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The King’s Business was a monthly publication of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles from 1910 to 1970. In the first decades of its publication, it was the leading journal for conservative Christianity and the early fundamentalist movement. In fact, The Fundamentals and The King’s Business shared the same chief editor (R. A. Torrey) and were supported by the same “concerned laymen” (Lyman and Milton Stewart).
This Biola journal was the Christianity Today of the first half of the 20th century. It provides a window into the monthly conduct of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles during the time that it was the flagship of an international movement. The King’s Business was one part house organ (reporting the activities of its students in Los Angeles), one part celebrity editorializing (with R. A. Torrey and T. C. Horton reacting to America’s role in the first world war, the depression, prohibition, etc), and one part content provider for the church life of conservative Protestants (publishing vast quantities of Sunday School literature).
Its subscribers looked to it for a reasoned defense against the encroachments of biblical criticism, for a balanced view of phenomena like Pentecostalism, for guidance about “the Best Books” to read, and for inspiration in their spiritual lives.
The King’s Business was a monthly publication of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles from 1910 to 1970. In the first decades of its publication, it was the leading journal for conservative Christianity and the early fundamentalist movement. In fact, The Fundamentals and The King’s Business shared the same chief editor (R. A. Torrey) and were supported by the same “concerned laymen” (Lyman and Milton Stewart).
This Biola journal was the Christianity Today of the first half of the 20th century. It provides a window into the monthly conduct of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles during the time that it was the flagship of an international movement. The King’s Business was one part house organ (reporting the activities of its students in Los Angeles), one part celebrity editorializing (with R. A. Torrey and T. C. Horton reacting to America’s role in the first world war, the depression, prohibition, etc), and one part content provider for the church life of conservative Protestants (publishing vast quantities of Sunday School literature).
Its subscribers looked to it for a reasoned defense against the encroachments of biblical criticism, for a balanced view of phenomena like Pentecostalism, for guidance about “the Best Books” to read, and for inspiration in their spiritual lives.
The King’s Business was a monthly publication of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles from 1910 to 1970. In the first decades of its publication, it was the leading journal for conservative Christianity and the early fundamentalist movement. In fact, The Fundamentals and The King’s Business shared the same chief editor (R. A. Torrey) and were supported by the same “concerned laymen” (Lyman and Milton Stewart).
This Biola journal was the Christianity Today of the first half of the 20th century. It provides a window into the monthly conduct of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles during the time that it was the flagship of an international movement. The King’s Business was one part house organ (reporting the activities of its students in Los Angeles), one part celebrity editorializing (with R. A. Torrey and T. C. Horton reacting to America’s role in the first world war, the depression, prohibition, etc), and one part content provider for the church life of conservative Protestants (publishing vast quantities of Sunday School literature).
Its subscribers looked to it for a reasoned defense against the encroachments of biblical criticism, for a balanced view of phenomena like Pentecostalism, for guidance about “the Best Books” to read, and for inspiration in their spiritual lives.
tand Ye in the Ways
and see, and ask for
theold paths, where
is the good way, and walk
therein, and ye shall find
rest for Your souls.
Jer. 6:16
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be pre-eminently the God of
the Bible,
Matthew Arneld
A “TRUTH AND ERROR” NUMBER—AUG. 1919THE KING’S BUSINESS
MOTTO: “I, the Lord, do keep it, I will water it every moment, lest any hurt it
i bor. 27:3
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Volume X August, 1919 Number 8
Editorials:
Truth and Error (693) Praetical and Wise Women (693)
Spiritual Power of Pre-Millennial Doctrine (694) A Signal
Honor (695) A School of Prayer (696) The Final Peace
Covenant (696) 1s Democracy the Cure-all? (697) Sixty
years with the Bible (698) Baptists and Christ’s Coming
(699) Woman Suffrage (700) Delivered from Castor Oil
(702)
Sentence Sermons (703)
- Story of a Mormon Convert (704)
Christian Science and the World War (710)
Bible Institute Happenings (714)
Seventh Day Adventism (719)
Roman Catholicism (721)
Evangelistic Stories (732)
International Sunday School Lessons (740)
Daily Devotional Readings (774)
Jewish Notes (785)
Homiletical Helps (787)
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FOURTEEN POINTS
CONCERNING MANKIND
AS IT IS WRITTEN:
1. There is NONE righteous,
no, not one.
