IN the Church Missionary Society's South India Mission for Mohammedans, five methods have been employed for bringing the Gospel to the people—viz., open-air preaching, tract distribution, the circulation of books, visiting and conversation, and public discussions.
The open-air preaching has been disapproved by some, and if badly conducted may be a bad thing, but most of our converts seem to look upon it as the right and proper thing, and are ready to join in it.
If soberly and heartily managed, and with the help of a few benches for the front rank of the audience to sit upon, and with a chair or two for the more respectable of our chance hearers, and in front of some room or house to which to retire for further conversation or discussion, there seems no more direct means for drawing attention to our message. In British territory the police generally are found to have orders not to allow the Christian preacher to be unreasonably disturbed. If any opponent wishes to set forth his views, the police allow him to stand and do so at forty paces' distance, and this regulation prevents any acute friction.
It is undoubtedly an objection to open-air preaching that opposition is, so to speak, courted; and a Mohammedan audience very soon resorts to opposition preaching. In Hyderabad, soon after we commenced in 1890, the Society for the Propagation of Islam was instituted, with paid preachers and workers, which, after a short time, reported an accession of two hundred converts from Hinduism and Christianity.
Whenever possible, our experience suggests that a preaching-hall should be secured, for in a suitable building it is generally easier to obtain quieter audiences with less liability to interruption, and a better hearing for the message. It is true that spies may be posted to prevent any one attending to the preaching. The open-air preacher can shift his spot and evade such hindrances, while the fixed place in a shop may be rendered utterly empty by well-organized espionage. But the opposition will die down in due course, or may be partially frustrated by inviting a public discussion, the attraction of13which overcomes most other considerations. With regard to the style of preaching, we strongly deprecate anything polemical; we believe that the simple statement of God's truth, illustrated by such facts and incidents as help to make it attractive and understood is what is really needed; "things new and old," set forth with the power of the Holy Spirit, and explained, when practicable, by quotations from their own books.
We circulate a large number of Gospel handbills. Compared with thirty years ago, the supply of these is now great and good. There is always room for improvement, but the various tract societies have been active and deserve gratitude. The number of people in India who can read is great, and, if respectfully presented, the handbills are seldom resented. There, however, have been times when many used to be torn up before our faces. One remedy for rough treatment is to head them with quotations from the Koran, or to give them attractive titles. If handbills are printed in a Mohammedan press, care must be taken to see that there is nothing in the ornamentation introduced by the printer or copyist to damage the text.
The mission presses in India are now producing excellent books. Besides the fine revised Bible in Urdu, there are most useful religious books. The sales of these are very small in the two book-shops under my care. It is to be hoped that better days may come for selling. Meanwhile, when we can not sell, and many of our inquirers are hardly in a position to buy, we lend a good many.
In order to reach the higher classes, visiting them in their houses seems necessary. But the vexations delays that often occur are tedious. However, it may happen that other visitors are also waiting for an audience, and the waiting-time need not be totally lost. Any new books that may be respectfully presented are also willingly accepted. At railway stations, and in the railway trains, books, etc., often meet with a hopeful reception, and very profitable times for conversation can be found. Mohammedans are always more or less ready to talk about religion, and a conciliatory tone can secure very attentive and thoughtful listeners.
Discussions have the double advantage (1) of attracting a large audience; (2) of being often welcomed in their own houses or mosques. An opponent will invite the Christian to some building (school or mosque, etc.,) of his own in order (perhaps) to show off his superiority, and large crowds will attend on such occasions. In order to turn this to account, it is important to have a definite subject for consideration, and to insist on its being stuck to. When the opponent is bent on discovering some logical flaw or on some hair-splitting, without regard to higher issues, the result is not likely to be hopeful. It should always be remembered that "honest and good hearts" may be present in the company, even when the spokesman seems most perverse and unspiritual. If, therefore, the Christian acts calmly and patiently, a good impression may be left, even when the antagonist is noisy and blustering. There is the promise of "a mouth and wisdom" for such occasions, and that promise may be claimed and realized.
The Opinion of a Converted Moslem (Translated).
There are three classes of Moslems as regards their attitude to the Gospel. First, there are those whose daily bread and social position depends on Islam; these are the mollahs, and most of them are prejudiced and fanatic. Second, there is the large class of those who are utterly ignorant, even of their own religion, and are easily moved by the first class to oppose the Gospel. But there is a third class who are intellectually convinced of the truth of Christianity, but fear the rulers, or their relatives, or the persecution of their neighbors. Each class should be dealt with differently.
