State, or even by all the States. This would be unworthy the supreme head of the church. The internationalization of the Law of the Guarantees would merely. make of the Pope a plaything in the hands of the powers.” But alas! Rome does not confine its political machinations to the European continent, they are doing everything in their power to Romanize the Government of the United States. Many have watched with dismay Presiclent Wilson’s penchant for Roman Catholics in his ‘appointments, Mr. Charles Hughes, either in his desire to gain political power, or for some other reason, though himself a Baptist, sent his daughter to a Roman Catholic school. Another man who was prominently mentioned as a nominee for the Presidency, though himself sup~ . posedly a decided Protestant, is credibly reported to have said in conversation with a political friend when they were off together, “Let me say to you in confidence that any one who wishes political power in this country must bow to the hierarchy,” and it is certain that when he was in power he did make dangerous concessions to Rome, and in return secured for himself a strong backing by the Roman Catholic Church. Any one who dares to be very outspoken in exposing the errors of Rome and the outrages wrought in some of their secret institutions, makes himself liable to violence, even sometimes to the extent of being murdered, and when any attempt is made to bring those Roman Catholics who are guilty of the violence to justice, in many parts of the country it is well-nigh impossible to secure a conviction, even though the evidence is clear. Our newspapers as a rule maintain an ominous silence about any’ event that reflects upon the Roman Catholic Church, and the Roman Catholic Church largely controls our newspapers and our organiza- tions for the dissemination of news. People are wakening up to the Roman Catholic menace to our liberties, but they are not by any meane as alert even yet as they should be, We have little doubt of the ultimiate temporary triumph ‘of the Roman Catholic Church; that seems to be indicated in Bible prophecy, but that is no reason why we should not do whatever may lie in our power to stem the tide of the corrupt and corrupting influence of the Roman Catholic Chureh as a political power. The things of which we have spoken do not in the least dishearten us, they are but another indication that we are hastening102 “THE KING'S BUSINESS on toward that time when our Lord Jesus Himself shall come and set straight the things which man has made wrong. Even so come Lord Jesus, come quickly. United States army officers of the higher rank have A Foolish as a rule shown themselves to be men of well balanced General. judgment. They have understood their sphere of authority; they have carefully kept themselves within that sphere. General Funston seems to be a striking exception to this general rule, at least, in one of his recent actions, if we are to believe what a prominent Baptist preacher, Dr. J. B. Gambrell, writes of him in the Watchman-Examiner. Dr. Gambrell writes: “The Baptists belong to the group of evangelical and evangelistic denominations. When, a little while ago, acting for Texas Baptists and all Southern Baptists, some million strong, I sought an interview with General Funston with a view of arranging for preach- ing to the soldiers under the General's command, I was told by General Funston, through his Chief of Staff, that it would be unobjectionable for the Baptists to. preach in the camps of the soldiers, provided they would not tell the soldiers that they were. lost. General Funston, also through his Chief of Staff, explained that he did not wish the emotions of the soldiers stirred and that he did not wish revivals, These statements have been repeated by General Funston in interviews printed in the press.” If these statements regarding General Funston are correct, and they seem to be acmitted by him and by his friends, it is very clear that the General far exceeded his authority. Never before in the history of this country, as far as we know, has a military commander assumed to exercise his authority in questions of theology, or to determine what chaplains should ‘teach or preach. Roman Catholics have been allowed to present the doctrines they believe and to carry on services according to the methods of that church, and evangelical preachers have also been allowed to preach what they believed to be the truth, without dictation from military officers. The Constitution of the United States safeguards the freedom of religion and makes ne exceptions in the case of enlisted soldiers. In point of fact, there have been revivals among American soldiers time and time again in the past ; and the truth of God’s Word, the truth that the Lord Jesus Christ Himself -taught, that men out of Him are lost, has been taught, and very properly taught. The results of these revivals have been good for the discipline of the army. The men con- verted have been better soldiers because they were converted. General Funston far exceeded his legitimate authority, and unless he is brought to a better mind he has proven himself to be utterly unfit for a commander, however wise he may be in military matters, Dr. Gambrell in his article kindly says of the General: “I hold General Funston in, high regard as a military man.” In regard to General Funston’s military ability, we hold no opinion; we do not know of anything that he has ever done that has displayed any high order of military genius, and we do recall that he got his promotion in a-very irregular way, because of a certain achievement of his in capturing Aguinaldo in the Philippine Islands, an achievement that would entitle a detective or police officer to promotion, but certainly was not of a character that displayed any great military genius or entitled one to such promotion as he received. Never- theless, he may be an able military man, we do not know, though we entertain doubts until he proves it by something that he accomplishes, which, as far as we know, he has never done. But we do know that this present action, if correctly reported, was an unwarranted display of bumptiousness. that ought toTHE KING'S BUSINESS 103 be rebuked by those in authority, and that he ought at least to be instructed to keep within his proper sphere and not enter a sphere for which he is entirely incapacitated by his evident ignorance along those lines. His action in this matter is in striking contrast with that of Major General Brooke, who was over the 60,000 soldiers gathered at Chicamauga Park during the Spanish-American - war. Major General Brooke was a man of real military ability; He had attained to his position in the regular way, by promotion in the regular order. He had been thoroughly trained for military life, and not in the irregular way in which General Funston got into the regular army. The writer of the present editorial was preaching at Chicamauga during the Spanish-American war, and “had occasion to call on Major General Brooke, and was most courteously received, General Brooke did everything properly in his power to further the work done by ministers of the different denominations, Roman Catholics as well as Protestants. Neither chaplains nor the workers sent out by the Young Men's Christian Association were instructed as to what they should preach. Of course they were required to observe the laws and general regulations of the army, as they should be, but they were given every opportunity consistent with military discipline. Men were told that they were lost, and were told how to be saved by accepting the Lord Jesus Christ, and hundreds of the men, yes thousands of them, did accept Christ at Chicamauga and went back to their homes better men than they came. Through their conversion the army was greatly improved and the difficulties that arose in connection with intemperance and impurity were very much lessened because of the revivals that occurred in camp. General Funston’s peculiar action in this hatter was in striking con- trast with that of one of the bravest and ablest generals in our Civil war, Major General O. O. Howard, at the breaking out of the Spanish-American war. General O. O. Howard was one of the two great heroes of the battle of Gettysburg. Congress passed a unanimous vote of thanks to him for his stand at the battle of Gettysburg. He was a military commander of the very highest order. This he proved over and over again during the Civil war, and after- wards in the Indian wars. At the outbreak of the Spanish-American war he had already been retired because of age. Except for this retirement he would have been Lieutenant General. At the outbreak of the war he offered his services to the government, though retired by age. It was felt that there was no position high enough for a man of his abilities to which he should be appointed. As he could not be accepted, his two sons went to the war. One of them, Col. Guy Howard, was killed in.the Philippines. As Major General Howard could not be accepted for a regular command, he went to the camps to preach. He did not hesitate to tell soldiers that they were lost. He knew that men who were brought to realize that they were lost and then brought to aécept Jesus Christ made the best soldiers. He himself had been converted before the Civil war through being brought to: know that he was a losfginner, converted indirectly through another great General. Genéral Funston’s\conduct visealso in striking contrast ‘with that of some of the greatest generals and one of the bravest admirals in the present war across the seas. General Sir William Robertson has recently said: “I feel that even yet too many of us are putting an undue amount of trust in ‘chariots and horses.’ We may confidently rely upon our soldiers and sailors fighting bravely, and count upon having abundant ammunition, but we must not stop at that... . A serious determination on the part of the Nation to seek and deserve Divine help would, we may hope, enable104 THE KING'S BUSINESS us to take a true perspective of the War, and it would undoubtedly furnish valuable help to our gallant sailors and soldiers at the front, as well as lighten the heavy burden of responsibility now carried by the various ‘authorities at home and abroad.” Admiral Sir David Beatty, the man to whose bravery and strategy the victory of the English fleet in the North Sea battle, the only great naval battle of the present war, is due, recently said; “England still remains to be taken out of the stupor of self-satisfaction and complacency into which her great and flourishing condition has steeped her, and until she can be stirred out of this condition, and until religious revival takes place at home, just so long will the War continue. When she can look out on the future with humble eyes and a prayer on her lips, then we can begin to cougt the days toward the end.” It is evident that this truly great Admiral entertains a different view about “religious revivals” from that entertained by our own untried and unproven General. It is to be hoped that the Baptists will press this matter to a conclusive issue. The probability is they will, as Dr. Gambrell says: “The men in the Army of Baptist connection and of the evangelical connection generally have just as much right to hear the gospel preached as they believe it as the Jews and the Catholics have to exercise their religion. There are a good many millions of Baptists in the Unitgd States, and they will be a unit on this question. They are on their old battle ground, and they will be joined by evangelicals who believe in freedom in religion for everyboily alike. Congress will be asked to make a thorough examination of religious affairs in the army, including chaplaincies everywhere in the pay of the government. Those in charge of this matter understand the serious nature of the undertaking. They also under- stand the vital importance: of it, and will not rest until religion is free in the army to all alike.” But the Baptists are not standing alone in this matter. Bishop Candler, one of the most influential Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church South is quoted as saying: “Could anything be more ridiculous and reprehensible than this performance Of the little General from Kansas? By military orders he proposes to determine that preaching to the soldiers concerning their lost condition is not proper.” “In one of the leading papers of the Protestant Episcopal Church, The Churchman, issue is also taken with General Funston’s reported action. It says: “It is perfectly certain that the position of protest taken by The Watchman-Examiner against attempts of military authority to determine the religious practices of the men under their charge will meet with the sympathy of all American communions. Freedom of religion is equally dear to all, and sooner or later General Funston’s attitude in this case must be brought up for official review.”EVANGELISM IN THE SUNDAY SCHOOL An Address Before Sunday School Workers ACTS and Figures are stub- a born things: They won't li You can’t make them lie. = There are some things about them you can neither an- swer ngr evade, Nine thousand children were taken from the slums;-heredity was all against them; they were given Christian training, and only one out of the 9,000 was ever arrested—and the charge against him was proven false. The Chief of Police of New York City said; “Among: 1,200 prisoners in the peni- tentiary who have passed through my hands, not one had been in Sunday School up to the age of seven years.” The State Secretary of Michigan, in a recent report, states: “Out of 904 boys and men in one of our state penal institu- tions, ten of them, at the time they were received, said,."We attended Sunday School regularly;' eighty-five said, ‘We went to Sunday School irregularly ;’ 809 said, ‘We never went to Sunday School.’” Judge Fawcett of Brooklyn, in sentenc- ing a 19-year-old boy to prison, said: “I have seen all your friends who wished to speak to me about you, and I find that all attempts to have you go to Sunday School failed. In the five years that I have been By H. J. Baldwin ‘Supt. of Men, Bible Institute of Los Angeles sitting. on this bench, I have had 2,700 boys before me for sentence, and not one of them was a Sunday School attendant. Had you been a Sunday School scholar, I am sure you would not be before me today.” In my own work in the Juvenile Depart- ment of the Cook county jail, Chicago, a penal institution into which are gathered ctiminals and crooks from all corners of the world, I met several thousand young men, I remember but, one who claimed to have been a. Sunday School scholar, and ‘he had been irregular in attendance from three to four months before his arrest. W. A. Hillis, district superintendent of the American Sunday School Union, ’in the Central Western. States, says: “In my work of sixteen years in twenty-two dif- ferent States, I have found but twenty per- sons who were Christians who had not attended Sunday School before they were , twelve years of age. In these same con- gregations with which I was acquainted, I found, I believe, more than 30,000 Chris- tians who said, ‘We attended Sunday School before we were twelve years of age?” THE PLACE TO BEGIN - Statistics show us that about one boy in six is in Sunday School. With girls the106 percentage is not quite so bad. These facts arfd figures must speak to you them- selves of the value and vital importance of the Sunday School. It seems strange that those who are continually talking prison reform do not begin with the Sunday School, and teach boys and girls the Way of Life, instead of spending so much money taking care of them after they have slipped aside from the Way, and sold their souls for less than a farthing. We laugh at the old colored parson who said, “The ammonia of that rose certainly has a lugubrious effect on my old factory nerves,” but it is too serious a matter to laugh about when we hear people use the word “evangelism,” and not be any nearer correct than the old parson was when he intended to speak of the aroma ‘of the rose. The word “evangelism” has been used so commonly by Christian workers of this generation, that it has come to mean almost everything or nothing. It has become the verbal football of the nation for the last decade. We have talked evangelism in the church, evangelism in the Christian Endeavor Society, evangelism in the Epworth League, evangelism in the Baptist Young People’s Union, evangelism in the Sunday School, evangelism in the foreign field. When the Church or Sunday School has wanted to start something new, they have labeled it “evangelism,” and gone ahead, and there has been no more evangel- ism about a good many of the things so called than there is science in “Christian Science,” which takes your money for cur- ing you of a disease you haven't got. Isn't it scientific? You recover from a disease which you didn’t have, and they have your money, which you did have, and the chances are ninety-nine out of 100, that if you had regulated your diet or paid attention to the ordinary conditions of health, and had given nature a chance, you would have recovered your health, kept your money, and honored Jesus Christ, instead of drag- ging His name in the dust and exalting Mary Baker Glover Patterson Eddy. THE KING’S BUSINESS TALKING TO YOU But, you say, he isn’t talking to me, The Sunday School to which I belong is of an evangelical denomination. Bless your soul, I presume every one here is associated with an evangelical church, but “evangeli- cal" is far from evangelistic. It may be true—it probably is true—that your church is thoroughly evangelical. Many of the evangelical churches are failing today in the very purpose for which God created them. To be sure they may have the truth, but their mission is not alone to have and to know the truth, so much as to preach it. It isn’t enough to be evangelical; we must be evangelistic. Evangelical is passive; evangelism is active. Praise God for our evangelical churches; yes, but take off your hat and shout for joy with all gladness, and make heaven and earth ring for our evangelistic churches. Evangelism in the Sunday School means not only that the preacher, superintendent, officers and teachers know Jesus Christ. but that they present Him to the boys and girls who, come there on Sunday. Show me an evangelistic church, and I will know you have an evangelistic preacher. Let me hear your minister, and I will tell you what kind of church you have. If I can follow a shepherd for a day, and see what kind of pasture he selects for his sheep, I will tell you in what kind of condition his flock will be found. The preacher who believes in the Sunday Schoal will have a Bible school; and the preacher who believes in and wants an evangelistic Sunday School will so lead and feed his people ‘that he will soon have one. The average life of man is thirty-five years. Substract five years from that as the aver- age age at which children first go to Sunday School, and it leaves us thirty years as ‘the average church life of the church- going man. Suppose our Sunday Schools should all be cut off tomorrow? Ten years from now, one-third of the congrega- tion would be dead, Another third would have dropped out or moved away, and there would be but a handful of people left, ifTHE KING'S BUSINESS any. Oh, but you say, if,it were not for the Sunday School, we would find some other way to reach souls, and build up our churches, and may be a better way at that. Well then, you had better be discovering it, for just as sure as the sun sets in the west, the sun of your Sunday School has passed its zenith, and will begin to go down, if you do not get behind it and stay behind it. It is the best source you have for building up your church. Ninety per cent. of all church members have come directly through the Sunday Sehool. Your Sunday School isn't a Sunfay School unless it is evangelistic. It is only a gathering—and a gathering must sooner or later break or be scattered. THE PREACHER WOKE UP Dr. Davies, of the Bethlehem Presby- terian church of Philadelphia, of which church I was a member, realized where the church miust go unless the pastor awoke to the importance of the Sunday School in his work. .He sounded the keynote of evangelism to his superintendent, officers and teachers. The work of the Sunday School was reorganized