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Christian Sun. BY EMMETT L. MOFFI IT. IN ESSENTIALS, UNITY; IN NON-ESSENTIALS, LIBERTY; IN ALL THINGS,£HARITY. $2.00 PER YEAR. ESTABLISHED 1844. ELOH COLLEGE, H. 0., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1898. VOLUME LI: NUMBER 38. Ctynsti&rt SUr\ PUBLISHED WEEKLY. The Organ of the General Convention the Christian Chnrch (Sooth). CARDINAL PRINCIPLES. 1. The Lord Jeius Is the only Head of the chnroh. I. The name Christian, to the exclusion of ail party and sectarian names. 9. The Holy Bible, or the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, sufficient rule of faith and practice. 4. Christian character, or vital piety, the only test of fellowship or membership. 5. The right of private Judgment, and the liberty of conscience, the privilege and duty of all. Reflections. Arlington, Va., Nashville, Tenn., and Vicksburg, Miss., each have a burying ground of more than 16,000 Union soldiers. King Alcohol would fill one of these cemeteries in two months. —Exchange. The death of Miss Winnie Da vis, the “Daughter of the Con federacy”, Sept. r8, cast a gloom over the entire Southland. Hav ing been born in 1863, while her father, Jefferson Davis, was President of the Confederacy, her death very naturally brings up remembrances of those troub lous times t and while all the bit terness toward our former ene mies is gone, every Southern heart honors anew the name of him who stood at the head of our cause. The report of the United States Commissioners of Labor, on the “Economic Aspects of the Liqnor •Problem”, although the statistics are not as full or as clear as one would like them to be, contains much that will be carelully studied by those who are always on the alert for any idea that promises to lessen the terrible evils of alcohol. The Bureau of Labor sent out a cir cular letter to 30,414 employers of labor, embracing almost all branches, ot industry, asking for information as to whether men addicted to the use of intoxicants were employed as readily as non-drinkers, whether there was more drinking amongthose who worked at night, etc., and asking for suggestions as to the best way to lessen the consumption of intoxicants by wage earners. Replies were received from, 7,025, representing 1,745,923 employes. 5,363 of the replies stated that preference was given non-drinkers, and gave various methods adopted to ascertain the habits of applicants for employ ment. Eight large employers of labor, all in the transportation line, required bonds for the so briety as well as for the honesty of all their employes. In a num ber of establishments no man who drinks at all is employed, some saying the rule has been found necessary to “guard against accidents”, and others that it was made necessary by the ‘^responsibility of positions”. According to answers from 1,659 employers of men engaged in night work, the popular impres sion that there is more drinking among night-workers, is erro neous.—Washington Letter. “If we want the lives of our girls and women on the farms to mean more, their lives must, first of all, be made easier,” writes Edward Bok of “The Girl Who Feels Isolated,” in the October Ladies’ Home Journal. “There is too much menial work being done on our farms by wives and daughters which ought to be done by hired help. It the wom en on our farms would torm among themselves ‘Leisure Guilds’, and devise ways and means to have some of their work done for them, and not do it all themselves, the initial step would be taken toward the emancipa tion and a freedom from isola tion of thousands of women. See, for example, what can be done in a town for the improve ment of everybody in it, and start, it you will, with a public library. There is a public gal lery of prints of the best paint ings: of good photographs—a gallery made as the nucleus for an amateur photograph club, with summer jaunts and an ex hibition in the winter* There is a collection to be made for such a gdllery of specimens of all the rocks, and plants, and flowers, and insects of the place—the fin est material for pleasant winter evening studies and classes in natural history, There is the or ganization of a band for music in the summer evenings on the green, with refreshments served by girls to raise money for some other object: a concert or lecture in the fall, perhaps. There are reading classes and dramatic clubs to be formed for the win ter. There is a womanVclub for the study of current events and books; a farmer’s club for the men for the discussion of ag ricultural science and econom ics ; a sewing club for the girls; a manual-training club for the boys ; a debating society for the boys; a branch of the Chautau qua Circle; a King’s Daughters’ circle tor some specific neighbor hood need or purpose; an art ex hibition of the pictures from the magazines ; a singing-school for a concert during the winter; a neighborhood guild for girls ; a guild for men and women for the betterment of good roads and the planting of hedges by the side of them ; a dinner club for young men, where each member gives one dinner to the club during the season at his house.” The entire school system of