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A SERMON’
THE REV~ |
fi peoerse
Bubject: The Church at Home and the
Foreigner.
Brooklyn, N. Y.—Preaching on the
theme, ‘‘The Church at Home and
the Foreigner,” at the Irving Square
Presbyterian Church, Hamburg ave-
aue and Weirfield street, the Rev.
ira Wemmell Henderson, pastor, took
as his texts Ps. 96:3, ‘‘Declare His
glory among the heathen, His won-
ders among all people,” and Mark
16:15, ‘‘Preach the gospel to every
creature.” He said:
The foreign duty of the Church of
Jesus Christ in America is most in-
sistent. The call to the service of
those who are not native to the land
is mandatory. Whether we look about
us or abroad we find the foreigner
our mightiest problem and the sat-
isfaction of the needs of the alien
our greatest care. From many climes
the multitudes have herded to our
shores. Sheep they are. that seek a
competent shepherding. They look
to the land of their adoption for the
best that the world holds dear.
as they come expecting a larger vis-
ion and a larger life. Their hero-
ism is magnificent. Their hope is
inspiring. Their courage should be
augmented by the power of our as-
sistance. Their faith should -be jus-
tifted by the character of our leader-
ship. We have men to make; the
destinies of a nation to determine.
For the fate of the foreigner is the
future of America. The welfare of
the alien is the concern of the coun-
Lry. :
The duty of the church of America
the foreigners is most
because it is” her largest duty. At
home they are fast out-numbering
the native born in not a few local-
ities. Abroad they are unnumbered.
The foreign duty of American Chris-
tianity is largest. because, there-
fore, it is most numerous.
The Christians, influential and
considerable though they are, com-
prise a minority of the religious peo-
ple of the world. A massive horde
of Mohammedans and Buddhists,
Confucianists and follow®rs of a hun-
dred sects, have yet to learn the
beauty of the ‘unrestricted truth of
God as it is revealed to men, and to
us, in Jesus Christ. The Jews, here
and abroad, are a burden on our
souis. The followers of philosophers
“rand:.prdests and sages over all the
earth are our special field to whom
in the providence and under the di-
rection of the living Christ we ‘must
declare the glory of the one true God
and the saving value of His gospel.
We shall sub-divide our duty to
the foreigners, as” Christians and as
heathens, at home and abroad.
God has sent to our midst a mul-
titude of Christian foreigners, men
who know Christ, men who yearn to
understand Him mere. To these and
to the Christian brethren of other
lands the church of America has a
duty to fulfill. And that duty is
both inspirational and educational.
The church in America both
Catholic and Protestant—in spite of
short-comings and in spite of her
apparent sins—is the fairest flower
of the universal church of Christ.
Nowhere else is there more open-
mindedness and less of self-compla-
Tency. To be sure, we may find
nuch of intellectual arrogance, of
spiritual narrowness, but taking it
oy and large the church in America,
mn all its branches, - is the freest and
most vigorous production of Chris-
ian experience, endeavor and of
Christian’ fervor that the world has
seen. The duty of that church,
itanding as it does at the zenith of
religious progress, is to be an inspir-
ition to the Christian churches of
‘he earth. Since the days of Christ
the world has not seen the time
when to be an inspiration to hu-
manity was a more glorious occupa-
tion or when the role of prophetic
{eader was more divine.
Seldom has there been an epoch
readier to respond to the call of in-
spired leadership than is ours. Rare-
iy ‘has inspiration been more neces-
sary or moire certain to enter into
its reward. And the church abroad
needs the uplift of the example of the
church at home as much as any
foreign institution In the world. The
‘Greek church is anything but a credit
to Christianity. The church of Rome
in the United States is the salt that
savors Catholicism whenever the
mass is said or sung, Much of Euro-
pean Protestantism needs a Luther.
The duty of the American Church of
Christ is to inspire the multitudes
that are rushing westward to our
shores to enthuse the soul of the
church abroad by such an example of
fidelity to Christ and of obedience to
His spirit as shall make them all to
feel and to know that the enduring
truth of God is still invineible, that
the power of the personality of the
risen Jesus is still supreme.
