OD is our refuge and t; strength, a very present help in trouble. There- fore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea. PSA, 46:1-2 President Wilson, when taking the oath of office kissed the Bible at these verses. America may count herself safe, so long as she makes God her strength and refuge. SEPTEMBER, 1918THE KING’S BUSINESS the Lord. do heep tT will water it every moment, fest any hurt U, Lwill keep night and dey. PUBLISHED BY THE BIBLE INSTITUTE OF LOS ANGELES, INCORPORATED Entered as Second-Class Matter November 17, 1910, af, the Post Office ot Loz Angeles, California underthe Act of March 3, 1879 Ww ‘ond Bible Insitute of Lor Angeles, for the year 1918 Copygight by R.A. Torey, B. Volume IX September, 1918 Number 8 THE “TABOO” ON “MADE IN GERMANY” ‘These are days when men are repudiating everything with the ‘made in Germany” stamp upon it. There is a German-concocted theology which has of late years been permeating many of the colleges and seminaries of the world, and which has tainted a great deal of the denominational literature, especially that of the Sunday Schools, This teaching has been seeking to take away the Bible as the infallible Word of God, and has in the most subtle way denied the Deity of Christ, the necessity of His atonement and resurrection, and man’s need of regen- eration from above. Hundreds of politicians as well as preachers are now awaking to the fact that German theology stands back of German morals and ideals. Someone has said that, if fifty years ago, the Christians of the world had made war on German theology, the present hideous war might have been avoided. Now is a good time to make war on the destructive criticism and to shake off the literature of institutions that deny the fundamental doctrines of the Word of God. 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BIBLE INSTITUTE OF LOS ANGELES 536-558 South Hope Street - - Los Angeles, California738 THE KING'S BUSINESS whieh is really primary and fundamental to that which is more advanced and on to that which is the culmination of all that precedes, and giving to the one who completes the course a comprehensive knowledge of the Bible as a whole, its books and their relations to one another, its doctrines, its ethics, its histories, its biographies, its characters, and above all of God and His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord? If there is, we do not know of it. We are somewhat familiar with the various courses of so-called ‘‘Graded Lessons,’ but while the intention was good the execution is exceedingly poor. As for the International Uniform Lessons they have gone from bad to worse, and the lessons for 1919 eap the climax of lack of intelligent system and order: the hop-skip-and-jump system of Bible study has been carried to a madden- ing extreme. Our Sunday Schools have accomplished, and are still accom- plishing, immeasurable good; but they might do so much more good, if some competent person or persons would only take the time to map out a eourse of study for persons of all ages that would have a really intelligent begin- ning and intelligent ending and intelligent progress from the beginning to the ending. In our secular grammar schools and high schools we have sys- tematic courses of study that have a definite aim in view from start to finish: why not in our Sunday Schools, in the study of the greatest of all books and all subjects? It can be done, why not do it? The fact is that in many of our series of lessons we have oftentimes had more in view the pocketbooks of our publishers of Sunday School Helps than the needs of the scholars in our Sunday Sehools. THE WAR PROBLEMS of the Church The war is making great changes in our churches and presenting grave problems to the churches. Almost all ehurches are being depleted of many of their most enthusiastic and most effective members by their responding voluntarily or through the draft to the nation’s call to arms. Literally hun- dreds of bright, energetic, efficient Christian young men have gone from some of our churches to do their bit. Of course they will have fine oppor- tunities for service among their fellow soldiers, finer opportunities most of them than they would have found at home; but while they are not by any means lost to the Church as a whole, they are for the time being largely lost to the local ehurch from which they have gone forth. Then many of our best and most effective ministers have heard the call from the front, and it is a very loud and insistent call, and they too have gone. Indeed it is very difficult for any really live minister to keep from going. They are not lost to the Church as a whole when they go: they will most of them accom- plish more real and lasting work for God in a few months than most of them ever accomplished in many years at home, and they will come back if God spares their lives to do a better work at home than they ever did before: but they are in a measure lost for the time being to the church at home. Not a few are disheartened by the gravity of the problems eonfronting the ehureh at home and the regular organizations of the church. But there is no suf- ficient reason for that. We must simply organize our churches better and thus get more work out of those we have left than we ever got before out of our entire membership. And we must*now make those who hitherto haveTHE KING'S BUSINESS 739 been shirkers to be workers: in this way the depletion of our membership will prove a very real blessing in disguise. And we must go to work to get those who are now outside of our churehes into our churches, but we must be very careful to make sure that we get them converted before we get them into the church, War times have frequently been revival times: let us male the present war times revival times by getting down to such praying as we have never done before. THE Old Man’s Day In these war times the old man is coming into his own again. We have been shelving the old man. When a man’s hair and moustache began to show streaks of gray, the manager of the department store would call him up and suggest he must do something about that because they desired young men for clerks, and when he could no longer conceal the fact that he was nearing the half-century line he was dismissed. This had gone to such extremes that it was thought necessary to organize a “Half Century Club’ to see that the ageing man got work. Even in the ministry not a few men who had crossed the fifty mark found it diffieult to compete with the callow young pulpiteer just fresh (oftentimes fresh in more senses than one) from the theological seminary. But now all is changed, the old man is wanted everywhere, provided he has ability, as he usually has. Riding a few days ago on the elevated railroad in Chicago, we noticed that almost every sta- tion agent was a gray-haired man, Elderly men abound in the stores, on the elevators, everywhere. The old man is certainly coming into his own. One solution of the urgent problem of supplying our vacant churehes with ministers who are competent will be found in many of our ministers who still have years of good service in them, but who had retired because of the senseless éraze for young ministers, getting back into the harness. In many wi the minister who is over sixty is more competent than the minister who is under, provided he has kept up his studies, and has kept fresh. Indeed, even before the war ate up our young men we received letters from churches asking us to suggest pastors, but stipulating that they must not be young men. The tide has been setting in toward the old men for some years, but now it has beeome a tidal wave. on ge oe de FUEL AND FIRE A CAPTIVE A Christian preacher has said keenly, Make me a captive, Lord, of spiritual fire and fuel: “Fire with- And then I shall be free. out fuel- has given us fanaticism. Fuel Force me to render up my sword without fire has chilled us with form- And I shall conqueror be: alism, But fuel on fire, harnessed and I sink in Life's alarms handled with heaven-sent wisdom by When by myself I stand; the Spirit, generates the forces to light Imprison me within Thy arms, and move the machinery of the And strong shall be mine hand. church,” —G. Matheson.~ R eally Remarkable. Remarks SELECTED SENTENCES FROM MANY Service Jesus took more jelight in finding a hungry soul than iit-partaking of the daintiest meal. _> The way to get out of a humble posi- tion is to be conspicuously effective in it. Many a little thing we cast to the ground is found to be a gem when another picks it up. ‘A loafer in the church is of no more account than a loafer on the street corner. A small man can make a big job shrink to littleness, but it takes a big man to make a little job grow into a big one. -A doctor doesn’t fight the patient but the disease. Don't fight the sinner, but sin, ‘The man who does good cannot help but love his occupation. _.Count the days lost in which you have not tried to do something for Jesus ~ It is better to do one little thing for God than to promise forty things you ill never do. Always distrust a man whose love of humanity does not extend to Jesus Christ. : Our grand business is not so much to see what lies dimly in the distance, ap to do that which is clearly at hand: Service is love in working clothes. “\We shall have all eternity to cele- brate the victories, but we have only a few hours before sunset to win them, > Real service is working WITH the Lord, not FOR Him. Our blunders come mostly from let- ting our wishes interpret our duties. >.He who would not serve God unless something be given him, would serve the devil if he would give him more. -He does much who does a little well. Secure not thyself in the coneeit of not bringing forth evil fruit. A Chris- tian is not defined by mere negatives. >The talents with which the believer is entrusted are not to be laid up but id out | Emotion is no substitute for action. Ae eerh saved to serve, but we never servi saved. -No one lacks for ways of doing good, but only for the inclination to do good. One day is as good as two for him who does everything in its place. Expect great things from God and attempt great things for God. >Between the great things we can’t do and the little things we wont do, the chances are we will do nothing. When duty always out. _A lot of church work is nothing but Chinese fireworks, warranted not burn. If you've done no good that will live after you, you are not ready to die. ~God doesn't ask for preachers for the harvest, but just for laborers. It is not a sin to work for one's daily bread but it is a sin to work for nothing else. It is one of the beautiful compensa- tions of life that no man can help another without helping himself. Some are so intent on looking for the big things that they do not see the little services that need to be rendered. It is better to say “This one thing 1 do" than to say “these forty’ things I dabble in.” s. If we cannot do the good we would, “we ought to do the good we can, calls, some people are toThe Second Coming of Christ THE REAL TRUTH CONCERNING THE REVEALED IN GOD'S WORD, AS CO} SPECULATIONS OF SHAILER MAT! "HI (OND COMING OF CHRIST AS PARED WITH THE BASELESS 'S, AND OTHERS x ¥ 2 By Dr. R.A. Torkey Dean of The Bible Institute of Los E LIVE in a day in which there is a more wide-spread and deeper interest in the subject of the Second Com- ing of Christ than we have ever known before. Min- isters of the Gospel every- where are preaching upon this subject But many in their preaching are follow- ing their own speculations rather than going tothe Word of God to find out what it teaches. While it is a time of great interest it is also a time when men are putting forth the wildest vagaries and utterly baseless speculations upon the question. On the one hand we have the vagaries of such persons as “Pastor” Rus- sell who has apparently made a careful study and collation and conglomeration of pretty much all the heresies the church has considered and spewed out in the nineteen centuries of her history; and of Mrs. Eddy, the champion camouflagist, fake and grafter of the world’s religious history; and on the other hand we have the baseless speculations of Shailer Matthews, who betrays His Lord with a kiss, and his host of satellites. Three courses of addresses on this subject have recently been made in our city, in which, as far ag I can learn, the only references the lecturers have made to the Bible have been in a futile attempt to discredit the Plain teaching of that book. One of these three preachers is reported to have said: (1) “We will have to admit that the imminent return of Christ is taught in ngeles the Bible, but the writers were extrem- ists.” (2) “Paul taught the imminent return of Christ but he was in error.” (3) “Christ taught it also, but He was ,nis- taken too.” All we know about the Second Joming of Christ is what God has been pleased to tell us in His Word. There is no pur- suit that is by any possibility more un- profitable than that of uninspired proph- esying. When this amazing twentieth century in which we are now living began, prophets arose on every hand, in pulpits, on lecture platforms, in univer- sity lecture rooms, popular magazines and elsewhere. These prophets told us what the first twenty years of this cen- tury were going to produce. There was to be an end of all war, there was to be a universal brotherhood of nations. The German lion and the Belgian lamb were to lie down together. All heathendom was to become essentially "Christian. There was to be a millennium, and riches and knowledge, scientific and philosophic progress, and universal liberty, freedom and equality were to have universal sway. All society was to be reorganized on lines of universal brotherhood. All this was certain of accomplishment, we were assured, within twenty years. Well, eighteen and a half of the twenty years have passed and things have not turned out at all as predicted, except that the Ger- man lion and the Belgian lamb have lain down together, but alas, the lamb is inside the lion that has devoured it. It will turn742 ‘out just so with these uninspired proph- esies concerning the Second Coming of Christ which uninspired prophets are making today. We know absolutely noth- ing about the Second Coming of Christ ‘but what this Book tells us. What this Book tells us is absolutely sure. Any- thing that we are not told in this Book is absolutely untrustworthy. The proph- esies of this Book have always proven true to the very letter up to date, and so we may safely trust that the prophesies not as yet fulfilled will be fulfilled to the letter. Some years ago, several years before the outbreak of this war or any indication of the outbreak of this war, the Christian Herald of New York sent to a number of men in this country and in England asking them what they thought about the various peace societies, peace movements and Hague conferences, ask- ing them whether they thought that there ever could be another great war. One of these letters of inquiry was sent to me and I replied that I was in favor of any- thing that made for peace even tempor- arily, but that I knew my Bible too well to believe for one moment that there would never again be g great war, that I knew from my Bible that the greatest war of this world’s history was ahead of us. Many thought I was a fanatic for making any such assertion but here we are today. I was right because I went by the Book. Just so about the Second Coming of Christ: We know nothing about it but what God has been pleased to reveal in His Word. But the Bible tells us a great deal about the Second Coming of Christ. What the Bible tells us on this subject is plain, explicit, defin- ite, full, satisfactory, gladdening and glorious. What does it tell us? I. Tuar Jesus Cumsr mas GonE AWAY PROM THIS EARTH AND IS NOT HERE AT THE PRESENT TIME IN THE PERSONAL WAY THAT HE WAS HERE ONCE, THAT 18 TO SAY, HE IS AT PRESENT OUR ABSENT LORD Anp Saviour. ‘The first thing that the Bible tells us THE KING'S BUSINESS about the Second Coming of Christ is that JESUS CHRIST HAS GONE AWAY FROM THIS FARTH WHERE HE ONCE WAS AND IS NOT HERG AT THE PRESENT TIME IN THE PER SONAL WaY THAT He WAS ONCE HERE. THaT 1s 10 SAY, AT THE PRESENT TIME He 18 ovR ABsENT Lop AND SAVIOUR. Shailer Matthews in his booklet, “Will Christ Come Again?” sent out by the Amer- ican Institute of Sacred Literature, and which they have done everything in their power to put into the hands of every preacher in this country, begins by ask- ing, “Will Christ come again?” Some say Yes, and immediately. Others say, when did He ever go away? He is present spiritually. Has He not promised to be with us even to the end of the age? These two answers are the out- come of two ways of using the Bible. Wuicu 1s correct? In what immedi- ately follows and in his whole booklet, Shailer Matthews makes it plain that he sympathizes with the latter “way of using the Bible,” and indicates that he would like to know when Christ ever went away. How any student of the Bible even of ordinary intelligence and’ honesty could ask such a question it is difficult to under- stand. Shailer Matthews’ question is not difficult to answer. Our Lord Jesus Christ-Himself answers the question. He answers it for example in John 14:28, where He says “Ye heard how I said to you. I GO AWAY, and I come unto you. If ye loved me, ye would have rejoiced, because I go unto the Father; for the Father is greater than I.” Now if our Lord Jesus Christ meant anything by these words, and He certainly meant something for He was not a fool, He meant to say that he was Gorne away to the Father in Heaven, So Jesus Christ Himself tells us when He went away. He went away when, after having been cruc- ified and raised again, He‘ascended from Mount Olivet leaving this world behind and going to another world, from which somé day, as. we shall see later, He is coming back again. Shailer Matthews"THE KING'S BUSINESS question is also answered in the first chapter of the Acts of the Apostles, in the 9th verse, where we read: “And when He (Jesus) had said these things, as they were looking, HE WAS TAKEN UP; and @ cloud received him out of their sight.” In these words Luke tells us distinctly WHEN THE Lorp Jesus wen away. It was when the disciples were gathered on Mount Olivet and when He had said goodby to them, and then while they were looking, He wenr away and was received up out of their sight. The Apostle Peter also answers the question in Acts 3:19-21 R. V. “Repent ye therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, that so there may come seasons of refresh- ing from the presence of the Lord; and that HE MAY SEND THE CHRIST who hath been appointed for you even Jesus WHOM THE HEAVENS MUST RECEIVE UNTIL THE TIMES OF RESTITUTION OF ALL THINGS, whereof God spake by the mouth of His holy prophets which have been since the world began.” Peter here very distinctly tells us just when the Lord Jesus went away and just where He went and how long He is to stay there. The Apostle Paul also answered Shailer Matthews’ question in I Thess. 