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Evangelical Visitor- June 1, 1890. Vol. III. No. 11

Henry Davidson

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SHALL I BE READY? purpose by general conference of parts of the church were selected to 1889. - look after this phase of the work. Will the work that I am doing The delegate system, as it stands 0! let us all pray that they ma,y Stand the test of that great day, in "Church Government," was adopt correct plans and then let us AVhen the Lord will eome to judgment adopted after some discussion upon back them up by our means. Surely All that's wrong to sweep away? an amendment, proposing to re­ God's blessings will rest upon the Will He speak the words of welcome When he comes to claim His own, strict officers in the church from labors of a conference where love, Will He say, thou hast been faithful, voting in conference unless sent as peace and harmony so uniformly All thy work has been well done ? delegates. prevailed. Have I built on the foundation, The weather was rather wet dur­ The conference was followed by a On the rock that's firm and true, ing some of the sessions, yet the at­ love feast and communion service on Have I made a full surrender tendance was uniformly good. Saturday night which was largely Striving with my might to do ? The brethren of Dayton district attended and was very impressive. All the work the Master gives me deserve heartiest thanks for the ex­ The meeting was continued over With my armor ever bright, Walking in the narrow pathway cellent arrangements and kind hos­ Sabbath, closing with the evening Ever keeping in the light. pitality to their guests from abroad. services. One of the especial after­ Oh, I must be more in earnest, Their kindness shall be long remem­ noon service was a childrens' meet­ I must seek the Lord today, bered. ing of about an hour's duration. Al­ Choose Him as my only portion, The numerous sessions of the though something' new among the While in this dark world I stay. meeting were interspersed with the brethren at such times, yet it seemed —SEL. most soul-reviving praise and tes­ to be a fitting recognition of the duty GENERAL CONPERENCE. timony meeting. The readers of of the church in that direction. Jesus One of the most eventful confer­ the VISITOR, generally can endorse says, "Suffer the little children to ences in the history of the church the following resolution which was come unto me and forbid them not." was held by the brethren in their unanimously adopted by conference. new church at West Milton, 0., May WHEREAS, It has pleased God in His Provi­ TO ENGLISH SPEAKING SCHOLARS, 21st to 23rd. At an early hour a dence to call from their respective fields of It is proposed to publish, by sub­ large number of beloved brethren labor and from active duties in the church, Elders John Stoner, of Morrison Cove, Pa., scription, a translation of the en­ and sisters had assembled. Twenty- Henry Rosenberger, of Bucks county, Pa., tire Acts of the six Ecumenical five districts were represented by and Benjamin B. Shelly, of Lancaster count}', Synods of the whole Church, East from one to five delegates each. The Pa., therefore be it and west. These councils were unity, coupled with the zeal of this Resolved, That we deeply deplore the loss 1. Nicceu, Anno Domini 825; 2. meeting was remarkable. Although of so active and valuable workers in the vine­ yard of the Lord, yet wo bow in humble sub­ First Constantinople. Anno Domi­ •matters of great moment to the mission to the will of God, believing that our ni 381; 3. Ephesns, Anno Domini church were discussed from widely loss is their eternal gain. 431; 4. Chalcedon, Anno Domini divergent points of view, and al­ The business of conference being 451; 5. Second Constantinople, though the lines of argument in de­ practically closed Friday noon, the Anno Domini 553; 6. Third Con­ bate frequently were extreme op- afternoon session was chiefly devot­ stantinople, Anno Domini 680. posites, it was all done with a de­ ed to a further discussion of the mis­ The Acts of these Councils include gree of evident candor and honesty, sionary question. It is iudeed a not only the Canons and the Doc­ and the loving concurrence in every pleasure to observe the growing in­ trinal Decisions, but also what in decision was truly remarkable and terest of the church in mission work. modern times we call the minutes. praise-worthy. The great difficulty has seemed to Of the first two Ecumenical Synods, An important act was the endorse­ have been to select judiciously the the Acts, are in large measure lost; ment of papers that have appeared fields of labor and to find willing but we have those of the last four. in the VISITOR on the "Lord's Sup­ and qualified laborers. With this The publication which we have in per" and "Baptism" as revised by matter in view a committee of view will begin with the First Ecum­ the committee appointed for that twelve brethren representing all enical Council—Nica?a. It will be

•*••—^-•-•JI ..... - ••liiMMMIteMaMMM 162 EX^i^KexEXMGAl!x YisiTOR. Junei,i89o. followed in due time by a transla­ that of the individual or the limited purifying, and unifying English- tion of everything extant of the section of Christendom, that he who speaking Christendom. other five. The object of the pres­ rejects it incurs the anathema of Finally, 4. It is believed that the ent circular is to ascertain whether our Lord, and should beheld "as an work, which we desire to undertake, there is sufficien t i nterest in this sub­ heathen man or a publican," (St. will have a most important influ­ ject to encourage a vigorous effort Matt. 15-19.) ence on the burning question of to carry out the scheme. 2. The history of Christendom is unity. The basis of such is un- A knowledge of everything con- bound up with maintainance of the doubtebly the Catholic faith, whole tained in the Acts of the Synods, is authority of the Councils. Every and undefiled. There is one Lord, an important help to a right under­ time we recite the word s in the Creed, one Faith, oneBaptism: One Lord, standing of the decisions and Can­ as set forth in the second of those He whom the Creed depicts in His ons; and yet these documents, at Synods, "I believe in One, Holy, Eternal Person and Godhead, and present accessible only in the origi­ Universal, and Apostolic Church," in His relations to us as Incarnate; nal, are to this hour unknown to we implicitly admit the authority one Faith in him, as so authorita­ the bulk of the Clergy. To render of these documents. The three tively presented to the enlightened the proposed translation more val­ great communions of Christendom, reason and the loving heart; one uable, a large amount of additional the Greek, the Latin, and the An­ Baptism into that one Faith in that matter will be added in the form of glican, more or less, accept and one Lord. But that Faith in Him notes, largely consisting of Greek venerate them. The Greek profess­ is based on the dogmatic decisions and Latin originals, intended for es to receive the Acts of the Six of the six Sole Ecumenical Councils, the use of the scholar in verification Synods entire; the Latin claims to and cannot be intelligibly expressed, and further reference. In these hold them with the exception of a save in the terms and language of notes will be included translations few of their canons; the Anglican the two Creeds, the Definitions, the of documents prior'and subsequent Church, in part II. of the Homily Epistles approved by them, the dis­ to the Councils, with extracts from Against Peril of Idolatry, speaks of ciplinary utterances and the canons the writings of the Orthodox and them as "those Six Councils which which they set forth; and the man their opponents. All this, as may were allowed and received of all who seeks the recovery of Catholic men." The Luthern, Reformed and be inferred, will greatly add to the unity on lines outside those of the Presbyterian formularies, with cost of printing. It is hoped and One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic those of other Trinitarian bodies, believed that the project will com­ Church, is as one who pursues a are more or less based on these mend itself to large numbers of phantom, or ascribes reality to a decisions as to the great, fundamen­ Christian scholars and theologians. dream. tal, and all important themes of In brief, as to the authority of TERMS OF PUBLiICATION. the Trinity and the Incarnation. those Synods, their wide reception, Nicpea will be furnished to Sub­ and their importance: 1. They are In fact, it may bo said of these scribers at $3 a. volume, to others the only utterances of the undivid­ Acts, that they enter, more or less, the price will be •$4. One, or per­ ed Church, East and West, and are into the standards of faith of per­ haps two volumes of the restwill be of the highest authority, ranking haps 450,000,000 out of 500,000,- issued each year, and payment will next in value to the Holy Scriptures 000 who claim to be Christians. be only on delivery. Niea?a will be themselves. As decisions of univer­ No uninspired documents are so published first, and its remains, sal Christendom, they invite our valuable as these to the Christian with matter appertaining to them, reverence, and supply a need. A world; yet, unfortunately, they are, will be contained in one volume. Father or Docter of the Church ex­ to a large extent, unknown and un­ The translator has been a student presses at most his individual opin­ available for practical use. or teacher of ecclesiastical Greek ion or gives his testimony as a wit­ 3. In the refutation of heresies, for about 35 years, and has been ness, but this he does subject to the not only of former days but of our engaged upon this work since 1864, ruling of an Ecumenical Synod ; and own, these documents are of the and has spent much of the past some such individual opinions have highest importance. Most of the twenty-five years in the labor of been condemned ; where as the Ecum­ errors now current are connected in study and translation. The results enical Council, bound to define in some way with the denials, which of his toil will be presented to the accord with what has been held it may be hoped, are the result reader without anything hostile to always, everywhere, and by all, de­rather of ignorance than of direct the Six Synods, and with material fines under the protection of aid hostility to the truth. . There can in the originals of the documents promised by Christ himself, (St. be little doubt that the intelligent quoted, to enable the reader to form Matt, xxviii, 20, xviii, 18; St. John study of the Acts would be of im­his own judgment as to the accu­ xiv, 10;xvi, 13 ;1. Thn.iii, 15, etc,) mense service in the enlightening, racy of the version. It is unneces­ and with an authority so far beyond sary at present to go beyond this

