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his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. 	 24: 31.
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So - will I seek out my sheep, and willdeliver them out of all places where they have
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1867
VOLUME XX. 	
MOUNDSVILLE, WEST VIRGINIA, U. S. A., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1900. 	 NUMBER 48
When Moses had completed_ the work of
buildine- the t ithernaele and had placti the least degree contrary to the pure
ever y thing in its proper order, as Guff word ot Ged, whether it be word or deed;
commandcd him,
it is said that " Moses is but the outgrowth of this evil thing,
finished the work."
So it can be said which was created and planted into the
hearts of Adam and Eve by the devil,
and has become the dominating - char-acteristic
of depraved humanity. Justi-fication
does not cleanse this out of the
heart.. It only takes away the guilt and
trespasses of the sinner, and brings him
into the favor of God, who gave his Son
a " trespass- offering" for the world.
But Jesus gave himself a " sin- offering"
for the church, and when the heart has
yielded up to the death for the destruc-tion
of this depravity it can truly be said
e such an one that we are dead to sin,
for the blood of Jesus in - this sin- offering
will most certainly effect the cleansing.
But a true Bible consecration includes
something more than a yielding up of
the heart for the cleansing out of this
sin principle. In. the type, we see there
fellowship of his sufferings and death,
for all that we have and are, and all
that we expect to be in the future, and
all that we know and ever expect to
know, are now forever and eternally
yielded up to that precious will of God.
It required the will of Jesus to be yielded
up to death to do the will of the- Father
that we might be sanctified, anti it
equally requires our . will to be yielded
up to death and the loss of all things,
that we mi ght be sanctified. It re-quired
his will even to the death to ob-tain
it for us, and it requires our will even
to death to receive it from him. Yes,
dear reader, a real death; so real that it
includes everything. , and it can truly be
said of us as it was said of the Colossian
saints, " Ye are dead, and your life is hid
with Christ in. God."
This death consecration is beautifully
typified in the consecration and sancti-fication
of the priests in the Old Testa-ment
dispensation. In Lev. S we read
that Moses was commanded of the Lord
to take Aaron and his sons with him and
three animals. The blood of one of
these animals was to be shed for the sin-offering;
one for the " burnt offering,"
and. one tor the " consecration" offering.
The blood ill each was shed and applied
separately for a special purpose. Each
finds its anlitype in the precious blood
of Jesus, who offered himself without
spot to God that he might sanctify the
church. The blood of the sin- offering
provides for that part of our nature
which would naturally reach out and
cling to those things which are sinful.
In every justified heart which is not yet
wholly sanctified there exists such a
principle which in itself is depraved and
sinful, and were it to be permitted to re-spond
to the sinful thin gs without, it
would bring the believers into transgres-sion.
This is the" body of sin." or " our
old man," which, according to the law
of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus, must
be destroyed and cleansed out. This ex-isting
sin the heart, it unrestrained, is the
fruitful soil out of which grows every
evil work. We can see its productions
in marry different aspects in the religious
world to- day. Every sect on earth is
a production of this body at sin. Every
aniinitestatioi2 ot carnal division is some
of its evil frnits. 	 Eyver thing that is in
REIROSPECTION.
BY ANNA SHIP7ON.
He was better to me than all my hopes,
He was better than all my fears;
He made a bridge of my broken works,
And a rainbow of my tears.
The billows that guarded my sea- girt path,
Carried my Lord on their crest;
When I dwell on the days of my wilderness march
I can lean on his love for the rest.
Be emptied my hands of their treasured. store,
And his covenant love revealed;
There was not a wound in my aching heart,
But the balm of his breath bath hea: ed.
Oh, tender and true was the chastening sore,
In nisi: ion- I that taught a!• Li tried,
Till the soul that he sought was trusting in him
And nothing on earth beside.
Ile guided by paths that I could not see,
Br way s that I had not known,
The crooked was straight and the rough made plain
As I followed the Lord alone.
I Praise him still for the pleasant palms,
And the water- springs by the way;
Fiir the gl., wing riilars of flame by night,
And the she: t: rhig cloud by day.
Andif to warlat- e he calls me forth
lie bncLIeS m y arin., r on:
Pe greets me with smiles and a word of cheer,
battles his sword ! lath won;
Ile wires my brow as I droop and faint,
blesses my hand to toil;
'. ful is he, as he washes my feet,
Front the Shave of earthly
There is light for me On the trackless wild,
As the wonders of old I trac;!
When the Gild of the whole earth went before
search me a resting- place.
Iles he changed for me? Nay; he changes nut:
Ile will bring me by some new Way
Tim ' ugh lire and and each crafty foe,
As safely as yesterday.
And never a watch on the dreariest halt,
But s.. me pr.. inise of love
I read fr.. in the that my future shall be
Fur better than all my fears.
Like th golden rot c, f wild;: rness bread,
Laid tip with the blossoming rod,
All safe in the ad;, with the law of my Lord,
Is the covenant care of my God.
SANC 11FICATION.
ill .1. 	 IN'.
An'ficl. t.:. XI.
SOME IIELPICI, ' Mot: GUTS OX CONSECRITION.
x. perienee of sanctification is ob-
.. ed upon the conditiens of definite
conSeeratl stn and faith. In every con-secration
the soul reaches a point where
it must either go throu gh to the death,
or else go Lack and lose the grace of God
entirel y . The Holy Spirit will make it
plain what this death implies, and at last
the dyile r soul goes throuh its last
strientle and yields up its last treasure.
` When this point is retched and passed.,
the ii. dv - Spirit tial bear witness that
the demands lit God are now fully met.
cd us and so each of us can personally
testify by the witness of the Spirit bear-ing
witness with our spirit in this abso-lute
and definite consecration, that we
have " finished the work." Every
doubt as to the completion of this con-secration
is banished, and has no room
to exist in our hearts, for we know that
it is complete. We can so sweetly and
willingl y sa y , " Thy will be done," with
a most delightful consciousness that all
the past, present, and future, of all that
pertains to our life, is yielded up to his
lilk, setl will. Nothing on earth is held
half so sweet and precious as this will.
e can realize down deep in our souls
what Jesus meant when he gave himself
to sanctify us and said, " 1 come to do
thy will." 	 W e can. e, nter into the
publish the word of God; and as these
cherished objects thus vanished out of her
sight she could say, " They are the
Lord's, not mine." In one, of her let-ters
she wrote - me these words: " Well,
my dear boy, I truly realized what it
meant years ago to . lay - my dear chil-dren
upon the altar of the Lord; but
now I realize what it means to see them
consumed into smoke."
Dear brother and sister, this is what a
burnt offering means, anti how good our
heavenly Father is to require this sacri-fice
of us! Oh, how many sad heart-aches
it saves us! How many bitter
tears of anguish and sorrow ! I have
stood at the open grave where a poor
grief- stricken mother wrung her hands
and cried out, " Oh, I can pot, I can
not, give up my precious darling. ' Let
me be buried with it— I can not be
parted from it!" I have also stood at
another grave, where the form of a con-.
secreted loved one was sinking out of
human sight. The mother stood gazing
at the object of earth as- it was laid back
elusively. This means that we willingly to dust, then with her eyes turned toward
lay upon the altar our loved ones, no heaven she said, " Dear Lord, thou hest
matter how sacred or precious they may only taken thine own to thyself; my
be— father, mother, brother, sister, bus- heart feels the parting pangs, but I say
willingly, ' Thy will be done."?