The best means of reaching Moslems is a holy walk and conversation on the part of missionaries and their helpers. Medical work and schools are good as a means to get an audience for the Gospel. The circulation of the Scriptures undoubtedly awakens opposition and arouses fanaticism, even because the Bible is divine and speaks to the conscience. But it is one of the best means to reach Moslems. I was first convinced of the truth by reading a penny Gospel.—Missionary Review.
MISSIONS AND THEIR WORK IN NYASSALAND.
By W. S. Hyatt
BY W. S. HYATT
I WAS greatly surprised, in coming up into this country, to learn of the number of missions there are here, and how closely they are packed together in some sections. There are four mission stations about Blantyre and the farthest from the town is not more than five miles. At Cholo there are two missions and these are about four miles apart. Then going northward from Blantyre there are missions scattered all along the way to Lake Nyassa and these are only twenty or twenty-five miles apart. Then to the north and to the west the whole country is now under the supervision of various missions. Mission societies that are looking for a place to plant new missions are finding it very difficult to get a location. The missions already established have educated natives who are teaching village schools all through the country.
Many of the missions in this country are industrial missions, and this, to some degree, accounts for their being so close together in some sections. They were not started with the idea of doing any great amount of work with natives living near, but with the hope of getting natives from a distance to come and work at the missions and thus bring them under the influence of Christianity. In this way they are able to draw hundreds of natives from the Portuguese territory where, at present, the country is closed to Protestant missions. Strange to say, the Roman Catholics are doing but little in the Portuguese sections, where they have the whole country to themselves; and, at the same time, they are very active in British territory where they have large sections allotted to them for their field of operation.
The chief industries in which these missions are engaged is that of growing maize, coffee, cotton, chillies, and some are starting to grow the rubber tree. At Blantyre there is one mission which has over two hundred boys in its boarding school, and these are being taught various trades such as carpentry, cabinet making, printing, tailoring, gardening, etc.
The Zambesi industrial missions are doing a great amount of work growing coffee, cotton, and maize. At Mitsidi they have a flouring mill, saw mill, cotton gin, and press in connection with other industries. In this way hundreds of men were employed to do the work at the stations and are brought under the influence of the Gospel. The Nyassa industrial missions are doing a similar work.
Many of the readers of the SIGNS would consider it a very hard undertaking to cultivate hundreds of acres and get the produce to the river, which is from a few to many miles from these missions, without teams with which to do the work. But this is done up here. The native is the one who does the work of digging the land and tilling it; and, with few exceptions, he is the one that carries the tons and tons of maize, coffee, and cotton to the river where it is shipped to the coast in barges. There are some roads that can be traveled with teams and a few people have availed themselves of oxen and are doing some of this work with them. I saw a load of three and one-half tons on a wagon which had been hauled from the river, but not with oxen, one hundred and fifty natives drew this load up the long hill from the river.
Truly the native is the burden bearer of the country. He not only digs and cultivates the soil and bears the loads of produce, but he is the one who does the work in building the railroad that is coming up into the country. With his basket he makes the road-bed and prepares the way for the iron horse that will relieve him of some of his burdens. The traveler who desires to make a trip into the country or to go from one place to another, secures a few carriers, called tenga tenga men, who carry his belongings, and a machila team of twelve or sixteen boys who will carry him from twenty-five to fifty miles per day. On these trips the native has a little maize which he roasts over the fire and this he eats and is quite happy and contented if he is treated at all right.
The native on the machila reminds me of some mustang ponies I have seen. The latter will stand about and act as if they did not have life enough to do anything, but, the moment the saddle is put on their back, their heads are up and it takes a good man to mount and ride them. Just so with the native. He does not show signs of much activity till you get into the machila and then he is off on a trot and the whole team are shouting, one or more shouting something and the others answering him. If you get out of the machila to walk, feeling to have compassion on the boys, then everything is quiet and you have to urge them to keep up with you, but the moment you are again in the machila they are full of life and off on a fast swinging walk or a trot, singing, and happy as larks.
Miss Mabel Branch with a Machila Team.
Along the Shire River which flows into the Zambesi, the country is less than one hundred feet above the sea, while at Cholo and Blantyre the country is over three thousand feet above the sea. Altho this is a good altitude there is considerable fever in the country and missionaries expect to have a furlough every three years that they may retain their health. It is not uncommon for persons to contract the fever in coming up the river and occasionally deaths are reported within a few days. Not long ago a missionary was taking his wife up into the country to a station. She was taken with the fever and died before she arrived.