.. . June 1,1890. EX^JVM GrEXM CxfLEx T1S1T0R. 163 request for subscriptions, sufficient account of the attempt of the Synod, against his attempt to un­ fco publish Nicsea, the first volume Bishops of Rome to acquire appelate do its sentence on him. G. The of the series. It is desired to put jurisdiction in the provinces under protest, after the recovery of Africa Nicsea in press first, because it is Carthage in Northwest Africa, in by the Emperor Justinian in the the first of the said Councils. Should the first half of the fifth century; first half of the sixth century, this effort prove successful, another and the struggle against it of Au- of Reparatus, Bishop of Carthage, volume will follow, containing the relius, Bishop of Carthage, Augus­ Florentinian, Datian, and 217 oth­ Second Ecumenical Council. The tine, Bishop of Hippo, and the er Bishops, who had been in coun­ Third Ecumenical Council will make whole African Synod under Aure- cils of all North Africa at Carthage, two or three volumes; the Acts of lius, with a translation of the fol­ to John II., Bishop of Rome, pro­ Chalcedon requires three; the Acts lowing documents bearing on that testing against his receiving ap­ of the Fifth Council perhaps two, matte]-. All tins bears on Canon V peals from North Africa. H. Part and those of the Sixth two more. of Nica;a, on which the Africans of an epistle of Pope Agapetus I., Your attention is respectfully based their resistance. The docu­ the successor of John II., to Repar­ called to this subject, and your aid ments translated are as follows: atus, Bishop of Carthage, and his earnestly solicited. Send your let­ A. A part of a, letter of St. Cyprian, Synod, in which he seems to admit ter or subscription to JAMES Bishop of Carthage, to Cornelius, that the African protest was right. CHRYSTAL, Publisher, 255 GROVE Bishop of Rome. B. Extracts from Our design is so thoroughly to STREET, JERSEY CITY, N. J. Please the Code of Canons of the North­ present these inestimably precious state whether you wish Nica?a, west African Church, including a documents that the bishop, pres­ alone, or more, or the whole of the writing of Pope Zosimus I., and his byter, or deacon who has them may Six Councils. Give your name and claim to appelate jurisdiction, based know well what now very few know address clearly. on canons of the local council of well, that is exactly what the teach­ The publication, as has been said, Sardica, which he quotes as belong­ ings of the Universal Church in will begin with Niceea, A. D. 325, ing to the Ecumenical Synod of those Councils are. And he who and the aim is to make it the fullest Nica?a. C. Reply of the African studies them well will find that they collection of documents of it, or al­ Synod to Pope Boniface I., Zos­ have decided, not only against the leged to be of it, in the English imus, successor, on that matter, abuses, the heresies, and the super­ language, forit will contain not on­ and their profession of not know­ stitions of their own times, but al­ ly the undisputed remains, which ing such canons as those of Nicaa, so anticipatively, under the in­ are: 1. Its Synodal Epistle; 2. Its and their determination to send to fluence of the Holy Ghost, against Creed, a,nd 3. Its twenty Canons but the East to get the genuine canons many of the abuses, the heresies, also 4. A statement as to what is of Nicsea, D. Letter of St. Cyril, and superstitions of our day. No known of its giving the office of cal­ Bishop of Alexandria, to the Carth­ man deserves to be called a Christ­ culating Easter to the Bishop of aginian Council, and that of Atticus ian theologian who is ignorant of Alexandria. 5. Its action as to Bishop of Constantinople to the them. the celibacy and marriage of the same Council, giving them the in­ No money asked till the work is clergy, as told by Socrates in his formation that the Ecumenical published. Ecclesiastical History, book 1, Council of Nicasa made by twenty <» ^ » chapter xi, 6. The very important canons, and that the canons al­ "There are no songs comparable Creed which is ascribed to it in the leged by Pope Zosimus for his to the Songs of Zion, no orations matter in the editions of the Coun­ claim of appellate jurisdiction in equal to those of the prophets, and cils, after the Acts of the Third Northwest Africa are not among no politics like th ose which the Scrip­ Ecumenical Council. 7. A state­ them. E. Final reply of the Carth­ tures teach."—Milton. ment on certain Spurious Canons aginian Synod to Pope Celestine. A believer who walks habitually ascribed to it. 8. Certain Consti­ the successor of Boniface, denying with God, may acquire a sort of in­ tutions attributed to it. his claim to appellate jurisdiction tuitive discernment of the right, in In the text or notes it will con­ in Northwest Africa, and branding the most perplexed passages of ac­ tain translations also of passages the canons alleged for it by Pope tual precept may seem immediately of the Orthodox St. Ythanasius; Zosimus as not those of Nicoea. F. to bear. St. Alexander of Alexandria, etc., An epistle of St. Augustine, Bishop Gladstone said : Let Christ be the and of the heretics Arius, Eusebius of Hippo, the celebrated champion centre, heart and root of all preach­ of Nicomeclia, etc. against Pelagianism, to Celestine, ing, not of facts about Him or no­ Those passages bear most im­ Bishop of Rome, protesting against tions concerning Him, but His per­ portantly on the matters decided his receiving an appeal from An­ son His work, His simple, yet unfath­ by the Council. tony, Bishop of Fussala, who had omable, sayings. Here lies the se­ Besides, the work will contain an been disciplined by his own African cret.

-irac*--— - - < -- - '•—• -| - •*«*ttw-MttHiriimMta_^. 164 KYANGKExIGAE. YI8IT0R. June i, isoo. For the Evangelical Visitor. dividual would allow the awful pres­ earthquake shock of battle were NIGHT AND THE EFFECTS OF IT, ence of God to be felt the many ghast­ past. It seemed as if a still small The first and great historian be­ ly deeds and bloody crimes would voice were whispering to the suffer­ gins his history by saying, "In the not be committed that there is. We ing and dying thousands and the beginning God created the heaven must believe that the all-seeing eye most hardened soldiers were glad and the earth, and the earth was that penetrates the darkest places to hear anybody speak of God. without form, and void; and dark­ of the world, Avitnesses more horrors Jesus love 1 to be alone at night, ness was upon the face of the deep. when the earth has on its mantle of when he was in a crowded throng all And the Spirit of God moved upon night then any other time. The day; when evening came he would the face of the waters. And God greatest crime ever committed was steal away to some lofty mountain said, J vet there be light and there was begun at night when Judas betray­ or desert place to be alone with God light." Gen. i, 1, 2, 3. And God de- ed his Master to the chief priests and and all that passed between Father vided the light from the darkness ca/ptains, and this same betrayer and Son will never be known. But and called the light day and the died by his own hands under the the word teaches us that he pleaded darkness he called night. We feel to cover of darkness. And God veiled the cause of a ruined world, and this echo the words of the Psalmist and the land in darkness when His only should keep us mindful of our duty say, "Day unto day uttereth speech, Son was suspended between heaven to our fellow travelers to the bar of and night unto night showeth and earth, when the veil of the tem­ God that we hold each other up at knowledge.'' Through the day while ple was rent in twain and in the a throne of grace. The silent watch­ occupied by its duties and surround­ agony of soul he cried "My God, ers in the sick room, nursing some ed by those with whom we daily as­ my God, why hast thou forsaken loved one, feel that nature sympa­ sociate, we forget self or forget that me?" Can we believe men everstood thizes with them when all is hushed the Author of our being could but in greater terror than those that in sleep save the form over which speak the word and the spirit that saw the sun refuse to shine when His they bend. Those that are left to is imprisoned in this tent of clay majesty divine was derided, insulted watch over the chamber of death would return to its Maker and the and slain, and the shadows of night feel its solemnity more and see how body to mother dust. But when the were approaching, when the little dependent we are upon a stronger voice of clay is hushed and the ac­ party with their precious burden arm when nature is hushed to rest tivity of busy life has ceased and we wended there way from Calvary to and they are left alone with thedead. sit alone watching the approaching Joseph's tomb to pay the last tri­ It draws us nearer the one we all twilight followed by night with its butes of respect and love to one in wish to call Father, when the icy dusky robe and starry crown, its whom they had their all ? hand is still forever our mortal silence and solitude impresses us Daniel March D. D., in his writings frames that are laid in the dark and deeply as we think we are alone in says, I have laid down to sleep at silent tomb. the presence of our God, without night upon the bloody fields of war; 0, what a comfort for those to sight, without sound, but darkness around me were thousands of dead whom the light of the sun is forever veiling our surroundings, we are left sleeping in shallow graves which bared by blindness to think oneday alone to think, to meditate. The their companions had made for they shall see with a- purer, clearer mind is always clearer, the visions them in haste. Although the shat­ vision than mortal eyes was ever brighter when cares are cast aside. tered forest and trampled fields lay blessed with, and they shall behold If we feel that the Holy One is our still more numerous thousands of the face of Him who doeth all things Father and Protector, then the wounded and dying, with the bare well. But the heart-rending sorrows wakeful hours of night are the sweet­ earth for a bed and the open sky for that some are called upon to bear est and happiest hours of life, when a covering. In the darkness and shapes itself int o such clouds of dark- we realize that we can commune with silence an occasional cry would come ness that life seems almost a burden. Jesus and that he fills our souls with from the parched lips of a dying I know a mother whose only child, that comfort and peace that satisfi­ soldier, in the dilirium of death, call­ the idol of her heart, has been es our longings. Often at eve when I ing the name of beloved ones in his snatched from her bosom by death. give m y hodj to repose, this thought far distant home. Many souls were She feels that no sorrow is like hers. presents itself to me, shall I live to passing to their last account every With burning tears she tells her grief see the glorious light of another hour as the heavy night wore away. to her sympathizing friends. In the morn or shall I open my eyes in the It seemed as if the veil of darkness silent watches of the night she says eternal world ? This seems to bring were the shadows of the unseen she answers, with a start, thinking one as it were, face to face with world resting upon that field, and her darling is calling mamma, and death, and the solemn thought that it Avas but a step from time to yet all she hears is the beating of her brings me to a self-examination and eternity when the devouring firean d aching heart. a spirit of penitence. If every in­ the desolating tempest and the 0, could all the afflicted but know