along evangelistic lines, and Dr. Davies spoke a few closing words, setting forth the fundamentals of salvation, and gave the invitation to accept Christ every Sunday at the close of the school. An entirely new note of interest was soon discernible, and in a few weeks’ time there was hardly a Sunday passed that there was not some decision for Jesus Christ in that school. Not a communion passed after that without large accessions to the church from the Sunday School, What happened in that school, I believe is possible in every school when a pastor awakes to the need of active evangelism among the young people of his church. So much for the pastor of the -evan- gelistic school. If he is the power behind the throne in Sunday School work, the superintendent is the power on the throne. He is the commanding officer, He confers with his superior officer, of course, but it’s the superintendent who is responsible for setting the army in battle array. He is the 107 man who executes what has been planned. He must be a man of action. “Must” is a strong word. We should rarely ever use it. But its use is justifiable here. The superins tendent must be a man of action. Passiye evangelism is a flat contradiction, there can be no such thing. Evangelism is always active. When it ceases to We active, it is dead, and you had better bury it, or the board of health may come around. I do not know of any carcass that is quite so sweet to. Satan's vultures as a dead Sun- day School superintendent. It is cause for great rejoicing in Hell when an evan- gelistic superintendent begins to lose his hold, and allows opportunity after oppor- tunity to speak for Jesus Christ to pass by unaccepted. Mr. Superintendent, you are the man under God who is responsible for the souls of the boys and girls, and men and women in your Sunday School, and if you are not presenting Christ to them every Sunday—yes,.I said every Sunday, for there has been no Sunday School unless He has been lifted up—I say if you are not exalting Him on every Sunday, it is time for you to get out and give somebody ‘else the opportunity: God has a better man for your place. CHRIST EVERYWHERE You say, 1 can’t present Jesus Christ every Sunday, because the lessons are not applicable. Mari, there hasn’t been a Sun- day School lesson since the year 4000 B. C., from which you could not exalt Christ in your part of the service. You say, how about the first chapter of Genesis? Noth- ing there about Christ. There isn’t? Read Genesis 1:26: “God said, Let us make man.” Who was “us?” I don't know of anybody who was living at that time for God to talk to but His own Son. Do you? Wouldn't right there be a good opportunity to “show scholars that Jesus had always lived and that He was eternal, and that was one reason why He could give us eter- nal life, because He had it Himself? Isn't that presenting Christ to them from the first chapter of Genesjs? You say, we don’t have time to go into108 the lesson that way from the platform. We have to hurry with our singing and read- ing and turn the classes over to the teacher, before the scholars get restless and run all over us. You will not have any trouble and your scholars won’t run over you if you are a live wire. It is only a dead wire that gets trampled on. People respect a live wire. A live wire will attract a crowd at any time and in any place. Show that you have life in you, and you won't have so much trouble holding the attention of those restless youngsters. You say, we hurry through with the opening and closing exercises so that the teacher may have as much time as possible We consider that this time can be most profitably spent in class session. Quite right. I agree with’ you, but have you ever stopped to think how much more authority the name of Christ on the lips of the teacher would carry if His name is also heard frequently from the platform? No one else can add color and weight to your teachers’ teachings as much as you can. Your endorsement of their instruc- tion means yolumes to your scholars anid added power to your teachers. KNOW YOUR TEACHERS How I wish there were none but superin- tendents here tonight! How I would just like to have a confidential chat with you about your teachers. “Tell me, what do you know about them and their teaching? What kind of men and women are they? Would you like to have, your son and daughter grow up to be just like them in manners and temperament? Are they good examples for the children that call you father? Are they spiritually-minded? Do they love Jesus Christ? Are they com- petent to present Him as Saviour to boys and girls whose minds and hearts are open to receive any teaching? And have they teaching ability? We used to say, “Will you teach a class?” Now the question is, “Can you teach a class?” “Will you teach?” has given way to, “Can you teach?” Willingness and ability are both essential, but I would rather have one teacher who THE KING'S BUSINESS “can” teach than half a dozen who. are willing but who come unprepared, or who wait until Sunday morning to prepare the lesson. You are thinking about some of your teachers now. Ability is not so rare if we are willing to prepare. Oh, teacher, would that you might recog- nize your opportunity! The pastor and superintendent must for the most part resort to long-range artillery, but you can charge in hand-to-hand encounter. The enemy will stay in their trenches until the last man is killed or starved under artillery fire, but let a row of bayonets appear over the top of his-entrenchments, and every mothers’ son of them is struck dumb with fear, and flees for his life. Teacher, it's yours to use the bayonet, the Sword of the Spirit, in a hand-to-hand encounter in the class. You are at close quarters. It is yours to rout the enemy and rejoice in vic- tory as he flees. It is yours in a very peculiar way to win the boys and girls for Christ. They say the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world, but I wonder if it is sacriligious to say that the teacher who leads the child to Christ rules, not the world, but the Kingdom of Heaven? CLASS POSSIBILITIES Who knows but you may have a Wesley, a Knox, a Calvin, a Finney, a Whitfield, a Moody in your lass? Do you realize that that boy in your class may be presi- dent of the United States forty years from now? President Wilson was some Sun- day School teacher's scholar. There isn't a doubt in my mind but hig early Christian training has played its part in keeping this country out of war. ‘Wouldn't it be great to have President Scoville, say, invite you to be his guest in the White House during his inaugural exercises in 1950 because you had been his Sunday School teacher back in Los Angeles from 1915 to 1925? But whether he invited you or not, wouldn’t your reward be suf- ficient just to know that you had been used of God to lead him to Christ, and that because’ of your faithfulness, Sunday by Sunday, in presenting Christ to SammyTHE KING'S BUSINESS Scoville, the United States had a Christian President? But coming nearer home—and facing a practical and perplexing problem in our present-day Sunday School—yes, a problem that is most alarming—I want to ask what is the matter with our Sunday School today? I know it is true that ninety per cent. of all church members come from Sunday School, But in the face of that, I want to say to you that less than twenty- five per cent. of Sunday School scholars ever are saved and unite with the church. What's the matter? Where is the leak? Can it be stopped? * HOW TO STOP THE LEAK I have talked to the pastor, I have talked to the superintendent and officers, and now I want to say something to teachers. First, the leak is a: natural one; second, it can be stopped; third, you are the logical per- son to stop it. I said the leak is a natural one, and, it is. It is just as natural for that boy and girl to drift away from the Sun- day School as it for a log to drift down stream. In their natural condition, they have no more life or power of resistance to the things that are constantly and insistently calling them from the church than the log in mid-stream has to the cur- rent that carries it along so rapidly. So, unless the supernatural comes into their lives, something outside of and above them- selves; unless Christ comes into their lives, we needn’t expect the church to retain its hold on them after they reach a certain age. They leave the Sunday School just ‘as naturally as the young birds grow rest- less and leave their nest when the outside world begins to call. Unless the members of your class believe in Christ and accept Him as their personal Saviour, you needn't expect them to do anything else than drift away, and shun and abhor those things which we want them to love. Now the teacher has two ways in which to present Christ. Either is good. Both, are better, as one is supplement to the other: First. ‘Im the class-study. I said a while ago that every Sunday School 109 lesson had Christ in it, or contained some significant words that would allow you to tie it on to Him. Teacher, I wouldn't teach a Sunday School lesson that I couldn't bring around to Christ. And I wouldn't go before my ‘class until I had found Him in that ‘particular lesson. God forgive you if you do. You say, but we are teach- ing the Graded Lessons in our Sunday School, and just now we are studying the lives of missionary heroes. Now I know there are some people who are criticising the Graded Lessons because they do not take the scholar into the Bible for study, but God pity the man who condemns them because he cannot preach Christ to his or her scholars. Poor fools. If you cannot teach Christ from the lives of our mission- ary heroes, I guess the fault is, your own. Because it was Jesus Christ who led them all to the foreign field, and surely you wouldn't talk about a man laying down his life in a heathen land without looking for his motive, would you? Bless your soul! I could teach Christ from the life of Bob Ingersoll or Judas Iscariot, “by showing how they were denying the only Saviour that could save them; the manner of death of each, compared to the death of Moody or Wesley, would be sufficient proof that they had missed something. In class-room then is one way for you to take up definite work of evangelism with those whom God has entrusted to your care, I said there were two ways. The second is by personal work. Talking with your scholars one by one. Nineteen times Jesus stopped to speak to individuals. Philip was halted by God in the midst of a big revival in Samaria and sent away down across the desert to speak to one man, and he was a foreigner. I would sooner undertake to win a class of ten boys to God in ten weeks, by talking with them one by one, than I would in a year by teaching them col- lectively. Mr. Moody said if his soul’s salvation depended on his winning 1000 souls in a year’s time, and he was given his choice of doing it one by one or by preach- ing 0 crowds, he would take the one-by-“110 It is the hand-picked fruit that has greatest value. Oh, teachers, the work of the pastor is important. The work of the superintendent and officers is important, but to you is it given to sow the seed on the good soil. The pastor may sow on stony ground, and amid thorns, but the child heart is good soil; that is where the seed will bring forth a harvest of one hundred fold. Yours is a great opportunity, teacher; the opportunity of taking young lives and making out of them almost what you will—criminals, or hon- orable men; infidels or Christians. Many of your scholars are just waiting for a word of invitation from you. You have spent time teaching them. Don't let some one else reap your harvest. Speak to them individually about accepting Jesus Christ. “Perchance in heaven some day, to me Some blessed saint will come, and say, ‘All hail, beloved; but for thee My soul to death had fallen a prey. And, oh, what rapture in the thought, One soul to. glory to have brought!” The teacher was dreaming. Sunday School teachers often dream, and some- times their dreams are nightmares. But this dream contained the Lord Jesus. He was standing with His arms stretched out, and in His eyes was an eager look. “Where are the souls of my children?” He asked the teacher. “Here are their bodies,” the teacher was able to reply.. “They come to school very regularly and’ promptly.” Jesus took the bodies, and they turned to dust in His hands. “Where are the souls of my children?” Christ insisted. “Here are their manners,” faltered the teacher. “They are quiet and respectful; they listen carefully, Indeed, they are beautifully behaved.” Jesus took their manners, and they turned to ashes in His hands. Our Lord Tepeated His question, “Where are the souls of my children?” “J can give you their brains,” the teacher answered. “They can name all the books one process. THE KING’S BUSINESS of the Bible, forward and backward. They can repeat the list of Hebrew kings. They know in order the seventy events of your life on earth. They can recite the Sermon on the Mount from beginning to end. Really, they are excellent scholars.” Jesus took their brains, and lo! they dis- solved to vapor, and a puff of wind blew them away. “Where are the souls of my children?” urged our Lord with sorrowful longing. Then the teacher was filled with an agony of shame that broke the bonds of sleep. “Alas!” cried the teacher. “I have done much for my children, but it is all nothing because I have not also done the One thing.” According to an old fable, Jupiter once offered a crown of honor to him who was most useful to mankind, and the court of Olympus: was crowded with competitors The warrior boasted of his patriotism, but Jupiter thundered; the rich man boasted of his munificence, and Jupiter showed him a Poor man’s charity to one poorer still; the orator boasted of his power to sway a nation with” his voice, and Jupiter “mar- shalled the hosts of heaven with a nod; the + poet spoke of his power to move even the gods by praise, Jupiter blushed; the musician claimed to practice the only human science ‘that had been transported. to heaven, Jupiter hesitated; when, sceing a venerable man looking with intense inter- est upon the group of competitors but presenting no claim, he exclaimed: “Who. art thou?” “Only a spectator,” said the gray-headed sage; “all these were once my Sunday School scholars.” “Crown him, crown him,” cried Jupiter. “Crown the faithful teacher and make room for him at my right hand.” Pastor, superintendent, officers, teachers, God is counting on you. He says, “Tell thé boys and girls that ‘This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased.’” Pastors, superintendents, officers, teachers, Jesus Christ is counting on you. He says, “Suffer the little children to come unto me.” Pastors, superintendents, officers, teachers,THE KING’S BUSINESS the Holy Spirit is counting on you. He says, “Remember Jesus Christ.” “There is none other name under Heaven given among men whereby we must be saved.” “He is counting on you, He has need of your life in the thick of the strife, For that weak one will fall if you fail His call, He is counting on you. what then? Tf you fail Hii “He is counting on you, on a love that will share In the burden of prayer, for those He has bought iu With His life's blood, and sought Through this sorrow and pain, to win home again, He is counting on you. what then? If you fail Him, “He had counted on you, and you failed~~ not; Oh, the joy and grace, just to look Christ in the face, and’not be ashamed. ay You presented your scholars all with His call; He had counted on you, and you failed not, what then?” —————>——. AN APPRECIATION THe following extracts from a letter written to Dr. Mary Armstrong, resi- dent physician at the Bible Institute, by a lady who fell ill while heré from another part of the State, bear such excellent testimony to the atmosphere of the Insti- tute that they are reproduced for those of our readers who have had no personal experience in the same direction: “What a haven of rest that wonderful Institute is, and how much good my soul received while there! Hymns of praise was my alarm clock, and as I awoke and listened, His sweet Presence seemed very near. I talked so much about the place after my return, that a young man who had heard me made it his home during the week he was in Los Angeles, and when he got back he told me I hadn't over-praised it. It seems to me if I could live there I'd grow saintly. And here I've written all this and haven't told you who I am. I had a room on the sixth floor from the nineteenth of August until the fifth of Sep- tember—and how much you did for me! Oh, I can't forget it! I spoke to you about the great disappointment of my youth, and I wondered afterward how I could speak of anything so sacred to a stranger, until the thought came to me that you were His friend and helper in this sinful world. - Shall I repeat the story? The experience was so wonderful that I’ve wondered if God ever honored a deserted woman with a similar one. I turned on my pillow too hopeless for words. My hand touched my Bible and somehow it opened at the fifty- fourth chapter of Isaiah. I read it, got up, dressed, went downstairs and took up my life where I had left it. I believe He sent you to me when I was sick and alone there in Los Angeles, because He knew I needed, one of His friends. “And the splendid auditorium and the fine speakers I heard there, and the good those sermons did me, never shall I forget it all! I got to thinking about. it today, and somehow my heart just overflowed trying to express its gratitude in this letter to you. If all‘the hundreds of people who stop at that Institute are blessed as I am, what a blessed place it must be!”The Institute Family Charles T. Youngken (‘Fom) arrived in the city in the middle of the night, recently, owing to a belated overland train, and is visiting his brother Don, purchasing agent for the Institute, at No. 5516 Echo street. Mr. Youngken, accompanied by his wife and two children, returned from the mis- sion at Kijabe, British East Africa, some months ago, and have been visiting Mrs. Youngken’s mother in Lincoln, Neb., where Mrs. Youngken and the children still remain, “Tom’ is not in good health, and they will not go back to Africa at once, Warren A. Pike, formerly cashier of the Institute, is now connected with the Exten- sion Department, and has his headquarters in the executive offices. ‘Mr. and Mrs. Fred Wilkens will sail for Honolulu about the time this number of “the magazine goes in the mails (January 5). Their activity has given them promi- nence in Institute affairs, and Mr. Wilkens will be greatly missed as Sunday School superintendent of the Church of the Open Door, They go to take charge of an important Christian mission in Honolulu, whither good wishes follow them. D, V. Methvin, a former student of the Institute, and now a field evangelist and organizer for the Baptist Church in North- eastern California and Nevada, writes from Moapa, Nev. He has organized seven Sunday Schools in the past few months, and preached to people who had not heard a sermon in many years, and is very happy in his difficult labors. Frank Green, one of our graduates, who has been working among the Indians of Arizona during the past year, is now at the Institute for a well deserved rest. Charles E. Hurlburt, who has been in this country since early last summer, will have returned to his work at Kijabe, Africa, as head of the Africa Inland Mission, by the time this reaches many of our readers. He returned from Philadelphia in time to spend the holidays with his family in this city. The training school is having a most interesting semester, with. an attendance of 296 young men and young women, all earnestly engaged in fitting themselves for their life work of spreading the Gospel. Correspondence is solicited from Christian young people everywhere, In publishing, last month, an article by Edward Whitaker Work, D. D., under the caption, “Enthusiasm for the Word of God,” the proper credit was accidentally omitted. It is from “The Fascination of the Book,” published by Fleming H. Revell Company. eh E. C. Swartz, Brockton, Mass.: “Enclosed, please find one year’s subscription to THE Kine’s Business. I greatly value this most excellent and tremendously Scriptural peri- odical, and sincerely wish for it an ever widening’ influence. May the great Lord of