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FEBRUARY 1940

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City State , I New Subscription Renewal Make remittances by check, money order, or paper cur- rency to The Bible Vision, Bible Institute - - Fort Wayne, Indiana 4 EDITORIALS U The American Scene out any authority from Con- gress, a personal ambassador to In January over 100,000 barrels the Vatican. At once the Vatican of fuel for bombers other and responded by expressing hope weapons of destruction were that the respresentation would shipped each day to Japan. The become permanent. Quite right- oil interests justified these huge ly, a number of American sales as "good business." the At Protestant groups opposed this same time United States Con- unwarranted step. Surprising- gressmen raised a cry of protest ly, Lutherans objected that it against extending the one Eu- was a violation of the principle ropean nation with a clean finan- of separation of church and state. cial record credit for agricultural As Americans, they were right. purchases. As Lutherans, they were in op- The President made a benign position to Luther, for neither speech at the Jackson Day he nor his followers in Germany dinner, while the word went out since have practiced this prin- that the real speech to note was ciple. The Anabaptists during the rabid, partisan, third-term the Reformation were hounded address of a top-notch New and persecuted by Lutherans as Dealer, the newly-appointed At- well as Catholics for holding to torney General, Mr. Jackson. this great principle, which is Duplicity in high places? basic in democracy. The man who failed as Gov- Gerald Winrod was included in ernor of Michigan to enforce the the report of the Dies committee law against the original sit-down as being associated with a sub- strikers and who, as a conse- versive, un-American organiza- quence, was retired to private tion. life by the voters of Michigan, The Dies committee overlook- was the fifth New Dealer to be ed Father Coughlin, and many appointed to the Supreme Court newspapers have not given the of the United States. Never be- whole story concerning the mov- fore has any President so con- ing spirit behind the ''Christian sistently appointed pure parti- Front," whose leaders are now in sans. Upon taking his oath of jail. office Mr. Murphy, as a good Last year in Father Coughlin's Catholic, chose to use a Catholic paper, "Social Justice," a Chris- Bible. Was it intended to be tian Front contest was conduct- significant that Mr. Murphy ed offering prizes on economic placed his hand upon a passage and political questions. It was from the Apocryphal book of virtually a lottery, for each an- Wisdom? swer was to be accompanied by The President appoints, with- (Continued on page 16) THE BIBLE VISION

The Blessedness of the Mourner By Rev. A. W. Tozer

''Blessed are they that mourn,'' course the way to be happy all (Matt. 5:4) the time is to keep the face We are living in the era of the puckered up into a determined broad grin. The toothful smile smile! The fact that this is plain

' is now considered necessary to rubbish means nothing to the success in any field. From Holly- man on the street or the woman wood and Washington come pic- in the kitchen. People continue tures by the thousands of prom- to buy unlimited copies of books inent persons in a lather of on the art of being happy and sniggers, their cheerful chuckles making friends, and so the grin- threatening to break loose any brigade goes on like a conquer- minute into roars of uncontrol- ing army spreading the "gospel" lable laughter. Just what is be- of mirth and merriment, carry- hind all this jubilation is never ing on their standards not the very clear, but these pictures, sign of the cross but the picture appearing day after day in every of a fat man in stitches. city and hamlet in the United Through this welter of hollow f States, have created a grin- sounds comes the voice of Jesus psychology that has swept the blessing not the merry, but the country like a forest fire. And mourner. "Blessed are they that the advertisers appear to be laugh," says the world. "Blessed convinced that no one can real- are they that mourn," says the ly enjoy anytPiing without in- Saviour. "Woe unto you that stantly breaking out into a hap- laugh now, for ye shall weep and py rash, and so they plaster the mourn." This teaching of Christ pages of all our popular maga- is all out of tune with the world's zines with pictures of men and hymn of synthetic happiness. The women grinning with silly aban- very words sound far-off and don over soup, soap, cigarettes old-fashioned. But Jesus knew, and safety pins. and the world does not. Jesus Certain brands of psychology taught that the way up was have fostered the idea that we down, that the way to real joy can by suggestion create our own was through the sorrows of re- emotional states. One famous pentance. This is not, and can | teacher says in effect, "We do never be, a popular doctrine. Its not frown because we are dis- advocates are open to the charge pleased, we are displeased be- of pessimism, and are made the cause we frown. We do not smile butt of sickly jokes, but let it be because we are happy, we are remembered that the price of happy because we smile." So of truth is always high. The fol- THE BIBLE VISION lowers of Christ must be con- happy in a world like ours? His- tent to be misunderstood. We tory is one long moan. Wars, cannot alter the words of Jesus, disasters, plagues, famines, dis- but we can point out that He is eases, pain, bereavement and never an advocate of gloom, but death, these like herds of cruel always a bringer of good news. beasts have trampled down each Wherever He has gone, into a successive generation. The grave heart or into a home, there joy opens beside the cradle, and and peace have gone also. He there is but a step between. ''All has brought lasting happiness to that live must die, passing countless millions of human be- through nature to eternity." Add ings. He has justified His right to all this the fact of sin, its to speak, and proved that He ominous presence in the world, knew His subject, by that hard- slinking, foul and offensive, and est of all tests—ability to pro- more terrible still, the conscious- duce. ness of personal sins and heart impurities, and it is not strange root of the spiritual life At the that a sensitive soul finds it more is a deep unrest, an elemental natural to mourn than to rejoice. discontent. This is not pessi-

mism, but a great heart hunger Deep conviction of sin is more which cannot be appeased by the than the knowledge that we have shallow pleasures of this world. done wrong. Almost anyone There is a type of mind which will admit that he has sinned. does not feel this world-weari- People know that they have been ness, an Esau-like mind which guilty of evil acts, but they do has never felt the woe that is not feel the deep spiritual dis- human life. Such persons live grace of it all. We do not weep on the surface of the sea of hu- over what we know, but over manity and know nothing of the what we feel. Contrition springs dark depths below. These can- from knowledge, certainly, but it not be saved because they are does not stop there; it goes on satisfied. A low kind of satis- to wring the emotions and bring faction it is, indeed, an ignoble godly sorrow to the heart. contentment with mere pottage; but it is enough for them, and Now we are fully aware that they refuse to be bothered about tears have no power to take their past or to worry over their away sins. Neither have sor- future. These are easy marks rows, or prayers, or penances, or for the "keep-smiling" evangelists anything that stems from old and the poets of optimism. fallen Adam. When we trust Christ neither our good nor our evil deeds enter the picture. Dr. But how can a true soul be Max I. Reich stated it neatly —

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when dealing with a penitent dogmatists who have never felt sinner, "Your good works can- the pangs of repentance. These not get you in, nor your bad can never know the power of the works keep you out." But let creed they profess. it be remembered that salvation is for the penitent man only. The Lord is looking for the The self-assured, the unrepent- mourner, not to humiliate him ant cannot share in the benefits further, but to comfort him. of atonement. This is so boldly "They shall be comforted" means taught in the Scriptures that more than any one person can quotations are hardly necessary. ever know, for it includes all What rebellious, impenitent per- the comforts God will minister son did God ever bless? What to those who come to Him in penitent one did He ever fail to penitence. To one it is the hap- bless? The teaching of repent- py word, "Thy sins be forgiven," ance has been a major tenet in to another it is the reassuring, the creed of the historic church. "Neither do I condemn thee, go Edwards, Finney, Moody and a and sin no more." One feels a host of others found that God sense of inward shame amount- honored the preaching of re- ing to acute pain; this one the \ pentance. Wesley's call to Lord comforts by removing the righteousness woke England to condemnation and healing the a sense of moral need. Indeed, conscience. And so from one to it is safe to assert that without another He goes, bringing rest such a groundwork of preaching from labor and peace from an no revival has ever come to any accusing past. In short, the country. If the Welsh revival comfort will not be the same for should seem to be an exception, everyone, but it will exactly suit let it be noted that another phe- the need of each one. nomenon attended that work of God which serves the same end, Peace is joy in repose; joy is namely, the earnest and sponta- peace running over. And these neous singing of the penitential are for the true heart that has Psalms. found its way to Calvary through many an anxious tear. The self- It is an ominous sign that satisfied, the insincere, the one much of our modern funda- who can live with his sin with- mentalism is hard and dry-eyed. out revulsion, may know super- t Where the place of repentance is ficial happiness, but only the not denied outright, the teach- mourner knows joy unspeakable ing of repentance is too much and neglected. We are making a lot peace that passes all under- of artificial converts, adherents standing. The Evangelical Bea- of a creed, cool, self-confident con. THE BIBLE VISION

