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_!g are sucb that a wise speaker can use was fortunate. Eves if he found ohiy one, sayin each issue_ that gave him "a start" "_
"_' with telhng effect in driving home
'_ important truths." . . _tbepreparing oi one sermon, we are proud of the efficient _el'vice that our magazine has rendered
'_ At the top of each page thereis tohim. ,
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One preacher .said, "These outlines are fine, but why, do you give so many? Why, a preacher
cannot find opportunity to u_ them all." Our" answer h.thal the same outline that helps one
preache.r may havc little or no value to another, sowe.give a number in the hope that every
jects in Roman.' Underneath the preacher will find at least one that will be serviceable to 'him. Even when one does not find an
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paragrapbs'throughout
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outline thai given him a "le_d," he may get some little help in the working out of some text or
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an abundance
noting there
of 'material
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to draw .
theme that he had in his qwn mind, and that is a great,service.
nee preacher acknowledges that he is "too poor 1o buy all the books recommended in 'Here
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.. . . • book that he had intended to buy, well there is the price of his magazine for "the .whole yeaT
_. _et the hook and _'ou Will heap!eased _ . . needs saved in It or one not. !ump. AndBut suppose it it helps that him our find bookthereview book sho_lld he' needs, keep thena preacher there is afrom_buying fortune whichsome we -
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One preacher wishes we had more lllnsteations on holiness. This Is the most difficult sort ot
.' ,. materhI to' fig.d, but we ore on the.hunt and in the market and are laboring to pass on all such "
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To amnmarize fo_ all features and departments: out'idea is not so much to furnish :'ready
_ Coples-of the original _iotes, without _ • made" s_rvtee to the preachers, as to oiler suggestions and. furnish "leads." Perhaps our efforts
revlslmt Or abridgmentJ: The set con .... are those or less affected by our.own sense of need. I_ersonally, It is not tile grind of direct
ststs"of six large vdlumes approximat-
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_Bihle '_s-- given i.vith the fo0tfihtes. ' younger preachers dependent..He said he had no such helps when he was heglaning and that ..
_fine finished paper, 'Thls'set of Coin- ,
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mines/or "digging" a.bead of him and me as there are behind us. you knov_. .
,preachers will he able to begin about where he a'nd I left 0If, and there is probably just as rich
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every, way he can; and to use every other :'preaching
Par._,c_rta's Msoarm_ all he can and In
sotmee" he "can find. There are always a
sirens of dome the best work poss_hle. I few people who seem to be afraid that a preacher, especially a young prcacherl Is going to preach
Pried $1$00 (tran_imrtatlon e_h'a) I too well. But the facts are that, at our best and with all the belps we can get, we are gill poor
_ . I preachers of a great Gospel. If the Gospel were not r_ great our poor, preachtnR of It would make
,- it ineltedlve. And every preacher, young and old, is excusable for being so poor a I_reacher as he
" ) _ h only when be bus used every available means to be as good as/_ssible,
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really ought to he a better preacher." And we are using our words carefnlly here. We do not
' cludlngofthep all' the qualities eaci,0r siO, and piyasa,caeber,
facto_ which _oapoet into theoras•orator making of _bewosp best prea.chrr kofhimasin- that it is
passible for a mortal man tO h(,. . .
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OUR FRONT PAGE PICTURES ' . .
LETTERS TO PREAC_ER_ any other than a topical treatment, and few
Tile plan of presenting the picture of some noted preacher or missionary on tl e front cover minds should even attempt that.
of ']XIIE; PREACiiER'S MM3AZlNE each month wasMr. P. H Lunn's own idea, a.nd it has proved'to By A. M. - HILLS Such sublime langusge and , exalted .themes rebe
a very interesting and profitable featilre. Some preachers say that this has been quite as in- " X. The Di]]erent Kinds o/ ,Sermons. quire_ Iik¢"Paradise Lost," the exalted imaglnateresting
as any other one thing which the magazine, has brought to them. First--The Topical Sermon. tion and sublime genius of a John Milton to
Las'I month we presented the picture of Dr. E..F. Walker, once a well known Presbyterian The text, if wisely .used, develops into the treat them appropria_.ely, and the Christian ages
pehacber, who was early connected with the holiness movement, and was considered one of its _rmon. It suggests the theme or subject which have not abounded in Joim Mittens. The most
1 sp,ak
._ very dearest and most forceful preachers. Dr. Bresee once said that Dr. Walker was in Lhe tim preacher wishes to consider. The way the 6f. us humble preachers would better wait till
" i front row of holiness preachers and that that row was a very short one. Some .even estimated text is treated determines the kind of .sermon we join the heavenly throng before attempting
Dr. Walker as the greatest expository preacher ol his day. He was elected as a General Super- that.will be produced, _uch efforts,
intendent of'the Church, of the Nazarene in 1qll and from then until isis death sewed in an ever Speaking in a general way there are three class- We have mid the occasion demands the Topiwidening
field of evangelism 'and administration• es of sermons " cal sermon. When Henry Ward Beecher was
As a preacher, he was logical, _piritual, forcelul and unusually refreshing at all times. _We 1. The topical sermon, m which the theme is called upon to preach the funeral sermon of
heard his famous sermon on sanctification at Naslivine, Tenn._ in 1911. and still think of it as chiefly prominent. Abraham Lincoln what other kind of n dis-
. perhaps the greatest sermon we ever heard from the lips of man. 2. ' The teztnal 5ermou, in which the very course could have been expocted?._ Or when
This month we have the picture bf Dr. C. J. Fowler who was for many years tile president words and phrases of the'text are'carefully and Massilon preached at the funeral of Louis XlV,
• " cr (c;al },'icopsL(lesed.
' {ndmost'active promoter of The Natiofial Association for the Promotion of H_lihL_iF_Hh"hom_ ''" _ ....................... or when President Efiphelet Note preached at
,., '._ ..... " 3. The exposRory sermon, m which several
was at BostmL Mass., hut he preached in practically every sectmn of the country and was con- the funeral of our great early statesman, Alex-
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sidered one of the ablest logicians that evcr filled his voice for the defence of holiness as a secohd
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work of grace, and thousands revere his memory until this day. . .
verses, perhapg an entire paragraph, or a unified
section in their ofscriptural 'a chapter, order, is considered verse h_/ verse
ander Hamilton. or many other similar occasions,
the topical sermon @as.the one that was natural
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WHICH WAY ARE YOU GOING?
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WHAT' RUNG ARE YOU ON_: '.
Which method a preacher addpts is often decided
by the constitution of his own mind. It
and appropriate."
,Also, on special o_casions, as the'opening ad-
i or a union a'hanksgiving
preachers, whom he ' HE question of whether a preacher is gaining or failing is really much more important than often, also, is decided by mo$I admire, the sermons" and of would t.he dress sionaryof _onVention'j a conference or assembly, or-of a mis-
• "Day service, or a Fourth of July /lddress, or an
T the one which would describe his position on the ladder. One has said_ "It is bettei" to be
I on the tenth rung going i_p than to be on.the third rung coming down." I . be
The
pleased
wording
to be
of
like.
the text
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of a particular-dig- ordination sermon, or a Baeeal_ureate sermon of
] If u preacher is gaining and growing, even though he may still need many.things that he does { -course may decide its nature in that one instance, a co lege commencement, the sermon may prop-
,. i not possess, there is hope for him and' people who trust him are not likely to be disappointed. The occasion also wh eli calls, ior the pulpit ad- erly he of this order. Dr. R. W. Dale of Blrm-
' t But even though a preacher may he classed as ffa big gun,"ff he is past his zenith, if he has lost "dress may determine its nature, ingham, l_ngland_ has given us a volume of "Set-
. I or is losing his grip, if he shows signs of being on the drift,. If his influence is' waning, he is a Some texts, are .so exalted in theme and so mt_as on Special Occasions,!' tn which'the' topical
_ poor buy at any price., sublime n angusge that they can only be. method prevails. - .
" If we take it too literally when they say that the preacher was "at his best," we may doubt treated topically. Such an utterance is the sub- We have noticed that men who have an abunwhether
the words are complimentary. F_r if he was at his best then, or" ifi he is at his best now, lime ex¢ amation of Moses, "Wire is llke unto dane-vocabulary and vcry ready t/tterance and
' _ tomorrow he Will be on the toboggan slide, .A preatiher has not reached his best until he ceases thee, O.Jehovahj among the gods? Whets like are exceedingly gifted" in Imagination, and per"
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] to grow. If he ts growing he will be bigger and better tomorrow, thee, glorious in holiness, [earful n praises, do- hops are deficient in the logical faculty, ordinarily
' This Is too delicate a subject to permit of examples, but we have all seen preachers who were mg wonders?" (Ex. 15:11, R. V.). It would adopted the Iopi_l term of discourse as their
" on the third rung and coming down, and we have nil seen some Who were no higher than the he a daring, presumptuous preacher who would model. In.such a mind the orator and not. the
_ _ tenth rung from the tdp, but they were going up. And we have all seen a few who rie,_er did. choose such a text. He would need the mind reasoner is predominant. They revel in brilliant
] reach the top at nil for they were still gning up when they had to step-for good. 'And applying - and heart of Moses to treat it, - periods; _boand in striking and impre_lve ut-
"' _ the-subject to ourselves, it should not he difficult for.us to decide'whii:h direction we are'traveling Or that song of Moses and the Lamb, sung terance_ and apothegms. They coruscate and
_ and which we shall continue to t['avel, although _ is not Within every man's power, as men count, by the redeemed in heaven: "Great and marvel- sparkle. • They mount and soar, it mattcr_ not'
_- to really _reach the top. But any way, the direetinn the preacher is'fraveling is more Important lous are [hy works, O Lord Gqd,, the Alniighty; where, if only they are attracting and dazzling
be h "to himself arid to others than the mere matter of how high he happens to be'Jast now. Give righteous and true are thy ways, thou King nl their audience, and holding their bearers @ellme
the preacher who Is "climbing" every time,' If h_ isn't very high.yet; "no matter, he Is going Ihe natio'ns" (R,. V. Note, Old V, "Saints"). bound: ;,
In the right dir_tlon. (Rev. 15: 3). Such a text .scarcely admits nl We have such an orator in mind, a veritable

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golden.mouthed-Chrysostom.Afterone of his. oricianhas oftenconqueredthe conscienceof velopsa falseconception, of'thepurposeof the 3. His Imalposence.
brilliant sermons a schalarlypreachersaid to 'themeasenger, and what arecalled'Rreatsermons' scrmon,which isto win men from thes_rviceof ,,4. His Wisdom.
hie: "He doesn't stick to his text, but he sticks are the. fruit of that perilous victory.- South and Satan to the service of Ci2rist. The topical sermon Ill. Subject: "CIIRSST'SBLOODm PRECIOUS'."
'mighty close to his audience[" ft was an exceed- aouedaloae, Robert IfMI and Thomas 'Chalmers diverts the attention of the bearera from £lod's Text. l P_t. 1: 19.
ingly justobServation, in a spurt ofeloquence preached topically, because' ti_ey were "men in message to His messenger and thus grieves,the I. Comparatively.
,he would mount over th_ moon and bait and re- whose nature the orator was'predominant." _ ; Spirit of God. 2. Intrinsically.
. turn to earth. In another paragraph he would . We put. beside this. the pointed remark of the Many of the great masters of topical [_reach- 3. Superlatively.
take a vaulting somersault over the starry belt prince o[ soul-v_inners, C. G. Finney. He s.'tid: ing have confessed tha't their preaching was not IV. Subject: "Tnz TRUTm'ULNr.'SSOr Goa'S"
of Orion, and then check himself, as if saying," "A great sermon fixes the attention of the audi. fruitful in conversions. Revs. Bascom and Munsey WoaD." Text, John 17:17. "
"How did I get here?!' and reluctantly return to once upon the#preacher, but a good sere,ion.fixes were iambus transfer preachers,, moved from Illustrated from:
flight, he wouM be wandering about in the Milky 2. It gives the preacher an opportunity for " leading city pulpits of the. S0uth, Their sermons 2. All established science.
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Way. His open-mouthed excited audience, lost
earth. to sublun'ary A few things, minutesweald later, in follow another him, oratorical panting
an exhaustive treatment of a subject. There are
no their metes attention or bounds• upon Christ," no vestr_dnts, or [imiintlons.
are remarkable specimens of pulpit orato.ry. Yet
one one of Southern them when Conference dying mourned-that tu another, tohis fillrain- the
"3. Its descriptions of character.
4. I. Its Human adaptatlops history. to the wants of man.
with the efforts and filled with amazement at to the _xtent of investigatfon or discussion The istry was characterized by _ dearth of souls, V Subject: hA_mnao_." Text, Luke {4:7.
the orator's motchless power. When the wonder- mind can roam at will over the whole plain of " ' Both rhight have done so. 1. Ambition is blind in its aims.
[ ful address was envied, they would take a long kindred thought. No regard for the text holds Dr, John Barrows ,,van for years tbe pastor 2. It is presumptuous in its d_t)osition.
i breath and exclaim, "What an oratorl" And m the preacher from any flight of fancy or ramble of the First presbyterian Cimrch of Chicago. 3. It is odious ir_its results,
half an hour they would wonder what it was all 0[ imagination, Heis intellectually free to write lie was transcendently eloquent and was in con. These,ezamplcs ai'etaken from Kidders Heal-'
aboutl . what he pleases or say what he will. . stunt demand Io go up and down the land to leti_. Take any of these-or similar themeS and
We could describe others -bf this class_ We 3. Topical preaching would tend to a wide out- .preach at the Ltreat hatinnal assemblies and soar as high as you like, "
have watched the effects of their "great dis- look of truth and a 'breadth of view which is Y' P" S, C. E. conventions and college corncourses"
upon college audiences for more than wholesome to the soul. Preachers arc often mencemenss and dedications of great buiMings. PREACHERS, (_ONSIDER THESE
a quarter of a .century, and have measured Lhc very narrow " in their mental conceptions of Yet he wrote, to his aged mother and she con- ', THINGS
results of such preachl,g, and have watched the truth and views of life. But they need not.be, fiff_d it to me that "he envied her pastor, his B# A, W, ORWZO
abiding effects of such pastorates. There is a cure for it in the amplitude of the _kill and success in wibnmg souls." • Preaching Jesus
In the light of facts and history let us criti- inspired Word, andin a large way of proclaim- Whoever would be a successinl fisher of men"
Rallyconsider the top{cat sermon, its nature, ads ing it to the wprld. There are great.conceptions .must shape his sermous to that end. He must HAT a multitude Of other themes
vantages anddisadvantages. , 'of salvation,,.and the purposes of God, and His descend from. the brilliant generalizations "o[ W are anything heard' but in -some Jes_slpufpitsf Or, if Almost he
I. A topical sermon isone that is built tip plans for the redemption of our racethat should truth wh|ch everybody can assent'to with defi_ht .dwelt upon, it is largely from 'a historical or
on a theme or a topi_ r_/ther than on th'e words broaden the horizoo of any man who is divinely and come down to particulars, arm make the .merely ethical Standpo/nt. He maF be eloquentor
tttterances of God. It may have been mt an" called to preach, till he ran see with far, off text .a "thus saith the .Lord" to the itidividual', ly presented in numerous ways, and yet not really
early age of the Christian Church, a kind of 4_ro- via on, and say with Wesley: "The world is my [ conscience and heart, of every hearer, It must as the Word of: God reveals Him. One reason
test against the prevalent fashion of Allegorizing, parish." be a_ pungent and direct and personal as'Nathan's doubtle_ is. hscause Jesus is not experimentally
or of verbal quibbling which was wholly un- I11.. There are' still t'ery serious objectinus to was to David, When,h_ looked his royal auditor known by most of such men. They ha_e never
worthy of pulp{t'address• this kind of a sermon: "Of all mdthods," says _ in tht_:face and said, "Thou art the man;" or as felt the pangs of the new birth nor (he deep joys
But it easily degenerated into a disehssioa of Dr. Pattlson, "it"seems open to the gravest ob- , Paul preached to Felix and Drusilla till they of n soul having truly passed from death unto
the theories and speculations of men rather than Jectious," trembled No distracting at the awful "bewitchment touch of ofeor_vieting oratory" truth, and fife. They may know a great deal.about Jeaus_
s proclamation of the express commands and I.' The topical method o[ preaching leads di- but not" vitally know him. The Roy. George
teachings of God, It starts, like a textual ser- rectly to an unpardonable neglect of the Word ol
God.- Out of respect to custom a text is taken,
no dissipating play
in that "will lessen
of humor must be indulged
the grip of God upon the
Whitefield said he was "persuaded that the gonernifty
of preachers talk of an unknown and t_men,
cal sermon
with some
develops
truth
it
of
in
Scripture;
the thoughts
but
and
the topf_
con-
which perhaps was not chosen at all till the guilty soul. felt Christ."
ceptions of men and human opinious, while the sermon was finished, At any rate 4he preaj:hec A few examples of topical outlines may be How greatly, some preachers, ahd among the
textual preacher, builds solely on the .inspired and his text part company at once, as the "dis- in place. . number the totalled "big" preachers, need to. tel-
' and expre.ss words of the living' God. cipfes forsook Jesus end-fled." The Scripture is I. J_.s_t_tc,tTm_ nv FAt_tt. (Rum. V:I).. low the example of the apostles by"preaching
forgotten and only the preacher looms before t."Its Nature. _he Lord Jesus." It is declared that "they
II. Advantages of the topical sermon, the minds of the audience. The people are Its- 2. Its Grounds. ceased not to teach, and preach .Jesuh Christ."
1. " It furnishes an untrammeled opportudity toning to his no{coinstead of the voice of God, .L Its ROsults_ And note these other divine statements: "He
• for oratory. If the preacher wishes to build his attd the pews imitate the pulpit, They too speed- IL GOD IS'|NFtNII"tLY ANDGLORIOUSLYPER- preached unto them Jesus and fhe'resOrcectian;"
_' _rmon on thn model of an oration and make it fly lean:t to neglect the B/hie, rr.L_. (Deut. 4:351 '*The Son of God, Jesus Christ, who' was preached
a finished work of a_t he will {nstlnctivel); adopt 2, Topical preacl lag has not _been highly sue- . .. Consider: among you by us;" "And preached unto him
the topical method, Putt[son remarks: "In the ' cessful in soul-Wintting, It does not _tsrt or p_o- I. God's Eternity. Jesus,". Woitld to, God ever,/ preacher could
hlstOw of preaching the enthusiasm of the shot- mote eevivaisor make revl_,al preadlers. It de- 2. His Omnipresence, truthfull_ say,

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"Jesus only zs our message, lad they cannot really say, "Wepr¢,qeh not our- / Christian life, and why they are unable to do some others, preacbers and lay.members. 'the
Jesus all our theme.shaU be; selves, hut Christ lesus, the Lord." any really va._e work for God. They do not. preaching of some men gives evidence that they
IVe _,ill lift up Jesus ever• The erent Daniel Webster. while, spending a ' "take proper sp r tual aourk_hmeni, or at least so feed more on something else than they do on
Jesus only _,i[f we see." httle-white m a rural, district one summer, was very lfitle, as to leave .them the veriest spiritual God's Wo_d. Some. it is to be feared, some-
asked why he went to a certain little church weaklings. Mahy, instead of feeding Du the t:mes feed even on straw. And so they o/ten
" Very many adult are perishing everywhere he- where hb heard only very ordinary preaaldnm Die,sod Word of God, and on other wholesome dispense straw instead' of bread•
cause Jesus is not the real "message" of so great " tie replied, "In Washington they preach 1o Daniel religious literature, often read so much i.hat is -
a number of preachers. He is not truly "lifted Webster, the statesman but this man has been mere straw and stubble, as to be- in a continual "1 Cannot Go With The*e_.
up" as the One willing and "mighty to Save," (e[ling Daniel Webster. the smner.o[ Jesus of state of spiritual starvation. Just as those, who EFEAT, more or less disastrfus, usually
A man said to a certain preacher that for )'ears Nazareth.. x _ do not have sufficient nourishing food for the r_
he had de_ij_d to become a Christian. but that _ results from inadequate preparation or
none of the preachers ever told him bow really Men sometimes say they cannot always he Lody_ cannot do good imd continuous physical wrong equipment in the various" vocations
to find the Lord. He ad_letJ: "They preacb preaching Jesus, That _ depends on how vitally or mental labor, so the soul not nourished by the
l_hi_osophy, science, current event_, anti the llke, they are related to him. and how stu_iiooslv and Bible" cannot posse_ true spiritual ruggedness or of life, The youthful, gallant David realized thi_
but.don't tell a sinner bow to be saved." and [ pr@erfully they study him He can ha presented he efficient in Christian work. tvheil contemplating meeting tile giant Goliath
b; mortal combat_ And therefore he wisely re-,
have tried alone hut always failed. _ If you will in a multitude of ways, as the Holy Spirit con- A pastor asi_ed one of tile. members of his
truly tell me how to heroine a Christian I will tmually reX,,eal.4his charms.and as the One who church how she was _etting along in the Chris- jected the untried and cumbersome armor or
become one here and now/" And together.they is the inexhaustible Source of.every need of the tian life. Her honest reply wasj "Very poorly, equipment offered by king Saul. .Concerning
knelt in earnest, believing prayer, the man soon (ntire man. There is an old saying that every and I don't understand why it is so." He then the "helmet of brass,". "a coat of mail" and n
finding Jesu_ prc_ious tc his soul. x road in England leads to London. and in Italy asked her. "Dp you study your Bible,every day?" huge "sword" _he cQuragenus hero declared. "I
1o Rome;. and .lust so :_]l preaching should lead To this she replied. "Oh no. but I study it oc- cannot zo with these." And then, selecting file
" And many Christians .are sta}ving spiritually to Jesuz or be centered in him. Charles it. t'asionally, when I have time." . equipment he had "proved,'_he learlessiy goes
because "Jesus, in MI his preciousness and power, " Spurgeon. in referring to .his many years as Po_sihly_ however, that lady had time, or at forth to meet the boastful blasphemous monster,
is not preached to them. Often the pulpit deals" pastor of one church] said. suhstantially, that it least took .time, to read :other literature whlch and is gloriously victorious.
out "a stone" instead of "bread." and people he had preached anything hut Christ and related was not food for her sofiL And thus do many - But let us not fail to no_.ice another most iraare
compelled to say, "They have taken away ttutbs,.h.e would bare scattered his con_reeation- " other Christians. Some read for mere pleasure portant part .of David's equipment.: _ndeed it
my Lord_" And, alas, sometimes "a serpent" or to the winds of heaven, or pastime, instead of for real mental profit and " was the chief one..It was faith in God. To the
•'a_ scorpion" is offered in the form of harsh.
excited rebuke, or. it: may be. in unscriptural A somewhat eminent preacher, while tarrying _ for spiritual growth, They arc like the p0or defiant, merely humanly-arme'd Philistine he _aid.
for a few days in the city in which I live, said horse who got only straw_for his morning meal. come to Ihee in file 2mme of the Lord, of
and pernicigus teaching, calculatedto underrMne
the faith ol _ome and of i'ohbing others of their tt_ a .large company of ministers somethin_ like And if some awakened sinner should.come to hosts." And he also declared, "This day will the . ,
laY. the following on preaching Jesus: "Oh my broth- them for instruction anl to be led to Jesus, how Lo'rd deliver thee into mine h'and:* And still
" R.n, perm t me to say I am persuaded that, if 1 little they could brin_ the blessed Bible to bear again he rays. "For the battle is the Lord's."
A preacher had h_en discBssing, through a long " . •
_eries of sermons, Vthe relation of religion anti had one thousand lives offered me this day. by upon the ease_ And, knowing so little ahoiR the And'all of us know how quickly and ignominroy
Master, and told that I might doas I pleased Book, how can they appropriate it to their own thusly the huge idol of the Philistines went down
_cienee." One Sunday mbrning he found on the wit_ them, I should not hcsitato to answer that daily spiritual necessities? " in death.
pulpit Bihla a card with" the followln_ Scripture . " "
verse on it_ "Sir, we Would see Jesus.",Feeling every one of them would he spent in preaching The Bible is the great store-house fromwhich Should not we, who profess to he engaged in
. / every Christian mu_t const_.ntly, draw if he the Lord's, battles, or in "his holy service, deeply
the rebuke somewhat keenly, he beg'an to preens Jesus Christ to u lost world." That is indeed
Jesus to the hnngr_, Iieople, and soon afterward the sentiment of every divinely called Spirit- would grow in grace aml in st_iritual knowledge lay to heart whence comes .our true help? OI
found another card on which was written, "Then filled preacher of the glorious Goal)el of the Son. and strength. We are thus taugltt in the Bible course we h_.ve read and heard about i( time
were the disciples'glad when they saw the Lord:" of God. Such a man knows no greater honor itself We are exhorted to let the Word of and again, and realized it when fagure has overor
higher joy. Everlastingly 'and fully preach Christ dwell in us.richly in all wisdom. The taken us. It _¢ems, however, .that some persons
Most certainly it is the chief business of. the Jesus, Apostle John said to some, "Ye are strong, and will not permanently profit by humiliating deprofessed"Go_pel
minister to seek the salvation " the Word of. God ah/deih in you, and ye have feat. They still measurably trust in their own
and°f _nnerSdivineandtruthhul_dgenemBy.Up
God'SsadChihlrOndeparturesin holineSSfromS Fed _n Straw ,' _ . overcome the wicked one. '_ He gives us to armor. They rely upon their" natural talents,
ih[s duty_ however, are not infrequent. A'hright _rONCE heard of 'a:man whose horse broke understand us we are made that strong, by having and the haveWord a good abiding.in weapon .,,their that that learnMg, they might or enn_ething heartily and merelyin faith human. declare, Oh
[! downfrum heor woahne eoald , pro-.
yoimg the Gospel preacher ministry one Sunday how he _sked liked a his veteran _ermon. in \_" teed no farther. Some one eon_ing up to the hy _:ood whkh man, to the put Roy. Satan George to. flight. Mneller, That great _ays that and "I ing cannot upon go themwith apart these." fromThatGod.: is, not Of depend- cour_
"f.cannot say that I enjoyed II," was the frank _man, usked him the cause of the misIortune. The / "the Word of God is the food for the inner man." human qualifications are not to be despised. If
reply. "Why_ Did it lack logic, elocution or _t.n_wer was, "My hort_ was.fed 0nly on straw / Referring to the fact at his neglect of the Bible truly consecrated to the Lord, they will, be all
"_" rhetoric?" "No, but it had no Christ ,n Itf" {thl_ morniog, an_l now I cafinbt finish my Jbur- tn his early ministerial life, he says: "I was a .the more effectual, .David's sling and the small "*
What nn unscriptural _,nd low eonreptldn the ey." " babe in knowledge and'grace; I made-no_progre_, stones seemed' quite insignificant, hut they proved
young mgn had of the real element_ o[. a truly _The incident aptly illustrates the reason why I :negJecte_l God's own appointed means for to"he just the equipment for him, and looking
Gosp_[ sermon[ But there are others I_ke him. sofile-'peop_e._eften_falter-.-b_, the wh_ in the' 1,ourishing the dl@ine life." The same is true of to God for stlcc_ he got it: Whatever our pwn

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abilities, be they great or mcager_4ct us be sure When an individual is not wanted by any 4. Inactivity. Some men care preach real well that confront the pastor are tremendous. The
Tile Scriptures abound in statements as to our Ior the evangelistic field, and his _rvices are not ended their effectiveness ceases. A l_stor in real mettle in any man if he would accomplish
to utter d_peod helplessness upon God in' God's for victory, work when due own desired church from for the anypastorate, quarter, itand might nobe calls advisable, come to in . . and particular acceptably, must ofnecessity hut as.soon be _isathis man ministry "oi manyis difficulties something c.gnnot worth be whileignored. for GodIt and will holiness. test the
efforts are not accompanied by his blessing. Jesus ask why. The divine nrce. the "woe is.me i[ I parts if he wouhl succeed. Pastoral calling is The world, the flesh and'the Devil are dead set
s_iid. "Without. me ye can do nothing." The preach hot the gospel," should hurden the preach-' ab_ointely indispensable to success. The 'morn- a_ainst us. But we must riSe above them and
Psalmist declared, "Through God we shall do pal- er's soul. But to be without the gilt o[ preaching in_s should as a rule. he given to tllorough and faith must utilize the seemingly insormountah e
.tautly,.". And we have this significant passage, while making •bold claim to be G_d's amba._ad6r assiduous study, and the afternoons _o pastoral _jfficullies as a challenge. Bud Robinson says,
"Not by might, nor by'power, bat by my Spirit. seems incongruous and inconsistent, and it would visitation among his i_cople. Perhaps a good "i3odcannotdoanytbingwitha discouraged mait_"
saith the Lord • of hosts," Verily _'our sufficiency seem to reflect on an intelligent God. plan is.to give ffty per cent of his time in the If this•is true of people.generally, it is _oubly
is of God," But we are sometimes apt to over- 2. MisJ_ts. It "Would seem that there are afternoons among.iris own church members, and true of the minister, To be discouraged is to be
took lhe fact, Even the sinless and. mighty several- orders in the ministry. The hortatory the other fiftyA_er cent of his thor to new people, defeated. T c believe God. and to he envisioned
Jesus declared that "the Spirit of the Lord" was nift is not to be despised. In the early Church . lie should visit every member of Ids congrega- by Deity is to hav_ victory. "Where is no vision
"upon" Him as a preacher. And we also read it. was an exalted artd d!gn/fied gift, and an_"man tion, if at MI possible, anti thus acquaint him_lf the people perish." A discouraged man will gen-:.
that "God anointefl Jesus of-Nazareth with tile so.endowed with the gift• of exhortation, and with strangers. A note book will serve him well erate_dlscouragement among his flock; but the
Holy Ghost ahd with power." HIS humanity using it for God's glory was honored of the as he goes around But for a J_astor to sit man uf mighty, conquering inith will stimulate
needed this. notwithstanding he was divine; The Lord. " Stephen, the protomarryr had this gift, around, and do notlung, and never- really bestir faith in others. Better look.at your own back door
same anointing is for all who would be success- and Ms life and ministry are well known. We himself wiwn souls are going to hei[ is inexcus2 if you are a failure, Be hard on yourself. Then
ful in God's vineyard, whether preachers or have men among us who ate called as local able, anti it _eems _o us that God will hold such trust God as though it all depended on Him,
t_thers. _ " prcorhers, and as sucb are very useful in their a pastor to account at.the reckoning "day. and then work as _hongh it all depended on you.
Some, having a ¢oliege and theologica! semi, capaeity_ We could not .dispense with them, ._. I_wkoJ,.Faith and Vision. The obstacles Xtt,XSr.APOLtS, atXN_.
nary equipment, are too prone" to conclude, "I May their • tribe increg_J But to put some .of " "
can gowith these," feeling .assured of_success, these men into the regular minislry to •fill a ,,, •......
"the whble armor of God:" Nothing. whate_er field, may be questionable as to its wisdom We
can be substituted for a pure heart and the" once heard a General Superintendent. say. "As . • . ,.
baptism with the'Holy Ghost." Sect/re the highest long as Tom Brown is a 16col preacher he has
order of human equipment possible, but see that an effective ministry, and•is much beloved, but _ • _ _
it l_e supplemented, or even preceded w t l'_'power when you make Tom BLown an ordained eMer _'
from on high," .
• " '
'in the Church yon destr6y his effectiveness and
his _fluence as a -minister• Be conJ.ent to let t :
SPIRITUALIZING'AND LITERALIZING
PROPHECY.
was litera!ly fulfilled; but'so_c of our brethren
will " go no farther with " us, but spiritualize, while
WHY _OME PREACHERS FAIL him s/_rve in ids capacity." Right l_ere may be By F,M. Mzssz_ntR we [itecalize the balance of the verse, "And the
By E. E. WoRnswoaqlt the explanat!on why some men are carrying _'> writers the prophecies un- Lord God shail, give unin Him /he throne of bis
• /I " NY man divinely chlled to the sacred credentials from the assembliesl and yet _¢ho do "
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OME _piritualize
tiL they leave us little that |s tai6gible or father David." We might continue to show" in
_'_k ofllce of the ministry is assured' success,
-" _"As I was with Mo_es, so l'will be with
not suecced.Jh the ministry are placed in _ very
embarrassing position when they pose as mint
e
real; we speak With special rclerence to . .what minute details the prophecte_ concerning
the prophecies concerning the second appearing Of the Lord's first coming were literally fulfilled,
thee: I will nov fail thee, nor forsake thee" we isters. _ " out'Lord and of His millennial reign. Isn't .it even to the seamless coat and the gamblem part-
believe is applicable to any of God's ambasmdo_ 3. Prayerlessness and Lack o] Unction. A also equally true that some over literalize these ing Itis garments among them; but we.must foras
truly hs it was to Joshua. Neverthelessthere brother minister said to us recently, "That man prophcries to the extent that they open the door • bear for want of space..
are many positive failures in tim work of the is a splendid preacher; he is a bright felidw, and to error, ,'/nd in some instances, the door has" . God created man a threefold being,--body,
ministry. Perhaps the examination of a few a good sermonizer and has a fine delivery but been entered_ . _oul, and spirii;in his fall man was.ruined, body,
reasons why, will help someone, there seems to be no power in his mes._age; what t,Ve desire first to point out what we deem the sou|, and spirit. If God mad_ man g materhl
1. Never Divineiy-_alfed. The old Method- he says is all right, but it has no teeth in it; his error of over spiritualizing these prophecies. We as well as a spiritual being, how will the work
ist discipline, mentions three qualifichtiohs trouble is that. h_eis not a praying man." The aU accept, whhont question, the literal fulflil- ever be completed until man's material, as'well
fur the ministry, namely, "grace, gifts and use, words of the seraphic Fletcher are worthy of meat" of Old .T_tament prophecies which relate as his spiritual being has betat _stored, If the
Iuines.s." A man may have grace without gifts, freq{tent repetition. He said, "It is the unction to the first appearing 9[ our Lord. We all be- Bihle te'_.clies anything, it teaches the restmation
He may.have both grace and gifts and still-lack that makes tbe preacher." A preacher may be lie,}e that Isaiab's prophecy, "Behold, .a virgin of all tldngs, botb man himself nnd the world
usefulness. Wfsley thought and taught thai a orthodox, but to be without the anointing of the shall conceive, and beara _n," Was literally" ful- that he lives in, and this'writer as fully express
mati could have gifts of a superb order 'that Lord in public miplstration is n very serious filled, although it _equired a miraculous inter, a comp|etely restored and perfected' material
would qualify him for high positions in many lack. The. preal:her that prays much in private oration of God to fulfill it literally. We believe body, as he expects a perfected spirit.
of the walks of life, and yet wholly lack the will bave the unction when b:fore the audieneeL that the promise.to Mary, "Behold, thou shall Wc are between itwo errors: that of gross
ministerial qualifications. , We believe Wesley . Many good men are ineffective becaus_ of this conc_ive...and br ng forth a son :..He _all be materialism on the one hand, and that of ultrawas
right in the matter, great lack. ., t_reat, and shall he catted the Son of the Highest," spjrituall_ng on the other, Gross materialism

