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crew all crazy drunkl We sadly need sound aural doctrine in classrooms and pulpit_.

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GETTING THE PEOPLE TO DO SOMETHING BROTHER A

asks

this question,

"Is

it right

and proper

and

for the best

of die

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tender, of the heavenly hosts. When he fell be was powerful enough to corrupt a tblrd part of

moo is a [air and scriptural and positive unfolding of It. We say "fair" and "scriptural" and "pus-

the angels attd draw Ihem to join ldm in ama'lign revolt a_ainst the sqvereignty'of the infinite thud.,

itive." For some only preach about d6ctrines, and against doctrines, and purposely caricature, and misrepresent, and misstate and pervert them with cunning sophistry only to tear down and

tle has been a Ionff lime the nrince of wickedness, and is a master hand at bin evil work. He

destroy their influence of men.

to conduct

and do everything

than to train others to do it. But. after all, gettb_g things done efficiet_tly is The church is a training school ahd it must look well to prq)arittg others as

its leaders who are already

lave oped

Of course tbere are always.a few '.vbo will want to take advantage of an invitation to lead. a service to say a lot o[ things "which have been on my mind," and an occasional leader is likely to he "long winded," and-if you don't get around pretty fast some one is likely to become offended. - And ther_ arc lots of other risks and dis:xdvanta_es. But some of the best pastors have found it to commit

tbcir prayermeetings'to

tbeir laymen,

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sight which _exercised privateIy,'prlnclpally), and tbere are some pastors who so completely rapnopollae their prayermeetings that they could more appropda_[ely be called preaching services or lecture. So the arguments are not Idl on one s de by any means. Perhaps we cannot lay down a

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to "work

someone

else," ratberthan

to try to do aU the work

yourself.

ings and other such special meetings

to your

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and some to the of cottage meet-

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preacher'-_ influence

laymen.

in {he community

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largely

upon

just

two

preacher'who

himself

,accept his doctrines who can be ttnsted,

so unselfishly

necessary

tn thi_ community

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even people

on

subtle again._t

and the

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preaching

anti scriptural

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and as honest

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absolutely

interpretations

fair of'the

Word of {3o(I- as poor fallible human minds can rh_lte'th_.,m, lOnly meti taught and gdide 0 l_.the I-Ioly Spirit are _'eany fitted to be true teachers and expounders of Chrlgtian doctrine. The redsan _s plain: ' "The natural man" (bowever pow-

himself. Tbey discr_fit the' scriptures wbicb tbey were called to proclaim, and chaflenRe every

erful anti well.-trained the intellect may be) "receiveth not file things of the Spirit of God: for

fundamental

they. are

doctrine

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has _tood

tile

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him:

neither

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know them because they are spiritually discerned." _othln_ is more amazing to the historical student of Cbrislian doctrlnes than the astounding errors find mischievous

heresies

that have been

invented

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been

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quote_ hal"

things:

who do not

are forced to accept his life and to acknowledge that he is.a friend and neighbor rThere are not many people so deprdved that they do not appreciate the exam-

pie of e. hdly man'of God in the presence of their children and who do not take cognizance of one who is unostentatiously striving to serve God and his day and generation in spiritual and practical ways.

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If ever an age needed creeds it is this nne. there ever was a time when.abe blrssed truths

succeeded n mak ng himself nece_ary; to tim community. Even some cburches call a certain one as "pastor because tbey sympathize with him and want to "give him a chance." Then it often becomes necessary to keepa certain.pastor just because."be is a good man and has no where else to go." But about the most beautiful sight we have ever beheld is that of'a preacher ":vho "lives the makes

most

anti defended by great and learned men. Every fallacious error tim( was ever prppagated, has

sara gh(, ¢ can, holy life, And we have not l_¢en able so far to attain tp sufficient breadth to inve_t much in the stock of the preachei" who is shady in his business, family or social relatians, About the next most unarming thing we llave met is the clean, straight preacher who has- not

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experience for two about,and years. They pour out their fiercest wrath upon ¢'recds, find declare .tba: if they were all discarded and f0rgolten abe

THE BASIS OF- THE PREACHER'S "INFLUENCE fidelity and his service. One of the most unseeming

to

warfare

professors and preachers in vast numbers , his own personality and the personality

tor should .tbink not only of the success of the prayermeeting ne_ Wednesday even ng, but a'L_o of the prayermeeting leader twenty years from now. So wherever it cart be done, I bellave it Is a can divide the n_atter ._omewhat, giving some consideration to present efficiency training of leaders. Perhaps you can help out.some by cammittimz the leadership

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kingdom of God, With _tanie cunning he .bus. even invaded the schools ,M the prophets'and the, very sanctuaries of the'Most IIigh a_d induced

rule_tbat w I work wlth everybody anti in every place. But ju._t as a democt'acy is justified, ndt so much by the efficiency of it_ government, as by the typ_ of citizens it tends to produce, so the pus-

life."

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it is usually easier for a mother or a fatber'to do the work himself: than to teach the how to do it and to be patient with them in their inefficiency, ,_o it is easier for a pastor to

well gs to support

good

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thet. textIt stnz'_ests'some and thewhich sertg manifest/)' a one kind _toctrine. of preacblngin

do everything himself not all there is to it.

possible

_ermont

intellect God "seems ever made. once abecreated finite The devil to heHetilewasgreatest

for the pastor

lust as children

Doctrinal

else

church and people there is to do?"

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certainly cduld mbid of God.

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scholarly

divine.

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not have been so if they lind the Human'speculatlon and folly will

creep in somewhere the Spirit and have

unlsss men arc "filled with the rain4 of Christ" (1 Cur.

Holy Writ n&eded to be diligently taught to the children and talked of daily till old age it is right

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now l *'live A "th!nk as you what you will," as you like please," without "believe let or hindrance"

hearer that on abe in hand, so plain any subject intelligent mind andcan makes grasp, It the

program, for which all the Modernists erous_y clamoring, can never advance

truth..It gathers and groups and so arranges the texts tbat they elucidate and drive borne the truth

are vocifour piety

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preaching

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conscience

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instructs

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.or save our Cbristian civilization. An ocean Iin_r would be just as sure in a fierce storm, blowing

upon force.

cumulative

toward _. rock.bound coast, witbout' chart or _oml)a_s or helm or rudder, and the offi_rs and

