WAD MAY INTOMTIONAL mt j SwrsoiooL DELICo cms Lesson mim (rty E. O. SELLERS. Acting Director of Sunday School Course Moody Bible In- stitute, Chicago.) CHDI5TIANITY What shall bo dono with tho Negro? ing, cheerful man, regardless of color. LESSPN FOR JANUARY 24 This question Is frequently asked and "What the futuro of Boley will bo but seldom given a rational, Intelli- depends not only on men the and GIDEON AND THE O gent, satisfactory answer. Possibly women who have planted a thriving THREE NE of the most desirable results of tho It ought to be changed to read thus: city In a rough country, but also upon present world war will be the elimina What shall the Negro do with him- tho Negroes who aro trained (nnd will LESSON TEXT-Jud- ges 7:1-- tion ot Turkey as a power and tho liber self? Not a few Negroes are answer- bo trained within tho next few ing question GOLDEN TEXT Not by might, nor by ation of tho territories under her yoko, tho in this form and in years) for leadership In education, power, but by my Spirit, salth Jehovah of Including the Holy Land, with all tho very satisfactory fashion, too. In- business and public health, as well as hosts.-Ze- ch. 4:0, It. V. sites of Biblical history and the Savior's stance tho Negroes who have been in religion and law. lllfe.for so many years In Moslem hands. building up the town of Boley, Okla., "Dr. Washington's visit to Boley, his This was the period of Israel's Then, at last, we shall see an end and Its surrounding section. Thero words of encouragement and advice, transition from a nomadic to an ag- of outrageous conditions that allow la an Illustration of the successful and together with his vital relation to ricultural life. The record wo havo the problems the barbarous Turks to control the holy suggestlvo working out of tho of race adjustment, glvo is an alternate succession of idolatry mm city of Jerusalem, with the sepulcher of idea. It has been de- tho demonstration in "big business' for and subjugation with a return to Je- the Savior, the temple of Solomon and scribed and commented on by the tho Negro more than passing hovah and to liberty. Southern Workman: Us other almost Innumerable sacred sites I. "Gideon and All the People," vv. Christian civilization has gained some rights In. "Boley, Okla., Is tho largest Negro Rallying city about him his clansmen Jerusalem, but in other In the United States. It is sur- I am suro that It will prove both Gideon chose position by a at the spring, sacred places ot the rounded some of tho richest land interesting and educatlvo to many of of Hnrod near Jezreel, his back to In neighbor Mt Holy Land Christians tho world and has in its your readers to have laid before them Oliboa and the Mldlanltes to the north hood most of are entirely shut out by valuable mines coal certain statistics of church work next to Mt. Moreh. He thus con- the Turks or must and wells of oil. Recently it was among tho colored race, and gleaned trolled the fords of the Jordan and venture there at the the scene of Joyous activity when Dr. from the recently issued Living could prevent the enemy from return- ot lives. Booker T. Washington and some 400 Church Annual and Churchman's Al- ing to their homes In coun- risk their delegates the desert In Jerusalem to the National Negro Busi- manac for 1915, writes George F. try. Outwardly great discrepancy the league the American tourist could, ness came to Its citizens from Bragg, Jr., In a communication to the of numbers mado the situation look: Muskogee, - before the war, visit through Okmulgee, Boyn- Living Church. dubious for Israel, but In reality tho such sites as gar- ton and Clearvlew, where Negroes are Organized congregations to the num- danger was that the army was too the succeeding den of Gethsemane, In farming, in cattle rais- ber ot 33, within 53 dioceses and mis- large, since when tho victory was with the olive tree ing, in mining, in tho oil and gas sionary districts, report 23,706 colored gained they might "vaunt themselves." where the Savior was fields and in storekeoping. communicants. They are distributed Individuals and churches usually betrayed by Judas and "Boley was founded In 1904 by as follows: count their strength according to num the garden tomb ot Je- Thomas M. Hayes of Texas In the Tho province of New England: In bers. (See II Cor. 12:9.) If wo desiro sus, near Mount Cal- rolling prairie land on the Fort Smith two dioceses and five congregations, God's strength it must bo as we our vary. & Western railroad between Deep there are 1,413 communicants. selves