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VOL. II SEPTEMBER. 1923 NO. 1 "If It Be Possible, Let This Cup Pass From Me" By A. J. Tom.1. ·so ·
. E _lont>h night i,_, t '• · t''l'. r further on up the slope. Pre ent y, :ipnng hundred ot years ago, as if He cannot hold up under the 0 probablr between the hours of great weight any longer, He fall,, nine and tweh-e, could have been ·een HOSE intimately ac on His face an
POISONED TONGUES
\ ·e also learn omething ebe from this picture. up- 0, •·T be afraid of the . nake aho, e-hi · poison , posing Dr. Ditmar did not know e. actly how to ex being taken out. tract the , enom-what would happen? He would be D \\·hen ) ou come to think about it, it i, a \\ on bitten and probably die. upposing ~ome of u attempt derful thing to be able to take the poison out of the to take the , enom out of our brother' tongue-and we tongue of a copperhead, a. Dr. Raymond L. Ditmar is don't know how? \\"e will ourseh e die spirituall) . • hown doing in thi picture. It i n't the ize of the the Curator of Reptile in the ew copperhead, or the . pot . or the tail, that kills-it i the Dr. Ditmars i · He knows reptiles and how to \ t:nom .-ight at the base of the tpngue. York Zoological Park. his whole life with them. Thi, picture abo\·e enable. u to draw a good many handle them. He has pent becau~e he knows how to handle le:. on .. He is not afraid of them. Fir t of all, \\ ouldn 't it be a wonderful thing it we them. could pick up people who haYe poi oned tongut:s and hold But "e are not snake , the lowe t of creation, CULed \Ve their head. "·hile we took out the venom. ome people's to crawl upon our bellies all the days of our live~. tongue. ha,e a poi.on in them that hurts ,,or,e than the "alk upright. \Ve are created in God's image. The bite of a !>nake. The \ enom of the snake may send a erpent, The Old Devil, i · constantly hanging down over whi per per. on to the graw-but the venom from the poi oned U!' from the limb of a nearby tree trying to tongue of an enem) ma} SL 'DA O ·L TO HELL. "\'enom" in our ear -and put Yenom in our tongue_-to It ha~ man) a time. bring sorro,Y and di!>tre. s upon other . Thi poison i. not profanit). or swearing, or cursing, The most unruly member is the tongue. Upon that alone. ome "ho arc Chri tian:-, either intentionally we must put a bridle. Let u· be men in God's image or unintentionally. emit a poi,on from thc-ir tongue that not serpents with \'enom at the base of our tongue . hurt until it kill.. Thi. i. rather a startling parable-but it is certair. man. splendid, acrificing, Thi. ,niter know a \Oung no exaggeration. progre. ive Christian-WHO \ \'A DRIVE. FROM '1 he best war to get the venom out of the enem) · GOD TO DRI TK b) the con tant pursuance of men throat i to "take it to the Lord in pra) er." l\Ion:over, and women who called him "Brother." we ~eldom hear of a man of prayer having a poi~oned I were bc:tter, Sa} Je.u., that a milb,tone be hung ;irou d ti e· r neck than t offend one of the~e little ones. tongue . • FOR EPTE:\[BER, 192:J 3 OVER THE TOP AT LAST
We Imagine we Hear a Shout of Hallelujah! l;rom Maine to California, From the Lakes to the Gulf, and Acros the Sea as Well
\VI~H to :,ay a few thini;s to my be ju,t a:, true in thing- pertaining Lonvernence -. ery ~itcle ·nown of I iriend,-, the sub:criber· and read to the ~pi ritual -ide of lite? It is any of them until they e·pou·ed the er-. of THE FAITHFUL STA -_ our purpo·e to make this magazine a great cause for which they gave their DARO, to let them know that they shining light to help people OYer hard liYe ·. And one of the e cho·en men have not been forgotten, although it place·, and in order for it to do its proved to be a traitor and sold hia 11'1-. been several months since the be ·t ·ervice so it can lend its best ~laster for a few pieces of ilver, ma~azinc ha payed regular monthly :ympathy and aid it will need to have while another became fearful of what ,·isits as it used to do. The cau ·e of an experience of going O\'er hard the enemie of the Lord might do to the delay has been brieAy explained places itself, and surely it is having its him and denied having any knowledge through the mails, but ,vith all this share. I believe its friend~ \,ill ap of Him. having been done, many have been preciate it the more on account of the But the \l"Ork was tarted never to very greatly disappointed. stormy experience it has had in its stop. The Galilean fishermen were l take this means of expressing my -hort career. transformed into mighty giants. The grat·fulncs to you for your patience The friend: of Jc us were disap little band of twelve ,oon grew to one in waiting for the return of the ap pointed in Him when He submitted hundred and twenty, then it jumped preciated visitor to your homes. It to death. They thought He wr uld up to thou ·ands in one day, and then has een one long tring of di appoint redeem Israel, but when He wa gone followed multitudes both of men and ments one after another, but you have ther gave it up for the time and even ,vomen. Churches were established waited and we have worked, studied some of His close t follo,vers went in manr places and the name of and prayed. l\lany almost sleepless back to their fi hing nets because they Jesu· wa honored around the world. ni~ht· have been spent in prayers did not know anything el e to do. But God did not de·pi·e the day of small and meditations a - well a laboring He came to them again, and "·hen things. And even when it ·eemed in some manner in the interest of the victory wa, finally won, that cau ·e that the cause wa almo t lo·t forever tne good cau·e for which the mag that eemed lost a few short months there was ome God-cho·en and God azine ·tand -. Sometime. difficultie before took on new life and He has fearing man to run under the waying are hard to get out of the way and had multitudes and million of fol structure and steady it a moment, the oppo ·ing force of the enemy of all lower· and subjects. The greate t then fasten it .olid again, and on, on good are hard to overcome, but when cau e that wa · ever launched in this the movement pread and grew until the victories over the e mon ters are world \Ya - started and continued un another tremendous conflict aro·e won ·ometime the skie of prosperity der the mo·t severe tria.L, difficul which threatened a final downfall. s.hine brighter. I trust it will be so ties and di-couragements. It has After the year 325, when the fir·t with THE FAITHFUL STA. - been a uccess and will be a till creed was introduced into the Chris DARO. It is our purpose to make greater ucce·s when the final victory tian religion, spirituality began to de it even better than it has e,·er been. has been won. cline. Following the hi·tory of the It ha already won the favor and Looking backward, it eems almo t centuries one is thrilled with intere·t admiration of thousand and we ex incredible that such a mighty force as a he gathers important information. pect to do our best to make it worthy Christianity could have been launched The glory of the early Church grad of the love and favor of its tens of by O TE person who had for His ually disappeared until it was lost to thousands, and also worthy of it· helper· a few untutored and un view entirely. The series of perse name. THE FAITHF L STA.-_ trained fi hermen. At the start they cutions that followed makes one'· DARO. knew but little about the world ex blood run cold a, he enters into care It ha· been said that thing- that cept in their limited sphere as Galil ful tudr of history of tho e awful were accomplished under the great ean fishermen. And thi · mu ·t have days when the combined ho ts of the e,t difficulties have made the greatest been very small since there were no under-world -eemed bent on the final heroe . If thi · be true in things per daily new papers, no extensive mode de,-truction of the sacred in titution t:tining to the world why can it not of tran portation and no telegraphic started by our Lord. The blood of 4. THE FAITHFUL STANDARD the m;,rt~ r~ flowed e.\.uberantlr at in gem of relig-iuus truth with her ~pot feel the best. I am much interes.ted terval. for man) centurie:. Then for lcss garment ,yaYing in the breeze to in their present ;ind future happine~:. centuries deep spirituality \Yas cov rontinue its faithful career unto a The past is gone and cannot be re ered o, er with !rgalism and forms. time indefinite-we hope until Jesus called, but the pre. ent is important Real Chri,-,tian c.