:--?cf^astiMaiMBife: ^—_- Jnne 1,1890. EXVi^MGrE^f CAEx that the Lord doeth all things well ren of Israel were in Egypt in bond­ of God. Under this law of Moses, and for their good, theywouldmore age under Pharaoh, the Lord heard or old dispensation, the children of fully trust Him and with patience their cry and sent unto them the Israel were led to do what was right, wait for the home where there shall Prophet Moses to lead them out of between themselves and their fel­ be no more night. Egypt into the promise land of lowmen and they had no right to No night shall be in heaven ; no gathering Canaan where milk and honey unshield the sword against their gloom flowed. This appeared very des­ fellowmen in an unjust causebutina Shall o'er that glorious landscape ever come. just cause they were given com­ No tears shall fall in sadness o'er those flowers irable to them at that present time That breath their fragrance through celestial but God through Moses had to do mand to fight. The law and bowers. many miracles and wonders before old dispensation was altogether No night shall be in heaven ; forbid to sleep, helet the children of Israel go. But typical and figurative of the gospel These eyes no more their mournful vigils when God said that it was enough, or new dispensation. For Moses keep ; Pharaoh was disposed to let the said to the children of Israel, the These fountains dried, their tears all wiped Lord your God shall raise up an­ away. children of Israel go, and they went They gaze undazzled on eternal day. with an high, uplifted hand till they other prophet from amongst your No night shall be in heaven ; no sorrow reign, got to the Red Sea a,nd Pharaoh brethren, like unto me him shall No secret anguish, no corporeal pain, hardened his heart and pursued you hear and it shall come to pass, No shivering limbs, no burning fever there, after the children of Israel and met that whosoever will not hear that No souls eclips, no winter of despair. them at the Red Sea and when the prophet, shall be destined from No night shall be in heaven ; but endless noon, amongst the people of God. The No fast declining sun, no waning moon ; children of Israel saw their enemies day of grace was prophesied and But there the Lamb shall yield perpetual in hot pursuit after them, they were foretold long before hand by the light very much alarmed and frightened, holy prophets. The day of grace '.Mid pastures green and waters ever bright. seeing no way of escape; but Moses No night shall be in heaven ; no darkened commenced when our Saviour ful­ the great prophet, their leader said: room, filled the Law and became the end "Stand still and you shall see the No bed of death, nor silence of the tomb, of the law. And this was not fully salvation of the Lord," (which im­ But breezes ever fresh with love and truth accomplished till he hung on the Shall brace the frame with an immortal youth. plies deliverance) and the Lord said cross, bled and died, was buried, No night shall bo in heaven,'but night is here, to Moses "stretch out thy rod over and rose triumphant from the The night of sorrow and the night of fear. the sea," and the sea became di­ I mourn the ills that now my steps attend, grave. Isaiah, the prophet, said And shrink from others that may yet impend. vided and they went through on that this dear Jesus was led as a No night shall be in heaven. Oh had I faith dry land. Pharaoh followed after sheep to the slaughter and like a To rest in what the faithful witness saith, them in the sea., but God withheld lamb dumb before his shearer, so That faith would 'make these hideous phan­ Pharaoh that he could not come opened lie not his mouth. In his toms flee, any closer to the children of the And leave no night henceforth on earth for humiliation his judgment was taken Israel and when Pharaoh with his me. away, and who shall declare his 0. IDA SHAFFER. chariots was in the midst of the generation for his life is taken from West Milton, 0. sea, God strove against him and the earth. Isa. liii, 7. Christ had to made his chariot drive hard and reign till he had conquered the last THE DAY 01 GEACE. loosed the wheels. By this time the enemy and the last enemy that was For the law was given by Moses, but grace children of Israel got over and the to be subdued was death. Jesus and truth came by Jesus Christ. St. John i, 17. sea came together again and Phar­ said to his disciples that it is ex­ In the first place the law was given aoh's host was drowned. Then the pedient for you that I go to the to Moses, on Mount Sinai, by God children of Israel sang the song of Father but if I go not to the Father himself and thus it was calculated Moses, they thought they had over­ comforter will not come; but I will that the people should be governed come all their enemies and were sure not leave you comfortless, I will by. Or in other words, as the of Canaan's fair and happy land, send him unto you and he will lead Apostle Paul declares, as a school­ and did not know that the;*' were you into all truth. master to bring us to Christ. The to go through bitter water. intent and purpose that this law Dear reader, let us pause and Oh dear reader! let us praise the was given was to civilize and mor­ think for an half an hour, for we Lord for his goodness, and long alize but it could not christianize read in holy scriptures that there forebearance towards us fallen crea­ them. But in so far as they obeyed was silence in heaven the space of tures, for we have free access to a and were willing to follow the teach­ half an hour. Heaven is to be in throne of grace. This dear Jesus ings of this law, it made them good, our hearts and if we thus give the that has done so much for us, had law-abiding citizens, and taught holy scriptures a solemn and serious to feel, and be tempted in like man­ them to act right and justly with thought, we will wonder with great ner as we, yet without sin. Christ their fellowmen. When the child­ admiration at the mvsterious wavs had to suffer all this, the just for

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166 E^J^MGEvMGAEx VISITOR. Junel,1890. the unj ust so that He could be touch­ in receiving the invitation or gift, They did not understand the mis­ ed with our infirmities. as "John saith, of his fulness have sion of our Savior. He, however, Now dear reader, we see that Christ all we received grace for grace. explained to them that He came not lias brought about a full and com­ John i, 16. Grace is a favor, an un­ "to call the righteous, but sinners plete plan of salvation, abolished merited gift, and if we apply to the to repentance.'' If the Pharisees,' death, and has brought life and im­ means of grace, we will surely be lib­ great sinners as some of theiri were, mortality to light, through the gos­ erated from our sins. As we are considered themselves already pel. And the glorious procla­ commanded by the prophet, let the whole, then, of course, Christ could mation went forth that the captive wicked forsake his ways, and the do them no good; but to the pub­ and those that were bound are set unrighteous man his thoughts, licans and sinners, the defiled, despis­ at liberty. When Lincoln had abol­ and let him return to the Lord and ed and downtrodden of earth, He ished slavery he sent the proclama­ he will have mercy, and to our God extended a helping hand. To those tion out that the slaves are free, and and he will abundantly pardon. who knew they were blind and sick from that time the slaveholders had Now if we thus turn to the Lord, and maimed, and who desired to be no power to hold their slaves any there will be a, radical change. But made whole, He manifested His di­ longer Now this was made accessa- with sorrow we have to say, how vine love and power. "The blind ble to the slaves, so that they could few are turning to the Lord, compar­ received their sight and the lame choose to be free or bound. And so ed with the great number that are were made to walk, the lepers were it is in a spiritual sense of view. By choosing the broad road that leads cleansed and the deaf made to hear, nature we were all bound with the to ruin and everlasting destruction. the dead were raised up and the poor had the gospel preached to slavish chains of sin, and sin gave They don't appreciate this time— them." Such were fruits of Christ's satan (the old slaveholder) power the welfare of their souls. As the ministry on earth. to hold us bound till Christ came hymn sayeth: and took away our sins, and over­ "Oil time ! how few thy value weigh, The grandest thought that could came him that held the power of How few will estimate a day. be conceived is, that, as Christ was death. We are now transplanted Days, months and years are rolling on, ready to save the people from their out of the kingdom of the world in­ The soul neglected and undone." bodily afflictions at that time, so to the kingdom of Christ, into the How much depends on thebendof He'is ready todaj' to save all sin-af­ glorious liberty of the children of our mind: when our minds are turn­ flicted souls that come to Him. He God. The purpose that brought ed Christward we are truly happy, is the sinner's friend and He says, Christ into this world, was to estab­ but when they are on the world, its "Him that cometh to me, I will in lish the kingdom of heaven in the riches, its fame and honors there is nowise cast out." Thus He may hea>rts of his people. If Christ thus danger. Hence the importance of become to us a personal Savior. has establishsd the kingdom of having the mind dwell upon things Knowing that there are many heaven in our hearts, then we are above, and not so much upon things kings and priests, and shall reign souls, who are laboring wearily un­ of this world. der a heavy load of sin, longing for with Christ a thousand years. This Now may the grace of our Lord day of grace is with the Lord as a, some remedy to heal their dire ma­ and Saviour Jesus Christ, and the lady, we would earnestly recommend thousand years, and a thousand love of God and the communion of years as the day of grace. Peter them to come to Jesus, who is the the Holy Spirit rest upon us all. great Physician that can cleanse the saith that we should not be ignorant Amen. J. S. Lie MM AX. of this, that one day is with the Lord soul from sin. Now, dear reader, we know that this Physician can as a thousand years, and a thou­ GOME SIN-SICK SOUL. sand years as one day. 2 Peter save you. Be your sins ever so iii, 8. * Jesus, upon a- certain occasion, many, you have but to come to when the Pharisees found fault with Him and He will blot every one of Dear reader, a special invitation Him for eating with publicans and them out. He calls sin-sick souls to to the unconv erted is given by the sinners said : "They that be whole come to Him. He offers them peace apostle Paul, the grace of God that need not a physician, but they that and pardon and rest. bringeth salvation hath appeared are sick. * * * I am not come to call Dear reader, are you tired of sin ? to all, teaching us that in deny­ the righteous, but sinners to re­ Has some great calamity or some ing ungodliness and worldly lust, pentance." The Pharisees were a worldly loss brought yon to a reali­ we should live righteously and sober­ self-righteous people. They did not zation of the fact that yon are lost? ly in this present world. Now this consider other people to be equal Perhaps death has bereft you of a is a glorious call and invitation, to with themselves, and they could not father, or companion, or child whom all those that are out of the ark of comprehend why Christ, who was you dearly love, and yourhearthas safety, because it has appeared to held as a teacher from God, should been softened and saddened by grief. you all, and we should not be slow eat with publicans and sinners. You feel so lonelv and forsaken, with