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has hatcited out such heresies as soul.slcef;ing, of,Israel which we designate as tbe lost tribes r _ ' ,'
and annihilation, heresies carrying in their a'train. brood Ultra-spiritualism of other errors leading of.'Israel. exponents This idea• of pr_nliffenntMism, as taught by,some is aofmost L}ie / HINTS TO FISHERMEN II
stroys' becloudsthethevery second pithcoming anti heart of ourof Lo_/l; the Idcssed it de- pernicious IxartJn_ so error;" far fromThese God's teachers Word are as already to say that tie- t " . ,
By C. E. COUUELL . .
hope held.out'to us by tile Scriptures. and hokls sinners do not need to repent;--_only to believe A BAIT ;re .cA'rcH PREACHERSt'-BEWAREI 0. Methodists who frequ'ent the movies are
out a fals'e hope--unscriptural in the extreme .... and units* these doctrinaries cease the'ir up-
Rat this wicked age is growin_ better, it runs all position to the fundamental principles of God's . Roy, G. W. gidout tells of receiving the tel- nnt_ueh use at prayer meeiings or in revi_,ais.
the way to the .extremes of Christian Seit_nce,- plan of salvation-anti return to tile plain "thus lowing letter: 10: Methodist prea¢llees who go to the movies
nnd that awful heresy Occult Science or mod2rn saith the_ Lord" which inculcates repentlincL* as 2 Dear Sir: patroMze a thing wh_sh Methodism in doctrine
SpiritualiSm, which is nothimc bat comwnunlca- a basis for regeneration. "reeeneration as a I_asis "Mr. D. W, Griffith'has directed me to extend anti spirit 'condoms.
lion with familiar spirit_demuns--so strongly cur ti)e nece._ar3, experienc: _f entire sanetifica2 to you a most cordial invitation to witness his: What applies to Methodist "prO:ochers.perticondemned:in
tire Bihle. "The chih[ of God is tier. and _nctification as a preparation for gluri- latest motion picture prodttetfon, ,'Dream Street,' nently applies to.preachers oi every denomination.
walking the tight rope between these errors, and fication, we prophesy that the}, will soon land in now being shown at the Citestnut Street Opera Don't.he'.caught by the Devil's bait. -
as he leans either way he is in great dan_er, error_ and heresies as bad. or worse than that House. aUGGF..STIONSFOR A SE.RMON
Hence, we conclude, that it bespeaks .danger evil doctrine of annihilation "It gives me great pleaspre theretore, to extend "Life in a Dead Man's Bones." 2 Kings 13:21.
when we lean too far. either in llterallzing or in Two parts of out being are splrituM, one purl th/s invitation for the Thursday and Friday" I. Acquaint yourselfwith the story, it is of"
• spiritualizing the prophecies concerning tile sec- material_' W'ben poor iluman nature gets its afternoon or evening performance of. this wee_. thrilling interest •
end appearin_ of our Lord. eyes o_ e!ther the spitituM or tile material, it If you will kindly present'this letter at the bo_ 2. The marve ous cberagters of Elijah and
_,_hde ' ' • some can see nothing'in the Scriptures seems as though it could, see hut one thin_ at.a office the treasurer will provide you with corn- EJisha.-: .
concerning the reign of a thbusand. _,ears suc- time. and its tendency is to rnn headlong on one, plimentary tickets for two seats. 3. The influence and power of.godly men.
ceeding the cominu of our Lord, we believe lt_e until it leaves 'the track o[ truth and runs "I hope that you wffl be'able to accept the 4. Salvation, its effect upon tho_ who find It.
that others emphasize so strongly what tile Word _n to the track 0f error. "Reader, Jesus' design S. ftoliness--"Pariakers of the divine nature."
rays about Israel Jacob, and the lows. that is to fa_hlon your vile body aftbr HIS own _lm'l- invitation anti that you. will enjoy tile pe_they
see nothing but Jews passlng t_ver into ous tgiorified) body. This is the "blessed hope;" 'refinance. 6. When Christ shaft come, how.those iti the
'the 'OREAT tribulation 3ruder the AnLiehrist. )/*t if ._'ou must be delinquent at.any point, do "Yours respectfully, grave w/it respond.. , ,
The_ are not necessarily"Jews; Jews th:re will not neglect your spiritual" being; see to it that "J_ 1_. AStICRAF1", ?. They will.be . caught ilp" as by a,magnet.
'be among them; but thole are God's Israel you knb',e that you have repen'ted.'lhat yml trove Special Representative, D. W. Grtffitb." RVE.RY'I'HINGBt/T_ODActs 4:12AND THr" BIBLE
that whichfaith includes was all o:_tained who have be/orereal thef_ith rapture, iwhether ira- been life, you bornhave again, definitely and that so:robt, since that andcrisi_ obtaiued_ in your a "' I it Dr. carefully. Rtdout's reply is well to the point, Note , one TheSunday tOldCS school studiedareingiven the different thus n the classes church of
_ibed _t the rapture, or b_gotten.in ttle trihhla- dean heart, and that the Holy Spirit dwells in _ ' Dear Sir: '_ hulIctin:
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uon and suffering during the.Antichrlst's reign) ; you now. " "But if the Spirit of' Him who raised 1. I am a Methodist preacher• The Mothers' Club Cla_ talked about tile
they are God's Israel; they have f_.ith in Jesus up Jesus from the dead d:_ell in you, He that 2. When.I became con_erted I quit worldly social and religious conditions in the lumber
Christ, hut they are. unsanctified and will b_ raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken o diversions. . . . _ camps of the northwest as shown in a recent
without ellin their vessels when the midnight your mortal body by His Spirit. that dwelleth
cry is sounded• Whether Jews or Gentiles, in you." 3. The theater and movies I regard as a men, report of an investigator.
whether Catholiss or Protestants, they are Israel. With this as your • sheet attchor,--a divineiy ace4. toI godly wouldliving. n6t like to be found in a theater canA aclass man of getyoung in the men business discussed. world "How and befar a
Having no oil tn their vessels, the done is shut attested knowledge of Christ and His full _lva- if the Son of man should come, " Christian?"
on them, and they hay& to pa's" over into tile lion, you may then enter, with out fear of side-
OaZaT tribulation, in which some' will bc mar:_ trdcking, into that glorious hope of aperfecthody, _. If I sh0uld be found in.a theater dead I A _ewspaper gives a few sermon subjects
tyred and join in the first resnreetion .(ROY..20:4} anti of seeing the Lord when He comes, backslidden,think my frlendSand playedW°uld thrallhypocrite,regard it thatand there-I had themes:Which tome ministers advertise as their Sunday
while the other_ will flee to the.v;ilderness (Roy.' fore forfeited my title and fitness for beaten 'Slip, Sllps and Sltppers__' "Wobbling,". "Swat
12:6) where they enduresuch privation and suf- ' and I would go to a backslider's heft. the Flyt" "The Honeymoon," "My Mother-infeting
(of whichthe faith characters in IIehtews PERILS.IN THE WAY OFTHE YOUTH
It are a type) as has never been known OF. TODAY 6, To attend your movies wotdd compromise -law," "The Ass 'tied at the Door Without,"
Among the errors that we. havt_ noticed which " By C, E. CogNEl,l " toy wickedness conscience of the andtiling I "could with not the openness condemn that the "Three "Lopsided White.Mice," Folks," "The "Pulling Sentimental Out a Plum/_ _ourney,". "A
row o t o this ultra-rigid literalism,
g¢ • "" " •h 'octrine of
GentI e teacnmg, is t e u
this Jew _- ....
sc-arat ng/ 1. Parental
v I 2" ^
T_.x_,_ Psa..llg:_
indifference
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• I do now.
7. It would
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be a bad example for reel a
Big
Car
Hug," "Psy_hrometrl¢ Readings," "Street
Venttiation,"."A Joke On th_ Conductor,'_
or dividing the _pintual • . prmclplss of Gods pin n [ _'. _. Murat lm r onau*era* e asset ate::.
oflvatunparce.gout • . d,eeoot pla.tol : • T q , * e " lor amusement.
Methodist preacher hokline the doctrines of J.ohn
Wesley and preaching them, to be seen going to
"Hallowe'en Tzleks and Pranks," "The Doll-
makers oi Nuremberg." A minister in Columbus
v._rtoua; :cagsea, uvolving d fferent .P_'lnciplesdI_'.!
._. l_ck of stnrttuaitty--compromisih'g..' . or. coming from the movies. .announced "A Man With His Nose Out of Joint."
one for the Jaw, another -for the Gentile_ an I 6. Christ'an I the Church " " 8. The movies or0 playing, havoc with the Another minister .in Dayton -perpeteated "The
attoth_er for the Samaritans or the mongrel tribes _iength of moral shoveler, morals of America. Devil,Man's Life, Death anti Funeral in Five

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Acts." & minister in California announced "Two lrvm the. west. from guilt to it_stifieation, from tiniate the possibilities of such a life. They are as A CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE
Looks ,_t Another Man's_Wife. '' darkest midnight 'to brightest morn ng, from • the wide and deep as God. Miss lulia Richman of tile New York Public
Topics purely absurd and highly sensational, mouth of ben to the.gates of heaven." Schools gives expression to the 'fol/owlng valu-
What miserab[[ substitutes for "the [Jreaching of 81X MARKS OF A GOOD PASTOR able statement that h worthy-of sincerest
'/Jesus Christ and Him crucified." VAIN REGRET St. John 10. thought:
A man dled some time since who was emplpyed 1. He is dlvinely called to _.he ministry. "My experience has-shown me that boys and
THE KIND OF REVIVAL NEEDED fi-_a sheep-station hand. All along he had shown
2. His labor is crowned with success. The gLs[s are frequently led astray from Ignorance of
The _mpression _s prevalent throughout Chrh- a disinclination for the company of. his.fellows. Holy Spirit opens Ll_eway into the hearts of tltose things which they ought to learn from
tendom that the pressing need of the Chui'cfi is and would get away by himself. _Often he
a downright, old;fashioned. Hol_, Ghost revival, weald be h_ard saying earnestly, "I wish I I_ad his hearers, fhsir parents. Since it is one of the first duties
The characteristics of such a revival are: cat,red." The manager at last won from him 3.'(V. 3) The shee!_ hear his voice. He speaks of the school to make up in other ways for in-
'1. A revh,al that begins p_rsonally in .the I_is story. . so as to instruct the people, efficlimt parenthood, it seems but logical that the
hearts of pastors and members of the church. As a lad he had been brought up in a Chris- 4. (V. 3) He calieth, his own sheep by n'ame, school _bould equip boys and girls before they
2. A revival of thoughtful honest, prayer- dan home in England. but became the companion. Ile is well acquainted with his flock, are sent out into _life with a knowledge of the
more important mysteries of life. In .no other
Iul reading of the Bihle. of vicious youths who led him astray. One 5: (V. 3) He leadeth thenf out--Does not lord way can they _ave the precautions for'their
3. A revival that will rebuild the broken, evening when they had plat)ned a robbery he it over them. guidance whlch.are.necessary to save them from
down family altars and keep burning thereon• slipped away from them to the door of his 6. (V.4) He goeth before them_He gives the pitfalls of a large and crowded'city llk¢ New
the• fire of'daily, devout worship, home, not liking the enterprise. He was about them a good example, etc., Yorki We teach our school children to avoid
4. A revival that will make all members of. to •enter its security, but when he observed his Iam the door, etc:, iV.9), tuberculosis, we teach them 'the nccesa W of
| the church profoundly sollcitous for the _h,a-" father about to begin family worship be .dr_- He shtdl be saved and he shall be saJe. cleanliness and godliness, yet we do not safe_
lion of their neighhors, tided to aval-d joining in that exercise and - " ...... guard them with the knowledge they nt_d more
5. A revival that will cause all members of mained waiting outside till it "was over. SUGGE._TIVE Sf_RMON ODTLINE than anything else. That }s the omission we
the church to Ib.bor personally with their neigh-. Meanwhile, some of his companions came up "The Main Road." l'.ope to correct [ sincerely hope we will b_
burs to bring them to Christ. and beckoned him away. He were with them _ T_.xl": John 21:22. successful."
! 6. A revival that will enable every church_ The robbery was committe_l' be was arrested -Peter and his relation to Jesus. " Roy. B. W. Miller has recently written for the
member to say from-the heart, "I was glad and lraasported to Australia.
Men refuse to foUow Jesus because: young people.In the Herald bJ Holiness an in-
_ when they said unto me; Let us go_ up to the As lime went on_ he became gloomy under I. They sturnble over imagiztary difficulties-' spiring article on "Actualizing the Impossible."
house of the Lord." the attain of shame and regret, .and often he that do not'exist. • It reminds n_e of P,obert E, Spoor writing in the
7. A revival that will make t[ a_pleasure to wodid exclaim, as the memory revived of that L There are so many differeht opinions. . ,_ta_day School Times the song of the Panama
the members to live right up to the splrlt of the fatal waiting outside his father's door, when he 5. They are not willing to conform to right- Canal Builders:
I vows they took upoh themselves when they would sorrowfully exclaim. "O, ] wish I had _'Got any rivers"they say are unerassable?
2oined the church, entered." eous living, m . -
t A 'revival that will meet these conditions will 4. They fear backslidi/tg. Got, any_mounta[ns you can't tunnel thr6ugh/'
And will it not be the regret of many a soul in S. They disregard the 'vnine"uf their souls, " We speculate in the wimlly !mpnssibfe
not fall f_/rshort of being a genuine, old-fashion- the darkness of eternity, as memory recalls times 6. They tried.it once and failed. Doing the thing that no one can do."
ed, Hol_, Ghost revival. God is ready," Are We?. •when the foot was on the threshold of the king- They hope somehow re be lil/dily saved. WARNING " " .
TRIJTH, BLOOO'ANI_ TESTIMONY dora of salvation, "I'wish I bad enteredi" [ Whedon says: "So severe the persecution, so
There are three, outstanding elements of the GOD*$ BOOKKEEFING
THE WATER OF LIFE teriible the trial, so powerful the influence of
Three precious B's in God's Word.
gnspe[ of Christ as predicated by the prophetic Mr. C, J. Blanchard, .of I.be Government Roe- apastasyj and so weak his own nature, that the
vision in Isa. 41:13-16. lamation Service, talks inspiringly, of the rec- 1, God has a boll e for our tsars. Pea. _;6:8. (_hrlstian' will with difficulty endure to the end
• (l) Truth, revealed trnth--.divine truth; (2) Iamation of-the deserts by n]eans of irrigation_ . [ A book for our thoughts. Mal. 3:16. and be SAVED in he,iron; bat if be bold te
The blood of the Lamb; (.1) The power of
testimony; Here is a sublime utterance of Dr.
•13reseeon tbe•blood:
of which the
tbe2m days.
Government is'doing
He shows with the
so much in
stereopticon
A bag for our transgressions. - Job.
"" 1. His Memory" Book. Mal..3:16.
14:17. hls faith
certain/_
in Christ, his salvation is absolutely
"Another alemrnt is blood; the blood _f the
IdCtures
"
of land before and after reclamation; ,.
ant
Memory
oneS.
signifies intimate relations--pleas--
Jehoiaktm
THAT
,is the
KING'S
King of
PENKNIFE
Judah and Jeremiah
Lamb. We overcome by the hZood of the Lamb verily the desert blossoms as the rose. In many Detail, Eva. 130:16. ia the prophet:
and the word of our testimony. I do not know
how to measure the power of the blood of :
places this Iand.proddces fruit--apples esp_Ially
--to the value of _;I,800 _cr _icre This work Is
. '
Our unfolding life. Jrr.
Our teats. Pea. 56:3.
t:g; The moral decay of the people is shown
the sins reproved by .Jeremiah.
by
Jesus. We measure electricity, steam, and even , of mmeff_e value to our cuuotrymcn -Z. H[_ Book of Life. Phil. 4:3. Avarice, moral corruptinn_ shedding innocent
the power of gray tat on But how shall I under- Jesus once spoke to the womnn at the well ' l. Alive. blood, falsehood nnd hypocrisy, bigotry and ohtake
to measure.- the power of the blood of of Sam_tria of the Water of Life. The reclama- 2. Worthy, stina_,, infidelity _bnd perjury, re-establishing
Jesus?. '_e power that atays tim hand of eter- _ tlon of the desert is but a faint illustration of a . 3. Tbe Book of Judgment. slavery, slander and deceit.,
na jus Ice.. that stretches out its wing of mercy better'-reclamation..Jesus' Water of Life, bre(_ght. Memory. There was no t2¢gard for the warnlug_b"but
over the.universe, that can lift n soul over the into the'lifo'of any man net only gives Idm netv Unrnhseious r_oeds_. __._ king Jehoisklm took' his penknife end cut Jeremeas_ttdees
chasm which'is as far as the east is life, but inspires to holy living, No one can es- Judgments. miah'a roll and burned .it in his.parlor fire,

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are set down in'the order of nature, rather has people so completely under his i:ontrol
- than the order ol time. For though every " that they do his bidding. Read the awful
_ " --__ __ --" , , .
.-.
, ,,ere which they haveare the soclosest nicely dependence ranged thaton those each
grace bearsa relation to every other, yet
other are placed together.".
commit powerful such ruler. crimes? He has
crlmes In the daily papers, how
8. lien. 20!10.
become their
can humanity
• " 4. "Ye shall never fall" The Devil that deceived tliem was cast int6
Jesus _ Intercessory Prayer This is much-talked abou[ hut little experienced Our busine_ to remain steadfasL the lake o[ fire, This is his final wind-up,
By A. M. HILL_ : hecause so. few are sanctified. "Untied" not so ._ "An abundant.entrance," and all that he has to offer .his folinwers.
much in church or_anizatinfl as in laith_ fellow: The climax of faithftdness, realizing that his time is .short, he i_ surely.
TEXT: (John 17:c)) shipand co-operation. . The'guarantee of i_oiihess, workin_ hard in these last days_
Thi_ is one sentence df the greatest prayer 4.""That tbe'wddd'may .believe" iv. 21").
that ever went from this wicked world to lieaven. Divisions and dissensions are a stumbling block A Bible Reading on Satan Searchln_ for the Old Paths
It was the interce_ory prayer of Jesus for H|g to the onlooking world of sinners, especially on By.J, E. R£v_ms . .Jer. 6:16, .
infant Church, offered just a.few hours before the mission fields. The heathens do not under- t. Luke 10:tg, , IJy Roy S. N'[cf[o_oN
He died _n the cross. Who are the fortunate stand why aft Christians are not united in one - And he seid unto them, I beheld "Satan as I, TJtX: z_r.En for OLd V.'.TIla:
ones for whom He prayed? body of believers, lightning fall from heaven• He was _nce l_he 1. We seek another city.
I. Tp._ Bmr.E nEsCamES THEir PLAINLY. 5, "Father. ] will that they also, whom thou bri_cllt and mor_ning star of the celestial city, Z. We arc Pilgrims here,
1. Jesus had cafl_'d them and the_. }J/_st given rne_ he with me where I am, that hut he fell, landina in this.earth a Devil. 3. The New Ways are insecure .
soken all_'6 follow Him: they may behold my glory, which Thou hast 2. Matt. 13:4. - - m Modem.Theology.
_ed and east out demons, given me." And when he sowed, some scuds fell by the b. New Thought.
3. They
4. They
kepT God's.Word
helie._ed ir_ Jesus
(v,6).--'-'_'_iv.8),
By
enemy
and bY temptation's will be past, the
overcome. The sorrows and trials
last
will
- way
them
side,
up.
apd
:
the fowls came and devoured c. Theosophy.
4. New paths'am man.made substitutes.
S. Theywere given to Jesus by the Father be like a forgotten dream. We shall be gathered He .is here represented as devouring lbe good I]. T_£ _.,,TUnn or TL-'EOLD x,A'rnt
who owned them iv.9), home. We shall see the Kin_ in His glory, and be a'_d leaving the bad.. 1. It is Gnd's.w[ll revealed to "man.
6. Jesus was glorified in them (v 10) forever like Him. . - 3. Ps, Ol:3. 2. It is found theaugh reading the Word,
7. The worYd hated them because they were Dear Christina: what will you take for your Surely he shall. deliver .thee from the snare 3. It is same as used by.saints.
. -- '" " interest in this prayer? Has the experience of of t/_e fowler, Satan sets tralY_, catches, cages, a. Moses teave_ed it.
o 8. And all others who should believe througi_ sanctification for which y_ur Savior prayed been ] trains and teaches his prey. b, Daniel proved it.
words describe u'_? ttoly Spirit in you uowI But while men slepL his enemy came _ and 4. It is sprinkled with Blood.
sowed tares among the wheat, Here he seat- 5. _c_r"dt_p_ with man's faulty
II. Nortc_ _']tu I'RECIOUS TIIINGS" leer "W]ItCI[ Expositional Sermon tees among the' chi]dren of God what be has /f: reasonings, _
their
J_us
word'fv.,20)..Glurious
_ea^Yzv.
coh_pany[ Do these wrou[z.ht in you?
By C.
If
E.
not,
CORNELL
let It be dane by the [
•
4. Matt.'13
captured
:25,
and trained, Jude soys they crept
in'unawares, these a)'e._,pots in your feasts of
_/I..so_,[._
c. _esus
oF _[_.o,rv
trod it,
Pa'cus:
/ 1. __Wayof tsouuese;
_
. _
.
.
"': "l'I'prayC_t_CTii°ush°u_estzeeptc'ff
-[r_om_._[h¢_..EY.JLOau_--So-z_aaaF-x_Jz_-_ io
T_xr:
1. ]m'_onuc'_zo_'.
2Peterl:l-ll,
_
charity
walking
these a_
after their
murmurers_chmpaners,
•
own lusts, these be
the
y
I.
'
{
2. Way o[Faith: ._1
3 Way of Obedience
a. way o_ _ence,
\"
;_
startw01i sortiesof Christ a invose viee:
who parate tbe sei s0u e, ha.ng ua,, not Way ofP.yer. • •
icy, "Continuance_ in_A,_i]-c]_,___._ how we
mere duty.
Christianity not b_sed upon good works.
_ the _ptrlt
. "
'
• '
• _
[
5. Way
6. Way
of Peace.'
Of Power, . _
:
_
\ _: .
_ .....
_asas_d,"Sanetify them." They Were
II, a_ntKt_,'o ^_u r_rO_T^_Z xacrr_ Or, z_t
1. "All things that pertain to life and
'tear
gudli-
5. Peter o:g,
Your adversary
- ..........
-
t_e
_ .. " ,.- , ....
uewh as a roaring _u,.
t-oi's those who are
_IV. _l_xsoss
t- "T'_.="'_
"[ 5, That
_,oa TP._V_ZZ_a _tt_l
:-' "7"_-:",", _"
we may'win cJtlrtst. .
I
[
already Christians and preacher_ and • miracle ne._." Including all that pertains to rats- . He
not
_ese
we|[
tug,tens a.nu uc_ •
estauusoeu, ..
y
-
_
_2. That
.........
we
-"
may Influence
•
others, [
worker_, aswe have seen; but the_ needed mose, ing us up.f,om _n, Its wreck and ruin, to How many _omands he i_as scared fsom the .• k 3. That w_ shall nv_ /niss?y .
onlyeVen Godtbscoulddeansinggive.°f Thesanctifyingverb "sanctify"grace whichls in thefardidfulneSSman°f fall?G°d' gin W and heaven. How battle field, ,.hey dodge the issue and hide
the ant/st tense, which means tthmediale action, 2. "Be partakers of the divine nature." away, fearful of bringing his roar their way, The New Testament Minlster
not by a _Jow growth of development
_tantaneou_ly, The Century Dictionary
hug indefines:
The child like its parent_ Has a resem: o. Rev.
Timt
12:0,
old serpent.
By I, E. M_Z.L_a
I Pet, 5.
"Sanctify" thus: "The act of God's grace where- blance, trait of _haracter, nature. God's How many t[reu_nd ways he charms today,
by we are cleansed from sin," One of God's acts children having escaped, the coC,ruption Whole towns and cities ore captivated by 1. In Ministry,
requires, no more tlm_ than a flash of llghtu[ng, that is in.the'world are Go_.like. idm, He holds them as n snake itohis a nut. Shepherd--feeder. iv.2).
O_e Greek grammarian calls the "aorist" ""the Lust--irregular, unreasonable, inordinate teeing bird. It is accessory to break the Superintendent_leader. (v._),
lightning tense." Crosby's Greek Grammar: and impure desires. Devil's charm to re,ease the folks, Sample---copy. iv.3).
PThe action is represented by the Ao_ist as 3. The eight graces,• An old-fashioned _revival is the bess known Final reward--_"Crown of Glory," iv.4).
_somentary, as a single act." This rules out all Faith, virtue, .knowledge, _.emperance_ pa- remedy, II; _ semrr ^z_u zxe_az_z_c_,
thought of ,"growing-into the experience of . -t/once, godliness, brochure" kiudne_, char. 7. Roy t6:13. C.[olhed with humility, iv.6)
sanctification." icy (love). " The Dragon. Care' free..iv.7).
3. He prayed for .Christian unity (v.2l), Wesley says: "Each preceding grace leads. A /abuloas 'auhnai, represented as a winged Conquest faith, iv.8),

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III. z_" PP.ZSENTPROFIT. the heart,alone; .but an experienea that L_ power, Should be the greatest power This is o "second rest" given to those who
"Excitation in reproach. (v.6). works out "in. all manner of living." 2. Awake to .our opportunities ful condition of unrest; have taken Christ's.
Provision, dally, mad detailed. (v_7).
IV. xs Gracefulness W'_Xr_E, in service, (v.$).
• •
permeates The Church the wholeAsleep character
"
until it I
They are boundless,
J.
in
Awake
the nation.
to our responsibilities.
,
yoke
have
upon
come;
them; have learned of Him
have
- z'-'--'--found
rest from the sin-
P'alse-:2-"Sober." (v.8). B__ D. SlmLn't CORLE'rr.. Each oppbrtunity btlngs added respon- Must W e Sin?
Prudence--"Watchfuh" iv.El. TEXT: "Awake,aT_ke, put on thy strength slbilities. I John 3:8
Pugnacity and triumph, "Resist." (v.9). 0 Zion" (Isa.52:l). _ _ - By E E.,HAIm
V. FOR I'TJTURE OaOWTH AND _.laTURITY." The Glorious :Gospel Introduction--Is the text contradicting? What
All ministers themselves in school. , I. ZlUN, oil TIlE CIIURCIIIS REPRESENTED as liE- - By D. Sllr.LB'."CORLEX'r. is sin? How may a professor of religion sin?
"The course't---"Pcrfectlon" (v.10) through L_'oaSt,ZEP. Answer--word thought and deed. Only way
"Suffering." Note some conditions of those v.sleep. T_XT: Matt. 11:28-39
From the "Cgptaln" down. [Heh. 2:10) l. A"self-satisfied spirit (Lmadiceans). I. TIIE" GRacIous GOSPELIlqVITAVION---"CoME:" menI.._VIIERE or devilsDlosin. SINNING RELIGION ORIGINATE?
and.S:gL "I am riril and Jncrea_.d wltb goods, This is the great word of the Gospel, it is I. Theologies of _ertaln earh, organizers.
"Stablish" in lalth. (v.10). - " and have need of nothing". (Roy. 3:17). used over 1050 times in the Bible. 2. Professors of religion trying to justify
"Strengthen'--in fibre. (v.10). 2. An indiIfereot attitude toward' the ad- "And t e Spirit and the bride say, Come. sin in themselves.
"Settle" in faithfulness.
Shoutl (vat).
(v.10). vancement of God's
salvation of men.
kingdom and the And let. him that heareth say, Come• And
let him thatis athi_t come" (Re_'. 22:17).
3. Satan's greatest
work of Christ.
attempt to riisturb the
Go*d's Call to His Children
A sleeping, person puts forth no effort.
3;Is unconscious of his own danger and
I1. THE EXCLUSlVZ_r.ssor
--"U._To ME."
TIlE GOSI'EL
.
]I. MUST WESt.s'? LEe Us CONSI'_ER:
I. Character of God--Italioess.
By D. Sirr.xnY COREZT'r. that of those around him. Come to Christ, there is'none dtherto save. 2, Power.of God--Creation. then. why not
TEXT: l Peter l:t4-lS. "Knowest not that thou art wretched, "I am tho door: t_y me i[ any man enter in. full salvatioh. .
I. GOOFSCALL TO IIOL]NESS IS TO OBEDIENT at_d miserable, and poor_ and blind, _nd he shall be savccl" (Johnt0!t)). 3. Tbe mission of Christ intu the worldmlrLnRZN,
naked" (Roy. 3:17). "1 am the way, tile truih, and the life: no "Came to destroy works of the Devil."
1. They had been brought into the relation- 4. Power lies dormant when asleep, man cometh unto the Father but by me" _:I. The Bible's t.estimony.
ship.-,oI "children" by helng "Begotten Iteartless prayers; bttelieCtual service (John t;;:6). " 5. The verbal testimony of _ints.
again" as _hown by vs. 3. rather than, sl_ritual service rendered "Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou hast 6. Lives that we hnew [hat' h:tve changed
2. This call to holiness is to "obcdlent" from tile heart; inner spiritual'conscinus_ tile words o[ eternal life" (John 6:6g). III. Mr!ST W:.:SIN? IS'IT NECESSAry?
k:hildren, Not those who are backslidden, ness deadened; all are indicative of a '*There is non6 other name under heaven t. Not if God commands that we We htdy.
cold or lndlf[erent, sleeping chur_t, given among men_ whereby we must be Two duties never conflict.
If. AS _'oar.omsT CHILVtmU" COO m:_taNns A I[.SOI'-iECAUSESrOE TIllS CONDITION. " saved"" (Acts 4:12), 2. Not if full provision has been made
lII. Tile iNCLUSIVENESSOF Tim GOSPEL. "ALL through thc'atoliement filch, i3:t2)'.
S.EPARATION. " - : - 1. A wrong interpretation'9I prophetic state- Yr. that labor and are heavy laden." 3. Not if others arc enjo.'J m the blessing
"Not fashioning yourselves according t6 the " meats may cause it. Such as: "B_cmase "Whosoever helleveth in him should not" of holiness."
,former lusts in your ignorma_:e."" ot. the.plyspirit
in 2 Cor. 6:14-18.
._hall wax cold." i . hlm take of the water inbred sin and woos us unto holiness.
, Thep tt=ofthis sepaeat,on isshown iniu,ty all bo nd thelove ofmany lst '
oow onvicts of
2. Strongly call "to be implies holy," if they do willnot go heed back the to "V_hen find faith the onSontheofearth?" man cometh shall he ] _ "_t t of "Himlife that frcety" cometh (Rev. to22:17}, me t will in n_ wise The Angel Hastened Lot
" former desires.
come." IV. TH_ _]]ENEVOI._NCE O_ TIlE GOSI'_L. "l wJll By,E, E.H._LE . .
III. TO WIIATDOESUOnCJ.LLHIS OBEDIENTCHIL- "In These the statements last days ate perilous given us as times warnings shall _i , "Nine cast yOU." out" (John'6:37). ' Introduction--l. Gen..19:lS, Who Lot was.'2. How Raised.
nlm_? . and nut"to be magnified as condttinns to "Ho every one that thirsteth, come ye to the 3..tIow he obtained hh start. 4. Why did he
"To be holy, for I aha holy." dampen our ardor, or root our zeal. waters and lie _hat hath no money; come _ choose the well watered plains?.
1. This call to be holy based upon His own 2. The present spirit oI tim age. ye, buy and eat; yea:. come. buy.wine and I. LOT'SFISSr YEAR I_ Suuo_t
character. This acts as a deadly 'opiate upon the milk "without money and without prlee'Y 1. No doubt was pious. 2. His piety prob_
"I am holy." C/torch. W6 must _J_mait, and keep np' (Is0. SSH). ably negative, 3. To fail to 8ire testimony
God is holy in his,essential character, and the fight against it in order to keep spiT- "The GIFT of God Is et6rnal life through means to'lose the_,experien_e. 4. /sir. mad Mrs.
desires 1hat H_ children conform to His ftuaL. Jesus Chriq_our Lord" (Rum. 6:23). Lot induced into Sodom's society', clubs, orders,
character. .3. The rares of life pressing God's people. V. TIlE ASSUaAN_E OP TIlE GOSPEL. "REST." etc.. .
"He is holy_ harmless_ undefiled nnd soporate
from sinners" (HCh. 7:26).
Even legitimate things,such as our work, "The wicked are like the troubled sea. II. YOUNO L^oms MaE_tr.n Sonoarrrr_,
2, Thls call is "to be holyY our family duties, our intellectual ad- when it cannot resl; whose waters cast up l. The curse of evil association.
Not to set it up as _ goal to work to-
_ward; something to aim at; but a prin-
vancement, etc.. may require so much of
our time and attention,that they will
mire and dirt'! ([_. 57:20).
God assures the laboring, the heavy laden
III. LOT |'EOBABLYWARNEDPREVIOUSTOaNO[_L'S
VI_XT,EmaO._ULX' nV Ae_tasr.
ciple oI the heart; an inward experience" unconsciqusly keep us from'being spirit- one, t le one t red o[ sin and its bondage-- l. But he and wife were now in society.
of the life by which t'he character is ually, awake "rest" from this sinful condition, this con. 2. They now hall grand children, no doubt.
made holy. IlI. NOTE GO0'_ CALL----uAWAKE, gwaan; PUT ON dltinn of unrest. 3. Single zlrlshad friends and beaus.
3. As such an experience, it Is worked out TOy ST_:NUTlt." VL T_m COaleL_NV2Z O_ "rUZ Gosvzt "And .4., Lot prohably had large busl'nesa interest,
in our fives. I. Awake to the possibilities of the churdl, ye r&all find rest to your souls." 5. Political.prestige In his way too.
"So be ye holy In all manner o[ living" The:." are limitless. BapI[zed with the "There remainetb .therefore _ rest to the _V. NOTiCe CO._DITn:*.'_OVLoT's LIVE.
(R.V,). It is .not something hidden In - Holy Spirit the Church is a mighty people oI Ghd" (lteb. 4:9). t. Sons.in-law had no faithin him..