The duty of the church of Amer-
ica “is” likewise educational. It is
not enough to inspire. It is not
enough to enthuse. It is. not enough
to kindle the fine flame of religious
devotion. We must give inspiration,
wisdom. ‘We must direct enthu-
siasm. We must guard the flame of
devotion and control its fire. Inspir-
ation run riot spells fanaticism. En-
thusiasm without direction may in-
vite excess. The unwatched flames
may cause a religious conflagration.
And -nowhere is undirected or mis-
directed enthusiasm and fervor more
dangerous than in matters religious.
The pages of authentic history reek
with the record of the crimes of re-
ligious arrogancy and of ill-directed
‘spiritual exaltation. Many a ghastly
deed has been done in the name of
the Prince of. Peace. Many an in-
tellectual and spiritual silliness has
been propounded and propagated by
unbridled zeal. The church In Amer-
ica, fragrant with the sanity and vis-
ion of the Saviour, ought to give
direction and education to the aims
and efforts of the church abroad.
As with the church abroad, so
with the Christian foreigners who are
our neighbors. To eradicate false
notions and to supply new ideals; to
purge the foreign mind of all that is
less than noblest and to suffuse it
with vitalizing and superb wisdom;
to take tie raw material of other
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insistent,
nations and to fashion it into sub-
lime temples for the abode of the
| Spirit of God, is the opportunity and
duty of the church at home.
Not otherwise is the duty of the
church at home to the heathen who
are here and in the corners of the
earth. The civilization that is most
modern is co-terminous with the pro-
gress and the influence of Christian-
ity.
Modern civilization as we under-
stand that term is the product of
Christian lands and of the genius
of Christian peoples. To the heathen
both at home and abroad modern
civilization and Christianity are syn-
onymous. To him the followers of
Christ are the exemplification of
modern advance. And they are. But
they ought to be more. Unfortunate-
ly the church is associated in the
heathen mind with the vices as well
as with the virtues of latter-day civil-
ization. We as a church at home,
blessed beyond computation by the
grace of God, owe it to the heathen
over all the world to be such an edu-
cational and inspirational force that
they shall see God in us and the
salvation of the nations in the beauty
of our religious self-expression. If
we have an obligation laid upon us
to inspire, to enthuse, to lead up and
on and out the Christian hosts of
God, we have at least an equal com-
mission to do as much for those be-
nighted souls who worship God un-
der other than the ensign of the
Cross.
But how shall we be fit to in-
spire, to educate, in short, to save?
How may we effect the transforma-
tion of the world? How may we
make actual the majestic vision of
“the salvation of the world in thisgen:
eration? We can accomplish it only
by being inspired, educated, saved—
ourselves. Till we are these the work
will remain unfinished. Till we are
consecrated after this fashion the la-
bor cannot be completed. For how
can an uninspired church enthuse?
Can the blind lead the blind? How
‘can an ignorant church educate any-
one in the knowledge of the deeper
truths of the Kingdom of Almighty
God? How can a people who have
not experienced the joys of a sure
salvation declare the glory of ‘&od
to the heathen and declare ‘‘the gos-
pel to every: creature?” It can not
be done by any save a church that is
itself inspired, that is itself versed
in the eternal mysteries of the truth
of God, that has had the spirit of
lite breathed of God into its soul.
By such a church it can be done.
For the world is ready to receive
the truth of the simple gospel of
Christ. In spite of many very in-
auspicious signs, the times were nev-
er readier. We are told that in
China, by way of example, Dr. Rob-
ert Morrison labored from 1807 to
1834 to secure in the end but two
converts to the faith of Jesus Christ.
In 1840 there was but one Christian
as the result of missionaryeffortinthe
midst of a multitude in China. To-
day there are 150,000 Chinese Chris-
tiang. Of these 50,000 have come to
Christ since 1900. The great awak-
enings in Wales and in India; in Ko-
rea and in America, in every quarter
of the globe, prove that the world ig
ready to be inspired, ready to be led,
ready to receive the truth.
The church in America may move
in the van of the effort to lift the
world toward God if she will. Her
position is exalted. Her call is di-
vine. Shall we lift or shall we leave
the world? Christ or paganism?
Which?
Only Christianity can elevate hu-
manity to the level of the best. Only
the Church of Christ can ‘transform
the heathen. The church of the liv-
ing God in America may, if she will,
enthuse and regenerate and educate
the world. For in Christ alone is
found that catholic universal mes-
sage that meets the necessities of all
the world. Blessed with our vision
we shall be cravens if we do not
bear the flag of Jesus high aloft and
ahead. “Neither head-strong nor
heart weary,” but, in the words of
Dr. Stryker, of Hamilton College, ‘as
mediators and contributors to the
only time we shall ever have to do
with,” let us ‘‘declare His glory
among the heathen,” let us ‘‘preach
the gospel to every creature,” let us
enthuse, inspire, educate mankind.
