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sons."squatters'preacher must be constantly alert mentally. Thedrone has no place in the pulpit or the parsonage.9 Good Manners with accompanying Appropriate Dress should be taken for granted.The uncouth pastor stands in his own way.10 Last, but by no means least, his Home Lifeshould not only be above reproach, but it should bea positive model for congregation and community.Of first importance, of course, is his wife. Perhaps she has, in many respects, an even more demanding job to fill than he. The children should bewhat shall I say as I am one of them? But I defyanyone to name a callingor profession where thechildren have an equal chance to receive the reallyworthwhile things of life compared with the home ofa minister. And, of course, the parsonage will be anisland of hospitality. But how the preacher's wifecan do all the entertaining necessary and still makeends meet has always been and is an unsolved enigma.(To be continued)A CALL FOR UNCTION . . . from front pagemore about promotion than prayer, has forgottenconsecration by fostering competition, and has suJ>stituted propaganda for propagation, this threefoldvision is imperative.Where there is no vision the people perish.To be spiritually minded is joybe statistically minded in addition can be very disturbing. Read this and weep!and peace. ToJAPAN. The government there states that thepopulation has passed the eighty-seven million mark.The nation is growing at the rate of one million, onehundred thousand a year! This means that the non-Christian population of Japan has increased by fivemillion in the past five years. Put this well up onyour prayer list.KOREA. Here are nine million people mostlyrefugees, homeless and almost foodless.INDIA. Millions sit in darkness and in the shadow of death.gees.MIDDLE EAST. Here are a million Arab refuEUROPE. She has eleven million "displaced perWhat heartache for them!CHINA. A third of a million escapees are fromcommunist China living in huts in HongKong.To add to your burden and mine, there are fifteen million Jews ; three-hundred fifteen million Mohammedans ; one hundred seventy million Buddhists ;three hundred fiftymillion Confucianists and Taoists;two-hundred fifty-five million Hindus; ninetymillion Shintoists ; and millions of others for whomChrist died and who are mainly unreached with theblessed Gospel.Even church-conscious America has twentysevenmillion youth under twenty-one years of agewho receive no Christian training, and ten-thousandvillages that do not have a church building. Almosta million persons in the world die each week without Christ. IS THIS NOTHING TO YOU?104* * * *Gusty, Grandiloquent EvangelistsThe repeated prayer that the sinner might havea vision of hell may be entirely wrong. He needs avision of Calvary with a suffering Saviour pleadingwith him to repent, for after Calvary, why should hedie? William Booth of the Salvation Army is quotedas saying that if he could do it, he would have finalized the training of his soldiers with twenty-fourhours hanging over hell, to see its eternal torment.Fundamentalism needs this awe-striking visionagain! The gusty,grandiloquent evangelist needs itmost.Charlie Peace was a criminal. Laws of God orman curbed him not. Finally the law caught up withhim, and he was condemned to death. On the fatalmorning in Armley Jail, Leeds, England, he wastaken on the death walk. Before him went the prisonsome Biblechaplain routinely and sleepily readingverses.The criminal touched the preacher and asked whatreligion,"he was reading. "The consolations of wasthe reply. Charlie Peace was shocked at the way heprofessionally read about hell. Could a man be so unmoved in the very shadow of the scaffold, as to leada fellow human there and yet, dry eyed,read of apit that has no bottom, into which the fellow mustfall ? Could he believe the words that there is aneternal fire that never consumes its victims, and yetthis preacher slid over the phrase without a tremor?Is a man human at all who can sayeternally dying, and yet never know the relief thatdeath brings ? It was too much for Charlie Peace, sohe preached. Listen to his eve-of-hell sermon."Sir,"addressing the preacher, "if I believedwhat you and the church of God SAY that you believe, even if England were covered with brokenglass from coast to coast, I would walk oyer it ifyou will beneeds be on hands and knees, and think it worthwhile living, if I could but save one soul from aneternal hell like that !"Friend, men go to hell fire because the churchhas lost Holy Ghost fire !We need a vision of a Holy God !to be continuedII. HOW TO MEET DISCOURAGEMENT(Continued from page 101)That brings us to another suggestion. We shouldlearn the lessons that God is teaching through thesediscouragements. I remember Dr. Kallenback, theblind evangelist, standing on the platform of theTremont Temple in Boston and declaring to a filledhouse, "Thank God, I'm blind. Thank God, I'm blind."Perhaps he is not the only man that can say that.Paul Hutchins, whose life has been handicapped, youmight say, for so many years because of tuberculosis, and yet who through the ministry of the printed page is reaching thousands more people now thanhe could have reached from the platform as an evangelist. The last chapter in one of his books is entitled,"Tuberculosis Can Do You Good." He was passingon the lessons he has learned from his hard experiences. This brings us to another observation, andthat is the importance of sharing these experienceswith others that they, too, might learn the lessonsand perhaps not have the trials and the grief thatwe have had.During our first year in the Seminary HowardElliott and I had the privilege of being not onlyclassmates but roommates of Garrett Blair. DuringCOVENANTER WITNESS