the harvest bless every department of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles.” pene com F. D. Geary, Allentown, Pa: “I am very pleased with the magazine. It is both stimulative and instructive.”Obedience VS. Understanding By William Evans, Ph. D., D. D. Associate Dean of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles F ANY MAN will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself” (John 7:17); hence the key to the under- standing of the Scriptures lies in consecra- tion, not scholarship; in surrender of the heart, not ‘in genius of intellect. Pious mem with no scholarship can go through the open door of truth, while scholars with no piety remain outside fumbling with the latch. “At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes. Even so, Father: for so it seemed good in thy sight, All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he ‘to whom- soever the Son will reveal him” (Matthew 11:25-27). This is not belittling scholarship. We believe in scholarship, for we need it, and all-we can get of it. Scholarship has many advantages. Given two men equally con- secrated, the one ignorant and the other learned, and it is clearly evident that the learned will get more out of the Scriptures than the ignorant. We are not belittling scholarship, but just putting it where it belongs—in a subordinate place. We are putting first things first, and giving the primary and supreme place to obedient faith, The assertion that academic train- ing is absolutely necessary to the under- standing of the Scriptures must be stoutly resisted with all one’s might and main. Scholarship is a good deal, but it. is not everything; mor does it accomplish the greatest things in the world, The realm of the moral and spiritual is vastly superior to that of the intellectual. It is Coleridge who says that all the mere products of the understanding tend to death. Faith men are greater than science men. Divinity is more important than philosophy, as heaven is more than earth, the soul'than the body, the body than raiment, eternity than time. Let us put first things first. A big heart is better than a big head, and a great soul is of more importance than a great mind, that is, if they are to be measured, weighed, and compared. Knowledge shall pass away; love abideth forever. ‘We should not approach the Bible then —at least not primarily—with the question, How much of this can I understand? but, How much of it am I willing to obey? The doors of the kiffgdom of truth swing on the hinges of obedience. All spiritual knowledge is in order to obedience. The law of the acquisition of spiritual knowl-114 edge is obédience. “If any man will do his will, hé shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of my- self” (John 7:17), Human teaching says, “Know first, then do.” ine teaching says, “Do first, then you will know.” The Bible is not a cabalistic Book. Its secrets are not reserved only for the intel- lectually initiated. The Bible is an open Book. Jesus said, “Im secret have I said nothing.” He who runs may read. The dictionary is no substitute for the Bible, nor the lexicographer for the Holy Spirit. Etymology and syntax are not to take the place of spiritual illumination. The language of the Bible is the speech of Canaan, not of Egypt or Babylon. Only the chosen ones can say “Shibboleth ;” the rest say “Sibboleth.” Their speech betray- eth them that they are not “of this Way.” What the Persian Magi could not find out with the accumulated wisdom of the centuries the priests of God could tell them in a moment (Matthew 2-1-8), “Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies: for they are ever with me. I have more under- standing than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation, I under- stand more than the ancients, because I keep ‘thy precepts” (Psalm 119:98-100). “Days should speak,” it is true, and “mul- titude of yéars should teach wisdom ;” but do they always? By no means, “Great men are not always wise;” nor are gray hairs always an indication of wisdom. “But there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding” (cf. Job 32:7-9). God oft- times “taketh the wise in their own crafti- ness” (1 Corinthians 3:19).. “The world by wisdom knew not God.” We are saved by faith, not by scholarship (1 Corinthians 1:21). Not the clever, but the contrite are saved. It was by “foolishness,” not by “wisdom” that God saved the world (1 Cor- inthians 1:21), Obedience is the key to the understand- ing of the Bible: “If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, THE KING'S BUSINESS whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself” (John 7:17). “Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord” (Hosea 6:3). The Holy Spirit is given to them that obey Him (Aets 5:32). Truth is ofttimes hidden or concealed from those who are not willing to obey; hence the parabolic form of teaching used by the Master (cf. Matthew 13:10-15), The fourfold requirement for a knowl- edge of the Scriptures is a pure heart, a simple faith, a surrendered will, and an obedient spirit. Such prerequisites are within the reach of the simplest and most humble child of God. Resolve to conform your life to the teachings of the Scriptures as you learn them. The declared purpose of the Bible is to make bad men good; good men bet- ter; better mien the best it is possible for them to be. The Scriptures purport to make sinful men holy; holy men holier; and saints of all who believe. It is a Book of God for the man of God—to thoroughly furnish him unto all good works. To sur- render the heart and life to its doctrines and precepts—this is to understand the Bible, The study of the Bible in order to enforce its doctrines or to be able to defend its teachings, essential as such study scems to be, will not yield the best results. A study of the Bible for the purpose of obedience yields the greatest fruit. Do not find fault with the Bible because it shows you your faults, as the woman who smashed the mirror because it showed her that she had freckles. The Bible is a discoverer of faults and a revealer of virtues. The Bible was written for the purpose of helping men in character building: “AI scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproofy for correction, for instruction iit righteous- ness: That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works” (2 Timothy 3:16, 17). The Law of Truth, as every other law, demands conformity to its requirements if its secret and power are to be obtained.TEMPTATION—TOPIC OF GREATEST MOMENT TO THE YOUNG By Prof. James Stalker United Free Church College, Aberdeen, Scotland ‘There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to men; but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are al temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear 10:13, 39 NCE, when I was going’ to address a gathering of young men, I asked a friend what I should speak to them about. There is only’ one subject worth speaking to young men about, and that is temptation. Of course, he did not mean this literally; he only meant to emphasize the importance of this subject. Was he not right? You remember, in the story of the Garden of Eden, where the tree which represented temptation stood? It stood in the midst of the garden—just at the point where all the walks converged, where Adam and Eve had to pass it every day. This is a parable of human life. We are out of paradise now; but the tree of temptation still stands in our life where it stood then— in the midst; where all the roads meet; where we must pass it every day—arid every man’s weal or woe depends on the attitude to it which he takes up. There are-six attitudes in any of which we may stand to temptation—first, we“may be tempted; second, we may have fallen {His answer was: * before temptation; third, we may be tempt: ing others; or, fourth, we may be success- fully resisting temptation; fifth, we may have outlived temptation; sixth, we may be a ting others to overcome their tempta- tions. As I should like these six attitudes to be remembered, let me give them names; and these I will borrow from the politics of the continent of Europe. Any of you who may glance at times into the polities of France or Germany will be aware that in their legislative assemblies there prevails a more minute division into parties, or groups as they are called, than we are accustomed to. In your politics you"are content with two great historical parties—Republicans and Democrats. But, as I have said, in, Continental parliaments the members are divided into groups. You read of the group of the left center, of the group of the left, and the group of the extreme left; the group of the right center, the group of the right, and the group of the extreme right. I do not pretend that even these are all; but I will take these as the six116 names I need for characterizing the six attitudes in which men may stand to tempta- tion. On the left there are three—first, the group of the left center, by which I mean those who are being tempted; second, the group of the left, by which are meant those who have fallen before temptation; third, the group of the extreme left, or thosé who are tempters of others. And on the right there are three groups—the fourth group, that of the right center, containing those who are successfully re: ig temptation; the fifth, the group of the right, or those who have outlived their temptation; and the sixth and last, the group of the extreme right, that is to say, those who are helping others to resist their temptation. Let me run rapidly over these six groups. I. The group of the left center, or those who are being tempted. With this one T begin, because we have all been in it. Whether we have been in the other groups or not, we have all been in this one: we have all been tempted. One of the first things we were told when we were quite young was that we should be tempted—that we should have to beware of evil companions; and there is not one of us in whose case this prediction has not come true, There is, indeed, no greater mystery of providence than to understand the unequal proportions in which temptation is dis- tributed. Some are comparatively little tempted; others are thrown into a fiery furnace of it seven times heated. There are in the world sheltered situations in which a man may be compared to a ship in the harbor, where the wharves may sometimes heave a little, but a real storm never comes; there are other men like the vessel which has to sail the high seas and face the full force of the tempest. Many here must know well what this means. Per- haps you know it so well that you feel inclined to say to me, Preacher, you know nothing about it; if you had to live where THE KING'S BUSINESS we live—if you had to associate with the companions whom we have to work s and hear the kind of language which we have to listen to every hour of the day— you would know better the truth of what .you are saying. Do not be too sure of that Perhaps my library is as dangerous a place for me as your workshop is for you. Solitude has its temptations as well as society. St. Anthony, before his conversion, was a gay and fast young man of Alex- andria; and, when he was converted, he found the temptations of the city so intoler- able that he fled into the Egyptian desert and became a hermi but he afterward confessed that the temptations of a cell in the wilderness were worse than those of the city. It would not be safe to exchange our temptations for those of another man; every one has his own. I believe, further, that every man has his own tempter or temptress. Every man on his journey through life meets with some one who deliberately tries to ruin him. Have you met your tempter yet? Perhaps he is sitting by your side at this moment. Perhaps it is some one in whose society you delight to be, and of whose acquaintance you are proud; but the day may come when you will curse the hour in which you ever saw that face, Some of us, looking back, can remember well who our tempter was; and we tremble yet, some- times, as we remember how nearly we were over the precipice. One of the chief powers of temptation is the power of surprise, It comes when you are not looking for it; comes from the person and from the quarter you least sus- pect. The day dawns which is to be the decisive one in our life; but it looks like any other day. No bell rings in the sky to give warning that the hour of destiny has come. But the good angel that watches over us is waiting and trembling. The fiery moment arrives; do we stand; do we fall? Oh, if we fall, that good angel goes flying away to heaven, crying, fallen, fallen!THE KING'S BUSINESS IL The group of the left, or those who have fallen before temptation. Though I do not know this audience, I know human nature well enough to be certain that there are some hearing me who are whispering sadly in their hearts, This is the group I belong to: I have fallen before temptation; it may not be known; it may not even be suspected; but it is true, To such I bear a message of hope today. The great tempter of men has twa lies with which he plies us at two different stages. Before we have fallen, he tells us that one fall does not matter; it is a trifle; we can easily recover ourselves again. And, after we have fallen, he tells us that it is hopeless: we are given over to sin, and need not attempt to rise. Both are false. It is a terrible falsehood to say that to fall once does not matter. Even by one fall there is something lost that can never be recovered again. It is like the breaking ‘of an infinitely precious vessel, which may be mended, but will never again be as if it had not been broken. And, besides, one fall leads to others; it is like going upon very slippery ice on the face of a hill; even in the attempt to rise you are carried away again farther than Moreover, we give others a hold over us. If we have not sinned alone, to have sinned once involves a tacit pledge that we will sin again; and it is often almost impossible to get out of such a false position. God keep us from believing the devil's lie, that to fall once does not matter. But then, if we have fallen, he plies us with the other lie: It is of no use to attempt to rise; you can not overcome your besetting sin, But this, is falser still. To those who feel themselves fallen 1 come, in Christ’s name, to say, Yes, you may rise. If we could“ascend to heaven today and sean the ranks of the blest, should we not find multitudes among them who were once sunk low as man can fall? But they are washed, they are justified, they are sanctified, in the name of our Lord Jesus ever. 117 and by the Spirit of our God. And so may you be. . : It is, I know, a doctrine which may be abused; but I will not scruple to preach it to those who are fallen and sighing for deliverance. St. Augustine says that we may out of our dead sins make stepping- stones to rise to the heights of perfections What did he mean by that? He meant that the memory of our falls may breed in us such a humility, such a distrust of self, such a constant clinging to Christ as we never could have had if we had itet fallen. Does not the Scripture itself go even further? David fell—deep as man can fall; but what does he say in that great fifty- first Psalm, in which he confesses his sin? Anticipating forgiveness, he says: _ “Then will I teach Thy ways unto Those that transgressors be, And those that sinners are, shall then Be turned unto Thee.” And what did our Lord Himself say to St. Peter about his fall? “When thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren” A man may derive strength to give to others from having fallen. He may have a sym- pathy with the erring; he may be able to describe the steps by which to rise, as no othercan, Thus, by God’s marvelous grace, out of the eater may come forth meat, and out of the strong may come fortlr sweet- ness. Ill. The group of the extreme left, or those who are tempters of others. ‘These three groups on the left form three stages of natural descent. First, tempted; secondly, fallen; then, if we have fallen, we tempt others to fall. This is quite natural. If we are down ourselves, we try to get others down beside us. There is a satisfaction in it. To a soul that has become black a soul that is still white is an_offense. It is said of some, “They rest not except they have done mischief, and their sleep is taken away, except they cause some to fall." There is nothing else, I think, in human nature so diabolical as the delight which the wicked feelin making others like themselves. Have118 you neverJéeen it? Have you never seen a group of evil-doers deliberately set them- selves to ruin a newcomer, scofing at his innocence and enticing him:to their orgies? And, when they succeeded, they rejoiced over his fall as if they had won a great triumph. So low can human nature sink. Sometimes it may be self-interest that makes man a tempter. The sin of another may be necessary to secure some end of his own. The dishonest merchant, for his own gain, undermines the honesty of his apprentice; the employer, making haste to be rich, tempts his employces to break the Sabbath; the tyrannical landlord forces his tenants to vote against their conscience. Why, there are trades which flourish on other people's sins. But perhaps the commonest way to become a tempter is through thoughtless- ness. I protest, we have no pity for each other’s souls. We trample about among these most brittle and infinitely precious things, as if they were common ware, and we tempt one another and ruin one another without even being aware of it. Perhaps. indeed, no one who goes to the place of woe goes there alone; perhaps every one takes at least one with him. I hear it said nowadays that the fear of hell no longer moves men's minds; and that preachers ought no longer to make use of it as a motive in religion. Well, I confess, I fear it myself; it is a motive still to me. But I will tell you what I fear ten times more. What! is there anything which a man can fear ten times more than the fire that never shall be quenched? Yes, it is to meet there any one who will say, You have brought me here; you were my tempter; and byt for you I might never have come to this place of torment, God forbid that this should ever be said to me by any one. Will it be said to any of you? But now let us turn away from this side of our subject and look at the bright side— at the three groups on the right. THE KING’S BUSINESS IV. The group of the right center, or those who are successfully resist- ing temptation. Not very long ago a letter chanced to come under my eye. It was by a young man attending one of the great English universities, One day two or three fellow students had come into his rooms and asked him to join them in some amusement of a questionable kind, which they were con- templating. On the spur of the moment he promised; but, when they had gone, he thought what his Parents would say if they knew. It was a godly home he belonged to, and a very happy one, in which the children were bound to the parents in such a way that they kept no secrets from them. He.thought of his home, and he had doubts whether what he had promised to do might not cause pain there. He was afraid it would; and he promptly and frankly went and told his campanion that his engagement was off till he should inquire, The letter I saw was the query. It affected me deeply to read it; for it was easy to understand how much manli- ness was required to do that which might be interpreted as unmanly, The memory of that man's home came to him in the hour of temptation. and made him strong to resist. I wonder this influence does not prove a rescuing power oftener than it does. Young men, when you are tempted, think of home. I have been a minister away in a provincial town; and, I think, if you could realize the mother’s terror, and the father’s stricken frame, and the silent, tearful circle, as I have seen them—it would make you fling the cup of temptation from your lips, however per- suasive was the hand that proffered it. Yet this will not always be a strong enough motive in the struggle-with tempta- tion. There will come times when you are tempted to great sin which will appear to you absolutely safe from discovery and not likely to inflict the slightest injury on your fortunes. In such circumstances nothing will sustain you if you do not respect your