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And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a Trumpet, and they shall gather to-gether
his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. Mat. 24: 31.
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So will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have
been scattered in the cloudy and dark day. 	 IN. 	 . Ter.
VOLUME XX. MOUNDSVILLE, WEST VIRGINIA, U. S. A., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1900. NUMBER 7
Questions and Answers on the
Church.
( Concluded.)
THIRD LETTER.
From A. H. S., Pontiac, Mich., Oct.
10, 1888.
This letter was called out by our strictures
on articles he had written in the " Free
Methodist," in which he had. in very strong
terms committed himself against the sects,
and yet opposed the idea of coming out of
them. Bro. S. is an intelligent preacher,
who works in conjunction with the Free
Methodist sect, but disclaims membership
in any of its conferences. Ile says:
1st. I am a Free Methodist in the sense in which
Paul said, " I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee,"
and in no other.
2d. In the F. M. articles referred to by you, I said
distinctly that sects are of the devil. I have openly
held that view for many years.
3d. In those articles I held, first, that sectism is an
evil; second, that it is an unavoidable evil. I made
the parable of the tares the basis of my argument.
While he that sowed the tares was the devil, the servants
were told that in pullinf, them up they would do more
harm than the taxes would do if left alone. If any one
will prove that the application I make of this parable
is unwarranted, I will thank him and give up my
position.
My interpretation of this parable was an argument
that the church in this present state is mixed; that is,
it is not made up exclusively of the worthy, and can
not be. Yours in Jesus, 	 A. H. S.
ANSWER TO LETTER NO. 3.
The apostle Paul no more continued a
Pharisee after saved than he continued to
be a sinner. He said, " Christ Jesus came
into the world to save sinners; of whom I
am chief."- 1 Tim. 1: 15. Though in the
form of the present, he evidently referred
to what he had been. For he was not a
sinner at the time of writing to Timothy,
much less the chief of sinners. So when
he said, " I am a Pharisee, the son of a
Pharisee," he simply meant that he had
been born and brought up in that sect.
But since he had. become alive in Christ
Jesus he was dead to the sect. He was so
far from carrying his old sect leaven into
his new life that he taught " there* should
be no schisms— sects— in the body," and
that such as cause divisions serve not the
Lord. Jesus. He did not hold meetings
jointly with that sect, as Bro. S. says he
does with the Free Methodists. He once
stood. high in his strait sect, but after he
bad obtained. salvation they pronounced. him
unfit to live, and desired to take his life.
He had embraced an exclusive Christ, an
exclusive religion, and was a member of the
body of Christ, an exclusive church; and
in so doing he suffered the loss of all he had
before ( Phil. 3: 5- 8), his hypocritical sect
with the rest, and was therefore in reality no
more a Pharisee either in spirit or in practice.
" Sects are of the devil." " Are an evil,
but an unavoidable evil."
There are works of the devil in the world
that we can not remove. This present evil
world. will continue evil until destroyed.
But Jesus came to save a people out of the
world, and in his church there is no place
for the works of the devil. The view set
forth in the words quoted above dishonors
God, is derogatory to the characterof the
infinite Redeemer, andthe boundless grace
of his kingdom. It " limits the holy one of
Israel," and _ ascribes a victory to the devil
that Christ can not avert. Why are sects
unavoidable? Because men will not leave
them? Well, there are plenty that will not
- leave off lying, defrauding, etc. But are
we compelled therefore to count such char-acters
in the church? By no means. What
then is necessary to dispose of sectaries, and
all other sinners who will not repent and
obey God? Simply this: Let God's minis-ters
preach and apply the word of truth,
thereby unchristianizing whatever God
does not Christianize. Does not the Word.
plainly tell us to " mark them which cause
divisions and offenses contrary to the doc-trine
which ye have learned, and AVOID
THEM? For they that are SUCH SERVE
NOT OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST.' '— Ro m.
16: 17, 18. But who are included in this
class? When - the Lord saves men from
their sins he brings them into " one fold,"
" one body," " one family." But should
any of them set up or join something else,
they would thereby " cause division." Shall
we continue to acknowledge ' such as fellow
servants of God, when the Bible does not?
But what shall we do with them? Do just
as God commands you. " A man that is an
heretic— sectarist-- after the first and sec-ond
admonition reject, knowing that he
that is such is subverted, and sinneth, be-ing
condemned of himself."--- Tit. 3: 10.
We admit that men have been joined to
heresies, and did not feel condemned in
themselves. So they have lived in the filthy
use of tobacco, and followed other lusts of
the flesh without positive condemnation.
But it was simply because the Bible stan-dard
of purity was not preached to them.
And so have the preachers been silent on
the sin of sectism during its dark and.
cloudy day; in fact, they erroneously iden-tified.
sects with the church. It were just
as inconsistent to say that any of the other
works of the devil. are unavoidable, as to
say that sects are. They are only unavoid-able
when men avoid preaching the whole
truth. But thank God1 he is now sending
out flying messengers, who declare the
whole counsel of God, laying " judgment to
the line, and righteousness to the plum-met."
And as a result men leave their
sects, or lose all the grace they have; for
God always stands by his own word and
those that mithfully preach it. No sin is
more clearly cut off in the Bible than here-sies,
and to say they can not be purged out
from among God's people is simply to say
that men are too crooked or too cowardly
to preach the pare gospel of Christ.
" The church, in this present state, is
mixed. . . . not made up exclusively of the
worthy, and can not be," says Bro. S., and
bases his conclusion upon the wheat and
tares, or rather upon the dark- age tradition
falsely drawn from that parable. Turn to
and read it in Matt. 13 : 24, 30, 36- 43.
' Notice that the good seed— wheat-- are the
children of the kingdom, God's children.
But the tares are the children of the - wicked
one. They are the representatives of two
different families, and neither one can ever
be in the family of the other. A child of God
is never in the devil's family, nor a child
of the devil in God's family. No person
can prove from this parable, nor any other
scripture, that God's church or family is a
mixture of his own and Satan's children.
One fact in the Savior's explanation of the
parable is sufficient to overthrow that idea;
namely, the field is not the church but the
" world." This was a wise discrimination
of the Lord. For had he said, The field is
the church, it would have conflicted with
every other description of it. Thank God
for a Bible that is consistent throughout!
But the Babylon use of this parable, i. e.
to teach that we can not have a pure church
in this world, is based on the idea that the
field is the church, and that it therefore
contains saints and sinners. This, we say,
is false, both in premise and deduction.
The Lord Jesus likened the kingdom to
various things, many of which have no re-semblance
to each other. How then could
they all illustrate the kingdom? It is thus:
Each lesson pictures out one or more
elements of the kingdom. Now we give
you - what the Spirit of God very clearly
taught ns respecting the parable of the
wheat and taxes. It is an historic parable.
Its general outline pictures three conditions
of the church which extend from the begin-ning
to the end of its history. First, pure
wheat, showing the church in its primitive
and holy condition. Second, wheat and
tares, showing the age of sectism, in which
institutions of men saints and sinners are
mixed together. Third, the fall of Babylon
( sectism), and the separation of the wheat
and tares by calling God's children out of
her; in which the pure wheat again appears.
Good wheat was sown, it sprang up and
" brought forth fruit" before any tares ap-peared.
Turn to Acts 4: 32—" And the
multitude of them that believed were of one
heart, and of one soul." Acts 5—" And
they were all with one accord in Solomon's
porch. And of the rest durst no man join
himself to them, but the people magnified
them." Here we see a pure church, all of
one heart and soul, and not a sinner mixed
among them. This is clean wheat, and
history shows that it continued nearly so for
over 200 years. Then gradually the
enemies prophesied of by Christ ( Matt.
24: 11, 12) and by Paul ( Acts 20: 30; 1
Tim. 4: 1, 2; 2 Tim. 3: 6, 7) and by Peter
( 2 Pet. 2: 1- 3), sowed the seed of man-organized.
churchism. Since that time have
saints and sinners been mingled together
in these institutions. But through all the
dark age the church was still the body of
Christ, and not a sinner in it, though it
was much hid out of sight. Bat must it
continue so until time ends? Bro. S. and
about all in the education of modern sects
thinks so, and, doubtless, most of them are
honest in the view. They think the angels
spoken of in Matt: 13: 41 are the inhabi-tants
of heaven, and. their work of separation
will take place at the instant of Christ's
second coming. But this is a mis' under-standing
of the symbolic teaching of the
word. The word " anger— angelus in pure
Greek— when rendered into English is sim-ply
" messenger," one sent of God to pub-lish
a message. It is so translated in Matt.
13: 41; 24: 31 by the Emphatic Diaglott,
and all through it is rendered " messenger"
in the direct from the Greek. And so is
the word translated all through Rother-ham's
version. The celestial order of
beings we call angels are so denominated
because God has sent them with messages
to this world. Bat all God's ministers are
also called messengers. Hence we find
there was an angel, messenger, or minister,
of eaod in each of the seven churches of
Asia. See Rev. 2: 1, 8, 12, etc. So the
angels that God sends to sever the wicked
from among the holy are God's flying
evangelists.
" So shall it be in the end of the world."
This does not relate to the instant of
Christ's coming, but covers a short period
of time that extends up to that awful event.
The end of the world is rendered. " conclu-sion
of the state," " the end of the age,"
etc. It corresponds with Daniel's time
when " many shall be purified, made white,
and tried." And all true children of God,
whose names are written in the book of
life, shall be delivered out of every crooked
and humanizing way. See Dart. 12: 9, 10.
" Then shall the righteous shine forth as the
sun in the kingdom of their Father" ( Matt.
13: 43), is the same thing as " And they that
be wise shall shine as the brightness of the
firmament; and they that turn many to
righteousness, as the stars forever and
ever."— Dan. 12: 3. So we see the end of
the age covers the time of the swiftly run-ning,
flying ministry, through which God
brings out a. pure church. The same angels
— messenges, are sent of the Lord to gather
together his elect; and their work consti-tutes
a sign that Christ's coming is near,
even at the door. Matt. 24: 31- 33. This
proves that they do not gather the saints
out from among the sinners, and unto
unity, at the instant of Christ's coming,
but just before. As the church was pure,
unmixed, and in perfect unity at the begin-ning,
it can be again, and will be ere Christ
comes to receive his bride. This is the
great fact taught by the parable. But the
many scriptures that teach the same fact
can not be given in this little work. One
thing we will call attention to before drop-ping
the parable. Had the Savior designed
to teach an unavoidable intercommunion
and mixture of saints and. sinners, he would
have had the tares in the field first; for the
world was full of sinners before Christ
established his church here. But the clean
wheat first, the tares sown in by an enemy,
and. finally separated by the messengers of
God, clearly shows the primitive pure
church, the apostasy, and the cleansing , of
the sanctuary before the return of Christ.
The command, " Let both grow together,"
etc., is to be understood only with reference
to the husbandman. The farmer so ordered
his servants, and Christ used such an agri-cultural
circumstance to illustrate what he
foresaw; namely, that there would be a long
time when his saints would be yoked up
with sinners in man's organisms, and that
just before his return the separation would
take place by the fire of holiness. Christ
does not forbid the separation of saints and
sinners, but used the fact that the farmer
let the wheat and tares grow together as
illustrative of the apostate age of Roman-ism
and Protestantism.
FOURI. 11 liba TER.
An. unknown brother by the name of
G: 11. F., writes us from Arlington, Colo.,
March 30, 1889, as follows:
D. S. Warner, Dear Sir and Brother: I have read
several numbers of The Gospel Trumpet, and find much
excellent teaching and soul food. I am glad to know
that there are so many of God's children enjoying full
salvation. A_ hearty " amen!" and " praise God!" often
comes up in my soul as I read.
I see that the ' Trumpet is, among other things, " for
the destruction of sect Babylon." Well, you have
taken a most tremendous work.