The Bible Rediscovered at Amsterdam

The first World Conference of our study has revealed consider- Christian Youth, held at Amster- able unfamiliarity with the Bi- dam, Holland, last summer, ble. brought together one of the most ''Is it not due to this that we mixed assemblies of our mixed are not clear and articulate modern times. There were rep- about the fundamentals of our resentatives from nearly every faith and do not take a definite country in the world, every stand in any relation to the many shade of theological opinion, conflicting ideologies and blind most ecclesiastical bodies and faith which find so many follow- organizations. It was a babel of ers among youth? Therefore we tongues, but the aim of the Con- summon ourselves and our fel- ference was "to bring young peo- low Christians to consecrated ple together and show them and intelligent study of the Bi- through the veil of their differ- ble, to hear in it the word of life ences the basic unity which was which Christ speaks to us. theirs." There was much "palav- er," but nothing was settled. "We have found that there is much confusion among us as to Toward the close of the state- the relation of the message of ment which was adopted by the the Bible to the decisions which Conference, there is, however, a we must make as youth today. confession which points the way We have come to see that the Bi- to some constructive results. It ble has far more light to shed seems that many of the dele- on these problems than we knew, gates, particularly those from and so we desire to explore its America, discovered their igno- wealth with far greater eager- rance of the Bible, The state- ness. We are also convinced ment on this point follows: that real Bible study must lead to definite choices and decisions "We believe that those who in all areas of life. To listen to planned this conference were God means to obey Him." guided by God when they placed Bible study in such a central place. Many of us have dis- covered the Bible afresh and in There were 3,500,000 Jews ^^ so far as we have allowed God Poland before that country was to speak to us. He has become a seized, according to Jewish living God, declaring a living Chronicle. Slightly the greater message for our own lives and part of them come under Soviet our generation. We confess, rule, the rest under German rule. however, to our humiliation that —Pentecostal Evangel, 8 THE BIBLE VISION

Three Fundamentals

By Lillian Zeller

Without shedding of hlood is When the first pair sinned in the no remission. Heb. 9:22. Garden of Eden, they died spirit- Without faith it is impossible ually. (God said they would die, to please Him, Heb. 11:6. not fall. Gen. 2:17.) Their light Without holiness no man shall went out; they were left naked see the Lord Heb. 12:14. and hid themselves. In love the Here are three abstract state- ^""^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^^ *^^' !^ ^^^^^^^ ments, clear as crystal. They are ??uTM^ ^^^^l '"^ important because they deal "^ .^ -^ ^ ' Tf^^ ^^^'l .?^'^i:sheddmg of^ with the major problems of life; ^^,^^^/^ ^"l^^'lf ^^^^ and afforded man's first imperative because they are ^^^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^ forgiveness of sms. God's final word, absolute and ^^ authentic, without equivocation. From Genesis to Revelation 1. Blood is required for re- there flows this scarlet stream mission of sin. So great is the of blood, opening the one — the perplexity and unrest today that ^^^Y way back to God. It has all men agree there is something been nineteen centuries since wrong with the world. Some God's plan of redemption by one tells the story of a little boy blood has been finished, yet there who spoke more truth than he are millions living today who knew in the geography class. ^o not know this blessed truth. ''What is the shape of the One of our magazines carried world?" asked the teacher. the tragic story of a young man Confidently he repHed, "My who had gone prospecting in the father says it is in a bad shape." Canadian Rockies. Separated Just now some people think if from his companions, he was we could rid the world of the stranded in a rude cabin. Later dictators we could solve our he was found by the Canadian problems. But back of our sor- mounted pohce, frozen to death, row and suffering, back of our Seated on a stool, he held an un- cruelty and crime, back of our finished letter to his mother liquor and license, back of our which read something like this, wickedness and war there is "Dear Mother: — It is so cold just one thing that needs treat- here. I have not eaten anything ment — SIN. And there is just for days. I have magazines to one remedy—the hlood of Jesus read, but the stories are so silly. Christ. Cards do not interest me any From the beginning God has more. There is just one thing required blood as a sacrifice for that bothers me — What shall I sin. The life is in the blood, do with my sins?'' Who was THE BIBLE VISION responsible for that sad death- fered, triumphed, and received a wail? Why did he not know good report. God's remedy for sin? Are we Faith is indispensable in the broadcasting the good news that Christian hfe. We are justified ''the blood of Jesus Christ, God's by faith, we walk, we stand, we Son, cleanseth from all sin"? live, we overcome by faith. 2. Faith is fundamental in God has given His Word to pleasing God. Under the cap- save and to keep all who come tion, "Where Love Is," a beauti- unto Him; yet He has limited ful story is told of a Russian Himself to our cooperation — shoemaker who was very un- however infinitesimal that may happy. His wife and son had be — and that is the cooperation died, leaving him so sad and of faith. lonely that he, too, wished to Active faith provides the me- die. One day a priest came to dium for divine revelation. visit him and told him that the Therefore a life well-pleasing to reason for his unhappiness was God must be a life of faith. that he was living to please him- 3. Holiness is not optional; it self. He advised him to seek to is imperative. "Be ye holy, for please God. Interested in the I am holy," is God's command, suggestion, the shoemaker in- given first to Israel and repeated quired how to please God. "Read to the church. God is holy; His the New Testament," said the V/ord is the Holy Bible; His priest. Immediately the desolate abode is holy; His people must man bought the book and began be holy. reading. So captivating was Holiness refers to the sancti- it that he could scarcely lay fied life of separation from the it down to work or sleep. world, crucifixion of the flesh, Through reading its sacred pages and dedication to God. It is he found the Saviour. As he be- God-likeness, imparted to the be- lieved and loved the Christ, as liever through the indwelling he sought to please Him, he thus Holy Spirit. "We are made found true happiness. partakers of His holiness." A fine Faith is like electricity. You illustration of this is seen in the cannot see it, but you can see attitude of Peter after the heal- what it does. According to Dr. ing of the lame man at the Beau- E. J. Bulgin, "Faith is the eye tiful Gate. Seeing the multitude that sees the invisible, the ear amazed at the miracle, he quick- that hears the inaudible, the ly forestalled any attempt to hand that grasps the intangible." honor him by the query, "Why Turn to God's hall of fame (He- are you gazing on us as though brews eleven) and read again by our own power or holiness the record of the patriarchs and we had made this man to walk?" prophets who through faith suf- In the crisis experience of — —

10 THE BIBLE VISION sanctification the whole being was poured out on Calvary for the intellect, emotion, and will the sins of the world; faith, the must be absolutely surrendered absolute essential to Christian to God. This means death to the life, is God's gift; and the holi- self-life and resurrection of a ness commanded is found in new life in which Christ is en- "Christ Jesus who is made unto throned in the center of the be- us wisdom, righteousness, sancti- ing. fication, and redemption." All Following this the soul must God's requirements are summed go on to perfection. The burden up in our Lord Jesus Christ. of the thought in the context of Hebrews 12:14 is chastisement. ONE CATHOLIC NEWSPAPER By daily purging and purifying FOR EVERY TWO FAMILIES God is seeking to conform His A declaration that there is now children to His own likeness. one Catholic newspaper in the ''Without holiness no man shall United States for every two Cath- see the Lord." This applies to olic families in the country was the present life as well as to fu- made by Bishop John Mark Gan- ture bliss. To see the Lord is to non of Erie, Pennsylvania, chair- enjoy Him now. It is to recognize man of the National Catholic His loving providence in the Welfare Conference press de- details of life — the difficulties partment, in a report made to the and disappointments as well as annual meeting of the Catholic the blessings and victories. Such Hierarchy at Washington, D. C. a trustful heart can say, Bishop Gannon stated that circu- "In the center of the circle lation has risen from 1,602,369 in Of the will of God I stand; 1925 to 2,631,807 in 1938. During There can come no second causes, the p^st year, he reported, three All must come from His dear hand; new diocesan papers and four All is well! for 'tis my Father new Catholic magazines were Who my life hath planned." started. Michigan Christian Ad- Can you see God in every- vocate. thing, or do you see people, their inconsistencies and injustices? The Ohio legislature permitted Without holiness — the Holy three bills relating to parochial One enthroned within — you schools to die without action at cannot see the Lord in your daily its last session. The bills called life. The hope of seeing Him as for the payment of fees to par- He is and of being like Him is ents whose children attended a purifying hope. parochial schools, and for the What comfort there is in the provision of free textbooks and eternal principle that all God re- free transportation for parochial quires of man He provides. The school pupils. — United Presby- precious blood of His only Son terian. THE BIBLE VISION 11

Deep Thoughts On Great Themes

By Rev. Frederick Rader

COME FOR ALL THINGS ARE NOW READY, Luke 14:17.

I. IT IS GOD'S HABIT TO HAVE ALL THINGS READY 1. It was so in creation: Vegetation, animals, man. 2. It was so in providence: The ark was ready for the righteous; Joseph was in Egypt to save his people from famine; All things were ready in the promised land. 3. It is so in grace: Jesus has died; the Spirit has come.

