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I EARNESTLYCONTENDING FOR THE FAITHONCE FOR ALL DELIVEREDTO TIIE SAINTS I Whom Has the Lord Chosen to Carry His Message? I I. 11. (:ox, Zio11 City, 111. in tl~cM,issio~~ar~ Conlcrcncc.
1-11s morning, beloved, there are and we warn him not cl his wicked way, to save four delinite facts that face us. liis life, and the wicked man die in his iniquity, 'I'he first is the imperative com- his hlood will bc required at our hands. mand that everybody should hear 'J'he second tllought given us is that the pres- tlie (hpel of tlie Lord Jesus ent staff of missionaries is inadequate to cope Christ. 'I'he second is the ina- with the tremendous need that lies before us. bility oi the prcsent staff of mis- We look at India with her 315,ooo,ooo peoljlc sionaries to cope with the great groping in darkness. How few liave ever had nee& beyond. 'I'lie third is tlie definite lack of the full Gospel ! Thocsands of.men wlm have sl)iritual sul)l)lication for those that are upon gone forth liave not 1)reached the Gospel. God the field, and the last is the real lack of system- poured out Ijis Spirit in these last days because atic giving unto God fo: the sak.e of evangelizing Ile wanted to get people to preach the very same the world. We liave Ixard enough on tlie first Gospel that t.he apostles preached. The people ~~ointto know that it i.s imperative for us to obey are looking for such a Gospel today. I was read- the command of ,the Lord Jesus to go if the ing The Bombay Guardian, a prom)inent paper lieatlien are to get the Gospel. In tlie tenth chap- printed in India, some time ago, and as I read ter of 12omans beginning at the thirteenth verse, it solemnized my heart. 7'hcre are hundreds of we read, "Wllosoever shall call ulwn the name universities in India that have been built up on of the Lord sliall be saved. How then sliall they missionary moncy under the different denomi- call on IIim in whom they have not believed? nations, and there 'arc vast provinces in India anti llow sl~allthey belicve in lIim of whom they ,that have never been touched with the Gospel, ]lave not heard? and how shall they hear witl~out millions of people without a missionary, but a preacher? And how sliall they preach, except from the South to the North, and tlie East to the tlley be sent?" These are four weighty ques- \/\'est, with all their miversities, with all their tiolis for you and me to answer. I think it was educational facilities, their titled men and wo- S. I). Gordon who wrote this little vision of a men, they cannot find one out of a thousand in certain person who went to the pearly gates a year that believes on the Lord Jesus Christ as wlicre he met the Angel Gabriel antl entered into the Savior. 'he only figures they, can give is conversation with Iiini. The angel said, "The on an average of one every two years. It means 1,ortl Jesus has become the Savior of the world; we have missed the true message of God, and it He .has gone to Calvary's cross, He has paid the also means having our foreign lands saturated, . debt and 13;s blood lias been poured out." "Yes, not with "this Gospel" but with another, and let we realize IIc is the Savior, hut will you tell me him that giveth any other Gospel than this be ac- whom has tlic I.ord left on the earth to give rursetl. There is the great province of Katlii- forth the message Jcsus Christ has wrought out war, where I trust the Lord will allow me to join on Calvary?" And thc angel turned to the man our 13rother Schoonmaker in evangelizing in I-Iis \l~llowas asking tlie question and pointed down time. Tt is a province of nearly three millions to Mount Olivet wllcrc that body had met to- of people, and no,real missionary there to preach gether to sec the 1,ord ascending to heaven, and the Gospel. As I was in Malkapur under the said, "Tliose lias Jesus Christ commanded to Christian & Missionary Alliance, I remember give the message." As the angel finished his how I felt as I wandered through the great Ta- wortls the man began to think a moment antl luka district with its hundreds of villages, my Illen turning to the angel, said, "And supposing tongue cleaving to the roof of my mouth for the they fail?" The angel answered, "God has made want of ,a drink of water. 1st took me three years no other provision," and that is true today. The to cover it, and yet I could not cover it with the only provision that God has made for the heath- Gospel. I would go on and on and have to turn en to get the Gospel is through men and women Imck on account of the heat and the rains and who liave Ixcn saved and baptized in the 1Ioly do missionary work at home, but that meant Ghost, and if you and I fail in our part we ,have that some of tllose villagcs in each district got to give an account to God; as He says in Ilzekiel, tlic Gosl~elonly once in three years. As T looked that if tlic wiclwd man is condemned to death, over that vast, uncovered territory I used to say, 2 "Oh God, how long will they sit at home and re- I told you about the !errihle sins of childhood fuse to bring the message of salvation to this and womanhood of Tndia, but this morning I lost world!" I remember one day after preach- want you to rcalizc that ahove all the terrible ing until I was exhausted, one of the men came sins that are going an in tllcse foreign lands up to me and said, "110 you know, Sahib, there sllines the cross of JCSI~S.'l'he Man of Calvary are a lot of people sitting before you; (there is saying to ynu and to me, "If you love me, were more than in this audience today) and out keep rnJr commandments." "Go ye into all the on the roadside, did you see those people?" worlil and prcach the (;ospel to every creature." "Yes, I have 'been preaching to them." "l3ut," 1 don't know whether you have ever read T2ishop he said, "you don't realize the situation. They Tho1)urn's l)oolc or not, but he tells of how he are convicted by your message, they want the was going along the roadside one day and he saw Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, they want to be there was something peculiar happening and as saved, but how can they be saved w~ithouthear- Ile drew nearer he said he wished he might nev- ing more of the Gospel. They are like children, er have gazed on such a sight. There were men they cannot read or write. If they leave their who were trying to gain the place of non-exist- idols, they will have to sit in darkness and igno- ence,. trying to gain favor with the gods, and rance until you return next year. How can you through the muscles of their naked arms spikes expect them to be savec! with the one message?" we& being driven, through the muscles of their I would like to see the men and women in civil- chest were these terribie spikes, and spikes were ized America who will live on one message a driven through their tongues, and under their year without reading the Eible. There was the feet were wooden spikes. They had traveled cry. I said, "My brother, I cannot stay here ali thousands of miles in the blazing sun, and men the time, there are others like you. I want to were fanning them and throwing water on them ; give at least one chance for every man and wo- they were going to a certain temple a:ld if the\, man in this Taluka conntry to hear the Gospel," reached that temple they would gain the favor and I had to pass on to other places. Oh be- of the gods. When men are willing to suffer loved, we are inadequate to meet the need on such torture in their ignorance to gain the favor the field! of the gods, what will we do to give this Gospel I remember going through the thick jungle to every creature? one day, and as I passed on and on through the A missionary going out on his itinerary met a jungle I thought we would never get to another poor creature going a!ong the road. She was place, but some one told me that in the thick of falling on her hands and knees. He saw that that brush there was a little village of fifty peo- her hands and knees were bleeding, and h(x ple and I was determined that those people should asked her where she was going. She said, "I am get the Gospel. Sudtlenly we came to a little going to such-and-such a temple," and she told patch that was cleared, about an acre of ground him the village from which she had come. He and there I saw a few huts built. I saw the wo- said that poor woman had traveled nearly a hun- men and men and cattle and everything else dred miles in that condition. He asked her, gathered in those little huts, where they ea't and "IVl~atare you going for?" and she answered. live and sleep. called them out, and as they I "To get a glimpse of Him." Oh beloved, she always obey the white man, they came. I told might have stayed in her own village and heard them we had a sweet story to tell them. We sat there and talked to them about Jesus for quite a the Gospel of Jesus Christ through you or me, long time, and while the message was being giv- teen saved of that sufl'ering, and had eternal life en I saw a young man of twenty-two putting his in her soul! May you realize this morning that hand to his ear every time we would say "Jesus." it is impossil)le for the present staff of mission- When we got through he came up and said, aries to copc with the ciire need out there. Look "Won't you tell me that name again, please?" at the great l)rovince of Tkngal and of Nepal V'e told him and he tried to say it in his own M,itllOUtmissionaries to meet the need. I think language. J said it over to him about fourteen there is one missionary to one huntlrctl and times and all of a sudden he said, "Yam, I have twenty tilousand people, and how could it now." He had never heard the name hefore. you espcct them to get the Gospel. You Oh it pays to go thousands of miles to give the can go to Africa, the trcmcntlous coun- Gospel ! try of Cl~ina with all its possil~ilities, thc I'd make you almost ashamed this morning if Islands of the Sea and find the same great need. 3 Here we sit at home with five hundred or a thou- stayed until two o'clock in bhe morning. A few sand, yea more than that number of ministers weeks afterward a message came from the in the United States. I was talking one day to homeland. One of my mothers in the faith a home-base man, and when I got through he wrote, "My boy, I wonder what has been the said, "I thank God that the world is the Lord's matter with you. Of late I have bcen under harvest field." In speaking that day I said I such a terrific burden I have had to pray for tlzanked God that the Lord's harvest field is the you, but the burden lifted before I wrote the world, but I would to God that the ministers letter." might be equally divided in the world. If that I'he story is told of one of our dear mission- could be done today wc would very soon have aries who got down under terrible fever. This the world evangelized. I am ready to go back Imor woman was broken down nervously on to India now. I am doing a little work in Zion account of the strain of teaching, and then dis- City at present, but when Jesus says the word c~uragenientcrept over her. She had a class of they will have to excuse me at a morneot's three girl5 who laughed and giggled every Sun- nolice. day as she taught :he Word to them. Try Then I would say further, that one of the as she would she couldn't see any change in greatest needs of this day is prayer. There is them, and in this broken down condition she such a lack of prayer for the missionaries these said, "I am going home. The Lord has never days. I have been in congregations and in pray- used me and He cannot use me now." On a er-meetings where I have never heard one in the Saturday evening thc Lord called upon a man audience pray for the missionaries, but they to pray for that missionary. He would not never forgot to pray for the 'pastor. The devil is listen for a moment to the voice of the Spirit, trying very hard to hinder the Pentecostal peo- because of work to do. Suddenly the