King's Business - 1944-10

King's Business - 1944-10

OCTOBER

Official Organ of THE BIBLE INSTITUTE OF LOS ANGELES, Incorporated

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October, 1944

The Scroll of the Law

The Official Organ of THE BIBLE INSTITUTE OF LOS ANGELES, Inc. “Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood*9 (Rev. 1:5). THE KING'S BUSINESS Current Business ............... ............................................................... ................ 323 Ten Times over Berlin— Tech. Serg. Robert Phillips as told to Anne Hazeltori ........___’.......................... ..................... .........324 Do You Memorize—O r Do You Learn ?— lone Lawman ..... ............... .326 The Unknown Christ — Vance H a v n e r ........... ................. ....,..................... 327 D r. Talbot’s Question Box _____________ ____ | ... ..................................328 Junior King’s Business —Martha S. H o o ker .................. .............................329, International Lesson Commentary... ............................................... .............. 332 .Christian Endeavor— Wm . W . Orr, K . Paul Yphantis, Henry Owen, Dawson Trotman ................... ....................................................:........... 342 Daily Devotional Readings........................ ................. ............. ...................... 346 Biola Family .............t.— :.......— ............................. ...........— ......348' Literature Table ............................ ................... ...— .........i............... 349 SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION —“The King’s Business” is published monthly; $1.50, one yr.; $2.00, two yrs.; 75 cents, six months; S$0 cents» single copy. Clubs of three or more at spdbial rates. Write for details. Canadian and for­ eign subscriptions 25 c.ents extra. It requires one month for a change of ad­ dress to become effective. ^Please send both old and new addresses. REMITTANCE —Payable in advance, should be made by bank draft, express, or post office money order payable to “The King's Business.” Date of expiration will show plainly on outside wrapper or cover of magazine. ADVERTISING —For information, address the Advertising Manager, 558 South Hope Street, Los Angeles 13, Calif., or our eastern representative, Religious Press Association, 51 No. 52nd St., Philadelphia 39, Pa. MANUSCRIPTS —“The King's Business” cannot accept responsibility for loss or damage to manuscripts sent in for consideration. Entered as second-class hiatter November 7, 1938, at the Post Office at Los An­ geles, California, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Acceptance for mailing at spe­ cial rate of postage provided for in the Act of February 28, 1925, embodied in para­ graph 4, section 538, P. L. and R., authorized October 1, 1918, and November 13, 1938. ADDRESS: The King’s Business, 558 So. Hope St., Los Angeles 13, Calif. LOUIS T. TALBOT, Editor-In-Chief MILDRED M. COOK, Managing Editor RANSOM D. MARVIN, Staff Artist

The Scroll is the most Sacred thing in 11 .saying, “This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoreth me with their lips; blit their heart is far from me.” Unknown in thè Church The tragedy of our church life is the Unknown Christ. He is unknown to thousands of i n e m b e r s who have joined the church but do not know Christ, and now they are the most dif­ ficult of all people to reach because they hide in a church. Hundreds of people could be led to Christ if only they were riot church members! And He is an Unknown Christ in many ways ta Christians. They know Him as Saviour, but on so many points they live their own lives and know nothing of His power to keep, to guide, to empower, to give joy and peace and victory. I go into churches where there •is division and discord. The members do not like the preacher, and there .is a fuss, i n ,the -choir, and the Sunday school is torn up, and the deacons are loggerheading—and the whole trouble is their poor knowledge of Christ. And they never will get together until they unite around Him. I doubt whether any church trouble can be unraveled by trying to take it to pieces arid put it back together, for there are always more pieces than you ever suspected,