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2. Deliverance had to be in answer t,v pray- V. WaY Mmzg P_oPl,z ,_az Nor- S_.NC'tlrIZn. L TI_e Corinthian church 4roublesome. the "old man" will go out _nd tile "new man"
ers of someone else • t. Lack of preaching holiness, even in holt- Illustrate: Dr. J. P. Thompson says: "Indeed c_ome in, to abide with you forever.
3. Deliverance had to be supernatural. "ness churches. I should loathe to minlsfer to such a sorry
4. Angels used persuasion and at ktst loree. 2. Lack of definite tcstimopy by those who Tee of Christians as were the Corinthians Patience ,(What most folk are short of)
V. LoT's Wire. CONVlXCF,O sue NO_ COI_VER'rEn. posse_ it. with all their miracles and tongues, Wrang. By _'. E. Coa,';gLt:
VI. Sr,CRET Or TnUE RELIGIOUS CII?.RAC_IER 3t If iS sometimes pre ched in terms leo ling about Paul, Apolins and Eephas, run- TEXT: James 1:4.
INCLUDES RELIGIOUS' Su.qROUNDINGS, _eneral. aim: after false teachers, full of envying, I. rite INSTRUCTION nF TIUR APOSTLE,
Cons'der--Lot's Warnings and our Walnines 4 hi" many" cases different from pre',,iotl_ J3 strife and division, harboring an incestuous I. Note the preceding verse,
I. Explicit--City. sure to he destroyed--hell thcoin_ical concepts, person without discipline, degrading the 2. All are exhorted,
is sure. 5. Some demand coat they understaml all Lord's supper into a feast of appetite, giv. tl. WlIAT IS PATIENCE?
2. M'ercifuI--Plans made for each to escapc._ about it. , ing to Paul constant sorrow'and anxiety, the [. "A gracious temper wrought in the heart
3_ Timely--A time when mercy's doors will 6. Some shrink from the reproach. Corinthians needed miracles to give 'them a of a believer by the power of tile Holy
close 7. Last but greatest, is the unwillingness to respectable title to a Cbrtstian name; and Spirit." .....
4. Lot:s wife nearly' saved, hut lo_t. yiehl to God. they so abused mimcu]ons "gifts by jealousy 2_ To suffer whatever pleases God.
' and contention that they turned their Sob. IIL rnE WORK OF PATIENCE.
Complete Consecration Storehouse Tithing bath agsemhlies into cabals of men anti 1. Full fruitage or effect.
t women, shouting, singing, praying, prophe- 2. Peare a rcsuB of patience.
Rein. l Z:I Why Pra=tlce It? sying, pell-mell, without decency and order." 3.'Joy a result of patience•
By E. E. i-lath By C. A. Pd_Nr.,." TIlE }.tORE EXCELLENTWAY--LOVE. 4. Love a result of 'patience,
I_TI_OUtlCTIO,_--INBREO Str¢ _ REin.lee ] Iiecau_, God commands it. 1. The"gift" of the Holy Splrit--abiding. S. Tranquility el mind a result of patience,
t. As indicated by testimony. 2 Because every interest of the Church is in- 2. He renovates the heart, and makes the sub= IV. BEIN{3 Dean OF GOD.
2. By doctrine of Christendom. volved. . soil of the heart Love. Patience-begins.
3. By the Scriptures. 3 Because it" wouM "supply meat for (;t_d's 3. Love is the Christ character; we are imi- The victory of the regenerated life.
I. WORDS OF TEXl AUORESSED TO CIIRISlL'tNS• •ffoase. taters, The shortage of the regenerated llfe.
tit:NeE, A SECOtqOWORK, . .l, Becauge of the benefit that wouhl come In Tile Gilt to be Desired Above the Gilts; Because
I. "Brethren." 2, A "Living S;icrlfice"-- the ministry. He is A PersopaL. Abiding Helper _Through- Illustrate: Read Wesley page 222.
• V.,TIIE I_PERFECT WORK" OF PATIENCE,
Living in Christ. - S_ Because of tl_e. benefit that wouhl come to out Life,. Evldenuy the perfect love of God.
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t. No[ merely a mental
NOT.
assent to holiness.
the Church,
6. Because of added strength
-
it would brin_ to The "Eradication Of the Carnal. Mind
-When does
version.
this occur? Subsequent to con-
2, Not merely
Christian service,
setting one's self "apart" for the officiary
7. Beeadse
of
of
the
the
Church,
_2ffect it would
.
have qpan
A sermon suggestinn. An insfatifaneous work.
3, Not a
laborious task
cletermination to
against one's will.
perform some the world.
8. Because of the increa_d • stimulus it would
. By C.
TEXT:
E. COR_ELL
Romans 6:6'
Read Wesley
Ten Evldenc
page 223.
L-g/-th e. New'l] im
4. Not straining of the nervous system until give the mi_tonary work. There is an old Homeric Legend concerning
a certain plane of emotion is reached, or certain 9. Because it would hasten the return ol our Penelope, said to be the most lovely woman in _,; By M_x" LEE CAGL_. ,
signs are obtained. Lord. aft the world's history. Her husband Ulysses _EXT: "Ve etusi be bor_ again" (John 3:7 .
5, Not laborious pleadittg with God _;.'hen tO. Because God wili 'exact it. _. went away to '_ar, and was ten. ycars at the /_1) Witness of the Spirit (1 John 5:10; R'0m.
the seeker is unwilling to. pay the whole price. It. Because it will save the Church'from th_ siege of Troy. and then after that he wandered _ S:f6; .Gal. 4:6).
6. Not a straining to exercise faith before curse that rested ov the Jews. ten years. By and by it was said that Ulysses [(2) Led by the Sptdf (Rom." 8:f_,). "
tbe price l_s paid. 12, Because it is the only plan that fully rec- was dead and then the lovely Penelope had many [(3) Peace with God [Rom_ 5:1).
IlI, WI_aT CO,'_SEC_TIO_ Is ognizes man's stewardship and God's ownership, suitors. The royalty sought ller hand. Btit to (4) New creation (2.Cor. 5:17),
1. Comecration holds the same place in oh- __. all she said, "no." . . (5)_'Love the bretbr©n it John 3:14; ! John
tainitfg hofitiess that repentance holds in obtain- After awhile she became weary and sold, 4:10; l John 4:7):
ing pardon. .Gift and Gifts of the Spirit .. "Gentlemen, when I have fintLhed weaving the 6) Separate from the world [1 John 2:15, 16;
2. The dedication of every future moment By C. E. CORNnLL cloth nbw in my loom I will give you a_. answer." 2 Cor. 6: l?. 18; John 15:19).
" of the life to Gud, . T_=XT:1 Cor. 12:7 and 31. She. would weave all day and tinravel at night,
3. Yielding the body with all its members. OUTLINE T_IE NI_;Z OlrTS O_ TIllS S_lnIT.. . After twenty years Ulysses came and Penelope 7) Keep 3ohn 14:21; God's commandments 1 John 2:3, 4). (John 14:15;
4. Yielding the mind with all the sensibili- t. Their relation In the Old .Testament-char- fell Into his arms and cried, "I have been true 8) Do not commit sin (1 John 3:9; 1' John
tics acters, such as Besoleel. Samson, Balaam. to you all these years, and have never given my $:lg),
5. Putting all o'a the altar and fakin_ our and Kihg Saul love to another." 9) Love our enemies [Matt. 44:45 .
hands off. . 2. Ilealing has come downto us, and closely And so i[ ane lon_s for the Loid Jesus to come .tO) Desire hol hess (1 John 3:1-31.
IV, Tnt RZS_LTS OV CO._SV.C_A'rION. rel,Red is the gi_t o/ leith, and eradicate the Carnal.mind he will have many -,.__
Primarily the Pentecostal experience termed: 3. Differentiate hefxx_een the gilt of faith and suitors. Neglect of Means of Grace
I. The Baptism with the Holy Ghost. Sane- grace of faith. " L Thn world will press its claims. "no.'[ By Ins. H. Jonas,
_lficaflon, " - . " " Illustrate: St, Paul eostd and could not Ileal 2. The flesh wiB press its claims. "'no." /'I" , Tz.tr: John 20:**4.
are
2. Experience of perfect love or heart purity.
3. The blessing of holiness, etc.,'all of which
synonymous and the experience gives free-
Tile
(Acts 28:8; 2 Tim. 4:20).
CORINTInAN CltURCI["
-
ENJOYEn TIlE
o_ TIlE SPlRrr VO A LAROg DeGREe,
"GIFTS"
.5, The Devil
4. TO every
will press his claims. "no."
earthly suitor say "no."
" " "
/INTSOAnCrtou:
[ 1, The
-
incomplete
'
meeting--Thomas
.
not
dora in the splrih power" in ._rvice. and addi- l, The Corinthian church ._eak_ Then Jesus will come the "fairest among ten _ there..
lionel joy and peace. 2. The Corlnthiar churcb ca,ml, thousand' etc.. HIM you desire above 'all others; X% . 2. A meeting blcssecl with Christ's" presenofi.

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It. WilV: NOT THERE:
1. Indifference,
2. Distaste.
CONCLUSION
[. Use our ¢ --end ourse
'
2, In this age of carelessness
yes back
.
and indtfferente.
when he said,
OUEDIEI_'CE. P,
"The second duty
"
of, a soldier is Dr. Bresee
and sin that
was so dead
lie constamly
to fame,
prayed,
money,
"Lord,
serf
keep
"3. Laziness -_God forb_d that .we Io_e an interest ia We were then told to parade_on file followinn llre_ee out of sigbt."
4. Pleasure. .this means o'[ grace, ' {lay when we would be instructcd_ as to tile The Roman Church tried to bribe Luther with
5. 6. Business, Selfishness, .The Three Men of Romans _ alllnfintcd time • we' were told that tile third dutb" dlnal's hat,
-- ' thlrd duty of a soldier, and In and behoht.at tile _old, positinn,
. _ut le'was dead to t'alf
power, and offered him the car-
.
7. Pure Spite.
fly R. W. HERTZNSTt:IN. Of 'A sohlier was oBZmF.NCE. In other words we A t,ract peddler was s_ welt converted and
_jk • ShiHing Reslmnsiinfity. . 1. "NaTUI_AX, l. Ilas sins MAN" unforeiven _'
were taugtd that n soldier has nothing else to do _anctilied that when grossly IosuRtxi with [he
i ._/"._. - Me,bus
•-RESULT:
Sabatieus
.
or. Sumiav. Sfcknvs- 2. Ilas
3, Has
moral cowardice
fear of hell
but to o_EY.
In aft.er },ears I have gone into the Barrack
full exf_ectafion
anger of spirit,
that he
he calmly
would
_aid,
retort
"Friend,
and show
the man
['_tl_lLose more than we _ain. 4. llas no rest. rooms at nlgbl and have heard young sohfiees you lave been tafidna to has been dead for
2. What do we _ain? 5. l las no experience. " say in'tin;it _eep, "The first duty of a soldier twenty years,"
3. What do we lo::_? ,,_ '
(a) Meetin',t Christ. IL "CARNAL _[.XN" Is obedience." So thorougtdy wa_ it inpre_i "VSrily, verily, I say unto you, except a.corn
(b) Faith:-then unbelief st,ls m. 1. ]la_ justification' ulmn their minds, of wheat fall into the grmmd and dic, iL abideth
_3. llas unholy fears aud anxiet_;.
(d_ Unless re¢overed--heaveB 'at as( - a Christian, to rememh6t that _at_ ru_sT nUTV-OF fruit." (Joh_ 12:24).-2E. E. WoRuswo_'rtt.
4• Has rest A CIIRISTIAN IS OIIEDtENCE... _. ........ ,.,
,, _,[EANS "_0BRING US haCK : S: lilts a mixture of joy and carnal' sorrow
_I'II (el l. The Confidence--will Word of God.. not believe- Ill. "St,tm_U,,L 2. tlas moral alaN" sfirinka_e. It Hc,w has much often easier been helpful it.would to" me be mfor my us llfc all as alone; hilt SERMON if it (fie, it bringeth SEE forth much
3. Preachin_ el ttc Word, 2. flas moral • fixedness_ is h$ttcr tfiat'sacrJfice.--E, T, Rowe. _ " "By T. M ANm:asON t_
/_
4.
Z. Tile
Providences
Holy Spirit
of God.
1.
3:
|his"
Has
the
perfect
Comforter.
love. ' "
Chribtians if we
HEART
wouhl
PURITY
ren_ember that to obey
_-_{_q_2_,:_"__
_" D
5. ]Iumfile Repentance'_ 4. liar holy rest. (Acts 15:8-o). FOREWOlm: In this department we shall lahol_
"Take Heed" _. tlas the joy-of idadness, Wesley tells of a lady by the name of Elizabeth for tile benefit of those who preach tile {_ospel
t TotheLord ,.oN la,dthe tothe ootelthetreeam,ever tothe,mined,atein ost lie-
1. T,,K_ m:_ooF 6o_,. .... ILLUS i']{/_ lIONS' _i_ anti Mnnnfretful'by who w_ nature. [ll-tcmpert_l, One daypeevish.,irritah[e, the _[loly Spirit positinnal of a Full style Salvation. of sermonizing We shall •which follow will the hohl ex-
2.For tile Lord hath chosen thee _l Chr. OBEDIENCE :after, Wesley snide, he_ knew her as a sweet, de-
2g:t0). Year_ ago when still a lad in a MifitaD, School rout loving, tender, .kind, peaceful woman, She cause of limited spaci_ we can only hope to be
suggestivo.in thouaht. Every man must clothe
II. TAK_ UEED WI!,W vet: tie. " " in England, 1 had a desire to live a martial life, ". had heart 'purity; a Forfeit cieanslrm.--E. E. these outlines in his ou n words a])d use them as
t. What _'e do (2 ChL"IO:6L
and so stron_ was that deslre that at a_early WOfiDS'tVORTIL best suits bis taste anti style of dellvery. All
2. And be quiet. (lsa. 7:4),
age I jtdned, a well known regiment of High- CARNAL D"_TH tire free to makt_ any changes desired. Let a}}
.t. That you do not alms he[ore men [Matt.. lander,, (Rein, bib-8), my readersaccept these as their own:
6:1). On the second morning after arrival at the A man got the idea into his head titat he was " nun Mo_,-rn: Study to shew tfiyse[f.approved
eli. TARE IIEED .Wit,t* Yell [It;-tl_. Bar'raeks at Edinburgh, I, in compuny wlth a I_hys_eal]y dead. and so tile boy5 thougfit the unto God (2 Tim. 2:15).
t. What you hear (Mk. 4:24).
number of 'other recruits, was ordered to parade' thing to do was to give hint a decent T_XT: "Because he hath (el his love t_pon
2. Therefore how ye hear (Ld. 8:18).
at a certain place that we might receive in- burial A rough box was svcfired, and the man _|e" fPsa. 91:14).
IV. TARE ]iEED lIOW YOU TREATTHE (]TILER_.tAN. structitms, withi0, and the funeral procession started IN'I'RODOC'_rIoN. This text shows the reward
t. Everyone his neighbor (Lu. 9:4). We were lined up, a sorry looking lot corn- for the burying ground, A passerby_ kfiowing of.affection when seen i_ the Hght of its context
Z_That ye despise not one of these (Matt. pared with the smart trained soldiers around ;,as, 4he men who were taking the man to the bury- wlfidl is verses 14-16. Within scope of these
18:10). . ,
3. Ye he nm consumed one of another (Gal. and tile Sergeafit-I_tajor, having first taoght us mg grn0nd, asked them what they were doing, verbs is the seven_fold pbase of the trilL of God.
S:IS). how to stand correttiy, _aid, "Now, fellow_, I and they replied that the man within the im- It is God's will expected In seven promises,
. am going to teach you tile first duty of'a _oldier.- provised coffin _laimed to .he dead physically Those who would benefit hy these promises must
"The Double Cure_ TIw first duty of a soldier is.o_tmF.uc_." and they believed that the odvBable thing to do set their love upon llim. Let us consider then:
,rjy R. _V. HEIITENSTEIN. That seemed a very easy lemon to learn, at was to give him a place somewhere under the I. WtlAT 11" MF.ANS 'l'O SET ONE'S LOVE UPON IIIM
'*Cleanse your hands ye sinners all events itwaS _;asy to remember, and before _nd, and tbey were now taking Idm for burial. 1. "I will say oi the Lord, He is my refuge.
Purify your fiearts yc double-minded" disnfissing us for the day the officer told us to Said the passerby, "Well, I am mighty glad to 2. lie is my fortress.
I" --James. parade again at the _.ame place til_ following " _ce y_m take him "away, for be'is a public nui- .3. lie B my God; in Him will I trust" (v. 2).
I. Sinners---Dirty hands and unclean hearts, morninu when we wguld be taught the second Nonce anyhow.".. It is said that the man arose in II, NOT_ Tll_ VaO_tL_S WHtCIt _tE nATlt stamp.
II. Formalists---Full hands and an empty heart, duty o[ a soldier, . his coffin and said in n,'P[yf "If I wasn't dead 1. I will deliver him, From nil _in. All
III.,Justlfied-=Ciean bands and fin impure heart. We paradtd the second morning and after osk_ , I'd lick you, to a frazzleY Evhlently he was tempations. All trials.
IV. Sanctified--Clean honda and a pure heart, in_. uswhat wa_ the first'duty of a soldier the not ¢luite dead yet. Some people rialto to he 2. I will _t him on Iffgh. Honor, .exaha-
V, Sanctification'in Action--I:uil fland_ and a offtcer _ld, "Now, I will tell you wfist the _cc- dead ¢a;fially, hut the.,movefnshts'of the okl lion. Sin debases; but grace uplifts.
full heart, end duty of a soldier is." Imagine our surprl_ _nan in his easket_be conB:ary, . Made kings and priests unto him,
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3. I will answer him whey he shall call. _ They are to bare an' inheritance _mong [ . , ."
" _ Thus we see tile open door througtt tile sanctified. The experience of sanctio. ' " , '
, answered
call, prayer. Godto a.orevery float,no
will of God. i.ooJohn.mace,
What spiritual ,n.i.tbe riches God
PRACTICAL
[ . 4, Iof will the bedivine with.himpresence, in trouble, in everyAssurance trouhle 3. They llas Willed have is an ininheritance the experience, with thel _aints _ .............. m__ _-- • ;.,,...,,,_:-- . -,,-:........ '_ _ £ .,- .' -- .-...-, ,_ --....,--._ ii
of body. mind or heart, bl li_bt. (Col. l:12). Eternal life i_ their "
S. I ,;viii deliver him and boner ldm. De- inheritance. THE MINISTER AND BIBLE STUDY be acquainted first with the doctrines of the
liverance with honor means Go_t wifl
vindicate,the saints hefore their enemies. BJ-BAsil W. MILL_ Bible. its history, it,_ geography,'its gre,_t churl
It means they shall be resurrected 'in T_.:,T: "That ye might be'filled with tilt knowl- Bilde'Study to,r Teaching actors, lie shonhl be _nformed as to the gist of
r_. UNI)AMENTAL to Christian activity is _ •tile different books. "tlleir lmrttcular messages,
honor, a deliverance from 'death, edge of his wilt" (Col. l:0l. _ mons must be rock-ribbed With it_ truths, anti an analysis of their contents. Too often the
, 6. With Iohg life will I _ltisfy Idm. This I. 'l'lllS rtt,L1Nf lS S_JIISEQtIEN? TO "flIElg RE- ' knowledge of the IBble. As minister., our see- mess.age of the separate lesson is lost because
is eternal life._whieh is only long enough . (;EN!_RATION. Proof: Otlr messages must resoundwith the authority of Ihe Learber knows only the truths,of that lesson,
to satisfy; a soul redeemed it can he t. They had faith in Jesus. (Verse 4). inspiration. Oar cqnversation must be made sacred and is unable to illumlnate it with other passages,
applied to fhls life in the !lody also.
2. They had love for all the saints: anti with the injunctions aml comm'andments of- and to develop similar truths from ocher person-
7. I will show him my eaivatioh. T}ds [uve in the Spirit. (Verses 4.8). " _cfipture But after we lu|t,'e preached from the ages of the Word, Moreover he .should kt_ow
means eter_tal salvation, t. They had a.hope laid up in heaven, i t pit, an lin clarion t_mes declart, d the jutlg- how to make the application of the lesson tc in.
(Verse 5l, menlo of God. Sunday after Sunday_ there re- di;'Jdual needs, and to diiferent classes. The
4. Tbe_; had the fruits of the gbspcl in nain_ am_tller phase _tI ministerial biker--the cllild ten years old needs a different form of
£CXT "lI a son. then an. heir of God through themselves. (Verse 0). teacblnt_ ilruct'ss. Our _.rnlons are pedagogical as hiblical instruction from the older man" or woman,
Christ" IGab 4:7). _ 11. WIIA1 11' MEANS TO lIE Ftt.Lr,n WITIr ?lie _'eil a_ msplr_ttionfil--thby must inlorm as well and the teacher must be able to interpret ,each
Introduction: Everything depends upon one's R.NOV*'LEIXIEOF IIIS WILL. a_ ills _ire, 3"0O often we eml)hasize tile Ins0i- me_sat_e m terms Of the life, the interests and tbe
relation to God Ills creatures may hone- I. It is to have'v:,i_tom aml _piritual finder- rational to thd detriment 'of the [nlornlatioliaL development el tile pupil. "BUt to do so the
fit because He has made them" for His standing, in wllat God's will is in the But is that institution 'for .tearhin_ tile Bihlg--- .Bible must be known thoroughly. How often
pleasure; .but none are heirs except they riches o[ His grace. Too many are livin_ the Sunday school the mini_icr must play a a little lack of geographical facts hampers the
be sons. "If a son. then an lmir of God." _ below their privileges, God .wills a gra- [eadin_ rob'. Herein hJ_ talents .shine. At pres- Lesson's application; or ,x lack of a knowledge
I. WE.WILL ESTanLlSll THE PROOF OF SONSHtP. CiOUSfulness of soul, eat out greatest pastors are also teacldn_ in the n{ historical passages or th'e structure of the
] . I. If a son it.is because God sent Itis son 2: It means a full knowledge of His will - Bible school. Some preachers are more at home tabernacle or temple de,treys the teacher's po_ver
to die for us. We are sons o ly hy llL_ [or our life's work and calling. Poe with an adult clas_, while Others find their place to interest and attract the learner, To te_i:h
merit and shed blood •(Verses 4, 5). shouhl he assured that he is in His in the young people's cla_es, or with the chil- well. know the Bible." To interest the' class, be
2. If a son it'is because something has beeti will in all things_ and in all lilaces, and dren. filled.with _ unusual facts concerning the Bobk
done in us. "God _cnt forth tbe'spirit *it MI times: Tbe training of the young _s paramount to ..pod cu_sems of Bible times and- lands. The difof
His, Son into your hearts crying, Abba. 3. It is hi order'that one may walk worthy successful Christian work. Tile ),outh of today terence between mediocrity and success is due
Father." (Verse 6).. o[ the Lord unto at[ pleasing. That is. " he¢omes the leader of tomorrow. The Church to the difference in such knowledge. "
3. If _ sdn then it is because we are no to liveso as to be a pleasure to {_od. To school of tile present, is the Church of tile future. General material. Thei'e are rmmerou_ text
more servants to sin and Satan. (Verses .so live one must know tits (viii fully. If we hope to buiht well the firm foundation in books designed specifically for _unday school
7, 8), (Verse tO). the Sunday school must he well laid--the ehil. teachers dealing with a general knowledge of
4, 1[ a son then we ba{'e the fruit of tile 4. It is#n'order to be [ru[tful in every good dien trained in Christian beliefs, taughtthe truths the .Bibleldeemed necessary for successful Sun-
Spirit. (_ :22,23). work. Fruitbearlng glorifies God To of the Word of God, 14rounded in the Iundamental day school work. In the various Teachers Traint,
S, If a son then "_,e ha_;e tbe,he_p of the. be fruitful In all lines of life one must 7_,eritles of God's Oracles. In this the minister ing Courses books dealing with o.11 analy_ts, of
Spirit against thc ca_l ,minil. Such have 'the fulness of His will (lone ill •fills a useful part. But to do so. he should be the Old Testament, its hooks, and history, and
walk in the Spirit and bare victory over him. (Verse }el trained, well informed concerning the Bible_ ac- the New Testameht, its doclrines, the life and
e flesh, (_" 16, 17), Every regdnerated s'. It is'in order to an almighty strength, curate in his knowlethze of its contents, its struc- teachings of Jesus and Paul are included. Suffice
person has dominion over the carnal mind. lVerse Ill. Such can only be vitro- tare and its history. This phase is too many it to say that every minister should he [amiliar - -
hut not deliveranc_ from it.. n.ous always. They have aU Iongsuffer- times considered unimportant a_d for it the , with the general contents of these books, pre-
6. If a son then we _dll expect to be made irrg and patience with joyfulness. The)' pastor takes but little pains in preparation, He pared by leading Sunday school worker_ with
ho b, through the Spirit. and not by are full of joy ip. aH times because they would r.ot think of preaching wit, _. as little study the explicit aim of furnishin_ materials needed
works, or our will, or growth. (5:5!. have _trength, to bear all trials and temp- as he does for teacldn_ in the School.. And as to interest pupil_. All denominations have guch
II. Svc_t Agz l[tafi, s oF GOD a'tmouolt _iIRrsT. tatlon_, a result the children are being lost to t]_e Cburch, courses and hence the books along this line are
1. God Himself shall be 'their inheritance, _._ h is in order that one may give thanks It)st to Christ. and lost to a vision of world too numerous to mentipn. No minister should"
All He is in person and possessions, is .in all things. Be ever filled with p_'alse evangelism. . feel equipped for. work in the Bible schobl unless
theirs, and thanksgivings. (Verse 121. For sutdVsslti_" teac_hfng the minlster-, should he is acqtlainted With this information.

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,Specific material Along with this general there will be no trouble in discipline, atientfon, to preach" tile gospel in the _intplest. way he gospel preacher, than in tbe minds of the youth
knowledge of the Bible many Bible Teacher's or seholar_ being absent " could, and. he was successful. • I have heard a of his congregation? I think we can safely say
Magazines are printtxl. Tl*rough txe p st few To leach well, know the lesson; understand number of the great preachers of our day, and that from one third to one half of uur congredecades
Peh)ubef's Commentary .for Sunday the Word of God; be x groanded in its" trutbs: most of their greatness has been marked by cations are made up of young people under
School Teachers has been _ classic. With tiffs point out its cleric*. The greatest lesmns in their simplicity• . twenty-fi_'e )'ears of 'age, so why _hould' r_t
is Tarbell's. l)r. Torrey of tlte'lliblt , Institute ritzhteousne_ .are thus imbedded in the. ebikl's lint _ little comparison nl tl_e time used for these younger people receive at least a prnpor_ .
h,as prepared for severM year._ what he terms hearl tile adult' and the children may be. helpTul in tionate amount of tbe pastor's tithe. Lbat the _ .
"The :Gist p[ the Les_on." Arnofd'_ Sunday tills discussion. The'pastor usually prepares two older people receive. Ilere are the plastic minds
school lesson helps are also published yearly --'---- ._ermon_ eacb Sunday with the adult _inl, or th F of the youth, ready to receive the gospel message
covering the several h._ons in a practical man- "A NEGLECTED FIELD hardened adult sterner in mind. fie prcpares his and more read)' to respond to its apixal than
ner. Then the material in our own Bible School fly, _). SItELnY" CORI.ETT [ ravermect[ng message for this gronp also..And the older one, so wby should they be. neglected?
Teacher's Journal is wltbnut equat from the- "_t'_jT']rEIavea host of v( ng pen.tiM in our t_tves the obligation of helping the child_er_ and There is no more fertile field in,the work of tbe
standpoint of kteveloping the spiritual massacres W chur_:hes _aI the earn teen age. _'hn youth to lhe Sunday school officers, the N.Y. pastor than in the youth of I!Is church; and
from tl_e various lessons (luring the year. Dr. " P.S. leaders, with a pomibhi Rally Day, Or sorry to _y, there is scarcely a field so neglected.
are to a greaL extenL, bt,ing negJected.
Snowden, of tile Uhfied Pre:'l v er an Churcb. GenerMly speaking diere is very little of the " Children's Day _ermon, or an occasional '"five- It has been estimated'by those who bane made
true to the fundamentals, also prepares a Sun- tetzular service_, el the church that will appeal minute" .,-ecmon to the children, mhdwlched in a careful study of the situation that most people
day School Teacher's Journal or book of lesson the service samewhi_re. We can safeb; _y that who are converted, are saved before they are
to them, n#.that many of them _vi/l un(ter_t_nd_ nne hundred and fifty sermons anti addre_es are twenty-one .),ears of age, anti as the a_es inhelps."
In all tbese hrief commcitts on the text 'Tile time of the average pastor is mostly giveU
ol the lesson are found_ then practical lessons. - prepared each year by our pastors, mostly "with crease the percentage of those who are converted
the gist of the lesso_, the le'sson outlined, lighf, to file adult but the youth of hi_ congregation the needs of the fiduhs o[ [ds congre_'ation in decreases. 5o this being the case, the youth of
• largely _eglec ez lie puts in isis time pre.
lrom Oriental lands on the lessons, the historical _:" x,iew;. while scarcely one lenth of this time has t,ur church is the most frdit(ul field for the
• paring sermnns for the adult mind; tds preach- .
backgroum/, connccil,g links betwee/_ tlie _veral in_ services, txvice each Sabhath_ are for lhe ' heen _iven to the preimration of those sermons i,astor's ministry; Life insurance agencies tell
lessons, and similar material follows With the l :)ddlt; the )rayermt_etinas are for the adult ; tile and addresses which will be helpful to the youth us timf the average boy el fifteen may be ex-
aid of such helps for teaching, the minister, as chihlren nttcntl, many times because their par- of his congregation, petted to live lorry-five ),ears, and rite man at
well as "lbe lay teachers, is fairly .well equipped eflls compel them to do s_,'slJll there is little in Our revival meetings are usuall_ conducted 'fifty may expect Lo llve less than twenty years. •
for the Iraifiing of our yot/ths in the things of _my of these services'that apl_eals to tbem. along tide same lines, mostly for the' adult, with Suppose a wide awake pa_tor sacteeds in get-
Christianity. A pa:tor whu had just within Ihe past ft",v one or more children's- _rvices _ndwiehed In ting twenty of his boys and girls converted and
" We are taking the training of the child in re- n'onths laken a certain c!_aree was' telling me of between the Sunday school b0ur and the mornin_ sanctified: what has he done? The aggregate 'I
Ilglon entirely too lightly, No teacht.r in the I m condition, of hi_ young penile. I e, said it preaching service. The evangelist" proudly re- of these lives is nine hundred years; whictx means
ptdifie _hool with such' a.small amount of train- ;,_as veto hard to, get. them to sis)" _'or the i'orts his meetings by _aying, we took .so many that he has brought nine hundred )'ears of serv-
ing in general education, at_d specifically in those cburch services, and they seldom attended i)rayer- into the church, "most of them beads of families." ice in Cbrist; nine hundred ).ears el good insubjects
to be taught would be tdierated. We meeting, excepting those wbo were spiritual and But he weald be somewhat chagrined to report, fluenee tp the .community; nine hundre_l years
demand of oar teachers who are _.o train the more mature• Upon investigation be said he there were twenty children converted or _nctt- of pure living and noble efforti.nine hundred
mind, the best mental equipment possible, but found that a former pastor, tllough a splendid fled in thd meeting, If he reports at all, lds :,'ears of prayer and praise;--nine hundred years
tb'ose who are to lmtn the soul. furnisl) the man and _ good l)reacher, /tad fe)t called t() report "_ould run something, like this: "This .is almost equal to the life time of Methuselah, He
. heart, are allowed to teach with little or m) I)reach. sucb "deep" sermons" Ihat he entirely meeting did not come up to our expectations, tee has saved twenty boys and girls, tyrenty men
specific knowledge or general training. There is ove_hot the young" people and children until, resells were not what we desired, qdiy about and women,.twenty old men and women--twenty
_,nal] wonder that over twenty.seven million Ihey had lost interest in the church service. There . t_yenty "childye'n were converted or _mctified." lives for Christ. Compare the fruitfulnessof the'
youths of the land .are now without any form may be occasions when such "deep" "preaching Or we have frequently read a report like IhJs: lives of this twenty with twenty [bat may be
• of religious instruction--the Church has failed is best, but when it is the custom to have see- "There wer_ so many. at the altar, including saved _.t. fifty, with less titan twenty years each
to 4ake seriously this matter ,of tead_er training mons so deep that the young "pi:ople and cbil- children." '_Only" so man)' chi dren "including" to live. /Jess than Iour hundred years of lives,
and preparation As a result those Who start dren do not understand them. we may well sup- children. But who.are il)_e children? They are mostly of men and women whose bodies bnyc
_0 the $ mdsy school drop out by tile thousands pose that a great tmmber el .the ohler people have to he our heads el families, they have, in ihe..be- been wrecked becau__e.of the service of sin; ,men
hy the lime they are from twelve to fifteen )nis_etl also. 'Tbis condition was contrasted in ginning of their lives, given the freslmess and. and women the useful part oI wbo_e lives have
years of age,. a conversation wilb another llastor, tie is prob- vigor of their lives tu God; tbcy have not spent bee_ sI_nt ill the _ervice of sin. We are glad
The problem oi how to ltald pupils in the _bly one of tbe most suec_sful soul winner_ of their yo.uthful (lays in sin and now'come giving to see them saved, they _bou]d be saved; but
Bible school will be largely solved when we" our :hutch, and a pastor most success[el witb what is left of their lives tu God. Their "soul_" we riced not neglect our youth.
train' our teachers efficiclitly. Discipline like- young people and children. In speakittg of his are not only _aved, but their lives are _aVed for It has been estimated in re¢,ees years that the
_dse" becomes an easy matter when the teacber new pastorate m_d .q)eaking 'kindly of his need- the service of God, God help us to have the church is losing seventy-five per tent of her
knows the art of teaching, making interesting deccs_or he _id: "[ am ltere t_ preach the g_s- proper conception of these youth and place a youth between the ages of twelve and eighteen,
the lesson. To captivate the attention of the i_l in the _iml)le._t manner I know!' One pastor's "proper estimate upon tbet) .value to the,church, that out ofevery four'children in the church and
c|as3 It is necessary, first to know the lesson anti ambition x_'as to be a "deep" preachei'; and he Where is', there a more fertile field Int.'the Sunday scbool at the. age of twelve only 6he
by Illu_ knowitm and Hgh ly applying tbe lesson failed witl_ his ),oulb: the otheds ambition.was . - planting o! the "word" by tbe "sower," the remains at the age of eightceb.' Losing seventy-