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TgXT: Acts 17:30-31, "God now commandeth " _offig to "jfidge the world,in righteousness." Judgall men everywhere to repent, because he hath upmeat mcans the condemnation of the wicked. Sin pointed a day in which he will judge the world in unforsaken and unforgiven must be punished righteousness." Introduction: Paul in Athens. without mercy. Our sim,.like,blood-hounds, are on our track, and they will drag us to judgment: I, _Vzsa7 1S nEPEN_/JL,_CE? 'Untess we secure mercy .in mercy's day we shall t. Nei_atively: to/ It is not conviction of sin. all perish, (hi Not ungodly sorrow for sin IV. NoTter. Tag m,r.ssr_ RzsuL'rs ov Rzer._r--a fear of. the consequences, (c) Not remorse or despair. Hell ANtE.... ' is a world of remorse_ hut has ne repentance. . Ps. 34:18, "The .Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and sayeth such as be of a 2. Positively: It consists in turning away from contrite spirit," 2 Chron. 7:14, "If my people sin, . . humble themselves and pray and seek my It ffi'_olves: Skame; Ezek. 6:9, "O my. 'face and turn /torn their wicked _eays; then will God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin." to thee, my God." isaiah 55:7, "Let the wicked forsake his way,_and Sel]-Ioathlng: Ezek. 36:31, "Then shall ye remember your evil ways and shall loathe she man his and let him return unrighteous unto the Lord, andthoughts, he wil_ have mercy on yourselves.". • ConJessiout Ps. 51:3, "For I acknowlhim, and to our God,' for _:e u,HI _bunda_*tdly pardon.'? " edgn.my transgress on." " Forsaking Sin: ISA. 55:7, "Let the We are saved by faith; but repentance is the preliminary work which puts the sinner _n be. wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man_ licuing ground, where lt_is possihlefor him to behis thoughts," Ezek. 14:6, "Repept and turn treys ahd be saved, A man cannot savingly your_e Yesfrom'your idols and turn away your believe while he is holding pn to known and unfaces from all your abominations." Restitution: Ex. 22:3 "The'thief t&all repented sin, The great truth is, the necessi!y o! repentance m/eke full restitution." For example: A man iS one of the fundamental and esSential doctrines, ,stood up in one of my meetings in Denver and which leads right up to full salvation. "If we said, "I will get right with God if I ha_e to wear confess our sins he is faithful and just to.forgive prison strip_.' In another crowded meeting a 'man rose and'said, "I stole from that man over us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness" (1 John l:Pl• In our Christian work there and will pay it.hack." the chief difficulty is not.over.the question nfho1I. WltO xtu_r nr._.v_'? line_s..The great hattie of our time is on the sin The text .says, "All men everywhere." Of q!_e_tion. Given a good ease of Ho12_''Spirit concourse, criminals muaL the low, and vile and out: Diction of sin and ,i thorough case of deep_ godly cast. But also 'moral people; refined people, edurepentance, a man will b6 so sick' and tired o[ sin _ coted people, aristbcratic people. "For all have. that he will long for eternal deliverance from it. sinned and cothe'short of the glow of God." He will never Ieel like fighting and rejecting bollIIL Cossmza Ttt_ ur.cr..sacr_¢o_, _e_:¢aucx. heSS, but will cry out, with David. "Create in me I. Jesus said: "Except yc repent ye shall all perish" (Luke 13:3-4). Theh one must forsake sin. "Turn or burn." 2. It is necessaW from the very nature of God and salvation. God is holy and He requires us to be like Him. Sin is opposition to HIS charucter and nature. Sinners are hateful and hating one another, and salvdtlon means to be rid ol rids wickedness and have a holy heart. So, while sin remains, cherished and unforsaken, man never

aclcan heart. O Godl" (Ps. 51 :t01.. Example: A young man 'committed a _rime.in Kansaa and ran away. Another man was arrested got the deed and condemned to State's prison on circumstantial evidence. A ndmber of yearspassed and thereal criminal got into a religiou_ meeting ohthe Pacific Coast and was awfully cony|reed, He told the leader of the meeting of his crime, that leader took him to the p.uthorittes, and they put him umler custody of the leader and wrote

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back where the crime was committed. An answer came back. "Yes, hut we have the man.in prison," They sent word to Kansas, "You have

arrest of spir!tual advancement and human bettermeat. Probably that is tim chlef trouble with the Christian 'world today. Fifty years ago there

the wrong man.". _ That criminal went back two thousand miles unattended and gave himself up, and set at liberty the innocent man. The state _ent the criminal to the state coal mine to-die coal But lie bad found Jesus and'be went to his work slnginm "At.the cross, at the cross, where I first found the'light, And the burden of my heart rolled away." He declared, I would'rather'go to heaven from the bottom of shis prisonmine than

was a ce_._atiofi of the best doctrinal preaching: today we are in the doldrums of listless lndifferenos, agnostic unbelief and avowec] itifidelity. High treason agaffist _hrist and Christianity is openly enthroned and hoastfully regnant in many of.our pulpits and schools, Aside from the reD[V, ffig influence of the Holy Spirit we see ao cure for this risina tide of. skepticism, but a return.to the systematic study and preaching and teaching

to go to hell from a palace on top of'the Jzround." O _uis, repent[ repcutl The narrow road to heaven starts only from-the eats of repentance, the turnffig'away, from all .tin.

of the great fundamental truths of eke gospel, as St. Paul anti St. John and Jesus taught them.

Now, the _foregoing is a plain setting forth of the doctrine of repentance in lamnm_te _0 simple

V. Ethical Sermons If Christianity is lo exist at all it must be mora]. If the ministry is to be a means under God. of saving Christian civilization it must preach

and a:child of ordinary couldscriptural grasp itsthatmramng. And adultsintelligence arc not

and standal'd motnifty. practice [t will an notunimpeachable do for the followers pf nl_ Jesu_ to be almost as moral as the diseipl_'oi" B_ddh'a_, _r ._:.

above being moved by it; for I have tried it and know. I have preached it on various occasions and ha_,e seen enouRh people turned to the Lord

abou_ as pure as the followers of Confucius, or " about equal in temperance and decency to the

by the use of it to inake a _ood sized congrega"finn. This doctrine is greatly needed and God's blesstn_ is upon it, and all preachers "shouhl use it praverfffily dad faithlully find seek arid expect a barvest of souls., Tbeye are many such fan,tumoural doctrines : such as "the doctrine of sin," "the atonement, "the deity of Christ." "Justification by "faith," "Regcueration," "Sanctification" and "The dan. gcr of grieving or resisting the Holy Spirit."'. God seems to especially hless sermons on sud_ ti?emcs in the lips of His ambassadors who are filled with the Spirit. IL LET US NOTICE _TILLFURrlIgRWIlY DOc_'nINAL vnEacm.'eryecl"Matt. S:48). I. CONSIDER SPate TEAeltlNflSON TIle SUBJFJ_Tor cltRIsrL_ vzR_x_'aon,

5. A "passion for the souls of others. 4. Intense spirltuafity. ILLUSTRATION:Dr. S. A. Kcene lay -dy-in# He said to one near his side, _ho had suggeste_l that he may have worked too strenuously, _'I am glad that I let

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2. How unwilling the devil is to let anyone 3. God's love for His own (Deliverance). go. 4. Judgment 'on the backslider (WanderJags). . 5. Final and triumphant entry of the faithfuL Has the blood been applied to our heart's dour as a "Memorial" that God may direct us?

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on) the last link every time." Letting out the "last link" every time is a par= sion for souls,

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_,_'_yI_en_Kzingdom of God shal] be set .up on. _jl__f_liect this doctrine because to ac, __place ever_ moral precept, . __,of Jesus n_,t m Kingdom .... q_l__ W0_4!dhave _ 7_ ._no meaning to us in the present, .'.