risn -.-_-.— June 1,1890. i^v^LM (SEXIVIGAEx YI8IT0R. 167 no hope of meeting your departed ment. It is the one thing needful heavier loss of His beloved presence. one in heaven. Or, perhaps some to make this life a success. Again Hour after hour they toiled, and neighbor has suddenly and unex­ we would ask you to come and be caught nothing. It would not have pectedly died, and you are haunted made a partaker of the benefits of been wonderful had they said, "Let with a fear that you will be called this blessed religion. Oh, that it us go ashore. We have labored in soon and you are not prepared. < >r, were in our power to bring you to vain. Why should we continue row­ again, perhaps you are afflicted with Jesus. Our heart is enlarged to­ ing any longer? We are only wast­ bodily sickness, and amidst the con­ ward you, we feel an interest in the ing our time and strength to no sequent pain and restlessness have welfare of your soul, we desire that purpose." They might ha,ve said the additional burden of a guilty. you might be relieved from the bur­ all this, and they might have done conscience. Be your trouble of what­ dens of sin -and become a child of it. And so they would have lost the ever nature it may, there is relief to God. When salvation is so much joy that came with the morning. be found with Jesus. Would you be to be desired, and when it is offered That joy whose full extent they did redeemed? then come to Him. Ac­ to you so full and so free why will not at first recognize, but which cept the kind invitation that He so you not come and take it? All dwelt in their hearts as long as they lovingly extends to you. In words through the Bible are voices calling lived. Cor "when the morning was of tenderest sympathy He calls, to sinners to turn from sin and come now come, Jesus stood on the "Come to me." "Come unto me all to God, and in the last chapter of shore!" ye that labor and are heavy laden this great Book are summed up all Among the many thoughts that and I will give you rest.'' What a other calls into one great and final rise from the story of this wonder- beautiful invitation. Will you not invitation to all mankind. "And ous meeting—thoughts of His care accept it now? You have so often the Spirit and the bride say, come, for His own followers, thoughts of rejected this heavenly call and every and let him that is a thirst come, His marvellous risen condition, time it has left you in deeper gloom. and whosoever will let him take the thoughts of His words to Peter, and You desire to be saved ; then why water of life freely.'' When will you His condescension to them all—we not come to Jesus? Your weary come? J. G.C. would select just this lesson for our­ souls will never find rest unless you Skippack, Pa. selves from the conduct of those pa­ accept Christ. The longer you con­ tient fishermen. "Be not weary in tinue in sin the more you will be­ THE uTSUOCESSPUL NIGHT, well doing, for in due season ye shall come inthralled by it. Hence the reap if ye faint not." It is often weary and seemingly hopeless work, necessity of coming now while your And that night they caught nothing, hat heart is softened. Now, while the when the morning was now come, Jesus stood fishing to bring souls to Christ, but voice of Jesus is calling so tenderly, on the shore. John xxi, 3, 4. the hour of morning joy may be and so sweetly offering you rest. That long, dreary unsuccessful nearer than men think, and even The words of Charlotte Eliott ex­ night was a lesson of patience; not now in the darkness Jesus may be press your feeling: for the seven apostles in the boat standing near, ready to reveal Him­ only, but for every fisher of men who, self and to pour out an unspeaka­ With tearful eyes J look around,— ble blessing.—SEL. Life seems a dark and stormy sea ; since those days, has cast the gos- Yet midst the gloom J hear a sound, pelnet into the waters of human ex­ A heavenly whisper—"Come to me !" istence. There is something of deep If we disagree, let us not be dis­ Dear sinner, think of what you significance in the labors of that agreeable. will gain by becoming a Christian. night; it was not a night of storm Those that think to serve God You will lose nothing but your sins like some of those wild seasons that and mammon only; God will have and gain everything. Gain peace the boats of that chosen company all the heart or none. and gladness; gain many soul-re­ had formerly encountered. It was freshing spiritual blessings; and only a dark, unsuccessful night, Deep intense, personal love for above all, gain an inheritance to when they had no food and no hope Christ, s](ringing out of an appre­ heaven. We cannot conceive the of gaining food. They had gone hension of His boundless loveto us, glories of heaven; we only know forth, a select band of friends, knit is what we should ardently long that there our joy will be supreme. together by the strongest ties and after; for what will not love accom­ The religion of Jesus Christ is a byjloving remembrances of Him with plished? blessed thing to have. It tempers whom they had so often in happier "From the time that, at my moth­ all the disappointments and sorrows days sailed on these waters; now er's feet, or my father's knee, I.first of_ life. In it we find a balm for He could no longer be present with learned to lisp verses from the sa­ every wound, strength for every them, and their hearts were sadden­ cred writings, they have been my trial, grace for every temptation ed by the overthrow of their hopes daily study and vigilant contem­ and consolation for every bereave­ as to his kingdom, and the still plation."— Webster.

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168 EYAKGK^IGAE. YI8IT0R, June 1, 1890. EVANGELICAL VISITOR. good work is still going. Quite re­ ed to the stream near by and five A Semi-Monthly Eeligious Journal, cently Bro. J. H. Myers wrote us of were baptized and were added to Published in the interest of the Church of the a very interesting meeting in Cum­ the church. Elder Engle officiated. Brethren in Christ commonly called in the Unit­ berland Co., Pa., which letter we The prayers of the church were heard ed States "lliver Brethren" and in Canada "Tankers" for the exposition of true practical publish. May the Lord continue in heaven and answered to the glory piety among all classes. the work. and praise of his name; the church SUBSCRIPTION, per year, $1.00 ; six months, 50 c. revived and those outside of the Specimen copies free. A good work has been commenc­ pails of the church were made to EDITED AXD PUBLISHED BY ed in the establishing of a mission acknowledge the truth of God's H. 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All are cordially in­ through the Spirit I was led to con­ White Pigeon, Michigan, June 1, 1890. vited . sider my place of labor was in the west; here I have learned more of We trust that the readers of the ELECTION OF CHUKCH OFFICERS. the need of the spread of the gospel VISITOR will pardon the late appear­ and of evangelistic work. ance of this number. But owing to An election for two Deacons took The question is how shall we do the meeting of Conference and a de­ place in our meetinghouse in Mark- it. Christ said go preach the gos­ sire to give a report of the proceed­ ham, Ontario, May 15th, 1890. pel to every creature. How many ings, it was unavoidably delayed. One for Vaughn, and one for Mark- do comply with this command ? We wish to be prompt and unless ham, in place of our beloved broth­ Every child of God is in a certain some special reasons should cause er, John Doner deceased. sense called to preach in some way, delay we shall try and always be on The choice fell on Bro. Abraham but in what way should it be done? time. Winger for Vaughn, and Bro. John We should learn of Christ: He is our Heise for Markhani. C. HEISE. leader and He will direct us in the We were made to rejoice at the Victoria Square, Out. right way. good news sent us by Bro. S. Zook, If we read the prophet Isaiah, of Kan. We learn that at the last May 11:—The Cumberland church xlviii, he speaks of a mighty river of meeting in Clay Co., nine were bap­ has had a day of rejoicing. Near peace and the righteous as the tized and united with the church West Fairview in the Union Meet­ waves of the sea; here we under­ and on the 18th of May seven more ing House, we met last evening for stand that it requires something of were baptized in North Dickinson, worship and the spirit of the Mas­ us as his stewards—go and preach Kan. From letters received we ter was manifested. The word was the gospel. The brotherhood felt learn that on the 6th of April, near preached with power by Elder Ober- the need of it and started this especi- Sedgwick, in Harvey Co., Kan., one holtzer and others and this morn­ al work nineteen years ago. The was added to the number there. ing a large congregation assembled. brethren contributed of their means On the 20th of April near Garrett, After the word was preached again and the work spread: and in this Indiana, three were baptized and with power from on high to a large way much has been done. But united with the church. Verily the and attentive audience, we proceed­ some excuse themselves that there June 1,1890. EX^J^KGriEXMCfSAEx TISITOR. 