voice ple in prayer. I wonder how many here have came. "Go and pray for Miss So-and-so," and given fifteen minutes a day to pray for the mis- again he put it away, but when it came the sionaries. I would be afraid to ask you to stand third time the man yielded and went to his up, but how can we expect God to work mightily room, when a bu-rden of prayer came upon him through men and women who are sacrificing and he wrestled in agony for that soul in India their lives in a land of demons without the and the class she was teaching. The mission- home-base at the back of them in mighty inter- ary went to her clas; Sunday morning with a cession. We need some people in the homeland shaking in her nerves and discouragement in her like Epaphras who labored fervently in prayer soul, sat before these girls with her I3ible, and for the saints. they laughed and giggled as usual. She opened While in India I rode along the road one day her I3ible and began to read the Word, and as on a bicycle, and as I heard a creak in the big she read she was conscious of a sthnge feeling wheel I jumped off to find what was the matter creeping over her. She was being revived in with it. It wasn't my wheel and I was quite her spirit, soul and body. She looked at her concerned ahout it I got back on it again but students and one was crying. All of a sudden kept looking back at the wheel to see the causc shc rushed U~Jand said, "Missis Sahib, I am such of the noise. As I was pusfhing along 1 was a great sinner." Then came the second and pitched off thc wheel on my head because of th~rtl,and all those three were born of God that some bamboo trees lying across the road. I day, and all three are Bible women now, preach lay there on the roadside unconscious for a ing the Gospel. Rut what if that man had failett while, when suddenly I got up on my feet antl that day? This is the thing that is coming home pushed myself home on the bicycle. When I to our hearts. Another man, our dear Brother reached home the people saw the seriousness of Moodie, untiringly journeyed here and there; the case, and I knew somebody was praying for every missionary on the field admired the spirit- me in the homeland. T began to vomit and fell, ual character oi that man, as he went about with and they saw that T had concussion of the Ili~heloved wife preaching the Gospel. After brain. 1 had fallen off my wheel right on the he had been on the field four years the terrible top of my head. Two came and prayed for rnr siege oi cholera appeared. nrother Moodie and at nine o'clock God touched my body antl went along and in the name of the Im-d prayed I was delivered. A trother was staying wit1 for the afflicted and laid hands upon them. They me and I told him to go to bed, saying the IAord were instantly healed, but as he went on and on had healed me, but he was so concerned he lie t~eganto grow weak in body. You know how it is, if any brother is endued with the Spir- his little bit of education. One year he made it everybody looks to him, until out of a lack up his mind he was goirig to earn enough through of wisdom, his own weakness overcomes him. the summer to have an easy time through school He knows he ought to stop before, but hasn't and he earned enough for this purpose, but the wisdom to do it. Presumably he was strick- some dear missionary came along before he en with cholera, and there he lay on the bed, went back to school and made a plea for the his wife on. another bed, unconscious. They mission field, and that dear young man in obedi- were expecting her to die any moment. Thert ence to the Spirit laid pall his earnings down were a lot of weak missionaries around him, and for the mission field, and went back to Nyack he said, lifting his hand with a broken heart, and earned his way through. Dmonth in India, and Dying in despair. without a murmur thanked God for the provi- Cho.-India, sad, India, sion of six dollars a mmth to preach the Gospel. Jesur d~edto set thee free, And we are willing to go ,forth again and live India, lost India, on that if that is the Lord's will, but the mis- We bring Christ to thee. sionary's work is hampered who gets so little Ch~ldrcnare crying, because it is not enough money to buy a little 111 that land across the sea. Women :,re dying. tent to live in, nor enough to buy nourislhing There in misery. food to keep him up. There are missionaries Yoctths are bound and weary, For there's naught to give them light, on the field today that could do ten times the Men are bound by dreary work they are doing if they had the adequate Shades of gloom and night. means, and it is true today that every nominal Oh tearful story, Christian giving back to the Lord one-tenth as India's sons are flesh and bone, his debt, would bring into the missionary-box Cl~angin~His glory Into wood and stone. enough to evangelize the world. I know of a Can we idly watch them dear brother going out who was a Nyack stu- Drag His glory in the dust, Rouse ye men and women, dent. He was an indefatigable worker to get For His sake we must. A 6rarinu~Ollufpaurittg yesterday. Oh, Last night we had a wonderful meeting, the it is all so glorious and the whole town is being chapel was filled with saints and sinners. The stirred ! Thank God ! dear Lord gave much liberty in preaching, fol- Aug. 16, 1917. B. A. SCHOENEICH. &~eaur~of Bpurpl-Baking Elizalbeth Sisson CIENCE and geology tell us that new heavens and new earth have come in, as the jewels by nature are only lumps Bride of the Lamb; although we know that the of dull inert matter; the sapphire bride was brought forth and the marriage sup- is clay, the diamond carbon per of the Lamb enac:ed, previous to the open (charcoal) and so on. But why coming of the Lord. (Rev. 19 :7-I I.) Yea, a the difference between their ap- thousand years previous! Deep mysteries of pearance and that of the ordi- the plan of God are veiled in all this. It is not nary soil? The answer is not our purpose to attempt to lift the veil; only to easy to give in a brief paper like this; indeed all call to attention that in this. ultimate form of the the secret windings of process are difficult for Lamb's wife, at the expiration of the millennium science and geology to trace. age, she is shown under the figure of the New nut the exquisite effect is due to the myster- Jerusalem, as a fair bride who is a glittering ies of crystalization under exceptional circum- mass of jewels. stances of convulsion, pressure and fire. Here is When we see poor, blinded humanity a wonderful parable hidden in Nature, but ex- striving in its brief earthlife, for this world's perimentally opened out to us in grace; for gold and its corruptions, and earthly potentates God's Word is full of imagery of jewels in the fighting, intriguing, for a notable gem, the Kohi- realms of grace. noor diamond, some marvelous string of pearls, The very humanity of our Lord Himself was selling sometimes the moral fibre of their being thus transmuted. Christ, a Jewel ; "precious for tlhe brilliant bit of earth, and think of the stone," " chosen, elect stone." "a living stone," possible treasures to which they are blind; we "a stone with seven eyes," "the head-stone," His can but cry, Oh, that they would indeed put members "living stones," "stones of a crown," themselves into the hands of the Great Jeweler "lively stones," etc. ,So in the building of the of the Universe, and let Him bring forth in them temple all precious stones tbntered into it; deeply jewels for Eternity! Make them Jewel-kings of spiritually symbolic this. all ages ! The11 come the descri~tions of the heavenly It is one thing to posses g.)ld, another thing Jerusalem which superseded the temple as to be gold of countless valuation, of endless du- God's dwelling place; all her stones are jewels, ration. One thing to deck thyself with a jewel, all her foundations, precious stones, as she is for another thing to be n jewel that bedecks the brow the first time shown in her ultimate form; shown of thy God! Of some it is said, "Thou shalt at the expiration of the millenn~iumage, after the also be a crown of glory in the hand of the Lord, be a royal diadem in the hand of thy God." I remember one who had multitudinous and "Thou shalt no more be termed forsaken; nei- most lacerating trials of many descriptions, of ther shall thy land anymore be turned desolate, which one was, that in her poverty and strait- but thou shalt be called Hepzibah (My delight ness, she had only tlhe public city street as her is in her) and thy land Beulah (married) : for prayer closet. As there among the busy throng, with the joy of the blidegroom over the bride, she opened the little text book held in her so shall thy God rejoice over thee." hand, with the cry, "Oh God, speak to me," her A jeweled bride must the lheavenly Bride- eye fell upon "When He hat111 tried me, I shall groom have. He must be able to say, "Thou art come forth as gold." Her heart took flight and all fair, my love, there is no spot in thee." And in her joy she cried, "Oh, I am going to be some "yet ye see your callinq, brethren ; God hath cho- of my Lord's gold!" Acfcording to her faith it sen" the foolish things, the weak things, base was done unto her; from that hour she was ,things, despised things, yea and things dhich more for Him. are not." As if Nature looking upon drifting Any price is not too great to pay for transmu- sands, called to her forces, "Thou art alchemists, tation from the commcn earth, under the tread here make gold"; gazing upon a bed of clay. of passers-by to fihe precious metal, medium of "here bring sapphires, rubies, emeralds, onyx," all commerce. And God thus changes us to and on a stream of pure carbon, black, opaque, gold which He can use in Salvation's marts, the "here fetch me diamonds." Even so the Divine pure gold of the Kingdom. Alchemist of the Universe looking upon divers "Rejoice," says Jesus, when you begin to feel strata of spiritual earthiness, "fornicators, idol- the pressure coming upon you, "reviling," "per- ators, adulterers, effeminate, abusers of them- secution," "all manner of evil against you false- selves with mhnkind, ghieves, covetous, drunk- ly," "some of you they shall kill," etc. A more ards, revilers, extortioners self-righteous (I Cor. generous diet than "bread and water" is not 6:9-11) etc., cries to His Holy Spirit forces, promised, and the "Son of man had not where to "Bring me from thence jewels of every variety lay His head." But in all He says, "Be exceed- for the everlasting adornment of My Son's wife ing glad," "Rejoice ye in that day and leap for -the Bride of the Lamb. joy." (Literally-"jump up and down very And as to Nature's call, there come earth- much.") Why? Because out of common clay quakes, convulsions, fire, crystalization, so to the jewels are making. "Great is your reward in command of the Divine Alchemist, there come heaven." Great indeed to be forever more a upon different bits of earth-humanity, here and part of that jasper wall, or of that amethyst there, the convulsions, ghe cataclysms for mak- foundation, a part of one of those wonderful ing ruby-ship, diamond-hood, etc.