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five "per cent of those who have an average ol last man wbo sobl his Lord for money. For cially pastor, will have to make up his mind to Not 10ng since we were driving across country
forty-five years each to live. These lives we worldly gain, prestige, fame, phce, hundreds of fight formalism and professionalism Determine in afirst class auto afid all at once she began
are losing may he sav_'d, at least a large per- preachers hai:e sohl out--sold a good conscience, ra stay out of ruts. Always be on the lookout ,to miss and splutter and fall in driving force.
courage of them, if we would only take a more compromised principles, compromised convictions, ipe new texts, new messages, new.thoughts, new "¢_'eexamined the spark plugs and bought one
• 3,enuine and loving in2erest in them. Why will' ' When p man _oes down morally, he usually goes illUstrations. Keep ever determined to have for- t_ew connecting wire that runs from the timer
we permit our _/outh to slip through our fin_ers out. But when a man compenm_ses he usually v(nry and unction in your own life and min!stry In the. spark plug, but "to no avail, she conpractically
unnoticed, and then expecl to hr[n_ goes on,preaching, spreadinu the_poison of death• and the.goal always in view "to present every iinued to miss and splutter. We were trying to
them back througb revis,al effort as mature men blighting the live_ o[ thousands and heaping nmn perfect in Christ Jesus," fix it nurse]cos After all our preten_inns we had
and women? It is not being do.e. We mu_t d. _,p._ his own head the greater damnation Our third division is a delicate subject to dis- to confess tha't we _did nat know where the
. something to save our youth. A noted pastor in the West, _ pastoy a[ a cuss, but in mentioning dangers, this one" must trouble was and called a mecbanlc. He came
Ilistory'ahounds in the examptes ol the lives lart_e influential churc[1 [n an influential city, be SPOKZNOUT1.onn. A numbcro[ men. preach- oul in a hurry, listened a minute, tried• out the
. of men who have been saved in their youth, lecently visited amt talked with one of our L,rs of national _reputatinn in the holiness move- spark plugs, and began to examine the timer
Poiycarp, we are told. was converted at the promising young pastors, taking charge o[ the meat, and scures of le._er lights have gone down box while we tried to tell him that the trouble
age oI nine; Matthew Henry at eleven: D_. Isaac _ew Church of the Nazarene, o_lzanlzed in that bccau_ of questionable attitudes'or, relations with was with the spark plugs• Howevei', he went
Watts at nine; Bishop Hall at eleven Robert city. lie talked sometl'dn_ as follows: "I have the opposite sex. On tbe other band, many worn- .right on into the timer and began to tear it
• Hall at twelve; Alfred Cookman a_ ten: Francis- b_'en ob.,_,r_:ing your .people in. various places en called of' God to some place in ttis work, apart, We felt that he did not know his busi-
Asbury at fourfeen; llishop MeCalJe at eight; You nave some splendid pious people. And have ruined their lives by giving them to un- hess but baying exhausted our ability we tried
Johnlnskipatsixteen; AdamClarkeatsevcnteen: y,u boys are zealous in a commendable way. t:odfy, lnen. I want .to hay a thing hard, .so I'll to keep still inasmuch as we had called him to
Dr P. 1_. Bresee at e_reen; and many others Ilut.'you will le_.rn as you grow ohler in years lint it dawn in the next paragraph alone, fix it. Finally, alter he had the _imet off and
who have heen-ohtstanding in leadetshiu nl the _md experience that you cannol keep it up, ..In A preacher of e_ther sex, who will perndt or all apart he said "This little piece is broken and
Christian Church have been convert6d intheir a lew more years your church will be lust like indulge an)' questionabld acts with the other sex, ..we will have to replace it witha new one.'_ We
youth. ¢'ur_ I u_d to preacb holine_ myself, preached _ A FOOL. felt foolish and. no doubt lost. our wise look and
It is indeed a Iruitfhl fiefil. Shall we negh'ct it for many years, hut I found it didn't succeed. The young pastor will do well to have a care said "Y-e-s." lie _ot the small piece and put
this very. fruitful field _ - We must not. Let us And you will find you will be able to do more ia the otbe_ home, at the -altar, giving advice in it in, replhcL-d the timer and said, "Start her."
become more seriously eoncer_ed 4or _bis ne_- _ood in tile world when you quit placing the _" the domestic troubles of others, etc. It is be- We did, .she went and he said, "One dollar.
lected field--our youth, emphasis as you do now," This•writer has do_ie lit.ved thai the confessional box ruined themorals /flease." We paid gladly and went on. our way
n,ost.of bis work of twenty years in the West, 'of the priesthood of th_ Catholic _burch. Web,- with power for service. While the cause was in
--. And l can truth[ally.say the westerA woods are if you are a well-beloved and _respected pastor, the timer the. effect showed up in the spark
" THREE DANGERS full of preachers, in the _'arious churches :who " there are•many who will make your eat another plugs.
- By A. E. SA_r.g once preached holiness. But now they mentinn confessional box. You must be well.beloved, Pastors of _uper six churettes wlll find similar
I
serious dangers confronting the Nazarene
WISH to. name to you what I feel are three
preac _er. _,'ou will note thai I do not menbus
bt_n (as th6y said) for. bread and butter,
it no more. In'most instances the compromi._
Another sad [act I know: I have had years
your poop e, and listen ton. but not without
._nd care you and must propersympathize" reservation. with Buitd th6 needs a good of
ic (evangelist or District Superintendent) wdl
trouble soon locate :it tiracs the but trouble the proper and.repair kind of It athongh_ mechan. it
t_or, fanaticism among these. Fanaticism is" a of acquaintance with various holiness, schools, strong fence beyond which you will not go. Let _akes some new parts.
that fence be tho [in/" of propriety and safety. - • Dirty spark plugs' wlil cause a Io_ of power
danger, Ibut I believe formalism is a more serious
rlanger. Every life will have its own moral
weakness and against these each _ul must guard
b_gb Nazarene and interdenominational, and it
is a sad loci'that a number who have gone
through the •holy fires of tbese institutions• have
The married pastor is "th/_safest and most useful
and has the advantages on his side. "It is no_
but this can soon be overcome by
them and scraping off all the carhom
removing
However.
and watcb for itself. It will he plainly ohvinus
thai'no set rule of "three dangers" for all lives
I_ter out on the fields, .turned aside Irom the
rugged way for the shekels. Tht_ holine_ way
good live alone•" for a man (and a pastor is a maul to the chfich will have to stop while this is being
done. When the carbon of false doctrine, [ndif_
may be given. I only give it as an.ohservation cannot be popularized, aml the E_gsT way is to ference, etc., gets on Ihe spark plugs (faith) it
that these three dan_ers bare been the instru- die to this old ;,vorld, and once lot all take the reqmre_ a I_onescraping revival to remove it.
mental cause of multitudes of wrecks, both • of sale way, of being true to the C^LL and V_sm_ . .. THE PASTOR'S SUPER ,SIX The process seems

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and,rcconditibning or junk them Iftheyarehe- "Thisissuchan oust&hieworld thatwe arenot a healthyindicationor not isa much mooted and reason.The hook we arediscussing would
yond hope sure of anything unless it is transmuted into question, but we most admit tbat a re'ulster furnish a good foundhtion for such an [nee/li-
The revival is the _ best of all mettmds to spiritual treasure." th:se days, in order to " _ut it o_cr" must be an gent di,'cuss:on, "
clean spark plugs. -However. if only one is [n another chapter speaking of "The Unique-- executive of no mean sort. The Frec Methodist Publi_dng House has madd
missing personal work will many times' repair nes.s ,o[ Jesus' Way" we re,sth "It is not sur- The book is divided into five part; _ith each " a _,'aluable contribution to missionary literature
It and save so much expense ahd effort, prising that some people are afraid _o commit part thoroughly coyered: tI_ TIW' Minister as Iy bringing out "Life in Mozambique and South
Perhaps it would he well to c_ll attention to themselves utterly' to Jesus' wayof I[fe_ They a Leader. (lI) The Services of the Church. African," by Rev, J, W. /1airy ($t.25),. The book
tile fact that spark plugs work best when they fear it wouhl invoh'e them ina complete revo- (llfl Special Pro,zram_. (IV) "Publicity.. iV) hives an intimate a:coum of a missionary's life"
are hot. Tbey are nmde for the fire and operate lution." Tids writer surely has a real insizht Administrative Detail. " and experiments in the Dark Continent Wc
best wben all ablaze, espcci£11y thai part that into ._piritual values. Her hook is lille a cool I_oted thc absence of tiresome and easily forh
down in the heart of the engine, lint hearts, spring beside the traveler's dusty way. It is this reviewer's humb!e judzmcnt that t:otten_statlstivs and a speeisl empha;is upon
cool heads, and plenty of power is a fine thing To say that a certain hook represents ;t real svhile the finest administrative machinery and Iltth,'every-day incidems that make the book
for pastors wh6 drive super six churcheS, contribution to the literature" on any subiect, the highest type of' executive leadership will _o .very readable and at the same time rive the
never produce a church "terrible ds an army reader a "first hand" word picture of actual life
I[ your super.sex, my brother .at all, is. in tbis day/saying a great deal Bat with bannera" in the confflct with the powers on the m|ssib, fiehh The book is well .and
Would ztem the tide o/ stomny _weath?i': we have before.us Catherine Booth:Cliborn's re- of darkness, yel it is possible that. a Spirit-, generously illustrated. -
Keep your slmrh plugs always clean, cent bpok !'Love and Coui'tship" (Doran, $1,00). baptized ministr:, and a zealous people will fail
Have plenty oJ juice and gasoline. The author is the eldest t]aughter of the late General
William Booth and a sister.of General.Beam- to produce,the highest possible result_ on'accounl CHURCH PUBLICITY
well Booth Ofrthe Salvation Army. One of bee reU- of hit-or-mi_ planning anti tabby admlu/stra_ fly 5f. Iztr._r¢
finn inother respects. In _earchintt the Scriptures we find that Christ
HERE AND THERE AMONG BOOKS sons for ;,vriting the book is'found in the lntro- - * -
By P. It, LUXN duction:"On no subject, perhaps, have we zone Your reviewer-gores a step farther and makes was a keen observer of the customs and activi-
Adventuring" (Cokesbury, SI.00_ the author
IN tbe Foreword of her new book "Spiritual
Bertha Conde, glv'cs a hint concerning tile prewhich
results in'marrlaee, .home and children,
so tar astray as on the subject of love=--love
The home is the mgst valuable asset of a nation
would find a place in his working library. It is
bold to say that I,he were a pastor, thi_ book
sugge:tiye and'filled w:th ideas and in ihis highly
-chihlren of thL, world are in their _eneration
ties of others than'His own followers. "For the
wiser than the t:hildren of light," We are addominating
motif of th'e chapters that foUnw, and forms the true foundation of an empire.", competitive age one must hsve idea'-, otignal or vised to be wl:e as serpents and harmlem as,
She says, "The time has come to face the chal- Tile book is written both from the social and borrowed, [or without ideas, the mindis a bleak, doves. Has the Churcll shown _,vi_doFiin not
lenging teaebings of,the "living Christ, Every the re[igloos p_Jint of view. Iler chapter bead- barren fidld.. , . usinz every possible avenue to appeal to men
capacity of spirit, mind and bode i_ needed to rags are .worthy bf enumeration: Divine and We thought it bad all' been said hut now comes and women in order to win them for God and
make vivid to the wdrld the triumphant person- Human Love: Parents and Relati_;es; Flirting; Frank E. Allen witb another stmly of Evolution, the Church? Evident!y the Church of ,Jesus
alit'¢ ol tile Christ who freed men from sin by Conditions fo'r Ehgagemems; Engagements: ",written to instruct, encourage and sircngthen Christ is awakdned to the possibility of printers'
his death, and opened untold possihilitie_ for Brohsn Engagemeots-:-Legifimate and llle_iti- the faith of those wire are troubled by, intellect- ink as evidenced bythe:report which, on account
spiritual adventure by his resurrection." mate Reasons: To the Disappointed and Brave: ual doubts growing.out of today's discussion." of tbe splendid sugl_estion_, we publish.
Thnt'3 rather.,a bold interpretation of the'quest Most young people are _dly without ideals The book, "Evolution in the Balanl:es" certa'nly Church Publ cityConfereltctt o1' the Chicago
of spirltual things--adventuring. It suggests co- and a true estimate of values it1 ibis' matter, has a_decldediy practical turn.' Its efforts to "Church Fe:teratlon.
mance--and by the way, didn't sonieone write This hook will at least start them thinkidg, Here refute the evolution theory is j_a_ed on a dis- By L_r_.'c_ H. Howz
a book entitled "The Romance of Right Living?" is a trenchant paragmph: "The hlgbest factor cussion of such subjects as: Are There New let the meeting of tile Chicago Church Federa-
Adventuring requires the pioneer spirit, hardihbod ill love and' courtship is the spiritual; ftr mar- Species? ,EmbryolOgy; Comparative Anatomy; tion, held O:toher 25, an address was given by
courage; and now that we stop to consider a riaee i_ more than a physical bond, _leeper than - Human Fossils, etc.; Testimony of the Mum- Mr. Charles Stehle, chairman of the Church
bit, the Apostle Paul did lead an'.adventurou_ an outward'aereemem. It involves spirit and moths, etc. Advertising Department of the.lnternatlonal Adlife.-
._oul, not body alone; nor is it spirit and soul We feel satisfied in our miod_ that a m'.nister verthing A_sncistiou, on how to advertise the
But rather strange it is-_this book i_n't a _,ithout the body'. It is the perfect min_lino should decide eltbe_ to let Evolution entirely Church.
dynamic pigce of writlng--nothing martial or .of tb_ hopes, sentiments, and ideals of two be- alone and stick to the positive preaching of the -Amonz olher things be said:
beroic in its atmosphere. It is deeply devotional in_s. In this light all substitutes for m,arriage, gospel Or he st_ould make a tborough and iotei- I. Assume that the public kno¢,'s nothing-about
and has • gent e, "wooing note throughout. It however gilded, are p_'osiitutfon. True marriage ligent study of both material and Theistic evo- the Ch(Jrch. Take nothing for granted but begets
bold of you'though;with a-quiet impulsion is in .one world, all the rest in'another: they lotion. Nothing pbts a "mlnLster in a more plti- gin at the very bottom in )'our advertising cam.
that leads to new resolves and higher ideals, differ' ds light from darhness," ful posltlon or so much subjects him to the scorn paign. •
Chapter VIII is fraught with • rich .thoughts, "Church Administration" (Doran, $2.00) is of intelllgen.t l_eoers as for bim to launch a 2. Assume.that the Church does not know its-
• The subject is Spiritual Alchemy and the theme credited to Rev. Wm. tL Leach, a PreSbyterian tirade against the evolutionists anti their claims community. This win neci_ssisatea survey to
is transformation. Early in the chaptei" we read minister who for some years has given portico- • ending up with saying, "But we know better; ascertain the status of the field occupied byany
this arresting s[atement: "Spiritual power is lar attention to this subject. He founded and we believethe Bible." Again permit me to say, particular church, and this will of itself deterjudged
not by what people _:laim hut hy what edits 'Church _lanagemcnt, the ministers' trade "If _ were a pastor," if so, I would want to be mine the nature of the advertising bes_ adapted
tliry use- in transforming daily experience into journal. The book' is' a sut-vey of modern, exec- able to'dlscuss intelligently tlpe teachings of coo- tc that field,
spiritual values,. A little farther on we find_ utive methods in' church work, Whether it's lution and to refute it with $crlpture_ _cience 3. The Churcb must create an atmosphere

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favorable to itself before effective a_vertisipg the United States. The display will be exhibited Tile United Prebyterian missilmaries first visit- iJart, prompts such of tbe drinking' as remains.
can be done. invarlous _parts of the country. . ed Abyssinia in 1010 and in 1022 it was rccog- " 3. Tbat conditions surrounding students in
4. The Church must believe in its work and ll^awY, ILL. nizcd I_y the Church a_ a chief mission field, college communities today arh more conducive
he able to present t-cony ncingh' Three cities are now occupied as stations. There. m sobriety than tbey were previous to prohibi-
S, Advertise with sincerity and wiih positive- FACTS AND FIGURES are three hospitah and eight. _honis .with over tion,
ness. (Do not knock the other go!low m your By E. "J. FLEM]NO 200 pupils Abyssinia has an e_timated population 4. Than an overwhelming majority of ¢ollege
.ads). ._, Accordlng to statistics furnished by an ex- ol 10,000,000, one-half of whom belong to tile..presidents, professors and students .feel that pso-
Speaking of what ihe Church sllould adver- change, the Republic nf Brazil, South America, Ahyssiman Church. hibition "has justified itself. .
rise, Mr. Ste[zle said that the Church .should m t872 showed that in its vast population over" In 102S snakes caused the death o[ 10,308 Under the last point the following surprising
udvertlse tbe one thing it holds a monoply on, 84 per cent could neither read nor write, In persons in Eritlsh India. Tbe-,annual loss for statistics were gtvee.. They are so sigdifieant
viz., The Cure for Sin. Thai is what a business 1020 the ecnsua gave a population of 30,635,605, many yeses has been approximated at 20,0t_O. that the), de,rye [he widest publicity.
house wohId do, tell about the thing.it has that and of that number over. fourteen years of age, Wild animals destroy 2,500 more. In the twelve I, Should the Eighteenth Amendment be rig-
.no one'el_ can offer, lie further suggested that_ only 75 per c_nt were illiterate. While the de- months of tO25, there were reported killed 31,000 idly enjorced_
tbe Church make knowti thTough its advertising: Lrease in illiteracy is' not tour!t, it presents an snakes al_d more titan one-half that humber of Mt. Holyoke Co'liege group 079o YES
I. The terms of admission--wbo is eligible to encouraging outlook, and speaks well for Peat- wild anim,a[s, includlng 4,660 leopards and f,00o Stanford Univer_ify group ......... 04% YES
t,tant _nissions. ti_ers. University of Minnesota group ..... _8g% YES
membership, etc. People fear membersldp committees
and should be abR_,to learn the qualifi- The Presbyterian o[ September 2, gives the The population o[ India is estimated at 3'18. Connecticut Colisge group ........ 87% YES
cations of members witimut app_arin_ before a following statistics as the record for the past P42 480. In the average t,000 of population. Universitx'of Michigan group ........ 84% YES
committee. :,'ear of the Presbyterian Church: there are 3t_fi Hindus. 217 Mohammedans, 37 Wasidngton Square, N._t r. U. group . ,80% YES
" Total communicant membership .. 1,@00,11l Buddhists, 15 Christians. and 31 of different Smith.College group .... 70% YES
2. The type_of people b'elonging to a certain Added on examination .... ....... 110,'/)5 _ tribal religions. . Education. N, Y. U. group .......... 68_ .yES
church make it known that you have ten cap- Added by'letter .................. 7t,050 " Poland has a ]ewish popldatinn of 4,(X}O,0000; Amherst College group ............... 64_'o YES
pellters, fourteen _clerks, fi_,e stenographers, nine Restored to" roll ................. 12_055 Russia, 3,600,000, while tile. United States has a University o[ Texas group ........... 64% YESinrn_ers,
four store-keepers and the common
Loss by dcath ................... 26370 larger Jewis pnlmlatinn than any other country University of Nortl_ Carolina ........ 72% YES
people will say, "That is my crowd." _ - ckness
(F_:om sleepms _i in the world as repro:ted by an authority on Commerce N. Y. U. group ....... '...S5% YES
'3. The financial consideration. Some may'host- at Eint, Africa, 5,0001 Jewish statistics. Average of aII college groups surveyed 77_ YES
late because they cannot contribute much. Let Other losses ..................... 126,46f We g!eaned from a recent excbanne the Fol. 1. Should the Eighteenth Amendment be abol-
it be known how the chureh_ is supported and Net increase in membership ..".... 35,2$2 lowing paragraph: i_hcdl
how much i_ contributed each week by various TotM contributions .............. $61,18b,722 _ "Roy. A. A. Waisb, tim wayside evangelist, University of Minnesota group ........ 00% I_IO
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elas.ses. Strangers wd then not he embarrassed Congregatinnal ,*.44,731,002 haptizdd in the international waters of St. John's Mr. H01yol_e group .................. 83%. NO
for they will be able to compare their giving Bern:valence 16,063,_'42 Rwer, tO0 persons In one hour on'September 5. University of Michigan group ......... 82%=NO
with others.. Per capita gifts .................. $32.57 . According to this, the 12 disciples could baptize Un vet's ty of N C Stoup .... ......... 81% NO
4: The doctrines oi th_ Church--what the The report of the American'Board of Cam- _. 1,200 in one hour or 3,000 in Ic.ss titan three Connecticut College group ............ 70*70 NO
Church belicves and _tsnds for.. mL*.sioners f6r Foreign Missions of the .Congrc- hours. Smith College group .......... ..': ..... 70% NO
Mn Stelzle advocated the selling of .tile ad- gational Church shows the following figures at The following ts taken from the Free Metho. Stanford University group ............ 69% NO
vertisiag idea to the Focal church, and the church the cod of the fiscal _;ear, August 1026: di_t: Education, N. Y. U. group . ............ 68_'o NO
board to such an extent that they will provide Total Receipts (ExcRIsive of "A llt_uor _ub_idized press is constantly harp- University of Texas group ..... : ...... 6gtete_NO
for all advertising expenses in the church budget Women's Boards) ............ $1,246,610.35 ins upon the demorallzai.ion of the' students and Commerce. N, Y. U. group .......... :..56% NO
rather than going' nut find trying to sell it to Disbursements .................. t 246,125.05 youth of America through drink. The matter Amherst College group ........ _...,.S0% NO
the business men of the community as is the The receipts show a loss of $_,627.37 in gifts is stres_d in order to create sentiment against Washington Square N.Y,U. group ..... 57% NO
case where business ]rouses are solioited to spun- from individual friends over the preceding year, the Eighteenth. Amendment on .the assumption Average of all college St;pups suryey_ 60% NO
for advertising for the church or to buy space Sunday. school, and young Peol_ie's societies fell that liquor drinking and lawlessnes_ are worse '.'In all the expressions of opinion by stuclent.
t, hymn books, .calendars, ete._ in order that off $2,538.51. Tbe tots| debt of the Board is under the Amendment than they were under the bodies in the pa_t two years only Four colleges,
the Church may get its publicity "free." Un_ $213.242.14. license .system. As, usua|, the facts g|v'¢; the lie so far as is known, bare voted for a return o[
less the Church is sold to its own advertising The Iollowing figures are gleaned from the to the statement. At a recent hearing on pro- beer sad wine, and none for stronger drinks.
-regram and willing to back it up. not much tel-annual report of the United Presbyterian h|bition before the Senate committee, Mr, R.H. The._ four am all east of'_he Hudson fiver. " One
good will come from it. Churcb concerning its work in Egypt: Rolofsnn_ executive secretary of the Intercol- unlveesity "daily tbi_ _,ear, and a few others
The Chicago Cliurch Federation is now as- There are 106 churches besides 231 additional legiate Prohibition Association, submitted eel- previously, have taken tt similar position; tbese,
sembling what is to be the largest display of preaching place_, and 45 congregations that are donee prbving the following facts: too are ,in the East, But the overwhelmin_
cfiurch advertisiug in the world. The display seli-snpporting. They report 17,320 members 1, That there is less drinking among colisgt; -opinton of the'American studentS'so far as edi-
will have headquarters in Chicugq hut will be ' who contribute $109,039,00, equivalent to ab0ut students today than there was prior to the cam- torial comment, straw votes, resolurions and other
'made. up of the mo_t su_cet, sful and earefuUy $6.50"per inember_ "i_heee contributions paid lng of the.Eighteenth Amendment. public expresSions'go, is .in favor of retaining
prepared advertising material from all parts of over 00 per cent of the expenditures of the Church. 2;That the spirit of adventnre_ for the most and' observing the present.profiibitinn law.'" -