Now
'
let me ask, What will there be left of the
church of God on earth, if you succeed?
ANSWER TO LETTER No. 4. -
" A tremendous work." Yes, but " it is
not by might nor power, but by my Spirit,
saith the Lord." It is not the first time
truth has dared to assail old, time- honored
and established institutions. But where is
the system of error that has been able to
resist her infinite , power? It is not the
puny arm of man, but God has risen in his
might to " give unto her [ great Babylon]
the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his
wrath."— Rev. 16 : 19.
" For behold the Lord will come with fire,
and with his chariots like a whirlwind to
render his anger with fury, and his rebuke
with flames of fire. For by fire and by his
sword will the Lord plead with all flesh:
My Redeemer Lives.
BY CHAS. E. ORR.
I know that my Redeemer liveth;
Wherefore, my soul, should'st thou despair?
When weak and weary grown, he giveth
Support and bears away my care.
My way though stained by feet all bleeding,
And overcast with dark and gloom,
Yet proves the way my God is leading
To bring Me to my heavenly home.
What though my soul is full of sadness,
And friends untrue augment my pairs,
There comes a day of peace and gladness;
I know that my Redeemer reigns.
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ual nature; and the outward life, his
words and actions. This was the image
that man lost and to which we are re-stored
in Christ by the gospel. We will
now proceed to show by what way and
when
MAN LOST THE IMAGE OF GOD.
Having proved that God created man
in his own image, which is righteousness
and true holiness- his spiritual and
moral nature and life- we would natur
ally ask, " From whence comes man's
life?" In the beginning man's life was
entirely and purely from God, because
he had the privilege of eating of the tree
of life, which was the means by which
the purity of his life was supplied and
preserved ( Gen. 2: 16), on condition. he
would obey God by not touching the
tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Ver. 17. As a proof of this, we see
that God deprived Adam of partaking
of the tree of life because he disobeyed
this command. Gen. 3: 22. This is
how and when he lost the image of God,
and becaue of that no man was ever
privileged to eat of the tree of life, until
Christ came; and we are made partakers
of 	 who bare twelve fruits, and the
leaves are for the health of the nations.
Rev. 22: 2.
Adam begat children in his own fallen
image after this, and this is included in
" the old man," which is corrupt; and the
nature and life of men are afterward
thus spoken of: " And God saw that the
wickedness of man was great in the
earth, and that every imagination of the
thoughts of his heart was only evil con-tinually."-
Gen. 6: 5. " For the imagi-nation
of man's heart is evil from his
youth."- G- en. 8: 21. The reaton for
this is because we are conceived in sin
and shaven in inquity. Ps. 51: 5.
These scriptures all go to prove that
man as he comes into existence in this
world has a fallen, corrupt nature, and
naturally does not possess the image of
God. This nature leads into sinful
actions and blinds the, mind so that when
the child comes to a knowledge of good
and evil, it follows still its natural in-clinations,
fulfilling the desires of the
flesh and of the mind, and his heart be-comes
hardened against God without
being clearly conscious of the heiniouness
of such a course in the sight of God.
This brings condemnation to every soul
of man, because God can not justify the
wicked. Ex. 23: 7. 	 ,
THE FIRST STEP TOWARD RESTORATION.
We now come to the teaching of Jesus
Christ, who is the author and finisher of
the Christian's faith- the second Adam,
and the head and representative of a
new creation. He came as a redeemer
to bring fallen man back to his original
stale of purity and righteousness, to
" serve him without fear, in holiness and
righteousness before him, all the days of
our life."- Luke 1: 74, 75. The first
step he directs us to take is taught in
these words; " The time is fulfilled, and
the kingdom of God is at hand: repent -
ye, and believe the gospel." - Mark
1: 15. Repentance is a forsaking of sin
and a confession of the - same, which
leads to salvation, and is the result of
godly sorrow for sin. Godly sorrow is
a hatred for sin, because God hates sin.
" For godly sorrow worketh repentance
to salvation not to be repented of: but
the sorrow of the world worketh
death."- 2 Cor. 7: 10.
Repentance will bring the soul into a
condition for faith to be exercised.
Faith for the pardon , of sins can not be
had without repentance. For proof of
this we read of Jesus telling a certain
class of people they could not believe on
him because they did not repent. Matt.
21: 32. Faith will bring us into the ex-perience
of having forgiveness of sins, or
justification. " Be it known unto you
therefore, men and brethren, that
through this man is preached unto you
the forgiveness of sins and by him, all
that believe are justified from all things,
from which ye could not be justified by
and- the slain of the Lord shall be many."
- Isa. 66: 15, 16.
" Behold the whirlwind of the Lord goeth
forth with fury, a continuing whirlwind; it
. shall fall with pain upon the head of the
wicked. The fierce anger• of the Lord shall
not return, until he have done it, and until
' he have performed the intents of his heart:
in the latter, days ye shall , conside• it. "-
Jer. 30: 23, 24.
Now it is during - the storm of God's
wrath upon spiritual Babylon that God
gathers out his pure remnant and " gives
them one heart and one way."- Jer. 32: 3' 7.-
39. " He hath judged the great whore,
which did corrupt the earth with her forni-cation."-
Rev. 19: 2. And thousands tes-ti'f,
jr that God has utterly destroyed Babylon
out of their hearts. For it - is thus she is
consumed by the spirit of his month, and
shall finally be destroyed with the bright-ness
of his coming. 2 Thess. 2: 8.
And now% to the final question, " What
will there be left of the church of God on
earth," after Babylon is destroyed? Answer
- All of it. Every element of the chnrch.
that Christ founded still remains after holi-ness
consumes the wood, hay, and stubble
of men's structures. After God's people
have come out of her ( Rev. 18: 4), and she
is " utterly burned" with the fire of holiness
( Rev. 18: 8), and God has thus judged her
( Rev. 19: 2), the bride of Christ only is left
as the church. And she is " arrayed in fine
linen, clean and white," ready for the mar-riage.
For the fine linen is the righteous-ness
of the saints. Amen. Bless the Lord!
Restored to the Image of God.
BY JOHN 0. BLANEY.
4 	 UT we all, with open face behold-ing
as in a glass the glory of the
Lord, are changed into the same image
from glory to glory even as by the
Spirit of the Lord."- 2 Cor. 3: 18. It
is here stated that we are changed into
the image of the Lord, which implies at
least two things. First. That before
we were changed we did not bear the
image of God, or there would be no
necessity of any change in order to have
it. Second. Paul and all who were
enjoying the fullness of God in the gos-pel,
" are changed into the same image."
In reading the history of the origin of
man we find he was created in the image
of God. " So God created man in his
own image, in the image of God created
he him; male and female created he
them."- Gen. 1: 27.
We have now fully established three
facts; namely, ( 1) Man was created in
the image of God; ( 2) he lost that image
by some means; ( 3) he is restored to
that same image through the gospel of
Jesus Christ. Since we are still in the
dark as to what the image of God con-sisted
of, we shall have to quote some
more of God's word; that is the only
reliable source from whence we can get
any light on this subject. " That ye put
off concerning the former conversation
the old man, which is corrupt according
to the deceitful lusts; and be renewed
in the spirit of your mind; and that ye
put on the new man, which after God is
created in righteousness . and true holi-ness."-
Eph. 4: 22- 24. " Lie not one to
another, seeing that ye have put off the
old man with his deeds; and have put on
the new man, which is renewed in
knowledge after the image of him that
created him: where there is neither
Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncir-cumcision,
Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor
free: but Christ is all, and in all."-
Col. 3: 9- 11.
In considering these texts we learn
that the life of Christ manifest in our
mortal flesh is described as " the new
man," and that this new man is created
in righteousness and - true holiness after
God. The expression " after God"
means in the image of God, or " the
image of him that created him."
have, it now settled what the image of
God is in man: it is righteousness and
true holiness, or the inward and outward
life of the Christian. The inward life
would be the holy condition of his spirit-the
law of Moses."- Acts 13: 38, 39.
This is one step toward being restored
to the image of God. We are now in
Christ and free from condemnation.
Rom. 8: 1. This brings the soul at peace
with God. Therefore being justified by
faith, we have peace with God through
our Lord Jesus Christ."- Rom. 5: 1.
Having now shown in as brief a man-ner
as possible what is accomplished in
the first step and how it is taken, we
now consider
THE SECOND STEP,
which completes our restoration to the
image of God. So far we have met no
serious objection from professors of
Christianity, and if we were to stop
here and say this is as far as we can go
in Christian experience, except a pro-fessed
groweth in grace, we would not
be likely to meet any. However, we
will not take any notice for the present
to objections of any kind, but will ex-amine
the experience of Bible characters,
and see if there ' was any need of them
having a second work of grace to restore
them to the image of God. W e must
not forget that the image of God is
righteousness and true holiness, as we
have before proved from scripture.
Eph. 4; 24; Col. 3: 10. We might de-scribe
it as having a pure heart, for this
is the end of, or the purpose to be ac-complished
by the commandment or law
of Jesus Christ. 1 Tim, 1: 5.
If we can prove that children of God
by faith in Christ Jesus, who have taken
only the first step and have received
pardon of sins, have need of any more
cleansing of the heart in. order to have it
free from any defiling element, we will
have made it useless to object, on the
grounds that what we teach is unscrip-tural.
By examining the experience and
lives of the apostles before the day of
Pentecost, we can easily find traces of
impurity cropping up unawares, appar-ently
to them, but easily detected by
comparing it with the example and
teaching of Jesus, showing in them a
lack of deadness to sin, which character-ized
our Master.
We read of them disputing among
themselves who should be the greatest.
Mark 9: 33, 34; Luke 22: 24. This
certainly was contrary to the pure na-ture
of Jesus, anct an evil thought. Let
no man say this sprang from the head,
because the record is, " And Jesus per-ceiving
the thought of their heart, took
a child, and set him by him, and said
unto them, Whosoever shall receive this
child in my name receiveth me: and
whosoever shall receive me, receiveth
him that sent me; for he that is least
among you all, the same shall be
great."- Luke 9: 47, 48. Whether this
was the instance recorded elsewhere or
not does not make any material differ-ence:
the source of these aspirations to
greatness was the heart which was not
pure.
Again, we see a tendency to retaliate
manifested by James and John ( Luke
9: 54, 55) and Peter ( John 18: 10), which
is repugnant to the pure in heart. If
the position be taken that the apostles
were not born of God, or justified, dur-ing
the time they followed Jesus before
he was crucified, scriptures again put to
silence that objection by the uniform tes-timony
that they were. " Then they
that were in the ship came and worship-ed
him, saying, Of a truth thou art the
Son of God."- Matt. 14: 33. " And we
believe and are sure that thou art that
Christ, the Son of the living God."-
Jno. 6: 69. This certainly is clear testi-mony
that they believed with the heart,
that Jesus was the Savior. " Whosoever
believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born
of God."- 1 Jno. 5: 1. This was not a
mere intellectual comprehension of the
fact that Jesus had come, but something
revealed to them by the Father through
the Spirit of God. " Blessed art thou,
Simon Bar- jona; for flesh and blood
hash not revealed this unto thee, but my
Father which is in heaven" clearly im.
plies a saving knowledge of the truth.
Believing this to be reasonable
sufficient proof of the conversion of the
apostles before Christ's death, we will
consider his teaching concerning the -
cleansing rof the heart after we become a
believer in him. " Every branch in me-that
beareth not fruit he taketh away:
and every branch that beareth fruit, he
purgeth it, that it may bring forth more
fruit."- Jno. 15: 2. The fruit spoken of is
elsewhere described. as the fruit of the
Spirit. " But the fruit of the Spirit is
love, joy, peace, long- suffering, gentle-ness,
goodness, faith, meekness, temper-ance."-
Gal. 5: 22. 23. " For the fruit
of the Spirit is in all goodness and right-eousness
and truth."- Eph. 5: 9.