\.perience was almost comes to call the faithful to meet and the future is yet to meet and we unknown. Him in the sk}. \Ve imagine we want it rn<'t ,, ith a fulness of joy. But the time came for a change. hear a shout of Hallelujah! from Look up, lond ones, and hope for The change came in an unexpected l\Iaine to California, from the lakes better day~. The sim1,bbery ,le!"p manner, but it was permanent. E,·er to the gulf and from acros the sea through the long "·inter months onh· 1ce the da). of the reformer the a, \\-ell, as thi.' new is heralded to shoot forth its buds, foliage and nristian religion, once .o hated and abroad telling of the triumph on•r the fruit in the spring. \\'e trust the I de5pised, has been on the incline. Up, difficulties and that THE FAITH- "inter sleep of THE FAITHFCL 1 up, ~he ha· mounted by STA DARD is O\'er leaps and hound· until the and past forever. If ) ou pre~ent time, when it i lm·c it, now is the time to kno,n1 around the "·orld speak a good ·word for it. and recognized more or \\'ho knows what heart le;;. br e, cry nation 011 the SPECIAL NOTICE you may lighten b) intro- earth. And the very in- ducing this specimen of -titution once ·o despised joy to some troublr.:d and hated ha stemmed ~oul? ._ ow is surefr a the time of oppositions, Many of the readers of THE FAITH~ good time to bring ~un .. ran the gauntlet of enry FUL STANDARD have heard and read shine to drive away the imaginable difficulty and grossly misleading statements about ~hadoff of some long rlanger and is at last top A. J. Tomlinson, General Overseer of night. Drive a,,ay dark ping the mountain of uc the Churches of God . ne,s by shining light. .:ess and prosperity. Dri\·e awar cold by pro• by these If all of this has come Any who have been disturbed ducing heat. Drive innty to write on Chri~tianity it elf, why unwarranted reports are invited hatred by supplying an Tenn., hould there be any won to A. J. Tomlinson, Cleveland, abundance of love. Do concerning der if similar oppositions for a personal statement all of this and even ) our should be thrown aero them. little world will seem the path of its advocates THE FAITHFUL STAND ARD more cheerful and douht to impede their progress le. "ill be much happier in standing out boldly for for tho~e who ma} chanle the . acred truths con- to li,e in it with you. tained therein. In a en e ::\Iany hearts have hecn THE FA I T H F U L l!laddened in the past, and ~TAi 1DARD would seem to be un FU L TAi .DARD has risen from there are ret many to search out and faithful because of it failure to L ue the dead and is now full of life and hle~s in th!" future. '\-Ye cannot af re~ri.1larl), but on looking up the hi - beaut). Hurrah! Hurrah! Halle ford to ~it around and nur.e our tory of many faithful men it i dis- lujah! Surely it will rise above \Yhat sorrows "hile there are million in conred that many of them "·ould not it would have heen had it not met darknes~ and, d!"ep de pair. They tremendou · difficultie and OYcr acc!"pt deliverance from their opposers the mu:t be :-ought for and blest. THE come them. that they might obtain a better re ur FAlTHFCL TA TDARD is on rection. :\1anr anxious hours have Thi month only display. another the lookout for all classes and aU hern spent ,~.fiile awaiting deliverance beginning. I believe it will be hailed condition:-. One said, "Other ~heep for the magazine, but we have taken with joy. Tot only do we want to I ha\'e which are not of this fold: courage by thinking of the better res 1.dadden the heart· of the sub criber~, them al~o I mu. t bring, ar,J they urr!"ction when it would finally br!"ak but also the hearts of its former happy shall hear my voice; anc.1 there ~hall forth from its long, long sleep be representative~. They will be glac: be one fold, and one shepherd." This neath the sod of circumstances. Hours to show it to their old cu tomer and is the principle to be practised by thi ha, es been lo. t in week , and weeks friends. This will sure!} call for a monthly , isitor. The earchlight i • in montb, hut at la t the grave of ~i glad jubilee day. I wonder what I ,hining its hrilliant rays of lo, e anJ len ,, hreab open and out pops this can ~a) to ID) friend to make them (C,,11ti11unl ,;n page 29) FOR SEI'TEMBER, H123 5 HISTORICAL HOUSE A Week in the old house of Augusta Ga. By A. J. TOMLINSON
T "as on the fourth day of April, 1923, I \\ hen our part) of four arrived in Au- 1--•u~ta, Ga. \ ·Ye were taken from the ,tation in :in automobile to the home of J. T. _T a:,.h, "here \\e were given a cordial wrkome h) his good wife and mother, ~fr. l\"ash being absent at the time. After the usual ~al utatiorr and greetings, "e ff ere hmn1 to our room that was to become our office during our :;.tay in Augw,ta. A~ General O,erseer of the Church of Gori, I lune much official busines· to attend to besi On upper Broad Street, just above tured about event} pri:;oners. The rible death by torture. Crawford Avenue, stands the historic British and Indians, under Brown, In the past, ·e~ eral wierd ghost old "\Vhite House'' of the Revolu retired to the \Vhite House, which stories have been connected with the tion. In recent years the resident was then a trading post. At night old hou e. Re· idents have told of of the western ,ection of the etty have Brown threw up earthwork around strange knockings upon the walls in known it a- the old vYelsh house. the hou e and prepared to defend it. hours of night. Others have told of This is undoubtedly the roost hi toric Clarke laid iege to the house, the hearing groan· and cur,e· and the house in the state, although many "·ater supply of the Briti h was cut rattling of chains. Of course, tho~e Augu-tans are not -:vare of its ex off. and the wounded men suffered who coff at ghost stories w·ould at i tence. Of cour·e every schoolboy intensely. Brown himself was suf tribute the weird noi.·es to and schoolgirl in ugusta has read in fering greatly from a wound in the rats, the Georgia history of the old house, but body, but retained his courage, hav wind, etc., but the fact remains that it· ALVI TURNER, 1 sentence "You whited sepulchres, sons of the those that had placed him in prison C you to thirty days in the work Devil, forever fighting against God, -but again t Satan and all his work . bou e at hard labor, for your you shall be destroyed by His eter He stopped for a moment on Sec di turbance of the peace." nal wrath. You--" ond Avenue near 58th Street, for Judge Croopsey looked down with The policeman seized him, and the sweet joy of repeating his pledge. stern countenance at the culprit be tarted with him to the police judge. Unmindful of the people passing, so fore him-the man with the di The curious followed to see what settled was he upon his determina shevelled hair-the fiery look upon ,,.:ould happen. All the way down tion, that he exclaimed audibly, and his face-the crusader. the avenue, despite the effort of the mote his hands together in dogged "Your Honor, the labor shall not policeman, Calvin Turner preached emphasis, "I will Preach the Gospel be hard-for I shall do it joyfully on. In tones now of wrath, now of -I will Preach the Gospel-I must fur my God!" The voice of Calvin pity, again of gladness, he sounded Preach the Gospel." Turner, fanatic and preacher, rang out his message. The mob followed A pas erby, :Mary Lockwood, through the courtroom with deep, upon their heels right to the court looked at him-pitied him and pas.ed sonorous, ministerial rhythm, giving room. on. A policeman, George Foley, big, a courtroom a scene of interest quite Thirty days in the workhouse did stahvart, kindhearted, came up to him unusual in Judge Croop ey's court. not cool the ardor of Cakin Turner. and asked if anything hurt him. Calvin Turner had asked for a The inmates cursed h_im for his vio ,, To," replied Calvin, "nothrng but licen e to preach on the streets of lent praying. The jail hou e to Cal the sins of the world." "You had Te,, York City. "God told me to vin Turner wa a Church House. better go talk to the priest-he will preach, and I must preach," he de Fellow prisoners were a forced con take your sins m,vay," re ponded clared to himself about eight o'clock gregation. ·within a ·week he was Foley. on Sunday evening at the corner of taken to o.litary confinement-but "I am a Priest-Anointed of God 41st Street and Eighth Avenue. How even from there emanated ,ermons -I shall tell the world of its sins e\'er, he had not yet received his li prayers, weeping, Calvin Turner, I .hall take the lost inners to Christ. · cense to preach on the street. lived, slept, ate and breathed noth God has appointed me to be a harp The policeman on the beat knew ing but his religion. threshing instrument-with me He the different preachers ·who did have The day of libertr came. The shall bring righteousness to the world license to preach in his neighborhood other pri oners were thankful he was -and judgment to sinners." By the -and he didn't recognize Calvin gone. To them he had been a nui end of this statement Calvin Turner Turner. In his ea,y manner be bad sance, at least they said so with was peaking loud enough to be heard walked up to the bareheaded preach curses. Calvin Turner stood upon a block away. The policeman was er, who was ,ounding out his message the threshold, lifted both hands to· considerably embarrassed and told with a voice that the constant honk ward high heaven, and with a tear of him to move on, and content himself. of horns on the avenue could not determination welling from his eyes, But Calvin Turner could not be drown. he exclaimed : contented. In the hours of night he "Let me see your license, Brother," tossed upon his bed, agonizing for the "By all that is High and Holy the policeman interrupted Calvin souls of men. In his waking hours I pledge my life again to God. Turner. no thought but of the souls of men Nor heights nor depth, nor ''God Almighty gives me license cros ed his vision. friends nor enemies, nor storm, to declare the Gospel of God and But he had no place to preach. ndr prison walls, nor anything no blue-uniformed ,on of Ireland can The churches were afraid of him shall move me--l shall preach take it away," retorted Turner, in he wa too fiery, and flighty, as they of righteousoes and of judgment the same tone of his preaching. thought. to come as long as I live." Those around who knew New And yet he must preach. It seemed York:, knew that Turner had made a vVith sturdy and unfaltering stride. to Calvin that he would die if he grave mi take in thus retorting to he took the path that led down to the didn't preach. All the world seemed tbe regularly constituted officer of ferry. Once again on Manhattan he to him to be waiting for his mel\sage. the Law. bre;lthed, not execrations against ( Continued on page 32) THE 1''. ITHFl L ~ T 'D RD HATE •' HE~· E are Bolsheviki of Russia, practising up in Hate i abroad