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and you always have some that won’t fit anywhere. The, only way out is a good old revival, and a revival simply means getting acquainted with Christ in a new way. A real revival- ends with everybody loving Christ and therefore loving each other. Unknown by the .Christian I find a lot of Christians these days, sound» fundamental Christians who sit in meetings and are dull and dis­ illusioned with a sort of glaze over their eyes. I know how they got that way. They ran after some preacher and he fooled them, and now they are fed up and cynical. Or, they followed some movement that went to pieces, or chased some experience, òr went to, seed on some doctriné, and nbw they sit in the seat of trie scornful or at best .they are lukewarm and nothing stirs them any more. If they had been occupied with Christ, they never would have gotten into such a state as that. He never leaves a bad taste, He never lets us down, He never leaves us in the lurch. Looking at each other is disappointing business, and following pet preachers always ends in bitter­ ness, for the “idol’s” feet turn out to be very poor clay. People who are taken up with know­ ing Christ better and making Him known stay sweet and fresh and hope­ ful. They do not expect too much of people, and therefore they are never seriously disappointed. They always expect great things of God, and again they are never disappointed. The' se­ cret of so much of our bitterness is that we know ourselves and others better than we know Him. The Unknown Christ explains pur disunity today as Christians. There- are always movements afoot to get the saints together, but not around Him. I doubt whether we shall ever get , the Christians organized very closely, for i do not think God is in­ terested in that., There are a great many leaders trying it, but they get a crowd around themselves and soon they fall apart again. Unanimity we will never have; unification is man­ made and that we do not want; we need to practice instead thè unity we already have in Christ. There are too many who want to head- a movement, and not enough like John the Baptist who are willing to be only the friend of the bridegroom. When people real­ ly are occupied with knowing Christ and making Him known, there is no time for chasing around after Paul, Cephas, and Apollos. And here is the secret of effective preaching: aim at getting people to know Christ, You are always on safe ground bragging about Him. You never lie awake nights regretting ser- \jContfhued on Page 351]

Dr. Talbot's Question Box

Questions for onswer in this depart­ ment should be sent to the Editorial Department, THE .KING'S BUSINESS, 558 So. Hope St., Los Angeles 13, Calif. QUE.: What is meant by the term, “Jewish blood” ? Was there any in Jesus’ veins? A great deal of scientific research has resulted in the establishment of the fact that no person is born with either the blood of his father or his .mother in his veins—every child in his prenatal state generates his own blood. In the true sense of the word, then, Christ did not have Jewish blood. Let it be remembered that the blood of Christ was different from any other blood from three standpoints: unique conception, unique personality; and unique efficacy,to atone for sin on Calvary’s cross. However, from the standpoint of generation, Christ descended from the Jewish line: from the seed of Abra­ ham (of. Matt. 1:2; Heb. 2:16), from .the line of David (cf. Zech. 23:5; Lk. 3:31; Rom. 1:3), and from the tribe of Judah (cf. Lk. 3:30; Rev. 5:5). We note also that when our Lord met the woman of Samaria she called Him a Jew, a fact which He accepted (cf. John 4:5-9). QUE.: What is the difference between premillenarianism a n d postmillenarianism ? Both qf these terins have to do with the return of our Lord Jesus, Christ, and His reign of, a thousand years on the earth. The premillennial view is the belief that the Rapture, the catching up of the believers to meet the Lord in the air (cf. 1 Thess. 4:16-18), will be fol­ lowed by the period of the Great Trib­ ulation—the time when the Antichrist will reign, the Beast and the Raise Prophet will be revealed, and there Will be great suffering.and sin upon the earth, (cf. Rev. £-13). .After this, Satan will be bound in the bottomless pit' (cf. Rev. 20:1-3), and the literal, physical, personal coming of the Lord and the establishment of His kingdom upon the earth for a thousand years will take place. This period will be the Millennium. The following are a few of the- many references to His reign, and its attendant characteris­ tics: Isaiah 2:4; 11:1-12:6; 40:9-11; Zechariah 14:4, 5, 9; Matthew 16:27; 2 Thessalonians 2:2.4, 8; Revelation 1:7; 20:4-6.

In opposition to this belief is the one known as the postmillennial view. The adherents to, ; this position be­ lieve that trie conditions- in the world will improve, that there will be world­ wide conversion, and that Christ will reign in a “spiritual” sense in the hearts of all men for a thousand years —the Millennium; after which Christ’s literal, personal coming to earth will take place. QUE.: My complaint to my church about the column, “The Film Finder,” appearing in our Sunday school paper, has met with hitter criticism on the basis that the column is meant to “guide the readers in their-choice of the right movies.” Is my attitude against this Scripturally correct?’’ The magazine, or paper, of any or­ ganization is representative of the Standards, attitudes, and teachings of that association. If the paper of your church carries a recommendation of tlie so-called “better type” movies, that is indicative of the fact that it places its stamp of approval upon such a form of entertainment. While this is not meant to be a criticism of the movies, trie inception and standards of that organization seem to us to be so directly contra­ dictory to .those of God’s action and will-regarding His church, that a har­ mony of the two is impossible. A consideration of some of the truths pertaining to the church may be helpful in realizing this difference: It is made up of redeemed ones, pur­ chased with the blood of Christ who is its divine Head (Acts 20:28; Eph. 4:15); it is the workmanship of God, and created unto good works (cf. Eph. 2:10); it is thé habitation of ,the Holy Spirit (cf. Eph. 2:20-22); it has been divinely commissioned, divinely im- powered, and it has a divine hope (cf. Matt. 28:19, 20; Acts 1:8; Phil. 4:5)- In view of these facts, the'col- umns of church literature should be filled with that which would prove useful in- the edification and spirit­ ual development of the members of Christ’s body. Notice the teaching of Ephesians 4:13: '-‘Till we all come in the unity of faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, junto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the ful> ness of Christ.”

