The Gospel Trumpet - 27:37

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'AND HI: SHALL SEND HIS, ANGELS W'TH A GRE"T SOUND OF' A TF!UMPET ANO THEY SHALt GIITHER TOGETI-tER HIS ELECT F'ROM THE F'OU;<I WINOS. FROM ONE END OF' HEAVE:N TO THE OTHER.-MATT. 26:31J
,.. SO WILL' SE'EK O,'T MY SHEE'P. AND WILL DE-LIVER THLM OUT Of ALL PLACES WNEA£ THEY HAVe: BEEN S.CATTEREO IN THE CLOUDY AND DARK DAY.-EzEI<. 34:12.
VOL.U M E NO. XX VII. ANDERSON, INDIANA, U. S. A., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19,1907.
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NUMBER 37.
CONTEN:JS.
EDITORIALS: ....................................................................................... 1
POETRY:
Counting the- CosL .................................................................. 2
.l\Iother ................................................................................................ 8
i~RTlr.r.1;:S : <It
Iiold Fast ....................................................................................... 1
_ Anti-ol'dinC1nccis11l Versus the New Testa-
111ellt ................................................................................................ 2
Wha t God J"'51 to us ................................... ·-.· .... ····· .. ··· ..... ~':>
11hings Heal'and UnreaL ................................................... 3
vYhv Do "'iNe H(~joice L ....................................... · .. ··· .. ········ .. 4
Ete;~nity .... ? ....................................................................................... 5
Bought vVith a Pl'ice ......................................................... 5
'rhe Endless Pi'ayer Chain ............................................. 5
----.---tl'--he-War-e-£ --Ufl-HU@';g .. m~ ...... __ ................. _ ....• .£
Jacob and Esau ................... , ...................................................... 7
Things -y.,r e ShouJd Let. ...................................... ~ ............... r,
OFFICE AND HOME EVENTS ............................................... 3
EDITORIAL:
Sister-Byrum Gone to Rest............................................. 8
qUESTIONS ANSWERED ............................................................... 9
1\{rscELLANEOUS .............................................................................. 9
~I ISBION ARY .......................................................................................... 9
7,·ESTIMONIES: ................................................................... 11, 12, 16,
FIELD REPORTS ............................................ : ..................................... 13
OBI'l'UAR·y ................................................................................................ 15
REQUESTS FOR PRAYER ............................................................. .15
GALLS FOR lvlEETlNG ................................ , .................................... l5
.1\1EETING NOTIOES ............................................................. : ............. 15
ADVERrl'ISEMENT ........................................................................... 15
DIVINE I-IEALING .............................................................................. 16
_ ............................. ax ............................................... lIII ............... .ua1
Only the just can live by faith.
By faith we stand; through unbelief we fall.
All "forbidden fruit" is soul-poison, and will
cause spiritl1~1 death to all who eat of it.
Spiritual death is not annihilation, nor a ceas-.
ing to be; bilt it is a separation from God~a
departure from his law in heart and life.
The ','hidden man of the heart" (1 Pet. 8:
4), _ is a:pJd hartos, "not corruptible. " Sal11,e
G reek word is translated "incorruptible" in J­Cor.
9:: 25; 15: 52; 1 Pet. 1: 4~ anc1 "immor­tal"
in 1 Tim. 1: 17.
Thet. first. man _",vas made mortal in body,' but
ihis spirit emariated from God, and is in it.;; na­ture
like him, hence immortal.
"Thou llwc1cst hiJn [man] a litt1e lcnver [a
littlu while infcl'lol',lllllJ'Uin], than 1ho angels."
l'his inferiority cC)]Jsif-lts in the mortality of the
body. Angels arc spiI'it-heingH (Heb. 1: 7), and
not suhject to denth. In this l't's}Jcet " ..T e sns
was HllHlc: H little lower than the ange1s for the
suffering of death." Heb. 2: 9.