1:9, 10, where we read: “For they them- selves report concerning us what man- ner of entering in we had unto you; and how ye turned unto God from idols, to serve a living and true God, and TO WAIT FOR HIS SON FROM HEAVEN, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus, which delivereth us from the wrath to come." Here Paul distinctly tells us that Jesus having been raised from the dead, left this earth and went into heaven and that a truly converted man, and properly instructed man, is waiting for Him to come back again. Of course, we all know that Jesus is here spiritually, that He has promised to. be with us by His Holy Spirit to the end of the age, if we go forth according to His commandment and make disciples of all the mations, (Matt. 28:18-20 ef. Jno. even 743 14:15-23), but the Bible makes it just as plain that He is not here in the way that He was here during His bodily pres- ence on earth, before His bodily ascen- sion from Olivet, and the way that He is going to be here again when He comes back. The Bible makes it as plain at day that Jesus went away from this world, from Mount Olivet, that He went. into Heaven and that He is to stay in Heaven until the appointed time comes tor Him to come back again, Such words as those with which Shailer Matthews opens his booklet are simply an attempt, and a weak and foolish attempt, to throw. dust into the eyes of unthinking men and women. Of course, if you are determined not to discover and accept the plain mean- ing of God’s Word, you can spiritualize away the plain, grammatical, historical, intended sense of these numerous pass. ages which I have quoted, but you can only do it by a method of interpretation by which you can also make the Bible mean anything you like, and can make lying out to be as acceptable to God as truth, and greed, covetousness and steal- ing as acceptable to God as self-sacrifice, and adultery as acceptable to God as holy married love, Listen to Shailer Matthews’ system of interpretation as described by himself in this same booklet. He says (p.8): “The other way to use the Bible (that is the way that Shailer Matthews is himself advocating), sometimes called historical, might better be called the common-sense way. Those evangelicals who hold to it are not beyond making mistakes, for this method is not without dimiculties of detail, but they believe in the inspiration of apostles and prophets by the spirit of God. (Let me call atten- tion to the fact in passing that Shailer Matthews’ spells’ Spirit of God with a small “s”). They know that this inspira- tion was progressive, accumulative, de- pendent upon and fitted to successive periods of human existence. Evidence compels them to believe that many of the BELIEFS OF THE EARLY CHRISTIANS (by744 “peliefs of the early Christians” Shailer Matthews means the teachings of the inspired Apostles and even of the Lord Jesus Christ Himself, though he is not courageous nor honest enough to come right out and say so, but his whole book- let shows it) can be understood only as they are studied in the light of the habits of thought prevalent in their days. His- TORICALLY-MINDED STUDENTS OF THE BIBLE DISTINGUISH BETWEEN FUNDAMENTAL CHRISTIAN TRUTHS AND THE METHOD AND LANGUAGE USED BY THE EARLY CHRISTIANS IN EXPRESSING THESE TRUTHS. (The emphasis here is Shailer Matthews’ own.) They believe that in order to realize these truths THE CONCEPTIONS OF THESE ANCIENT MEN OF GOD HAVE TO BE TRANS+ LATED INTO MODERN CONCEPTIONS exactly as the Hebrew or Greek language has to be, translated into English.” Shailer Matthews calls the method of Bible inter- pretation he here advocates, the “mis TORICAL METHOD.” It is absolutely noth- ing of the sort. The “historical” method of Biblical interpretation has a clearly defined sense, The real “historical” method of interpretation is this, that the words in the Bible should be interpreted according to their grammatical construc- tion and in the light of the musToricaL usace of the day, and to that method of interpretation no intelligent student has any objection. Shailer Matthews has sub- stituted for this really “HstonrcaL” aerHop an entirely different method of interpretation, and caurs it the “histor- ical” method, which it is not at all. He also calls it the “common SENSE Way,” but if we will only look at it a moment we will see that so far from being the “com- mon sense way,” it is absolutely nonsense. It is a method of interpretation that no translator outside of a lunatic asylum would dream of applying to Plato, Homer, Virgil, Horace or any book but the Bible. He says further, “the conceptions of these ancient men of God have to be translated into modern conceptions exactly as the Hebrew or Greek language has to be THE KING'S BUSINESS translated into English.” A few moments consideration will show that these words of Shailer Matthews are absolute non- sense, Translating Hebrew and Greek words and grammatical constructions and idioms into their exactly eorresponding English words, constructions and idioms is one thing, a reasonable and common sense thing, but translating THE THoveNTSs ‘of “ancient men of God” or anyone else INTO OTHER THOUGHTS utterly alien to their own and oftentimes flatly contra- dicting their own, is not TRANSLATION at all, and this whole sentence is simply a ridiculous attempt to defend the substitu- tion of Shailer Matthews’ and others’ evo- lutionary (and revolutionary) vagaries for what Jesus Christ and the inspired Apos- tles actually taught. This is not translation at all. It is distortion, perversion, sub- stitution and prostitution. Shailer Matthews goes on to say, “Thus the is- sue is plain. It is not between those who believe the Bible and those who dis- believe it. It is between ways of using the Bible.” The statement is an abso- jute falsehood. The issue is between those who believe the Bible, those who translate Hebrew and Greek words into equivalent English words and believe what it says, and those who throw over- board what it says, substituting some- thing else for it simply because they dis- believe what the Bible says. Shailer Matthews feels himself compelled to admit that if we are to take the Bible at its face value, AS WE TAKE ANY OTHER BOOK OF THE PAST OR PRESENT, the “Pre- millennial propaganda” is “true to the Bible,” but he tries to explain it away by saying of the Premillenarian that “he is really true to aN Iarnoren War of using the Bible. His loyalty to the Bible amounts to making ouranowN on TEMPOR- ARY WORDS AND CONCEPTIONS equally true with what they attempt to express." To this we would say that there is no other form of loyalty to the Bible, or-any other book, than by taking its words and con- ceptions to mean what they say; and toTHE KING'S BUSINESS call them, as Shailer Matthews plainly does, “ovTGROWN OR TEMPORARY WORDS AND Conceptions” is to be disloyal to the Bible, and to pour contempt on the Bible, and goes to show that in spite of all his twisting and turning that he disbelieves the Bible. He ought to be man enough to come out and say so, but he isn't. How anybody can be so silly and irrational as to be blinded by such pettifogging words as these of Shailer Matthews is more than I can understand, but hundreds and probably thousands of preachers in Amer- ica have been blinded by them. What Shailer Matthews calls “the historical method of interpretation,” in plain Eng- lish is the infidel method. By any such system of interpretation you ean make the Koran or all the morally rotten lit: erature of India, reeking with the most unmentionable and indescribable vileness, as valuable as the Bible. If Shailer Matthews wishes to get rid of the plain and crystal clear teaching of the Bible as he undoubtedly does, why is he not _ honest enough to come right out and say so? Why does he not come right out and say that the Bible is a jumble of errors and falsehoods? His fundamental lack is a lack of common intellectual honesty and of a decent amount of courage. When he refers (unmistakably from what he says in this connection) to the teachings of the inspired. Apostles and of the Lord Jesus Christ Himself he does not speak of them as the teachings of the Apostles and of Jesus, but speaks of them, over and over again, as “the beliefs of the early Christians." He knew perfectly well that any man or woman who had even a meas- urably decent amount of faith in Jesus Christ and the Bible, would resent it if he spoke so contemptuously of what were clearly set forth as the teachings of Jesus Christ Himself and the inspired Apostles, so he doesn’t call these teachings the teachings of the Apostles and of Jesus Christ, but “the: beliefs of the early Christians” (over and over again), and then goes on, time and ume again, 745 to refer to things that either the Apostles or Jesus Christ Himself taught, and oftentimes to what they both taught in ridicule and contempt. His whole method of argument would be unworthy of a pettifogging police court lawyer. Some of the Los Angeles preachers who have spoken on the Second Coming of Christ have followed most dutifully and blindly in the wake of Shailer Matthews, and Professor Case, also of Chicago Uni- versity. One of them told his audience that the Apostle Paul did believe in and teach at the time of his earlier epistles, the personal, premillennial return of the Lord Jesus, but that when Paul got to know more he changed his opinion and his teaching. What a pity that the Apostle Paul and the Lord Jesus Christ could not have attended Chicago University before they said or wrote anything. Il. Jesus Cunisr 1s Comine Back To THE Barre, The second thing that the Bible very plainly tells us regarding the Second Coming of Christ is that Jesus Curisr 1s comING BACK TO THIS EARTH, Our Lord Jesus Christ Himself says so in John 14:2,3. His words are “In my Father's house are many mansions; if it were not 80, I would have told you. I GO to pre- pare a place for you. And if I go and pre- pare @ place for you, I WILL COME AGAIN, and receive you unto myself, that where I am, there ye may be also.” These are our Lord’s own words. These words evidently indicate a definite going away of our Lord from the earth and a definite coming back again to the earth. If Jesus Christ did not go definitely and personally from this earth and if He is not coming back again definitely and per- sonally, then He was either a fraud, a deliberate fraud, or else a sadly deluded fanatic. .If He is either one or the other you may believe in Him if you wish to, but I decline to. You cannot deny. the reality of His Second Coming and remain an intelligent believer in Jesus Christ. But Jesus Christ was neithey jelibex746 ate fraud nor a sadly deluded fanatic, He was a Teacher sent from God who spoke the very words of God. God sealed Him as such by raising Him from the dead. He is my Divine Lord and Saviour, God seal- ed Him as such by raising Him from the dead; and, therefore, I know He is com- ing back again personally because He said He was, and I am not going to give up my faith in Him for all the vaporings and subtleties of all the Shailer Matthews and Professor Cases and the whole brood of American dispensors of a system of criticism and exegesis made in Germany, the land of systematic, university-bred and fostered falsehood, violence, rape and general deviltry. The poison gas Ger- man university professors are belching out upon our sons and brothers on the battle front of Picardy today is not one tithe so dangerous and damnable as the poison gas that German university pro- fessors have been belching into the uni- versities and theological seminaries of America, England and Scotland, and pre- eminently into Chicago University and Union Theological Seminary of New York. Let me read you another passage, Phil. 3:20,21: “For our citizenship is in heaven; FROM WHENCE also we wait jor a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ; who shail fashion anew the body of our humiliation, that it may be conformed to the body of His glory; according to the working whereby He is able even to sub- ject all things unto Himself.” And let me put alongside of this still another pass- age—I Thess. 4:16, 17: “For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven, with @ shout, with the voice of the Archangel, and with the trump of God and the dead in Christ shall rise first; then we that are alive that are left, shall, together with them be caught up in the clouds ta meet the Lord in the air and so shall we ever be with the Lord.” It is Paul who wrote these two statements. Their meaning is as plain as day to anyone who goes to the Bible to find out what it really teaches and not to make; it mean some- THE KING'S BUSINESS thing that it evidently was never intended to mean, ie, the one who uses Shailer Matthews’ method of interpretation, whereby not merely the Greek words and idioms are translated into exactly cor- responding English words and idioms, but also the conceptions of the inspired writers are translated (or rather, dis- torted) into his own foolish notions. Let me read another passage, Acts 8:19,20: “Repent ye therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, that so there may come seasons of re- freshing from the presence of the Lord; and that He may send the Christ who hath been appointed far you.” Peter is the speaker here, His words are as plain as words can be and their meaning is as plain as language can make it. We have heard Jesus and we have heard Paul and we have heard Peter, now let us listen to John, the Beloved Disciple, This is what he says in Rev. 1 “Behold, HE COMETH with the clouds; and EVERY EYE SHALL SEE HIM, and they which pierced Him; and the tribes of the earth shall mourn over Him.” These words need no comment. It is plain as day that the Bible teaches that Jesus is some day coming back to this earth. If the Bible doesn’t teach that, it doesn’t teach anything; and we may as well throw it onto the scrap heap or use it for a joke book. But He is coming! I am as sure of that as I am that I stand here, and woe be to Shailer Matthews and the whole brood who have dishon- ored our Lord Jesus Christ by juggling with His words. Yes, woe be to them when He comes; for He Himself has said of those who juggle with His words: “He that rejecteth Me, and receiveth not My sayings hath one that judgeth him, THB WORD THAT I+ SPEAK, THE SAME SHALL JUDGE HIM IN THE LAST DAY. For I speak not from my- self; but the Father which sent me, He hath given me a@ commandment, what I should say and what I should speak,” (Jno. 12:48, 49).THE KING'S BUSINESS I will not stop to show that these words of Jesus and Paul and Peter and John about the Second Coming of Christ have not as yet been fulfilled and refer to. a coming yet in the future. That is plain on the very face of them. The deniers of a future coming of Jesus Christ have tried in the past to make out that the prophesies and promises regarding His Second Coming have been fulfilled either in the coming of the Holy Spirit at Pente- cost, or at the coming of Christ at the death of the individual believer, or in His coming at the Destruction of Jeru- salem; but every attempt in this direc- tion has so utterly failed and this posi- tion was so evidently untenable and the alleged fulfiliment was so utterly unlike the promise and prophecy that this posi- tion has been given up, and now those who are determined to deny His coming, and His premillennial coming, resort to the Shailer Matthews’ method of seeking to discredit these prophecies by saying they were merely “the belief (notions) of the early Christians,” that they have been obtained from the Jewish apocryphal apocalyptic literature of the second or third centuries or so before Christ— which by the way is an assertion without one single scintilla of historical proof. They deliberately seek to obscure the unquestionable fact that these teachings were not merely the views held by early Christians, but THE EXPLIcr? TEACHINGS OF THE DIVINELY INSPIRED APOSTLES AND OF Jesus Cxmst Himserr whom God accred- ited as His Only Begotten Son and as a ‘Teacher sent from God who spoke the very words of God, by raising Him from the dead and of whom He once said with audible voice from Heaven: “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; HEAR YE HIM.” 1 don’t think He has ever said anything of that kind about Shailer Matthews or Professor Case. I really would like to know what He does say about them. 747 TI. How THe Loxp Jesus Bacx. We have seen that our Lord Jesus has gone from the earth and is now absent. We have seen also the certainty that the Lord Jesus is coming back to this earth, and now comes the question, How is He coming? On this the Bible is very clear and definite and explicit, and what the Bible says is widely divergent from the baseless speculations and wild vagaries of Shailer Matthews, “Pastor” Russell, “Mother” Eddy and certain Los Angeles preachers. 1. In the first place the Bible tells us that He as coMING PERSONALLY. We see this in Acts 1:10,11: “dnd white they (ie. all the apostles) were looking stead- Jastly into heaven as He (i.e. Jesus) went, behold two men stood by them in white apparel; which also said, ye men of Gali- lee, why stand ye looking into heaven? This Jesus which was received up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye behold him going into heaven.” 