“He that receiveth you receiveth me, and he that receiveth me, receiveth him that sent me. He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet’s reward; and he that receiveth a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man’s reward. And whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, verily I say unto you, he shall in no wise lose his reward.”
In these words Jesus teaches us how our Heavenly Father regards the service we render to others. “He that receiveth you receiveth me; and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me.”
Thus Christ identifies himself with his laborers, and gives to those who receive his messengers the blessing that he gives to those whom he sends. Not only does he give the blessing, but he also gives the reward; for we read: “He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet’s reward; and he that receiveth a righteous man in the name of a righteous man, shall receive a righteous man’s reward.”
Could language be more strong or more encouraging than this assurance that the Lord takes cognizance of every act of kindness that we do in his name? If a prophet is received in the name of a prophet, the receiver, the one who receives the prophet, shall receive a prophet’s reward. “And whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, verily I say unto you, he shall in no wise lose his reward.”
One would think that to give a cup of cold water to a thirsty, weary pilgrim in the name of a disciple, would be the smallest act of kindness that one could bestow, yet the Lord takes notice even of this. Think you that he who notices all these smaller matters will forget the sacrifice and devotion that his children make in behalf of the interests of the cause of God in the earth?
When we carefully read the Word of God, we find in it examples of two classes of people. One class live for themselves, and consider only their own needs and desires. The other class forget themselves and their needs in service to their fellow men.
Think for a moment of a few men who have lived only for self,—Cain, the murderer, who in a jealous rage slew his brother; Esau, who sold his birth-right for a mess of pottage; Balaam, who was anxious even to curse the people of God for the gold of the Moabites; and Judas, who betrayed his Lord for a few pieces of silver.
In what contrast to such characters as these stand the lives of such noble men as Noah, Abraham, Moses, David, Daniel, Paul, and hosts of others, who were willing to surrender all their hopes for gaining advancement in this life, in order that they might please the Lord.
We almost shudder to mention the names of those who have lived and died with no higher aim in life than the acquirement of property, fame, or worldly honors. Those who follow such an aim in life generally develop the evil traits of their hearts until their lives become a menace to all that is godlike, and thus they often become a source of grief or terror to those whom they should love.
Not so, however, are the lives of those who follow the Master. Everywhere by his example and precept we are taught not to live for self or worldly gain; but that our lives are to be spent in loving service for others. Let us read Matt. 25: 31-46 inclusive. Here we are plainly taught that whatever we do for others in the name of Christ, we do to him. “For I was an hungered,” he says, “and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.” Whatever we do, then, to our fellow men in the name of Christ, Christ reckons as a personal service to himself.
Could anything be more plain than that God puts a great value on the service we render to our fellow beings in his name? “Which is love? To do God’s will, or merely suffer it? I must headlong into seas of toil, leap forth from self, and spend my soul on others.”
Who can comprehend the great privilege of being a worker together with God in the wonderful work of soul saving? And yet, in God’s plan, every child born into the kingdom of grace can become a soul winner. It is true we can not all go into the regions beyond, and become workers in a public way to win souls to Christ; yet there are ways in which we can become workers together with God. Let us not forget,—
“Still shines the light of holy lives
Like star-beams over doubt;
Each sainted memory, Christlike,
drives,
Some dark possession out.”
Though we may not go to a foreign field, yet we may still be messengers sent of God to rescue souls from sin. The strongest influence that man can exert on men’s hearts, is the influence of a godly, consecrated life.
Again: we may become workers together with God by the consecration and proper education of our children. Why should not every Seventh-day Adventist child be dedicated to God and to his service for the spread of the third angel’s message? Should not a people who believe that they are living in the very closing hours of time, with a mighty, thrilling message to go to all the world, gladly give their sons and daughters to the work of God? Is the sacrifice too great to give our all to advance the kingdom of God in the earth? In our children, may we not become laborers together with God in the great work of soul saving? Is it too much to expect that in the near future there will be a great army of young men and women encircling the whole earth, teaching the thrilling gospel of the great advent message for our day? These young, strong, stalwart soldiers of the cross, “fired with a zeal peculiar,” will carry the news of a soon-coming Saviour to all the world.16
Has not the time come when our young people must rise up and buckle on the armor, for battle in distant lands? Our older men, tried and true, are falling one by one at their posts of duty. Nearly every nation under heaven has within its keeping the last remains of some pioneer of the third angel’s message. Shall not this consecrated ground, made sacred by the devotion and sacrifice of precious lives, be an inspiration for others, young and strong, to enter into the warfare, and carry the battle to the enemy’s gates? Let us all learn to sing from the depths of the soul that old Moravian war song,—
“Blessed be the day when I must roam
Far from my country, friends, and home,
An exile poor and mean.