Germany (private schools are of course omitted from this discus sion) bears the unmistakable impress of state influence. The most noteworthy evidence of this influence is that education is compulsory. It was amid the stormy period of the Thirty Years’ War that the city of Wei mar introduced this bold and startling innovation. Here for the first time school-attendance became obligatory upon all. Gotha introduced the new sys tem in 1642 ; Brunswick in 1647 ; Wurtemberg, in 1649; and Prus sia, not until 1716. This com pulsory education, however, must not ne regarded as a restriction upon liberty ; for it was devised principally as a safeguard against the indifference and ignorance of parents. That gratuitous educa tion—during the elementary course at least—must necessarily ,constitute a corollary of the above system, has only recently ibeen recognized. The introduc tion of free education in the lower departments must be con sidered as an important advance ; for, by reason of this innovation, both the organization and the su pervision of the school system are intrusted to the state itself, from which also all appointments proceed. It cannot be said that this system is entirely free from defects. The first and para mount duty of our European States is to guard against aggres sion from without; and this du ty, which is forced upon them by the enmity and rivalry of their neighbors, frequently overshad ows the higher aims of civiliza tion and culture. Our common schools, for instance, have se riously suffered from inadequate financial support. The fact, however, that the University of Berlin was established by Prus sia immediately after her re verses at Jena proves that even then she recognized the true se cret of power, viz , superior intel ligence supported by solid edu cation :• and, despite occasional interruptions, Prussia has stead ily pursued her high ideal. Nor can it be denied that state super vision has introduced some uni formity, formalism, and red tape factors detrimental to education al progress. On the other hand, it should be borne in mind that, without governmental control, the schools—in most German states—would be dominated ei ther by an ultramontanism op posed to all enlightenment, or at least by a rigid and intolerant orthodoxy. Thus we see that the state must be regarded as a barrier against the encroach ments of the church. — Prof. Theobald Ziegler, in The Forum. Contributions THE LIFE MORE ABUNDANT. HOW RECEIVED. THE FOUR CON DITIONS REQUIRED. BY V. D. DAVID (TAMIL EVANGEL IST), OK INDIA. [Concluded from Last Issue.1 Yew say, “I must have some money. I want to go ana insure myself.” Shall I give you an insurance company in the Bible? Will you insure there? All those who want to have insurance can get it there. Jer. 49 : 11, “Leave thy fatherless children, and I will preserve them alive ; and let thy widows'trust in me.” “Leave thy fatherless children unto me! If any have children, I will pre serve them. Let thy widows trust in me.” That is the pro vision for those who have chil dren and for all those who have lost their husbands. Glory be to God 1 You want to lay some money by tor them? You have no authority for it. I don’t be lieve . in such institutions. God does not believe in them. That is the reason j ou don’t come out for the Lord. You are getting in this clay and treacle. That is the reason you are not work ing. That is the reason the Lord can’t use you. You haven’t the six wings about you. The seia phim have six wings—two wings to cover their feet, two wings to cover their faces, and two wings tc fly. You have only four wings about you. You know how to cover your feet; you know how to cover your face; but how about the two wings to fly? You haven’t got them. O, my dear brother, my dear sister,.come out of these things. Never be anxious about these things, because God knows about them, God will give you ample provision, you will find all you want in him. Will you do it? I don’t say you should waste your money. I don’t say you should throw away your money. Whatever there is remaining you may set aside, but do what God tells you with your money. It may be for your own family or for others. You must not throw away your money, but do not be anxious to make money. Don’t think you must lay away some money for thi future. That isn’t in the Bible. When Christ spoke to the great multitude, he said, “Pick up the fragments.” He did not say to waste them. I believe he meant that they should pick them up and give them to some poor people. If you have any money left, set it aside and do what the Lord tells you with it. i Peter 4 : 10, “As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the maoifold grace of God.” Don’t be master of your money, be a steward- You know how a steward spends money. When the master says, “John, $20 there,” he gives it. “John, bread and butter for that man,” there he goesi with the bread and butter. “John, a plate of soup for that man,” off he goes. So you have to be a steward of your money. Don’t be a master be a steward. O, glory be to God, it it is a great pleasure to be a steward. When I went to England four years ago, a lady, very devoted to the Lord, filled with the Holy Ghost and with fire, began to write a check. This is the way she began it. She took pen and ink, and the Lord put into her heart, “Put down ten pounds ,’’ and before she touched the ink, the Lord said, “One hundred pounds,” and then before she put down the one hundred pounds, she wrote it “One thous and pounds.” Praise the Lord, she was quite willing to add the ciphers. This is the way the Lord proves his children. I tell you, he will test you to see how far you have given your money, and put all on the a'tar. You talk about- your consecration. Rub bish I Many people’s consecra tion does not amount to a straw. They think they have consecrat ed all, but when the Lord puts them to the test they shrink. If you are really consecrated the Lord will test you, and when the test comes you will say, “I didn’t mean that, Lord, when I conse crated my life. I didn’t mean that.” O, may God help you to consecrate all that you have, your money, your talents, your influence, your voice, your repu tation, all that you have. Have you yielded all on the altar as far as you know? Htfve you done that? • The next point,•‘—All That You Are. That includes your whole body, your whole body tor the Lord, to be Anything for God. Many people art too careful about the body. “I tcan’t go any where and everywhere, I must take care of myself jbecause I am consumptive.” Dear man, are you consumptive? When the Lord sends you, he will take away the consumption, or, if you believe, will give you grace to bear it. Matt. 8: ^17, “Himself took our infirmitiesjj and bear our sicknesses.” 2 Cot. 12:9, “My grace is sufficient fhr thee.” Do not be afraid. Whjen the Lord sends you, he will brake you all right. When he seitds you, there won’t be anything lacking. What does Paul .say? Gal. 1: 15: 16, “But when it pleased God to reveal his son in me,that I might preach him among the heathen ; immediately I conferr ed not with flesh and blood.” He didn’t confer with flesh and blood. You say, “Sister, may I go? God is calling me. Father, may I go? Mother, may I go?” That is conferring with flesh and blood. Paul didn’t go to consult with the people. Now-a-days people say, “I would like to go to China because my sister is there. I would like to go to India because my dear friend is there. I can’t go to China, because I have no friends there.” You confer with flesh and blood. . That is not conse cration. God can’t give you this abuudant life. You might pray 40,000 years, but until you come to the point of consecra tion according to the Scripture, not according to my word, but according to the Scripture, you cannot possess the lite more abundant. So may the Lord God before he gives to you this abundant life, bring you to the point of a clean-cut consecra Again, many people are afraid of their lives, and they get under doctors’thumbs. You don’t find it like that in the Bible. When God tells you, you may go to a doctor, but don’t consult with the doctor about going any where. How do you know that doctors are filled with the Spirit? Doctor’s will ask, “Are you sub-? ject to any disease?" “Yes.” “You musn’t go.” That is what they will say. You should wait God first. If you are a conse crated man you will go to God first and get his orders, and then if the Lord tells you to go to a doctor, go. Your position ought to be in accord with this: John 2 : 5, “His mother saith unto the servants, Whatsoever he saith unto you, do it.” “Whatsoever ‘he’ saith unto you.” Not what the doctor says, not what the clergyman says, not what the ministers say, but “whatsoever ‘he’ saith unto you, do it.” Do not be afraid about your sick ness. There was a man, a good friend of mine, in Australia. His family had the hereditary disease of consumption, and the doctor said, “This man should never go to a cold country.” When he was filled with the Holy Ghost and fire, the Lord God made his way very clear, and he said. “I am going.” “Well,” the doctor said, “if you go, you won’t live two years, you will die.” He has been liv ing now for the past ten years, and he is as strong as can be. I tell vou, when the Lord sends you out, the Lord will take care of you. God help you 1 We believe in a wonderful God. We believe in a great Doctor. When you get sick he will heal you, or he will send you to some other doctor. Go according to his di rections, not according to your plan. Never go under a doctor’s command when the Lord calls you to service, Doctors won’t send you, they will stop you. Put your whole body on the al tar. Have you done that? Have you done that ? One more point. When you offer your body on the altar, you won’t care about your food and sleep much. Many Christians now-a-days are very, very care ful about their food. “Nine o’clock 1 I must go and have breakfast.” They don’t care to have a person come ?nd speak to them ; they don’t care about souls. Where have I my author ity for this statement? John 4: 31,32, “In the meanwhile his disciples prayed him saying, Master, eat. But He said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of.” There you find it. Jesus Christ said, ‘ I have meat.” The disciples came, say ing, “Master, come and take this. Have something to eat.” Jesus says, “I have something to eat now ; I can’t go. I have meat here,—to speak to this wo man of Samaria.” They didn’t understand Him. They didn’t have the fulness of the Holy Ghost. Once Christ said, “Our dear friend Lazarus sleepeth.” The disciples said, “If he sleep, he will rise again.” When the Lord God spoke to them they didn’t understand Him. Christ spoke about His food, and doing His Father’s will in winning her soul, and they thought somebody else must have given him some thing to eat. I tell you, dear brother, when you are filled with God and have put all things on the altar, you won’t care about such things. Nor again about sleep, 2 Cor. 6; 5, “But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in neces sities, in distresses, in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in la bours, in watchings.” That is it, watchings. Now, do you see that real con secration means putting all on the altar, all that you have? Have you done that? Are you right so far? III. The next point is Yielding. What is yielding? O, that is the point. I am going to touch on this very carefully. First separation, then consecra tion, then yielding. The great difficulty is when you have to yield one thing. If you will to yield that, you are prepared for this wonderful life more abundant. Many don’t do that; many yield their all except that one thing. Please read Luke 22 : 42, “Father, if thou be will ing, remove this cup from me ; nevertheless, not my will, but thine be done.” Many corse crate their all, but they don’t come to this point of yielding their will. There is the great difficulty. They give their will with great difficulty, not volun tarily nor cheerfully. Some times they give their will when they are troubled in their con sciences, and they don’t yield it voluntarily, but because they are compelled to do it; and after wards they take their will back again. If they had done it vol untarily and cheerfully, they would never take it back again. If you give cheerfully, you will not take it back. If I giva you this handkerchief cheerfully, I won’t take it back. But if a per son comes a ad pulls it, and I won’t let it go, and finally I do let it go, I feel very sorry, and want it back again. This is the way many people yield their will. Theie was a sister in England. She came and slid, “I want this abundant life, but I have never received it.” I asked her what the matter was. She said she had yielded all. I said, “O, no, have you given your key? You have yielded your box, but have you given your key ? ’ “Oh.” she said, “what is the key? I don’t understand. I said, “My sister, did vou yield your 1 'ill to the Lord ? ’ She had never done that. Thousands of you dear people have never yielded your wills’. Perhaps > ou think the Master will be hard upcn you. “Per haps he will ask me to do some thing I can’t do.” Do you think the Lord is going to be harsh like that? Is he a task master? Are you not ashamed to have such an unkind thought about yQur Lord Jesus Christ? My dear child ol God. if he asks anything of you, he will give you the power to do it. When ytusend your daughter to her grandmother’s house, you say, “Katie,” or “Jessie, go to your grandmother’s and Katie says, “I\ rains, but, mamma, I will go.” As soon as she says, “I will”, the mother at once gives her the mackintosh or an umbrella. As soon as she gives jher consent the umbrella comes. But if you are going to argue with the Master as to what his will is to be, you doubt him. O, children, don’t have this harsh thought abouf your Lord Jesus Christ! Ii you want this life more abun dant, this is the condition,— yield all, all your body, all that you have, oo the altar. First, separation from the evil of the world, 2 Cor. 6 : 14 ; 17, “Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fel lowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what com munion hath light with darkness ? Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate saith the Lord, and touch not the un clean thing ; and I will receive you —from all sin :—from all the fashion of the world, Rom. 12: 1 :—from the habits of the world, Heb. 12: 1,2. Second, consecration, (only once,—you can’t consecrate more more than once), of all,—all that you have, all that you are,—entirely on the altar. Don’t love money. Be ready to go anywhere, to stand anywhere, or to be sat upon ;— to be nothing, or to be in the very dust of the earth. That is real consecration. Then third, yielding comes. Yield your all. Yield your will, will, will. Will is the secret, will, will, will! Let that be enforced upon us. Be willing to go anywhere, to sit anywhere, to stand anywhere or to be sat upon. Say, “Lord, do what you like with me. My dear Lord Jesus, take me and do as you like with me.” You take a five dollar gold piece to the silversmith to mak« a ring out of it. The silversmitl says, “What would you like?’ And you say, “I want this mad< into a ring.” When you go then som 1 weeks after he gives you the ring. What does the silver smith do with the coin ? He nuts it in the crucible. He melts it. He hammers it. He beats it. And when you go he gives you a oeautiful ring. In the same way wiil you put yourself at tie feet of God and say, “O, God, take me and do with me what yon like.” O, my dear brother, I tell you when you come to God with all truthful ness, when you come to God ; w ith a perfectly willing heart, to be anything, there comes the point. Until you yield your will you may pray time and time again, and you won’t get this abundant life. Thousands of people are praying for the bap tism of the Holy Ghost ; have they got him? Four years ago, tour clergy men came out of the Keswick tent and said to me, “My dear brother, shall we go and pray for the power of the Holy Ghost?” I said, “Haven’t you been praying all these years? Did you get the life more abundant?” “O, we don’t know.” “Is your God deaf?” “No.” “Then why does he not hear you?” But they couldn’t under stand it. “Are you going to pray again ? Is he a deaf God? You don’t want to fulfill the conditions he has given in his Word.” Have you come down from your tree? Christ said, “Come down, Zaccheus; mak“ haste and come down.” Zaccheus came down. Many people don’t come down and receive the Ho ly Ghost You don’t fulfill the conditions. Hecfl'ersitto you. The secret is, you haven’t an empty hand. You don’t come down. Some say, “How am I to come down? Am I not a cler gyman? Am I not a Sunday school teacher? Am I not an evangelist? I und< rstand Greek, Hebrew, and Latin ; what a great man I am !" I tell you such peo ple won’t,receive the baptism of the Spirit. You must come down to the very dust, take the place of childn n and come to the point of a complete uncondition al surrender of your will. I said to those four clergymen, “Do you want him to-day?” “Yes.” I said, ‘ Kneel down, then.” It was on the public street. I was preaching in the “out-and out” car. God blessed them as they yielded there on the public street before him. I said to them, “Now you say to God, ‘I yield my will’. Yield it, and believe the Lord has tak en it. Not only yield, you must believe that God has taken it.” The Lord blessed them there on the spot. With tears running down their faces, they claimed the baptism of the Holy Ghost, the lite more abundant, having yielded their all, especially their will. They received him and at once began to glorify God through their testimonies. My dear brother, and my dear sister, are you prepared to re ceive him ? The Lord has given us the Word very clearly. I beg of you to come to the point of unconditional surrender, espe cially of your will. “I am quite willing.” Can you say that now ? Separation, consecration, and yielding. Separation from all, consecration of all that you have and all that you are, yielding your will and believing that God has taken it. That is the point now and then you shall hear the next point, Cleansing. THE REAL AND THE HISTORIC CHRIST. BY E. A. DEVORE, D.D. The real Christ is older, truer, better than any human concep tion of him. The historic Christ is a lesson in an image of flesh. The real Christ is a spiritual reality which has appeared and may appear to reverent souls of every age, and will appear to all who call on him in sincerity. No soul has ever failed to re ceive his salvation, except only that one who by the supreme act ot his own will rejected once and forever, goodness, and truth, and mercy, and other spiritual char acteristics as revealed in Jesus Christ, God’s living example and illustration of his spirit and life. SINGING IN THE STORM. FROM THE CHIMES. “Unto Thee, O my strength, wiJI I sing, for God is my de fence, and the God of my mer cy.”—Ps. 59 : i 7. The lightning was flashing, followed by the booming thun der, while the rain was descend ing in torrents, in a rural village in the Midlands one hot sum mer’s day ; yet in the midst of it all could be heard the piping and melodious notes of a thrush as he gave forth his evensong from a leafy branch of one of Nature’s rostrums. The si nging of heav en’s chorister under such circum stances propounded the question, “Why should not the child of God sing in the midst of storm?” Why not, indeed ! The Lord “gives songs in the night.” Job 35: 10; why not in the storm? When the storm of satanic accu sation beats upon us, let us shout the battle-cry questions of Ro mans 8. When the storm of in gratitude would disturb our spir it with disquietude, let us sing the doxology of Psalm 103. When the storm of doubt would rack our faith, l<jt us chant Psalm 23. When the storm would tear the spirit, let us set to music Isaiah 41 : 10. When the storm ot trouble would harass us, let us softly sing the Saviour’s words of promise in John 14. When the storm of temptation threatens to engulf us, let us sing the song of Moses, as found in Exodus 25 ; and should the storm ot death confront us, let us muse upon the song of heaven’s re deemed ones, Rev. 1 : 5, and thus shall we sing in the storm. Our religion must be more to us than a mere opinion, more than a mere excitement of feel ing more than being connected with the Christian church; it must be resolute and manly set vice. Our whole life, from its inmost feelings to its outmost on | goings, must be subdued to Christ.—Southern Churchman,
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