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VOLUME I DECEMIH..'R, 1926 NUMpI':I_ 12
THE PREACHING SPIRIT
• i P=r___waiied for the completion of the "preliminaries" I suddenly awakened
1 L_-__ in' the prope r "spir.i_' to preach, on the subject o_ the mo_]ng.
_, _ _l "_ _Itl_lil_]_[]]]l_lt_(_ll i_" hand ancbknew•very well what I expected to say. I had no
' doubt dut=_h_ot_t;_a gcm_.sermon," as SUch matters are commonly measured among
-. us. But I was pained at _Lhereminder that my theme was m_ich "beyond" me, fromthe standpoint
i. of feeling and preparationS\of _pirit. I would soon be preaching on love, hut my own heart was
_mthe r
coo[. I s_'ou_dba_t][lkin._'"about the fulness of. the •Holy Spirit but my own situation was
• - somewhat "common•Dlaee.7'_ _._a.tt_tvas I to, do ?_ I_ l,had been utterly •without any thin.to say,
U_d bf:t_c_t0hl "of_l" dtfiotalnttlor_ " as I was vdth _._., _..the_pr rt_irit _r saying it, I wouhl h_ve.asked that the time be gtven to
a,_ tbome_b_eeecdpublhl_ _l_g_l _ .the . b_ It I. gad. aa Ind_- =e=t testimonies and that preaching be postponed, for some other occasion. But as it was, I could not
._rmhle book for even, looter who nluU very well do that. So I lifted my heart ,in earnest prayer and repentance and contrition and
II ..tbod records_'erdt ._d,tho_=n_. _toa f0r 6a tn his m=reh ,ork. etse_n, proml_ of better conduct for the future, and God did hear me and help me to a goodly me_ure
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Descrihingmyexperience.oftwoweeksaeo. lwouldnotthinko[mysenseoflaekinterms
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P¢t_tl¢..75c morocco, 260 pages ...... .G_/.;$1.75 But one'day last weekl was exceedingly busy /dl day and came up to the time when I was
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' careful and'almost depressed. Nevertheless, I "felt" like preachit_g, and I'did preach'the simple"
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And all this has set me to thlnking. Many, times l have been asked to preach a certain ser-
• : men which I have preached somewhe,=e else and have mentally, agreed to do so, but when the
hour arrived I found I _wasnot "in the spirit" to preach on that theme at all. By some attention
tog 950 rages ouch, Bin llng is.o[:¢_lori _ " to my 'ffe¢lings" in such matters. I have found el/at I must ne_)er preach on hell when I feel at all
_eat al_d'dtlcablc. ,Tlze.'fiill te:_t of the; . - indifferent, that I must never preach on the Judgment when 1' have the slightest semblance of
resentment, that I cannot preach.on repenlance when I am in any tiring of a light vein, and that
I cannot preacb on sin when I am unmoved. As a matter of fact, "the spirit" I find myself in at ,
preaching time has _hany times decided me as to the theme Ishould use. I can preach on doctrine
',. --t.speciall_" on thedoctrlne of holiness---when I cannot preach on any thing else, so Ihave just
,. ".- • about decided to preach holiness all the times I preach except those times when I especially "f_l
like" preaching on something else. •
/: But our main thought here is to emphasize the importance of "the preaching spirit," a_d to
, " suggest that aslile from material, texts, outlines and illustraeioas, it takes lots of prayer, lois of
• ', " genuine praying through, and lots of holy living to qualify one for preaching the Gospel as it
• ought to he preached. The preacher must,not only he saved from wicked, things, hut he must
keep away fi-om the smelt of materialism and secularism an'd keep the odor bf devotion, heavenly-
_, . mindedness, and the personal sense of _ropheric. ordainment ripen,him Inorder to be a rca[ preacher.
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THE PREACHER'S GRAVEYARD
thocalfingin.Io huttho ofactooa Wosolle indis osohle, mo: . ,hthep=hor. -_EVOTIONAL
timesattheenthusiamof"theyouo .preachor."whothinkshispoopl .... :,:, t'.,ofi.ottbe . . are
and who thinks there are oppottnnitles in his little village beybnd those claimed for the metrop- . • . . • " "
oils. ;Bu't-iris enamorment for his wo'rk will prodffce a zeal and freshness which will make him
succeed, wbile the staid old pulpiteer to whom'preaching is a common place occupation will lose LETTERS ON .PREACHING l, Want of spiritual perception--the "way*
hiscrowd and lose his crown,
When romance dies the preacher dies. Romance is to the preacberwhat:dil is to the maehln-'
lly. A, M, I.hLl.s. siiie" hearer.
ei_', and when it dies the preacher wi[[ feel.the.friction and the wear and tear of his life• He will . XI, The Textual ]Sermon 2: Want of depth of character.--'Stony
be conscious o[ his ._acrffieesand will be hurt by Ms disappointments. He will be exacting in his "_rIItF.N we use the text not only to places." .
requirements and dissatisfied wish his remunerations. He will never be "at his best" any more,
_J_/ give us our theme, hut also the dew- 3. ,Dissipating influences--"Thorn._."
because he will never find a situation _at is full), deserving of his hdst. v ¥ slons _of,the sermon, largely inthe II, Requirements for permanence ._of religious
The romance of the preacher's calling never died in tho_ pr_'aehers who served well their very wbrds of the text, we have the textual impressions:
own day and generation, "Paul the aged" never ceased to marvel that "to me, who am less than _ermon. Not infrequently some of the divisions 1. Sincerity._"An honest :and _ood heart"
the'least o[" all saints this grace is given." Spurgeon testified that he never entered the pulpit are' more or tess implied logically hut are not tLuke 8:15). .
without ]Jeing so affected as that his loners.smote together. Whitefield arose from hi5 bed of final _ expliclt]y stated. Then it becomes a textual.ln- 2. l_dedltatlon--"Keep, it" (Luke 8:15l.
sickness and preached until the candle which bc held in his hand burned low. all the time realizing ferential sermon. 3. Eaduranre--'lWith pattefice" (Luke 8:15),
that this wo_d be his last time to speak to men on ,'my subject, And the most used' "soldiers Sometimes, the tho0ghts. "_ .°f the text are..brought We heard a very able female preaclfer in End- 4o
of the cross" have asked for nothing better th;fn tbat they should be- privileged to "die In the ottt far y and faithfully by the discussion, wble land, Mary A. I4"atch. discourse from the text
harness." These nten were so. enamored of their work that they asked for no better companion they are .not stated very definitely ill the exact Ps. 145:16, "Thqu openFst thine hand and satis_
in death than that they should be allowed to preach and die dr/ring the same hour,'. Preacher, language of the text. It is still a textual sermon, llest the desire of every living thing."
young,or old, il your work as a preacher of the Gospel no longer thrills you. you better select hul it_ variety,: is"textual-toplcal. ,.Tal/tMZ. "GoD's PROVm_'_TIALC^Rn."
your gra{,eyardj for you will need one. typically,, if not physically, ve_, _oon.
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I. The textual sermon _hotdd commend itsel]
to cver_ true *nan of God, because at its reverent
I. It is God's own personal- care.--"Thou."
It. He does it easily. "Openest thy hand."
loyalty to the holy Word. Tbe preacher is not How easily we can do thM!
HOW MANY BOOKS DO YOU READ IN A YEAR? preaching man's theories and opinions, but'God's, III. Abundantly provides.---''sat/sfieth the de-
The average audienr_ will not be ._low in findin_ sire of every living thing."
The Eastern Oklahoma
passed resointions-'requinng
District of the Church of the Nazarene in its recent annual Assembly
ministers to report at the next Assembly the number of books read
it out. They will instinctively know that the "Enough for each; enough for all,
during the_Wear.
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A_d in di_ussing the matter, one minister was heard to voice oh ections to'the preacher has put himself in the right place
hefore them--as God's messenger, God's amb_-
Enotigh forevermore."
What could "be more appropriate
p_
or scriptural?
requlrementand to a_ert that he himself.had not read any books during the year, Fortunately .-ador. It will tend to make them sit up and Take the remarkable words of Jesus in Matt.
we do not koov,; who tbe minister was who made this remark, for on that'accbunt we can speak listen to what God has to say to them. II ;2g-30 "Cofne unto me all ye that labor" etc.
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I. The textual sermon m .its simplest form • Theme, Christ's Rest for a Sin-burdened
may unfold the text clatt_ by clause, or even try.
Human-
[i_h'manent failure and that When the church sets blm aside while i_e is yet in the prime el his word by word.. Some fifty yrar_ ago Dr. Deems I.All humanity. Is bearing the crushing burden
physical life, because, llke a passing tree, he is "dead at the top," he will have no one to blame
hnt himself, was a prominent pastor of New York City, He of sin. "Lahour"--"Heavy laden."
preached on Rein, 6:2L His'theme was "Cbarec-
But a_ we have thought el the matter today, it has occurred ta us that it might be just a little teristics of a Sinful Life." (a). Its Barrenness. II. An'infinite, divine Person is'the world'i off!y
embarrassing i[ every preacher were required to report the number n[ hooks read each year; for - . "What fruit have ye?" (b). Its Slavery. "Slaves hnpe.-2-"Cord6 unto Me." "1: will give." No oih_r
many who read some do not read very-much. We have heard it said that a writer who does not of sin" Co. 17), "Servants to uncleanness" (v. 19), religion like that. No oiher founder el a religmn
read will soon cease to be read, and, we belieVe that a preacher who does not read and hear will "Shoes of sin" (v. 20). (c). Its Shamefulness. ever did or could speak so.
soon cease tobe heard. , "Ye are now ashamed." (d). Its Destructive- [II. The Savior offers. Himself to all humanity.
Of course the question of what hooks lhe preacher _hould read is a difficult nne,"and with ness. "The end of those thin_s is death." That "'Come' unto Me." Z'Learn"oI Me." "AH ye."
the best of care, he wffl have to read a good many books which will not yield much profit is noble preaching on a neglected theme. IV. "Take my yok_ upon you." All must serve
,But the_ eonslderatinns call for more, rather than for less reading. Sixty years ago F. W. Rohertson's sermons shine.superior belng,--Gad or Satanl Which?
It does look like any preacher ought to be able to buy or borrow one hook a month and were.moving the E0g}ish speaking world. He V, Only in Christ's service can rL'se be found."
read it thoroughly. One young preacher 'read twentyLone hooks last year anti was ashamed that usually had two main divisions to his sermons, "Ye shall find rest to your souls."
he had read.no more. Twb preachers of our acquaintance make It a rule to read a book a week,
and we know two who have set themselves, to read four. hooks every week el lha year, We nee
and subdivisions. Here is a specimen:
"TILE PARABLEOP TIIESOWER. t'
Such textual preaching is directly calculated
to.lntroduce a sinful soul to God, If the text
not anxious to set a certain standard. Some will naturally read more than others. But W_ are TF.xT.-_Matt; IS:I_0. . is skillfully treated the divine Voice is beard_
anxious that no preacher should be satis_ed who does no_ make some worthwhile efforts along I. The Causes of Failure: in every paragraph.
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Thi_ kind of sermonizing depends in a general a student in college, and some'of the impressiom, text to find tl_e mind .of God; and tben a "the textual-topical method insures freshness and
way. upon three thin,s: of awe which he produced, like the voice of
11On the nature of tile text. Not all texts God ol_ Sinai. linger with us yet after fifty-eight synthesis s_ggested, ofin the that arrangement form most of adapted the thoughts to .the '.isyariety indeed in the heldsermon. in wholesome The mind subiection of the preacher ¢o the
can be so developed: but multitudes can be. 5'ears and will go with us into _ternfiy.
and ought to .he. "Dr. PattLson, id hi_ ,Hnmiletics. mentions "the preacher's orators aremental alike• constitution. either in-theirNo original two pulpit en- words ranges of freely the about text and the yet central at the. thought." same time There it
2. Dn the preacher's analytical skill. He must . tret_endous force of Jonathan l_'dwaeds in "wrath dowmenLs or their readlog and -education. or is an ample opportunity for eloquence in" this
be able to discern the different lines of truth, upon [he wicked to the utterlnost which lay in
and which should precede, and which shouhl the' reslstle_ logic _f a series of conclusions, in their experiences and observations So there method combined with a marked regard ior and
follow in the natural sequence of thougl_t The drawn straight from ibe text." 'He adds. "The will and he no atwo large willhuman be alike, element in their _ermons adherence We mayto conclude the message by of*God. gaying that textual
text. the theme and the sermon should .be a sam_ Iiolds true of the addresses o[ C, G, Finney, _eaching is to blt most heartily commended. It
harmoninus whole. The mine of truth mum not in which the_passinnate emotion of the preacher In this kind ,of a sermon often tbc thought
be "saRed" with some extraneous matter, some quenches his logical acumen no more than the rather than the words of the text receive the tend_ to keep the preacher in his true place a_
foreign human element,
there,
which God did not put ripening vines of Vesuvius quel/ch the fires bur_ing
at its heart.", Wcll de we remember, such
chief thediscus_ibnZ attention, and "Tile there thoughts is a which lar_ze liberty constitute ifi an profound amba,_ador, reverence for Christ. for the Iueulrivates truth of God's in Word• him a
3. The i_reacher should have a spiritual per,- scenes, He wouhl discuss a text in all its hear- the divisions are" found 3_artiy. in the text and It makes the people feel thai God is speaking to
ception, a certain divine insight which only the ings, and'then close with "a few remarks" in partly elsewhere." them throUghvariety andthe" freshnesspreacher'S.inlips'the pulpitlt furntshesfninis.
Holy Spirit can z/re to sense the mind bf G O_II WI_iCI_ he would draw his logical inferences like In..sueh a sermon there sho,uld be a "steady _ra_i_tn: for the texts are innumerable with a_
and know what Ire would teach to men; Thi_ chain-lightning, which were somerimesindescrib- aml purposod progress and development of the ever-changing setting inthe'contexts. The Bible,
is no far-fetched and human notion. The true able in their effects, di¢ine ttlou_ld to a definite aml imended con- carefully, lovingly studied and inithfuny preached.
preacher ought to he able to say with St, Paul: An illustration _f logical inferences may be e _io_. toward which the whole sermon moves is inexhausrihle• 'and the prayerful servanl of
"Now we have not the spirit of the world, but given in the last text [rom which John Wesley [rom Lhe beginning to the'end. • - " " God will "neyer lack for meg_ages from the Kin_
the spirit which is of God: that wemieht know preached--Isaiah 55:6_7, "Seek ye the Lord while A preacher who is drlftin_ over the seas of to His people,
the things Which were freely given tc us of God. he may be found: Call ye upon him while he iluman thougl_[ in his addre_, with no intended The famous Dr.A.A. Alexander wrote:'"Lear_
Which things also we speak, not" n words which is near," etc. port in, view or purpose beginning anywhere. In preach textual sermons. The mistake of my
man's wi_om feachetb, but which the Spirit L The logical inference is that by_ nature we and ending,nowhere, is not preaching at all. He, early ministry 'was in preaching almost solely
teaeheth; combining spiritual things with'splrlt- are all,away ]rom God. Else, why. _.re we corn. -is simply wasting time, making some vapid re- _n topics. If you preach textual sermons you
ugh" - . . . "We have the mind of ChrlsC' manded to "seek" Him?' Tl_is is true to all marks, himself a disgrace to his _rofe_ion and won't be apt to preach out." Faithful, prayer-
{I Cot. 2:12-16). - human history and all savin_ troth. Sin separates an Insult to Christ, [ul textual preaching is the roya'_ road to long
Really Spirit-ill ed preachers_will not be likely us from God and "all have sinned." Dr. Pattison thinks that more than any other, pastorates and a fruitful ministr.',.
to read into. texLs of Scripture wild fads and II. Seek God u,hile He may be found. The " -
have too profoun)l and reverent a respect for every moral brian'S, career whc_ God cannot be
the Word of God to allow themsek;cs to do it. found. The dead llne will be crossed and mi_rey
If. The textua_-in/erenlial sermon is an ad* will be. gone forever. When, then; shall we By C, E. Coa._;Zl2.
_,ance I_pon the proper lextl#al, ser,tlon, seek God? {at In early life. I saw a boy
1. It holds fast to the thoughl and spirit of _/esterday who was converted at four years of
the text. and many of tim words, but at times a_e. H'e is _ust twelve, and two weeks ago Bishop Edgar Blake, wriling from Europe, Io point. Loads. that before .the war were undraws
logical inferences which, when stated, are had a definite call to the ministry. That Is God's the Christian Ad_,ocate, New York, on 3Is Pent- dreamed of. were laid upon the people. It may
undeniable and irresistible, The force of ihis time and way. (b) Seek God 'when God is estan_iim Dying in Europe." makes some start- interest you to know that the nations that were
kind of sermon depends on the dearness and seeking you. (el Seek God whet others are ling statements that ought to be carefully anted , our allies in the war. must now pay the United
,-. cogency.of the reasoning. It is. in "the hand_ finding Him. by the readers ol _h[._Magazine: States a million dollar_ a day every day ]or the
of..an aeut_'xcasoner and a keenly logical mind, If[.. In what' way shall we seek Him? the religious situation of Europe, /_s a whole, next #lxty-#wo year_. This. is only' a bagatelle
a mighty weapon of truth, fat By repentance, v. 7. is.a Mtuation without a parallel in the world of the burdens the coming generations of Europe
2. Not all texts"/_ilmit of tt_is kind of trea_- (hi ny faith v. ". today'..,So far as I know, there has never been must bear."
meat. In many texts the trushs are staled sn IV. In what Spirit? anything quite like it in the history ot organized "The middle classes of Europe were ruined
plainly and!completely that there is le[t no call . "With all your heart."--AppeaL Christianitly." through financial reverses brought about by the
nor necessity [or inferences. But this Is not . I know this outline is in harmony with God's . "The World War profoundly altered the whole war. Their salaries lost the/r purchasing power;
always so, as we shall see. lruth and will work, for I have won six hundred • life and outlook of Europe. The awful holocaust sheir savings were swept away. Their statio_ in
3. When the text is of the right, order and and eighty-six, soots by..the use of it myself., that swept the continent from 1914 to 1918 left life' was completely reversed." No social group
the preacher has an. astute and legal mind, such IIL The textual-topical sermon combines a it broken and bankrupt. The peop e were ira- has suffered so immeasurably as they. The midas
Cbai'les G. Finney had in an eminent degree, clo_e adherence to. the thbught o[ _he text in
this kind of a sermon is n/psi impregsive. We" the sermon-outline with a freedom in range" of i)overished_ their morale broken, and their "hopes die classes were the backbone of Europe Protestiistened
-to that spiritual giant four years when discussion. There is a careful analysis of the blighted The total political, economic, ahd social .antism. : Financial reverses have .resulted in a
fabric was weakened arid worn to the hreakin_ depregsioh of spirit, a lowered morale, add a I_
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oi spiritual vision and vitality. There were erclsed, under the _uida'nce of the tIoly Spirit, For these som_ hearts arc breaking, tile kinmlons of God." He was smldenly tie-
781,000 withdrawals from tile _membership o[ in tile service of the church. 'For these some loved ones _dt-- slrove_ ,_nd thai without remedy,
the Protestant churches of Germany in three A "chhri_m" is h gilt of power bestowed by So show them that you care for them That night they slew him upon his father's throne:-
years. There were .60,000 such withdrawals in the Holy Spirit for use :in the propagation of Before it is too late, The deed unnoticed, and the hand unknown:,
I_erfin alone i_ twelve months• The number o[ truth or the edification of the cburcb: Some- Crowniess and seepterless Belshazzar lay,
theological st'hdems in the schoal._ o[ G_rmany times added to. and heiahtening natural endoW'- N. _ O. A robe of, purple round a form of day -
has been reduced to less than one halt of what ments- (Not Generally Observed). • "
it was in [ot3." . . . *" "DIED, OF PRELIMINARIES"-
"The,Roma_ Catholics constitute today one ffEVER GRASP A HOT POKER Dt'uL 22:5-6, l Kings 8:46. I wonder how they will start a meeting tn
of the mast comEact" anti p.owerIul .political There's a time to part and a time to mect_ Eccl• 5:1, 2, 1 Chron 12!f, 2, 8. heaven[ Will they do it always the same way?
blocs in the Balkans. The hand of Rome is nt)w There's atime t_ sleep and a time to eat, Eccl. 5:12. Psa. 118:8. (Middle verse If not. a Jot of Methodist preachers are going
o'ne of the most powerIul forces in southeastern There's a time tu work and a time to play, Eccl. S:lg. 20. Ecd, 1:7. [o[ the Bible). to have a hard tirne,
Eui'one." There's a time to sing and a time to pray, Eccl, 7:20. Prov: 30:1_, la Night after night, bope springs afresh inthe
"Before the war the Polish people were dis -_ There's a time that's glad and'a time that's blue. d Eccl, 0:14, ,15. Eccl. 10:20. human heart, burning, with a message and a
lributed among Protestant Germany Orthodox There's a time to plan /rod a time to do, Joshua 1:2. Prov. 30:33. " chance to speak it to waiting audiences.' Ask
Russia, anti Catholic Austria: As a result o[ There's a time to grio and to show your grit, Take your Bible and lind these Scriptures and any.missionary or other special speaker. I I_ope- .
the 'war the Polish republic was create_i w_th a But tbere ne_er was a time to quit• select a "text for a sermon, fully approach the pastor. "May we not make
population ol 30,000,000 people, almost entire v --Florida Power and Ligkt Magazine. the introduction very brief tonight, brnther?"
"IN THAT NIGHT" suggest.
Roman Catholic. Poland i_ now the largest WRITE BEFORE IT 15 TOO LATE-
Boman Catholic country in Europe The following suggestive poem can be memo- Dan. 5:30. . "Certainly. certainly."
--- rized and repeated with telling effect in con- The very night of the drunken, profane feast. And then he waits fifteen minutes to be sure
THREE STRIKING DEFINITIONS .neetion withl a Sunday night evangelistic sermon, tile Medians unde_ DarRts anti tl_e Persians under they are all there, sings three, hymns to give
The Standard Dictionary gives the following: If you have ,_ _ray-haired mother "j C#rus, had, by digging a canal, turned the river the straggler_ a ctiance, has a long' prayer, a
R_I:_M--"To regain possession of by paying In the old home far awayj Euphiates from its bed, and, passing along the respotxsive reading, a solo and art introductory
pricer--purchase back, repurchase. To recover Sit down and write the'letter I dry cbpnnel, turned towards the city, and, pass- address. Forty-five minutes gone, a week-night
• from captivity or from a ]lability to be wholly You put off day by day, mg through the open gates along the water side. ahdienee, weary an 0 longing for home. a me_a_e
lost or alienated, Hence to rescue m any way, Don't wait Until her.tired steps the g'rcat Babylon was theirs. It does not seem discounted fifty per cent before Lhe first word
to deliver--save. (Theology) to rescue Item sm Reach heaven's pearly gate--- . that there was " any resistance. The inspired is uttel_ed, .
and its consequences." " "' ,But show her. that you think of her, prophet J'eremiah predicted the outcome: "The ' I implored a pastor at a Sa{_day evening
S^sc'_ivlcA'rlou--"The' act or processof sane- Before it is too late. -mighty men of Babylon hfi.ve Ioreborne to fight, meeting t_ please, please make _tshort, [ really
, tifying, or the state oL being _nerified; opec.lit- - - they' have remained in their hobfs; their might had .qomething to say. Certainly be would make
cally, in theology, the gracious work of the If you have a tender mes._ge, hath failed; they became as women; they have i[ short, hut:it took him fifty-five minutes to do
• Ho)_, Spirit whereby the believer is freed from Or a loving woid to say, burned her dwelling places; her bars are broken., so, and when [ arose the..pec/ple were beginning
- sin and exalted "to holiness' of heart and .!ire: .Don't wait till you forget it, One post. shall run to meet another, to show the to go out, I wantdd to myself. "Not many
dlstinguisbed from regeneration and justification. But whisper it to-day, kinky of Babylon that his cit), is taken at one came at night," he said. I should think .n°t"
In Roman Catholic theology it is the cleans- Who knows what bitter memories _ " end"" (Jeremiah _1:30. _31). 1 remember how when a young pastor, or.
in_ of the soul from sin toggth_r wit_ the in* _,|ay haunt you if you wait? How could there haw been any resistance cantonal lecturers expressed profus_ gratitude [or
pgUrin_ of sanctifying grace, and the three theo- So make your loved ones bappy _. when a thousand leaders were drinking them- opportunity to _begin after prelimlnarie_ that
logical virtues---faith, hope, charity."_ Before it is too late., selves drunk, debauching themselves in profanity never occupied more than five minutes. I have
Puatvx'--"To flee _lrom admixture with for- against the God of heaven? And here too we come to undersiahd it since ] have become' the
eign or vitiating elements, r£o m_.ke clean or We live but in the prewar, hare the fulfiiment of the prbph_cy:" And I victim of'the pastor's propensity for form
pure, ,as iv purify the blov_., to purify silver. The "future is unknown-- will'make drunk her princes and her wise men, I have blntL.d, reqt/ested, begged and.implored,
In theology, to free frown sin or its defilement Tomorrow is a mystery, her captains, and her rulers; and her mighty I'have felt like locking the preacher in the
as to purify the heart• (Synonyms) clarify, To.day is all our own, men; and they shall sleep a perpetual sleep_ parsonage and taking charge myself, hut to no
clean, cleanse, filter, make pure, refine. (An-' The chance that fortune lends to us and not wake, .sayeth the king, whose name is purpose. It has to be done. 'And tonight I
tonyms} Contaminate, corrupt, debase, defile. May vanish while we wait. the Lord of Hosfs" (Jeremiah 51:57). will hopefully ask the brother 'if he can't make
del_rave, infect, make fo_l, poison, taint, vittatG," So spend your life's rich treasure The record of _he end is terse-:."Wa# Rel_ it short, and he will cltebrfutly pr_mise to'do s_.
Before it is too late. sha_:ar the. king oJ _he Choldeau_ slain." By and then use up a hall hour of my time.
EHARISM . who.¢._ hand and in what manner we know BOt; Some time lwill find somc.wbere p man who
There are seven distinct charisms named.in The tender words unspoken, bUt it is probable that it was while he was in c'an really put across a short preliminary and I
the'.Scr!ptares. Prophecy, ministering, teaching, The letter never sent, the festal hall, and it may be wblle he wag in- will mention him most favorably to Saint Peter.
exhortation; giving, ruling, and showing mercy. " The long.forgotten *messages, toxicated with excess of wine with the curse of if I ever get a chance, after the preliminaries
All these functions were inspired, and were e_- The wealth of love unspent, God upon bim: "No drunkard shall, inherit are over. --BIstton GgOROISA. MILt.mt.
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AN OUTLINE OF SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY - It was an easy thing to take a t_lan by the Alasl the}, are making, not converts, but money." +"Bravo." said Satan. +'Now to work.
Thou, O Christ. art ai[ I want; haml and if the hand ba_ ,_ heart bebiml it, . And thus did they argu, e+.plan, plot and proposep Hastel ftyl begonet Let none dare shirk.
More than all in Thee I _md. and the, clasp is of 'the heart as well as hand, While darker ,thebrow of his majesty grows. The problem's solved. Back to your task,
Raise tile fallen, cheer the faint, what .wonder if by it men are +uplifted and At last comes a voice, Such triumph.is in it.
Heal the sick, and lead the blind. " Tile babel is hushed, at least for a minute. Deceive, betray, use any mask.
. . .. . helped and saved] "1 leave itt I have itl No longer look blue• If some o'er sin are in a flurry,
When we think of. various massive two-volume Admit that their 'Bible, their story is true, Plead lots of tithe: nn need t_ hurry;
tomes of systematic theology which .ornament " " That I-In, whose dread name none here dare to Use every wile to make. them wait,
and usually gati_er dust upon ministerial hook CIVILIZATION AND WILI_ERNESS speak, + "
shelves throughout the country, the above out- The cede, task of the nineteenth century m Has suffered find dJt_l [or tbe helpless aml weak. THE _*IORBOWIS EVF.R"[OOI.ATE.
line may seen+ rather .qlort. It is short. It is America was to make a pat!t for civilization That conq'riag, He ro_e over death anti the grave, " The at)eve poem can be used with lhriJ)ing
also sufficient. In fact. it is considerably Io/lger across the wildernes_ TIle ironical discovery And now relcns in triumpb+ with power to .save, effect at tbe c]osP nt an earnest exhortation or
tban tile outline'of systematic theology drawn of [he twentietb century is that civilization it- Admit there is rest and snrcease of sorrow,
up by one of the Church's greatest theologians self may be a wilderness. It inevitably becomes if oni)_ they'll watt and accept it To._so_uow." _ermon appeal.
--Saint Paul, He produced a sfffficient outline a wildernL_-s when it is merely a standardized, . • . .
of theology in eleven words---"BeIieve on the mechanical industrialism witb no dominant spirit- - ]l
Lend Jesus Jesus saved."THE "took Christ THRILL Idmand--OF by thou the A "HAND-CLAsp--H"
shall haridt" E. be LnccncK,_ This was WhileAUa| Forpurpose.huShimpsfell,,WAiTstoodnfl ideal Satan, orthe
arch-fiend, HadeginTILLwonder+ATOMORROW"sUeoce--H•
in LuccoCg,artd
anger horridlntenSe'suspense
E, most dire. .... "
one of the wonderful secrets of the Redeemer's Had summoned a cotmcil--from them did require
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Dower over human hearts, Tnuch--a permnal Some method unique; a_" up-to2date plan, THEME--GOD'S CALL DISREGARDED of God in tbe souL" "We have a voice withit_
touch. _ymhol of heart-sympatby--[s a key which Whereby,he might compare the downfall of man.
unlocks many an imprisoned life. A sweet ex- The_ gazc_d on his _isage in fear as they honed Itv. A M. titt.t,'i, us,itis.theStill anttahoriginalSmall, yetvicarlOUderof thancbrist,thethuftder.it, is a
ample of it was seen in the Earl o[ Shaltesbury, Their leader confessing, the power of the Word: ,T_x't: "Beeuuse I have cMled and ye hat,e reas
he went on his ministry of love among Lominn That Salvation Armies were moving afield, 1used; 1 have stretched out my h_md, and rio prophet in its ]nformatinns. a monarch in its
criminals. One wh_ was reformed dated his up- Invading bis Kingdom wi[h drum, sword' and man halh eegarded; But ye have .set at nought peremptoriness, a :priest in its sanctions and
shield; all my counsel+ and _eould none o/ my reproo]: anathemas. It is the wondrous rpower which
lift to his intercourse with the Earl. Of mi_ionsi of churches; of women an_J men [ a_so tutti faugh in the day o/ your cah,nity. I works neither hy insinllation, flattery nor threat_
"What did he ,_ay to you?" asked one. Devoting their talents of pencil'and penl but by merely holding up tbe naked hw in.the
:viii mock when your year rrJmel it," "Then shall
"Oh, it was not 60 much what he said, as Their'wealth, their position to spreading false they cdll upon me, lint ! will not answer." ".Thcx, soul extorts [0r itself reverence if not always
what he'did. He took my hand, and said: 'Jack, " views, obedience, it is always against sin. It points
we'll make a man of'you yet.! It was thetouch "Tbus daily cheating me out of my dues." u,lmld none O] my counsel. They despised all
that did it." Quoth he, "1 went forth o'er the _arth in great my reproo]." "There]ore shall .lhey eat el the directly to Jesus. whose blood alone can make:
glee truit o/ th#ir own ways, and be filled, with their tbe conscience clean
- 3. God :calls by His Spirit and His Word.
Daniel V_ehster went out Irom his country Expecting my trip would bring profit to "mei . ," peon devices" (prey. 1:24:26; 28-3t, R. +V.).
home to Boston to study.'aw. H_ entered., with- Instead, I return like a chilly lamb shorn. To my mind this has long been one of the "The wages of sin is death, but the gif/. of God
is eternal life through Jesus Christ' our Lord."
out invitation, tile "office of Christopher Gore, Pursued by the blasts of a _loisy Ram's Horn. most impressive passages,in the whole Word o( "Lo61_ unto me and be ye s_ved, nil ye ends of
theft at the head of the Ma_achusctts bar. He Now don't stand like dummies: _el. o_,,er you_- God. It depicts in bea_ttiful language the prifright,
-mary attitude of God .toward sinners.'. Then it tl_e earth." "Come unto me all* ye that labor
was regarded as an intruder: and nobody paid Make use of your cunning, or, hear me+ this night represents the sinner's reception of the divine and are. envy laden and .] will give you rest."
• , r* •
]aim any attention. One day Rufus King saw These regions infernal, in less than a trice. " ' " call. Tben It depicts the awful results of driv- "I came not lo call the rtgbteous'but sinners to
the "solitary student, and shook him warml_ t Though torrid, I'll make them far colder than ing God's Spirit away by turning from God repentanceY .
by" the hand, and said: ice." I. Notice that God, under tl_e name of wig- 4. God calls hy His providences,
"I k_ow your father well. Be studious, and He ceased, and at once there arose a great din
you will win. If you want any assistance or O{ tongues harsh and strident: for each Impof dora.
Sin is_,rebellbin,
calls to men
lawles-_ne
to c6me
-_s.
to
the
Him
most
and
dangerous
be saved.
me
Illustration:
be lost a fortune
An officer
and six
of
'children.
my churcii
On
told
the
advice, come to me."
sin
Had something to offer. Some new evil way
thing In the uni_eese. For his own'sake God way to the cemetery with the sixth casket his
Webster said when he wassixty years old To trap the unwary; to lead them astray. .calls man to turn from sin. How zany wayg heart broke andhe accepted Christ. .
that be. still _ felt the warm pressure of the hand Said one, "I wifl tell them their Bible's a lie. God calls. --_ Illustration: The death of a mother,has stop-
When Peter took the lame man '_by the right And sou/s that love-evil shall live and not die. I. Through reason. The very nature o[ all pod the wandering feet of many a wayward boy
band, and lifted him up, immediately his feet To live for the day; make the best of the showl sin is the gratification of desires against'the or.girl.
And as for the future--I'll say I don't knowY protest of the. moral reason, Ilbtttration: The' death of a godly wife hag
and ankle-bones received strength; and. leaping "Too late[" said the Devil,,"The iob has been let The highel: reason stands, forever with God been the voice of God to many a husband on
up, stood and walked, and entered with them To men who are ciafty in spreading anet., attainst all sin. The reamn faithfully warns "the way'to hell,
into the temple, walking, and leaping, and pratt. They plead on that line, their tongues tipped with anti pleads against all unrh_hteousoes._. S. God calls by the means of _race.
tng God" fActs 3:7, 81. honey. 2. God calls by our consCience--"the voice Church.services, open-air services, prayer, song.
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Illustration: In Southport, England, a .rector. falling hours half dressed and fell on tile streets of evil comes repent and turn to Cbrist_ Before E. Lips of mercy--"He" kissed him."
o[ the English Church told me that his wife and screamed and cried to God. Men that , lte ceases to plead and begins to laugh at your 2.*The entertainment.
died from drink _and "his bishop had warned said there was no God cr/ed for mercy. But [ calamity arid mock at your fear_ turn to the A. He came home in rags, and his Iather
him for lh_ last ,time to stop his drunkenness
or he "would he expelled from the ministry. In
screams of terror from wicked lips
prayer and God doe_ not answer.."I'w[ll
are' not
mock
{ only Savlvr who
you a clean heart
can furrier your sins,
and fit :,'ou for heaven
give
Do
not
him
only dathed
(vs. 22).
him, but adorned
disgrace and despair he was on the way to the
bay to drown himself. He passed by where the
• , .
Salvation Army was holding a street meeting
when'your fear
.L Unanswered
comethl"
prayer." Tom Paine wrote his.
_" it and do it now..
THEME--THE PRODIGAL SON
B. He
not
came
only
home
'led him,
hungry,
but
and
feasted
his lather
him
(vs. 23).
"
and singing, "Come to Jesus." lie threw' nO "Age of Reason" and boasted that the infamous By R. J. SI,[I_LTZEII, #) C. The way in which the father received
bis hands and cried. "O Jesus, 1 corn%" and hc book had destroyed the Bible, and in fifty years
whoever desireto see a copy of it wouldhave,
.
"
T_:XT'_Luke 15:11-32.
I. Tst_ aTA_ or Tm_ 0tU_CI_R, _
and entertained him not only brought
rejoicing to the returned prodigal_ but
was saved, He.came to my meeting and was to go to a nmseum and pay 25c to see an ex- I. A sinful state is a state of depart0re and to all In the house. i
sanctified In how many ways God calls the "pl_ted relic of an exploded superstition. When distance from God (.vs. 1.1). THEME--HEAVEN
sinner ready to perislL he came to die he did.not dare to he' left alone, t L A sinful state is a spending state (.w. 13_. By R. J. SxL,_LrZEa
IL Mar," oerx,'z ru_ ^ Dr.^r r,aa zo "r]tzse, He declared that the Devil inspired his hook. 5. A s/nful state Isiwanting state _lvs. 14).
_LZSS_t_CaLLa. and he kept crying for days: "O Christ• have 4. A sinful' state is a vile servile state (.vs. 15), "IXx'a': Hob. 12:23.
They. love the delights of sin and are bent mercy on my soul."--a mercy, be never foundl f 5.Asatisfaction sinful state(vs..15). is a state of perpetual d/_ lrzraovnc-tlon: in three senses: Heaven is used in tile. Scriptures
on havin_ theln.. Tbere comes a time when prayers-for mercy go 6. A sinful state is a state' which cannot l. The aerial or atmospheric heaven, where
They suborn reason to lustily their insane unanswered "Then will they call upon me,- expect help from any creature tvs.'I6), the birds flyj d_e winds blow. and the rain
conduct, but [ will not answer. Tbey will seek me dill- " 7. A siniul state is a state of death (Vs. 24l. is formed.
Tbey stifle tdnscience [o make it cease its gently; but they will not find me." 8. A sinful state is a lost state (vs. 24. 32). 2. The heaven or firmament, the place of the
ehidlngs. ,, 4. "The:,, shall eat the fruit of their own way." o. A sinful slate is a state of madne_ and sun, moon and stars, ""
They will not hear the Word of God. "Whatsoever a man' soweth that shall he also frenzy (vs, 17), 3. The heaven of beseem, or third heaven,
They brace up aga/n_ all admonitions of reap," Illustration: Robespierre, who sent so ll. NOTICE"rllF.OCO--_5lOb_ O_ ills
KI_FF..N*TP.NC_. • .
lmTnaN ^NI_ wbich is .the place of God's
dwelting of tlie angels and
residence,
the home
the
of
•
provMence. . many to'the guillotine in the Franch Revolution, I.HIS affliction (vs 14-17): the blessed. "
_, They turn their back upon all means of had his own head chopped of by the sarhe means• 2. He considers his condit/on (vs. 17). I. lt_av/_' _raL,¢S ou Z,SarIL
grace. Illustration: When Char/ca' I, who had de- A, lte eons_lered how had his condtfidn
Tbey virtually _y, "Who is God that 1 stroyed Stratford, was about to be beheaded, he was._per/sh with hunger." _ ? , I. tIeaven is both a condition and a place.
should serve Him?" . said.."I basely ratified an unjust sentence and the B. He/considered how much bet(or it A. Heaven14:17; Lukea condition10:20, fLuke 17:21; Rum.
"They set at nought all my counsels and similar injustice I am now to undergo is a might be made if he would return B. We bold our cit/zensidp in heaven (Ht.b.
would none o]my reprotJ]l" _nsible retribution for the punishment I.in- (.vs. 17). II:t3; I Peter 2:11).
III. No_qc'z rt]£. END OFStJ¢lt A C0URSF-OFCO_- flitted on an innocent man." " (I;,. In our Father's house there is (a) 'Stranger and pilgrim,"_--Greek_ Par.
bread for all. ep-id-ay.mos, an allen, "a r/:sident fornucr.
. Illustration: Lord Jefferiea imprisoned a mul= (21. Tbere is enough and to spare, e_gner.
No earthly king would suffer himself to be tjtu_le of good'an_t Innocent people in Londdn (3). Even the hired servants tn God's C. The cititen of heaven is different:
"continually mocked and der/ded and disobeyed Tower. He wa_ flnaib;imprfsotied in the same . family are well provided for. a. In appearance. " *
by h s subject_ How much le_ will the omnip- place. The shades of his own victims seemed Ill. lies vtrni,os_, h, In clothing.
pleat and Infinitely holy God? ,A day will to haunt him, He kept crying to his'attendants: t..He determlned what to do. "I will arise e. In speech. Speaks the language of Ca- -
come n,heo His forbearance will be at an end. "Keep them off, gentlemen, for God's sake keep and go." ' noon. llluslration: The Swedish man
Punishment will then come on apace, them offW He was "eating: the fr_dt of his 2 He determined "to confess his sin anti _aymg in a Russian service. "Me know
l.'Sin-always brings calamity. And God said,• own way." So men will.reap the_-fi'i//t of sin fully. . Jesus. you know Jesus Shake" tPIdh _
"1 Will laugh at your calamity." Sin always and rejection of Christ In added torment ofsin A. "f have sinned?' . •
brought a harvest of retribution upon ancient and conscious.rejection by Christ. " II. He woul°d take the load upon him- d. 3:201 In our calling.
Israel.
•
God .has not changed.. He does so yet. 4. "They shall be filled with their own deself.
"1 bane sinned agaiastT-
C. He wofild jodgo anti condemn hime.
In our d_sircs
mad Theand people moneyof San mad -and Francisco desperately were pleasure wicked. . v/ cos. " The sinner says over and over: "I- will - I self. "I am no more worthy-- D. f. In Heaven our objective. is a place.
The papers boasted that the prey pus Sunday was not have Christ" In time God says: "Very well, . D: However lie would sue for _dmi_sion a. A commodious place.
the most wide oleo and flagrantly wicked Sun- my Son, leave him alone, he shall not have Thee." , into the fanit/y, b_ A permanent place. " ,
day the city had ever seen, One paper declared: The sinner says: "I will not be led by the _ IV, TltE,l_ncl_e¢lol_ Asp .tNTF.l_ratt, l_,tgSr WIIICIt e. A place of employment.,"
"San Francisco has no use for God." That Spirit." Finally God will sayt "O Holy SIlidt, t_ts V_TH_a"n/wz m._t. d. A Iflace of happy reunion.
issue of thg paper teas not solil before God he sbull not insult Thee agatn;,lsave him alone I.The great love and affection with wifich ill Reunion of blood relation.
appearedupon the scene w th -an earthi_uake, and forever." h/s A..Eyes father of received mercy--"Saw him, him a great (21, Reunion deemed. of all blood washed anti re-
$690,000,000.00 of property w_nt up In flames[ The sinner says: "I want n wicked .heart.'_ why oil," /I. Two ways or notso To _ti_avr:r_,
2. "I wi[[ mock when your lear cometh," Finally God will say: °O s/nner, you may hb.ve B. Bqweis of mercy--"He had compas- I. Deafh.
In San.Francisco in 1906, wiien God destroyed your choice and, it Will he.your etei'nal damna- • ainu." 2. Translation.
the ti,y, godless worldings .and defiant unbe. lion." . C, Feet of mercy--"He ran." Ill. Nor zvgavaunv Trim ntr:s is c,nt_ro ro
lievcrs and profane blasphemers ran out of their .O fellow mortals• before this awful harvest D. Arms of merey--"tIe fell on his neck." t_avsu.
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THEME_THE GREAT DAY VI. A GREAT DA't" BECAUSE rltERl_ WILL RE
II. WIDE IS ,TIII_ GATE AND BROAtJ 15 Tile WAY-- 8. There is shl in the regenerate.
By GEORGE HARPER. OItEATSEPARATION. _ • Leadeth to destruction, o. The Bible and all chumh creeds _y so.
TEXTS: Rot'. b:i7;Jude 1:6. 1. The wheat*and chaff (Matt: 3:12l. I. The Wide Gate 10. Efitire s_nctification eradicates _riglnal ,or
" 2. The wheat and tares (Matt. 13:24-31). Easy of access, MuBitudes going, inbred sin.
I. INTRODUCTION
I. There
days in
are
my
some
life--the
days
day
which
God
were
saved
great
me.
3. Parable
47).
net cast into the sea. (Matt. 13: Man_' incentives.
AI classes going
, It. Then.there
Pow_r."
is (1)
.
Purity..(2) Libcr[y. (3)
the flay God sanctified me .and the day 4. Sheep and _oass (MMt. 25l. 2. The Broad Way 12. How (o obtai'n it.
I was ordained; but the day I stand be- 5. At sinking of the Titanic there was a Wgty of fast company. [3. Tllose v/hd refuse.
fore God at the Judgment will be the separation. Way of careless, _ " lllustration:. See Roy. 21:8. A black list
zreatest of all days. Illustrations: .. WRy of ungodly, that are going down to hell, headed by
2. In the Bible God" tell of a great wicked: A slave" famfIy of four--father, mother. Ill. STRAIT IS a'llE no'rE _.Nn NARROW IS TItf: WA_" tile ]ear]ul (cowards) and the unbelieving.
ness, a great salvation, a. great joy and son _,nd daughter--sold at auction and --Leadeth unto life. -, a
a great wrath, each taken to a different palJt of the
1-_ IL Tile JUDOXtZNT DAY "#.'ILLBl_ A GREATDAY country. Describe a ,separation at a I: The strait gate, THEME--ETERNITY
BECAUSE TIIERF_WILL" BE A GREAT PRAYER- funeral. ¢ Not so easy of access. Fe_ going. "
Al_ainst the tide. By.C.E. CORSI_LL
MEETI_U. THEME--THE IMPORTANCE OF soUL Must plek your crowd. TEXT: "Forever and ever" (Rev. 22:53.
z 1. Abraham praying ior'Sodom, Jacob al.
Peniel and Daniel for three weeks, were , WINNING 2. The Narrow Way, 1, Eternity, serious to contemill_.te
great prayeriDeetings. By G. HOWARD ROWE. Way of good company.. 2. How long is eternity?
- - Way of hnliness Character. - illOstr_tion: If all spac_ could be" filled with
2. The 0rayermeeting in 'Gethsemane and 1. SOUL WINNING WILL IraSTKN CIIRIST'R RE- Wily of eternal life., water, and it _4'ould require a thousand years
the prayer:beefing of the disciples where :ruR_. ._ .
they prayed and the place was shaken Mission oI Church fMatt. 28:10-203. iV. EN'r_R yt_ . . . to_annihilatb one'drop, to dlsf_ose of the whole
was a great prayermeeting, but John Prepares tile bride .(Roy. i0:7). Luke _ys, strive fagonize) to enter, one drop at a time. would be only the mornsaid
they cried'.for the rocks and the A .witness to world (M_tt. 24:14). Many 'will seek to enter in and "shall not trig'of eternity.
mountains 1o hide them from God. IL' SOUL WINN_IVO'SHQULI_TIIEN V_ DZSI_t£ OF he able Door shut fLuke 13:24). IID,fnensity, is boundless space.
3. Illustration: CI[URCII fRom. 10:1). - " ChiMren of kingdom castrOUI (Matt. g:ll. Et_nity. is boundless duration. .
Millions crying, screaming and praying ; Salvation of moil one and oMy program 12). 3. The" immortal splrlt.--Its relation to ete/nlty.
but_their prayers are too late. nt the Church. 4..The Ioolhhness of men to choose :temporal
."'IlI. A GREAT DAY Blr_CAUSETIIERI_ WILt. BZ _ Includes whol6, world. Mhsionary spirit th!ngs.
niD:?,T EXAMINATION. " needed. " " THEME_THE SANCTIFICATION" Most men are choosing the things of'time.
1. The books will he opened. Will raise the budget, Inspire loyalty, " B._ C. E. COR_ELL 5. The question of" all"questioos.
2. We will all give an account. Ill St)IlL WINNING INCLUDES. TEXT: Heb. 12:14. (.R.V.). WI0ere _will you spend eternity?
•3. When in school, I passed eaaminationsj ;l. Vision and purpose (Prey. 29:18; |1:301_ I. Sanctification used so frequentfyt_throughoUt
and when called into the army, I passed 2. Soul travail [IRa. 66). the Scriptures. h. Irom the Greek word
an exam nat on, but this examination will 3. Unity in peayer in the church (Iviatt Hagiad:oo. " " THEME--THE TRIUMPHANT DEATH
be the greatest of all. Ig:lgL . 2. Tile w_ord holiness is also frequently used. OF A HOLY MAN
IV. IT WILL BZ _, GPmAT nAY nZC^'dSE or Tltl: 4. Prayer and fasting hy the individual as It is from the Greek word ltagiasma. ..: By C. E. CORtC_LL
O_AT S_C'aE_S TH^r WILL nt I_EVZAL_V. wen as church (Matt. 17:21 ). These two i¢ords--Ilngaidxoo and Hagiasma. 'rgxT:'Acts 7:60, •
L Nothing covered that w If nqt be re- IX'. SOUL WINNING WILL IIASI"F.NCHRIST'S lie- are precisely synonymous arid mean whole- 1. SxgP_, _tI_ t'_sT _,tART_R:
vealed. TURN, hess-soundness; soul-soundness, soubhealing liis symmetrical Christian character.
2. God will bring evdry work into judg- I. Carry a burden for souls', I.
men( .with every secret thing, 2, tie a soul winner. 3_ Another common word throughout the Scrip- 2. Compare him with Moses.
3. It" ma_ can make an X-ray, , what can 3_ Be at unity and harmony with my ruses is perlectlon. It is from'the Latin word Illustratldn: See tract, "Almost a Martyr."
" per/re(us, _15er-through, facere-to make; To (Free Tract Society, Los Angeles, CallL).
God do? brethren in church, make/through and lhro_igh, to finishS.to corn- II. HdLIN'E_ 1N XTS P,Z.U_TIOUTO C_ARAC'Fr,_
4. If man can make a phonograph to re-
To carry on church's pro_ram--Mission_, plete. - l. The'great central idea of Chr stianity.
produce the human voice don't yo_ think budget, tithing, revivals. 4 The God" of the Bible loves holiness and 2. A command. "
God can reveal all (he corses and on- Woe to them that are at ease in Zion hates sin. The Devil _f the Bible loves sin 3. A necessity.
godly stories told in secret? [Amos 6:1).
5;. If man can make a moving picture, I and hates holiness, . . 4. Heaven's gates barred against the unholy.
5. sin in the soul is like fever in the blood, it IlI. TIlE IIOL¥ DIE W_LL.
believe God could reproduce ten of the 'THEME--THE WIDE AND NARROW I indicates an unhealthy cohditlbn. I. They die well because they live well.
most awful scenes of the human lii_e and GATES
" [ 6. Regeneration, its significance. Regeneration 2. They die well because they believe the
show them like a movie in action at the By G HOWAan Ruw_:. dlanges our inward nature a work by which Bible.
Judgment. TEXT: Matt. 7:13, 14 the spiritual life is infused into (he.sogh Illustration: Unbellef kept the children of Israel
V. TII_ JUDGMENT DAY WILL aZ A OR_AT nAY 'L "rItEBI_ IS A WAY TIIAT SIr.EMETIC g10ttr 7. Evidences o] regeneration oat of Canaan.
RECAUSF. GF TIlE GREAT DISAPPOINTMENTS. (Prov..14:12; 12:15). (a) Does not commit sin. - IV.T/rosE wl/o DIED'IN TRIU_MPH;
1. Not .,everyone _liat saiih unto _ne, Lord, The only way'is God's way. His way (b) Loves the salvation of souls. 1. Jdhn Wesley.
.* Lord.. - best. . (e) Separate from the world. 2. John T/etcher.,
2. The pa_h)e 6f the ten virgios shows His way is a narrow way. (d) Follows the Spirit. 3. Alfred CookmRn.
that five out of ten were disappointed. A gate is an entrance to a way. to) Desires holiness--follows after. . 4. S. A. Kecne. " "
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TI-II_ PREACHER_ MAGAZINE 15
- " " "in the day ye seek for me with all your 5. Personality was detested--Christ defeat-
THEME--SIX THINGS THAT GOD SAYS lose out io the midst of a revival Keep at tile heart I will he found." ed Satan in wilderness.
HE W iLL DO frnnt. Ill. Gout AT TIMF--_ IS NEAR TIlE SINNER: t"*VIIILE III. SIlI_KINAII GLORY SI'IRITIIALlZF.D.
By'C. E.-CoI_N_LL More Iigid
),our ability
_pe]]s more
and respond
rc_potlsibility--stir
Lo the light
up
Hell IrE Is NF_,"
1. Nature obeyed tile Splrlt-_Shund of wind.,
T_XT: Ezek.,36:24:2a. is awful dark. " " Mention some of these times.- 2. Government obeyed the Spirit--Paul anti
]. SEPARATENEss.
"I will take you from among the heathen."
Steam ureter pressure
blow off--so will the old
without
man.
a vent. will
Needed . . the
• ", IV. GOB nEMANDS
t. "Let him
ACTION
forsake
ON
Bis
Ttll_ pART OF
way"-Tsinfu]
MaN_
way;
3.
Silas
Learning
walk
obeyed
out.
the Spirit_Peter's first
"Ti_en" as pointing to Pentecost. unclean way; wron_ way. Sermon.
The water symbol, safety valve of
Wberesoever,
sanctification.
the carcass is, there will the
The way of death; way to hell. 4. Religion
I 'do."
obeyed the Sp[rit--"What must
Tilere are
fire. wind.
other
air.
material symbols ased. oil, eagles he gathered togetbe_.--Who hangs ground 2, '!Let him forsake his
'!Good enougll"--lorsake
thoughts."
it! *_ Personalities'obeyed
'
the Spirit--Paul con-
Water more frequent., Water suggests.the your house? You may.be a dead one, "I'm honrst'--forsake it] verted.
idea of plentitude. Spidc_ seek dark corners . . so do unrleed_ I'_ +'Doing my best"--fnr_he ill . . IV. SIlEKINAn G/_ORY' TRIUMPIIdNF.,
"Showers of blessing." men .... and position seekers. 3.'"Let him return unto GOdt" I. Nature will lie conquered--Resurrection.
"Rivers o_ Waters." " Behold. how great .* matter a little fire kindleth, ¢ - Go# only can savehim. 2. Governments will be conquered--Every
"Tile windows of heaven opened " --A touch is enough to set Omnipotence in action " ' "o' ' kii_gdom shall fall.
II. Co_tt'tXTE CtZ^NS_O, --F.'B. Meyer. V. GOD rs /_rsRCIFUL AND FOIOI_,IN , 3, Learning will" be conquered--Every eye
"Ye shall Be cleanT' 'Zoo can ptil .powder on. but' tile t/:rlnkle_ n _" "Will have cherry{!' shall see.
Regeneration, partial cleansing, initial, in- be underneath--So is the silvery tontine'and a "Will abundantly pardonF'. 4, Religion will lie conquered_Every_knee
coml_lete, wicked heart. THEME--THE PEOPLE W Ha ARE shall bow. .
The Penteco#al .baptism, complete. THEME--UNEGLECT" " -, BLESSED _', Personality will he conquered--Satan
IIl,aratlon: Dr. Krone says: "The repetition Bouhd.
of the adjective _clean' means perfectly clean. By W. D. SIIELOR. _J'y R, W. HERTENSTEIN. _V'.'rite "GLORY."
It is an idiom of the original Hebre'w. shat TEXT: Hebrew_ 2:3. Tr_xT: "Lo, the angel of the. Lard carat I,pan I. Is our defend.
when a word of the _ame kind, such as a noun. N--Nature o[ Net oct, them" (Luke 2:0). 2. Our salvation. .
verb or adjective is" repeated in tile _me con- F_Ease of Nb/_lect'. L They were . shepherds---"Shepberds." not 3. Our life. ,
struction.-it expre_es _he idea of completeness: G---Growth of Nedect, - Birefings. 4, Our IIope.
so' that the force at the text is. 'cleansing, I L--Ldvity of Ne_k, ct. _" . IL They were at their job_"Abiding in.,the __" "" .
,viii cleanse _,ou' or _Ye shall be thoroughly E--Fxpense of Neglect.- . field." • " __
dean.' The littli_ word 'all'is what gramroarians C--Crime ofNeglect Others that'night were in the city at the __
designate
the end,
the final
conveying
all whieli
the idea
means the
of finished,
last,
the
T--Termination of, Neglect.
THEME--"THE END
"reunions--Unfaithful
I11. They were careful
never get blessed.
of their trnst--"keeplng
_..BYT.
-
M, ANm:RSON[ _
last touch." By W. D,'SnzLOR. watch."
IV. They did not run away in a dark hour:-"by "Izx'r: "K_ep yourselves in the lode of God."
III. RENI;WINO. "I wilt put my Spirit witidn you." TZXl': 24:14. " night."
, (Jude _21),
Refreshing. I. SOME TIItNGS, TIIAT ]IavE NO END: U_ To this cias_ of men and women God re- L A wAnN_o TO ALL D_ TIrE F£_AM[PLE OF
Enlargement. Gad. Eternity. Man Influence.. veals Himself-- TIIOSI_ _tvI_ODID NOT _F_[_p I,_ LUVEOF GOD.
Refinement, II, TII1NGs THAT WILL*END: t,The True. t. Some. who were once saved were after,
IV. E_teowr, alSo. . I. Earthly treasures; viE: mane)', fame, 2, The Faithful. .ward destroybd (Verse.$). In this verse
"I will cause you to walk in my statutes." pleasure, etc. 3_ The Careful. Jude refers to Israel's state after they
Activities.. 2. False hopi_s; viE: Eddyi_m, Rus_ellism. 4, The Delermined. " • failed to go into the land because of un-
Dispositions. chnrcidsm, etc. belief: Thus regenerated persons can
Adversities--environments, " 3. Probation; oppor¢._riity fo_ finding God THEME--SHEKINAH GLORY incur the anger of God and forfeit their
. V. _'_ATERIAL I_ROSPF.RITV. -. wfli end, B_ R. W. _IERTENSTI_tN*
state and standing Because they fail to
"I will call fur the earn, and Will increase 4.'Time; noshing Of SUCil infinite vaIU_ to Tr,x'r: Isa. 10:t6. believe for holiness--which" these things
it, etc.", man as time; yet "time shall he no morel" I: StIEKINA]_ OLOR_ _.[ATERraLIZEO. are a filliP. "
Righteousness is both spiritual .and materi- IlL QUrmt¢'EL_XzaI_TII'S DYmO.wonns WF.a_ "Mt_- "'t. Nature was st)bdued--Moses Rod. 2. We arl_ warned by thq example of angels
ally advantageous. . . LIONS OF _IONEY FOR A I_tOMENTOF TIMEI" 2. Governments were sxlbdued--Ki, ng Pha- who kept not their first estate (Verse 6).
God is back el nature, "SEEI_ING AND FINDING GOD" raoh. If' such personalities ks thee can lose
VI. No m_P_OARIL • 3. Education was subdued=--Magicians, their place in the lov_: of God. let us be
O * By W. D. SIlELOR.
"Ye_ shall receive no more repr ach. 4. Rdigion was _ubdued--Magieians. warned of the power of sin. Let us
You will favorably impress those abo_t you. T_xr: Isaiah 55:6, 7. _. Personality was subdued--Pharaoh, watt:h ourselves. " -
You will gain their confidence, i'_ Gee _IAV _t Veered Or _rAs: '*lli_ MAY B_ ll SnzKmAn _Lgn_ me.A_u_A'rzn. 3. The" inhabitents of Sodom and the cities
FauNal" 1. Nature wa_ defeated--Jesus healing the of the plains are to us an example of
SENTENCE SERMONS Also. God may not he found; "While he liddy.. . the wrath of God. All sinners have a
By G. Howa_n RawlY. may be foundi" Compare Gem 6:3. . 2, Governments were defeated--"Mob loll place In the love of God in that He loves
The only way to stop a runaway horse is I. GOD MAY¢_BEFOUND OF _IAN:'ttHE MAY DE back." • them with the 1o_,_ of pity and offers to
to catch him--the DevU cannot st_p a sanctified rOUNUl" 3. Education w_s defeated--Christ at twelve, forgive them of _ins. But sinners can
man who is ru_ning. . if. GOD IS I_OUND BY "SEEKINO:'t '_SEEK VE 4, Religion. was defeated--*'Exei'pt "your so _,in as .to, merit wrath rather tilan
David slid back because h6 remained home TIrE LOnDI" rlghteousne_ exceed." mercy (verr_e 7).
when tire Battle was raging hut . , . You may "Seek and ye shall find."

