The new conference school at Hazel, Ky., was opened December 23.
The Fiji brethren are taking hold with energy to replace the schooner Cina, which was wrecked some time ago.
A collection of Bible-readings in the Fijian language has been printed by the Avondale press, Cooranbong, N. S. W.
A lot has been purchased and a house of worship will soon be erected by the church at Hickory, N. C. Brother R. T. Nash is in charge of the work at that place.
A church of eleven members was organized at Brushycreek, S. C., on the 1st ult., and two members have since been added. They also have a church-school.
The brethren at Rolyat, Texas, have built a neat little church-schoolhouse, and school has been progressing nicely for some time, says Brother C. P. Bodwell, in the Reporter.
On the 7th ult. seven young persons, from 14 to 20 years of age, were baptized at Austin, Minn., by Brother W. W. Stebbins. These and one other were added to the church.
The first church to be organized after the organization of the Carolina Conference was at Charlotte, N. C., the headquarters of the conference. This church was organized November 23.
A 32-page tract on the second advent of our Lord has been issued in the Maori language, and “Christ Our Saviour” is being printed in that language. The Maoris are the natives of New Zealand.
The Watchman says that the students and young people of Graysville have organized a society for the improvement of the mental and spiritual faculties, and for the advancement of the cause of God in the earth. The name of the society is The Spanish Mission Auxiliary Society. Its prime object is “to become better acquainted with the history, the literature, the geography, and the resources of the Spanish and Portuguese-American countries which lie upon our borders, and with the religions, customs, and physical and moral status of the people of these countries, and to learn their needs, for the purpose of enabling us more intelligently to carry to them the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.”
Dr. Braucht is again in charge of the work in Samoa, and it is said the medical work is opening up encouragingly in that group.
A Spanish lady, Mrs. Burgess, of Key West, Fla., has come to Graysville, Tenn., to teach the Spanish language in the Southern Training School, and to fit herself for other labors in the Lord’s cause. She brings her children with her.
The Workers’ Record says that Brother Sidney Scott, a colored minister under the employ of the Southwest Union Conference, is now laboring in Kansas City in the interest of his own race. The colored brethren in Kansas City now have their own Sabbath-school organization. A good hall has been secured for their services, and they are getting along nicely.
The Atlantic Conference has been dissolved, and two conferences take its place,—the New Jersey Conference, including the State of New Jersey, and the Greater New York Conference, embracing Manhattan, Staten, and Long Islands, and several counties in the southeastern part of the State of New York. The name of the Eastern Union Conference has been changed to Atlantic Union Conference.
Brother J. B. Beckner, who went to Jamaica in the fall, writes from Balaclava to the Texas Reporter, under date of November 14: “We have just returned from a trip of about fifty miles southeast to Milk River. There we had the privilege of burying with their Lord thirteen adults. We arrived at the water just at daylight. About fifty were there in all. Most of them had walked from nine to twenty miles. Two sisters had walked barefooted twenty miles to be baptized, then all walked home again. Six of those who were baptized were the work of the Grove Town church, without the help of a preacher. Six were the result of a meeting by Brother W. J. Tanner, and one by reading,—the work of a canvasser. Calls to hear the Word are many more than the workers here can fill.”
In the Southern Watchman Dr. O. C. Godsmark tells of the work in Louisville, Ky. We clip the following items of progress: “We are now meeting in the church building, which we have leased with the option of purchasing at a reasonable price, and which we have repaired at our own expense. The house makes a good appearance, and we are indeed thankful to have a place of worship that properly represents the truths we profess. We expect soon to begin making regular payments on the purchase of the property. Last Sabbath three arose for baptism; and four new ones are now keeping the Sabbath as the result of Mrs. Godsmark’s Bible work. Brother and Sister Barry are now here doing good work among the colored people. Already they have had the promise of brick and mortar enough to build a church-house when they are in readiness to go ahead and build. Two new ones have also begun the observance of the Sabbath.”