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Rosalia By

EUNICE VICTORIA PIKE

if Rosalia would loveN Him as her Saviour, He would take her to live with Him in heaven some day. Nearly all of Rosalia’s little Indian friends and their mothers and fathers worship the sun. When one of thé missionaries told Rosalia thât the sun was not a god, but that our God, the heavenly Father, had made the sun to keep us warm, and to cause the grass and flowers to grow, Rosalia was surprised. ■She exclaimed, “That’s' wonderful! The heavenly Father must be a very strong God to be able to make the sun. He must be loving and kind, too. I want to hear more about Him.” At another time the missionaries taught'her the verse, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house” (Acts 16:31). She especially liked the part “and thy house.” She knew that itf meant her little sister and her mother and father. Tlje verse said that they could all be happy together forever, if they all loved the Lord Jesus. Almost every day this little Indian girl learned more about Jesus. Once her own little bed helped to' teach her a lesson. Rosalia sleeps on a straw mat which she spreads out on the dirt floor at night. When it ¿s timé for her to get up her mother calls, “Get up, Rosalia. Pick up your bed!” Then Rosalia gets

is doing her share of the work. Each morning and evening she hangs a water jar down her back, held by a strap on her héad, and she goes down the hill for water. Coming back, she puts her arm over the top of her head and holds it to help her neck bear the weight of the water. , One morning Rosalia put on her shawl and set out with her basket. She was going to the market to buy lard. The shawl was very helpful. It kept her warm, and it covered her bas­ ket so that no one could see what she had bought. On the way back from the market, Rosalia, stopped to call on the mis­ sionaries who lived near her home. They were different from any people she had ever seen before, and she liked to watch them. They sat and wrote on paper. They said that there was a book that was God’s Word and that God wanted everyone to read it. They were writing it in the Mazateca language, so that she, her mother and father, and all the other people of that tribe could read it. At first Rosalia had been afraid of the missionaries, but after she 'had watched them a While she had gone upland felt of their hands. She wanted to know if their white skin felt like, her brown skin. It did. When the mis­ sionaries smiled at her she felt right at home and began to ask questions like this about the things they had in their house: “What is that? How much did it cost?” \ : Often after that, Rosalia stopped to see her new friends. One day one of the missionaries said to héñ “It’s so nice up in heaven! Are you going to go there some day?” Rosalia had never heard of heaven. She asked, “What road do we take?” The missionary told her about the Lord Jestis'.and about His saying, “I am the way, the truth, and the life” (John 14:6). She said that the Lord Jesus was the way to heaven and that

DOWN in Mex­ ico lives a little Indian girl named Eosalia. She b e- longs to the Maza- teca (Ma-za-TAY- ka) tribe, and her home , is a little hut in the moun­ tains. The roof is made of dfy'sug­ ar cane leaves dou­ bled over bamboo poles. It is about eight inches thick, a n d t h e leaves rustle when t h e wind blows. The walls are made of t h i n boards The boards were

chopped out with a hatchet-like knife, and their unevenness makes nice peek holes. Without being seen herself, Ro­ salia can watch through the holes in the wood and can see when anyone goes up the trail past her house. Some­ times she has fun calling out to them, and seeing them look about in a puz­ zled way. They cannot see who is talk­ ing to them. The floor of the house is dark-brown earth packed hard. Rosalia helps to keep it tidy by sweeping it with a bundle of twigs. All the why around the house is a lit.tle, ditch. The ditch keeps the rain running away from the house rather than into it. There is no stove, but Rosalia’s mother cooks over a fire that is built on top of the floor. Three big stones are in the center of the fire, and the bean pot is set on top of them. If her mother is busy she tells Rosalia, “Go blow up the fire.” Then Rosalia gets down on her hand§ and knees beside the fire and blows into the ashes. This makes the flames come" up around the pot and sets the beans to boiling again. Rosalia is only six, but already she