As those fruits are in opposition to the
fruits of the flesh, which spring from the
heart of the sinner, we would naturally
conclude that the branch in Christ,
which needs purging, would need it in
the heart, since that is the source from
whence comes good and evil. This the
truth, and everything contrary to it is a
lie, and no lie is of the truth, but comes
from the devil. This, with the' testi-mony
of Peter that God put no differ-ence
between him and the Gentiles, pur-ifying
their hearts by faith when they
received the Holy Ghost, is proof that
will stand the fires of eternal judgment,
that there is a cleansing of the heart
after conversion, before we can be said
to have been changed into the same im-age
of God. Acts 15: 8, 9. Jesus
prayed that the disciples might be sanc-tified,
which means a separation or
cleansing from sin. John 17: 17. Paul
prayed for Christians to be sanctified
wholly, that they might tie preserved
blameless in spirit, soul, and body. 1'
Thess. 5: 23.
We will now consider some exp° essions
contained in the New Testament. " Be
ye therefore perfect, even as your Father
which is in heaven is perfect."- Matt.
5: 48. " That ye may stand perfect and
complete in all the will of God."- Col.
4: 12. " Herein is our love made perfect,
that we may have boldness in the day of
judgment: because as he is so are we in
this world."- 1 Jno. 4: 17. " This is
the will of God even your sanctifica-tion."-
1 Thess. 4: 3. The adjectives
" wholly" and " perfect" in connection
with " sanctify" and " love," plainly
imply an experience previously imperfect.
Love, sanctification, and salvation all
relate to the same experience, that is,
Christian experience. We are not mak-ing
any comparison between Old and
New Testament experiences, but teach-ing
the way we receive the fullness of
gospel grace in our souls. The complete,
perfect, and entire cleansing of the heart
from the natural disposition born in us
to sin is not complete until we have re-ceived
the Comforter; the Holy Ghost.
Then, and only then do we have the
peace that passeth all understanding,
which keeps our hearts and minds
through Jesus Christ.
It is true there is a change in our
hearts ' when we are converted. The
hardness and blindness are removed, and
we do not love sin, and our heart is ten-der
like a child's, but the entire sanctifi-cation
of our nature is accomplished
when the Holy Spirit fills us and sheds
the love of God abroad in our hearts.
Praise God! " And the God of peace
sanctify you wholly; and I - pray' God
your whole spirit, soul, and body be
preserved blameless unto the coming of
our Lord Jesus Christ: Faithful is he
that calleth you, who also will do it:"
Amen
Put on the Whole Armor.
BY THOMAS GREEN.
IF ever there was a time in the Chris-tian
dispensation that we as soldiers
of the cross needed the whole armor on,
it is now. Here is a command to be
strong, which we can not obey without
putting on the whole armor of God:
THE GOSPEL TRUMPET
	
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" Finally, my brethren, be strong in the
Lord, and in the power of his might.
Put on the whole armor of God, that ye
may be able to stand against the wiles
[ tricks] of the devil."-- Eph. 6: 10, 11.
We are on the battle- field, contending
earnestly for the faith once delivered to
the saints. Jude 3.
" For we wrestle not against flesh and
blood, but against principalities, against
powers, against the rulers of the darkness
of this world, against spiritual wicked-ness
in high places. Wherefore take
unto you the whole armor of God, that
ye may be able to stand in the evil day,
and having done all, to stand. Stand
therefore, your loins girt about
with truth, and having on the breast-plate
of righteousness; and your feet
shod with the preparation of the gospel
of peace; above all, taking the shield of
faith, wherewith ye shall be able to
quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.
And take the helmet of salvation, and
the sword of the Spirit, which is the
word of God. Praying always with all
prayer and supplication in the Spirit,
and watching thereunto with all perse-verance
and supplication for all saints."
Oh, I do praise God for all this! He
first commands us to be ' strong in the
Lord and in the power of his might; then
furnishes us with armor and weapons, to
enable us : to be strong and go forth in
the power of his might. He does not
furnish us with carnal weapons, but with
those that are " mighty through God to
the pulling down of strongholds" ( 2
Cor. 10: 4); " for though we walk in the
flesh,' we do not war after the flesh."
Ver. 3. " No man that warreth entan-gleth
himself with the affairs of this life;
that he may please him who hath chosen
him to be a soldier. And if a man also
strive for masteries, yet is he not
crowned, except he strive lawfully."- 2
Tim. 2: 4, 5.
Some people make a failure when they
start out to battle for the Lord, in leav-ing
off their armor, or a part of it.
They meet the great enemy of souls, and
at once he sends his dart so forcibly into
their heart, that they are wounded and
captured. Not so with the armed sol-dier,
if he has the whole armor on. It
is just as impossible for the devil to
thrust his dart into us as it would be for
a target- rifle to penetrate a cast- iron
wedge. The armor God furnishes is
so complete that when we are furnished
with it the fiery darts fall at our feet.
Praise God for the armor!
Dear saints, let us march to the battle-field
with full assurance of faith that our
dear Lord will safely lead us through, no
matter how many forces the devil musters
up. Dear souls are at stake, and Jesus
said to his disciples, " If any man will
come after me, let him deny himself,
and take up his cross, and follow me."
— Matt. 16: 24. We are not fighting for
worldly gain; it is for precious souls that
are enslaved in bondage. Just look all
around us at dear souls for whom Christ
died, bound by endless chains. Oh, the
many snares of the devil to entrap pre-cious
souls! Our dear Father commands
us to be strong in the power of his
might, and he has abundantly provided
weapons and an armor. Let us now see
if we have on the whole armor. Are
your loins girded with the truth? Have
you on the breastplate of righteousness?
Are your feet shod with the preparation
of the gospel of peace? Have you taken
the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall
be able to quench all the fiery darts of
the wicked? Have you taken the helmet
of salvation? Have you taken the
sword of the Spirit, the word of God?
Dear one, we may have all on but
one, and then lose a victory. You will
notice it says " above all, taking the
shield of faith." The most important
part of the armor is that of faith; for
without faith it is impossible to please
God. I often hear persons say they
know they ought to do certain things,
but they have not the faith. God com-mands
you to put it on for a shield, and
you can not be a soldier without it. God
will not send you without it, so be sure
you do not undertake a battle without it;
for you are sure to get defeated. Let
us then obey God— put on the whole
armor and not only win souls for him,
but win the crown when we can say, " I
have fought a good fight, I have finished
my course, I have kept the faith: hence
forth there is laid up for me a crown of
righteousness, which the Lord, the right-eous
judge, shall give me at that day."—
2 Tim. 4: 7, 8. Notice, Paul kept the
faith, that is what enabled him to win a
crown. Ver. 7.
While God has promised to supply all
our needs ( 1 Cor. 9: 7; 2 Cor. 9: 8; and
Phil. 4: 19), he yet extends his command
in connection with the armor, by telling
us to pray " always with all prayer and
supplication in the Spirit, and watching
thereunto with all preseverance and sup-plication
for all saints."— Eph. 6: 18.
W e are told again to pray without ceas-ing
( 1 Thess. 5: 17); also to watch and
pray. Mark 13: 33. Then let us step
out into the battle- field with renewed
courage. God is on our side; and if
God be for us, who can be against us?
May God give us boldness to do his will
in all we undertake.
Courage, My Soul!
I T requires no little courage, coupled
with the grace of God, to go to Cal-vary.
There are many Christians who
will follow Jesus so long as it is " Hosan-na
to the Son of David," who fail to
follow him to Calvary. Most persons
love the sweets of grace, and thus fol-low
the Lord for the loaves and fishes;
but when it comes to following him for
his own sake, even unto judgment where
our earthliness is revealed, then too
often we follow " afar off." Many will
serve for reward that refuse to serve for
righteousness' sake. Satan understood
this in the case of Job; so he said to the
Lord, " Both Job serve God for
naught?" Job endured even unto the
end, and proved by actual test his devo-tion
to God and not to his gifts.
Saints are like soldiers— many there
be who enlist, but few who fearlessly
face death. All like life, though it be a
life out of harmony - with God. Satan
said of Job, " All that a man hath will
he give for his life." So Christians'
last surrender is their own earthly life.
They love the earthly, the dust; and to
die to all that is not divine is a price
that few will pay.
Many talk of crucifixion, yea, claim
to be crucified, who know hardly the
first step away from self. To let self,
the flesh, and all evil within perish, to
draw the last drop of earthliness , from
our veins is a price but few will pay for
all the life of God. God through Moses
gave to the children of Israel a heritage;
but never in their greatest conquest did
they attain all of that heritage. So
with Christians: how few ever attain all
of that God- life offered them through
our Lord Jesus Christ. The Israelites
made a league with certain of the inhab-itants
of the land whom they should
have destroyed. How many Christians
spare those enemies within which should
die. They may force the death of
many, perhaps most of their earthliness,
but somewhere there is that with which
thy will not part. Of course the earth-liness
may- not be manifest as before;
" hewers of wood and drawers. of water"
they become, yet they are there and live
there. " I will be found of them when
they seek me with their whole heart."
Whole- hearted devotion to God is a
rare quality, and only the fewest of the
few ever attain it. An idol somewhere,
a desires a wish, a preference, a hope
not born of God, but of man or of the
flesh, is the separation line. Yea, to
cease from our labors as God did from,
his, and thus reach true rest, is a haven
but few ever reach.
To literally cease that Jehovah may
be the beginning and the end, means
blood, and thorns, and nails in the hands.
Yes, it means Calvary and the tomb.
This is too much for many who go part
way with Jesus. How few realize that
perhaps the most of our religious aspira-tions
are born not of God, but of blood,
or of the will of the flesh, or of man;
and this is why our efforts are so barren,
futile, and earthly. Yes, to hide away
so that every act, every purpose, every
hope centers in God and points to him
and away from man, what a rare spirit-ual
attainment. Many who are said to
be very spiritual and leaders in the work
of God, if robbed of this glory, would
cease. To work for the eyes of God
alone is not a sufficient reward for very
many who have climbed well up the gos-pel
ladder. To know when we are dead
in the highest light. Self- abnegation
can not be discerned so long as we want
to live. If we never reach the point
where we literally " hate our own life,"
we will never know how much there is
in us not divine. The flesh is ever the
veil that separates between the holy
place and the holy of holies. Until we
have reached that place where we have
lost sight of all that is human, and
hunger and thirst for all the life of God,
Christian perfection is an impossible at-tainment.
Oh, that Jehovah would open the
eyes of Christians to truly see what the
highest heritage of grace does do, what
Christian perfection really means. God
help the Christian world to cease claim-ing
Christian perfection while so many
evidences exist that self still lives. God
help us to be consistent and not dishonor
God by claiming to be wholly his, while
our life contradicts our profession.—
Selected.
Meek and Lowly.
BY R. ROTICISAN.
O R Lord said: " Take my yoke upon
you, and. learn of me; for I am
meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall
find rest unto your sonla."— Matt.
11: 29. Rest is a, very essential thing in
life, and its loss is always followed by
more or less harm. The man that can
sleep and rest his weary body thereby
repairs the waste of toil and lays up
strength for future efforts; but should he
reach a state where his natural rest is
disturbed by inward disorder, there is
danger ahead, and this is the signal.
The great workers of this world are
not the restless, but rather those who
have learned to spare their strength.
The Rnglish statesman, Gladstone, was
noted for his ability to take a nap during
the intervals of very important engage-ments.
And in passing we might say
that this great man had framed over the
door of his workroom this scripture:
" Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace
whose mind is stayed on thee: because
he trusteth in thee." No man can run
ti; ell the Christian race without learning
to rest— rest in the Lord. 	 -
There is so much meaning in the words
of Jesus in our text, and mastering this
precious saying will add another to the
treasures of wisdom with which the
Christian may adorn his character. If
you want rest, learn of me— seek a meek
and lowly spirit, says the Master. Time
and again have I read this verse and felt
there was more in it than I could under-stand.