2. There is NONE that under-
standeth.
&. There is NONE that seek-
eth after God.
4, They are ALL gone out of
the way.
5. They are together become
unprofitable.
6. There is NONE that doeth
good, no, not one.
7. Their throat is an open
sepulchre.
8. With their tongues they
have used deceit.
9. The poison of asps is un-
der their lips.
10. Whose mouth is full of
cursing and bitterness.
11, Their feet are swift to
shed blood.
12. Destruction and misery
are in their way:
18. And the way of peace they
have not known.
14, There is no fear of God
before their eyes.
Rom, 3:10-18.
‘The Only Peace Covenant for the Present:
Take your true place as a Guilty Sinner, accept the Provision of
God in His Sovereign Grace, through faith in the Redeemer's Blood:
“Being justified freely by His Grace through the Kedemption that is
in CHRIST JESUS.”
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A “TRUTH and Error”) Number
We give extra space in this issue to a discussion of some of the erroneous
teachings of the day. It is said that one hot day Truth resolved to take a
plunge in the lake. He was having a nice swim when Error came along and
thought he too would take a swim. When Error discovered that Truth was
swimming not far from him, he made haste to get out of the lake, donned
Truth’s clothes, leaving his own in their place, and hastened away from the
spot. Truth, soon after, upon finding the filthy rags of Error in place of
his own clothes, declared, ‘*I will not wear those clothes if I have to go
naked the rest of my days,’’
The naked truth concerning man’s moral and spiritual condition is
found in the Bible—that’s why some men have a quarrel with it. And the
naked truth concerning God’s plan of redemption is found in the Bible,
hence the hatred of Satan. Error has ever sought to clothe himself in Serip-
ture language for the sake of deceiving religious people, but at heart he is
the devil incarnate, seeking the destruction of souls. It is noteworthy that
he has ever concentrated his supreme efforts against those particular truths
vital to salvation, and every modern ism puts a different construction on the~
work of Calvary’s Gross. The battle has ever waged around the Cross, and
it is hotter today than ever before. What cares the devil what moral pre-
cepts one selects from the Bible, so long as he can get them to ignore the
Cross and go sincerely and religiously to hell? x
Some are saying, ‘‘Leave these cults alone; if they be not of God they
will come to naught.’’ Suppose you see a friend holding in his hand a eup
containing poison, under the impression that it is milk. Will you say, ‘‘Go
ahead and drink it, brother: if it is not good for you, you will soon throw
itup?’’ There is but one right action to take, and that is to arouse him from
his sincere but erroneous belief—and even, if necessary to dash the eup from
his hand. Shall not the Christian raise his voice in protest when friends and
relatives about him are sincerely taking the poisonous draught? Is it pos-
sible to contend for the faith without contending against those things which
are against the faith !—Editors.
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SOME PRACTICAL and Wise Women
We recently called attention to the necessity of using wisdom in mak-
ing our gifts for God’s work, stating that many give indiscriminately, and
that often such gifts prove to be an unfortunate investment, Money given
to schools and colleges and for missionary purposes, that would go into the
hands of men and women who deny the faith, would be a serious blunder694 THE KING'S BUSINESS
for which God would hold us aecountable. We are in duty bound to be as
sure as we can be that our tithes and offerings shall be given to those mis-
sionaries that stand square on the Word of God, and are faithful to its in-
spiration. In this connection we quote the following. letter, just received
from a young woman in one of the Eastern states:
“Will you kindly inform me concerning some Foreign Missionary work that
is not under the direction of a denominational church board, or. if under such, one
that is sending out only such missionaries as preach and teach the Gospel and are
loyal to the Word of God?
