KING'S BUSINESS - May 1922; Bible Number

I have a collection of old tracks, pamphlets, magazines, and books from the late 1800's to the mid 1900's. One of my special items is a set of 1922 The King's Business, a Bible Institute of Los Angeles (BIOLA) monthly publication.

You may not be interested in recent American church history but I'm a nut for it. Here's what the May 1922 issue looks like ...

Note the issue is called "Bible Number" -- meaning the issue focuses on the Bible. Try to get a handle on this from the title page: "ONLY ONE DOLLAR A YEAR"

From the contents:

• Scathing editorials; no PC here, a spade is a spade to the magazine's executive staff.
• The Rev. T. C. Horton waxes about "The Bible-less Brotherhood": here he takes on the Congregational Church for two heretics; both are preachers, one from Butte, Montana, the other from Seattle, Washington, and both are busy denying blood atonement.
• Horton also tackles an Episcopal Bishop, The Right Reverend Montgomery Brown, D. D., who had abandoned "Capitalist Democratism" for the new "Industrial Communism." Evidently he was not giving up his day job, for he claims proudly to be "some time Archdeacon of Ohio." Get a load of this from the back jacket of his book "Communism and Christianism" -

Whoever buys this booklet under the impression that, because its author is a member of the Episcopal Church, and of her House of Bishops, and a citizen of the United States, it must be in support of Christian orthodoxism and Capitalist Democratism, will soon be disillusioned; for, from beginning to end, the contrary is the truth, the endeavor throughout being to have readers see religious things from the Darwinian, and political things from the Marxian viewpoints, and these are not at all the points of view afforded for the seeing of such things by Christianism and Capitalism.

Brown adds this just to be sure no one misunderstands his position,

Within the generation to which I belong, Darwin and Marx, the greatest teachers that the world has had, went over the top of entrenched ignorance with the greatest books of the world, worth infinitely more to it than all its bibles together.

Nothing has changed in that denomination in eight decades! Helen Keller
was quoted in his book, and this was a shocker for me -

With pain and anguish the Old Order has given birth to the New, and behold, in the East a man-child is born! Onward, Comrades, all together! Onward to the campfires of Russia! Onward to the coming Dawn! Through the night of our despair rings the keen call of the New Day. All the powers of darkness could not still that shout of joy in far-away Moscow! Meteor-like through the heavens flashed the golden words of light, 'Soviet Republic of Russia.' Words, sun-like, piercing the dark; Joyous, radiant love-words banishing hate, bidding the teeming world of men to wake and live.

You should know that this same Helen Keller gained her ability to read and speak from the Bible and a Christian woman who gave her life to help her.

• An article entitled "The True Church of Christ" by one Dr. Bishop Ryle author of classics of the faith.
• From BIOLA, through The King's Business, one could buy a genuine Moroccon leather bound, "silk sewed," and "India paper" bible for $9.90. One could also pick up hard cover books by W. E. Vine ($1.00), C. I. Scofield, W. H. Griffith-Thomas, and R. A. Torrey (50 cents each), Wm. Jennings Bryan's "In His Image" ($1.75), and Matthew Henry's Commentary ($17.50).
  

The most fascinating content was found on the last page, an announcement for the "Fourth Annual Convention (of the) Christian Fundamentals Association," scheduled for Los Angeles, California, from "June 25th to July 2nd 1922. Here's the trunk of the text:

In four short years, the phrases "fundamentals of Christianity", "the fundamentals of our faith", etc., have loomed larger on the printed page than any single group of words used in the Christian endeavors of the Twentieth Century. Recently a speaker before the ministers of Greater Boston, declared "Whether we like it or not, the Fundamentalists have driven a wedge to the heart of every denomination in America." Atout the same date a Unitarian occupying an evangelical pulpit in Seattle, berated the movement and w'arned the people against it; while in practically every one of the larger cities of America, denominational and interdenominational gatherings alike have been listening to discussions pro and con, of "the fundamentals" of the Christian faith.

The friends and members of this Movement throughout the country realize that our work is only well begun. Each of the three Conventions now recorded in history has had a definite objective. Philadelphia brought together the conservative forces of evangelical denominations and welded them into one body. Chicago revealed the strength of their numbers and brought them to a realization of their power. Denver drew the line between truth and error and showed the conflict to be an irrepressible one. Los Angeles will more clearly point the ways of conquest in this— the greatest controversy of the century.

NOTICE: If there's interest in this post I'll publish one each month for a year ... NO INTEREST and the "series" dies.