1s Comix The Lord Jesus Himself says in the passage already quoted—John 14:3: “I will come again, and receive you unto myself, that where Iam, there ye may be also.” The Apostle Paul says in I. Thess. 4:16,17: “For THE LORD HIMSELF shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of tite Archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: then we that are alive that are left, shall together with them be caught up in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shatl we ever be with the Lord. Now it is plain as day that these pass- ages teach that Jesus is coming back PERSONALLY. We hear much in this day of the “cominG or THE Kincpom”, by which is meant all kinds of social uplift and socio- logical readjustment, but what the Lord Jesus Himself and the Apostles talked about and promised as the blessed hope of the church, as the one and only hope748 of human society, was not merely the coming of the Kingdom, but the coming of the King, Jesus Himself. Some people might be satisfied with the coming of the Kingdom, a “universal league of peace,” or something of that kind. 1 would not be. I want the King. I want Jesus Himself. And by His own promise it is Jesus Himself that I am going to get. 2. In the second place Jesus 18 cox ING BACK BODILY AND VISIBLY. The verse just quoted, Acts 1:11, makes this plain. Listen to it again: “This Jesus, which was received up from you into heaven, shall 80 come in like manner AS YE BEHELD HIM going into heaven.” Cer- tainly it was KoprLy aND visinLy they “BEHELD HIM GOING INTO HEAVEN.” a cannot behold anything in any other fay, and He is not merely coming back but He is coming back as they “beheld Him going,” bodily and visibly. Heb. 9:28 also makes this plain. Here we read “Christ also, having been once offered to bear the sins of many, SHALL APPEAR a second time apart from sin, to them that wait for Him, unto salvation.” The word here translated “Arran” means “be seen,” and it is used, and can be used, only of an OCULAR, BODILY VISIRILITY. Rev. 1:7 is equally plain: “Behold, He cometh with the clouds; and EVERY EYE SHALL SEE HIM, and they which pierced Him.” In these words God has antici- pated the vagaries of “Pastor Russell and the vagaries of Shailer Matthews and the rest. Right here is where the Word of God differs especially from Pastor Rus- sell. Russell denied a nopm.y and vistane coming of Jesus Christ. He taught that Jesus Christ had already come in Octo- her, 1874, but of course not bodily and visibly. Russell predicted turthermore the outward manifestation of His king- dom and end of war and discord, to occur in 1914, which predictions were not realized. Russell's followers are now try- ing to make out that what Russell pre- dicted for 1914 was this present war. THE KING'S BUSINESS ‘They have circulated all over this city a sheet in which they say, “more than twenty years ago Pastor Russell pointed out from the Bible that God had granted to the Gentiles a lease of power which would legally end in 1914 and that then the nations would become angry and God's wrath would come; that a great international war would BEGIN aT THAT time and would be followed by greater trouble and that the trouble would usher in Messiah's Kingdom of righteousness, which would be ‘the desire of all nations, Pastor” Russell prophesied nothing of the kind. This statement is a bold and unblushing lie. What “Pastor” Russell prophesied for 1914 was some- thing entirely different. Look up his lit- erature written years before 1914 and you will see what he predicted was just the opposite of this war. For example, “Pas- tor” Russell begins the second volume, Volume II of “Studies in the Scriptures,” with these words “In this chapter we present the Bible evidence which indi- cates that six thousand years from the creation of Adam were complete with A. D, 1872; and hence that, since 1872 A. D,, we are chronologically entered upon the seventh thousand or the Millennium —the fore-part of which, the ‘Day of the Lord,” the ‘day of trouble,’ is to witness the breaking into pieces of the kingdoms of this world and the establishment of the Kingdom of God under the whole heay- ens.” Furthermore, “Pastor” Russell makes out this “fore-part” of the Millen- nium to be a period of forty years, extend- ing until 1914 A. D. and winding up “the time of the Gentiles.” He says (P. 79): “The Bible evidence is clear and strong that ‘the times of the Gentiles’ is a period of 2520 years, from the year 606 B. C. TO AND INCLUDING 1914, A. D. And he says further (P. 99): “In view of this strong Bible evidence concerning the times of the Gentiles, we consider it an established truth that the final end of the kingdom of this world, and rue rot ESTAnLisua@enT of the Kingdom of God,THE KING'S BUSINESS will be accomPLisHED at the end of A. D. 1914.” Now this is certainly very dif- ferent from predicting “that a great inter- national War WOULD BEGIN AT THAT TIME, Furthermore, “Pastor” Russell says in Volume II, P 77: “Some TIME BEFORE ‘THE END oF A. D. 1914 the last member of the divinely recognized Church of Christ, the ‘royal priesthood,’ ‘the body of Christ,’ WILL BE GLORIFIED with the Head; because every member is to reign with Christ, being joint-heir with Him in the King- dom, and it cannot be fully ‘set up’ with- out every member.” This certainly is Just the opposite of predicting that “a great international war wouLp BEGIN AT THAT TIME (ie, in 1914).” Russell denied a bodily, visible coming, and put the sec- ond coming of Christ back in October 1874, and made it not a bodily visible coming. But what God has revealed in the Bible is a bodily and visible coming, just what “Pastor” Russell denied and Shailer Matthews and his school dis- credit and “Mother” Eddy perverts. I once had an interesting experience with one of Pastor Russell's satellites and teachers in Chicago. I had been preach- ing on the Second Coming of Christ and showed, from the Word of God, as I have showed here this morning, that Jesus Christ was coming back bodily and visibly. At the close this teacher waited for me and said to me, “Mr. Torrey, you don’t believe that Jesus Christ is com- ing back in such a way that He can actu- ally be seen with these eyes.” I replied, “It matters little what I believe, but here is what God says: ‘Behold He cometh with the clouds; and EVERY EYE SHALL SEE HIM?” 3. THE LoRD Jesus 18 COMING AGAIN WirH GREAT PUBLICITY. In Matt. 24:26, 27 our Lord Jesus says: “If therefore they shall say unto you, behold, he is in the desert, go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers, believe it not. (27) For as the lightning cometh out of the east and shineth even unto the west: so shall also the coming of the Son of Man be.” 249 ‘This evidently indicates that our Lord Jesus is coming with great publicity when He comes again. This is also evident from the passage to which we have referred several times—Rev. 1:7: “Behold He cometh with the clouds; and every eve shall see Him, and they that ptérced Him; and all the tribes of the earth shatl mourn over Him.” And from I. Thess. 4:16,17: “For the Lord Himself shatt descend from heaven, with a shout, with the voice of the Arch- angel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Ohrist shail rise first, then we that are alive that are left, shall together with them be caught up in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shal we ever be with the Lord.” “Mother” Eddy and her disciples claim that the revela- tion of the truth, Christian Science, to “Mother” Eddy in 1876 was the Second Coming of Christ predicted in the Bible. My sister in New York was urged by a friend of hers to go to a Christian Science service. After many refusals she at last consented to go. When the service was over my sister's friend asked her how she enjoyed it. She replied she had not liked it at all. Her friend asked her why not. “Why,” she replied, “for one thing, there was no sermon.” Her friend replied, “We would not have a sermon, that would be human and we have nothing human in our services.” To this my sister answered, “But you had someone stand up there and read out of Mrs. Eddy’s book half an hour.” To this the devout Christian Scientist replied, “Ob, that's not human, that’s the Second Coming of Christ.” This is a common claim among the Christian Scientists. But certainly the revelation of Christian Science to Mrs. Eddy in 1876 or the earlier revelation of it, if it be a revelation, to Dr. Quimby, from whom Mrs. Eddy stole it, redressed it and bap- tized it as her own child, did not bear the slightest ‘resemblance to the Coming Again of Jesus Christ prophesied and described in the Word of God, in the pass- age just read. If it were said that Mrs.750 Eddy and her system were a coming of the Anti-christ, whom men and women believe “because they receive not the love of the truth” and are therefore given over to “strong delusion that they should believe a lie” (II. Thess. 2:10,12) there would be a good show of truth in it. Neither did the Coming of Christ in Octo- ber, 1874, in some unknown place and way, proclaimed by Pastor Russell, bear the slightest resemblance to the Coming Again of Jesus Christ prophesied and described in the Word of God, in the pass- age just read. All these “obscure corner” and “inner chamber” Christs are a long since predicted and exploded humbug. There are two lunatics in California at the present time claiming to be the Christ and who are to be manifested as the Christ. I have had quite an extended cor- respondence from them both or from their admirers. I quite recently received letters from both of them, or from their immediate circle of devotees, in one day. I have a large framed picture of one of them. One of them is to be manifested this month (May, 1918), in a large tem- ple out in the Mojave Desert according to the claims of his most enthusiastic devotee, How like that sounds to what our Lord Jesus warned us against: “J/ therefore they say unto you, behold he is IN THE DESERT, go not forth.” Matt. 24:26. No, no, no, when our Lord comes again it will not be out in the desert, nor in any inner chamber in Concord, nor in some hidden place where the Christ of Pastor Russell returned in October, 1874, but it will be with great publicity, 4. IN THE FoURTH PLace, ovr Loxp JESUS IS COMING AGAIN IN THE CLOUDS oF HEAVEN WITH POWER AND GREAT GLoR We read these words of our Lord Jesus Himself in Matt, 24:30: R. V, “Then shall appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven. And then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven WITH POWER AND GREAT GLORY.” I have not time to stop this morning on the significance of His com- THE KING'S BUSINESS ing “on the clouds.” If you will look up Ex. 19:9; 84:5; Ps. 97:1, Matt. 17:5; Ps, 104:3 and Isa. 19:1 you will find that it was Jehovah, and Jehovah only, Who came “on the clouds” and to say that Jesus is coming “on the clouds” is to say that He is coming as the Divine One, or in Divine glory. When He came before He came as the helpless Babe of Bethle- hem, wrapped in swaddling clothes and laid in @ manger. He was despised and rejected of men. They did what they would with Him. They scourged Him, spat upon Him, plucked the beard from His face, nailed Him to the cross of Cal- vary, derided Him in His dying agonies: but when He comes again He will come in all the glory of God and His enemies will be overwhelmed with His splendor and glory and majesty. 5. AGAIN, ovR Lonp JESUS 15 COMING WITHOUT PREVIOUS ANNOUNCEMENT. This is plain from many passages of Scripture. For example, we are told in Rev. 16:15: “Behold I come AS A THIEF. Blessed is he that watcheth and keepth his gar- ments lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.” And we are told in I. Thess, 5:13: “But concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that aught be written unto you. For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord $0 cometh as a thief in the night, When they say peace and safety, then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon woman with child; and they shall in no wise escape.” The meaning of these words is plain. He is coming just as the thief comes, ie, without pre-announce- ment, without warning, suddenly and unexpectedly, Me CALLS WILSON ANTI-CHRIST A French Protestant exchange tells us that in German Switzerland a Ger- man sympathizer is holding meetings among the peasantry in which he expounds the Book of Revelation. Pres- ident Wilson occupies the center of his prophetic stage as the Antichrist.BIBLE INSTITUTE HAPPENINGS Particularly of Interest to Friends and Students Special speakers at the Bible Insti- tute during the past month are Dr. W. B. Blackstone, author of “Jesus is Coming"; Dr. French B. Oliver, noted evangelist; Rev. Robert Moore of the Evangelistic association of Chicago; Dr. Lincoln A. Ferris of San Diego and Prof. H. W. Kellogg of Occidental Col- lege. Evangelist William P, Nichol- son supplies Dr. Torrey's pulpit during the summer. ‘The Bible Institute has opened a new soul-saving station in the heart of the business district of Los Angeles. A theatre, seating 1000 people, located at 338 So. Spring street, has been turned into an evangelistic center, being called “Biola Hall.” Rey. W. P. Nicholson, the Irish Evangelist is holding meet- ings each evening, and at the noon hour each day a prayer meeting is held for business men. In connection with the hall, a reading and rest room has been opened, especially for the use of men in uniform. The prayers of God's people everywhere are coveted for this new branch of work, that hundreds of men and women might be reached for Christ. It rejoices us greatly to learn how our men called to the colors, are being used of God. as real missionaries among their comrades in arms, Extracts from letters from different men would prove most interesting. In one camp, Bible Institute students have organized a prayer group. At another camp, where Y. M. C. A. work has not, been devel- oped, a student has been circulating tracts and engaging the interest of many men in the things of Christ. At another camp, one of our men has been dubbed "Sky-pilot” and because of his outstanding testimony for Christ, many men have come to him for interviews. In another camp, a B. I. man has organ- ized a quartette and Gospel team, Several subscriptions have been received recently, for the purpose of sending The King’s Business to men in army camps. Through former students in the service, we are in touch with men who would appreciate the spiritual help afforded in the monthly message of the magazine, and funds given for this purpose can be put to the best of use. Letters have been received recently from Kenneth Powlison and Mr. and Mrs. H. Cromwell McKinney, Bible Institute graduates, now missionaries in South America, under the Bolivian Indian Mission, of which our brother George Allan is the director. Mr. Pow- lison writes: “There is evidence of the Spirit working in the hearts of many here and we are uite con: ident. of a revival some day. We are praying that there will be enough workers here to meet the tide when it comes and teach. them so that Satan will not sidetrack them. There ig a new priest ‘here now and we are praying for him with mich. zeal as there is considerable. hope for him. He is but twenty-five years old and had ‘to leave the Seminary six months. belore finishing the course because of the scarcity of priests in Bolivia. I went to see him last Wed- hesday with a native Christian who was, con- verted from’ Roman Catholicism and the “tata- cara® received us very Kindly, conversing wit out arguing, and agreeing to come to the Mis sion house next Sunday to talk over the sub: ject of the Eucharist in the light ‘of Scripture.” Van Eddings, (1913) one of the early graduates of the Institute, sends greetings from Venzuela, where he and his wife and little daughter are sta- tioned at La Asuncion, Isla de Mar- garita. He says: “T could not begin to put on paper the countless blessings the Lord has been pleased to shower upon us.and this little Island in the last nine months. We are so glad that He led us just to this spot, for we are conscious daily that he is pleased to have us here. Since mov752 ing to this larger hous first of December we have had great blessing in the services, and Much interest’ among the ‘people; though “on their part there is more or less, persecution, and that is pretty, hard for the “beginners,” the pricst also making it as hard as. possible for them, ag. well a3 us, but Christ isthe Victor, and in Him we live and more and have our being... . Tohave been busy of late making benches’ for ‘the Chapel room, and as T get, one made we are so glad to see it fll up with hun- FEY souls, to hear ‘the Gospel. We have three jong benches and a half dozen chairs, and these ace generally hited and ‘twice ‘that "many who Stand in the doors and street to listen.” From Harry Hill, B. I. graduate (1812) and member of F. C. His wife, formerly Mary Ross, also a B. I. grad- uate, now at Pierson Memorial Bible Sehool,in Seoul, Korea: “The new term of the Bible School has gpened with 31 students. Ewery Wednesday and Saturday afternoon they ail go out to do. per- sonal work under the direction of one of the various Korean pastors in the city, They go two by two calling on men whose names the} have been given, and also doing personal worl in the street. Last, week I went with them and expect to go considerably in the future even though I can speak but very little, Mary has been going calling with one of the missionary ladies! and a Bible woman, and enjoys it very mueh.”” Franklin G. Hurling, a former B. I. student, is now taking a Seminary course at the Baptist Theological Sem- inary, Louisville, Ky., writes that he is expecting to give his full time this summer to the Camp Pastor work among the soldiers at Camp Taylor. He has already been giving as much time as could be spared from his studies to this work. He says: ‘Believe me, I hit that idea that dying for one’s country gives one a passport to heaven. I tell them that a sinner in khaki is the same as