My fathers’ God will be my Guide,
Will angel guards for me provide,
My soul in danger screen;
Himself will lead me to a spot
Where, all my grief and cares forgot,
I shall enjoy sweet rest;
As pants for cooling streams the hart,
I languish for my heavenly part,
For God, my refuge blest.”
Is it not time for this people to arise and say, “We will go up and possess the goodly land?” Does it not seem, from all we hear and see and know, that Beulah land is only a little way beyond? The shining angels are there, waving the palm branches of victory, beckoning us homeward. The marriage supper of the Lamb is ready, only waiting because of the tardiness of the invited guests.
Earth’s nations are arraying themselves for the last great fray; and we are not ready for the last command of our blessed Lord: “Go out into the highways and hedges and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.”
With such a mighty work before us, is it not to be wondered at that God’s people should say to themselves,—
“My soul is not at rest; there comes a strange
And secret whisper to my spirit, like
A dream at night, that tells me I am on
Enchanted ground.
Why live I here? The vows of God
Are on me, and I may not stoop
To play with shadows, or pluck earthly
flowers,
Till I my work have done, and rendered up account.”
The Spirit of God is striving with hearts everywhere. It is truly God’s awakening hour for his people, that they may prepare for the speedy accomplishment of his closing work.
But with this rapidly increasing army of workers, there will of necessity be an increasing flow of means. God always provides the means as he prepares the workers. One will not long outrun the other. While the heavenly visitors lay the burden of going to other lands17upon many hearts who have been trained and educated for public labor, the same divine influences will arouse God’s people to furnish the means for their support.
Already there seems a mighty awakening among our people to furnish the means for the rapid extension of the third angel’s message in all lands. Look at the wonderful gain in tithes in one year. In 1905 there was an increase in tithes paid by this denomination over that of 1904, of $168,195.58. This is a tremendous gain for one year. The total amount of tithe for the year 1905, as paid in by our people, amounts to $858,014.91. Should this ratio of increase continue through the year 1906, the tithes of our people would pass the million mark.
Not only have our people increased their tithes, but the conferences have most generously donated from the tithes they have been receiving, to the work in foreign fields. This past year they have contributed for foreign mission work outside of local conferences, the sum of $97,696.89. In the history of our message there has never been such a spirit of liberality on the part of our strong conferences to assist from their funds in extending the work in other lands, as at the present time. It is truly marvelous how God is working for the extension of the message.
Besides the tithes, the offerings for foreign missions for 1905 were the largest ever made by our people in any one year. Taking our work as a whole, 1905 was the banner year in our denominational history for progress in missionary work.
By co-operating in the plan of weekly offerings for foreign missions every believer can assist in extending the message. A small donation of only ten cents a week from each member of our faith, means a large sum for mission work. Does it not seem as if we could give as much as $5.20 a year for the gospel in other lands, if once we should set our hearts diligently to do it? This would mean the large sum of $312,000 a year from our people in the United States alone for foreign mission work.
The furnishing of means to advance the cause of truth is one of the most interesting parts of God’s work. It is not a burden, it is not a tax, but it should be a great privilege for us to contribute liberally for the advancement of God’s work. God should be a partner in all we do. Not only should we love him, and pray to him, and keep the Sabbath, but we should also honestly pay our tithe, and make our offerings for the advancement of his truth. He should have a share of every dollar that comes into our possession. In this way we can ask his precious blessings upon the labor of our hands, that prosperity may attend all that we do, that we may have more means to contribute to his cause.
God can as truly be with the farmer, and the tiller of the soil, as with the man on the frontier who is preaching the truth. Each may have the blessing of God, and a fulness of Christian experience, and surely every one should have a part in helping on the cause of God.