The Board representing the denomination to which I belong, and through
which Ihave been giving to Foreign Missions, I know is sending out missionaries
who have been trained in the Chicago University, and are practically Unitarian in
belief. I cannot give even my little to send out those who will carry to the heathen
teachings that have cursed some of my friends here in the homeland. I have some
friends who are uniting with me in this inquiry, and we shall deeply appreciate
any information you may give.”
It gives us great pleasure to be able to say that we have at all times
access to missionaries on all the fields whom we know to be true to the Word
of God, and who are doing a definite, straight, evangelical and evangelistic
work, to whom we shall be glad to forward funds, putting the givers in touch
with those who receive the money, without any charge. We wish there
might be many men and women who would imitate this group of women.
Reader, where are you? Will your gifts rise up at the judgment seat of
Christ, where we are to be judged for the deeds done in the body, and ery
out against you? We speak this in the fear of God, and with the desire to
be helpful to those who are seeking to glorify God with their gifts.
—T. C.
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SPIRITUAL POWER of the Premillennial Doctrine
As remarkable a testimony as we have ever known concerning the
effect of the doctrine of our Lord’s Return upon chureh life, is that given
by Rev. Otho F. Bartholow, Pastor of the First M. E. Church of Mt. Vernon,
N. Y. The testimony is taken from ‘‘Christ and Glory,’’ the published
report of the New York Prophetie Conference, referred to in our book
review in this issue.
There is peculiar significance in this testimony from the fact that the
Methodist Church seems to have taken upon itself the responsibility of
fighting the premillennial doctrine, and in many places has warned its
people of the danger attending the preaching and teaching of same, claiming
that it euts the nerve of action, and defeats the purpose of God in winning
men to Christ. We wonder if the Methodist chureh—or any other denomi-
nation, for that matter—can produce an illustration from a post-millennial
source, equal to this. If there are any great post-millennial Bible teachers,
now is the opportunity for them to try their doctrine upon a class of men,
or a class of women, and let us have a report of the results:
“Now my experience: I was educated in a. Methodist Theological Seminary,
educated in the post-millennial theory. I tried to preach it. I thought I was
called at times to fight the pre-millennial theory. I tried to do that and had a
hard time, I took my Bible by commentaries and by the professors’ authority. I
made up my mind a few years ago I would take it for myself, as God intended I
should, and study it anew, and as I read from Genesis all through to Revelation, a
light came to me. “Young man, you have been mistaken. You have beenTHE KING'S BUSINESS 695
preaching an error. The truth is the pre-millennial theory, the coming of Christ
for His own, and to fulfill His promise to Israel—King and Ruler,—and the
saints to be caught up to meet Him in the air.”
‘Then the great truth came to me and I began to preach it. I was just enough
of a theorist to say “The proof of a thing is what it does. I am going to see
what it does.’ I preached to my people. A new spirit came into the church. A
few months ago I got into a conference where there were eight men who were
post-millennarians arguing against one pre-millennarian; eight to one. Well, it
takes eight of them to overcome one of us, then they cannot do it. But this
philosopher said: “The only trouble with the pre-millennial idea is, it cuts the
nerve of action. It causes a man to cease his efforts in this world to bring men
to Christ. It—paralyzes—activity_and_makes_us_visionaries_and_ impracticable;
therefore it cannot be true.’ But my experience was this: It put power into the
church; ft gave energy for every field of activity.
I want by the power of the Holy Ghost to prepare the bride for the coming
of the Bridegroom,—to prepare the Bride to be caught up with Him, New life
came. I began to teach it to men ten years ago,—began with ten men in a Bible
class to teach this great fundamental doctrine. Today I have fourteen hundred
men in the largest Bible class in this country. I began to teach it to women. We
started with twenty. We now have seven hundred women studying the Scripture
of God,—this great, blessed truth that holds with all that is in the Scripture that
we hold true, and the hope of the nations, and the very longing of our hearts
this afternoon. Talk as you please,—Jesus as the pre-eminent Lord, Jesus as the
eternal, incarnate, perfect Man and very God,—shall come and reign, and then
after the millennium He will bring the consummation."—T,C, H.