a sinner in civilian clothes, and the way of salvation for both is through personal faith in the atoning blood of Christ. ‘They appreciate a straight- from-the-shoulder, and straight-trom- the-heart messag: Irwin J. Smith and wife, Bible Insti- tute graduates, writes from San Salva- dor, C. A., of the joy they are having in fhe Master's work there. They tell of one preaching tour of 270 miles which they took on mule back, over roads that were very steep and rocky. THE KING'S BUSINESS They found the people of the outer vil- lages very ready to receive the Gospel message and quite a number were bap- tized. Mr. and Mrs. Henry James have just been called to the Lord’s service in the Methodist church at Lemob, Wash. It was an agreeable surprise to them to find that the Baptist pastor of the town was an old friend of theirs and a staunch pre-millenarian. Because of their fellowship, they hope to bring the community in a remarkable way, to take an interest in the Word of God. W. H. Hall, a former student, has accepted the call to the first Baptist church of Fairview, Okla. Diplomas were handed to fifty-seven graduates of the Institute by Mr. Lyman Stewart, president of the Insti- tute on June 27, The graduates are as follows: Mary Brooks Andrews, Modesto, Cal.; Rertha R. Beutow, Cologne, Minn.; Bertha Mae Bircher, Los, Angeles, Cal; Katherine Aymar Bomberger, Bala, Pauline Bonney, Pasa- dena, Cal.;' Jennie I, Brandt, Hudsonville, Mich.: Florence L. Brown, Glendale, Cal.j Ford 'L. Can field, Pasadena, Cal.; Marceille Cottle Conkling, San “Jose, Cal.;' Ally Bushnell Cooke, Los Altos, Caly Matgaret Coulter, Philadelphia, Pa; Jennie M. Day, Lewiston, Idaho: Berta B, Dyer, Los Angeles, Cal.; Emina E Eastburg, Idaho Fails, dao; Naomi E, Eastburg, Idaho’ Falls, Idaho; We vee Bree, _Ategktom, Cale 'Orris'G;” Foster, Houstn, Teaiy AL WW. Grieve, Los Angeles. Cal Alva omer Ticustis,’ Tas, Angeles, Cal. dai 'Holland, Pleasant itl, Miss "hoicujiro Hon koshi, "Yoshii Machi, Japan; Karl D. Hummel, Los ‘Angeles, Cal.; Thga. Alexandrea Jensen, Seaby, Denmark; Karl Albin Karlson, Los Ange: les, Cal; William S, Kasahara, Tokyo. Japan; Caroline’ Lindsay Kay, Glasgow, Scotland; Homer Av Kent, Long Beach, Cal.; Hulda A," Knick: rehm, Los Angeles, Cal.; Carolyn Purdy Love: joy, Placerville, Cal; Gearge A. McGee, Orange ale, Cal; Glidvs Fae Mattison, Los Angeles, Cal? Helen ‘Miller, New York ‘City; Virginia Moon, Los Angeles, Cal.: Charles A. Nethery, San Bedeo, Cale: Jose gD ead Gt Ce Cal} ia fueger, Millburn, sophia i Reedley, Cal.;, Selma Risser, woe ide Robinson, Colorado Springs, Charles William Rush, Iroquois, S. Dal Sophie M. Rush, Iroquois,” S. ? Martha Louise Schorsch, Los Angeles, Cal; Herbert J. Scott, Redwood ' City, Cal,j_ Ralph’ C. Scoville, Yucalpa, Cale; Ethel Jane’ Septer, Des “Moines, Tae Clata Margaget Suliman, Watsonville, Cal. Helen Elizabeth Small, Log Angeles, Cal E. Spicker, Los Angeles, Cal.; Flora R. Spicker, Los “Angeles, Cal. John | Stevenson, Atlantic City, N-J.: Annie Elizabeth ‘Thomas, Richmond, Ya" Martin Luther ‘hort nN Evelyn ‘Tromans, Phil: ae Voth, Los Angeles, Nahi Roscoe, Wedel Bablee, Kans Chatles Hl Welr, Eee cavacies Caly Veva Corinthia Wight, Rive Clara feinrich D.THE KING'S BUSINESS A concert was given by the Bible Institute quartette recently in honor of L. C. Dodelan, the basso of the quar- tette, who has joined the colors in the Y. M. C. A. department. Evangelist Nicholson, with his fam- ily, enjoyed (?) a trip across the con- tinent by automobile, from New York state. They have come to live in Los Angeles and to be a part of the Institute staff. On June 27th, a reception was given by the Board of Directors in honor of the graduating class, This was fol- lowed by a banquet, at which time very able addresses were made by members of the class, Dr. Evans acting as toast- master. Mr. Hummel, president of the class presented to the Institute a large picture of the class, calling attention to the fact that it was a class of “57 varieties” and that Father Heines (Dr. Evans) was to be found in the center. Mr. Hunter, secretary of the faculty, expressed the thanks of the faculty, and assured the class that the picture would be hung upon the walls of the social hall, The home-coming of the Alumni Association of the Institute was held on June 25th. Dr. Torrey, who gave the principal address of the evening, said that the reports given by different mem- bers of the association, were the most inspiring that he had ever heard. New officers for the coming year were elec- ted as follows: President, Vernon Mor- gan; Vice-president, Marie Carter; Sec.-Treas, Mrs. Lyman Stewart; Recording Secretary, Celestia Churchill. Dr. William Evans, whose work next year will take him away from the class rooms of the Institute, was presented by the students of the Institute with a fine new trunk, as a token of the high esteem in which he has been held by the student body. The King’s Business offers a plan whereby prospective students of the 753 Bible Institute may obtain a scholar- ship by taking subscriptions for the magazine. If interested, write to the managing editor. Regular agents are also desired, and a liberal commission is paid. Practical Results “What is the difference between a Bible Institute and a theological sem- inary or other schools for training Christian workers?” is a question often asked. There are theological schools and theological schools, and training schools and training schools. Some are orthodox and some are not. Therefore, some have a right to be called Chris- tian, some have not. Of the latter we are not speaking now, and we would not attempt to name all the differences between the former and a Bible Insti- tute, but at least one of the differences is that the Bible Institute provides not only book learning but a course in prac-* tical work as well. That is, we believe in the students putting into operation that which they learn, and we believe in them putting it into operation while they are learning it. In that way it gets into the very “bone” of their prepara- tion for Christian work. The following statistics will provide some information as to what students at a Bible Institute do aside from their class work during the year just closed. Neighborhood meetings conducted, 152; open air meetings conducted, 367; Mission meetings conducted, 848; Shop meetings conducted, 314; Shop meet- ings assisted in, 1396; children’s meet- ings conducted, 278; church services conducted; 817; young peoples’ meet- ings conducted, 395; Bible readings given, 447; Sunday school classes taught, 2564; adult classes taught, 385; Mission study classes taught, 98; Bibles and testaments distributed, 3457; Tracts distributed, 102,406; Persons dealt with in regard to their salvation, 21,112; professed conversions through personal work, 2,456,The Gospel in War Time NOTES OF AN ADDRESS RECENTLY DELIVERED AT THE BIBLE INSTITUTE OF LOS ANGELES By Dr. W. H. Griffith-Thomas Toronto, Ontario, Canada The eyes of people today are upon the future. Everywhere men are dis- cussing the problem of reconstruction. We are told that nothing will be the same after the war, however a friend of mine in Toronto says three things will be the same—men, women and children. But there are two things that are always the same; the Gospel and human nature. The chief thing now is not the relig- ion of the soldier but the religion of those who are responsible for the sol- dier—the religion given to men before they go to battle. I was reading the other day a little book of Seventeen essays of Chaplains entitled “The Church in the Furnace.” 1 think it would more properly be called ‘the chaplain in the furnace.” How strange that so many have gone to minister to the soldier apparently knowing so lit- tle about men! The Gospel message does not need any reconstruetion. It only needs restating, with special emphasis on the points that stand out now as never before as true and imminent in war time. I wish to mention some of these truths which call for emphasis in the present day. First: The FACT OF SIN. War has shown that human life is not right. _ Sir Oliver Lodge before the war said at nobody now is bothering about their sins. In the light of the last three and a half years, sin has been seen as never before, and it is making the work of the preacher very much different, In a recent book, “The Jus- tification of God,” the author says “this is a much wickeder world than we had imagined.” The church has failed in its emphasis upon the doctrine of SIN. We need as never before to preach sin and repentance, and to show people sin as an awful reality. What we need is sermons, not essays. An essay is some- thing delivered BEFORE people, but a sermon is something delivered TO peo- ple. The church is for the purpose of making people muse, which means to think. It is not to AMUSE, which means to keep people from thinking. Second: The reality of righteous- ness. It would seem to some, in view of the awful German atrocities and sin- ful outrages, that everything of truth and righteousness had become over- whelmed. Nevertheless it is still true that RIGHT is the foundation of the world. As Kipling has said, “The ten commandments will not budge.” The Germans anticipated a short war. Things have not turned out at all as they had expected. It has been a long record of plans miscarried. To the German everything is calculated by machinery, but they forget human nature. As one has said, “They have anticipated everything but that which has actually happened.” An invisible ally has fought all along the line, push- ing them back. From the standpoint of military reasoning there was uo reason why the Germans did not get to Paris in 1914. The hand of God was against them. A farmer wrote a letter to a news- paper editor stating that he had done all his planting, plowing, harrowing and harvesting on a Sunday and thatTHE KING'S BUSINESS his crops had been far more plentiful than those of his neighbors. “What do you think of that?” he asked the edi- tor. The editor printed the letter with this footnote. “God does not make up His accounts in October.” “The mills of God grind slowly, * * * but with exactness He grinds all.” Third: the doctrine of salvation by vicarious atotiement. For some years this doctrine has been described as a revolting dogma, entirely outworn, Much has been said about the individ- ual and the importance of everyone representing himself, But war has emphasized the thought of one suffer- ing for another; vicarious sacrifice. A writer, entirely outside of the chureh, not a believer in the Scriptures, has said, “As for me, there is one thought with me constantly—others are dying for me, better men, men with more hope. I think of young men whom I taught, and something says.to me— someone who loves you is dying for you.” There is no theological problem that has caused greater hostility than that of Christ's vicarious sacrifice. It has been the pet diversion of unbelievers. Missionaries have said that no doctrine excites greater opposition, War helps to Sllustrate this truth: true they are faint but real illustrations of the sac- Tifice of the Lord Jesus Christ. We turn afresh to Isa. 53 and rejoice in the faint but unique illustrations of sacrifice that we are hearing on every side, Some have been telling soldiers that they will surely go to heaven if they die on the battle field. I have been assured that the soldiers themselves do not believe it, and that they have little use for those who are not true to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. John MacNeil has said “A German bullet will send an English soldier to hell as quick as any- thing else.” We are enabled as never before to proclaim the Gospel without any hesi- 755 tation, and if there was ever a time when we need to proclaim the old, old story of the Cross, the vicarious sac- rifice of Jesus Christ, it is today. Fourth: power by grace. Another ele- ment of life that has been made prom-- inent through this conflict is the need of deliverance from present sin. The Soldiers are looking for means of vic- tory over sin. Christianity is a life or it is nothing. ‘The civilian is sur- rounded by the things that help to maintain a high standard of living, but these are practically all removed from the soldier. He finds that he must have life from within, power by the grace of God. The man who is saved by the Lord Jesus Christ may be sanctified and strengthened by the Holy Spirit. “The law of the Spirit of life hath made me free from the law of sin and death.” “For me to live is CHRIST.” Moment by moment, God's message to the Christian is “My grace is sufficient. We need as never before to proclaim the Gospel of the present tense, power by the grace of God to give victory over sin, a very essential part of the glor- ious Gospel of the grace of God. Fifth: Comfort in sorrow. Its need is now to be seen on every hand. Fam- ilies are broken. Only sons are taken. For many, life will never be the same again. In Christ alone, real comfort is possible. Read the inscriptions upon the stones out in the cemetery. The cross is seen everywhere and the inscriptions are from the Bible. ‘They are never taken from paganism or infidelity. Let us never fail to sound out the words of the Lord Jesus, “Let not your heart be troubled.” Sixth: Courage in death. That note must never be far from our preaching. There is constant and pressing need of this in the situation which we now have before us. A young fellow in Toronto who had been going the round of all the dances and card parties, went to the front. After he had been there for a while, a young girl at home wrote756 him, thinking he would be interested in hearing about the dances and parties that had been going on. He wrote back telling her never to mention these things again, saying that if he ever came home, he intended to live a different sort of a life. He died at the front. When face to face with the reality of death, the one need is courage. Mer may have it through Christ. “I will fear no evil, for thou art with me.” “He that liveth and believeth in me shall never di Seventh: Hope for the future. This awful unrighteousness, cruelty and tyranny tends to make some give up religion. But the collapse today is not of religion but of civilization. As some- one has said, “Christianity has not failed: it has never been tried.” We can civilize without Christianizing. There is no such word as “christianiz- ing.” It is a word to be avoided. The word we need is REGENERATION, or renovation, There never has been a Christian nation and there never will be in this dispensation. I happened to hear B. Fay Mills when he asked to be taken back into the Presbyterian church. He said that before the war, he lived on the Pacific coast. All things were going on so well and so smoothly, he thought the kingdom was at hand. When the world war came, these ideas were knocked out of his head, and he came to the con- clusion that this is a lost world. He might have had that thought before, nevertheless it was a fine testimony of the essential truth of the Gospel. This is a lost world. Its hope is in the com- ing of Christ. The reign of peace will come only with the coming of the Prince of Peace. The prospects of bet- terment in human nature are not in sight. We should concentrate our attention on the coming of Christ and do ali we can to hasten that day. I rejoice in all that makes for bet- terment in society, and let us have all THE KING'S BUSINESS we can get, but being introduced into a new environment never can save men's souls. You may clip the wings of an eagle, and it will rob it of its power to fly, but it doesn’t change the eagle's nature. Nothing of social bet- terment in the world can take the place of individual regeneration, The Chris- tion alone has the right to be optomis- tie in the true sense of the word. Look- ing to the Throne, he becomes an optomist, not by shutting his eyes to the facts, but by looking to Him who is God over all. Let us as preachers and teachers believe these seven fundamentals as never before, and with that deepening belief, let us proclaim them as never before. Let us have fewer merely pat- riotie sermons. That is failing entirely in the most important duty of the pres- ent time. It seems to have been a mercy to some preachers that the war has come. to give them something to talk about, for I do not know what they would have done otherwise. But what people need in this day of strain and stress, is SOMETHING FOR THE HEART, the great realities of the Gospel in which patriotism becomes a power and a blessing. COMMON DAYS One of the chief dangers of life is trusting to great occasions. We think that conspicuous events, striking exper- iences, exalted moments, have most to do with our character and capacity. ‘We are wrong. Common days, monot- onous hours, wearisome paths, plain old tools and everyday clothes, tell the real story. Good habits are not made on birthdays, nor Christian character at the New Year. The vision may dawn, the dream may waken, the heart leap with new inspiration on some moun- tain top, but the test, the triumph, is at the foot of the mountain, on the level plain.—Maltbie D. Babcock.Light'‘on . Puzzling Passages and Problems By R. A. TORREY How long is the Holy Spirit to do His work on this earth? When the Holy Spirit was given to the Church at Pentecost He was given to abide with the Church “tor ever (John 14:16). Therefore the Holy Spi must be here as long as the Church is here, The Church will be here until it is caught up at the coming of Christ in the air (1 Thess. 