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Regarding the truth of Christian perfection there are several theories advanced, three of which we give here in order to set forth this truth more clearly:" 1. There are some who leal:h that this text Js

2. Some tell us that this perfection is.only an ideal to',_;ard which Christians are to aim. To reach it tSjt[ot passibj.e_n this,life, hut tostrive for_ is tt_n tru_'in_]_e['6f Christia_ life. We

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4. HELLFORALL SINNERS. Devouting fire; everla-t.inubfirnin_. Isa.33:14. Body cast into hell. Matt. $;29, 30, A furnace of fire. Matt. 13:_8-4_, 49, 50. Everlasting fire. Matt. 18:g, 9;34, 35. E_/etiasting punishment. Matt, 2S:41-46. . __ Mark 9:43-48, 2 Thess. 1:7-0,

to be made I_rfeet either in soul"or body; and because only a perfect creature can hope to enjoy the etet=nal fellowship of a perfect God. This I secede as being the truth taught in the Word of

ReD. 2t:8, 20:10-15. " The above refer to the affliction of pain by

God, "In view of this fact let us study our Lord's me.age. . IL T]t_ STANDARD OF" PF_RleeC'f[ON,"E'tr_NAS

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the rays and illumination ol a 117,000,000 'suns. " No light, no hope, Matt. 22:13. " Matt, 2g:30. : 2 Pet. 2:12-t7. : . -: 0. TU_ R_cit M^N" _Un LAZMtUS. Luke 16:20-3t. , Note: That the rich man in hell had all of h_s five se_.

detail without: these must be perfect in every temper and desire within. The unholiness of their own hearts showed up tti their outward "acts in many ways. The holiness of the heart must show itself in every outward act of a child of God even as holiness shows in the acts of the IlL PF.mrlml'iol¢ heavenly Father. as 'sr_ tN "rii_ ACts O',' LIVId, even AS Tile FATIIE.R IN ]IEAVE.N IS _ERFKCT. 1. Carnal anger is 1oconsistent with Christian perfection (Verses 21-26). It is not enough to obey the command, "Thou-shale not kill." One mast not be angry with his brother. To " do so will mean to:expose one to the Judemere ol God as a jinner_ "Angry ivithoot.cause" gives no comfort. It means that under grace no man has_a ju-q cause to be angry, because the heart dowbere angercelansing, resides can If such not _ek they be are cleansed. left without cause Mr their carnal anger.

Show me any ins-

another,tifiable' cauSein thcf°rlightanYofPers°ntruth, andt° bei WillangrYehangewith

my So strong does Jesus urge t'l_atmessage. He forbids any _.o_y,,orship until this tlieytruth are reject this doctrine beeau._ it is contrary to plain first recanei[ed to their brother. Leave your gift facts. N6 where in God's Word _e ideals _et at the altar. Do not attempt worship unt I anger forth. Facts are what God states, and not mere • ts cast out. This is perfection. ideals. "Be perfect," said Jesus.. He said nothing 2. Perfection mt_st exclude the' evil desfres of about an ideal, He spoke.of a state of being. the_heart (Verses 28-32), It is not enough to 3. The third phaso of teaching o_ Christian obey the command, "Thou shale not commit adulperfection is that. shch is possible to all .men in this life: 'because of the ali=sufl]cisnt sacrifice of teiTt." A look with a ctesire |s the same as the jesus; and because no man has lost the capacity act. to be perfectI one fro.eIrom • Therefore every unholy de,re,'. say mu_t every be unholy

A Bottomless pit. Re',;. 0:I,L Fire and brimstone. ReD. t4:B_, el:

5. Hi,LIt---OUTERDaRNNeSS, Compare Egyptian darkness, Aslronomers with the modem telescol_e.have discovered 117,000,000 suns, Hell is outside

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wlfl have pfrlect children, It is inconceivable - that a perfect spiritual Father will beget imperfeet spiritual sons. Every moral perfection which ,God possesses Can be created in the,soul of ms0 h)' dlvine flrace, 2 Jesus leache_ that perfection.Is that of tho inner man. "Except your righteousa_ shall excee'd.'the righteousness of the scribes and Ph,ir. ISeeS,ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of hcaveo" (verse 20). But exceed in what mannet? Their righteov.mex_ was outwasd_ this is to be inward. They aimed to be' perfect in. every

"desire because this particular sin is not the ofily sin one may commit by looking with desire, Jeans makes it an example, 3. Perfection makes our word conform to the truth _'eeses 33-37), I leave, it to my readers to say how necessary.lt is to have a, word that fs a_ good as a bond. How necessary it Is to confine the communication to "Yea, yea_ and Nay_ nay." 4. Perfection excludes the spirit of revenge (Verses 3g-42). This explains its own meaning, 5. Perfection includes love for the neighbor (Verses 43-47). This love has four God.like qua]° qualities---love enemies, do good, bless, und ptty lor them.

Such are perfect. ""A P_rfeet

Men'*

'IX._: Eph'. 4:t3. INTflODUOTIOIq: • r t," To bring all children oft¢ Grid to thestatore of the"perfect man L_in the plan of

Lk

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God through 7-10l. fa)

(b)

2

I. The

the sacrlficeof

sacrificial

Persons

to redeem

man.

He ascended . . . that He might fill all things. This is His r_urreotinn-and _ccnding to the right hand of God to be a priest for His people, Thus based upon His full atonement is the doctrine of .perfection in this

.with

fro with these winds

th'e undeveldpe'd

spiritual

_enses of a spiritual baby can- often be led into Eddyism_ Christian Sdence, Rus. sellism, Ad(,entism. and" other falsa doetrines. " " - " "

which enjoined

!eve to God and man should

eternallife fLuke 10:25-28), major facts of perfect love them.

growth; "That ye may Ver. iS). This is where and understanding, and' belongs. Remove the

I,owls

that soul will grow'inall

It

true to this calling. , stan_lard of perfection of

the

stature

of God

is given. of

"The

the fulnt_

(Ver.

I3).

f. This

must

banish all excuses

be"

of '

"

feats of profe_ug Chr_tiaus. 2.. It is to-be according to the

measure

hofy. so ore all His sainL_.

(c)

.

increase

body fitly joined of-the

body"

...

mak-

(Verse

The

That

measu_

of HIS fidelity.

is,. we are to be faithful in every duty to'be done. In every trust fro-

indwelling

God

into the

Second Third, text,

is like a human body in part works In perfect, bar-

If the members ofthe of Christ are perfect,

a ruler

for Public

Lead-

ership.

Church as then each

is

also

carried

,through.

In mereIL

hu-

extent

(verse

9).

hating

covetousnesS;

to be rulers of thohsan_, rulers 18:2t). of

fifties,

and

thi_ He

Its manner wa_ sons. But it

its highest perfection whom He us. In this act He gives Himseif

Lincoln

Once.

of

tens"

(Exodus,

on

finding

iris client had deceived

When the question invoiv_d. Lincol#said:

them,

man every time•"

he in m, because he ilath Spirit" (Verse 13).

