The Gospel Trumpet - 20:25

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VOLUME XX. MOUNDSVILLE, WEST VIRGINIA, U. S. A., THURSDAY, JUNE 28, 1900. NUMBER 25'
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And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a Trumpet, and they shall gather to-gather
his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. 	 Kat, 24: 31.
So will I seek opt my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have
been scattered in Lae cloudy and dark day. 	 Eze. 34: 12. 	 ' Ter. 32: 39.
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the pure word of God and become in-structed
in the doctrine of the Holy
Ghost life. " The promise of my Father
which the resurrected Christ said he
would send upon his justified disciples,
was no more of a promise for them than
for every justified believer throughout
this gospel dispensation. Why then
should any of us come short of enter-ing
into this blessed covenant of an
entire consecration and receiving the
fulfillment of the promises? Thank
God, it is for us and our children and
to all that are afar off.
Until the believer reaches this
grace, he is not in his normal spiritual
condition, and can not live the Christ-life
in a manner that is perfectly satis-factory
to his own heart. - The great
need within, is a clean heart, and the
indwelling Holy Spirit, without which
there is not the power within at all
times to withstand every evil attack of
the enemy with perfect victory. Jesus
knew this need in his disciples. Their
usefulness in the world could not be sat-isfactory
until they received the fulfill-ment
of the promise. They had been
useful in his hands and under his per-sonal
guidance in the ministry of the
gospel of the kingdom. They had al-ready
by his help been able to bear
fruit, but it was the will of the Father
that they should bring forth more fruit,
through the power of the Spirit- filled
God's Loving Care.
A IlTIt'LL IV.
THE mils. := 1.11: fr or, pi; , misE.,
ISE1) throli alt the prophets.
- Until the Spirit. be poured out Upon
m On hi: di, anti the wilderness be a
ul field, and the fruitful field be
a forest. Then judgment
dwell in the wilderness, and rig; lft-it
reimain in the fruitrul field.
ltd tho work of righteousness shall be
; and the elteet of righteousness
nC 	 and assurance tortivOr. And
all dwell in a peaCeant
• Iti, and in sure dwellings, and in
t resting- places.'`— Isa. 32: 15- 1S.
" And 1 will give them one heart, and
I will put a new spirit within you; and
will take the , tour heart out of their
' 11, and will give them a heart of flesh:
t they may walk in my statutes,
• 	 / rttillallt! e:;, allti do Clem:
they shall be my people, anti I shall
1 — Ezelt. 11 : 19, • 0.•
air water upon him that is
and floods upon the dry ground:
will pour my spirit upon thy seed, Mid
BY CHARLES E. ORR.
" Behold the fowls of the air,
They sow not neither do they reap";
Yet kings have not more healthful tare
Nor rest in calmer, sweeter sleep.
They have no barns nor boarded grain;
Vet all day long a soft, sweet strain
They warble forth from forest tree,
Ever happy and ever free,
Teaching a lesson dear to me.
So free from care, C) sylvan band,
Fed by a heavenly Father's hand,
Your freedimi, 0 ye fowls of heaven,
New courage to my soul hath given.
I no more can doubt or sorrow;
God will care for me to- morrow.
tile lilies, how they grow:
They tt ail not, neither do they spin";
Yet kings in all their pinup and show
Are not arrayed like one of them,
Smiling and tree in breezes sway.
Yet clothed by heavenly hand are they.
Meek lilies ot the quiet 11,: ld,
Your growth, instruction to me yield.
The One \\ Ili, il,, thes the lily lair,
Gives it greatest husbandry care,
Will he not hear my earnest prayer?
The ( hie : who notes the sparrow's fall,
C), ' CS he rn . t have his c i eaiures all?
It he so chillies each p utt and tree
And gives the birds such liberty,
Will he ni • 1 clothe and care tor me?
I no more can doililt tar sa. rri. w;
God will late tor each to- morrow.
ItY J. W. DYERS.
my Liming upon thine offspring. . And
they shall spring up us among the grass,
s : w8i, l lows by the water courses."— lea.
4.
" Then will I sprinkle el tun water up-
, and ve shall be clean: from all
r filthiness, and from all your idols,
1. cleanse you. A new heart also \ rill
re you, and a new spirit will I put,
in you: and 1 will take away the
ltiy heart out of your flesh, and I will
Ye you an heart of flesh. And I will
y spirit within you, and cause you
walk in my statutes, and ye shall
cep my judgments, and do them.
ye shall dwell in the land that I
Ve to your fathers; and ye shall be my
people, and I will be your God."—
Ezek. 36: 95- 28.
,` And it shall come to pass afterward,
t I will pour out my spirit upon all
and your sons and yonr daughters
all prophesy, your old men shall dream
cams, and your young men shall see
,'- visions: and also upon the servants and
pon the handmaids iu these days will I
the prophet Joel: And it shall come_ to
pass in the last days, saith God, I will
pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and
your sons and your daughters shall
prophesy, and your young men shall see
visions, and your old men shall dream
dreams: and on my servants and on my
handmaidens I will pour out in those
days of my Spirit; and they shall proph-esy.
. . . This J esus bath God raised up,
whereof we all are witnesses. Therefore
being by the right hand of God exalted,
and having recei red of the Father the
promise of the Holy Ghost, he bath shed
forth this, which ye now see and hear."
— Acts 2: 16- 18, 32, 33.
TO WHOM IS THIS PROMISED?
" Then Peter said unto. them, Repent,
and be baptized every one of you in the
name of Jesus Christ for the remission
of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of
the Holy Ghost. For the promise is un-to
you, and to your children, and to all
that are afar off, even as many as the
Lord our God shall call."— Acts 2: 38,
39.
" And we are his witnesses of these
things; and so is also the Holy Ghost,
whom God hath given to them that obey
him."— Acts 5: 32. " That the blessing
of Abraham might come on the Gentiles
through Jesus Christ; that we might re-ceive
the promise of the Spirit through
faith."— Gal. 3: 14.
" That I should be the minister of Je-sus
Christ to the Gentiles, ministering
the gospel of God, that the offering up of
the Gentiles might be acceptable, being
sanctified by the Holy Ghost."— Rom.
15: 16. " But we are bound to give
thanks alway to God for you, brethren
beloved of the Lord, because God hath
from the beginning chosen you to salva-tion
through sanctification of the Spirit
and belief of the truth."- 2Thess. 2: 13.
In a previous article we have noticed
that the Fioly Ghost experience of the
apostles and all those of the early church
was the same; and we see definitely by
the texts just quoted that it is the design
of God that ail believers shall receive it.
Also we have seen that this Holy Ghost
experience is a subsequent one to regen-eration,
and identical with sanctification.
Every young convert who has truly been
regenerated, will in due time find that
something more needs to be done in his
heart before he can realize an experience
that will correspond with the fulfillment
of the many exceeding great and pre-cious
promises of the Holy Ghost.
The scriptures clearly teach us that
regeneration is a work of the Holy
Spirit. " For by one Spirit are we all
baptized into one body."- 1 Cor. 12: 13.
This does not have reference to the Pen-tecostal
baptism, but to the work of the
Holy Spirit in regeneration, inducting
us into the body of Christ, the church.
This is - very different from the baptism
with the Holy Ghost. In regeneration the
Holy Ghost baptizes the believer into
Christ; in sanctification Christ baptizes
the believer with the holy Ghost. " He
, shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost
and with fire."— Matt. 3: 11.
This latter is the sanctification and
Pentecostal ' experience. Both are spirit-ual
experiences and when reading these
wonderful promises by the prophets, we
pour out my spirit."— Joel 2: 28, 29.
Promised tin ough Christ. " And, be-hold,
I send the promise of my Father
upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Je-rusalem,
until re be endued with power
from on high."— Luke 24: 49. `‘ But
whosoever drinketh of the water that
shall give him shall never thirst; but
the water that I shall give him shall be
in him a well of water springing up into
everlasting life."— Jno. 4: 14. " He
that believeth on me, as the scripture
bath said, out of his belly shall flow riv-ers
ot living water. ( But this spake he
of the Spirit, which they that believe on
him should receive: for the Holy Ghost
was not yet given; because that Jesus
was not yet glorified.)"— Jno. 7: 38,' 39.
" If ye love me, keep my command-ments.
And I will pray the Father,
: and he shall give you another Comforter,
that he may abide with you forever;
even the spirit of truth; whom the
world can not receive, because it seeth
him not, neither knoweth him: but ye
know him; for he dwelleth with you,
and shall be in you. At that day ye shall
know that I am in my Father, and ye
in me, and I in you. But the Comfort-er,
which is the Holy Ghost, whom the
Father will send in my name, be shall
teach you all things, and bring all things
to your remembrance, whatsoever I have
said unto you."— Jno. 14: 15- 17, 20, 26.
`' But when the Comforter is come, whom
I will send unto you from the Father,
even the spirit of truth, which proceed-etch
from the Father, he shall testify of
me."— Jno. 15: 26.
" Nevertheless I tell you the truth: It
is expedient for you that I go away; for
if I go not away, the Comforter will not
unto you; but if I depart, I will
send him unto you. And when he is
come, he will reprove the world of sin,
ind of righteousness, and of judgment:
of sin, because they believe not on me;
of righteousness, because I go to my
Father, and ye see me no more; of
judgment, because the prince of this
world is judged. I have yet many
things to say unto you, but ye can not
bear them now. Howbeit when he, the
spirit of truth, is come, he will guide
you into all truth: for he shall not
speak of himself, but whatsoever he
shall hear, that shall he speak: and he
will show you things to come. He
shall glorify me: for he shall receive of
mine, and shall show it unto you. All
things that the Father bath are mine:
therefore said I, that he shall take of
mine, and shall show it unto you."—
Jno. 16: 7- 15. " John truly baptized
with water; bat ye shall be baptized
with the Holy Ghost not many days
nence."- a– Acts 1: 5.
A. FULFILLMENT OF THIS PROMISE.
And when the day of Pentecost was
full y come, they were all with one ac-cord
in one place. And suddenly there
came a sound from heaven as ° fa
e
rush-in^
mighty wind, and it filled all the
a
house where they were sitting. And
there appeared unto them cloven tongues
like as of fire, and it sat upon each of
them. And they were all filled with the
Holy ( host."— Acts 2: 1- 4.
A TESTIMONY OF ITS FULFILLMENT::
" But this is that which was spoken by
can clearly distinguish the two works of
grace foretold.
The birth of the Spirit ( Jno. 3: 3- 8),
or that experience which inducts us in`:.)
Christ, must necessarily precede the ex-perience
of sanctification. The Holy
Ghost will never come into the temple to
abide until he has first gained possession
of the same. The heart must' first be
both justified and fully consecrated be-fore
the divine Guest can make it his ex-clusive
and permanent abode. This glori-ous
grace of sanctification does not de-tract
from the marvelous work of justifi-cation.
Both have their import and
place in God's wonderful redemption
plan, and stand out distinctly in many
of the scriptures, and yet we occasionally
hear of some who say of this beautiful
doctrine that it is not taught in the word
of God. Why such remarks are made is
simply because of a misconception of the
glorious redemption plan— in some in-stances
it is owing to the perverted doc-trines
of men, while in others it may be
because of a perverted individual experi--
ence of justification. To the willing and
obedient heart God will impart knowl-edge
and understanding of his sweet and
glorious soul- rest.
Oh, let us praise and
SANC11F1CATION.
magnify the
Lord for his wonderful grace that he has
so abundantly supplied through repen-tance
toward God and faith toward our
Lord Jesus Christ, that he is so willing
and ready to remove from our hearts the
guilt of all our sins and transgressions,
and remember them against us no more
forever, and then bestow upon us- this
blessed inheritance among them which
are sanctified by faith that is in Christ
Jesus. Would that every justified be-liever
might be kept from, all the per-verted
doctrines of men, so that the
heart could receive the knowledge of
Qualifications of Elders.
BY It. W. salaam..
T UE writer of this article has bee
very much stirred , f la te concern-ing
this very important auestien. I re-alize
that it means mucei tee he au elder
in the church of God. ; i ? wive is a
house of order, : Ind lie has • set the
members every one of itom. iu the bedy,
as it bath pleased hint-; ; eel therefore
he has certain lines to take care of his
house. lie does not make choice of one
simply because he is teha- ated, and hdr,
received a diploma. if yeti should have
all these qualifications, and yet be void
of the qualifications set forth in ( Ted's
word, you would nut It.' qualitied to take
care of the church of Ood.