169 was so much money wasted, was ther and sister ask themselves how be emblazoned upon every thought turned into the wrong cha.nnel and much shofild I give? How much can and act of our life. The principle not applied to the purpose intended I give? We can in this way answer underlies the whole theory of Chris­ —;did not Christ say some seed Ml and we should answer as before tianity, and in no other person do on stony ground, some among' God. I believe much of the money we find it more happily exemplified thorns and some by the way side, uselessly spent for things by which than in the life of our Savior, who, but some on good ground? The God is not honored should be turn­ while on earth, went about doing- Lord lets the rain mil on the rivers ed into the treasury of the Lord. good. And how true it is that as well as the dry land; it is evi­ In this way it will increase our "A little word in kindness spoken, dently for some use but we may not peace and God will be honored and A motion or a tear, understand it all. Should we not the church" will be built up so that Has often healed the heart that's broken And made a friend sincere. do what we can and leave the result the all-seeing Eye which is over the to the Lord? Again how much do righteous may direct us and bind Selected bv EEL A HARVEY. we waste in the useless and unnec­ the brotherhood together in the essary things of this life that would bonds of love. We who live where STAND TO THE EIGHT. be better applied to religious pur­ opportunities for meeting are BY FRANCIS S. SMITH. poses ? plenty, do not know the wants of I make this appeal to the church those poor starving souls that de­ Stand to the right, whate'er your condition, that they bring into the storehouse sire to hear the word of God and Even though friends may to enemies of the Lord of their means to carry are starving for the bread of life. turn— on the work of the spread of the But let us not forget that the word Better have enemies in a just mission, gospel. I can truly say much good Than a dark record of infamy earn. is go; that is the command of our Friendship that's fickle is not worth pro- has been done, churches have been Lord and if we obey it our peace serving, planted and the doctrine of the shall be like a mighty river and our Wealth gained by fraud and deceit is a Bible as taught by the brethren lias righteousness as the waves of the curse— been made known- where otherwise sea. All the obstructions will be re­ Standby the right, then, undaunted, un­ we would be strangers. Now if moved and the bond of union will be swerving', through some errors the former flow Poverty's bad, but dishonesty's worse. increased and eternal happiness Stand by the right—it were folly to barter of money into the Treasury has will be ours. JOSEPH HERSHEY. Self-independence for station or gain— been weakened, why should we with­ Better to virtue and truth fall a martyr hold our contributions? The mis­ KINDNESS. Than to win a success mix'd with sorrow takes have been rectified. Why and pain. should we not leave them with the More hearts pine away in secret An unsullied heart and a conscience ap­ proving past? But the Scriptures says we anguish, for the want of kindness shall not be weary in well doing for Are worth all the wealth that the world from those who should be their com­ can bestow— in due time we shall reap if we faint forter, than from any other calami­ Stand by the right—bo forgiving and lov­ not. The command is go. ty in life. A word of kindness is a ing', On our way home from Confer­ seed which, where dropped by Asking no favor and fearing no foe. ence, while meditating on these mat­ Stand to the right! 'Tis the best and the chance, springs up a flower. A kind surest— ters, we came to the conclusion to word and pleasant voice are gifts Wrong may appoas for a while to succeed make another effort to increase the easy to give. Be liberal with them. But ho is most happy whose heart is the mission fund and we would recom­ They are worth more than money. purest— mend that in every district that If a word or two will render a man A self-condemned sinner is wretched in­ some brother preach a sermon on the deed. happy, said a Frenchman, he must Hate and detraction in vain may assail thee duty of mission work, and if not in be a wretch indeed who will not If thou art pure when their arrows they the propei- frame of mind to do it, get give it. Kindness is stored away in cast— into it, and in order to make a suc­ the heart like rose leaves in a draw­ Honor and rectitude never will fail thee— cess of the work, let the deacons or er, to sweeten every object around Stand to the right and you'll triumph at last. some other brother take paper and them. Little drops of rain brighten pencil and go to every brother and the meadows, and little acts of kind­ A minister of Christ might, with sister and ask him personally for ness brighten the world. We can great propriety, begin every sermon some contribution. Urge them to conceive of nothing more attractive with, "I have a message from God give. than the heart when filled with the to thee." Some may not be able to give spirit of kindness. Certainly noth­ Matthew Henry says: The hap­ much but should give something, ing embelishes human nature as the piest life on earth is one that is spent others may be able to give largely practice of this virtue; a sentiment in the service of God, and in corn- and all should give—let every bro­ so genial and so excellent ought to ' munion with God.

• ** •* > , *• _ i T i ii~ 170 KYANGRExlGAE, YIS1T0R. Junei.iseo. RELIGIOUS LIFE MB EXPERIENCE. me I should pray. I knelt down by that I am thankful to my blessed my bedside and thought I would Saviour that He ever guided me in For the Evangelical Visitor. pray in secret, then something seem­ His way. Though I make main' EXPEEIE3J0E. ed to say if you are ashamed it will mistakes and sometimes step out by I have felt very much impressed do no good to pray, then I prayed the wayside, but my blessed Saviour of late to write a few lines for the loud. When I arose I felt a blessing, is ever willing to take me back when VISITOR, but did not feel myself com­ yet I did not feel satisfied. I kept I come penitent. O, who could help petent for such an undertaking, but thinking all the time, if I never had loving such a forgiving Friend as by the grace of God I will throw in committed any sin how nice I could this. my mite and help along with this be a Christian, but here was my sins I hope the brothers and sisters good work, for we can road in God's loading me down. What could I will plead at the throne of grace, word that we shall be doers as well do with them? All at once some­ that 1 may meet them in that hap­ as hearers of the word. It has been thing seemed to whisper in my ear, py land where parting is no more. five years this last winter since I the sinner, not the righteous, Je­ ELLA HARVEY. was converted. I got under convic­ sus died to save. At that instant I Seth, Ohio. tion the fore part of the winter. At was relieved. My sins were blotted PEOM A YOUNG SISTEK, first I tried to fight it off, then I out. 0, how happy I was. I did tried to read the Bible and other nothing but sing and read the I will try by the grace and help of religious books, but seemed to me I Bible. AVhen I would read I could God to write a few lines for the VISI­ could not understand anything I understand. When I got well spir­ TOR, as 1 have never written before. would read. My health was very itually I got better mentally also. I felt it my duty. I have not been poor and it seemed with all I could I joined the Methodist church, but I in this work very long. I was only do, I kept growing worse. At last soon got in trouble about un­ twelve years old when I started out I became discouraged, thinking I clothes. I did so much want to to serve the Lord. I felt the need of would never have my health again dress fashionable and yet it con­ a Saviour. I am the only one of then I became more interested about demned me. I thought if other the family that has made a start. I my soul. By this time there was a, good Christians dressed that way wish you to pray for my brothers protracted meeting in progress at why eau'tjl ? But I could not bear to that are yet out of the ark of safety the Methodist church. Oneevening go before the glass. Sol went on in that they may become convicted part of the family wore making pre­ this way until about a year and a, and converted. I would yet say a parations to go to church. They half ago, when the VISITOR came in­ few words to the unconverted : Do asked me if I would not go along. to my possession, and the more I not wait until it is too late. I refused, as I did not think my would read the more I felt I was on the wrong road. I want to be an angel health would permit, yet I felt as And with the angels stand, though I must go to church. I Then I went in secret prayer and A crown upon my forehead, picked up a book thinking T would 1 asked the Lord to guide me in the A harp within my hand ; get my mind on something else. I way that would truly lead to heav­ There right before my Saviour opened the book where their was en. Then I got such a, longing to So glorious and so bright, I would make the sweetest music, the picture of a little blind boy, and go to the River Brethren meeting. And praise him day and night. the reading was something like this: I asked my husband if he would not JENNIE IIOSEXBERY. Mamma, if you and I were to die make inquiry when the meeting was Roxbury, Pa. and go to heaven would I know you and we would try and get some way there? as 1 am a little sightless boy. of going, but he neglected it from EXPEEIENOE. 0, I thought if he and I were to die time to time. Bro. Daniel Wagner would he know me there, would I be came to our place on business. My I have often felt I should write there for him to know me? With husband told him that I was getting for the VISITOR but I felt myself so these thoughts I burst out crying dissatisfied with the church I am in, unworthy but every time I read the and said, I would go to church. I so in a, few evenings brother and sis­ VisiToit.Ifelt more pressed to write. did not care if it did make me sick. ter Wagner came up and spent the Now if God will give me grace, I will I went and heard a good sermon. evening with us. 1 cannot tell how try and write a little of my exper­ It seemed to me that every word the they enjoyed the evening, but I had ience. I started out to servo the preacher said was for me, yet I had not spent as happy an evening for Lord in my tenth year. I remem­ not the courage to stand up and a long time. I said if angels would ber well the evening when I called ask the prayers of the church. 1 have come and ministered unto me my mother to my bed and told her went home without any ono know­ here I. do not believe I would have I wanted to live a better life. Oh ! ing my miserable condition. been any happier since we have been how happy I was when I was will­ That night the good Spirit told taken into the church, and I can say ing to serve the Lord. As I was June 1,1890. EX^^N CxElM GAEx flSITOR. 