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MONTHLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF HOUSE TO HOUSE BIBLE WORK . "Go out into the highways and hedges and compel. them to come • Luke.14. 22 •
---:.Serving the Lord with all humility of mind, .. . I kept back nothing that was profitable unto you, but have rshowed you, and have taught you publicly, and from house to house, testifying . . . repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ" Acts 20:19-21.
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"The %%ire of tLe Bible" THE above cut illustrates the title • r ti VOt I (74 4ErerrAl , V• page of a new eight-rage tract, pub,01 t40Pv lished by the BIBLE TRAINING SCHOOL. ono OF )11 The first two page s con'ain a valuable THE comment L n 1 Tim. 5 : 23, showing that there is no shelter for either the moderate drinker or the drunkard be"Wine is a mocker" hind the text: " Use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirm ities."On the sixth page are grouped the Bible texts referring to unfermented wine, showing that unfermented win( , or the pure juice of the grape, has always been considered a refreshing beverage. The opposite page gives in contrast a group of texts on fermented wines and liquors which are injurious. These groups of texts are valuable, "Use a little wine and every temperance advocate ought for thy stomach's sake",,..., to be familiar with them. • The fourth and fifth pages contain B11:31_,E, TRAINING SCHOOL the " Dark Valley Railroad," as pubSOUTH LANCASTER. -- MASS. PRICE SCENT EACH-5O CENTS PER HUNDRED. lished in the BIBLE TRAINING SCHOOL of October, 1908. This is a ivid portrayal of th.t pat'a say of the drunkard fro .n youth to the grave. The " Wine of the Bible " can be placed i I an ordinary sized envelope. Prices as follows : $ .50 100 2.50 500 4 00 1000 if*
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orithl °tuna( Voted_ to the Interest or use to thouse Bible ~(onit~ "The angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear Him." TRUST IS BEST 7if THINK if thou couldst see, And yet thou canst not know, e9 With thy dim mortal sight, And yet thou canst not see : How meanings dark to thee Wisdom and sight are slow Are shadows hiding light, In poor humanity. Truth's efforts crossed and vexed, If thou couldst trust, poor soul, Life's purpose all perplexed— Thou wouldst find peace and rest ; If thou couldst see them right, Wisdom and sight are well, but trust is I think they would seem all clear, and best—Adelaide A. Proctor. wise, and bright.
Work While the Day Lasts Mrs. E. G. White rillililif EVER did the Lord Jesus con- ting, all they that had any sick with divers ] E fine His labors to one place. diseases brought them to Him, and He laid 4 i. I E We read of Him that " He His hands upon them and healed them. jyyTyyymyt went about all Galilee, teach- And devils also came out of many, crying ing in their synagogues, and preaching the out, saying, Thou art Christ, the Son of gospel of the kingdom, and healing all man- God. And He, rebuking them, suffered ner of sickness, and all manner of disease them not to speak ; for they knew that He among the people. And His fame went was Christ. And when it was day, He dethroughout all Syria, and they brought unto parted, and went into a desert place ; and Him all the sick people that were taken the people sought Him and came unto Him, with divers diseases and torments, and and stayed Him, that He should not depart those that were possessed with devils; and from them. And He said unto them, I He healed them. And there followed Him must preach the kingdom of God to other a great multitude of people from Galilee, cities also; for therefore am I sent." Christian missionary work was to be and from Decapolis, and from Jerusalem, done in all places. The truth was to go and from beyond Jordan." Again we read, " When the sun was set- from point to point. The disciples were to
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leave an example of how to establish the Christ chain of truth, link after link. worked as He desired them and all other laborers to work. The town and cities of Palestine resounded with the truths that fell from His lips. How essential it is that today the truth be proclaimed- in the same way I The world is our field of missionary toil. Everywhere the light of truth is to shine forth, that hearts, now in the sleep of ignorance, may be awakened and converted. In all countries and cities the gospel is to be proclaimed. The seed of truth must be sown in the soil of the heart, in order that it may spring up and bear fruit. God's servants are to be laborers in places nigh and afar off, going to the regions beyond, even preparing to embrace a larger circumference. They are to work while the day lasts; for the night cometh in which no man can work. A Saviour uplifted on the cross is to be presented; and from many voices is to be heard the word, " Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world." Churches are to be organized and plans laid for work to be done by members of the newly organized churches. This gospel missionary work is to keep reaching out and annexing new territory, enlarging the cultivated portions of the vineyard. The circle is to extend until it belts. As workers go forth filled with earnest, happy zeal, thrilling with the love of God, the whole church at home is revived; for the success of the workers is regarded as a subject of deep, personal concern to every member of the church.
" Two LITTLE girls were playing church. One said : Now we are to have prayer. You kneel down and be a real Christian; I'll just sit down, and put my hand up to my face. I'll be a stylish Christian."