Ah, what a contrast! The one mother
knew nothing of this blessed consecra-tion,
the other did. The one had but.
little grace to sustain her in her bereave-ment,
the other had the abounding grace,
for she had already yielded up all her
sacred treasures to the Lord. The one
buried all her comfort and hope in the
grave, the other simply buried a lifeless
term of clay; though sacred and precious
to her heart, yet she had consecrated it
to the Lord, and now in seeing it vanish
out of her sight, she could feel that it
was not her own. The one returned to
her empty home with her heart full of
sarrow, the other returned in the coin-fort
of hint who comforteth us in_ all our
tribulations. She had paid the price of
her all, and now she enjoys the blessing
of Jesus' all— the abiding of his glorious
presence, which comforts her heart and
home, and fills the emptiness with him-self
and his bountiful grace.
Oh, how beautiful and- reasonable to
consecrate everything that our affections
have held sacred and dear to him.. We
all know very well that all these trea-sures
of earth are of no enduring subs
stance. No matter how much they may
be to us, they in due time will- either
vanish out of our sight, or else we will
have to leave them. Row much better,
and how much more satisfactory it is, to
yield them all up to Jesus; to whom. they
rightly belong, and who has only loaned
them to us in the first place. He is
justly entitled to all of our affections,
for what has he not yielded up that Was
due to himself, that he might purchase
this glorious grace for us? _ Tow he
wants the supremacy in our hearts'
affections, so that he can fashion us ac-cording
to himself through and through,
and impart his own nature into our
a ffections, that we may henceforth- love
with his love, those sacred treasures
around which our affections have so en-twined,
and claimed as ours. Before our
consecration We loved ' him, but these
T1
was another animal sacrificed in this con-secration
service. 	 It was the one tor
the " burnt offering. The blood of
this sacrifice corresponds with the sacri-fice
of the blood of Jesus, which also
provides for the cleansing of that part
of our nature that clings to the things
of life which in. themselves are not sin-ful
but are God- given blessings. Our
unsanctified affections must also become
purified from every tiint of depravity.
That this may be accomplished, it . be-comes
necessary that the heart yields up
to the death every cherished object,
even though it be a God- given blessing;
it must be yielded up and laid upon the
altar as a " burnt offering." The affec-tions
can not he purified until the object
of the affections is yielded. 11' e can
not perfectly obey the first and great
commandment, " Thou shalt love the
Lord thy God with all thy heart, and
with all thy soul, and with all thy mind,
and with all thy strength," until every
affection is fully taken off from every
object of earth and placed upon God ex-band,
wife, children, home, property,
reputation, and everything within the
scope of our earthly existence. All
henceforth and forever yielded up to
God, no more to be ours, as really and as
perfectly as though we were breathing
our last upon our deah- tbed, and then in
clue time we were laid into our coffin,
the lid fastened down, and lowered into
the grave, the grave filled up and noth-ing
left but a mound to mark where
our earthly remains lie. Or, to view the
subject from another standpoint, this
yielding up must be as real as though
our loved ones and every cherished
treasure of earth were laid upon the
altar, to be offered up a burnt sacrifice.
In due time the fire will be kindled, and
our cherished objects will one by one be
consumed into smoke and finally all will
disappear, a consumed sacrifice unto the
Lord.
A quarter of a century ago my own
precious mother was brought to this con-secration.
She was shown by the Holy
Spirit that she did not have her children
perfectly yielded up to the Lord. She
was praying for their conversion. At
last she became willing to lay them
upon the altar and she did it thoroughly.
She gave them. to the Lord a living sac-rifice.
In a short time her four oldest
were converted, and in due time the two
others as they grew up were also brought
into the fold of Christ. She rejoiced
and praised God for this and often ex-pressed
herself that her children were not
her own, they were the Lord's, for his
service or sacrifice, just as he should see
proper. At last this consecration was•
brought to the test. The Lord began to
kindle the fire to consume the " burnt
offering." He laid his hand upon one
and took her home to heaven. Then
another, and sent him thousands of miles
away to preach the gospel in. regions
beyond. Then another, and sent him
far distant in another direction to labor
in the gospel vineyard. 	 Then another,
and sent her still another direction to
2 • THE GOSPEL TRUMPET
other objects of our love were between
us and him. They hindered our love
towards him, and equally hindered his
love from perfectly flowing into our
hearts.. We loved him, and realized that
he loved us, but it was not perfect;
there were objects in our way, and there
were objects in his way. These objects
were our sacred treasures. Depravity
had affected our affections so that- we
could not hold these treasures as we
should. But now what a satisfactory
change'. We yielded all these objects
to him, and took him in their stead.
Now he occupies the place. He owns
our treasures, and we own him. But
what of our treasures? ' We have them
all back again, through him. Betore our
consecration, they were between us and
him. Now he is between us and them,
and with him he freely gives us all
things. He can use all of these things
according . to his own good pleasure,
making any disposition of them which
might seem good in his sight, tor they
are his, not ours. If he should place us
over them as his stewards, then we hold
them in trust for him and do with them
just as he orders, and when, one by one,
they consume away on the altar of his
service or if, according to his sovereign
will, he shall remove them out et our
sight, we can say, " Amen, Lord, thy
will be done!"
Now, in the act of a Bible consecra-tion,
the believer may not realize all of
this, and the utmost depth of the cleans-ing
that has been wrought in the heart
and affections, or the difference between
the sin- offering and the burnt offerinee
but it will not he long afterward, until
the knowledge of this cleansing shall
begin to dawn upon us and our soul be-come
more and more enraptured in this
glorious experience of sanctification.
But we see in the type still another ani-mal
to be slain— the consecration offer-ing.
The blood of this animal was ap-plied
to the bodies ot Aaron and his
sons. First it was put upon the tips of
their right ears, the thumbs of their
right hands. and the great toes of their
right feet. Then afterwards it was
sprinkled with the anointing oil upon
Aaron and his garments too and upon
his sons and their garments. This cere-monial
process was the completion of
their sanctification. The blood ot this
consecration offering corresponds with
the blood of Jesus which provi les for
the sanctification of our body. In this
consecration we not only offer up our
hearts and affections to Jesus, but we
also present our body a living sacrifice.
This includes our all, spirit, soul, and
body. Oar ears, hands, and feet, our
entire physical being, is dedicated
henceforth to his service, to labor and
snffer hardships, to be used in sacrifice,
or service, either at the martyr's stake
or on the gospel altar, any way, and
every way, in which he may order it for
his own honor and glory. These eyes
shall see, this tongue shall speak, this
mine shall think, these ears shall hear,
these hands shall labor, these feet shall I
run, this strength and these energies,
this heart shall beat, every faculty,
organ, and appetite shall be used only
tor him, who has so freely given him-self
for us; and thus this body becomes
the temple, and the earthly dwelling-place
ot the Holy Ghost, his own exclu-sive
dedicated property.