Gen. O. O. Howard from Lincoln's life:

to be said.)

to know•

and Intend_ to'keep

Ghost• Those who" have received the gift of the Spirit are made perfect in love.. "We know we dwell in trim, and given us of his .

as a l_wyer "Is it right?" him.

he

felt thi_ room. and would not return' when sent for. but said. "I found my hands Were dirty, and I_wasbed

needs

rulers

wanted

to us.

this point that

o_,cr them,

always

Tree impel, o_- ermv_cr Low, z_ rue. zrr.ARr, l. It is w tnessed to.by the gift of the Holy

.of

and place

and rulers of hundred%

3:1)

2. It is proved in that we love one another (Verse 12). (Much can be said at

This. increa,se phas_

the

of His love(Chap.

the perfecting of His love ]v _ods--io've was m_anifest wlen

reaches dwells,in

converted, thus all

First,

the manner

gave His Sort to die for us, shown in ,making "us ttis

rice eo Christ can use him to aid in saving sinners. The ministry is for the.perfeeling of the saints and .the perfected _qlnts are to get others the body iucreases itself.

something

Lincoln

. will fit into his place and.there make the , ificrease of the whole body or Church. skews pIMnly that inclose

not' I_erfetting

gives three phases of.God's-love

ill this epistle.

16).

be converted and addec[ to the Church ff each metnber fit_ Into his re_lJeCtive of"

the

and a deliverer" (Acts _:35). Theme--Lincoln. an ExampIe

truth,

cording uro,,

Love God

is receiving

by works of graces.

. Abraham L.in©oln's Birthday " " Theme--Lincoln, as Emancipator. Text--"The ._ame did God send to.be

John

of the Church.

bership in the Church depends upon the perfection of.its members. Sinners will

The measure of His affection. with0tit dl_lmulation toward and man..

of We

us, and

This

of His slot•

time

helpful.

man.

result is'increase

stre_. "motives, acts and words were holy. 'So must be all who are acto the measure

tbe year, finding them to be .very present a few su_oestidns,

with

mony, ,a.body

_E_ de-

lives of these greaL _qefi at this particular

plc.

The Church which every'

of

preachers from the

Te.rt--"_Ioret_ver thou skalt provide out of all tile people able men. such as fear God, men el

eth

Christ's,refiner& That is, HIs ownimage. (a),The messuse of His holing. H'e is

coin amJ George WashingtOn. Many have used appropriate' themes'gathered

_ul, thus bringing divine love to perfection in us: It is something divineT"made perfect

"The whole

._ay

Christian graces.

February has the birthdays of two of our Christlan statesmen and presidents, Abraham Lin-

Cai'nality only i* responsible for the itrested growth so often seen In good pea3. Another

for sins and

that some would

SUGGESTIONS

zt_m: t,£R_v.c-r.

"God dwelleth in us. and His eve. s perfooted in as." This is very plain to all. It is based upon dlvlne.indwelling. It is not a

fO).,

called

have

Let us study three as John here reveals '

perfecting of a human affection and development, nor cultivation

man

AND

By D, SHELU_' C0aLZTr

carnal mind and.bring the soul to a perfeet man in the image of Christ, and

every

TEX_FS

in u_" CI Jno. 4:12),

bring the children of God to perfection, "For the perfecting of the saints" (Vet. Let

THEMES,

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w

I. How 2. Another result is grow up in him" growth ingrace moral character

epistle, The gift of rninistt'y by the Lord was to

(b)

i_

Perfect love isthe whole of refieion. Upon two commandments, Jesus _abl. hang the law and the prophets. He who ke0t those two commands

theycan do yet be pleasing to God. In the face of thfsdruth no excuse can be fmind for the dwarfishne_ and moral de-

II.

hit love

perjected

moral imperefctioas

"

in uL and

dren tossed to and of doctrine, •

measure

:

d_velleth

He descended first. Ti_is refers to His humiliation, incarnation, and

Christ"

•

"God

proves this need o_ perfection. The craze for power and gifts, is among chil-

dsath

Jesus (Verses

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them

clean."

of a man or the dollar was "I-am on the side of the

gives tim Ioilowing

incident

"A senator talking in a room where Mr. Lincoin was present in the White House, at the darkest time

of the

war. said,

'If we would

only

do

posed upon us as He was faithful, Ttt_ lt_ULI"S O_ V_'m'o ^ _F,tur_._ _t._, 1 "Be no more. children to_ed to and fro

church life, "" ,.. Another i'esult of perfection will be, "That ye walk not as others" (Verse 17).

3_. It is proved by our witn_sfni_ to it by confessing Christ (Verse 15). Thi_ means to, identify ,self with Him fri .all

what is right, the Lord would.glve us the victory. _ Mr. Lincoln, standing up at a table, cried out: "'My faith is greater than yours.'

and carried about" (Vet. 14). Childlikefit_s is ChrisUan; hut childishne_ is car-

God is pleased with a people who live and act different from all who have no

places, at all time_, and before any person. It may mean reproach_, pe_ecu-

"'How is that?' asked the senator. . • "_Why,' said he, !God wlil make as do right to

nality.-

identification

tion_ and •contempt.

To adv_mca

beyond

the sta_

of

with

H_m as _

chli_

children is very necessary becauee such persons are exposed to the dangler of de-

To fall to the level of the world and walk as men is carnal. But to walk in

nighing men

law

who

would

dect4w

them

IlL

"[m_ _csastT:,"

_.lnto Go#.

t.

with cunning c_Mtine_ Q_nd fe.ise doctrines. The way in which the'm_.ny false

_a) WaLk worthy ot the vocation (4 :t-3). (b) Walk in love as Christ ($:1-41.

l.

doctrines captured

(c) Walk as children of ltgbt ($:g-Io). (d) Walk circumspectly (5:15. 16).

of today thrive Upon the prey from the body of believers

ss aaint_ is well pl_

But it ',viii be done.

give us the victory.'"

or, vtmvanT LOVZ.

That we may. have 17). l?oldne,_s in ' the day of Judgment(Verse To cast out the feaE oI the Judgment and release the, soul [rum torment or.

"If you go toyouwork, is nodobetter place than intend right to wltere are. there If you not inteod to gO to work, you cannot get along anywhere. Squirming and crawling about fcom'place

unrest,

to place can do no _oodY--Aeaxtt_

LincoLn.

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George Washington's Birthday Washington was a sincerely pious Christian. ln _spite of all that has been said to the contrary by a late writer there is_bu_dant proof that Washington bad an unwaverimz trust in God. aml strongly be[levied in t_ie _efficacy of prayer, Themes and Texts . Theme--_The Continuous Influence of a Man Like Washington. Text-="The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more'unto the tierfeet day" (Prov. 4:18). Theme--Characterlstics of Trne Greatfle_. Text--"He tbat'4s slow to anger is better thafi thc mighty; anti he that ruleth his _pirit titan he that taketh a city" (Prov. lfi:32t, Washington