Those in far-away countries are doing their best to help give this message to other lands. From one field came the cheering word, “Our boys are determined to help carry the gospel. If they have no money, they go without one meal on Sabbath, and ask us to put the price of the meal into the mission treasury.”
The other day from one of the darkest parts of God’s heritage came a donation for another, an equally needy field. A few weeks ago a union conference that had been exempt from helping to raise the $150,000 fund, voted a petition to be permitted to join in raising this large fund.
OFFICERS AND FIELD SUPERINTENDENTS OF THE GERMAN UNION CONFERENCE
Only this week a letter came from South Africa containing an offering of one hundred and seventeen dollars that had been given in that field to assist in replacing the loss by fire in the Pacific Press, and from a lone worker and his wife in West Africa, ten dollars for the same purpose.
When the $100,000 fund was being raised, the money came in so fast that the clerical force in the office could not attend to the business, and to the surprise of all, the amount did not stop at $100,000, but went with a bound to over $115,000, and those in charge of the work had to cry, “Enough and more! The fund is raised.”
These things make one think of the days of Moses when he built the tabernacle in the wilderness. The people brought so much that Moses had to restrain their liberality. And the record reads, “So the people were restrained from bringing, for the stuff they had was sufficient for all the work to make it, and too much.”
Are these not the days to which our eyes have long been looking? Are not these experiences the beginning of the close of the latter rain? Are we not treading in the border land of the apostolic days of giving, when men and women sold all their earthly possessions and gave them to the advancement of the cause of God?
Truly the signs are cheering. The spirit of giving is a true thermometer of the spiritual condition of the church militant. With the experiences of the past, the pentecostal days seem not far distant, and for their speedy arrival let us pray daily.
Should this denomination not raise the battle cry, “A million a year for the souls of men in other lands”? It is not a large sum. Is it any too much for this people to give to spread the glorious news of the soon coming of the Saviour? With a membership of about eighty thousand scattered throughout the world, the raising of a million a year would mean the sum of $12.50 from each individual.
Can it be done? We believe it can. Not this year, nor next, perhaps, but shortly this people can pass on to the regions beyond, year by year, the sum of one million dollars.
So let it be, and to this glorious end let us work and pray. And in all this effort for others, let us remember,—
“The meal unshared is food unblessed,
Thou hoard’st in vain what love should spend;
Self-ease is pain, thy only rest
Is labor for a worthy end.”
2. When God made the sun, moon, and stars, what did he say they were for? Gen. 1: 14. Note that they were for signs.
3. For what are signs used? How are they a help?17
4. What is said of the sun, moon, and stars as signs? Joel 2:31; Matt. 24:29, 33. (Try to make the nearness of Christ's coming, and the signs that point to it, as real as possible.)
5. What will be the manner of Christ's coming? Acts 1:9-11; Matt. 25:31. (Use additional texts if time permits.)
8. What preparation should we make to receive him? I John 3:2, 3.
The Holy Spirit at Work in the Mission Fields
By W. A. Spicer
W. A. SPICER
Reading for Friday, December 21
In all the wide mission fields we see evidence that God, by his Holy Spirit, is working with mighty power.
The Mission Board may feel that it must hold back a little time in sending missionaries forward; but a divine providence will not allow delay. There is a hand laying hold of this work that is not of men. The means may be lacking; then perhaps the Lord leads conferences to come forward with gifts from their tithe surplus, or some special donations come in, and the forward path is made plain. Hearts are stirred by the victories won, and the line of advance moves on so swiftly that we can scarcely keep watch of it. It is startling. It is the Lord finishing the work. He is cutting it short in righteousness.
No wonder that the world begins to see that this movement is compassing the earth. In the vision of Revelation 14, John saw the judgment-hour message flying swiftly to every nation, tongue, and people. What John saw in vision we see literally fulfilling before our eyes to-day. And others see it. They see its world-wide aim, and recognize its rapid growth. That is why the Methodist Christian Advocate recently wrote of this advent movement:—
“Its aim is avowedly to run the earth; and small though the denomination still is, it has its missionaries scattered through every region of the globe.”