II. GOD'S PROVISIONS ARE ALWAYS AMPLE 1. It is so in nature: Sunshine, air, water are plentiful. 2. It is so in grace: Great peace, Abundant pardon, Measureless love, infinite mercy. Abundant life. 3. It is so in glory: Pleasures forevermore. Riches unsearchable, Glory eternal. in. GOD'S PROVISIONS ARE ALWAYS SUITABLE 1. God can satisfy forever every need: Of the body—health and strength. Of the mind—wisdom and knowledge, * Of the soul—power and purity. IV. GOD'S INVITATIONS ARE WITHOUT RESTRICTIONS 1. As to age, race, or place. V. NO ONE CAN GIVE A SATISFACTORY EXCUSE FOR NOT ACCEPTING THE INVITATION VI. THOSE WHO PERSISTENTLY REFUSE TO COME TO THE FEAST SHALL BE FOREVER EXCLUDED FROM ITS EN- JOYMENT VII. NOTWITHSTANDING THE REJECTION OF THIS INVITA- TION BY MULTITUDES, GOD'S HOUSE SHALL BE FILLED AT LAST. 1. If you will not, others will. 12 THEBIBLEVISION

The Present Duty of Israel; Jews on Their Honor

By Max I. Reich

It is a great pity that the rela- struggle against tremendous tions between church and syna- odds to keep aloft the torch of gogue have not always been the truth for succeeding generations, happiest. This is the more to be or otherwise there would have deplored, in view of the fact that been no Christianity today; but the Christian Church is a spirit- many Jews also are beginning ual daughter of the synagogue, to apply themselves to a candid Christianity is the result of a study of Christianity. Every revival breaking out in Jewry, year new books come from the inaugurated by the awakening press in which fair-minded Jew- ministry of the great prophet in ish scholars are endeavoring to Israel, John the Baptist. explain the phenomenon of that Now the fault for the mis- unique personality, which, understanding between mother sprung out of Israel, is yet, alas! and daughter is not on one side like Joseph, of old, ^^separated only. The church has clearly fi'o^ his brethren." And all this sinned against the people whose is only a beginning. Much work best hfe she has inherited. Many remains to be done. Now we and false charges have been have long felt that in three di- made against the Jews. Their sections particularly, the Jewish religion has been traduced and people owe a debt to truth and caricatured. No wonder the syna- honor to which we would re- gogue has come to regard the spectfully draw their attention.

Christian faith as an alien and J. Getting at the Sources hostile religion, and those of her j^ -^ important that the children who embraced it as j^^j^^ people should get their traitors who have gone over m- understanding of Christianity di- to the camp of the enemy. ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^ Christian sources, However, we are rapidly mov- as far as documentary evidence ing into a new age. Not only are is concerned, that is, from the Christian scholars beginning to New Testament. Orthodox Jews, do justice to what is noble and who are still by far in the ma- divine in Judaism and to recog- jority, seldom look at a New nize the immense debt humanity Testament. They have gathered owes to that people which impressions from their Talmud brought forth the psalmists, the and from their other books, such seers and the prophets of old; as the infamous Toldoth Jeshu, which waged a life-and-death a medieval lampoon of Jesus of THE BIBLE VISION 13

Nazareth, which have given the let us see that they were intel- beginnings of Christianity an lectually and spiritually inca- anti-Christian twist in their pable to have imagined their hero. minds. It is clear that the Tal- If He is a miracle in personality, mud, composed several centuries to have drawn upon their imag- after the birth of Christianity, ination in describing H i m when the feeling of Jews had would have constituted a miracle become embittered against in literature. The pen-portrait Christians on account of the evil of Jesus in the Gospels must treatment they were receiving have been preceded by a life at their hands, can hardly be ex- actually lived to make the story pected to be an unbiased witness. possible. The account which the Talmud Jews must learn to look away gives of the origin of Christian- from the poor copies of Jesus in ity is shockingly blasphemous. His professed followers to the We maintain that the Jewish original. At the best, even true people owe it to truth and honor disciples are still Christians in to allow the Christian records to the making. They are unfinish- tell their own story. They will ed articles. Why judge of Chris- find themselves in a familiar at- tianity by them alone? Even mosphere when they begin to Jews resent it if their nation is read the Gospels. They are appraised according to some thoroughly Jewish. Take away particularly unworthy represent- the Jewish background of the ative. They point us to Abra- Gospels; eliminate everything ham. So believers in Christ that has its roots in the his^tory point to Him. And His face or religion, in the national, so- shines out from the pages cial and synagogal customs, of the Gospels. No Jew has the modes of thought, idiosyncrasies, right to speak the final word feelings, aspirations, which are concerning Him till he has hon- properly Jewish, and very little estly tried to come face to face would be left. with Him there. Moreover, he would soon be II. A New Attitude Towards impressed with the crystal Jesus of Nazareth bright honesty of the writers. For many centuries Jews The most painstaking effort to tried to forget Jesus. The very disparage their sincerity has fail- name once so common in Jewish ed to make out its case. Nine- nomenclature (it stands for teen centuries have been refresh- Joshua, and there was more ed by the stream of life that than one called by that name in flows through their writings. the New Testament) ceased to They tell a story too wonderful be used. The Jewish people have to have been invented. They done their best to obliterate His narrate ^enough of themselves to memory. 14 THE BIBLE VISION

However, that has not, been and not at the beginning of the an easy matter. During their Gospel story. long exile the majority of them But Jews are in honor bound < have been forced to live in close to be fair with Jesus. Cannot proximity to the Christian they recognize His moral supe- church. They have by divine riority? Can they not see in Him providence to do with each other, the crystallization of all that God though they both have often intended to set forth in Israel? wished to shirk this responsibil- Is He not the incarnation of the ity. essence of what the law, the Now the Person of Jesus is a psalms and the prophets taught? perpetual challenge to both Jew Do they not feel in His presence and Gentile. Every generation they are in the presence of im- must take up the challenge maculate purity? He never con- afresh. He forces men to ac- fessed sin! Do we not feel in- count for Him, to explain Him, stinctively that He is different to say who He is. Men cannot from even the holiest saints who, for any length of time leave Him we know, were the greatest alone. The very insane opposi- penitents also? And as men tion to Him in some quarters listen to Him, what consummate proves this. And when the world wisdom, what crystal purity, ' thinks it has at last done with what sublime poetry! Never man Him, He springs a surprise on spake like this Man! Perhaps it: He causes a new wave of the rabbis have said many beau- spiritual influence to proceed tiful things also, but they said from Him, which draws the many foolish and puerile things, weary multitudes with their sins which Jesus did not say. What and their sorrows, their diseases drew the first disciples to Him? and their burdens, their per- They did not come with a ready- plexities and their bewilder- made creed. They felt His super- ments, to gather around His human wisdom. They said: feet. "Lord, to whom shall we go? This has been the history of Thou hast words of eternal life." the last nineteen centuries. It I appeal to my brother who is a may not be easy for a Jew, with Jew, to begin with Jesus thus: his deeply ingrained prejudices, Let him be a respectful listener to give to Jesus the proper place to Him. Let Him make His own that belongs to Him. Personal- personal impression on thee. And ( ly I look for Jews to learn of then give Him the place in thy Him and to grow in the knowl- thoughts and feelings thy ex- edge of Him, as the first Jewish perience in His presence has disciples did. The confession of compelled thee to give. the skeptical Thomas: ''My Lord There is a day almost within and my God," comes at the end sight when the Spirit of Grace THE BIBLE VISION 15

verdict was based and of supplication will be the terrible and Cai- poured out on the Jewish people. in the days of Annas partic- Then will they look upon Him aphas. Jewish Christians whom they have pierced, not ularly will have to insist on this only on the cross, but by their being done. the name of long repudiation of His Messianic What a misnomer of the Sanhedrin claims, and great will be their the president mourning. They will mourn for then! Annas means "merciful." has a good deal to say Him as for a firstborn, and be in Josephus had bitterness for Him as for an Only of him. He was a man who a One. (See Zech. 12:10.) All blunted his moral sense by selfishness. Before the great names Israel has been life of cruel and unscrupulous so proud of will be forgotten this cunning holy Jesus was then. Only one will remain politician the worth mentioning. In the loss placed for judgment! Annas set the just provisions of the of Jesus of Nazareth, Israel lost aside con- her Only One, for whose sake, Jewish law in that trial. He private investigation, that He might be "the Glory of ducted a justice demanded Israel," Israel has been formed when Jewish and preserved from millennium publicity. He based his accusa- an admission extracted to millennium till our day. tion on by an ensnaring question to the III. The Revision of the Trial of Jesus accused; he condemned Him in the face of Deut. 17:6; 19:15; There is a third matter con- Another illegality cerning which Jews are on their Num. 25:30. was the fact that the trial be- honor, and that is the necessity fore Annas was held between of revising the trial of Jesus, o'clock night. which ended in His being hand- two and three at Though the accused should ed over to the Roman govern- have been considered innocent ment to be crucified. That trial till his guilt had been proved, Je- was clearly a travesty of justice. sus was sent "bound" to It was a mock trial. And until Caiaphas, as if He had been legal- is officially revised it casts a it Then followed an- deep shadow over the Jewish ly convicted. other illegal night-examination. people. Then instead of waiting for wit- Let it not be forgotten that the nesses to come forward, the un- condemnation of Jesus was the just judges actually searched for act of the Sanhedrin, the official such. And not finding true wit- representatives of the Jewish nesses they manufactured false, nation. There is considerable and their witnesses contradicted talk just now of reviving that in- each other! Finally Jesus was stitution. One of its first acts condemned on His own confes- will have to be the re-examina- sion, contrary to a fundamental tion of the evidence on which 16 THE BIBLE VISION principle of Jewish jurispru- sue of November 20, 1939, the dence (See Mishna Sanhedrin 6: question was asked, "What is