Unexpectedly the good Lord
somehow led me into its meaning.
" Meek" means mild; soft; gentle.
Did you ever realize how restful it was
when you were perhaps on a sick- bed to
have the nurse manifest mildness, soft-ness,
gentleness? There was a charm
about it that almost made you glad you
were . Now if meekness brings such
pleasure to us, it will do the same for
others; and what is more, if we through
God's grace manifest a spirit of meekness
to others, most of them will return the
courtesy and our paths will be strewn
with many a fragrant flower, where
formerly ill manners caused thorns to
spring up.
Some dear ones have altogether a false
idea of what the life of a Christian is.
They think they must be " out" with
nearly all people in order to retain an
" uncompromising spirit." Instead of
this, the Christian should be able to win
the love and respect of nearly all with
whom he comes in contact— not by prov-ing
untrue to God, but by the love
shed abroad in his heart by the Holy
Spirit.
Christ was dearly loved by the common
people while on earth; so was Paul
highly esteemed. The religious preju-dices
of their day resulted in their
deaths, but they were not ill- treated
because of their manners. Our Lord
and the apostles suffered for righteous-ness'
sake. They could bear it joyfully;
and when we suffer in the same way,
our peace and rest need not and will not
be disturbed. It is only when punished
for our faults that persecutions are so
hard to bear. Jesus reckons persecu-tions
for righteousness' sake among the
blessings ( Matt. 5: 11), and Peter says the
spirit of glory and of God rest upon
those who suffer for Christ. So, dear
ones, when our way seems hard, it is
best to examine ourselves and sink lower
in the meekness and goodness of our
Lord; for the ways of wisdom are plea-sant
and peaceful.
The soul that goes forth with the
meekness and love of Christ has a right
to expect and will receive love and con-sideration
in return. The Savior tells us
that we will be repaid with our own
coin. Luke 6: 38. To illustrate this
point: In a certain school district the
scholars obtained the reputation of being
rude and mean. The school for several
terms had been taught by persons them-selves
not of the meek and lowly nature.
There came a young lady teacher who
possessed a very gracious Christian spirit.
She said very little to the children re-garding
their behavior, but nevertheless
there was soon a remarkable improve-ment
in their manners. A little girl
was questioned as to the cause of this,
and answered that the teacher " just
acted nice and polite," and the children-could
not help doing likewise. Does not
Jesus say to us " for with the same
measure that ye mete withal it shall be
measured to you. again?" There is won-derfd
' rest in store for the one that learns
of Jesus to treat others with a meek and
lowly spirit.
But not only is this disposition appre-ciated
by men, but God loves to dwell
with the lowly, and his presence always
brings sweet rest. " For thus saith the
high and lofty One that inhabiteth eter-nity,
whose name is Holy: I dwell in
the high and holy place, with him also
that is of a contrite and humble spirit,
to revive the spirit of the humble, and to
revive the heart of the contrite ones."—
ha. 57: 15. ' Besidews'inning the pres-ence
of the high and lofty One, the
lowly spirit is blessed with the needed
grace to go through the duties of the
day without the friction and discomfort
and restlessness which falls to the proud
heart, whom God himself, as well as
men, resisteth. See 1 Pet. 5: 5.
While others are seeking in vain. for
rest and satisfaction, the meek and lowly
sink down on the plane of God's glory
world, and rejoice in the Lord in spite of
all that men and demons do and say.
Praise God that we are privileged to par-take
of Christ's meekness; for " the
meek shall increase their joy in the
Lord, and the poor among men shall
rejoice in the Holy One of Israel."— lsa.
29: 19. " He will beautify the meek
with. salvation." " The meek- will he
guide in judgment; the meek will he
teach his ways." And from the distant
days, of the prophet Zephaniah comes
this exhortation: " Seek meekness: it
may be ye shall be hid in the day of, the
Lord's anger."- 2: 3.
to sleep in. This with the pressure from
the " famine induced sleeplessness and nerv-ousness
until it seemed that I could go no
longer. • But I have come back refresh: di:
praise our God! We have a hard year be-fore
us; pray that with God's help we may
prove equal to every emergency . . • •
one prayer is that the scales may fall from
the eyes of the heathen; that they may
recognize the hand of God upon them.
Oh, that they would, that they might see,
that they might yield. The famine this
year is more general than in 1597: Thou
sands upon thousands are offering to work
for a penny a day. Yours in Jesus' love,
E. M. Smilley.
A LATER LETTER.
Kaira, Guzerat, India, Dec. 2,1, 1599.
Dear —: Your precious letter brought
cheer to my heart. We do thank you and
all the friends for the money. I know God
will abundantly bless each and all who let
their hearts draw out to feed the perishing
people. The need for both physical and
spiritual food is sore. The poor people are
suffering so it is hard for them to take in
the plan of salvation, simple though it is.
Our numbers still increase, almost every day
one or more are brought in. The Hindus
have opened an orphanage. Once a child
is placed there it can not be taken out.
The girls will be ruined. We want to get
all we can and. so save them from a living
death. The people who come to us show
more and more the want of food. God is
working for my children. I have had seven
who have been healed by him of the awful
India sore eyes. One little girl went blind.
But in two weeks her sight was restored.
She again took bad and one of her eyes
bursted. She seemed near death. But God
in mercy spared her life. She can see with
her one eye now. We are trusting God to
finish his work in her other eye. Nothing
is too hard for him. He gave me such a
vision when she was blind. ' If Jesus was
here in his body, how quickly I would take
each one of the girls to him without the
least doubt but that he would heal each
one, and I would not think of leaving blind
Kullia back, but would bring her first to the
Master.' So by faith I took them one by
one to him, and the next day Kullia said,
" 0 mamma, I can see." And there was a
decided change for the better in all of their
eyes. The Lord also healed one who had a
famine sore mouth. The Lord also most
wonderfully lifted me out of all the nervous
prostration and sleeplessness. I have a
quietness through my body that I have
never had before. Praise him for it all!
Our hands and hearts are full. Continue
praying for us. Ever trustingly yours,
E. M. Smilley.
ANNOUNCEMENT.
Colfax, " W ash., Jan. 18.
Dear Brethren in. the West: I feel it
to be to God's glory for me to write you
a few lines through The Gospel Trum-pet
in regard to the Evening Light Pub-lishing
Co. at what has been known
heretofore as the Saints' Home. For a
long time we have felt the need of a
branch office in the west. It takes so
long to get books by freight from
Moundsville. So now we have a book
establishment with hopes of a branch
office in the future. We have now a full
stock of books in this office such as are
published by the Gospel Trumpet Pub.
Co. We also have a small press which
we will keep at work for God printing
tracts, etc. We are preparing to do
business for God in the west. As to
prices on books from the office, we will
furnish books so agents can get them
from us at the same prices they can
from Moundsville. Any orders under
$ 6.00 we will furnish at Moundsville
retail prices, we paying postage or ex-press.
Any one sending in orders for
books that we do not carry, the order
will be forwarded to Moundsville and
books sent. direct from Moundsville to
person ordering, at Moundsville prices.
Anything on the line of camp- meeting
bills can be furnished at a reasonable
price and on short notice. We earnestly
solicit the prayers of those who are inter-ested
in the work in the west, that God
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Editorial.
Remember the June camp- meeting at
Moundsville, W . Va., June 7- 17.
Bro. Axup from the Rescue Mission,
Canton, Ohio, writes that they are hav-ing
successful meetings in that place, and
among those saved was a saloon- keeper
who has given up his business to follow
Christ. They are also calling for liter-ature
for free distribution.
Mrs. J. E. McLean, of Friend, Nebr.,
who is am importer of fresh flower seeds
of choice selections, writes that she will
furnish ten packages of fresh flower seeds
for ten cents, and all the money sent in
for the same will be used for sufferers
and spread of the gospel in India, which
she says can be sent to Bro. Tufts. who
has recently gone to India.
On " another page, is a notice of the
earnest appeals for the gospel in. India.
While the famine is raging, and people
are dying in great numbers, many will
send in for their temporal need, but how
many will think of sending for the gos-pel?
It is sad indeed to see them dying
without the gospel ; therefore let us make
every effort to relieve them, even though
it may be at a great sacrifice.
Since there have been frequent appeals
for help for starving India, quite a num-ber
of our readers have responded by
sending in their means; others write
that they would give, but would like to
know whether or not the means will be
properly used when it reaches them. In
reply would say that we send to only
such persons as are reliable, and who will
use the same as directed and to the glory
of God. We are in correspondence with
a number of reliable persons in India
whose heart is in the work of saving
souls, giving the people the gospel, and
relieving the hungry and famine- stricken.
Bro. Tufts, at last report, was on his
Way to India, and will give special atten-tion
to the distribution of any means sent
him after his arrival, as he will doubtless
visit the various places among the fam-ine-
stricken, and will acquaint himself
with the best methods of relieving them.
Arrangements have been made, also, for
the distribution of any amount of Bibles,
Testaments, books, tracts, papers, etc.,
that we may send. There are many
thousands of natives who can read the
English language; and our books and
other literature are being translated into
the native languages.
A brother in Illinois asks for some in-formation
concerning a man by the name
of Francis Truth, who advertises himself
as a great divine healer. This man says
he gives the personal treatment to the
poor free, but no absent treatment is free.
For absent, as well as personal, treatment
he makes a charge of $ 5.00 for one
month's treatment no matter what the
ailment would be.
We have made some investigation con-cerning
this man, and a perusal of some
of his writings is enough to convince one
NOTICE.
Chas. E. Orr, Hynson, Caroline Co.,
Md. is writing a sixty- page tract entitled
" Christian Conduct; or, The Way to
Heaven." The first part of the tract
speaks of the eternity and blessedness of
heaven. The second part tells how man
must live to gain that blessed abode. It
exposes dishonesty in trade, slang and
impure conversation, bad habits, worldly
pleasures, fashionable dress, home brawls,
etc. By his having a large number
printed this office has agreed to print
them for him at a very low price. Being
unable ' to use so many himself he desires
to sell a few thousand. Any one wish-ing
any of these tracts to distribute in
their neighborhood can get them by the
hundred or thousand at a very low
price. Write him and tell him how
many you want, and he will give you
the price.
BEWARE OF IMPOSTORS.
About two years ago we made a note
in the Trumpet warning our readers
against certain ones in. Jerusalem, Pales-tine,
who were sending cards, bits of
olive wood, ' etc., which were followed
by cards and letters stating that the
writer was a converted Jew in very poor
circumstances, sometimes representing
himself as a boy who was trying to pro-vide
for his mother, again letters written
in the same hand and by the same person
representing himself to be a very poor
man with wife and children who were
struggling with poverty, and begging
those to whom he had written to send
him whatever they felt led to send, try-ing
to place some obligation upon them
for the little worthless articles sent, in
this way touching the sympathies of
many who sent considerable money,
which when received only caused the wily
beggars to laugh and be filled with glee
because of the success of their abject
plans. We nave received from our read-ers
many letters which came from Jeru-salem
with those plaintive pleas for help.
A comparing of the same shows that
they are written by notorious impostors;
and we advise our readers to make prop_
er investigation before sending to people
in Jerusalem or elsewhere who make
plaintive appeals for help. Even while
India is in such great need of help it is
well to be cautious, as many impostors
are claiming to be working in behalf of
India, when if Money is given it will
never reach its destination. Truly India
is in need. of help for bread and for the
gospel, but many who state that they
are working for the benefit of the people
of India are only working to fill their
own pockets.
Many of our readers whose names have
appeared in The Gospel Trumpet with
their address have received letters from
these foreign countries, also from different
parts of America, and have received
papers and tracts filled with heresy and
false doctrines. Some take the paper and
peruse it for the purpose of securing the
names; therefore we advise our readers
to not be imposed upon by such impos-tors.