At a recent meeting of the executive committee of the Southwestern Union Conference, Brother J. M. Rees related the following interesting circumstance: “At the first camp-meeting held in North Carolina, we had a missionary meeting, and while we were holding that meeting a man and his wife stepped into the back part of the tent, and I noticed they were interested in what we had to say. Our meeting had not been in session long until a sister got up and produced a little bunch of tracts, yellow with age, sewed together, and she said: ‘Somebody sent me these tracts, and I embraced the truth from them. I do not know where they came from.’ Her husband said that he embraced the truth, too, from reading those tracts. And then another arose and said the same thing, and another, until eight people in that congregation had testified that they had received the truth from reading those tracts. They all lived in the same neighborhood. The meeting closed, and the strange woman who had stayed in the rear of the tent, stepped forward to the woman who had spoken first, and, facing her, said: ‘Do you know me? I am your sister, who left North Carolina twenty years ago. We sent you those tracts.’ You never saw such a greeting as they had there, and we all wept in sympathy with them. Then when the greeting was all over, the man said: ‘Yes, we are the ones who sent you the bunch of tracts. We lived in Kansas, and when we sent those tracts we were so poor that we did not have any money, and we wondered how to get the postage to send them. We prayed that the Lord would help us to get the postage to send them, and the Lord gave it to us, and we sent them.’”
BE SOMETHING.
BEFORE you decide that, because you have no special gifts, you will not be able to do something in the way of soul-winning, at least make up your mind to be something. Make up your mind to be consistent. Make up your mind to discard everything which can in any way hinder the progress of the church in saving souls.
If you are not able to win one soul, at least make sure that you have put no stumbling-block in the way of one who might have been won. You may be certain that the dance, the card-table, and the theater do not harm you; but you can't shut your eyes to the fact that the overwhelming majority of those who do judge them to be wrong, are the most active, most spiritual Christians. You know, too, that avowedly worldly people haven't, as a rule, a particle of confidence in the Christian who indulges in these pleasures. You see there is higher ground than the simple question of how much I may do without imperiling my own soul.—Anon.
PROTESTANTISM IN MEXICO.
Dr. A. W. Halsey, one of the secretaries of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, has lately visited Mexico, and reports as follows:—
Protestantism in Mexico is making great advancement, and, altho it is still a Catholic country, the liberal policy of President Diaz and his government has done much to help our churches. Men are selected as heads of public schools with regard only for their ability, and Protestants are selected as well as those of other religious faiths. This liberality has come only in comparatively recent years. In connection with a large Protestant meeting was an incident that is suggestive of the work done by Protestant missions. After the conference a large party left for their homes on one train. At one of the stations where it stopped, a man who was selling pulque, the native liquor, tried to get aboard. “You can not sell pulque on this train,” he was told. With a grunt of disgust he turned away, muttering, “Protestants.”
The general condition of people in Mexico, viewed educationally, is put by Dr. Halsey concisely thus: “Mexico is now very progressive, but there is one serious drawback in Mexico. It is the illiteracy of the people. There are 13,000,000 inhabitants of the country, and of these 10,000,000 can neither read nor write, and of those who can read not one in twenty has a book of his own. Before many years a very different story will be told of the educational condition of the people.”
CHRISTIAN GIVING.
By Charles H. Daniels
The Gospel which has come to us must be carried to others. Whether it is true that there is nothing beautiful in nature except it reflects light, we will not say. It is true that every heart which is made light must reflect its radiant glory. One who has received the message of life can not keep it to himself. The man who has walked with God can not keep the secret. His very garments of righteousness will give out a fragrance like that of heavenly blossoms. The face of Moses was the declaration of his heavenly interview. Every man born into the kingdom of God is from that moment a preacher of the glad tidings of great joy. The hungry heart once satisfied will not hide the loaf from hungry hearts all about him. We are touching the spirit of Christ, of whom it was said, “Ye know the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, that tho He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that ye through His poverty might be rich.” In heart-life it is what we give away that makes us rich. By instructing you are instructed, and you gain in giving more than he who receives. “Not that I desire a gift,” said Paul, when thanking the church at Philippi, “but I desire fruit that may abound to your account.” A great law of Christian giving is thus set before us.—Charles H. Daniels, D. D.
WE MUST HAVE KNOWLEDGE OF MISSIONS.
By Carolyn M. Spencer
THERE is nothing truer in my experience than this little quotation, printed on the back of a pamphlet on missions recently received: “Know, and you will feel. Know, and you will pray. Know, and you will help. You will be ashamed of the sluggishness of the isolation, of the selfishness which has made you think only of your own people, and your father’s house.”
Those young people who begin to “know” may not only begin to “feel ashamed of the sluggishness and selfishness which make them think only of their own people, and of their father’s house,” but they may show the results of their feeling and thinking in action, perhaps by the offering of their lives to the service of the Master in the place where the need is greatest—in India, Africa, China, or Japan.—Carolyn M. Spencer.
