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To the Ghurdies of Christ in
America*.
The Federal Council of the
Churches of Cferist in America
joins with the World’s Evange
lical AjHnjifift in inviting all
churches and followers of Christ
to unite in a “Universal Week of
Prayer” at the opening of the
New Year. The devotional pro
gram here presented will not
only be circulated through all
English speaking lands, but wiU
be transplanted for use in fifty
countries. Be whose right it is
to rule desires us to be one in
payer “that the world may
know'.” AH things are posriWe
when Christian* agree and not
before. Never was the need
Ounsge isfiuQ of unrest In
sptieof all efforts towards peace
iand goodwill the apirit of l«ff
lesaness, of 'international suspi
don, and of actual warfare*
seems to be increasing. We need
not linger over dark details that
are only too familiar. Bather
would we remember jwith un
speakable gratitude that the
Lord who orders tha ages (Heh.
1:2.) is on the throne. All au
thority in Beavenand on earth
isinHishaads. He is award
of the present portents. Through
tha changing years He Himself
remains unchanged; and He is
able to do exceeding abundantly
above ah we ask or think in
meeting the needs of His people
and the heart-hunger of all npr
kind. “Jesus Christ is tha same
V^As.
encouragement: I. It is God’s
will; II. Christ has set us the
example; HL Christ promises
Hfe presence.
During the Week of Prayer
from Sunday, January 2nd to
Saturday, January 8th, let us all
unite with our brethren in many
lands to demonstrate afresh the
release of God’s power as we
pray with one accord in the
'name and spirit of Jesus Christ
our Lord.
Faithfully mid fraternally
yuure,
WILLIAM HORACE DAY.
Chairman,
CHARLES GOODELL,
Executive Secretary,
Commission on Evangelism and
Life Service.
Sunday, January 2nd; '1927
Texts Suggested for Sermons
and Addresses.
“I have considered the days
of old, the years of ancient times.
. . . ,1 will remember the years
of the right hand of the Most
High” (Psalm lxxvii. 5,10).
“A glorious throne, set on high
from the beginning, is the place
©f our sanctuary” (Jeremiah
xvil 12).
. “The fear of the Lord is thy
treasure” (Isaiah xxxiii. 6.)
“Be of good cheer** (Matthew
ix. 2, xiv. 27, Acts xxiiL 11).
“Behold I have set before
Thee an open door, and no man
can shut if* Revelation iii 8).
Monday. January 3rd, 1927
thanksgiving and Humiliation*
Let us come before his pres
ence with thanksgiving. Let
us kneel before the Lord our
Maker.** (Psalm xcv. 2, 6.)
Thanksgiving: For the good
ness and mercy of the past
year; for tile long suffering of
God tcwand us. ^ j * ,
. That now is our Salvation
hearer than when we first be
iteour
that Thy people may rejoice i*
Thee?" (Psalm Ixxxv. 6.)
Sscripture readings:
xcw.Psalm .ciii. Acts 1-8.
v. 16-26.
Tuesday* January 4th* 1927—
tile Universal Chureh^THit
Church oi God, which He Hath
Purchased with His Own
BlooT (Acta xx, 28.)
Thanksgiving: For Christ’s
lone to His Church, and for the
gracious purposes for which He
Miy it into beiug.
For the quickened desire after
unity among themerabersofHis
-M 03$
For tue increase of Brother
hood,'and for ah awakened so
conscience among
mm
era
Confession: Our n<
greater holiness. that,
may bemagnified in our}
Our lack of k>ve for souls.
- Our unreadiness to serve and
to hear witness. Our unworthy
timidity and pride;
. Prayer : For , afl ministers,
preachers, church workers and
members. For all who are dis
couraged and joyless,, in then
work; d or lapsed members that
they may be restored. For a
fresh renewal of the Holy
Ghost. “Restdre unto me the joy
i ScripfeoA ^Readings;
i. 10-20. *
Wednesday. January 5th, 1927—
and Governments—“He
silence seek very definitely to
realize the presence of the Lord
Jsus, who makes us one in Him
with our brethren of every na
tion.-' <-•' !■ •
Let us give thanks: For all ef
forts to promote better under
standing and more kindly rela
tionships between nations.
For a quickened sense of in
ternational brotherhood.
For that measure of success
which the League of Nations has
paet with in promoting peace and
goodwill.
• Let.us pray: For peace in our
time, national, international, ana
industrial. .*
That the nations may be de
livered f rom raaterialism and de
fective moral standards by their
recognition of Christ and His
teachings
That- rulers. and governments
may submit themselves to the
guidance of God aa they seek to
discharge their great tasks and
responsibilities.
That thi present spirit of
lawlessness may be restrained
and replaced by, the heavenly
wisdom which is pure and peace
able. ,
JThat the ev*ls of . impurity, in
temperance .and "gambling may
be -overcome 3 wopgh , the
pxeachmg of ;theGospel.
