The Gospel Trumpet - 27:32

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AND HI: SHALL stlllD HIS ANGELS WITH A GR EAT SOIJND OF' A TRUMPET AND THEY SHALL GA.THtR TOGETHER HIS ELECT FROM TH E FOUR WINOS. FRC!M ONE END 0 .. HEAVEN TO THE OTHER.-MA'M' ••• : •• ~
SO W'Ll. , stl:K OUT MY SHE:tf>. AND WrL.L DE'L,VER THEM OIJT or ALL Pl.ACES WHEAt THEY HAVE DEEN SCATTERED 'N THE: CLOUDY AND DARK DAV.-EzEK •• ":'2. JEll. :12:: ....
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V\.IL..I..JME ['lO. XXVII. ANDERSON, INDIANA, U. S. A., THURSDAY, AUGYST 15, 1907. NUMBER 32.
CONTENTS.
EDlTOHIAL:
l~vil 'rhongbts ......................... _ .................................... ___ 1
rrl'inls ................................................................................................ 1
P~·I·;'lH,Y:
A I~('H:clon Iinarncd ................................................................ - 2
The Dying Christian to his SouL........................... 2
;AJ!TH.:u:s:
()nr Speech ..... "."""" ................ " .................................................... 2
'rllll Bride of ChrisL ...................... _ .................... " ........ · ..... 2
A True and Proper l~stimate of One's Self ...... 3
'['he Bible Not Outgrown ................................... " ........... 3
A Salllple IJettel' ....................................................... · ....... · ........ 4
God)8 Illgl'afting, Contrary to Nature .......... " ... 4
rfhe Cru~hing Spirit l~xposed .......................... .,. ....... 5
A1JOund in 'Phis Ora'cc Also ........................ .. ........... 6
rrhe BuptiHt li1oundation .................................. : ............. 7
()PFWE: AND II(DIE EVl!;NTS ................................... .-.......... 8
G ENl·:U.\L t\()'l'I~S AND l:\EWS ~ ... ... ... _ .... _ ... _ ....... ___ 8
QUEf;'TIONS ANS\VEHED ................... ..... _ .......... : .......... · ... m ...... 9
~:IISCI.;LI.JANE()US .............................................................................. 9
COHHgHPONDJ';N'CE ................................ _ ........................................ 10
FIELD REPORTS .............................................................................. 11
OBJTt1ARII~S .......................................................................................... 13
RE{lUES'I'S rmR PHAYlm ........................................................ ·· .. ·· .. 13
CAI.LS l"UI{ l\IEE'1'INO ......................................................... .......... 14,
]\1 I~ErnNG 1\ (JTlCl~S ............ __ ............................................... _ ..... _14
ADVERTlf5E"il-lENT ........................................................................... 15
DlvrNI~ IIJ<:ALING:
Earthly Ph)'sic:ians and Divine Physician
Contrastc;(l ........................................................................ 16
When there wert! only one pure man and wo­man
in the \\'orld-~dalll and Eve, the Lord did
net l-iIJare thcm ror their di~obcdience, but sent
upun them spiritual death.
At the institntion o£ the law there were only
five priestR-AarOll and his four sons. vVhen two
of them oiTered strange incense before the Lord
and disobeyed his law, he sent forth a fire and.
fllew them. The LOl'd never has l)eon so scarce
of ministers that he would spare them alive for
llwir disobedience.
The first king tlu.t. Israel ever had was in­::-:
tantly l'ejeetC'c1 when he had" rebelled against
(~ljd 's "\Vord in saving King Agag alive, and
the b<::~.t of the sheep and the cattle. The Lord
wonld rather have no king at all over his peo­IlIA,
than to have II diH{)11cdient one. "Rebellion
is as the sin of witelieraft." The sjgns of dis­obedience
were the bleating of the sheep and the
lowing of the oxen. Samuel knew that dead
!ahtcp diJ not· bleat.