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II. TZIE wax, TO KEF,F I_' rnE LOVE OF GoV presence of His glory with exceeding joy IO,000 rods of distilled Water. The final prodnct q throws off part Of itself penetrates these parts
t. Building yourself up on your most holy . (Verse 24l. being pure radium, bromide, of a hulk sufficient so that they will shine in the dark
to half fill an ordinary thimble, worth $75.00000 How like God's salvation, just "a few.moments
faith (Verse 20). TEXT: "_Donot err my bdoved brethren" per'gram. .1 .
(a) To build up otlrselves means to add (Jas. 1:16). Although radium • is of such immense value, m the pecsenee of God. in confession and prayer
useful material. Become rich in faith; [. Do no{ err regarding the value of trial _f your yet'ltfis so powerful that it is put on the Imnds and faith, and we come out '_partakers of the
abounding in love: st_ong in patience, faith (Verses 2-41. , and figur_ o[ a $1.50 watch, so you can, see the divine nature" and will shine as "lights of the
In a word, every 4race belonging to 2. Do ndt eel= while endurine temptation (Verses lime in (he dark. The secret is that the_ hands world" "in the midst of a crnoked .and perverse
"_ a holy fife must he deveinped. God 12-151. and dials are simidy hrouttht "into the presence nation" anti in sin's darkest hi,lit until people
is not pleased writ any wl)o'do no_ . 3. Do not err eoncernJnff the zouree o[ all that of Ibis radinm, under a certain treatment when cullsee Jesus and the way to God
advance, is good anti all that Is perfect. This mean_
(hlTo.hu.donemustroject a. that .,. go,.lf,,r, lhi.,liSea.d'Iorsplritoal .le, l
conversation is not
• would our souls. pull" Refuse down,
Itotycan destroy
them, Persons even .whose if we
(Verse .>. "
4. God Do not _ives err all, regarding The Devll the importance, gives nothing of laying good _
- THEMES,
TEXTS
AND SUGGESTIONS
make them angry or critical. Litera_ apart the remains, of sin in the heart after " . By*D.'S. C(mL_:Ta"
ture that does not edify, can hare0 regeneration (Verses 18-211.
us. "/_tc Movie with its curse is "5, Do not err by bein_ a hearer and not a doer
refused. , .of the Word (Verses ?,2-251. . " FOR THE. CHRISTMAS SERMON h The darkness of .ignorance.
2. Praying in tim Holy Ghost (Verse 201. t) Do not err in the matter of vain religion and " - 2. The darkness of sin.
To pray delights the Lord. To Jleglect pure rellainn. Each has its proof (Verses TI_I_: The Message o[ Christmas:' TEXT:
prayer grieves Him. Prayer is petition 20. 271. "For unto you is born tids day in the city of 3. The darkness of'sorrow.
David a Savinur. which is Christ thi- Lord" ( Luke 4. They. were "sitting" in darkness denotimz
for needed grace It. is intercession for TExt: Thisis the word which by the gospel is 2:101. nactivitv
others. It is an act of worship. It ts preached unto you" {Pet. 1:251. 11. T,E v^w_ or nay SPRING.
a kind of conference
Spirit Is necessary to
with God.
help in prayer.
The
If
Note" that i1 is the enduring or eternal Word ,,_li_,r._l¢o_l The wasmade W,,rd flesh, in theandWorld. dwelt amon_ T_xT: " "Dayspeing" is 'the oldEnglish word for
all Christians will heed this praying in which is preached. See text)Carry this thought us" (John 1:141. sunrising. Ilence this was the sunrising of
the Spirit none will ever fall. o[
context
the enduring word in the study of the "_ Tltr._ta: The Greatest Christmas Gift TEXT: a new era for'the worbl.
3. Looking for the mercy of our Lord The new birth is the result of 'the _blding ' "Thanks he _nto God for his unspeakable gift" Note thi_ "Dayspring:"
Jesus Christ unto eternal life (Verse 21). Word of God." All flesh is as,gram, but he (2 Cur, 9:IS). 1. Is .of heavenly origin--"from on high."
Those who expect Hi_ return Will guard that is born n[ God will ahlde forever. (See THE_.IE: The Meaning of Christmas. Tr.xT: 2. Ha._ come to us. Not shining from on
themselves lest they be among the un- Verses 23, 24). , 9Foi" even the Son of Man came not to he rain- hit:h upon us, hut "hath visited us."
relfdy. 2. Redemi)tion is by the precious blood of Christ, !ste,red unto, but to miniy4er, and 1o give his Came 1o he one o[ us. to live amotvz us
Those who expect Him give proof of their says this Word of the Gospel. This is more life a rnnKom for many" [Mark 10:4_) 3: He brings light--' To give light." .
love for Him. To love fits appearing enduring than either silver or gold (See verses TttE_,t_: The Joy Christmas Brings. T_:xT: (al Lig _t [or t m darkness of gnoranee
so pleases Him that we remain in HL_ lg, tO)_ These things are corruptible, but "For behold I bring you good tidings of great (b) Light for the darkness of sin.
love. the Brood cure for gin is eternal, joy" (Luke2:tO). (el Light for the darkness of sorrow.
4. Others save (Verses 22; 231, 3. This word says, "be ye holy, because I am Tn_M£.: The Mission:iry Men, age of Christ- Ill..llt: Is a DIAECTING OI_ GUIDING LIOIIT. "
God is not pleased with those who care holy.'* Holint_ is as eternal as God because mas 'l_zxT: "Good tidings of great, joy. 'which "To unide out" feet into the ways of peace.".
no1 for others who are lost. it is what God is. God is what He is in all shplf be to ALL people" (Luke 2:101. t. With Him there'is life and .'activity In-
(a) In saving others have compassion; His graces becau_ He is holy, Thus to be TIIE_.IE: The Saving Name. Tl_;_r: "Tilou .stead of "sitting in darkness and the
and discriminatz with care as how holy Is to be like Him in graces. Such a shalt call his name Jesus; for he shall save his shadow of death."
best to approach them (Verse .221. truth is eternal. It shall never be changed peop[e from their sins" (Matt. 1:211.,. 2. His coming brings "peace." an_t His paths
Do not be rough or unwise. Be lov- (Verses 14-i7)., Tllr,_tz: The First Christmas _l'ragedy--No are the ways of peace.
mg With His lost sheep. 4. The truth of pure love' for the brethren is Room for' Christ. T_.xr: "Because there was 3. His light chegrs, comlorts, directs and
Ib) Others savewith fear. Like pulling . "enduring. It must ever be tie gospel (Verse no room.for them in the inn" fLuke 2:71. uuldes' His people:
them out of the. fife. One must 221. L. THEME--THE DAY STAR
watch lest he be burned. We can- 5, The hope of the resurrection is enduring be- '"]] TEXT: "Whereby the daysprin_ from on high THEME--THE-GLAD TIDINGS OF
not he too careful-o[ ourselves while cause God has raised Jesus Irom'the dead as 1| hath visited us. to give Iiglll to them CHRISTMAS
we try tosa;,'e others. Many preaeh- a guarantee (Verses 3:20, 211. _] that sit in darkness and in the shadow
ors have gone clown while they were 6 The hope _f eternal reward is enduring iJe- _ of death, to.guide our feet into tile way 'TEXT: "For,'behold, I bring you good tidings o]
)
conducting salvation meetings. Holy cause God is keepin_ His people by divine of peace" fLuke 1:78-791, great Joy."
Persons are often led to comprohtis_ power tllrougl faith {hat they may have the I. Tmc cot¢orrzo.,z or rt)_ woa_v _r _tt_ rtatu I. Tidings of Joy."great joy ') (Isa. 12:2-
. . in 'their efforts to save .their loved incorruptible inheritance {Verses 4, 51. or CnamT'S nmrtl. 3; 61:3; t Petite 1:6.81.
ones. "Sitting in Darkness." There had been no 2 Tidings ol Peace--"Peace on Earth"
IlL Tstz ORRATa_URANCE _ _lA'gl_ FRO]d[ lItM. ILLUSTRATION prophetic utterances to Israel for over four fLuke 1:78-79; John 14:27; Romans
I. He .is _.ble to keep you from [ailing: By L. E. S_tow hLmdred years, They were in the throes " 5:11.
- God will do His part, Let us _'e sum The!¢ say t ).akes 500 tons of Carnotite ore . of u religious controversy, but splritually .t, Tidings of Salvation--'_A Saviour, which
to do ours: to yield one gram of radium. In this process they were in darkness when Christ came. is Christ the Lord" (Titus 2:11-14; t
2. He .will present you faultless before tl_e is used 500 tons of chemicals, li_00 tons o[ coal, " This was evidenced by Tin_hthy 1:15").