In like manner when a call is made
for meeting in a new place ofttimes some
impostor will write and state that he is
ready to go and hold meeting, ofttimes
asking to have the money advanced.
In such, cases it is well to investigate and
find out whether or not they are worthy.
Before making a public appeal for help
in any line in this country or foreign
countries, we aim to make thorough in-vestigation
and know whereof we speak,
and in every way possible try to enlighten
our readers concerning such matters,
warning them not only against impostors
on these lines, but concerning spiritual
affairs.
LETTERS FROM INDIA.
The following letters from India were
written to a sister in Canada.
Kaira, Guzerat, India, Nov. 17, 1899.
Dear 	 : Your good letter received.
I can not tell you how grateful I am for
the means by which we can feed the hungry
and also for your quick response to help the
poor and needy. The famine is tightening
its reins more and more each day. In
Viramgan, one of our stations, the people
come and. lie down in the compound and die.
Sometime ago a whole family died in this
way and about a week ago all died out of a
family of six except the baby, which was
two months old. So we have three babies
in the orphanage now-- the youngest only six
weeks old. Its mother was starving and
could. not stand to see it slowly dying; so
she left the poor little waif on the dry sand
in the river. The English officials got it
and sent it to me. I have taken in twenty-one
during the last few weeks, but what
will it be in a few months? We dare not
think of it. We are enlarging the orphan-age
to about five times its present capacity.
I have asked the Lord to seal the work by
saving the soul of each child that comes to
us, to heal them, and to provide them with
food and clothing. Praise his name! I
can say that he has already done all three.
The new girls kneel down now in prayer
morning and night, praying to the living and
true God. We have Bible study with prayer
and singing night and morning. He has also
healed one of the new girls. She was in a
dying condition, but after prayer she re-vived.
As soon as she could understand I
told her about Jesus, and he healed her.
God too is providing for them through the
friends in the home land. Many thanks to
each and every one who has contributed: I
can not tell yon how glad I am that you are
holding us up in prayer; for the awful
pressure of the famine, the starving people
at our door from morning to night, the
greatly increased work in the orphanage,
and the changing and enlarging of the build-ings
prove almost too much for us. But
God is sufficient. I am just back from
wBoemekbsa. y I, hwahde roen lIy w aa ste snetn itn ttoh ere gsitr lfso'r y tawrdo.
THE CHICAGO WORK.
The object of this article is to present
the work in Chicago as viewed from both
a financial and a spiritual standpoint. I
desire to give the readers of The Gospel
Trumpet as clear an idea as possible by
presenting this work in detail as it now
stands.
GOSPEL TRUMPET • Inth tahte h . efi rirsss tto pnllayc ae dhiev iins ea d meaelreer qinu ancakm; he. e
is in the business for the money there is
in it. As the subject of divine healing is
being greatly agitated throughout the
world, by calling himself a divine healer
he thereby works upon the sympathies of
Christian people and captivates many
who do not fully consider the teachings
of the word of God. When Jesus Christ
sent out his twelve apostles and told
them to go and heal the sick, he did not
tell them to charge five dollars for a
month's treatment, but said, `` Freely ye
have received; freely give."— Matt.
10: 7, 8. - When Jesus was here upon.
earth the people who came to him for
healing did not require monthly treat-ments,
neither did his apostles require
anything of the kind; but faith was re-quired
on the part of the sick or those
who brought them. To one Jesus said,
" According to thy faith so be it unto
you." To another, " As thou hast be-lieved."
To another, " Thy faith bath
made thee whole," etc. The instructions
given to the children of God, which lasts
throughout all generations, of which we
read in Jas. 5: 14, 15, says that the
prayer of faith shall save the sick, and
the Lord shall raise him up; and if he
have committed any sins, they shall be
forgiven.
Now we will quote from Mr. Francis
Truth's writings, wherein he says,
" Many persons whom I cure are skeptics,
infidels, atheists, unbelievers in God, and
often revilers of God and religion. Belief
of the patient does not make one bit of
difference to me." He says, " The time
is near at hand when. there will be many
divine healers." In one sense his word
may be true, but not of the kind of him-self.
God will raise up people and give
them the gift of divine healing and send
them forth to do such work accordi g to
the word of God. The Bible tells us in
Rev. 16: 14 of the time when there will
be false healers going forth, and says,
" For they are the spirits of devils, work-ing
miracles, who go forth unto the
kings of the earth, and of the whole
world to gather them to the battle of
that great day of God almighty." This
man is doubtless of the Christian Scientist
stripe, mingled with Spiritualism or mag-netic
powers. He may be able to do
wonders, but people should not be de-ceived
by such men, believing them to be
sent forth as divine healers.
THE GOSPEL TRUMPET 5
THE GENERAL GATTI- FIRING.
It is necessary in a city of this
size where there are a few ( say three hun-dred)
saints, scattered to a radius of
nearly forty miles, that there should be
a general gathering at least once a week
for the unity of the faith, concentration
of effort, and mutual cooperation. Chi-cago
like all other cities has a business
center where most of the railroads, and
street- car systems focus, and since there
is no transfer throughout this central
part without paying a second fare it is
necessary that • the general gathering be
somewhere in the center of Chicago, and
we are favored with a nice, neatly fur-nished
hall lighted by electricity, heated
by steam, and having a seating capacity
for 200, on the second floor of the Ma-sonic
Temple, corner of State and Ran-dolph
streets at $ 15.00 per month, or an
average of $ 3.50 a service. This meeting
is now going on its third year, and from
the very first has done more to spread
the light in Chicago than all other meet-ings.
I know whereof I speak and
wherein success has been apparent in the
general gathering. It carried the same
influence throughout the work as a
whole, and a failure or neglect in this
service has likewise carried an opposite
effect, apparent to all. Scores and hun-dreds
of people have found their way to
this meeting and were so favorably im-pressed
by the spirituality and unity
manifested that soon they found them-selves
in the light.
People in rural districts may say $ 3.50
for one service is quite expensive. True,
it is for rural districts, but not so for the
center of Chicago; we are highly
favored. But with nearly eight years'
experience in rural- district evangelizing I
will not hesitate to say to obtain the same
results in winning souls in small towns
and country places will average equally
as great if not a greater actual expense.
But God forbid that ally of his saints will
undertake to place an estimate on gold
or silver in comparison with the real
value of souls. If all the finances ever
invested to carry on God's work were
placed on one side of the balance and
one redeemed soul on the other side,
your gold and silver would be as chaff.
May God open our eyes to see this truth.
But some have said since the mission is
a large and beautiful hall with exclusive
privileges, - W by not drop the Temple
meeting and have the general gathering
in the mission, and save the $ 15.00 per
month? This looks plausible. But the
mission has a line of work of its own,
and to try to conduct the general gather-ing
in the mission would simply dispense
with the general gathering, and this will
seriously cripple the work. But how
about the fifteen dollars? Suppose one
hundred fifty saints attend the meeting.
Fifty of them could reach the mission or
Temple for one fare, and fifty by walk-ing
one mile could reach the mission for
one fare, but fifty would be unable to
walk the mile or limited in time; so it
will cost two extra fares for them. This
will amount to $ 5.00 per Sunday— over
$ 20.00 per month. So it will not save
any of the Lord's means to remove from
the Temple, only as the interest of a
general meeting wanes.
THE SPIRITUALITY.
I am unable to give you any idea.
Each service is something like our best
camp- meeting, where one hundred fifty
to two hundred hungry saints and earnest
inquirers are gathered to drink in the
truth, followed usually by real salvation
work, divine healing, etc., and the testi-monies
are wonderful.
OPE N massiox
at 311W. Madison street is a large store-room
with. basement, 24x100 feet, with
a seating capacity of 300, with a parti-tion
and four nice rooms for light house-keeping
in rear, furnishing a home for
workers and a means of access to the
public, where spiritual help and counsel
can be had at all hours. Rent is $ 50.00
per month. This may seem high, but
remember W. Madison is a business
street, where large crowds are continu-ally
passing; small buildings in poor
localities could be had cheaper, but city
work has always proved a failure when
located in some obscure quarter. It is
the people we want, and we must go
where they are. The results have been
very satisfactory, the attendance fair, and
interest splendid. Real conviction is
settling down on the people, many
hands going up for prayers, and several
seeking God and landing him in pardon,
purity, healing, etc. Services are held
every night, and Sunday mornings at
10.30. As soon as we can get tables,
bookcase, etc., we will open a quiet
reading- room, open every week day from
8.00 a. m. to 4.00 p. m., and, the Lord
willing, we expect to have a Sunday-school
every Sunday morning in the near
future. We now have our cards to ad-vertise
the mission, and as the Lord sup-plies
means we expect to arrange every-thing
in order with signs, mottoes, etc.
But best of all is the Spirit of God mov-ing
in the camp of the saints and by the
grace of God we all with united effort
can but expect great things of our God.
To- day the prospect for the future work
is by far the brightest ever witnessed in
Chicago.
FAITH MISSIONARY HOME
at 7300 Stewart Ave. is a large ten-room
house, furnace heat, gas light, and
located in a beautiful residence part of
the city, centrally located between the
city proper and South Chicago or Pull-man,
Roseland, South Englewood;
twenty minutes on railroad, or forty
minutes on street- car from the Home to
the business center of Chicago'. Young
people's meeting every Monday night
and a mid- week meeting every Thursday
afternoon at 2.30 is held in the Home.
No one inexperienced in city work can
comprehend the advantages gained by
having such a center from which there is
access to all parts of the work, and to
the general public, and a convenient
stopping- place for workers remaining in
Chicago, or those wild stop to help for a
short time, etc. The rent for this house
is $ 25.00 a month.
The saints in South Chicago expect
soon to open an every- night mission
there, and those of Roseland are seri-ously
contemplating an advance on the
same line.
114TOIDENTAL EXPENSES.
It would be difficult to estimate the
expenses for fuel, light, water, and food.
Besides general housekeeping expendi-tures
there is expense for ear- fare, furni-ture,
general wear and breakage by acci-dent,
etc., etc. Also Bro. Bonk, who is
devouting his entire time in the interest
of the Open Mission work, has a large
family depending on him for support.
He needs your earnest prayers. I
believe I have fairly opened before you
the present state of the work. ', How-ever,
I have neglected to state the pro-gress
among the many different national-ities;
but the outlook is grand.
Now, dear saints, I am not going to
beg you in this article to cooperate with
faith and means, provision, etc. You
are going to do what the Lord leads, and
a solicitation on my part would be use-less,
and more, a real source of tempta-tion
on. the part of those whose hearts
are narrow and rather disposed to mur-mur.
But my prayer is that God will
enlarge our hearts accoraing to his rule
abundantly. Amen
NOTE.
Within the past eighty days the rent
of hall in Masonic Temple has been kept
paid up; Faith Missionary Home at 7300
Stewart Ave., with its present furnish-ings,
has sprung into existence, and the
rent paid in advance from Nov. 20; the
Open Mission with its present furnish-ings,
etc. and the first month's rent
($ 50.00) paid in advance, from Jan. 1;
and the glorious assembly- meeting ex-penditures
all met, every bill, including
coal, gas, etc., all paid up to date except
$ 14.00 back on furniture for the Home.
A goodly share of next month's rent
now in the treasury. I do not ignore
the faith given me, but I attribute this
success rather to the faithfulness of God
and the mutual cooperation of God's
dear saints who have the work of God at
heart. - May God richly reward all who
have so kindly contributed to the ad-vancement
of the Lord's work in Chi-cago,
either by prayer, money, or provi-sion.
We hereby tender you our most
grateful thanks. 	 Geo. L. Cole.
DELIVERANCE FROM CATHOLICISM.