171 young and it was something new been so good to us. He set our ibly can to serve Him. We can for children to make the start, my feet upon a rock, and gives us a never repay what He has done for parents were afraid I would not new song in our mouth which will us but if we do all we can it is all hold out but I feel to praise the give us'great joy and a clear con­ the dear Saviour asks. I would Lord for His love and mercy to­ science; a condemned conscience say dear young brethren and sis­ wards me. I can't say that I ever makes us feel disagreeable. First ters, let us prove faithful to the had any desire to turn back. I when I came out to serve the Lord, end then we will receive a crown of have seen the finger of scorn pointed the Saviour told me to make crook­ life to wear forevermore. It is two at me but it only encouraged me ed things straight and rough places years since I started to serve the and made me pray for them. I smooth and I was not willing to do Lord and I am still trying in my united with the church in my four­ it, and I used to feel so condemned weakness to serve Him. This hymn teenth year, how happy I was. and disheartened but all the while comes to my mind so often : There was nothing condemned me. I would pray to my Master he 0 how happy are they I had such peace with God, but 1 should not give me any rest till 1 ^Vho their Saviour obey, And have laid up their treasures above, must confess to my shame after 1 would be willing to give up till for Tongue can never express the sweet grew up and got in company that Jesus. I can never thank Him comfort and peace, I did not live as close to the Lord enough for what He has done for Of a soul in its earliest love. as I should have; but I am so glad me. I often feel so lonesome that I Pray for me. we have a forgiving father. At cannot be more in the company of Your unworthy sister present I feel the nearness of God to God's people but I feel so contented SARAH E. STONKK. have an earnest desire to serve the to read the VISITOR and can hardly Martinsburg, Pa. Lord. I can truly praise Him for wait some times till it is time for it what He has done for me that He to come. The Testament and the Vm- the Evangelical Visitor. MY EXPERIENCE. has shown me this plain and nar­ VISITOR are so near and dear to me row way. I had quite a, struggle that I should not part with them By the help and grace of God I the past winter. I felt I was to for the world. will try and write a few lines for the come more humble but it went so All I have done can never repay VISITOR. AS I could not go to hard to give up my stubborn will All he has done for me, meeting today I thought I might He has bought my pardon by his blood, but I thank God that He made me And died to set me free. write as I never wrote any yet for willing to do as it was shown to me, Ai. K. L. the VISITOR, although I often felt and I felt a blessing through it. Philadelphia, Pa. that I should but did not feel that Now I would say let us so walk and I was qualified to write. But I conduct ourselves that the world For the Evangelical Visitor. want to try by the he!]) of the Lord can see that we are what we FROM A YOUNG SISTER. to improve the talent that the Lord profess to be. Now dear young- has given me. I was young when I sister, don't think if you dress a Dear readers of the VISITOR, I first set out to serve the Lord, but little more like the fashion, the have felt it my duty as well as a if I had been obedient to my con­ world will think inoreofyon, they privilege to write for the VISITOR. victions I could have commenced do not look for it and think it does I felt for some time to write but it the work before I did. I often felt not become you. Now 1 have writ­ was quite a cross for me to under­ when quite young that I should ten, I feel that 1 have done my du­ take it, but T hope the Lord will lead a better life but was not will­ ty. I would ask an interest in direct my pen. 1 had thought if I ing to say any thing to myparents, I your prayers for me a poor one. could write like some others I would still thought I could be a Christian A. E. MARTIN. like to but I see we all must do our and not say any thing to them. Abiline, Ivan. part. I started to serve the Lord But I found that I could not get when I was thirteen years old, can far that way. I often would pray For the Kvan^elical Visitor. say, I have had many happy sea­ that the Lord should forgive me HEBREW II. sons since and some not so happy, and give me peace. But I could not "How shall we escape if we neglect so great but when I take it to the Lord in feel like I wanted. So in my fif­ a salvation ? prayer, 1 find He is ever ready and teenth year I was so much distress­ AVe should prepare for a better willing to strengthen and keep me ed at times that mother asked me world, which is not made with to the end. 0, I often think lam what was wrong but I would not hands. The Saviour says: "Be ye so careless about my daily walk give her any answer. Until at last therefore ready for He shall come and conversation but it is not my it came so impressive in my mind at an hour when ye think not. I desire to be so. I know the Lord that I should tell it and then I must often think how careless we has done a great deal for me, and would get rest. So I made a, resolve are in well doing. The Lord has why should we not do all we poss­ once when I was at meeting that I

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would tell mother when I got home. For the Evangelical Visitor ren, "For if the word spoken by an­ And then the work began. I saw A CALL TO THE TJIOONVEETED, gels was steadfast and every trans­ that I was a poor sinner and that gression and disobedience received I needed the help of the blessed Sa­ Let the wicked forsake his ways and the a just recompence of reward; how unrighteous man his thoughts, and let him viour to cleanse my soul from all return unto the Lord and he will have mercy shall we escape if we neglect so sin. But then temptations began, upon him ; and to our God for he will abund­ great a salvation; which at the the enemy wanted to try and per­ antly pardon. Isa. lv, 7. first began to be spoken by the suade me to wait awhile and that I The prophet in this text is speak­ Lord, and was confirmed unto us could not go with my young com­ ing to those who reject and despise by them that heard him." Heb.ii, 2, panions any more a/nd that it the wise counsel of God, when he 3. When we consider the many would suit better some other time. says: "Let the wicked forsake his privileges the unconverted have of But I just said I would not wait ways and the unrighteous man his turning to God we are filled with now as I had a beginning I wanted thoughts." He is extending an in­ wonder and astonishment to see so to go on. But I was still not quite vitation and telling them to turn many wasting their time in the ser­ willing at first to give up in every unto God and forsake such which is vice of the Devil. This may sound thing and to confess to my mother not fit or not at all reasonable for harsh but nevertheless it is true. that I did not obey her as I should man to be engaged in. And of You have the privilege of hearing and when I was willing to give up course by not giving heed to this the word of God every sabbath my pride and every thing, I then invitation, we stand in a position preached from the pulpit. And found peace and felt the love of God which is above all other positions more than that you have the word shed abroad in my heart and Tthen most dangerous. of God which you can read and felt to rejoice and I then thought I We believe that every person has meditate thereon. Yes and still would not do any thing contrary knowledge enough (with the excep­ more you have the Spirit co-oper­ to the will of the Lord but I have tion of the heathen) to know that ating with the word telling you that often times'come short of doing my every thing living must die. But you should live soberly, righteously duty. But T still want to go on after the life of man is expired and and godly in this world which is and try and live nearerto God. As his body is laid low in the grave, your reasonable service. As Paul I have in the last few weeks been the soul is still living and will live says: "present your bodies a living afflicted, I then thought if the through all eternity.—(1 say we all sacrifice which is your reasonable Lord would spare me I. would try have knowledge of this with the ex­ service." My dear reader if you may and be more of a light to the world. ception of the heathen)—and where; chance to be one of those who are Oh I often think if the young could this all depends on our living in this wandering along in the dark and only feel like I felt and could give world. If we have spent our lives lonely desert of sin away from God their heart to God in their youth. in such a way as to come into this and without hope in the world, I would say to all unconverted large congregation which this text picture in your mind your future come to Jesus and you will not re­ makes mention of the wicked and life and as death is pronounced up­ gret it, T know I did not but only the unrighteous, we receive the on every tiling living, let your mind regret that I did not live closer to wages of our doings which is death rest for a moment on this thought the Lord. I am always F,O glad to and death eternally. that you too must die. I will write hear when any comes out on the As God failed to satisy himself by as I believe scripture will carry out Lord's side. I have brothers and speaking through prophets or an­ my writing. As I said your body sisters that are in the world and gels to draw the people from the must return to dust from whence it have not done any thing for them­ horrible condition which they are in came and your soul will fall into selves yet. 0 how 1 feel for them according to nature and to place the hands of God who gave it. And sometimes. Now I have written them in the glorious liberty of the I have often pictured in my mind and if this is not fit for the VISIT­ children of God. He sent his Son the pathway of men and women OR, I shall try and be satisfied. I into the world to teach and enlight­ through this world as we are all wish the blessing of God on the Ed­ en and open the way whereby we making a journey to another coun­ itor and all the beloved brethren can l>e saved, who taught the peo­ try which is yet out of sight. And and sisters. ple in that age of the world the cor­ as I look at the pathway I seem to Your unworthy Sister, rect and the only correct way to see it thus: Along the pathway I REBECCA S. WILSON. serve him and we have it handed see the words written; life, health, Franklin co., Pa. down to us (the Bible) so that no and strength ; but as I look beyond person can find any excuse what­ I see the word death written in let­ - The blood of the Cross is the ground work of the intercession for ever. ters which are unmistakeable and us, the Spirit's in us, and the glory Thus Paul comes up and says, that place we will all come to and prepared for us.;: while writing to the Hebrew breth­ we must go through; we cannot June 1,1890. EX V J^ M Cr EX M GL?L XL, ^fltSlTOYl. 173 step oft and go around. But wo THE PEEAOHEE'S VACATION. "Did St. Paul git such a notion ? did a have no difficulty whatever to im­ Weasley or a Knox ? From the Methodist. Did they in the heat of Summer turn away press upon the minds of the people The old man went to meetin', for the day their needy", flock ? that they must die. But it is a was bright and fair, Did they shut their meetin' houses, just to great difficulty to get them to con­ Though his limbs were very tottering, and go and lounge about ? sider the importance of preparing 'twas hard to travel there ; Why, they knew that if they did, Satan to meet their God. Nevertheless I But he hungered for the Gospel, so he certainly would shout. trudged the weary way would say to those who have been "Do the taverns close their doors, just to On the road so rough and dusty, 'neath the warned by their parents and drawn take a little rest ? Summer's burning ray. Why, 'twould be the height of nonsense, by the spirit; you seem to be satis­ By and by he reached the building, to his for their trade would bo distressed, fied going through this world being soul a holy place ; Did you over know it to happen, or hear hushed to sleep by the lullaby of Then ho paused, and wiped the sweat- anybody tell, sin, but there isatime coming when drops off his thin and wrinkled face. Satan takin' a vacation, shuttin" up the you will be awakened if not now. But ho looked around bewildered, for the doors of hell ? old boll did not toll; "And shall preachers of tho gospel pack Oh how sad to think there are so All the doors were shut and bolted,'and he many who come to this time, they their trunks and go away, did not see a soul. Leavin' saints and dyin' sinners git along are awakened but where?