Genuinely Religiou, Washington was a genuinely rcli_lous man during ali his lmblic life. He took *he time to pray in the mnrmng when he was an officer in the war with the French.and Indians, and Inter. When he was comamnder-in-ehief of the American army during the R_evolotion beoffered up petitions.at a throne of grace. When he was at home, Mount Verndn, he regularly observed the Lord's Day by riding five miles to attend divine service in Pohnick churcih of which ue was vestryman for a" number of years. Wllen President, it was the •, custom of Washington to go to. church regularly Sabbath mornings, and in tim evening.he read a sermo_ or a -portion of the Scriptures aloud to Mrs Washington. Thus 'he"kept his spiritual strength.--Selected: -Religious Training in the Life of Washington Washington's father died when he was only twelve years old, and thereafter his rellgtous training-was received from his'pious mother. Irving says it was her dally custom to gather her childh:n about her and read to them _ssons of tellgion and morality out of some standard work, Well does the monument erected to the memory of this mother'cor)tain the simple hot affecting words, "Mary, the Mother of Wa_ldnglon." "The mother of such a son. and the _on of such a mother."--Seiecled. -"One Secret of Watshington't.Greatness It is said that at the age of fifteen, although he had his luggage .on board shlp--a man.of-war in the Potomac--Washington refused to sail, since his mother withdrew her con_ent. Seining her dis-

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tress, he turned to a servant and said. "I.wfi[ not _o and break my mdther's heart." She was so impressed with his affection that she said to him, "George, God has promlsed to bless the children -that honor their parents, and I bcllevc He 'will bless you." --

4. In a Wondrous Security. '"Who are kept by the powrr ot God through faith" (vs. 5). TIIFMn---PAL"L'SSURF.CURE FORCARE. TExT--"Be careful for nothing; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests he made known unto God. And the peace of God. which p_s_eth all under• through . _tandlng, shall keep your hearts and minds ' Christ Jesus" (Phil. 4:6-7). t. Worry about t_o/.h[nJz, 2. Pray about everything. If a man does not pray about everything he" will worry about .most things. If it is big enough tO worry about,it is surely big enough . to pray about, 3. Be thankful in everything,

One of Wathlngton'J Later Prayers Alinigbty "God. we make our. earnest prayer -that "Thou wilt keep the United States in Thy holy pi'ote_tion : that Timu wiR incline the hearts of the citizens to ct_ltivate a spirit of subordlnation and obedience to government; to entertain a brotherly affection and love for one another and for their fellow citizens of the United States at large. And finally tbat Thou wilt most graciously be i_leased to dispose us all to do justice, to love mercy, and to demean ourselves with.that charity, humility, and pacific temper of mind which were the characteristics oI the divine Author of our blessed religion, and without a humble imitation of _whose example in these things we can never.hope to be a happy nation. Grant our application, we -beseech Thee, through J'estis Christ our Lord, Amen.

. Suggested Themvl and Texts TItEM¢--The. Gift Whicb Brings All Gifts. Text--"He that spared not bls own Son, but deliveretl himup for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?" (Romans 8:32.)... "I'ItEMZ Two Gi'eat Evils. Text--"For 'my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of'living waters, andhewed them out cisterns, -broken cisterns, that,Can hold no water" (Jer. 2:13). . Ttt_stE--THz Jo'¢ovs CttRta_'. Tt:xT--"Wherein ye greatly rejoice" (1" Peter 1:6), They' were rejoicing: . I. In the Possession of a New Life. "According to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again".(l Peter t:_ ). 2. in the Inspiration of a New Hope. "Unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jrsan Christ from tbe dead" (vs, 3), . ;. In;the At_ticipatlon of a New Inheritance. "To an inheritance incorruptible', and unde, filed, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heave,n for you" (vs. 4),

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converted man and woman about us? The _foreigner .within our gates? Tile non-church going multitude in America? Tnr.ME--DlVlte_.GvmA,'_CaZ. Four fundamentalsto Divine'Guidance are: I. A wffl yielded to Golf in eveiT=particular. "Thy will be done." 2. A perfect trust.

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"Commit thy way unto the Lord. trust also in him, and hc shall bring it to pass." 3. Take time to know,it is the will of God. Satanrushcs one, God gives'us time to KNOW whether it is tits will or not. Gideon an example 4 Use common sen_. [,_verything God wants us to do is reasonable. "The meek will he gdic_e in judgment."

. Tltds_g--Jesus Oilr Friend. "l'tlE_tt:--Tttz Usrt,'¢tsttzn TASK (Mtsstot¢aRY TF.XT--"Ye are my friends" (John 15:t4). St:l_gtohO. . I. Jesus the Friend of the Friendless, The Blind Beggar fluke 18:35-43). Tl:xl"--"Goye into all the world, and i_reach the gospel to every creature" (Mark 16:15 }. The Ten Lepers (Luke 17:11-10). 1. The Task as Given by Jesus. II. Jesus the Friend of the Sufferers. " "tip ye into all the world." The woman afflicted 12 years fluke 8:43I. tIis was a world-wide vision. He came "that the woat.n through him 48). The man afflicted 38 years ai, the p_l_l of might believe." " " "If ANY mint thirst let him come." " Bethesda (John $:1-9). IIl. _. J_us the Friend of the Sorrowing. "I 'will draw ALL men unto.me." The sisters of Lazarus (John 11:t7-37). L His provision was adequate for all. "IV. Jesus the Friend of the Needy. tat His purpom was mercy for all, Feeding the fire thousand (John 6:1-14). (hi His call is for all to repent,, V, Jesus the Friend of the Backslider. (c) The go._pel message is adapted to all. Peter (John 21:15-17). Hh message to all 11. The Task as Accomplished. backsliders is "Lovest thou me." He says 1. The results have been the same wherever " Hc is married to the backslider. the gospel has been preached, "lt is the VI. lesus the Friend of the Sinner, "power. of God unto salvation to everyone . Zaccheus (Luke 19:1-10). . that believetb." Mary Magdalene (Luke 8:2). 2. Note the change wrought on civilization The woman taken in sin (John 8:3-11). . by the Church and Christianity, 3 The increase of the Churcb.from 120 at Pentecost to over. 550 million adherents FROM A PREACHER'S SCRAP BOOK today.. A'FRE_Cll LAWYER'SADDRESS TOA JURY IlL The Task as It Yet Remains. I. There are. over one billion one hundred "Gentlemen of the jury, my task is vdcy easy, million heathen in the world today. Tire accused has confessed; a defense is l'mpo_l2. This vast multitude mus_ be reached by hie. And yet I want to add a few words. There the people of this generation if they are on the wall I see the plcthre of the. Crucified2ever reached, and I pay homage to it. There it hangs in this 3. Are we doing ou!" best. to complete this hall of justice, where you condemn the guilty. " unfinished 'iask? Asa general church? But why do we not hear anything of Him in our As a local cimrch? Whatabout the unsc ools, to'wldcb you.send your children? Why

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THE PREACHER'S MAGAZINE . .. 23 " tify him, and said, "Father, be a man and stick to craged way out of the house, down. the street. it." "Ahl", he replied. "but there is nothing to into hl._lone quarters. stick to." But another One was near. brooding over bim,_ -and .tenderly holding his _breaklng heart, and

still sat on the benches of tile school, he would not now sit here on the bench o[ disgrace and infamy. You brag of your educatiolt and your culture, and yet,are barb,_rous; you spread athe-

. "Why" said she, _I wouht go right on dishing up • hie dinner, .of course." . . • "That's just what I'do.' said Amanda.