Let us be alive in Christ.
The Sure Guide.
The late Dr. Andrew A. Bonar re-
lated to me the following incident:
“A man once asked me, ‘Is not con-
science a safer guide than the Holy
Spirit?’ I just took out my watch
and. said, ‘Is not my watch better
than the sufi?’ Suppose that I said
to you, ‘I will tell you the hour by
my watch, and you must always take
the .time from me.” That is con-
science. It is the sun that is to rule
the time. Conscience is fallen and
corrupt. If we had an unfallen con-
science, like holy Adam, it would be
as if my watch were always to agree
with sun. But now it Is a most un-
safe guide. Sometimes we hear men
say, ‘I don't see any harm- in thie
practice; my conscience doesn’t con-
demn it.’ It is not your conscience
or your consciousness that is the rule
of right and wrong; the law is the
standard. By the law is the knowl-
edge of sin; sin is the transgression
of the '‘law, not of coascience.”
Home Herald.
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The Bridge of Faith.
Are we not daily all through life's
journey trusting ourselves to bridges
whose supporting piers are away
down beneatn the water, believing in
their sirength without a doubt, won-
dering or complaining when by
chance one of them trembles or
sweryes. a hair's breadth in the
storm? We walk the bridge of life.
Can we not trust its safety on the
great resting places of God's wisdom
that are hid from us in the depths
of the two - eterhities?—DPhillips
Brooks. FT
The Grace That Brings Happiness.
T.et us seek the grace of a chezrful
heart, and eveu swoetnogs,
gentleness and brightness of mind, as
walking in Eis nt. nd by His
grace. Let us pre Him to give
us the spirit of ever-abundant, cver-
springing love, which overpowers and
sweeps away the vexations of lifc by
its own richness and streng
which, above all things, u
Him who is the { ait
of all mercy, loving
—John Henry N
tener
American Pronunciation.
“Yes,” murmured Miss Marlowe, dur-
ing an interview in I.ondon, ‘and
what delighted most of all was that
several persons told me that my voice,
accent, intonation and
were exactly like those of an English-
woman.
“Oh, and did I tell you that the edi-
tor of the Chronicle said that the Eng-
lish we spoke was the kind of English
that went over in the Mayflower, and
has stayed here?
As Japanese See It.
It is said the- Japanese think our
grown women most alarmingly over-
grown, very shocking in their costume,
and quite dreadful regards . their
teeth and their feet—in a word, outra-
geous. They consider the kimono pref-
erable to western habiliments because
it so completely obliterates the lines
of the figure. They teach girls to talk
with their lips almost closed, conceal-
ing the teeth, and to walk with the
feet ‘parallel in tiny st:ps or even toe-
ing in.—Kansas City Journal.
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Have Pictures of Their Eyes.
Miniatures are the fashion again,
and the latest is the miniature eye.
The: fad comes from London, where
within the last six months many socie-
ty women have had their orbs done in
miniature at least once.- The eye fad
started with an imaginative young
woman desirous of an original gift for
her fiance. It took the form of a ring,
that to all outward appearance was a
plain gold band. But concealed in
the side was a tiny spring, which,
when released, uncovered a tiny well,
from which the eye of the young wo-
man looked out.—New York Press.
Woman’s Varied Occupations.
That the four million women: work-
ers in the United States are engaged
in no less than 292 distinct occupa-
tions vill be surprising news to some.
No women, naturally, are reported as
United States soldiers, sailors, or ma-
rines; nor were any reported as mem-
bers of the fire department, or. as
street car drivers (though two were
reported as motormen). " But the read-
er may note with interest, and perhaps
with some astonishment, that 5 women
are employed as piiots; that on steam
railroads 10 were @mployed as bag-
gagemen, 31 as brakemen, 7 as con-
ductors, 45 as engineers and firemen,
and 26 as switchmen, yardmen and
flag men; that 43 were carriage and
hack drivers; that 6 were reported as
‘ship carpenters, and 2 as roofers and
slaters.—Harper’'s Weekly.