2). Father Coughlin's most emphatic { Truly the words of Isaiah were advice to the Christian Front?" fulfilled on that occasion: "Hovv^ The answer was "Meet force is the faithful city become a har- with force as a last resort." lot! She that was full of justice; There is every evidence to be- righteousness lodged in her; but lieve that Father Coughlin, and now murderers." apparently some ecclesiastical Are we not right in claiming leaders in the Catholic Church that this shameful mockery of who permit him to continue justice should be revised? Jews, broadcasting, have no essential in the persons of their represent- sympathy for American democ- atives, must set themselves to racy and its Protestant origin. this matter and wipe this blot The Catholic church has always off their escutcheon. I know held to authority from the top that through ignorance they did down rather than from the bot- it. Hence mercy waits for their tom up. Why not jail Father repentance. And when they will Coughlin as well as the eighteen have ceased to be at odds with leaders who received their in-

God about Him whom the build- spiration from his teachings to ' ers rejected, and who in His overthrow the United States Church has become the head of government by force? the corner, but Israel's stum- All of which proves that de- bling stone and rock of offense, mocracy becomes a farce, and then will He become Israel's its citizens fall easy dupes to foundation stone. And a new rabble-rousing demagogues and more glorious Israel will be when they no longer prize their erected on this "sure foundation" Christian heritage. than the Israel of her most glo- rious past. And from this new A German princess took leave and regenerated Israel will flow, of a Christian missionary with as from the glory-filled temple these words: "Christians never seen by Ezekiel in his closing see each other for the last time. vision, rivers of blessing to the Adieu." uttermost parts of the earth. —A, T. Pierson, EDITORIALS ' (Continued from page 3) Baxter thought it harder con- 50 cents. One question was stantly to deny temptations to "What is America's strongest sensual appetites and pleasures safeguard against Communism?" than to resist one single tempta- The prize-winning answer was tion to deny Christ for fear of "A Christian Front." In the is- suffering. THE BIBLE VISION 17

The New Morality and the Fading Sense of Sin NO. 2—THE NEW EDUCATION By Leslie R. Marston. Ph.D.

The ''new morality" is making sion between duty and interest inroads on education, in con- relaxes with the strangulation sequence of which the fiber of of the ideal of duty. Temptation moral training has turned flaccid subsides, not through conquest and education has sagged toward of selfish interest but through paganism. We quote William surrender thereto. Adams Brown: Such "progressive education" "A home, like many a modern is crassly pragmatic, for it levels home, where children are de- truth to utility by making it nied nothing; a college, like merely a means to biologically many a modern college, where beneficial experience. Truth, no study is but an incident in a life longer on the throne, becomes devoted to having a good time, the instrument of pleasure. But are not the best soils in which as noted in the first article of to grow a conviction for sin." this series, truth thus made sub- These words state the case servient to desire becomes a mildly, for often home and prostitute to error. And yet school not only neglect to culti- much of modern religious edu- vate the sense of sin but definite- cation and home training is built ly seek to quiet the disturbing upon this sandy foundation of consciousness of guilt when humanistic religion, pragmatic youth's conduct falls short of philosophy, and naturalistic youth's ideals. ethics. There has grown to promi- We direct the reader to a few nence during this century an instances of the operation of the educational doctrine based upon doctrine. Not long since at an naturalism, and thus of close educational conference spon- kin to the "new morality," which sored by a great university, a maintains the inherent rightness panel of guest speakers debated if not goodness of human nature, the social responsibility of the This doctrine focalizes the public school. The most vocifer- child's experience as the educa- ous members of the panel con- tional factor of quite exclusive tended for education in terms of concern, and accordingly it sets strictly contemporary social val- the goal both of education and of ues centering about the child's life by the child's interests rather immediate experience. It fell than by the glory of God or the to the writer as a member of this welfare of others. Under such panel to defend the educational an educational program the ten- worth of enduring and time- —

18 THE BIBLE VISION tested ideals against the radical class of prospective high school claim of a state educational of- teachers that in this day a teach- ficer that the teacher has no er is not qualified to teach high right to instruct even young chil- school youth without having had dren in what to believe concern- sex experience. ing social and moral issues, but These instances of extreme ap- that the teacher's function is plication of the doctrines of the only to present facts from which "new education" are hardly typi- ten-year-old children may reach cal of American schools, we are their own conclusions through happy to admit; but we wish group discussion. This panel they were less typical, for they symbolized not merely an ac- clearly indicate the direction of ademic disagreement among the powerful currents in modern doctors, but a critical struggle education which seek to swerve between clashing philosophies today's youth from the charted upon the issue of which hang channel of Christian virtues. grave consequences for society, for this ''progressive educator" has been directing the revision "To him that overcometh will I of the school curriculum of one grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set of America's 'greatest common- down with my Father in his throne" (Reve- wealths! lation 3:21). Many men want a reli- University inspectors report gion in which there is no cross, but that in a single day's visitation they cannot enter heaven that way. If of a certain modern high school we are to be disciples of Jesus Christ we must deny ourselves, they witnessed two national and take up cur cross, and follow Him. Do not heroes dragged through the mud think you will have no battles if you of realistic interpretation in a follow the Nazarene: many battles are history class; heard the doctrines before you! But men do not object to of Freud promulgated in a psy- a battle if they are confident that they will have the victory, and, thank God, chology class where repressions every one of us may have the victory were rated mortal sins; and in if he will.—D. L. Moody. the school assembly listened to the day's speaker as he told sev- By faith we find and remain restful eral hundred teen-age youth that in His tender grace. we behave like human beings chiefly because we are nine- tenths brute. Throughout the The more thou puttest Him to it, entire day these inspectors dis- the more thou shalt find His prevailing covered nothing idealistic or en- power and the fulness of grace that nobling in this school's program. dwells in Him, which is no more diminished by all He shows forth than Again, in a distinguished in- Hi? divine power was weakened by the stitution of higher learning a framing of the world. Robert Leigh- professor recently advised a ton. THE BIBLE VISION 19

Spurgeon, Wesley and Whitefield

By Rev. A. Cunningham-Burley

Spurgeon, Wesley and White- cf me at all; yet if people persist field—these three; but the great- in saying so many bad things of est of these was—Whitefield. No me, I suppose my friends must doubt of it, for both Spurgeon be allowed the liberty of saying and Wesley were glad to admit it the good things; and I will mix in such terms of unmistakable them together and drink both eulogy that we may safely take bitter and sweet, so that there their word for it. will be no taste at all." In the early stages of his min- ''Spurgeon^ the Prince of istry, Mr. Spurgeon was describ- Preachers'' ed as was the title given by the Rev. ''The Modern Whitefield.'' James Douglas, to his delightful A volume of his sermons pub- biographical sketch of C. H. lished in the year 1857 by the Spurgeon. Dr. Dinsdale Young American firm of Sheldon Blake- told me that he regarded these man & Co., bore this flattering portrait chapters as be i n g title. The introduction by Mr. E. amongst the best things that C. Magoon endeavoured to prove were ever penned concerning that Spurgeon could take his Spurgeon. This title was chal- stand beside George Whitefield lenged and disputed in a very as one of the most gifted preach- lengthy letter to "The Christian" ers that Christendom had ever some years ago. The writer, known. whilst admiring Mr. Spurgeon as Mr. Spurgeon met this compli- a m_ost powerful preacher of the ment by a very happy disclaim- Gospel, was of the opinion that er. In a river trip to Rosherville George Whitefield was easily the Gardens on August 7th, 1855, he greatest of all the great ones who took the opportunity of saying to had graced the Christian pulpit, his New Park Street friends—"I The writer endorsed Toplady's have been puffed off as being a estimate: —"If a union of the Whitefield, the greatest preacher most brilliant ministerial gifts, of the age, which certainly I am ballasted by a deep and hum- not, and never professed to be. I bling experience of grace, and am a great deal more like any- crowned with the most extended thing else you mention than that, success in the conversion of sin- I am extremely obliged to my ners, be signatures of a special friends for all they say that is commission from Heaven, then good of me, but I would rather Mr. Whitefield stands highest on that they should leave me alone, the list of Christian Ministers. I do not want anything good said He was the Prince of Preachers." —

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John Wesley had anticipated this moral degradation and to inspire opinion by saying of White- them to climb upwards to higher field: and nobler ideals. "Have we read or heard of any "It is estimated that in the person since the Apostles who course of a little over a quarter testified the Gospel of the Grace cf a century he preached to at of God, through so widely ex- least ten million men and women tended a space, through so large in England, Scotland, Wales, Ire- a part of the habitable world? land and the United States of Have we read or heard of any America. person who called so many thou- "He was pre-eminently the sands, so many myriads, of sin- greatest pulpit orator produced ners to repentance? Above all, by the English-speaking people have we read or heard of any of the world. I am not sure that who has been a blessed instru- he was not their greatest orator ment in the hand of God of in any sphere. I have not read bringing so many sinners from of one who was able for nearly darkness to light, and from the 30 years to exercise such a sway power of Satan unto God? over immense audiences in two "It was the love of God shed continents." abroad in his heart by the Holy Is it any wonder that the mind Ghost, which was given unto of Mr. Spurgeon should linger so him, filling his soul with tender long and lovingly upon such a disinterested love to every child personality as that of White- of man. From this source arose field? To his students he said that torrent of eloquence which "Study successful models. I frequently bore all before down made Whitefield my model years it; from this, that astonishing ago. Buy his sermons and read force of persuasion which the them, but you will not think him most hardened sinners could not eloquent; you cannot think so. resist. the pulpit he From was His expressions were rough and unrivalled in the of command an frequently unconnected; there over-crowded auditory." was very much declamation In our day these words have about him, it was a great part found an unexpected endorse- indeed of his speech. Wherein ment. Mr. Lloyd George, during then, lay his eloquence? Not in the Bi-centenary Commemora- the words he uttered, but in the tion of Whitefield's first landing tones in which he delivered in America said in a special them, in the earnestness with broadcast, "George Whitefield which he spoke them, in the was a preacher with a mission to tears which ran down his cheeks wake up the people of his day and in the pouring out of his from their spiritual torpor and very soul." It is even so. Sermons — a-