The cross is hie greatest as_t I have to preackl • speaking word_ of warm comfort,'and breathing and I'm not going to give it up for any uncerIn the freshening breath of.true'love. And as he tainty.--Gx'Psv S._tx_[. yielded to this it overcame all else. Anew mood ,J • __ came and dominated'. And it became the fixed

ism and lustfulness amongthe people, and then nre and astonished vulgarity." when the peopIe repty with _:rlm_

*'Dr. A" J. Gordon had a dream one Saturday night "whicll profoundly influenced all his after ministry. In his dream he was in his pulpit,

To the preacher. You cann_)t stop people from _hinkin_. The job is to get some of them started,

when a stranger entered rind passed slowly up the aisle A gentleman offered him _. seat in his pew, which was qtdetly accepted. At the _loseof tile service Dr. Gordon asked she gentleman, in whose pew th_ stranger sat. who the visilor was, 'Why, Llon'tyou know?' was the reply. 'that was Jesus

Those who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those whotry to do nothing and succeed beautifully.

Faith is to believe what we do not.see, and the rewar_ of this faith' is to see what we believe.-ST. Atmus'riuE. We sink that we may rise; we suffer that we m:_y healed again; we die.that we may live.-T. C beUPIIASr. KsddwN nY Ttmm FRtn'rs .,f Moh_hlmedan contractor was.bugding t/ line of railroad in India and had to advance money in . Mring his laborers, obtaining securily from them in turn. But a missionary noticed that bd demanded no security from the Christian coolies, and asked why. "I know your people," answered the Mohammedan: "their religion is;sufficient so:cur[ty. I can trust them." -"N_._nt Nz_zRt B_EnaE_t". - A venerable, colored minister who had been pleadinn earnestly for foreign missions, closed with these words: "Bredren, I';J'e heard "of churckcs dot's dyin' _f 'spectabllity, I've heard of a church where de souls of de people is all shelvled up with selfishnesS, and I've heard of lots of ckurchds, tike a barren desert with no livin' wetees. no waters of 'freshment rnnnin' in 'em, 'cause dey refuse to do de Lord's will..But .Bmdren, who ever heard of a church dot was kilted _eause ,it gave money to foreign mlssiom? Whoever heard of a church dot' died 'cause it did what de Lord said? Neberl neberl Bredren."

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A sister once came to ,_manda Smith, the blessedly saved and _anctified hlac_ woman w]/use preaching and singing helped thousands to God, and said: "I don't understand this.. I feel so bad.' I thought God had sanctified me. but I am afraid I am mistaken. All is darkness. De. you ever feel that way?", "Yes." replied Amanda.

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of Nazareth: douhtisss tie will come 'An indescribable rush of emotion came again.' over me,' u,rites Dr. Gordon. 'To think that Jesus was present [ What did He think of the service? Had [ preached like I wouhl like Him .to bear? A tifetime, almost an eternity, of interest, was crowded into 'a single moment.' That vJsinn of hie personal presence of Christ transformed Dr. Gordon's. life, ministry, and church. May o_r impressions 6f the Lord's nearness he as vivid b.nd as potent,"_-Selected.. "Aunt Hannah,. did you know that you had" " been accused of stealing?" s_ti(l a white woman to Aunt Hannah who 'was wnshing for bee. "Yes, I heard'about it," said Aunt Hannah. and wenLon with her washing. . . "Well. you won't rest under it, will you?_' replied the sister, Aunt Hannah raised herself up from her work, with a broad smile on.her face, and looking up full at the wbite sister, said: "De Lord knows I ain't stoic nothin', and I knbws I ain't, an' life's too sbort [or me to be provin' and s'plainin' all de time; so I jes' goes on my way rejulciu_. Dey knows dey ain't tellin' de truf, "and deyql feel a_hamed some day and quit. If I can please de Lord, dat is enough for me.'-'-Sriected, __ In n large t_annfacturlng town a.man lay on his deahi bed. While well and strong he and his son both professed to be Infidels. But upder the test of, his latest days his confidence In his unbelieving principles broke down; there wa_ ndthing in hiem to sustain him. Itis son, desirous that his fabler simuld die as he had lived, went to for-

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O Love that Will tint Let Me Gel' Rev. S. D. Gordon tells in a graphic way the story back of the beautiful poem by George hiatheson, the famous blind preacher. One day a young student was crossing the quadrangle of one of the old Scottish Univeesitieg to,yard his quartees in the dormitory. He was not feeling well. His eyes had troubled him and made his work ,very dlmcult. On the adv3caof a Irlend he had sought the judgment, of 'an expert in the treatment of the eyes. The spedaiist made u very thorough examination and then informed the young etudent tacffMly l_ut plainly shot he would lose his eyesight, sut_ely and not slowly, Loee his eyt_flght? A t.udden, terrific, actual blow between his eyes could not have stunned his body more than thisstunned hrain and'heart, Lose his eyesightl. All his plans and coveted ambitions seemed'slipping from his grasp. Wlththe luss of his ryes "would go the lore of university training, and so all of.his dreams. Dazed, blMded, he groped hls way. rather than walked out of the phy_sicl_n'.soffit:e, His life was robe joined witJa another's. And now he turned his distracted tteps toward her home, hungry doubtlrm for some weed or touch • of comf.o/t for hit sore hoe.re. And he wa,t thinking_ too_ that with" this uttox break-up ot th_ inturn she muat be t_ld. And as he talk_ he mid in qul_t_ ina_y v/ord_ that undea tht_ _t'cil_stances_ und the 'radical change in his prospects, she must be'free to do as she thought best. And she took her freedom I ,. . That was the second staggering blow, A second time he groped his

thing, mastei'lng all his life. Now he sat down. and outwrote of histhetorn, bleeding, but newly touched heart words we have all learned to _sing: "0 Love lha_ will not ! rest my weary soul I give Thee hack lhe That in Thine ocean May richer,/uller

let me go, in Thee, file I owe, depg_ its llow

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"0 LtghL, that ]ollowest dl my wayo I ytdd my _kkering torch to Thee; My hearg restdre$ its b_rrowed ray That in Th_ sumhinds glow its day . May brighter, Jolter be." Consecratinn A friend of the writer became sick in Paris. He sent for the most eminent physician th the dry, "who, after a careful diagnosis, informed his patiept, that he was attacked with a fatal fever: then prevailing In the French capital. Said. be to him, "You will soon lose your reeson, and then sink into a state of tnseustbllity, from which It is not eertein that you will rally. But I will do my best to carry you safely thrnn_h the demily die ease. Make your will and deposit it with' me. Pdt into my hands your trunk and _ key, your watch, your pur_e, your elothea,, your pat_port, and _,feryshing else which you prize." The sick man was thunderstruck et such. demands by an entire stranger, who might administer i dose of poison, and send the patJent'e body to the pottoe's field, and _.ppropflatethe surrendered txe,x_ ures [o his own use. A moment's reflection taught hita that the defnand was made out of pure benevolence, and that It was more m.fe to trust himself and his possessions to the lmnd_ of tt man of high profe_lonal repute than to tun the _ of b_ng plundered by o hungry horde, df hotel servant,, .He _urrendered all h_ _ a,_d • _ intt/t_ charge'of the physiela_l. He tat by his bedside, taw hla prophecy fulfilled, re, on go out in delirium, and intelligence sink into stul_or. He watched the ebbing tide of life with nil the solicitude of.a brother. At length he taw the