4:16, 17). Further- more, the Holy Spirit worked on the earth before He was given to the Church at Pentecost (John 7:37-39; Acts 2:1-4); the work of the Holy Spirit is mentioned over and over again in the Old Testament, beginning with the very first chapter of Genesis (Genesis 1:3; 2 Sam. 23:2; Nehemiah 9:20). Therefore, there is no reason whatever to suppose that His work will altogether cease when the Chureh is removed. “Will the Holy Spirit with the home- gathering of the Church also leave this worl : ‘There is no reason for supposing that He will altogether cease to work in this world. He worked before He was given to the Church at Pentecost and will con- tinue to work when the Chureh is removed, though not as a dispensational agent through the Church. “Will there be any opportunity for conversion for those that neglected the opportunity to become Christians before the departure of the Church?” Why not? There were conversions in the Old Testament times before the Holy Spirit was given as a dispensa- tional agent at Pentecost, why should there not be conversions after the Church is removed. There are plain indications that there will be a multi- tude of conversions after the departure of the Church, It is after the departure of the Church that Israel will be con- verted as a nation and go forth as mis- sionaries to the nations (Isaiah 66:19). “The great tribulation” comes after the departure of the Church, and we are told that there is to be a “great multi- tude which no man could number” that “come out of the great tribulation” (Revelation 7:9-14). However, those who are saved after the departure of the Church, the Bride of Christ, will not be part of the Church, the Bride, and will not share in her peculiar glory and privileges. Moreover they will have to pass through the miseries of “the great tribulation” and endure terrible persecutions. There is every reason for supposing that the rapture of the Church will arouse a great many who have neglected the gospel invitation and lead to their accepting Christ. “Will the Millennium be an entirely sinless age?” ‘The Millennium ends in another apos- tasy (Rev, 20:7-10), therefore there must be some in the Millennium who at least in their hearts were not right with God, whatever professions they may make outwardly. And we are told that “the sinner being a hundred years old shall be accursed” (Isaiah 65: 18-20). ae “I entreat my children to maintain and defend at all hazards and at any cost of personal sacrifice, the blessed doctrine of the complete atonement for sins through the blood of Jesus Christ, once offered, and through that alone.” —From will of J. Pierpont Morgan.Second Corinthians B In our study of 2 Corinthians we have considered Introductory Matters, the Synopsis of the book, the Introduc- tion (1:1-14), the first main division: “Matters Concerning the Apostle’s visit to the Chureh at Corinth” (1:15; 7:16) and (a) and (b) under Section 1 of the second main division: “Matters Concerning the Collection for the Poor Saints at Jerusalem” (8:1; 9:15). We now continue with (c) of Section 1, finishing the second main division. (c) The Direct Appeal to the Cor- inthian Church to Give to the Fund for the Poor Saints at Jerusalem (8: 6-8, 10-15). Apparently the Corinthian believers had already made a start at such an offering about a year previously (8:6, 11), probably at the visit of the Apostle Paul and at the active instiga- tion of Titus, to whom is allotted the task of perfecting that which they had already begun (8:6.) To incite them to this noble work the apostle has cited the example of the Macedonian Christians (8:1-6); ef. 13:5) and our Lord Jesus Christ (8:9). It is not enough for the Corinthians to determine to do this thing; they must carry out their intention. It is good to be generous in will; we must be generous in deed also. Good resolu- tions, if not put into action, soon wither and die. We must be beneficent in action as well as in intention. ‘The purpose of the collection is for the supply of the needs of the poor saints at Jerusalem, so that none of God’s saints have more than they need at the expense of other saints of God who have not sufficient to meet their necessities (8:15). The measure of a gift in the estima- tion of God is not its size, but its pro- portion in relation to that which the giver has left (8:12-14). The real question for the Christian to settle is not how much of my money shall I give to God, but how much of God's money shall I keep for myself? Only as our gifts spring from a willing heart do their receive value. Some people part with their money who do not give it. God loveth the glad, cheerful giver. 2, The Care to be Exercised with Reference to Raising and Distributing the Collection (8:16; 9:5). To Titus and two other friends of good repute is the care of this offering committed (8: 16-23). How careful the apostle will be in the gathering and disposition of such trust funds! How careful to avoid suspicion or accusation (8:20-22)! Paul was not indifferent with regard to good opinion of others. He would pro- vide things honest not only in the sight of God, but also in the sight of men (8:21). Appearances must not be neglected, It does matter how our actions appear to others. The apostle did not consider himself above careful consideration and safeguard. He would give his enemies no chance to accuse him of graft or misappropriation of funds, even though it might seem that no one would be likely to accuse Paul of dishonesty. He would not only do right, but appear to do right also. Pop- ular opinion eannot always be ignored or despised. Paul was not against hav- ing his accounts audited. For these reasons Paul entrusts the matter of the collection to Titus and two other friends who are of good repu-THE KING'S BUSINESS tation in the gospel and well spoken of throughout the churches (8:16-18, 23; ef. choice of deacons, Acts 6:3-6— “men of good report"), So Paul ree- ommends men who can be trusted,— men whose methods he himself com- mends,—for as great care must be exercised in the raising as in the dis- bursements of the collection. Only such men as “glorify God” should handle the church's finances (8:23). The godly jealousy of the apostle tor the Corinthian Christians, lest they should fall below his praise of them to the saints in Macedonia, is strikingly set forth in these verses (9:1-5). He would have the whole financial matter settled and the collection all gathered by the time he or his representatives, or perhaps both, arrived at Corinth. How greatly was the joy and shame of Paul associated with the career of his converts! They were part and parcel of himself: his glorying (9:2), his rejoicing (1 Thes. 2:19, 20), his joy and crown (Phil. 4:1), or his shame (2 Cor. 9:4). 3. The Nature and Blessing of True Giving (9:6-15), Not stinginess but liberality should characterize Christian giving. Not how little but how much may we give is the measure of true Christian beneficence. Bountifully, not covetously, are the Corinthians exhor- ted to give. Not how little may we give to satisiy our consciences, but how much should we contribute considering the greatness of the need. Not in a spirit of “keeping back’ (Acts. 5:1-5) as in the case of Ananias and Sapphira, but gladly, liberally, ever mindful of the needs of others and with the absence of that spirit which desires to haye and to hold even more than is necessary for its own needs should the Christian exercise his philanthropy. Here is the law of spiritual giving: “He that soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he that soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully. Let each man do according as he hath 759 purposed in his heart: not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loyeth a cheer- ful giver. And God is able to make all grace abound unto you; that ye, having always all sufficiency in every- thing, may abound unto every good work.” “He that giveth to the poor lendeth to the Lord,” and the Lord always pays his debts, with good inter- est, too. The way to have much is to give more; the way to have little is to give less. If we sow sparingly, we reap sparingl: if we sow bountifully, we reap accordingly (compare Hag. 1: 7-12; 2:16-19; Mal. 3:7-12). Cheertulness is to characterize our giving. Some men part with their money who do not give it. A glad smile, not a sad groan, should accom- pany every gift. Our giving should not cause us grief. “If there be with thee a poor man, one of thy brethren... thou shalt not harden thy heart nor shut thy hand from thy poor brother ... thou shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need ... and thy heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him; because that for this thing Jehovah thy God will bless thee in all thy work, and in all that thow puttest thy hand unto” (Deut. 15:7-11; cf. 1 John 8:17-19). Such cheerful, liberal, thoughtful giving is not only a secret of blessing here, But is also a laying up of treasure in heaven to abide for- ever (cf. Matt. 6:19, 20); it isa “right- eousness” that has eternal rewards, that “abideth for ever” (2 Cor. 9:9). Not only is it true that God is able (9:8) to supply every need of such a giver (Phil, 4:19), but we are assured that He will actually do so (9:10): “For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and the love which ye showed towards his name, in that ye ministered unto the saints and still do minister” (Heb. 6:10). God will mul- tiply His grace towards the saints who exhibit such a grace (9:8; cf. 8:1, 4, 6, 7, 9, where giving is called a “grace’), Such seed scattered shall760 become ‘‘seed-corn,” having the power to multiply and bring forth a harvest 9:10). Such giving is necessary in order that the saints of God collectively may carry on the work of God, just as in time of war it is the duty of those who stay at home to provide money, pro- visions and clothing for those who are at the front. This was the Corinthians’ “service”; so is it ours (9:11, 12)— our “spiritual service.” Such a loose hold on the good things of life and a willing distribution -thereof among God’s needy saints is proof to others that the gospel of Christ has full sway in the heart, that the needs of the brotherhood are a matter of concern, and produces thanksgiving to God, and intercession in the behalf of the givers (9:14, 15). ae THE LATEST THING ‘There has been dedicated in Boston a church home for all nations, in the building put up under the auspices of the Morgan Memorial. Every creed and every race will be at liberty, indeed will be urged, to hold religious services according to their own tongue and with their own clergy. Twenty or more races are found within a short radius of the Morgan Memorial's social, industrial, and religious plant, and the new build- ing will furnish a church home for men and women of all these peoples and of every sect. The structure will seat comfortably nearly a thousand persons in its main auditorium. It is built of reenforced concrete, with slight deco- rations of brick and tile. Walls, floors, columns and arches, even stairways, and pulpit, are of the conerete. It is Gothic in style, and has attracted many visitors during its building. ae UNITARIAN PROPAGANDA Unitarians have long since elimin- ated the characteristic teaching of sof the THE KING'S BUSINESS Christianity from their hymn books. Dr. Eliot, the President of the Ameri- can Unitarian Association, has recently written: “The ordinary Y. M. C. A. hymn pamphlet contains a few single hymns but is for the most part a compilation of musical slang and literary trash. Chaplains and Y, M, C. A. secretaries who have some real religious sensibil- ity or a fair share of good taste wel- come our (Unitarian) hymn pamphlet.” Unitarians are seeking on every occasion to identify themselves with the great body of evangelical Chris- tians, They hope for an infection of “liberalism" to do what two genera- tions of direct assault have not accom- plished.—Rec. of Chris. Work. x TALKING OR DOL Frankly, what's the use of saying, “Every time I see a Jew I want to take oft my hat to him,” when you are not willing to take out your dollar to help him know of that Name through which alone he can be saved? What's the use premillennial doctrine if it teaches by innuendo that "we must leave the Jews alone in this age?” Are you obeying God in your work, prayer and gifts in behalf of the Jew? Are you a layman? Just how much did you give for Jewish Missions last year, and how much to all other missions? Are you a pastor? How much did your church give for Jewish Missions last year? Think over these things. Some day you will be required to give an accounting of your stewardship.— Joseph Cohn. 3 ae DEAD CHURCH A preacher who found no one at prayer meeting began to toll the bell. A dozen folks came running in, and one asked, “Who is dead?" “The church,” replied the preacher as he pulled away at the rope.6 ae Evangelistic INTERESTING STORIES AS TOLD BY BIBLE Department from REAL EXPERIENCE INSTITUTE WORKERS Response of Soldiers to the Gospel During part of June and July we were away from the Oil Fields on a little trip to Camp Lewis to see our son off to France, and a wonderful experience it was, with blessing and comfort to our hearts to visit this beautiful cantonment of Uncle Sam's. We had the pleasure of shaking hands with Major General Henry A. Greene, who told us he was a Christian man and that he made it his business to pray. He is very highly respected by all the men, and the fact that he made Seattle clean up shows what a strong character he is. It is eighteen miles around the entire camp, and everything was quite, interest- ing, particularly the ¥. M. C. A, nts, assembly halls, ete., in the various com- panies. It took a little while to get acquainted, but after the Y. M. C. A. fellows found out that the writer was saved in a Y. M.C. A. meeting, and was four square for the Lord, they invited us to make an address, The “Y's” hold mostly open air services, so we mounted a high platform between the barracks and after some rousing songs, gave them a red-hot Gospel message- The service which started at 7 p. m. was over by & o'clock, but the men listened so kindly and eagerly that after the meeting we talked with them individually about their souls until after 11 o'clock, and sucegeded in getting a few to confess Christ and believe the Gospel. For the sake of cleanliness, they do not permit tracts to be distributed, but we were able to give out to individuals fully five or six hundred clear Gospel messages, and saw to it that each one went into a soldier's pocket, It was certainly a great WORK IN THE OIL FIELDS Frank J. Shelley opportunity to work with souls. Every one seemed almost glad to hear the Word, and it rejoiced our heart to see such a readiness to hear what the Lord had to say, We spoke at a number of other “Y's,” and were greatly pleased to find a dear friend, Mr. R. W. Thornberry, formerly with the Y. M. C, A. in Japan, now a Captain of Infantry. He and his wife led many boys to the Lord at Manila, P. 1, and they are still at the same blessed work. Mrs. Thornberry was making a tea to which to invite some of her “boys,” and incidentally give them the Word of Life. We asked some of the soldiers “How do you like Mrs. Thornberry?" and the invariable reply was “Gee, isn’t she lovely?” God is blessing both of these dear people, They are going to France soon, and will keep up the good work there. It was delightful to think of the goodness of our God in sending these two consecrated souls to labor among the boys there, but “It's just like Him.” Dr. Mark Matthews, of Seattle, came over one evening while we were at the camp, and gave the boys such a splendid Gospel message from Matthew 6:33 “Seek ye first the kingdom of God and his right- eousness,” and twenty-one of the boys responded. It’ was a truly inspiring sight. God was very good to us coming back on the train. It was so warm coming through the Sacramento Valley that one could not sleep, so we went into the smoking car and talked with several of the men. A young United States Marine knelt down and confessed the Lord Jesus and we left him at Vallejo a saved man. We came back to the Oil Fields’ work feeling; that the holiday had been a blessed one, and received a very kindly762 welcome at the three services held on the following Lord’s Day. Pray for us that we may do just what God would have us do, and do it in His way. se a Boarding the Ships With the Gospel ‘The last month has been full of oppor- tunities. A great percentage of the ves- sels visited were foreign vessels. The reception accorded the worker has been good and while few could talk or read English, through the Gos- pel in print and in various other ways the seed has been sown, carried away and that fact alone is a challenge to more faithful work and prayer. Among the vessels flying foreign flags were four French ships, arriving only a day or two apart, carrying precious grain from Australia to our coast. Only one captain was met with who spoke English, and three other men in all. The order barring sailing ships from the war zone, sent these vessels, as others, on the way to Australia and Pacific Coast ports. To the worker and those awake to the chal- lenge it is only a token of God's ways of sending strangers from every part of the globe to our doors that they may receive the Gospel. A sturdy little Frenchman, with eyes keen and penetrating, will never be for- gotten by the worker—the only one on the vessel who could speak English enough to be dealt with. Yes, he believed he was a Christian, he said, but he seemed to look into the past years and years ago when he was taught to pray, and no opportun- ity since to hear the Gospel. He hung on the words spoken and how his face lighted up, and how grateful he was to the one showing him the way of salva- tion. It seemed that the dust had been sponged away from his memory and from his past, and God used the Word spoken to help him to a realization of assurance WORK IN PACIFIC COAST HARBORS Oscar Zimmerman. THE KING'S BUSINESS of salvation. Going through the whole ship he announced the worker as “the missionary.” Every one of the men showed a reverence and soon were sup: plied with the precious Word of God, more precious and life-bearing than the thousands of tons of wheat. Other French: vessels with grain are coming. Pray that as they are leaving, the seed carried away in the hearts of the men may spring into golden sheaves which we can lay at His feet. God is blessing the story of the work among the seamen as told by the worker with the aid of the stereopticon on Sun- day evenings. Every Sunday night a dif- ferent door has been opened and the Lord is using the testimonies to His faithfulness to bring