The proclamation of the Lord’s soon coming is truly rising with a loud cry in every continent. We were told in one of the exhortations of the spirit of prophecy at the Washington General Conference, that we were to “belt the world” with this message. Thank God, it is being done. Our outposts now stretch in the New World from Alaska and Iceland to Punta Arenas, the southernmost city on the Straits of Magellan, and in the Old World from Hammerfest, the uttermost city of the polar north, to Cape Town and the Malay Straits. There are wide gaps to be filled in, but our missionary line already belts the world, and we know that the light of the last message is to flood in,—
“Till like a sea of glory
It spreads from pole to pole.”
The progress of the third angel’s message is drawing its own lines upon the map. Look at the map of the world and see how already we have a missionary arctic circle surrounding the north pole, running from Alaska to Iceland, and on to our Scandinavian Northland mission and Siberia. Our own antarctic missionary circle is drawn from Punta Arenas, near Cape Horn, to Cape Town, and on to Australia and New Zealand, the extreme circle of habitable land to the southward. And a tropical belt of missions in Africa, Asia, South America, and the islands of the sea forms our missionary equatorial line. Never did any people have so urgent a call to stretch every nerve and devote every resource of men and means to the work committed to them.
The Spirit Has Prepared the Way
God has prepared the way by his Holy Spirit for a quick work in our day. In 1844 the hour of his judgment came. We are told in “Great Controversy:”—
“If all who had labored unitedly in the work of 1844 had received the third angel’s message, and proclaimed it in the power of the Holy Spirit, the Lord would have wrought mightily with their efforts. A flood of light would have been shed upon the world. Years ago the inhabitants of the earth would have been warned, the closing work completed, and Christ would have come for the redemption of his people.”
The history shows that at that very time in Africa, in India, in China, and, in fact, in all the world there were mighty impulses set working as under one divine control, everywhere preparing the way for a quick work just then—if only all the advent believers had taken up the third angel’s message after the disappointment of 1844. There was a crisis on in the affairs of the nations, as well as in the development of God’s work.
And just as men widely separated in those days took up the advent cry, so also, here and there, students of the Word began to keep the Sabbath. Last summer, at the great German Union camp-meeting at Friedensau, one of the most thankful men was an aged brother from Bavaria. Down in that intensely Catholic land he had heard in his youth the message of 1844. A few years later he began to keep the Sabbath, knowing of no others doing so. Now he has found those of like faith, and this was his first camp-meeting. His face fairly beamed with satisfaction as he sat on the front of the speaker’s platform in order to catch every word from the desk.
As Elder Armstrong opened meetings in Ceylon last year, he heard of a body of Tamil-speaking Christians keeping the Sabbath. He sent word to them that he also kept it. A delegation came into Colombo from the country to question him. They were astonished to hear that he actually kept the Sabbath, and that there was a large body of people in other parts of the world doing so. “But,” they said, “how did you and your people learn about the Sabbath?”
When asked how they themselves had learned of it, they said that in 1844 an old Tamil teacher in their community had been led to study the Bible regarding God’s Sabbath, and had begun to keep it, leading his flock also into obedience.
These and many other incidents more commonly known among us show how truly the Spirit of God in that early advent movement had prepared the way for the Sabbath reform message. But the great body of those who engaged in the 1844 movement turned back from the third angel’s message. And so the final phase of God’s work was built up again from a small beginning.
But now it has spread out into all the world, and a crisis has come again. Everything points to the approaching climax of the world’s history, and we see the message hastening on as never before. Again the divine Spirit has ushered in a new time. All societies feel it. Secretary Patton, of the Congregational Board, says:—
“Within five years the missionary situation of the world has been so transformed as to be hardly recognizable by those who studied the problem in the previous period. There has been nothing like this in history since the preparation of the Roman empire for the advent of Christ. We are in a new fulness of time.”
Surely the Lord has made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations, and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.
A Work of Power in Europe
Things seemed to go hard and slow in the early seed-sowing time in Europe. But what a splendid fruitage is now springing up. If fifteen or twenty years ago any one had said that the time would come when hundreds of Catholics would accept this truth in a year, we would have said, “That will be in the time of the latter rain and the loud cry of the message.” Last year, in Europe alone, the brethren estimate that about four hundred Catholics embraced this truth. Verily this means nothing less than the loud cry, the refreshing from the presence of the Lord. The Comforter has come.