That especially, in lands long
provided with the knowledge of
Christ the Lord’s 0qy may be
rightly, regarded and observed,
r Scripture, Readings: Deut. vi.
145, Psalm; lxxxvii. I Tun. ii.
1-6. Rev 94*.
Thursday, January 6th, 1927
world .
Every jjfteatiire” (Mark 16:15.
thanksgiving : That there are
frontiers in the Redeemer’s
ho “hoihe” and no
fields: for “the field
is the wofrW!”
, That GOd so loved the world
that He gaVe His orily begotten
Sop ‘to. save iti and calls upon
His ‘Church to behjr witness to
h during the
ted missionary
the blessing
may
■
That tite Lord of the harvest
will send forth more laborers in
to the ripened fields.
That the Church may ever
keep in mind that her first duty
is to Evangelize the world.
C That native converts may be
faithful to their unevangelized
neighbors. >!
For the work of all Bible So
cieties. . i. ... - [i
For missionaries in special dif
ficulty at this time of unrest in
Cttina ano elsewhere. f
Scripture Readmes; Psalm
exit. Isaiah lx. Matt. vii. 5-13.
Acts x. 34-48. Rev. xxi. 1-4 and
Rev. xxt^22 to xxii. 5.
Friday, January 7th, 1027v—Our
Young Peoples—“The Promise ftfe.
Unto You and to Your Children*
f.*'-' (Acts ii. 39.) :
^ Thanksgiving: For the faith
ful work of Sunday school teach
ers. Bible CBass leaders, and
Chritsian workers in all young
people's organizations.
For all young lives which have
been yielded to the Saviour dur
ing this past year. I j
For thct.york of all agencies
that promote the habit of daily
Bible reading among the young.
Prayer: For parents, that they
may realize their opportunities
and responsibilities in training
their children for- God. _
For ah who Influence the
young people of our land, teach
ers, professors and writers.
For a blessing upon our homes
and for an increase in the habit
of family worship.
For ail Christian work and
Witness in schools, colleges and:
universities.
v. - Scripture Readings: Psalm
exix. 1-16. Matt. xix. 13-22.
John iv. 46-54 2 Tim. 111. lOf
17.
1927—
eve^r^rtn^ realization that
Jesus Christ is the moral judge
of the world, and that nothing
is right which He would disap
prove.
For the response of men and
the leadership of the Church in
all appeals for help for human
need#
For the work of the Church
in all its agencies to establish
Christianity as the supreme
power in the life of the nations.
Let us Confess: Our want .of
brotherly love and of inter-ra
cial and industrial goodwill; our
prejudice against other racep
and our negligence in seeking to
win them to Christ.
Let us Pray: That the Church
at home may be so pure in faith,
so rich in benevolence, so faith
ful in duty; that none of her en
terprises at home or abroad may
suffer for want of men or sup
port.
That all races may realize that
the solution of the race problem
is in Christ; that Christians
may be delivered from the love
of rapidly growing wealth into
a love like that of Jesus.
That the - Bible, the Lord’s!
Day, and the Sacraments, the
gracious wealth of Christian
worships may be loved and pre
served.--.
Scripture Readings: Rom. x,;
Paa. xciv. ; I Cor- xvi. 1-9 ; 2 Cor.
ix. -
CHURCH SfTREET CHURCH,
SALISBURY.
By Mrs* Jolla Hipps
Sunday morning, December
19, our pastor, Rev. J. M. Mor
tonr, preached to us from the
text, "And when they had seen
it they made known abroad the
saying which was told them
concerning this child. And all
they that heard it wondered at
mdse things which were told
them by the shepherds.” Sub
ject, "They Told It.”
(The Sunday school will have
their Christmas exercise Friday
night, December 24th.
Mrs. Juga Hipps spent Sun
day in Raleigh. While there
she visited the State School for
the Dumb and Blind.
As the holidays are, drawing
asMsSIIE*
SSjUk;
n the Christian religion
ere to become law-abdd
aliens of men and: women
bat Britain today are ask
hemselves how thex can
fjings done which impera
. need doing, with the »om
ba ot emotional ferver and
M sense... One can/foresee
IStttLe^feoTtoatBri^
movement nas
Vt*yet, pe
the Bible and
of
the
er for all the churches of that
country.
“Nor is there any
doubt that it will spread to our
shores, exactly as the Moody and
Sankey revival, beginning in the
United States; blazed a
holiness around the
Speaking as President
Federal Council, T cdvet
rious honor of seeing this
al in the United States of Amer
ca, but let it arise where it may,
so that God Himself originates
it, it will be in the first instance
a renewal of personal devotion,
personal consciousness of the in
dwelling of Christ, and personal
hope and joy derived
presence in the
“At a time wh
Bishop oi Winchester, ’Super
national religion is widely ques
tioned, when Christian ethics
flouted, and when the sn
are
preme issue is whether Christi
anity can sufficiently influence
the behavior or Society as to
insure the survival of civiliza
tion,” should not all who love the
honor of God and the -Kingdom
of His Son^ lay aside theological
and other differences and unite
to proclaim the saving Gospel of
that Kingdom ?