in the land. And what makes Hate the art. of gas attack: to make themseh-es power worse i, because many people ,viii .ay in one breath, "I T tul in the eyes of the world. All the world is in lo\·e him"-and in the next five minutes they'll knife him. a ,var of Hate right today. France hates Germany, and \Vhcn I was a boy I sat downstairs late one night talk Germany hate France and England. And they all hate ing with the Pastor of a certain church ABO rT A, -- Turkey. Japan hates China, and China hates Japan. OTHER PREACHER. And everything that was ·aid was to the detriment of that other preacher. A inner, And in reli~ion bigotted Catholics hate many Protes \\ ho happened to be staying over-night, . aid the next tant:, and many uncharitable Protestants hate Catholics. mornin~, "You kept me awake until after midnight, 'talk · eighbor, hate neighbor-<, and talk about them, and ·lan ing about that preacher-and you call yourselves Chri · der them. tians !' " There·· ·omething to mull over. I am glad of all, some professed Christian peo And what is wor:.t that happened when I w~ :till in mr 'teens, foe it taught ple oftentimes hate the one' who did the most for them. me a lot. Everywhere there is Hate, Hate, Hate-Hate your 1Ien have gone to terrible extremes in their mad fren banker, hate your butcher, hate your beggarman, hate zie ·. One l.:ing who had been offended had one of his .. your thief-the only time something is worth telling is sla\·e, come to him e\·ery hour of the dar and remind him where it's something bad. of vengeance-until the offender had been destro) ed. If omeone finds out something about a preacher Hate will devour you-hr piece,. If you hate, th,.,e i, it' u ·ually fellow preachers that do the tattling, and cau~e a law ·oi compen ation that set-- up to destro} you in the trouble. return. Ii }ou hate somebod} today you will reap a har as if you plant corn }OU will reap If someone lends .ome money to someone, that ~ome ve ·tot hate a, certainlr hat hat b} bac - one begin to hate the lrnder. ".Make a loan and lose a a harve t uf corn. If you cultivate friend." ( C,rnti11ued 011 pugl! 26) FOR 'EPTE:UBER, 1923 9 LOVE • F )_ou ha, e ne, er been in 10\·e, don't read ' this. I l f you have ever been thinking of the bles~ed Sa, iour and tears of love and grat itude roll down your cheek,, you know what it i, to love. Or if you ha, e eHr looked into the eyes of a ,,i,ter, or a big brother, and felt that there i. no 011e quite like him; Or if you have, a,, a son, looked down into the C) es of your mothrr as this Hero at the right- Or if ,ou have e1er looked into the eve. of the )!irl ,~·ho "as all the world to you, tl;e one you a,ke HOUGH I peak: "ith the eth not itself, is not puffed up. 10 But when that which i· perfect tongues of men and of angels, i. come, then that T 5 Doth not beha,e itself unseem which is in part and have not loYe, I am be shall be done away. come ns sounding bra , or a tinkling lr, seeketh not her own, is not ea ily cymbal. provoked, thinketh no evil; 11 "\Vhen I was a child, I spake as 6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, 2 And though I have the gift of but re a child, I understood as a child, I joiceth in the truth; prophecr, and under~tand all my ter thought a a child: but when I be came a man, I put away ie., and all knowledge; and though I 7 Beareth all things, believeth all childi h thing. have all faith, so that I could remove things, hopeth all things, endureth all mountains, and have not love, I am things. nothing. 12 For now we see through a glass, 8 Love never faileth: but whether darkly; but then face to face: now I 3 And though I bestow all my thcte be prophecies, they shall fail; know in part; but then shall I know goods to feed the poor, and though I whether there be tongues, ther shall even as also I am known. give my body to be burned, and have cease; \\'hether there be knO\dedge, it not love, it profiteth me nothing. shall vani h away. 13 And now abideth faith, hope, 4 Love suffereth long, and is 9 For we know in part, and we love, the. e three; but the greatest of kind; love envieth not; love vaunt- prophesy in part. these is love. 10 THE FAITHFUL STANDARD GEORGE ROGERS By J. L. WHI TE (whi,·h i1 nut lw r e, d name) :KD when our fighting was To the land of my dreams-" \V1LL _ ll\ER FORGET \Y0rst Salvation lassie· by the And for +11 wounded ew York 1 ' ew York will never forget yes A core ·were thrown into the old ier boy , the long, long trail end terday. It sm,v the return of the service along with their food truck · ed la ·t night " "hen the ships wl11ch first American troop that had ac which were turned into ambulances. brought them docked at the army tually :een service on the firing line For four day and four Jeeple s pier' at Hoboken. in Fra.nce. nights these ambulances, dripping After the hell of battle on the Cha The) came in three 'hips-the with blood, rolled between the field teau-Thierry, Soi ons and Argonne Sierra, that poked her nose through cl ressing ~tatio1r, ·while within the fronL; after weeks of uffering in the Narrows at 6 :30 a.m., ix days hospitals, medical men and alvation Pari~ ho·pital ; after two weeks on o, er Comfort came • ew York would get the pier. Through the shadow the the ordeal. It was their pep, their it first glimp e of the hellish .ide of rails can be seen outlined with black determination at Chateau-Thierry war-that she was laden with the tiers of humanity. But all is silent that turned the whole war to the maimed, the mentally deranged, the aboard the vessel-there is no cheer Allie,'' ~tumps of what had once been stal ing or shouting, inviting an an wer PRAISES \VoMEN wart men. She reported la ·t Thurs ing shout. "There's just one thing I want to f} De zr Brother Bryan: ~. I kwJW Jou are surprised to hm·e me wll Jou t. Brother, but the waJ J'IU Juve bee,: actrng latelJ, about the Bible, about tlu EvfJlutirm TheorJ', about Smok1119, 11111 t Boou, I kwJW "we be brethren.'' i• [watched you dose in yr,ur ratel ffJ1 the Presidt'IICJ', and I didn't l'rJte for ;,ou. i i becaule I be/1e1 .. ed irt the other fellow's id<'t1s. s Jr, But Brother BrJ n11, _1 ~. fJu've WfJ11 11/J' h nrt. I 11e;, e, did see JfJlt but 011ce-a11 l JiJ,~ a :;:;;,::::~;;,,;'•::. ;;,;;: '.', ,; '. ;~,::, ~;; :,,::' :;:,;:•:;. :;;: ,,:;:;-; ,::: ,:;, ~;;d ~t;:{;:,•; ,,: · i 1. ome Jetu-s later I i,as in l11dia11apr,/1s, /11dia1111, and laU r1uit,: i11timatel_1 the ~ despoate efforts thnt ~i u·ere bein!I made hJ temperance pe,,ple frJ put 01.•er the pr,,hibit101i ~ ® !au . 1'/ie tremendr,us sums of 1110111•_1 th11t thn· spent d1d11't appenr ffJ 11,e tri be ~ ~ a,11thw,1 to the amount of !JOod you du/ icluu y 1,u did fr1r the tt-111pera11ce 1'11/IJe when g : Jou declared jor prohibitifJn. § B fot rif the 1/t'Wsp,,pers a11d public people mn le l1glrt of Jou, Br1Jtlter llr,1,w bu ~ 1 i d ,u11 in the heorts of Ul u11k11ou•11 1it1u11s, u1· rejoiced a11d thc111ked God for \iJU: ~- i put OH,. l'rohibitio11. ~ s~; /l'il/iam Je1111i11ys Bry,rn, u·e owe a fot lo Jf/U. i Then afoug iame the.1e st rang,• theories of ei•olutif/11, and aitii ism of the go? l - "lt' olrl Bible. .Jud up JOU stood, like the big Christian 1/1(111 that ) OU are-fl(fflilllt them lr ~ all, tl11wk God. And they are Oil the jump. .111d the U'OJ' that J Oil stand up frir the m a HolJ R1hle it makes r,,ars of g1t1titude nm1e to 111_1 e_lt!J e1•ery time I thi11k about how s i_ Jou are Jtt111ding up jfJr it. 1," ./ 11tl I want to mJ a word to you abfJut yri1Jr stand ,,ut there ell l11diruwprJ!is SQ/lie t ' 111r,11ths ago, whe11 the Presbyterians had their big convention. I hnppe11ed fl) take l l lunch .,,.,if/, two estimable 111e11 high up in church circles rJ/ a different deuominatforz . •ls 4( m theJ offered ci9ars arou11d the.1 said that JI/Ur plan to hm:e the Preatlten refrain from m ~. .STIJf>king n ould ne'l:er be CfJ11sidered. ( You had just come out against it tht! day ,• befrire.) I jfJllow,·d Jour prf/!Jress all through that co111•e11tion-a11cl again I am 1 011- :. strained to tlu111l: GrJd for J'Jll, 1/'1/liam Je1111i11gs Bryan. • I nm, of couru, ru,t perso11all.1 acquaiuted u·ith JOU, n11d u•hile I do firmly be- 3 liez e thnt your Christia11 e.,·perie11(e runs rleep-nt least it seems to me that way- ' @i but I hm. e rl/te11 wondered if JOU ei:er read the suo11d chapter of the ,lets of the ,J p1Jstles and realized that nil the ·.. thi11gs tlu1t took place ()fl the day of l'rntecost a, e t taking pla, e todr1J? JI ell and women are receit:i11q the Holy Ghost, a11d speak111g with _: ! other lf/ngues,· tl,ousandl of pe,1ple rtre being herded by the pou-er of Corl. ' 5 The Blew d Bo,,J: that J'fJII hl'lie, e i11 with such great power is being f ulfi/!ed 3 (; bJ- am 1:r.i11g mirade in our verJ 111idst. It is 111arve/ous be_roud description. I have ~ & o /1', wilhed that I could t,,l/ a great man like J fJU abtJut the remarkable blessi11g1 t·. "f that ,me of us humble folks are c11joyi11g right out of the Bible. that perhaps in JrJUr ~ greut pl) it ion Jou ha,·e w,t luard the full details of, ~ Yriu are up in Jears TJfJU•-but they are all u11ble111ished, alld lo see you crown J QI r 1111 b!emished public life u·ith such a st1111d jor Christia11it.1·-lf·illit1m lrn11illys IJ•Jari-u:e i. humble Chriltia11s are mighty prnud of:) QU. Faithful!J J ours, d HU.HELE CHR! t.• '1'1.1 .• /JRUTHER. ~-~•~t~•.