No laws can hold the message back. It creeps in where public preaching services are forbidden. Baptisms are held secretly, where open baptism would bring all to prison. We hear of a police squad brought out in Russia to arrest a baptismal party, only to remain as spectators, and actually as a guard to shield our minister from men who had sworn to kill him if he performed the service. We hear from Rumania of a policeman, sent to our meetings to catch the missionary in his words, but who is now himself a baptized member of our church, converted by the words he heard.
We hear that the message has reached the ears of kings during the last year, and is a topic of conversation in imperial courts. We hear of simple souls who have come, as in Catholic Spain, saying, “Do you preach Jesus in this18house?” Another daughter of Spain, now a believer, said when the truth first came to her: “This is what my father waited for. He told me that some day a message would come, having real help and saving power. He longed for it, but died without it, saying it would surely come sometime. I know that this is it.”
Brethren and sisters, have we not been told through the spirit of prophecy of the praying ones, all through the dark lands, to whom God is sending rays of light from heaven to encourage them to hold on until we can reach them? Surely he would have us make haste. There is a little baptized company now in Lisbon, as the first-fruits in Portugal, and two of the new brethren are going out as colporteurs. At the rate of over two thousand a year the believers are coming into our ranks in Europe. Great Britain has added as many in the last four years as in all the twenty-three years preceding. The Scandinavian Union calls now for no more appropriations for its field work. It has organized a new Northland mission for the Laplanders and others, and is raising a fund for a mission to Abyssinia, the ancient Ethiopia. Their missionaries are preparing to enter that land of ancient Sabbath-keeping, and where still the people say that the Sabbath is the holy day. We hear that our Icelandic paper has a circulation of nearly four thousand, the largest of any paper, religious or political, in that island. Truly we see in all these things the marvelous working of the Holy Spirit in the European field.
Progress in Africa
In Africa our colonial brethren have recently opened a mission for the Kaffirs in the eastern province of Cape Colony. The Kaffirs have long been calling us to come among them. The German brethren have just planted a new station, their third, in German East Africa. Brother Enns, who is in charge, writes:—
“The work here is threatening to overflow. I now have about one hundred pupils in the school and fifteen in the boarding-school. Thirty have applied, but for lack of room they must wait. We must enlarge soon. They are pressing and begging, asking if they may not stay. To-day one kept on until I could not refuse him. The boys are quite bright, and are doing very well in their studies. Most of them are the sons of chiefs, who will succeed their fathers.”
The British brethren have landed two workers to establish our first mission in Uganda. The young Africans in our mission training-schools are praying the Lord to help them “to learn quick.” The way in which the Lord is answering that prayer stirs our hearts with new hope for the Dark Continent. One lad in the Solusi school wrote to Elder Hyatt:—
“My people is in darkness there in Zululand. I can not have rest day and night. I long to take truth to my people. I tell you time is very short. I ask you send help down to my people. I want to go down there. I want to give my life to my people.”
At last we have a foothold established, a mission house of our own, in Sierra Leone, on that African West Coast, from which our workers have been turned back more than once. Last year the new Algeria Mission, in the extreme north of Africa, reported its first-fruits, four or five new Sabbath-keepers. The little lights representing our missions glow brighter and brighter in darkest Africa, and we know that angels rejoice to see these jets kindled in the darkness. We must pray God to help us to do more and to do it quickly.
The Power that Can Move Asia
Asia, with half the world’s population, witnesses to the working of the Holy Spirit with a new power in this message.
TONGA AND HIS DAUGHTER
Dr. George writes from Turkey, of new baptisms, and adds:—
“The spirit of revival has been growing. The Spirit of the Lord is working here in Turkey. May nothing hinder this work.”
From Syria comes the word that the truth has reached the Euphrates Valley, and a new people, called Assyrians, remnants of that ancient nation, are now represented in this truth by seven or eight new Sabbath-keepers.
In India and Burma new fields have been entered, and new peoples are hearing the message. It is a significant word that Brother Hansen sends from Burma. Some Baptist missionaries, working in far upper Burma, on the borders of China and Siam, found tribes all ready to be taught. The people said:—
“Is not this the fulfilment of our traditions and hopes? Our traditions say that God dwelt among men, that he ascended to heaven, and that he would come again. Furthermore, the foreigner was to bring us a knowledge of the true God, and now the foreigner has come with the message of salvation.”