-all the glow- gates of pearl. ing resplendency of the multitudinous gems of This passage in Rev. 21 :9-27 is a mixed meta- the Palalce City of the Universe; the heavenly phor, but we lose much if we do not get its glo- Jerusalem. Read again the glowing description rious significance. Tihe Bride is the City. The of the walls of that city, its foundations "gar- City is the Bride. Her mission is the mission of nished with all manner of precious stones," iux- it, the mission of perpetual, eternal salvation to uriant in the description of its streets of gold. others. "The nations of them that are saved its twelve marvelous gates, "every several gate shall walk in the light of it." The kings of the of one pearl," its streets of transparent glass- earth do bring their glory and honor into it. gold, each separate jewel imprisoning tlhe light (This is way out after the new lheavens and new of the glory of God, and scintillating it, in fiery earth are fixed.) Some believe those convul- beams of love, mercy, purity, wisdom and pow- sions of nature have then changed the whole er; and all exultants of the Divine Alchemy of astronomical map, and made our tiny globe the suffering and pressure upon earth worms ! center of all the starry systems, because on it Marvelous transformations ! "If we suffer was enacted the tragedy of Calvary, the spilling with Him, we shall also reign with Him." "He of the blood of the Son of God; blood wihose suffered being tempted" "The devil left Him benefit shall yet reach into the whole inhabited for a reason." "He was made perfect by the Universe. "And the gates of it shall not be shut things which He suffered." "The disciple slhall be at all by day; for there shall be no night there." perfected ns the Master." "Think it not strange In the mlillennium age we get glimpses of those concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, but beings developed for it, having spiritual author- rejoice." "When He has tried me, I shall come ity, revival power, salvation-rule; some over ten forth as gold." cities, others over five. Luke 19 :IZ-19. When His throne reign begins, they also sit in felt the Lord led her to sell their little property thrones, bringing in with Him the glory of and put all into His work, before she started earth's renovations. Math. 19:22-28. But in with her enfeebled husband and little boy for the After Ages of the New Heavens and the Water Street, New York. This all done, she went New Earth time, the reader of Rev. 21 sees that on her way, under the conscious smile of God. the sphere of beneficence is vastly extended. The Arriving at the Faith Home, she rang the bell jewels of the kingdom, then bring countless oth- and was met at the door by the wife of the cler- er multitudes to the same blessedness. gyman. (She did not till later know that the No wonder that Paul "pressed down upon the woman was subject to temporary fits of insani- mark for the prize" of such an upward calling! ty, and one was then on.) She smiled and said, Phil. 3 :14. No wonder that he said he delighted "I am Mrs. W.," supposing every arrangement "in infirmities, reproaches, necessities, persecu- had been made for her by the clergyman. The tions, distresses," (2 Cor. 12: 10) , "gloried" in minister's wife gave her a blank stare. "You always bearing about in his body the "dying of know," said Mrs. W., "I am come to have meet- tfhe Lord Jesus," ready to be "poured out" upon ings in your home with the girls." The minis- the service and sacrifice of their faith. It was ter's wife pointing to the halls and stairway- pressure unto jewel-making that had in it suc- '"Tis a woman to scrub that we need, if you cessive unfoldings of usefulness, in dispensation are for that, step in, if not, go. "I am come for after dispensation. It was his opportunity to Uible work among the girls," stammered Mrs. become an eternal jewel, in that great regenera- W. "We need no other help but a scrub girl," tive edifice, with which God was getting ready and the door was slammed in her face. Alone in to bless throughout Salvation's Ages. a strange city, with her imbecile husband and Pressure! Paul's opportunity and ours! A little child, and in her zeal to give all to the prize to be coveted, every convulsion, cataclysm, Lord, she had not even left herself with money death-blow, smart and sorrow!" Without them other than railroad expenses thitdher. Penniless, no jewels, from such clods of the earth as we. absolutely friendless, she stood irresolutely on By them, transmutation from earth-worms to the door step and then it began to rain, and they foundation stones, pearl-gates, golden streets, had no umbrella! Satan got after her hot and opals, diamonds, amethysts of that city that lieth fast; sneeringly, he said, "Humph, you thought four-square, whose Builder and Maker is God, God led you-you see it was all a mistake. Now a city whose destiny is to be an eternal excellen- what are you going to do?" They turned off the cy, whose mission is to bless the nations of the steps, and utterly igncrant of the city, she did saved 'throughout all ages, as they walk in the not know whether to walk up or down. Oh what light of its glory and from time to time are ab- a whirl in her mind! It was getting toward sorbed into it. noon, hunger was beginning to kke known its "0,thou afflicted, tossed with tempest and not pangs. She thought, If I could only go some- comforted, behold I will lay thy stones with fair where and tell somebody, but in a faith-life they colours, and lay ,thy foundations with sapphires, never signal to a human. "Lord, what shall I and I will make thy windows of agates and thy do?" As she walked on mechanically, she saw, gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleas- trudging down the street, dear old colored ant stones. And all thy children shall be taught Amanda Smith, a notable faith hero of those of the Lord and great shall be +he peace of thy days. "Ah," she said, "I will tell Amanda, she children." A half century ago a certain Mrs. knows the faith life, she cannot help me but sfhe W., who had begun to take her early steppings can sympathize with me." Soon the dripping as a Christian worker and whom the Holy Spirit family was under Amanda's capacious umbrella was wooing an, was drawn to give herself to and Mrs. W, was pouring out her tale of woe. parlor meetings in the home of a Rev. A. W. in Amanda's eyes kept brightening and she was the slum district of New York City, where he punctuating through the story-"Bless the was getting hold of disreputable women. They Lord," "Praise Jesus," "Well, I never ! Glory !" had correspondence and it was arranged that she When Mrs. W. stopped from sheer exhaustion, should come into his faith work and learn with Amanda said, "So here you are and don't know them to trust the Lord for bread to eat, for grace New York and haven't a friend in it. Without to work, for clothes to wear, for power for ser- money, without shelter, without even an umbrel- vice and success. A ven'turesome step in those la in the rain." Most cheerfully-"It beats all! days when the light was not so strong as now! God never did give anybody before such n good To make her life more thoroughly faith-life, she chance to trust Him." She exulted, rejoiced and praised t'he Lord in most uproarious fashion, for know Him afresh and ever more deeply. Be not "such a good chance to trust." She seemed fair- frightened, He is only repotting His plants, mak- ly to envy her sister's opportunity till finally (the ing more room for their roots! As long as cir- Spirit of God coming down upon them) Mrs. cumstances, conditions, calamities, trials, can be W. caught the heavenly infection and they were met with the measure of grace, we already know, praising the Lord in unison. we abide in that measure of His life, but when Just then a well known New York merchant our condescending, wonderful God would have came towards them. Starting with surprise, he His life expand in us, that in a new and increas- exclaimed, "Why, Mrs. W., this truly is of t'he ing way, "the bcauty of the Lord our God may Lord, but I cannot stop to explain, must get to be upon us," He allows exigencies, disease, the bank before it closes, take this card, go to bankruptcy, misunderstanding of fellow-work- my restaurant, order dinner for your party and ers, etc., (for in discipline as in other things "the me and by the time it is served I will be with chariots of the Lord are twenty thousand") till you." "There's your dinner," said Amanda, our being cries "I cannot stand it, I must have "and this is faith-life; enlargement and deliver- God in a new way." Glory! Then He takes us ance shall arise from this place. Good bye." So through, as never before were we helpless they parted. enough to let Him do. Pots broken, re-potting Mes. W. wonderingly went on to the restau- for larger growth! "And the Lord their God rant and the merchant soon joined them. With- shall save them in that day, as an ensign upon out hearing her story (nor did he know it for His land." "Thou shalt also be a crown of glo- many a month after) lye told her how his church ry in the hand of the Lord and a royal diadem in New Jersey had been humbling themselves in the hand of thy God." They shall bc mine, and crying to God, and. getting in a good place saith the Lord of hosts, in that day when I for a revival, "and I am chairman of a commit- make up mly jewels." "My jewels!" Does not tee to find an evangelist. As I have prayed your the exprcssion taste sweet in your mouth? S~re- name came constantly before me. But it all ly the beauty must be exquisite of what God looked so wild, I knew you only from once meet- calls, "My jewels." ing you at a campmeeting. 'Lord I do not know We know of nothing else in the universe of if she goes out to preach; Lord, I do not knovr God which represents so much expense, value, even her town or address.' Many other schemes labor, skill, as God's bringing forth of His jew- came up for consideration, but I was held to els. God Himself had to become man, to pro- your name and all I could get was, 'Mrs. W., vide for their malting. The worthless clay had Mrs. W., Mrs. W.' At last in a kind of despera- to be bought with an inestimable value, not of tion this morning I said, 'Lord, if You want Mrs. silver or gold, but of blood, and that of Ilim who W. You must bring us together.' So now I know had created it. In the counsels of heaven all the you have no other engqement and you will come resources of the Infinite Ruler of the Universe, right along." Filled with awe-she could not the triune God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, had tell him that she had ncver preached, never been to be laid up in the laboritories of Infinite Skill. in a pulpit; her boldest thought was to hold All the convulsions, the awful pressure, the fiery meetings in a room with stray girls, but God had baptisms, which nature brings in lher superficial shut one door and opened another; she dared and transitory work of making of dull earth her not but throw herself upon Him and enter. He gems, but feebly shadows it forth. Say, man of made it a mighty six weeks of revival and the God, clod of the earth, are you a candidate for pluming of wings, for a long and successful all the pressure that goes to make God's eternal evangelistic career. jewels? For those clods only, come to their "For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nei- highest heavenly transmutation who yield, and ther are My ways your ways, saith the Lord." yield, and yield, on to the transforming Hand of Heaven high above them, Hallelujah ! "Pressed God, in His marvelous processes. out of measure, above strength, insomuch that They feared as they entered the cloud. The we despaired of life." Listen to 'the jewel-mak- glories of a transfiguration (Luke 9:35) was ing process. * * * "Rut we had the sen- upon them, but they feared as they entered its tence of death in ourselves, that we should not cloud. We enter a new cloud with each advanc- trust in ourselves, but in God that raiseth the ing transfiguration. After the cloud, a glorified dead." Marvelous to know the resurrection- Jews, and a Voice we had not heard before. God in His deep spiritual upraising! And it is "Wilt thou go out with this man?" When we only as we are pressed out of measure, that we fail to say "yes," the transfiguring process stops and that is why there are so many varying glo- id, if we are to be of the "first fruits" there is no ries in resurrection. In it, there is "one glory of time to lose. tllie sun, another glory of the moon, another glory What is lost time in jewel-making? Every of the stars, for one star differeth from another moment the eye is not filled with Jesus Himself. star in glory." So high as the continuing 