While it is not possible that we could
itemize these things in the consecration
of our body, there is a yielding up of our
ail which sweeps the scope and brings
the witness of the Spirit that our con;
secretion is complete, and we have `` fin-ished
the work." We are now upon be-lieving
grounds, and faith can appropri-ate
the power of the all- cleansing blood.
" By faith I venture on his word,
My doubts are o'er, the vict'ry won;
He said the altar sanctifies,
I just believe him and ' tis done."
" City of God."
BY ALVIN J. ELLISoN.
HE church is often represented as
being a city. This is a very proper
signification, as the redeemed ot the Lord,
which comprises the church, are a vast
multitude. This fact will be plainly
revealed to the reader in the several
texts to which we shall reter under this
topic. In Heb. 12: 22, 23 we read:
" But ye are come unto mount Zion, and
unto the city of the living God, the
heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innum-erable
company of angels, to the general
assembly and church of the first- born,
which are written in heaven." Here we
find a number of relative signitications
of the New Testament church; viz.,
" Mount Zion," " heavenly Jerusalem,"
" general assembly," and " city of God."
Isaiah speaks of the church being a faith-ful
city, the city of righteousness. See
lsa. 1: 26.
FOUNDER OF THIS CITY
" By faith Abraham when he was
called to go out into a place which he
should atter receive for an inheritance,
obeyed; and he went out, not knowing
whither he went. By faith he sojourned
in the lent( of promise, as in a strange
country, dwelling in tabernacles with
Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of
the same promise: for he looked for a
city which lath foundations [ S 2e Eph.
- - 22.1 whose builder and maker is
God. "— Heb. 11: 8- 10. S mie expositors
teach that this city spoken ot in these
scriptures is a literal city yet to descend
from heaven. But this is vain supersti-tion
and error. We learn by Heb. 12:
22, 23 that this city is the church; and
in the last quoted text we find it is the
fulfillment of the promise made to Abra-ham,
of the New Testament church.
Thank God for this glorious city!
In Rev. 21: 2 we find that John saw the
holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down
from God out of heaven, prepared as a
bride adorned for her husband. Here
is another text which is used by false
teachers to prove a literal city to yet de-scend
from heaven. But this is absurd
in the extreme. Fur this city is noth-ing
more or less than the NOW Testamsnt
Church as we have already proved; and
in this text we learn that this city which . 1
clown from heaven is a bride. I
ask what kind of bride a literal city
would make? Such a position is but a
base production of the spirit of error.
But let us see it the holy cits, the
church, is a bride; if so, then we have
our position thoroughly proved, and
this false idea fully overthrown. In the
third chapter ot St. John we read where
the Jews were informing John the Bap-tist,
that Jesus was also baptizing and
gaining many followers; and Jehn ans-wered
and said," Ile [ Jesus] that hath the
bride [ church], is the bridegroom." It
is here made clear that the church, the
briue, is the wife of Christ. the bride-groom.
Aldo in Plo y. 19: 7, c we read:
' Let us be glad and rejoice, and give
honor to him: tor the marriage of. the°
Lamb [ Christ] is come, anti his wife [ the
church] bath made herself realty. And
to her was given that she should be
clothed in fine linen, clean and - white:
for the fine linen is the righteousness of.
saints." Now since the wife's adorn-ment
is the righteousness of the saints,
the wife herselt could only be the saints
— the church. ( Not a literal city.)
Therefore the holy city which J olm saw 1
coming down from heaven was unlms-takably
the church of God. Din in what
sense did the church come down twin
heaven? We have in the preceding
chapters proved to you that the Son of
God was the builder of the city or church;
and it is in this sense, it being of heavenly
origin and a spiritual construction, that
How rns CITY IS LIGHTED.
One of the very important features to
lake a beautiful and comfortable literal
ity, is to have it properly lighted. J nst
so it is with this spiritual city; it IMISt
have the proper light also. We read ill
I Rev. 21: 22, 23—" And I saw no temple
therein: for the Lord God Almighty,
and the Lamb are the temple of it. And
the city bath no need of the sun, neither
of the moon, to shine in it: for . the
glory of God did lighten it, and the
Lamh is the light thereof." Oh, hallelu-iah!
This is a most glorious city to
dwell in, which is so beautifully lighted
with the glory of God and the Lamb—
Christ. You will remember that Jesus
on a certain occasion said that he was
" the light of the world." And besides
all this, he puts his light in every citizen
of this city, and makes them to shine
even as himself. He further declares:
" Ye are the light of the world. A
city which is set upon a hill can not be
hid."— Matt. 5: 14. It is therefore
evident that in this glorious city there is
no want ot light. Pra, ise the Lord!
can say the light has never gone out
since I have lived here.
THE WATER 5LITPLY.
The next important feature of this city
which we will notice, is that of the water
supply. Jesus sa ys. " He that believeth
on me shall never thirst." 	 Why? Be-cause
" the water that I shall . rive him
shall be in him a well of water springing
up unto everlasting life." Oh, the joys
that are produced by this well of spi • it-ual
water constantly springing up within
and quenching our weary souls, which
had already been parched by the flames
of sin, while in the service of the evil
one! Again, we read in the heok
Revelation, 22: 1, of a beautiful truth
which will answer the question, \ l` here
is the fountainhead that suppliea this vhst
city with such an aiminhare of water?
And he shored me a pure river
water of life, clear as crystal. pro
out of the throne of G and the Leith."
Here we have found the toaetainl itat t at
this wond. ndhl stream whi. 4 hsvor rime
! dry. Glory to Gal! Then you will
notice that ties water, though in abond-ance,
is of an excellent quality, '• pare,'
and " clear as crystal." 	 ivid in speak-ing
et this river said: " There is a ricer,
Next we will notice the pantity of the
excellent food allowed. ' " And ye shall
eat- in plenty, anti he satisfied, and praise
the name of the Lord your ( 4od, that
bath dealt Nvon. krously with- you : and
my people shalt never be ashanied."-
2: 20. This eeri 111; t: clearly
the holy
Joel syhcooiwwtyss
US that the inha;) itantS
have free fteeOSS to the great storehouse
lot God, and that we may " eat in plenty
and be satisfied." Ohthtltit;, illreelunieatt: t ii! nIev eisr
such nourishing food
ver
grow lean, bat can be " fat and flourish-
, ing; to show that the Lord is upright."
Truly it is wonderful!
eoeue HEALTH.
" Is any sick among yint? let him call
for the eiders of the church; and let tifem
pray over him, anointing him with oil in
tile name at the Lard: and the prayer
ot faith shall save the sick, and the Lord
shall raise him up."— Jas. 5: 14, 15.
" And these signs shall follow them that
believe, . . . they shall lay hands on the
sick, and they shall recover."— Mark
16: 17, 1:;. So you see, dear reader,
that when is this glorious city, we need
no earthly physician in case of sickness.
we serve the blessed Christ " who
forgiveth all thine iniquities; who heal-eth
all thy diseases. "— Ps_ 103: 3. In
Matt. 4: 23 we reatl that he did so when
upon earth in person, and in Heb. 13: 8
we read: " Jesus Christ the same ' ester-da
y, and to- day, and forever." Praise
his name! Therefore in t Itis city he is
our all in all. Amen.
WPM Y.
BY VIANNAH ,7erres.