In less than a year over a thousand were baptized. Note how these tribes were seeking for the knowledge of the Saviour who is coming again. The complete message of Christ’s soon coming is the message they were looking for. It is the message for the world. We should be giving it everywhere. The Spirit is going before us into the darkest corners of the earth.
In China a new dialect is now praising God for this message. Five young men of the Hakka people, of South China, have been baptized in Canton. In the Amoy region the truth is spreading in a marvelous way. Who does not sympathize with that aged Chinese Christian who, as he went to hear our Brother Keh speak, prayed the Lord to confuse his mind so that he could not understand if error was being taught, and to give him a clear understanding of what was said if the Sabbath was right? Brother Keh preached a plain sermon
on the Sabbath question; the old man understood every point clearly, and now he is rejoicing with many others in the truth.
When we heard of the work of one young Chinese preacher, Brother Tan Hu, we rejoiced. Then he was called home to help his people in a time of pestilence. He took the disease and died. O, we said, how will the Lord cause this to work to his
glory, when witnesses are needed so much in China? But Brother Tan Hu died exhorting his father and family to obey the truth. Then the next word came from Brother Hankins:—
“Tan Hu’s father has begun to keep the Sabbath. The Sabbath after Tan Hu died, his father went over to the village where his son had succeeded in bringing together about twenty people, who met each Sabbath to worship God, and there, of his own accord, took up the work his son laid down.”
A new mission has been opened in Honan, on the railway, and the printing-office removed to it. More than once the lives of our missionaries have been threatened during the last year, but God has protected them.
From Japan, Korea, Singapore, the Pacific Islands, and Australasia come only encouraging words. There is no retreat in this work. The Australasian Union is moving upon the populous East Indies. Java has now a representative of the truth.
In the West Indies and Central America, where three thousand Sabbath-keepers are with us for the finishing of the19work, a union conference was organized last summer. Mexico, which for years was a hard and unresponsive field, reports a new spirit of inquiry. The Lord is visiting these Catholic fields. Brother Tanner writes from the island of Hayti of baptism after baptism, and says: “This progress among Catholics has been an astonishment to the Protestants here, who have never made very much progress among Catholics.” Some have called on him to explain it. The only explanation is that this third angel’s message is the special truth of God for these last days.
Our South American brethren also thank God that his Spirit is working with new power in dark Catholic fields. When news of the San Francisco disaster reached South America, people stood aghast. Now they have had a similar visitation in Valparaiso. The message of the approaching end is being punctuated with earthquake and tempest. The Lord is warning the world. The message of hope and salvation from the things coming upon the earth must go swiftly. And we are to carry it. “It will mean all we have and are on the altar to go to the finish with this message.”
The Macedonian cry comes from over every sea. Let us answer it in our prayers and gifts, first giving our own selves. This week-of-prayer offering to missions ought to be the largest ever given, as our surrender and consecration ought to be the most determined and complete. Some parents must give children to go to the fields. Conferences and institutions must give workers who can not be spared without sacrifice. God is calling. Not a soul can view the wondrous working of the Lord throughout the world-wide field to-day without repenting before God with awe-struck heart; for to watch the movements in the fields is to see God actually cutting short the work of human salvation and bringing eternity near.
But it is a glad truth to the advent believers in all lands. All round this world are earnest hearts rejoicing in the “blessed hope.” They are praying for it. One Sabbath day, after weary weeks at sea, I landed in Buenos Ayres, South America, and went directly to a Sabbath-school in our mission rooms in the heart of that great city. Their language was strange to my ears, but I understood their spirit with my heart. It was the spirit of the one old-fashioned third angel’s message. Then we studied the map of our mission fields, and through the interpreter they were helped to see how swiftly the work is going. As we told them that the advent people were almost home at last, it touched my heart to see that little company all weeping tears of joy. Brethren and sisters, this hope is the dearest hope on earth to the pilgrims homeward bound. And the Lord Jesus will never disappoint his children, who to-day are praying in many tongues that last prayer of the Scriptures, “Even so, come [quickly], Lord Jesus.”
Two Santal teachers, on either side, and a Hindi man recently baptized.
(Introduce the lesson by a brief talk about the beauty of the earth when God first made it, and the reasons why it is necessary for him to make it over again.)
1. What does the memory verse say about this earth?