'yes' His worship, His adoration, brings forth the is in your soul, so hlig!l will God take you in the constant "I live, yet not I, Christ liveth in me." glory. Each such fresh recognition of Him imprisons Oh there are so many jewels and of such dis- within the gem a new ruddy or golden flame, to similar magnitude and beauty! As we are leap and dance, a living fire in the jewel. For changed from the glory of one jewel to that of Jesus perpetually answers to the recognition of another, the processes become so much more Himself. delicate. Wilt thou be an opai with glint of glory fires? As one was writing a paper for the press with A sapphire, mirroring the blue of heaven? An the thought burning in her for three weeks she ~meraldfull of living power of His resurrec- was constantly held off by drivelling calls of in- tion? A diamond of the first water, scintillating significant nature; then, just as the pen was at its rosy, purple, or fire colors with every move- last catching down the glowing ideas, came a ment? Let Him work uninterruptedly as He providential demand to a long list of shopping passes you from one sirange, wild convulsion of errands. Her interrupted spirit lay down the pressure to another. "If sharp 'tis short" com- pen with a sigh of "Oh!" but she proceeded with pared to the endless assets. The outcome-"an alacrity to the calls. While she sped on her way exceeding and eternal weight of glory." Halle- praising God, He said, "Yes, but that 'oh' was lujah! "In the city that lieth four-square!" Co- directly against Me." Of course it must have operation-then jewels ! been, for "all things me of God." "All things "Rejoice in the Lord always, and again 1 say are sfor your sake." My! what base ingratitude ~r~jorcls"for each trial is a jewel-making oppor- in the "oh" land; "all things work together for tunity; for it gratitude. good . . ." to conform to the image of His Son ! How grand the purpose ! Interrupted by "How near is grandeur to our dust? failure to say heartily, instantly, "Praise the How near is God to man? Lord, Yes!" instead of "Oh." The end is now When duty whispers low. 'll'bou must' so near, the conformity to Jesus must be so rap- And man replies 'I can.'
3E General Council of the Assem- ings and regretted their lack of a proper under- Idies of God convened in St. Louis, standing of the body in the past. Mo., Sept. 9-14 Besides the mis- Twenty Presbyters were elected *to cover the sionaries who were present from home field, and it was recommended that repre- nearly every continent, ministerial brethren came sentatives should be chosen from the foreign from all over the states, including New York field by missionaries on the field in their own on the East and California on the West. conference. .I very blessed spirit of unity and fellowship The matter of more precautions being taken in prevailed. as matters of importance to ministers. the ordination of trhe ministry was emphasized, their assemblies, missionary interests, and the also the great necessity of qualifying for such great work of evangelization through the an high and holy calling. The securing of rates preached word and the printed page, were dis- on the railroad should never be considered as a cussed from many angles. reason for granting credentials, but the great The unity of the body of Christ was empha- call of God and God backing up the call by hon- sized as the great theme that should fill our vis- oring the man and using him in the salvation of ion. Rrather Ihrr in the opening address on souls-this, backed up by a clean, godly life the Sunday laid down this mighty fundamental .only reason for performing the sacred rite of around which everything else should center. ordination. Some of the brethren who had stood aloof from ~llesolutionswere passed encouraging tmhe cir- prcvious Council meetings and from associating culation of good Lterature in this crisis hour of themselves with the General Council, expressed the world's 11istory;and the great care that themselves in hearty sympathy with the proceed- should be taken in recommending literature that would have no taint of heresy upon it. Light field, that property should not be owned by an was also turned upon the fact that a writer might individual missionary but by a Board of Trus- issue a book or tract which was perfectly safe tees on the field or by a responsible Body in the and sound, and yet be the author of t'hat which homeland, so that it could always be controlled was decidedly spurious, so that too great care for the Lord. Not only has the misisonary who cannot be taken to shield the innocent and unsus- holds property in his own name a legal right to pecting from poisonous literature which is flood- dispose of it and use the money, but if he be- ing our land today. comes unsound in doctrine, or, equally serious, Occasionally there was a little digression from backslidden in heart and life, the property is lost the business of the Council. Some spiritual for God. Instances of this character have oc- touches here and there brought a refreshing. curred which have brought reproach on the The imminency of the Coming of the Lord and work, and futdre measures will be taken, as the necessity of preaching it continually was far as possible, to prevent a repetition. made of paramount importance by Pastor Col- Qualifications for those lholding credentials lins. were discussed extensively but no new action was Raymond Richie, Houston, Texas, told of taken as these are all well covered in the Funda- how marvelously God opened the way for him mental\. to work among the soldiers in their camps; how All through the Council meeting those in con- He gave him favor in the eyes of the Y. M. C. trol were made very conscious of the guiding A. officials, the only gate by which it is possible hanJ of God throughout the sessions. When ari to enter the camps and do evangelistic work. The important step was being considered and a move assemblage was deeply moved as our young wntrrnplated which might militate against the brother told of the burden on his soul for the interests of God and t!~e good of the assemblies soldier who was leaving this land perhaps for- in general, invariably a check was felt, and pray- ever. "It may be too late," he said, "to wait un- er changed things. The fathers in the council til the soldier gets to France to seek to save his had often to remind thc younger brethren of the soul. The boat may be torpedoed and he be lost. danger lines of sectarianism in their zeal in con- Now is the time to get tracts and Gospels into tending for the truth and their fear of compro- their hands. Before I left Houston they came mise. to me begging me to hold two meetings for The evening services were evangelistic and also them. In our special revival meetings held re- devoted to missionary addresses, tshe music, soul- cently we had over three hundred soldier boys stirring and inspiring, and a spirit of worship on the outside of our building, and one Sunday per.mlled tl~eatmosphere. night, eight soldiers gave their hearts to God. A The Minutes of the General Council contain- truck load of officers came every night, and af- ing a full report of proceedings, also The Week- ter the meetings closed the way was opened for ly Evang~l,can be secured from The Gospel us to go into the camps." Brother Richie asks Publishing House, 283% Easton Ave., St. Louis, united prayer at twelve o'clock daily for the sol- Mo. dier boys in the home camps, in the trenches and FROMDIIATH TO LIFE. in the prison camps. If any one wishes to help A n A ~rtnhiorrraphl~b11 Anna W. Prosser. in this worthy work by contributing towards the The zifted nntl~orwho was reared in luxury. writes with a benutiful simplicity of her life, how, as she was purchase of Gospels and tracts for distribution, entering into "g:ly society" with plans for a "butterfly" he can communicate with the United Prayer and cnreer. she is suddenly stricken in body and. going Workers League, Houston, Texas. rlon7n into dwt11. is rnised up by God into life and health. Brother Leonard of Findlay, Ohio, spoke with Fro111the ti~~teot' her salvation and miraculous heal- deep feeling of the great need of sympathy for inr. h~rlife is filled with loving service for God and hnmnnity, heing wed in the snlvation and healing of the families that are bereft of their boys. He many. said it was a time for weeping rather than a Woven in with the story of her life is much helpful time to dance. Loyalty to the Government and tenching. As she portrays her own conflicts in an in- spiring way. prlssing through the various stages of eal- prayer for the President and the nation were vntion. I~enling,sanctification. dying to self. and her urged upon all the pastors and assemblies. Pentecostal experience. she opens up the scripture on dis- those subjects. and with tile illumination of the Holy One of the new missionary resolutions Spirit. enables the render to appropriate these bless- cussed in the Council was that of holding prop- ings. together with many minor lessons. We cannot erty on the foreign field. Experience has proved speak .too highly of this book; many say it is the best hool; tlrefl lrnve ever read. that when money has Ceen given by God's stew- Cloth and gold, 230 pages, Reduced to 7.5 cts. ards for the purchase of property on the foreign (3/21 Heavy paper cover, 40 otn. (1 /8). en land even with the best of comforts takes much grace, but to endure the privations which so many have done is nothing short of heroism. We ask our readers to pray and believe with us 3635 Michigan Avenue .. - - - - Chicago, Ill., U. S. A for a greater inflow of funds for this purpose. We will forward freely and promptly offerings Published Monthly on the Fifteenth by for any worthy missionary, or if left to our dis- The Evangel Publishing House cretion we will send where most greatly needed. %ub~triptioaltfrirp ¶TO ANY PART $1 .OO (4s-2d) per year in advance %tune @lptrsh Biaitnrs OF THE WORLD .50 (2s-Id) six months in advance Recent Sundays in The Stone Church remind- To those wholly engaged in the work of the Lord ed us of Convention times. We had with us Seventy-five cents (3s-2d) per year in advance some of the delegates from the St. Louis Coun- 41 Special ratesto Assemblies ordering twelve or more copies. Write for terms. (11 Send drafts, express or money orders to cil and Missionary Conference, and were blessed The Evangel Publishing House. 41 Foreign Countries send inter- through the fellowship and ministry of our national money orders. Do not send personal checks unless 10 cents is added for exchange. brethren. We had with us during the past two q[ Gonternporuries wi~hinflto copy any article from weeks, Pastor A. P. Collins, Ft. Worth, Texas, this paper WAC kindly add "LA!l'l1EIZ RAIN Mr. and Mrs. Harold Needham, Los Angeles EVANGEL," Cl~icayo,U. S. 8. ._.._ Calif., J. R. Jamieson West Indies, Raymond 91 Entered as second-class matter, Apri! 8. 1909. at the Postoffice Richie, Houston, Texas, Herbert H. Cox, Zion Chicago, Illinois, under the ~ctof March 3, 1879. ------City, Lll., Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Kauffman, en route qlA cross opposite this note means your subscription expire$ with to China, Frank Nicodem and Mr. and Mrs. his number. Niels Thompson, all to India. - .- en route The special ministry of IJastor John Coxe of Wilmington, Del., closed in blessing and power. I-IE greater part of this issue is devoted .to Sunday, Sept. 30jh. A large and appreciative T the Missionary Conference in which we audience was present at the three o'clock address were deeply interested. It seemed to us that our on TIIEB \T'TI.IS OP ARMAGEDDON.This address readers who have so faithfully contributed to- will be printed (D. V.) in the November issue of wards the evangelization ol foreign lands, The Evangel. Send for special numbers of this should know some things about missionary life issue to give to your unconverted friends. They ,that are not often talked about, and we trust it will scad this timely lecture, and cannot help but will give them a broader sympathy with the sac- be solemnized by it. rificing missionary and a desire to enter into his trials and lightcn his !