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THE PREACHER'S MAGAZINE to
THEME--THE MAGIC OF CHRIST'S lie must hE born within the heart.
BIRTH Before l-Ie finds llis throne, white. It was a very untomforlahle ainl dis- "There remaifieth yet very 'much laud to ben
_EXT: "To give light to them that sit bl dark- And brin_s the day of love and Rood, appointed boy,wbom Ids mother adm6nishcd a p(,_e_ed" (Josh. 13:1)
hess" ILuke 1;Yq). r
The teiun of' Chrlst-like brotherhood couple of }tours later•'"Lau's sake. Chilel lton't "l'lll;r_ll:: The Pa._int_ o1,tb,e Old Year. Tr.xr:
An artist once drev) a picture of a wintry --MaR_' T. L^rtrRm,. you know you can't
yourself by blrachlnz
make
from
white folks mu of
the outsld_:?" she
"Ye shall henceforth
.'Deut. 'IY:t6L
retnrn no more that way"
a
twilight,
dreary,
the
dark
trees
house,
hhavily
Iondy
laden
and
with
desolale,
snow. and
in_
BABE OF BETHLEHEM asked• And yet that is an experience the worhl
WATCH NIGHT SERVICES
the mhlst of the storm, ft was a sad plc1,ure Christ has elevated the ideals o[ mankind from has never ceased trying. But Chdslhanity is not
indeed. Then, with a quick stroke o1, yellow the earlldy to the heavenly, from the selfish to a chan_e wrought [rnm the outside but from "Walrl_-Night"--the last night in the old
crayon, he put a light in. one window. The " sel1,-saFrifiee, from sinfulness to holiness, [rein wflhia. This is a trulh that needs new emphasis yt,a_ tan he used.with areal, profit in a service
effect was magical. The enlire scene was irons-, war to peace• lie changed the date of the in our day, This Christmas time is a good time o1,prayerand prai,e. Plan early for it. Arrange
1,ormed into a vision of-comfort and gem1, cheer, world's Idslory_ beginning a new reckonia£ o[ tn give-it new emphasis; for the Christmas
Christ saves from withoul and within.-.Sra._cx_n,
a program, and secure your speakers_
will no doubt wish to have more than
as you
one, in
The. Idrth of Christ was just such a light to a years, "B. C." and "A D." have 'the pre_ advance i1| order to make proper announcement
dark worhl.--S_t._i:rEn, eminence over "In the beginning," He has put A little Jewish girl from the E:isl Side o1,New o[ the service.• -
" his ._tamp upon history, poetryp art, iilerature, York, who secured work in a store durine the I'rai_r _houhl be a _reat part in this service;
THE" FIRST CHRISTMAS SERVICE reforms and civilization for all thd years oI time .holiday, _ason, met with anaccldcnt• and wa_ When one e, nsiders the wonderful bh:ssin_s of
The first Christmas service was not hehl in and the cycles of eternity. Why such infiuence_ rffidistered to iu her suffcrine.s by a trained a pas_ing year, he desires to praise God..
a great cathedral or temple; but in [he temldV ext'rtcd by the Son el God? Because he was rlurse. She looked appealingly into the [ace of Prayer should have a prominent place also.
el God's _reat "'out of doors "God maniiested in the fi_sh." therefore great the nurse, anti asked increduloasly. "Is it true Widl6 dikers are shooting the.New Year in, or
The time of the first Christmas service,' wa_ aalnes were given hiin--Tbe Prince o1, Peace, that you are a Christian?" Upon boia_ answered givinz veut to their feelings in some useless manin
the night; but the temple was [ghte w _ Inmlanuel. the Mighty God, the Everlasting in the affirmMive. _e replied, "You are so ner; how appropriate it i_ that God's people
the "glory of Ihe Lard shining roum about tl era." Farther, the Lord Jesus "Christ, Savior and Re- polite and gentle, I didn't tMnk you eouhl be; sl_End Ihi_ time on their knee_ in prayer.
The music of the fi_t Christmas service was deemer of men. Conqueror and Intercessor, But but tben. the only Cht_istians I'W seen are MAKING WATCH NIGHT A CHURCH
praising hirnished God, hy a and "multitude saying: Glory of the toheavediy God in Jmsl the" none and the are Lamb sweeter of God."----SI_LI_CT_n. than the /_al/e'of Bethlehem Christmas shoppe'rs."--_q_LterEn.
NIGHT
Id_hest, aml on earth peffce, goml will toward FOR THE NEW YEAR SERMON Ti_e writer once conducted a watch-night servmen."
PASTORAL CHRISTMAS GREETINGS ice, iu-which the heads of each department of
The preacher o1, the first Christmas _rvice Many pastors bare modes practice of 5ending TIrEM_.: Trast Foi" the New Year. Tr.xT: tile cilurch bad _gart, The Sunday school superwas
the aneel wile _-'dd. "'Fear not.' ._peeialpastoral Ch¥istmas greetings to each me_n_" "Take no thought," saying, What ._hal] we _at? .intendent told of the bl_sings of Odd upon the
The eon_regatinn of the first Christmas service " be_"and friend in their congregation. Tbh has or, What shall we drink? or; wherewithal.shall
was "The shepherds abiding }_ lhe fiekl, keeping proven .to be a very satisfactory way to keep we he clothed? For your heavenly ?Father . Sunday -school for the past .yea.b and outlined
watch over their flock by uight."
The Megsage o1,the first Christmas service was
the members and friends interested'iu'the progreds
of the church. A word of cheer from _thelr
knoweth that ye
(Matt• 6:31-321,
have' need 61""these
_
things" .his plans fdr the coming year. The president
of tht_ N. Y. P. S., president oVthe W. M. S. or
a meksage el salvation. "For unto you i5 horn leader, the pastor, .at rids partle_ilat season of Tltnarn: Strength For Our-Days. TEXT: "As other auxiliary departments of the church each'
this day in tile city of David a Saviour, which the year, when everybody is sending gifts and thy days, so shall ray,strength b/:' • t Deut 33:25). had pans. part Tins h_ theeac_ program department statlhg oftheir _ourgoals.and emrch
is Christ the Lord." greelings to lheir loved ones and friends brings THnM_: ThE Venture of Faltl_. T_r! "For is brb/_gh_ before the entire congregation present:
The First Cbrhtmas Service was fruitful, and'. a, closer relationship between pastor and people, ye have not passt_l lhi_ way heretofore '_ (Josh. shinning the' progress of the past year and the"
accomplished what all services shouhl aim to If you have never done this, pastor, make your 3:4). • prospects for tile future.
accomplish--"Let us now gc_ even unto lieth- plans to do so this year. You will fiud that our TIII_MEI The New Year "Crowned. Ttx_r:
lehem, aud see .... ' and they made haste, and Nazarene Publishing House, 2923 Troast Ave_lue, "Thou crownest the )'ear with thy goodness" REDEEMING THE TIME
found." Kansas City, Me., carries a very complete line (Psa. 6_:ll). Queen Charlotte.said: °I am always quarrelling
of. spet'ial Christmas features for the use of our THE_tF,: The Secret of a Happy New Year• with time It h so short to do anythihg, but
THERE IS' NO "IF" IN CHRISTMAS . bi_sy pastors, width includes: special Christmas TZXT: "If they obey and serve him, riley slndl so long to do nothing."
When preaching a Christmas sermon, the Rev. letter heads; special holiday greetings in letter spend their tlay_ in prosperity, and their years Cotton Mother said el a visitor who had
Daniel ti. Martin brought out a gtriking fact form or they will print-your own letter on these in pleasure" (Job 36;11). needle_iy occupied his time. "I .bad rather given
that has escaped many. He called attention to letter heads at a'.mode_'ate pr re; Christmas greet- T1l_ra_:: The Right Use of the Pa_ing Years. trim a handful of money than bare been kept
what the shepherds in the held said to one' an- lug cards, specially prepared for pastors and lead- T_xr: "So teach us to number our days that x_e thus long out of my study."
other after the angel had brought them definll_ ers _,'ith ample space to have your name printed may apply our hearts unto wisdom"
Trre_rn: A New Year's Prayer.
1,Psa. 90:ILL
Tr.xT: "Hold
[gnarl,as, when, he heard a clock strike, said.
"Now I have one more hour -to answer for."
word about the birth of a "Saviour who is Christ or written: thas making it a personal message. All up my:goings in thy pffths, that my footsteps - "Bind together your spare.hours by the cord
the Lord•" They did not say "Let us go and of these are very moderately priced and are slip not" (P_a. 17:5). . of some definite purpose,, and-you know not
see i/ this thing /s come to pass.'?" They sald," carried especially for the use of our pa_tors and " Tzra_t_,: Renewed Though Decaying• Tzxx: how much you may accomplish"--W_t. M. T,_v-
"Let us go and see this that /J come to pass." people. The essentlal thing IS to get your order "But t]aough the outward man perish, yet the Lea D, D. _ .
What a world of difference between the two ways 'in r.AUL_"so it will not be delayed in the Christ- inward man is, renewed: day by day" (2 Cor. "Be _t war with your vices, at peace with
of taking God's word.---Sntme'_o, nms Mall Rush, but that you will have it In 4:17). ' your neighbors, and let every year find you a
BORN iN ME plenty of time to useforChrlstmas, Tn_t_: The Changing Years arid' TI_e Un- better man"_F_tANKLI_
'Tis nut enough that Christ was bonF " A little colored boy, having watched his old changing Christ. T_T: "Jesus Chri_t the same,
• Beneath.the star,that shdn_:, mammy's ,succe._ in bleaching clothes, covered yesterday, and today, arid forever" (Heb. 13:8). HOW NAPOLEON USED TIME
And eartb was set Lhat morn .his fa_'c with Boapsuds. and lay- down on the Tit_xt_: Tile Comfort of the past and the Abbott in his life of Napoleon tellS of a time
Within a golden zone• law_ in tbe hot sun with the hope'of turning Challenl_e of,the,Future. Tr_xz: {I_ "Hitherto. when in his*early career, Napoleon was quarh_th
the Lord helped us" (I Sam. 7:12), (2) tered in the house of a barber at Auxonne. Some

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spent their time coquetting witl_ the barher'_ [_ :m obl route, to hearer., bcgintlJng at the it. Forget tile peculiarities of' your friends, and "Faith is to believ_ what we do not see, anti
pretiy, wife; he was Mways at his hooks, study.
m_ h_trd, t/l'ai's inter, when • he was commander
" foot of the eross."--"Bon" SIIULER. only
fond
remember
o[ them.the
good
• Porget
points which make you
all per_ona[ quarrels or
" the • , reward
Itex . -_ST.
.hi t thls , faith •
_t G! ST NE
is to see what we behistory
you' may flare heard by accident, and
off the army. on the way to ,_,|arenJzo he ._topped (),_ GoD's Sn)E which if repeated, would seem worse than they
at
former
the door
hostess
of
if
the
she
barber's
remembered
shop,
a
and.
young,
,'L_,ked
officer
his **The
,
v_ice of'tile atajority is not always the
are. Blot out as _ar as pbssible all dL_agreeabies
"Worse than dancing, playing cards, or theater-
by the name of Bonaparte • who was once quar- voice :,f God. One'man anti God have often of tile.. They. will come. but will only, grow going; nothinm" to have ilght anti then sit down and rio
erred in her family. "lmleed I do." was her Pronged the course of b/story and the map oI larger when you rememher them, and the conpettish
reply, "anti a very disagreeable inmate an empire .... John Wesley said, 'the best of o stant thought of the acts of meanness--or worse
he was lie was always shut up in bls room; or, all is. Gorl is with uS.' I-le could say that he- still, malice will tend to make you more familiar "A dozen whole-ilearted Christians can do
if he walked out, he never condescended to speak . cause lit, knew that he was with God. And with .them. Star[ out wit]] a clean sheet today, n'mre, for tile cause of Christ' .titan a hundred
-" - and write upon it only those thim!_ which "are half-hearted ones. '•
to anyone.
- rejoined, "hod
AlL, my good
1 pa._sed.my
woman/'
time as
Napoleon
you wisited
I.incolr..
concernell
was it not he.
whether God
who
is _n
said,
our
"I am not
stele, but I
lovely 'and lovable•"
to have me_ I should not now, have heen in am concerned whether we are on God's side?
"Carnality allowed
--
will soon he carnality, ex-
'"No
afraid
oi_e can
to face. '_
master a situation whichhe is
cofizmaod of the army of italy." When man forms partnership with God. he Ls on cused. Inbred sin. excused, will lead to the ex-
FROM A PREACHER'S SCRAP BOOK ttle _ide of the winning party." cusing of actual sin. The excusing ol the one is MAKE YOUR PREACHER
BE YOIIRSEI.I," --" " " no worse than the excusing of the other. If we
"If God wanted two people to pray alike or "Weam. apt to think concerning our every- - excuse the fruit we will.excuse the root. and vice By R. W. IX_./.RTENST_t_ ".
be alike. He woufii have made them alike. Never day triMs'fhM they. are of .too homely a sort versa." Nothing is as glorious as for a eburch and
let the Devil trouble you because you do nt_t .to. work out ,'any h ng beautiful in'our tharacter, • cpngregation to make a great preacher. Some
pray or testify like some one else. Be yourself." .hut they are not more homely than the shill "In 17Z5 I resolved to dedicate my life to God; churches make the preacher, some preachers make
in the hands of the sculptor." all my thoughts, words, and actions, being the _hurch. What a combination when the pulpit
"Did GOd make man nut of a monkey
man make a monkey out of himself?"
or did
"The only way to learn stron_ faith is to enthoroughly
that every
ruby[need there was
part of my life must
no
be
medium, but
either a sacand
pew make each
witole are God-caned.
other.
men:
Preachers. on
Get behind
the_
that
- rifler to God or to myself--that is, tn effect, to man and push .him into favor with the people;
dure zreat tria!s. 1 have learned my faith by the Devil."--JottN WESLE','. force out great qualities; make him preach in
"Where Christian Perfection is' not strongly _landfng nrm amid severe testings."---GEoRug spite of his haudicaps. Too. many'congregations
and explicitly preached, there is'sehlom any re- -Mt_LLI_r. tbiJtk the schools and colleges are the only means
markable blessing from GocJ"--Jo_fu Wr_qt.zv. DEI,OSlTINO OUR Ltvr_ to qualify a minister. Feed and house your
- _ BELmVINO HIS WORD " "Whey we go tO the bank as a depositor, we preacher well. The horse /}tat wins the race
Man's "highest wi_om is in under._tandin_ One day when Napoleon was reviewing troops, n Imnd our money over to the hankers, We leave has a good .staU. Brag. on him to the towpswhat
the witl of tbe Lord is"--J. H. SMITII the bddle of his" horse 5lipped from his hand , if in tbeir hands. • ;Fhe# use it as they think folk A bragging church and fair,preacller will
wise, paying us regular interest, soon fill every pew--while a nagging, church
.and his horse galloped, off. A private sotdler Gbd is a great Banker• He asks ChriStians and a good preacher will soon empty any church,
"God's will for us, by us, and through as is : ran, and laying hold of the bridle, brought back to deposit their lives, in His bank, to place all I can't he p httt grit my teeth, pray harder and
greater and better than anything we can will the horse to the emperor's hand, when he_sMd. in His hands, and leave it there. He must be toil more when f know a church is beliind me.
_or God's cau_ or for ourselves. "Hence, our "WEB done. captain," absolutely free _o use our lives as He' will. It When your check comes' regularly, when the
_wn enterprise or'our ambition_, even when we "Of what regiment, sir?" inquired the Soldier. must be a rea deposit. Then. what good care members bring in canned fruit, when the Bible
have truly sanctified hearts, will not lift us so . "Of the guards." answered Napoleon, pleased he takes of "us, and what wonderful interest he. preach front was the congregation's present.
paysL What peace and joy He return_ to us. you
high, nor carry us so far. nor do st much [or with his instant helief in his" word• when "your expenses to the General Assembly
When we deposit' all . He gives Iiis own Life to _,_vere remembered_ wl en on "your birthday .they
ourselvgs or fol others, as wilt tbe appreheudin_ The eml_eror rode away, but tbe .soldier threw us in the abiding presence of she. Holy Spirit. _look hands anti gave a [owe offering, when the
of God's own will for us'--J. H. SMITer. down his musket, and thou_li he had no epaulets Ht_,,makes our lives useful and safely keeps that hest overcoat you ever owned was a Christmas
on his shoulders.'no sword by his side nor any widch we commit Unto,llim against that day." pre_ent; wben your wife abd chihlren are re-.
- Tim OLO TIME RELIUtOU NEEDED other mark of his advancement than the wo'rd membered from time to time; brother, you can
"It's tile old, old day of a world gone pell- of the emperor, he rat and joined the staff of "When alnne, a man's rights may be his own; but drop on your knees and cry out, "O God.
mell to the Devil, a worm that will never and commanding officers, when he meets others, they ,become relation- help me to be a better preac!ler."
can never be save.d except by the. oM, otd ero_'_. They laughed at him. and rsaid, "What have ships, ant must he adjusted." • " The thought has come to me [hat the next
• . The fires of hyll are old. Tile sin of man you to dO here?" . time you want to give a love offering you might
is old. The helplessness of _he human heart to He replied. "l am captain of the guard_." ,"Dis Darwinian tht_ory don't.w'orry me none," send a fifty or a one hundred dollar cheek to
eleanse.it_ff fs old. The pitiful weakness of the They.were amazed, but he .,,aid, "The emperor your Publishing ltouse; tell the House to credit
flesh, human flesh, flesh under which the white said so, and therefore I am." _fd U_tele -Eben, "Tain' whar you come front that amount to your pastor's account; then tell
[tot furnace of appetite and pare[on burns, is And he was. dat counts_ but whar yuu's g'ine to." the preacher to order the hooks he needs most to
• -- the amount of the offering. See how that would
an old, old weakness. Thank God, the Gospel. T_INOS TO ForoEr "God never lets Iiis cl_lldren go where they work. Your Publishing Housd woidd be benefited.
is als_ old. The" Christ. the Cros% the empty "If" you would increase happiness forget your can do nothing for Him'. The imprisonment of the pastor would love his- ¢bngregation more.
tomb. the fouhtain 'filled with blood'--yes, glory neighbor's faults, Forget all the slander you two Christians in a jail at Philippi menus the and you, as a congregatiqn would have frbsh
to (3od. they are old, as old" as sih. It isan ever heard, Forget the fault-finding, ahd give salvation of a household and the founding of trt_th and greater [_reaching from the man you
old way to hell, starting from the garden, ff but little thought to the cause which provoked a church." love.
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Tie. masters of. t _e pulpit-have b_h;n adept
• . .
",it
in
dMly.
Lhe use el pure diclion; theirs al_'o has been eat thought, the greatest choice of diction [he
a true ringing el0quenge. But stlch eloquence mum sublime flights of rhetoric, the smoothest
PRACTICAL, .: ,'" .oe,,co, .s.vo,, a..,o.ogo,our doct.oo.
. . t was the resu|t of't}_eir long cont[nued;study"of polish of structure and style; the most deft
"'_--""-- ........................ '_ ' th'e Bible. The _ermons of Guthrie read .almost '_ drapery of thot tght in enticing, alluring, dynamic
like flaming prose poems; those of Talma_e lift word._ is called for in presenting tile mc_sage of
THE MINISTER AND BIBLE STUDY ages, Stlch as Goldsmith, Tennyson, Lonafcllow. - '- one: to. the he/_hts of life by their diction, their GQd to humanity. With the Bible as our train-
" " rhetorical flights Maclaren won the rc¢ognitlt_/I intt book. our Book of literary as well as spirit-
A Ziterary Study have said if one'desired a.knowledt_e of the best of the world as England's most interesting and ual illumination, may we never become common,
o1 the Bible .in poetry, in the art of the biographer, the thr/li/rtg spehk_rs. "l_oday Henry Clay Morrison, vul_ar, ordinary in speaking as tile "oracles °f_
By,Basra W. MILLER hislo'rJala, true eloquence, it could be found'in " though without an e,_rly educational foundation God."
._._ S THE storchodse of truth the Bible the Bible No writer _r speaker can be vu,gar . nece._xry to true eloquence, stands as one el PASADENA CALIF,"
1 lk is unexcelled,. Expecting in its broad or common and be a student of the Oracles of America's most eminent pulpR orators. These
. outlines the fundamentals of science God. In the pulplt the be_t form of address, men caught something of *the exalted phrase- WANTED: A NEW PREACHER AT
sketching roughly the history of nations of an- the _)urcst diction, tile most exalted eloquence, elegy, the rpighty style, the lofty sentiments of BRIGHTVILLE
tiquity, formulating the grandes! code of, morals
and laws, as d6cs the Bible. place it in- the must. be used. Hence we-see the value" of a the Word ofGod, and thus their eloquence was B) C..E. CORNELI. .
foremost rank of verities. Its moral lessons study of the llib[e by thc minister, produced. Ours too may bc this "sought [or Britahtville was an old substantlalcharge The
spiritual precepts, and [ego! examples, [ts scien- The diction oral alyle of the Book of booki., pulpit power, this true literary simp[icily, if we membership was made'up largely of good subbat
pay the price of Ilihle sttld2,', constant read- stantial people who treated their pastor. _'ell.
(i.qc accuracy;, philosophical truMworthlness, ant] is unsurpassed. Then f. one _eek noble diction,, " ing, quoting, mitating tl e literary, merits of rids But it was. noised abroad over the District that
literary "beauty--these alone--make the Bible. a lofty style of expressmn, a rhetorlca finhh. Book. Brlghtville wanted a new preacher. It had been
worthy of the study and analysis of the brainest grace of word and thought, rqine such from the, In making, a literary study of the Bible one quite genePally discussed and some decisions made
•scholars and most brilliant thinkers of the ,_It_ges. Scriptures. No writer of arty age gave tile should constantly hear in.mind the necessity of before there was much thought that the District
The mightiest intellects ol;. nineteen ccnturiea-- story of centui'ies of history with suck come' studying Scripture phFaseology, unusual word- Superintemlent ought to be consulted. It is
Chrysostom, August no, Luther. Sir Isaac Newton. pIetion, such finish, such terseness as Moses The
Matthew Iienry, Adam Clarke, O. Frcdrick portrayal of no character has been given with ings, terseness of sentence format|on, the de- the unfortunate p_actice'o| not a few churches
Wrlght--have spent a Iifetlme in mastering this such b_auty and graphicnes_ as.that of Jesus.. _riptivc power q[ each word use'd. In that to "call'! a pastor and then ask the District
- masterpiece of al! literature, the Beatitudes, not Sulmrintendent to confirm thc cMI. That is
wondrous Book of di_.'inc revelation. They but though 'wr[ttetl by untrained.men--as far _s we word is lost, every word used is dynamic, nor usually getting the cart before the horse. But
touched the shores of possible explorations here- know--in every case..save that of Luke,. the a
in.. In every realm of _.ruth the Bible is un- physician. That loftiness of sentiment, deftness is there a word that could be added to increase Dr. Lavejoy, Ahe genla| District Superintendent,
surpassed. As a moral dynamic it has produced of literary touch, c_iaracterJstlc of geniuses oJ its power, nor taken away without destroying wouM soon be around on his semi.annual visit.
something of the beauty. This clearness of cx- and they wquld infort_ him that they wanted
rheAsaScientificspiritualandpowerindustri_#r°gressithas
di:awn°f front°Or age.tile thethe2.1,pen'thcfOUnd104 Psalms;in the _prkSand others°fDavid,of thethesamel" premion for our pulpit use may be had by study- a new preacher, and that a chan_e was. absolutely
sloughs
touched
of
by
savagery
Rs glory,
and l)agani_m every land class--of
the 35,
Solomon,--tbe Proverbs,---of I_iah,---.
53 and 55 chapters -of .Christ in the"
lng, imitating
biblical diction.
the graphicness,
"
the Clarity .of necessary.
"Dr. Lo_,.cjoy ,was a man of wisdom, careful
The literary value of the Bible is incalcuahle. Sermon on the Mount, and of Paul in the:.'. The first'.literar')study demanded ot a.min- and kindly. It was in his heart to have the
No man is well trained until he is f_niilar with thirteenth of First Corinthians. finds not a par- Later should be the-Bible. Tile 'drama of Job church and the preacher both happily satisfied.
thi,. fountain source el literature. Much less allel in all the annals of literature, excels in beauty and power anything
"
Shake- Harmony
_ired to
is so much better thanstrife.
make the people happy and
He deto
make
ks a minister fitted [or his ennobling task until To be lofty in dictioll, noble in sentiment, pure " speare ever wrote. But usually we study Shakehe
has drunk deeply'therefrom. One may know in thought, rhetorical in descriptive power, rhym- speare first. The eloquence of the orations of in the hispreacher own mind happy, the church and then wouldhe prosper was satisfied
!he contents of the Word of God, analyze it, ing with poetic beauty, fellow ministcff, let us I_iah outshines that of Demosthenes, Cicero But Dr, LoveJoy ake knc_' that the situation
collate its .related scriptures, be acquainted with mastct*ethe Bible. To be terse in expression, - Webstc#, Clay. No low story--merely as litcra-, at Br|ghtville was rather, ticklish and required
the gr_at texts, be versed in biblical do_zm_, but master the style of Solomon. To be truly elo- ture--is comparable' with that of Ruth; George careful handling. A Di.strict Superintendent must
such study do_ for the granducr of the Bible queue Jn publ|c address, read Isaiah. To be Eliot, Thackeray, Hawthorne. Lew WaRace never he as wise as a serpent and harmless as a dove.
wha[ a study of botany does for the beauty of graphic, pointed, simpe yet profound, "imitate penned fiction so sublime, so Interesting, so be is expected'to meet every situation with fair
flowe/s, or astronomy in its technical outlines the style o[, Jesus, To he philosophic, study gripping as the simple story of Ruth. The songs fearlessness as the _;hurch must move on. So.
dues for the star-studded heavens. In the mass Romans, Galatlans; the first chapter of John's of the shepherd king David o'ut ring those, of Dr. Lovejo2/ (bought it would be the part of
o1: details, m the ]unable of dates, systems, chro- Gospel. To be poetic, let.the ringing music of Milton, Burns. Longfellow, Tennyson. Ambas- wisdom to tntervidw several of the more innology,
dispensations and geographical informa- the Psalms permeate y6ur soul. If you would sadors of God. then let us make our sermons fluential and leading members, and find out why
lion, the glory may be hidden, the fragrance lost. be dramatic, or carry tragedy into your pulpit, brilliant with holy diction, _saturated w/th the they wanted a new preacher, "
Study the 'Bible a_ literature, seek out its gems memorize Job, or be thrilled With the moving true poetry el inspiration, sparkling _,ith' that " • He first called on' Brother Sterling, an inof
thought, its flashes of exqu|site diction," Its love story of Ruth. lI you seek material' for rhetorical grace of the Scriptures, fluentlal member af the church., Brother Sterling
flights of rhetOTiCal grace, and its sweeping ':symphonic sermons" after the form of Stidger, The pulpit should lead the age in nobility 'of was considerate and very kind, nothMg harsh
periods of elofluence, there is. the story of Esther, of,Daniel, of the thought, loftiness of sentiment, in the simplicity about him, Hc said: "I have nothing in pattie-
Every form of literature is contained in the saints of old, the poetry, of lob or the music of expres._on which _peaks to the heart. Ours is "ular against Qur pastor. He is an.exceptionally
Biblc. This Book is more thae a mere volume of David. Fellow ministers, we will progress the opportunity as a denomination of forming .fine young man, and I love him and am loyal
of writings; it ia a broad, a vast, and a varied in the art of persuasion, deveop in pulpt'powcr, 'a trained mfn[str_ a holy God-filled eloquent to him, but he takes too much time to ,take the
literature. The mast brilliant writers of the mcrea_e in vocabulary, eloquence, diction, in _mM.ls/ry. May [he Bible bc the rock foun_dation atmouncements. There are Sunday mornings
t

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Ic when he 'does not get to preaching until noon preachinu over,the folks' heads doesn't help THE PASTOR'S_SUPER SIX might keep in the King's great h/ghway of hoH*
,
. or after. Last Sunday I
spent twenty-three minutes
timed
in
|din. and Ire
the announcethem.
tt_ go
Sermons
direct to
doubt to be scolarly, but
the beart tc be helpfuh
ought
. The
It), N It. lb:m_Et,t; nest.
nlean
To turn to either the
trouble if not a total
rigbt or
wreck
le[t
The
would
head-'
ments. Some few' o[ the congregation went to preacher ought to give bis shee_ some fodder " In this article we sfiMI endevor hi deal with i_hts, to rive tile driver the best light, must be
'/ sleep, and quite generally the people were tired and put it on the lower shelf, A preacher, can the lights on the pastor's super six. the head properly focused so as to throw the light ahead '
_i out before the sermon was begun." . " he well educated and yet not know how to lights: tile tail lights, the dash light and the in such a manner as to reveal the road clearly
_i Dr. Lovejoy nodded his head "I have heard 0reach for d_e edification and upli{tln_ of ldg parking fights. Iar enough ahead to give the driver time to
that _ame story about nanny pastors, Bul you . peolfle. A real educated preacher stat_ the 1, The necessity of th'e lights. _ . steer his super six by all "dangers that might
t_i
,
see the pastor wants
meats of the church
to
and
he fair with all
each organization
departbaml_
great
stand
truths
them."
so simply that a child can until:r- 2. Tbe
"
use aml misuse'o[ the lights appear...There
._et too hizb_or
is
too
danger ol getting the lights
low. In either case t_le lights
3. The higbway signal lights, will'be of little use. They,can he anti shouhl be
_!
in an announcement
that good.' Thank
with
y_nl
the remark. 'emphasize
Brother Sterlinm"
Di" Lovejby wAs
_hotmht he woubt
t_ettin_ tired and
better gO home,
weary
bat he
and
de-
The necessity [or a lull
the pastor_ super six liesin
lighting
the fact
system on
lh;al he is
set,anti focused just right,
Dr. l,ovejoy next called on Itrother Faithful tided in his own mind to stop .and see the Sun- drivinz through a land of darkness SI ritilal Azain. the lights are to be used and not abused.
Brother Faithful was always,at church; be was day,school superintendent. So he stopped in the darkness is the blackest o'f all forms o[ d;trkness. There ore times when the dimmers.should be
a front
tie had
seater, a little deaf,
been a member of
but
the
a credible listener,
church for many,
store xvfiere Mr.
a cordial greeting,
Woodman was working.
Dr. Lovejoy stated that
-After
there
There
it is
are
bke
no sun, moon or stars
tbe a_;Iul darkness n[
in sin's
Egypt
sky.
•
that
u_ed.
serving
The
the
_trt of
signals
handling _he litdtt_
will hand much to
and ob_
do .with
many years; he had always stolid, by the pastor was some agitation in Iavor of a hew pastor, could be felt• _he safety of the'super"slx and her passengers.
aml the church was as dear to'him as the apple he .,aid. "What is your canflid and honest opin- We have met cars on the highways with. strong
of his eye. Dr, LOvejny stat,:d his .errand. say_ [on?" Brother WOodman ttas silent ,for a minute Not only 'is spiritual darkness'black but h blazing [lead lights that would glare m that we
tn_ tirol.he was seein_ a few folks and gettin_ or so, he was thinking of the boys anti girls in is filled with heavy fo_ clouds that rise from could see nothing. A 'driver o[. a super stx
lheir-expressions and opinions. -'_'Ynu kmtw," his Sunday school, and he desired to be fair to the swamps of unhelh'[ and drift across'the dturch can turn on too much. light'on.a sul?}ect
_aid Brother Faithful, "that 1 have been ova them and the _astor. _Finally he said: "There highways obseurine vision: aml without power- and blind the people. This danaer is just as
to my pastors. They all have had admirable is_me criticism of our pastor, but. there is al- ful. head lights, it would be imposslble m travel had as not enough lleht. Tbe lieht .is to be
qualities, I like this man we boot;. He i_ well ways criticism of every pastor: Our pastor is atall without dan_er to the super six as well as used instead uf abused. The truth o[ salvation
educated, a graduate of one of our eolleRes; he not a young folks'. [iastor. but as far as I can all others, The I_ead lights on the asters stpet '.ran be preached in such a .manner as to blind
preaches good. sonnd _rrnons: that is. they are judge, the hoys anti girls like him. lie- is not six are ol vast Importance instead of enl_htenin¢.. The preacher can det,'oorl
as much as I can hear of them. Oar particularly it Sunday school man_-be usually The tail lights on he push r's super _ x are nounce immorality in _uch a way theft his preachpastor
has the unfortunate habil--/ts many comes in late--hut I announcethe church ser\'-'. ,.made necess_ry for two reasons. II any other ing hecoraes immoral in suggestion, even as
preachers have---when he reaches a climax he ice to the. Sunday school anti urRe all to attend driver of a super s_x tlesifbs to drive faster than mueb so its the moving picture'which he is dedrops
his voice to a whisper. 1 nearly disjoint the preachinn services He Is not what you others the .tail light reveals the slow _.nmg nounying: Light is to be used and not abused.
my neck trying to hear him, bot'no,._lh,,,,,..: ,,,,,_"a". m ght call_ a man of soC a intercourse, he seems church aml permits tile faster super _ix ,to go When churches _ark they should observe the
His best "point is gone. and I am the loser. I a httle stiff and cold. But the biggest objection, around without, danger to either. Then the stop rules and turn on their parking lights. It is
ar_ not the only one, for others with good i'ars that is. a. gcneral crltlclsm, is this: Our pastor light. When anything goe_ wrong and a pastor dannerous, to park- a dog the highway in the
tell me that they cannot hear him. Why .do so doesn't qtdt when. he is through He preaclfds needs to.slow up for repairs. _ flat tire. etc.. he dark. Churches holding petting part_es ,witb
many p_-eachers make their introduction and their remarkably well for half an bour, reaehes.a superb needs the stol_ light to warn those hehind him the world,, flesh god the Devil shmild clear the
climaxes in.a subdued tone,of, voice. Don't they place to stop, but he doesn't stop, he goes on, that be is slowing down anti stopplnm We bane highway, and ki:ep their park lights on.
want to be heard?" floonders, repeats himself and don't' seem to be " a numbel" of'super six churches' slowing down Again. drivers of super sik church_ _inwing
Dr. Lovejoy 'a,as hearing .the same phi. story able to land his boat and tie up to shore. A today and we hope there is nothin_ serious tile down Stlould see that the. stop light is working.
of the preacher" who does not know how to high-school boy said that he saw three or four matter, for just behiml them comes a flyer at. high speed.
. handle his voice. - fine places for him to stop, bat he missed them The dash light is necessary in that it reveals Super six' driveks run at "tup speed and.unles._
Mrs. G'lderw Id was pePsi.den of _he Ladies' and went on. /t.ly only complaint L_, that our thedash board on Which are the many indicators the rules are. observed wrecks'will happen. To
Missionary Society. She- was a very capable pastor does not quit when he is throuzh." as to tile. oil. charging of the battery,.the speed- avoid wrecks observe the rules ol the King's
woman and a great church worker. Dr: Love-" .The District Assembly came .in due course of procter, etc. highway.
ioy went to'see her; she told the District Super- tim6. The Gcneral Superintendent, the Disti'ict Then there are the parking fights, red. white It" I were the driver of a super six car,
in/rodent tbat she liked tbe pastor and she Superintendent and the.Advisory Board met see- and green. It iS dangerous to both the parked I'd keep my lights all super in power;
thought that many' of the members liked him " era[ times to make pastoral adjustments. Bright. ear and to those moving' to park along the I'd use the dimmer, the taih and dash,
also, "But" said _he, °'our 'pastor preaches over elite had a new pastor sent to them. The man " King's hghway without parking ligltts. Many Aswall.as the spot light that is super in flash.
the heads o/the, p'eople. We go to chtlrch sten who was moved left against his wishes. He . super sixes are now parked but most of" them
intently, go home 'and wonder" what it is .all spoke unkindly of the District •Superintendent. have had judgment to eel away from the main THE PERPENDICULAR PRONOUN
about. The Ixastor is so well educated anti as a man with a cotton string, for a baekbanel IdghWay, so there is but little dan_er because -
spends so much tlmc iR his study, that he thinks . he bitterly cr/t/cised the "autocracy" of Natarene of them. By. A. W. Oawtn
in a different channel from what we do, rile iS So ecclesiastieism, and talked "about a man not The signal lights along the King's great high- _ HE title of this article are Words used
profound,
mons are
so scholarly, so erudite, that
above us. We cannot get the
his seechildren
Ilaving an
gruntled,
opportunity," and was generally
.
dis. way
those
are' for _he .travelers'
v/ho have parked.
aid and
The red
to benefit
Bghts ot
_i. by a certain bishop,
nero camp-meeting.
years ago, at a promi-
In referring to some
and the young people to stay at all; they do He was moved "to a smaller charge where he ' danger mark by roads, cross roads, etc. These preachers he _id that i'the perpendicular p_'onot,
under_tand the sermons either." As Dr. wouhl make long announcements, whisper his signals are to keep the super six driver informed
I.ovejoy ]e_t
was thinking,
the home
and' his
of Sister Gilderwfld
thoughts ran about
he
like
climaxes,.prcaeh over
and
never top,when
the
he
heads.of.the
was through.
people,
At the
as tothe
driving
coorse the highway
through a country o[
takes, lor
darkness.
he Ls noun
spoils
spoils all they do." Well, truly,
a _reat deal of what the), do.
. .
it*oBcn
But the
thi_: Poor preacher[ So hlueh learning_ .y.et en_l of "the s yeart the church was about 'dead The use of the head light on the pastor's super same Is also true of many who are not preachers•
lacks wisdom. Why cannot he uqderstand that and he was asked to move agant, six is tirol to show' the driver the way so be Poor human nature seems to be h_pregnated