It was up in this country where Dr. Livingstone did his last work, and died some distance to the northwest. Mrs. Livingstone was on her way down the river trying to get out of the country when she was taken ill and stopped at the Shupanga Mission and there died. It was indeed a privilege to stand by the side of the grave of such a noble woman and devoted Christian. It seems to breathe an inspiration into the heart to be willing to spend and be spent in the cause of the Master in trying to save poor, degraded humanity. Thus it is that when one falls there are many others ready to lift the banner and bear it forward to victory.
Through the work of devoted missionaries there are thousands and thousands of the natives who have heard the ringing sound of the Gospel, and today there is a good sized army of native Christians who are engaged in working for their fellow-men.
The missions who have young men in training send them out weekly to hold services in the native villages about them, and in this way the young men are trained for the work, and the native hears the Word of God. Surely the Lord has paved the way for the last message, "Prepare to meet thy God" to go with great power. Railroads are penetrating the country almost everywhere, and the Word of God is being carried into the darkest parts of Africa. It is marvelous in our eyes, but it is the Lord's doings.
Plainfield Mission, Cholo, B. C. A.
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OUR WORK AND WORKERS.
ON a recent visit of Brother E. B. Hopkins to Kildare, Texas, eight candidates were baptized.
AN intermediate conference school building is being erected at Gaston, Ore. It is to be opened on the 27th inst.
THE fourth annual Indian camp-meeting on the Six Nation Reserve, was held near Brantford, Ont., October 7–16.
THE Canadian Union Messenger notes the organization September 24, of a church of twelve members at Woodstock, Ont.
MEETINGS held in Clinton, Ont., by Brother W. H. Spear, resulted in the conversion of six persons to the truths presented.
OUR Spanish laborer in Arizona, Brother Marcial Serna, writing to the Pacific Union Recorder, reports the baptism of four candidates at Phoenix.
AT the close of the recent camp-meeting at Ashland, Ore., nine persons were baptized. Four others accepted the faith, to be baptized at a later date.
A HOUSE of worship was dedicated at Prentice, Wis., September 25. Another church dedication was celebrated at Almond, in the same state, October 23.
ON the resignation of Brother A. J. Howard as president of the Arizona Conference, Brother C. E. Knight, formerly of California, was chosen to fill the vacancy.
THE superintendency of the work in Wales has fallen to Brother H. W. Meredith, as Brother A. F. Ballenger has been called to Ireland, to take charge of the work in that field.
A REPORT in the West Michigan Herald notes that meetings held by Brethren W. H. Heckman and W. C. Hebner (place not given), have so far resulted in six applications for baptism.
EIGHT persons were baptized at Dowling, Ohio, September 24, by Brother F. M. Fairchild, after which a church of eleven members was organized. There were three other applications for baptism at a later date.
FROM Hildebran, N. C., Brother Albert Carey writes. "Since September 16, with the valued help of Brother T. H. Jeys, our conference president, leading out, tent-meetings have been held on the site of our burned sanitarium. The attendance has been good, and several have taken a firm stand for the truth."
WRITING to the Missionary of the work at Matabele Mission, Rhodesia, Africa, Brother M. C. Sturdevant says: "Our school has steadily grown till now there are enrolled 102 in daily attendance. Seventy belong to our mission, and fifty-four eat at our mission table, and still they come. Two promising young men came just yesterday, July 22, desiring to enter our mission for one year or more. We have no more room now, but what shall I do? shall I turn them off? The spiritual condition is very encouraging at the present time. Many are truly growing in Christ. Some have for a long time desired baptism, so, after weeks of careful instruction, twelve were baptized June 28. That morning, a beautiful day, we met as usual at the schoolhouse to study the Sabbath-school lesson. Then we retired to the river, where we found 250 natives waiting for the services."
AT Jackson, Mich., three persons have recently accepted the faith through the labors of Brother P. C. Hayward.
ON the 24th ult. five candidates were baptized by Brother T. B. Snow, and added to the church at Maiden Rock, Wis.
THE baptism of three candidates at Little Rock, Ark., is noted in the Southwestern Union Recorder, by Brother U. Bender.
THE Indiana Reporter is now printed at the Boggstown Industrial Academy, as part of the manual labor of students.
MRS. E. G. WHITE and Brother W. C. White have returned to their home at Sanitarium, Napa County, Cal., after an extended tour of important centers of the work in the South, East, and North.
THE Forest Home Industrial Academy, at Mount Vernon, Wash., was dedicated September 25. Altho the building was not altogether completed, the school was opened on the 26th, with twenty-six pupils, and Prof. L. I. Stiles as principal.
IT is expected that many new laborers will soon be sent to foreign fields through the action of conferences in placing half their laborers and tithe at the disposal of the General Conference. This ought to, and will, give a great impetus to the foreign work.