~urdensby prayer and sub- fliminnnt;!~ Bepart stantial co-operation. The following is our Three Months' Report (July, Aug., Sept.) of monies sent in and dis- After Wine IJtars persed. If any of the missionaries have not re- As we enter upon the threshhold of the tenth ceived the amounts opposite theiy names, and year of the existence of The Evangel, we say will write us, we shall be glad to investigate the out of grateful hearts, "I-Iitherto hat11 the Lord matter. .heli>ed us." In the face of new and changing George M. Tielley, China ($18 for native events, crises days in the history of nations and worker) ...... $ 120.3-1 individuals, we know not what a day will bring Mr. and Mrs. 1. S. Neeley, West Africa.. .. 120.00 A4 iss I3ernice Ixe, India...... 115.0(! forth, but we praise God that up to this time He Miss Bertha Meycr, South China...... 115.00 has given us the blessed privilege of sending the Ivan S. Kaufl:n;~n,for Cl~ina...... 100.00 Miss Carrie Anderson, South China...... 100.00 Gospel message to th,e ends of the earth, and A. Kok, China ($60 for native worker). .... 80.0': that through this min~strysouls are comforted, 13. S. Moore, Japan ...... 67.00 built up in faith and strengt,hened against thc C. W. Iloncy, for Egypt...... 60.57 Yliss blyrtle llailey, China...... 60.Cil evil days, ever becoming more intense. Our Miss listher Domkc, China...... 60.01) chief joy in connection with the paper is the me- Paul Van Valcn, India...... 60.00 dium it has been in transmitting funds to the PI. J. Johns, I-lo~iolulu ...... 6O,.OO 11. I,. I.awlcr, China...... 60.00 foreign field. To be able to hold up the hands W. It. Willia~nson,South China...... 56.51 of &d7s servants'in heathen lands is a blessed Mrs. Julia Richardson, Congo...... 55.25 privi1eg.e. Our only regret has been ,that we have C. W. I,ongstrcth, West Africa...... 55.00 Titnothy I). IJrshan, Persia...... 53.75 not had more to send so that our missionaries I'andita lialnal,ai, India ...... 53.0G might have a few comforts. To live in a heath- b1 iss Florcnce Burpee, Tentiesscc Mts...... 50.CO Wm. I$. Johnson, West Africa...... bliss Anua I-Jeln~brecht,India ...... Mrs. Nettie D. Nichols, for China...... Adolph Wicnelce, China ...... Miss hlargaret Piper, Japan...... It. S. McBritle, South America...... Robert F. Cook, India...... I!artIiolon~cw Dean, India ...... Miss Josephine Cohlj, China...... 1-1. E. Hansen, China ...... L. hi. Anglin, China...... Miss Altnyra Aston, India ...... Miss Sarah IZugler, China ($19 for native Niels Thompson, for India...... worker) ...... Harry 1'. Uowlcy, West Africa...... Lloyd Cramer, China...... Miss Lydia Hofer, China...... Clarence Johtls, Honolulu...... John M. I'erkins, West Africa...... James Harvey, for India...... Miss Ethel IZinx, India...... Miss Mary Chapman, India...... Miss Margaret Clark, India...... C. F. Juergenson, Japan ...... Miss 13. Jones, India...... Miss Alice Wood, South America...... Miss Mac Aikenheatl, China...... Miss Lillian Trasl?er, Egypt ...... Miss Martha tlisey, West Africa...... Frank Gray, Japan ...... Albert Norton, India ...... Miss C. B. Herron, India...... John ~James,China ...... B. A. Schoeneich, Central America...... Frank Nicodern, for India ...... Viss Jennie Kirkland, India...... II. McLean, for China ...... John Norton, India ...... M. Sisson & E. Tliorpe, for South Africa.. . Mrs. Lillian Denney, India...... J. M. I.. Harrow, Wcst Africa...... E. A. Blocher, West Africa...... H. hf. Turney, Africa...... Miss Mary McDonald, for India...... Total ...... $2,624.67 Miss Christine McLeod, India ...... Total sent out this year...... $8,094.16
HERE was a hearty response to for the discussion of practical missionary prob- the call for this, the first General lems, and any thought of legislation in connec- Conference of Pentecostal mis- tion with the Council was entirely foreign to sionarizs and home-base friends the call, although if the body saw fit they might who are deeply interested in mis- make recommendations and suggestions for the sionary activities. Council to act upon at some future time. The returning and outgoing While for the sake of convenience we use missionaries, some setting their the terms "home" and "foreign" work, yet the faces towards their fields for the Conference looked upon the world as the great first time, were as follows: harvest field, and kept before them continually IWDIiZ-C. H. Schoontnalccr, Miss Pannie Simp- that we were co-workers together-the mission- son. lierl~ert13. Cox, Miss S. E. Easton, 14iss Laura aries' burdens ours, our interests theirs. While Radford, A. I. .Garrison, Mrs. S. K. Chcstcr, H. :I. we recogni~e that each one who is called of Tinlrud, Mrs. I<. A. 'I'imrud. God can do his best work only by con- CllIXA-MI-s. Nettie D. Nichols, Miss Ethcl centrating in the field to which he is called, yet Wel)l,, Ivan S. Ihours I'd have to ask largely that our joy mybe full. She said, sit in that one place with the rain pouring down. "If we set our hearts before God and before the The place we had for a kitchen was outside, and people that our missionaries must have a place using Chinese cook-stoves we could not bake that is livable and sanitary, God will meet that our own bread. One of our bravest and best need. We let the devil trample on us and have missionaries was just laid to rest, June ~3rd.I the money, but it is our right to come boldly to lived wfit'h her in a native house for six weeks. God and say, 'Lord, these Pentecostal people This was an old house of only two rooms. She are Yours, and we are determined to have prop- !i::d .;pwt c~~litf-3 good bit of money on it for re- er homes for them.' Then God who sends them pairs. and in the rainy season the centipedes forth wlill supply all their needs if we are de- wmld drop down night after night. Sometimes termined to have them supplied. T~hekingdom while we were praying the natives would call of heaven has to be taken by violence and I be- our attention to them. We could not take any lieve we should stop saying, 'we ought to,' and exercise, could not get any bread, and the ,bread change it to, 'We will. We will have something we had from Canton would mould because of that will glorify the Lord.' We have not a poor, the dampness. We lived on native vegetables puny God. The cattle upon a thousand hills are and pork. We had a native school, native chap- Hh, and it ,is for us to be determined that our el, and all the native workers lived underneath, missionaries in Africa and China and Japan and 2nd those who know anything about a Chinese India, shall have sanitary homes. Is He able? schr.cl Iwow how much privacy we had and how Is our God able to do for us? I believe He is. I much noise there would be. We cannot live on do not see the poor Pentecostal people, but I see tlw ground floor; we lost three of our best work- my God who is able to do exceeding abundant- ers wifhin t\Vo months because of living on the ly above all that we can ask or think. Let us ground floor, and I ~ons~cientiouslybelieve if take this stand and determine by the grace of thev had had proper housing they would be alive our God that our missionaries shall have sani- today. This is the most vital matter that we in tary homes." South China confront today. We live on what In concluding this important' subject Brother we call Pig Street, but the .people of the town Welch said, "I am sure this is decidedly the at- call it Gospel Street. I cannot walk on this titude we should take in the matter, and we street without putting my handkerchief to my s~hould believe, and not only believe but insist nose. Friends, it is said the missionaries go that this be the result, and then while taking that around for money, but what kind of houses do attitude we should wisely co-operate. The dif- they live in ? I went down to Pak Nai and found ficulty seems to have come from the fact that them living on moldy bread. We had been with- faith missionaries have apparently gone out with out bread for days, and I jumped up and said, faith enough just to get to their fields and it 'Praise the Lord.' If you were as hungry for does not include t'he essentials for a faith work. bread as I was you would have praised the Lord Now that we are getting into a broader co-oper- for bread too, even thought it was moldy. The ation we trust that hereafter it shall not be that house we have now we have a lease on for only they go to the field with the exercise of their five years, and had to pay from five to six hun- own personal faith alone. We can co-operate dred dollars to make it livable. If that much along these lines and I believe we should. In money had been put into a building under the considering the matter of missionaries going to control of the General Council that would have the field, all these real essentials should be in- been our own, but we have to give this up after cluded. Many have said, "I have my fare," and five vears." their faith has never grasped anything more. Miss S. E. Easton, for many years a mission- There has been a consent to it and a feeling that ary in India, spoke of the folly of going to the it was a legitimate sacrifice to accept native con- expense of sending our missionaries to the field ditions, and undertake v,i~ctoryfor God in the and then not providing sufficiently for them that midst of it, but I believe that the vision should their usefulness might be increased. She said, be larger and I~roaderthan that. No mission- "W.hen I went to India it was in connection with ary should consent to lie down under such condi- tions and be short of the place where he can do possible; they took off their shoes and walked i11 effectual work. If he does he hasn't really the hot sands; they took ofl their hats and sub- reached the fundamental principle of faith, upon jected their heads to the tropical sun, which which I'entccostal missions have been founded. meant death, and they dropped off like flies. An- I feel that until the missionary has reached a other incident was told of a man connected with condition of eflective m'inistry, he has not the Presbyterian mission some few years ago. reached his field. They need more than fare. He said that for the sake of Christ and getting If they were fifty dollars short of railroad and nearer the native life he would give up his En- steamship fare, they would "get busy," and they glish home, his Englis'h food, and English are just as much short of their true location clothes. The Board was entirely out of sympa- when they must stop and live in a native Chinese thy witlh this step, but as they believed in him house under those deadly conditions as though they permitted him to try it, but he failed. When there were a stone wall erected between them a missionary brings himself to that position they and their servdce for God. But these conditions call him 'poor white' and treat him in such a way exist and what can be done to remedy them?" as will rob his ministry of its dignity and pow- Miss Elizabeth Sisson: "I think this burden er." We can learn some important lessons from of sustaining the mission work has to be laid the failures of others, and it should not be nec- upon the hearts of the Pentecostal people. It is essary for Pentecostal missionaries going to the to be 'a long pull, a strong pull, and a pull alto- field to prove by sad experience what others have gether,' and we at home cannot look upon the found to be failures. Another example was giv- missionary and say be is short, but we will have en of a Bible woman who was made a compan- to say we are all short in our faith. We have ion in such a way that she assumed the role of much to learn, if we are willing to learn it, from dictator. what the Lord has taught the