I it came down troth_ God out of heaven,
and located itself in the mountain of
4ave you learned to really trust God? I God's holiness. See Rev. 21: 9, 10.
THE FOOD SUPPLY.
The most important of cit y features
is the ability to supply its inhabitants
with the proper a : tad quality of
food. Let us ex taint t - I spiri tual city
on this point. 	 First, es to quality: In
Isa. 53: 2 We hear the L , r1 sNalts on
this wise. -' 11arkm dilig? Htly unto
me, and eat that which is good, and let
your soul delight itself in fatness."
Wo SeH that the tOOLl. is of an eaeelleut
quality. The price to ohtain it is,
" harken diligently unto me" saved. God.
Or in other words, the price is, perfect
obedience. Then the promise is that
your soul shall itself is tataees.
" Humility. thou 7ecret va! e,
Unknown totrruii in heart;
Where showers of teessews never tail,
And e girt , s ne'er- & Tart.
Oh, make thy bk. st. aboiie with me,
aneci of the si, y;
If I may ever dwell with thee,
My sou: shail never die."
. lay the dear Lord grant to us all an
ahundanee Of this prvehma grace. Oh,
v preteceia the tlionght, humility
; telling to be the least, trilling to live in
oiseurity all our days if God can be
riled most in such a life, % Yining
take the lowest seat and remain
until the '. Iaster invites us up higher,
willing to ILI ye out' name east out as evil,
Jesus' own words, " Blessed
the streams whereof shall make glad the 	 are ye. 	 you, and
city of God.' Oh, glory to God fer this
wonderful ricse. of lite! I- es, a river of'
pleasure flowing so peacefally through
outhsoul; and its crystal st feanti keeping
us washed, evea " whiter than snow."
Its life- giving principle so animates oar
souls with jhy that our voices cry out in
sweet strains of celestial music, and in
hign praises to Christ our majestic king.
Praise and honor ha to his most excellent
name for ever!
Oh, weary; soul in the thirsty land of
sin, does not this beautiful description
make you feel like takir h possession of
this glorious city of righteousness? It so,
forsake your sins. and you shall have a
welcome. - For in this city the inhabi-tants
are " all righteous."— Ish. 60: 21.
" And they shall call them, The holy
people, The redeemed of the Lord: . .
A city, not forsaken. "— Isa. 62: 12. So
you see that no one can abide in the city
except they are washed in the blood of
the lamb and are - living a holy life each
moment.
Nvhen mon shall revile
persecute you, and shall say all manner
Of evil against you talsely, let' my sake."
How do we ; eel, dear ones, if some one
raises a false report about us: do we
realize it is one of the ell things and
will work out to the glory of God in
sonic way; or do we feel rebellious and
as though we kVittlie. I revenge? All, dear
Ones, have we humility enough. to take
it patiently sand leave the mai ter in God's
hands, who has said, " Vengeance is
mina; I will repay, saith the Lord," and
remember also that he has said he would
reward_ every man aehordinh' as his wors;
also the offender will not h. o unpunished?
Our God is a just God, and the main
thing is to keep in harmony with his will
and give no occasion to the adversary to
speak reproachfully. A;-,;: tin, iE you think
some brother or sister is in too high a
seat, do not worry about them, but let
humility and patience on y our part have
its perfect work, for b y and by the
Master will come alone and if they have
taken a seat too high up, he will call
them down to give place to a more honor-able
or lauuble person. " Yea, all of you
be subject one to another, and be clothed
With humility; for God resisteth the
proud, and fr ivelh .'* rate to the humble.
Heinhle yourselves therefore under the
mighty hand of God, that lie may exalt
you in due time: casting" all Your care up-on
him; tor he careth for yon."- 1 Pet.
5: 5, 6.
Have we humility and love enough,
when. we see a brother or sister in a fault,
to . g. o anti tell them of it? One among
the hardest things for people to hear
patiently is to have their faults pointed
out to them, and it is because of a lack
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of- humility. Those who hare true I or will we choose our ow
humility- want to have their inns isuele
known to them as seen b y others, xellther
by saint or sinner, and they will endeav-or
to profit by the same. One remarked
in meeting he could go to others and
toil them their faults much easier than
he could have some one come to brim and
tell him his faults. 0 dear ones, tine
humility would prefer to have some one
come to us and tell us our faults it we
have any; for by it we could have op-portunity
to improve and become' better.
And nothing but deep love for our fellow
beings should prompt us to go and tell
others their faults. We all should try
to profit by every reproof, whether it
comes from God direct, or it he should-choese
to use some humble agency to
accomplish his desire, though in most
cases it is not so hard to receive it from
Goa direct as when it comes through
some human agency. But the harder
the rod is applied the longer we will re-member.
Then there are other points of humil-ity,
such as asking forgiveness. In some
cases it seems like a very hard duty to
perform. There is a husband or wife
who has done many things to grieve tine
other, and they hate to humble them-selves
to ask that one's forgiveness.
They may try to get saved; try to claim
salvation by faith, and may ask forgive-ness
of strangers, and try to think it is
not necessary to ask forgiveness of wife
or husband, but the other knows he
has been grievously wronged at times
and all the while is waiting To hear them
come with that humble confession, " t ire
or husband," as the case may be, " I
have said things to you, and did things
that were wrong, and I have heartily
repented of it and I want you to forgive
me." And what is the result of humbly
confessing? Answer— peace and con-fidence.
" If thou bring thy gift to
the altar, and there rememberest tnat
thy brother hath aught against thee;
leave there thy gift before the altar,
and go thy way; first no reconciled to
thy brother, and then come and offer
thy gift." " When thy soul the perfect
price hath paid, God will send the holy
fire." Amen.
No use trying to climb up to heaven
any other way— you will onl y labor in
vain. God's word tells the way to
heaven is narrow and the gate is strait,
and Jesus himself opens and shuts it.
See Rev. 3: 7. You may join a so- called
church if you like, where the y are not
required to make wrongs right, ask for-giveness,
nor forsake their sins either,
and have a very pleasant time generally.
As you enter the modern synagogue
dressed in the latest fashion, it does not
matter to the preacher either whether
you kneel in prayer, nor whether you
forsake your sins, so long as he gets his
pay. But God looks down from his
throne and sees the pride and wickedness
of such hearts and will brin g every work
into judgment with every secret thing;
whether it be good or evil. See Eeel.
12: 14.
Then take the narrow way at once,
flee to the rock Christ Jesus. Humble
yourselves, cry aloud for mercy, heartily
repent of all wrong doings, ask God. for
Christ's sake to forgive you and let you
in at the strait gate. Lay off your
worldly conformity of superfluity of
dress, which God's word forbids. See 1
Tim. 2: 9, and Jas. 1: 21, 22. W hen
we love these things it is evident that we
do not love God as we should, or we
would humble ourselves and obey h
any man love the world, the love of
the Father is not in him. For all that
is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and
the lust of the eyes, and the pride of
life, is not of the Father, but is of the
world. And the world passeth away,
and the lust thereof: hut he that death
the will of God abided). forever."- 1
Jno. 2: 15- 17. Will we harnhle our-selves
and abide with our dear heavenly
Father, his Son, and the angels forever,
him, that lie will command his children,
and his. houselnild after him, and they
shall keep the way of, the Lord, to do
justice and judgment; that the Lord . may
bring upon Abraham that which he hath
spoken of him." Here we see the re-ward
is according to the merit. The
reader, by stud ying the Bible, may find
many more instances where God has
delighted to honor those who honor him.