own nature and stand in awe of your ownTHE KING'S BUSINESS conscience. Nay, even this is not enough; the only effective defense is that of one who was surely tempted in this very way, “How can I do this great wickedness and sin against God?” There are secret battles fought and won on this ground, never heard of om earth, but essentially more glorious than many victories which are trumpeted far and wide by the breath of fame. There is more of courage and manhood needed for them than for walking up to the cannon’s mouth. Many a soldier could do that who could not say “No” to two or three companions pressing him to enter the canteen. Not long ago I was speaking to a soldier who iold me that many a time in the barracks he was the only man to go down on his knees out of twenty or ceed and he did it among showers of oaths and derision. Dio you think walking up to the cannon’s mouth would have been difficult to that man? Such victories have no record on earth; but be sure of this, they are widely heard of in heaven, and there is One there who will not forget them. V, The group of the right, or those who have outlived their temptations. On this point I do not mean to dwell; but I should like at least to mention it, as there is contained¥in it a great encourage- ment to some who may be enduring the very hottest fires of temptation. Perhaps your situation is so intolerable that you often say, I can not stand this much longer; if it lasts as it is, I must fall—“One day I shall fall into the hands of Saul.” No, you will not. I bid you take courage; and as one encouragement I say, you will yet outlive your temptation. That which is a temptation at one period of life may be no temptation at all at another. To a child there thay be an irre- sistible temptation in a sweetmeat which a man would take a good deal to touch; and some of the temptations which are now the most painful to you will in time be as completely outlived. God may lift you, by some turn of providence, out of the posi- ge tion where your temptation lies; or the person from whom you chiefly suffer may be removed from your neighborhood. The unholy fire of passion, which now you must struggle to keep out of your heart, may, through the mercy of God who setteth men in families, be burnt away and replaced by the virtuous home. The laughter and scorn which you may now be bearing for your Christian profession will, if you only have patience, be changed into respect and ven- eration; for even the ungodly are forced at last to do honor to a consistent Chris- tian life, In these and other ways, if you only have patience, you will outlive temptation; though I do not suppose we shall ever in this world be entirely out of its reach, or be beyond the need of these two admoni- tions: “Watch and pray that ye enter not into temptation,” and, “Let him that think- eth he standeth take heed lest he fall.” VI. The group of the extreme right, or those who are helping others to overcome temptation. You see, on the right there is an upward progress, as on the left there was a down- ward one, The first step is to be success- fully resisting temptation; a higher one is to have outlived temptation ; the highest of ail is to be helping others to resist it; though I do not say that this must be the chronological order. It is the order of honor. This group of the extreme right is the exact opposite of the group of the extreme left. Those in the latter group are tempt- ing others to fall; those in this one are encouraging and aiding others to stand fast. No man ought to be satisfied till he is in this noble group. ‘There are many ways in which we may assist others with their temptations. A big-hearted man will often be doing so without being aware of it. His very pres- ence, his attractive manhood, his massive character act as an encouragement to younger men-and hold them up. I do not know anything so much to be coveted as120 in old age ‘to have men coming to say, Your example, your presence, your sympa- thy were like a protecting arm put round my stumbling youth and helped me over the perilous years. My brothers, if & few men can honestly say this to us in the future, will it not be better than Greek and Roman fame? 3 Many are helping the young agairist their temptations by providing them with means of spending their leisure innocently and profitably. Our leisure time is. the problem. While we are at work, there is not so much fear of us; but it is in the hours of leisure THE KING'S BUSINESS —the hours between work and sleep—that temptation finds men, and they are lost; and therefore I say, there is no more Chris- tian work than providing men with oppor- tunities of spending leisure profitably. But by far the best way to help men with their temptations is to bring them to Christ. It may be of some service to a man if, in the time of trial, I put round him the sympathetic arm of a brother; but it is infinitely better if I can get him to allow Christ to put round him His strong arm. This is the effectual defense; and no other can be really depended on. pa WITH BIBLE COACH IN ARGENTINE By WILL PAYNE A Missionary at Cordoba, Argentine Republic ARLY in July Mr. Langran decided to take the Bible Coach to the Tucuman district, as it was generally expected that the celebration of 100 years of independence would draw large. crowds from all parts of the republic to Tucuman, where . the Independence was signed. Part of the journey was made by rail, through long districts where roads were impassable, and great difficulties had to be overcome the rivers before the coach entered the city. The Christians in the assembly were greatly stirred by the visit, but it was found impos- sible to hold meetings during the patriotic feasts; however, we made the most of the opportunity by visiting almost every place of any size in the province, and the chief police authorities gave us a letter that opened the way at each place for the hold- ing of meetings in the plaza, the railway station or wherever we thought that we would get the largest group of people. Tucuman is the great sugar-growing dis- trict, and the harvest of sugar was going on, so we found a good numbér of people about, and as the towns are only separated from one another by a distance of two or three miles, we were constantly in the populated parts. We held meetings at eight places, and the attendance in some cases reached 200 to 300 persons or more. It was intensely interesting to see these people, who had never heard the gospel before, listening to the Word. Mr. Jenkins, Mr. Langran and myself took part in giving the message. Mr. Peterkin was with us at a few places and joined in the tract distribution, The road lay along the sugar fields almost all the way, and we had some ten rivers to cross, all coming from the snow- clad hills to the west. The nights were intensely cold, and Mr. Jenkins and I had our beds on the ground, made of hay. The old tent has many holes in it. Mr. and Mrs. Langran slept in the coach. We were sorry to have to break up the party, but the work at Tucuman and at Cordoba called for attention, and we had to leave Mr. and Mrs. Langran to go on to La Cocha, where they have had a good time, and we each turned to our respective homes. This work is very attractive, and it is so good to get in touch with these people who have never heard the gospel.LIGHT ON < PUZZLING PASSAGES and PROBLEMS By R. A. TORREY Is there any warrant in the Greek for translating the word “salvation” by “heal~ ing,” in Acts 4:12, so that the passage would read: “Neither is there healing in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be healed?” If not, why does one of the teachers of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles, ix the Alliance Weekly for August 12, 1916, write that it should be so translated? In answer to this question let me say. first of all that the article to which reference is made, appearing in the Alliance Weekly for August 12, 1916, is not by a teacher in the Bible Institute of Los Angeles. It is true that the editorial note that precedes the article might imply that the article came from some one connected with the teaching force of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles, and it says, “Coming from this source, had added interest and em- phasis.” The writer of the article is. not a teacher in the Bible Institute of Los Angeles and never was a teacher in the Bible Institute of Los Angeles. He did attend some of the classes of the Bible Institute a few years ago for a few weeks, but not even as a ¥egularly enrolled student, and he never took the examinations even for a single term. He is at the present time an employee of the Bible Institute, but in a purely mercantile posi- tion, and is in no way whatever connected with the teaching force. It is only fair to say that he is a most excellent Christian man, having the respect of those who know him well, but it is a mystery why he should ever attempt to tell what the Greek Testament teaches, for he frankly admitted to me a few days ago that he could not even read the letters of the Greek alphabet if he were shown them, He is entirely ignorant of Greek. His gift is not teaching. Every Bible teacher in the Institute regards his article as absurd and calculated to do harm. Now in regard to the first question. There is absolutely no warrant in the Greek for this translation. To any one who has any large knowledge of Greek and New Testament usage the translation is abso- lutely absurd. The word which the writer to whom our question refers renders “heal- ing” cannot by any possibility be rendered in that way, either according to its ety- mology or its usage. It means exactly what it is given in both the Authorized and Revised Versions, “salvation,” or “deliverance, or “preservation, or “safety.” Of course the salvation may be from sickness as well as salvation from other things, but the word itself does not mean “healing.” An entirely different Greek word means “healing.” Of course, though the word means “salvation,”~just- as it is rendered in the Authorized and Revised Versions, the word could be used of “salvation” from sickness, which would be healing, but that is not what the word itself means, and furthermore, in sot one single instance in the New Testament is it used of salvation from sickness. It is used forty-six times in the New Testament, and as said, not in one single instance, even in our Authorized Version, is it rendered “healing.” It is rendered, in our Author- ized Version, “health” in one instance (Acts 27:34), and in one instance only, and in that instance “health,” as is evident from the context, does not mean “healing,” and the Revised Version very properly corrects this mistranslation to “safety.” Not only is the word never translated “healing” in arly one of the forty-six instances in which it is used, but further still, is not one singlerE i “never be translated 122 . instance does it refer to salvation from Physical infirmity. The writer of the article builds his argument upon the usage of another Greek word with which the word he renders “healing” has not a direct but a remote etymological connection. ‘urther still, we shall show directly that he is entircly wrong even in regard to the usage of this word with which the word rendered “healing” has a remote connection. The word of which he attempts to give the usage is not the word from which the word properly rendered “salvation” in both Authorized and Revised Versions, and which he renders “healing” is immediately derived. The word is derived not from the word translated “saved,” but from a word frequently used in the New Testament, which is translated “Saviour” wherever it appears in the New Testament. This word is never rendered “healer,” and never should be. This word from which the word is derived is used by our Lord Jesus twenty-four times in the New Testament, and in not one single instance as His being our Saviour from physical infirmity. but of His being a Saviour to give repentance and forgiveness of sins (see eg. Acts 5:31). The writer of the article builds his whole argument on the usage of the Greek word “sozo,” with which the word rendered “healing” (soteria) has, as stated, a remote connection. This word 0” means to “save,” or “rescue,” or “deliver.” It is used of salvation or de erance from all kinds of evil, and of course is used in some instances of deliverance from sickness, and such deliverance would be healing, but (le word itself does not mean to heal, but to save from whatever a person is saved from. The word should heal,” or even “make whole.” for that is not what the word means, It is true that one of the parts of this word “sozo” in the context in which Acts 4:12 is found, that is to say, in Acts 4:9, is translated “made whole,” but this is an inexact translation, it substitutes what is implied for what is said. It should be translated “saved.” The word “whole” is THE KING'S BUSINESS found’ in the tenth verse, but there it is @ translation of an entirely different and entirely unrelated Greck word, a word which means physical wholeness, and has no etymological connection whatever with the word “sozo.” The writer of the article contends that these two remotely connected words, that used in Acts 4:9 and that used in Acts 4:12 (“sozo” and “soteria”) should he translated consistently, and therefore that “salvation” should be rendered “heal- ing” consistently with the translation “made whole” in v. 9, But any one who is at all acquainted with the study of language knows that oftentimes words which are more or less remotely connected with one another get an entirely different meaning from one another and therefore must be translated in diverse ways. However, even were his contention absolutely correct that these two words should be translated con- sistently with one another, the consistent translation should not turn a correct transe lation into a wrong one in order to make it consistent with the other wrong translation, The consistency would come in changing the translation in v. 9 to the true meaning of the word. ie, changing “made whole” into “saved.” This very thing is done by some of the most careful translators. The writer goes at some length into the usage of the word “sozo.”. He ‘says that “use is’ the only law that governs language.” He is entirely correct in saying that, usage is the law that governs language; here we thoroughly agree with him, and that is one reason why we disagree with his transla- tion of the present passage. In order to show that “sozo” means “heal” he gives five passages in which this word, or some part of this word is used, in order to show what the usage of the word is. But the word '“sozo” or some part of the word “sozo” is used in the New Testament 107 times, and to give only five instances of the one hundred and seven to determine the usage is, of course, absurd. In these 107 times in which the word, or some part of the word, is used, it is used of saving people from various and widely differentTHE KING'S BUSINESS 123 things, but the writer in trying to deter- mine the usage selects only insiances in which it is used of saving people from physical infirmities, This is a method of procedure that would be worthy of a petti- fogging lawyer who knew he had a bad case and was trying to throw dust in the eyes of the jury, but it is not worthy of a student of the Word of God, especially one who in the very article in question is laying so much stress upon the study of the Word of God, and not the mere care- Jess reading of it, and who speaks so con- temptuously of those who do not think things through when they study the Bible. There are, as we have already said, cases in which the saving or delivering is from physical infirmity, but that fact does not make the word itself mean “healing” any more than the fact that it is used of saving from drowning makes the word itself mean “preservation from drowning” (see Matt. 8:25; 14.30). In the particular book of the Bible from which the verse is taken, the book of Acts, the word “sozo” or some part of the word, is used thirteen times. In only two of the thirteen instances is it used of saving from physical infirmity (Acts 4:9; 14:9). Of the 107 instances in the entire New Testament where the word is used, in only seventeen of the 107 has it any possible reference to saving from sick- ness; in the remaining ninety instances it is used of salvation from something entirely different, and yet this writer, who would have us determine the meaning of the word by its usage, determines it to mean “heal” as its prevailing sense. As we have already said, the word translated “salva- tion,” (which the writer translates “heal- ing”) is not in one single instance used of salvation from physical infirmity. But the writer of the article is not cén- tent with mutilating Acts 4:12, he even goes so far as to translate Rom. 5:10, “If while we were yet enemies, we were recon- ciled into God through the death of His Son, much more, now that we have become reconciled, shall we be healed and kept weil in His life.” If there was nothing else to utterly discredit him as an interpreter of the Word of God, this would be sufficient. There is absolutely nothing in the words or context to warrant such a translation as he gives. He says, “The King James Version says, ‘We shall be saved by His life’ and we have been content to read over thi without attempting to really find the mean- ing of the passage. The word that is translated ‘saved’ is soso, and from what has been shown above, you can see that the new translation és far more correct than the A.V.” Any intelligent student of the Greek Testament must read these words with amazement at the mixture of pre- sumption and ignorance. ‘The translation which he criticises and seeks to correct, and of which he speaks so disparagingly, is not only the translation of the Author- ized Version, but the Revised Version as well, and of every other sane translator. There is no reference whatever in the verse, or in the context, to physical heal- ing, and so far from the translation “healed and kept well” being “far more correct than the A. V.," there is absolutely no warrant for’ it either in the meaning of the Greek word so translated or in its usage, as we have already seen above: The word translated “saved” in both Author ized and Revised Versions of Romans 5:10 is one of the parts of the word “sozo." This word sozo, or some part of the word, is used eight times in this book, the Epistle to the Romans (Rom. 5:9; 5:10; 8:24; 9:27; 10:9; 10:13; 11:14; 11:26), and in not one single instance is it used of salva- tion from sickness. In not one single instance has it even the remotest reference to salvation from sickness. How absurd the translation which the writer gives is can be seen by attempting to substitute it for “saved” in the immediately preceding verse, Rom. 5:9, and make it read this way: “We shall be healed and kept well from the wrath fof God’ through Him.” Which, of course, would be absurd, pre- posterous and impossible, The writer of the article we know well and love, and’ every one that knows him well has confi-124 THE KING'S BUSINESS dence in his Christian character. He is an excellent man in many ways, but he is com- pletely obsessed by his own particular doc- trine of Divine healing, and everything he reads in the Bible he reads through this obsession. We have had other illustrations of this in personal conversations with him. For example, he translates Rev. 21:8, “But the ‘fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whore- mongers, and druggists, and idolators, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.” He substi- tutes “druggists” for “sorcerers” for what appears to him the sufficient reason that the Greck word translated “sorcerers” (phara- makois) is closely related with the Greek word pharmakeia and our word pharmacy, or drug store, is closely related to this word, so the rest, to his mind is easy, viz., thus pharmacists or druggests are sor- cerers. This would illustrate how he has the type of mind that utterly disqualifies one to be a teacher. His attempts in other parts of his article to retranslate the Hebrew are as unwarranted’ as his attempts with the Greek, He is neither a Hebrew nor a Greek scholar in any sense. As already said, by his own frank admission, he does not even know the Hebrew or the Greek alphabet, and could not read a sen- tence