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up, rolls up her straw mat,, and stands it in the corner. ‘ ...... One day the missionary told her this story from God’s Word: “When the Lord Jesus was here on the earth, He went to a place where there was a large pool of water. At the side of the pool there were many sick people. One of them was a man who had been lying beside the pool for a long time, hoping to be the first one to step into it after an angel had stirred the water. “Then Jesus came along and saw the man lying there. Jesus knew that the man had been sick a long time and that he wanted to be made well, so He said to him. i‘Rise, take up thy bed,- and walk.’ The man got up and carried his bed off down the street. How thankful he must have been to the Lord Jesus for making him well!” . Probably the man in this story rolled up his bed in much the same way that Rosalia does when she gets up every morning. Rosalia liked that story. She likes other Bible stories too. Very often now she puts on her shawl, takes her little sister by the -hand, and together they rim down to the missionaries’ house. They hope that one of the white wom­ en will stop writing long enough to tell them another story. Sometimes, Rosalia’s] mother'lets' her take a bowl of the red beans which have been boiling in. the big pot, to her new friends: *‘ >'

This is Station KYBC, the Know Your Bible Club, broadcasting to all the boys and girls who read the Junior King’s Business page. Match the correct names listed in the second column with the quotations given in the first column. Check your answers with the Scriptures listed below. Who said?: ' 1. “Choose you this day whom ye will serve.” Samuel 2. “Thou art the Christ; thè Son “of the living God.” Eli 3. “The king’s business required haste.” Joshua 4. “Speak: for thy servant heareth.” ' Eliab 5. “The one half of the greatness of thy wisdrfm was not told me.” Saul ,6. “Thou art the man.” . . . . . . . Queen of Sheba 7. “Whose son art thou, thou young man?” Joshua • 8. “It is the Lord: let him do what seemeth him good.’1; ' Nathan 9-- “As for me and my house,.we will serve the Lord.” * David 10. “Why earnest thou down hither?” Simon Peter Joshua 24:2, 15: Matthew 16:16; 1 Samuel 21:8; 1 Samuel 3:10; 2 Chron­ icles 9:3, 6; 2 Samuel-12:7; 1 Samuel 17:58; 1 Samuel 3:9; 18; Joshua 24:2, 15; 1 Samuel 17:28 ; ':?• ¡¡! «gl I p ■. s & How to Join the K .Y .B . Club To become a member, of ;the Know Your Bible Club, read through the Gospel accord­ ing to John, using either^your own Bible, or a Gospel of John which will, be sent upon request. When the Gospel has been read and a statement to this effect^ signed by parent or Sunday-school feacher, has been sent to the Editor of the Junior King's Business, a K. Y. B. C. pin will be mailed. Sunday- school classes or clubs desiring to order ten or more Gospels or pins m&y wish to share the. cost of these supplies, as the Lord di­ rects: Gospels, postpaid five cents each—in quantity,, three cents; pins, without postage, two cents each. However, no one is to do Without a Gospel or pin because of lack of money. Address: Junior King's Business, 558 S. Hope St., Los Angeles 13, Calif. Junior King's Business By MARTHA S. HOOKER Member of Faculty Bible Institute of Los Angeles New K.-Y.-B. C. Members HENDERSON, NEB.: Kathrine Ediger (Mrs. D. K. Ediger, parent). KEYSET, W. VA.: Grace Ryan (Claude A. Ryan, p a ren ts * W ASH INGTON / D;'c. : Roberta F. Buf­ fett . (Ethel Vance,, -leader). XENIA, O.: Roy Frame, Vivian Haines. Jack Horner,, and i Don Smith (Rachel Hartman, leader). Answers- to Enigma Answers to the: Enigma published in the September issue of the JUNIOR KING’S’ BUSINESS* 1. S; 2. A; 3. M; 4. U; 5. E; 6. L; 7. Samuel.

Whenever the little.girls come, the missionaries are happy. They 'are al­ ways glad to tell about the Lord Jesus, and each day they pray that this little Mazateca girl and all her family may soon give their hearts to the Saviour.

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