See 1 Sam, 2: 30.
In this reformation there is everything
to encourage us, if we keep our eyes ever
toward the Lord. Many have had to.
sacrifice much in order to walk in the
light, and may have thought they must
give all and receive little in return; but
sooner or biter they have found God to be
true wherein he says," Verily, I say unto
you, There is no man that bath left
house, or parents, or brethren, or wife,
or children, for the kingdom of God's
sake, who shall not receive manifold
more in this present time, and. in the
world to come life everlasting."— Luke
18: 29, 30. We may have to leave a
good home, but are we not made a
member in the family ot God? We
may have to part with hoarded means,
but when we are on the peaceful plains
of full salvation, we do not in the least
grudge parting with means which . are
often more of a curse than a ofessing.
No man enjoys God's creation more than
the one who is in harmony with God and
all his glorious works. " The Lord will
give grace and glory: no good thing will
he withhold from them that walk up-rightly."—
Ps. 84: 11.
There is one precious blessing granted
to those who walk in the straight Bible
way that no other people enjoy: that is,
confidence. In a certain book much
valued by- Christians, which aims to
teach the secret of a happy life in Christ,
much space is devoted to an attempt to
inspire confidence. Converts are urged
to believe the promises of God, and many
helps are pointed out to this end. But
it is true that no manner of means can
- take the place of obedience to God, to
secure confidence hi the Word of God.
" In the fear of the Lord is strong con-fide-
nce."— Frov. 14: 26. The one who
rejects the teaching of divine healing or
sanctification when taught with the
pOwei of the Holy Spirit,. will soon find
his confidence in other parts of God's
word diminished and if he does not walk
in the light, he will soon go into dark-ness
and be without God and without
hope in the world. So much false light
is in. the world, that when one humbly
witnesses to obeying God, formal church
goers are apt to say be is going about to
establish his own righteousness. Never-theless,
when God tells us to do some-thing
he wants us to obey; and we will
not get " under the law" in so doing—
unless it be under the perfect law of
liberty. All the philosophizing and set-ting
at naught of God's acrd by false
teachers, is not to be compared with one
statement of divine truth. " If ye know
these things, happy : are ye if ye do
them."
Dear brethren, when we are trusting
and obeying God's word it is well with
us, though the power of darkness and
all this world say otherwise. " Say ye'
to the righteous that it shall be well with
them." And to you, dear reader, if yOou
believe that obedience to God is a hard
matter, let me assure yonthat it is not
so. " His commandments are not griev-ous."-
1 Jno. 5: 3. You may be consol-ing
' yourself- with the self- assurance that
you are trusting in the merits ot Christ;
but if you are not willing to. obey Christ
in his word, you are building on a sandy
foundation. " Hereby we do know that
we know him, if we keep his command-ments.
He that saith, I know him, and
keepeth not his commandments, is a liar,
and. the truth is not in him." -,- 1 Jno.
2: 3, 4. This may seem hard, but it is
nevertheless God's loving warning to
awaken you to your condition, to get you
where he can pour out good things upon vehemently, but can not overthrow us.,
your needy heart. " Wines° keepeth his
word, in him verily is the love of God
perfected."— Ver. 5. " Seek the Lord
while he may be found, call upon him
while he is near." " For thus saith the
Lord God, the Holy One of Israel., In
returning and rest shall ye be saved; in
quietness and confidence shall be your
strength."— Isa. 30: 15, Amen.
BY MARY RELDRNBRAND.
447OR we . are saved by hope: but hope
that is seen is not hope: for what
a man seeth, why cloth he yet hope for?"
— Horn. 8: 24. Rope is something in the
human heart, that all possess to some ex-tent;
even the atheist has a hope that
death ends all existence of soul and body.
So many again have a hope that as God is
a God of terry, he will not permit
them to be cast into everlasting punish-ment,
but we read in God's word, " Can
the rush grow up without mire? Can the
flag grow without water? Whilst it is yet
in his greenness, and not cut down, it
withereth before any other herb. So are
the paths of all that forget God; and the
hypocrite's hope shall perish: whose
hope shall be cut off, and whose trust
shall be a spider's web."— Job 8: 11 14.
Just as the herbs need their natural en-vironments
to give them life, the hope of
the soul, must be founded upon the en-vironments
of heaven, that it may not
perish. The poet understood this when
he wrote these words:
" my hope is built on nothing less
Than Jesus' blood and righteousness;
I dare not trust the sweetest frame,
But wholly lean on Jesus' name."
The all- atoning blood of Jesus is the
only hope as an anchor to the soul, both
sure and steadfast. " God commendeth
his love toward us in that, while we were
yet sinners, Christ died for us." Could
he have commended nis love in stronger
terms than this? Man was in sin and re-bellion
against him, yet God so loved the
world, that he gave his only begotten
Son, that whosoever believeth in him
should not perish, but Crave everlasting
life. I hope these scriptures will en-courage
every sinner to turn from his
sins and seek the Savior. If God did
all this that we might be saved, " much
more then, being justified by his blood,
we shall be saved from wrath through
him. For if, when we were sinners, we
were reconciled to God by the death of
his Son, much more, being reconciles,
we shall be saved by his life." Because
he lives we shall live also— live in this
lite free from sin, which gives us a hope
of the life that is to come. Listen to the
inspiration of hope in these words—" For
thou art an holy people unto the Lord
thy God: the Lord thy God bath chosen
thee to be a special people unto himself,
above all people that are upon tale face
of the earth. The Lord did not set his
love upon you, nor choose you, becauSe.\
ye were more in number than any people s
for ye were the fewest of all people."—
Dent. 7: 6, 7. This not only applied to
the Jews as a nation, but to the Israel of
God through all ages. " According as
he hath chosen us in him [ Christ] before
the foundation of the world, that we
should he holy and without blame before '
him in love."— Eph. 1: 4. " But we are
bound to give thanks always to God for
You, brethren beloved of the Lord, be-cause
God hath from the beginning chose
you to salvation through sanctification.
the Spirit and belief of the truth: .
and bath given us everlasting consolation
and good hope through grace."- 2
Thess. 2: 13- 16.
God is a God of mercy, therefore he
has provided salvation for us through our
Lord Jesus Christ, who is our hope
through grace without which we have no
reason for our hope, but have built on a
sandy foundation. God has chosen us
through sanctification of the Spirit and
belief of the truth, that is the sure foun-dation
against which the storms may beat
HOPE.
ways, refuse
to humble ourselves and obey his holy
word and go down to eternal night,
where there shall be weeping and wail-in:
4: and gnashing of teeth? Nothing is
more pleasing to God than to see his
children obey him in all things. Pride
and disolledience have been the real
cause of all failures in the Christian's
journey. It was so in the ancient church,
and is ne o less so in this Christian era.