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wil.h the spirit of self-importance. Often self S_J that Mh around may see havi_ their walks brightened hy tile itch( that int_ "out s!,rvice_ aud" _t•e _)ould not ne_h.d t6
. is manifested even in sermons, prayers, testi- CbriM and Chrlsl alone." . never was on sea or land. utilize ever_ pos_ilde available means to obtain
monies, etc.. and in otl_er relations in llfe, }low That wa_ a mosl _larinz and ohnoxiotls £a_e The conception that there may be a relieim_ the attendance of the people.
self likes to parade its own achievements, and wf "the perpendicular pronoun." when the man in the heart separate irma the religion [n the "The chib[ren of this world are wiser in their
sometimes even at the expense of tile good deeds in the temple tom God how good he wa_. His head and that one nlay be' substituted for /he t:eneratbm thar_, [he children of iigilt." They
of others[" The "hi_t I" ami the "litth. you" • wi)ole prayer, or ratbelF his insolent harangue, other; fimis no warrant in the Scriptt_re or in invest large sums in .ti_e most attractive and
pervade Society. In general, brislh.d with "I, 't "I.,, "l." But he got nothing life• Whenever 1 _o to church and- the minister Iaseinatbnz" display possible In c_ttc|z the :ltlen-
A few years ago I heard a" very excellent and except the c6ntempt of Go,.] But was it not rises anti _.ays, _'I tim m_imz to preach 1o you tbm of the peop[e and draw the crowds to their .
useful man say, _'Oh, there, now. I guess [ [fare also the "big' ] " whell even the disciples el nut of my heart. Inni_ht." I lmmediate]v be#in
beeE _qying too mncil..ahout myscifl please Jesns sought _he exaltation of self, wondering to • fear that is all excuse for tile lack of proper per[ormances_ Of course, we are not caterine lu
pardonY• But the nature uf his rentarks iusti- who _'ouhl he "tbe greatest" among them? preparation, and f am in for a thin di_ourse, the crowds andto the spectacular, but it is ctmlt
fled a frequent alluslon to-binlsc/f And yet Thereis perhaps no greater fOE tO our personal Often the tm I resslon is jostif_ed. People. go to men sense to expect more hlessin_ and more
he may have, in a degree, felt that be needed Io _piritual well-bEing and our- success in God's church In [;e fed as well as contfnrted anti grace upon our wdrk according to the extent
_uard a_ainst tile tnanife_tations of self. Work than the abominable and proud spirit that strengthened You' will observe that even Billy nl tmr mission to tile pt_bBc, -
desires and seeks the honor of men instead of Sunday, believed to'disregard the, conventions, _ To conclude .that advertising, is superfluous
Verily "the perpendicular pronoun" h)ve_ to the glory of God: A _ood rcsfi ut on for all of writes all his sermons, even if bo seems to drive and unnecessary, beca,ase, if we have a sslfficJenry
he in the eye of the 0uidic. And ;sped men us would bE that of a lady who. in giving her ,_ppeals home ,,yith a boseball bat : nf the Glory of Gad upon our service_, filet will.
are sometimes ensnared• The hea_tf_l spirit testimnny,.stfl that, henceforth site would al. It may be beeau_ of my uphringlng in the attract the people, m,'iy be only presumption.
aodacc°mpanyingtbe bi_hly dramatictbe publicatio;)i_ostureOfof sermon.their pottrattst°PICS't'l"e"aYSfortZSejesu_.tbe little "i" r_tr be'melt and the capltal oldtime Methodist hdth. lint I [eel a sense nf Unquestionably, there is nnthing- so attractive
m the /_apers.seem to indicate more or Iris'at . " - hein_ denied bre_d, if I,go to el_urch and in the anti impressive as the wonderful outoouring nf
se)f:g]orlficatlol/. The desire always to keep one's Tile apostle I'au] ._a d, Not l_but ,Christ." learned 'di._course, enriched with classical fore, the' Spirit of God op6n' our meetinu. Notbin_
self before the pnbl e s dlusscated by the_foilow- What a glorious motto for all Christians, preach- ] find nothln_ [hat t_ives warmth and cheer to can be subMituted for .t tis and in reality, _hE
mg iock6ntt A peominent andwee th} business" ers a d other! But h needs to aecome _m actual the heart, Between the preacher wbo is Short more of tbe genuine we pessess in our services.
man was told by a friend '_ that " a certain Opted"_
exi_erience, tbe real _oal of all our pursnils. We on leai'ning and Ion_ on experience, and thE'one' the .more truthful and meritorious will be our
politician had "turned Baptist" T e reply was, must m>t only "decrease," and Christ "increase." whose _ermon is a cold ethical e_ay, givE" me advertising.
"l cannot believe the report; foe to he a Baptist bile we musl die to self, so that we shall be able the first. I can go't0 the library and the lyceum There must he sbmE ohject_'e to our publicity,
nne must be immersed, and he would never con- , trnly fo so3', "None ofself_ but all of thee•" for the classics and for lo_ic." BUt if the Church consequently we. must, of_necessity, have some-
sent to disappear frbm public view long enough t.tls AN_ELE._. CALL_', lla_ no messat_e or no infbJence that warms the thinn worth while fo offer th0 public. A very
for the per[ormance of the r e'_ _omewhat heart and sends one forth to lo_.c and ile]p his" significant article in the press has Eome to my
amusing, but. not without a lesson. _Tbe inchlent A LA_MAN ON PREACHING fellows, from what source' is the essential tn attention, from which I quote in this regards"
recalls the old fable of the frog which wished to 't" '_,[ESSAGE to tile preachers is that DaNmLS, Secretary of the nayy in the cabinet o[ New York, tohl to the Emhteenth" "Annual
migtrate with some
stick which one of
wild _eese
t/tern hem
by
in
hoMinz on
its mouth.
to a
The M nothing in your ministry is so •important happiness of President anti WB._on usefttines¢ in The to Chrhtian come?--Joszrltlrs Add,peaCe. aConferetic,e Jew lines of ontheChurch address Publicity: _iven by Charles Stelzle,
as the earnestness born of living faitiL New Yerk, "In advertisboz the Cbur'ch tiw same principle
simile evoked tbe question by some persons as The people wBI forgive auything else in a rain- of I svcho ogy must be u_ed.that the business
to.wbo could have conceived suEh a clever idea. islet except the sense that be is professional _Un. -- man Employs in seBing good*. On _eneral
Upon) this the silly frog.shouted, "I did." And le_s b:le|_ of his 16:arMng aud diction and eloquence ATTRACTIVE CHURCH PUBLICITY
. - principles it is safe to assume that the pubBe
in thus openlng its mouth in self*praise it, of they feel thai beia dominated by a faitl) tbot fly AI.I,IN M. BowEa . knows nothing whatever about tl_e church. In
course,'feB to the ground and to its death. Jilts him to the heights, lds sermons are as This caption has bEefi chosen fur In_ arti_:le advertisin_ the church it should be made plain
Thu_ _me persons' who tire troubled with sounding brass and _ tinkling cymbal.
the "greal. I" spirit, .SOOnEr or latter come to- as most significant because it soggests the _eeret that it is not a reform organi_ation, a quorum,
"The reason I go In hear that man preach," of the" merits of .effective.advertising. a socla! _rvice league, a poB!ical party: nor its
• mief. It is still true that pride goeth before de-,, said a prosperous and virile successful lumber- AdVertising is a profession in itself anti not preachers suliposed to be economic Experts. ThE
"WhosoeverChriststrueti°n'warnsandshallagainstit'
exaltllaughtYself'exattati°nhimsclf"
shallspirit beforebydeclaring,a
he abased." fall. _tman.he is prEachlng."is that I cannot be S,awing lumber while everyone possesses this rare genius of makimt church has an important social message and mis-
i Men and women, to use an overworked word. |eai'n much for his benefit by observation, worhl; but its silpeeme tookis spiritual. If .it
• Tbe wouhl "I" ae must [reely goused down," of God. and stay. Ilow down, blessed if and we are_,'fed up" on the things that pertain to.trade Advertising, when attractive, has a veryslg- fMishErc, it has lost out eomplEtel_/_ The church
and business and sports and science and litera- nificant place in the. SUCEe.Ssof the Ch_reb_ if has a sure cure for sin. but, judging by the pub-
Impertaot A certain preacher, always tobefore Substitute going Jesus into the for[mlplt, selfl tm:e. They go to church--when it is not from
WE have anything of merit to advertise. And licity,-it la not very exalted .about offering this
II often asks himself, "Is it Gbd or'self you seek habit, and the older I grow the more I believe
advertising the more impressive, attractive, noticeable, yet"?evei'y, convincing minister char- may slon. sure cure and to tblsthefact people. should ThE he church advErtisEd must to letthea so glorify?" . . that most good things that come to us are the octet of the publicity rim more Its influen_ln sorrnwiog world know that it offers comfort
.. ,result- of a habit that .puts us in n receptive attracting the attentinn and iuter_t of the public, to the de,plate, that it heals the broken hearted.
"Out of everybody's sight, mood 'in a gool place--in the hope that they If we are to reach the public With _ur great that it gives strength to the weak and weary,
Most of all my own, will. he liftt.d up by a spiritual m_-.6age ao'd mess.age of Full SMvatton. we mu_t get the people ' if can advertise no greater facts.than these, for
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herein it offers what !he world craves most pastor a wonderful _pportunity /or advertising sixty sermons [or children; still anotber, discus- el others when they are portrayed, B;arn" us to
earnestly." Ids church It Ires been my metbod to visit the sions on tile 'Christian Endeavor Sociely Topic.: . take beet] le_t B'e fall. Preachers. stock up _on
Our Lord said in the parable of 'tile _rea City Editor of.the newspaper and get personally which will d6 for addresses to any body of bi_zraphies and by all means _et this one.
supper, "Go "nut into the Ida'hways aml hedtzes .acquainted with him. Then a week or tyro be- young people." Thcre are evening sermons f_r "llarnessin_ Gt_d." Yes, a bit shocking that
and compel them to come in." That may in- fore a revival, visit'-him with a shgrt story'of each Sumlay of the year also enough mid-wee_, tide but don't pass judament until :¢ou find that
elude street services and teht campaigns aml rite tbe Evangelist's life and- bis picture, wbicb he " mes._.a_es for the entire year and besides tlds Paul Rader the author of a book by this nama
personal, individual invitation, but it may as would _ladiy publish a_ news. Then renew a special sermon for each one el the fifty-two tDoran $I.ZSl doesn't advocate harnessin_ God
consistently include a compelling a_dvertlsement this with some display adverti_megt _ which Sundays• Then a discussion of each Sunday but shows the futility o[ men, as indivkluals and
school lesson anti finally poetry for all special as systems and organization attempting to uti-"
in the newspaper, on tbe bulletin board, on the reach every borne in the city. Then we use
electric sign; etc. a large banner over the cburch entrants, and days of-tbe year•.-Book publisber_ have been lize God's power to furtheg their scbemes anti
In regard to the amodnL of advertisin¢ to I)e harmers stretched, across several leading streets, ascused of profiteering but nol_me.pe_on would proiects Rader's thoughts along, this line are
done Dr the character of the publicity, we must Also. either cards or circulars for general distribu, hring that charge ba_ed on the vafile for tbP so invigorating amI t'efresidng that we must quote
distimmish" ht'tween the country cburr[i, the tion durhnz tbe services .and distributed sys- price of tbis volume, . just a paragraplfor two: "Men tried to harness
suburban city cburchand the far_er city chnrcb, tematicafly to the employees of factories an_ It was .a happy tbaueht that prompted the God,' They are still to'lag to lay scientific
It will not be profitahle to do as extensive a,I- department stores; cards on (he front of street title "Andrew Murray and his Mosque" _Revefl bands upon Him; measure His_abiflty and bind
vertisinz in the former as in the latter instance, cars la_e cards mounted on frames placed on $1.751 [or the volume narratingthe life of tbls llinl :to their own ways of tbtnkJng, confine
". However, some kind of publicity of the rieht prominent vacant lois', and announcements, il saint of God. For the man .anti bis message Him to tbtqr brain's ideas. New religions spring
character, is always helpful possible, over tbe Radio. Our efforl has been were Fnseparable He wrote, not his theories, up every day, offering to harness God arid put
We have gained a _reat victory m publicity to entbnse dad awaken the people unt t ey '" but the interpretations of bis inner exp.erience_, llinl at the command of men. Old religions
if we have'discovered lbe secret of attra_tA,e., are talking R'evival everywliere It may not This detailed account--334 paze_,--has thefurther unwind their ancient rules and regulations [or
compelling advertising. Publicity is "not as same be neees_c,aryto use such an extensive program value ol being authentic, eompileil as it was by flattering Him into their net or appeasing His
seem to infer,' a useless, extravagant expense, If",. o[ pub c ty eyeD, where and in every revival, a friend, W. M. Doulzlas_ with tbe belp of wrath and gaining His favor. Great pageants of
it actually brings penple, to "our. services; for .if but experience will. prove what advertlsln_ God Murray's daughters• .- ,, _ pomp are 'displayed also shapely altars ot art
we may Welcome tbe people to our _rvices, we willbless mbst, for the benefit of our services Although Andrew Murray's writings have that _ifts of gold and precious stones, gorgeous robes
will have more penitents a our altar, -more iWIlat a Convention we preachers would have mystical quality that cla-ses tffem with the works el costly fabrics _re supposed through priestly
converts to welcome into our. churches, more if we could get together_and discuss Ibe question, of "Brother Lawrence," a Kempis, Augustine intoning to draw God- Within tile cathedral walls
inspiration upon the people, and, as a cease- "How I would advertise the Church." .and such men, he belongs to the present day, where permanent .obligations, to nrant life and
quence, an increasedofferlng in our treasury, passink to his reward in 1017, "l_ll[$biograpby power can be lastened upon Him. This pewee
It is difficult to suggest any set method of t should be carefully read by_everyone who aspires in turn is to be dispensed to the multiindes by
publicity app cable teat[ churches, ye I u'otlld HERE AND THERE AMONG BOOKS to deep spirituality, • tho_e wbo have managed to put the harness
offer for cop._ideration such publicity as: The By P. H. LVNr¢ One chapter entitled Divine flealing gwes u5 on God."
weekly bulletln, (this the members may read ? Of special.interest 40 preachers at tbis poetic- a revelation of how'Amtrew Murray applied to But the title of the book bolero me represents
• . and pas._ eel to ottlers) an attractive church =ard. ular time of the year is Doran's Minister's his own need's, the principles of prevaiffng prayer .only one chapter Dr ._ermon--there are eight
tto be kept in your-pockets, for re ty use_ the Manual for 1927 fDoran $2.00) I am informed about which he "wrote., If tbere wasn't anntber others.. • everyone of tbem short, very readable,
newspgper'-display; the bulletin bohrd, tsome- that the first volume published last _'ear. met thin_ worth while in tbe book the chapter of simple in a sense yet pointed and pregnantwlih
thing neat 'and attractive} : a running ad_h'rtise- witb an acceptance even beyond '_he "publisher's Murray's home llfe would be
than the price oi the volume.
worth tar more
As tbe compiler
truth--truth
and beed.
that we and the wdr'ld, needto hear
Rader has .mastered the problem, of
meat
the hotel.directory;
on some pages
an
in
easily
the telephone
read bulletin
directory;
board
"expe.ctdtions.
a remarkable
The
publicatlon,
Minister's
It
Matmal
would
real{y
t_e un-
is says: _!Many men who are
world fail amt_nfab y i_/the
great in the outside
home." Not so with
!be proper appeal to present-day readers. No
rambling, no long _drawn out arguments--truth
.at some conspicuous corner on eacb road leading.' reasonable to expect every suggestion contained tbe subject of this biography--his tenderness of in chunks, here and there an illustration--homely
into the city; a Ilood-llght Io illuminate the in its 729 pages to he adaptable to every rain. spirit mu_t have been quite llke that of his sometimes, bu_t always to the point. In this "
front of the church; etc. . ister's program. But it does unquestionably Master. Hi_ love 'and solicitude for his wife book especially, Rader's messages close .with you
It has been my gxperience that no publicity contain enough usable mat_erial to make It well was beautiful and touching, One gets the ira- .wondering why he didn't say a little more when
reaches the people more neary to an entirety , wortb the price, and more. Even to list its presslon from'the•entire book that.the Psalmist's he w_ doing so ,well.
or more effectivelY,than a newspaper advertise- different divisions requires considerable space, testimony "Thy centleness hath made me great" Francis A. Wright has sent us for review, a
mayment'beand'publishedbY discrimlnation.free of charge.many news items
• If it were not for the lack of space I would
, theThe followingb°°k containSspecial_ermOnSoccasiuns:and
illustrationSArmL_tiee Sun-f°r_
day, Christmas, Commencement, Communion.
could be spokefi of Andrew Mut'ray,
hissed by personal preference--most
I may be
of us are-copy
of'his late volume,'"The Beast, Modernism
and the Evanl_elical Faith." It is a comprehensive
be delighted to give some samples of 'tl_e hun- Easler.-Holy "Weel_, Independence ,Day, Lal_or but I believe, a preacher's library sbould have survey of'prophecy fulfilled and unfulfilled. The
deeds of advertisements wbich I have collected Day, MenioriaI Day /_lother's Day, New Year's a good sprinkling of b'|ograpbles. "lAves of book .is divided into five parts..Part one disfrom
many sources in. my twenty years in tile
pastorate, hut I can only give a brief statement
Sunday, Old People's Service, Palm Sunday,
Ti_anksgiving, Washlngton_s Birthday. Also core-
achievements
_reat men all
of
remiml
others
u_"--you
stir us to
remember,
high endeavor;
The cusses
False Propbet.
the prophecies
Part
concerning
two 'contrasts
tbe
the
Beast
funds.
and
here, .
• A series of special revival
,
services affords every
.'monies for weddings, Iunerals,.baptism
fonts and _dults, Another fealure .i.s
of inghoul
the victories of anotber encourace us to _o
forth to conquer; the weaknesses ,and failures
'mentals of our faith as opposed to (also systems
of government and religious. , Part three depicts -

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very strikingly tile fallaeies ol Modernlsnl mvhm t_estions that CmuM have taken months to gather Oil wells in the United Stales appear to bavc A pa,tor of a sister church in Alabama has
birth to the False PropheL. Part fmlr places oral'towrite, A Sunday sd_oal tes_oncerumen- a _reat attractionfor many wbe desireto of- ]uM finished eiglltyear_ of. service with bL_
empllasi_ upon the divine inslfirationof the tary is not only valuable for the current _,'ear, qmre sudden wcaRh. It is reported thpt Jm churlh, during which "time tbere have been
Word of God; calls httention to.Scripture proph- but [or a preacher ur teacher it makes-a worth- December 31, 1925. thcrc were 306,100 producing 3.133 additions to tile _tnembership.. Tkc average
dcies already fulfilled and traces the band of while referent:e ho6k to be referred to again oil welL_ "in bthe United States which was an in- Sunday scbold attendance increased from 557
God it) hlslory down thrmmh, the ares. Tire and agahL There probaby are.other good corn- crease of-7,0CO over the number reporled for to 1,211. :l'he church has raised for current
bool_ is not unduly si_'_ulative .and furnishes mentarit_ on /be Sunday school lessons hut we 1024. The average daily production per well expcnr-es the sum of $355,723, while during the
much food for _ber thmmllt and earelUl study, are sure tllat there is none better than TarbeWs.
_ " was six and fi.vc-tentbs barrels. In 1925" there same time it hasraised $43S,825 lormissionary
The Idea is current that many business reed Tile Fiemine I[. Revell Co., also have sub- were 25.623 wells drilled, distributed as iollows: and edueatlonal purposes, with a present member-
take the attitude that religion and all ibm goes mitted, a copy of R. A. Torrey's "Tim Gist of tile Oil wells 16,._59, gas wells 2300 mid 6334 were ship of 3,117. It is evident tllat this prosperous
with it--cllu_'ch attendance, prayer, Bible--i_'well Lesson" i350) for 1027. This is a-neat vest- dry holes.. We are led to wm_der if churches churctl is cnniribulina as much for ,'ethers as
enough for women anti chihlren but it has no packet votdmc giving a conci_ exposition 01 the organized within file .last twelve montbs could foi itself.
appeal to tbe' practlcal, hard-headed man bf Inlernalional lemons. Dr. Torrey enjoys the be characterized as "nil welts,". "gas wells" and , .
business and afhdrs.. Perhaps, even tile :areful reputation of bein_ one of tile foremost Bible "dry holes.'! " Tile Union Lutheran Church in A_erica at .its
Bible student will be astounded to know how scllolars of this day and as such he is well -- recent convenrion adopteffa budt_et 0f_4,400,000
much the Scriptu_res have to _y on the subject qualified for Lhe difficult task of condensing the The Way o,f Faith carries the follow!as: _. for its work of 1028: This repre_nts a ten per
of business---vocations, merchandising, etc. _,t(. great anloum of material tbat might be written "The drys swept the slate in Illinois, Indiana cent increase over tbe ammmt approved lor 1027.
G. Barnes. evidently • after exhaustive research on. any of 1he l___ms into a nutshell"as, it and Oregon primaries. Here is an ' ncidfnJ. Of this amount $1320.000 is Coy foreign missions.
has compiled a modest little volume, chtsslfyinu were. For a busy pastor or superintendent,, worth noting: Ward B. Heiner el ludiaoa, S11674 ZOO fo_" American ov home missions. $517,
all' Scriptures alluding .in atiy way to bu_ine_ especially, this littl_ volume is worth many times 'toured the sta.te in a $12,000- automobile, dis 9' 0OO for Ministerlal Relief. _124,600 for edt_catlon,
and its allied stibjects. "Business in the Bible" its price, playing a sign ill big red letters,-'l am wet.' $226,600 for inner missions. $11.000 for the
(Vir.50c) is a haridy, pocket-size book of 86 Robinson, his opponent. 'dry' received 226,430 American lbble Society, gSb,_00 for the National
pages, with nineteen chapters, each one coverin= Luther Council, and $17b.000 for executive exone
classification of Scripture references. We FACTSAND FIGURES votes and tTeiner recei_,ed 30;743. But .the wet .
newspapers are playing witll thesoft pedal on penses. ".
mention just a few, Maxims for Business Men: By E. J. FLF.MINO when tills incident is mentioned. Prohibition. :- '
Occupations Mentioned in the Bible; Occupations Noisome, noxious insects cause a great deal tile greatest hoou to this country,, marches on.'" Rev. John Thomas, founder of the Friendly
for Women; 'Arts and Crafts; Merchants; Farm- of Lrouhle anti destruction in this ,k,orld. Tile -- Islands Missioll ,applied to tile Londt_n. Mission
era: Workers and Wages; Manufacturers. United States is fore'mast in tile fight against Before prohibition America was paying $2,438. Society for permission to extend his work to the
It requires no,great stretch of the imagination them. "Dr. L'. O Howard, chief of the Bureau 000 annually for drink and in 1016 $Z_;3,_167900 iskmd of IIaabal. whose chief deslred.bis coming.
to,picture great possibilities for _hls little _,61ume. of Entomology, has a personnel in his bureau for education. In: 1022 the situation had. so lie waited with some anxiety for a reply. About
Ckristian business men will enjoy'it, otller-busi-, of 575. of whom 360 arc scientific experts, changed that we spent S1,783,070,000 for public tlmt times boxwas 3vashed ashore, anti carried
ness men need its enlightening mesmge, the Scientific men from many otker nations, come to education but not one cent was spent for liquor io one of tile missionaries, containing ._ letter
preacher in preparing a sermon for busine_ men the United States to see how we. handle this hy public permission, from tile society, authorizhlg the establishment
will find it of inestimable v,'ilue: "the minister problem, --.. of the mb._ion. Neither the vessel to'which the
railed upon to address a group of business men
will find bere iust the material he needs; the Prof. Irving-Fisller, of Vale University, esti- letter was entrusted, tbe crew, nor any of the
teacher of a men's Bible class will constantly In 1o25 theMetho_listEpis_:npb, I Church through mates that prohibition is netting the _On tbd' freight, except the box. containing the letter
its home missionary society spent moi'e than States $0,OO0,000,000 a .ycar-ln values, authorizing, a new effoi'l for the salvation'of tbe .
refer to it, It's a big little book, Why hasn't $2,500,600 irJ the Uni_tl States and its territories" -- . heathen, wllich came to the right place at the
someone done this before?'
For the twenty-second tim_ Revell is offering ha the interest of borne mission work. The largest church organ in the world has rigbt lime, was ever heard Irom_
been built in the Liverpool Cathedral at _ cost
Tarbell's Teacllers' Guide, by Martha T:irbell of $175,000," It was dedicated on October 18, The deatb of Rev.. Andrew Broadus, II1,
Ph D. ($2.C0). This annum volume needs no Late reports from the great disaster in Florida Work on the organ was started before lhe 'war pastor of the Salem Baptist Church, near Sparta,
introduction to church and Sunday school work- caused by the hurricane, show thht nearly 365 but was abandoned during the war, or until Vs., ended a pastoral service of the third genera-
ers_ Neither the,author nor. the book needs an persons were kill6d or fatally'injured, 150 are peace came. The lowest note welghs' more than tion of this name and. an unbroken service of
introduction to Christian .workers. After ban- ndsslugl 1,1_0 injured, and 20,OO0 homeless. Prop- a ton and is thirty-seven inches in diameter, 166 years given by tile three men to. this church.
dfing hundreds of books anti reviewlnz scores of t,rly was daniaged to tile amount of $165,000,000. Tile instrument has five' rows of keys. 222 draw This is a'wonderful testimony of both thefa|th-
tllein tile sense of wonder at tile material whlch __ kn6bs, 16g stops and 10,934 pipes, The eli:ctric [ulness of men and the fellowship of God,
one can procure fur's mere baga die h.tn no motors that operate the mechanlsra'have a total
Sense abated. This particular volume struck xts The ,World Zionist organization wUl spend of 35 horsepower.' The organ is'so large that it Are old ministers being crowded to he shelf?
especially as an example of what modern inven. $t0,O00,O00 in the agricultural industrial develop- requires 17 telephones in various parts of tile Not alitogether. Dr. George Alexander preachesln
, "tlons have made possible in the way of eettlng ment of Palestine during the next yeats. " The instrument .to enable workmen to communicate - the First Presbyterian church Dr. James Burrell
your money's worth In the book line, Here we Jews of the United States contribute $7,500,000 witli the assistant at th'e keys witch the organ in the Marble Collegiate cburch, and Dr: I. M.
have 415 pages, filled,with information and aug- of this amount, is being tuned. . . IIablemann ,in the First. Baptis_ church, o( N_w

]
V_rk. These tllre_, preache_-s'are all octogenarians. But there is often need for real personal work ' "
Dr. Henry Howard. who i_ nearly sew'mY years in heltnn_ veak discouraged and fEEbly instructed
of a_e. has just begtm his pastorate.at tile Fifth Cl_ristktns. "Cut, fort ye My people," is the divine
Avenue "Presbyterian church_ injunction. And havin_ ourbelve_ been instructed :-...
" " __ ,. in tiler iloly Scriptures, :is to tloetrine and duty,
John .Wesley Chanel, C tv_ Road, London, [_ we _hould be some_hat ,"apt t_ t¢dch." or on- . , " • ' .' • e " "
now open daily fo_r prayer and meditation, hay- _:med in"teaeldng and admonishing one afinther." printed on I/gbzgraiJ¢ Irldia papert adk,jle_ved, bound m g enu!n,. , .
ing recently been renov_ated. A Xt/esl_y . nm_um And tlwre are _ome who fall
"
rote su_,or
"
are"over-
" Morocco |sachet,
.
leather
tt
llded selllns"for
.
$4.15,
,
l'.ostpattl.
;-- .
"late
. _
IS
..
.
hits -bee_ founded in a nearby house, he' whicb taken in a fault." and need hell). It may bE our almost like "old times before I_r[cem. b gao to .treat" .
John "_Vrsley died.
-
ner_onal work to "restore such in
• meekt E_ . The Church has m_.ny
the spirit
weaklimcs
of
or
The f_llewtng;lp'lmrt.of
axaet width
• Pltltolo|
mho exact
owing
thqBPo!e sh
shte tff type- .
.
What i_ supposed to bE the ohlest'American "bahes in ChristY and an essential part of persont'rotestant
church now standing, is tJte ohl Swedes' al Christkm work. i._ "rightly dividing the word ' " A_Ri " " "
Church in 'Wilmifit_ton, Delaware. Tile S,_.edes _d truth," to "feed" [he "gheep" and the "lambs." Vttlod_t_t'kor_s. ZECIt All. Redtm_lendf Zlon.'.'fe ''r
preceded William Penn and I_y their peaceable and "it) succor" them that arc 3empted." Such
dealings with the Indians,. hdd tile foundation wor k m_t mlv. helen,s tO preachers outside of . -
for the treaty of [Seaee between William Penn the pulj_it as well as in it.. but to the laity aS
and the Indian tribes. The corner stone el this well, "ahcording to the s_race that is _ziven to us." :, ..'
church was laid in 16q8 "* 'riw preaelter who is content with pulpit _ork t_mtt $t¢¢.& In. . - ' .
It is always inter'estin_ to note what other ahme come_ fdr short of duty and mi_e s'tbe - ' , . :
churches are accompl s ing. " The Novemeber re. blessings" ded_,,t:d item private or personal con- . . .- : .._
port f_om tile Disciples of. Cl_rist shows a net tact with people tn an effort to win them to [
_aln d[ six and oue-tenth ,per cent in member: ChriA. An unsaved man, who very often at- : .
ship. They received for remtlar missionary anti lends n ce¢tain dturelr and knew tile preacher : ..... ' ' " +
benevolent work $2,803,3P0.10 of wbleh _t,O0S, • well. sak/' to him "you do not seem to tell uedds'a 2,. :i _
¢ it . }
846.66 were special funds and SI,TO4,SI.L,t4 we!'e sune_s'h _ t¢ be ._ved. and you have never
ecneral Iur,d_, spoken a personal word to me about my soul's
__- salvation." In _zrat fyin_ contrast is that el the
The Union Christian MiSsionary Saci_,ty with preacher who asked a nmn on the street if he : lend the,
the six onzantsations repres__hted, lists gross a_sets wa ¢. a Christian,. and received _he r_ply, "That • - you _'ill'be.
o@> $12,207,930.31 as at June 30, 1026. and a is quite a-perSonal question." To this the preacher
ansi&ere , k_ow it i_ and meant it to be
permanent endowmem of St,860,234.q8. The " d "f "'" _
DEpartment of Foreign Missions reports 4,827 sucll but ttsked in the interest' of your soul."
b_tpti_ms durin_ eke year o_ ten foreign fields. There ate profec-surs 'Of religi_.n who are will- "
The. Department 'of Home Missions made appro- in_ 1o do gene_tl church work, hut uot such as _, .
priation for pastors' support in 141 churches involves a personal effort to save souls. A preach- r ' " _ L _ .
mtt . '*
_f which 13 became se|f-s0pl_ortiug. Tltese er asked a male member of his church if he - piml "
churches show 2,1_2 additions" to the mEmber_ would give a gosixl street talk on a Sunday . _O ._ ".
ship, There were 012 children'cared for in Lbe afternoon " The nmn said be would godly do., " ."_ :. --" " ""_
six childrens' homes, and-183' .aged men and sty. His pastor their _ked him ifhe would do " ".- r _ _" "" _t
women cared for in the six old people's bomes. _ome real personal work by speaking to some
$9_,642,73 to 344 homes. Tbk: De_rtment of a large bank, "Ob, that's different,'.' wa_ the ._ ,,." , .-
Church Extension
The Department
tc,taling $461,000.
assisted 5_; cbureltes with loans
of Ministerial Relief disbursed
making .puss/hie church propreply,
of the
some
implyiog a lack of holy courage to
unsaved men where he was employed
"lmndplckin_" 't.tlo_[kl GOd help us
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erty valued at approximately $t,500,000. sitmle out sonie of the unsaved and prayerfully ,:
PERSONAL CHRISTIAN WORK strive to lead them to the 'Lord Jesus Christ. "" ': .: _:_
.By A, W, Orwto "Perchance in heaVEn, one day, to me . ._ _-,, L_ "'. : ": '
•]r,_ ERSONAL Christian w_tk does not wbolly Some ransomed soul will come and say, , :
consist in an endeavor to secure the salvation, 'All hail, belovedl hut for thee _"'' ." " "
"_" - of the unsaved, momentous ,as'is such work. My. soul to death had been a prey: :'_'" ,.
And certainly all GO(I'$ people ought to _e thus Ah. then, what sweetness in the thought, - j _..
engaged. The Bible freely enjoins it. One soul to.glory to have broughtl" _ _"_ _
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