in Greck if it was put before him in Greek characters. In his whole article we have another illustration of how it is bet- ter to have no knowledge of Hebrew or Greek at all than to have such a smattering of it as is picked up from English printing of Greek and Hebrew words and the ren- derings that are given in concordances such as Strong’s and Young's, books which in themselves are of great value, but which were never intended to encourage a man who has no knowledge of Greek or Hebrew to set himself up as a teacher of the Greek New Testament or Hebrew Old Testament, and to attempt to criticise the best Greek and Hebrew scholarship in the world. The writer of the article says, “The more I examine it, and the more carefully I study it, the more I am convinced that the Holy Spirit guided the translation as now given.” But it is perfectly clear that the Holy Spirit did not guide the translation, for it is an utterly wrong translation, and we wish to enter a protest (as we have done privately to the writer of the article), against this flippant and presumptuous way, so common in some quarters today, of bringing in the Holy Spirit to give added force to one’s own unwarranted and im- possible notions. He says again in another part of the article, “We believe the Holy Spirit prompted the translation of Acts 4:12 as now rendered, in order to set before us very plainly and yet very forcibly, the fullness of salvation which is ours through Jesus Christ." To a reverent student of the Word of God, especially to one who has a thorough knowledge of the Greek language and of the real meaning of the word, this is simply shocking. It may be added that the translation does not set before us more plainly than the Authorized or Revised Version the fullness of salva- tion which is ours through Jesus Christ, on the contrary, if the translation were cor- rect, it would set forth a far more meagre salvation, merely a salvation from sick- ness of the body, than that set forth in the Authorized and Revised Versions. It takes one of the most precious passages in the Bible (Rom, 0) that does set forth the full salvation that there is in Christ, a salvation not merely from the guilt of sin by His atoning death, but a salvation from the present power of sin by His resurrec- tion life, and so dilutes its message as to make it only a useful passage for those who make the healing of the body the one all-important thing, while every careful student of the New Testament knows that it is by far the least important thing in the salvation that there is in Christ Jesus. Full salvation does inelude the redemption of the body, but the perfect redemption of the body which was secured for us by the atoning death of Christ upon the cross of Calvary is to be obtained, not by physi. cal healing in this present dispensation, butTHE KING'S BUSINESS by the resurrection of our bodies and their complete transformation into the likeness of the body of, our Lord Jesus when He Himself comes- again (Phil. 3:20, 21). Saved in this sense we are “in hope,” that is to say, this salvation is not something that we now possess, ‘but something we shall receive when the Lord comes again 125 (read carefully Rom. 8:23-25, American Revised Version). We shall be fully saved, spirit, soul, and body, wherour Lord In the meantime we “are kept by the power of God through faith unto (this) ready to be revealed in the last time.” comes again, and not until then, salvation peas RESERVE POWER By GEORGE M. ADAMS EAL Strength does not show its full force on all occasions. Often it only pokes its head out Real Strength has Reserve power. The greatest of great building is under ground—in steel and mortar—Where eyes cannot see. Success Power is in the Reserve. Reserve is the law of Nature and of Life. When the Reserve is gone, all is gone. The greatest battles are won with Reserve forces; Banks are kept steady and safe by their Reserve funds; Business goes on, healthy and vigorous because of its Reserve capital.. The character of a man or woman—YOUR Character—is_ kept from being swept easily into oblivion, through the safe Reserve that you lock securely away in the shape of stores of Honor, Courage, Faith, Choice, Backbone —all ready for emergencies. Success Power is in the Reserve. Reserve is what keeps the well from going dry. Reserve is what keeps the Smile from fading into the frown. Reserve is what makes possible the next trial after the last one failed, Success Power is in the Reserve. But work—use, of what you have in rock and, ability or money, is the only possible way to create a Reserve. The Athlete gets strength, grows quick and agile, only through the most persjstent toil in the using of the muscles he seeks to make responsive to his thought. So, you in your humblest task can grow and lay aside power in Reserve only through the most painstaking care in study and work and usefulness, Success Power is in the Reserve. The failure begins by being too proud to work for six dollars a week, The Suc- cess is ANXIOUS and glad of the chance to work for three dollars a week at the start. For’ Reserve is also the knowledge of sure future Success hidden from view— concealed from the general view, yet known to the individual. Success Power is in the Reserve. Do every detail of your day’s work as though it was to be viewed by a Master eye. Make every job a great job. Put Dignity and Joy and Enthusiasm into every task, forgetting not for the shortest min- ute that— Success Power is in the Reserve[O]=oieorEMEMAMTNAT The Far Horizon A Glance at the Field at Home and Abroad Le A RT Rm ume A article in “The Woman's Mission- ary Friend” describes a party of mis- sionaries emerging from the jungle and into an open space in which was situated a good sized village. This town went by the name of Mperetes. As soon as the party arrived the entire village turned out in pell mell shape to see them, as missionaries seldom got through that way. In fact this par- ticular village never saw a missionary, evi- denced by the looks of wonder upon the ladies in particular—the first white women that they had ever seen. The little band spent the day in preaching the gospel. At the end of it, the chief of the town came out and courteously presented his gift of meal and two hantams, a custom of the village in honoring those whom they delighted to see. A Belgian would not have gotten such a welcome, although the people appreciated their driving out the Cannibals, but they also taxed them heavily and took away their women for themselves. bringing much hatred against them. At the end of the day, the missionaries went to sleep with the drum of the Moonlight Dance sound- ing in their ears. The next morning they left the village much aginst the will of the people and their chief, who insisted on their remaining and giving them the gospel, After they had traveled a short ways out of the town, a group of girls about thirteen years of age followed them, insisting all the time that they should come back and remain with them. Whether this was a custom of the country was not stated in the article. The inference was that it was something unusual, After the girls had accompanied them one mile they turned and went again to their village. The missionaries of this same party had occasion to return to this village within a year and found nothing there but thick, coarse grass and deserted homes. The people had all died without the gospel. which they could have had as well as not for the price of an automobile. A boy, about fifteen, son of a chief, came to the Lukunga Mission. He commenced with the first chart, but made such rapid progress that in eight months he was chosen as one of the assistant teachers, teaching school half the day’ and going to school the other half. When vacation came he was ahead of some who had heen there three years. When he returned home he gathered the people together and held serv- ices on Sundays and taught school week days, He wanted his people to know the glorious gospel he had learned. He has since heen baptized, with twenty-six others. —AMissions. At Mombaso, British East Africa, the Church Missionary Society has scored a triumph. They made Christian instruction compulsory in their High School, and as a result the government established schools for purely secular teaching, although in one of them the Koran was taught on Friday. For a time the mission school lost Pupils, but they shortly cane back—even the sons of leaders. One retired Arab governor came and offered to build a home in the mission compound for his two sons and defray the cost of their education, to keep them from the immoral influénees of the Mohammedan town.—IVoman's Mis- sionary Friend. INDIA It is felt that a mass movement will soon break out in Northern India from the fact that incessant and insistent demands for Christian teaching and baptism come from thousands and thousands, The work is spreading through the largest and mostTHE KING'S BUSINESS needy class, the Chamars, says the Chron- icle. The whole method of the Christian worker is preparatory, for their aim is to baptize the village rather than the indi- vidual. Through this method the natives, on open confession of Christ, will be a strong body and able to meet the resistance which they must face. A commanding influence has been won by labor for the social welfare of these people, and through this channel great results have been accom- plished. Although the work is slow, it is believed that when the movement does break out its results will be permanent. A missionary in India was sitting at the breakfast table when the mail arrived with a letter bearing this official inscription on i “In His Majesty's Service.” It was from one of “Our Methodist Boys.” who had chosen to go to the front in France when the war broke out, to fight the battles of his King. The letter contained a check for $10, which was for mission work. In the strain and stress at the front this poor Indian boy has saved out of his scanty pay enough money to keep some other boy in school for a whole year. The inscription on his envelope he was carrying out in a twofold way—loyalty: to an earthly king and loyalty to the business of the King of Kings. Truly, he is twice enrolled “In His Majesty's Service.” Rev. F. E. Jeffrey of Aruppukottai, India, states that a marvelous revolution is in progress, says the Missionary Review of the World. Twenty-five years aga he was stoned for innocently taking a low-caste Christian servant through the Brahmin street, The other day he sat down to a banquet with college students of all castes, including three divisions of Brahmins. All were served by servants of low-caste extraction. It will be remembered that in Bombay, last December, an All-India inter- caste dinner, organized with the avowed object of doing away with caste differences, was held. Of the 450 guests from, various castes, 225 were Brahmins, 50 were Indian women and 20 were the “untouchables.” One of the most pathetic statements 127 ever heard from a missionary was made by a missionary from India, in which he said that one of the hardest experiences: in a missionary’s life is to return home after a hard day’s work, having put every ounce of nerve and brain and will that he knew how into the work, and then to feel that somehow. in spite of=the very best that one could do, the day's work had seemed to be a failure, and as he sat down to think it over and try to discover the reason why it had been so. he had finally wondered i€ it might be because the church at home had failed to pray. CHINA From the district of Ho-kow, in the province of Kiang-si comes the report through the missionary, Miss Fishe, that there is seemingly quite a revival of idola~ try in that region. This is manifested by the persecution of Christians, two attempts having been made within a short time to compel Christians to contribute to idola- trous activities. The same report comes from the south. In Chen-yuan, Kwei-chow, a young girl who had been accepted for baptism and had the consent of her par- ents, was kept from it by heathen relatives. At Shanghai Baptist College a class has“been formed to help young men in setting up Christian homes. This is an éktra curriculum exercise, and Dr. Sailer, of the Presbyterian Board, long time edu- cational secretary, rightly questions why it should be an extra, asking what subject on the schedule is at present of more importance. He suggests as the aim of the missionary school, an increasingly efficient Christian participation in family, com- munity vocation, church and state. To establish a church capable of Christianizing the social order, the school is indispensable. Charles Fairclough is the head of the Bible Institute at Hang-chow, assisted by native teachers, The enrollment is twenty- two, the full capacity of the school. ‘The order of the day is very similar to our own school. At a few minutes before 6 a. m. the rising bell sounds, giving ample time for dressing and the quiet hour before128 E wre breakfast, which is at 7. After the meal there are devotions, led by the students, and from 9 to 12 the classes are held, The students again assemble at 1:30 for study, under the supervision of a native teacher. At 3 o'clock the study ends and there are assignments to street and tea-shop meet- ings and tract distribution. The evenings are devoted to study and devotions— China’s Millions. ‘Ten years ago the missionaries in South China had to exhort the churches to open schools, now the demand for Christian teachers is greater than the supply. At that time they cared little whether their pastors were educated or not; now they will have no other kind. Today boys are going out from the mission to study medicine and theology, and the girls are attending normal schools. Our need now is not to arouse interest in educational matters, but to supply equipment to meet the demands of the awakened people. Dr. H. W. Newman expected a quiet time to rest when he arrived at Changning, but word had gone out that a doctor was coming, and by daylight the people began to come and forty or fifty patients were waiting to be seen by the time breakfast was-over. Even after three weeks, they continued to come “on foot, on the backs of others and in chairs.” They came from fifteen to thirty miles away, north, south, east and west. It is evident that this section is ready and the people open-minded. A great harvest for medical and evangelistic work is ready, waiting for the workers here among the Hakkas of South China. JAPAN The Oriental Missionary Society is plac- ing a portion of the Bible or a tract in every house in Japan. During six weeks three natives and two foreign workers covered the entire Sanuki province, dis- THE KING'S BUSINESS tributing 128,000 tracts and portions of the Bible, Every worker averaged 300 homes a day. Every home in this province has received Christian literature—from the houses in the cities to the most isolated in the mountain districts. In view of the fact that half a century ago death was the penalty- of those who became Christians in Japan, the following statement made by Count Okuma, the recent Prime Minister of that country, is interesting; “Although Christianity has enrolled less than 200,000 believers, yet the indirect influence of Christianity has poured into every realm of Japanese life. It has been borne to us on all the currents of European civilization; most of all, the English language and literature, so sur- charged with Christian ideas, have exerted a wide and deep influence over Japanese thought. Concerning the future, it is my own conviction that no practical solution of many pressing problems is in sight, apart from Christianity.” The recent demands of Japan upon China created such bitterness that a Chinese official, husband of a Japanese lady, was persuaded, while his wife was visiting rela- tives in Japan, that'it was a disgrace to have a Japanese wife. They had been mar- ried happily some years and had four bright children. The unfaithful husband success- fully sought a Chinese wife, and the day before their wedding, when all the arrange- ments were complete, the Japanese wife arrived home. Without regard for her tears and pleadings, the husband, still urged by friends, went forward with the wedding. Months of real sorrow have followed for the wife, but in her sorrow she found the Lord Jesus, and she herself says, “If this sorrow had not come to me, I would not have known Jesus. I praise Him today that He thus led me to Himself—Missions.| TESTAMENT ROM COPYRIGHT GY WILLIAM EVANS ANS (Continued) x - GO.FAR in our study of the first main division of the epistle to the Romans— “1, Sin—Man Desgitute of God's Righteous- ness” —we have Cogsidered, first, “The Fail- ure of the Géngjfes” (1:18-2:16). In this issue we take up the Second subdivision: 2. The Failure of the Jew (2:17-3:9). Some would begin this section, which deals with the failure of the Jew, with 2:1 But for reasons which seem evident from the treatment we have given 2:1-16, we have placed these verses (2:1-16) under “The Failure of the Gentile.” It is likely that both the moral Gentile and the Jew are referred to in this section. The apostle, having shown that the Gen- tile is guilty before God and in need of His righteousness, and that. because of the absence of such righteousness, is under the wrath and judgment of God (1:18-2:16), now proceeds to show the Jew that he also is in the same condition—destitute of the divine righteousness, and consequently un- der the wrath of God (2:17-3:9). It is a much more difficult task to prove the Jew to be a_sinner and destitute of the divine righteousness than to show the Gentile to be in a like condition. The sin of the, Gentile was open and patent to every eye. All the apostle had to do was to point to the experience of the Gentile peoples, so graphically depicted in 1:18-32, Such evi- dence was sufficient. But with the Jew it was very different. He had been granted divine revelations; he had been given a system of divine laws; to him had been committed “the oracles of God." When, therefore, the Jew sinned, he sinned under the cloak of religion. It should not be overlooked, cither, that the Jew rested in a rightcousness by law. It was harder, therefore, to prove to the Jew that he was a bad man, too, and equally under the wrath and judgment of God with the Gen- tile, The Jew, at once, in his spirit of Pharisecism, agreed with the Apostle Paul that the Gentiles were in this deplorable condition, but could not feel that such a state of things could be true of him (ef. Luke 16:15; 189-14). (a) The Jew is @ sinner equally with, and even above the Gentile because of his great privileges (2:17-24). ‘The apostle is not ignorant of the honors and privileges conferred upon the chosen He acknowledges that the Jews had something that the Gentiles did not possess (2117, 19, 23), namely, the Mosaic law. And right here, by the way, lies the fallacy of some phases of modern teaching that would fasten the Mosaic law upon ‘the Christian. (cf. also Acts 15; Colossians 2:8-20; Romans 7 :1-6). race.130 THE KING'S The Advantage of Being a Jew. ‘The apostle names five personal privileges which the Jew claims for himself above all other men. “Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God, and knowest his will, and approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law” (2:17, 18). “Behold, thou are called a Jew:" Paul was a Jew (Philippians 3:3-6); so was Christ (Matthew 1:1; John 4:9, 22). The Jews were the chosen people of God. That in itself was an honor. “Thou restest in the law.” The Jews found relief for their spiritual perplexities and a solution for their spjritual troubles in a divine revelation which they acknowl edged as the basis of all God's dealings with men. This was a great privilege. “Thou gloriest in God.” The Jews put mo confidence in idols, as did their heathen neighbors. They gloried in the knowledge of the one true God. This, too, was_a matter of honor and privilege, “Thou knowest his will.” They were not groping in the dark as to what was in the law, nor as to the will of God concerning them and their lives. They were the re- cipients of a revelation concerning their destiny, past, present, and future. They were “expert in testing things.” They could test religious truth with dis- crimination, They were expert in matters of casuistry, because of their knowledge and instruction