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A SIGNAL Honér
The great General Assembly of the Presbyterian Chureh, North, at its
gathering in St. Louis, did some notable things: It refused to be drawn
into the net of the so-called ‘‘Federation of Churches’’; it rebuked the
attitude of the President on the wine and beer question; it planned for a
large increase in funds for home and foreign missionary work; and it
elected, for the first time in its history, a layman as Moderator.
The office of Moderator is the highest possible honor within the power
of the Presbyterian church to bestow, and their action in this instance puts
this layman in a historic class, John Willis Baer is the name of the man.
He is known to the young people of the United States as a former leader
of the Y. P. S. C. E., and more recently President of Occidental College in
Los Angeles, California, and at the present time, an active banker in the
city of Pasadena.
Dr, Baer is a self-made man, of unusually strong, aggressive, decided
character. He has learned to do things by doing them, He is a forceful
speaker with an original manner, having been spared the operation of being
run through the mould of the schools. He has been the leader of a large
Men’s Bible Class in his home church, and we congratulate him as he enters
upon these new duties, pregnant with real import to the church and our
Lord’s cause. While not a student of the Seriptures in the sense in which
some of his predecessors have been, yet he belongs to the school to which
three of the recent former Moderators belongs, viz.: Dr. Mark Matthews,
Dr. John Timothy Stone and Dr. John A. Marquis, all of whom were dispen-
sational teachers and stout pre-millennialists.
‘We congratulate, also, the Presbyterian church on this new adventure
and look for some very definite and decided forward movement.—T. C. H:696 THE KING'S BUSINESS
A SCHOOL of Prayer
A “School of Prayer" has been opened by our good friend, Dr. John H. Troy,
and is significant as one of the “signs of the times.” We have had schools for
everything else. It seems strange that it should be necessary to have a school
of prayer to teach men to pray, but the church is short on prayer, and this is
evidenced by the life of the church.
“The Lord has made it possible to open a School of Prayer right at the gate of the Ghetto of
Ne York Here those who believe in uninterrupted and prevailing prayer mect from time to
Among other things we are praying for God's will-in thefollowing-spiritual-objects:——
The following is a copy of the announcement sent to the writer by Dr. Troy:
(1) Israel.
(2) The Second Coming Testament.
(3) Young men to become students in the “School of Prayer,” giving all of
their time.
(4) Grace and truth for all God’s servants everywhere.
(5) More light on certain difficult passages of Seripture.
(6) The separation of the true children of God from the Apostate church.
(7) Patience and endurance in persecution and tribulation.”
Shall we not pray that this School of Prayer may be used of the Lord as the
beginning of a new era in prayer? f..c. B
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THE FINAL Peace Covenant
In Ezekiel’s vision of the Davidie Kingdom to be set up when Christ
shall come again to be the Shepherd of regathered Israel, we find a mention
of the final ‘‘peace covenant’’:
“I will make with them a covenant of peace and will cause the evil
beasts to cease out of the land and they shall dwell safely in the wilderness
and sleep in the woods. * * There shall be showers of blessing.”
(34 25, 26).
This will be the only successful peace covenant. It will be successful
because it will have back of it the power of the Prince of Peace. ‘‘His
kingdom shall cover the earth as the waters cover the sea.’”
It will be a secure peace because the evil beasts will cease to be so at
His coming. ‘‘The wolf shall dwell with the lamb and the leopard shall
lie down with the kid; and the ealf and the young lion and the fatling
together; and a little child shall lead them. * * * They shall not hurt
nor destroy in all my holy mountain.” (Is. 11:6, 9), For this time all
creation longingly waits (Rom. §:19-22).