Before honor is humility. Christ humbled
himself end became obedient to death,
even the death of the cross. Beea_ me
willing to be reckoned among trans-gressors,
and yet God hath " given him
a name which is above every name: that
at the name of Jesus every knee shall
how, . . . and that every tongue. should
confess that Jesus Christ is Lord."
Then, dear ones, let us begin now to
humble ourselves and do ' whatever his
Word requires of us, that he may exalt us
in due finite Search the Scriptures to find
out, Lis will and then do it, for not the
hearers or the law shall be justified, but
the doers o the same. May God help.
Amen.
ft is WA With the Righteous.
BY noels laystimas.
A ye to the righteous, that it shall
e well with him: for they shall
eat the fruit of their doings. - Woe unto
the wicked! it shall be ill with them: for
the reward of his hands shall be given
him."— Isa. 3: 10, 11.
It is plain to be seen that as a man
lives, so is the results of his life. " What-soever
a man soweth, that shall he also
reap. For lie that soweth to his flesh,
shall of the flesh reap corruption; but
he that soweth to the Spirit shall of
the Spirit reap life everlasting."— Gal.
6: 7,8, Seeing therefore that a man must
take out of life what he puts in it, we
have much for which to be thankful in
that Christ has the power and willingness
to- set us perfectly free from sin and
place us in a _ position where our doings
count gloriously on the right sine for
eternity.
In the first verse quoted we see that
God does not make limitations to the
time when it is well with the righteous.
" It shall be well with them," takes in
all times. It is well with the righteous
whether they be in the furnace of afflic-tion,
on the rack of persecutions, in the
testing times of trials, or under the most
favorable worldly circumstances. For
" we know that all things work together
for good to theirs that love God,
to thorn who are the called according to
his purpose."— Rom. 8: 28.
In these days there is an abundance of
teaching among the " popular" evange-lists
and pastors which would appear to
make the way of salvation an exceeding-ly
easy one. They tell their hearers
simply to believe on. the Lord Jesus
Christ and they shall be saved. This is
of course true; but to believe in Christ
means more than accepting a certain
mental proposition. If I truly believe
in Christ, there will be very apparent
effects of the same in my life. I will
make haste to obey his word. " Why
call ye me Lord, Lord, and- do not the
things which 1 say?"— Luke 6: 46. It is
not the object of this article to make the
way of life harder than our Lord says it
is, but to encourage those who are earn-estly
seeking to walk as Christ would
have them walk. We will see as we
proceed that God rewards personal
refits.
The Lord has honored Abraham very
highly, by calling him the " father of
the faithful"; by making his children
numberless as the stars of heaven. It
was the ambition of the Hebrew parents
to leave a family that would honor their
name, and to be desolate or without chil-dren
was considered a great sorrow.
Now why did God single out Abraham
thus? Doubtless for many reasons; but
1 one lies in Gen. 18: 19—" For 1 know
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FROM A PRISONER.
BY JOHN A. VANCE.
ONE time there was a woman brought
TERRITORIAL PRISON OF ARIZONA. 	 to Jesus wno had been accused of
Yuma, Ariz., . Nov. 17. lewdness. " They Say unto him. Master,
Dear Sirs: — Our honorable Superin_ this woman was taken in adulter y , in
tendent gave me your letter accompany- the very act_ Now Moses in the law
ing some books, and tracts, you sent to commanded tilat stunt. should Ise
the prisoners in the Territorial Prison, at stoned: hut what sa gest theu? Tins
Yuma, Arizona, a few days ago. As it they said. tempting him, that they might
happens to be my misfortune to be one have to IICCIISO hill'. But Jesus stooped
of the numoer incarcerated in this place, down, and with his finger wrote on the
I take pleasure in writing you and ground, as though he heard them not.
testifying to my experience what Jesus So Mr n : hey continued asking lihn, he
can do for a man behind tir. prison walls. lifted up himself and said unto them, He
Like many others behind the misen - bars, that is IsiT bout sin amonz you, let him
no doubt, I enjoyed the blessing of being first cast a stone at • her. And again he
brought up in a Christian community, but stooped down, and v.- rote on the ground.
had never been brought to realize the fact And they which heard it, being convicted
that I needed the protection of a loving t by their own conscience [ for they were
Savior, to guide me through this life,
j
allguilty', under condemnation], went
and like the prodigal son 1 thought I out one by one, beginning at the eldest,
could take care of myself. But like so even unto the last: and Jesus was lett
snome."- 1 Con 15: 34. Yes. Paul con-
Sitiereu people who lived in sin as not
a knowissee ot God, and it made
lit], ashamed to see sueli ones with a
DD: Ccssion. And he uttered anether
commandment to the same class, saying,
" Int every one that Itaillt` l h the name of
Christ depart from Tim.
2: 19. Jelin gives us to understand that
those wild cu: 11u it sin have not SCCI1 or
known ( iol, hat says they ' Ire lit the
devil. See 1 .1 no. : 6, S. 	 Again Paul
the peopie to " let not sin
therefore regn iih Your mortal bodies,
. . neither yir, Ie y ee your members as
of t t aright,: ounoss unto sin:
but yiold yeersel yes unto God, as those
that are alive from the dead, and your
memhei- s as instruments of rightettusness
unto I4 d. 6: 12. 1 ;. And in
the next verse lie ins his reasons for com-manding
them thus. Ere says, " For sin
shall not have dominion over von: for .,. ye
are not under the law, ', let under grace.''
— Ver. 14. Some people think after con-version
the inner mon is hely and can not
Editorial.
Heavenly blessings accompany holy
- living.
ing With it Sin.— Some Corn-andments.
According to the 11th chapter of i Corinthians, is
it right for women at the present time to pray with
their heads uncovered?
Paul was here speaking to a people
whose custom was for the women to
wear a covering upon the head, especi-ally
while in prayer. It is still a custom
in those countries for the women to do
likewise. It is a custom of the coun-y,
and not a custom laid down by the
Waerd of God. There were many cas-tomas
of the country which Paul gave
his coneent for people to adhere to, but
they were not to teach them as religious
rites. The apostles in preaching the
freedom of the gospel of Jesus Christ
often overthrew many of the customs of
the Jews and idolators and their rites
and customs from a religious standpoint.
But in speaking of the covering of the
head of the women while praying, he
gave them to understand that it was all
right for them to do so if they desired,
but in the 16th verse he says, " But if
any man seem to be contentious, we
have no such custom, neither in the
churches of God;" that is, if some one
contends that the woman shall have a
covering over her head, and a man shall
not; or one shall have this, and another
that, and begins to contend that this cus-tom
of the country is a religious rite;
then Paul answers it by saying, " We
have no such customs, neither in the
churches of God."
There are some classes of good, honest,
religious people who are very sincere in
their belier that they must always wear
some kind of a covering on their head,
but their belief is not founded on the
gospel of Jesus Christ, and it is only
something to bring them into bondage
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A Christian is one who lives free from
sin. — Ile that is born of God doth not
commit sin."- 1 Jno. 3: 9.
Children of God do not commit sin.
" He that committeth sin is of the devil."
— 1 Jno. 6: 8.
The Lord offers an abundance of grace
for every one.
Without holiness no man shall see the
Lord. lieb. 12: 11.
read it through. By the time 1 read it
through I had become so interested I
would take my Bible to the cell with me
at night and read till the lights were
turned out, ana 1 concluded to read it
through again and take more thine in
reading and try to get a better under-standing
of it. Before I got through the
second time, .1 was convicted by the
Spirit of God. I realized that I was not
only a convict, but a sinner. I accepted
Christ as my Savior, and have been try-ing
to serve hiin ever since.
It has made a new man of me. The
days and nights are now not too long,
and 1 can work as though I were draw-ing
a salary. The Bible is the most
precious book in the world to me, and
the longer I serve Christ the more de-termined
I am to serve him the remain-der
of my life. My prayer is that every
man behind the prison- walls mazy accept
Christ as their Savior, while in prison;
for it they wait till they get out, the
temptations are too great and the chan-ces
are against them. My advice to my
fellow convicts is to read the Bible; if
it is not interesting at first it will be-come
interesting; it will broaden your
minds, it will make better men and
women of you, it will help you to bear
your burdens, and may be the means of
saving your soul.
so I thank you for the books and tracts,
and assure you they will be read and
appreciated by quite a number of the
men here, and trust God will bless you
in your efforts to lead fallen men to the
Savior. ln. O.
live aft er the Flesh ye shall die; but it ye
through the Spirit do mortify the deeds
ot the testy, ye skull live. For as many
opportunity to react. Tue more I read where it sa ys, " Ms comman , huents are i as are led by the Spirit of Cod, they are
the more interesting it became; so I finally not grievous." the sons- of God.''— lioin. 8: 12 - 14.
" Now there is at Jerusalem by the " For to be carnally minded is death; but
sheep dial ket a pool, which is collo! in a to he spiritually minded is lite and peace.
the Hebrew tongue Beansato having live Because the carnal mind is enmity against
porches. In this lay a groat eolith 	 God. fel' it is not subject to the law of
hatt, withered. God, neither indeed can be. 	 So then
they that ate in the flesh can not please
God. But ye are not in the flesh, but
in the Spirit if so be that the Spirit of
- lotl dwell in you. Now if any man
have not the Spirit of Christ In) is none
ot his.".— Rom. siante 	 " And they
And a certain nein was there, which had that are Christ's have crucified the flesh
an infirmity thirty and eight years. with the elections and lusts." ( Gal. 5:
When Jesus saw hint lie, and knew that, 24') and are tree. from condemnation a. s.
he had been now a long time in that long as they walk not after the flesh
case, he saith unto him, Wilt thou be but after the Spirit. See Rom. S: 1.
made whole? The impotent man ans- So it is possible then and required of
Christians to overcome the flesh; yea,.
they are to mortify it, even let it be.
crucified— put to death. " Knowing.
this, that one old man is crucified with
him, that the body of sin might be de-stroyed,
that henceforth we should not
serve sin. "— Rom. 6: 6. " For if ye live
after the flesh, y e shall die: but if ye
through the Spirit co mortitv the deeds
of the body, ye shall lire." " The soul
that sinnet in it shall tile."— Ezek. 18: 20.
The soul is responsible for what the
body does; " for from within, out ot the
heart ot men, proceed evil thoughts,
adulteries, fornieations, murders, thefts,
covetousness, . . . lasciviousness, an evil
eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness. All
these evil things come from within, and
the mare"— Mark 7: 21- 23. In
many hundreds of others that take no alone, and the woman standing in the sin bocan,; e it is born or God; but the
heed to their earlier training, fell into midst. When Jesus had lifted up him- flesh, the old man, eies body with its
bad company, which finally led to the self, and sz?, w none but the woman, members can not cease from sin, because,
cause of my misfortune, that placed mel he said unto her, Woman, where are i the y sa y , it is pr, ine to sin as the sparks
behind the prison- walls. AL first the those thine accusers? hath no man con- fl y upward. But such is not the case
thought of being in prison, and loved demned thee? She said, No man, Lord. with God's people. For the salvation of
ones at home, almost drove me 	 And Jesus said unto her, Neither do. 1 l Jesus Christ a: Teets the mortal man, the
The days were too long, the nights too condemn thee: go, and sin no more." F flesh, the same as the inner man. In
long; 1 could not content myself with — duo. 8: 4- 11. 	 fa t,. the outer man is only an instrument
reading, and could scarcel y work. 1 What does he mean to say— that a t the inner mon uses to carry out his works,
thought I was the most miserable man on woman g uilty of such wickedness can Ile I Svhether the y be good or evil. SO when
earth, and ahnost wished i could die. treed from sin and then live witheut, the inner man is fully redeemed from sin
Finally 1 concluded to try to read the committing any inure sins? Yre;, that is i the whole being is affected and brought
Bible. I had scarcely looked in a Bible what Jeses taught. Ile spike condemna- lion) subjection to the Spirit of holiness,
for nine years, much less read a sintsle tion away and pronounced her clean, land has triumphant: victery over sin. in-chapter.
So I secureda Bible and began and then commanded her to no and sin ' somuch that " we are ( loboa s not to the
the first chapter of Genesis, and would no more. He either made it possible for
read a few chapters at leisure hours. her to live without sin, or else commanded
Would mark the place Where I left off her to do a thing which was impossible.
and commence there when I had another' for her to do. We read in 1 Jim. - 3: 3
at 	 flesh, to live after the flesh. 	 For it ye
went down at a certain
pool, and trouhled the
water: whosoever then first after t
troubling of the water stepped in was
made whole of whatsoever disease he had.
of impotent foal
it. o' for the moving ot the ‘ rater.
For an angel
season into
veered ' Sir, I have no man, when the
water is troubled, to put me into the
pool: but while 1 am coming, another
steppeth down before me. Jesus saith
unto. him, Rise, take up thy bed, and
walk. And immediately the man was
made whole, and_ took up his bed, and
walked. . . . Afterward Jesus findeth
him in the temple, and said unto hint,
Behold, thou art made wuole: sin no
more, lest a worse thing come unto
thee."— Jno. 3: 2- 9, 11. The idea of
Jesus commanding a man to do a thing
that is impossible, and then pronouncing
a greater curse on him than he had just
been delivered from, should he not obey!
No, his great loving heart is touched
with the feeling of our infirmities, and
moved with compassion • toward poor defile
suffering and fallen humanity, hist- nut/ eh this eat;: lone the very sins committed
that hene'er could have conceived the idea were with the members of'. the body
of permitting us to be punished for a thin `. — that is, b y y ielding their members to
we can not help. So we conclude the commit such as murder, adulter y , torni-man
could forever cease from sin, or cation, theft, etc. It sa ys the y come from
Jesus_ would not have commandea him the heart or inner man, the seat ot
As quite a number of subscriptions are to do so, and then threaten him with i air:-. T. tions. " An evil man out of the
being sent us under the ten- cent offer, such wretchedness if he did sin. Ma y evil treasure [ of his heart] bringeth
should you receive The Gospel Trumpet God help the people to see that when forth evil things."— Matt. 12: 35.
you need have no fears about taking it the Lord speaks he always means just ": Now the works of the flesh are manifest,
from the office regularly. There will be what he says, - and says what he means. which are these; Adultery, fornication,
no further charges nor back pay, as it has When Paul was addressin2 some people s uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry,
been paid for by some friend and sent as one time be said , " Awake to righteous- iwitchcraft, hatreo, variance, emulation,
a donation until Jan. 1, at Which time it ness, and sin not; for some have not the wrath, strife, seditious, heresies, envy-will
be stopped. knowledge, of God: I speak this to your ings, murders, drunkenness, reveling,
NO CHARGES.