Where to Catch a Skirt.
There is no set rule as to just
where one should seize the skirt. The
present idea is to manage it grace-
fully without too much of a display of
ankles and contour. A well-bred wo-
man never holds her skirt in such a
way that her entire figure is outlined
by its tightly drawn folds, and she
never lifts it extremely high. It is
a French idea to show the ankles and
hosiery and above all fluffy frills of
the petticoat when crossing the street,
even though it is not muddy. But
French women can do those things
daintily and coquettishly. It is not
easy for an American woman to
achieve the same result.
Walking, too, plays its part in the
general art under discussion. No ma:-
ter how pretty a woman may be, if
she does not move her feet and limbs
rhythmically she cannot hope to look
attractive when her skirt is raised to
show the ankles.—Indianapolis News.
Blondes Are Disappearing.
eling man the other day, “about tae
passing of the blonde in the lobbies
of the better class of hotels, at tele-
phone and stenographers’ booths. Per-
is inherently anw more flirtatious than
a brunett2; but there appears to be a
prejudice against the blonde as a busi-
ness woman- that the managers of
the big hotels are heeding. Traveling
men these days like to transact their
business with young women who are
not ready to call them by their first
ance. The blonde, it seems, has been
singled out as the
the flirty kind of stenographer
‘hello’ girl and the hotel
prejudiced the moment he sees her at
desk or switchboard. [I suppose
or
rof the Pittsburg Dispatch.
Beauty Sleep Comes in Last Two Hours
ty sleep was the sleep that is taken
before midnight.
sleep a woman gets after she has slept
nine, says a Viennese specialist.
A woman needs seven hours’ sleep
for the building up of her
Then
the recuperation of her body and the
extra two hours will restore her com-
plexion, male her eyes bright, take the
form elastic.
fullest benefit from her
off into slumber. She will think pleas-
brow and set
A little light in a
thing for
furrows in the
round the mouth.
bedroom is a good
the nerves and
pronunciation-|
“There is no question,” said a trav-
sonally, I never could see that a blonde |
names after a few minutes’ acquaint- |
representative of |
guest is |
The old-fashioned definition of beau- |
Beauty sleep is the |
seven hours and before she has slept |
system. |
she needs two hours more for |
| can
The woman who wants to derive the |
beauty sleep |
will compose her mind before sinking |
ant thoughts. Worrying thoughts make |
lines !
some |
people, for it will act cheerfully upon |
drive away nightmare, |
Do not allow yourself to be wakened
in the morning if you mean to get a
beauty sleep, or, if you must be roused,
let is be ever so gently. Do not wake
up with a start, with an alarm clock,
or in consequence of a bell ringing, for
these harsh sounds will jar the nerves
and destroy some of the good the
sleep has done you.—New York Journ-
al.
Mrs. Agassiz.
Though she had withdrawn from
active life for some years, Cam-
bridge and Radcliffe College will feel
deeply the loss of Elizabeth Cabot
Agassiz, says an editorial in the New
York Sun. She dies in the year when
the scientific world has commenorated
tha hundredth anniversary of her
husband’s birth. While Louis Agissiz
lived she aided him in his work; af-
ter his death she took up even more
earnestly the cause of education,
which she was enabled to assist bet-
ter than most women on account of
the remarkable influence she exerted
in Cambridge and Boston society. ¥
3s Mrs. Agassiz worked
in private, but canie unavoidably
under the from her exer-
tions to establish the Harvard Annex,
of whieh the chief foundar
ant-tH which. she gave the peculiar at
tractive character it before
it became a formal institution. When
is was turned into Radcliffe College
she became the first president, under:
taking the administration at an age
when many men are glad to retire.
Her name is attached permanently
to Radcliffe and to the cause of wo-
man’s education. It adds lustre to the
long roll of Massachusetts women who
have dona service to their country and
their race.
For many year
she
public eve
she was
possessed
The Girl With a Grievance.
The girl with a grievance, who feels
she has been badly treated by fortune,
that she is misunderstood and misera-
ble, finds pain in all the places and
conditions where pleasure should
reign supreme and joyous. - Every par-
ty is spoiled by tho feeling. that.some
‘of the other girls have prettier frocks,
or get more partners at a dance.