•~-~s You Never Know What Will Happen Here we see a section of the City of Smyrna burning. The city had 300,000 inhabitants. Thousands were massacred and burned when the Turks sacked the city. Thousands jumped into the water and were drowned. The black mass to he seen to the left of the large building in the foreground are refugees huddled at the wharf waiting for the ship to take them away-the ship never came, and they died E used to shudder and think it \\ a~ terrible that W over in India the great pythons, 5nakes of great strength and poi~onous, would ,nep in on the inhabitant· and bite or crush them to death-or that tigers and hyenas ,mu ld take their toll. More people are killed hy automobiles alone in the United States nery yeaT than by all the snake· and tigers in the world. Explorers tell us of the fatal black water fe\ ers of the tropics that take their toll of life every year-but more people are taken by con·umption and die in the United tates than by h!achvater fever in all the Tropics. \Ye shouted from the housetop~ of the amazing hea!th regulution- in the Fnited States Army during the war ) et an epidemic of the unexplainable disease, influenza, struck the camp· and visited more devastation on the strongest manhood of the nation than all the po\\·dcr and steel and poisoned ga of twelve million German - armed "ith Death. Do\\ n in Baltimore bodies of dead soldier~ were tacked up like conhrnod in front of the undertakers' rooms-dead with influenza. This undertaker was hurry ing around tr}ing to give each a decent burial, and he fell dead in his tracb. There is a big cemetery " ·hich I pat-· quite frequently. At the entrance of that cemetery is a steeple, on the top This remarkable photograph was taken far oi the caretaker's building. "\Vhile a funeral proce,sion out in mid-Pacific, thousands of miles from pa -e · into the cemrterr the bell tolls. I don't belie,·e 1 land, showing the passengers being lowered have ever pa sed off the buYning steamship Honolulu, which there at anr time between the hour, a short time ago burned and sank of nine in the forenoon and four in the afternoon, but the 14. THE FAITHFUL STA WARD and automobile accidents, I see that a million and a half non-Turkish population in Turkey are being driven from home. ,,1 hen the Turk· forced the Armenians to leave their homes, they headed them for the desert. Practi cally all the two million of them died of starvation, the sword, and expo ure-the bodies strewn by the wayside for a thousand miles into the desert. We But there are some thing that are ~oin~ to come hom to the reader-. of this paper. ome of the readers of thi,, magazine are miners. In the Coal 11ine in Penns,Ivania recently, more than a hundred men were entombed-ot whom nearly half perished there. The frightful death of the miner in the Gold Mine of California a few weeks ago is ·till fresh in our memor). Comrade· dug through the rock for four days and nights-they found the en tombed miners, forty-eight of them, dead. Fire take· its toll. Eveq few days, e peciall) in the large citie', everal die from fires. In "·cw York in three ,wek ·, three eparate fire· killed man) each-perishing in the flame-. Danger lurks in e\'er) pla ·e. For example, not -.o lung ago, I wa · out driving in an automobile with my t\\ o year-old baby itting be·ide me. Just as I came up along Two were killed and three are expected to die Crom ide of a big truck standing against the curb, the driver this accident where an automobile and a street car of the truck stepped down directly in front of my car. Collided Frantically I jerked the ,,·heel, and mi:scd him by a hair': breadth-to find my elf heading for a pla) ed around among tht! apparatus. he and I had often eaten. He ook touring car, coming speeding down This young man opened an oil rnlve, a portion of ,omething, it contained the other way. I swcn ed the car and the oil prayed all over him. The ptomaine poi~on-and after week· of quickly around, the while applying . park from the electricit} caught the horrible ,uffering. he died. Fitteen the brakes, and the car went around oil on fire-and lie died soon after. people ate ~omc pie in a ,. · ew York on two wheel , and I got it stopped restaurant a kw ,, eeks ago-tht:y all Supposing you do not expect to just as it broke the lens in the head died. have accident·, there is still another light against a telephone post. The danger that lurk· ever nearer. It is little baby wa · thrown from the seat, This article is not ,, ritten in a pes illne·s. Ever since mankind ha· come but fortunately, was not hurt, e. cept simistic \'ein, but in the fear of God, out of the garden, illness of one kind a slight scratch. A the baby cried and to impre· · upon the reader the or another tand · eYer at the door. the young man who had tepped out importance of being read), no matter 'omctimes it is large and sometime· in front of the car, came up and ex ,, hat comes or goe-. it i a ·mall thing-at least to begin claimed, a - he thought the baby was with. The:e are not thing~ to g;et u · hurt, ''It would have been better to do,, nhcarted with living, for they have killed me." A crowd gathered Our next-door neighbor, a \\ oman may not come to anr of u -. But there round. Of those who were there at with two children, had a slight ,pot. is ju. t the possibility of it. The are lea t half of them had been in an au almost imperceivable,• at the ba, • of not lion to be afraid of. You prob tomobile accident, of more or less her thumb. It festered, and :he went ably recall that John Bunyan\ Pil seriou nes ·within the pa. t few day . to a doctor and had it lanced. After e;rim came up to a certain gate which the lancing it ha grown e,·en worse One of the isters in the church re he \\'ished to enter. But he wa,, and ·he is now in the ho pita! in a c-ently tarted to walk into the ·trcet, afraid to go up through the gate, for seriou · condition. and one of the brethren chan ed to there were lions at either side of the be driving along at the time. His car A certain preacher, "hom man} of entrance that looked very forbidding. struck: the woman, and he wa killed us knew as the very picture of health, Ho"·ever, a clo,er in. pection disclosed instantly. robu ·t, big and trong-and a good the fact that the lions were tied. Then The deaths in accidents as arra}ed preacher. He comes home ·ick, and the Pilgrim \\·alked bravely through. in the ne,,·spapers daily palls upon is laid up with appendicitis. Before These are the torms of life. It is one. he knows it, he is rushed to the ho· pital and operated upon. (And now in these ·torms that the Christian A young man of my acquaintance he is broken hearted ! Becau ·e he find comfort in Chri t Je us. If it WHO WILL BE How Ten Thousand Souls Could Be E. Thou and oul~ to come to hri~t bet\\een \\'hat would j ou con icier ) our be t? \Vould it be to T now and October 1 t ! ,vhat a shout that would pra) for thirty hours thi month? \Vould it be to , i. it bring forth throughout the \\·oriel I And there is thirty people this month? WHAT CA,• YO DO more rejoicing in heaven 0\'er one inner that repenteth THI ..\IO, TTH FOR CHRIST? Set your o\\·n mark. than 0\ er ninet)-and-nine that need no repentance! And, if you don't ha, e ome definite leading of the \\-hat a Glorious opportunity. Lonl as to what you ·hould do thi month for lost .oul - ''! will Lend One Soul to Christ This ,llonth.'' ,;\JAKE P YOUR l\IL 'D THAT )Ou will try to get ten people to come to the Lord-AT LEAST YOU I n't there some one-ju tone, in your whole acquain \\' ILL TRY. You will pray with them-you will \\eep tance that you can lead to Christ this month? A man, with them-you will talk with them-or read the \\ ords a \\ oman, a boy or a girl. of Chri~t to them. It is ble ed to go to church and hear a good ermon Sit down now-put but tell me, IS THERE A, Ty JOY SO GREAT AS do" n their name -or make up )Our mind. TO EE A O L CO 1E TO THE SAVIO R? • -o, there i n't. The day are making weeks, the weeks months, month are making years-A!rD ·wHAT ARE YOU DOI 'G ,vho will join the choru -"I will lead one Soul to FOR CHRIST thi· month? In return for the ten Chri. t Thi Month." thousand hies ings with which He i flooding your oul. ometime. we mu. t compel them to come in-out into the high" ay and the hedges we must go. Into the Ilari•est Fields for a ,11ontlt. Perhaps you will say-"! will do my best to lead one In October, when the farmer goes into hi fields of corn soul to Christ this month." You are not sure that you to reap the cars full ripe on the talk-when the tree~ in can 1\IAKE the ~oul accept salvation. BUT \VILL the orchard are bending under the load of lu ciou fruit YOU DO YO R BEST? reaping for his labors- FOR 'EPT,;::\JDER, 1923 17 That Will Sweep The THE VOLUNTEERS? Saved Froni Sin in The Next Thirty Days In october, "·c "·ant to hear of YOU returning, bring \Ve "ant to publLh the pictures of some New-Born ing the fruit of J our Christian Labor . Though you go :5oub-And "·hen the readers of THE FAITHFUL forth in September weeping, we want you to return in STA 'DA.RD look into their faces-A TD SEE THE October rejoicing, bringing the sheaves with you. PICTURES OF THOSE THAT GOD HAS SAVED-there'll be a shout in ten thousand homes. For Let September be your month of weeping-and praying every reader of THE FAITHFUL STANDARD and laboring with Lost Souls. And with October we wants most of all to see the sou ls of men and women want to hear of the Harvest. sayed from &in. THE REVIVdl TH.,JT GOES dROUXD THE "A BLACKSMITH SAVED BY GRACE." WORLD. \Ye know that all our readers vvould rejoice to see Let every one of the ten thousand readers of THE the radiant faces of some of those that will be gloriously FAITHFUL STA DARD try to lead some soul to saYed in the Month of September. Christ this month. It is the Lord'· command: "GO YE." If you lead a oul to Cl1ri t you cannot e' timate how many ·won't you send THE FAITHFUL STANDARD more will be led to Christ. If each of the ten thou and the photographs of some of those that are saved in the would lead just one soul to Chri-t thi · mouth-and the Month of September? Not to glorify them-but to second ten thousand led another ten thou and-it would Glorify God. Tell us how the Lord worked with you be a Revival after God's Own Heart. in helping some soul to Christ. Go, and God go with you-reap the grain ripe unto Let it be "A Blacksmith Saved by Grace"; or "A harvest. \Veep, bear the burdens of the lost-agonize in Weaver Saved by Grace." "A Farmer Finds Peace with prayer. And September will be the richest month in God." Be it a moulder, a pattern-maker, a treet car your life-riche in Chfrt Jesu·. conductor, a school boy or girl-a concrete mixer, a day And come again in October-and lay your trophies at laborer, a carpenter-no matter his job, tell us about the the feet of Jesus. Glory, Honor, and Majesty, to the one that was saved-and how it all happened. King of Kings and Lord of Lord .. 