THE BIBLE VISION 21 lose much of their individuality was the great token of the Ref- by being printed. A sermon is an ' ormation; meetings were held entreaty and exhortation, made under Gospel Oaks, out upon the up of the personal elements of commons and away in lone hous- the man who delivers it—his ac- es; and in glens and woods men cents, his qualities of mind, his thronged to listen to the Word sympathies. That is why it is of God. The processionals of most difficult to find in White- popery were forsaken for the field's printed sermons the secret simple preaching of the truth, of Whitefield's power. And yet This also marked the last grand Spurgeon in the Tottenham revival of religion in our own Court Road Chapel confessed: country under Whitefield and "I read George Whitefield's ser- Wesley. The Word of the Lord mons continually for I can find was precious in those days; and none like them. I should Hke to whether the Gospel was preached strike beneath the floor of this among the colliers of Kingswood pulpit and get Whitefield to rise or the rabble of Kennington up and preach to you for five Common, tens of thousands were minutes. How he would plead awakened, and rejoiced in the with you. How he would stretch joyful notes of free grace. Men forth his hands, the tears run- loved to hear the Word: they ning down his cheeks, and how said one to another, "Let us seek he would cry out in his usual the Lord." It is said that Moor- impassioned manner 'Come sin- fields would be full of light on a ners, come to Jesus Christ!' I dark winter's morning at five o'- cannot do it as he could, but if clock when Mr. Whitefield was these lips had the language to preach, because so many peo- which the heart would speak I pie would be finding their way would plead with you now to be to the rendezvous, each one car- reconciled to God." rying a lantern: and so also over there in Zoar Street in South- It must have been a rare and ^ark, when Mr. John Bunyan memorable experience to have out of prison and was gomg heard Mr. Spurgeon refer to was ^ach, a coup of thousand Whitefield and Wesley as though ^^ Pf e ^ould be assembled at five o they were standing by his side in clock the morning to enjoy his the pulpit in mystic spiritual sur- m honest testimony. It is a token vival. We would have given [or good when people press to much to have been in the Taber- the Word. I think have nacle when he said:- ^^ar we

• first ,,mi n 1 ^1 in a measure the token— The revival under the apos- , „ , ^ ^ .^ 1°^^ for prayer, but we want it ties was marked by their every- where preaching the Word, and far more; as for the second to- the people listening thereto. This ken, namely an earnest love for — — —

22 THE BIBLE- VISION listening to the Word of God, we fear for the future, or despair for have that in abundance. See ye the present, since the Spirit of not how the crowds rush in like God remaineth with us. What if a mighty torrent as soon as the the growing error of the age doors are open to them?" should have silenced the last tongue that speaks out the old How passionately Spurgeon Gospel, let not faith be weak- longed and prayed for another ened. If I can preach in faith Wesley and Whitefield to be that my hearers will be saved, raised up to stir the soul of Eng- they will be saved. If I have no land again. He fondly hoped that faith, God may honour His Word, children would be born who but it will be in no great degree; should do this. "We never know certainly He will not honour me. what one child's mouth can do! Abandoned sinners, if converted Cne would like to have seen lit- b}^ means, are usually brought tle George Whitefield when first under the power of divine grace he began to prattle. Who would through ministers of great faith. i'.ave thought that the mouth of Have you observed—there were such a youngster would ulti- persons who heard all the small mately set two nations on fire by fry 'of the Whitefieldian age; its zealous declaration of xne they had listened to this preach- truth? I should like to have seen er and to that. Under whom John Wesley, when he was a lit- were they converted? Under Mr. tle child, on the knee of that re- Whitefield, because Mr. White- markable woman, "the mother of field was a man of masterly the Wesleys" who would have — faith. He believed that the lost thought that he would rouse the could be reclaimed — that the masses as he did? Out of the worst diseases could be healed of little White- mouths George that the most heinous, abandon- iield and little John Wesley ed, profligate, blasphemous sin- out of those who babes' mouths ners could be saved. He preach- — how grandly did the Lord ed to them as if he expected the smite the adversary! deaf would be charmed by the "In England we have neither gospel melody, and the dead Wesley nor Whitefield, nor any would be quickened at the com- of their order; yet, as with God manding call of the great Re- is the residue of the Spirit, He deemer's name." The Spurgeon. can fetch out from some chim- ney-corner another Christmas Evans, or find in our Sunday- school another George White- Luther in his student days was field, who shall declare the Gos- a man of prayer. He said, "To pel with the Holy Ghost sent pray well is the better half of down from heaven. Let us never study." THE BIBLE VISION 23

On Getting an Education

Some young people get the small givers usually fall flat idea that if they had someone to when the parents' allowance, the "educate them, pay their ex- help of the government, or some penses through school," etc., other support is removed. they would be on their way to successful living and achieve- Therefore the boy or girl who must do without oth- ment. And there is a great deal much that ers of worry by some hard-working have, who must plan and see parents as to whether they are himself through, the one who supplying James and Martha and must work, is acquiring the more Anna and Arthur enough spend- useful education. Whether one ing money so that they can keep specializes in French or mathe- pace with their friends. matics or botany, he will be largely useless unless he has Just remember that young learned something about adjust- people who have been provided ment to life, for it is life which for and planned for and pamper- must be lived. ed seldom make as good and use- ful men and women as those who Rejoice not that you have re- have been thrown upon their ceived much but that you have own resources. learned to give much and be valuable to somebody, to society Education is not merely a and to the church. In the day of process of getting a few facts into much unemployment there is one's head. Rather, it is a much still room for one who can greater thing—the adjustment of achieve and is willing to take one to the opportunities and re- any wage or work any hours sponsibilities of life. If before while he proves his value and school or in school one has learn- makes his contribution — The ed adjustments and directions, Free Methodist. his own powers and how fo use them to the best advantage, if he has learned self-control and hard "Perfect peace and quiet of work, if he has learned that he mind impart strength, worry and miust expect in this life to give fretting make work more diffi- more than he gets, then he may cult." be on the way to become valu- —Andreio Murray. able to himself or to someone else. While he has his hand out to "A measure of separation from receive and has been receiving others is a means of building a more than he gives his education strong individual character." is retarded. Those who are —A. Murray. 24 THEBIBLEVISION

Current Practices in the Ecclesiastical World

By Rev. Roy Talmadge Brumbaugh, D.D. ,

As one looks about him in the an independent church they are ecclesiastical world he beholds loud for independency. Some- practices that make him stop times they blow hot; sometimes and wonder. they blow cold; and when it PROFESSING—There are cer- seems to be to their advantage, tain ministers in compromising they readily conform to luke- connections vigorously and con- warmness. tinuously declaring their ortho- This is a practice peculiar to doxy. They assert that they de- many itinerating Bible teachers, Clare the whole counsel of God, evangelists, mission secretaries but by their works they deny and others representing either every fundamental doctrine, personal or institutional interests. Their fellowships declare them We thank God for those who to be anti-Gospel. What they stand right and speak according- support is in direct contrast to ^Y wherever they are. what they preach. Where they SELLING BOOKS — About are speaks so loudly that what four years ago during a confer- they say carries no weight with ence our congregation beheld a spiritual discernment. strange sight. When a certain Ministers in the major de- preacher got up to preach he had nominations may think them- before him a pile of books about selves conservative, but they are a foot and a half high. As an in- deliberately supporting apostate troduction to his sermon he pro- machines and anti-Christian ceeded to put on a strong selling boards and agencies. To say the talk in favor of the books that good and at the same time to he himself had written. He even support a movement or institu- went into detail concerning the tion that represents the evil, is content and merit of his own the rankest heresy. books. Then he proceeded to CHANGING COLOR — There preach a sermon found in one of are ecclesiastical chameleons his books. In the prayer after who conform to their setting, the sermon he prayed the Lord When they are in a fundamental that the people might not forget church they stand for fundamen- to buy his books which were to talism. When they are in a mid- be found on the book table at the dle-of-the-road church they fa- rear of the auditorium. Our peo- vor compromise. When they speak pie were disgusted, in a denominational church they This same thing was repeated are strong denominationalists. at a conference in which I also When they are fellowshipping in spoke. Again there was a pile of THE BIBLE V^ISION 25 books written by the speaker in i'erred to himself as a bond-serv- front of the httle man. He har- ant of Jesus Christ and a brother rangued the people in the con- of James. "My-family-itis" is the gregation to buy his books. Hear- recurrence of a disease quite ers were led to think that if one prevalent in the Romish Church did not buy the books thus ad- during the Dark Ages. vertised he would suffer eternal BUTTING IN Some of us loss. pastors are being pestered in- Not only the spiritual, but all creasingly by traveling lecturers thinking people are disgusted at who are to be found almost any this practice. The message that time on our church doorsteps follows is always negatived by waiting for a chance to slip into such procedure. The books may our pulpits when our guard is or may not be worthy; the mo- down. Their name is legion, tives back of the high pressure These men increase in number, talks may or may not be good, perhaps because of two reasons: but the practice is an abomina- First, many pastors are so lazy tion in the sight of the Lord's that rather than put sweat and people. blood into the preparation of ser- Just recently a Christian Busi- mons, they open their pulpits to ness Men's group was forced to every Tom, Dick and Harry who take strong action because their comes into sight, and radio speakers steal gospel time Second, so many pastors find to advance personal interests. the day after day, and week after PUSHING THE FAMILY week labor of the pastorate so Another practice which may be heavy that instead of trusting well intentioned, but which neg- the Lord for strength and grace atives a gospel testimony is the to carry on, they call themselves practice of unduly pushing mem- into the itinerating field where bers of one's family into places the same sermons can be used of Christian leadership or serv- world without end, and that with ice. All of us, of course, are im- minimum mental effort, pressed by the virtues of our SEEKING FEES — Simon own families. And let those who wanted to buy the fulness of the qualify be used to the glory of Holy Spirit with gold and was the Lord. However, it seems ex- rightly rebuked by Peter. Do we pedient to wait until others not have the same spirit in the recognize these virtues in our ^hearts of certain brethren who loved ones before we ourselves ' are seeking fees for everything? place them in positions that oth- There are some in our own city ers might be able to fill better, who are veritable funeral hunt- Jude may have been a blood ers, as well as seekers after wed- brother of our Lord, but he re- dings, and all this for the fees 26 THE BIBLE VISION

that they might get out of these commands us to go on, but so and other things. many fall by the wayside. They

get tired of study. They neglect ^ Some- earnestly seek discount prayer, and finally run from Jew, and Gentile business away from the best job in the uni- men. And because of this the verse, and step down from the same spirit is found in many pastorate to something which is churches which are running to inferior, but easier on the carnal the world for financial support. man. They seek gifts and special privi- leges from the world which is an ATTENDING MEETINGS — enemy of God, rather than go in There are pastors and other faith to the Father in heaven Christians who are continually who is rich in acres and lands attending meetings somewhere: and who holds the wealth of the Ministers' meetings, Bible con- world in HIS hands. ference meetings, evangelistic meetings, committee meetings, RUNNING AWAY — I was and so on without end. They call talking with a successful confer- this work, whereas it is usually ence director, who is not a pas- evidence of spiritual laziness and tor, about many things, one of weakness. Attending which was the problems of the moral | meetings usually takes mere pastorate. He admitted to me physical energy. The practice that the pastorate was the hard- has the appearance of busyness, est job in the Church of God to- and yet many Church leaders day; and so it is, and always has and members are wasting the been. There is no office to which Lord's time in attending meet- God calls a man that is higher ings, when they ought to be in than a local pastorate. Anything their studies praying and study- else is a step down. Yet so many ing the of God, or ought to pastors grow weary in well do- Word be out in the world compelling ing. The going gets too hard for the lost to come into the King- them. It takes a lot of prayer and of God. Many churches hard work to prepare three or dom have too special meetings. lour sermons each week for the many After a while the collective body same congregation. Then, too, we deal with human nature is so shot full of this "dope" that it no longer reacts to the special- every day and that is not always meeting injection. First things a pleasant experience. Obstacles * and hindrances multiply. The are neglected in order that pas- tor and people might attend spe- opposition to a true gospel pro- cial meetings. And then trouble gram is always intense, but and declension appear. There is a thank God, the Lord is able! The place for special meetings; but rewards are beyond all that we can ask or think. And the Lord (Continued on page 29) —

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Book Reviews

THE TEN TRIBES IN HISTORY The editor of the Evangehcal AND PROPHECY by Albertus Christian gives us this one hun- Pieters, D.D. Publishers: Wm. dred twenty-six page interpreta- B. Eerdman Co., Grand Rapids, tion of the first Gospel from the Michigan. third of three epochs of his life. The so-called lost Ten Tribes In the first epoch he accepted the of Israel have been the occasion truths found in Matthew and for fanciful speculation and the- they led him to assurance of his orizing through the centuries, personal salvation. In the second The author of this book traces epoch, after indoctrination by the problem of the Ten Tribes hyper-dispensational teachers, back to the apocryphal books of he was led to view Matthew as Esdras and to other later Jewish applicable, not to the church age, non-canonical writers. Various but to past and future Jewish modern theories including An- ages. He was counselled to go glo-Israelism are exposed. The to the writings of Paul for basis for these theories is shown "Church truth." After cred- to be not only non-Scriptural, ulously assuming the correctness but unhistorical. of this system of prophetic teach- The author repudiates the idea ing for some time, the author of a national restoration of Is- was led to reconsider his grounds rael; Christ is shown to be the by direct Bible study. This pro- present and final head of the re- cedure marked the beginning of stored Jewish dynasty and the a third epoch. In this third epoch King of the only true Israel. the author resumes the faith of Even if the author's conclu- his early Christian experience, sions regarding the future of J^sus is agam seen presented as Savior. Israel are not fully acceptable it ^^e world's By an un- may still be said that the book answerable array of internal presents a case that is based on P^o^f Matthew is shown to be much historical and prophetical the account, of the one and only fact. The book will afford a Gospel which Mark, Luke, John, wholesome stimulus for any who ^^< a^d others have preached, too habitually and too abjectly Moreover, the author who has place their rehance upon the been an eminent missionary views of their Scofield Bible. leader for forty years, attests L. R. • the fact that the first Gospel ac- ^ »!' ^ cff Tv/r A rT,rT,TT-r-„TT rx,^^^ ^TT^^ ^ . ^r couiit h 33 boFHB ectivG fruit in MATTHEW THE PUBLICAN, ^, ,. . , , . ^^'^ ^^^^^ ^^^g^ numbers of by Rowland V. Bmgham. Pub-^ °^ lisher: Evangelical Publishers, heathen to whom it has been Toronto. given.—L. R. 28 THE BIBLE VISION

VARIETIES OF CHRISTIAN tional page in The Alliance EXPERIENCE, by Dr. Sverre Weekly. Rainbows is her initial Norborg. Published by Augs- venture in religious fiction. It is * burg Publishing House. the story of a Southern girl who An important book by a schol- was reared in wealth and social ar who is at home in philosophy, refinement and who made the psychology, and the Christian supreme decision of surrender- faith. Dr. Norborg is a European ing herself completely to Christ. scholar who is now on the facul- The opposition and misunder- ty of the University of Minne- standing of parents, her call to sota. The starting point of the China, the conversion of her series of lectures incorporated in fiance, their preparation for for- this book is the classic by Wil- eign service, and the subsequent liam James on "The Varieties of happy ending are leading events Religious Experience," publish- developed in the story. The best ed a generation ago. Exception work in character portraiture is is taken to James' treatment of done with the plantation ne- all religious experiences in the groes. A big, well-printed book same category. No distinction is of 350 pages for only $1.00.—S.W. made between Christian expe- rience and the mysticism of other faiths. Dr. Norborg undertakes DYNAMIC CHRISTIANITY to prove the thesis scientifically, AND THE WORLD TODAY, by recourse to case records, that by Rev. Samuel M. Zwemer, there are important differences D.D. Publishers: Zondervan which make genuine Christian Publishing House, 815 Frank- experience altogether unique. Of lin St., Grand Rapids, Mich. course, this reviewer is prej- Dr. Zwemer wrote this 173- udiced in favor of his point of page volume at the request of view, but even so, it seems clear the Inter-Varsity Fellowship of that he proves his point by in- Evangelical Unions in England. ductive logic.—S. W. It sets forth the claims of the « * mission field upon the church of today both vigorously and con- RAINBOWS, by Edith M. Beyer- vincingly. The author, after le. Published by Zondervan seventeen years of missionary Publishing House, Grand Rap- labors in Cairo, twenty-three in ids, Mich. Arabia, and after a number of