It will be a satisfying peace, for then Christ, the ‘‘Son of Righteous-
ness, will have arisen with healing in his wings’’ (Mal. 4:2). With Him
present in person any kind of showers except ‘‘showers of blessing”’ will
be out of the question. How few who sing ‘‘There shall be showers of
blessing’’ know that it looks to the time of Christ’s glorious return.
It will be a sustaining peace for “‘the tree of the field shall then yield
her full fruit and the earth shall yield her increase’’ (v. 27, 29). ‘‘There
shall be no more curse”’ (Rev. 23:3).
It will be a sudden peace, It will not be the result of a long drawnTHE KING'S BUSINESS 697
out conflab around the peace table, neither will it be the result of a millen-
nium dragged in by the main foree of world reformers. The ‘“‘plant of
renown”’ (vy. 29) shall be raised up. He is none other than Christ, whose
coming shall be as the lightning out of the east (Matt. 24:27)—K. L. B.
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IS DEMOCRACY The Cure-all?
According to the Colossus in Daniel 2 the last form of government in
this age is a mixture of monarchy and democracy. The fragile clay of the
popular will of the people is mixed with the yet hopelessly unamalgamated
hard crushing iron of imperialism. The clay seems to be predominating in
these days. Demoeracy is the popular cry. Dr. D. M. Panton says, ‘‘Democ-
racy is the longsuffering of God granting to the less cultured classes such
political power as will prove whether the miscarriage of all human govern-
ment is due to its form or to its sin. So, that, when moral disaster over-
takes republics equally with empires, every mouth may be stopped, and
every order of sinner—whether Chaldean absolutist, Persian satrap, Greek
oligarch, Roman militarist, or modern democrat—be proved, by sin, equally
incompetent to control the world. To prove whether bad government
springs from ancient barriers—monarehy or aristocracy or sex—God grants
adult suffrage at last, until the whole Colossus—Man—collapses in ruin.’?
Notice that in past history, every form of government when adminis-
tered by righteous men has brought untold blessing. This proves it is n
the form of government so much as sin that breaks down in disaster when
authority is wielded by wicked men. Just at present God is permitting the
yacillating populace to rule and a lawless rule it is. And it will not get
better, but rather worse, as the years come and go, until people will become
so disgusted with their own lawlessness that they will ery for a dictator.
Notice in the past that lawlessness has always developed a fearful dictator-
ship in the end. It was the French Revolution that created Napoleon; as
he remarked himself one time—‘It was I who closed the crater of anarehy."”
The pendulum of the national clock will always swing eventually as far one
way as it did the other. This world is rapidly turning into a Red Republic.
‘When the freedom of the publie will has reached its limit, then the bram
of the world.will cry out for a dictator.
Then the Superman, the Wicked One, the Man of Sin, the Anti-Christ,
the Beast, the World Dictator, will appear. Jesus said in John 5:43, “I am
come in My Father’s name, and ye receive me not; if another shall come in
his own name, him ye will receive.’’ No wonder God put this form of
government last in His description of world-rule in the Colossus. For no
power but God Himself, in the person of His Son, could ever reconstruct
society after this scourge had once run over the earth. Godless democracy
is bound to develop the most devilish rule this world has ever seen. Nothing
will change it but the coming of our Lord Jesus in flaming fire, taking
vengeance on them that know not God and obey not our Lord Jesus Christ.
The time seems not far distant when the Lawless One will be revealed
(2 Thes. 2) ‘‘whom the Lord Jesus will slay with the breath of His mouth,
and bring to nought by the manifestation of His Coming.’’—W. H. P.698 : THE KING'S BUSINESS
SIXTY YEARS With the Bible-.-and a Critic!