various Boards in One missionary brought out the fact that pri- their long pull of 150 to 200 years, digging at all marily it was not in the nature of native Chris- the problems, and because we are so blessed in ltians to take liberties, but the trouble arose be- Pentecost and have reached a higher spiritual cause unwise and over-zealous missionaries took plane is no reason why we could not learn much the initiative and courted an intimacy which was from them. They have a set punpose of educat- not wholesome. "The native looks upon every ing their people up to know missionary work and person who comes from a so-called Christian missionary needs, and they put a great deal of land, as a teacher sent from God. He doesn't literature into the hands of young people, in the expect the missionary to come down to his lev- Sunday Schools, Missionary Meetings, and el, and when this condition exists, influence is Young People's Societies. Our people have good weakened. Then the native says, 'He is one of intentions but they are not educated." us, and we have the same right he has.' " Yet We give more space to this question than we ,the position of the missionary toward the native can give to any other, but we feel with many at should not be as master and servant, but rather the Conference that it is 'the most v'ital question that of a wise parent to a child. of the hour. Let us consider gravely the ques- Kindred to this subject was that of intermar- tion of sending missionaries to the field without riage of missionary and native, which was there is proper provision for them there. Hith- strongly disapproved of by the Conference. In erto they have been reticent about sanitations the majority of cases the very purpose of the they have faced on the field, but if we are to be missionary entering into such a union has been "coworkers together" we must know how to frustrated. After seventeen years of experiencc work and bow to pray, so that our faith will in the far East, a senior missionary said she had reach out with theirs. never known of but one case where an intermar- riage had proved in any degree satisfactory, but she had had to deal personally with numbers of women who have been in deep, deep trouble be- Thc next question undcr discussion was the cause of such relationships. Senior missionar- attitude of the missionary toward the native ies should be on the alert and at the first sus- Christian, which, it was agreed, was one of the picions of such a possibility wise steps should be most difficult problems to solve. Some of the taken to prevent it. Oh that men and women missionaries with love in their hearts for the who go forth to carry the blessed Gospel might Master, and a desire to get close to the heart of realize their high and holy calling and not allow the native, have tried to place themselves on the anything to jeopardize their opportunity of hav- same social plane, which is not a wise relation- ing a wide and useful ministry ! ship to take, and does not work for the good of either the missionary or the native. By this at- 6reut ll1uIue of the Natim Worker tit~ide.In ondue familiarity is engendered which often cai1sc.s deep regret, and no advantage is Ivan ICauffman spoke on the great value of gained. Some concrete examples were given native workers. Speaking of his own mission senior missionaries showing the failure of such field in particular, he said, "I believe that the fu- efforts in the past. One told of when the Salva- ture evangelization of that large field of China tion Army began work in India. "They thought depends not so much upon missionaries as upon they would be just as much like the natives as native workers. In the district where I labored in Western China there are from six to twelve Resolved, that precautions be taken by senior m~s- native Christians who for qualifications are un- sionaries on the field to prevent such alliances by discouraging intimacy, and, as a far as possible, pro- surpassed. They are well established in the viding teachers of the same sex for the young mis- Word of God, baptized in the Holy Spirit, and sionaries. set on fire for souls, and if they had an opportu- V. Whereas, experiences have provcd that it ,is nity I believe they would step out tomorrow. If unwlse for the m~ss~onariesand the native workers they had some one to stand back of them and to live in the same quarters as a fam~ly,therebj. help them, they could accomplish as much as causing too great familiarity. Therefore, be it three or four missionaries, and at the same time Resolved, that proper precautions be taken by all it would cost only from a fourth to a third as missionaries to avoid such conditions. Further, it rs much for them to live. This is quite an item in recommended that all new missionaries should seek the evangelization of China. It is a large sav- the counsel and advice of senior missionaries who are acquainted with the conditions of their respec- ing of funds, and furt!~ermore the native is ac- tive fields, especially with regard to their relation- climatized, he knows the ways and customs of his ship to the native people. people thoroughly; he has the language perfect- VI. Whereas, the lives of many missionaries on ly, and is not subject to malarial fever which so the field have been shortened by the unsanitary con- often hinders the missionary from doing his best ditions of the native quarters in which they have for God. A native worker can be supported for had to live, a year for $75 to $100, and it costs at least $300 Resolved, that we recornmend that steps be taken for a missionary, which does not include his ?o present to the assemblies the imperative need of rent. Many a missionary has had to pay the practically helping in the building of homes on mis- sion stations, for the proper housing of our Pentc- native workers out of his own support, whereas costal missionaries. there should be special offerings for this pur- VII. Resolved,, that every means should be' em- pose. ployed for the encouragement of the native minis- *** try, and that in case of pioneer work funds should Brother Schoonmaker spoke on itinerating in ,be sent to the missionaries for the support of thesc native workers, but where the work is established India, and of the villages being so scattered that the native pastors should be encouraged to trust the it was hard to do good village work without hav- Lord for thcir own support. Further, that the native ing bullocks and a cart, or some kind of a con- Christians should be encouraged to support their veyance. Missionaries often walk, but when own pastors and evangelists. they do this in the hot sun their strength is so VIII. Resolved, that single women, now on the exhausted that they are unable to preach when mission field, be discouraged from opening up new they get to the village. fields, but that they should become associated with senior missionaries, and only make new moves with The question of Qualifications of the Mission- their co-operation and counsel. ary, Holding of Property on the Foreign Field, Further, that missionaries should be encoura~ed and a number of other matters were discussed in to go forth in the scriptural order, "two and two." the Council Meeting, and it was not deemed nec- IX. Whereas, the special need of the missionary essary to again cover that ground. field may be overlooked in the reading of the minu- tes of the General Council, especially by pastors not As the various subjects were discussed, reso- in attendance at the Council. Therefore, be it lutions were adopted covering each important Resolved, that this Missionary Conferentc rec- matter, which were as follows : omnlend that the Chairman and Secretary of the I. Be it resolved that as a body we endorse the Council send a circular letter to all pastors affiliated fundamental principles of the General Council of the with the Council, outlining the general missionary Assem1)lies of God. policy of co-operation in the home and foreign field. and that special missionary days he set apart; also 11. Resolved that an Advisory Committee of thr~e that a monthly missionary offering be taken in each missionaries be appointed in every large district of assembly. the foreizn field where missionaries are now at work, and that this comm~tteebe appointed in a conference X. Resolved, that the temporary organization oi of the missionaries themselves. this Missionary Conference be declared permanent, and that the conference adjourn to meet at such 111. Whereas, missionaries who come home brolc- time and place as may be determined by the Chair- en in health and worn in body have no place to rest man and Secretary. and recuperate, but are con~pelled to travel from A. C. R. place to place, almost begging an open door, and *** are oblized to hold meetings in order to get suffi- By an unforeseen occurrence Brother and Sister cient funds for themselves and their work on the Doney have been prevented from sailing for Egypt, field; therefore, be it Oct. llth, but expect to go in the near future. (D. Resolved, that the early establishment of a Mis- \I.) Their address is 1534 E. 3rd St., Long Beach, sionary Home where they will he free from respon- Calif. sibility, be made a matter of definite prayer and * * * agitat~on COMFORT BOXES. IV. Whereas, the work in the different fields ha3 These boxes of "Precious Pron~ises"are just the been stigrnatlzed and seriously hindered by the in- thing for your table. Take one every morning. It termarrying of missionaries and natives; therefore, will be surprising how it will help you thro' the day. be it Daintily gotten up in white and gold. Nothing better for a Christmas or birthday gift. Cannot help Resolved, that we strongly tlisapptove of any mis- but prove a blessing. Send for one and you will sionary enter~ng~nto such a relationship. Be it want more. further Price 30 cts. each. UNDAY brought a spiritual atmos- Dr. Floren~ceMurcutt now leaving for Mex- phere into the meetings that was ico, told us that she had tlht morning cau most uplifting. As the spirit brood- such a vision of the mission field as she had nev- ed over the people there was mani- er had before, and was going forth to her new fested a brokenness of spirit in our midst that labors with intense joy. She had dutifully re- gave us an entrance rlght into the presence of sponded when the call came to leave her com God. fortable bungalow in Long Beach, California, It was missionary day without any reserva- for work in neglected Mexico, but now with the tions. Brother H. H. Cox, who spent a number new vision which came to her in the morning of years in India and expects again to return in hour, she was going forth with joy. the will of the Lord, gave the morning address, Brother H. C. Ball, who has been working in and as he talked the congregation caught the Mlexico, told us of the spiritual darkness of this vision of a lost world and the cost of its redemp- land lying right at our doors. While the coun- tion in a new and deeper way, as was apparent try is beautiful with its lakes and mountains and in the offering which followed. valleys, and it abounds in tropical fruits, at the In the afternoon there were messages from same time conditions prevail equal to those in Ivan Kauffman, en route to China, Mrs. C. W. heathen lands. He said it was our Samaria, and Doney, who with dher husband is bound for the command to carry the Gospel to Samaria was Egypt, and Mrs. Nettie D. Nichols, returning to just as binding as to the uttermost parts of the China with her coworker, Miss Webb, the land earth. He spoke of the curse of Catholicism of their love and toil. which had left its blight everywhere it touched, The Lord's Supper followed, conducted by and of the little bright spots here and there Pastor Kerr of Cleveland, Ohio. That was a where Pentecostal fires have started to burn. representative company that sat at His table at From sunny Mexico we were taken to the ex- the closing of the day. They had