Messiah University Mosaic Evangelical Visitor (1887-1999) Brethren in Christ Church Archives 5-4-1914 Evangelical Visitor- May 4, 1914. Vol. XXVIII. No. 9. George Detwiler Follow this and additional works at: https://mosaic.messiah.edu/evanvisitor Part of the History of Religion Commons, and the Religion Commons Permanent URL: https://mosaic.messiah.edu/evanvisitor/609 Recommended Citation Detwiler, George, "Evangelical Visitor- May 4, 1914. Vol. XXVIII. No. 9." (1914). Evangelical Visitor (1887-1999). 609. https://mosaic.messiah.edu/evanvisitor/609 Sharpening Intellect | Deepening Christian Faith | Inspiring Action Messiah University is a Christian university of the liberal and applied arts and sciences. 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Carnality, H 6 "Smoking cigarettes," says an implor- Some Thoughts as Test of Knowing or jng mother, "has made a wreck of my not Knowing God, Lewis Berg, 7 , . , , Thoughts on Time. F. Elliott, 12 SOT1, °nce bright and full of brains and The Morning Cometh, W. R. Smith 14 ambition. Now he cannot think; he Importance of Obedience, Leah Caber... 15 cannot hold a subject Jn hJs ,mind He ^V^S?^0; T-, was a stenographer, but now he is no- The Cigarette Boy 1 ,, 0 1 Much More Than These, 25 thing. Tim King 3° Japan and China have phohibited ci- NEW? OF CHURCH ACTIVITY"e^'17 f"d bUlt 'We Amfrica"s OB ITU \RY etc "o think ourselves superior to the yel- OUR YOUNG PBOPEE 22 low races are allowing our youth to — practice a habit whith will utterly ruin A CIGARRETTE BOY the nation in one generation unless ——— checked and suppressed'.—Michigan /All narcotic poisons tend to benumb Christian Advocate. the nervous system, 'weaken the mental power, and corrupt the moral nature. To make same pale face brighter, and to The boy who begins to smoke cigar- If I can live , [give A second lustre to some tear-dimmed eye ettes 'before the age of twelve will Or e'en impart doubtless becotae a degenerate, and the One throb of contSort to an aching heart. Or cheer some way-worn soul in passing by. first syptoms oif his degeneracy will be to lie about his being addicted to the If I can lend A strong hand to the fallen, or defend habit. The right against a single envious strain, Many a fond 'mother has been fooled My life though bare by the heartless lies of her fiendish ci- Perhaps of much that seemeth dear and fair, garette offspring too far gone in de- To us on earth will not have baen in vain. pravity to care a rap whether he has any The purest joy mother. If such boys live to get out Most near to heaven far from earth's alloy, of .their teens, they generally manage Is bidding clouds give wav to sun and shine, soon to get into prison cells. A large And 'twill be well. If on that day of days the angels tell percentage of heartless criminals are Of me, "She did her best for one of thine." 2 EVANGELICAL VISITOR May 4, 1914-May 4 Evangelical Visitor EDITORIAL. A Bi-Weekly AS TO PRAYER MINISTRY. Religious Journal The following paragraphs taken from a Congo Missionary's letter in an Eng- For the exposition of true, practical piety and devoted to the spread of EVANGELICAL lish paper is iboth interesting and in- truths and the Unity of the church. structive : "We have the testimony of many mis- sionaries .to the fact that wonderful Published in the interests of the deliverances from death can ibe directly Brethren in Christ Church traced to the prayers of God's people at home. When the writer and her of •co-worker started 'for the Congo in the U. S. A. Canada and Foreign Countries, year 1900, God graciously gave them a At Grantham, Pa, real prayer-warrior, in the person of an Printed by the GRANTHAM PRINTING Co. old preacher, who was always regretting the fact .that he was too old to go to the heathen. In his younger davs he had EDITOR GEO. DETWILER. never heard of foreign missions, and now in advancing years he felt a definite prayer call. He would be awakened SUBSCRIPTIONS. every morning at 4 o'clock, and his first PER YEAR, $1.00 thought was the Congo. He would Six MONTHS, 50 cts. wrestle with God for the only two work- T« FOREIGN COUNTRIES, $1.25 A YEAR. ers he knew there. He had heard of (SAMPLE COPIES FREE.) the many missionaries' graves, of the deadly climate, of the demoniac powers, Remittances should be made by P. O. of the fearful Spiritual attacks and dark- Money order, or Bank Drafts. ness to 'which the most Spirit-filled were subject. He knew also that with bodies Entered as Secon-I-Class Matter weakened by the strain of heat and con- December 20. 1912, at the post office stantly-recurring ifevers, together with at Grantham, Pennsyhania, under the the pressure of lover-much work, the Act of March 3, 1879. •missionaries would not be able to take TT> the prayer-battle as those at home Office Manager, who have not to contend with the diffi- GEORGE DETWILER. culties 'peculiar to those in heathen lands. It was marvelous how God met this brother. He was a simole soul, ASSOCIATES : and had not the teaching we are privi- BISHOP W. O. BAKER, Louisville Ohio leged to have now on the gifts of God's BISHOP S. R. SMITH, . Grantham, Pa. Spirit, and the power of demons, but ELDER P H. HESS, . Grantham, Pa. he was faithful The Associate Editors shall be equally re- "Now, how should this brother know sponsible with the Editor for all articles what to prav for? In the case of anv that appear in the Evangelical daraeer or crisis on the field, it would Visitof—Conference decision. take two months for .the intelligence to reach the homeland, and by that time it Notice.—The date printed after your name probably would have ibeen too late to an the label denotes the time to which you Ibegin to pray. But this was no im- have paid. Keep it in the future. pediment in the way of our brother. He would have distinct burdens for us. Address the editor, 1216 Walnut St., H»rri»- Then several times he would write us burg. Pa. about them, and tell us of his prayer May 4, 1914. 3 conflict; and, wonderful to relate, just ishness is in the very air we breathe; when his letter, which had been on its and in the quietness of the sanctuary journey two months, arrived we were one realizes how easily one has been passing- thru the verv trials which he caught in the currents of excessive had penned us two 'months before, and busy-ness. which he had already met and con- "The writer has often felt too keenly quered in prayer. the pressure of work During the long "Is this not an instance of spiritual time of illness every day seemed to her wireless telegraphy, put into operation a dav of grace, in which she might wait before Marconi's invention had ever before God, and the physical weakness sprung into fame and use; and does not and suffering were far outweighed by God want that cases like this ibe mul- the glorious opportunity of ;being shut tiplied in this crisis-stage of foreign in with God. But this time of prayer missionary work? Because he was ministry,also, seemed onlv too short, faithful in the least, God entrusted to and one was fairly thrust again into him the actual experiences of the mis- much service; and it seems ne-cessarv sionary on the field, and he passed thru that God should have a little Gideon's them as vitally as we did.