—they lift So ho leaned upon his crutches, and ho as best they may ? up their eyes with the rich man in said "What does it mean ?" Are the souls.'of saints and sinners valued hell. The very thought of such a And he looked this way and that, till it loss than selling beer 'i time is enough to soften the' hardest seemed almost a dream ; Or do preachers tire quicker than the rest He had walked the dusty highway, and ho heart and melt to tears the eyes of mortals here ? breathed a heavy sig-h— "Why it is I can not answer, but my feol- which have never been wet on the Just to go once more to meetin' e'er the occasion of such a thought. Of in's they arc stirred ; summons came to die. Here I've dragged my totterin' footsteps course we know that most of the But he saw a little notice tacked upon the for to hear tho Gospel word, people are so apt to think carelessly meetin' door. But the preacher is a travclin' and tho upon this important duty. I again So he limped along to read it, and he read meetin' house is closed ; refer to the future when you will it o'er and o'er ; I confess it's very tryin,' hard, indeed, to Then he wiped his dusty glasses, and he call for the rocks and the mount­ keep composed. read it o'er again, ains to fall upon you and hide you Tell me, when I tread the valley and go Till his limbs began to tremble and his up the shinin' height, from the face of him who sitteth up­ eyes began to pain. Will I hear no angels singin'—will I see on the throne. And is that all; oh As the old man read the notice, how it no gleamin' light ? no, think of eternity when you will made his spirit burn ! - Will the golden harps bo silent ? will I have to cry in the anguish of your "Pastor absent on vacation, church is meet no welcome there ? soul in such lamentable tones the closed till his return."' Why, the thought is most distractin', Then ho staggered slowly backward, and harvest is past and the summer is would be more than I could bear. he sat him down to think, Tell me, when I reach the city over on tho ended and my soul is not saved. For his soul was stirred within him, till other shore, The warnings from the pulpit are he thought his heart would sink. "Will I find a little notice, tacked upon tho heard no more; the spirit has ceased So he mused aloud and wondered, to him­ golden door ? to convict you; the prayers of your self soliloquized-— Tellin' me 'mid dreadful silence, writ in parents have availed nothing, and "I have lived to almost eighty, and was words that cut and burn— never so surprised, Jesus absent on a vacation, Heaven closed you are lost, lost, sharing the mis­ As I read that oddest notice, stickin' on till His return'." eries of the wicked which are many. the meetin' door— Now sinners I Avould say:think, yes 'Pastor off on a vacation'—never hoard F(ir the Evangelical Visitor. think solemnly and deeply and let the like before. "A0C0EDING TO HIS ABUNDANT MEE- 0T." your heart make this inquiry; what Why when I first jined the meetin", very must I do to be saved ? and seek many years ago, In reflecting upon the goodness of Preacher traveled on the circuit, in the earnestly for salvation and turn God, his kindness, forbearance and heat and through the snow ; unto God and he will abundantly If they got their clothes and wittals ('twas mercy and when we remember that pardon. JONATHAN LYONS. but little cash they got,) "the goodness of God leadeth thee Victoria Square, Ont. They said nothing 'bout vacation, but were to repentance," that we are to be happy in their lot. called "the sons and daughters of "We account the Scriptures of Would the farmer leave his cattle, or the God/' What a privilege we have God to de the most sublime philos­ shepherd leave his sheep ? that we may come unto God as un­ Who would give them care and shelter, or ophy."—Sir Isaac Newton. to a father, who is merciful unto provide, them with food to eat ? As a lamp is more conspicuous in So it strikes me very sing'ler, when a man man, though he fell from grace in surrounding darkness, so a saint in of holy hands the transgression whereby his heart abounding wickedness. Thinks he needs to have a vacation, and and nature became perverted to forsakes his tender lambs.

. m -i - aa^ . ~ _- . 174 EXVi'LrcO-ExMCiAEx T1SITOR. June 1,1890. such a degree that it would have en though it were possible that wo aged and think they must have been impossible for him to enjoy the might go to heaven without first gone wrong some way and that this blessings of heaven at God's right becoming heavenly minded here on cannot be the true land after all. hand. "But God, who is rich in earth and without having the di­ Then, next they make the mistake mercv, for His great love wherewith vine nature, what would heaven be of looking upon temptation as sin, he loved us, even when we were to such an individual? He would and of blaming themselves for what dead in sins, hath quickened us to­ not be qualified for such associa­ in reality is the fault of the enemy gether with Christ, (by grace ye are tions, for he could not endure a only. This brings them into con­ saved;) and hath raised us up to­ warm spiritual prayer-meeting, nor demnation and discouragement; gether and made us sit together in enjoy himself in things spiritual and discouragement, if continued heavenly places in Christ Jesus." while in this life, how is he then in, always ends at last in actual Eph. ii, 4, 5, 6. Then can we ap­ qualified for heaven? No more sin. The enemy makes an easy preciate God's love and mercy to­ than is the heathen without, first prey of a discouraged soul; so that ward us and[not until that we have changing his habits and very na­ we fall often from the very fear of become changed in heart, regener­ ture, capable of enjoying the society having fallen. ated, converted and adopted into of the civilized. He would feel him­ To meet the first of these difficul­ the household of faith. Then, be­ self in the wrong element. God^for- ties it is only necessary to refer to ing adoptedTinto the family of God bid that we should think we shall the scripture declarations, that the enter heaven and eternal happiness how should we serve our Father Christianflife is to be throughout a if we die in our sins. "For God so that our service may be acceptable warfare; and that especially when loved the world, that he gave his and pleasing in his sight? Natur­ seated in heavenly places in Christ only begotten Son, that whosoever ally speaking a father is not pleased Jesus, we are to wrestle against believeth in him should not perish and satisfied with his son's service spiritual enemies there, whose pow­ but have everlasting life." Some if he must drive him to his task or er and skill to tempt us must seem to try to believe thaFIGod is if he does it simply in hope of some doubtless be far superior to any we merciful in this way, that he will special gift or from fear of punish­ have ever heretofore encountered. take them to heaven after having As a fact temptations generally in­ ment. But how delightful and pleas­ lived a lifetime after the vanity of crease in strength tenfold after we ant, when children obey promptly their own minds, unmindful of his have entered into the interior life, from true filial love and duty, and commands. What a sad mistake, scarcely wait for a positive com­ for why should weliveafter our own rather than decrease; and no mand. The child is blessed and the inclinations regardless of thespirit's amount or sort of them must ever parent is delighted. Neither then strivings with us, when God's way for a moment lead us to suppose we should we serve God and keep com­ of being merciful is to give us a have not really found the true abid­ mandments and ordinances simply foretaste of heaven here, and enable ing place. Strong temptations are because we are commanded to do it us to live a spiritually useful life, generally a sign of great grace rath­ nor from fear of eternal punishment which shall fit us for life eternal at er than of little grace. When the or as though we were compelled to God's^ right hand. H. F. CASSEL. children of Israel had first left be his servants, but from true filial Boyd, Ohio. Egypt, the Lord did not lead them love. "Forhefirst loved us." And through the country of the Philis­ for the peace and joy in the soul, tines, although that was the near­ OONCEKNIM TEMPTATION. which it affords, the gratitude to­ est way; for God said : "lest perad- ward such a merciful Father, who BY H. W. SMITH. venture the people repent when they has redeemed us by the blood of Certain very great mistakes are see war and they return to Egypt," Christ. Then when we think what made concerning this -matter of but afterwards, when they learned a change must be wrought in the temptation in the practical work­ better how to trust him he permit­ human heart and soul, that heav­ ing out of this life of faith. ted their enemies to attack them. enly service and heavenly things First of all, people seem to expect Then also in their wilderness jour­ may be its true element and enjoy­ that, after the soul has entered in­ ney they met with but few enemies ment, how great, how wonderful is to its rest in God, temptations will and fought but few battles com­ God's plan of redemption. God re­ cease; and to think that the prom­ pared to those in the land where membered man, though he had ised deliverance is not only to be they found seven great nations and wandered away in sin and iniquity from yielding to temptation, but thirty-one kings to be conquered and would have deserved nothing, even also from being tempted. besides walled cities to be taken. his mercy and love offers salvation Consequently when thev find the and giants to be overcome. They through Jesus Christ His only be­ Canaanite still in the land and see could not have fought with the gotten Son. But not to save us in the cities great and walled up to Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amor- our sins and unconverted state ev­ Heaven, they are utterly discour­ ites, the Perizites, the Hivites, and June 1,1890. E.V^KCrKMGAIIx VfSfTOFi. 175