truly come treme north oi the American Continent. Mr. from the ends of the eartlh; from the borders of and Mrs. Chas. C. Personeus, looking towards Tibet on the extreme north of China, and from Alaska for the first time, asked us to share their Hong Kong on the south; from Japan in the far burdens for this land of which so little is known, East and from the land of Palestine. The dark the land of the midnight sun. Every inhabited Continent had representatives from British East spot on this earth is dear to the heart of God, and Africa, Egypt and Tunis. There were at least these two heard His call to the Indians of the far six battle-scarred soldiers who had borne the north. Men have flocked to that country iti cross on the burning sands of India, some of their search for gold and treasure, but far more whom 'had been there for twenty years. We felt priceless are the immortal souls to be found greatly privileged to sit at the Lord's Table with there. those who had known something of the fellow- Mrs. Personcus told us of a missionary who ship of I-Iis suffering. They had gone out in went there and stayd but a short time. But the strength and buoyancy of youth, but priva- while there one soul was saved who was called tions and hardships had left their imprint upon Samuel, the interpreter. He traveled around them. Ideals had not been realized, conquests and interpreted at every opportunity. Years for Christ had not reached their expectation, after, another man traveling through the same but they had been in the Great Sculptor's studio, country met Samuel, who said, '(Have you come and H'tis master hand had chiseled and polished to bring a mission?" "No," said the man, "I and wielded the hammer until it was not hard to did not." Whereupon Samuel pathetically broke recognize that they were disciples of Him out, "Samuel believe in Christ, but Samuel all ,whose "visage was more marred than tlhat of alone. Samuel try to read and try to sing, but, any man." how long will it be till a missionary come?" The evening service was given over to the Miss Ethel Webb. associated with Mrs. Net- outgoing missionaries; those whose faces were tie D. Nichols in the Grphanage work at Ningpo set toward their fields of labor. Some of these spoke of the deep joy in their hearts as they are new to our readers and in order to lay therr turned their faces Chinaward. She said that upon their hearts for prayer, we give just a lit- while the conditions at Ningpo are such that they tle synopsis of their talks, which, of necessity has could not be told in public, yet in spite of condi- to be brief. tions, in spite of the deadly malaria which faces them continually, they were glad to go back to to pray for the missionaries, and asked that ;heir beloved Chinese. every missionary present should give him his Mrs. Ivan Kauffman, going out for the first name and field of labor so that he might pray for time to face the rigors of Northwest China with them every morning. Aside from his Mextcan her husband, praised God for the privilege of work he feels strongly called to the work of in- carrying the Gospel to the lost. She told of how tercession for all the fields. As a proof that it the Lord had led her into a faith life five years has not interfered with his work in Mexico, we ago, of dark valleys and crises days through give the following from his own lips: which she had passed, all preparatory to work in "Six years ago last July I made my first trip China to which God had called her. He had re- down in Mexico, about seventy miles from Doug- warded her faith while attending Bible School las, Arizona, in a Catholic mining town, San by sending in a hundred dollars the first year Jose. There wasn't a Christian in the place and from one whom she had never met, and when she I looked to the Lord and asked Him to help me had finished her course at Nyack there wasn't to read my Bible both ;n English and in Spanish. one penny lacking to meet her needs. I continued to read and compare one with the A little incident relating to her call is worth other, learned to sing a song or two in Spanish repeating here. In the Institute they prayed es- and started a little mission there. It wasn't long pecially for China every Friday, and on this par- until an American living there got saved. He had ticular day they had fasted and prayed definitely ten children and two of them were saved also. for that field. In the evening she was in her Soon the power of God fell. There was only a room alone and the Lord closed her in with Him- little handful at first, but as the shouts and hal- self. Whether in vision or dream she could not lelujahs went up to God the people crowded the tell, but she found herself in spirit on a ship. mission, and the power of God has continued to Everything on board was illuminated and she fall ever since. There has been a continual re- had such an assurance of safety. As she walked vival in San Jose from that time. If you will over to the edge of the boat she saw in the dark keep prayed up and fast, I declare unto you that waters beneath, the faces of the Chinese, with God will keep the fire burning in your soul, and their hands uplifted, looks of agony on their He will give you power. And the people you are faces. And from out the dark waters came the called to work amongst will get salvation and cry, "Come and help us." That vision never the baptism in the Holy Ghost. faded from her memory, and now with her hus- "Some of the Mexican girls who got saved band she is on her way to help those who beck- found a little Yaki Indian girl between thirteen oned to her from the dark waters. and fifteen years of aye, and told her about our Bro. J. R. Jamieson from the West Indies, Jesus. The little girl asked her father if she said that after ten years of battling against con- might come to our meetings, and for awhile he viction he yielded his life to God and obeyed His refused but finally consented. When the altar call to the West Indies. The very first meeting call was qiven that little girl was one of the first he held. God gave him and his wife precious there and in a little while was praising God for souls, who are still standing true to Him. The salvation. We always vxhorted them to pray un- West Indies have been the scene of great Pente- til they received the baptism in the Holy Spirit, costal revivals, and there are now missions on and that little Indian qirl looked up with that five different islands. On one island alone the expectancy that would bring the answer, an? Pentecostal people own three churches. Brother soon she broke out speaking in a ciear English Jamieson has preached on about twenty islands. better than I could myself. As far as I know, and in some places found the rawest kind of she had never heard English spoken, but here heathenism. He snent four weeks in the interior she was speaking in pure English. And what of Dutch Guiana and there found a tribe called was she saying? With a sad expression on her the bush negro that live in a state of nudity and face she said, 'Jesus crucified ! Crucified !' And know nothing whatever about God or Jesus then with the shine of an angel on her face she Christ. This is at our very door! clapped her hands to her breast and said, 'I am Brother Thomas, working on the Mexican happy, happy.' Then again came the wail, 'Je- border, spoke at length on the value and neces- sus crucified, crucifiedl' Her father would not sity of prayer, stating emphatically, "the secret let her come to the mission after that, and she of missionary work is to be prayed up." He said would slip away in the rocks down in San Jose to that for years the Lord led him to do without pray. The Lord had been working in this country breakfast in order that he might have that time down about two hundred miles, and when fifty Mexican people get saved at the end of a revival counting the days until he is permitted to return you can be sure that there are thirty out of the to his Egyptian boys. And so we could say of fifty that will stand true and receive the baptism many others, Past comprehension is the divine in the Holy Ghost." love that God puts into His children that con- It was significant of their calling that each strains them to go forth with such fortitude and missionary felt his field was the most needy and zeal, and enables them to endure suffering as the people to wlhom he was going the best cannot be put into words, for the lost and otit- people on earth. Brother Thgbas, with his heart cast of earth! full of love, said, "The finkskpeople you can find There were three missionary offerings taken, anywhere are the Mexicans." Miss Webb re:t- one at the close of every service. Brother Welch erated that in spite of dirt and filth and disease, had asked the Lord for a thousand dollars at she did long to get back to her beloved Chinese. this Missionary Conference, and at the close it Brother Kauffman, working on the border of slightly exceeded this amount in cash and in China and Tibet, said, "Oh I do love the Tibet- ans." And speaking of the native workers in pledges. The people gave gladly, on the part China, declared that they were as well versed in of many it was a sacrifice offering. Home needs, the Word of God and as steadfast as ,Christian rents, the expenses of the Conference, all were workers in this country. Brother with set aside and the entire offering devoted to the deep longing in his soul is champing the bit and work of God in foreign lands.
Ninety Days Thro' the War Zone Amid Peril and Hardship Miss A. Elizalxfh Brown, 1101 Davis Avc., N. S. Pittsburg, I'a. BOUT the time of the break of going most of the night, but when we awakened diplomatic relations between Tur- in the morning we sighted Caesarea (Acts 23 :33) key and U. S. A. in accordance only a few miles from Jaffa. Our coach was at- with the urgent advice of Jamal tached to a freight train and we had spent a lot Pasha, the military chief of of time shifting back and forth. southern Turkey, the American The R. R. from Jaffa to Ramleh has been Consul, who of course, with his destroyed (also from Haifa, further north on wife and staff was leaving Tur- the coast, to 'Afooley, near Nazareth) and the key, strongly advised me to prepare to leave Jer- material used to help in working the new R. R. usalem and come home as soon as possible. which joins the old Haifa-Damascus road at About nine months previous, while visiting the 'Afooley, and running soubh from that point to sick and needy, I had contracted the fever then Beer Sheba, joining the Jerusalem Road at prevalent (seemingly a mixture of typhus with Wadie Serar, near Lydda. malaria) and while I had recovered, yet strength We traveled steadily, if not rapidly (for the and vigor did not return. Alas, because of the engines, fired by wood, had to stop frequently war conditions, our Sunday School, Women's to get up steam), on through the plains of Sha- Bible Class, village work and even much visit- ron and Esdraelon, reaching 'Afooley about 3 ing among the people could not be continued. p. m. Here the consular agent from Haifa with So, all considered, it seemed best to "obey the his family, eight in all, joined us. Let me say powers that be" and I accordingly broke up our here, that trains in Turkey furnish no sleeping house and prepared to return, God having pro- or chair cars, no toilet accommodations, and no vided homes for my clear girls, and so wondrous- water. If there were only five of us through the ly provided too for the expenses of the way. So night in a compartment which seated six or eight on the 15th, in company with three ladies of the persons, we thought aurselves most fortunate, C. M. A., the consul, his wife and staff, I board- and would make ourselves as comfortable as ed the train in Jerusalem at 3 p. m. We were possible with our rugs and pillows, two on each instructed to take with us beside trunk and suit- seat, and one on the floor, between the seats. case, rugs and