1 THE FAITHFUL STANDARD FOR. .:EPTEMHER, 1923 19 Church Government 1n• China Who knows what God will do through the Church in China! By Ina. L. Yingst. made splendid ROTHER C ., Field ecrrt, ry to . ay nothing of the .ai:rifice he ~i;.ter T. he ha. of the language for the Church of God in made in coming home t America, prugre. in the stud) ith a teacher B China, turned around in his lea, ing her hu. b,.md behind holding and no" gue to ·tudy \\ are humming chair and quickl) rose to hi· feet, with the fort. And then tu come at that place. Things house on the hill. a "Prai,e the Lord" and hand out- back to China and wait for month , around the big gre} a few days la t week. tretched toward Brother A and B, with no funds from home, no, not 11i;, · ~ was in that it 11 as not much who had just entered his office. c,·en a letter of encouragement; till 'he remarked he wa left there "HO\~ are ) ou both, and how goes it almost seemed they mu t gi,e up like it was "hen by the "tuff with hardly the work at Hsuei-pei," thi latter ad in de~pair. The debt at Hsuei-pei alone to tay of the language to be under dressed to Brother A. Brother A is had to be paid up in full or given up enough then, too, to under tand oYerseer of that district and the three entire!) and the Christians scattered stood. And e \\a' another problem. brethren altogether compo e the to other folds. How· they prayed the Chine the big house was Board of Leader for China. and held on to God until deliverance How lone·ome el. e in it but Chine,e. "The church hou e is all complet came. Their holding on then ha with no one e were indeed da} of im ed, readv for seat and other furnish brought about these conditions 11·hich But the She trained t,1 o Bible ing·. They \\ ant us to make an ap ,1e now our·cl1·e enjoy." portance. and only God know::. how propriation for that pu rpo~e as .oon "How stand the trea ury now, women. they ha,e won to Chri t. a· po sible. The hri. tian · are o Brother C?'' man) ·ouls made rapid stride in the enthusiastic about their new building ''E,·erything quarc for the month, he henelf language, owing to the fact that she and are \'CT) anxiou to dedicate it \\ ith four thou and dollar ju t re it continually. She spoke the first Sunday in June. EYen the cei, cd yesterday. That, with the one had to use trip to Hsuei-pci, how she children of heathen parent are anx thou ·and, three hundred, fort) •two of her first the twenty miles from Taian in iou to hear the first peal of the new dollars and fift) -one cent balance in made on one side of a wheel barrow bell, that they ma) come to Sunday the treasury, will enable us to lay a day \I in her lap, and Si ter Ru h chool in the ne\,· unday chool aside n1 o thou.and dollar for Broth ith Joel on the other. And room,. I tell you, Brother C, you er to go to Honan to open up the in and Deborah back the} left early on a mu t be there for the dedication. work and prepare a place for those coming It ,vas nine o'clock: Brother B ,, ill preach, and all the four new mi. ionarie coming out in frosty morning. the) reached home. This time mis. ionaries \\ ho are near enough September. You know how he ha before ca.me in the ~li,sion' Ford, made ,ire coming. :\lany of the Chri tians been praying about the work there. she fast train and got to the home by are planning to walk as far as ixty How they do need go,ernment in the ten o ·clock in the morning. ister L mile to be there. Oh, it \\'ill be a that Pro, ince. There are some went back with her. Si ter ~ i plan .houting time. Don't )OU rrmember might) fine Chri ·tians there, but they ning an itinerating trip with her when "e dedicated the A embly are so di\'ided. I believe there are "oman and preacher. i ·ter L build in!! up at Cleveland?" many independent mis ionarie who Bible in the home out there "Yes." .aid Brother B. "And will want to come into the Church take her place the pre ent." mam times "hen I fir t came to " hen the) _ee the light." for the Lord! To Him be all China I found m, self home ick to be "Oh, this is a big thing we are in. "Praise Glory! \ Ve are marching on to back in the dear old home church. There is no backing down or turning the Yictory," .aid Brother C. "They Then, "hen I thought of how our hack, now, a. Brother Tomlinson already begun work on our ister Rushin struggled through 1vould :say." ha, e ummer camp on Taian mountain tho. e fi r,;.t se, en yea1 s to establish the ''How are thing going at T.inan, with the appropriation we made at Church of God in China, when it Brother B ?" last meeting. \Ve'll be ready for seemed all but God had forsaken her, "Fine a, e,·er. Si ter 1\1 ha. gone our ( Conti11ued on page 25) it urely made me a!:-hamed of ID) elf; to Ching-dao to help Brother and 20 THE FAITHFUL STA ·nARD \ \'ho \I ould \\'ant to be • lothfu I or laid on the s·hdf no\\ at ·uch an important time a, thi ? It might do for the lazy and unthankful, but it \\ ill not do for tho,e who are full of life and the Holy Ghost. This class i~ con:tantly engaged in the noble work of blessing human it). Cripple Tom said, ''Knowin' is lovin' and 10\-in' h Published ::\Ionthly. ::-u bscription Price: $ l.:'>O a year to any addre. s in the world. \Ye im ite the Hol} Spirit among:,t u:, by offering Him PUBLICATIO. · and EXEC TIVE OFFICE: a free hand to guide and direct all our affairs in lite. He -124 West 33 r EDITORIALS E, cr) decade in the past has furnished it· man, and men tu uphold and as,-i ·t him, in ome .pecial heroic In man) in:tance;:. the old path, are better.-J er. 6: 16. deed. \Vhere is the man of the hour now? '\Vho are the men that ,,·ill clu~ter around him and ·tar by him to the last ditch? Da\ id's men were fe\\·, but they "ere ,·al You can fool ome of the people some of the time, but iant. Ther never forsook Da, id, although to remain you can't fool all the people all of the time.-Abraham with him meant priYations, hardships, tremendou~ bat Lincoln. tles, long hike, to e cape the enemy, hiding in the wood and in mountain and cave,, and almo. t all kinds of a•. rifice~ and hardship_-. i\Ien can be true and bra,·c now eek God earne:tl) and become more piritual. God as ,, ell as then. There may be no occasion for the ,ame draw~ nigh to tho,e who draw nigh to Him. Try it. kind of bra\'err, or the ame kind of battles, but there i~ need of the amc kind of fidelity to the cau,e they e pou:e. To make a promi~e of fidelity and break it i~ either cow anctification straight up, heart purity down right, and ardice or gross deception. Such men ,rnuld . ur<'l) ran · heroic faith and Ji,,; ine po,H~r make· a life of u,efulne,s "ith Paul'. traitor. and truce-breaker:,. Speaking ior that will bbs humanity. him:df Paul said, "But none of the:e things move me." To be ettled, fixed and unmovabl · in the right i, a n:.tt thin.?; now. If you kn0,,· uf miraculou case~ of hcaiing, "rite tltem up, giving full particular and how God an~wered prayer I take thi-. method of a:king our t1 iend, to ~1ve u, and send them to us o we can publi,,h them abroad to names and a Real Bible Scholarship The Road House Brain. and befa•f often go to gether-though some would have u: believe they do not. Some of the world's greate:;t Bible scholar,; A Good Story are to-day making masterly con tribution: in defen e of "the faith once for all delivered." The Sun day School Times brings you the HE clique of men ,tandin~ t; n otl-i nndho11. e hcyond Cit} l land. mo~t illuminating finding·· of: near Pel.'.k' l.'.orne1 on Ford \ hat cared he for 1.'.0m ention-,he ..,,r \\ illlnm )I. Jlnm ny, D.U .. T U.( ham Road fairl) ga,ped a,, a \1 ould meet her c,rnrt there. 'he . . L., t.J,.O., th r,•al.,st li\ln~ au- h111 it) on he archaeolog-y of the po,, erful gra) car Aa:hed pa,t ahuut "oul didn't accept her advances, for he for a little ·ip from a mite of a gla,s Thin I· \\·hat it "ill t11Pan for ,·,)ur f'l.-1:-.:s; to h!l\ c lht• ,. arLJC'lf•s 1n 1)rc1, "a a youncr man of definite principle. -that wn their bu. incs~. Prohibi u1 ntl II for ) our t, .whlni,; Yee thl-~l~ are nnl3-· a f,·,\· or tho inanv However, hi· eyes fell upon something tion law,, or the wails of the poor !=-l1·011g nrlf<"lr-i-. appt"•nnn,; in thl~ Jnunial, and a,-,, In ,u1<11tlo11 to th bright 1) ing on the ground bet\, een or the dying ga. Jh of a billion heathen lhfl•t•en hrUJ1ant \1-'J''.\"-\\i:?oek l _,... on h,•lp. on thl· International lm1>1·u, ,1 hi motorcycle and the big car. "·ithout God or hope, didn't enter euiforntetl 1-,·s ·(1n. He tooped to pick it up-a dia into their co mo that night. Tit(' sl111pl t \\8) to «aln 'I this mond ~tudded bracelet. Cunning, Such frivolity a. to make one ga·p ! 1 ichtll'Ks Is o ,1 e at one th "! :et-.