in the law. No Gentile laid claim to such privileges as these, all of which were claimed by the Jew and admitted by Paul. The apostle names these privileges one by one in order that he may emphasize them and show the responsibility of the Jew in connection therewith. The Superiority of the Jew. Five things are enumerated in which the Jew claimed superiority to others (2:19.20). He was a “guide to the blind;” a “light of them which are in darkness ;” a “corrector of the foolish;” possessing the form and scheme of the law of truth; mature, as con BUSINESS trastéd with “babes,” in their understand- ing of truth In 2:21-24, Paul admits the truth of all these points of advantage, and, by a series of questions, asks them if they had lived up to these privileges. The Jews claimed that they “knew” more of truth than the Gentiles. The question the apostle asks is, Did their supérior knowledge profit them any? Did it affect their lives “for godli- ness? The Jew Equally Guilty, The apostle answers the question in the negative, and shows that the Jews, with all their superior privileges, were guilty on the same three counts as the Gentiles: they were immoral; they were serisual; they were idolatrous. It is interesting to note in this connection that the order of these three indictments is the opposite to that set forth in 1:18-32, because here he is dealing with a people who had the knowledge of God, but being immoral in life, were led into idolatry; whereas in speaking of the Gentiles, they, through their idolatry and loss of the true knowledge of God, were Jed into sensuality and immorality. However much the Jew himself boasted of his own self-righteousness, the Gentile was fully aware of the fact that the Jew, equally with him, was a sinner destitute of God's righteousness and under the divine wrath: “For the name of God is Dblasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written” (2:24). Practical Application. In the apostle’s dealing with the Jew, he ‘has much to say to us, who have even more privileges over the Jew than the Jew over the Gentiles in the days gone by. What did the privilege of the Jew profit him? What do our privileges profit us? They boasted of their superior honor and privi- leges, but failed to live a life adequately and proportionately superior. They: were merely hearers of the Word and not doers. Are we? To whom much is given, of him much is required (Luke 12:47, 48). Of us to whom, by reason of a favorable circum-. THE KING'S BUSINESS stance, religious environment, and spiritual privileges, much has been given, much shall be required in that great day. “What do ye more than others?” (b) Cornering the Jew (2:25-29). Having shown the Jew that he, equally with the Gentile, is a sinner, the apostle now seeks to drive the Jew from his confi- dence in those: things—ceremonialism and Mosaism—in which he had taken refuge. All the privileges of whcih the Jew has boasted and which the apostle has admitted, while valid, may be of no saving value. To have the name of a “Jew,”’to have submit- ted to the rite of “circumcision,” may have been something from a national point of view, but such things had no spiritual value in themselves, Outward profession alone does not count for either Jew or Gentile. Before these names can count, a Jew must be a real Jew (2:28, 29), and a Gentile, a teal Christian (Romans 10:9; 6:17). The racial seal and the spiritual reality are sep- arable. The Jew may be a Gentile, and cir- cumcision may become uncircumcision. The Jew must not confound these things. If the aim of circumcision was uprightness, and if the Gentile exhibited a more upright character than the Jew, then was not the Gentile a better man than the Jew, even though he did not have the religious name or rite? Reality Needed. We are not to mistake the signs of membership in the church, our denomina- tional name, and our having submitted to a church rite or sacrament for real Chris- tian living any more than the name “Jew” or the rite of circumcision for a real Jew. These signs really prove nothing in themselves considered. A religious rite and Christian name are worthless unless at- tended by a corresponding Christian life. These things are no substitute or atone- ment for wrong living, but rather an aggravation of the same. Those who make no claim to such a name or may be more acceptable to God than those who do. Bullion is gold, even though it have no government stamp upon ceremonial 131 it, but base metal is not gold, even though it be so stamped. The terms “Jew” and “circumcision” are nothing more than signs, just as $ and £ are monetary sym- bols. These are not money, but. simply money signs. One may have a million of these signs and yet not be worth a cent or a farthing. (¢) The apostle takes up’ certain ob- jections to the arguments he has made, aid to the conclusion drawn therefrom, and answers these objections (3:1-8). The objections may be looked upon in a threefold manner: First. What advantage was there in being a Jew and forming a part of a great religious organism, seeing that the bless- ings of the covenants made with these people were ‘of altogether a spiritual nature? Second. Circumstances and history seem to show that, while the Jews were the recipients of a divine revelation from God, yet the overwhelming majority of these people did not accept by faith this divine revelation, Inasmuch, therefore, as_ its benefits were conferred by spiritual rather than national means, of what advantage was it to be a Jew? Third, If the sin of man can only really bring God's righteousness into clearer light, where, then, lies the righteousness of God in punishing man for the committal of that which contributes only to God’s glory? The Jew Answered. The apostle seems to sum up his answer to these questions in one bold affirmation: “Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God” (3:2). By the word “oracles” is doubtless meant the revelation of God's will as contained in the Old Testament. Primarily, this word doubtless had referred to the most holy place in the Tabernacle, where the high priest ascertained the mind of God. It also designates the revelation of the mind of God, the Law, given at Sinai. It was the wonderful honor and privilege of the Jew that to him had been committed132 the revelation of the will of God. He had not kept it, however. He had been un- faithful to the trust. The failure lay, not with God, but with the Jew himself. There doubtless were many “advantages” which the Jew had, and there was “much every way” in which he was honored above other nations, but in this “chiefly” that he was the depository of God’s revealed truth, and for this he should never cease to be grateful. But even though the Jew was unfaithful, God had remained faithful. He could not do or be otherwise, for God is unchange- able. Even the unfaithfulness of men only brings the faithfulness of God’s character into greater prominence (3:3, 4). God will make the wrath of men to praise Him, and so it will be seen at last that even the sin of man will work out to the glory of God Just how, we may not be able to determine or explain, but there is no unrighteousness with God because He punishes sin, even though sin itself will finally be made to redound to. His glory. The thought of un- righteousness with God is abhorrent to the apostle, for how could God then judge the world? Note the set things that belong to God in 311-7, “The oracles of God” (3:2); “The righteousness of God” (3:5); “The judg- ment of God” (3:6); “The truth of God” (3:7) ; “The glory of God” (3:7). 3. The whole world, Jew and Gentile, mers before God and under the divine wrath (3:9-20; ef. 5:12-21, which is really « continuation from 3:23). 5G) THE KING’S BUSINESS Having established the guilt of the Jew and the Gentile independently, he now sums up these two classes as representing all mankind, and declares them all to be equally sinners before God. In these verses (3:10-18) thirteen indictments are bronght against mankind, This is not a very flattering picture of the human race. It is an untouched negative rather than a finished picture, and yet it is absolutely accurate and true to life. The experience of the race, as well as the five Old Testa- ment quotations referred to, corroborate the truth of the apostle’s indictment. In the day of reckoning we shall find the charges proven (Jude 14, 15; Revelation 20:14, 15). How about the so-called divinity of human nature so much spoken of today? Summing-up of the Section. The whole of this section (1:18-3:20) shows that the whole race of mankind is guilty and lost because of sin (3:19, 20). The law, by which some try to be saved, only aggravates and emphasizes sin. Con- sequently there is no salvation by law. All that the Jaw can do is to make one feel more deeply the consciousness of guilt and sin. Nor can any man stand before his conscience and feel guiltless. Before the judgment bar of God, the whole race stands guilty, sinful, speechless. + Humanity, whether with or without law, is a total failure. The picture presented to us here is that of humanity in utter darkness, and speechless. “This blackness and darkness, as we shall see in our next section, is but a background for the glorious light of re- demption to stand out in bolder relief. aEV. wy Ts ANGELISTIC DEPARTMENT REVIEW OF THE MONTH'S ACTIVITIES By Bible Institute Workers WORK IN PACIFIC COAST HARBORS Oscar Zimmermann, Supt. AG AIN we can look back upon a blessed time in the work at San Pedro as well as at San Francis us; friends are heing have udy been given arrived boarded by the He found an officer in and who was afely was worker s e convicted of cept Christ As many others have done, this He was presented Group of South Sea Islanders reaching out for the many we are trying to serve with the Bread of Life, We rejoice greatly in the fellowship of a goodly num- er of His people in several churches around San Francisco Bay and the Semi- nary, and pray that many more may catch the vision of the ripened field, God is answering prayer for us daily. In San Pedro a little while ago a vessel, marked by the black paint of the war zone, man has gone out of our sight. God alone knows his every step, and we are sure His Spirit will follow this man, as it will every other one who believes in Him. No doubt many who through the years have been reached with the Gospel have met death iterwards either in the war or in disasters at sea; yet ours is the privilege of present- ing the message of life, and some day we will rejoice with those to whom we have134 THE. been permitted to minister in the changing scenes of this life. A very blessed experience was that of holding the first service, and organizing a Bible Class, with the Marshall Island men whom we mentioned in our last report. this being Chapter 2 of the story which was begun when we first met them in Los Angeles Harbor in 1915. All sixteen men were present, each with his Bible, and hay- ing been provided by the captain with the best room on the vessel. God gave great liberty in speaking and everywhere eager hearts listened to the old, old story now being told to these sixteen children of the South Sea Islands. The 3rd of John was read responsively, the men reading from their Bibles in their own language. John 3:16 was chosen as the text and made as plain.as possible. God moyed the hearts of five men, who professed to accept Christ, so that, together with the head man and two others who already were Christians, KING'S BUSINESS half of the class are now Christians. We meet every Friday night, and not a man misses the class, “The cook stops peel- ing potatoes. the others washing dishes. or other work, and splendid interest is shown in the lessons. Being given John 3:16 to memorize. all of them learned the verse by heart during the week. To hear those men sing the Gospel hymns in their own language is a great inspiration. God is working. Will you not pray that all may come to know Him, and to know more of His Word? Many passengers on vessels outward bound from San Francisco are causing us to pray that we may find the best way to reach them, Many hundred Chinese and Japanese are being supplied with the Scrip- Often one steps up and tures and tracts. thanks us kindly for helping his country- men to carry the Scriptures with them as they return to the Orient. sp WORK IN THE OIL FIELDS By Frank J, Shelley 7 HE past month we have done a great deal of work in the Bakersfield Oil Fields, and in the vicinity of Lost Hills. After about eight months in these fields we are of the opinion that there is no work so much needed as house-to-howse visita tion and personal work on the leases, Oil men and their families are not people who have the “go-to-church” habit, It is at times impossible to get them out. This being so, the only way to do is to carry the Gospel to them. : We have found all through the fields an intense effort being put forth by the Chris- tian Science cult, and it is sad to run across people at one time Baptists, Methodists or Presbyterians, who have been fed away with this error of the wicked. Every true man of God should make it his business to preach a message from 2 Peter 3:17, for the exhortation is needed today as never before. God has allowed the writer to reach five or six tvho had departed from the faith and become ensnared with the belief that they would find something in Christian Science which they did not find in the church of Christ. We have some fine Bible classes at Lost Hills and Reward, and a goodly. interest is being aroused in the truth. These are the results of personal work from house to house and on the leases. A minister said to the writer the other day: “I cannot reach’ the people; they will not come out to chureh, but you people have the right idea; carry the Gospel to them.”THE KING'S BUSINESS We have given the way of life to hun- dreds of people in their homes, and so many, many times have opened the Bible and shown them the truth. This report is being written in the home of an oil man who was won to the Lord through a per- sonal visit. There is no question but that this is one of the best means we have to spreading the saving truth of Christ. While giving out the Word at Monarch Hill, near Maricopa, an old pumper passed away, and we conducted a little service at the home and cemetery. He was a believer in the Lord, and when he knew he was going, gave testimony to God’s grace and 135 faithfulness. There was no minister in the field, and we were thankful for the oppor- tunity of presenting the Gospel to the many oil workers who came out. Have travelled probably 350 miles during the month, over very bad roads, but we make the trips with a thankful heart, feel- ing that we are carrying the Light to many who sit in darkness, and we know that we our Heavenly Father about can trust results. ‘The Lord help us to be faithful to Him. Please pray for us and the great fields out here. > WORK AMONG THE JEWS James A. Vaus, Supt. ‘OD'S seal of approval has been on the work of our “Mission Home” from the first day it was opened. His blessing is manifest in every branch of the work. Our Children’s Department is progressing favorably. Though the increase in num- bers has heen slow, the attendance has been very regular, This is remarkable when one considers that we are located in the heart of the Jewish district, where opposition is strong. Prizes are offered the children for new scholars. memorizing Scripture verses and for regular attendance. Interest in these contests is very keen, as evidenced by the fact that absence from class is a rare occurrence, and every child has memorized all the Scripture verses used in the con- tests thus far. In these classes the Mes- sianie passages and great doctrines of the Bible are taught in a simple way from the Old Testament. The Bible Class for Jewish mothers, which meets every Tuesday, is growing rapidly. There has long been a need for just such a class as this, where Jewish women, who as a rule know very little concerning the Scripture, can be taught. Already there are fifteen members in the class, eleven of whom are converts to our work. ‘We are praying for and expect to see conversions to Christianity at a very early date. For a long time it has been our desire to have meetings for the benefit of the con- verts, and for other Jewish men who are terested. We have felt that there is need of such a meeting for fellowship and encouragement, and to present the united testimony of a company of Hebrew Chris- tians to the unconverted Jews of our city. The opening of the Mission Home enabled us to begin such meetings, and the first one of this kind held in the home is now history. On a recent Sunday after- noon we invited a large number of Hebrew Christians and other Jewish friends to meet with us there for mutual fellowship and spiritual profit. A goodly number responded to the invitation. One of the very pleasing as well as very profitable features of the afternoon's program, was a violin sdlo with piano accompaniment by one of the Hebrew Christians present. He played, with great depth of feeling, that beautiful selection entitled “Kol ra,” which the Jews chant136 in their synagogues on “Yom Kippur” (the Jewish Day of Atonement). That wonder- ful piece of music seems to embody all the hopeless sorrow of the “Nation,” as well as a message of impending judgment, and never fails to stir in the heart of a Jew a sens¢ of sin and need of atonement. Immediately following this selection, and in marked contrast to it, the violinist recited “There Is a Green Hill Far Away.” Many of those present were moved to tears by the heartfelt rendering of that beautiful hymn, Unique testimonies by Hebrew Christians present, and a heart- to-heart talk by Rev. T. C. Horton com- pleted what was said by many present to be ‘one of the most enjoyable meetings they ever attended. a number of THE KING’S BUSINESS We believe the unconverted Jews there received a message that will result in the conyersion of some of them. At the close of the meeting one of the workers spoke to a Jewess present and asked her what she now thought about Jesus Christ. She replied to the effect that her last doubt was swept away, and that during the meeting she had opened her heart to the Messiah- Jesus and received Him as her Saviour, The next Tuesday. full of the joy of the Lord, she was present at the Mothers’ Class and gave her testimony. In addition to the conversion of this Jewess, three others, two Jewish women and one Jewish man, have received Jesus as Lord and Saviour, and have already made public con- fession of their faith in Him. Estancia sence WORK IN THE SHOPS David Cant, Supt. HE bilessedness of sowing the good seed beside all waters, has been won- derfully brought home to our hearts during the past month, as day by day, shops, car- barns, engine houses, laundries, street meet- ings, churches and even one of Uncle Sam's big battleships, have been visited, each and every one bringing some measure of cheer, encouragement and fruit to the heart of the Saviour and sower alike. Our hearts are full, our cup running over. Oh, that men would praise the Lord for His goodness and His wonderful works to the children of men! We hardly know where to begin to tell of some of these refreshing streams of grace. Two weeks ago we were conduct- ing a meeting in one of our city churches, taking for our subject. “The Judgment Seat of Christ.” When the invitation was given, for all who would yield and ¢ them- selves to the Lord Jesus, there was a general uprising, and between thirty-five and forty splendid young men and women left their seats and knelt in front. There had been no urging or undue pressing, but it seemed as though God just swept the speaker aside while the presence and power of the Holy Spirit was manifested. Many were in tears, mothers and their boys clung to each other, and eried for very joy. The girls were broken down, and the prayers and confessions were from the very heart. There was one splendid young man, sur- rounded with loving friends and relatives, who kept praying and pleading with God to save him. Somehow or other he couldn't get light) We found he was waiting for feeling and peace, It certainly was blessed to tell him that he had just to take God at His word, and by believing on the Lord Jesus Christ, be saved. We knelt together and in his own words he told the Lord he knew He died for his sins, and that he would then and there receive Jesus as his own personal Saviour and Lord. JustTHE KING’S BUSINESS then someone started that dear old hymn, “Happy Day, When Jesus Washed My Sins Away,” and in a few minutes the great, choking sobs came, and looking through his tears with eyes shining, he grasped my hand. “Well, how about those feelings now?” we asked. “Oh, I’ve been putting feelings before facts, but now I know, on the testimony of God's Word, that I'm saved, and I feel happy because of that grand fact.” "Believe, and the feeling may come or may go, Believe in the Word that was written to show That all who believe their salvation may know; 137 Believe, and keep right on believing,” We were telling this experience the fol- lowing week in one of our meetings, and at the close two men stepped up and told us that was just their difficulty: It cer- tainly was an added joy to be able to tell them that faith in Christ alone can save, and to hear from the lips of these men their faith in His finished work. May I just add, by way of encourage- ment to those who have taken this shop work upon their hearts, that God is most graciously hearing and answering prayer on our behalf, and that from all these shops and barns we are gathering out, one by one, those who believe and receive. poe WORK OF THE BIBLE WOMEN Mrs, T. C. Horton, Supt. ERE is a wonderful story of one fam- ily: Perhaps ten years ago, a young girl whose heart God had touched, was used by Him to reclaim one of His dear children who had wandered far away, and who was the mother of two little boys—her husband an unbeliever. A year ago, one of our Bible Women renewed the acquaintance of the mother, at a time of peculiarly sore and heavy trial, longing to bring comfort and help if possible, The family had lost everything by fire, and they now had no Bible. The Bible Woman brought a Sco- field Bible and continued her visit to the home. One Sabbath afternoon the husband’s mother, a backslider, came back to the Lord, and the two little boys above men- tioned—now in their teens—accepted Christ. Then the Bible Woman was given a Bible class in the neighborhood, which the mother of the two boys began to attend. Soon she brought a sister-in-law. The Bible was unintelligible to her, she said, and she could see no use in attending the class as shesdidn’t get anything out of it. But the sister kept praying and inviting her to come, and the Bible Woman visited her and tried to make things plain. She would not accept Christ at first, though she really wanted to be saved, for she was under-deep conviction, Finally, however, she accepted Christ and confessed Him in the class, but there was no joy, only a very little more light. She did begin to see some things in His Word, however. Then vacation came. When the class was resumed in the fall, she wasn't there, and not until after several weeks did she come back, but as soon as we saw her we knew there had been a change. She had been reading the Word. Another Bible Woman had prayer with her, and now her testimony for Christ was out- spoken and clear. She was anxious now for the conversion of her husband, so the Bible Woman went to their home one even- ing to talk with him. God opened his heart and he received Jesus Christ as his Saviour and Lord. Next week he phoned the good news to his sister—the backslider of ten years before—and the following Sab- bath morning, around the breakfast table, he and his wife led a younger brother and his chum to Christ.138 Being concerned for an‘ older brother, they invited both brothers with this friend, who was now a believer, to take dinner with them the following Thursday evening. and arranged with the Bible Woman to come and give a chart talk, inviting the sister's family also. Would you could have seen the picture in that home! On the wall a large dispen- sational chart; the three brothers, one indif- ferent to Christ but mightily interested nevertheless, held against his will to listen to things he would not talk about; the younger brother, man grown, with the new joy-light in his face, witnessed by a good confession with his lips; the brother. who was the host, so eager to know more about the wonderful Book which he was just beginning to understand. and so éoncerned for the two men in the room who were out of Christ; then the sister and her hushand with their four children, and the sister-in- law, the hostess, once so self-centered (as she said), caring only for self. but now beginning already to think of others, with a real passion in her heart for loved ones out of Christ, It would be hard to tell just what all was said, but the new convert. the host. was full of questions. and God used them to bring out the difficulties of a,man's heart, for the others in the room who would not speak. Then we prayed, each one who knew Christ. Prayers so simple and so sweet. THE KING'S BUSINESS The host thanked God for giving him a home where he could ask his relations and the Bible Woman to come and learn about the Bible, and he trusted it would not be the last time they would meet like this. After the prayer they gathered around the unsayed brother-in-law and urged him, too, to accept Christ. It was beautiful to see their earnestness and how they gave him Scripture for the step they urged him to take, But he was not ready to yield, and not until the next night. as we learned afterward, did he accept. Then with his wife, in their own home, as they knelt together, he too was saved. A week later there was another family gathering in the same home. This time the dear old mother was there, and she saw a third son accept Christ and enter into the joy and assurance that comes to those who accept and believe God's Word about His Son. The young man with his wife was there. She had ten years before come out of Catholicism into an assured faith in Jesus. and had of late been praying for her husband. She had attended the Bible class a few times and had found help. It was almost eleven o'clock when the goodbyes were said, but there was praise in every heart, and most of all in the heart of the dear old saint of God, the old mother, who had watched and prayed so long for her dear children,’ Altogether, there are eleven members of this family who have become Christians. <6 THE NEGLECTED FIELDS Geo. P. Wicker, Evangelist ELOW I am giving you a synopsis of the work accomplished in the field from May 11 to November 11: Meetings con- ducted, 71; families visited, 300; attendance at our meetings, 1508; professed conver- sion, 35; tracts given out, 3500; Gospels given out, 121; colportage books and Testa- ments, 120; organized Sunday schools, 6; miles traveled, 4000, In addition to the above we organized an executive board, made up of one man from each evangelical denomination in Mendocino county, and formed an interdenominational work, raised the money, and placed a worker in that county. Also raised money for a worker's half-time in Lake county, and saw the preachers of Colusa tounty, who agreed to co-operate in raising theTHE KING'S BUSINESS money to take care of the worker's half- time in Colusa county (which I am now doing at this date). I might add that the worker .in Mendocino county, Herbert Grings, has, in four weeks, visited 116 families, dealt personally with 120 people about their souls’ salvation, had eighteen professed conversions, gave out 771 tracts 139 . and forty-one Gospels, besides Testaments, colportage books. etc. We expect to be ready for a worker for Lake and Colusa counties very soon. The real work that has been done cannot be put into figures, Many lives have been transformed, many given the assurance of salvation, and many awakened to their responsibility to God. > THE EXTENSION DEPARTMENT Geo. W. Hunter, Representative HE work of the Seattle auxiliary of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles has developed steadily until now, at the close of the first term, we have it well defined and in shape for the opening “of the next semester. Interest in the work has grown each month, and we are endeavoring. as fast as possible, to dispel the idea that it is a denominational school, this having been something of a handicap. ‘The book sales are growing. We are con- cerned rather with getting good Bible study literature into the hands of the people than with the financial returns. Mr. Blake, the manager, is also having a goodly measure ‘of success in introducing Tue Kinc’s Business among the people along with the excellent books which the Biola Book Room has supplied. Seed-sowing time is always precious to the farmer in anticipation of the reaping later. Seed-sowing time for the Christian is often a time of joy because of the immediate results. This has been true of our work here, and we expect to witness a bountiful harvest ere long, especially in students for the Bible Institute of Los Angeles. The condition here is much the same as elsewhere; the people in the churches have a negative desire to know what the Bible teaches, but it is our prayer and expecta~ tion’ that this negative shall become posi- tive, for only so can it become of practical benefit to others. A Bible Conference of over a week was held recently at Kittitas Community church, about 125 miles east of here over the mountains toward Spokane. Your Tepresentative was sent to attend this con- ference, and we have recived an enthu- siastic letter of appreciation from them regarding the work done there. This con- ference has opened the way for another at Ellensburg, the churches there uniting for the work. Will the praying readers of Tx Kinc’s Business remember this, as open- ings of this kind are the greatest oppor- tunities we have for making known the work of the Bible Institute? An invitation has been accepted from the Christian Endeavor News (the official organ of the State Christian Endeavor Society), to prepare a series of Bible-study articles for that paper, to cover a period of some months, and this we welcome as another open door. With the opening of the new term, the Prospects are good for-developing a deeper interest in Bible knowledge, in the minds and hearts of the people, and we look for a long step in advance of the past three months. AT SAN QUENTIN WEING. of San Quentin prison, Loren S. Hanna, who is carrying on the work there, says: “To be on business for the King is great140 THE business, especially when we have such a King. He looks after the results, Himself. In San Quentin, God is blessing the teach- ing of the Word in a remarkable way. J. S. has been an inhabitant most of his life; two weeks ago, at the close of the Bible class, he made public his acceptance of the Lord Jesus Christ. to the consider- able surprise of all who knew him, and to the surprise of any who had seen his face— it was the face of a habitual criminal, But in the days that have passed, God has already begun His work of softening where there had been a hardness, and of sweetening where there had been sourness, and of making joy to abound in a heart that had never before known joy. J. S. is now KING’S BUSINESS doing personal work among his fellow prisoners “One man who will be leaving the prison walls in about three months has dedicated his life and his talents, which had belonged to Satan, to Christ. and is ready to prepare for a life of special setvice to Him. “On Thanksgiving evening I hope to be locked up in a cell. It is a cell that con- tains about twenty prisoners, but we shall doubtlessly have 125 men packed into this room, face to face with the issue of their lives. May God use the speaker and the occasion for the salvation of men. I am” sure that the Bible Institute folk. will be praying for their representative that even- ing.” ea SUNDAY SCHOOL MISSIONARY F, STEAD, Sunday-school missionary in the northern part of California, writes thus from Placerville: “Many of the young people have given their hearts to our Lord Jesus. In one district recently where I organized a Sunday school eleven ‘boys and girls stepped over the border line into the joy of surrender to Him. This district had been without a Sunday school for over twenty years. Two weeks ago I organized where there had never been a Sunday school and many of the children had never attended one. The people came from all over the countryside, one family driving eight miles. In the evening I preached and organized another union Sun- day school in an abandoned church, where there had not been a preaching service for three or four years. “I have been very busy, having seven counties in my field, with vast regions as yet untouched, but I am happy when there is lots of hard work to do. What has appealed to me so strongly of late has been the way in which my Lord has taken care of the little details, and so helped me on the way—rides when I needed them most. hospitable homes when darkness had over- taken me, and many other little things which very clearly did not ‘just happen so.” “Hearts are hungry for the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ in this great hill country, and what a joy it is to hold up the cross before them. The long trips in the storms of winter or heat of summer, over the lonely mountain roads and trails, many times going all day without food, all are forgotten when in some little schoolhouse, tucked away among the giant pines, young lives surrender themselves to my Lord.”FOR THE SERMON, BIBLE READING, GOSPEL ADDRESS é Homiletical Helps |; By WILLIAM EVANS Practical Counsel for Ministérs On Your Delivery HE best matter in the world will be ineffective if the method of delivery is poor and halting. and it seems wise, there- fore, to give a few hints as to the best way of giving utterance to your message, so that your manner may not hinder the thought- ful and reverent reception of your matter. Stand naturally before the people. Do not stand on one foot, but on both. Do not loll or lean on the pulpit or desk, but stand. quietly in front of it. Do not run, walk, or move from side to side; and if you step back for a moment, retutn as soon as possible to your former position. Some preachers remind one of caged ani- mals, who are always pacing to and fro, contending with the bars of their cage, and producing in the spectators the weary sense of restlessness, This is not well, and should be altered. Who that ever heard John Bright, Mr. Gladstone, or Mr. Sprague, can remember any such excessive activity? This habit distracts the atten- tion of the audience, and has nothing to commend it. Look at your hearers, The eye possesses a wonderful power of fascination. It speaks; it fixes the attention of your con- gregation; it interprets to the speaker instructively and immediately the emotions which his words are exciting. Open eye metes open eye; and by the glance the thought is kindled, and kindles the soul. Don't look up, as though to look where angels are must necessarily give you an angelic expression. Don’t look down, as though you were ashamed. Don't look into faraway space, or your features will become expressionless. Look at your people, hon- estly, manfully, straightforwardly, and glance from one to another naturally, I am not at all sure that I admire that far- away look in the eyes, in which I am told that some ministers excel. Speak naturally, You can fill the largest ing with a very thin voice, if you observe these three conditions: Speak deliberately ; articulate distinctly, especially the final consonants; and let your voice come, as far as possible, from the chest. A little practice will enable you to bring your voice down from the throat to the chest, and the notes which the chest gives are much deeper, mbre reverberant, and more touching than afy others. ,. Whatever you do, dom Pgultivate a pul- pit voice, which is wholly Wetestable; don't imitate another preacher, however famous; and don’t play always on one poor note. How well I remember Mr. Spurgeon speak- ing to us students years ago on this bad practice, and parodying the hymn: “Strange that a harp of a thousand strings Should play one note so long.” Who ever heard of a lawyer suffering from a lawyer’s throat, or a barrister from a barrister’s throat. Men, in other pro- fessions, are perpetually using their voices as continuously as ministers and preachers do, but no ill effects follow. And they would not follow in the case of these, if we spoke naturally, using the entire range of the voice, and allowing our hearers the142 THE KING'S BUSINESS infinite relief of variety. I have often noticed the quiet which has fallen upon my audience, when I have suddenly awoke to realize that I had been speaking too much in one key, and have suddenly fallen or risen to another, Their cars, nerves, and brains, have blessed me. Do not shout or bawl; it is most objec- tionable and absolutely unnecessary. Per- spiration is not inspiration. God was not in the thunder, but in the still, small voice. When Jesus taught the people, He opened. His mouth and breathed to the bottom of his lungs the good fresh air, but he would speak in the soft sweet tones, that befitted his enumeration of Beatitudes, and his call to rest. On the other hand, don’t whisper, or drop your voice, or begin so low that people must strain to hear you. These are mannerisms and affeetations. which will greatly detract from the effect of your preaching. Believe me, that all friction is loss of power, Our delivery should be as devoid of tricks as possible, and resemble the perfect taste of a well-dressed woman in whose costume there is nothing that especially excites attention, because all is so harmonious, suitable and becoming. Guard against eccentricity, Whatever attracts the attention of your hearers from your message to yourself is a mistake. Don't run your hand through your hair, though I believe geniuses have been known to do it, Don't shake or nod your head, tliough it gives the impression of senten- tiousness. Don't play with a button of your waistcoat, or put your hand in your pockets. Don't flash a gold ring in the light. Be ashamed of yourself, and con- fess your sin, if you strike the attitude that best sets off your figure. Get your wife to imitate your peculiarities of delivery, when you get home, and you will be shocked at what you have done; or if you haven't a wife, get some fatherly old deacon to hold a mirror up to Nature, so that you may see yourself as others see you. Ab, how I have suffered from these loving hints, and how they have cauterized my soul; but I would not have been with- out them for a good deal. Yes, dear critics, go on with your snapshots, they do us a world of good. and prevent us from being exalted beyond measure. It may be that the criticisms levelled at the apostle’s “contemptible” appearance and speech were closely associated with his “thorn in the flesh.” Avoid excessive gestieulation, By all means, let there be some movement of the hands and face, and of the position of the hod But these should not be excessive. It is a mistake to lift the hands above the head. or far above the level of the shoulder. It is equally a mistake to swing them round like the sails of a windmill, or fling them backwards and Sgdjj¥fds like a flail. They may hang by your side, or rest on the book- board or rail, or be extended in entreaty, or raised in warning, or one of them may be used to strengthen the point you are enforcing with a confirmatory gesture. But don’t pound at the Bible, or strike the balustrade or railing. or wring your hands in agony, or perform with them the act which you are describing. T have always found that when I have been most noisy and excited in the pulpit, I have been least impressive, and have produced, the slightest result. I believe that my excitement has been due partly to nerv- ous weariness, and partly to the lack of preparation. When our thoughts have not been fully digested beforehand, and our expression is therefore difficult, we are apt to attempt to compensate for the lack of expression by the superabundance of excited physical movements. We shout, throw ourselves hither and thither, resort to all kinds of mannerisms and antics to Produce that sense of power and emphasis of which we know our, thoughts are deficient, and which would have been. ours if we had waited quietly in the Presence of God until we had been endued with power from on high. “Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith the Lord.” I have often thought of the old rhyme,THE KING'S BUSINESS which has come down through two or three generations of preachers: “Begin low, proceed slow, Rise higher, take fire, When most impressed, Be self-possessed.” Some men have naturally an easy, unaf- fected address. Others suffer from a diffi- dence which creates mannerisms and awk- wardness. It is, of course, best to thinle 143 as little as possible about our peculiarities, lest we lessen the simplicity and directness of our message. At the same time, we should endeavor to prune away eccentrici- ties, and remove blemishes, that we may become as panes of clear glass through which the light of the gospel may, as easily as possible, visit those that sit in darkness and the shadow of death—Copyright by Rev. F. B. Meyer, B. A. SERMON OUTLINES Theme: Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones. Text: Ezekiel 37, Intropuction. God is, in this incident, preparing His servant, the prophet, for service. Read the chapter over carefully and get the details of the yision in mind. 1. A Winged Inteltigence—The face of a Man—Reason. I. A Winged Courage—The Face of a Lion. MI. A Winged Patience—The Face of an Ox. IV. A Winged Aspiration—The Face of an Eagle. V. A Winged Fellowship—All’ Wings Joined Together. —A. C. Dixon. N Theme: Fighting God’s Battles. Text: 1 Samuel 17 :38-49, IntRopuction. An exceedingly interesting and well- known story. A type of our conflict with the powers of sin—those giants of evil, There is danger of overlooking this aspect of the story. I. The Warriors. 1. Goliath—One of the Anakim; a Phillistine; type of the world. Over nine feet tall and fully armored, Goliath may represent sin and its power. There are giant evils stalking in the land today with great power and might, such as intemperance, infidelity, and immorality, which defy the forces of Christianity. David—A picture or type of the Christian. (a) In his character—Not perfect, but sincere and whole-hearted,. satisfied with God. (b) In his qualifications, which were human, but under the power and control of God. In his method of fighting—A pattern for the Christian in his conflicts. II. The Weapons or Armor. David did not neglect his sling, even though he trusted in God. Legitimate aids are useful. Though we must not put our trust in them, we should not throw them away, 1. The weapons were suited ‘to each man’s needs and ability, The folly of Saul is evidenced by his trying to persuade David to handle another man’s weapons. We must serve God and fight His battles in our way. 2, The weapons were not worldly or carnal. Goliath trusted in his weapons of steel. It is to be noted that David did not mention even his sling, and deliberately refused Saul’s armor. Faith in God is the most important thing in our conflicts with sin and Satan, nw (ce)144 Theme: David ond Jonathan—Friend- 4 Text: I Samuel 20:11-23. InTRODUCTION. View this narrative not. merely in its historical, but also in its typical and spirit- ual relationship. We are justified in so treating this lesson (cf. Romans 15:4; 4:23-25), I. Jonathan Himself—A Type of the Believer Who Is a Friend of Christ. 1, He was a man of faith in God. There is no true friendship with- out God. If a man is not true to God. he will not be true to man. We love because God first loved us. 2. He took his stand by the side of righteousness, and identified him- self with the promise of the kingdom of David. He rejoiced not in inquity, but rejoiced with the truth. He took the side of David rather than that of his father, because David was right and his father was wrong. This is the mark of the Christian who loves righteous- ness, and hates iniquity, and who does not condone sin even in those dearest to him, 3. He went with David “without the camp.” He went, as it were, into exile with David. Up to what point do we follow Christ? Do we “go without the camp bearing His reproach?” “If we suffer, “we shall also reign with Him.” II, Jonathan in Relation to David. 1. He had a private meeting with him, ‘As friends together they met in the field alone. Do we Chris- tians likewise meet with God? Jacob, Paul, Peter did; do we? Do we know the secret of His Presence? Do we know what it is to be alone with Him? | THE KING'S BUSINESS 2, He made a covenant with David. Jonathan made a promise to David. He vowed something and kept it. So should the Christian commit himself defi- nitely to God on the ground of his friendship with Christ. Are there any broken vows in our lives? 3. He acknowledged the permanent supremacy of David's kingship. As the thief on the cross recog- nized the kingship of Christ even in humiliation, so does Jonathan in the case of David. We see not yet our Lord as King, but we should act in the faith that He is. 4. He made a pledge of fidelity and surrender to his will—Obedience Such obedience to David’s will involved peril and sacrifice. So should the Christian pledge simi- lar obedience. The Good Shepherd. John 10 :1-18, Intropuction. There are two parts to the story: First, the parable (vers. 1-6) ; second, the explan- ation (vers. 7-18), which explains what is the door and the Good Shepherd. i. The Fold. 1, What is meant by the fold? Shall we say the Christian life, or the communion of saints? 2. How to get into the fold. Christ alone is the Door. Beware of false prophets, who present other ways of entrance. Jesus Christ is the only Way. Christ is not a method, but the only * means of salvation. 3. What it offers. “Shall go in and out and find -pasture,” which means salvation, security, freedom, satisfaction.THE KING'S ‘BUSINESS II. The Sheep. 1. Who are the sheep? Men (Ezekiel 34:31). 2. Why so called? Speaking of the unregenerate, because likely to wander (Isaiah 53:6) ; constantly open to attack; need shepherding. Speaking of the regenerate, because they know, hear, and obey the Shep- herd's voice. 3. Where are His sheep? In many folds. No one denomi- nation is big enough to hold them all. II. The Shepherd. 1. Who is the Shepherd? (a) Christ is the Good Shepherd in His death (John 10:18), the 145 Great Shepherd in His resur- rection (Hebrews 13:20), and the Chief Shepherd in His second coming (1 Peter 5:4). Ministers and Christian, work- ers may be likened to shep- (b) herds (John 21:15-17; Acts 20:28). > 2. Characteristics of Christ as Shep- herd. (a) He is good, indicating ideal. (>) He is self-sacrificing, giving His life. 3. The relation between the Shepherd and the sheep. (a) The Shepherd seeks the sheep when they go astray. (b) He knows His sheep. (c) He leads them. (d) Gives them abundant life. BIBLE READINGS Christians Are to be crucified with Christ (Galatians Are to be dead with Christ (Colossians 2:20). Are to be buried with Christ (Colossians 2:12). Are to be risen with Christ (Colossians 3:1). Are to be hidden with Christ (Colossians 3:3). Are to be baptized unto His death (Romans 6:3). Are to be planted—in death (Romans 6:5). Are to be sanctified with Christ (John 17:19; Hebrews 2:11). Are to be glorified with Christ (Romans 8:17; John 17:22). Are to be complete in Christ (Colossians 2:10; 4:12). Are to enter into rest with Christ (He- brews 4:3). Are to suffer with Christ (I Peter Romans 8:17). 4:13; —S. R. Briggs. God's Thoughts Higher than your thoughts (Isaiah 55:9). Thoughts of peace and not evil (Jeremiah 29:11). Very deep (Psalm 92:5). Precious unto me (Psalm 139:17). Cannot be reckoned up (Psalm 40:5). More than can be numbered (Psalm 40:5). Prayer—Think upon me, my God (Nehe- miah 5:19). Assurance—The Lord thinketh upon me (Psalm 40:17), —S. R. Briggs. God's Presence (Exodus 33:14) The secret of— . 1. Wisdom in daily life (I Samuel 16:18; 18:14). 2. Power for testimony (I Samuel 3:19; Jeremiah 1:8). 3. Strength in suffering (Genesis 39:2: Psalm 91:15; Isaiah 43:2; 2 Timothy 4:17). Lo, I am with you alway (Matthew - 28:20). —S. R. Briggs,i 146 THE KING'S BUSINESS ILLUSTRATIVE AND OTHERWISE Earthly and Heavenly Treasure (Matthew 6:19) The treasures of earth are evanescent. The lawful possession of earthly treasures is no sin. Lay up treasures in heaven, decause its bank is strong in its inde- pendence. The omniscience of the Banker is the very best security, because this bank can never be broken into. It is the only bank that can keep you at death. You can. not well trade with English money in France; you must change it’ into French money, No earthly bank can change coin to ferry you across Jordan. Bank not with evil any longer. The religion of Mohammed admits of no progress. Progress implies change, and to change concedes the incomplete. The result is that the Moslem faith remains the same through all the centuries. Not only this, but all that it touches becomes as conserva- tive as itself. War is where it was in the days of the Prophet. The awful massacres now going on in Turkey are only old times brought down to the present. And yet there are those who place Jesus and Mohammed in the same class. ‘Contentment and Covetousness Contentment turns want into wealth. Covetousness is a canker, which eats into the richest robes and the most costly treas- ures. Contentment is the philosopher's stone, which turns all it toucheth into gold. The poor man is rich with it, and the rich man is poor without it. He has most who coveteh least He that knows not, and knows not that he, knows not, is a fool—shun him. He that knqws not, and knows that he knows not, is simple—teach him. He that knows, and knows not that he knows, is asleep— wake him. He that knows, and knows that he knows, is wise—follow him.—Arabian Proverb. Threefold Purpose of Preaching Prove, i.e. appeal to the reason. Paint, ic. appeal to the imagination. Persuade. ie. appeal to the affections, —Dr. Guthrie. Cure for Loneliness A poor woman living alone in the middle of a dense forest, in a small cottage, was once asked if she did not feel the loneli- ness very much. “Oh, no!” was the reply, “for Faith closes the door every night, and Mercy opens it every morning.” Doubt and Unbelief Christ never failed to distinguish between doubt and unbelief, Doubt is “can’t believe ;” unbelief is “won't believe.” Doubt is honesty; unbelief is obstinacy. Doubt is looking for the light; but unbelief is content with darkness. What Is Character? The original word for character signi- fies, “I engrave on the marble.” Character is what we are; not what we do, nor what we say; that is profession. Character is what we are; not what we seem—that is appearance ; not what people think we are— that is reputation. “Therefore, O Lord, I will not fail, nor falter, Nay, but I ask it, nay, but I desire, Lay on my lips Thine embers of the altar, Seal with the sting and furnish with the fire. Quick, in a moment, infinite for ever, Send an arousal better than I pray, Give me Thy grace upon my faint endeavor, Souls for my hire andl Pentecost: today.” Steps in Achan’s Sin (Joshua 7) I saw! Brings discontent, I coveted! Brings uneasiness, I took! Brings disaster. hid! Brings discovery. Iam punished! Brings death,THE KING'S BUSINESS 147 TWO INTERESTING LETTERS HE LEADETH ME E have recently received a letter from a business man which illustrates how God leads His people in the apparently insignificant details of life, and how He blesses men when they follow His leading. It is dated at the Travelers Hotel, Sacra- mento, Cal. ‘ Dear Dr. Torrey: I must tell you of a most remarkable experience I had while in Los Angeles. About a year ago I hap- pened to be in San Diego on business. I left San Diego one Friday night, intending to take the boat Saturday for Catalina Island. When I arrived in Los Angeles 1 noticed in the Saturday papers an announce- ment of your sermon, a subject in which I was very much interested, so I decided to stay over Sunday and hear the sermon. Sunday morning the papers were full of the announcement of the fire at Avalon [Cata- lina Island], and the guests at the hotel where I intended to stop were obliged to flee in their pajamas, and lost their bag- gage. Since 1 had a valuable trunk of samples, I was thankful that I did not go to Catalina Island at that time. While visiting Los Angeles two weeks ago, I was very anxious about business affairs. 1 was rushing hither and yon, but accomplishing no results. I thought about my experience a year ago, so I.decided to stay over and hear your sermon. You spoke about “all things working together for good,” and I thought, “Well, we will see what we shall see.” Monday, the next day, as I was packing my trunk, I received’ a telegram that was vitally important, as it completely changed my plans., I went to San Ber- nardino, and Thursday afternoon had my trunk sent to the Santa Fe Depot, intend- ing to take the 6:20 p. m. train for San Diego. As I was about to step on the train, the conductor told me that train would not make connection for San Diego, so in my confusion I hastily decided to come to Los Angeles and go south the next day. In the morning I read in the paper that the Santa Fe depot had burned down. I spent the next day, Friday, trying to locate my trunk, and incidentally I thought, “Well, once Dr. Torrey saved my trunl for me, but this time I am up against. I was not only worried about my trunk, but I was afraid that my cherished theory was knocked into a cocked hat. However, Sat- urday morning my trunk was brought up to my room without even a smell of smoke to it. Then I thought, the least I can do is to stay over again and hear Dr. Torrey, and I did so, a week ago last Stuinday. I met two of my friends on the street, and I told them of my experience, and they said I ought to write you a recommenda- tion. I thought then that I would do so, but still my business aairs were in doubt. I said to myself, “If I had not stayed over to hear Dr, Torrey I would have been back east, and I am not sure yet whether I did the right thing.” I started on my way east again, and got as far as Riverside, and dropped off, as I was expecting some mail there. The mail did not come as I expected. I waited a few days. Finally, I received a telegram to come to Sacramento, and now Ihave received word that it would he use- less for me to come back east at this time, as it would be a waste of money. But that was not all. While 1 was in Riverside I sold a bill of goods for $935.00, something I was absolutely not expecting. If this is not a good recommendation I would like to see one that is better. Yours very sincerely, A NEW YEAR'S LETTER WE ave recently come across a: New Year letter written 154 years ago, January 18, 1763, It is so different from most of the New Year letters that one writes or receives today that we thought it would be of great interest. It was written by William Romaine, one of the godliest men of his day. The yolume from which we take it was published in London, September, 1795. We think it is now out of print. This old book was presented to us in Dublin with the accompanying note: “From a grateful heart for blessing received. A specimen of the ‘old time religion’.” .. My Dear Frtenp: I often remember you in the best place, and for the best purposes. But cannot bring myself to love writing of letters, yet I have again taken up my pen to wish you every spiritual - blessing purchased by the life and death of our “incarnate. God, and that will make you as happy, as you can be on this side of heaven. n this new year may you grow in’ the knowledge of the excellency of his most adorable person, of his complete finished salvation, and of your own particular inter- est in it; and having these believing views,148 may you glorify him by living happily upon his fulness! I know a little of these matters, and but little; yet I am sitting, abashed at my ignorance, at my master's feet. He has made me willing to hear his words, and I find his lips so full of grace. that I cannot spare a moment for my Homer or Virvil, my favorite Tully or Desmosthenes. Adieu for ever to ail the classics. I see an heavenly life, as well as a matchless beauty in my Lord's words: and though I am a dull scholar, yet he is a blessed master. He keeps me waiting upon him day by day, trusting nothing to my own understanding, but listening con- tinually to his instructions: so he gets all the glory of making me wise unto salvation. To this great prophet may you repair for instruction all this year! He teaches, as never man taught. His doctrine is with power and demonstration of the Spirit. He can so humble your pride, that you shall be as dependent on him as a new-born babe; then having emptied you of your own carnal reason, and false wisdom, he will enlighten you, by his word and Spirit, with saving truth. Here the humblest scholar hears the most: deed he has Jearnt the most; for our highest lesson is to learn how to live upon him, who was made of God unto us ‘dom ; and he who relies most upon him for that wisdom will certainly be the wisest. If the whole world was mine, and I could purchase what [ would with it, I would give it all to be a scholar made poor in spirit at Christ's feet : and what then can I wish, my dear friend, better than to be one of his little children, whom he teaches his mind and will? Only I could wish you more humbled, that you may more perfectly learn the two blessed truths, which he is exalted to teach his people, to believe in his blood and right- eousness, and to live upon his grace and power. His proplietical office is to teach us how to be always safe, by believing in him, and always happy by living upon him. He has the residue of the Spirit with him, and he sends him into the believer's heart, to be always preaching this most comfortable doctrine, that whatever he wants for his acceptance at the bar of justice, it is per- feetly to be had. and freely in the fullness of the Lord Christ. Sins as red as scarlet, sins as numerous as the stars, or as the sand upon the sea-shore innumerable, and nature as black as hell, a heart as wicked as the devil, the divine and eternally pre- cious blood of Jesus can so cleanse and purify, that not one spot shall remain: for he is Almighty. He has all power in heaven and earth to pardon sin. If I had been THE KING'S BUSINESS \ guilty of all the sins of Adam and Eve, and of all the descendants to this day, yet believing in him I should be safe: because his blood cleanseth from all sin. And in Christ the believer has a better righteous- ness than that of the angels: theirs is finite, his is infinite—a better righteousness than that of our first parents in Paradise, theirs was the righteousness of a creature and they lost this is the righteousness of God, and it is an everlasting righteous- ness, never to be lost. It is the righteous- ness in which the saints stand before God for ever and ever. When the Holy Spirit takes of these things of Christ, and preaches them to the heart, oh, what a sweet peace follows! For the believer then finds him- self saved from all the miseries of sin. and entitled to all the blessings of eternal glory. And being thus persuaded of his safety, by beliéving in the atoning blood of our great high priest, then the Holy Spirit teaches him how to live upon Christ, and how to make use of Christ's fulness. On our learning this lesson depends our comfortable walk heavenwards: for Christ does not give us a stock of grace, and expect us to improve it by being faithful to grace given. No, no; that is not his way. Our souls must depend upon him, as our bodies do upon the elements of this world: Every moment we must live upon his fulness, and be every moment receiving out of it grace for grace. And this is our baptism; to have all in Christ. A better in myself, but rich:with unsearchable eter- nal riches in him. Ignorant still in myself, but led and taught by his unerring wisdom, A sinner still, but believing in his blood and righteousness. Weak and helpless still, but kept by his mighty love. Nothing but sorrow in myself, nothing but joy in him, Oh! this is a blessed life. No tongue can tell what a heaven it is, thus to live by faith upon the Son of God. Thanks be to Him, I know a little of it, and I cannot but heartily pray that you may know more of it this year than, you ever did. Surely I could not have thought some years ago, that there was such an heaven upon earth as I now find—blessings for ever on the Lamb! May you find it more and more! Sweet Jesus! keep you, my dear friend —— Yours, W. R. oh A Christian Four things are necessary to constitute a Christian : faith makes a Christian. Life proves a Christian. Triat confirms a Christian, Death crowns a Christian.