Frankfort Pilgrim College - Pilgrim Yearbook (Frankfort, IN)

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3 mhz 651231115 Q ' f 2 D R, ,WA 5 fr , ...f-sift' 1 ' ' A STUDENTS ROOM THE CHANGING OF THE AG-E, OR AT THE END OF THE WORLD CContinued from Page 21.5 The optimism of men along the lines of business prosperity and control have bee11 shattered by the fearful break and panic 111 the stock markets. The President with his eommissions have been unable to save the people. It is now evident also that the revolt against religion has passed through its early and most violent stage Hlld that the sentiment is settling down to a human religion and the establishment of illl11l2llllSi churches. The intelligent modernism will, no doubt, meet the argument of the fundamentalist by going on establishing this new religion, which has nothing superhuman or divine, is without a miracle and without a Christ, entirely abnegates the person of the Holy Ghost and turns from God to a professional religion and to atheism. It is determined by tl1e spirit of the ti111es to place spiritual and ethical values on a new basis. The thought of the masses 1l0YV is to try to find a religion which will satisfy them ill their present attitudes. Ill the light of these changes a11d others, what ean be ahead but tl1e conditions that tl1e prophets, the Christ, and the church have spoken of, a condition that will require the coming of the Lo1'd to make right. It is ti111e that the Lordts people were awake to these changing conditions, what they are, what they IHGHII, what will follow them, and how to present the truth of God to meet. the needs of H1011 u11der these co11ditio11s. While the ti111es are terrible illld conditions are elucive and deceptive yet, thank God, He has made possible a11d wants to make plain tl1e remedy for the evil, the glory for the virtuous, and to show us how to escape the snares coming upon the earth. That remedy is in the person illld presence of the Holy Ghost ill the hearts and activities of every believer. This is our hope a11d our safety and this is the message for the hour. Awake thou church, arm thyself with the mind of Christ, panoply thyself with the power and presence of the Holy Ghost, draw the sword, and let Jesus find us with a elear vision of the times and wisdom to prosecute the work at this, the changing of the ages, -104-

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Bible Standards For Holiness Schools E may define a standard as first, a flag or ensigng second as 'an estab- lished rule or model. Then Bible standards would be the established rules or models taken from the Scriptures, under which as a flag or cnsign we propose as schools to carry out our work. Under this standard we shall earnestly contend for the faith once delivered to the saints and by which we expect to gauge our lives in the conflict. Let us consider some such standards for Holiness Schools. One standard our Holiness Schools should insist upon is the knowledge of real christian experience. Paul speaks of this in I Timothy 2:4 where he says God will have all men to come ll11l0 the knowledge of the truth . In these days of deception. we should insist that our students pray and seek God in pardon and purity until they know that the Holy Ghost has witnessed to both, for them. Without this standard they will be in and out, up and down, running to the altar and then going away. to profess a while and then return. Another standard we should keep to the forefront is Bible repentance. We should urge our students to seek God with an attitude that turns its back on everything for time and eternity, with which God has a controversy and that proposes to walk in the opposite direction. With this attitude, will come the sorrow that they have ever been connected with things that have grieved the heart of God. A third standard our Holiness Schools should demand of those professing godliness is the surrender of the life to God. We should teach them that a soul impenitent and not surrendered to God is a rebel against God 's authority. We should show them that God will take the same attitude toward such that General Washington took toward General Cornwallis at Yorktown. The latter marching out with his forces, offered his hand to Washington. Washington said, Your sword firstl In other words there is no reception of us by the good Lord without our surrender. Our Holiness Schools should inculeate the instruction that our students, and all others as well, must. have a clear witness to their pardon and entire sanctification. This should consist of the inward witness of the Holy Ghost to our spirits and the outward evidence of the fruits of the Spirit. We must not let our people fall into Satan's trap of take it by faith . Souls have en- deavored to do this with the result that they have failed to obtain what they claimed and then tried to live what they did not possess. The witnesses above will save from such delusion. The last standard we will mention is the necessity for two works of grace. VVe should indoctrinate our young people in this truth. We should insist on conversion as the first work, delivering from every transgression of God's laws. We should urge entire sanctification as a second definite work of gract without which no man shall sec the Lord . We should press on them that they must obtain these in this life and that they are not mere privileges but ab- solute qualifications for the world to come. Holiness Schools, are we holding these standards up where we should or have we put the soft pedal on and are allowing our standards to drift to the pit with an empty profession? -H. A. Shepherd. -l03-

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3 Elite 6512211115 Q The Budding Cf The Fig Tree OME one has very fittingly said:, You have the rose as an emblem of England, the thistle, of Scotland, the shamrock, of Ireland, the lcek, of Wales, and the pomegranate, of Spain. So is the fig tree the emblem of Israel. Jesus said: Now learn a parable of the Fig tree: When its branch is yet tender and putteth Iorth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh. So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things coming to pass, know that it fthe end of the agei is near, even at the door. Again: Luke 21:24-t'Jerusalem shalt be trodden down by the Gentiles until the 'Times of the Gentiles', be fulfilled. The Times of the Gentiles according to eminent students of prophesy, began with the captivity of the Jaws in 606 B. C. According to the above quo- tation from Luke, it shall last until Jerusalem ceases to be trodden down by the Gentiles. Vtle know that because of disobedience to God, the Jewish nation has been dispersed and scattered abroad since the time of Nebuchadnezzar. Na- tionally, they are lost. Yet God has declared that a remnant shall be saved and brought back into His favor. Through this remnant, He will yet glorify Himself and set up the kingdom. In Ezekiel's valley of Dry Bones, we have a perfect picture of lsrael's condition for centuries. Yet God says, I will bring you up out of your graves and put my Spirit within you and ye shall live and I shall place you in your own land. Without doubt, Graves here symbolizes the nations out of which shall be gathered the remnant. Again He says: UI will take the children of Israel out from among the heathen whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side and bring them into their own land. Some one has said- If you want to know Godls time-'Look at the Jew' . Another when asked- What are your strongest reasons for believ- ing in the inspiration of the Bible A? answered, Hthe Jew . Throughout the centuries of Israel's dispersion Orthodox Jews have not ceased to pray with faces toward Jerusalem, for deliverance and for the ful- iillment of prophesy concerning their return to Jerusalem. How significant is the fact that the home of an Orthodox Jew is always left unfinished to bear testimony to the fact that he is only a sojourner looking forward to a time he may build a permanent home in the land of promise. The remarkable capture of Jerusalem by General Allenby in 1917 is in- deed profoundly significant. In the first place, captured exactly as prophesied, without the shedding of blood. It is said that the name Allenby to the Turk meant Alloh-hey or The prophet of God . When the Turks heard the name of him, who was marching an army against them, they were seized with the terrible conviction that God was against them, and immediately fled. How remarkable that God, in His wisdom, prepared this christian leader with just the right name to bring deliverance to His people and prepare the way for the consumation of the Jewish anticipation of centuries. Yea even more it is the fulfillment of' prophecy and the winding up of the church age. The Zionist movement born in 1896, in the heart of that pious Jew-Dr. Herzl, with for its motto, t'Palestine and nowhere else for the Jews , had done much to prepare Jews everywhere for the events of 1917. God always does Xi' -105-f