FAMINE-STRICKEN CHINA.
A DESPATCH to the Christian Herald from its special correspondent in Shensi, a province in the north of China, states that a terrible famine is raging in that section of the empire. Mr. Nichols says:—
The condition of the province is truly appalling. The whole country presents a picture of desolation. One year's deaths from famine, in Shensi alone, are over 2,500,000. There will be great need during the coming winter.
There are in the province many thousands of orphan children, who have lost their parents in the famine. And “unless something is done for these helpless sufferers, a large proportion of them will be sold into a slavery which, in the case of the girls at least, will be worse even than death itself.”
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LESSON 2.—JANUARY 12.—THE PROMISE OF POWER FULFILLED.
1 “And when the day of Pentecost was now come, they were 2 all together, in one place. And suddenly there came from heaven a sound as of the rushing of a mighty wind, and it 3 filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them tongues parting asunder, like as of fire; 4 and it sat upon each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. 5 “Now there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, 6 from every nation under heaven. And when this sound was heard, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speaking in his own language. And they were all amazed and marveled, saying, 8 Behold, are not all these which speak Galileans? And how hear we, every man in our own language, wherein we were born? Parthians and Medes and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, in Judea and Cappadocia, in Pontus and Asia, in Phrygia and Pamphylia, in Egypt and the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and sojourners from Rome, both Jews and proselytes, Cretans and Arabians, we do hear them speaking in our tongues the mighty works of God. And they were all amazed, and were perplexed, saying one to another, 13 What meaneth this? But others mocking said, They are filled with new wine.”
Golden Text.—“The promise is unto you and to your children.” Acts 2:39.
SUGGESTIVE QUESTIONS.
(1) What feast is referred to in this lesson? What is said of the Christian disciples? Verse 1. Note 1. (2) What strange thing suddenly occurred? What was the result? Verse 2. Note 2. (3) What appeared in connection with the sound? Verse 3. Note 3. (4) What was the effect upon the disciples? How did they manifest this effect? Verse 4. Note 4. (5) Who, besides the ordinary population, were now in Jerusalem? Verse 5. Note 5. (6) What did the multitude do at this time? Note 6. What greatly perplexed the people? Verses 7, 8. (8) What countrymen are specially mentioned? Verses 9-11. (9) And what was the subject of which they so marvelously heard? Verse 11, last clause. (10) How were they affected by what they heard? Verse 12. (11) How did some pretend to account for what they saw and heard? Verse 13. Note 7.
NOTES.
1. Pentecost means “fiftieth.” The occasion was a harvest festival on the fiftieth day after the Passover. In Ex. 23:16 it is called the “feast of harvest,” and in Num. 28:26 it is called the “day of the first-fruits.” On that day a sheaf of the first-fruits of the harvest was brought to the priest, and he waved it before the Lord. The Jews were forbidden to eat any of the new crop until after this service. Those assembled in the “one place” mentioned in this verse were disciples who believed in the resurrection of Jesus.
2. The sound was not of a wind, but as of a wind, and it was from heaven. Remember that the disciples were all “with one accord” (A. V.), in that place. They were there in obedience to the Lord’s command, and were expecting what He had promised—“power from on high.” Whenever the Lord’s people come together with one accord in obedience to His Word, and all expect it to be fulfilled, there is sure to be a visitation from heaven.
3. The tongues were not fire, but “like as of fire.” This divine manifestation indicated the special gift of tongues which was there bestowed to such a remarkable degree. It sat upon them, it was a permanent gift.
4. The inward working of the Spirit was the baptism which Christ had promised before His ascension. It was this, and not the manifestation, that gave utterance to the disciples. Being filled with the Holy Spirit, there was no room for any other spirit. The folly of worldly wisdom is shown by a certain “professor” who attempts to prove by the “science of hypnotism” that it was possible for the disciples to be so influenced. Where the Word of God is made dependent upon such backing as that, it ceases to have any influence for good; it is simply perverted. The only proof that such power was imparted to the disciples is the inspired record itself. This, and this only, is infallible.