It is this sort of thing which makes
many young woman need complexinn
cures and anti-wrinkle washes. They
have spoilt their happiness, their skins
good temper and good looks by fret-
ting, mopping and discontent
The finest complexion cure and pre-
ventive of to keep your
face turned to the brightest, sunniest
side of life. Lines of worry, sallow
skins and dull eyes are never seen in
“sunshiny womai.”
A schoolgirl who was very fond of
grievances went once to the headmis-
tress and complained that another gir!
in her class was a great ‘enemy’ of
hers, and was always trying to vex and
annoy her.
“Go straignt to the looking glass,
and you will see reflected there a much
greater enemy to your happiness than
any other girl in the school could be,”
was the wise schoolmistress’ answer.
And the girl from that moment be-
gan to cure herself of the grievance
habit,
A girl who suffers from a grievance
and a perpetual fecling of being ill-
used needs some medicine for her mind.
The best cure is action.
Fill un the day with interests and
hobbies. Through vourself heart and
soul into everything. Try to make
everybody you meet happy. For the
great part Byron was right when he
wrote:
“All who joy would win must share
it=—happiness was born a twin.” —Phil-
adelphia Bulletin. 3
wrinkles is
Fashion Notes.
Chamois gi
alone.
es. are for day wear
On a slim woman of graceful ensems-
ble the long jacket is very smart.
A sensible and very smart finish for
the leghorn hat is an immense bow of
white taiTeia ribbon.
Solid colors are indorsed in half
hose, th» classy products being of silk
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with lisie feet and self-clocked.
Colored girdles with scarfs to match
them in tone are the newest fancées for
thin white or black evening gowns,
The costume most a la mode at
present is that of the long jacket ef-
fect—a kind of short-waisted redingote,
I> The stocking of plain weave seems
now |
the next thing will be to call off all |
the brunette girls with long, drooping |
eyelashes.”—New York correspondent |
to have almost entirely oustad the
laces. but it must be very, very sheer.
Tulle veils powdered with velvet
dots tnreaten to oust all the lace veils
and lead off with a big vogue of their
own. !
One woman the fineness of
stockings by drawing them through
her ring. If they they are the
proper sheerness.
tests
20,
One sees hand embroidery even on
the motor coats, a handsome garment
having its canvas vest embroidered
in Oriental colors.
The sailor hat is suitable for more
cccasions than the panama because it
be elaborately trimmed if neces-
sary, but the soft panama is more com-
: : | fortable to wear.
wrinkles out of her face, and keep her
|
A novelty which can be appropriate-
ly worn with the simple lingerie waist
is a dog cellar of white coral beads,
with barettes of filagree Roman gold
studded with baroque pearls.
Thin lawn skirts rimmed with lace
are worn with short coats of thin col-
ored linen. Khaki is a popular tone.
The wide, short sleeves of such suits
are bell shaped. The hat and parasol
match the coat in color.
INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM-
MENTS FOR AUG. 25 BY THE
REV. I. W. HENDERSON.
Subject: Israel Journeying Toward
Canaan, Num. 10:11-183, 29-36—
Golden Text, Iix. 13:21—Mcm-
ory Verses, 33, 30.
After a season of preparation in
the wilderness at Sinai the Lord led
Israel along the way to the promised
land as far as Paran.
The period of preparation that God
required before He led them farther
along the way is worthy of attention.
God promised to deliver the children
of Israel out of the hands of Pharaoh
and out of the land and bondage of
‘Egypt.
into the possession of the full prom-
ise that He made to them until He
had prepared them to receive it. And
that was wise.
Another noticeable feature is that
80 soon as Israel had made ready ac-
cording to the commands of Jehovah
He led them on. God never lets us
stand still if we do His will. The
man who moves ahead for God always
finds God ready to lead him into a
larger life and into a fuller realiza-
tion of His prom sand Himself. Ii
Israel had not obeyed zi Sinai Israel
would never--ha gotten as far as
Paran. And tne reason why so many
peovle do not get any further along
in life, spiritually, mentally and ma-
terially, than the Sinai period is be-
cause they do not use Sinai to pre-
pare themselves for the journey
through Paran and for entrance into
the promised land. It is not God's
fault that so many peopie fail to ex-
perience the fulness of realized prom-
ise in the Christian life. - The fault
is theirs. If they are content, as so
many are content, with the lesser and
the smaller things that are relative
to Christian experience and do not
use their earlier relationships with
rod and His truth to prepare them
for a larger knowledge of His truth
and of Himself they cannot blame
God if they do not move on. For
30d 13 ready to reveal larger mes-
sages to those who prove themselves
fit to receive them.