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ticte turn. and detected the first, faint refluent wave which was to hrin_ the sick man back to the shores of fife. He. reeqvere_, and found hts pu_e and all his treasures restored to.him. Thtts must you do .if you would avail yourself- of the skill of the albbealing Physician, Jesus Christ. ' Make your will, and _ive it to Him. Commit _,our purse to His keeping. A conserrated packethook always attends a sanctified heart .... Put yourself, your possessions, your repularion, your, future, !nip Christ's hands by an act of coasterstion. and then nF_LtZVE that He will do the work without any assistance froai _ you. :You cannot improve your own condition. You cannot expel _the dire dlsea__e of sin from its.hold upon,your very vitals. Jesus only can free yot!.--DR. D^_tel S'cr._=cE. Watchl At the close of the Tenth. Century the Christian world _houghl that the end was dra_ing nigh, since _his was the close of the cycle of a thousand years. The signs were all favorable. Tbes0elal deeps were broken up; there were wars, famines, pest:ilences, natural convulsions, conlu_io_ everywhere; "signs in heaven above and in the earth

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in history prior to the Reformation," The monks, led*by Peter the Hermit, .with kings.and cons. tiers, went everywhere proclaiming the conquest of the Holy Land. "It Is the will of God l" We must do.something toward the eamfdg of the Son of MealL They wex¢.stlli waiting, bat waiting at' what /bey believed_to-..be their,nppMnted.task/L Thus Christ is ever sayiog'tt_'Hispeople,"Wat_hl" Watch an.d be sobei'; watch with your loins girt I Let your door be on the latchl It may be at evening, or at midnight, or in the morning that

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Darkness Pierced by UnJeen Ray_ Here is another evidence" of 'the unseen world, Under date llne of London, Dec. 15, 1926, the Associated Press reports the following: Seebl_z in total darkness by means of an invisible ray is declared hy the Daily Mail to have been'demonstrated as feasihle through a_ [noontinn of John L. Baird. British scientist, whose discoveries in letevislon have aroused great intere_t in the past year., Mr. B_rd is .,p*otcd as saying that his achievemens has been accomplished with his televior by i_olatin_ and then employing rays which are outside the visible spectrum. -"

she Was clearly converted, and began at once to pray for her youthful a._soclate_ an_l saw-many, Of themtsaved. Then later she married a Mothodist clad-leader and their home became the rattling-place for the society cl,_ss and weekly, prayermeettng. She had seen man_ remat;kable answers to prayer in souh awakened, converted. and fully ._anerified: and then'she added, _/I have _)_een the mother of twelve chihlren, all of/whom were converted while I was praying with and'for them. Now, brother," .she said. addressing _her pastor, "I am feeble'and cannot g_t to thh house of God. but every Sahb,_th morning when thehell rintts for public worship, I begin to pray Io_ you 'affd your message, and I continue to pray until 1 think the service is over, So .I do whe_ the prayermeeting n_ht comes around." Then she slmke df a young man. a nei_bbor's son, for

off the fatal slumber. And the arm that aroused lhem was the. arm that saved them. So does' God often deal witll the souls of men, _waking them with merciful pain_ driving them .as with fierce storm into theharbor of peaee.--JA_tr.s F.P_Kr_r.. Would Chest be Wefeome on Earth Today? Said an English lady to Thomas C_rlyle, speak[n_ of the wicke&rejeclion of Christ by Hiseauntrymen: "I re:_rctHe did not appear in our own times. How delighted would we all be to tht:ow open our.parlors to Him, and listen to His divine preeept_l Don't you think so. Mr. Carlyle?" rile bluntly replied, "No, madam, I'don't. I think that had I'fe rome very fashionably dressed, with plenty of money, and preached soft doctrines palarable to the higher Orders, I might have had the i_onor of reeei¢ing from you a.card of ins;itation, on the blick of which would have been written.

The humal{ eye is unahle to see these rays, but the sensitive electric eye of his apparatus selects them readily. "The.Mail's representative describes how he sat in totM darkness an_ saw lhe cornplele ootlln_ of a colleague_ also in the dark, at a distance projected on a. screen by Baird's,lnvls-

whom she was /)raying. "Theretis also our physiclan'jgst.aero_s the street I am asking God to save him: he is a skeptic." What a life of prayer I Betmn in her teens, and carried on unintermittingly for sixty years, and now' kepl up despite the infirmilieg'amt retirement (_f ate--physically

'To meet our Savior.' But if Ite ha_ come utterin_ Ills precepts 'cut off rit_ht hands and pluck out rinht eyes, or he cast i. hell fire,' denouncin.g toe Pharisees and a_oeiating with publicans and the lower flames, as. fie dki, you would have treated ltim a5 the Jews did. and have cried out,

superanouated, bul spiritually effecti{'el Having heard this marvelous recital, we'_id to the&ruther with us, as we walhec_ away lror_ the holy presence o1 this woman of God.'"What is the saeret of such a life of pr,ayer m_that?" -He unhesflaringly rcpl!ed, "She has been filled with the Spirit." [t is the fulness of the Spirit which _,n-

'Take Him'to Newgate and hang Him.'" 'w,as ri_ht.--D_. DANIELSTemLR.

ihle "searchlight." Mr. Baird asserts that the invisible ray can be beneath." was belleved by at Christians gonerally that thef_ Lord was _Jreiy hand. In the , focused and flasbett through l_nses like ordinary " last year of the century.the impending event Was seareh[tghts, bur ihat it is more penetrative and proclaimed from Cllristlan pulpits. Industry was can be thrown farther than any visible ray, and also can pierce tog more readily. It might there. ,, suspended..The Emperor of.Germany e0re t_e o1 great sigoificanee [n.a ding train, ships "'the-Truce of God," and went about in announced a garb of penitence preaching tt. On the final,slay'of the and airplanes in the fog_ year the people clothed theresa/yes [it a_enslon Capt. O. G. Hutchinson, who is associated with • Ir. Baird, says that n warfare it would be pusrobes tend sunsetthebetook to and the' sible with the invention to follow an enemy's roofs of the athouses, porchesthem.selves of cathedrals the open fields, where they stood waiting. The movements in darknem;_it wouM disclose the position of airplanes at night and enable those erahours began passedto.fade. till midnight Midnight passed; the p oy ng the ray to watch the approach without stars The first glea_ of niornlng came; and then the Christian world, heaving a sigh of relief as of one.coming out of a paralysis of mingled fear and hope, went back to its work. Then came the Crusades, the greatest movement

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FOR THE MISSIONARY SERMON . The Appeal of Jesu_ Chrltt to India

Ro_ G. Coout._ vs_s T_ srtv_. Robert A. Huthe. D:D., missionary, of ,the American Board at Ahmednagar, India, 1874 to - " there. While I was 102_. was a neighbor of ours in Peter Bent Brigham Hospital I read in a Bnston paper of his addressing the annual meeting of his Board: Just after that bewas in anotberhnspital to Boston for repairs. I understand he has retired because of adyanced years. He wrlteson 'The Appeal of Jesus Christ to India," in. the Missiooar:, Revie_v, from which I clip:

the Idiot's knowledge, "Darkness." said Capt. Hutchinson; _'will no longer g ve security as a cloak for mi[itary.opexalions."

