The Bible Vision

Taylor University Pillars at Taylor University TUFW Alumni Publications Publications for TUFW and Predecessors 2-1-1940 The iB ble Vision Fort Wayne Bible Institute Follow this and additional works at: https://pillars.taylor.edu/tufw-alumni-publications Part of the Higher Education Commons Recommended Citation Fort Wayne Bible Institute, "The iB ble Vision" (1940). TUFW Alumni Publications. 190. https://pillars.taylor.edu/tufw-alumni-publications/190 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Publications for TUFW and Predecessors at Pillars at Taylor University. It has been accepted for inclusion in TUFW Alumni Publications by an authorized administrator of Pillars at Taylor University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. THE BIBLE VISION (^(^ Order my steps in thy ivorcU^ FEBRUARY 1940 PUBLISHED AT BERNE. INDIANA By the FORT WAYNE BIBLE INSTITUTE Fort Wayne, Indiana THE BIBLE VISION A Bimonthly Journal Reflecting the Light of the Bible on Us and Our Tivfies U Volume IV February, 1940 Number 3 Published bimonthly at Berne, Ind., by THE FORT WAYNE BIBLE INSTITUTE S. A. WiTMER, Editor B. F. Leightner, Ass't Editor Loyal Ringenberg, Circulation Manager Melvena Basinger, Editor of Fellowship Circle John Greenfield, Contributing Editor A. W. Tozer, Contributing Editor Economy Printing Concern, Berne, Indiana, Publisher Yearly Subscription, 50 Cents; Single Copy for Ten Cents. Address all correspondence regarding subscriptions or subject-matter to The Bible Vision, Berne, Ind., or to the Fort Wayne Bible Insti- tute, Fort Wayne, Indiana. Entered as second class mail matter at the post office at Berne, Indiana, under the Act of March 3, 1879. SUBSCRIBE NOW to the BIBLE VISION (50c per year of six issues) Name Amount $ Street or R. R , 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 pessimism, 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.

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