I was a Roman Catholic, and lived as
I thought a good Christian. Until I
reached my forty- sixth year. I firmly
believed in " the Holy Roman Catholic
Church," and thought that outside of its
fold no one could be saved. God in his
infinite mercy has brought me out of
darkness into his marvelous light, and
revealed to me the secret of all happi-ness.
I no• longer believe it necessary to
go to priest or bishop to make confession
of sins. God's word assures me that
" the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleans-eth
us frond all sin" ( 1 Inc). 1: 7), " and
whatsoever we ask, we receive of him,
because we keep his commandments, and
do those things that are pleasing in his
sight." 1 Jno. 3: 22.
One evening while on the street I was
attracted by beautiful singing and wanted
to go to hear it. My friend wanted
to go to the Salvation Army, telling me
it was they that I heard singing. We
walked up the street and came opposite
a group of God's children singing. I do
not think I had ever heard such beautiful
singing. I do praise God for the street-meeting.
When they stopped singing a
brother invited all to their hall. My
company and I followed them. I was
unconscious of what I was doing. We
did not go very far into the hall. The
dear Lord had convicted me of sin while
on the street, but I did not know it at
that time. I heard only a part of the
sermon. I was so burdened and
troubled. I soon felt that I must go
home, and got up and left, feeling I had
committed a great sin in going into that
meeting. I was so troubled. I could not
say my prayers— could not even read
them from the prayer- book. I resolved
within myself that as soon as morning
came I would go to the priest and confess,
thinking I would then feel better; but
God did not permit me to go to the
priest, but sent a friend of mine early
the next morning to go to his sink wife
while he went for the doctor. There
I was kept all day, but when night came
I went to the meeting again. It seemed
I was not conscious of where I was going
that night.
I heard the testimonies of God's dear
children, and I really wondered, can
they be telling the truth? If so I
wished I was like them. When the
brother asked if there were any in the
audience that wished the prayers of
God's children, to raise their hands, be-fore
I was conscious of what I was
doing, lip went my hand, and then the
devil said, " Now you have done it."
But I did not them know it was the
devil; for I really believed I was a good
Christian, but I heeded the devil and got
up and went out. I believe I was the
most miserable person. on earth. I felt
I was doomed. So I was, but was not
conscious of it.
When on my way home I again re-solved
within myself that I would go to
the priest as soon as morning came and
tell all to him; for Catholics are not
allowed to go to any other church. I
did not close my eyes until after four
o'clock. I was so deeply convicted, but
I did not know it. I fell asleep and did
not awaken— had to be called. It was
near nine o'clock a. m., and I was to be
at the conrt- house at half past nine. I
did not even get breakfast, and all
thought I was gone to the priest.
I was kept busy all day, and when
evening came went to meeting again
regardless of all the resolutions that I
had made the night before. This night
I went up a little nearer the saints. It
seemed that the brother was preaching
to me, and when he got through he
asked if there were any sinners in the
audience that wanted pardon and peace.
If so, they would unite in prayer with.
them. Before I was aware of it I
had presented myself for prayer, and it
was there the dear Lord opened my blind
eyes and showed me I was a sinner and
showed me the need of a Savior, and
there on my knees he forgave me and
gave me peace and joy I never had be-fore.
Jesus healed my sin- sick soul and
my heart was full of praise to my God,
and is full now. Praise the Lord! My
faith grows stronger and I can trust him
for all things. The dear Lord has been
my physician seven years. I would give
up my life sooner than renounce my faith
in God.
Oh, how my heart goes out after my
dear Catholic friends. My prayer is for
God to open their eyes to see that we
ought to pray to him and not to Mary,
the mother of Jesus. God says, " Thou
shalt have no other God before me," and
also " there is no other name given un-der
heaven, or among men whereby we
must be saved than the name of Jesus."
I can testify that I am saved now.
Praise the Lord!
Let me say in conclusion a word of
how the dear Lord healed my husband.
About' Christmas he had a severe attack
of the grippe. We were without any
human aid. Our nearest neighbor is a
quarter mile off. I thought my husband
was going to leave me. I called on the
Lord to help. He was all my depen-dence.
I felt so weak and helpless, but
I heard a whisper, " I will not leave
thee nor forsake thee." " He shall de-liver
thee in six troubles: yea, in seven
there shall no evil touch thee. "-- Job
5: 19. I was confident that my husband
was healed. In two days he went to
work, sowing grain and plowing, and
improved every day. He is now well
' and we give God all the glory. Praise
his name! IA/ e ask the prayers of the
saints that God' may keep us in the
straight and narrow path.
Jennie Snyder.
News from the Field.
Mesa, Ariz., Jan. 29.
I am happy to greet you all once more
through the columns of The Gospel
Trumpet, and to report victory through
our Lord Jesus Christ, both in my soul
and in the work of the Lord. I closed a
series of meetings at this place last
night, which I feel has been - very profit-able.
About seven souls professed salva-tion
from sin, and others were greatly
benefited. To God be all the glory.
The last day of the meeting, ten happy
saints followed the el- ample of Jesus in
baptism. The Lord has established his
truth in this place despite the oppositions
of the devil, and I believe there will be a
more fruitful harvest of souls in the
future. I hope to hold a series of meet-ings
in Tempe, and also in Phoenix be-fore
leaving the valley_ I expect
( D. V.) to return east through Texas.
If there are any congregations in that
part that would like to have us visit them
on our return, we would be glad to hear
from them soon. My address is Phoe-nix,
Ariz. Please remember me in your
prayers. The precious blood of Jesus
cleanses from. all sin and sanctifies me
wholly. Praise his dear name!
Otto Bolds.
Flat, Mo., Feb. 4.
We are praising God for full salvation,
perfect peace, and constant victory.
We left our home three months ago to
go out into gospel work, and have been
much blessed of the Lord, he making
6 THE GOSPEL TRUMPET
our labors fruitful, giving us souls for
our hire, anointing us with his Holy
Spirit to preach the pure word without
compromise, with much love and joy in
our souls. We have held meeting at the
following places: Roseberry, and Flat
and Brookshire schoolhouses, all near
Edgar Springs. We preached twenty-one
times at Roseberry. Three or four
were saved, one sanctified ( by a second
work of grace), and one healed of goiter
and other diseases. We held meeting
about four weeks at Flat; four or five
were saved and one sanctified. At the
Brookshire schoolhouse meeting lasted
three weeks. Seven or eight were saved
( genuine conversions), three sanctified,
and some healing done, of the Lord, for
which we give him all the glory. Many
have given up the use of tobacco and
coffee. Some secret societies have gone
to reading their Bibles. The parents of
several families have gotten saved and
are holding family worship. Truly the
Lord has been working and has done
great things for some, as they testify,
whereof they are glad. To God be all
the glory. W e expect to continue in
this work as the Lord gives us good
health and his divine approval. We ask
the earnest prayers of all the dear saints
for us and the work at this place, as well
as all other. 	 Julia Myers.
Rayville, Mo., Feb. 1.
To- day my report is that I am. saved.
Hallelujah! I came to this point and
began meeting in Jesus' name. Our
meeting lasted just two weeks; from
fifty to seventy- five were at the altar,
and all got a benefit, as far as I know—
some justified and others sanctified. One
man told his wife he would not live with
her if she professed sanctification; but
all praise to God's matchless name, he
sanctified her. I found much opposi ton
from the whisky element, and one old
man, a wandering star, left our meeting
in a fit of passion. But God helped me
to lay judgment to the line, and his pre-cious
truth swept away false creeds, false
customs, false traditions, false standards
of morals, and false conceptions of God.
My life is like a stormy sea, which in
its depth is calm and undisturbed, but is
lashed into commotions by opposition
from false religions. And any man who
will undertake to root up error and tear
down the structure reared thereon must
lead a stormy life, providing his aim is
accomplished. The feet that will follow
Jesus will be oftentimes bleeding, tired,
and worn, but, oh, the sweetness and
completeness! I shall go to Mound
City, Mo., my old home, over Sunday,
then to Shott, Mo., another new field.
I am expecting great things this year.
Brethren, let us take this work to heart
more and try and enlarge the Trumpet.
Labor together; in unity there is strength,
divided we fall. May God bless us all
more and more is my prayer.
Geo. S. Backus.
Colfax, Wash., Feb. 1.
I again report through the columns of
the Trumpet to let you know how the
good Lord is dealing with as in Wash-ington.
Our time is being faithfully
and successfully spent in his service
here, and the work is moving on glori-ously.
This field seems more ripe for
harvest than ever before. There are
anxious calls on every side for the pure
gospel, and we are praying the Lord of
the harvest to send forth more laborers
into this precious field. Last December
we held a very successful meeting be-tween
St. John and Pine City at the
Enterprise schoolhouse, where twenty-one
in all were saved and fled from
sectism. There were some sanctified,
but we are sorry to say that some of the
young people did not stand very long.
At the close of this meeting we had bap-tizing
and a precious ordinance- meeting.
After this we went home for a short
time on business, and Jan. 11 we com-menced
meeting a few miles north of
Colfax at the Hubbard schoolhouse,
where four were saved and one sanctified.
We then returned to Enterprise again,
and had a five days' meeting which was
truly blessed of God. Three renewed
their covenant with God, one was saved,
and four sanctified. There are others
yet at this place who will flee from
Babel confusion. We left the happy
little band rejoicing and full of victory,
with strong determinations to live by
every word of God. Luke 4: 4. We are
now on our way to visit the dear breth-ren,
and fill anxious calls about seventy-five
miles north of Spokane where we
expect to labor for several months. Any
one writing to us can address to Colfax,
Wash. Jas. B. and Flora Peterman.
and L. E. Neal.
Berne, Ind.
We wish to testify to the goodness of
God in saving and keeping our souls in
his love. We wrote to the Trumpet
from near North Star, Ohio, where we
were engaged in a meeting in which there
were about twenty- five consecrations.
The Lord captured whole families. The
meeting closed with good interest and
with conviction on some. Bro. Bragg
was with us the last week of the meeting.
After this we held a two weeks' meeting
at Nottingham, Ind., in company with
Brother and Sister Bragg and Bro. Fos-night.
The Lord was with us and blessed
our souls, and the people were very much
interested. There were three consecra-tions,
and many acknowledged the truth
and said they would walk in the light.
This was a new place. The evening
light had never been set forth here, but
we found friends to the truth. After
this meeting we returned home and
moved our family to Adams Co., Ind.
Our permanent address will be Berne,
Ind. We came to Sidney, Ohio, about
two weeks ago and have been laboring
with the brethren at this place since our
coming, and the Lord is blessing the
people. We shall probably continue
about two days yet at this place. There
have been fourteen consecrations in the
meeting up to the present time and a
general good interest. We trust the Lord
will keep the dear brethren at this place
in the unity of the Spirit and in the bond
of peace. We give God the glory for
all he has done for the people, and we
much desire the prayers of all the breth-ren
that the Lord will keep us humble,
where he can use us to his glory and to
the good of the people. Brethren, there
is great need of us as workers to lose sight
of self and selfish motives and see noth-ing
in the work but God's glory and the
people's good. Oh, that God would
send really consecrated workers into
the field. 	 Elihu Key.
Granby, Mo., Feb. 6.
In the name of Jesus we can again
report victory over the powers of dark-ness.
With our company I have recently
returned from Wichita, Kans., where
for six weeks we have been laboring at
the Gospel Mission. Most precious were
the meetings; souls were saved and sanc-tified,
and the little church, which has
passed through many struggles, was
much strengthened. For seven years
they have kept rented a mission hall,
and only God knows what the faithful
few have suffered and endured that the
people of that city might have the priv-ilege
of hearing the pure gospel. Their
labor in the Lord has not been in vain.
Their prayers, their tears, their lives of
sacrifice, have touched the heart of the
loving Father, and they are reaping a
rich reward. We shall ever praise the
Lord that, we responded to his and their
call and went to the assistance of those
who so much needed some one.