We received some time ago a letter from a man who said that he had
formed his views of the Bible after carefully reading William Newton
Clarke’s book ‘‘Sixty Years with the Bible’. From the title one would
judge that the writer had prepared for the Bible student some real food
for the soul. Sixty years as a Bible student, and a man ought to leave the
world something worth while. But it depends upon whether one has spent
the sii years in trying to find discrepancies in the Bible and in endeav-
oning to-fit-its tea cings to-preconeeived notions, or—sixty years as a seeker
for truth in the sehool of the Holy Spirit.
Dr. Clarke became a liberalist of the liberalists. The friend who wrote
us, by Dr. Clarke’s help, has made up his mind what he wants to believe,
and opens his Bible to such portions as Dr. Clarke says are fairly reliable
when spiritualized. Our friend tells us he now has the only belief that is
satisfying to a really intellectual man, which is a gentle way of informing
us that all who do not take Dr. Clarke’s position are either putty-heads or
Rip Van Winkles.
. But is it a fact that there is a shortage of scholarship on the side of the
Bible? We might give the rest of this magazine to a list of recognized
scholars who stand on the side of orthodoxy, and there are many of them
who have spent sixty years with the Bible, and the more minutely they
have studied it, the more confirmed they have been in the belief that it is
a divinely inspired revelation. The dean of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles
has not missed a day in forty-one years in which he has ngt read the
Bible both in the original languages and the English. He is a graduate of
several of the biggest colleges in America and Europe. He has written
scores of books on Biblical subjects, which books are printed in twenty-six
languages and read by many intellectual students the world around. There
is searcely a big college in which he has not lectured on Biblieal subjects,
and he numbers many college professors among those who have through
his teaching acknowledged Jesus Christ as Son of God and personal Saviour,
As a scholar and Bible student, he has a world reputation that William
Newton Clarke with his sixty years did not have.
But regarding Dr. Clarke’s book, our attention has been called to an
article in a Chicago University publication. The party who sends us this
periodical is a former student of that seminary and says that the paper
has been sent to him gratis for fifteen years. “Tt has grown more infidelic,’
he says, ‘‘until they are now outspoken against the Bible and their profes-
sors surpass Tom Paine and Bob Ingersoll in their powers for sowing evil.’”
Under a head ‘‘Religious Reading for the Home’? this periogical advises all
to carefully read ‘‘Sixty Years with the Bible’’ by William Newton Clarke.
“This book” (says the magazine) “brings into the foreground the necessity
for intellectual insight in dealing with the Bible. While the average reader is
not so familiar with the intricacies of the process of intellectual criticism of the
Bible, it is an incredible relief to him to know that scholars who have such knowl-
edge have long since abandoned so untenable a theory as the verbal inspiration
of the Scriptures. The Bible was originally a human book and has passed through
many processes which render it frequently inaccurate. Dr. Clarke's book has an
important message to the Christian of today. It shows that we should have a
sense of freedom toward doctrine, even to the point of differing from the doctrine
held by the New Testament writers. (In this they agree perfectly with Russellism.THE KING'S BUSINESS — 699
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BITING o MR. PROVES SORT
Eddyism, Mormonism, etc.) A doctrine which does not accord with our knowledge:
of history and science must be rejected.