aro weak (Isa. 40:S9). God is Fork and Many of the most In- North Canadian rivers, and The province of New York and sometimes limited by having too many Is in the a region capa- teresting parts of Jeru- heart of vast New Jersey: In six dioceses 19 con- and not enough of the right sort. ble producing salem have, however, of such diversified gregations, 4,439 communicants. When God delivers he leaves no room, crops as corn, wheat, cotton, potatoes, not been open to the Tho province of Washington: In for boasting (Eph. 2:8, 9;' Rom. 3:27). alfalfa, apples, peaches, grapes, ber- visitor or the explorer. nine 63 congregations, 6,432 God can savo as well by tho few as ries and the common garden dioceses, Chief among these Is communicants. by the "many (I Samuel 14:6), nnd fre- quently uses the Mid-Wes- tho weak nnd despised site of the temple The province of t: In eight "This Negro town is "making good.' things to confound mighty (I Cor., of Solomon, which can- dioceses, 15 congregations, com- the Today it has over eighty business con 2,318 1:27, 28), glory not be touched by a municants. that "no flesh should cerns, an electric lighting plant, eff- in his presence" (I Cor. 1:29). These Christian or a Hebrew The province of Southwest: In eight because icient waterworks, two banks, several were two tests whereby Gideon was it is occupied dioceses, IS congregations, com- by attractive churches, a high school 1,189 to select his warriors: (1) "Go to, a Mohammedan municants. mosqUe. worth over $15,000, a normal and In- proclaim . whosoever Is fearful dustrial supported by C. M. The province of California: In two . Excavations in the school the let him return" (v. 3). It is E. church, flourishing dioceses, two congregations, 222 com- temple area may still fraternal orders, not well to criticize too severely tho a Masonic temple of Oklahoma municants. 22,000 In Gar- reveal the altar of sac- the ju who returned; oven tho rifice, the brazen risdiction worth $35,000, a telephone The combined colored communicant den not only Peter, but all the'dlscl- - altar, system, lists in the states Alabama, the table of shew bread, several cotton gins, a cham- entire of pies forsook the Master and fled. God molten sea ber of commerce, a city hall, a Ne Mississippi, Louisiana, Kentucky, Ten- does not choose men because they are and various nessee, other sacred nhwtc gro station agent and a Negro news Arkansas and Texas amount heroes, but to make, heroes of them paper. to just 266 more communicants than by the power might. (2) mentioned In the Bible. of his Thero From 15,000 to 20,000 people live in are reported by the .single colored par- Is yet another sifting. God gives Gid- oUPnfCeK0t SoImn. ere he received the the region surrounding Boley 3,000 ish of St Philip's church, New York. eon the clue (v. 4), viz., to decide by U B bUlldlnS L ! ?' concerning which are in the township of Boley and 1,300 It would certainly seem that the their method of drinking. Those who E rp4refT,3naturar ten. It was "built ot are In the city of Boley. Here, then, church needs the "Racial Episcopate," drank "as a dog lappeth," were those When the stories of Her-tai- S Is the beginning really an excellent or something else, which promises bet- not to be taken off guard even whllo are unearthel s salem " not improbable that since 1867, and a little digging was done of Ne- ter results tho machinery we drinking. An ox glues eyes upon may e beginning a demonstration In than his found the cedars of Solo-o- f outside the present city limits to determine the gro city building which will be have tried for a whole halt century. the water and is oblivious to all else, ,n those times they lines of the Eim?! Wnei0T had a habit ancient walls. In the course of the watched closely by those who aro In- Here Is tho real thing which tests not so a dog. God cares more for ruins ot superficial Btudy their predecessors. of the land a number of Impor- In tho catholicity of church. quality than for quantity and thero A notable terested the Negro as a factor tn the instance of a Biblical site of extraor- tant monuments were discovered still standing business. were too many cowards, too many dinary interest front which upon the surface In 1868 the mission- investigators are German "The people of Boley, all of whom Steps taken to improve facilities who thought most of t, to excluded Is ary, Klein, discovered inscription the tomb of Abraham and the an of Mesha, are Negroes, have shown rare pluck for the education ot the Negro are allow them to enter this battle.