. ('But they that arc aecounted worthy to at­tain
to that world, and the l'u.surreetionfl'cllll
the dead, neither lIW1'I'Y, nor are given ill mar­riage:
Ii'1or neither can they clie allY lYJOl'e: l(n­they
are eqllal 'Unto lha (wyds. n Luke 20: 35,
3G. H. V. Man ill his creative state Lefore hjs
fall was inferior to the angels in heaven in that
his body wasrnade moriaI, and wllOse T)hysical or
natural dUl'nticin might have been imleJinitely
pr01{)nged by eating of the" tree of life.' ~
In the church of God, whieh in smne rcspeGts
amnvers to the 'I garden (' f Eden,' I ther~ are to
,be found the "tree of life' ~ and tIle "tree of
the knowlec1geof good and evil [tree of death j."
Man is still on probati·on even after he has been
l'E~;~tored to holiness of heart, and hus power of
(ho:c~: either to do good, obey God and live;
or to eat of the" forbidden fruit" uncI die. And
l'eme.mber that God always puts dead people out
of his garden [chnrch], fer there is no burying­ground
011 the inside .
In the garden of Eden there gre'w every tree
that was pleasant to the sight and goo~1 for
food. Gen. 2: 9. Originally, mon never "de­sired"
that which G{]d had forbidden. "Of all
the trees of the garden thon mayest freely
eat"-one exception, nthe tree of the kno'ivledge
,of g.ood and eviL" These passages and prom-ises
and provisions prove to us that God did not
· intend that man should go laeking. There was
· only one test tree in all the garden. To desire
that which God forbids is wrong and shows that
man is fallen. This fall took place inside the
garden of Eden at the very_ time Eve believed
· the devil's lie, and ~egan to look upon and to
desire that which God had charged' them not
to eat.
In regeneration our desires are purified so
t.hat we do not "lust after evil things." 'Where
there are no impure desires' in the heart f{)r
evil things, there is no depravity .. :Men in theiJ:
unregenerate condition love darkness rather than
light, and are bent to evi,l. They stand Oll the
t1cclivity of a fallen nature, hence they lUli­fUl'mly
drift away from God. Through redemp­tion
man is 'cleansed from this depravity and
his heart is made pure, so that he no longer l{)ves
dm'lmess and sin, but loves light and righte~lUS-ness,
and abhors evil. J. E. F.
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HOLD FAST.
BY WILLIE H. OLDHAM.
I.,V-c are exhorted by Gael '8 'l\T ord to hold fast
that which is good. rl'his text of Scripture is
well worthy of our careful consideration, as well
as others. And, as we are assailed on every side
by sec1neing spirits, we are soon made conscious.
of the fact that if we do not walk prayerfully
and humbly with the Lord, \ve are going to let
~:ome good thing slip away. We might note
how we can lose' some good things.
vVe can lose the love of God by letting in:
a love for the w{]rld.
'l\r e can lose our membership in Christ by com.
promising with sin and sectism and by making
provisions for ourselves that God never made.
,Ve can lose a holy zeal and interest for God
and hjs cause· by becoming entangled in the
affairs of this life and setting our affections on
things of earth.
vVe can lose good heavenly food by not watch­ing
and praying, or by going to sleep during ser­vices,
or waiting until the sermon is nearly de­livered
before getting to meeting.
vVe can lose all the blessing of giving by not
keeping com;ecl'ated. He that watereth shall
be watered himself. Be it well understood if
God can not trust us with earthly things, he
never will with the heavenly.
If ,ve prefer laying np treasures here (to
witness against us in the last day), rather than
,to see the gospel go to all nations, and that
souls in darkness be saved, we will. lose .some
good thing.' The delight of'a saint is to continue
in transacting busines,s _ for eternityhy trac1ing
the earthly for the heavenly-.:to exchange 'that
which will perish for that which "vill not. In
2 John 8, we read that we should look to our·
. selves that we lose not those things that we have
. wrQi.1ght, but that we receive a full rev yard.
"Hold fast for that bCCl1.dil1.d la;nd in 'v'icw)
Hold fast f01' the crown that's.awwiting you,
Hold fast- for the· rnceti'l1[j of loved o'nes there!?
~ HaZeZ fast fOl' the bliss they have [jone ·to share-"
May God help llS one and all t{] :fight a good
:fight for him.