the Jebusites until they had gone that are sanctified ; whoever dies in peacefully as a babe, he sank into into the land where these enemies the Lord has therefore nothing to slumber. were. And the very power of your fear, every true believer has eternal Dr. Leech man in his last illness temptations, dear Christian, there­ life and shall inherit eternal glory, said to a friend, you see the situa­ fore, may perhaps be one of. the if we trust in Jesus for protection tion I am in , I have not many days strongest proofs that you really he will preserve us in all the trying to live, and I am glad you have the are in the land you have been seek- scenes of life, and when the hour of opportunity of witnessing the tran­ ingto enter because there are temp­ death shall come we shall be enabled quility of my last moments, but it tations peculiar to that land; .you to give ourselves to him and con­ is not tranquility and composure must never allow your temptations sign our bodies to the tomb with alone, it is joy and triumph , it is to cause you to question the fact of pleasure. 0 how valuable how ex­ complete exultation,, his feature your having entered the promised ceeding precious is the religion of kindled, his voice rose as he spoke, heavenly places. the gospel on a- sick bed and in a from whence continued he, does this The second mistake is not quite dying hour; nothing but this can exultation spring; from that book, so easy to deal with. It seems support the soul when it stands pointing to a Bible that lay on a hardly worth -while to say that trembling on the verge of eternity; table at his bedside, from that book temptation is not sin and yet most millions have witnessed to the pres­ too much is neglected indeed but of the distress about it arises from ence of Christ in their dying hours, which contains invaluable treasures not understanding this fact. The it has been shown in the exclama­ of joy and rejoicing for it makes us very suggestion of wrong seems to tions of rapture and glad surprise, certain that this mortal shall put on bring pollution with it and the evil in beaming countenances reflecting immortality. When Addison was agency not being recognized, the the light of heaven, in the welcom­ at the point of death he sent for a poor tempted soul begins to feel as ing of death as the dearest friend, young man. Addison took him by if it must be very bad indeed and in the seeing of angels ,*in the hear­ the hand and softly said, see in far off from God to have had such ing of heavenly music and in the ad­ what peace a Christian can die, and thoughts and suggestions. oration of Jesus as the coming re- he soon expired. Selected by CHRISTIAN WISMER. warder of their faith. 0 what a Toplady said, if will not be long- To be continued. blessing it is to have this precious before God takes me, for no mortal hope. Friends have you this hope, man can live said he, bursting into DEATH OF THE EIGHTEOUS. are you living in Jesus? We live in tears, after the glories which God a dying world, the tokens of mor­ "Thanks be to God which giveth us the vic­ has manifested to my soul. Rev. tory through our Lord Jesus Christ." tality are all about us; we know rieny Fisk when dying was asked, if These triumphant words of inspi­ not what a day may bring forth, the Savior appeared precious to ration are true; they tell of a real but we may have this hope as an him? 0 yes, O yes, he said. Then experience; they have been tested anchor to our souls. How can any fixing his eyes steadfastly toward and their truth found on many a one be willing to do without it, how heaven he repeated these words: dying bed and many a sorrowing can any one rest content for a day Christ and His glory, and his spirit household ; they are true of the be­ untill they have secured this blessed took its flight. Another friend said lievers who go out of this life into hope; we will give some instances in contemplation of death, I shall the life to come. God gives them of the peaceful death of the righ­ die and go to glory. I am coming, the victory. They have no fear as teous. I am coming. Dying is sweet work. to the life beyond the grave; to the A minister who had proclaimed I am looking up to Jesus, my por­ sorrowing households into which the gospel faithfully and had lived tion, my all in all. Then with a dy­ death has entered, these words also a humble consistent life was near ing voice he continued, glory, glory, come with their exultant strains, his end when a friend came to his home, home till his voice failed. for while they mourn theirloss they bedside and said, brother are you Flizabeth Walbridge when near her know that there is for- them the in perfect peace? 0 yes, answered end said, the Lord gives me peace everlasting gain. They are safefor- the dying man, my workis all done. and he is my light and my salva­ evermore and they rest from their 0 if I had my life work to do now tion. And her last words were: the labors and their works do follow what would become of me, blessed Lord deals very gently with me. them; for them there is no more be the Lord I have not a care; long- Lord I am thine. Save me blessed sin nor sorrow nor death; why ago I gave up all to him, he has Jesus. Precious Savior, His blood should we not rejoice for them. accepted me, forgiven my sins and cleanseth from all sin. Who shall Thanks be to God which giveth 1 know in whom I have believed. I separate? His name is wonderful. us the victory; Christ has overqome am going where I shall see him and Thanks be to God. He giveth us death, led captivity captive and b}^ serve him forever. 0 yes my work the victory. I, even I am saved. 0 one offering perfected forever them is all done, and closing his eyes grace, mercy and wonder Lord, re- 17(5 E^YANGI&MGA:^ VISITOR. June 1, 1890. ceive my. spirit. I am going but all spect to parents, and kindness to and with their husbands are all united with the church. Sorry to say the two is well, well. brothers, sisters and servants. sons are not yet. Bro. Shelley was convert­ Mrs. Elenor Emerson died in the 2. At school.—Respect to teach­ ed and became]a member of the church soon triumph of faith. Her last words er, faithfulness in study, and fair­ after hisjirst marriage, and was called to were: my Redeemer iiveth. Jesus ness in play. the ministry when he was 29 years of age, Christ is mine and lam His forever. 3. At church.—Be quiet, listen, and chosen to the Eldership in 1874 and now he has gone to reap the reward of his worship, and give your heart to the There was a dying East Indian who labors. when ji&ked how she felt replied, Savior. DICK.—Died near Osnaburg, Stark Co., happy, happy and laying her hands 4. On tie street.—Good maimers, Ohio, April 18, 1890, sister Nancy Dick, on the Bible added, I have Christ modesty, kindness, minding you wife of Rev. John Dick, and daughter of here, and pressing it to her heart, own business. Rev. Martin Brechbill deceased. She and Christ here. And pointing to II. How should you do your duty ? was born May 9, 1854 and married in 1873. She was the mother of six children, one heaven said, and Christ there. 0, 1. Not for pay.—That is a low son and five daughters. The son preceded do not fear to die said Mrs. East. motive. Some always ask, "What her to the Spirit world. She was convert­ In dying you will find the Word of will you give me?" ed in 1874, and lived a Christian life to the sure hope; all will be fulfilled and you 2. But from love.—So did the end ; bearing her sufferings with Chris­ will find it so. William Eorbeswhen Savior when a boy at Nazareth. So tian fortitude, and was fully resigned to the will of God and said she was prepared dying said, tell those who are draw­ the angels do God's will, which is to die. She admonished all to meet her in ing down to the bed of death, from only another name for duty. This heaven. Her age was 35 years, 11 months my experience, that it has no terrors, will make you do it cheerfully. and 19 days. She was buried on the 30th, that in the hour when it is most 3. Better every day.—By trying at the Valley] Chapel cemetery. The fun­ eral services were conducted by Elder needed there is mercy with the Most to do your duties you will become Joseph Hershey and the writer. Text 1 more skillful; so you improve in High. These were the words of Cor. xv, 54, 55. W. O. BAKER. Habburton: I am a poor, weak, reading, writing and music. Peter STAUFFER.—Died near Carlisle Arkan­ timorous man; once as much afraid says, "'Gro w in grace.' sas, May 9th, 1890, Albert A. Stauffer of death as any. I, that have been MAEEIAGES. aged 19 years. After a severe affliction of many years under the terror of ten days, caused by congestion of the liver death come now under the mercy of ENGLE—CLIMENHAGA.—On the 28th of and bowels ; he was buried on the 10th. God and the bower of His grace May 1890, at the home of the "bride's par­ The deceased was a son of Peter and Mary ents, David Glimenhaga's, Stevensvillc, Stauffer formerly of Stark co., O. and for composedly and with joy to look by A. Bearss, Mr. John H. Engle of Kan­ a short time resident of this state where death in the face. It often appears sas, son of Elder Jesse Engle, to Miss his mother died. After her death his that those from whom courage or Sarah Climenhag'a of Stevensville, Wel- father moved to Lagrange co., Indiana firmness could least be expected go land Co., Ont. A. B. and in the month of January last his fath­ er and family moved to Arkansas. The down to the valley of death with the QUE DEAD, deceased was a young man possessing man5' most complete triumph over their pleasant traits of character. We were not past apprehensions in the recollec­ REIGHENBAGH.—Died near Elizabeth- well enough acquainted with the deceased tion of many. Some such examples town, Lancaster Co., Pa., May 7,1890, sister to know of his religious inclination but we Annie, wife of Bro. Harmon Reiohenbach. of a dying friend will occur with con­ trust it is well with his soul from what we Her maiden name was Annie Sink, aged can gather from a letter received by vincing power and tenderness. They •14 years, 10 months and 8 days. Funeral friends here that he was resigned to the • - tell us that this absence of fear is no and interment at the Conoy meeting house, will of God and among the last words spok­ i fruit of nature, habit or of strenuous May 9th. This being the first corpse buried en by him were "all is well" and made effect, but the gift of Him who gave at this new burying ground. She was con­ frequent efforts to sing those beautiful nected with the church in her young years, lines of the Poet "I am so glad that Jesus to death its terrors when He made and leaves a husband to mourn the loss. loves me." He leaves father, mother, it the doom of sin and who takes SHELLEY.—Died May 14th, 1890, Elder brothers and sister to mourn his early de­ away these terrors when sin is blot­ Benjamin Shelley, near Mastersonville, parture. ted out through the blood of the Lancaster Co., Pa., aged 60 years, 7 months What a lesson this sad death teaches us ; Lamb.—SEL. and 3 days. Funeral services and inter­ here is a young man just entering into the . ment at Brubaker's meeting house. In the duties and responsibilities of manhood, death of Elder Shelley the church, as well suddenly snatched away by the stern mes­ YOUTHS' MPIRTHEHT. as the bereft family, feel a great loss. He senger of death at a time probably the was truly one of the pillars of the church. least expected; but diseases will come A SERMON POE LITTLE FOLKS. He had many friends outside of the church "the seed of mortality is sown in our bod­ which the large attendance at the funeral ies" and the messenger of death will If ye know these things, happy are testified. The occasion and services were come and there is no evading his iron ye if ye do them.—John xiii, 17. very impressive. Text from 2 Timothy iv, grasp. Truly we should heed the lan­ 7, 8. Bro. Shelly "was twice married and guage ot our blessed Lord and Saviour I. "These things"—that is your / leaves four daughters by his first wife, and where he says "therefore be ye also ready, duties—wherever you are. two sons by the second wife, who are yet for ye know not the day nor the hour 1. At homo.—Obedience and re­ single. The daughters are all married wherein tbe Son of Man cometh."