I believe that in tile past there
been some mistakes made in ordaining
elders in the church; net that I want to
accuse any one, neither do I want to ex-cuse
any one. - We have the rule where-by
we can know who are elders. And
those that can nut meet the requirements
in the word Of God should not under any
circumstance be ordained elders, and rec-ognized
as such by the church, by the
laying on of hands; for if ( Tact has not n.
ordained him, it would only be the
worse for him., and the church over es
which he would rule. If I understand'
the mind of the Lord, in ordaining elders,
the elder is to be an example for the"
flock. • Jesus is our example, and Gor -
wants the example set before us followed
out in every respect. First, he wants
our life to be pure, and our lives can be
made pure only by meeting the condi-tions
of God's word. God has so
= ordered, that if care is taken in ordaining
elders, there need not be any very serious
mistakes mmaaddee.. Let the ministry look.
deeper into this very important question,
and see that every condition is met.
' ly e wonder why Nye are not up to the
apostolic standard, but we should not..:
wonder when we look around and see a..
the mixed condition of those that are re-cognized
as elders in the body, " tee
church." What we need, : Ind what we
must have, is apostolic ministers. We
learn by reading the word of God, that -
in the apostles' time they were ver
strict. When this rule is strictly coin
plied with as it was in Um days of the
apostles, then it will be that we shall see
the power of God manifested as in thos e
days. Some have seid, " I thourrht
was called to preach:
a •
aso uls. Seeing their lostt r:'. oltn( lIiutrict) inei: eIdri: real zeal in my soul for them; and
do not go and preach I shall lose
salvation." They take zeal for the
world, but have our bodies presented. to
God a living sacrifice. " I beseech you
therefore, brethren, by the mercies of
God, that ye present your bodies a liv-ing
sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God,
which is your reasonable service. And
be not conformed to this world: but be
ye transformed by the renewing of your
mind, that ye may prove what is that
good, and acceptable, and perfect will of
God."— Rom. 12: 1,
There are a number of things we will
mention in this article, which are prac-ticed
by the world, and which it is wrong
for Christians to practice. First we will
consider
DRESS.
When we presented our bodies a living
sacrifice and were wholly sanctified, we
gave our bodies entirely and unreserved-ly
unto God; and we can not have our
own way about how we are to dress
them without trespassing on the rights of
God; for we now belong entirely to
him. In fact, the teaching of the Word
is that our bodies are to be a living sacri-fice
when presented to God, holy and ac-ceptable;
and that this is only a reason-able
service. We would infer that our
bodies to be holy and acceptable as a sac-rifice
to God must be dressed according
to his teaching. " In like manner also,
that women adorn themselves in modest
apparel, with shamefacedness and sobri-ety;
not with broided hair, or gold, or
pearls, or costly array; but ( which be-corneth
women professing godliness) with
good works."- 1 Tim. 2: 9, 1q. " Whose
adorning let it not be that outward
adorning of plaiting the hair, and of
wearing of gold, or of putting on of ap-parel:
but let it be the hidden man of
the- heart, in that which is not corrupt-ible,
even the ornament of a meek and
quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God
of great price."- 1 Pet. 3: 3, 4.
It is not hard to see by these scriptures
how God desires people to dress. God
certainly forbids the wearing of jewelry
and costly dress, and ornamental fixing
of the . hair. Women only are men-tioned,
but of course men who wear jew-elry
and curl and ornament their hair
are included. No doubt some might
ask, " Can we not wear useful articles
made of gold and other expensive mate-rial?"
The Word forbids costly array.
We all agree that this would include cost-ly
material in dress. A dress is a very
useful article, and if costly clothing is
forbidden, surely none can justify them-selves
for wearing any other costly arti-cle,
especially of gold or pearl, and use
as a plea that it is useful. Costly array
is not confined to dress alone, but there
are many things that could be less ex-pensive
and yet serve the purpose for
which they are used, and much better
become a saint of God.
We look at the world to- day, which is
composed largely of professors of Christ,
and behold, they entirely disregard these
scriptures which plainly teach our duty
on dress. The Word refers to holy wo-men
of old as examples in dress, and we
will read their history and see what
they did with their jewelry.
" Then Jacob said unto his household
and to all that were with him, Put away
the strange gods that are among you,
and be clean and change your garments:
and let us arise and go up to Bethel; and
I will make there an altar unto God,
who answered me in the day of my dis-tress,
and was wits me in the way which
I went. And they gave unto J acob all
the strange gods which were in their
hands, and all the earring which were in
their ears; and Jacob hid them under
the oak which was by Shachem."— Gen.
35: 24.
It is very evident Jacob realized that
coming into the presence of God to wor-ship
all bedecked with jewelry was not
acceptable in his sight. " And when the
people heard these evil tidings, they
mourned; z man did put on him
his ornaments. '-' 7 or the Lord had said
unto Moses, Sapl: tikto- the children of Is-life;
hence they- were not to depart
om Jerusalem until they were endued
" with power from on high. " Ye shall
receive power after that the Holy
Ghost is come upon you."
How many there are to- day of the
. dear people of God who have never had
' their Pentecost. Some are out in the
world preaching then gospel with no
deeper spiritual experience than that of
the disciples before they tarried at Jeru-
. Weir. Many have mistaken some nat-ural
ability for the power of the Holy
Ghost. Others have accepted the doc-trine
of sanctification theoreticall y--
made a formal consecration and claimed
the experience, but have never received
the Holy Ghost. Dearly beloved brethren
and sisters, let us entreat you to tarry and
do not depart from your positive death-bed
consecration, until you are endued
with power from. on high. It is the
will of the Father that you receive the
Holy Spirit to possess your being—
the consecrated temple— and make your
life from this moment a, reproduction
of the life of Jesus. He is not here now
as he was during his earthly ministry,
but the Father has designed that the
Holy Spirit should dwell in the hearts
of consecrated men and women who
shall go forth into the world and be
witnesses unto Jesus— representatives
that will live the Christ- lite in this
world, so that men may plainly see his
character and fruits in us. V hen Jesus
ascended to the throne he by no means
intended that his people should be left
comfortless, or deprived of his presence,
I at rather he said, " It is expedient for
VoU. that I go away."
The " Comforter, which is the Holy
Ghost," is the divine executive of Jesus.
Be was the power and life in Jesus when
here in his redemption work, and when
Jesus ascended to his throne in heaven
the Holy Ghost descended to earth to
... carry on this glorious redemption work
to the end of the world. But he must
have human instrumentality through
which to work. NV here he can find a
- truly consecrated tem' le there he makes
his abode, and takes full control of the
entire being, and performs the perfect
will of God through this instrumentality.
This is why the apostles were so much
more useful after Pentecost than before.
They were now fully possessed by the
Holy Ghost, and in the name of Jesus
through faith in his name were enabled
to shake the world. Jesus has left his
name here on earth, through - which the
Holy Spirit now effects this great re-ch-
mption. Ile can not do this by him-self.
He can not " reprove the world
of sin, of righteousness, and of judg-ment,"
only as he can find consecrated
hearts on earth in which to abide. The
Spirit- filled lives of the people are the
only factors that can be used in the
hand of God to produce apostolic results
in these perilous days in which we live.'
This final reformation has unquestion-ably
been begun by the power of the
Holy Spirit, and will never be completed
by any other po veer. It is a spiritual
work, and only as the glorious doctrine
of sanctification is taught, the experi-ence
obtained and retained, will the
church reach the apostolic plane. ,
Be. Not Conformed to This World.
BY JOHN C. BLNEY.
THIS world is composed of sinners,
and their desires and customs are
described as " the lust of the flesh, the
lust of the eyes, and the pride of life,"
and if any man love these things the love
of the Father is not in him. 1 Jno. 2:
15, 16 The gratification of pride, cov-etousness,
and inbred, perverted human
appetites and desires, is a prominent fea-ture
noticeable in the life of the natural
man. This is the result of spiritual
blindness through sin. Christians are
not of this world. even as Christ is net
of this world. Jno. 17: 16. The Word
teaches us not to be conformed to this
reel Ye
come ' mt 1: 11, ta,: ; i: tifrin - nide setkoedf tphe eoepl i en al 111 v1 jol!:
ment and Oiri_ ka Me thee: therefore put
off the orneeients from thee, that I may
know wIeitik '- ‘# ello unto thee. And the
children, or Israel stripped themselves of
their -‘ nhitr. i iie by the mount Horeb."
Here again we behold
how God- abhors jewelry and ornamental
dress. " Moreover the Lord saith, Be-cause
the daughters of Zion are haughty,
and walk with stretched- forth necks and
wanton eyes, walking and mincing as
they go, and ' making a tinkling with
their feet: therefore the Lord will smite
with a scab the crown of the head of the
daughters of Zion, and the Lord will dis-cover
their secret parts. In that day the
Lord will take away the bravery of their
tinkling: ornaments about their feet, and
their cauls, and their round tires like the
moon. the chains, and the bracelets, and
the mufflers. and the bonnets, and the
ornaments of the legs, and the head-bands,
and the tablets,- and the earrings,
the rings, and nose jewels, the change-able
suits of apparel, and the mantles,
and the wimples, and the crisping pins,
the glasses, and the fine linen, and the
} hoods, and the veils." — Isa. 3: 16- 23.
At the time this scriptuee was first
given God nad appointed a day in which
he was going to strip his people of their
ornaments. He further states that in
that day " he that is left in Zion, and he
that remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be
called holy:" and this is the result of a
cleansing fountain for his people. Isa.
4: 1- 4; Zech. 13: 1. This certainly has
reference to this present dispensation, in
the which, " if we walk in the light, as
he is in the light, we have fellowship
one with another, and the blood of Jesus
Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin."
— 1 Jno. 1: 7. We can not read these
passages of God's word without feeling
that he abhors the pride of heart which
prompts people to rob hint of what
means belong to him, in order to deck
their persons with ornaments and costly
array to catch the lustful eyes of the
worldy- minded, and gratify the pride of
life in the hearts of the enemies of the
cross. No true saint loves vanities, and
every professor who dresses in a worldly
manner does not do so to please saints,
neither does he do it to please God, but
to please some one whose heart is not
pure— either himself or some other per-son.
Let us who profess to be cleansed
from sin, show it outwardly in our man-ner
of dress. Jesus has given us to un-
• erstand if we are clean inside, the oat-side
will be clean also. The Holy Spirit
always leads God's people to dress in a
plain, modest manner, and the Word
says, " As many as are led by the Spirit
of God, they are ' the sons of God."—
Rom. 8: 14.
OTHER FORMS OF WORLDLY CONFORMITY. -
Many saints in. these last days have
not yet, apparently, learned the value
of a strict adherence to the law of Christ
concerning separation from. the world,
in many ways. Accordingly, we see them
go to celabrations, Babylon picnics, anti
their services, etc., after God has plainly
shown them her downfall and called
them . out of her Of course we do not
mean to say that all professors who do
these things are saved: most of them
are not; but I feel like warning all men
to remember that God says by the
mouth of Paul that we should have no
fellowship with the unfruitful works of
darkness, but rather reprove them.
" Come out from among them, and be
ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch
not the unclean thing; and I will
receive you."- 2 Con 6: 17.
Some people think that by not being
radical in making the separation from this
sinful and adulterous generation they
can have a greater influence to lead them
into the truth; but here again they are
conforming to the wisdom of the world,
which is : ensual and devilish. The way
God teaches us is his wisdom, and while
men call it foolishness, yet, the foolish- I
ness of God is Iviser team men.
the habit of lay
ing up treasure
earth is : mother term of worldly
fortuity which is so plainly forbidden
the law of Christ. Matt. 6: lta
think they are very wise wiz
hoard up means for future use, and,:
the same time they- see many needy
hungry creatures iri n might Ile het
The world of sinners are doing this,
ey until an opportunity occurs by tte w,
to copy after them in this way, thinl
they are wise in withholding their m
of course some of (' tad's people a( aain
they may make a greater show of lo
good. The world's- plan of laying ul*,
store for the future is by hoarding a
their money, but Goilis ,․) ( t- hheiLI-dren
is: " That they
be rich in .1- eooil works, ready to distri
ute, willing to communicate."- 1 Tim
6: 18.