Moses’ invitation to Hobab and the
circamstances surrounding it afford
much suggestive material for study.
The tribe to which Hobab belonged
was a wandering people. They had
no such promise or expectation of
fixed territory as God had promised
and prepared for Israel. Moses loved
Hobab and his people and was there-
fore desirous to have him and them
enter into the same joys that he was
to possess. .
Dr. Robert Watson well says that
Hobab and his followers ‘“‘may be
en as representing a class in the
day to a certain extent at-
tracted, even fascinated, by the
church, who standing are appealed to
in terms like those addressed by
Moses to Hobab. They feel a certan
charm, for in the wide organization
and the vast activity of the Christian
church, quite apart from the creed
on which it is based, there are signs
of vigor and of purpose which con-
trast favorably with endeavors di-
rected to mere material gain. In idea
and in much of its effort the church
is splendidly humane, and it provides
interests, enjoyments, both of an in-
tellectual and artistic kind, in which
all can share. Not so much its univer-
sality nor its mission of converting
the world, nor its spiritual worship,
but rather the social advantages and
the culture it offers draw towards it
those minds and lives. And to them
it extends, too often without avail,
the invitation to join its march. It
attracts, but is unable to command,
because with all its culture cf art it
does not appear beautiful, with all
its elaims of spirituality it is not un-
worldly; because, professing to exist
for the redemption of society, its
methods and standards are too often
human rather than divine. It is not
that the outsider shrinks fiom the
religiousness of the church as over-
done; rather does he detect-a lack
of that very quality. He could be-
lieve in the divine calling and join
the enterprise of the church if he saw
it journeying steadily towards a bet-
ter country, that is, a heavenly. Its
earnestness would then command
him, faith would compel faith. But
social aims and temporal aims are not
subordinated by the members of the
church, nor even by its leaders. = And
whatever is done in the way of pro-
viding attractions for the pleasure
loving, and schemes of a social kind,
theze, so far from gaining the unde-
cided, rather make them less dis-
posed to believe. More exciting en-
joyments can be found elsewhere.
The church offering pleasures and so-
cial reconstruction is attempting to
catch those outside by what, from
their point of view, must appear to be
chaff.”
jar-Rooms Cause Crime.
Mr. Theodore W. Alvord, of Park-
ersburg, W. Va., furnishes the fol-
iowing - instructive facts, showing
how closely related are bar-rcoms
and crime:
“There aro
West Virginia.
“Thirty-two
liquor licenses.
“Twelve counties grant licenses in
one town each.
“Eleven grant licenses wherever an
application is made.
“There were T4S prisoners in.the
penitentiary on the first day of Oc-
tober la:
“Of this pumber 106
the thirty-two no-license
1854 came from twelve one-town
cense countics; came from
eleven license counties. ~ ;
**The license counties have one
man in the penitentiary for every 599
of their population; the twelve one-
town license counties have one for
every 1371; while-the thirty-two no-
licanse counties have one for-every
4022. :
“Several no-licénse
no one in the peaitentiary, several
have one each, and the highest num-
ber from any no-license county is
nine.
“The criminal
license counties av
mills for each ini
town license coal
ty-three mills;
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fifty-five counties in
counties grant no
came from
counties;
1i-
the
= Q
400
countics have
expenses of the no-
But He did not deliver them’
“traitor.
FEL LESSONS! EPWORTH LERCLE LESSONS
SUNDAY, AUGUST 25.
Reproach—Matt. 5:
11,120
Pasages for reference:
T: 52> 1 Thess: 2:
34-36: 1 Pet. 3: 14-18.
The term “Christian’” was first ap-
plled to Christ's followers in Antioch.
It was used as a term of derision. An
old Roman picture shows a man with
a "donkey's head hangiffg on a cross.