5. An immense gathering of people came to Jerusalem at this season, which was more favorable than the Passover season. It is said that a census taken in the time of Nero shows an attendance of 2,700,000 at the Passover, and a still greater number at the Pentecost. This diversity of languages was a great natural obstacle to the spread of the Gospel by a few Galileans, unlearned in the languages of people outside their own little country. But we have here a most wonderful illustration of the power of God to overcome the difficulties that lie in the way of His work.
6. When this sound was heard.—It was not the sound that brought the multitude together. It was not the rumor or news of the wonderful meeting that did it. When the sound was heard, God had baptized His servants for witnessing. At that very time His Spirit brought the people who needed the story of witness. It was God’s working in both cases. He fitted the disciples for ministering; He sent the needy to be ministered unto. So God will co-operate always with him who is in accord with Heaven.
7. The disposition to explain spiritual phenomena by natural means, which is so prevalent to-day, also existed in that time. And it was manifest in the church as well as in the world. But here was an unusually difficult case to dispose of, so the skeptics thought to pass it off by a joke. They knew that what they said was not true, but they wanted to turn the minds of the people into thinking that the great commotion was nothing of any consequence. But the Spirit led Peter to repel the charge of drunkenness by reminding them of the well-known custom not to drink wine in the early part of the day. Then he told them plainly what it was that was so arousing the people. It was the fulfilment of the prophecy spoken by Joel hundreds of years before, and which these skeptics themselves professed to believe.
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NOTE.—In the preparation of these lessons all Scripture references, and the pages of “Christ’s Object Lessons,” should be thoroughly studied first, then the questions. The questions are not the lessons. They are only for the purpose of finding out what we have observed while studying. More of the preciousness of these lessons will be obtained if the lesson is studied each day throughout the week. In the parables of Jesus there is salvation from sin for every type of sinner—from the Pharisee to the prodigal. The notes are wholly selected from such portions of “Christ’s Object Lessons” as apply to each lesson.
LESSON 3.—JANUARY 18.—THE PARABLE OF THE GREAT SUPPER.
21 “And the servant came, and told his lord these things. Then the master of the house being angry said to his servant, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor and maimed and blind and lame. 22 And the servant said, Lord, what thou didst command is done, and yet there is room. 23 And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and constrain them to come in, that my house may be filled. 24 For I say unto you, that none of those men which were bidden shall taste of my supper.”
SUGGESTIVE QUESTIONS.
1. How did the servant deal with these excuses?
2. What effect did they have upon the master of the house?
3. Where did he tell the servant to go next?
4. What classes of persons were to be brought in?
5. What report did the servant then make?
6. Where did his lord then send him?
7. How urgent was the invitation?
8. What result was expected?
9. What declaration was made concerning the guests first invited?
NOTES.
1. THOSE who refused the last call, “Come; for all things are now ready,” were left to their own choice, but the feast was not thus deprived of its guests. Those whose outward circumstances caused them to be despised by the world, and those hidden from the observation of men, were most urgently invited, and they responded to the call. Thus it often happens that the very blessings bestowed upon men as a means of drawing them to the Lord are turned by them into a hindrance to spiritual life, while the absence of temporal comforts leads to a greater readiness to receive the “unspeakable gift.” The rejection of the Gospel call by those first invited, and the turning to others with the same invitation, foreshadowed the giving of the Gospel to the Gentiles, and is the distinct call to us to send the last message “to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people.”
2. The whole Bible is an invitation to come to the Lord for salvation. This was the Lord’s call to Noah (Gen. 7:1); it was His invitation through Isaiah (Isa. 55:1); Jesus Himself repeated it (Matt. 11:28); and among the closing words of the Bible the call is thrice repeated (Rev. 22:17). On the other hand, the whole message of the Bible is concerning the coming of Christ to and for His people. The symbolic service foreshadowed it, the prophets foretold it, John the Baptist gave the message of His first coming (Luke 1:76), and His work finds its full completion in the last message before the second coming. And so the call to-day, “Come; for all things are now ready,” is a call to prepare for the second coming of Christ and the marriage supper of the Lamb. By the winning power of love this message is to go forth to the world in this generation, to compel men to receive the gift of God’s grace, to “eat the flesh of the Son of Man, and drink His blood,” that they may live forever. Through the neighborly ministry of the medical missionary work this message is to go to the suffering and the needy, and so, through the right use of all of God’s appointed agencies, all classes are to be reached, and the day of the Lord is to be hastened. Read Isa. 26:20, 21, and Rev. 22:20, for a combination of the Lord’s call and our response.
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