\ •qualnted" otI,-.r by "ily Gloria had dropped it from her \\'its again,t wit and half "it,, jo,-t , hich many thv, aad~ hnv,, <'OlllP to IOIO\\ The own ,ni ·t quite unnoticed for that ling, jesting, imbibing, dancing; ~u11tluy :,;:l:hool Tim Thi. rou1rnn ts , cry purpo~e. Ben asked her if it rnung women supposedly respectable for ,:,.nu r con ,·en ~n • . ,, ere her,, "hich he, of cour~c, de getting loo·cr in their talk and their nied. \Vhilc Ben wa: examining the manner a: the e, ening ,,·cnt on and bracelet he ·udclenly da. bed :rn·ar, more drink dazzled their mind . 1h, lea\ ing. Ben quite bewildered with Gloria i\lalone stood o,·cr a do· 1--,0.\.~ -.1 ·uoo1, 'l'PIE-. CO\IP, Y the big bracelet of diamond, in hi,; tored punch howl drinking more and Bo 1:-;:;o, Pllllndn. hand the bracelet was worth not a more. he could hardly tand, for Fo1· th, 25 C nt, I'll lo- d ent ll•s. than a thou ·and dollar.;;, and the .piked punch had ~one to her pl se s n-1 Th Run,! )' .: •ho )I Trm, for 1 I "eeks probably much more. head. he \\ a assi:ted over to the .·am• Gloria dared an) thing. On thi~ stair, leading to the upper le, cl, and particular night, for c. ample, he wa: began to throw dice "ith the Old .\,lrl . ., . he.tded for Hannan':; famous and in- \\'ido\\er-at man} dollar, a thro, • \ k for our 11111 • rit.t••d Hihh~ S(0 hular!lib.l1• f'old,--r.. It~ fret". 22 THE FAITHFUL STA DARD The old man ,ugge~ted that they up the ound announced that the old throw the dice-1£ he lo t he would ) car \\ a dead. The light in the marr} him; if he lo t he would marry spacious but crowded room, were sud her-tri,·ial, ridiculou., laughable, denly turned out-all was dark: and BIBLE and damnable. The caruu er surged for a moment deathly till. to and fro about them-they threw Out of the stillne there came a PRESENTED the dice. sound from the Dead-Gloria Ma "\Ye will throw the dice,'' gulped lone heard \\ hat eemed to be the AS A GIFT the old man, between hiccoughs, "if rnice of her father. Clear, gho ·tlike it': a natural we dash over to Green and penetrating it truck fear to the \\ ich and marry tonight. heart of the mo t heartless: "Death! DEATH! Lurk at the Perhaps you can win it ''Agreed," shouted the intoxicated door, - and at the same time Gloria, her eyes glaring under the To snatch you from ) our foll .'' do a real service. effect of the drink:. All gathered A piercing cream rent the room in do.er. The old man took up the and Glaria ank uncon cious into the da:c and threw-a twcnt)-three year big basin of cold wine. \Vomen faint THE FAITHFUL old girl ri~king the balance of her ed; drunken men reeled and staggered STANDARD life. her happine,s, her money, her under the weight of the darkne and knows that some of its friend.. e\'erything, upon one throw their bulging and unthinking brain~, readers h a v e b e e n of the dice. ~inking into chair and onto the floor. \ \'ade through the orgie · of old broken-hearted because A policeman rushed in who had come • ero, the tinking exce ses of Pom of a friendship, prefer along n ith the strange speaker at the peii, odom and Gommorrah-moral ably in the Gospel, who hour of midnight, and with hi, fla b ity and standards of life forgotten, light searched out the crowd, and proved untrue. drinking and gambling men and 4.uickly lifted the uncon cious Gloria \\'omen, weaving the thread of life from the cold bath-and rushed her through the abominations of Isis and To the reader of THE from the smoke-reeking air of the praying to god of immorality FAITHFUL ST AN O,iri., room out into the open. -and Jou carcely find a picture DARD who tells us the The girl was hurried a\\ar by the ,vorse than that being depicted in man who had begun the speech, and most interesting expe roadhou es around , Te\\· York City, taken to a friendly home, yet rience of this kind a Paris, Havana, :\Jonte Carlo, drenched with wine-her form limp Teacher's Bible will he Canne , raples, Rome, Yienna and and till uncon. cious-in the arm of tantinople today. given--one that you Con her father. will he proud to own. An 200 II FOR HERE AND. THERE Boys and Girls WANTED THE DAY OF AFFLICTlO .. St,wdard, and an) mini:ter "ho ha,; at heart the desire to win ·out,, for AT ONCE · l 1 1 1,e d"J 1t•he11 the keepers of Chri~t "111 do well to a si-,,t Brother the lirwse shall tremble, and the for delightful C~ristian work and ister Turner in this much ..,tu111g 111t'11 s/,a/l bow themselves." -good pay. Eccl. 12:3. needt'd ield. We already have hundreds I i · told of the ~aintly Jo"eph .\L\, -KILU,R of workers who are turning lleirw. that in his last illness he sud The Chiaigo Tribune report~ that their spare time into dollars IIIIIIIIIIIUIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIII = ~ I= "Be Ready Always to Give an Answer to I Every Man That Asketh You a Reason I of The Hope That is in You" Did you ever start to tell a friend you many ministers in their very best God loved about your definite experiences in inspired sermons. And he has put this I the Lord, and find it a little difficult to ex into book form-for your blessing. plain it SO THAT HE COULD under I2 stand them? THE ONLY BOOK OF I= i If you could only explain them so you DOCTRINES IN PRINT could make him understand, surely you would win his heart. This is the only complete book on doc trines. You will be confirmed in the word A book has been prepared, giving the by it. Doctrines of the Church of God. It gives I chapter and verse-and a great deal more We are so sure you will enjoy this hook i to help. that we will mail it to you post paid, on a I fully returnable basis. If, after receiving it, and reading it through, you do not feel Just the right illustration, just the satisfied that you received far more than a right way to talk-everything written in dollar's worth of blessing from it-just such a way that not only will you enjoy return the book, and we will return the I reading the book, but you will wish to dollar. place it in the hands of your friends to I § show them "on whom you have believed." It is a splendid book, bound in cloth, and ought to be in every home. Mail This book can hardly be said to be the the convenient coupon below with a dol product of one man. It was written by lar bill-at our risk, and we will send you one of the brethren, who has heard the the book for your approval by return mail. Ii THE FAITHFUL STANDARD, Cleveland, Tennessee. Brethren: Please send me the Book of Doc trines on approval. If after reading it through, THE I feel that I haven't received far more than a i dollar's worth of blessing, J will return the book FAITHFUL STANDARD and you will return the enclosed dollar. Cleveland, T ennease NAME ······························••HHOO••··--··· ·-························•·-··········· I ADDRESS ······-····-································-······-·······-········•····· ii - 111 ~lllllllllllllll\1111111111111!11111111111111111111111111 llllllllllllilllllllllllllll)IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll~I J'OR SEPTEMBER, 1923 25 Church Government in China DOLLARS (Continued from page 19) MANY FOR GOOD our annual China As embly for the hr aside one thousand dollars for Church of God in August. That that purpose and begin as soon as leaHs plent) of time for us to get up possible. AGENTS our annual report· to send into head Your' for service, Every month we pay hundreds of i1uarters and hear from them again A. J. TO'.\ILINSO~." dollars to agents of THE FAITH before General Assembly time. In "So you got the money before you F'UL STANDARD-they delight another year or two we shall be ready did the letter; and more th.an he ex in turning their spare hours into to have some of our big brothers who pected at that." dollars. care to come to China for our camp "It urely i~ true that the saints LET US PAY YOU CASH meeting." are manife ting a missionary pirit." FOR YOUR SPARE I remember," put in Brother '·Yes, "Praise the Lord! Let's have HOURS A, "that Brother 1\1 did sa) he was a ·word of prayer before we open our for you. You expecting to attend General Assem busines- meeting." We have an offer bly in Peking, China, some day." He don't neeu any experience. Give '\Vhen the shouts and prayers went us a chance to tell you about our but got the idea. I missed the place, up from that little office room, the plan for you. Just write a few he preache on can see him no,", a workers in the next room stopped lines (a postal card will do) to That's his great the Church of God. their work, typesetting and the rest THE FAITHFUL STANDARD, to listen to others CleYeland, Tenn., and our liberal theme. And for they were preparing to print the and to add his offer will lie mailed to you at once. preach it strong, Church paper in Chinese, and joined "Hallelujab" was his ''Amen-" and in the prayer all of one mind and one chief delight. accord, Chinese and American. point the postman NOW READY At just this Now, dear friends and readers of came with foreign mail; and what a New Song Book The Faithful Standard, in the above from elder to the least "RODEHEAVER'S missionary, sketch it was my purpose to show you f°PSon95 does not anxiouslr look for ne\\· one, what can be done if we all stay in our GOSPEL SONGS"• foreign mail. Brother C hurriedly For Church.Sunday School, places and each do his part. I am Revival, and all religious went over the envelopes and opened services. sure you ·would all rejoice over such ,5c cloth (Quaot.) 