We believe the way is clear for a last-ing
and glorious work there. Many
colored people attended the meeting,
several of whom sought and obtained an
experience that thrilled their soul with
joy and gladness. I have always found
these people hard to reach, as it is a
difficult matter to get them to attend the
meetings, so ranch prejudice existing
among them; but I have learned that
when once saved, their consecration goes
as deep as any people I have ever met,
even more so than many others. How
many- people would be glad to go to
Africa or India to preach among those
dark- hued faces? This is right, and we
must do it, or their blood will be required
at our hands. But are we as willing to
hunt them out in our own native land?
Is the heart filled with the same love
and pity, as we behold them here, sitting
in darkness? 0 dear ones, how my
heart has been touched, as I witnessed
among this people their devotion, their
fastings, their sacrifices. I verily be-lieve
they would rather go hungry from
day to day than that any of their work-ers
should lack anything.
May God ever bless all the dear saints
in Wichita, who so tenderly cared for
us during our stay there, and supplied
needs for the future. And now a word
to all the saints everywhere. To you
who have plenty, be careful. Did you
when consecrating say,
" Take my silver and my gold
Not a mite would I withhold"?
Be true to that consecration, or your
gold and silver will eat like a canker.
Forget not the needs of God's cause.
Look for a moment at dark India with
her mass of starving humanity— starving
both for the gospel and for bread. W ho
will respond to her stirring appeals?
Other foreign fields are begging for the
gospel. God demands that we send it
to them. Then let your mind run back
to our own land, to the many, many
places where the evening light has never
been taught. Thous ands are bound up
in sectism and many other deceptions.
Dear brethren, is there any of the
Lord's money in your granaries, stock-fields,
or purses, whereby this glorious
gospel can be carried? Look quickly,
and see. Then let us for a moment view
the publishing work, sending forth its
tons of pure literature by land and by
sea. How many hearts have been glad-dened
by unceasing labor of the workers!
Will you by your earnest prayers and
the means you have at your command
help them bear their burdens? Neither
would we forget the many missions that
are being opened in different cities, with
their earnest workers, who for the love
of precious souls are enduring many hard-ships.
God bless you, my dear colabor-ers.
My heart is with you in this great
mission work. Have you ever thought
how much help a few hundred pounds of
provisions would be in the mission home?
Please take a peep into your wheat- bins,
your cellars, and storehouses, and see if
you do not find something there of which
the Lord has need for these faithful
workers. What a blessing you will get
upon your soul; proving indeed that it
is more blessed to give than to receive."
Then here are the flying messengers
going to and fro, carrying the glad
tidings of salvation, sacrificing the com-forts
and pleasure of home, enduring for
Jesus' sake the separation of loved ones,
besides the many poor and needy saints
scattered abroad— all these must be re-membered.
Now I will ask a question.
With all of these needs staring us in the
face, can we spend the Lord's money in
an extravagant manner, lavishing upon
our homes, upon our unsaved children,
adorning them in fashionable apparel
simply to gratify the pride of their car..
nal heart, that they may make an ap-pearance
equal with worldly people's
children? Dear ones, for the love that I
have for you, and for God's eternal
truth, I must answer this question for
you. No, a thousand times, no. Be-ware!
I sound in your ears a note of
warning. Study the Word. Obey in
all things. Do as did the wise men who
came to see Jesus. Matt. ca': 2. Open
up your treasures and present them unto
him who died to save you and yours,
and in the great eternity you will find
them safely housed in the " building of
God, an house not made with hands, eter-nal
in the heavens." 2 Cor. 5: 1.
Cornelia A. Sunderland.
Winslow, Ark-, Feb. 1.
God has been very merciful and good
to us. Nearly two months ago I fell
while on the mountain side, and threw
my ankle out of place. Some of the
neighbors found me and I was taken
home. In a few days a doctor said he
would like to see my foot. He exam-ined
it and said there were three bones
broken and that it never would be all
right, but God wonderfully made it
every whit whole. Praise his name!
The doctors do not know our God.
Without the aid of man I am walking.
I weigh 325 pounds. Yesterday one of
my horses kicked me and came very near
killing me. It cut a gash three inches
long in. my head. all who read this,
pray for me. 	 Dan Murphy.
Requests for Prayer.
Mary C. Stoup requests prayer that she
may be perfectly healed.
Pray that Eliza Beasley may have her
mind, speech, and general health restored.
Pray earnestly that Mrs. Perry's hearing
may be restored. Physicians can do noth-ing
for her.
B. L. Brodersen requests the earnest
prayers of all the saints on Feb. 25 for soul
and body.
I ask the prayers of the saints that I may
be sanctified and. healed of a nervous dis-ease.
Fannie Alexander.
I have taken a severe cold and it has
settled in my throat and back. Pray ear-nestly
for my healing. Ann Stukey.
For a year past I have been suffering from
consumption and weakness of the stomach.
Pray for my body and soul. Edward Kyle.
G. Clasen desires the saints everywhere
to join in earnest prayer that his little boy,
three and one- half years of age, may be
healed of inflammatory rheumatism.
Calls for Meetings.
Rutledge, Ore. Some tree ministers of
the Lord are desired. Laura Whitney.
Carbondale, Ohio. We want some of the
Holy Ghost preachers with the gift of heal-ing
to conic to our place with a tabernacle.
The people here never heard much about
the church of God. If any one feels led to
come, address Mary M. Dowler.
Fairfax, Atchison Co. Mo. I would be
so glad to hear a good
Co.,
Ghost sermon
preached once more. The new doctrine
against sanctification, we do not accept and
know it is not Bible doctrine. They have
preached against the healing power. Can
not some of God's ministers come here and
hold. a meeting? Write to us. Adda
Stoner.
Okean, Ark. We have felt impressed for
some time that God would be pleased to
have a line of meetings to begin sometime
in May at St. Louis, then follow the Iron
Mountain R. R. down as far as Walnut
Ridge, Ark., making stops between St.
Louis, Mo. and Walnut Ridge, Ark. as
will hereafter be made known. From
Walnut Ridge we take an overland route
through Lawrence and Randolph counties,
Ark., then Ripley Co., Mo. and as the
Lord may direct. We greatly desire Bro.
J. N. Howard to accompany us with taber-nacle
during the trip, but only as God
leads. We desire to correspond with all
the saints interested in this matter alone
the line. Our address is Okean, Ark.
Charles Ford.
Meeting Notices.
Muncie, Ind. Beginning Feb. 12, to last
as long as the Lord wills. Bros. Key and
Everts will be here. All lovers of the truth
are welcomed. Any desiring to come, and
not acquainted, can write to me and I will
meet, them at depot. Lewis E. Smith,
Normal City, Muncie, Ind.
Columbia, S. C. March 2- 11. Assem-bly-
meeting. All come praying that God
will give us a glorious feast. Bros. J. F.
Lundy, E. B. Haynes, and others are ex-tpSCietoocD.
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meeting. All are cordially invited. Come
prepared to care for yourselves as much as
possible. Please bring bedtick and bed-mdiinngis.
t Weriea la brere ttrhursenti nfrgo mth eo tLhoerrd p taor tsse ntod
assist. We ask those who can not attend
to pray earnestly in behalf of this meeting.
LMeicrho. y Sheldon, 482 Baker St., Detroit,
DYING INDIA .. WEEPING:
For the Gospe
44 DO YOU HEAR HER PLAINTIVE PLEA? 4 4
A recent letter from a converted Hindu, speaking in behalf
of the natives, says: " We need a great number of Bibles, good
books, tracts, papers, etc."
Another brother preaching among the Mohammedans said
his stock of books was soon exhausted, and the heathen were
anxiously desiring to know more about the gospel of Jesus
Christ. A Starving Indian Woman and Children-
The Dying India Woman's Request.
' A woman dying in India said to the
missionary, ` Do ask the people to send
us the gospel a little faster. Tell them,
we suffer, we die, with no one to pity,
no one to help. Do ask them to send
the gospel."— Reformed eiturch Record.
0 beloved brethren and sisters, can we
hear such cries from the starving millions
of India who are dying both for bread
and for the gospel without rushing imme-diately
to their rescue? Can we enjoy
the many comforts of this life with which
we are surrounded and not share them
with this poverty- stricken and deceived
people of India? Can we allow these
precious souls to go into eternity without
consecrating our money to send them the
gospel? It seems to me that a perfect
consecration constrains us even to deprive
ourselves and share with them. We are
willing to do our part here at the Trum-pet
office. God has a great many con-secrated
brothers and sisters here who
are willing to labor night and day to
make books and tracts to send to these
people if means are only provided to buy
the material. 0 dear ones, we appeal to
your hearts in. the name of Jesus Christ
to help us send the gospel to these dark
lands. -
W have made arrangements with the
American Bible Society to purchase
Bibles and Testaments at a very low
figure to distribute among the heathen
and the poor everywhere, and just as
soon as the means are provided we are
going to buy these Bibles by the thou-sands
and ship them to the missionaries
wherever they are needed, and to the
poor throughout the world. Yon could
not invest your money in anything that
would pay you a larger interest in eternity
than in this noble work. W e can send
a Bible to a poor heathen in India just as
cheap as we can send it to any one: in the
United States, the postage is just : the
same, and if you send money to send
books to the heathen there will be no ex-pense
deducted from the amount you
send us except the actual cost of mailing
and shipping these Bibles, books, and
tracts to their destination. For one
thousand dollars we could furnish nearly
twenty thousand heathen with a testa-ment
with good print that can be easily
read. Where could you invest a thou-sand
dollars that could be put to a better
use?
Dear ones, I know that you believe
the blessed Bible and that they who die
without Christ must perish; therefore I
appeal to your loving heart in the name
of Jesus Christ to push this good work.
Do not neglect the free- literature fund.
In the last four months many thousand
dollars' worth of books and Bibles have
been sent out from this office and we can
send out many thousand dollars' worth
more during the coming summer if the
means is provided. Let every brother
and sister who reads this appeal offer a
special prayer as soon as you read it for
iieaus to send the gospel to the poor
heathen. We mean business for God,
and we are determined to- go just as far
as our means reach.
Besides helping the heathen we are
going to spread this glorious evening
light as much as we can in this country.
We have commenced to fish out souls in
every part of the United States by send-ing
literature to every family as rapidly-as
possible. If there is anyone among
the Trumpet readers who feels moved by
the Spirit of God to use a thousand dol-lars
in sending literature to the people oil'
his own state, we will apply: it as he may-direct.
We are able to secure the names
of nearly every family in the United
States, and can send them tracts and
Trumpets as , silent preachers into their
homes that will surely lead the unsaved
ones to Christ, and many in sectism out
into this beautiful oneness into which
God is now calling his people. There is
no end to the good we can do in this
way. We have in the past few months
fished out in some states some precious
souls, who are now rejoicing to read the
Trumpet and our books, and we are go-ing
to push this work just as fast as
means are sent in to buy material,
pay postage, etc. Let us work with one
heart and hand in this matter and God
himself will reward us.
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though some have made it clash by their
constructions.
Let us notice Rom. 7: 18—" For I know
that in me ( that is, in my flesh); dwell-eth
no good thing: for to will is present
with me; but how to perform that which
is good I find not." We are told by
some, that this word means our bodies.
Do we believe this a correct application?
Let us go into the eighth chapter. Here
we find Paul discussing the same. Now,
if in the seventh chapter the term flesh
means our bodies, so it will be in the
eighth. Let us consider Rom. 8: 8—" So
then they that are in the flesh can not
please God." Brethren we can see how
absured it is for us to make such an
application; for if such be right, as long
as we remain in this fleshly body, we
can not please God.
" But ye are not in the flesh, but in
the Spirit."— Ver. 9. There again we
would have to conclude that Paul was
talking to some who were not in this
fleshly body. Let us hear Paul to the
Galatian brethren. Gal. 5: 19- 21. Here
we have the works of the flesh named.