pillows, food for at least two or Oftentimes a few spoonsful from our precious three wceks and a large bottle for drinking bottles of water, poured over one corner of our water, and came away with heavy hearts for wash-cloths, sufficed for our morning bath; and those left behind in the,sad conditions existing if, perchance, the train stopped a few minutes there. Our train startcd about 5 p. m. and kept near a spring or little stream, how we did enjoy the luxury of a splash for our faces and hands! leadership of the party, and accompanied by our From 'Afoolcy we journey east, crossing the guard, a uniforn~ed police, we left Aleppo, a Jordan at the south end of the Sea of Galilee party of about forty-five, including two babies about 8p. m. and in the morning found ourselve:, and ten other children. About noon we reached in t.he beautiful valley of the Yarmuk. Then Islahie, at the foot of the Amanus Mountains. still eastward to El Mizeirib, where we joined Being Americans, with whose country diplomatic the Hejaz R. R. which runs from Damascus to relations were ,broken off, really, honored pris- IVlecca. Here we turned north, passing through oners, we were not permitted to go by train the Hauran (Gen. 11 :31, 32), the land of through the tunnels under the mountains, which Rashan, on to Damascus, arriving there about would have taken four or five hours, but we were 9 p. m. Thursday; May 27, having spent fifty- obliged to go over the mountains, in little road two hours in a journey that should have taken wagons and carts. These wagons had no seats, about eighteen. When we went to claim our but we sat on our rugs, spread out to cushio~l baggage, we found it had been cut off and left the wagon beds a bit, our heads nearly touching behind, but it came about four days later. Fri- the top. Two persons could have made them- day morning we hunted up Mr. and Mrs. Forder. selves fairly comfortable; but the space had to Found them, although prisoners of war, living be divided, in some cases, among five or six, in- quietly and comfortably in their "own hired cluding the driver. In these we jogged along house." They have the liberty of the city and for seventeen hours with a rest of only about Jamal Pasha has given orders that they are not two in the middle of the night at Hassan Baley, to be in any way molested. Brother Forder once a prosperous missionary station, but now showed us the sights of the city, the most in- alas, devastated, with also the surrounding vil- teresting to me being its beautiful verdure and lages, in the Armenian atrocities. the old mosque, in all likelihood, originally the After leaving Hassan Raley, going down the "house of Rimmon" (2 Kings 5 :18) In it is a mountain, our drivers lost the way as it was very tomb said to be that of the head of John the dark and sometimes we got into very deep ruts; Baptist, and over its portal is the text inscribed but we claimed the protection of Him who had in Greek, "Thy kingdom, 0 Christ, is an ever- promised to "keep the feet of His saints" and lasting kingdom, and thy dominion endureth He brought us safely through. Some of us had through all generations." (Ps. 145 :13.) We an uncomfortable feeling that perhaps the losing . ' had expected to remain here two days but the of the way was not accidental on the part of the trains were so busy ~~ifhmilitary operations that drivers, and that mayhe foul play awaited us; our stay was prolonged to five. On Tuesday. hut the party plodded on through the darkness May 22, at 7 p. m., we badegood-bye to this, the and about 7 :30 Monday morning we arrived at oldest city .in the world. Marmora, the station on the west side of the The railroad follows the 'beautiful valley of tunnels. We were glad to get out of our cramp- the Abana (2 Icings :12) to Fi.gee, the large, ed corners of the wagons, hut found we would ice-cold spring which gushes out here from have to wait till evening for a train. There was among the rocks and forms the 'head of the no p!ace 6f shelter open to us so we had to fol- river. Then on to the northeast, skirting, the low the shades around a station building; and next day, the old ruins of the temple of Raal- you can judge how hot it was, when a sperm beck, through I-Iamath (Num. 34 :8) reachiny candle in my valise left in the sun part of the Aleppo (probably ancient Arpad (2 Icings day, was melted, the underclothing packed beside 18:34), the next morning, May 24. Here is an it absorbing the most of it. How glad we were old citadel with its ancient moat and causeway, at 6 p. m. to hoard train again for Adana, which said to belong to Hittite times. At this place we we reached about IJ p. m. Here we were told found a large party of missionaries and teachers at first we might not leave the train, but another from Beirut, Aintab, and other places in Tur- official ordered "All out, for this train is going key, which we joined. The consul and his staff or." and we had no permission to proceed fur- were obliged to go on without us; and as soon the!-. as permission was given for men of military age Then, we with our I~aggage,food baskets and to leave the country, the party was augmented lmxes (not a small item for nearly fifty people). by other teachers from Beirut. Sunday, June 3, were landed between the tracks. One official our "wathikas" (permission to travel) were in forbade our going into the station, another for- the hands of Dr. Ward of the Syrian Protestant bade our remaining where we were. Our leader College of Beirut, who kindly undertook the begged of another official "What then may we do?" Finally permission was granted us to oc- I!ut the longest night must end in day, and cupy the second-class waiting room in the sta- after we had partaken of our morning repast tion, only large enough to accommodate our bag- from our lunch baskets, we were told to bring all gage and less than a rlo;.cn people. When this our baggage and present ourselves to be search- was seen by the official to be too small, 11c kindly etl. ICverything was opened, and our persons cxtendcd our borders to the outside of the plat- werc scarclled for gold coin, letters, books, etc., form (city entrance). We did not stop to con- etc., after which we were allowed to go to the sider dirt, vermin, stone floor, publicity nor any station waiting room. We left here by train at other of such minor objections, but with thank- S 11. m. and passing through Lystra and Derbe, ful hearts spread down our rugs and "laid us arrived in Konia (the Iconium of I'aul's timc) down and slept," glad for at least space enough at 9 a. m. of June 9. Here our guard was to stretch our cramped, aching limbs out to their changed, and each men~berof the party was pre- full length, our first opportunity since leaving sented in person to the new guard, consisting Aleppo. The next molrning the missionaries of two gendarms only. We were permitted to of the schools and hospitals of the American go to the hotel, but found that there were only Hoard brought us some good hot soup, eggs, cu- two free beds. These, we at once said, should cumbers, fruit, lebn (a scientifically soured be given to the mothers with the babies, and the milk), etc. Tlheir kindness stands out as a bright rest of us found plenty of room on the floors spot in our journey and will ever live in our of the dining-rooms, sitting-rooms, and balcony. memory. Konia is quite a thtifty little town, with elec- At 4 p. m. we again boarded a train arriving tric street cars, electric light, and a mixture of at Tarsus (Apostle Paul's home city) at 7 p. modern improvements and very ancient primi- m. Here permission had been secured for us to tiveness. We had a prayer service in the morn- go to Mrs. Christie's home. This dear saint ing, and in the afternoon went to see something (may God abundantly bless and reward her) of the town. Here is said to be the cheapest had learned of our con~inegand turned her home and best supplied part ~f the empire. It is to this into a dormito,ry. A hot supper, bath, and a section of the country that most of the prison- fresh, clean soft bed awaited each one of the ers of war arc taken, as well as those deported fifty travelers. The next morning, by the time from Jerusalem, Damascus and other centers we were up we found washerwomen at work on in Palestine and Syria. At 9 p, m. our train our soiled clothing and a good, hot breakfast rolled out of Konia, arriving at Pascha (part (our first sincc leaving Aleppo), awaited us. of Asiatic Constantinople) about 11 p. m. Tues- Then, such a good dinner, and at 3 :30 p. m.. day, June 12. Here we were locked in the sec. June 6, we were off again in wagons and carts; ond-class waiting-roem of the station, until the this time over the Tarsus Mountains, our road censor and the examining officers arrived the being the far-famed beautiful Salician Pass. rext morning. The process of examination was For this mountain journey we had full moon, concluded almut noon, after which we were free and a good road. We climbed all that night to cross the Bosphorus to the European and and until 2 p. m. the next day, with otily two or principal part of the old Ryzantine capital. We three halts to feed the horses. In the moonliglit were met at tjhe ferry by the Secretary of the we passed several snow-fields. Never will we American Hoard, who had arranged with the forget our race down the mountains! Our authorities of Robert College, the Girls' Ameri- wagons had no brakes, so the horses ran as fast can College and its Preparanda Dept., and the as they could, around sharp turns, over bridges, Bible House, to care for us. down the mountain side, reaching the railroad We supposed it would take us from five ta station at Rozanti about 4:30 p. m. where we eight days to attend to all the necessary formali- hoped to be allowed :o take the evening train. ties and secure our permits for travel through But no! the whole party with our baggage, our Austria, hut each day in answer to the inquiry guard of two policemen and ten soldiers, were of our leader, Dr. Ward, "Have you any news?" given a military shed for the night, which some we were answered by a "No," or an Arabic shrug of us named our Palace Royal. It was a large of the shoulders, which means so much to the wooden shed with earth floor, and when we initiated, or, "We hope permission will come spread down our rugs and laid us down for the on tomorrow's Balkan Express," was the un- night we found an innumerable host of flees. changed answer for almost five weeks. (2ucrie:i lice, mosquitos, etc., awaiting us, and they all lodged themselves in our minds: Were we really "got busy" to our great discomfort. interiicd and did not know it? We were com- 2 2 pelled to register promptly after our arrival, at Icalendar and some other our clothing and wcre told to keep our lift-belts papers to him (which .I had carried to Constan- at hand. The life boats were kept swung over tinople under censor's seal) and he kindly re- ready for instant use and we were shown our turned everythin,g to me sealed. We left about life-boat station on the deck and told that if we a dozen and a half photographs in the various heard three long blasts of the whistle, we must consulates, police stations, etc., from which wt repair immediately to it, but we had a "safe con- secured our permits and vises. voy" from above, hallelujah ! 1's. 37 :7. Friday, June 20, was a happy day, for at 9 a. 'J'he officials all along die way were kind and m. after careful examination of baggage and persons, our train rolled out from Constanti- courteous and did the l~estthey could for us un- nople carrying our party of fifty-two, the Con- tler the circumstances, and the hardships were suls and others, forty-eight in all, having pre- not only made bearable but easy to endure, be- ceded us by two days. cause we knew that our 1;atller who loved us Just across the Turkish border we were de- was guiding and caring. 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