a needed message home to many. A special part of this service is to reach the unsaved, and the testimony of men saved in the work, sup- plementing the Word of God, we feel, is being used to reach more unsaved people than would be reached through regular evangelistic services, as people coming to see pictures do not expect to be faced with the question of how they stand in regard to the Lord. Pray that many, especially the young people and children, may be won to the Lord in this way which the Lord has opened up, Looking over some letters received a little while ago, we were reminded of the case of a man who was saved and with whom we had kept in touch until lately. After several visits, finding him at first antagonistic, then careless and putting things off, he was finally lost sight of as the vessel on a later trip had another man in his position. However, God worked and the visits, which some might thing fruitless, nevertheless were not, It is a lesson for Christian workers not to be discouraged under seeming discourage- ment, if God's Word has been given faith- fully. The letter, in part, reads as fol- lows, (and please note that this fellow was on a lumber vessel where few of the men ever came out for the Lord): “It will give you pleasure, I am sure,THE KING'S BUSINESS to hear that last Monday I openly con- fessed the Son of God as my personal Saviour and have decided to trust in Him, no matter what might befall me from now on. To tell the truth, T never intended to take this tnomentous step, but He made me do it in spite of myself. I can tell you that things have looked different ever since and I am sure that He is not going to forsake me in time of need. I have spoken to a few fellows about God's won- derful love, and with God's help I am sure that I can get some to come to listen to His teaching. I cannot speak to them myself as I would Iike to, but as long as I can convince them that the Christian life is the only life to lead, I think that I am doing a little work for our Master, and T can safely leave their conversion to Him.” Pray that God may bless this fellow wherever he may be, Those who know what the life of a sailor on a lumber ves- sel is like, can readily see how God has been working with him. Pray also that He may enable the worker, and workers, to be soul-winners, winning souls to Him. Christ's Power to Save a Drunkard The face which looked out of the sec- ond story window of the Bible Institute seemed to the passerby to be anxiously in search of something, or somebody, and in a desperate hurry. THE WORK “What's the trouble?” IN THE SHOPS — we called. “I'm look- David Cant. ing for someone to go at once and talk to a man about his soul. Can yon go? One of our Bible women is keeping guard over him till reinforcements arrive. Here's the address.” It was close in, so we were soon at the rooming house, listening to the particu. lars. The story was as ancient as death itself, repeated countless times, in count- less lives and countless places since sin entered the world and death by sin: Two bright young lives starting out together, and then the development of the drink 763 habit wrecking the home. The young wife had stood it as long as she could, but Just the might before, for the sake of their little girl, had packed up her meager possessions and taken the journey back to her own mother. They seemed such quiet, refined folks, and the Bible Woman had brought the wife to Jesus a few weeks previous. He was a good, kind husband and father, except for these periodical sprees, but when they came upon him he lost control and went the limits. So for the sake of the child, by mutual consent, she had gone and the man alone, in a dazed, drunken, stupor, was in the next room. As we were talk- ing we heard his step, evidently going out for some more of the “stu Quick as a flash, the Bible woman was after him, and with a tact and gentleness which only Christ's constraining love ean give, she had locked the two of us together in his room. ‘There was no beat- ing about the bush; it was a grapple for a soul; the conscience must be reached, the sharp knife must be used, and he must be brought face to face with Christ, for the devil would contest every inch of the way. So at once the subject was broached which brought us together, There was a common ground on which we could meet, for the same craving, the same ungovernable thirst, the same defeat had for many years possessed the writer, until one never-to-be-forgotten night over twenty-five years ago, the perfect, abso- lute cure had been discovered,—the cure not only for this special form of sin, but the very root which produces the fruit, Since that “beginning of days” there has never been the slightest desire or craving for the stuff in any form. “And,” said we, “because of that marvellous discovery, we are here to pass this absolute, perfect cure on to you.” The poor fellow, unwashed, unkempt, disheveled, wild-eyed, surrounded with all the awful evidences of his debauch, passing back and forth, suddenly stopped and lifting his blood-shot eyes to ours, asked with all the agony of a despairing764 soul, “What was that cure?” Looking him squarely in the eyes, we spoke that Name which is above every name before whom, some day, every knee shall bow and every tongue confess Him Lord to the glory of God, the Father,—“the Lord Jesus Christ.” The effect was magical He at once came and sat down opposite and said “Tell me about Him,” and there for two and a half hours we held him to that one Divine center, our glorious Saviour, Re- deemer and Friend, until sobbingly he broke down and falling to his knees cried out the confession of his sin, failure and need to Him who knows, and loves, and cares. There was a new light in his eye, a new strength to his voice and firmness to his step as he tried to express something of what he felt as we gripped hands and parted. Pray for him. This is but one ineident from a very busy month, teeming with so much for which to praise our gracious Father, for as we look back into these past few weeks, and by His grace seek to improve the present which alone belongs to us, and go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear and in His unfailing strength, our hearts cry out “Hallelujah, what a Saviour!" as A Telling Sermon on the Virgin Mary During the summer months, we find the railroad section houses nearly deserted, and the families moving about from one ranch to another picking berries, fruit and nuts. Conse- quently we have visited several of these ranches where, taking ad- vantage of the long days, we hold two or three open air services on a Sunday after- noon, Oftentimes we have a large aud- ience where it is least. expected, On one of our trips into the country, we handed a tract toa man ina yard and while talking to him a crowd of about WORK AMONG SPANISH PEOPLE R. H. Bender THE KING'S BUSINESS forty men, women and children came out and inquired our business. We told them we had the Gospel of Jesus Christ, whereupon the women all exclaimed: “And the Virgin?” “Why, yes,” we re- plied, “do you want to hear what the Virgin said?” and then we read to them Luke 1:26-38; 4656. They all seemed pleased and assented to all that was read, and it looked as though all suspicion had fled and that we had gained their confi- dence. After we finished reading, we said, “Did you notice one thing Mary said?” and then read again “My soul doth magnity the Lord and my spirit hath rejoiced in God, my Saviour."” From this we preached Jesus unto them and told them that even Mary rejoiced in her Son as her Saviour, and that only those who trusted in Christ could be saved; that Jesus was born a King, but the wicked- ness of men’s hearts had crucified Him, and all who did not believe and accept Him as their only Saviour were doing the same today. Furthermore, that Jesus must come back again and set up His throne upon earth. ‘Then up spoke an old man and said, “Yes, it is true that the prophecies must ‘ve fulfilled, that there should be wars, famines, earthquakes, ete, before that great and notable day of the Lord, and these are even now being fullfilled.” “Yes,” we replied, “and for that reason you all need to repent of your sins and accept Jesus Christ as your Saviour." The greater part of the crowd stood around and listened quite attentively, and as we were leaving, reached out their hands for the illustrated Scripture por- tions which we offered them, How we praise the Lord for the privi- lege of giving the Gospel to so many at ‘one time, in such a place! We venture to say none of these would ever have darkened the door of a Mission. Returning to the station, we called at another Mexican house and talked to a family of four. The man of the house said he had a religion too, whereupon the following conversation took place:THE KING'S BUSINESS “Will you tell me how I might be saved according to your religion?” “Why, by doing good works.” “Will you please tell me when you ever did any good works?” “Never.” “Then, don’t you see your religion can- not save you, because you cannot do any good works, just because you are a sin- ner. But if you truly believed and ac- cepted Jesus Christ you could be saved from your sin just now.” The poor man looked at us in amaze- ment and said he did not believe it. “Why,” he said, “what returns could we give the Lord for such a sacrifice and a gift?” We replied that that was exactly why we were talking to him; because Jesus had saved us, we were giving our life that others might hear and be saved. The poor man acted as though the good news was too good to be true. Dear friends, do you wonder? He had never heard it before. All his life long it had been pounded into him that he must, do, do, do, and if he did not do he would be eternally doomed to hell. Through the instrumentality of one of the converted Mexicans in the hospital, we had the privilege of leading another soul to accept Christ, so that now we have four young men confiding in Christ and two of them have consecrated their lives to the service of the Lord, if it will please the “Lord of the harvest” to heal them and spare their lives. Won't you put them on your prayer list, and hold them up before the Lord? x Deathbed Salvation of a Jewish Girl ‘Many of our friends in various churches: of Los Angeles and nearby cities who from time to time ask us to address their church congregations or missionary meet- ings and tell them about our work among the Jews, will be glad to know that we can THE WORK AMONG THE JEWS James Vaus 765 now give them an unusually interesting stereopticon lecture on the Jews. ‘We have secured the services of Miss Lillian Haifley, an able lecturer, formerly connected with a large Jewish Mission in New York. Those who are familiar with the place of the Jew in the plan of God, and who note the significance-of the “signs of the times” will find much of interest in these lectures. Pictures of Palestine in war times, showing the capture of Jerusalem by the British troops; the public reading of the proclamation of the British government, which gives Palestine back to the Jews; the recently formed Jewish battalion; pictures of persecuted Jews in Russian Poland; Jewish immigrants at Ellis Island; the Jewish Ghetto in New York City, and pictures illustrating the work of the Jewish Evangelistic Department of the Bible Institute, will be shown. Miss Haifley is now arranging dates for these lectures, and any evangelical church, missionary society, or missionary convention desirous of having this free lecture, will please communicate with her at the Bible Institute of Los Angeles, Sixth and Hope Streets, or. with the Superintendent of this department. ‘The following incident illustrates how the Gospel is “the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek (or Gentile)” A young Jewish girl lay on a sick-bed™ in the hospital. She was very ill and the physician in charge said her recovery was very doubtful. A personal worker visiting the hospital stopped for a few moments at her bedside. She was too itl to talk much, but on learning that the girl was not a believer, and fearing that she did not have long to live, the worker felt she could not leave her without tell- ing her about the “Great Physician" who could not only heal the body, if He so chose, but who only had power to heal the sin-sick soul. When asked if she would like to know for sure that all her sins were forgiven, and that if she were766 to die she would go to be with the Lord in Heaven, she answered “Yes, indeed!” ‘Then quietly, simply and in as few words as possible (how precious it is that the Gospel, unlike false systems of religion, an be told in a few words!), the story of the One that died for us all was told and believed, and those sins were for- given and that precious soul was saved, A few days later that little cot in the hospital was empty and another redeemed soul had gone to that Home above where there are no sick-beds, no suffering and no sorrow. 2 be Encouraging Results of Bible Women’s Work The Bible worker has demonstrated over and over again that the Bible is all sufficient to meet any need. Bible classes grow and prosper, and the lives of the members develop. as a result of pure Bible teach- ing, It is not nec- essary to add en- tertainments or shows or even suppers. For instance, Bible teaching produces a burden for souls. One member of a class went to a deserted mining region and immediately was desirous of ‘start- ing a Bible class and leading souls to Christ. Literature is being sent to guide her in her lessons. Another class member went to Texas, while another left for Missouri, and both have written back of their desire to give others the precious Gospel message by means of a Bible class. . From a lonely field in the desert comes word of a former Bible class member who has already started a@ Sunday School and hopes to have a class in Bible study during the week also. Bible study also produces the desire to make things right in one's own life. Members of classes are continually testi- fying to this. Bible study makes the Christian alert and energetic. Only today a member came with a plan by which WORK OF THE BIBLE WOMEN Mrs, T. C, Horton THE KING'S BUSINESS she hopes to reach the unsaved souls in her rooming house. It is also an antidote against the false religions of the day, as the following will show: After class, one of the members came bringing one who had been dabbling a little in Christian Science and New Thought. The study of the Word had convicted her and she said “Last night I picked up a book which told me to develop the divine, the God within me. I laid the book down feeling there must be something wrong with it.” She is now interested in the pure, old Gospel story which gives us a divine Lord to dwell within. Praise the Lord, His Word is a living Word, and where there is life there is growth. It had been a discouraging class, more than the usual number being too busy and interested in other lines of work, and so in spite of many days of calling and persistent invitations, it was thought best to expend the effort elsewhere. With a somewhat heavy heart the Bible woman was leaving, wondering a little why so much time and strength should be allowed to bring so little result; but “God's. ways are not our ways, nor His thoughts our thoughts.” The father of the hostess had been visiting in the home as he passed through Sunny California, and so as we are leaving we stop for a few words of greeting and farewell. “Shall we surely meet again?” we ask. The reply is “I hope so; I have lived a straight, upright life.” Then the Word is opened and explained as the one way of life,.and penitent tears are soon seen, and there is the assurance of meeting again as we part. The marked copy of the Gospel of John is accepted eagerly and with a promise that it will be read often, and the Bible woman goes her way with these words ringing in her heart, “There is joy in heaven over one sinner that repents” and the feeling that the class was worth while, after all. The Bible woman often realizes that no matter how tactfully she presents theTHE KING'S BUSINESS truth it will sometimes have the result of antagonizing the hearers, A lady who had been in Christian Science became very angry when we lovingly tried to show her the danger of that. blasphemous belief. Later she came back praising God for opening her eyes and saying that she had given it all up and was rejoicing in her Lord. She has identified herself with a church and seems well established in the Word. She has taken her two little children out of Christian Science and placed them where the true Gospel is taught. & BIBLE WORK IN CHINA ‘Those who wish to make a telling missionary investment can do nothing better than to put their money into the floating Bible Schools of China, a unique plan which has wrought won- derful results. Dr. Frank Keller is in charge of this work, which is a branch of The Bible Institute of Los Angeles, ‘The cost of one boat and equipment for one year is $1800. This includes two Bible teachers, ten colporteurs and the hire of a boat. The literature distribu- ted in a year adds another $1700, mak- ing the total $3500. The cost of a single colporteur is $60 a year. The work is limited only by the gifts. Write the Bible Institute for the booklet telling of this unique undertaking. oe PROSPERITY Upon the cover of one of the issues of The King’s Business in the year 1910, was the following quotation from Daniel Webster, words that were never more true than they are today: “If we abide with the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering and to prosper: but if we and our posterity neglect its instruction and authority, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us and bury all our glory in profound obscurity.” 