This represented the common estim-
ate of Christ. ralatians (3: 13) re-
peats the common charze of the Jews,
“Cursed is every one that hangeth on
a tree,” to show .the false suspicion
Jesus was. willing to bear. Paul
admits to the Corinthians (1 Cor. 1:
26) that “not many wise men after
the flesh, not many mighty, not many
noble, are called.” Tver the term
“Methodist” was a spurning, slurring
nickname given by fellow college stu-
dents to John Wesley's Oxford “Holy
Club.” George Eliot's writings reveal
the low estimate which the _higher
classes had for the poor, servile, illit-
erate Methodists: Those days looked
on Methodists much as others did on
he-Salvaticn Army. 20 vears ago. It
was uot always so popular to bs a
Bearing False
Acts 5:
13-15; Heb.
41;
10:
Persecutors
and conipany.
Pharisees hired Judas
royalists
Arnold” with
stoop to
The
lowest plans
self-righteous
to become a
bought over a
dollars. An
The
lenedict
early circuit rider had his saddlebags
filled with property stolen bv his ene-
mies, that they might throw him
into jail as a -thief and so discounte-
nance him.” ‘Never use any method
that makes you stoop as a man. It
will degrade and weaken ‘the best in
vou. 1t will never be necessary to ad-
vance righteousness, and this is all
you are interested in. A low enemy
will eventually reveal his animus and
character. Don’t worry. He will
eventually hang himself. When the
sun shines on a rat-hole the rats for.
sake "it. Sun human rats with truth
and they will come into the open or
run away.
We need to think closely if we are
meeting no opposition .or criticism.
Either we do not count for much or
else we are going down hill. “Woa
unto you when all men. shall speak
well of yo=
50
CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR NOTES
AUGUST TWENTY-FIFTH.
in Mexico
1-6.
TA promise to givers..Prov. 11: 23-31.
A good example. Gor. 3: :1:5.
Willing offering Ex. 35:.24-20.
Lay missionaries. Rom. 16: 3-9.
Praver for missions. Col. 4: 1-4,
Mission schools. Ps. 34: 11-22.
The requirement to worship God
alone impli s0 a command that we
educate ourselves religiously, that we
may know this God whom we are to
worship (v. 3). » ie
A graven
“Christ
Ex 20:
Foreign missions:
and South America.
image is not merelv a
carved statue: a man breaks the Com-
mandment when. he worships a pic-
ture, or a relic of a saint (v. 4).
Those that “How down unto” grav-
en images are breaking the Command-
ment, though they do regard them
as merely svmbols of deity, as they
pretend (v. 5).
In Latin America.
Missions have existed in Mexico for
only a liftle more than a generatien,
and already there are nearly 25.000
that have been gathered into Protest-
ant churches.
More than 200 missnoaries are at
work In Mexico, with: about 600 Mexi-
can assistants.
After Bible distribution of tha
n Bible Society, the. first mis-
tn Mexico was a woman, Me-
for more than 20
tor the noble
re
ule
who
money
years
WOTK.
“BE YE HOLY.”
for August 25: The
Alternate Topic
requires. Ps.
holiness that God
: Eph. 4: 20-24,
that re.guirs are seldom men
but freely furnishes
1g that he requires:
¢s is not an unpractical qual-
holiness is purity in action.
‘God does not. require perfection:
He offers it: His requirement is that
wo reach out after it.
Men yenk of holiness as negation;
rather is the white light in which
qualities are best seen.
ianity is the reception of the
“hoiiness. therefore, is a
sult of Christianity.
1.
+.
God
it
r
all othe
(Chri
Holy Spirit;
necessary I
Tritles. :
Small things, little inc.uients,
trifles. go to make up our lives. Care-
lessness as to trifles leads to grievous
fails; attention to trifles makes us de-
veloped men and women. *
It is the little things, the minor
duties that are constantly occurring,
that form our characters and aug-
ment our powers. If we despise the
small, we shall fall by the small:
but if we are faithful in little we
shall be faithful in much. A word
fitly spoken may seem a trifle, but it
is full of joy and blessing; a trifling
handshake may be a benediction; a
cup of cold water shall not lose. its
reward.
Accomplish the little things well.
Do your best: simnly, sweetly, quiet-
ly. and quickly: do it nol for self,
but to the Lord. Strive not after
great things; not after that which
is harmful nor helpful; not after
that which is of self-love and desire
of applause, and is not pleasing to
God.— Stephen Merritt,
The salvation.
he law
Beginning of
stops every man's mouth.
will have a man humble him-
self down on his face before Him,
with not a word to say for himss=li.
Then God will speak to him, when
he owns that he is a sinner, and
God
gets rid of all his own rigitcousncss.
-—D Loo Maondy