CONCERNING the camp-meeting held at Manhattan, Kansas, October 5–12, Brother B. W. Brown writes that there was a good attendance and interest. Not only our own people, but those who came in from the outside, were greatly blessed. Eight were baptized, five made profession of their faith, to be baptized on arriving at their homes, and one united who had been baptized before—in all, fourteen. Tent-meetings were continued with full attendance and good prospect of further fruit of the Gospel.
THROUGH a letter from Brother J. A. Morrow to the South African Missionary, we learn that five of the Boer prisoners who were sent to the Bermuda Islands during the war, have accepted the Seventh-day Adventist faith. This is the result of labor by Brother Morrow and his wife. Five of these Boer brethren have recently returned to Africa—three going to their former homes in Orange River Colony; and one to the Transvaal—where they will endeavor to further extend the message which has become dear to them.
OF the work at the treatment rooms conducted by Brother J. Kloss and wife in Superior, Wis., they say, in the Reporter, that it is prospering. "The Lord has blessed in the treatment of the sick. Several persons who have tried medicines, hot springs, and various institutions, without receiving benefit, are obtaining much help from these treatments. Others, suffering from rheumatism, have recently recovered and gone to work. One man who hobbled here on crutches for his first treatment, has left his crutches with us, as he is able to work, and does not need them any more."
FROM the Workers' Record we learn of the death of Brother D. C. Hunter, at Nevada, Mo., the date not given. He was14quite a prominent public man in Vernon County, before he accepted the Seventh-day Adventist faith, having practised law and filled several county offices. He had been in the ministry about twenty years, but for the past few years had not been in active service, on account of failing health.
Besides laboring in Missouri, he had also spent some years in Arizona and California. Dr. Mary Hunter, of Battle Creek Sanitarium, is a daughter of this deceased brother.
A REPORT from Brother H. F. Courter, vice-president of Georgia Conference, notes that meetings held at Bowman, closing September 19, resulted in eight converts to the faith. He is now, in company with Brother Hugh W. Jones, holding meetings at Comer, with a fair hearing. Of general conditions in that part, he says: "We are experiencing a severe drought. Many wells and springs are dry which never were known to fail before. The bolls of cotton have opened so fast that the farmers are unable to keep up in gathering. There is a great deal of sickness, no doubt caused partly by the low water, and partly by the habits of the people."
WRITING from Cape Coast Castle, Gold Coast, West Africa, to the Minnesota Worker, Brother J. M. Hyatt says: "I have every reason to believe that the West Coast will be one of the most fruitful fields in Africa, so far as the natives are concerned, when it is properly worked. There are many centers where the natives are well under the influence of civilization all along the West Coast, tho it will surely take wisdom from above and good common sense in dealing with this class. Missionaries will need to be all that the Word implies, and not influenced by the foreign traders who are here for the money. Unfortunately this has not been true in some cases. The trader can afford to drive, but not the missionary, as few will get a knowledge of the message in that way. I was down the coast about sixty miles for a few days and had the privilege of taking some twenty-four subscriptions for our papers. These were for the SIGNS and Present Truth. Many more wanted to subscribe, but I could not stay until the month's end when they get their money. With the exception of three, these are yearly or half-year subscriptions. We are glad to get some of our papers into this town, as we have no one there that knows the message for this time."
FROM a report of Brother J. V. Wilson, who conducts a bath establishment in Kimberley, South Africa, we take these items: "One man came in some forty miles to get help. He had been sick for months, and had to be carried into the rooms. In less than two weeks he was returned home well, and has been well ever since. Just lately one of the leading physicians of the place sent a patient here, an engineer in the De Beers Company, who had been sick with rheumatism for eight months, suffering so much pain he could not sleep at night. Within a week after commencing treatment at the baths, he was restored to health and free from pain. He was very thankful indeed. A few days ago a man came in sick with a cold. We gave him one electric-light bath and massage, and he went out from the baths entirely cured. One doctor in the place got so run down that a physician whom he called in told him he must take an ocean trip, and stay six months. Instead, he came to the baths, got well, and is now enjoying excellent health. The ladies' baths are doing better now than they have done at any other time since they were started. At times the bath rooms are full, and several are out in the garden waiting their turn. Influential ladies come in their carriages and motor cars, bringing their friends with them. These are but a few instances of what the Lord is doing for the people here, and show how He can bless these simple remedies that co-operate with nature."
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(1) “The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, king of Judah.