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OW faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen " Heb. 11 : 1. The hope of a Christian is based upon something substantial. Nothing can be more substantial than the promise and Word of God. The apostle, in the same chapter as the above, says that " through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the Word of God." Heb. 11 : 3. In other words, since worlds appear when God speaks, we have great assurance when He speaks concerning our salvation. Through the Word of God man did, and still does, have hope of eternal life. Paul, speaking of his own experience, says : " In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began." Titus 1 : 2. When man came upon the stage of action, the promise of eternal life existed. The Author of life could create man for no other purpose than to live co-eternally with Himself. But the promise of life was based upon conditions, and the first promise to man was on condition of obedience alone. If man had not eaten of the forbidden tree, he might have continued to eat of the tree of life, and in it God had placed the life promised. By eattlig.of the forbidden tree, he cut himself off from all hope of eternal life. But God did not leave him in that hopeless condition. He immediately renewed the promise, but on different conditions. So we read : " Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to His abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope, by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead " (1 Pet. 1 : 3), which is, literally saying, "He hath begotten us again to the hope of living, by the resurrection of Jesus Christ." So Christ takes the place of the tree of life to mankind. The Son, like
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emperance at'imag give mg best'service to lzioit era5 lfi mil 'Fellowmen, I PROMISE GOD AND PLEDGE MYSELF never to use intoxicating Liquors as a drink and to do all I can., to end the DrinKI-labit: and the Liquor Traffic.
the Father, hath life in Himself ; and " he that hath the Son, hath life ; but he that hath not the Son of God, hath not life." 1 John 5 : 12. Since God has removed the tree of life from the earth, there is no source of life available to man, except the Son. Faith in Him alone brings the hope of eternal life. But faith in Christ does not exempt man from obedience ; for we read again : " And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as He is pure." 1 John 3 : 3. It is undeniable that the purity of Christ consisted in His perfect conformity to the law of His Father. The man who truly entertains the Christian hope based upon the Word, is in love with the law of God ; and the Spirit of Christ within, enables him,
through obedience, to attain to the purity of the Son. So while he does not obtain hope through the old promise, or covenant, but through the new, which is in Christ, yet he is purified in obeying the truth. A certain evangelist is using a card on one side of which is the question, " What must I do to be saved ? " and following it are the scriptures which point out the way of salvation. On the other side of the card is the question, " What must I do to be lost ? " and the answer follows, " Nothing." The reply is simple, but wonderfully impressive. Many think that in order to be lost they must run the long gamut of vices and be aggressively bad. Not so. We are all bad enough to miss the kingdom in spite of the good points we may have.—Selected.
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A WONDERFUL MEMORIAL
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HE greatest power manifested in the world is the power to create something out of nothing. Man can form wonderful structures by combining material already created, but man cannot create even a tiny blade of grass. Creative power is that which distinguishes the true God from the false. . " The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, even they shall perish from the earth, and from under the heavens; He [God] hath made the earth by His power, He hath established the world by His wisdom, and stretched out the heavens by His discretion." Jer. 10: 11,12. Creative power is truly a mark of divinity. Redemption is a manifestation of creative power; it is a re-creation. No one but a Divine Being can create a " clean " heart. Psa. 51: 10. No earthly power can entirely remove crimson and scarlet colors without destroying the material that was dyed ; but divine power can change the deepest dyes of crimson and scarlet and make them white as snow. " Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow ; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool."
Isa. 1 : 18. None but divine power can redeem the human soul that is scarred by sin, and make it clean and pure. That man might never forget the creative power of God, the Lord gave him the Sabbath day to be a memorial of this creative power. When the work of creating the world was finished, God " rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had made, and God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it ; because that in it He had rested from all His work which God created and made." Gen. 2 : 1-3. When from the midst of the thunders of Sinai God proclaimed His law, He placed the Sabbath command in the bosom of the decalogue. As a reason for commanding that the seventh-day Sabbath be kept holy, He states : " In six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day ; wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it." Ex. 20 : 8-11. Thus linking the Sabbath commandment with the institution of the Sabbath. When Jesus lay in Joseph's new tomb, His followers rested the Sabbath day according to the commandment. Luke 23:
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54-56. This formed another span in the heavenly beings was the promise of the great Sabbath bridge connecting the church future. A restored creation, a redeemed of the Christian dispensation with the race, that having conquered sin could never fall,—this, the result to flow from Christ's glorious scenes of Sinai. While the Sabbath is a memorial of the completed work, God and angels saw. With creation of the earth and all things therein, this scene the day upon which Jesus rested it is also a memorial of the great work of is forever linked. For His work is perredemption, or re-creation. Just as God fect' ; and whatsoever God doeth, it shall rested from the work of creation upon the be forever.' When there shall be a restituseventh day, so Christ rested in the tomb tion of all things which God hath spoken by on the seventh day, after announcing at the mouth of all His holy prophets since the close of the sixth day that the great the world began, the creation Sabbath, the work He had come '5.MY,KRW,:•WV.ViM.W1Y.M,(.'5("5,(•$:WMAK•MM: day on which Jesus P:5 lay at rest in Joseph's to the earth to do was ".' 4 tomb, will still be a " finished." John 19 : 2 Walking on the Wall :04 1 r\ day of rest and rejoi30. gs' MY WEE one walked the narrow wall— ^k3 cing. Heaven and earth Before the Sabbath 4 What child but hungers thus to go?— will unite in praise, as began, His faithful (b": Her eyes alert lest she might fall ':', On that rough-bouldered pave below. ,^fk;. ' from one Sabbath to followers placed Christ 4 another,' the nations in Joseph's new 01 At length she stopped, and this her plea, As though o'erfull of care her cup : P444. of the saved shall tomb. Luke 23 : 52- 0 " Please, daddy, hold my hand for me '?.`) bow in joyful worship 56. " At last Jesus :•0 ,` So when I walk I can look up." 4 to God and the Lamb." lay at rest. The long SI .(s`4 All-Father, when we walk the ways day of shame and 0 That teem with pitfalls for our feet, 4 —Desire of Ages.