Awakening Providence • God in His great love awakeneth.'the soul, even at the cost of making the. heart ble_d. He sends some painful event, some convicting message of His Word, widch kindi/_s a fire in the ,conscience and drives the sufferer to Jesus for relief. When

.The Holy Ghost and Praym 7 Lifo Together with a brother pastor some years since, we visited in her home a mother of hrael, She was away up in the say.ties, and wes a vex- Itabla Doctor of Dlvl_lty,.more truly entitled to that. degrep than many w_.o wear it. 'She" had xyalked sad talked ,and lived with God t_o long that sh_ had a wonderful insight into and applehension of divine and spiritual things. After a season of prayer with her she recited the story of her Christian-life/ lmw, when a girl In her teens,

a party of Arctic explorers went to seal:ch, years "ills '_.,ay of living among men was the kind ago, for Sir John Franklin among the snows and . which, according to Indian ideas, should charac. icebergs, they encountered frost so intense that terize a spiritual leader .... A far more powerthe thermometer sank to seventy degrees _low ful appeal of Jesus to India Is His matchless nozero, and the strongst men, overcome with cold. biliry of character. Everything that any Indian lay down to sleep. But theleadexknew tl/at half reads or hears of Jesus cofivlnces him that Jesus an hour of that treacherous sleep would leave was supremely holy,, Jesus' most powerful apeveryone of them stiff in death, He roused them peal to the Mohammedan' ts that the Koran up_ they said, "We are not cold; we only want teaches that of the five propllets of the Moslem alittle rest." So the le_,der struck them, boxed "faith, Jesus alone was-a sinless prophet. To the them. bruised theml and did'everything to drive Mohammedan_ Mohammed's pre-eminence is not.

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" holiness but that he was the last el the five prophets" of Islam. Only Jesus was the sinleas prophet. No Hindu questions that ]esuscould rightly challenge His enemies by asking, 'Which . of you convicteth me of'sin?' Jesus' unique _i.n. Iessnoss arid supreme holintm constitute a "most powerful appeal to Indians. With this personal holiness Jesus' tenderest compassion for the unholy makes Him doubly unique and supreme.

salvation. He was not born amongst the high caste Brahmans of India. who degrade hufitanlty by being proud ,of their own superiority to the exclusionof the lower classes. He also shunned the Pharisees and scribes of Palestine in order to rave the Gcntil_. He was born In the poor and humble family of a carpenter, in order to enrich the world spiritualy Though he w_ rlch_ yet for our sakes he became poor in order that we

ease. It is largely a question of who is there first.... "Then look at India with a population of threa hundred and thirty millions. The villages are so thickly dotted over the country chat il Christ, in. stead of ascending and disappearing from vieW, had gone to India and had visited a different viila_e every day since thorb.it would still take Him filly years tn visit all the.villages o[ India for the

India listens,with awe to J'esus raying to a sad, ashamed woman taken in adultery, who the Jews thought shohld he stoned. 'I do not condemn thee: go and slu no more/ . . .

through his poverty might become rich, (2 Cor. 8:0) Christ was born in the East and His disciples ean'ied the I_ight and'the gospel to the We_l- which was _nricbed and blessed in every

first time. There is an average of between tnree and four htmdred people in.every vinagc and the great hulk of the country is unoccupied by the mi_ionaties of any church. The que.qion Is.

way through Christ. pcoples are trying to pTes of the East In repaying their dcht to

Shall these peoplc have a chance at our gospel Preaching Polnta on MiNions now when they want it? There is n great ppportunity among the low-caste people' Just now. - Pastors who. want to discuss; as all pastors "Thousands must be refused baptism because we should, the wh); and how of foreign mi_tons can bare not the men and ,tile money tomeet the find admirable "l/reaching points" in Dr. Arthur situation that divine Providence has unfolded. J. Brown's great address at the Washington Con!'China composes one-fourth of the population ference. Why must we "carry on" for our Lord of the world.' A few years ago, the oppo_'tudity unto. the uttermost ends of the e_rth and in the there for the gospel "was unprecedented. Now full assurance of victory? Here is'Dr. Brown's the land is in a turmoil. Are we doing all we answer: can?" " I. Because Christ commanded His disciples to In this connection let usremember the Appeal by cable from Brother Smithj published in The give His gospel to all men. Other Sheep, December: 2, Because a tree. Christian experience promptS "Great revival progressing. Pray." " us to seek the world• Jubilee of the Mlationary ,Revlew of the 3 BecauSe all men need the gospel. World 4. Because Christ ran do for all me_i wl_at He . Volume L Number 1 is the designation of the has done for.us.

_.'By contrast JESUSappeals to the devout Jn, . diari as one who never sought and never found the Unknown, but as the only One who Was the Truth who never appealed for authority to any teacher, or book or. past, but who could calmly and truly say, 'I am the Way, the Troth and the Life;' 'I do always the things which please my Father•' Such absolute religious consciousness and e6a.ociesslife with God make a most powerful appeal to every devout Indian. God.consciousness was Jesus' supreme characteristic. It make_ a tremndoas/lppeal to the.Indian." The entire article is interesting and instructive, Dr. Hume knows India. The Ealt and the West Sadhu Sundar Singh, a devout Indian Christian of Simla, India. writes briefly,on the above sub-" jec't in the Missionary Review. His name is in,. teresting, "Sadhq" is u tttle, meaning "Religious Teacher." "Sundar Singh" mean "Beautiful Lion." Three short excerpts we give: "On my.return from a. world tour I was [requently asked: 'What: is the difference between the We.st and the East?' and 'Which are the better people?' Th_ simple answer to these questions is that the intrinsic and essential basis of liuman nature is the same all over the world, with a low outward differences.of social life and organization .... "The charge against Eastern peoples is that they are superstitious and unpractical My _n-

At this time tbc Western pre,.ach Christ to the pepdoin_ so they are simply the East."

Tbe Challenge of th_ Non.Chrhtlan World That Is the title bf an artlcl6 by J. Campbell White. LL.D., in the Missionary Review of the World, January, from' svhich we quote: ."'_here are about eighty' millions of people in Latin America, including Cuba, Porto Rico. Mexice, Central America and South America. More than _ne-half of them cannot i;ead and more than one-half of these people'_vere'born out of wedlock, "Those two facts ooght to be enougl to indicate the tremendous needs socially, morally and spiritually of the_ eighty millions of people. There ari_ about two thousand,ordakied missionaries in this entire territory, or-an average el one missionary to every forty thousand of the populat[on in that section of the world which is almost absolutely dependent upon tim churches o[ North America,• and principally the United States• "L_I tis look 'for a moment at the Moslem world. There are twohumtred and forty millions of them-2over twice as marly Moslems as the population of the United States. They are mo_n open to Christianity than ever before. What a marvellous change has .come over the Moslem mind when Moslem students by hundreds will

swer is that superstition in one form or another is a common weakness of human nature. Both the West and the East are practical in their own v