(2) “Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for Jehovah hath spoken: I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me. (3) The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master’s crib; but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider. (4) Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evil-doers, children that deal corruptly! they have forsaken Jehovah, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are estranged and gone backward. (5) Why will ye be still stricken, that ye revolt more and more? the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. (6) From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and fresh stripes: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with oil. (7) Your country is desolate: your cities are burned with fire; your land, strangers devour in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers. (8) And the daughter of Zion is left as a booth in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city. (9) Except Jehovah of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, we should have been like unto Gomorrah.”
(16) “Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before Mine eyes; cease to do evil; (17) learn to do well; seek justice, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
(18) “Come now, and let us reason together, saith Jehovah: tho your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; tho they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. (19) If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land: (20) but if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword; for the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken it.”
Golden Text.—“Cease to do evil; learn to do well.” Verses 16, 17.
SUGGESTIVE QUESTIONS.
(1) What was the subject of Isaiah’s vision? In connection with what kings was his prophetic career? Verse 1. (2) What was the extent of his appeal for a hearing? Of what did the Lord complain? Verse 2. Note 1. (3) How did His people compare with the ox and the ass in knowledge? Verse 3. Note 2. (4) How did the Lord then characterize the people and their condition? Verse 4. (5) What pathetic question did he ask? To what extent had their sin afflicted them? Verse 5. Note 3. (6) How is this condition emphasized? Verse 6. Note 4. (7) What was said of their country? Verse 7. Note 5. (8) To what was the spiritual home of the people compared? Verse 8. Note 6. (9) For whose sake was the nation spared at all? Verse 9. Note 7. (10) Yet in this apparently hopeless condition, what merciful council is given? Verse 16. (11) In ceasing to do evil, what important lesson were they to learn? Verse 17. Note 8. (12) What gracious invitation was given to the back-slidden people? And what merciful promise was added? Verse 18. Note 9. (13) What further reasonable proposition was made? Verse 19. Note 10. (14) What would be the reasonable result of refusing to obey God? What was the positive assurance that this would be true? Verse 20. Note 11.
NOTES.
1. “The Lord hath spoken.”—Surely it is time to give heed when the Lord speaks. Especially when He has something of such general importance that He desires the heavens and the earth to give attention, no one can afford to be listless. When a rebellion on the part of the employees of a great corporation is announced, there is always a widespread interest manifested; much more, then, a rebellion against the government of God should be noted and deplored.
2. So far had the children whom He had so carefully nurtured departed from His law, so far had they lost sight of the Hand upon which they were dependent for all things, that they didn’t even know as much as the ox or the ass. They had fallen below even the animal instinct that recognized the source of daily food.
3. “Why will ye still be stricken?”—These rebellious children had gone so far astray, and were so determined on a course of self-destruction, that nothing short of chastisement would avail anything. And already they had been chastised till even that remedy had been exhausted, and the merciful Father sends a Spirit-filled prophet to further plead with them.
4. Israel had been scourged, as a result of their apostasy, till there was no unafflicted spot on them for any further stripes.
5. Their enemies had robbed and pillaged the land until desolation was evident everywhere.
6. A “booth,” a “lodge,” a “besieged city,” are expressions indicating the merest apology for dwelling-places, and a want to be compared only with a condition so utterly isolated as to be shut off from all source of supply.
7. Excepting a remnant.—That remnant accounts for Israel’s preservation in her terribly-backslidden condition. It was through them that God was carrying out His promise to Abraham and to David. “Ye are the salt of the earth,” says Christ to His disciples; and it is because of the presence of His people that the sin-cursed earth was not destroyed long ago. True, they are “a little flock,” but the Spirit of God is in them to preserve.
8. The leading detail of Israel’s defalcation seems to have been selfishness. In counseling the people to “learn to do well,” the Lord has shown us emphatically what is pleasing to Him—that we “seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.” We have it repeated to King Jehoiakim by Jeremiah (ch. 22:1-3, 13-16), and again in James 1:27.
9. Men have sometimes advocated a god of Reason, and have set up the most unreasonable theories in support of it; for instance, when the infidels of France, during the great revolution of 1798, paraded a lewd woman through the streets of Paris and proclaimed her the Goddess of Reason. But the true God gives us something that is reasonable—that an all-wise and merciful God should forgive sin on reasonable conditions.
10. It is also reasonable that One who has created all things, and upholds all things, who “giveth to all life, and breath, and all things,” should demand obedience on the part of the recipients of all His favors.
11. If those to whom He has given life and sustenance persist in misusing these blessings, it is but reasonable that He should withdraw them. Life is not a blessing to one who will not use it in the “reasonable service” (Rom. 12:1) of Him who gives it, and who alone can continue it. This warning to Israel was also for all people, to the end of time. The word of the Lord never fails. “The wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord.” Rom. 6:23.
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