Miss Beyerle, a former stu- years as professor of missions at ^ dent of the F. W. B. I., has given Princeton, "passes on the torch" most of her time to writing since with an unflinching reassertion her return from missionary work of two great facts which he fully in China, and her enforced stay demonstrates, namely, (1) the in the homeland on account of power of the Gospel to meet ill health. She edits the devo- human need, and (2) the fact THE BIBLE VISION 29 that the Gospel is intended for CURRENT PRACTICES IN THE all men. The unfinished task is ECCLESIASTICAL WORLD set before the present church as (Continued from page 26) a very reasonable one for com- "special-meeting-itis" has be- pletion. Itinerant evangelism of come a chronic and dangerous apostolic is the type urged as the disease in the body of the visible means by which the completion church. may he> realized. This book should be circulated freely in These are just some of the every church where missionary practices that are quite current. interest lags.—L. R. V\/e need to take stock of our own lives and of our own churches. We Fundamentalists are supposed to be different: let THE GOSPEL IN THE HE- us be different. Surely the prac- BREW TABERNACLE, tices mentioned above are of the PRIESTHOOD, AND OFFER- world, the flesh and the devil. INGS, by Rev. H. S. Miller, The Lord prefers quality rather M.A. Publishers: The Word than quantity. Let us examine Bearer Press, Houghton, New our own hearts and then ex- York. Price, $1.25. 228 pages. amine the tactics and practices Cloth bound. of these ever increasing itiner- ants who would take over our This is an analytical study of pulpits for personal gain, or for large portions of Exodus, Leviti- the propagation of a pet project. cus, and Numbers, in the light of Worthy men and enterprises the fuller revelations of New ought to be heard and encourag- Testament Scriptures. The book ed, while men who ever seek the lays a thorough hermeneutical green- (back) pastures and join basis for the interpretation of organizations to suck Bible symbolism, something many them dry, ought to be discouraged. It which has been sorely needed in is better to have a limited field the field of interpretation. The that stands for something, than book unveils the marvelous uni- a large field that conforms to ty of the divine relation. The this passing age. whole Mosaic system in all of its parts is seen to converge in the person and work of the his- toric Redeemer. Every minister, "He doeth according to His Bible teacher, or student will will in the army of heaven and want this book. It is undoubted- among the inhabitants of the ly the most complete, the most earth; and none can stay His scholarly, and at the same time hand, or say unto Him, What the most readable book of its doest Thou?" kind.—L. R. —Nehuchadnezzer. 30 THE BIBLE VISION

With The Fellowship Circle " PERSONAL ITEMS— William B. Uphold, Jr., a graduate of We were happy to welcome Rev. the 1936 class, was recently ordained Mark Burgess, class of 1932, to the In- a minister by the Missionary Church stitute family from December 3 to the Association. After completing his work 17th. Brother Burgess was the evan- at Taylor University, Rev. Uphold has gelist at the Northside Missionary since occupied the pulpit in the Tyng Church, where Rev. and Mrs. Cyril Memorial Church, Peoria, Illinois. * * * Eicher, '32, are ministering. Mrs. Bur- gess joined her husband for the closing The friends of Mrs. P. L. Eicher will interested is services. God is blessing their ministry be to know that she some- at Yale, Michigan. what improved. She has been a pa- * * * tient in the Lutheran Hospital since Christmas. Pray for her. Rev. and Mrs. Robert Strubhar of * * * Peoria, Illinois, were guests at the In- BAUMGARTNER-RAINWATER stitute from 5 to the 17th. December Announcement is made of the mar- assisted Rev. Albright, '28, They Frank riage of Miss Vera Baumgartner, '33, of at the Curdes Avenue Missionary Fort Wayne, Indiana, to Mr. Frank Church in a series of meetings. Mr. Rainwater of Augusta, Georgia. The Strubhar is a graduate of the 1936 class. wedding was quietly solemnized at has recently been appointed He Young noon, December 28, at the home of the People's Superintendent of the Mis- Rev. Harold Wiswell, '31. ( sionary Church Association. Mrs. Rainwater received her A.B. de- * * * gree from Wheaton College and took Rev. Edison Habegger, '32, Pastor of graduate work at Indiana University. the Humboldt Park Gospel Tabernacle, For two years she has been connected Chicago, addressed the student body in with the Columbia Bible College at the evening devotions recently. His Columbia, South Carolina. subject was, "Wholly Following the The groom is instructor in English in Lord."~ Mr. Habegger can be heard at the Whigham, Georgia, high school. The 8:15 A. M. every Tuesday, Thursday, bride will teach French and music in and Saturday over radio station WCBD. the same institution. « * *

The trio composed of the Misses Idle, CROWELL-PASCOE McClure, and Roth, graduates of the The marriage of Miss Margaret Crow- class of 1939, recently closed a two- ell of Huntertown, to Mr. Charles weeks' meeting at the Bethel Metho- Pascoe took place in a ceremony on dist Church near Bluffton, Indiana. The Sunday afternoon, December 24, at the services were well attended, and a real Fort Wayne Gospel Temple. Mrs. Pas- spirit of revival was evident in many coe w^jis a former student at the Insti- of the services. A number of children tute. * * * and young people were saved and sev- eral were reclaimed. SOWDERS-CLOUGH i The trio will begin a three-weeks' A lovely ceremony was performed meeting near Oil City, Pa., February at the Baptist Church in Bay City, 3. They ask an interest in the prayers Michigan, on December 30, when Miss of the Fellowship Circle friends. Maxine Sowders, class of 1939, was Anyone desiring their services may united in marriage to Mr. Alfred address all mail to Miss Maxine Roth, Clough of Creighton, Nebraska. Rev. Grabill, Indiana. Dan Ramseyer,'a graduate of the 1921 THE BIBLE VISION 31

class, performed the marriage vows. not how long we may have this glo- They are returning to the Institute for rious privilege. ' the second term, where Mr. Clough will To our young people in the home- resume his studies with the class of land may I say, "Don't be afraid to 1940. * * follow God's leadings; He has promised CONGO BELGE, AFRICA to be with us always." I wish you all God's blessing. Dear Members of the Fellowship Circle: Yours in His service, "Commit thy way unto the Lord; Mabel Souder. trust also in Him; and He shall bring it to pass." As I look back since the time I first JACKSON, MICHIGAN enrolled at the Institute I can say the Roy Ramseyer writes, "W.e were above verse, along with many other thrilled a few minutes ago to hear the portions of Scripture, has become a re- B.I. radio program. How grand it was ality in my ilfe. to hear Rev. Witmer's voice! It made me This leaves me well and happy in lonesome as I heard the Men's Chorus Christ's servige at Kalamba. Already I sing 'On to Victory.' have spent over a year and one-half "Our work here is coming along here. fine—551 in Sunday School today. Two Many new experiences come to a souls stepped out for the Lord in the new missionary. First of all, there is morning service. We are kept very I the thrill of the trip across the seas. busy, but it is such a joy to keep busy Then there is the experience of joy- as for our Lord and King. May God bless you, for the first time, place your feet all the Institute family." on the soil of the country to which you were sent to carry this blessed gospel story. The greetings which await you REV. JESSE RINGENBERG, as you meet your co-workers and the VIRAMGAM, INDIA people and natives with whom you are to work and among whom you live Mr. Ringenberg has recently been are thrilling. Then finally to become appointed editor of a new Gujarati entitled, "Jivan San- settled in your Congo home is another mission paper adventure. After that come those days marg" (The Way of Life). The periodi- of language study and the other ad- cal is published monthly; the first is- justments which must be made to hap- sue was published in October. The of editorial staff pily enjoy your new life. other members the leaders. magazine has If there is one thing I have been are Indian The thankful for above all other things some resemblance in form to the Bible Vision, a ideas were since living here, it is that I have been from which few born and reared in a Christian home, borrowed. The editors of the Bible Vi- the publication and its church, and country. It is only as we sion wish new get away from these blessings that we sponsors every success.

^ learn to appreciate them. Mr. Ringenberg reports famine con- There is much work to be done, ditions in the area of India in which he much unoccupied territory to be reach- is laboring: "At Viramgam, where we ed v/ith the gospel message. My first should have thirty inches of rain by six months was spent mostly in lan- this time, we have had scarcely an guage study; since then I have been inch. Cattle are dying by thousands; helping in school, in children's work, and people are begging, stealing, and and in other duties. even murdering for sustenance. We Truly, the time is short and we know have never seen the like." 32 THE BIBLE VISION

CHANGSHA, HUNAN, CHINA velous things. This is a Russian-German J Hunan Bible Institute, community. Customs, language, en-^ Dear Friends: vironment,—all, have been so differ-^ During the year since we wrote you ent that it almost seems a foreign land. last the ''China Incident" has continued Just this morning in Chapel as we unabated, piling up large figures of were seated a hot brick was placed at churches, missions, and hospitals our feet to keep us comfortable, for bombed and lives lost; now World War out of doors it was 25 degrees below II has started! Much of our efforts dur- zero and getting colder. We sat there ing the year has been seeking to al- with coats, hoods, galoshes and bricks leviate suffering, provide food for the and had. Chapel for over an hour. hungry, and seeing that small children In these three years there have been get a chance at ''book larnin," and some very rough places, some deep preaching the Good News. waters, and some fiery trials, yet God After the summer in Hongkong in has brought me out into a "wealthy Bible conference work, Pool Ling Con- place." I have become a much better ference this year was better and larger woman because of the hard places, and than ever, I started back for Changsha too He has given me the precious privi- early in September. The trip "home" lege of contacting some souls for His was made "hitch-hike" style. Name's sake! At this writing everything is quiet The past is a pathway full of deep here, but the planes still visit us, and lessons, and the future, oh! the future this winter I fear is going to be hard is so bright for God is leading on! Hav- on the people. I am engaged now in a ing felt definitely led, I have applied^ lot of refugee work in connection with to one of the mission boards for the" our compound. Feeding is a great privilege of teaching in a Bible School problem, and also clothing. But still in India. I am awaiting their decision. being in Free China makes it nice for In my heart is a great "Go ye into all preaching and free movement. the world," and the Spirit seems to I trust that you are receiving bless- witness "Yea," and "Amen!" ing at the school, and 1940 will be bet- All the past, all the future has in a ter than the past years even though great measure been made possible war threatens to engulf us all. With through the preparation which God kindest regards to all the Institute privileged me to make at Fort Wayne family. Sincerely yours, Bible Institute. Always in my heart Charles A. Roberts. and mind, the principles and teachings * * * which I received there have held me FREEMAN, SOUTH DAKOTA steady under fire, and point forward "God is faithful." These words con- to a steady increase in usefulness. If tinually bless my soul. In May of this possible in the Lord's will I hope to year I will have finished my third year visit you in May. Until then I pray at Sunnyside as a teacher in the Bible God's richest blessings be with you all! Department. God has led me in strange In His serivec, paths and shown me new and mar- Roma C. Clark.

