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Digital Commons @ George Fox University Northwest Yearly Meeting of Friends Church Friendly Endeavor (Quakers) 3-1928 Friendly Endeavor, March 1928 George Fox University Archives Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/nwym_endeavor Recommended Citation George Fox University Archives, "Friendly Endeavor, March 1928" (1928). Friendly Endeavor. 70. https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/nwym_endeavor/70 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Northwest Yearly Meeting of Friends Church (Quakers) at Digital Commons @ George Fox University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Friendly Endeavor by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ George Fox University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Xhe Friendly Endeavor Volume 7, No. 3. PORTLAND, OREGON. March, 1928. The Baptism By Fire AT THE SIGN OP THE GREEN LIGHT. Heard on the corner of Broadway in Exposition Portland. He shall baptize you with the Holy Mrs. Raymond — Banquet's coming! (We are glad to introduce to our Ghost and with fire. — Luke 3:16. readers, Gervas A. Carey, pastor of New- Friends have distinctly upheld the Banquets coming! Tra! La! Tra La! berg Meeting, who is to give us a column necessity of baptism to the spiritual life Florence Ritter — You act almost of expositional teaching for three months. of a Christian, not with water, but with crazy. Im excited too, but you carry on — E d i t o r ' s N o t e . ) the Holy Ghost and with fire. Truly this dreadfully-—right here in town! I never P s a l m Tw e n t y - F o u r. baptism is essential and no professing approved of slio"uting anyway. Christian can expect to go on growing in Mi*s. Raymond—Natural temperament, This Psalm of David is thought to have grace for any length of time and living my dear; natural temperament! I can't been written for use in the ceremony con up to the light which we as young Friends keep still, tra la! let's see; how does last nected with the bringing up of the ark into have had without receiving this blessing year's Conference song go? Jerusalem as described in 2 Samuel 6, of entire sanctification. What does the B-r-r-r-r the signal rang, and we didn't and 1 Chronicles 15. The infinite glory Word of God say is brought about by the find out whether Florence succumbed to of God is the fundamental idea of baptism with fire? Mrs. Raymond's infectious laugh or not. the entire Psalm which is arranged in First: Fire reveals. The fire of God Mmnie King—Launch out, launch out, two parts; the first with two sections, searches the heart and shows to man the launch out into the deep—what am I say verses 1-2 and 3-6, while the second part blackness of the carnal nature as God ing ? Banquet so near—it just makes me has but the one section, verses '-Id. Himself sees it. It will reveal your lack want to launch out for Twin Rocks right 1. The earth is Jehovah s, and the of love to God and to man and it will away! I'll have to get my memory and fullness thereof. The world, and they bring before you the wickedness of your dictionary dusted off, for what if the that dwell therein. , „ pride, your selfnshness, and your weak honorable editor should demand another 2. For He hath founded it upon the ness to serve God as you should wnte-up of said event from me. Hence, seas, and established it upon the floods Malachi tells us that the fire of God to my aid thou superlatives; supply my In the King James Version, ^e vv old refines. Suppose I have a piece of ready pen for such a task! "Jehovah" is translated "LORD. In the impure gold What must I do to make it B-r-r-r-r, she was gone and we suppose American Standard Version, here used, pure? Washing with water won't help Noah Webster is getting some back- the Hebrew word is retained without for the filth is not on the surface What bending gymnastics. translation. Its significance in Hebie%\ is then ? — Fii-e of course. So it is with our Emil S.—Proof! Proof! Always piling the great I AM, the Self-existent One. hearts. The filth is on the inside and in! Hooray! All about the banquet! Saphir, in his Divine Unity of Scriptuie, water wont reach It. We must have the Ho! Ho! How Alden White looked last sets forth the interpretation that Jehovah fire of the Holy Ghost penetrating into year — scalded, scorched epidermis — in the Old Testament is Christ pnoi to the innermost parts of our being, cleans- because it was all on him! His incarnation. It is very interesting to B-r-r-r-r (Hint to the wise.) If Emil's read the Old Testament with thm idea in ; ^ h r o f G o t ' - t h e sense of humor lasts until the banquet, mind. Compare Ps. 23 and John 10, oi Not only does the fire of God refine beware ye who are in the last lingering Ps. 24:1 and John 1:1-3. stages of "Amo, Amas, Aniat." "The earth is Jehovah's " "The material righteousness,^^ Srson'^'lmbition,'the Whether on Broadway or Main Street, earth is here represented while th - the traffic signal shows green and says line presents a poetical ®Tni > to you, "go," as you turn your car wind "world," with all of its inhabitants. 1 he work of soul-winning. Not nntii +1,., «' shield toward Sunnyside Friends on April reason assigned for this Divine i g fell at Pentecost and consumed the fear 14, 1928. possession and sovereignty i® . ., of a denying Peter had he the couragi creation and is made more definite by and power to preach a sermon before^I the emphatic position of the Pi" o throng of unbelieving Jews which resulted FRIEND TO FRIEND. the following declaration of . " in the conversion of three thousand There is no part of the earth or anything Who has not enjoyed the gSo-'S Somebody said once, in it that does not he'nng to of a fireplace on a cold winter evening' "So teach us to number Men who without their fllegianc So does the soul of a man glow with the Our days are rebels while Malachi branded those beauty and warmth of the ite of God That we may apply who withheld material possessions when the fn;e has fallen. °Whe^ ouJ Our hearts unto wisdom." robbers. , hearts are afire is when others are I think that man was wise Friends, place emphasis u^n ^ victed or strengthened by our presence' And I think he meant of God tor mankind and Hi® activity It is then that others will recognize some" In common parlance— within the human heart. ? Tq-jg thing which they do not havf- thev whi "Don't waste your time." have lost much by our oversight otjim long for the beauty of a fire-kindWe i But some people are always busy— Too busy to have interest and activity in nature. In Genesis for''the love and" joy a^ peat 1:31, it is stated. And God saw eveiy r a d i a t e s f r o m i t . Their Quiet Hour. They say thing that He had made, and behold, h Fire gives energy and power; power They are always SO busy! was very good. The teachings of Jesus to accomplish something for God Manv Fine! but say disclose a wide acquaintance w ith ' of us long to win souls for Jesus Christ Let me whisper to you— They are going around Flowers, grains, fruits, trees, g > but we say we don't know how. Whv' In circles, and their rocks, hills and varied animals weie as Because we attempt it in nm- eiL "Business" does as much good familiar to Him as spiritual truths and strength. A. T. Pierson preached W to the Lord's Service as a hole human hearts. He was the creator ot all eighteen years and then one day, i^aliz In a doughnut does alike. Doubtless He took pride m His ing his need, he prayed for and receitd To a hungry boy— work in the carpenter shop '^■^'here He the fire of God. He said that in eighteen Fd like to have them see the viewed with satisfaction the well bui months after that time he had won more Last part of that verse. table. Might He not take even g-^^^^tei souls to God• than- u i . he— had Sin - H all t h e What do you think about it? comfort in viewing the shapely tiee o previous eighteen years. Oh: vouno- —Laura Cammack. the beautiful lily. And may we not also people, if we lack zeal, lack ambition or find our hearts stirred and drawn heaven power, let us fall at once upon our knees ward as we contemplate His material before God and cry to Him for help- for The Soul must be like a ship sailing creation which He loves. Things which the fire of the Holy Spirit to come'into under sealed orders—unrevokably com our departed loved ones made seem deal our own lives. I plead with you; when mitted to execute the orders when opened, to us on their account. Why should we Continued on Page 3, Column 3.) no matter what they are.