« God spared not the angels that sinned, but
cast them down to hell." "Alid the angels
. which kept llot their first estate, but left their
own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting
chains undor darkness unto the judgment of the
great day." J ucle 6. God never tried to scare
~tny one iuto lwuven, but he has made some very
solemn warnings to this lost world, and to the
few redeemed souls in it, of his fearful wrath
UPOll those who depart from his holy law.
One man sinllcd and lost his holiness; a city
sinned and was destroyed with fire and brim­stone
from heaven; a nation sinned and was, re­jected;
seven nations sinned and were driven
out of the goodly 1and of Canaan. angels sinned
and were cast down to hen; a world sinned and
was destroyed with a flood; but all these things
are just ens am pIes of the mighty power of a sin­avenging
God-even the same God that made all
thihgs with his hand and who became the author
of eternal salvation to all that obey him, and is
also the author of everlasting punishnlent to those
that obey not his gosp-el.
It is a righteous thing with God to execute
his judgments upon them that trouble him and
his people. He is now extending offers of mercy
and pardon to this world, but when the door·
of his mercy closes, he then will frown on
the calamity of a ruined world, and at the
anguish of that poor soul who wilfully made
choice of the regions of the lake of eternal de­spair
in preference to t!lat heaven of light which
is so freely offered to poor sinful man here below.
"Who art thou that repliest against God~"
"I kill and I make alive ; I wound, and I heal. "
Hath not the potter power over the clay to make
one vessel unto honor, and another to dishonor?
"Behold, therefore the goodness and severity of
God' on them that fell, severity; but toward
thee,' goodness, if "thmt continue in his goodness)
otherwise thou also shalt be cut off." J. E. F.
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EVIl.. THOUGHTS.
"For from within, out· of the heart of man,
proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications,
murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness,. de­ceit,
lasciviouslle.'3.'3; an evil eye) b'l asphemy, pride,
foolishness; all these evil things come fromwith~
in, and defile the man." Mark 7: 20-23.
This is a true picture of the unregenerate
heart which has notliing good in it. ~"'here are
;two ;ources of evil thoughts! First. .The devil
himself, directly. Second. A corrupt heart.
From either of these sources evil thoughts may
be presented to a child of God, but from neither
can our hearts be defiled, if we are kept under
the cleansing blood of Christ.
The Word of God clearly teaches us that we
may have a clean heart, which means, clean from
all sin and moral defilement, and therefore" we
see that the description given in the text, is not
that of a child of God.
The presentation of an evil thought to the
mind of a child of God is no sin, neither does
it defile our mind and thoughts, to have such
things presented to us, if we but make use of our
God-given protection. "Bringing into captiv­ity
every thought" to the obedience of Christ.'·
2,Cor. 10: 5.
Therefore,w hether an evil thought comes t()
us from the devil, direct, or from some wicked
person, it is at once captivated, and banished,
and we are undefiled. Praise God for, the
precious cleansing bl()od of Christ, and the Holy
Spirit, the greater one, enthroned within.
J.W.B.
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TRIAI..S.
BY FLOSSIE E. OLIVER.
Trials are stepping-stones to heaven if we go
through them as God designed we should. But "
if we get our eyes off of Jesus and get them on
the trials, we shall l'eceive no benefit, but shall
become discouraged.' The Lord permits us to
pass through trials in order to' draw us closer
to him, also to try our faith which trying, the
'VIT ord says, is more precious than of gold that
perisheth.
Many times while in trial, instead of hold­ing
still and letting God have his way, we be­gin
asking him to lift the trial. Perhaps we
have asked God to take us through anything he
thought best in order to purify our hearts and
take those things out of our lives which wete
un1ike him. Then we forget all about our
prayer. In a short time we get in a deep trial,
perhaps the. furnace of affliction; then we won­der
why God permitted all these things to come
upon us. But if we sto.p and think, we shall re­member
telling-him to take us through ·any~
thing he thought best, and now our prayer is
being answered.
vV' e should pray with an understanding and
believe we receive what we ask for, but not
expect it to come. the way we think best for
pur "Jvay, is not alway'~ .God's wa~.