This is the important message Dr. Clarke and the Chicago professors
are sending out to the world. The divine commission has now been altered
to read ‘‘Go ye into all the world and tell every creature that the Bible has
long since been abandoned as a divine revelation to man.’’ And this is the
message that we are told ‘‘brings incredible relief’ to the Christian —
K. L. B.
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BAPTISTS and Christ's Second Coming
The Baptist denomination is now conceded to be numerically the largest
in the world. Baptists have always boasted that they have no creed but
the New Testament and since they hold to the literal interpretation of
Seripture, they have been more constantly and consistently identified with
the Pre-millennial doctrine than any of the reformed sects. We find it
embodied in many of their historical confessions. In 1660 a confession of
faith was drawn up and signed by John Bunyan and forty others, ‘elders,
deacons and brethren,”’ approved by twenty thousand more, and presented
to Charles II in London. It was prefaced by this statement: ‘‘We are not
only resolved to suffer persecution to the loss of our goods, but also life
itself, rather than decline from the same.’’ It contained the following
articles:
“article 22. We believe that the same Lord Jesus who showed himself
alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, Acts 1:3, which was taken up
into heaven, shall so come in like manner as He was seen going «nto heaven,
Acts 1:9-11, and when Christ who is our life shall appear, we shall also appear
with Him in glory. Col. 3:4. For the kingdom is His, and He is the governor
among the nations, Psalm 22:28, and the king over all the earth, Zech. 14:9, and
we shall reign with him on the earth, Rev. 5:10. The kingdoms of this world
which men so mightily strive after here to enjoy, shall become the kingdom of
our Lord and his Christ, Rev. 11:5. For all things are yours, (ye that overcome
the world) for ye are Christ's and Christ is God’s, 1 Cor. 3:21-23. For unto the
saints shall be given the kingdom and the greatness of the dominion, under the
whole heaven, Dan. 7:27. Though, alas! how many men be scarce content that
the saints should have so much as being among them, but when Christ shall700 THE KING'S BUSINESS
eppear, then shall be given unto them power over the nations, to rule them with
a rod of iron, Rey. 2:26, 27. Then shall they receive a crown of life, which no
man shall take from them, nor they by any means turned or overturned from,
for the oppressor shall be broken in pieces, Psalm 72:4, and their vain rejoicing
be turned into mourning and lamentation, as it is written, Job 20:5-7.
We believe that there will be an order in the resurrection. Christ is the first-
fruits and then next or after, they that are Christ’s at His coming; then or
+ afterwards cometh the end. Concerning the kingdom and reign of our Lord
Jesus Christ, as we do believe that he is now in heaven at His Father's right
hand, so we do believe that at the appointed time of the Father, He shall come
again in power and great glory; and that at or after His coming the second time,
__—He_will not only_raise the dead, and_judge—and-restore_the_world,—but_will-elso
take to Himself His kingdom and will according to the Scriptures, reign on the
throne of His father David on Mount Zion in Jerusalem forever. We believe
that the kingdom of our Lord will be a universal kingdom and that in this
kingdom the Lord Jesus Christ Himself will be algpe, visible, supreme king of
the whole earth. We believe that as this kingdow@will be universal, so it will
also be an everlasting kingdom, that shall have no end nor cannot be shaken;
in which kingdom the saints and faithful in Christ Jesus shall receive the end of
their faith, even the salvation of their souls; where the Lord is, there they shall be
also.""—Crosby’s History of Baptism, Vol. 2, Appendix 58. .
If we should be reproached with having a desire to turn back the dial
of denominational progress to the 17th century, we confess to a desire to go
back farther than that, even to the first century, to our Lord and His
Apostles, and reaffirm the faith once for all delivered unto the saints. We
believe that the rank and file of the great Baptist constituency remain
loyal to the faith of the fathers even though the new theology may have
captured many educational centres and sought to gain control of the admin-
istrative machinery. If at any time in the future, the historic attitude of the
denomination shall be reversed, by discrediting the validity and repudiating
the authority of the Word of God, in other words, if the poison of the new
theology shall leaven the Baptist dough, then ‘‘Ichabod’’ may be written
above its portals, for its boasted bond of cohesion will be a rope of sand.—
F.W.F.
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WOMAN SUFFRAGE and the Bible
Woman Suffrage is here to stay. And women have now moved for
equal rights in the Presbyterian Chureh, seeking the privilege of holding
church positions for centuries held only by men.
Let no one be deceived as to what the outcome of these movements is
to be, It has grown out of a rejection of the Word and continually fosters
a rebellion against Bible teaching. Leading advocates of equal rights for
women are most open in their ridicule of the Bible. Mrs. Laura Fixen of
Chicago says: ‘‘Man has usurped almost everything in religion as well as
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