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^ "God Speed the Light" of Peace" were the words which A new and large field of service is prompted us to remember the real found in the radio program which is meaning of Christmas—they were seen presented by the school every other in large, red letters across the entire Sunday. The program is in charge of back wall of the dining room. They Dean Witmer. One of the various chor- were the words used as the theme of al groups of the school participates in the Christmas party held for the stu- each program, and a brief message is dents, faculty members, and their fam- given. We pray that these programs ilies on the twentieth of December. Un- shall be used to make known our der the capable supervision of Miss school, but above all to make known Basinger the tables and the dining our Saviour to lost men. room were attractively decorated. Miss Rothfuss' efforts were rewarded in the Senior Class News excellent meal enjoyed. President The Senior Class has been organized. Ramseyer addressed the group of one The officers, as chosen by the class, are hundred and thirty on the theme of as follows: President, Gaylord Leh- the evening. Rev. Updike spoke on man; Vice President, Doris Seger; Sec- "The Real Meaning of Christmas." retary, Frieda Lugibill; Treasurer, Her- Musical numbers were given by Miss ald Welty; and Chaplain, Kent Welty. Lugibihl, Mr. Gerig, Mr. Weaver, and For these lives which have been dedi- Mr. Korn. We left rejoicing that we f cated to the Lord for His will we knew the "Prince of Peace." anticipate a blessed semester of fel- On Wednesday, December 19, an en- lowship and definite growth in the joyable evening was spent in caroll- grace of our Lord. ing. Midst a gentle snowfall, the happy The Light Tower, the school annual, group of students made their way to will again be published by the Senior sing at the homes of teachers and Class. The officers elected by the class friends of the Institute. are: By late Thursday afternoon the quiet Editor-in-Chief—Kent Welty. halls told this silent story—the stu- Assistant Editor—Doris Seger. dents have gone home for vacation. Associate Editors—Frieda Lugibill, Hj Hs Erniene Osborn, and Roy Whittum. Astronomical Slides Presented in Business Manager—Raymond Hein. Chapel Assistant Business Manager — Blan- Thursday, January ,11th. Dean Wit- chard Amstutz. mer presented slides on astronomy in Circulation Manager—Naomi Frank- the Bible. Without seeming effort he lin. gave to us tremendous facts challeng- Photo Editors — Gaylord Lehman, ing our brain capacities with the enor- Francis deCaussin, and Irma Judd. mous numerical figures of stars and Art Editors—Don Miller and Gerald- space. We were given a greater vi- ine Roth. sion of the majesty and power of our ^ Faculty Advisor—Mr. Updike. God who condescended to be our Sav- If the 1939 eddition is only an earnest iour. of what is to come, we may all justly « expect a "super colossal" edition. Practical Work * * Wesleyan Methodist Mission services Pre-Vacation Week are conducted by the students. Young ''Wonderful, Counsellor, the Mighty men have charge of the preaching God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince every Sunday. It is noted that many —

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of the students have received spiritual Considerable readjustment was nec-

help here during their services. Visita- essary to make room for every . one. tion work is carried on in the com- Two of the three guest rooms in^ munity by the students. Bethany Hall were made into student"

5!« * * quarters. The chapel barely accom- modates the student body only one Mission Band Election — full row of seats is unoccupied by stu- Mission Band officers for the second dents. semester were elected by the student body and faculty on January 11. The result" was: President, Alfred Clough; THE PROFESSOR KNEW THE BIBLE Vice President, Lois Gerig; Secretary, Mary Schutz; Treasurer, Herald Welty; A correspondent of the Boston Tran- Chorister, Walter Stewart; and Pianist, script tells an amusing incident in the Evelyn Neuenschwander. To those life of Dr. Samuel F. Smith, the author chosen we pray God's gracious ena- of "America." At one time Dr. Smith bling and guiding power; to those who was pastor of the village church in have chosen, a spirit of faithfulness in Waterville, Maine, and at the same prayer. time taught in Waterville College, now

sj: * * Colby College. The president of the college was accustomed to conduct Special Speakers worship in the chapel every morning; "God hath blessed us with all spirit- but on one occasion he asked Doctor ual blessings." Smith to lead the service. The stu- Mr. A. W. Ruscoe—a .deputation dents, not knowing of Doctor Smith's d worker of the World-Wide Evangeli- remarkable memory, thought it Vn^ouM ^ zation Crusade founded by C. T. Studd. be a little fun at his expense, and at Mr. Ruscoe, an Englishman of unusual the same time they would escape the calibre, was pioneer co-worker with usual Bible reading by spiriting away Norman Grubb in Africa. Mr. Ruscoe the Bible from the pulpit. They made gave us the A B C of prayer. A- off with it successfully but, instead of Abide, B-Believe, and C-Counting on hunting for the missing Book, Doctor God's faithfulness. Smith repeated from memory an entire chapter. Dr. E. J. Bulgin—once a brilliant legalist, now engages his talents in the The next day the Bible was still service of the Lord. missing, and the young professor re- Mrs. E. J. Bulgin—addressed the Mis- peated another chapter from memory. sion Band on the subject, "An Octa- On the third morning he repeated a genarian's Wish." Caleb asked for Mt. longer chapter, apparently without no- Hebron, and his faith was rewarded. ticing that the Book was not there. On the fourth morning, since the Bible Rev. F. L. Aughinbaugh—in two was still in hiding, the professor chapel services presented lectures on thought he would be even with' the "The Tabernacle." A miniature taber- boys, and repeated' entirely from mem- nacle was assembled on the platform ory seventy-one verses from one of the and was used in illustrating the talks. longest chapters in the Gospel of Luke. M He spoke with great deliberation and A New Semester took much more time than was usually January the 25th marked the opening allowed to Bible reading. of the second semester with God's con- The students found that Doctor Smith tinued blessing and an increased en- was too much for them. Not a word rollment. Both dormitories are filled to was said, but the Bible reappeared on capacity. the desk. Publisher Unknown. Schmolke's Hymn

\ That pious German pastor, Benjamin Schmolke, is an example of how a hymn is written. A fire raged over his parish and laid in ruins his church and the homes of his people. Then God's Angel of Death took wife and children, and only graves were left. Then disease smote him and laid him prostrate; then blindness took the light of his eyes away,—and under all this avalanche of ills Schmolke dictated these words:

My Jesus, as Thou wilt! Oh, may Thy will he viine;

\ Into Thy hand of Love My all I would resign. \

Through sorrow, or through joy, Conduct me as Thine own; And help me still to say, "My Lord, Thy will he done!''

My Jesus, as Thou wilt; Tho' seen through many a tear, Let not my star of hope Grow dim or disappear!

Then to my home ahove I travel cahnly on,

!| And sing in life or death, ''My Lord, Thy loill he done!''

^. »^M BUILDING EXPANSION PROGRAM Begins February 1st At an important meeting of the Building Committee on January 18, definite plans were made to meet the need for additional room at the Bible Institute. It was decided to begin a campaign for funds on February 1st, and R2v. J. A. Ringenberg, now Chairman of the Board of Trustees and a member of the Building Committee, was appointed as field man to give half-time to furthering the interests of the building program. The need for more room at the Institute becomes more urgent each year. All of the buildings are now filled to capacity. A new music hall, which has been urgently needed for several years, will relieve the congestion to some extent in the other buildings, and the Committee is desirous of getting it started as soon as practicable. The larger building needs of the Institute were also consider- ed, and it was decided to extend the scope of the program to meet some of these needs, subject to the approval of the Board of Trustees in its semi-annual meeting in March. The larger goal was tentatively set at $75,000, which would provide for other needs beside the music hall such as auditorium, library, and dining hall space. The immediate goal, of course, is to raise $25,000 to $30,000 for the music hall. A few thousand dollars have already been given or subscribed, and the members of the Building Committee gave their own endorsement to the undertaking by subscribing $1,350 in the meeting on Janu- ary 18th. The Committee urges all friends of the Institute to take this need upon their hearts and to pray, first of all, that God will be pleased to bless and to direct in every step of this undertaking. The Committee is also counting on the loyalty and generosity of alumni and friends to give toward tnis need. Gifts or subscriptions may be sent to the Treasurer, Mr. P. L. Eicher, BIBLE INSTITUTE - FORT WAYNE, INDIANA