40c one postmarked Cleveland, Tenn. Singly} conditions as these. I have somewhat ::l· ~ ~1:~ma ~~- ~c The Road House AGENTS WANTED ( ContiUued from page 22) AT GOOD PAY! His home was a gambler's home. cop. As the cop came back he asked We pay hundreds of our workers H. wife was flashy, daring, and a him who was driving the car-and it GOOD PAY. gambler too. They lived in rich ho was his own daughter. Hailing a Let us tell you how your commis sion as an agent of THE FAITH tels, and traveled luxuriously. taxi immediately, he started out FUL ST AND ARD will pay you But ,is a gambler, Malone met his through the night to find her. On well for easy spare-time work. stopping at every \Vaterloo. Ile found God. Even and on he went, ASK FOR DETAILS roadhouse and looking within for his though as bad as Malone, God can .. e have an offer for you. You find them. When that happened, daughter, for he knew her habits now. don't need experience to qualify there was a riot in the 1\1alone house He met di appointment after dis for it: we will train you. Our hold-the wife wa furious and "dis appointment, but still kept on. At offer is cash commissions from the very start. The coupon below will graced.•· She was sure their friends the stroke of midnight, he found b1'ing full details. Send it in to ter, Gloria, sided with her mother. Hannan's, and not knowing that his daughter was there, he gave vent to day. ·would throw them dmvn. The daugh - - - - - Tear off here - - - - - within The family was broken. the Spirit of God which was 'J'HB FAITHl~UL S'l'ANDAllD him-and in the nick of time he res Cleveland, 'l1 cnn. One dar :Malone didn't return cued his own daughter. Gentlemen: Please send me full de tails about your offer to agents. from a trip on the day l;ie was ex There he lay before him, still pected. A week passed, a month. a uncon cious. He kneeled beside her Na.1ne . . . • . , ...... • , . ..• • •·· ye,1r. At the end of six months, lVIrs. and prayed his prayer over again for l\,folone nonchalantly packed her "1\1abel and Gloria." grips and went to Texas, and took The bitter cold of the , ' ew Year's up her legal residence, and applied "LEARNING TO TALK night on a body just dipped in cold for a divorce on the grounds of de wine ·et up double pneumonia. Glo In Y. P . Prayer Meetings" sertion-and got it, so ~he could ria hovered bet,,·een life and death 10 Jes.ons; 16 pages. A real text marry another gambler. book for the new members in Y. P. for days. The mother was frantic, Societies, the only book of its kind People thought that Bob Malone seeking her, but could not find her. in print. Many Societies have adopted it. Has yours? was a derelict, stranded somewhere, She drove her car every-·where there and perhaps forgotten. But they Sample for a dime; 20 for $ 1.00, ·was a clue, day after day, ahvay postpaid didn't know the Bob 1\lalone that with her husband along. She wa · List of books for public speakers free. God had made out of him. Bob was nerve-wracked and unstrung and GEORGE B . WRENN, Pub. ashamed of his past-he told no one. could scarcely keep her car in the Bnx 346-1'' And in ·tead of the old nickname, road. As she approached the raif Ashland, Ohio "Gambler Bob," they called him road cro·sing she did not see that the "Praying Bob." Every time he was bars were down, and crashed right Scofield seen he was murmuring a prayer into them. Her hu ·band wa killed Reference Bible. ''For :\label and Gloria." outright, and she herself was taken Pay Us $1 Down a nd $ 1 per Month. One, two, three, four, five, six to the hospital horribly bruised and Ko extra ci,arge for thi" ready to die. pr!• !l"~e. year passed-dragging heavily, but Equals a (;nurse in Bible Study. he praved on and on-asking that if Bob }!alone saw the news of the Bibles sent Postpaid. Send for Catalogue even bv death "lvlabel and Gloria" accident in the paper, and rushed Books-Bibles-Mottoes. would be brought to Chri t. Far in frantically to the hospital, to pray at N ationa l E d uca tional SO Go1}..G ·10 Ho PJTALS The:e boy. will go ,\ ith other TOMORROW wounded to Debarkation Ho~pital o. 3, at Sixth A enue and Eigh It ma) he that ) ou ha\'e done your sage: either by pen or vocally 1 al teenth treet, ::\lanhattan. There be::-t today, but ) ou ma) have some \\ a)~ "ant to do better the next timl'. they will be da;. ified and each 5ent .id rnntages tomorrow that ) ou do not \\"e do not know the feelings of to a special hospital according to the h:nc todar. It is alwa)s best and the bonds mere) into the nooks and corners of Partner With us ? earth with a hope of bringing en THE FdITIIFUL T.1.XDARD PUBLISHI.\ G CO.lIP.!SY couragement to the discouraged, light is owned by a n11111ber of Faithful Christians in 1•nrir,us states of the to the darkened, joy to those who are U11io11. By each one ir11 •1sti11g n little, a real new publislzing lwuff. ad, blessing to the gloomy and power for the dissemination of the G/nd Tidings has hcrn created. to the faint. By the help and grace .! 11 y Christia11 wlzn beliei·es in the full Gospel and belieus THE of God it hall peak new life and FAITHFUL STANDARD, with its other publishing intnests, has a gri:11t vigor into the li, e· of its upporters work to fulfill, are i11-dted to become partners with us. Thl!i 11u1.1 hr and those it may find by it· faithful in the form of an i1west111ent, bearing Eight Per Cent Interest, f)r .ernce. f 11/l pcrtnerslzip. The hones of Ezekiel's vision were Hry df). They had no life, no .d11J,• w/10 ·wish further details r,f the Eight Per Cent Jn ,,:estment ~ breath, no po"·er. Thry were de:id plan, or full partnership, are iwvited to write to us. ~ and wry dry, but when the prophet began to prophesy upon them there THE FAITHFUL STANDARD PUBLISHING COMP ANY wa: a mighty shaking, a great noise, 424 WEST 33D STREET, NEW YORK, N. Y. and ha~ty mo,ement·, and soon by l Editorial Office, Cleveland, Tenn. the blo,, ing of the winds upon them, breath was gi,·en them and they be ,~'fl\'iti'wmiihi:rcl:imW ihiWJK'i/ITt/?M::rurnrbi /fwW~Wmi W!frnibimimim:, fd'i:1r)) ~ came a great army of living men standing upright upon their feet. No matter how dry people may become, Historical House PUBLIC SALES how discouraged they are, there is (Continued from page 6) always a certain move to make, a We have purchased 122,000 pairs ,rnrd to ,peak, or influence to throw Clark hurried to the "\\'hite Hou,e" U. S. Army Munson last shoes, owr them that will touch them up to a sist Taylor. The American sizes 5 ½ to 12, which was the to new aspirations and determina troops began to storm this building entire surplus stock of one of the tions. Only touch the right chords in an attempt to dislodge the enemy. largest U. S. Government shoe with the proper forces and the right contractors. effect will be produced. The great "'1EC>E OF THE \VHITE HousE This shoe is guaranteed one hun Apostle Paul of the Bible said, "Let dred percent solid leather, color For nearly three days a steady fire dark tan, bellows tongue, dirt and all things be done unto edifying." At waterproof. The actual value of Get under people and give them a lift wa trained upon the ·tronghold. length the Indians assisting Colonel this shoe is $6.00. Owing to thi instead of trying to crush them down tremendous buy we can offer same Brown were repulsed, and it appeared deeper into the mire. Help and bless to the public at $2.95. be compelled instead of crushing and abusing. that the British would of ,rnter. Send eorrect size. Pay postman Gi\·e buoyancy and courage instead of to surrender due to lack Just when a victory for Clark ,eemed on delivery or send money order. criticism and torture. Thi is to be If shoes are not as represented, we a of British reg the spirit of the magazine that knows imminent, force 500 will cheerfully refund your money The be what it i to be sorely pressed and ulars arrived at the scene. promptly upon request. cru~hed almo t to despair. siegers were oon forced to retreat to the mountairn:;, Bro,yn taking over NATIONAL BAY STATE SHOE CO. Finally, God bless you all. This t,\·enty-five Amt:rican pri oners. 296 BROADWAY is like a renewed acquaintance with New York, N. Y. friends who have been separated for :'.\IAssACRE OF THE PRrso, ER.s year'. But this time let us hope there \\ ill be no stoppage, no interval of He and the Indian then proceeded lo. t acquaintance, but rather a con to gratif), their de ire for revenge on. Otht'r pri oners were turned tinuation of fello"·ship, love and as upon the unfortunates. Captain o\'er to the Indians to torture. Ter sociation until the brighter and more Ashhy and twelve wounded Ameri rible were the demoniac acts at Au · glorious day when all storms will cans ·were mercilessly hanged upon a gu ta on that beautiful autumnal day ha\·e been past and the eternal glor stai rwa) of the "White House," when the white and the red savage ies will never cea,e. while Brown and the Indian· looked contended for the meed of cruelty. THE FAITHFUL STANDARD Church Govern For Here and There ment in China (Continued from page 23) ( Continued from page 25 ) A BE ' IEGED TOW •• A M RTYR FOR CHRlST ' 0 give tha11ks unto the Lord for "Bless the Lord, 0 my soul: and all going to obey Him u·hen He speaks H11 is go{)d: for His mercy endureth that is within me. bless His holy • and strain your e,·ery resource for f ore1;er." Ps. cvii, l. name." Ps. ciii, l. thi. cau e? In the rear 16-1-2 Taunton was be- Durin; the persecution in the reign I might present the other -ide. ieged br the Rorali ·t forces. It was of Queen ~lary, one of the martyrs Howe,·cr, tt i · very painful to think defended hr heroic ·teadfastnes by wa fastened with a chain to a po t about, much les experience. hall Robert Blake. \ Vhen food had ri ·en in the 'mithfield Market of London, these workers ·who are m·er here give to n, enty time· it market value, and when the wood piled about him up all claim to the work, let the when many of the inhabitant had was lighted, and the fire burning his properq and Christians go and come died or ·tarvation, when half the clothes and frizzling his flesh, he home? Or ,,ith "Go ye" burning in street· had heen burnt down by a cried. ''Bies· the Lord, 0 my soul: th::m in spite of the condition , work ·torm of rockets and mortar-, the de and all that i:; within me, bless His and ·truggle earning their own sup fender· till held their ground, and holy name." port "·hile endea.