Let us not be conformed to the Iva
of this world, since their ways are no
God's ways, and the worlo passeth away
and the lust thereof, but ho that doeth.
the will of God abidetn forever. . WeA
are pilgrims and foreigners in this world,
and as such let us use this world as not,
abusing it, for the fashion of it passetV
away, but contrariwise, let us he trans-formed
that we May prove what is ac-ceptable
unto God. Amen.
THE COSPEL TRUMPET 	 3
ETERNAL ' LIFE.
Speak the words that will touch the sphl.
I feel there is room for much imp* Ve-meat
on the line of sobriety. ''' Lover of
hospitality," " apt to teach." Our dai-ly
life must be so that the cause willlonot
receive any reproach through the elder.
If a stranger comes to our home, make
him feel that he is welcome, and let our
teaching be such as will be instructive.
Let us by studying the word of God be-come
so acquainted with it that we May
rightly divide it. " Not given to wine."
That is, not acting like one that isounder
the influence of wine. The margin, " or
ready to quarrel, and offer wrong as one
in wine." '` Not greedy of filthy lucre'
— ravenous, covetous; eager to obtain..
" No striker."
Paul says, " If a man desire the office
of a bishop, he desireth a good work."
To desire to be a bishop is one thing. and
to have the qualifications is another.
" One that ruleth well his own house,
haying his chloren in suojection with
all gravity." A ruler is one who rules;
and in this case it says " with all gravi-ty.''
That is, to be serious, have your
house regidated in harmony with the
word of God, and see that the rule is
enforced. For Paul sa ys if a man I
know not how to rule his own house,
how shall lie take care of the church of
God? So let us first commence at home,
and if we prove successful at home, then
it is that God will trust us with the
church of God, anti not until then. The
elder must have " faithful children not ac-cused
of riot or Unruly." Ile must be
an example in everything; and to have
faithful nil: Et- en is very needful, for we
see many children that are unfaithful
anti wed to ha corrected; so if the chil-dren
of the elder were riotous and un-ruly,
how could he correct others, or tell
parents how to govern their children.
A man might be qualified in a good
roan'; things, that is, he might under-stand
much of the word of God, and vet
if he lacked in example, his preaching
would not amount to much; for if he
would undertake to enforce rule and or-der,
lie would fail., " The husbandman
that laboreth must be first partaker of
the fruits." Some say that if all these
conditions have to be met, there will be
fewer preachers. ' While that is true, it
would be better for the cause to have only
those who are qualified for the office
f a bishop, and do not let any one think
that God can not get along without him.
It is just as necessary for us to, be quali-fied
in everything pertaining to the
office of a bishop, as in any one of the
things mentioned. in the word of God.
" Not a novice, lest being lifted up with
pride lie fall into the condemnation of
the devil." There should be great care
in this. lie being just newly converted
to the faith, there is danger of the devil
exalting him, and he fall into condemna-tion;
where, if he had waited awhile,
this might have been avoided. We
should not act or judge by outward ap-pearance,
but judge righteous judgment.
I am led to believe that if this had been
observed strictly in the past, there
would have been less occasion for the
devil in bringing someinto condemnation.
God ordains only such as are qualified
according to his word. So we only
make a mistake if we undertake to do
something that- God has not called us to
do. Those of us that are not qualified
according to the Word, let us humble
ourselves, and be willing to do with our
mi ght what our hands find to do. Sure-lY
we all want to see the cause prosper.
Well then let us get out of his way.
Even if half that are in the ministry
would have to tarry until they can go
forth as God's qualified ministers, - it
would be better for the cause and for
those that are not qualified.
and away they go, not stopping to don-
. sides whether their zeal is according to
knowledge. They lose their eiperienee
and imperil the souls of others.
Dear ones, let us all acquaint ourselves
with the rule, and see if we are where
we can meet every condition laid down
in the Word, then we can exercise the
authority given to such elders. All that
come short of any one of the things
mentioned in the Word, as to the quail,
fications of eiders, are not elders, and
should not be recognized as such. The
sooner we come to this the better it will
be for the cause. Let us humble Our-selves;
obedience to the word of God is
humility.
We will notice by the Word who are
elders in the church of God. Paul r in
writing to Timothy told. him whom to
ordain as elders. So we will quote 1
Tim. 3: 1- 7—" This is a true saying, if
a man desire the office of a bishop, he
desireth a good work. A bishop then
mast be blameless, the husband of one
wife, vigilant, sober, of good behavior,
given to hospitality, apt to teach; not
given to wine, no striker, not greedy of
filth y lucre; but patient, not a brawler,
not covetous, one that' ruleth well his
own house, haying his children in subjec-tion
with all gravity ( for if a man know
not how to rule his own house, how
shall he - take care of the church of God?);
not a novice, lest heing lifted up with
Bride lie fall into the condemnation of
the devil. Moreover he must have a
good septet of them which are without;
lest lie fall into reproach and the snare
of the devil."
Paul also writes to Titns eoncerning
the ordirat ion of elders, which. we
quete. " To Titus. mine own E on after
the common faith: 1.2: race, merc y , and
peave, from Got! the Fat her and the
Lord Jesus Christ our Savior. For this
cause left I thee in Crete, that thou
shouldest set in order the thin “: s that
are wanting, and ordain elders in every
city, as I hail aippteinted thee: if : WY be
blameless, the husband of one wire, hav-ing
faithful children net at us of riot or
v. 	 ir a bishop must lie blattle-less,
as the steward of God; not self-willed,
not soon an: o. y, not given to
wine, no striker, not given to filthy lu-cre;
hut a lever or hospitalit y , a lever
of good mere sober, just, holy. temper-ate;
holdint fast 1110 faithful word as ii
has been taught, that he may be able by
sound doctrine both to exhort and to
cenvinee the gainsayers."— Titus 1: 4- 11.
In the foregoing scriptures we have
two inlq aticos whore Paul wrote concern-ing
they tertlinati in of elders; t me to Tim-tel
ly, and tole to Titus. If I understand
these scriptures, they are in force to-day.
If it ‘ vere needed in the apostles'
time, it surel y needed now. Let us
rehearse them. " A bishop must be
blameless"; that is, he must be clear
before that in every respect— without
blame. — Tito hushand of one wife";
that is, it married, he must not have
more than one wire. 1 t matters not as
to whet her he has been divorced and lias
married a second one while the first one
IS living, or whether living in polygamy;
either disqualifies him for the office of a
bishop. Let no oue think that God. has
called him to the ministry or eldership
with this hint against him or her; for God
will not do that which opposes his word.
So let every one that has gotten into that
condition throupth ignorance in the past,
be satisfied that God has saved you, and
not try to do that which yeti are not
qualified by the ' Word to do.
Next, he must be vigilant— watchful;
circumspect; attentive to discover and
avoid danger, or to provide for safety.
The elder must not become neglectful ur
careless: but with carefulness he mast
provide evervtitini, needful fur the safe-tyeof
the flock. " Sober." 01h1, how
needful it is for God's ministers to be
sober, grave. " But speak thou the
things which * become sound doctrine,"
not that which will cause laughter.
. er shall any man pluck them out of my
hand."— Jno. 10: 28. There are a great
many errors on this as well as- all other
subjects. Among , t he greatest is that
after once having eternal life one can
not be lost, using the foregoing text to
establish their theory; for a theory on-ly
it is. But let us see what eternal life
is; and to do this we will let the in-
Spired torch answer.
eternal, that they might know thee the
only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom
thou. hast sent. "- 1- no. 17: 3. • Therefore
eternal life is to know God. There is ' a
difference between knowing, of God and
knowing. God. The first. is from what
we have heard or believe of God; but to
know - hirti is to have fellowship with
him, or to have his- very Spirit and life
within. "( For the life wits manifested,
and we have seen it, and bear witness,
and slioiv unto you that eternal life,
which' was with the Father, and, vas
manifested unto us); that which we have
seen and heard declare we unto yon,
that ye eh- in may have fellowship with
us: and truly our. fellnwship is with the
Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.''
flow do we get this
fellowship? " But if we - walk in the
light, . as he is in the- light, we have fel-lowship
one \ tali another, and the blood
of Jesus Christ his Son cleansed] us from
all sin."— 1 Jno. 1: 7. Therefore obedi-ence
( walking in the light) to the . whole
Will of Clod brings us into . fellowship
With him, which is to know him, and
which is to have eternal life. Praise
God!
So as long as Ave live in obedience
to hint we have fellow- ship with him,
and know him; and as soon as we
sin we lose fellowship, and can not say
of a truth that we know him. - " Ile that
saith, I know him, and keepeth not his
commandments, is a liar, and the truth
is not in Jno. 2: 4. We no
longer know him if we disobey him,
hence we no longer- have eternal life if
we do not keep his commandments. But
Some will say, " If we are born of God
we can not be unborn." To this we
will agree-- we will acknowledge every
true statement— but while a person can
not be unborn, he. can die, and death
ends the family relationship. He is no
more one in the family after death.
Ilia place in the family circle is vacant
or filled by some one else, and so with
every other place that he has filled
while in life; and the only way for him to
be one again with the family would be for
God to do as he did by Lazarus after he
was dead— call forth from death unto
life. Just so with one born in the fami-ly
of God. He can not be unborn, but
he can die, and when once dead he is no
more one of the family of God. There-fore
being born of God. is a spiritual
birth; hence a spiritual death will separate
from the family of God. This is caused
by committing sin, which produces
death. Adam died, yet he lived. Gem
2: 17. Paul died, yet he lived Rom.
7: 9. Also read. 1 Tim. 5; 6.
More scriptures might be produced to
prove that there is a spiritual death, but
we believe these to be sufficient for any
honest heart. But some may ask, does
not the text say, " No man stall pluck
them out - of niy hand," etc. This is
true no power in earth or hell can
Wrest us from the arm of God. Yet, by
us receiving salvation, God does not de-stroy
our will, and therefore if we will
to leave the things of God, we- can do
so. Again you ask, Does not Jesus say,
" I will never leave thee, nor forsake
thee"? But he also says, " If ye for-sake
him, he will forsake you."- 2
Chron. 15: 2. -" If thou forsake him, he
will east thee off forever."-- 1 Chron.
28: 9.
But -; still I hear some one ! say, God
never grants. a divorcement. To this
we also agree; but death ends all marri-age
relationship." At death the marriage
ties teas= s-. and• either husband or. wife is :•.
r " 	 we have proved
that when a person commits sin he dies
( spiritually), hence his marriage relation-ship
with the Lord has come to an end;
and before that person can remarry he
must be resarrected, or brought back to
life. But still, says another, it is eternal
life; and if I am in possession of it, how
can it become anything else? It will nev-er
change. Eternal life can never be
WISDOM.
BY c. w. CIREY.
tt 	 FIE wisdom that is from above is
first. pure, then peaceable, gentle,
and easy to be entreated, full of mercy,
and good fruits, without partiality, and.
without hypocrisy." There is a- marked
difference between those who are
Christians and those who are not,
the term Christians we mean those who
have God's love abiding within them,
and are prompted by that principle in all.
their motives and purposes. The soul -
that possesses this heavenly wisdom
does not any longer desire the sinful
pleasures which the world seems to en-joy.
- The unwholesome food which the
soul once relished it soon loathes, and
seeks a complete separation; for better
things are given by the divine Giver.
As the Giver is pure in his nature and
character, so must the gift be pure also,
and whosoever receives this gift must and-does
partake of the nature of the Giver.
This heavenly gift is peaceable. The_
soul that was troubled is now settled in-to
a calm, - holy quietude. A peace
which passeth all understanding, and
which the world can neither give nor
take away, holds the reins of the heart,
and all of the faculties are brought into
subservience to our - blessed Redeemer.
Motives and purposes which are not in
harmony with the will of God are cheer-fully
laid aside; for wisdom possesses
the reins of the soul and sits as queen
upon the throne; and if wisdom reigns
in the temple, she must have complete
sway. " Imaginations, and every high
thing that exalteth itself against the
knowledge of God". must be cast down,
and every thought must be brought into
captivity to the obedience of Christ.
Gentleness, which is one of the fruits
of the Spirit, is characteristic of this heav-enly
wisdom; bitterness, hatred, and
malice take their flight, for they now no -
longer find a welcome where they once
held complete- sway, ready for any rude-ness
or retaliation toward those who may
have offered offense. The holy principle
— desiring and working for the highest
good of mankind— is now put into prac-tice.
