FEBRUARY, 1919 ET no man deceive you 1 there come and that by any means; for that day shall not come except falling away first m.of ‘ain be ve he son of perdition Therefore, Brethren, stand fast, and hold the teachi ngs which ye have been taught whether by word or our epistle 2 Thes. 2:4, 15THE KING’S BUSINESS | T. C. HORTON, Editor KEITH L. BROOKS, Managing Editor || R-A-TORREY,D.D. FREDERIC W.FARR, J. H. HUNTER W.-H. PIKE | Contributing Editors if EDITORIAL THE ILLOGICAL Sophistry of Newell Dwight Hillis For ten years The Family Altar has heen a welcome visitor to thou- sands of Christian homes. It has on its editorial committee, Board of Directors and Advisory Board some of the leading evangelists and minis- ters of the country. But the December number must have brought serrow to the souls of many of the saints who have followed tae teaching and inspiration of this little paper with such great pleasure. Jn this number is a sermon by Newell Dwight Hillis entitled ** Where Are Our Slain Soldier Boys?” which is as false to God and Christ and the Holy Spirit and the teaching of the Bible as was ever the utteranees of Robert Ingersoll, The sermon is full of highsounding words, pyrotechnies for the gallery, but beneath all is the subtle poison of Satan which is being so insiduously introduced into all quarters of the church, Here are a few seleetions: “In old times the youth who performed some brave deed fell upon his knees before the throne, while the king touched his shoulder, and cried: ‘Rise up, sir knight!’ But all these noble ones who digd that our institutions might live, have been knighted. * * * With a certain solemn pride and a glory shining upon our tears, we celebrate young soldiers who received from God in advance the great assurance of immortality. * * * The psychology of the soldier's conviction that if he falls he will find his own and live again, and that there is a meeting place of the dead, has a certain moral sense of justice in it. Uncon- sciously they put their theology as to life immortal, into these words: ‘When you grow accustomed to the fellows dying, you just know that somehow there must be a God that will make it up to them.’ * * * But the young soldier who has nobly sacrificed himself upon the field of battle, the martyr, the patriot, the men who haye been tested by suffering, as-gold is tried in the fire, the mothers and the fathers who have given up their best beloved because they love what God loves, and hate what God hates, shall enter into the empire of eternai beauty, truth, jugtiee, scienee, liberty, and develop until no imagination can conceive the kingdom of gold and amethyst in which these shall live and reign as centers of light and love. * * * © men you cannot beat France and Britain with men and women so divine. These are the souls for which God made the world. They have slain death and dying. For them victory is inevitable, both here and there. * * * In this great hour, therefore, look toward your son and say: ‘My son, he is; God's soldier let him be, 1 could not wish him a fairer death, The whole sermon is Unitarian and full of those smooth sentences so well ealeulated to deceive even the elect, and in perfect harmony with all the infidel teaching of those ministers and laymen who have trampled under foot the solemn words of the Scripture, and are. putting on thrones in heaven, the men who have died in the war. The men who died in the war were fighting for a righteous cause, but400 THE KING'S BUSINESS why are they more entitled to these splendid epithets than men who died in the Civil War? And are these men who died in France entitled to more of eulogy than the thousands who have died in our camps, for had they not also yielded their lives to their government and were ready to face the death which came to their comrades? And if men can go to heaven by enlisting in the army and laying down their lives, for heaven’s sake let us get as many men as possible into the regular army and save them from hell! For pure, unadulterated, illogical sophistry, nothing can compare with such devilish doctrines; but, thank God, thousands of soldiers are testifying to their abhorrence of such teaching. The men know that they ave sinners — * and have no confidence in meeting a righteous God without a consciousness of a sin-bearing Saviour. We trust that The Family Altar in its next issue will repudiate this message from Mr. Hillis—T. C. H. z FAITH-WRECKING INSTITUTIONS We take the following from ‘‘The Evangelical’’; “A Faith-Wrecking University: Mr. J. C. Moore, writing in The Herald and Presbyter, states that several years ago, in a conversation with Rev. Dr. Tunnell, & prominent Baptist minister of Morristown, Tenn., on the subject of the Chicago University, the Doctor made this startling declaration: ‘I have never known a young man who went to Chicago University that did not come away from there with his religious beliefs wreeked.’ This was said after Mr. Moore had expressed the opinion that if ‘John D.’ had invested his millions in saloons and gambling houses over the country they would not do as much harm as has his much-boasted university, In the same paper, another writer, referring to Union Theological Seminary in New York, with Dr. McGiffert at the head, quotes a Chicago Daily to this effect: ~‘Is there no place in Which to assail Christianity but a divinity school? To permit men who deny the Christian fundamentals to use an office of the Church for the dissemination of unbelief, to permit them to instil the poison of their teaching into the minds of the coming ministers and pastors, is surely nothing less than treason.’ Strong words are these, but amply justified by the distressing, saddening facts. Easy, silent tolerance of such conditions is little less than a crime against those who are being poisoned by the unchristian teach- ing of such institutions.” Good for the Chicago daily, above referred to. Many secular news- papers are voicing sound doctrine in these days and are striking hard at the enemies of the truth who, clothed in the gown of the priest and preacher and fattening at the expense of the church, are using their position to destroy the foundation of the faith of the true church, ‘There should be a combined attack of the real evangelical forees against the Satanic powers entrenched in the fortress at Chieago.—T. C. II. a & CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS “Taking Their Medicine” Some interesting events were chronicled in Los Angeles during the influenza ban. The Christian Scientists were in bad. The law said that no churches should be open. Now, inasmuch as in the ereed of the Scientist there is no sickness, there could, of course, be no death; and if there could be no death, there could be no need of a ban; consequently they were = .THE KING'S BUSINESS 101 greatly humiliated. They were forged to admit that the city authorities believed in sickness and death, and by closing their churches, compelled them to subseribe to such a law. They sought to violate the law by opening their churehes and one chureh did make a test of the law. The judge before whom the case came, was taken down with the influenza, and the ban lifted hefore he was lifted from his hed. It was a new lesson for a great city to learn,—the lesson of the possibil- ity of disaster that would arise if the Scientists should be in the majority in the city government. Very many of the Scientists died, however, and strange stories have been told of practitioners down with the “flu,’’ attended by physicians who were urged to come to their homes at night, leaving their machines a block away so that the dear people would not know that the practitioners were sick. One physician, called by a Scientist, tells the following: On entering the room the Scientist said, in a quivering voice, ‘Doctor, what do you think of my case?”’ The doctor replied, ‘ £You are a very sick man.”’ Trembling, ‘‘Doetor, can you do anything for me?’’ ‘Yes, if you will take my medicine.’’? Eagerly, ‘‘I’ll take your medicine, doctor!’’ and he did, and will live to testify how wonderfully he was healed by “absent _ treatment!’’ For they will all lie, and deceit is the basic principle of their cult, fora “lie is but an error of mortal mind,’’ so—let it lie!—T. C. H. se. se a ed DISHONEST USE of the Gospel Flag and Uniform One of The Hague rules of war prohibits the making of improper use of a flag of truce, of the national flag, or of the military insignia and uni- form of the enemy. It means that combatants must fight under their own flag and in their own uniforms. What would happen in Christendom today if church members who believe their Bibles should apply a rule of this kind to the ministry? When a preacher discovers that he is out of gear with the teachings of the Bible, and hopelessly at variance with the tenets .of his Church, what should he do? Should he keep right on working under the flag of the Chureh when he is entirely out of adjustment with his ordination vows, either denying openly from his pulpit the fundamental doctrines for which the Chureh stands, or keeping silent on the supreme topics he promised to preach about, because he no loi believes in them? If any sinner on the streets were to be asked the question, ‘‘ What should a minister do who does not believe the doctrines of his Church?’’ doubtless a quick answer would be forthcoming. The most dangerous infidelity today is that which masquerades in the livery of heaven. It cannot be denied that there is an ever-increasing number of ‘‘pulpit apostates’’—men who, while they stand under the flag of the Gospel and wear the uniform of the Church, yet are doing the work of Ingersoll, Voltaire and Paine, and filling the minds of the people with interrogation marks instead of the love of Jesus Christ. Herbert Booth recently said, ‘“Thousinds of sermons today, despite all the maneuvers of eloquence and gesture, don’t go. God is withholding His Spirit. The minister is a crackerjack at psychology, biology, physiology,102 a THE KING'S BUSINESS ‘He has a terrible case OFF | ue" for he has oe Sugnced philosophy and foolosophy. mt the pulpit eylinder is out of ad, ment with the divine ud though there is plenty of ‘gas,’ there isn’t any real dynamie power, and no progress is made with thé Gospel passenger service to heaven.”’ This is the day of roi.g delusion’’—the day in whieh-the devi chief instrament a lie’? (2 Thess, 2:9-11), Of these days the Christian is warned, “let no man deceive you by any means, for that day shall not come except there come a falling away first.’ The great world: war has helped on this apostasy, and if there was ever a time when the Bible-loving remnant in the churches should stand together, it is now. Pray for the ministers that they may be hold to preach the unadulter- ated Gospel of Jesus Christ. If some ave determined to betray the flag of the Church, pray God to remove them. Above all, let no condition in the Church hinder definite soul saving worl If the Gospel is not deine preached, it is all the more the responsibility of the heliever to engawe in the most definite kind of personal work—K. Ll. B. a mw a “THE SIGNS OE THE TIMES” 'This was the title of adittle- pamphlet recently attractive and suguestive. We opened it with int in the Hast’? was the caption over their ‘*Decla first page, as follows “(1) We believe that a Great Teacher will soon appear in the world, and we wish so to live now that we may be worthy to know Him when He comes. (2) We shall try, therefore, to keep Him in our minds always, and to do in His name, and therefore to the best of our ability, all the work which comes to us in our daily occupations. (3) As far as our ordinary duties allow, we shall endeavor to devote a portion of our time each day to some definite work which may help to prepare for His coming. (4) We shall seek to make DEVOTION, STEADFASTNESS and GENTLE- NESS prominent characteristics of our daily life. mailed tous. It looked st. *‘Order of the Star ration of Principles’? on theTHE KING'S BUSINESS . 103 (5) We shall try to begin and end each day with a short period devoted to the asking of His blessing upon all we try to do for Him and in His name. “ (6) We regard it as our snecial duty to try to recognize and reverence greatness in whomsoever shown, and to strive to co-operate, so far as we can, with those whom we feel to be spiritually our superiors. All in agreement with the above principles, are cordially invited to join the Order." Who can find any fault with these ‘‘principles?’’ How delightfully subtle is the soothing voice of the hidden one! But listen to another extract: “So it is not wonderful that many are looking and longing for the advent of one of the Elder Brethren of the race, and that this world-wide expectation has found organized expression in the Order of the Star inthe East. * * * Many mystics and accultists among the Hindus also see in this world catastrophe the ending of the darkest cycle of the Kali Yuga or Iron Age, and they look, there- fore, for the coming of the World Teacher to bless the New Age at its birth.” “There is al86 a growing movement in Buddhism which expects the advent of the Maitreya Bodhisattva, the Lord of Compassion. So in this world-wide Order thousands of members of different race, creeds and castes are being drawn together in loving expectation of the appearing of Earth’s Greatest Teacher. No name do they give to Him whom each man worships according to his own ideal, believing that the Great Teacher must be recognized in the heart, aud not by the label which he bears. If wé put the name of the Lord Jesus in place of ‘‘the Great Teacher, could we not say amen to their declavation of principles? But when one names Him as hut ‘tone of the Elder Brethren of the race,’’ he is at once a blasphemer-against-God_ the Father, and_God the Son. The softer and more soothing the sophistry, the more easily will the poor ignorant flies light upon the ointment. This tract was from the Theosophical Society with an invitation to come into their parlor, Not only the Theosophists, but the Buddhists and the Mohammedans are all looking for the coming of a great Teacher, Strange, is it not, that a great many in the ehureh, with the Bible in their hands, are not looking for their Great Teacher, the Man Christ Jesus, our coming Lord,—T. C, IL. THE PERSUASIVE POWER of the Printed Page It cannot be denied that this is a day in w reaching conclusions i i things, by reading and not by listening. ich thousands of people are The vapid spread of all kinds of heresies is very largely due to the printed p It_is true—t men_are not reading long diwwn-out theological discussions, but they are reading the pointed and attractively arranged short articles, that grip the soul, ‘The leaders of heresies are working ‘early and late to issue and ¢ireulate attractive and cleverly worded things. Is it not time for true Christians to be awake to the opportunity of reaching souls for Christ by the distribution of the right kind of literature? Dr. A, ©. Dixon recently said, ‘‘The objection that people do not read strictly religious articles is not well taken. If I had the money, I would fill at least a column of every daily paper in this land/with saving Gospel Truth. If the editors would not publish it as reading matter, I would insert it as advertisements, and make the way to heaven\so plain that every reader would hav e no exeuse for being lost.’”104 THE KING'S BUSINESS “Me printed word comes with a quie repulsive manner. Attention is nO’ attracted which it is delivered. It persistently presents its claims and makes no reply. We must still depend, as in apostolic times,.on the pen for indoctrin- ation. Rich men need to wake up to the importance of spending money in supporting the printed as well as the spoken Gospel. —K. L. B. GIGANTIC UNDERTAKINGS of the Last Days Five years ago the world was peacefully jogging along in the eustoms and ruts of its forefathers. Everyone was doing his bit in that corner ot the earth. where he happened to be born. Only a few traveling men, mis- sionaries and globe-trotters were away from home. But how changed today. Millions of people are thousands of miles from the scenes of their child- hood; soldiers across the seas; sailors in every latitude and longitude; refugees wandering in unknown lands. Even Kings, Presidents, st atesmen, ministers, doctors and nurses are miles from their hearthstones. It is the exception today to find a family where each member still remains at home. ‘What a change in five years! Who dared prophecy in 1914 that 58,514,700 men from Great Britain, Italy, Russia, Belgium, Germany, Aus- tria- Hungary, Turkey, Bulgaria, United States. France, China, Japan, India and Australia would meet in Europe? A number nearly twiee as great as the entire population of South America. The question has often been asked. how can so many events of such large magnitude take place during the seventieth week of Daniel’s prophecy, (Dan. 9-24-27) the time of “the great Tribulation.’ This is easily answered in the greatness and swiftness of the events that have transpired in the past four years. Think of America alone. putting in France, in a year and a half, 967 standard gauge locomotives and 13,174 freight cars of American manufacture and building 843 miles of standard gauge railway. Then add to that 53,000 motor vehicles of all descriptions. to say nothing about air. craft, tanks and guns. Also pile up the 390,000,000 rations of beans 183,000,000 rations of flour and its substitutes, 267,000,000 rations of milks. 161,000,000 rations of butter, 143,000,000 rations of sugar, 89,000,000 rations of meat, 57,000,000 rations of coffee and 113,000,000 rations of hominy ana rice. These gigantic endeavors answer our question. How ‘quickly the whole world came under the restrictions of food laws and other war rulings, This fact will answer many of the doubts suggested in reading Rev~13. Some have wondered how the Jews could be gathered and their temple rebuilt in such a short time as en yeal When we think of the vast number of men being moved to different parts of Burope and Asia; and all these provided with food and clothing, we have a gigantic task exceeding in magnitude, the birth and o jon of a new Jewish nation in Palestine. ‘Then again consider the 24,536,108 casualties during this period, means thousands of doctors, nurses, ambulances, hospitals and other paraphernalia. Here is a sick population as great as the entire popu- lation of Jews in the world and yet they ave housed and given medical attention.THE KING'S BUSINESS 105 Then. let the immense fortifications of the Hindenburg line impress you. Think of the laborers and prisoners who worked on these mammoth cement underground srtuctures. [onder the buildings and equipment of our own cantonments. Then consider the immense ship yards where an ocean liner has been brought into heing as by magic. Think of these titanic achievements in less than five years and most of them in the past three years, and you will have no difficulty in believing what the Scriptures have to say about the future events of Palestine and the rebuilding of a Jewish temple. —W. HP. BOOK REVIEW DEPARTMENT Many of our readers will be gratified to know that Dr. Torrey has consented to edit the Book Review Department. CHURCHLESS SUNDAYS The war brought us “gasless Sun- days,” but it has taken a plague to bring us churehless Sundays. One of the things that a-churchless Sunday is impressing upon the community is the need for church service. People who seldom went into churches now are demanding that they be opened for worship. Sorrow and death have vis- ited so many homes in the past few weeks that there are thousands who are thinking about God as they never did before, We venture to say that the comfort the reading of the Bible It behooves Christians in these times to exercise the greatest of care in the selection of books. are sure, will be highly valued by many. Dr. Torrey's discussions, we brings, is again being diseovered in a multitude of instances. May it not be that’ God designed that through this plague those who had forgotten Him should be reminded of their opportun- ity to turn to Him for peace and help? —-The Monitor. a A SMILE “If I knew that the light of a Smile Might linger the whole day through And lighten some heart With a heavier part, I wouldn't withhold it— Would you?” Se =i Gham : gy COME, LORD JESUS . We begin to hear on every hand of individuals who love His appearing, and of conferences in nearly every Christian center, convened primarily to learn more of this wonderful theme. Such a cry for Jesus to come as has not been heard since the days of the early Church, is now ascending to His glad ears from the saints in every corner of the earth. He cannot— He will not delay much longer, for it is for this He has been so long waiting—Garrison.—y Really Remarkable Remarks HELPFUL THOUGHTS FROM MANY MEN The wisdom of God does not go from the head down, but from the heart up. A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body When we want to know what is the secret of dead churches and dead souls it is a very simple one—they have ceased to be missionary. ‘The Christian is not ruined by living in the world, but by the world living in him. Little faith will bring your soul to heaven, but great faith will bring heaven to your soul. God has no enemy, and Satan no tool, Jike the zealous professor of Chris- tian discipleship whose life is not actu- ally directed and sustained by the indwelling Son of God. Keep your temper—nobody else wants it. Witnessing for the truth is not trench warfare. Men who stand for Christ must stand in the open. There is nothing so despoils the strength and beauty of a life as to be continually asking, “What will men think of it? ~ One of the purest treasures a mortal life affords is a spotless reputation. If we'd all get on fire for God, we'd scare the devil. If we haven't enough religion to drive us to share it with all the world it is doomed here at home. In this world a man must either be an anvil or a hammer. There are many women who are sin- gle because they are singular. Better have a black eye in defense of the truth than a black heart through a mummy inertia. ‘The more education a man has, the more he needs the power of God. A living Christ in living men is a living sermon. He who would understand the false- hood and deceit of sin must compare its promises and its payments together. Greatness is revealed in the way it treats the little man. Our song of praise can never be checked unless we rejoice in circum- stances and in things around us, more than in God Himself. We are not to be troubled that we have no more FROM God, but we need to be troubled that we do not do more FOR God. It is hard for a man to pray accord- ing to God's will, if he does not live according to it. Even giving one's glory” will not furnish glory. Nothing is done beautifully which is done in rivalship, nor nobly which is done in pride. e Trouble does not benefit people by its own direct influence. It is only as God comes with it and we receive it in yieldedness, obedience and conf- dence, that it is made a blessing. life for “old a passport to Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. There is no use arguing. with the inevitable; the only argument with the east wind is to put on your overcoat. If the King is indeed near of kin to us, the royal likeness will be recogmiz- able. a - ‘The self denial of our Lord Jesus” Christ is the best argument against the selfishness of Christians. “Deserved” is written on the door of hell, but on the door of heaven and life, “The free gift.”Is It Premillennarianism Or Postmillennarianism That Is Divisive? / By DR. R. A. TORREY Deen of Bible Institute of Los Angeles The charge is often brought against premillennarianism that it is di sive, but from many things that are being written and said in these days it would seem that it is postmillennarianism instead of premillennarianism that is divisive. There seems to be a well organized movement at this pres- ent time to drive the premillennarians out of some of the churehes, or at least to silence them and to shut them out of places of influence, We have received recently from India copies of ‘*The Indian Witness”? of June 5, 1918. and the issue of July 17, 1918, both of which contain very bitter attacks upon premillennarianism. In the issue of June 5th there is a letter copied from the Nashville Christian Advocate and prefaced by this state- ment: “The Rey. C. C. Carey, an honoured preacher in the Methodist Episco- pal Chureh, South, has the following to say about Premillennarianism and its relation to Mcthodist doctrine’: Then follows these words: “I charge premillennarianism with being entirely un-Methodistic and say that it cannot possibly be made to fit into our doctrines. It is a graft which cannot live upon our doctrinal tree. There is no place for it, and we must either sur- render our doctrines and policies or make war on th hool of thought. And I go further and say in all kindness that no Methodist preacher with credentials in his pocket can consistently be a premillennarian.” Mueh more follows of a similar character, which the Nashville Ghris- tian Advocate seems to have endorsed. and which ‘'The Indian Witness’” heartily endorses. This would scom to indieste that some very influ- I men in the Methodist Episcopal Church South at least, are advoeating that all preachers who have imbibed premillennarian views from a study of the Word of God must either give up their views or get out of the Metho- dist Episcopal Church South In the issue of ‘*The Indian Witness’’ for July 17th there is an attaek upon premillennarianism covering a page and a half. an attack of a most hitter character, It is by Rev. James Mudge, D. D., who had been editorially conneeted—with—the-paper—In-anather—cohimmin—the—papser_the fret announeed that Dr. James Mudge ‘was last week elected secretary of t New England Conference for the thirtieth successive time.”’ Dr. Mudge’s article begins with these words; “For the protection of the community and the maintenance of the sobriety of the Gospel, some heed must be given to the present enormous activity of the propaganda of pessimism and the exploitation of certain eccentric dogmas pertain- ing to the last things. When one thinks of the vast numbers of good people who have died, deceived and disappointed because of their strong faith in one of the108 THE KING'S BUSINESS most pitiful delusions that ever cursed the earth, one is moved with an earnest desire to say something, if possible, that shall keep other multitudes from follow- ing in the same baleful path. I refer to the utterly unfounded notion that Christ is soon to make a spectacular appeavance in the clouds of heaven, begin a temporal reign at Jerusalem, and usher in the end of the world or of the age.” Dr. Mudge evidently realized how clearly the doctrine of the personal, bodily, premillennial return of our Lord is taught in the Scriptures, and therefore felt it was necessary to take a Hing at the reliability of God’s book in his determination to fight premillennialism and drive it out of the church at any cost, for he says further on: “Most people have yet to realize that it (the Bible) is a human as well as a Divine book, and, more than that, very largely a Hebrew book as well as a Christian one. The Old Testament is, of course, wholly Hebrew; yet multitudes ignore the fact and put it practically authoritatively on a par with the New, And in the New there is a large Hebrew element which needs to be watched very care- tully, for the apostles were Jews, trained in rabbinical learning (Paul specially), deeply inibued with the spirit of their age, full of Jewish predilections and the inherited ideas of their generation, which were strongly, unconsciously influential in their thinking. It could not be otherwise. It was inevitable that their con- ceptions of Christ's kingdom and the manner of His return should retain the form to which their early associations accustomed them, that they should interpret His words in the light of the current thought of their day. The apostles were primarily men of their own age . who grasped the spiritual ideals of Christ's kingdom slowly and imperfectly.” Tn other words, we cannot trust the Old Testament because it is Hebrew, ‘we cannot even trust the apostles. Who then can we trust? Sueh utter- ances as this are characteristic of much of the postmillennarian argumen- tation of today. A lar are of the postmillenarians are evidently, in their bitter hatred of premillenarians, willing to give up the authority of the Word of God rather than to give up their postmillennialism. Of course, this is d , and if this method is pursued it will nevessarily lead to a separa. tion between those who believe in the Word of God, its absolute inerrancy, and those who do not. Further on in the artiele Dr. Mudge flatly denies one of our Lord’s own statements and speaks of His utterance as Jewish in its origin, and Judaizing in its tendency. Dr. Mudge’s words ar “There would seem to be no call for His visible return in the clouds. ‘That conception is Jewish in its origin, and Judaizing in its tendency, part of an out- grown dispensation.” * . Dr. Mudge says this in face of the plain statement of our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, a ‘statement made, by the way, under oath, found in Matt. 26:63, 64: ‘But Jesus held His peace. And the high priest said unto Him. I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us whether thou art the Christ, the Son of God: Jesus saith unto him, Thou hast said: nevertheless | say unto you, Henceforth ye shall see the Son of man sitting at the right hand of Power, and coming on the clouds of heaven.” Is there any further extent than this to which men ean go in their hatred of a doctrine? Along the same line, July 8, 1918, Mrs. Clotitda L. MeDowell wife of one-of the Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church, sent the following letter to every imis- sionary employed by the Women’s Foreign Missionary Society of the Metho- dist Episcopal Church: “Reports have come to us from time to time of the Premillennial propaganda in different parts of our mission fields. In these times, when the minds of men and women are agitated, to an extent alarmed, it is natural that the old question of Christ's immediate return to earth in physical form should be raised. WeTHE KING'S BUSINESS 409 believe our missionaries will be glad to have, by way of information, the enclosed leaflet stating as it does with substantial accuracy the position of the Methodist Episcopal Church on this important question.” The enclosed tract to which she refers is Shailer Mathews’, ‘Will Christ Come Again?’’ This tract, as many of our readers know, is a very bitter and unfair attack, not only upon the premillennial doctrine that Christ will come-before the millennium, but an attack upon the doctrine that He will come personally, visibly and bodily at all. Furthermore, this tract, still more than being an attack upon the doctrine of our Lord’s personal return, is an attack upon the reliability of the teaching of our Lord Jesus Christ, and of the inspired apostles, and the wife of a Bishop sends this out to every missionary employed by the society with whieh she is connected, with the statement that it states ‘‘with substantial accuracy the position of ‘the Meth. odist Episcopal Church.”’ Many of the postmillennarians seem ready, in their bitter hatred, not merely of the doctrine that Christ will come before the millennium, but the doctrine that He will ever come personally, bodily, and visibly at all, not only to divide the church but to undermine faith in the credibility and reliability of our Lord Jesus Christ. z& “PATRIOTIC" PROFANITY One of the most pernicious evils we have to put up with today is wide spread and growing profanity. Since the war this habit seems to be on the increase. Men forget God's name stands for His Holy Nature, and they use it in connection with the most un- holy things. It is not my nature to find fault. But I cannot find it in me to sanction the public use of profanity which some of our returned soldiers use on the plat- form. I say some, because I am glad there are fine men, of high moral char- acter, clean in thoughts and ideals, who have been in the trenches, and who can speak of their experiences without sinking to the low plane of using lan- guage not decent to be used in a poli- tical convention, much less before mixed audiences of cultured Christian people. A man on a public platform has no right _to swear in the name of patriotism. When you talk this “broad stuff” as an excuse for your soldier swearing, you are using mere camouflage. We cannot get around the commandment, “Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain,” on such a flimsy excuse. A soldier who swears from a public platform, while civil and church author- ities applaud, is setting an example before the boys of @ community that cannot be counteracted by perhaps years of church and Sunday Schoo! influence. The soldier is looked on by the aver- age boy as a greater hero than the President. Are we going to throw mor- ality and common decency to the winds, and permit a community to be contam- inated by men of this type?—H. M. Wyrick. ae BLESSED EPILEPSY Dr. Joseph Parker was once preach- ing on Saul's conversion. “And they say in Germany,” said the Doctor, “this is the result of an epileptic fit. Let us look at Saul before he went into the fit, snorting blasphemy and persecu- tion, Together we will look at him i the fit. ‘And behold, he prayeth.’ And now look at him when he has: come out of the fit: saint, hero, missionary, martyr.” Throwing up his hands, he shouted, “Fly on, Thou mighty Epi- lepsy!”“Kalan —Arplied Evolution Notes of an Address Given at Bible Intitute of Los Angeles the Past Summer, During Bible Conference N the first sentence of the book, “Conquest and Kul- tur,” Guy Stanton Ford says, “The present war is in the last analysis a war between ideals, and thus between the peoples who uphold tifem."* In America, our thinking had long been done in an atmosphere charged with pacifism and with the fatuous hope that men would soon realize their brotherhood. On the breaking out of the war, our feeling for long was that of onlookers not a little annoyed that the world-neighborhood should be dis- turbed by a brawl in the alley, we were too dignified, if not-too proud to fight, and we felt that all would soon be well —at least when the parties had become sober. We could not conceive that a nation should deliberately choose war and our spirit of fairness insisted that no meddling should be don Slowly, against every i were convinced that the war was not an accident, that it was deliberately planned and that to our own nation had been-assigned a part, that of paying the expenses when all was over. The program was so absurd that it must somehow be accounted for, In whatcontition-ofanind-enuld men con ceivé of such an enormity? And then the literature of Germany was ques- tioned and there the whole plot stood revealed. With brazen effrontery Bernhardi in his book, “Germany and the next War,” had outlined the reasons why Germany stinet, we By PROF. HOWARD W. KELLOGG Formerly of Occidental College must go to war, the ruthlessness with whieh such war was to be waged and had even revealed the philosophic back- ground, upon which his reasoning depended. Back of him lie von Treit- schke and Nietzsche. But this is merely to shift responsibility from individual to individual. Where does the phil- osophy of these men classify? With what other phases of this philosophy are we familiar and what other con- clusions than those justifying war are inevitable? Unerringly we are confronted by cer- tain trade-words as it were—Klimin- ation,” “survival of the fittest," “Evo- lution of the Superman,” “Natural se- lection.” Without the scaffolding furnished by Darwin, Spencer and Haeckel this mon- strosity of thinking could never have Duilt its pinnacles of shame. Biolog- ical necessity justifies war and all the hideousness of its demoniacal fright- fulness, Mugge in his book on Friedrich Nietzsche states Nietysche’s positions as follows 1. The world is amoral, (that is non- moral) without goal or purpose,—an artistic plenomenon, 2. Mankind has no goal either. But a__goal_is of valne—artistie value. Therefore we assume’a goal—the sup- erman 2. Every religion or system which delays the coming of the superman must be abolished, Qnly the moral code of strong and masterful men is compatible with the true aims of life,our humanity. THE KING'S BUSINESS 4. The Christian religion with its slave-morality is, above all other, life's flercest enemy. Christianity counter- acts natural selection. It is the “great- est of all conceivable corruptions, the one immortal blemish of mankind.” 5. Our next goal on the road to the superman is the Higher man, 6. The immediate steps advisable in a melioristie policy toward the Higher man are; a Eugenics Revision of our present marriage laws, a sensible edu- cation of youth, a united Burope and the annihilation of the Christian Chureh. First he repudiates the Bible as a revelation from God and then re- proaches God for not having spoken. To quote, ‘Would he not be a cruel god if, being himself in possession of the truth, he could calmly contemplate mankind in a state of miserable tor- ment, worrying its mind as to what is truth? Fairbairn, on the other hand, argues from the same data that the Bible is to be expected and that it carries out its own assertion that it is a message from God. He says, “If God is unable to reveal Himself to his crea- tures, he is not God: if-He is able and has not done so, He is not moral.” The freedom of the human will exas- perates Neitzsche, and Pity fares worse at his hands. “Pity thwarts the law of development which is the law of selection.” He hates pity as an expres- sion of supine weakness and rails that “Christianity has developed into soft moralism."”” He —asserts that, “The greatest of almsgivers is cowardice.” Christianity is called the religion of pity. He says, “The weak and the botched shall perish; first prineiple of to be helped to perish. What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sym- pathy with, all the botehed and the weak—Christianity!” Nietzsche taught that all progress in morals has been made by means of And they ought even — ii crime. Thus this future morality will not be reached without violent revolu- tions, without crime. “All good things were once bad things, successful crime.” “We children of the future. z do not by any means think it desirable that the Kingdom of righteousness and peace should be established on the earth. We rejoice in all men who like ourselves, love danger, war and adventure . . . we count our- selves among the conquerors; we pon- der over the need of a new order of things, even of a new slavery—for every strengthening and elevation of the type of man also involves a new form of slavery.” Fr. N. J. W. Section 377. The following quotations which are taken from “Gems (?) of German Thought,” compiled by William Archer and published by Doubleday, Page and Company, Garden City, New York, indi- cate how widely the conclusion that violence plays a necessary part in human evolution is received by leaders in Germany: “Ye say it is the good cause whieh halloweth even war? I say unto you, it is the good war which halloweth every cause."—Fr. Nietzsche, Z., “War and Warriors.” “The lessons of history confirm the view that wars which have been delib- erately provoked by far-seeing states- men have had the happiest results General v. Bernhardi, G.N.W., p.-45- “Ye shall love peace as a means to new wars—and the short peace more than the long.”—Fr. Nietzsche, Z., “War and Warriors.” “Unless we choose to shut our eyes to the necessity of evolution, we must “Fecognize the necessity of war. We must accept war, which will last as long as development and existence; we must accept eternal war."—K. Wagner, K., p. 153. “War is the father of everything, says Heraclitus. It will be the fatherscience, the general ardour of the sys- 112 of the new German race of the future.” —Prof. E. Hasse, 2.D.V., p. 126. “The efforts directed towards the abo- n of War must not only be termed but absolutely immoral, and must be stigmatized as unworthy of the human race. . . . The weak na- tion is to have the same right to live as the powerful and vigorous nation! The whole idea represents a presumptuous encroachment on the natural laws of development.”—General v. Bernhardi, GN.W., p. 34 “It is proved beyond all shadow of doubt that regular war (der regelrechte Krieg) is, not only trom the biological and true kultural standpoint, the best and noblest form of the struggle for existence, but also, from time to time, an absolute necessity for the mainten- ance of the State and society.""—Dr. Schmidt, of Gibichentels, at meeting of Pan-German League, Berlin, Qctober, 1912. Nippold, D.C., p. 72. “War is a biological necessity of the first importance, a regulative element in the life of mankind which cannot be dispensed with. “War is the father of all things.” The sages of antiquity, long before Darwin, recog- nized this. “To supplant or to be supplanted is the essence of life,” says Goethe, “and the strong life gains the upper hand.”—General vy. Bern- hardi, G.N.W., p. 18. “It is nothing but fanaticism to expect very much from humanity when it has forgotten how to wage war. For the present We Know of no other means whereby the rough energy of the camp, the deep impersonal hatred, the cold- bloodedness of murder with a good con- lit foolish, tem in the destruction of the enemy ae ean be as forcibly and cer- tainly communicated to enervated na- tions as is done by every great war. Kultur can by no means dispense with passions, vices and malignities.”—Fr. Nietzsche, H.T.H., section 477. THE KING'S BUSINESS “I must first of all examine the aspir- ations for peace, which seem to domin- ate our age and threaten to poison the soul of the German people. . . . I must try to prove that war is not merely a necessary element in the life of nations, but an indispensable factor of Kultur, in which a truly civilized nation finds the highest expression of strengih and vitality.”—General v Bernhardi, G.N.W., p. 14 “The time for petty polities is past; the next century will bring the struggle for the dominion of the world—the compulsion to great _ polities.” —Fr. Nietzsche, B.G.E., section 208. “T greet all the signs indicating that a more manly and warlike age is com- meneing, which will, above all, bring heroism again into honour!”—Fr. etzsche, J.W., section 283. General Keim from Berlin insisted that the path to German unity and power was not paved with sealing-wax, printers’ ink and parliamentary resolu- tions, but marked by blood, wounds and deeds of arms. States could bo maintained only by the means by which they were created.—At meeting of Pan- German League, Augsburg, September, 1912. Nippold, D.C., p. 72. “We owe it to Napoleom . / . . that several warlike centuries, which have not had their like in past history, may now follow one another—in short, that we have entered upon the classical age of war, war at the same time scien- tifie and popular, on the grandest scale (as regards means, talents and disci- pline)to which all coming millenniums will look back with envy and awe as a work of perfection—for the national movement out of whieh this martial glory springs, is only the counter-choe "against Napoleon, and would not have existed without him. To him, conse- quently, one will one day be able to attribute the fact that man in Europe » has again got the upper hand of the merchant and the Philistine.”"—Fr, Nietasche, J.W., section 362.THE KING'S BUSINESS ‘What men tower highest in the his- tory of the nation, whom does the Ger- man heart cherish with the most ardent love? Goethe? Schiller? Wagner? Marx? Oh, no—but Barbarossa, the great Frederick, Blucher, Moltke, Bis- marek, the hard men of blood. It is to them, who offered up thousands of lives, that the soul of the people goes out with tenderest affection, with positively adoring gratitude. Because they did what now we ought to do. Our holiest raptures of homage are paid to these Titans of the Blood-Deed."—Dr. W. Fuchs, in article on “Psychiatrie and Politics," in Die Post, 28th Jan- uary, 1912. Nippold, D.G., p. 2. “I must assert with emphasis ’that the cardinal sin of our whole policy has hitherto been that we have lost sight of the eternal truth: Politics Mean the Will to Power. The his- tory of the world teaches us that only those people have strongly asserted themselves who have without hesitation ‘placed the Will to Power higher than the Will to Peace.”—General Keim, at meeting of Central Committee of Pan- German League, Munich, April, 1913, Nippold, D.C., p. 77. Thor stood at the midnight end of the world, His battle-mace flew from his hand: “So far as my clangorous hammer I’ve hurled Mine are the sea and the land!” And onward hurtled the mighty sledge O'er the wide, wide earth, to fall At last on the Southland’s furthest edge In token that His was all. GThee then "tis the joyous German right With the hammer lands to win. We mean to inherit world-wide might Aste Hammer-God’s kith-and-kin. >, FELIX DAHN (1878) The foregoing quotations which could be multiplied almost indefinitely prove this that Nietzsche had created an atmosphere, a background, for the entire philosophy of self-assertion which 113 has plunged the world into its welter of blood Bernhardi’s book bears on its title page as a motto Nietzsche's words: “War and Courage have done more great things than the love to the neigh- bor.” No oné disputes the identity of the philosophy of Bernhardi and Nietasche, but the thing that is not receiving the emphasis that it should, is that this philosophy is Evolution, stripped of all pretense. Nietzsche's great masters among the Greeks were Heraclitus who anticipated Evolution and Empedocles who antici- pated Darwin's idea of Natural Selec- tion. Elimination is the great idea of natural selection. ‘There is a serious lack of Elimination among men. Nietz~ sche believed that the worst impedi- ment to elimination was and still is the Christian church, because this protects and preserves the unfit and the weak. It will of course be argued that Nietzsche does not represent modern Evolution and that present-day Byolu- tionists cannot be charged with his vagaries. But Nietzsche is a modern, living until 1900, and the multitude of followers who are still living and stak- ing all upon the truth of this philosophy are present-day living exponents ‘of their faith in his theories. - Nietzsche believed with many mod- ern Eyolutionists in the unproven or disproven theory of the inheritability of acquired characteristics. With Rutesmeyer,” and with most modern Evolutionists, he believed that the present anthropoid monkeys and present man are two divergent branches of the same stem. Let us remember that this p has assumed to rewrite all history, biol ogy, geology and theology:—that the universities of Germany have for gen- erations been training the leaders of American ‘liberal’ theology: that Well- housen, Graf and Kuenen were all Ger- mans and were committed to this Evo- ilosop hy114 lutionary philosophy; that these men in developing their destructive criticism were merely applying to theology the methods of this philosophy in other fields. ‘Their work was carried on pro- fessedly inside the church and has wrought the havec of unbelief that so -largely prevails among those who choose to call themselves progressives. Among the church notices in Los Angeles newspapers there is frequently @ group of announcements with this heading, “Liberal Christian Churehes,” and their statement of belief follows: “We found our faith on the thought of EVOLUTION rather than Special Crea- tion; on Revelation through NORMAL HUMAN EXPERIENCE rather than the supernatural; and on Salvation through GROWTH rather than a mir- aculous rebirth.” (Capitals theirs). Then follow the announcements of the First Universalist Church, the Church of the People and the first Unitarian Chureh. Unlike these misbelievers who reject all that is distinctive in a Gospel of Grace while still calling themselves ‘Christian, Nietzsche comes out with the courage of his convictions. He says, “The attacks made upon Christianity hitherto have been not only timid but false. So long as Christian morality was not felt to be a capital crime against life, its apologists had a good time,” ete. “Christianity is the reverse of the principle of selection. If the degen- erate and sick man (‘The Christian’) is to be of the same value as the healthy man (‘the pagan’) the natural course of Evolution is thwarted and the tmmaturalbecomes —taw"—"Chris- tianity is the mob-egotismi of the weak.” “He who does not consider this atti- tude of mind as immoral, as a crime against life, belongs himself to the sickly crowd and also shares their instincts.” 5. “Christianity has sided with everything weak low and THE KING'S BUSINESS botched. It has made an ideal out of antagonism against all the self-preserv- ative instincts of strong life.” . . “It is quite justifiable to bracket the Christian and the anarchist together; their object, their instinct is concerned only with destruction.” “The Christian is nothing more than an anarchical Jew. And Paul, this ap- palling imposter, ‘Pandered to the instincts of Chandala morality in those paltry people when he said, ‘Not many noble are called.’ ” “The Christian concept of God—God as the deity of the sick, God as spider, God as spirit—is one of the most cor- rupt conceits of God that has ever been attained on earth, Maybe it represents the low-water mark in the evolutionary ebb of the god-like type—God degen- erated into the contradiction of life instead of being its transfiguration and eternal yea!” . “Towards the past, I exercise a sort of generous self-control, I take care not to hold mankind responsible for its mental disorders, But my feeling suddenly changes and vents itself the moment I enter the modern age, our age. It is indecent nowadays to be a Christian,” “I condemn Christianity, and con- front it with the most terrible accusa- tion that an accuser has ever had in his mouth. To my’ mind, it is the greatest of all conceivable corruptions. I call Christianity the one great curse, the one enormous and innermost per- version, the one great instinct of revenge, for which no means are too venomous, too underhanded, too under- ground, and too petty—tI call it the one immortal blemish of mankind.""—From -Priedrich-Nietzsche-by-_Mugge.—______ Thus Nietzsche thought in his heart, thus he brought others to think. A century of materialistic philosophy had laid a foundation of adamant. Upon this foundation was found room for the emplacement of every German gun, for the laying of the keel of every sub-THE KING'S BUSINESS marine. The philosophy was consist- ent; it culminated in the worship of blood and iron and in the dethrone- ment of the living God, Before this philosophy had thrown off its mask, it had poisoned with its rationalism the theology of generations of students from Scotland, England and America who had sought at Ger- man Universities the final touch of culture upon their studies. Now that it has thrown off its mask, there stands revealed a monster plot- ting world dominion, the wreck of civil- ization and the destruction of Chris- tianity itself. Loud are the cries against German Kultur. Let this now be identified with Evolution, and the truth begins to be told. Science has again and again set aside as untrustworthy the so-called discoy- eries of Evolution, has compelled the great German Evolutionist Haeckel to confess that his drawings of missing links were from imagination rather than from objects found, has driven him from his university chair and has compelled him to admit that, ‘Most modern investigators of science have come to the conclusion that the doc- trine of Evolution and particularly of Darwinism is in error and cannot be maintained,”—and yet in spite of such admissions from men recognized as authorities in their respective lines, the doctrine of Evolution appears to rule as absolutely in the Educational world as if it were not a moribund hypothesis, already discarded by many and to be dis- carded by others when scientific evidence rather than reputation for scholarship is allowed the deciding voice, Evolution in one or another form has been a fascinating field for the imagination from the days of Democri- tus and Heraclitus to the present, but now that Evolution has been found to pry the modern world from its hinges, to attack every breakfast table and to 45 even rob us of our manliest sons, the time has come to recognize that error given the place of truth is well-nigh omnipotent for evil, What will your part be in the work of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles? AUTOCRACY OF ROMANISM “At a High Mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral, with His Eminence Cardinal Farley oceupying the throne, Tuesday, August 6, which preceded the Supreme Convention of the Knights of Colum- bus, the Rt. Rev, William T, Russel, Bishop of Charleston, Sonth Carolina, delivered the sermon from which we make the following extracts from The Columbian, Vol, 46, No, 33, August 16, 1918. “In conclusion, let ‘me assure you that we have no misgivings in respect to the future, Who can forget that historic scene when at the first meeting of the National Catholic War Council, your Grand Knight, speaking for the whole body of the Knights of Colum- bus, said in effect: ‘We are first and always Catholies; we pledge ourselves unreservedly to obey our spiritual superiors in the United States. What- ever is ours, the fruits of our thought and endeavor, is yours, to command.’ ‘Then while all kneeled, the four bishops begged God's blessing on the great work we had begun, God grant that this spirit of obedience and whole- hearted loyalty to authority may ever animate your great body.” Priestly autoeracy is mote to be dreaded in any country than Prussian autocracy. Implicit obedience is owed to God only, The surrender of our conscience to a human being is likely to be a fatal surrender—Dr. Chas. Blanchard. & Will you pray daily for the work of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles?=) CTR THE INFLUENZA %THE INSTITUTE The influenza ban served not only to tie up the Bible Insti- tute classes for seven weeks, during which time expenses were unusually high, but. as it may be well imagined, has been respon- sible for a very noticeable reduction in the financial gifts for sus- taining the work of the Institute and its various branches. These conditions, together with the strain upon many regular contribu. due to the war-time drives, have brought the directors, not only of this Institute, but all the others, face to face with very grave problems during the past few months. The most drastic conservation rules have been laid down, while the workers have put forth every energy to prevent an actual shortening of the lines in the great business of saving sinners and helping saints. In spite of these conditions, the last monthly report meeting of The Bible Institute of Los Angeles demonstrated that God has signally honored the faith of the workers, especially in the saving of souls andleyery department shows encouraging progress. The Institute students have been most faithful in their studies, even when it was impossible to hold classes. ecessarily, however, it all means that there are some heavy deficits to he made up and some important plans that have heen held up until money should come in more freely. It remains to be seen whether God’s people will lose or keep the good habits giving they have been eultivating during the past two years. ill they be as anxious to.bring vietory to the cause of Jesus ‘Christ as they have been to bring vietory to Unele Sam? A great apost on. Many Bible students expected it as a result of the war. God’s chief instruments for combatiny these conditions are the Bible Institutes and the few seminaries that take their stand for ‘‘the Old Faith and the Old Book.’? They all need your help—and if you are led to set aside a portion of your tithing money to assist the Bible Institute of Los Angeles, it will be received with great thanks to the Lord. upon whose unfailing promises the Institute is built. 4+ spose res SE BIBLE INSTITUTE OF LOS ANGELES T. C. Horton, Supt. R. A. Torrey, Dean 536 TO 558 SO. HOPE ST., LOS ANGELES, CALIF. a Shea cn sé E Ef SSR MENTION “KING'S BUSINESS” WHEN ANSWERING THIS ADVERTISEMENTYour attention is ealled to the spe- cial message on “The Influenza and The Institute” on page 116. 4 News From Saunders Party Miss Carolyn Lovejoy of the Saun- ders party, enroute for China, writes to “friends at the Institute” of many inter- esting happenings of the journey. Leay- ing the ship for a look around Hono- lulu, they had a happy surprise on their return. She says: “Whén we got back to the ship a great surprise awaited us, for Mr. and Mrs. Saunders, returning earlier to the ship than the others, had just been talking to Allyn Cooke who arrived a few hours later than we on the Tenyo Maru, a Japanese ship that left a day after we did from San Francisco, This seems the most abundant reason for thanksgiving—that our party has not been broken; in fact, we expect that from Nagasaki the S. 8. China will con- vey all fourteen of the Saunders party to Shanghai. Isn't it just like the Lord to turn our sorrow at leaving a lonely disappointed boy waving farewell to us in San Francisco into joy at having him welcome us in Yokohama, and j us in Nagasaki? ‘Those of our party who had suffered from colds and the novel sensation of being rocked in the cradle of the deep, having recovered, we are becoming very proficient and almost eloquent in the Mandarin__tongue._Our_minds have been so well trained at the Institute that Chinese holds no terrors for us. We can count to ninety-nine, and with great mental effort execute (!) a few sentences, and can recognize, under fa- miliar ‘circumstances, forty at least of the forty thousand Chinese characters! BIBLE INSTITUTE HAPPENINGS Particularly of Interest to Friends and Students Today has been Mr. Saunders’ birth- day, and consequently a very happy day for all of us, This morning it gave us great pleasure in seeing Mr. Saunders’ appreciation of his birthday presents. Plans were made by the chief steward and purser (a Mr. Paton, grandson of the great John G. Paton) for a birth- day dinner. A beautiful birthday cake was baked by the Chinese chef. Because of the large number of passen- gers, it has been necessary for our party to sit at two separate tables during the voyage, but “it was arranged that we might all be together at dinner, so for the first time since we left San Fran- ciseo, our party enjoyed the fellowship of a meal all together. After his twenty-four voyages, Mr. Saunders says there have been excep- tional opportunities for witnessing on this trip. With about thirty-five : 's- sionaries aboard, we have had a pre- vailing voice in affairs on the ship. Mr. Saunders is head of a committee that has arranged two chureh services on Sundays and prayer meeting on Wednesday nights. Every morning, from ten to ten-thirty, there is a time of Bible study and prayer that has been attended by twenty-five or thirty peo- ple every morning, Our party has a prayer meeting at six in the evening, and we have impromptu song services at any time of day. We praise the Lord that we have been able to touch many lives—two U. S. sailor boys gave their_hearts. to the Lord before leaving. the ship at Honolulu, but more have been reached in the many services that have been held. Last Sunday night our party had entire charge of evening wor- ship, and had any of our friends from the Institute suddenly arrived (by wireless route), they would have felt418 quite at home in hearing our rendition of “Bringing Back the King,” “Grace enough for me,” and other songs dis- tinctly associated with our Institute home.” oa There will be a graduating class of about fifteen persons the last of De- cember, the largest ever graduating at a mid-year graduation. A large number of the students who were called into the army either by enlistment or draft, have made arrange- ments to return, There is also a large enrollment of new students with the prospects that the January increase will be the largest in the history of the Institute. Dr. Elwood P. Lyon has been giving a series of lectures on the Book of Revelation in Biola Hall. There has been an excellent interest in thé course. Sunday afternoon men’s meetings of the old fashioned order were begun at Biola Hall, December 8. Dr. French Oliver was the speaker and there was an éncouraging attendance and an excellent spirit. Pray that this new branch of the Institute work may be made very fruitful in the saving of souls. Mr. Delevan Pierson, secretary of the A. T. Pierson Memorial Bible School at Seoul, Korea, writes to Mr. Horton: “It is over seven years since my honored father was called home. Soon after he fell asleep, you and other friends made it possible by gifts and prayers to found a Bible School in Korea to perpetuate his memory: and to continug