767 MATTHEWS AND MATERIALISM Shailer Mathews holds that we can- not know what the Bible teaches until we have rescued it from its oriental- ism and have translated it into the terms of occidental life, or lite as it is developed in our western world. I hold precisely the reverse to be the case. ‘Lite and immortality have been brought to light in the gospel,” the ree- ord runs. We need to examine our western ideas and ideals in the light of the Scripture as it pleased God to have it written, rather than examine the Word itself by our western life with its conceited scholasticism and boasted science. Ours is an age of materialistic philosophy. Our daily papers and mag- azines are full of it. The trend of the whole thing is earthward and away from heaven and the life to come. If ever we needed a book just like the Bible we need it now. And when, rushed and fevered by our daily tur- moil, I turn to the Bible and read chapter after chapter, I find my soul caught away to another world. It calms and quiets me, for there I find life and immortality—Rev. Daniel Bryant. x - CATHOLICS IN U. 8. Catholics in the United States, not including our island possessions, now number 17,416,303, according to fig- ures in the 1918 Catholic Directory. The four states having the largest pro- portion of Catholics in hteir population are: New York, with 3,088,406; Penn- sylvania, with 1,885,000; Illinois, with 1,482,574; and Massachusetts, with 1,460,060. I am sorry for the men who do not read the Bible every day. I wonder why they deprive themselves of the strength and the pleasure. There is no other book that yields its meaning so person- ally, that seems to fit itself so inti- mately to the very spirit that is seeking its guidance——Woodrow Wilson.EXPOSITIONS J. H. Hunter HEART of the LESSON, T. C. Horton, eu ILLUSTRATIONS - W.H. Pike INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSONS Se? COMMENT - Keith L. Brooks “MY GIRLS". Mrs. H. J. Baldwin ELEMENTARY - “Mabel L. Merrill st SEPTEMBER 1, 1918. CHRISTIAN GIVING Golden Text.— ‘Remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.” Ac. 20:35. Lesson Text.—Lu. 6:30-38; 21:1-4. (Additional material, Ez. 1:2-4; Lu, 16:9; Rom, 12:8; 2 Cor, 9:6-1 (30) Give to every man that asketh of thee, and of him that taketh away thy goods, ask them not again. (31) And as ye would that men should do to vou, do ye also to them likewise. (32) For if ye love them that love you, what thank have ye? for sin- hers also love those that love them. (33) And If we do good ‘to. them which do good to you, what thank have we? for sinners ‘also do even the same. (34) And if we lend to them of whom’ we hope to receive, what thank have ve? for sinners also lend to sinners, to receive as much again. (35) But love ye your en- emies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again:’and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful,.and to the evil. (6) Be ye therefore merciful, There are two distinet objects of giv- ing in the scriptures that furnish our lesson material—our fellow men and God. Thou shalt love the Lord thy God, and thou shalt LESSON love thy neighbor, EXPOSITION said our Lord, when He was asked about the great commandment. We shall study first: 1. Our Gifts to God, Lu. 21:1-4. The scene of this incident was that part of the Temple buildings called the Court of the Women, or sometimes the 1 Chron, 29:1-5; Heb. 13:16), as your Father also is Judge not, and ye shall not judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven. (38) Give, and it shall be given unto you, good meas- ure, pressed down, and shaken to- gether, and running over, shall men give into your bosom: For with the Same measure that ye mete withal, it shall be measured to you again (21:1) and he looked up, and saw the rich men casting their gifts into the treasury. (2) And he saw a certain poor widow, casting in thither two mites. (3) And he said, Of a truth I say unto you, that this poor widow hath cast in more than they all. (4) For all these have of their abund- anee cast in unto the offerings of God, but she of her penury hath cast in all the living that she had. mereiful. (37) be Treasury. The former name was given to it because it was as far as Jewish women were permitted to go in the Temple. It measured a little more than 200 feet square. In each corner was a chamber used for some of the yarious religious ceremonies of the Temple. At its eastern entrance was the “Beautiful Gate” (Acts 3:2). On its western side was a flight of steps, ten feet high, which led up to the Court ‘of the Men (sometimes called the Court of Israel). In the Court of the Women were placed thirteen boxes with trumpetTHE KING'S BUSINESS shaped openings into which worshippers might drop their gifts for the Lord's work; hence it was sometimes called the Treasury. It was here that our ‘Lord was with His disciples on that last Tuesday before His crucifixion. As it was the’ Passover season, the court was probably crowded with men and women making their offerings. Doubtless there was a variety of motives behind the gifts, as there would be in any of our churches today; but the narrative gives us no hint that the rich men were other than sincere in what they gave. Not the motive, but the measure of the love is the point of the incident. The rich men gave and gave largely; but did not give so much that they had to forego any pleasure, or luxury, to say nothing of necessity. This does not prove that they did not love God, or that they gave from a base motive. It only shows that they were not carried out of themselves by their devotion. They were exactly like the overwhelm- ing majority of us today, no better and no worse. The poor woman gave but two mites, equal to about a half a cent. ‘This was the very smallest amount that, according to the rabbis, could be rec- ognized as an offerigg. The Master commended her gift because of the lavishness of it. He said it was “all the living that she had.” Hers was the reckless abandon of love. This was giving like unto God’s when he gave all that He had—His only begotten Son. The rich men gave gifts that they did not miss; the poor woman gave a gift that left her penniless, added her heart to it, and became by doing so a millionaire of HEAVEN. She may have gone supperless to bed; but she had meat to eat that the world knows not of. Call it sacrificial giving if you choose; but she would not call it any sacrifice. Love never sacrifices, You and I may see the sacrifice, but the lover never sees it. “‘A cheerful (i. e. a hilarious) giver’’ is the kind the Lord loves. 769 IL Our Gifts to Our Fellows, 6:30-38. 1. To whom we are to give. “Everyone that asketh of thee." In our own prosperous land we can hardly realize the poverty of an eastern land, nor of the beggary it produces. But even here we have some poor who appeal to us for help. The beggar's need is the only necessary plea. The fact that he cannot repay the gift is not to be taken into consideration, Even an enemy is not to be shut out from our giving, nor an evil man, for even the worst is still a fellow-sinner as well as a fellow-man. Luke 2. How are we to give? “As the children of the Highest.” This command to give may be thought to be absurd and impracticable by men of the world, and it is all that from their point of view. The real Chris- tian, however, does not take the world’s standard for his own conduct. He has become, through faith, a child of the Highest (cp. John 1:12; Gal. 3:26) and fixes his standards accordingly by what his Father and Elder Brother do and say. 3. The spirit of our giving. “Love your enemies.” This is eer- tainly contrary to the trend of human nature. And yet, God loves His enemies and does them good. If God’s Spirit dwells in us, we will certainly do as God does in this matter, not looking for payment. The joy of helping some one in need is itself recompense suf- ficient, because love must find an out- let. “The fruit of the Spirit (God's Holy Spirit dwelling in us) is love.” The real Christian does not love his enemies because he is commanded to do so, but because it is the natural working of his new nature. One can- not love by law, any more than he can be hungry by law, or satisfied by law. 4. The reward of our giving. ‘What greater joy ever came to a true70 son's heart than to be told, after doing something worth while, “You are your father's son, all right." Commending his Heavenly Father's love to his fel- lows by manifesting it in his own con- duct is one of the great rewards. The happiness that comes from the con- sciousness of helping another who is in greater need than himself, is another reward. The assurance that our Heav- enly Father is pleased when we act thus, is another reward. The enjoy- ment of His own loving generosity from day to day, for He repays lavishly. The anticipation of His personal approval when we see Him are other worth-while rewards, I. Seven Ways of Giving. We have .often used the following, from a circular published in Chicago some years ago. Seven Ways of Giving. 1. The careless way: To give some- thing to every cause that is presented without inquiring into its merits. 2, The impulsive way: To give from impulse—as much and as often as love and piety and sensibility prompt. 3. ‘The lazy way: To make a special offer to earn money for benevolent objects by fairs, festivals, etc. 4. The self-denying way: To save the cost of luxuries, and apply them to purposes of religion and charity. This may lead to asceticism and self-com- placence. 5. The systematic way: To lay aside as an offering to God a definite portion of our gains—one-tenth, one- fifth, one-third or one-half. This is adapted to all whether rich or poor, and gifts would be largely inereased if it were generally practiced, 6. The equal way: To give to God and the needy just as much as we spend on ourselves, balancing all our personal expenditures by our gifts. 7. The heroie way: To limit our own expenditure to a certain sum, and give away all the rest of our income. THE KING'S BUSINESS This was John Wesley's way—Dr. A. 'T. Pierson. For leaflets on Tithing, address The Layman Company, 143 N. Wabash Ave,, Chicago, Il. The lesson today will be a difficult one to teach. There is a marked con- trast between the material in Luke 6 and Matthew 5, where we had the principles of the HEART OF THE kingdom of God LESSON AND which should be PRACTICAL POINTS in operation in His kingdom. A better lesson on Christian giving will be found in 2 Cor. 8:1-15 where the whole principle is laid down for the church. There are, however, good, wholesome lessons here if we can avoid the tendency to literalize in the teach- ing. Perhaps these words will help us in teaching the truth set forth here,— ‘The Motive; the Manner; The Measure of Giving. The Motive in our Christian giving should be love to God, for "whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all to the glory of God.” Love to God finds its expression in ourelove to mem; the only way we show our love to God is to lav- ish it upon the children of men. We are to give because it is God-like. God is a giver, the Giver of every good and perfect gift. God loves to give; He gave His Son, and with Him he will freely give us all things. By nature, we are selfish, and we need to cultivate the habit of the new nature which is that of giving. The Mamner of Giving: We should give wisely. The text says “Give to him that asketh thee.” If a man asks for a revolver we would not feel under obligation to give it to him. Suppose a man asked you for a hundred dollars and you had it,—would you feel a nec- essity laid upon you to give it to him? If a drinking man asks for money, you would not feel obliged to respond toTHE KING'S BUSINESS his request, knowing that he spend it for drink, ‘There are two sides to truth. “Give to him that asketh thee.” But the other side is “If a man will not work neither shall he eat.” We are facing two Serip- tures. If you give to a lazy man, you nullify God’s commandment that he must work if he is able to work, If you give carelessly you may aid a man in the violation of the law. But you must give willingly, cheer- fully. God loves a cheerful giver. Your gift is to God. You make it to some needy one as the channel through which you minister to God. There is great joy in giving; there is real happiness if the habit is formed and developed. You must give worthily, ‘Especially to the household of faith” is a Serip- tural injunction. There is a great deal of foolish, unworthy giving . We must exercise wisdom in giving. All that we have belongs to the Lord, so that we must be eareful and prayer- ful in using the means entrusted to us by Him. ‘The Measure in Giving: If we are giving to God, giving to glorify Him, we must give our best and our most. What should be the measure of our gifts to God? Give without stint. We can find some splendid suggestions. in the Old Testament. In 2 Chron. 29th chapter, we find that David gave abun- dantly for the temple. He says “The palace (temple) is not for man, but for the Lord God” and then enumerates the gifts he has prepared, and the peo- ple to whom he appealed rejoiced, for “with a perfect heart they offered will- ingly.” And David in his rejoicing for the largeness of the gifts said, “O, Lord our God, all this store that we have prepared to build thee a house for thy holy name, cometh of thine own hand, and is all thine own.” First, give our own selves. Then lay all that we have and are at His would zt feet, and as stewards use all for His glory. We must exercise wisdom; we must give willingly; we must give worthily, and we must also give wholly. Tithing is good; better than the average Christian giving, but it is only _ paying what we owe. Giving does not come under the head of tithing. “Give and it shall be given unto you.” PRACTICAL POINTS “The gift of God is eternal life.” God loveth a hilarious giver. “Give and it shall be given unto you; pressed down and running over." Many people do not get because they do not give. Giving is a gracious habit; get it. The best giver is not always the biggest. The widow's mite was with all her might, The great giver giver. ay (2).. (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) is a gracious Giving Is A Privilege During the Chapman meetings in Australia a man went out to preach in the country and when he was crossing a railroad bridge, a train surprised him, and while try- PERTINENT ing to escape with ILLUSTRATIONS his life, he had both hands cut off. Dr. Chapman persuaded a wealthy man to go to the hospital and visit this afflicted worker. While there the man of means wrote out a check for $500 and laid it on the handless arms. The fellow looked up and said, “Mr. I was praying in the night for God to send me $500 to meet expenses.” When outside the hospital the wealthy man threw his arms around Dr. Chapman and said, “Is this the blessing you get for doing Christian work.” Giving is a Duty The Jew in the Old Testament gave a tenth. Then when you counted up,772 all the other offerings it amounted to about 40% of his income. But God so blessed those that gave that the more they gave the more they had to. give. A man in the middle west has been giving liberally to God's work. His business has so increased that he now pays a clerk $50.00 a week to give away his income to worthy causes. Giving a Business It is told of Mr. Huyler, the famous chocolate merchant, that in the later part of his life his income was so great that he set apart one entire office to giving away the proceeds of Huylers chocolates. He personally took charge of this office and did nothing else but look after the distributions of its div- idends. This story is told of Wm. Colgate, the poor bey who left home because the family was so poor. He started for New York City and on the tow path an old canal boat captain asked him where he was going and had a word of prayer with him. When they arose from their knees the old captain said, “William, what can you do?" “Make tallow can- dles and soft soap,” he replied. “Well,” said the captain, “Give your heart to God and ten cents out of every dollar you earn, and maybe God will need a great soap maker some day.” Young Colgate did this, and then inereased to fifteen cents on a dollar and then to twenty-five and on up until he was giv- ing half his income to God’s work. Before he died, it is said, he gave his entire income to carry on God's work in the world. Giving Brings Reward A Christian worker in one field had but seven dollars in the world and a family to support. While in a meeting the conviction came to give five dollars toward the support of a missionary. After some struggle from within, he gave the $5.00. While walking home, a man met him and placed in his hands a ten dollar bill. If we never give out THE KING'S BUSINESS there is no place open for God to give in. The story is told of an old deacon, who, when missionary Sunday came, cut his offering in half because he thought he could not afford to give so much. When he arrived home from church, he found his best cow dead. He said, “Lord I will give the full amount next time.” We cannot afford not to give. Giving a Command “Give to him that asketh thee.” “Honor the Lord with thy substance.” Sydney Smith said, ‘You will find peo- ple ready enough to do the Samaritan without the oil and twopence," but we want a few like the good Samaritan who will give the oil and the two pence too. Give to every man, 6:30. Lit. “be giving,” implying a habit, not an instant act. Careless giving is a curse and infliets COMMENT an injury. The FROM MANY spirit of the pre- SOURCES cept is large-handed but thoughtful char- ity. Love must some-times violate the letter as the only possible way of observing the spirit—-Camb. Bible. v. 34, Ye hope to receive. Bear the load of thy neighbor's poverty and let him bear with thee the load of thy wealth. Thou lightenest thy load by lightening his —Augustine, v. 85 Your reward shall be great. Acts 20:35 was among the texts marked by George Muller of Bristol in his Bible, as having been especially blessed to his soul and as influentially operative on his life and character. Again and again in his diary, Mr. Muller records that he had verified the truth of the Lord’s saying —W. B. R. Wilson. Talk of the yellow peril! Chri tians believe that the only yellow peril is the lust for gold, by which men lose their reward.—Bryan. He who has the right grasp of the Gospel will neverTHE KING'S BUSINESS grieve over what he has to give up for what he thus parts with, he really invests to receive again with larger inerease.—Sel. Liberality takes poison out of riches.—Sel. v. 86, Be merciful, God can only be our ideal in His moral attributes of whieh His merey is the center.—Van- Oosterzee. Merey is so good a servant that it will never let its master die a beggar. Though merey makes your pocket lighter it will make your crown heavier. It is a greater honor to give like a prince for Christ's cause than live like a prince for self—Dyer. Your charity should seek God’s poor before they seek your charity—Moncrieff, y. 88, Give—shall be given you, ‘True givers are never losers. Receiv- ing is increasing ones liabilities for the future. Giving is lessening liability and putting out at interest. After many days, the gift shall return. Receivers are less blessed than givers.—Mon- crieff. Clipping wings is the only way to prevent riches from flying away as the “eagle."—Glasgow. Find me the instance of a man who became poor by giving as a Christian. I'll find you murmurs and regrets from human hearts for every other way in whieh money can be sunk, but never a mur- mur from the soul of a saint for having given to Jesus—(Our Giving). I have lost all except what I have given away. --Mark Antony. No man is a better merchant than he who lays out his time and his money upon the poor.— Bishop Taylor. He who is infinitely blessed is the infinite Giver, and man, made in His likeness was intended to find his highest blessedness in the completest self giving. He who receives but does not give is like the Dead Sea, —H. Taylor. 21:1. Looking up, saw the rich men. As temple offerings are needed still for the service of Christ at home and abroad, so “looking down” now, as then ‘‘up,"’ He sees who casts in and how much.—Jamieson. 723 v. 2, Two mites, She might have kept one,—Bengel. Many a poor man whose gift is so small that it awakens contempt in the heart of many a chureh treasurer, is nevertheless so large that it awakens admiration in the heart of our Savior —Torrey. v. 3 More than all, One coin “out of a little is better than a treasure out of much and it is not considered how much is given but how much remains behind.—Ambrose. The true estimate of human actions is according to their quality, not their quantity.—Godet. The givers of time are the millionaires of eternity.—Monerieff. The bread which God sends down from heaven, if it be not used, stinks like the unused manna and becomes an offense. There is a double blessing in the sacred use of worldly wealth. There is not only the promised blessing of the increase of it, but besides, the favor of the Lord in spiritual blessings.—Bishop, _Propor- tion thy charity to the strength of thy estate lest God proportion thy estate to the weakness of thy charity.— Quarles. Don’t expect much of men after they have gotten to be million- aires—A New York capitalist. From the hand of an able-bodied man or well- dressed woman a penny dropped into the offering plate may be an abomina- tion in the sight of God and man. The instinct of meanness is more apt to show itself in connection with a church collection than in any other place.— Sel. Before people give money they must give THEMSELVES.—Moncrieff. God the Great Giver Have you realized how God loves to give? God created this world, the moun- tains, the seas, forests, plains, sun, stars, birds and flowers, then gave them to us to possess and My enjoy. Practically every- GIRLS thing that constitutes our lite is a gift from God: Air, sunshine, water, food, shelter and clothing. We are absolutely dependent774 upon God for these gifts, We cannot merit them, buy, nor manufacture them. God's greatest gifts are His spiritual gifts. ‘That which cost God most was His Son. “God so loved the world that He gave.” God had nothing too good to give to us. Since He spared not His own son, He will “with Him freely give us all things,” (Rom, 2) whatever our need may be. (Phil. 4:19). Giving brings God joy. He wants us to learn the secret of joy. Nature Gives Can you think of anything that God has created that He has not intended should give itself for another and that does not lose its usefulness if hoarded to itself? Wheat is of no value until it surrenders itself for food. Coal in the mine is useless until it is burned up for fuel. The pond of water which has no outlet becomes stagnant and germinates disease, Imagine a rose- bud saying, “I will not give my beauty and fragrance away.” So it draws its petals tight. Unopened buds have neither fragrance nor color. God Expects Us to Give God wants first of all just ourselves. He is not so anxious for our gifts as for us. If we truly yield ourselves to Him we will realize that we are not our own, but that all we have, time, talents, money belong to Him. We will not ask “how much money shall I give, but how mueh of God’s money shall I keep for myself? All things come of thee and of thine own hand we give them.” (1 Chron, 29.4) Mrs. Hettie Green who died recently leaving $100,000,000 was anything but rich. She lived in constant fear of being murdered for her money. Under assumed names she roved from one cheap boarding house to another in terror lest her identity be learned and she be asked for money. She spent little upon herself. Her thought was chiefly of investments and re-invest- ments, Poor woman. THE KING'S BUSINESS God does not ask us to give because He needs our money. God is not poor. Streets in heaven are paved with gold. (Rev. 21:18). God asks us to give so that He can bless us for the giving. Our giving releases God so that He can give to us. The more we give to Him the more He can and will give to us. Some- one said “Giving is the same as hand- ing God a basket which He fills and passes back to us.” Giving is like put- ting a chute into our eellar so that God can send down to us from His exhaust- less storehouse and mine. God sees to it that if a girl gives anything to Him that it comes back to her a thousand fold, You can't beat God in giving, Orientals crowd grain in a measure, shake it well, crowd it down, adding more and more until the measure is running over. If we give God all He wants of us He returns to us all that we can hold. God looks at the size of the heart of the giver and not at the size of the gift. The poor widow undoubtedly gave the smallest amount of money, yet Christ said she had given “more than they all.” v. 3. Bobbie wanted to give Fido a heaping plate of chicken and potato Mother said'“No,” but after dinner he might have the bones and seraps. Do we not treat God much the way dogs are treated, the left-over time, the nickel or dime for which we have no other use is often all that we give God. Many would say, this girl had noth- ing to give, She and her parents are poor. She is broken in health, unable to work. Last week she sent $200.00 for missionary work in Hgypt. Some friends had helped, but she and her family had saved most of the amount. ‘They do without butter and eggs. She patches her waists, turns her dresses, and retrims her hats. This dear girl counts it the privilege of life that God allows her to share in His work by giv- ing time, strength and money, Do your girls have the joy of tithing? See 1 Cor. 16:2; 2 Cor. 9:6-8; Mal. 3:8-10.THE KING'S BUSINESS Christian Giving. Ex. 35:20-29 Memory Verse.— ‘It more blessed to give than to receive.” Acts 20:35. Approach.—How many of you boys and girls ever gave a present to mother on her birthday, or at Christmas time? Were you very happy when you were thinking about the present you were g0- ing to give her? Yes, and you could hardly wait, and you were just so happy you almost told mother about it before it was time. Why do we give our mothers presents? Because we love them, Yes, it makes us very happy to give to those we love, and that is just what Jesus tells us in our story for today, and now I am going to repeat the words Jesus said about giv- ing, and then you can say it after me. (Memory Verse.) Let us bow our heads and thank God for giving us Jesus. Lesson Story.—A long, long time ago before there was any church in the world for people to go to, God spoke to a man by the name of Moses, who was a minister, and told him to build a church, and God showed Moses just the kind of a church He wanted the people to build, One day Moses called all the people together and told them some- thing very wonderful. He told them God had called him up on the mountain and talked with him, and now he was going to tell them what God had told him, You know at the time our story happened, there were no Bibles, so God talked to the ministers, so they could tell the people what to do. Moses told the people how God wanted the church uit, ‘and that He wanted the people to bring all the things that would be needed to build this church, and now the people would have a chance to show their love to God for what He had done for them. Moses told them they would need a lot of gold and silver, brass, wood, precious stones, blue and purple and red cloth, nice white linen and some oil for the lamp. You see there were BEGINNERS. 775 so many things needed, everybody eould have a part in bringing something to Moses to help build this first church, and this always shows how much we love God, for we said this morning we loved to give to those whom we loved, and now we will see how much these people loved God. When Moses had finished talking to the people they went back to their homes, and began to look around to see what they could give, and my what busy days for these people, for they began to gather together their gold and silver, brass, boards, stones, cloth and fine linens and brought them to Moses, and I know the boys and girls were just as busy as they could be, tak- ing their little gifts, or helping father and mother carry their gifts to Moses. Our story tells us that all the gifts the people brought were gifts from hearts that loved God, and they were very happy as they carried all these things to Moses, and what do you think hap- pened? Moses had to ask them not to bring any more for they had enough, and the people were still bringing in more. How happy the people were and God was happy for this showed how the people loved Him, Now this is such a lovely story, for everybody wants to be happy, and now we have found out this morning the only way to be really, truly happy is to give ourselves to Jesus, and then we will love Him, and that will make us want to give all we can to help God's work down here on earth. Closing Prayer.—Dear Lord Jesus we thank thee for letting us help by our gifts. a TRIALS Far too well my Saviour loved me, To allow my life to be One long, calm, unbroken summer, One unruffied, stormless sea; He would have me fondly nestling Closer to his loving breast; He would have that world seem brighter Where alone is perfect rest. —Setected776 THE KING'S BUSINESS SEPTEMBER 8, 1918. CONQUERING EVIL Golden Text.—‘Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.” Eph. 5:11. Lesson Text.—1 Ki. 21:11-20; Eph. 5 1-18. (Additional material, Deut. 9:18; Ps. 94:16; Prov. 17:10; 25:12; Lu. 4:1-13; 19:41-48; Rom. 7:14-8:14; 2 Tim, 4:2). (11) And the men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who were the inhabitants in his city, did as Jezebel had sent unto them, and as it was written in the letters which she had sent unto them. (12) ‘They pro claimed @ fast, and set Naboth on h among the people. (13) And re came in two men, children of Belial, and sat before him: and the men of Belial bare witness against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Na- both did blasphemeGod and the king, ‘Then they carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him with stones that he died. (14) Then they sent to Jazebel, saying, Naboth is stoned, and is dead. (15) ‘And it came to pass, when Jezebel heard that Naboth was stoned, and was dead, that Jezebel said to Ahab, Arise, take possession of the vineyard of 'Naboth the Jez~ reelite, which he refused to give thee for money: for Naboth is not alive, but dead. (16) And it came to pass, when Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, that Ahab rose up to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jez~ Teelite, to take possession of it. (17) And the word of the LORD came to Elijah the Tishbite, “saying, (18) Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of Teraei, which is in Samaria: behold in the vineyard of Naboth, I. A New Attitude Towards Evil. Every born-again Christian has changed his attitude towards evil. Once he was “darkness,” and evil was his native element; but now he is “light lin the Lord,” and ehar- acter and conduct are such as can stand the light (cp. 1 John 1:7). The bent of his desires is from evil towards holiness. His likes and dislikes are changed. The evil that he once loved he now hates, and the righteousness that he once hated he now longs for. This chance of atti- tude is fundamental. Hi. A New Attitude Towards God. Before being born again there may have been some exceptional moments ‘LESSON EXPOSITION | | whither he is gone down to possess it, (19) And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Hast thou killed, and also taken possession? And thou shalt speak Unto him, saying, ‘Thus ‘saith. the LORD, in the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine. (20) And Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me, O mine enemy? And he answered I have found thee: because thou hast sold thyself to work evil In the sight of the LORD (Eph. 5:11), And have no fellowship with the unfruitful Works of darkness, but rather re- brove them, (2) For it isa shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret. (13) But all ‘things that’ are. reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth ‘make manifest ts light. (14) “Wherefore he _ saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light, (15) See then that ye Walk clreumspectly, not as fools, but as wise. (16) Redeeming the time, Because the days sare evil CIT) Wherefore be ye not unwise, but un- derstanding what the will of the Lord is. (8) And be not drunk with Wine, Wherein is excess: but be lied with the Spirit, when conscience was awakened and when spasmodic attempts were made to serve God. And these attempts may have had some measure of success. They were not permanent because new life was lacking and so was new principle, The real Christian resists sin: 1. That he may please God who is his Father and friend; not that he may placate an angry but powerful advers- ary, v. 10. 2. ‘That he may sustain his Father's honor; not that he may win honor tor himself, v. 8. 3. ‘That Le may take his Father's part against the hosts of si; not that he may gain victory for himself. IM. A New Attitude Towards Christ. The reat Christian realizes thatTHE KING'S BUSINESS Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and ever patronizes or condescends to Him (v. 5, 20, 21). The real Christian, conscious of his sinfulness (not merely of his sins), finds in Jesus Christ one who bore his sins “in His own body on the tree” (1 Peter 2:24), his substitute Saviour, and accepts Him as his own (v. 14). “O break, O break, hard heart of mine! Thy weak self-love and guilty pride His Pilate and His Judas were: Jesus, our Love, is erucified.”” The real Christian surrenders his “life to Jesus Christ as his Lord trom whom he receives directions for his daily life, and delights in doing His will (15, 16.) . The real Christian ‘shuns the alco- holic spirit of wine with its false and fleshly exhilaration, and seeks to be “filled with the Spirit” of Christ the Holy Spirit (v. 18). The real Christian enjoys the fellow- ship of those who love his Saviour, and finds his sweetest enjoyment in uniting with them im singing His praises in “psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs,” from his heart and not merely wtih his ips (v. 19.) The real Christian is a praising Christian, and even his praises he offers to God through Jesus Christ our Lord (v.20). IV. A New Experience with Tempta- tion. The real Christian is a triumphant Christian, He not only assumes a new attitude towards evil, but he enters into a new experience with it. He meets temptation and now overcomes where formerly he fell. He is so busy doing the Lord’s will that he “buys up every opportunity” for saying or doing some- thing for Him. The busy man may be tempted by the devil, but the idle man tempts the devil. ‘The secret of his victory is that his life is lived in the sphere of the Holy Spirit. Notice well that nmame—the Holy Spirit. How can anyone whose life 777 is directed and filled with the Spirit who is the Holy Spirit consciously, deliberately, willfully, walk in the way of darkness of the flesh? V. A New Standard of Values, see 1 Kings 21. To the real Christian eternal things assume a higher value than earthly things. No real Christian ever spoke slightingly of Heaven and its glories and its fellowships, or set the present above the future. All the saints of the Past counted themselves to be strang- ers and pilgrims passing through this world to a better one. They felt bound to resist evil, even though it might mean the spoiling of their goods and the loss of life itself, and they endured as seeing Him who is invisible. Naboth lost his life and Ahab gained a vineyard from a human point of view. From a real Christian point of view Naboth gained the victory, and entered in to “the joy of (his) Lord,” and heard His blessed commendation: “Well done, good and faithful servant.” Ahab lost that which would have made the pos- session of the vineyard a pleasure; the day dream became a nightmare; the blessing became a curse; his life went out on a lost battlefield; his dynasty became extinct; he lost all and gained nothing. What is your standard of values? In this theme we have a great les- son—a study in human nature, varied in character, and some unusually dra- matic features which will afford an opportunity to HEART OF THE ~~ paint graphic LESSON AND pictures. PRACTICAL POINTS Contrast the weak, cowardly Ahab and the strong, selfish, devilish Jezebel; the crafty, servile elders with the sterling religious nature and the strong courage of Hlijah. Here is a revelation of the conse- quences of dallying with sin and tri