Under various perplexing circum-stances
the spirit of gentleness is always
manifested, and aids in gaining complete
victory over opposing foes. - Dypocrisy
can not any longer find a biding- place in
the heart; for the abode of that and kin-dred
evils has been . broken up, and that
which is• ptire and good must appear in
its true character. All- that is sinful is
detested and - held at a distance. Erie
mies are no longer slightingly treated,
and affronts and buffets are no longer no-ticed.
The poor are treated with as
much respect and kind consideration as
the rich; for wisdom is without partiality.
- The value of wisdom is above rubies.
" The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal -
it, neither shall it be valued with' pure
gold." " The merchandise . of it is bete.
ter than the merchandise of silver, and
the gain thereof than tine gold. She is'
more precious than rubies: and all the
things thou - enlist desire can not be cores
pared unto her."
By B. le. WEIKEL.
ND I (• ive unto them_ eternal
and they stall never perish, neitk free to -
" And this is life made anything else. For an illustra-tion,
supposel own a farm and have a
clear title to the same. No one can take
it from me, but I can mortgage it with
mortgage after mortgage until it is all
mortgaged. away. That does not change
the property; it still remains a farm,
but it. has passed out of my possession.
It was not taken from me either, but I
gave it away by mortgaging it; or in
other words, I myself signed away my
home. Just so we can do with eternal
life. We can lose fellowship with God
. through sin and disobedience, which is to
lose eternal life; for to know him is life
eternal. Amen.
to Nv hero it reads that Christ was tem
end by the devil forty days; and
overcame and sinned not, I must o
come also. Then I ask him to help naft,.!
Then I rejoice. I am so lull of love tha;
I could suffer the saute death as our KS
Savior suffered. Of course we did not
( yet good all at once. Yon opened the N
door of our hearts and our eyes to 04
light, and as sensible men we could
nothing more than accept the di*,
truth. We read The Gospel Trumpet;.'
and what we read there told us plainly.*
what would become of us if we continuedi
in sin and sect. It showed us that he
were in confusion, and called us out hi
the name of Christ. Thank God, I am
out and accepted as a child of the Lamb, = E;:,:•::
I am sure that The Gospel Trumpet is
leadin g more souls to Christ than any
other paper. You ask my reason for
thinking this. I will tell you. Because
when a man reads- that paper it seems as
if Christ commands: you to obey its teach- J::,:
ings in a loud voice. 	 You want
know, you said, how long we have to
stay here. There will be only two left
Monday, As for myself I have had my
trial and. will stay here the greater part
of the summer. We received the book
all right, and will send any thanks and
will study it this week and tell you:, t;
more about it next time I write. I
close my letter with a prayer asking God -
to give you health and strength, and to
bless the good work. 	 Pray for us,
please, and we will pray for von. God
bless you, is my prayer. Prisoners of
Benton Jail.
THE GOSPEL TgUif4l'P
THE 40SPEL TRUMPET.
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Editorial.
SPECIAL TRACT OFFER.
On the seventh page of this paper is a
special offer of tracts. During the last
three months we have sent about seven
thousand dollars' worth of books and
tracts from the free- literature fund.
These have been sent: to all parts of the
World, and have found their way as silent
messengers of : salvation into the homes
of all classes of people, and have been
the means of awakening thousands from
their spiritual slumber. Prisoners, al-though
behind iron.- bars, have had the
fetters of Satan broken, and been set
free in the liberty of the gospel. Some
time ago we received a letter from a
noted prisoner of rank, from Constanti-nople,
who was rejoicing because of the
Died tidings of salvation received through
the literature from our office, which had
found its way to him in his seclusion in
Palestine, Syria.
Since beginning a more extensive prison
work during the last few months many
in the penitentiaries and jails are rejoic-ing
on account of the same, having been
drawn by the Holy Spirit to know the
ways of the Lord. Many have never
realized that they could encourage and
gladden hearts by always placing a good
tract in the envelope with each letter
written. By pursuing such a course the
gospel would soon reach every home in
the land. During the next sixty days is
the best opportunity you will have to
procure good tracts cheap. Send and
gel a hundred pounds or more and help
push the work. Place them in prisons,
jails, public and private reading- rooms,
and everywhere. Sow beside all waters,
and you shall not lose your reward.
Prison Work.
WHAT PURE LITERATURE DOES.
Dear Readers of The Gospel Trumpet:
We are praising God for salvation to- day.
The Lord is wonderfully blessing us in
the prison work. There have been nine
prisoners converted that we know of,
and they write such nice Christian let-ters.
It fills our hearts with joy and
praise to God to know , that souls are
being saved even behind prison- bars.
We want to thank all the saints for send-ing
us literature. We get a large supply
- all the time, and we hope the Lord will
abundantly reward those who send us
literature. Bless his holy name! he
will reward them. We earnestly ask
the prayers of all God's children in be-half
of this prison work. We have re-ceived
many encouraging letters from
the prisoners, a few of which we give
below. We received $ 1.00 through the
mail to be used for the good of prisoners.
We were so glad to get it, as it is the
means of helping send papers and books
to the prisons. Our postage is what
holds us back. We are poor in this
world's ffoods, but consecrated to do
God's wit. We know God will reward
us for all we do. We have received a
call from Jefferson City Penitentiary for
The Gospel Trumpet and literature, and
also from the Government prison of Mis-souri.
Our earnest prayer is for God to
supply us with literature and postage
that the good work may go on. We are
yours in. the one body,
Laura Pickett and C. E. Cook.
[ Tile prisoners' names were signed to
the following letters; however, we with-hold
the publication of the same.— Ed.]
Warrensburg, Mo., May 20.
Mrs. Laura Pickett: Your kind letter
and papers received and I thank the
Lord and you for your kindness. I de-sire
to live a better life. I have read
your papers and there are no papers that
I have read that seem to show so plain
and simple the way to everlasting life as
The Gospel Trumpet. I will soon be
taken to the state prison and would be
glad to get them all the time, and will
hand them to other prisoners. Hoping
to be remembered in prayer,
O. B. T.
Greenville, Mo., April 27.
Mrs. Laura Pickett: Some time ago
you sent a Bible to the prisoners in jail.
Would you be so kind as to send one to
me? Since you sent the other one, that
prisoner has left, and I found a good
deal of pleasure in reading it. I am a
prisoner and if any one needs one, it is
I, and I have not the means to buy one.
I still get the papers you are sending.
Trusting that you will comply with any
request, I remain Yours truly, L. B.
P. S.- Address in care of Sheriff
Schlater. 	 L. B.
Charleston, Mo., May 18.
Dear Friend: I received your kind
and welcome letter and was very glad
to hear from you. I read and paid close
attention to it, and I think it good ad-vice,
and I will pay good attention to it
and follow it through life. I am alone
in the world now, as I have no brothers
or sisters, and my mother, I expect is
dead. Therefore I have no one to look
after but myself, and I am going to try
to serve the Lord the rest of my days.
I think it good for me to begin while 1
am young, and I think this is the best
chance for me to do it, while I am in a
place where I can control myself. Wish-ing
you good success in life, I remain
Yours truly, 	 H. B. S.
Shelbyville, Ill., May 18.
Dear Mrs. Pickett: We were very
glad to reeeive your papers. They are
very nice and have some very good ad-vice
in, if a person will follow it. If I
nad lived in the way it points out, I
would never have been here. I am go-ing
to take a new start, and walk in a
different path when I get out. There
are three in jail now. We have a very
nice sheriff, and his wife is a splendid
woman. I have been here three months,
and have been a trusty two months of
the time. I will get out in June. Well,
we were very glad to get your papers,
and would thank you very much to get
them regularly. I will close, hoping to
hear from you soon again. I remain
your friend. Yours - respectfully,
C. M. B.
Marshall, Mo., May 23.
Mrs. Laura Pickett: Yours of the 20th
at hand, and I was truly glad to receive
it; also a bunch of papers, which I was
truly glad to receive, and to think that
we had some Christian friends on the
outside of the prison walls that take
some thought of us. And again, we
can have a friend in Jesus, who will all
our troubles bear if we will carry every-thing
to God in prayer. Now I have
promised any God that I will serve him
the rest of my days. My dear sister,
pray for me, and I ask all Christians to
pray for me, and I know that God has
forgiven my sins; for the Bible tells me
so, and also the Spirit. Many thanks to
you and my heavenly Father for that
letter and the papers that you sent.
PMra7 	 isyomu) rr1; 71; errs:
Furs': truly, 	 II. T. B.
Clinton, Mo., May 7.
Mrs. - Pickett: Your letter and papers_
sent to the sheriff of this ( Henry) county
were this day handed to us by him. I
write to thank you on behalf of the
twenty- seven prisoners confined here at
this time. - We are always glad to re-ceive
such things, not so much for the
papers alone, but for the sentiment be-hind
the sending of them. I am sorry
to say that we, none of us perhaps, read
such literature as much as we should. I
have been in jail now for seventeen
months, and it has been my observation
that the average prisoner does not lose
much sleep over his religious beliefs or
future life. The predominating desire
seems to be a desire to get out of jail,
and many of them when they do get out
seem to try how quick they can get back
in. - As to my own part, 1 will be here
for about six months yet, and any books
or papers sent to us will be thankfully
received by me. - I will read them and
try and profit by them. With best
wishes and an earnest desire for the fu-ture
betterment of society and all man-kind,
I am your friend and well wisher.
W. B. R.
Benton, Mo., May 5.
Mrs. Laura Pickett: In answer to
your kind and welcome letter received
May 2 we received ' papers and Testa-ment
and were glad to get them. This
place seemed dark and gloomy to us, but
no more. Bro. C. E. Cook and his help-ers
have opened the doors and the dear
Savior has come in with open arms, giv-ing
us hope and new courage. We have
read The Gospel Trumpet, and the more
we read it the more we see the divine
truth that it teaches. You can not re-alize
the joy and happiness that The
Gospel Trumpet and your kind letter
brought us. It was a message of life in
the world to come, and- peace and con-tentment
in this world. We shall pray
and ask Jesus • to help you win other
hearts as you have won ours for him.
It seems as if God was speaking to me
through Bro. Cook and his helps. Yes,
I Should say that we have been neglect-ed.
The sheriff and wife are Christians
at heart, and they do all they can to
brighten our life. Please pray for us,
and we. will try and live near God. God
- bless you and give you success, is my
prayer, we see the light and will follow.
Every one sends you a good wish, and
God. speed you in the work; we will
write a better letter next tune.
( Signed by prisoners of the Benton
Benton, Mo., May 5.
Mrs. Laura Pickett: We were glad
to get your kind and encouraging letter.
It was full of love and hope. After we
read it we knelt down beside our humble
bed and prayed and asked God to bless
you, and to help you in your work, and
that we might stand firm to our faith.
Oh, if we had more such women and
men like you, what a glorious country
we would have in this land of the free.
Our little band of prisoners are leaving
one by one. There are only three left
to- day. To- Morrow there will be only
two left. They have left us rejoicing in
Christ, and with an undying love and
gratitude for you. They say that you
and Bro. Cook shall live in their memory
and shall never be forgotten while they
live. I know that they are determined
to live in Christ's love and are thankful
to you for pointing his love to them.
We - do read our Bible. It is always in
some one's hand. You asked if we
thought that God had forgiven our sins.
We do. I for one do believe that I could
meet my God in peace now. Of course
we are subject to many temptations, but
when tempted I get your kind letter and
read it- and then get my Bible and turn
DECEP1 ION.
Ir YIANNAU clams.
4 4 LESSED is the man unto whom
the Lord imputeth not iniquity,
and in whose spirit there is no guile [ de-ceit]."
We take a glance back over the,.:..
annals or history, told we see What awful
misery, woe, anti sorrow, deception has
brought on the human race. We think
of our foreparents when first placed in
the garden of Eden, their faces radiant
with purity and frecoom, every thing
they needed was at their command— but,
behold, along comes that old deceiver'
the devil, in the form of a serpent, and
commences an argument with the wo-man;
and as the woman continued to
ten to his arguments she was at last per,:
suaded to take his advice, and eat of the,
forbidden fruit; and her husband who,:
was considered the stronger of the two,.
was also deceived through her influence,'
he, too eating what God had told thema
not to eat. Then when the Lord hade':
walked into the garden, they were':'
ashamed, and hid themselves; and when
he called for them., they tried to deceive ' 1:
him by making excuses about their being:
naked. But we hear God saying, " Who-told
thee thou vast naked? Mist then_.:
eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded!
thee that thou shouldest not eat?" They-began
to make excuses, but God drove°
them from that beautiful garden to eat,
the bread of sorrow.