-oring to gain a Blake announced to the be ieger his working know ledge of the language ; grim resoke not to surrender "until then set up and support their own he had eaten hi· boot ." At last, in THE LITTLE SHIPS A D work? Some other missionaries have July, 1645, the besieger were obliged done this thing. ome are now deep THE GREAT SEA to withdraw. ;\Iany ermons were in debt with no hope, and other have "The} that !}fJ down to the sea in preached on the occasion of the anni had to compromise in order to keep ships, that do business in great wa ver·ary of the town's deliverance. In alive. ters." Ps. cvii, 23. one preached before Parliament, the Do you want your own mis·ion preacher said: The following i- the prayer of the aries, your own brothers and i·ters, Breton fi ·her· : ":VI on Dieu, pro •·o give thanks unto the Lord, for member of the same body to have tegez moi-mon navire est si petit, He i gracious: and His mercy to do any of these things? • o, a et votre mer et si grande" (My endureth for ever: thousand time. no! Condemnation God, protect me-my hip is so little, \Vho rememhered u. at •a:5eby, for re ·t · on rour heads if you do let and Your :ea is ·o great.) His mercy endureth for ever; them go unsupported. 0 God! my ship is mall, Thy sea so \\·ho remembered u· in Pembroke If you do now rally to the call wide, shire, for His mercy endureth with all your being, God alone can How shall I ail acros in bark so for ever; e timate the results. frail? \Vho remembered us at Taunton, for vVhat may my oars against it· wave His mercy endureth for ever." avail, HO.ME, SWEET HOME! Or can I ever reacl1 the farther side, "Our feet shall stand within thy If any shore bound that unmea ured GI\"I TG A TE1 TH TO THE gates, 0 Jerusalem." P ·. cxxii, 2. tide? LORD One night on the banks of the Po 0 endless wa1·es. 0 feeble quivering tomac, as the Confederate and Union "Hon our the Lord with thy sub sail! armie lay oppo ite each other. the sta11ce, and with the first fruits of all 0 great Eternity I faint and fail, Union bands played "The tar-Span thine increase." Prov. iii, 9 And dare not go, and may not here gled Banner," "Hail, Columbia!" l\fr . Isabella Graham had re abide: and other Union songs; and the Con ceived £1,000 unexpectedly, and, l\Iy bark drives on, whither I do not federates in contest played "Dixie," true to the godly habit which he had know. and other pieces of their ide. ft maintained through days of affluence l\.fy God! remember me, that I am seemed that each would play the other and days of straitness, she put £100 dust- down. By-and-by a band struck up at once into the bag, which had The way i. too far for me, \vhen I go; "Home, Sweet Home!'' The con never received o large a sum before. Yet will I leave the land and trem flict ceased. The band· on the other The circumstance was never men bling trust. side truck: up "Home, Sweet Home! tioned by her; but after her death this Thou who didst walk on ·tormy Gali and voices from opposite sides of the entry was found 111 her diary: lee, river joined the chorus, "There 1s no "Quick:, quick, before my heart gen, Let me nut ,;ink in Thine unfathomed place like home." hard." sea! FOR SEPTEMBER, 1923 31 t11U 11111 ,11U 1111111! IUl!I lllll11Ull Ui The Road H ouse as a good thing to . ell and give the CLASSIFIED DEPT. pro eed. to the mis ionarie . That ; I (Contrnurd from pnge 27) <.tarted common ties between them : Where to Get What You Want= and it came out just the way you can ,, icked people ometime. to appre e pect. Gloria did not become a I Reach 15,000 religious people i ciate ho\\· happ) it i to be a Chris "-ife, but that was be . by ad1.'ertising under this heading I tian. policeman's = at a cost of only 3 cts. per uord. f Farman oon re,igned from In the moments when Gloria cau e Ben ·· Minimum charge 75. cts. ~ the police force. You see, Gloria 11110 looked into the deep and reverrnt eye ?.nd Ben talked it all over and decided of a godly father, in~tead of a gam "lllTER BAR(:A1,s after all that instead of sending the 'J'\"PE\\ bler father, she saw a new father Flflv practi<'ally n •w. RE'mingtons, money from the bracelet to mission ,'11011archs. Und,:rwuuds, Smiths. Clotse there. \\'hen he told her how he out "tock of a business college offcn·d arie,., they would go themseh·es. at prices from ~io to 30. E,·ery ma came in time to re cue her from her chiiH guaranlel'd. \Vhich is a good idea for many a own fol!J-of the long )ears that he J. l'. Hedlngtnn, young couple that haven't e,·en 47-41•-iil Uurr Uldg, ~(.·ranton, Pa. had pra~·ed for them-the light thought about it. bramrd into her soul. And "·hen hi· "L (;i,.i,; ( 'O'IID BLACK '111.,0RCAS Jf you want th•• largPst ri.ure . white "ife found that earthly doctor t gg!-: ltl the grt:" "I mu t Preach-I must preach-I omebody doe'n 't bear i:.he burden this wife and mother of -cveral children. must Preach-But to \\ horn shall I tO\vn will go down like every town Just a they shook hands there by preach?" that forget God." the roadside, t,Yo women chanced to II l\Irs. \Vaycross listened, with a come that way, and peering around Into Bro\\n's Gap, North Caro· thumping heart. She turned her eyes the corner sa\\' them in interested con lina. shortly after that came an old toward the hill, on the top of which Yersation-and weeping. fa ·hioned hack, with covered top. tood two little churches, almost side That night, as Calvin Turner was In ·ide that hack was a collection of by ide. 'What ought to have been a Jeep in the hack-his usual sleeping Bibles, tracts. and old religious pe a picture of unity in the Christian place-masked men came and finding riodical . Cal\'in Turner had turned religion was exactly not that. That it parked near that spot, jerked him Colporteur for the American Tract hill ,rn · a battleground of churches. out of the hack, turned his horse loose Society, a11d was on a missionan trip So hitter had been the conflict be and ran it away-set fire to his hack, through the mountains of \,·estern tween them that carcel) would the and watched it burn to a cinder North Carolina. members of one d1urcb walk up the Bibles, tracts, clothe , everything. Into everr town you go God usu same side of the hill a· the members The backbiting tongue had done its ally ha - somebodr that is a little clos of the other for fear they might walk work. er to Him than any one el·e. In in their tracks! It is in the midnight hour ·when Brown's Gap. God's particular wom And while the church members great things are born. Dark, very an was l\ln,. ~Iartha Waycross. One fought-the people perishetl. The dark-ever:i thing was gone. • "at evening at milking time he wa at sons of the Church member became even clothes for his back-The morn the back of her barn. She heard moon. hiners--0ne had turned mur ing ,vould come, and The Sun ·would omeone weeping, as if someone were derer, and had killed sixteen people rise-and there would be Calvin in great distress. before he was thirty years old. Turner with-Kothing, No money. Following the sound she came to All this rushed through Mr. Way no clothes, no hor e, his precious Bt a corner of the rail fence near the cro s' mind as Calvin Turner, pros bles, even his very own Bible. burned. by-road that went back of the place, trate upon his knee , revealed his Not a sword left to draw. where Calvin Turner lay upon the burden to her. He pleaded with them to spare him ground, still weeping and not notic Tor did he tell Turner of the a Bible-but no, nothing should be ing that someone ·was near. . long vigils in prayer she had kept that spared. "Can I help you?" said the mellow God would bring salvation to and sympathetic l\frs. \Vaycro . Brown's Gap. Satan be-ides being 'Illany other things, is a Prophet. He "Are you ill?" "God will bear my prayer," con foresees the pos-ibilities more than we think. Calvin lifted his eyes, which were tinued Turner, "and I will preach If something is going to take bulging from so much weeping to re the Gospel in this town until every place that will glorify God and bring happine~s spond in fervent and sobbing tones: man shall cry out "What shall I do to the world, Satan knows it. He "l\!Iadame, I am distressed, but not to be saved ?" concentrate· every effort to de tror for myself, it is for the sin - of your Ther talked for a half hour or so those that he knows are going to do village." Sobs hindered him, but he -of the needs of S~lvation for the wonders for Him. Brown's Gap had continued: town-of the prayers they mu t pray been Satan's tronghold in the valley "Into every town I come -of the burdens they must bear uch a and fastnesses of Cherokee Count}. burden for sins falls upon me that I to bring souls to Christ. So there he stood out in can hardly bear up under the load. I Though he kne"'· not a soul in the the woo&,, no clothes but have just about made up my mind town- urely God had led him aright his underclothes, no money-nothing, but that I will tay right here in Brown's in finding God's Saint in Brown's His God. Gap until God saves the town. If Gap-dear Sister Waycro s, faithful ( To be co11ti11ued i11 11ext number Be sure to start the story of "THE FANATIC" in this issue, page Seven- It is to run in several numbers---each of which will take you through an important development in the life of The Fanatic Write "The Faithful Standard" telling us the stories and articles you like best