“But 1 the proclamation. will
have to be ..splendidly equipped
and well led. , It must; assert’ in
intelligent ways the "major
truths W the New Testament
Faith; there must be no deal
ing with iniquity,; no compro
mise with wrongs no. economy of
truth ; no flattering of error. .i
“Hence those .. who, .align
themselves for .this crusade
must be .prepared, to takerisks.
They will have to combat the. in
difference which» paralyzes
countless chyrches • and makes
them subservient,to the dictates
of worldly-minded multitudes.
They will have bo refuse to low
er Christ’s, claims upon the
whole life of mankind by a sin
gle iota. : :J; . l.!:.
“They must %st deal with the
individual if they ,wodld' bring
about that social reconstruction
in justice, peace; and Security
for which the nations are asking
today. It may well be that th?
decline Of interest in politics is
the forerunner ot a fresh * hold
the everlasting verities
are changeless in the
of constant change.”
beginning of the leading, indust
try of the South, agriculture.
There are several kinds of ocr
cupation, such as publte school
teaching, preaching, practice of
law and several others, but none
is more important than-the oc
cupation of voluntary Sunday
school teaching. Now, if our
Sunday school keeps pace with
the standard of modern times,
it must be carried on by those
who are deeply interested in
training the little minds and m
directing the older minds in the
right way. It is true that educa
tion, especially in these years of
superior civilization, is impend
tive, but Unless there is a reas
onable knowledge of the Bible
the education is incomplete. The
Sunday school is the place to
gain that knowledge. It is there
whege we are taught that all
honest labor is honorable and
a large number of our exalted
people have passed through
some chance for service. For
the lamented Woodrow Wilson,
who was once a pedagogue serv
ing as President of Princeton*
later became Governor of New
Jersey. As a result of proficient
service rendered in each capadU
ty he succeeded in ingratiating
himself into the confidence ,of
the American people and they
as an appreciation of him mat
his real worth to the world, be
stowed upon him the highest
gift that was in their power to
giVe.'. ‘ ;
we nave anoiner example ui
efficient service in the Rev. Dr.
Mordecai Johnson, who, having
oiice' been- a teacher in More
house College,1 Atlanta, was so
proficient in his work that he
was recently elected to the Pres
idency oi Howard University.
Washington, D. C;, the first
$fegro that has ever held that
honored position.
We have as a lawyer Attor
ney McGill, who, through his
efficient ‘ service, has been
appointed Assistant States
Attorney for Cook County in
which Chicago, the second larg
est city in the United States, is
the County seat. And there arc
many others that time will not
allow one to mention.
It is the purpose qf: these, il
lustrations to show ivhat- ii
means to receive an education
follows: _
A number c
them nawtAn,
V mm m "WW. -
try which is to be expect
time of year. In St.
where they have, been
men off in the fouadri<
milis, employers say this
in Columbus, i
due in part to the importation
of men by the railroads.
Organized labor—In Heir
York City colored strikers and
strike1 breakerc are still taking
a very active part in the Paper
Box Workers* Strike, Width is
now ig; its tenth week as# col
ored members of the Motion
Picture Operators’ ■ Union are
still -picketting a Harlem Thea
tre which is giving employment
to non-union operators. ' -/ I
FavoraDle Conditions Reported
Jackson, Mich.—-New Hotel
Hayes opened recently is -hiring
colored bell boys and waiter* ud
der a colored head Waiter. '
Cleveland, 0.—Colored «Hs
have been placed as elevator op
erators in a large department
store which formerly used men.
The men were transferred to
other jobs.
Albany, Ga.—The payroll in
the new Sky water Development
is said to be 120,000. - Negroes
are doing practically all the
work—skilled and unskilled.
Brookyn, N. Y.—The union
man in charge of a small fur fac
tory had consistently refused to
accept colored apprentices. Re
cently he left and the owner re
fused to accept another union
man-unless he agreed to train
colored apprentices. The Brooks
lyn Urban League has* placed
two Colored boy* with this firm.
San } Antonio,
ored manager
Tex..—A
has been
cd
em
ployed for a million dollar thea
tre in the Negro sectionj.. ■ 4
New York City—Four stenog
raphers have • been placed in1 a
white Office and openings niadS
in other fields as a result of a
campaign being made in Harlem
by a Joint Committee, sponsored
by - the New York Urban League,
to induce white enterprise! to
hire colored workers f6r posi
tions which they are brained to
fin.
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A MISSIONS* STORY
Bessie had a new dime to in
vest in' an ice cream social * * > ■
' “Why don't you give your
dime to missions V said the min
ister, who Was calling. ‘
-{ thought about that,” said
Bessie^but I think TU buy the
ice cniKn soda and let the drug
Mst We it to missions” ‘