What a warning this ought to be ter
people to harken diligently unto' the
commandments of the Lord. Yes; they
eat the bread of sorrow as the result of
that one transgression. But they were
not the only ones to suffer for this act of
disobedience; the whole human race af-ter
them must. suffer. AV hat untold mis-ery
has followed in the wake of that
transgression caused by deception. Ad-am
and Eve had two sons, . whom they
called Cain and Abel. Cain rose up and
slew his brother, anti then tried to de-ceive
God about the killing of his brother,
but God told him that the blood of Abel .
cried unto him front the ground; and
then he pronounced a curse upon him.
Oh, there is no use in tr ying to de-ceive
God. That great piercing eye of..
God can look through the thick darkness,
and his ears can hear the caries of the in
Docent that are being slain, when tli* 7.;
murderer thinks himself secure. And*.
then follows that awful remorse of con-science,
haunting by day and by night,
making the individual ashamed to meet
the innocent, and especially the God a-bove
him. He is ready to start at every
sound, fearing his crime has come to light
and the pursuers are after him. Murder-ers
often feel as Cain did, and their pun-ishment
is greater than they can bear.
Many have confessed their crimes, to re-lieve
themselves, and given up to the
officers, who locked them up in the lone-ly
prison cell, there to spend all. their
days on earth, if they did not come to
the gallows. What a world of sorrow
indeed to them! They must also suffer
the consciousness of an awful eternity
which awaits them, if they do not find
some means by which God's wrath may
be appeased and the guilt removed.
To such we would say, God so loved
- the world ( or sinners) that he sent his
only Son to suffer and die on the cross,
and his blood which was spilt will wash
away all your sins and take away all
your guilt, if from the heart you repent
and ask his forgiveness for past Wrongs.
And he will then write your name in the
book of life in heaven; and when he calls
for you, to exchange time for eternity,
you will not be ashamed to stand in his
presence. No, the gates will open to re-ceive
you. Glorious thought! Con-demnation
fell off at the cross, where
the blood of the Son of God was spilt.
Re did no sin, neither was guile ( or de-ceit)
found in his mouth.
Then, dear ones, you need not be
afraid to trust him. Ile will not deceive
you, its did that old enemy who told you
you could do the dastardly deed and not
be found out. If that old deceiver says
you 011.11 not live free from sin in this life,
do not believe him. Take the word of
him, who gave his life for you, and re-member
that he promised that he would
grant unto us that we being delivered out
of the hands of our enemies ( from all
our sins) might serve him without fear,
in holiness, and righteousness all the
days of our life. The old deceiver may
say you can not stand, but God says we
shall serve him without fear. If yam put
whole armor of God, then watch;
Satan will lay snares to catch you, so
watch and pray . Ask God to keep you,
and then trust him to do it. Ho tells
us to ask, and we shall receive. Any-thing
nut worth asking for is not worth
having; and so if you fail to ask him to
keep Yon, you may be caught in Satan's
snares before you are aware of it. The
Lord has said if we keep his word, or
commandments, he also will keep us
very hour of temptation, which
upon all the world to try
them that dwell upon the earth. The
Lord has said he will come quickly.
" Hold that, fast which thou hast, that no
man take thy crown." " Him that over-emnetli
will I make a pillar in the temple
of my God." Do you want to be made
a pillar? Then you must be an over-
. May God help you.
A Literal Translation of Eph. 4: 1- I6.
far above all heavens, in order that he
. might fill all thing. And'this one gave
some apostless, some prophets, some
evangelists, some pastors and teachers,.-
in order to the complete adjustment of
the saints to the work of serving, to the,
building up cf the body of Christ, until
we all attain to the unity of the faith and
of the knowledge of the Son of God,
unto a perfect man, unto the measure of
the stature of the fullness of Christ, in
order that no longer should we be in-fants,
tossed to and fro and carried about
in the dice- box of men, in craftiness by
the method of deceit, but speaking • the
truth in love might increase in him in
all things, who is the head, Christ, from
whom the whole body, fitly joined to
gether and compacted through the aid of
every joint, according to the inworking
in the measure of every single part,
maketh increase of the body to the ed-ification
of itself in love."
Is the World Getting Better?
large cities and there is more crime and
wickedness committed on Saturday
night, than there is during the whole
week of daylight.
It has been truthfully said, I believe,
that " the night- time is the devil's best
harvest- time." If we were only to go
some Saturday night, after business for
the - week has closed, to where the gay
and reckless have their enticing scenes
of attraction, the saloons and dance
halls are running at full blast, music
sending forth its enchanting sounds; we
would be forced to say that " wickedness
and sin abound on every band;" they
are regular mills of destruction grinding
to pieces the health, honor, truth, and
happiness of the young and rising gener-ation.
Surely people can not say that
the world is getting better morally and
spiritually. These perilous places and
pitfalls of humanity are increasing from
year to year and are forced by the
" license law" to make their ' places more
enticing and attractive; they are an
hundredfold more destructive at night
than they are in the daytime, for the
simple reason that they think their " evil
deeds" will not be found out.
" Oh, sinful nation, a people laden
with iniquity, a seed of evil- doers, chil-dren
that are corrupters: they have for-saken
the Lord, they have provoked the
Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are
gone away back ward."— Isa. 1: 4. Dur-ing
the night the majority of respectable
people are at home, and only the " night
watchman" knows of the evil that is
going on; hence the Lord makes inquiry
of him, " Watchman, what of the
night?"
Many young persons, some I am sorry
to say profess to be Christians, will sink
into this whirlpool of destruction nevea to
rise again this side of eternity. If a
young man spends his evenings at such
places, he is pretty sure soon to spend
his days in prison and his soul finally
with the " damned." Will the time
spent at night by the gay young men
and women in the city bear the search-ing
glare of the day's sunlight and God's
holy word? Dear reader, you may an-swer
this question for yourself.
If a record of the deeds done during
the night by the disciples of Satan, and
some professors were published next day
in the daily paper, what would the re-sult
be? Would not a great many sneak
away and hide their faces in shame? We
will venture to say that some would
hardly dare to enter their places of busi-ness
next day; some would hesitate even
to go home; some we are quite sure
would leave the city, home, and friends.
There would be shame and confusion
on every hand, while the courts would
be filled with many criminal cases.
News from the Field.
Winchester, Ky., June 22.
I am glad T had the privilege of meet-ing
with the little church at Winchester,
where I found them enjoying the ' one-ness
and love of God. The Lord willing,
I intend to stay here awhile. Any one
desiring meeting in this state can address
me at Winchester. M. N. Roark.
North Vernon, Ind., May 30.
The last of April Bro. R. B. Bolt
went from Missouri to southern Indiana
and held a meeting at Pond Creek, Incl.
A majority of the brethren were confused
by the anti- cleansing. heresy, but most of
them renounced it, and I hear since that
some more are seeing their mistake.
From there we went to Velpen, Pike
Co., and found most of the professors
standing aloof from the heresy, but four,
cling to it, it seemed. From Velpen we
went to Blackburn, Ind. The brethren
there were in trouble. They claimed
they were in harmony till that heresy
came to them, but other troubles fol-lowed
and the result was division, which
we believe was overcome. And we hope
that the brethren at the different places
will stand against delusion and be dili-gent
in serving the Lord, and be joyful
in his service. We are now holding
meetings in Jennings Co., near North
Vernon. If any in western West Virginia,
eastern Kentucky, or Tennessee want
meetings, address me at Moundsville,:
W. Va. Thos. E. Ellis.
Grant, Iowa, June 10.
For some months I have felt like call-ing
the attention of the ministerial breth-ren
to the gospel work in Iowa, especi-ally
southwestern Iowa. It seems that
this state has been overlooked by most of
the workers, except along the eastern
part. I am acquainted with many, who
I believe would gladly hail the blessed
gospel in all its purity and truth. It
makes my heart sad to see how eagerly
the people will drink down the first few
truths that some new minister ( sect) or
missionary will throw out, as a cloak
for their covering. Then to see the dis-appointment
that follows the discovery
of their real nature and design. I have
heard the cry of the heathen in foreign
countries, but we can not go while our
own neighbors and friends are groping,
starving, and dying in the shadows, and
darkness, and deception of sectism.
1 know of no other saints, besides my
own family, in this county . ( Montgome-ry)
or surrounding ones, that have tasted
of the full pardoning and cleansing
Bower of God. Will not some one come
this way and labor for a few months.
All that God has given us is ready for
his use. I will gladly correspond with
any one that desires to write me.
Be sure God says go, then do not fear
the results. I can testify to the saving
grace of God that gives us victory un-der
all circumstances. Praise God for-ever
and ever! Seth E. Smith.
BY 0. J. BLEWMP.
OREOVER I, the prisoner in the
Lord, beseech you to walk wor-thy
of the calling of which ye are called,
with all humility of mind and meekness,
with long- suffering, bearing with each
other in love, being in earnest about
keeping the unity of. the Spirit in the
bond of peace. One body and one Spirit,
even as ye are called in one hope of your
calling. One Lord, one faith, one im-mersion.
One God and Father of all,
who is above all and through all and in
all. But to every one of us is given
grace according to the measure of the
gift: of Christ. Wherefore he saith:
` Raving ascended on high, he led cap-tivity
captive, and gave gifts to men.'
But that he ascended, what is it unless
that he also descended into the lower
parts of the earth? The one having de-iscended
is the same also who ascended
EY JOHN NOSSAIAN.
T HE question is very many. times
asked, " Is the world getting any
better . from year • to year with the in-crease
of membership to the man- made
organizations called by them churches,
endeavors, unions, and societies of every
order?" The majority of Christian pro-fessors
to- day will answer at once and
say, T.
We will submit a few facts and let
each one decide for himself. " In the
latter times some shall. depart from the
faith, giving heed to seducing spirits,
and doctrines of devils; speaking lies in
hypocrisy; having their conscience- seared
with a hot iron." " Evil men and se-ducers
shall wax worse and worse, de-ceiving
and being deceived." " This
know. also, that in the last days perilous
times shall come. For men shall be
lovers of their own selves, covetous,
boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient
to parents, • unthankful, unholy, without
natural , affection, truce- breakers, false
accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of
those that are good, traitors, heady,
high- minded, lovers of pleasure more
than lovers of God; having a form of
godliness, but denying the power there-of:
from such turn away." " Brethren,
be followers together of me, and mark
them which walk so as ye have us for an
ensample." " For many walk .
that - are the enemies of the cross of
Christ." Thus we see by the foregoing
scriptures that Paul understood that
there. were a great many false professors
in his day claiming to be " walking"
( preaching) for Christ; yet Paul tells us
" that they are the enemies of the cross
of Christ." Paul also tells the brethren
I that " of your own selves shall men arise
speaking perverse things, to draw away
disciples after them." The sarre is true
of the present time. No time in all the
history of the world was there as much
hypocrisy, fraud,- and deception among
the professing people as there is at
present.
The American nation is supposed to be
one of the leading nations in Christian.
reforms, of the globe. The annual
liquor bill in the United States is
$ 1,200,000,000; tobacco bill, $ 600,000,-
000; while the missionary fund for send-ing
the gospel to the heathen is $ 5,000,-
000. W hat do these figures show to a
thinking mind? Some people can pay
the tax on a worthless dog every year
and- can not spare money enough to_ bny
even a cheap Bible, not saying anything
about the keeping- of a dog.
" Many false prophets shall rise and
shall deceive many. And because iniquity
shall abound, the love of many shall.
wax cold." The question once was ask-ed,
" - Watchman, what of the night?"
If we look around us to- day and make a
little - inquiry, we would very often find
that the deeds done in a single night
often destroy a whole life, and- finally
send the soul to hell. Take it in our
Gordon, Nebr., June 12.
We still praise God for salvation that
saves and keeps us. To God be all the
praise. I commenced meeting at the
Norman schoolhouse May 21. The peo-ple
turned. out to hear the truth, and the
schoolhouse was filled nearly every
night. . They were hungry for the bread
of life. It has been two years since they
have had the word of God preached to
them. Four made a start to serve the
Lord, and I believe others will get out
straight for God yet. I was treated very
kindly there. If the Lord wills, I shill
go eighteen miles southeast of Gordon to
hold meeting in. Bro. Green's school-house.
We desire your prayers that we
maybe kept hirmble.
John B. Vervain.
Ulysses, Nebr., June 18.
I am at this point very busy for the
dear Lord. I have held forth the pure
Word in a number of places, mostly for a .
few days at a place. The meeting at
Athelstan, Iowa was a success for God.
The mayor of the city said he had not
heard a gospel sermon in thirty years.
Others made like expressions. To God
be all the praise. Several escaped the
Weaver sect, and while my tent was
pitched at that place the elder ( Weaver)
came and began meeting in opposition to
our meeting. Citizens told me this was
not the first time either. But alas for
Baalam! I went south from there to
llay‘ ille, where the Lord helped us in
presenting his word on prophecy and
other points of importance. Then I
went to Dockery and preached in Bro.
M. L. Harris's yard to a number of pa-tient
listeners, some of whom said,
" Pray for us." Next I went to Mili-ville
for our first time, where we had a
precious feast in Zion. Saints were re-joicing,
weeping, and praising God.
What impression it left on sinners judg-ment
alone will tell. Sunday afternoon
nine souls followed the dear Master into
the flowing river, where a large congre-gation
had gathered to witness the same.
Oh, halleluiah to God! I am expecting
great things of the Lord. Now we have
plenty of room for all who will come.
e need singers very much. This meet-ang
will continue indefinitely. Those
coming in from a distance can tent on
the ground. We have one small tent up
r'atid can erect more when needed. May
' God send in the saints from all round.
, - is the prayer of my heart.
G. S. Backus.
Testimonies
Dewey, Ind. T.
It is . my chief desire to love God and
* Oak- for him. Praise his dear name
forever! He is saving and keeping me
amid sore trials and temptations, and
God shall have all the glory for saving
me from all sin and putting his Spirit in
my heart, that cries, Abbe, Father. I
know my redeemer liveth and ruleth
supreme.
M. C. Miles.
Ferndale, Wash.
I am praising God because he is keep-ing
me from sin. When we came out
from South Haven, Mich. to Washington
we lost three satchels in transportation.
We have never gotten them. It leaves us
poor. But, praise God, he has been
with us all the way. We are in a place
whre the true gospel has never been
preached, but some of the people are read-ing
the books I had. I have no money
to get more. I believe much good could
be done here if the Lord would send a
band of workers to this place. It is four
miles from Ferndale. We are out on a
ranch. There is a large schoolhouse one-half
mile from our place. Pray that the
' Lord may keep us very humble, and also
that he will send workers here.
M. B. Hunt.
Clarksville, Mich.
My testimony is that God keeps me
saved ' each day and free from all sin, and
heals me when sick or afflicted in any
way. Praise his holy name! My heart's
desire is to obey God and do his com-mands
as L find them in his word. I am
learning more of his precious will each
( lay. I am so glad he deemed me wor-thy
to be called, and gave me an under-standing
of his word. Now, dear ones,
remember me often ac the throne of
- grace. I am living in a new place, and
as yet have not found any of God's
saints. How I long to meet some of
them once more, but the Lord is with me
and able to keep me trusting him. The
Lord has healed me of kidney trouble,
headache, quick consumption, child- birth,
and many other times. Just last week
he healed my eyes. Praise God for his
love to his little ones.
Della Bostwick.
Visalia, Cal.
Nearly four years ago God for Christ's
sake forgave my sins and put a new song
in my mouth, even praises unto God.
Oh, bless the dear Lord for his loving-kindness
and render mercy to us! I am
so glad that I ever learned to trust him.
Every` one of my family has turned to
God, and to- day we are rejoicing in
Christ Jesus. Praise his holy name! I
could tell of many, many cases of healing
which God has done for us, but I will tell
of only the latest ones, trusting that
God will get glory out of it. About a
month ago my brother five years old
was stricken with pneumonia. We were
not afraid _ to trust the Lord, and put his
case fully in God's hands. The suffer-ing
was awful. All night long our faith
was tried, but, glory to God! in the
morning glorious victory came. Then
brother sat up in bed and said, " Praise
the Lord! I am healed;" and he asked
us to sing, he himself helping with every
song. The next day the symptoms re-turned,
and we had quite a testing time.
I telephoned to Lodi for the saints at
the camp- meeting to pray, and, all glory
' to Jesus, he was up and around in a few
days. Night before last my other broth-er,
who has all his life been afflicted
with heart- disease, was anointed and
healed. Bless the Lord!. T am so glad
that I have found him a present help in
every time of need. There is nothing too
hard for the Lord. Pray that we may
know and do God's will in all things.
Kate McGinnis.
Buffalo, W. Va.
I praise the dear Lord for saving me
and sanctifying my nature. I gave my.
heart to him when fifteen years of age,
and was gloriously saved, in a Mission-ary
Baptist revival. I joirAed the M. E.
sect. The class got to quarreling with
each other; some went to the Baptists,
some to the Soutnern Methodists, and I
with a number of others joined the
United Brethren sect. I spent about
twenty- two years with them, taking an
active part in their meetings. I thought
I lived as good as my brethren, yet I
was conscious all along that I was not
the kind of Christian the dear Lord de-mands,
so I thought some way would
open up by which I would at last reach
heaven. Those long years of doubting
and hoping and trusting, without suffi-cient
faith, finally came to an, end, when
Bros. Drew and Boyer came here last
January with the true gospel of salva-tion,
preaching freedom from sin, and a
second work of grace. I soon saw where
I was, and went to the altar and received
justification, and then sanctification.
Praise his dear name forever! My heart
leaps forth in joy and gladness for a full
salvation. Glory be to God! About
twenty- eight were sweetly saved, and
most of them have been sanctified. We
are censured on every hand; are called
Mormons, Salvationists, etc. Praise his
name. We . would be glad if any of the
ministers in passing from the South to
the camp- meeting or returning would
stop with us a few days. Write me at
Buffalo, Putnam county, W. Va.
C. C. Withrow.
Braidentown, Fla.
I left my home and friends in Illinois
and came south the last of January to
look at the country and tell the glad tid-ings
of salvation. Some parts of Flor-ida
are very beautiful, especially the
orange groves, the salt water bays, and
the rivers. This spring the enemy tried
very hard to afflict me. Sometimes I
was not able to do anything for pain. I
kept resisting the devil, but still the pain
would come back. I wrote to my hus-band
in Illinois to agree with me that
the Lord would heal me. The night he
received my letter I was healed, praise
the Lord! To God's children of to- day
he says: " If ye abide in me, and my
words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye
will, and it shall be done unto you." —
Jno. 15: 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: 23.
My friends prescribed many different
remedies and told me that I could not
live in the south without taking medi-cine,
but I told them the Lord was my
physician. My little boy had the tooth-ache
very bad Tuesday night, and we
prayed to God to relieve him of the pain
and he lay down and went to sleep and
it has not hurt him since. Praise the
Lord for what he hat done for me since
I accepted the whole truth. I was a
Baptist for twelve years, but did not
know what salvation was. Now God
has saved me from pride and all foolish-ness
of this world. We need the pure
Word preached here. There are no
saints here except myself and son. If
any one feels led to come here, we would
be, glad to have them. We need a
cdhapany with a tabernacle. Pray for
me, and the work here. .
Mrs. Emma Parker.
Roundhead, Ohio.
I am sanctified . and satisfied. I take
the dear Lorad eal4ipay. physician: Five.
, .
years ag. 04liatteptember I was healed of
art afilKtkit the brain caused by. being
badly Wirt viikthe side of my head. The
blood ra* lfrom my ear for three days;
and for, si* ,',, days I could not stand a
moment ltrithOut support. Our daughter
went to4O Wne to gte arnica, to put
on the orotund. Our faith in divine heal-ing
was very weak, not having heard
much preaching on that line; but it was
the Lord's band that enabled me to
amend, so I could work some again.
But my head never ceased to pain. We
chanced to get some Gospel Trumpets.
Before this the doctor gave me some
morphine tablets, and when my head
would begin to pain I would take one of
those. One d. ty after I had been reading
The Gospel Trumpets my head felt
worse, but 1 wanted to read; for the
reading of them was previous to me. I
thought, I would lake one of the tablets,
and just as I put out my hand to reach
the box of medicine, it seemed as if a
voice , said to me, " Way not trust the
Lord?" I quickly withdrew my hand and
said immediately, " I will," and, praise
God forever! • I went to my room and
began to read without any difficulty
whatever. I read most of the afternoon,
and did not - take any more medicine.
Awhile after this I began to get so dizzy
that I could not stand alone. The saints
of God were holding a meeting at Fora-ker,
in this state, and I said to my com-panion,
" 1 want to go to the meeting,
and be anointed for healing, for I be-lieve
it is God's will to heal me." So
we went on Sunday, and obeyed the
Word, and the work was done. 1 felt
the mighty healing virtue go through my
entire being. Praise God! be enabled
me to magnify his precious name with a
loud voice, and some that were there said
they saw as it were fire flash from my
face. Oh, I just give him all the praise.
He has healed me of many sicknesses
since them. I have not taken any med-icine
since that voice said to me, " Why
not trust the Lord?" God does so much
for his children. When we are perse-cuted
he gives us grace to bear it; when
we are tempted, he makes a way for our
escape.
Dear ones, let us use our prayers and
means to help in this blessed evening
light. God sent holy ministers to our
neighborhood to tell us of this wonderful
salvation. How glad we were, and are
yet, to have some of the clear ones come
among us to proclaim the glad ' tidings.
Pray that we may stand true.
Sadie Gossard.
eoing to break out with this dreaded
disease. On the second day of my fever
this faith cant a and I told the people
that I \ vas not going to break out. That
night just before I retired I noticeda:
few blisters coming on my hands mat"'
arms, and it was said that I wou'. d ha
broke out 1w morning. In answer tri.:
this I did not say anything. But ns
going to bed Got! spoke to me and asked
me if it was possible that I sv gs going to
let the devil get the vier ory. 1t that mo-ment
I rebuked the devil and he fled, and
on rising the next morning it was found
that those few blisters had dried up.
Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord!
The people tried hard to get me to take
medicine, but the bed kept me strong
enough to resist the enemy. I was told
that I would ( lie it' I did not take some..
thing. I carried on my work during aut
this time; never lost a day. This was
a wonder to many. I ! nut not beeR,
vaccinated either, and had not, taicen
dose of medicine in two years. Befotel.
could get an assurance ft ton the Lord that
I was not going to break out with the
disease, I had to hecothe willing to break
out from head to foot if it was the will
of the Lord. Then petite the blessing.
Praise the Lord! There was not a sing- le'
person in that (. 10111 11111 tlity that believed
in this precious evening light; therefore
I could not comply with Jas. 5: 14, 15.
I intended, if it had gotten to where my
faith was too weak to stand, to send a
telegram to the' different saints. My
prayer is that some pool,• Soul wilt be
strengthened by this. Amen.
Wm. Barris.
Requests for Prayer.
Pray for the healing of Laura F. Min
shall, North Platte, Nebr.
My son is sick with heart trouble. Pray
for his healing. Alice King, Orville, Ala.
Pray for my little grandson. two years
old, who has lost the use of his legs from •
his hips down. Mrs. Louisa Rtss, Catoesa,
Ind. T.
Pray that, my husband may ho healed
hay fever; anti that, it May he the means of:':
drawing his soul closer to Clod. A sister in
Marion, Ky.
I earnestly request your prayers for thet,
healing of myself of paralysis, also for tittle'.
healing of my wife of several diseases, and;
also for the salvation of myself and entire.`,
family. Washburn Blatehley, . Neeedah, f
Wis.
Calls for Meetings.
Stoneboro, Pa. Wm. Reither.
Brooklyn, N. Y. • VW Atlantic Ave.
Dayton, Ohio. Aaron Straker, 18 Cos..
tall° St.
Ashland, Icy. Good workers with tent
desired. Mrs. Henry Schmuch.
Center Bond, - Morgan Co. Ohio. Tab-ernacle
meetia, desired. Jelin Tennant.
Canton, Ohio. Minister dosirett to work
in Rescue Mission at 72: 3• 1 N. Eighth St..
S. S. Fix.
Mole 11111, W. Va. Ministerial help de-sired
to hold a camp- meeting beginning
Aug. Ili. J. K. P. Whitecotton.
Pleasant Arnold, ' Madisonville, K y. re-quests
that some of the ministers come to
his vicinity and hold meetings.
Raymondville, Mo. We desire that some
minister of God come and preach the pure
gospel. Several desire a camp- meeting
any time after Aug. 15. A. Joslen.
Rice Lake, Wis. We would like very
much if some of God's ministers would
come up this way and hold a few weeks'
meeting the latter part of Tuly. There
are souls to save. You will be welcome
at any time. John Mossman.
Norton, Kans. It is greatly desired that:;
a company of workers come here with
tent and hold meeting- about the middle or t;
last of September. The Word has not been
taught here for over four years. The saints
are very anxious that sonic one come
teach them the truth. Nettie Louk.
s Detour, Chippewa Co., Mich. There":
t isnoimac
n ilhselew. ilviloicaarreesbicoku of slavery in t
disease and they have earnesiltdlydroewqnuell srtiethOti
me to send for some minister of Gok
Tchula, Miss.
Last November I was called to/ teach
school in a district where the people
were having the small- pox. But before
I went I was assured by one of the trus-tees
that the dreaded disease had ceased.
With this direction, of course 1 went and
opened school Nov. 15. In a few clays
T had a full school, a good number of
which were marked with that loathsome
disease. After I had taught about four
weeks one of my scholars took down
with the small- pox. At this the devil
began to try to frighten me, but my
mind and heart could not get away from
the ninety- first Psalm. About the first
of January a boy that stayed at the
place where I boarded broke out with
the same disease. At this point the devil
told me to run and get another place to
stay, but God said, " Be still, I will fight
your battle." in three weeks from this
: time another case broke out in the same
place. At this point I felt impressed to
wr. i te• to the saints at different places to
unite with me in prayer to God concern-ing
the disease. This I obeyed on Satur-day.
On the following Monday I took
with a severe chill at school and had a
high fever for three days, and also a se-.
vere sore throat— so severe as to cause me
to spit up blood. During this time I was
continually talking to the Lord and trying
to get faith enough to thank the Lord
and testily to the people that I was not
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come as soon as possible. They believe that
God will answer the prayer - of faith. Dear
saints, do take this to God in prayer that
he may send some one with a tabernacle that meetings may be held around heres. o
Mrs. Fred Hardy, Box 34.
Meeting Notices.
General Statement.
To make the separate notices brief it is
here stated that the saints at the different
places are accustomed to meet at the trains
those coming from a distance ( if notified to
do so), and so far as practicable to provide
for the comfort of all. Those attending
camp- meetings should proaifie + hemselves
with straw- tick and bedding. Provisions
can always be procured at reasonable rates.
In no. case arc there gate fees or charges for
admission. No one needs to stay away from
a meeting because he is poor. The • person
named at the end of each notice is a proper
one to address for any information regard-ing
that meeting.
Rochester, Ind, June 2S to July 15.
Tabernacle. S. L. Speck & Co.
Bannister, Mich. June 29 to July S.
Tabernacle. Stephen Cook.
Oakohay. Miss. June 30 to July 8.
Oakohay is 20 mi. N. W. of Ellisville. L.
V. Strickland.
Rochester, Iowa. Begins July 1 to last
over the 4th. Tent. Four miles south of
Tipton, near Bro. Staly's farm and Mt.
Zion Church. 11. Behbehn, Box 3.
Cernentville, Ina. July 4.
East Bliss, Mich. July 6- 16. Grove.
This meeting will hi' hold on Bro. Jerome
Keiser's farm. Ministerial help needed.
( let off G. II. and i. R. It. at Levering.
Notify Jerome Keiser, East Bliss, Mich., or
P. E. Isaac, Czutby, Mich.
Muncie, Ind. July 7- 22. Tabernacle.
Elihu Key & Co.
Bessemer, Ala. Jul y 12- 22. 	 Camp.
Robert Wright or A. B. II arney.
Pocahontas, Ark. July 13- 22. 	 Camp.
This NiveliNg will lie 110141 3 mi. 	 W. of
Pocahontas. John M. Wann.
Hammond, 1,4. July 13- 22.
This meeting will he held at the
Home, 12 mi. east of Hammond.
\ Villiarm ctn.
Goldonna, Natchitoches Parish, La:
July 13- 22. Camp. R. T. Kornegay.
Blue River, Washington Co., Ind. July
13- 23. Camp. Dempsey Rickard.
Poindexter, Ky. July 13- 22. Camp.
North Yakima, Wash. July 13- 23.
Camp. At Natchess Bridge, 5 mi. from
N. Yakima. Ministers needed. Geo.
Roakelt, Cowiche or R. R. Ruddell, North
Yakima. •
C
Weatherford, Okla. Beginning July 14.
amp. A. B. Stanberry.
Heckton, Kosciusko Co., Ind. Begin-b
nine- July 14, to continue as long as the
Lord wills. Grove. It will be - held in
S. S. Mailer's grove, 2 mi.- south of Heck-ton.
S. P. Strang. -
Ft. Worth, Tex. July 15- 29. Taber
nacle. S. M. Rich, Eastland, Tex.
Yellville, Ark. Beginning July 15.
Meeting 4 mi. N. W. of Yellville, at
George's Creek. - Wm. A. Gray.
Reily Springs, Tex. Beginning July 15.
There are quite a number of anti- ordi-nance
people there,. and the mints are pray-ing
the Lord to send a minister baptized
with the Holy Ghost. T. J. Harley: •
Ripley, Okla. Beginning July 19. Rip-ley
is on a new railroad running 45 mi.
N. E. front Guthrie, and the meeting will
be held 2% mi. from where the Clayton
meeting was held 3 yr. ago. Those coming
on the Frisco R. R. can stop off at Stroud
and be brought * by private conve yance to
Ripley or they can go on to Guthrie and
come out on the new road. Those coming
from the north can stop at Perry and- dome
by hack or go on to Guthrie. Willis Old-ham,
Ripley or W. M. Wilson, Cushing.
Defiance, Ohio. July 20- 29. 	 Grove.
John Hughes, 1001 Francis St.
Black ville, S. C. July 21- 30. Assembly.
C. C. Holman.
Beach Springs, N. C. Beginning July
21, to continue over two Sundays. Chas.
E. Orr is expected. Other ministerial help
solicited. T. W. White.
North Star, Ohio. July 25 to Aug 12.
Tabernacle. Elihu Key & Co.
mi. N. W. of Pocahontas.
Milton Vandergriff.
Grassy, Ky. July 26 to Aug. 5. Camp.
P. T. Wells, Mize, Ky. or W. H. McClure,
Daysboro, Ky.
Enterprise, La. 	 July 27 to Aug. 5.
Camp. T. N. Watson, Hariisonburg, La.
Collinsville, Miss. Commencing July 27.
Camp. Ministerial help needed. W. R.
Burrel, Bozeman, Miss.
Woolley, Wash. July 27. Camp. Let
whomsoever the Lord may call and qualify,
come to preach the gospel. M. Davison.
Grassy, Mo. Beginning July 28, to con-tinue
as long as the Lord wills. Camp.
Those coming by railroad will stop at
Lutesville. H. W. White or J. R. Rea.
Kentwood, La. July 28 to Aug. 5. As-sembly.
6 mi. N. W. of Kentwood-, near
Hollis Hilbun. S. N. Hilbun.
Burket, Incl. Aug. 1- 12. Camp. S. L.
Speck.
Sturdevant, Ala. Aug. 1- 12. Camp.
Israel Jones or G. G. Sudduth.
Handley, Tex. Aug. 1- 12. 	 Camp.
S. M. 	 Eastland, Tex.
Neosho Falls, Kans. Aug. 2- 12.
Camp. Any one desiring tent will please
send order at once. Sizes run as follows:
7x9; 10x12; 12x14; 14x16. L. Master.
Hartselle, Ala. Beginning Aug. 3, to
continue as long as the Lord wills. Camp.
E. W. Sharp, Somerville, Ala.
Tekonsba, Mich.
B. F. Heath.
Iola, S. C. Aug. 8- 18. Camp. H. S.
Mack.
Poynor, Mo. Beginning Aug. 10. Camp.
A. B. Stanberry, Weatherford, Okla.
Social Point, ( 10 mi. W. of Panola P. 0.)
Panola Co., Texas. Aug. 10 Camp.
Railway station is Keatchie. H. J. Johns,
Deberry, Tex.
Grants Pass, Ore. Aug. 10- 20. P. T.
Everton and Grant Clark, Merlin, Ore.
Ableman, Wis. Aug. 15- 26. Camp.
August Meyer, Ableman, Wis., or Ed Du-
Bois, Rcedsburg, Wis.
St. Louis, Mich. Aug. 16- 26. Camp.
J. R. Walter.
Eugene, Ind: Aug. 16- 26. Camp.
S. A. Sprouls.
Willshire, Ohio. Aug. 16- 26. Taber-nacle.
S. L. Speck & Co.
Brushy Prairie, Ind. Camp. Aug. 16-
26. S. Y. Greenawalt.
Emlenton, Pa. Aug. 16- 27. 	 Camp.
Samuel Martz, Pittsville, Pa.
Keisters, Butler Co., Pa. Date following
the Emlenton meeting. Grove. . Henry
Latshaw.
Potash, Ala. 	 Aug. 16- 26. Camp.
B. B. Adamson or G. W. Lipp.
Pachuta, Miss. Beginning Aug. 16, to
continue about ten days. Assembly. This
meeting * ill be held 1y4. mi. from town.
Ministerial help needed. H. P. Stephen.
Kensington, Kans. Camp. Aug. 17- 26.
Geo. Vielguth.
Plattsburg, Miss. Aug. 17- 26. Camp.
Plattsburg is 20 miles from. MeCool, 30
miles from Kosciusko, the nearest R. R.
stations on C. A. & N. R. R. Geo. W.
Breazeale.
Desdimonia, Eastland Co., Tex. Aug.
18- 26. Camp. S. M. Rich, Eastland, Tex.
Camp, Fulton Co., Ark. Aug. 20.
Camp. A. B. Stanberry.
Jeffersonville, Ky. Au g. 22 to Sept. 2.
Camp. Those coming by train stop at
Mt. Sterling and take mail hack at 2 p.
m. for Jeffersonville. Thos. Carter or J.
E. Watts.
Vichy, Mo. Aug. 21 to Sept. 2. Camp.
T. E. Ellis.
Sanford, Tenn. Aug. 30 to Sept. 8.
Camp. James Miller.
Gaston, Ind. Aug. 30 to Sept. 9. Tab-ernacle.
S. L. Speck & Co.
Near Cherrytree ( Grant P. 0.), Pa.
Aug. 30 to Sept. 9. Ed. Wetzel, Burnside,
Pa. or J. B. Arble, Cushcreek, Indiana
Co., Pa.
Violet Hill, Ark. Beginning Sept. 1.
Camp. A. B. Stanberry, Weatherford,
Okla.
Hinkle, Tenn. Sept. 25. Grove. Sam-uel
Ford, Millville, Tenn.
Ft. Meade, Fla. 	 Oct. 7- 17. A. J.
Poulson.
Camp. Hamil, Randolph Co., Ark. Beginning
Saints' July 25, to continue as long as the Lord
F. M. wills. Camp. This meeting will be held
at the same place it was last year, about 13
Aug. 3- 13. Camp.
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An Experience in Divine Healing.
Divine Healing.
) 3Y : war. STOUT:
HE history of divine healing - began"
in the days of Abraham, When he--
offered up payer unto God fur the heal-
, ing of. Abirnelech and his house, and the
Lord healed them. Gen. 20: 17. In the
promise of God. to Abraham, that his
seed should be in number as the stars of
sheeaa, v en, a• nd the promised land should be
.;: thetrs for an inheritance, in blessing of
fullness of vintage the land of corn and
wine; but without the blessing of
health, their joy could not be full, for
health is greater wealth to us than much
gold. And the Lord heard the prayer of
Abraham. Ile also said to Moses: " If
thou wilt diligently harken to the voice
of the Lord thy God, and wilt do that
which is right in his sight, and wilt give
ear to his commandments, and keep all
his statutes, I will put none of these dis-eaSes
upon thee, which t have brought
upon the Egyptians; for I am the Lord
that healeth. thee. "-- Ex_ 15: 26. " And
I Will take sickness away from the midst
of thee."— Ex. 23: 25. When Miriam
waasmitten with leprosy, Moses cried
Ainfri-:,, 04 Lord, saying, " Beal her now,
tea God,‘ I beseech thee" ( Num. 12: 13),
the Lord healed her; and when the
plague: ca ttle upon Israel for their mur-urings,
and they fell upon their faces,
tart atonement was made, and the Lord
staid the plague, ( Num. 16: 50); and when
lerael was bitten with fiery serpents, and
Moses prayed for the people, the Lord
comm„ anded the serpent of brass to be
raked poll a pole, and it came to pass
that if a- serpent had bitten ant- man,
: SMLA he bc held the serpent of brass he
lived. Num. 21: D. " And the Lord
will take away from thee all sickness."
--- Debt. 7: 15. The little maid of Israel
in S y rian bondage could tell N: inznan,
captain of the king's host, when he was
smitten with leprosy. She expressed a
wi- h that he were up in Samaiia with
the prophet, for he would recover him of
his leprosy. Nan m in believed the re-port,
and journeyed thither, and returned
every whit whole. 2 Kings 5.
W hat joyful news! Them e is a God in
Zion who healetIi all our diseases.
Shall the Hide maids and the missiona-ries
carry the news — our Gott healeth all
diseases— to heathen lands to day, or
shall the quinine and surgeon's knife,
with too often stimulants of ruin, be-among
the equipments of a missionary's
supply? " Awake, thou that sleepest,''
teach the whole truth at home, and prac-tice
it then shall those sent far away
declare that the uncl angeable God is the
world's physician.
Rezekiah was sick, and was told he
must die; and he prayed unto the Lord,
and the Lord lengthened out his life fif-teen
years, and gave him a sign that it
should be so. The shadow went back-ward
ten degrees. 2 Kings 20. And
Asa was diseased in his feet, and he
sought not to the Lord, but to the pht si-chins,
and Asa died. 2 Chron. 16: 1'),
13. David exclaimed: " Bless the Lord,
0 my soul, and forget not all his bene-fits:
who forgiveth all thine iniquities;
who healoth all thy diseases."— Ps. 103:
2, 3. Isaiah is very bold, declaring,
" The eyes of the blind shall be opened,
and the ears of the deaf shall he un-stopped.
Then shall thelame man leap
as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb
sing."— Isa. 35: 5, 6. - Read Matt. 11: 5.
Trumpet. Ellen Ashenfelter.
Potwin, Ale Jane 1.
When diseharged from the army at
the close of the civil war, I returned
Hattie the worse physically for having
bei: in a soldier: My life has been one' of
excessive hard labor, both physically and
mentally, so much so that in 1890 in
spite of all that medicine and doctors
could do I felt that my work was donee.
and all that Was left for roe was to die
and be buried; but it is natural to cling
to life, so I disposed of my hard earn-ings
at ruinous prices, and went to New
Mexico, hoping that a change would
help me. At the end of two years I
moved back to Colorado no better, but
growing worse all the time. I knew I
must die, my family knew its my doc-tors
knew it; everybody knew it. So I
hurriedly packed my grip, and wife and
I started back to my old home in Ohio,
that I might be buried beside my people;
and that I might see my mother once more.
When I reached home I found what
was called a holiness craze among some
of the people, and divine healing was
much talked of. I carefully took in the
situation. I saw much inconsistency a-mong
some who professed the most, but
saw nobody healed. The result was I
became disgusted. Among others a lady
evangelist, Miss Buckman, came into the
neignborhood to rest a spell. She too
talked divine healing, and said that - the
Lord had healed her. One day I was
sitting in the room at mother's, and
through the whitlow I saw . Miss Buck-man
approaehing. I thought her talk-would
weary me very much. I felt in-nli-
gnent. As she came in she said the
Lord told her to come and talk to me,
but that he had not told her what to
say. I said, " Fire away." Shestayed
at), Ort t ‘ vo 	 an4I proved to be a
Merv- pleasant. agteeable lady, but never
said one word about healing. When she
turned to leave she chanced to notice
that the top of the bureau was covered
with medicine. She sailed and made
some casual remark about my drugstore.
I said, " I suppose you would have me
throw all this medicine away." She
said No. I said, " Do you - believe in
divine healing with medicine?" She an-swered
No. I asked, " Well then what
do you believe?" She said, " I believe
that it you would throw your medicine
away, you would die; but if the time
ever comes that you have faith to be
healed, you would not need any one to
tell you to throw your medicine away,"
and she turned and left me astounded.
She did not do at all what I had ei-pected.
I did not know what to think.
I took down the Bible, I turned to every
place referring to healing. I studied it
carefully, and God soon gave me to see
there was nothing wild or fanciful about
it, but that there was something very
practical, yet I was not healed.
In September, 1S94 wife and I went to
the Rand community ( in Colorado),- and
began a series of meetingS. It was a
new thing; curiosity brought the people
out. Soon the Spirit of the Lord got
hold of the people; then the devil came,
and threatened to mob me, throw me in-to
the creek, or shot- gun me out of the
country. Men would come for the pur-pose
of breaking up the . meeting, but
would be converted before they got a-way.
,
At many meetings there were no
lookers- on; every one bad an interest.
All this time I was so weak I could
scarcely- stand up to Preach. 1 was
dyspeptic. All I could eat was a little
Graham mush. I had heart trouble and
a most fearful throat affliction. In fact,
it seems that there was not a square inch
of my body sound.
One afternoon. I was feeling worse
than usual. I told my wife I wanted
her to walk out on the side of the moun-lain
with me. We stopped in a little
park, and sat on a fallen tree. I then
told heir what I wanted. I told her
that 1. 1v: tew the Lord could heal; that
I believed it - was his will to heal ine;.
that I was determined to settle the mat-ter
then and there. I knelt, She laid
her hands on my head, and we both
prayed. I there gave the whole busi-ness
over into the hands of the Lord.
I went to the house, and took thirteen
kinds of medicine from my pockets.
I bade them good- by, and have never
taken any since. That evening I ate a
big slipper of bread and butter, pota-toes,
beefsteak, pickles, preserves, etc.,
went to meeting, preached an hour and
a half, had a profitable meeting, went
home, and slept all night. Ever since
that time I have been ready for three
meals a day, and a good night's sleep.
I was so pleased that I wrote up the
account of my healing, and had it pub-lished
in the church paper, supposing
that people would rejoice with me. But
far from it; instead of that I was called
a- knave, fool, ignoramus; was accused
of being weak- minded, etc. Everything
it seemed to me that the devil could con-trive
to deceive me and make me disown
my healing has been resorted to; but
mine was too clear a case for these
things to shake me. l• could sad-, " Get
behind me, Satan." The Lord bad
healed me and I knew it, and all the
imps of hell combined with all the dead
church members on earth could not make
me deny what the Lord had done for me.
My testimony is that healing is for any or
all who will meet the conditions, be they
rich or poor, white or black, wise or oth-erwise.;
and I feel that it is m y business to
publish it to the ends of the earth, regard-less
of what people May say, think, or do.
Yes, I have been ostracized, kicked
out, opposed, and misrepresented. And
by whotn?— Those who stand the highest
in the denominations. My brother,
there is but one thing to : lo. Plant
yourself squarely on the word of God.
Preach the Word, the whole Word, and
nothing but the Word; never once think
of compromise. You may make enemies,
so did Christ. They may arrest and per-secute
you, but they did the same with
the apostles. I. II. Greene.
Walden, we.
The Limitations of Faith.
4641? thou canst believe, all things are
possible to him that believeth."
There is no limitation to the possibili-ties
of real faith, but there may be a limi-tation
to the Possibility of faith, that is
to say there may be things we can believe
for and other things we can not believe
for. A right understanding of the limi-tations
of faith may save us from many
perplexities in praying for others and
understanding the dealings of God in
sometimes failing to answer our most
earnest supplications. We have not the
right to claim for others, irrespective of
their spiritual conditions, all that we
might claim for ourselves when we are
in spiritual touch with God. God does not
authorize us to claim healing for people
over the head of their own unbelief and
in spite of their wrong attitudes and con-ditions.
God is much more anxious to
have them right than to have them well.
So we mast carefully discriminate and
feel our way to the mind of the Lord
and the true ground of believing prayer
in every instance, and remembering that
God deals with each individual upon his
own standpoint and in accordance with
his own faith. So we read that Paul
when he perceived that the cripple at
Lystra had faith to be healed, command-ed
him to step forth and claim his deliv-erance.
Let us be more anxious to get
people right with God and to teach
them to trust for themselves than to help
them out of their troubles by a lever-age
which will not lift them unless they
have within themselves that strtnoe
power of living faith that does not need
to be carried because it has learned to
carry itself— Set.
Filthy COtiversatiod.
BY A. T. nowE.
4413 1. T now ye also put off all th
anger, wrath, malice, blasphe
filthy communication out of your molt
— Col. We are told. in 2 Pet,
that Lot, a just man, was vexed with_:
ififhlthovwecroen. versation of the wicked;
here to- day, ho would, d
less, be more sorely vexed from the me
cause. This awful degrading practietya
which is fastening its poisonous fangs
deep in the nature of our young men, has
few weeks than ever before, and I reel
been brou g ht to my noticew: o.
nrienign the
pmt
like sounding a note Of
young men, in whom I am interestede
that peradventure some of them may he
persuaded to forsake their way ot sin and
come to him who lath said, " Front all
y our filthiness, and from all your idols,
will I cleanse you." This practice of
filthy talking is a growing evil, among
our young men especially, and even
among those who put on a nice outside
appearance in every other way. Jesus
has said, " Out ' of the abundance of the
heart, the mouth speaketh." This being
the case, we would judge that the hearts
of these persons correspond to their con.
versation; and it is truly appalling to
consider. Go with 1110, if you please, to
the barber shop, the grocery, the meat
market, the post- taco, or any loafing-place
in the average town, and listen for
fifteen minutes to the filthy stories, and
you will agree with me that we need re-form
on this line. I have of late been
brought in contact with many young mil),
who did not know my business, and I
Was shocked at the indeeency of their
conversation.
Young men who may read this, let me
appeal to your intelligence, to your man-hood,
to your respect for the opposite
sex, to forever stop this God- dishonoring,.
soul- polluting practice, that is fast mak-ing
you a repraach to the that that cre-ated
you. Your mind and soul, your
en tire being, is tined with corruption, f.-
somuch that you see vul: ratit v in ' that
which is not intended as such. Your ;: s>.
Bret thoughts are thought of Ieswdnc s,
and you all ow your i11107t, rit lations to
dwell on lustful thityrs that will tape
your soul deeper and deeper into tbe pit
of depravity, until it will be impossilili
for you to escape. The young ladies a
bout whom you make your remarks at
they pass you, are fast being draggel
down to a level with you, and you ari.
partl y to blame for it. W lay will yog
do this? Doubtless you expect some day
to make some young lady your wife, wig
you wish her to be a pure, virtuous w6=-
man; yet you congregate in public place
es in the evenings, and pass obscene, vul-gar
remarks about them; or take plea- 7
sure in carrying with you, and exhibit:
ing, pictures of lewd women, thus defiV
ing the minds of others around you; or
put in your evening rending trashy lief
erature, such as love stories, dime novs
els, and stories of dissipation and prostis
tution. Awake to you danger; stop
these practices, and stop them at once.
If you are unable to do it of yourselves,
call on God to help you, and you will
find deliverance: God wants you, and
he will make you a new creature, turn
your thoughts in a different channel,
change your desires and inclinations, and
give you a new vocabulary, so that you
will discard many of the words you. now
use, and they will become foreign to you,
Then, and not. until then, will you k,
wake to a full realization ot where yo. 41
have been drifting. It is a burning
shame that we, who boast of our enlight-enment,
should allow ourselves to be car-ried
down into this awful pit of degra da
y to read pure li t- tion. It is just as eas
- erature, to speak pure words, think
pure thoughts, to be pure men and wo-men,
as it is to be vulgar. We leave
these few lines with you, praying God's
Blessing upon them, that they may en a
- 1) 10 you to se von condition, and tart'
from your evil wa y. Amen.
Divine Healing.
Chills and Fever.
This evening . finds me saved and re-joicing
in a Savior that is mighty to
keep. About two months ago the dear
Lord healed me of chills and fever, for
which 1 give him all the glory. When
I pat my case in his hands I promised
him I world testify to it through. the