Would not this be an awful life, after
being freed from all sin, yet the flesh
would still do these things. But let us
hear Jesus and determine where these
issue from. " For from within, out of
the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts,
adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts,
covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciv-iousness,
an evil eye, blasphemy, pride,
foolishness: all these evil things come
from within, and defile the man."—
Mark ' T: 21- 23. Here we have it made
clear: these works of the flesh come from
the heart; then this flesh spoken of is
carnality without a doubt, and is located
in the heart.
A Warning to the Rebellious.
BY EFFIE LAVELL.
‘ 40II the depth of the riches both of
the wisdom and knowledge of
God'! how unsearchable are his judg-ments
and his ways past finding out!
For who hath known the mind of the
Lord? or who hath been his counsellor."
— Rom. 1: 33, 34.
Many are the people of to- day who
seem by their criticisms to desire to be
the Lord's counsellors. They say by
their actions : " Your plan of bringing
souls to Christ through a free gospel ( 1
Cor. 9: 18) has failed to meet our ap-proval,
so we have considered it neces-sary,
for the benefit and encouragement
of the preachers, to hire them by the
month or year, giving them some stated
salary which reaches over and above
their temporal needs.
" Your plan of church organization as
shown in 1 tJor. 12: 13, 18, 28, we con-sider
altogether too loose a system for
carrying on this great work, so we have
decided to form various human organiza-tions,
thus more effectually holding
Christians together, and also giving them
liberty, to choose for themselves among
the various creeds, the one which suits
them best. This liberty could not be
had in the narrowly contracted way you
have set forth in your W ord.
" Your ordinance of feet- washing in
Jno. 13: 14, 15 we consider too humiliat-ing
for all classes, and quite inappropri-ate;
so we have decided not to observe
it, not being quite certain, however,
that you meant just what you said.
" As for your healing the sick as
taught in Jas. 5: 14, 15, we know it is
within your power, but since we have
tested man's power, we have decided it
will do quite as well, and trust that you
will bless the means; but we have de-cided
to leave this commandment as a
thing of the past"
What ignorance! To place the wis-dom
of finite man above the wisdom of
the infinite God, the Creator of all
things. Nevertheless it is a positive
fact that such ignorance does exist,'
neither is it in any way excusable in the
sight of God. For at one time God
" winked" at ignorance, but " now com-mandeth
all men every 	 where to repent" ;
and repentance endows us with wisdom
from above. So there is no excuse.
But how it must grieve that great heart
of love to look down into the heart of
man whom he died to save, and thus
behold the expression of the heart acted
out, lightly setting aside and ignoring
his precious commands.
I have even heard it argued by sect
professors, that ignorance was the reason
why human organizations were not
adopted by the apostles ( whom God sent
out giving them the Holy Ghost as their
teacher), and that as people were grow-ing
more intelligent they had found out
that the gospel work could be carried
on much more successfully by human or-ganizations
than in the loose way in
which it was conducted in those days.
Thus placing their wisdom above tha
of the Holy Ghost. Certainly, to say
the least, this is a dangerous position to
take, and it is time for each of God's
true children with one accord to cry out
against such presumption.
Others who uphold infant baptism,
and know it would be vain to try to call
forth any scripture to substantiate their
doctrine, acknowledge that there is no
scripture for it, but say they believe it
to be approved of God because it seems
to them. like such a " sacred and sublime
way of committing their children into
the hands of God." This may seem so
to some, but if this actually were a
" sublime and sacred way," God in his
wisdom would not have left it out of his
word; for we read in 2 Tim. 3: 16- 17—
" All scripture is given by inspiration of
God, and is prof table for doctrine, for re-proof,
for correction, for instruction in
righteousness: that the man of God may
be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all
good works." Now, is not this plain
enough that all may understand that not
one thing could be added to these blessed
scriptures which would be of any profit
or would add to our spirituality or per-fection?
And ninety per cent. of these
dear souls who uphold this doctrine of
infant baptism, actually do not realize
what they are saying, or what it means
to " commit their children into the hands
of God," neither do they in many cases
do it; but if God should call their little
ones to come and dwell with him, they
would rebel, and only give them up
through compulsion, and could not,
through a feeling of submission say,
" Thy will be done."
We have sufficient scripture to prove
that anything presented to the people as
doctrine found outside of the blessed
Word, however sacred it may seem, has
God's most positive disapproval. W e
read in Prov. 30: 5, 6—" Every word of
God is pure: he is a shield unto them
that put their trust in him. Add thou
not unto his words lest he reprove thee,
and thou be found a liar." In connec-tion
with this read Rev. 22: 18, 19.
This world is not only filled with pro-fessors
who are adding to, but also those
who are taking from the Bible, by de-claring
that there are many command-ments
in the word of God which are not
necessary for us to obey; such as feet-washing,
plain dressing, excluding of
gold, etc., anointing of oil and praying
for the sick, holy conversation, main-,
taming perfect unity among God's chil-dren,
and many other things too numer-ous
to mention.
Now I appeal to your better judgment
and common sense. If these command-ments
are not for us to obey, have we
any reason to believe that the many
promises connected with them, even the
promise of heaven and immortal glory,
are for us to enjoy? If we are so pre-sumptions
as to exclude one, why not
exclude all? No, says one, this wouldn't
do. Then accept, believe, and obey one
and all, and be made partakers of all the
blessings connected with them. Is this
more than our duty? And is it not
" sound doctrine"? The other will land
The healing may or may not be instan-taneous.
Many were healed instantly. Luke
4: 40; Acts 5: 16.
Palsied man-- by faith of those who
brought him, Matt. 9: 2.
The leper— by his own faith. Matt.
8: 2.
The father of Publius— by faith of
Paul. Acts 28: 8.
The servant— by the faith of the centu-rion.
Matt. 8: 13.
The ten lepers were healed as they
journeyed. Luke 17: 14.
Epaphroditus sick— God had mercy on
him. Phil. 2: 27.
Some received handkerchiefs and
aprons from Paul. Acts 19: 12.
The blind man at first was not com-pletely
healed. Mark 8: 23, 24.
Perfect healing of the blind man.
Mark 8: 25.
The nobleman believed— his son began
to amend from that hour. Jno.
4: 50, 52.
Paul left Trophimus at Miletum sick.
2 Tim. 4: 20.
Importunity.
Blind Bartimeus.
Two blind men.
The woman of
22- 28.
A woman suffered many things of phy-sicians.
Mark 5: 26.
She was healed by faith. Mark 5: 34.
Instructions to us— prayer and sending
for elders. Jas. 5: 13, 14.
Means to be used— anointing with oil,
laying on of hands, and prayer of
faith. Jas. 5: 14, 15; Mark 16: 18.
This privilege has not been taken from
the church. Heb. 3: 8; Jas. 5: 15;
Jude 3.
" Is any sick among you?"— includes all
who have faith enough to send for the
elders— saint or sinner. Jas. 5: 14, 15.
sinners may be healed and forgiven.
Jas. 5: 15; Luke 4: 41; Matt. 9: 2- 6.
Jesus still has the power, ability, and
willingness to heal all who ask in
faith believing. 	 Heb. 13: 8; Eph.
3: 20,, 21.— From " The Great Phy-sician."
Contagious Disease.
Some time ago I wrote to the Trumpet
brethren to pray that I might be healed
of a contagious disease resembling itch.
I was anointed by a sister here in accord-ance
to the instructions in James, and
God graciously healed me. Pray that I
may always be true. 	 Will Johnson.
Spencer, S. D., Jan. 4,
Neuralgia Healed.
I feel that the Lord wants me to tell
what he did for me on the 8th of Jan-uary,
1900. I had had the neuralgia in
my jaw for three months. I was read-ing
" The Grace of Healing" and by its
instructions I was healed before I got
off my knees. Praise the dear Lord!
My jaw was starting to swell, but when
the mighty healing power touched it I
felt the disease leaving. Praise God!
I am healed. Pray that I stay at the
feet of Jesus. 	 S. J. Ellison.
Morrow, Miss.
FLESH.
BY EDGAR FLEENOR.
THERE has been considerable said on
this subject by some; and also a
very wrong application made of the
same. The word " flesh" does not
always refer to our bodies; so we should
be careful as to the applications. First,
not to make an application that will
conflict with some other part of God's
word. Second, not to make application
to carry out some point of doctrine.
For God's word is a book of harmony,
your souls into perdition with all those
who " know not God and that obey not
the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.
2 Thess. 1: 8. Is it not time, dear ones,
who are adding to and taking ! roin
from Rev. 22: 18, 19, which says, " If
God's precious words, to take warn ing
any man shall add unto these things,
God shall add unto him the plagues that
are written in this book. And if any
man shall take away from the words of
the book of this prophecy, God shall
take away his part out of the book of
life, and out of the holy city, and from
the things which are written in this
book." With these scriptures before us
can we afford to continue teaching for
doctrine the commandments of men,
when, according to Col. 2: 22, " all are
to perish with the using" ; thus sealing
tour doom? S ome may say that they do
not see it that way. Why not? Here
it is plain before your eyes. There is
only one cause given in the word of God
for spiritual blindness, and that is, un-belief
and rebellion against God.
God speaking through the mouth of
Paul concerning the Jews, in Rom. 11: 7,
says, " What then? Israel hath not ob-tained
that which he seeketh for; but
the election [ those who were elected
through believing God's word] bath
obtained it, and the rest were blinded."
" According as it is written, God hath
given them the spirit : of slumber, eyes
that they should not see and ears that
they should not hear, unto this day."
Some will cry out against God, injustice!
But let us see if God is unjust, or if they
have brought this spiritual blindness
upon themselves. We read in P, in.
9: 31, 32—" But Israel which follon ed
after the law of righteousness, hath not
attained to the law of righteousness."
Why? ( Ver. 32.) " Because they
sought it not by faith, but as it were by
the works of the law." Again in Rom.
10: 21 we read concerning Israel: " Ali
day long [ saith God] I have stretched
forth my hands unto a disobedient and
gainsaying people." We note again the
heartrending words of Jesus in Matt.
23: 37. " 0 Jerusalem, Jerusalem . . .
how often would I have gathered your
children together even as a hen gath-ereth
her chickens under her wings, and
ye would not!"
Mark the goodness of God; though
they had rebelliously refused to accept
the mercies of God and the law of right-eousness
through faith, and he had
stricken them with spiritual blindness,
yet he says in Rom. 11: 23, " And they
also if they abide not still in unbelief,
shall be grafted in: for God is able to
graft them in again." So, dear reader,
let no one cry out, " Injustice," without
searching, haahnonizing, and fairly
weighing the scriptures; and to other
dear readers who may be like the rebel-lious
Israelites in desiring to ho0ld tto your
own vain theories, instead of accepting
God's plan and swinging aloof from
everything but the Word, take warning;
for these things herein taught are for our
admonition. And as a double warning we
cite you. to Rom. 1 : 28, which reads " And
even as they did not like to retain God
in their knowledge, God gave them over
to a reprobate mind to do those things
which are not convenient;" and then
innumerating their many indulgences in
sin, says, " Who knowing the judgments.
of God that they which commit such
things are worthy of death." " And if
God spared not the natural branches,
take heed lest he also spare not thee."
— Rom. 11: 21.
In conclusion we would say with the
Psalmist, " I esteem all thy precepts con-cerning
all things to be right; and I hate
e" vLeerty u fsa lhseea wr athye." c— onPcslu. si1o1n9 o: 1f 2th8e. wAhnodle,
matter. Fear God and keep his com-mandments;
for this is the whole duty
of man. "— Eccl. 12: 13. Praying that
these scriptures and few remarks may
prove a benefit to some erring souls, I
leave the results with God.
Divine Healing.
Divine Healing.
Mark 10: 46- 52.
Matt. 9: 27- 31.
Canaan. Matt. 15: