SOUL WINNERS’ | NUMBERTHE KING’S BUSINESS MOTTO: “1 the Lond do evp i, Twill water it every, moment est eny hurt tu Lil keep te night and day isa. 27:3 PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE BIBLE INSTITUTE OF LOS ANGELES Ente a Second Clas Mater Nojembar 17.1910, a the Bs Oise at Loy Angelen, Cal under the Act of 179 Acceptance fr ial rete of pomege eroviged for 1 Section 1103, Act of October 3, 1917 cuhorsed October 11318 Volume X June; 1919 Number 6 LEADING ARTICLES IN THIS ISSUE Editorial League of Churches (491) Going Over the Top (48 Sacrament Wine Bugaboo (492 Evan- The Pe tie Note (49 sentials of Success (494) A Twor fold ristian Duty (494) A Problem for Some Solve (495) Shall we Folloy 1 Wheeler Wilcox’? (496) Some Signs of the Times (497 The Church's Greatest Hour of Opportunity, by I. A. Torrey (499 Sentence Sermons (501) The Winning of Souls, by Dr. 0. P. 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By Charles G, Trumbull =] F WORDS for Christ to an individual are most effeetivi in the winning of souls, why are they not more commonly spoken by these who love Christ and love souls? Is it because persons do not know this trutli, or that they are meompetent to speak the needed words; or do tiey sim ply neglect the duty which they recognize as a duty, and whieh they are amply competent to perform? Probably no answer would meet every case. Different answers would be given in different cases. I have spoken with thousands upon thousands on the subject of their spiritual welfare, Yet, never to the present day can I speak to a single soul for Christ without being reminded by Satan that I am in danger of harming the cause by introducing it just now. If there is one thing that Satan is sensitive about, it is the danger of a Christian's harming the cause he loves by speaking o Christ toa needy soul. He has more than once, or tw kept me from speaking on the subject by his sensitive pious caution, and he has tried a thousand times to do s0. ‘Therefore my experience leads me to suppose that he is urging other persons to try any method for souls except the best one. Men who have a national and an international fame as preachers - toa multitude actually say—not only think, but say—that they cannot speak to an individual soul for Christ. In some instances these pregétiers speak of it as if they counted a sinnet's personality too sacred to speak a word to, even to save his soul or to honor Christ. In other eases, they speak of their inability as an amiable weakness, instead of asa pitiable moral and spiritual defect, which proves them incompetent for their position and profession My experience in active service in the Civil War taught me, age Iam sure it taught others on both sides in that conflict, that ‘the thunder of artillery was likely to be most impressive, but that the rifles «ft the sharpshooters brought down more men. This was pecu- liarly the case in the siege life before Charleston and before Peters- burg. The shriek and the trash of the bursting shell told in their impressiveness, especially upon those who were least experienced; but the quiet “hum” or the “whiz” of the rifle of the sharpshooter did execution as ten to one, or as a hundred to one, in comparison. Yet the artillery officer who could tell of how many rounds he had fired in action could boast more of his service, even if he did not know that he had ever hit anybody, than could the best sharpshooter on the whole line. So it is with those who address individuals for Christ. Sharp- shooters may bring down more individuals with their telling single bullets, but they cannot make the impression in the surrounding atmosphere that is made by the big guns that are heard to thunder out from the pulpit casements every time they open fire. It is the man-to-man work that tells. Because it is this work that is most effective, this is the work that it is best to do. Even though it is a less attractive work, as we look at it, and seems to others Jess important to be done, we must admit that ‘the results are worth considering. As John B.’Gough said of the one loving word of Joel Stratton that won him: “My friend, it may be a small matter for you to speak the one word for Christ {lat wins a needy soul—a smail matter to you, but it is everything to him.” It is forgetting this truth that causes personal work to be neglected a ps ee)THE KING’S | el 4 T. C. HORTON, Editor KEITH L. BROOKS, Managing Editor ©) R.ATORREY,D.D. FREDERIC W.FARR,D.D, J. H. HUNTER W. H. PIKE 5 Contributing Editors EDITORIAL LEAGUE OF NATIONS and League of Churches The unrest of the world is clearly reflected in the unrest among pro- fessedly Protestant churches. A recent proposition is for the organization of a League of Churches, combining all Roman and Greek Catholic and Protestant churches, in Christian work, as brethren. Two bishops of the Episcopal chureh have heen selected, and another is to be seleeted, to pre- sent the matter to the Pope. We have no doubt but that many churches would be glad to be taken under the wings of this ecclesiastical system, but how about the Bible? What place would the Word of God have in such a conglomerate gathering? The Roman Catholic chureh has never given Bibles to Mexico or Central America or South America or Italy. Where are the ‘‘protestants?"’ Where are the Luthers? Where is the history of the Protestant Church? Where are the mepéind women of God? Is not this effort a challenge to every real true follower of Jesus Christ to take a bold, aggressive stand against the tide, no matter from whence it emanates, or whom it may include? Is there not a call for the preachers and the people to take a bold stand for the Word of God against alleits enemies, be they Pope, or priest, or preacher, or teacher, or chureh, or school—whoever it may be or whatever it may be, A League of Churches would be a league with the devil—T. C. H. * ak de GOING Over the Top John McNeill, the great Scottish evangelist, gave a great deal of time during the war to preaching to the soldiers, and during this campaign a general in the army said to him: “‘What you need to preach to these men is that when they go over the top, and a German bullet lays them jow, they vo straight to Heaven.’? To this the good evangelist replied: ‘General, pardon me, but I have my orders as to what to preach from another Head- quarters, and Lam not going to try and obey two Generals. I love our ten, but for the man who springs at the signal and goes over the top neither you nor I can make the gate any wider than Christ’s own terms. Besides, General, the sacrifice of a million soldiers for any cause dovs not come within a million miles of the unique and alone sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ for the sins of the world. Let the eross of Christ, that mighty sacrifice, stand where the New Testament puts it. Paul would have said, ‘Tf salvation can come by patriotism, then Christ has died in vain, and the cross was not needed.’ ’”492 THE KING'S BUSINESS Good for the Scotchman. These are the kind of words we need in this soft, shilly-shallying age. From letters from the front, however, and from conversation with returned soldiers, ‘‘Y’’ men and some preachers, we are prepared to say that the soldiers absolutely took no stock in the message that some of these men sought to give them, that death for their country would be rewarded by a place in Heaven. Any man who khows men, knows well enough that they would not believe any such rotten stuff. No man facing death but knows that he has an account to meet before a righteous God. Some of these preachers may be fools enough to be fooled, but they” Such preachers lack two things: (1) They lack a knowledge of the Word of God, and (2) they lack a knowledge of men, and they need to get away from their books and their study and get back to the Bible and a living touch with living men. The average man never has and never will attend the ministry of men that preach this kind of a message, and Paul says concerning the doctrine of salvation through the sacrificial atonement of Christ, (Gal. 1:8, 9) “But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other Gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed. As we said before, so say I now again, if any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be aceursed.’’ We commend these two verses to all of these so-called preachers of the Gospel, and we commend them to all of our readers.—T. C. H a 2 je | a 2 THE “Sacrament Wine” Bugaboo Cardinal Gibbons recently issued a statement ‘only made public after eareful thought,’’ condemning Prohibition as against personal liberty, causing loss of the Government revenues, and striking ‘‘at the fundamentals of the Christian religion.’’ This last refers to the use of wine in the Mass! He added one new paragraph, quoted in these words by the Outlook: ‘‘In the earrying out of the law I see also an invasion of the home which up to now all men have agreed is a sacred, holy place. These agents may enter our homes with the violence of burglars and the immunity of officers of the law.”’ W. H. Anderson, New York State superintendent of the Anti-Saloon league, made this reply “The truth is that the prohibition amendment touches nothing except the beverage use of alcoholic liquor, and there has not been anywhere any attempt on the part of the Anti-Saloon league to interfere with the securing of wine for the sacramental use. “This reiteration of untruthful statements calculated to raise a sectarian issue seems to require that we now say that the same dishonest and untruthful statements_-were widely circulated in New York during the recent campaign as a sort of religious smoke-screen behind which to mask a Catholic drive for the elec- tion of a Catholic Governor of New York State. = “If Cardinal Gibbons desires to oppose prohibition because many of the largest and wealthiest distillers of Maryland are ‘members of and liberal con- tributors of his Church, and because most of the saloon-keepers who belong to any church are Catholics in good standing, or if he wishes to oppose prohibition for any other reason, he has a perfect right to do so as an American citizen. But he has no right to do it in words which have no basis in fact, but which areTHE KING'S BUSINESS 493 calculated to arouse religious hatred and class prejudice. When a high dignitary of a conservative Church resorts to incendiary utterances which impliedly invite lawlessness and suggest that it can be blamed upon prohibition, just so far he becomes an obstacle to law and order and an enemy of the American Republic." ‘*Father’’ Belford of Brooklyn, N. Y., issued the following statement through the ‘‘Catholic Mentor’’ “This iniquitous law is here and it looks as if it was here to stay for a long time. It is the worst invasion of personal liberty the world has ever seen. It is not the will of the American people. It is the will of a small minority of narrow- minded bigots who have availed themselves of a weak spot in the Constitution and forced upon the majority a law which is as iniquitous as it is odious. It is an ‘unjust law. No one is bound to obey it. No one shoul? have- about evading it, breaking it, or defying it. “How, you will ask, could such a law be enacted? It owes its existence to a band of fanatical thugs and blackmailers. They have held up legislators as truly as ever a highwayman held up his victim. They have browbeaten, bulldozed, threatened and frightened men into supporting a measure which every decent man loathes and every honest man despises. “Let us hope that these modern Manichees who have procured this infamous legislation will now proceed to make it as odious as possible. Give them all the spies they can use; let them choose their inspectors, detectives and agents; give them the right to enter any house, at any hour, and search for hidden liquor; allow them at sight to destroy anything that looks like liquor. Then, let us see how long the American people will stand them. Smaller things than this have brought on revolutions. Talk about America being The Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave! This brood of vipers has made it The Land of the Freak and the Home of the Kisave!” c —T. C. H. m, a oe oo THE PRESBYTERIAN Evangelistic Note Sage The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, through its Com- mittee on Evangelism and the New Era Movement, suggests, in connection with a long message to the churches, that “The Presbyterian Church, as a whole, is strongly evangelistic, but when it comes to methods of work the churches fall into two distinct groups. Both types presuppose personal work. We all agree on the growth value of personal work to the individual and to the church. To this end, the Committee on Evangelism and the New Era Movement can co-operate with both, and herewith. suggest the two outlines: | “One group does not believe in evangelistic meetings in which the call is made for public confession of sin and the acceptance of Christ. It is not essential that this method be followed by a church which will organize for personal ser- vice; intensify her spiritual appeal in the stated services of the church; hold fre- quent meetings of the session to examine and receive candidates for admission; preach with an earnest evangelistic appeal prior to communion seasons; call the children of the church to Christ in the class-room of the Sunday School and in the pastor’s Communicant Class; hold fast to the fundamental Gospel ‘message, and in general furnish an example to the world of a Christ-loving, humanity- serving church. Such a church will always be evangelistic. “Since the days of Whitfield and the Tennants, there has been a second group which believe most thoroughly in special evangelistic services, held at suitable seasons, as the crown and climax of all that has been done in the preceding months _ of effort. TheSe services are sometimes held because the church has fallen into the habit, and in such instances accomplish but very little." Concerning the preaching essential during an evangelistic campaign, the Committee suggests the following: ~494 THE KING'S BUSINESS “The preaching should, (1) Emphasize the element of teaching. The younger generation is aston- ishingly ignorant of the great truths of God's Word pertaining to salvation. We need to return to the old type of Bible exposition in evangelistic preaching. (2) Our preaching should have in it the element of testimony, and in all the services the members of the church who have themselves drawn near to God, should be encouraged to supplement the message of the preacher by their own personal testimony of the love of God, of His forgiveness and sustaining grace. (a) The preaching should have in it the element of yearning appeal. In the preparation of our sermon we will not forget those familiar Passages in the Word of God which describe Christ in His yearning search for_men." - We are glad to note the emphasis which is put so strongly on the old type of Bible exposition in evangelistic preachiny, and the earnest entreaty to the whole church, pastor and people, to emphasize by lip and life the yearning which is in the heart of the Son of God for the lost. We all need to take to heart this exhortation. Is it too much to say that this is one of the vravest and greatest needs of all believers today? We know that His heart yearned over the lost, and He is always seeing them as sheep without a shepherd.—T. C. H, go 6 & ESSENTIALS of Success The General Manager of a great business was once asked ‘What are the essentials of a successful salesman?” and his reply is well worth careful consideration : “A thorough knowledge of the merchandise he handles. Absolute honesty in statements concerning the foods he sells. Patience and willingness to show goods to customers, even under the most irying conditions. Courtesy is an invaluable asset in the retail trade. Accuracy in clerical work incidental to handling the sales, is important. Personal appearance counts for a great deal in pleasing customers, which is one of the salesman's chief objects." If this advice could be adopted by every minister and personal worker, and applied to our Christian service, it would bring untold blessiife-to the church, We have goods to offer and we ought to know the character of the goods we are offering; and there should be patience and willingness to show the people (our customers) the goods. And, also, courtesy is-an invaluable asset to the personal worker. The wisdom of the Spirit is essential, and while we need in our contact with the ‘‘customer’’ a pleasing address, we also need the aggressiveness of the salesman who must make good if he holds his job—T. C. H. ae ae He, a se A TWO-FOLD Christian Duty ‘Continue steadfastly,’’ Acts 2:42. ‘‘Contend earnestly,’’? Jude 3. These parallel commands are like a railway over which the Christian life ‘should run. The former is implied. ~The latter is expressed. "The adverb in each case indicates the manner in which the duty should be discharged. The first passage describes the post-Pentecostal experience of the early ehureh. The disciples had heen filled with the Holy Spirit. Multitudes had been converted and baptized. It is said that they continued steadfastly in the Apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, in the breaking of bread and prayers. This shows a genuine work of grace. Continuation is the testTHE KING'S BUSINESS 495 of reality. ‘‘Do you believe in the perseverance of the saints?’’ a certain teacher was asked, ‘‘I believe in the saints persevering,’’ was the reply. Staying qualities are indispensable to success in every department of life. God is able not only to save but to keep also. He can make a rock like Peter out of the vacillating Simon. Steadfast continuance finds its com- plement in earnest contention. Controversy is sometimes a duty. Much of the preaching of Christ and Paul was controversial. When an assault is made upon the church of God, we must repel the attack. The best way to strengthen the things that remain, is to attack the things that resist. These duties react upon each oher, By earnest contention for the faith, we are——~ most likely to continue grounded and settled in it. These exhortations suggest the unchanging character of the Christian faith. It is the Apostles’ doctrine that we continue in and the faith deliv- ered ‘‘once for all’’ for which we contend. There‘are no improvements or additions to, the old-fashioned Gospel. The canon of Seripture is closed. Every professed new revelation is Apoeryphal and comes from beneath. There is-a ‘‘progressive theology’’ in the sense that our apprehension of Scripture deepens and increases, but in no other. ‘‘ Whosoever progresseth and abideth not in the teaching of Christ, hath not God.’ 2 John 9 (R.V.). Jude defends his plea for contention on the ground of pressing necessity, vs. 4, Similar conditions warrant a similar plea today. Perilous times are upon us. 2 Tim, 3:1. Insidious errors are poisoning the minds of men and damnable heresies are seducing their hearts from God. Many are departing from the faith, There never was greater need for the people of God to undertake a ceopebatria for the faith of our fathers, by tongue and pen, offensive and defensive, without compromise or cessation, contending, earnestly, prayerfully and victoriously for the truth in Jesus. FE. W. - Mite. zo © A PROBLEM for Some School Boy to Solve Two dispatches: from Germany appearing in the daily papers about the same date and, in many.of them, in adjoining columns, are of peculiar interest when taken together. . The Kaiser's former theological advisor informs the world that he often warned Wilhelm that his orthodox interpretations of Seripture were obsolete and dangerous and would get him in trouble, and he affirms that it was nothing short of the Kaiser’s orthodoxy that got the world in all this mess and sent the Kaiser to Amerongen. The Herr Professor has been very delinquent in giving this information as the dean of Chicago University long since informed the American people that the Kaiser’s orthodoxy was at the root of the world’s troubles and that orthodoxy as a result must go to the serap heap. But the second dispatch is even more interesting. A German phil- osopher writes that the intellectuals of Germany (from whom many—of our College professors derive their knowledge) are sitting in their lairs utterly bewildered. Yesterday they were the world’s infallible theorists, but today as they behold the outcome of their theories in Germany, they are engaged in eating their words of yesterday. He says that Marx, Nietzche and all the other text books of higher thought lie buried somewhere in the debacle. The German highbrows admit themselves adrift and are eall-496 THE KING'S BUSINESS ing out for some ‘‘great thinkers’’ to step into the breach and give the world a ‘“‘new doctrine’’ before bolshevism runs everybody off the earth. Now the question is, was it the Kaiser’s orthodoxy or his hypocrisy— his Christ or his kultur that sent Germany to the devil? Let some schoolboy fresh from the history class answer the question. The critics indeed are in a pitiful plight that they must resort to so ridiculous an idea as that ad- vanced by the Kaiser’s theological. advisor and the dean of Chicago Uni- versity, but it is good to know-that many of the Herr professors in Ger- many are frank enough to admit the failure of their doctrines and are look- ing for a ‘new doctrine.” Soniething tells us that the “‘new doctrine” Germany needs is the ‘‘doctrine of Jesus Christ’? (2 John 9) and the “faith of their fathers.’ (‘‘He that abideth in the doetrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.’’)—K. L. B SHALL We Follow Ella Wheeler Wilcox and Sir Oliver Lodge? Many look upon the demonstrations of Spiritualism as wholly founded on fraud. That much of it is, there is no doubt. ‘Spirit’? apparatus may be purchased from any magical supply house. On the other hand there is no denying the fact that some of these manifestations are real, Science has fully demonstrated the existence of spirits; pictures have been taken ; bodies have actually been weighed; writings have been produced ; conversa- tions have been Nola apieits have talked in foreign languages entirely unknown to the medium calling them up—and there are plenty of com- _ Petent, witnesses to all these things. Chief among these just at present are Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Sir Oliver Lodge and Sir Conan Doyle. Magazines and newspapers are stuffing their columns with their testimonies to Spirit- ualism, and hundreds of people are going daffy over spiritism as a result. The Bible plainly warns, (for there is nothing new about these «demon- _ Strations) that the spirits with whom some are communieating are not the spirits of departed human beings, (for these are not/roaming~at large in space) but impersonators and agents of the devil to the vital saving truths of the Gospel. Such investigations are str ly forbidden because of the impossibility of discerning character of the—_ spirits; because of the danger of being lured away by half-truths which the spirits utter; because of the supernatural powers’ which they have and because the results of such practices, as history has proven, are almost inevitably immorality and insanity. They lead to no beneficial goal. They add absolutely nothing to the revelation about the hereafter which God has revealed in His Word. They only serve to promote visionary notions, help stock asylums and send a multitude to hell. The Satanic counterfeit is demonstrated to perfection in an incident recently related in an exchange. A friend of the writer disappeared. For months search was made for him, After two years, it was decided he had suffered foul play. His wife was induced to consult a spiritist medium. A seance was held, and in full view of several competent witnesses, the head and shoulders of the missing man appeared, and when asked if he was happy,.he smiled and the ghost vanished. Several months afterward, a relative in another eity met the man who was certainly alive and well. And.THE KING'S BUSINESS 497 a HOLY ‘The Spirit expressly latfer lime ) depart fromthe faith. iving ‘heed Spirils. yet a spirit perfectly resembling him had been brought forth from the unseen world. The other class of Spiritualistic work is that done by mediums who are “Theinselves fakes. An imstanee of this is related by a man prominent in Londods._He cousulted a medium. She said, ‘‘'There is an aged lady behind your chair. ~She is very like you. She lifts her hands to bless you. Her hands are now resting over your head.’’ ‘‘Pray, tell me,’’ said tlie man, “who is this mysterious visitant?’’ ‘‘It is your mother,’’ was the reply. ‘Dear soul,’’ said he, with a tremor in his voice, ‘‘She says,’’ continued the medium, *‘that you will join her soon and be happy with her.’’ ‘Thats quite likely,’’ said the man, ‘‘for she is going to take tea with me at five o'clock,’’—K. L, B. ie Ate Ltn SOME SIGNS of the Times A recent New York Journal has a word to say about divorces and their cause which is significant: The tango is to blame. Business depression, lack of children, social climbing —these may be contributive causes to the 60 per cent increase in divorces in this city within the past six months, but the tendency to hesitate and dip is the real reason, according to lawyers and judges who make a specialty of doffing the marital yokes of disillusioned couples. In these days when a phonograph and a can of498 THE KING'S BUSINESS floor wax constitute the furnishing of a bridal nest, they say in effect it is no wonder that love soon flies out of the window. The old world is going on in its lively way to its predieted catastroplie, Every possible facility is sought by some well-meaning people to provide opportunities for the boys and girls and young people to mingle in the dizzy whirl that has brought more souls to ruin than any other ageney of the devil. Whiskey has slain its thousands, but lust its tens of thousands,— TG. WILSON'S $40,000 HANDOUT FROM POPE ’ President Wilson is reported to have accepted a $40,000 present from the pope on the occasion of his visit. The Record of Christian Work says: The visit of President Wilson to the Vatican gives rise to various reflections. It has been perilously like a visit to an enemy country, for the Vatican has been anything but neutral in the gigantic struggle of the past four years. In Vatican walls were hatched by Mer. Gerlach a_stfing of conspiracies, one of which ended in the blowing up of two. Italian battleships, the Benedetto Brin and the Leonardo da Vinci. From the same sources crawled the peace propa- ganda which culminated in the Capor- etto debacle. Men who had fought bravely in the Italian army before the Pope's Note was published stopped fighting because théy thought he had so ordered. According to the R. C, Tablet the ignorant peasantry were on their knees before the Madonna in thanksgiving for the peace that the Pope had brought,—a peace which they believed would long before have been consummated “if it had not been for FORM OF BEQUEST a Vule ag that old witeh England.” The Civilta Cattolica, ‘the hyena of the Vatican," ceased not to gird at England at every opportunity. In short, the Vatican Was, as usual, a spider clot of intrigue, —this time as ever directed against the cause of freedom and justice." fe ay BURIED IN THE BOOK It is said of the grandfather of Charles Spurgeon, that on one occasion he was so absorbed in Scripture study that when a neighbor came to visit him, he arose from his study long enough to show the gentleman a chair: but, going straight back to his open. ible, he soon forgot the man's presence, and devouring sentence after sentence as a hungry child might. devour food, he was heard occasionally to mutter to himself, “Wonderful!” ‘Wonderful!” while the inner light. radiated from every feature of his old face. “Our forefathers in America were a Bible- loving, Bible-reading company: almost every day began with what is known as “‘the family devotions,” and they were not even hurried.—Selected, | + .To Bible Institute of Los Angeles I give and bequeath to the Bible Institute of Los Angeles, incorporated under the laws of the State of California dollars, and I direct that the release of the President of the Board of Directors of said Bible Institute of Los Angeles shall be sufficient discharge to my executors in the premises.The Church’s Greatest Hour of Opportunity A Very Timely Message By DR. R. A. TORREY In answer to the question, ‘What shotlld the Churches of Protestant America do to meet the present situation?” Dr. Torrey wrote to the Christian Herald, as follows: 1. The churches should put all narrow personal interests aside, and resolve at any cost they will do what lies in their power to present the simple and pure Gospel as it is found in the Word of God to every man, woman and child at home, and to every man, woman and child, as rapidly as pos- sible, in heathen lands, 2. They should avoid all wastes of men, money and effort. There is no question that the present division of real Christians into separate, and sometimes warring, sects oftentimes results in an appalling waste of men, money and effort. Many a community has from three to ten churches and three to ten ministers, where one church and one minister would es, the neads of the community better than they are met with this division of forces. Very frequently these churches and these ministers stand for the same essential truths, and-the points of difference among them are concern- ing questions of entirely secondary, or less than secondary, importance. For example, many a Methodist minister preaches exactly the same (ucified, Risen, and Ascended Lord Jesus Christ as is preached by many a Presby- terian minister and many a Baptist minister. The ,duestions that divide them are simply questions of church government, or questions of modes of administration of church ordinances. In such a ease there should not be three ministers, but one; and very frequently it would be possible*to get a better minister than any one of the three who can be had under existing conditions. There cannot possibly be a union of all Protestants, for many ‘Protes- tants differ from one another on questions that are really vital; but there should be a new alignment, for many a Presbyterian minister agrees with many Methodist ministers on questions that are vital, and differs from other Presbyterian ministers on questions that are vital. There cannot be co- operation.among professed Christians who disagree upon really funda- mental questions, and the new alignment should be along these fundamental lines. It matters not to me whether a man is a Methodist, or a Baptist, or a Congregationalist, or a Lutheran, or what he is, if he believes-in-the absolute authority and inerrancy of the Scriptures, in the real deity of Jesus Christ and the real human nature of Jesus Christ, in the atonement of Jesus Christ by His shed blood, redeeming us from the curse of the broken law, in regeneration by the power of the Holy Spirit, in salvation on the simple and single ground of the atoning blood and on the simple and single condition of faith in Him who shed ‘the blood, in the future conscious endless punish-500 THE KING'S BUSINESS ment of those who persistently reject Jesus Christ in the life that now is. On the other hand, if a man is a Presbyterian and yet rejects any of the truths just mentioned, I cannot co-operate heartily with him even though he be a Presbyterian. Denominational distinctions have never meant any- thing tome. The Protestant church ought to be realigned along these vital lines. I am sorry to say I have grave doubts whether it can be, but you have asked, ‘‘What should the churches of Protestant America do to meet the situation?’’ not what will the churches of Protestant America do. _3.__The Churches of Protestant America, in order to meet the present situation, the grave crisis that is upon us, should be real Christians in the daily conduct of the membership of these churches. They should give up the love of money, the love of display, the love of pleasure, and many other things that characterize a large share of the professing church today, and which are absolutely hostile to the manner of life demanded by the Lord Jesus Christ. ‘ 4. The churches of Protestant America should give up the attempt which has been so characteristic of church activity the past ten or twenty years of reorganizing society without the regeneration of the individual, The program set forth in the New Testament is not the reorganizing of society from without by mere ethical teaching and social reform. The program of Christianity is to reach society ‘by leading the individual to a definite personal acceptance of Jesus Christ and to a transformation of his own character, and thus to make society what it ought to be. The Protestant ministers and churches should give themselves up to intelligent, definite -«¢al-winning as they never have before since the days of the apostles. They should work for real revival, not for great mass movements along thoroughly worldly lines and by thoroughly worldly methods, methods that oftentimes jar upon the spiritual instincts of intelligent Christians, and that aim at drawing vast erowds, making a great outward stir and britfing inordinate financial returns to the leaders in the movement, but a revival sent down from above in answer to prayer and manifestly carried on in the power of the Holy Ghost, and that results in the radical, thorough and permanent transformation of the lives of those who come under its power into the likeness of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. The Protestant churches should pray as they never have before, absolutely surrender them- selves to the lordship of Jesus Christ as they never have before, sacrifice as they have never sacrificed before, give as they have never given before, and wear themselves out in untiring work for the salvation of the lost as they never have before. While the present hour is one of crisis and peril, it is the greatest hour of opportunity that the Church of Jesus Christ has ever known. If the churches are faithful to the opportunity we shall see such gladdening results as we have never seen before in all the history of the Church on earth. God has been speaking to us in tones of thunder through the great cataclysm of the present war. He is calling us to devotion, sacrifice and effort. Will the churehes hear the call? 1 do not know, but I know that many of us will. I would rather live and work in the present hour than in any hour of this old world’s history. Do You Have Daily) Family Devotions in Your Home? = See the Devotional Readings in this MagazineReally Remarkable Remarks SENTENCE SERMONS FOR BUSY READERS There never has been a time when it was right to give the Lord less than one-tenth of all one’s income. ~ God keeps a costly school; many of its best lessons are spelled out through tears. Welcome the cross of Christ and bear it triumphantly; but see that it be in- deed Christ's cross, and not thine own. He is not truly patient who is willing to suffer only so much as he thinks good, and from whom he pleases. “Be much with God if you would be much like God.” There are people who would do great acts; but, because they wait for great opportunities, life passes, and the acts of love are not done at all. Th ory is not in the task, but in the doing of it for Him. As flowers never put on their best clothes for Sunday, but wear their spot- less raiment and exhale their odor every day, so let your Christian life, free from stain, ever give forth the fragrance of the love of God. No one can ask honestly or hopefully to be delivered from temptation unless he has himself -honestly and firmly determined to do the best he can to keep out of it. e He who cannot find time to consult his Bible... Must some day find time to die; he who can find no time to refiect is most-likely to find time to sin; he who cannot find time for repent- ance will find an eternity in which repentance will be of no avail. They slumber sweetly whom faith rocks to sleep. No pillow so0 soft as a promise; no coverlet so warm as an assured interest in Christ. Rest assured, Christ will not live in the parlor of our hearts if we entertain the devil in the cellar of our thoughts. To a graceless neck the yoke of Christ is intolerable, but to the saved sinner it is easy and light. We may judge ourselves by this, do we love that yoke, or do we wish to cast it from us?——Spurgeon. Answers to prayers are sweet cordials for the soul. We need not fear a frown- ing world while we rejoice in a prayer- hearing God.—Spurgeon. That which a man spits against heaven, shall fall back on his own face. —Thomas Adams. God loveth a cheerful giver, whether it be the gold of his purse or the gold of his mouth which he presents upon his altar. In heaven's court suitors are not worn out with long delays. Term— time lasts all the year round in the court of King's Bench above. . Ignorance is worst when it amounts to ignorance of God, and knowlede is best when it exercises itself upon the name of God. * Rest upon His promises though He seem to kill thee; cleave unto His stat- utes though the flesh lust, the world allure, the devil tempt by flatteries or threatenings to the contrary. The lower the heart descends, the higher the ‘prayer ascends.—Thomas Watson. What folly is it to exalt this vain world in our affections, whose joy, like the’ child’s laughter on the mother's knee, is sure to end in a cry at last! Never mind who was your grand- father; who are you? The man who has nothing to boast of but his good ancestors is like a potato; all that is good of him is under ground.” Reaching one person at a time is the best way of reaching all the world in time. ~The Winning of Souls An Address Given at the Bible Institute of Los Angeles A Word of Vital Importance to the Church of Today —— — By DR. O. P. GIFFORD of Boston, Mass. PROVERB is the wisdom of many and the wit of one. A bee plunders a hundred flowers to fill one cell with honey. >A THE SCHOLARSHIP APOSTASY “Modern scholarship’ sounds = so august, s0 impressive and imperial so authoritative and final, that any inter- rogation of it may seem like the pre- sumptuous folly of the unlearned; but if certain men, ‘‘wise in their own con- ceit,”” and under the spell of it—have usurped and appropriated this senten- tious expression as a hadge of their distinction and unique right to be heard in things spiritual, then let us follow them with caution. If the findings and exhibits of these “seholars’ were in reality something © 507 modern and original, we should feel under obligation to be patient with them; but when, like the Gibeonites, they come to us “with old sacks upon their asses, and wine bottles, old and rent and bound up,” and when they hold up before us the “bread of their provision" and ask us to accept it as fresh-baken and wholesome, we are not so easily beguiled as was Joshua. __ The label of “modern" scholarship is what captures the imagination. It has an alluring attraction for certain mental deficients who have a consum- ing passion to be “abreast of the times.” “Modern" scholars have stripped Jesus of His Deity and His dignity, not to speak of common honesty and have reduced Him to the rank of common men, far beneath themselves in point of scholarship. We decline to deliver our spiritual assets into the hands of such a precarious syndicate. It would be the exchange of guaranteed secur- ities for worthless debentures of doubt. True believers in Christ are becoming restless and impatient with infidelity in the pulpit. Withdrawal from a_ church, self-branded with apostasy is one method of protest, and it is hecoming increasingly frequent in churches where the preacher has thrown up his commission, and is exhausting what remains of his intellect in a dis- avowal of the faith once delivered to the saints. Others, unwilling to sever their church connection, suffer in sil- ence, feeling that any protest would be useless, or serve only to brand them with the stigma of zealotry. Such refined persecution is not coveted, and the full compliment of the martyrs seems to have been made up."—Dr. Ford C. Ottman. he aS Winning one soul at a time usually results in the winning of a multitude of souls in the process of time.—Trum- bull.4 ety Hy | af BI The—papers--report—that—Louis—Bran- dies, now justice of the U. 8. supreme court, is the probable first governor of the new Judea. If the English agree to the plan of a Zionist governor gen- eral, Justice Brandies is generally con- sidered as the most logical man. The Jewish congress, the counter movement to the Zionist organization, proposes nationalization of Jews in whatever country they reside and that they be given the right of representa- tion. These demands are being pressed upon the peace congress. It would look as though “they are already well repre- sented in all_gduntries. Some have recently been trying hard to prove that the English and American peoples are descended from the lost tribes of Israel. The idea is fanciful and unscriptural. The language has no affinity with the, Hebrew, the manners and customs have not the slightest re- semblance and the physiognomy is the very opposite. Again, history shows that- our pedigree is to be traced to Japheth and modern discoveries in eth- nology confirm this. A daily paper says ‘The dream of the renationalization of Palestine which has lived for two thousand years in the hearts of the Jews, is fast entering the realm of reality.’ They might have added, “When thou seest the sign of the fig tree, then look up, for redemption draweth nigh." Recent reports say that over 130,000 Jews are enrolled in the American Zionist organization. An effort is being Made to get 1,000,000 before President Wilson returns to this country. gdewish papers report that 20,000 Jews in Jerusalem are starving. The The Chosen People, The Land andthe Book | Notes Concerning the Jews and Prophecy | American Zionist-organization_has_been eollecting funds for their relief. Dr. Geo. Simons, a Methodist mis- sionary in Petrograd testified before the U. S. senate that the majority of bol- sheviki leaders in Russia have come from the east side of New York. He fave the names of twenty-nine such leaders. A marked spirit of anti-semitism is being agitated in New York. A paper has been published condemning all Jews as bolshevists and denouncing Christians who show themselves friend- ly with the Jews. Reformed Rabbis of America sent a cablegram to President Wilson asking that he hinder the progress of the Zion- ist movement. The Jewish congress denounced the advocates of Zionism aS @& traitors. Many Jews are greatly distressed over the fact that in spite of the prin- ciples of modern democracy, the peace congress has refused to receive the Jewish people as members of the league of nations. Some blame the Zionist leaders and others the delays of the Jewish congress at Philadelphia for the unfortunate failure. The London Times says: That a “national home’ for the Jews is urgently needed is admitted. A case very much in point and of present-day importance, says the writer of the article in question, is the position of thousands of poor Jews who have seen their property lost in the recent fire at Salonika, where 80,000 of the popula- tion were Hebrews. What are these people to do if they desire to emigrate? It seems probable that the present places of immigration for Jews—Amer- %THE KING'S BUSINESS ica and England—will not be open to them or others discontented with their present homes, for England and Amer- ica will, it seems certain, be compelled to close their doors to immigrants for a definite period, not from any feeling of animosity to the Jewish race, but in order to have a period of greater social rest, without the disturbance caused by new inflowing people, for the purposes of internal reconstruction. Therefore, it becomes a work of humanity to facil- itate the creation of a national home of refuge for Jews, and it has been thought by statesmen that it should be combined with the national sentiment which is so profoundly felt by many Jews for the land of their ancestors. The word “national” is important, especially | ir wea ot oF cats weirs Pike, ot “the Institute ‘tac. ulty, were ‘ontted in marriage at the home_of Rev. and Mrs. Keith L. Brooks @agle Rock, Cal., on April 9th. About forty pee from” the Institute attended the typical California garden wedding. E. B. Singer, 1918, has accepted the pastorate of the Baptist church at Paso Robles, Cal. ; A son was born on March 30 to Mr. and Mrs. V. V. Eddings, institute grad- uates. Since 1915 Mr. and Mrs. Eddings have been missionaries in South Amer- ita. They are now resting in Los An- geles. Alford J. Coffey, a former student, who recently has been employed by the Biola Book Room, has accepted work among the stock men at Arnold, Nebr. He is to be located in a section eight ‘miles from the city where there are no churches. His work will be to organize Sunday Schools and Bible classes, doing ~personal work among the men,-with- the f view to ultimately church, Mr. and Mrs. Leman C. Robie, former students, have accepted a call to take up work with the American Sunday establishing a =ehool Union as missionaries in Cali-, lanu. : ‘of Jesus.—P. §. Henson, 509 FISHING FOR THE YOUNG Carefully compiled statistics, made after equally careful investigations, have established the fact that—with notable exceptions—the largest propor- tion of persons who have been con- verted at all made the great decision between the ages of twelve and seven- teen. age of ingenuousness: from fifteen to seventeen, that of keen enthusiasms. What can be better than to capture both these qualities for God? They are re- dolent of affection; of simplicity of belief; of willingness to be led; of readi- ness to be attracted by noble ideals: of a chivalrous instinct to defend the weak and intense admiration for dar- ing and heroic achievements. There is an appeal to all these in the career of God's great men in the Old and New Testaments and in the Mission-fields, and uniquely so in the life and victory of the Son of God. We need to inspire the imagination of the young, and per- haps for this we need to cultivate more imagination of our own in our prepar- ation of the Lesson. Anyway, le us watch prayerfully and carefully as the hands of life's clock approach the strik-- ing hour, and press“for decision at the most favorable opportunity.—G. Camp- bell Morgan. a GOP'S BEST INSTRUMENTS No man is fit to preach to others till he has seen the plague of his own heart, and has been broken with a sense of sin. “fyey say that the best of all fid- dles is an old Cremona, and that the best of all Cremonas is one that has been all “smashed up” and glued to- gether again, so as to make it not sim- ply as good as new, but a great deal better. So the best of all instruments to sound the music of the gospel is a heart that has been broken with a sense of sin and then cemented with the blood D.D. _From twelve to fourteen is theBIBLE INSTITUTE HAPPENINGS Particularly of Interest to Friends and Students Letter from Helen Small of the Saun- ders party (China): “T think the longer we are here the darker China seems to grow.’ Oh, how China needs the Gospel! Every time we go out into the streets we see things that make our hearts ache. Last Saturday we Los Angeles girls went for a walk on the city wall, and while walking along, saw a woman lying on a pile of stones just below us ervying and wailing, while a man sat by her with a half smile on his face. We wondered what was wrong. One of the girls thought perhaps she was dying for we had heard that they took them outside to die. The Chinese woman who was with us asked the man what wae matter, and he told us that she was mourning for her boy who had just died. fF thought how many times a day all over this great land the same thing happens, and the people have no hope. Then we went on just outside the city, As far as we could see were the mounds or graves. To think how many have died without Christ! Florence Brown was here at Yongchow, about two weeks when she was designated to her station. Miss Pflueger and Miss Kav have gone to Shanghai, Miss Pflueger to be Mr. Hoste’s secretary and Miss Kay, Mr. Stark’s. I am leaving here the last of next week and am going away up to Kansu, next door to Tibet. My station is Tsinchow. I'm very happy about it, for it is the place the Lord laid upon my heart, and when Mr. Hoste said that it was there he had been led to send me, I knew it was from the Lord. Mr. Canfield is on the way to Shansi. Miss Robinson has been assigned to Kweichow and will probably work among the Mions, just where she wanted to go. Miss Schorsch is to go to Kiangsi to a school. We are all so happy because the designations were just what we wanted. Allyn Cooke is down in Yunnan, and I am not sure -where the Schlichters and Mr, Scoville are going.” Several letters have been received telling of definite results of the article by Dr. Lineoln Ferris published in our issue of October last. A letter just at hand says: “No doubt you will be pleased to know how very much good has heen accomplished through the has been puuiusneu cOnu Jews as bolshevists and denuu. | Christians who show themselves friend- ly with the Jews. Reformed Rabbis of America sent a cablegram to President Wilson asking that he hinder. the progress of the Zion- | ist movement. The Jewish congress denounced the advocates of Zionism ge traitors. Many Jews are greatly distressed over the fact that in @pite of the prin- ciples of modern democracy, the peace congress has refused to receive the Jewish people as members of the league of nations. Some blame the Zionist leaders and others the delays of the Jewish congress at Philadelphia for the unfortunate failure. The London Times says: That a “national. home” for the Jews is urgently needed is admitted. A case very much in point and of present-day importance, says the writer of the article in question, is the position of thousands of poor Jews who have seen their property lost in the recent fire at Salonika, where 80,000 of the popula- tion were Hebrews. What are these people to do if they desire to emigrate? It seems probable that the present Places of immigration for Jews—A--THE KING'S BUSINESS reading of Dr. Ferris’ wonderful dis course, Firstly, I must say how we ourselves were uplifted by it and I was then led to lend the magazine to many people and asked them especially to read this address. We have had the freat joy of knowing of same who have heen helped into the knowledge of Jesus and all He is ta ts r by so doing. One riend who is well over 90 vears of age Was in my home and I read it to her and hoth of us shed tears of jov over such a wonderful Saviour.” land. N. 7.) Arthur F. Merle (Auck- Witt 1416, Miss March have and Hess, 19146, were married 1&th, at San Diero, Cal. They taken up Gospel Car work. Harry F. Sheerer, a former student. and Miss Birdella Rauch, secretary to Rev. W. H. Pike, of the Institute ulty, were united in marriage at the home of Rev. and Mrs. Keith L. Brooks Eagle Rock, Cal., on April 9th. About forty.-“ friends from the Institute attended the tvpical California garden weddine. E. B. Singer, pastorate of the Baptist church at Paso Robles, Cal. A son was born on March 30 to Mr. and Mrs. V. V. Eddings, institute zrad- uates. Since 1915 Mr. and Mrs. Eddings been missionaries in South fac- 1918, has accepted the have Amer- Ica. They are now resting in Los An zeles. Alford J. Coffey, a who recently has been employed hy the former student, Biola Book Room, has accepted work among the stock men at Arnold, Nebr. He is to be located in a section eizlit miles from the city where there are no churches. His work will be to organize Sunday Schools and Bible classes, doing personal work among the men, with the view to ultimately establishing a church. Mr. and Mrs. Leman ©. Robie, former students, have accepted a call to take up work with the American Sunday School Union as missionaries in Cali- 5Il “Wel” Trotter who recently spoke at the Bible Institute fornia, their headquarters being at Bar- stow. Hey. Chas. A. Nethery, pastor of the dale, Wash, Many 1918, is now Baptist church at Fern- He writes that in spite of discouragements, the Lord is richly blessing his ministry. The many friends of Miss Read, Dr. Torrey's secretary, and Miss Wight, Mr. secretary, will be pained to that they have both been ‘com- pelled to give up their positions because of broken health, We trust that they will be remembered in prayer by many former students who came to love them. E. W. Hallowell, a former student who has been with the forces as a chap Hunter's learn512 AS B. I. Student the last of May (Drawn b? a Freshman) lain in Russia, writes: “I am in a hospital in France, where I have been treated for three weeks for a slight case of “drop foot."" I was appointed in the conmnission to proceed to Berlin to aid Russian prisoners, and as soon as my foot allows, Iam to go right in. It will be a most interesting trip and the chances tor helping men in real need are countless. Co. Endicott, the Red Cross Commissioner to Great Britain, appointed me on the commission as a reward for my work in Russia. It has been remarkable to me to see how men ‘appreciate the Gospel message, pure and simple. I have openly and fear- lessly challenged the statements of men who have told our boys that their sacri- fice meant as“ much to the world -as Christ's sacrifice and men have thanked me for_my stand.” The “Biola Hall Brother‘iood"* was organized by M. H. Reynolds, superin- tendent of the hall on the evening of March 15. The-purpose of the brother- riage at San Pedro, Charcas, “on January 12, of Kenneth THE KING'S BUSINESS hood is to make Biola Hall a great soul saving station and to enlist Christian men in a definite kind of business for the Master. The members of the bro- therhood will have regular meetings, taking dinner together and planning service for Christ. News has been received of the mar- Bolivia, Pawlison, 1917, and Miss Pansy Fitch. Both are missionaries with the Bolivia mission of which Rev. Geo. Allan is superin- tendent, the latter performing the cere- mony. Mr. and Mrs. Powlison's post of service is now at Toracari, Bolivia. W. [. Haven of the American Bible Society writes: “The King’s Business is extremely interesting and valuable to us, and when we can complete a volume so that we can bind it and pre- serve it in our library, we are very happy indeed.’" A retired minister at Glendale, Cal., says: “If I had $10,000 I would devote the entire amount to send out to men of influence, 10,000 copies of The King’s Business. Every Protestant’ minister in North America would receive it, if I had the effsh.” We hope this will serve as a suggestion to ‘some who have money to invest in the Lord's work. We can place the magazine in the homes of many min- isters and missionaries when contribu- tions specified for that purpose are sent to the Bible Institute. Torrey and Alexander recently closed an evangelistic campaign at Redondo Beach, Cal. The meetings were fol- lowed by a week's special meetings con- ducted by Evangelist Harry W., Bruch of Chicago. J. P. Glanzer, a former student, writes that he is acting as assistant pastor in-a large Mennonite church-—at Carpenter, 5. Dak, D. H.-Thomas, 1918,-writes that he has accepted Sunday School work under the Presbyterian board, the field vet to be decided. Fred Groth, ¥OTH 1918, is located at N.ALWAYS PRAY “lh 4 i Your way grows dark my Brother : Lil Your Opes Are lost Lo view, : Must remember there's another Wiiose le ill ¥ Vk zt i d your help fram there Call to God dear friend, nh open-hearted Praver! Her always hears vou, Kui will five a His love will always cheer vou live no cares, © blessed will: Iu every clime: or land “or all my cures are thi You're never left without Him ive in triumph, Lord! for thio No matter what vour woes, last made thy triumpls mine Just tell it to the Father, F. W. Faber lie fe and He: and Knows! In God we have a Keeper If we will only heed, And let His love in deeper: He'll supply our every need. How kindly He will lead us To see a brighter war. and Make all things right for us. Just pray, my Brother Prav'! A CHALLENGING QUESTION let me ask a very challenging ques tion, a question which smites me to the very ground as I ask it, and let me ask if in great reverence: If you were God, would you answer prayers such as we toss so lightly and easily into the sacred Presence? ... How our Master prayed in Gethsemane in the birth-hour and birth-throes of the world’s redemp- tion! “‘And being in an agony He praved more earnestly, and His sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.” Such was the Savior's suffering intercession. And His own Chureh is called to supplement those sufferings: she is called to agonize.—- Dr. Jowett. “Daddy” and "Mother Horton, caught by a student's camera‘he can not go himself. woman wilro Divine Conjunctions and Disjunctions Some of the Bible Truths that are Wedded ‘Together and Some that must be Forever Distinguished By DR. FREDERIC W. FARR Los Angeles, Cal. “What God hath joined together, let not man put asunder,” These words were originally spoken by Jesus to discourage divorce, but they have a wider application than to the marriage relationship. There are many things which God has joined together that are rent asunder through indiffer- ence or ignorance. I. Ability and = responsibility are united by God. Opportunity and ability together constitute privilege and deter- mine responsibility. Opportunity is God-given, and if unused passes away, never to return. A with a fortune has a wide opportunity for usefulness. He can feed the hungry, clothe the naked and re- lieve the misery of his fellow-creatures everywhere. He can multiply his own personality by sending his money where He can so ad- minister his stewardship as to gain the lasting gratitude of his fellowmen and the approval of his Heavenly Father. Many disregard these duties and waste their wealth to gratify their van- ity and minister to their selfish pride, thus putting asunder what God has joined together. A man may have an education. Its possession obligates him to use it for the improvement of society. He betrays his trust if he makes no use of his cul- ture or allows it to minister merely to his self-gratification. A man who has political power, a has social influence, is bound by a sacred trust to do more good than others occupying a less exalted position. The church has the means to evangel- ize the world speedily, Capacity cre- ates obligation, and unless these obliga- tions are discharged, condemnation is greatly increased. Our responsibilities are always commensurate with our privileges, and we can only discharge the one when we properly appreciate the other, Ir. Liberty and charity ought never to be disassociated. Civil, intellectual and spiritual liberty are rightly reck- oned among the greatest blessings. We are bound to accord the same religious privileges to others that we enjoy our- selves. While we are tenacious of our, own convictions, we ought to respect the opinigns of others, even though at variance with ours; considering that they have an equal right with us. $68 tertain and propagate them” om Bigotry, «blindness and _ bitterness usually go together, How sad is the history of religious persecution in all ages! What rivers of blood have been shed and what relentless wars have been waged in the name of the Prince of Peace! Religious intolerance seems to be a relic of the dark ages, but it sur- vives in many forms today. Catholicity and charity ought to go with liberty, and we have to be on our guard against the seductive conceit of sectarianism and the curse of denominational pride. HI. Liberality and prosperity have been joined together by God and are not to be put asunder. —Liberality—does not depend upon the largeness of one's gilts. —-The two —mites —of._the—poor .widow mean more than the large dona- tions of the millionaire. Prosperity is something more than the multiplying of material resources. A Man May accum-THE KING'S BUSINESS ulate wealth through miserliness, but he cannot be said to prosper if his life becomes narrowed and his heart con- tracted by his gains. On the other hand, a man might be considered to be prosperous, though his bank account diminished daily, if he was increasing in the esteem of all right-thinking men, in intellectual productiveness and “the-rich-variety of-spiritual-expertence. “The liberal soul shall be made fat and _ he that waters others shall be watered also himself.” TV. Iniquity and adversity are di- vinely united and involved in the very nature of things. Just as surely as prosperity follows righteousness adver- sity follows wickedness. Nations as well as individuals are strong or weak in proportion to their morality. The word “ought” outweighs everything in the universe. When we obey the be- hests of duty, we experience a joy that is a foretaste of Heaven. When we consciously vidlate obligation, we are restless and unhappy, and this is a foreboding of hell. Death includes all these pains and penalties which come from transgressing the laws of God. Such is the depravity of the human heart that it requires a deterrent from wrong-doing. The Almighty governs the universe in accordance with law. Law must be enforced by sanctions, otherwise it is nothing but advice. Any attempt to remove these penalties by removing the producing cause, is an interference with the Divine arrange- ment, a putting asunder what God has joined together. V. Justification and sanctification should not be separated in the experi- ence of the child of God, After being justified by faith, why should we wait for sorrow or death to accomplish what the Holy Spirit stands ready to do at any time?) If the two experiences are not theologically coincident, at least one should succeed the other so closely that no appreciable interval of time should elapse between them. God has joined in’ 515 them intimately together and _ they ought not to be so far divorced that one is obtained by faith and the other by purgatorial fires hereafter. The same Divine Power that secures the one is adequate to achieve the other, since the precious blood of Christ is the only ground of both. We can neither increase the efficiency nor add to the beauty of anything that God has made. Indeed, man touches God's work only to mutilate and. mar. God makes no mistakes. He who would criticise or stigmatize the Divine handiwork either has asinine stupidity or devilish malignity, As we see the warning “Hands Off" displayed above some beautiful fabric in an exposition, let us recognize a similar prohibition in the spiritual world above the arrange- ments and adjustments of Divine wis- dom, and never soil or spoil by unhal- lowed touch their exquisite propriety and beauty. - . “What God hath, joined together let not man put aoe “What God hath put asunder let no man join together.” my ee This injunction is virtuallyif not verbally in Scripture. A proposition of logic declares that the converse of every proposition is true. If we are not to put asunder what God has joined to- gether, then of course, we are not to join together what God has put asun- der. Most of the confusion and per- plexity in the interpretation of -the Scriptures arises from a failure to observe and obey one or the other of these. injunctions. Paul exhorts the Philippians (Chap. 1:10, margin) to discriminate between things that differ. Someone once asked Daniel Webster how he obtained his remarkably clear ideas. “By attending to definitions,” he replied. I. God has drawn a line of separa- tion between purity and maturity. One is the result of faith, the other of works. One is the product of sanctification, the other of growth in grace. One is