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and such like: of the which I tell von
before, as I have • lso told you in time
past, that they which do such things shall
not inherit the kingdom of God."-- Gal.
5: 19- 21.
So you see, beloved, that you can not
commit sin and blame the flesh; for they
that do such things shall not inherit the
kingdom of God. " Dearly beloved, I
beseech you, as strangers and pilgrims,
abstain from fleshly lusts, which war
against the soul."- 1 Pet. 2: 11. Then
when lust hath conceived, it bringeth
forth sin : and sin, when it is finished, bring-eth
forth death. "— Jas. 1: 15. " The soul
that sinneth, it shall die."— Ezek. 18:
20. By this he meant clearly that lust
would affect the soul, bringing it into
condemnation. " For it ye live after the
flesh, ye shall aie."— Rom. 8: 13. Paul
says, " I keep under my body and bring
it into subjection; lest . . . when I have
preached to others, I myself should be a
castaway."- 1 Cor. 9: 27. And he com-mands
us to glorify God in our bodies
and in our spirits, which are God's. See
1 Cor. 6: 20. Because our bodies are the
temples of the Holy Ghost, which temples
are holy. See 1 Cor. 3: 16, 17. in
Born. 12: 1, we are commanded to pr&
sent our bodies a living sacrifice holy,
acceptable unto God, which is our rea-sonable
service. So if our bodies are to
be presented holy, I suppose the outer
man is affected by the grace of God the
same as the inner man. And whatever
change takes place must be in this life,
for at , he coming of Christ all will be
judged as they are found. For it is
written, in that day it shall be said, " He
that is unjust, let him be unjust still:
.. he that is holy, let him be holy still.
And, behold, I come quickly; and my re-ward
is with me, to give every man ac-cording
as his work shall be."— Rev.
11, 12.
So let us watch and be ready. Meet
the conditions . of his word, let him make
von holy, and then live right, " and 1
pray God your whole spirit and soul and
body be preserved blameless unto the com-ing
of our Lord Jesus Christ. Faithful
is he that calleth you, who also will do
it."- 1 Thess. 5: 23, 24. Amen.
News from the Field.
Eastland, Texas, Nov. 20.
Truly we do praise God for victory in
our souls over the flesh and the devil.
Since our last report we have preached in
different localities with good results.
The power 01: God has been manifested.
We have baptized six. There is a great
field of labor here and the laborers are
few. Pray God to send more laborers
into these parts. There are more calls
for the gospel here than we pan fill.
Pray much for us and the work here.
- S. M. Rich and Wife.
Gordon, Neb., Nov. 19.
I can report victory this morning in
the name of King Jesus over all sin by
two works of grace. God also has
healed me. Praise his name! I am still
on the battle- field, fighting under the
banner of love ( S. of Sol. 2: 4) and hold-ing
up Christ as a perfect Savior; the
one who saves from all sin. ' Some are
getting saved, others are being healed.
One brother came twenty miles to be
with the saints in meeting. Re was
suffering from a disease that he had,
but we obeyed the Word according to
James 5: 14, and the Lord healed him.
He went home rejoicing, to tell what
great things the Lord bad done for him.
If it is the Lord's will, I will stay in
Nebraska this winter. Pray much for
me. 	 John B. Vervalin.
Sumac, Tenn.
Once more we can report victory in
Jesus' name over all sin and the devil.
Praise God forever! Amen. We had
about ten days' meeting at Sumac. God
did bless his word and send it forth, and
it cut its way. Poor sinners were made
to see their lust condition and also to call
upon God for mercy. Some got saved.
To God be all the praise. The whole
country seemed stirred up for the truth.
We found many warm- hearted friends in
that country. At the close of the meet-ing
there was a Ca. mpbellite there, who
declared that nobody lived without sin.
He confessed he sinned and he told the
people he was a preacher- sinner. Some
of his members fell out with him and de-clared
they were no longer members of
that sect. The people in that country
are seeing the corruption in sectism.
From that place we came to the assembly-meeting
near Wolff, and at the present
we are in the midst of a wonderful feast.
God is blessing his worst and he is settling
his little church here upon that word
more and more. Poor souls are being
delivered from the power of sin and evil
spirits. The glory is increasing and
God's word is having its effect. Breth-ren,
the fields are ripe ' n this country.
Poor souls are starving for the gospel
and calling for help on every side. Oh!
I do pray God to send some workers dnto
these gospel ' fields who will keep true to
God and precious souls. By the help
of the Lord I shall stay on the battle-field
till God says I have fought a faithful
fight and finished my course. Oh
brethren, my soul is leaping for joy.
God is blessing unworthy me so much.
lielp me to praise his holy name. Ad-dress
me at Hoy, Ala.
N. S. Duncan.
Buttercup, Pa. , Nov. 22.
. I am glad to report victory through
Christ over the wicked one. Praise
God ! After the Emlenton camp- meeting,
in company with Brother and ' Sister
Householder, we began meeting at Keis-ters,
Pa. Here we found a number of
dear people whose hearts were open to
the truth, and as the word went forth
in the Spirit it fell in many good hearts
and brought forth fruit to the honor and
glory of God. This was a new place
for the truth, yet God gave us favor
with the people. They treated us with
such kindness that our hearts were made
to rejoice many times.
During our stay of about three weeks
there were about eighteen precious souls
translated out of the kingdom of Satan
into the kingdom of God's clear Son.
To God be all the glory. Next we
pitched our tabernacle near Tunnelville,
Pa. Here we found much preju-dice
in the hearts of the people. Still
our God gave us the victory, and as the
word went forth much prejudice was re-moved
and a few souls made their escape
from sin. After this we spent a week
with the church at Neale, Pa. God has
a precious little flock of about twenty at
this place. Here Satan has been busy
trying to bring in division and confusion
by one who has been busy trying to teach
and lead the flock, but is under a spirit
of error and fanaticism. After this
thing was rebuked and exposed by the
word of God all excepting one took their
stand for the truth, and the spirit of
peace and unity prevailed again. God's
approval was so manifested upon this
work that at the next meeting- nearly all
were made to weep on account of the
presence of God and the sweet spirit of
peace and harmony. May God have
mercy on these dear souls who are in er-ror,
that they may make their escape from
the deceiving power of the enemy. The
Lord permitted me to attend the assembly-meeting
at Moundsville, which was a
glorious victory from beginning to end.
Pray for me.
Henry A. Hoffman.
Poplar Bluff, Mo., Nov. 18.
We feel that God would- have us report
to you concerning the prison work.
God is blessing the work. Praise his
dear name! In June we received two
large boxes of books and tracts from the
Trumpet 011ice and we are glad to say
Eastland, Texas.
We feel it to be to the glory of God to
report through the Trumpet once again.
e are praising God for salvation that
keeps us sweetly saved each day of our
lives. Praise the dear Lord forever!
Beloved, we have been in the gospel w ( irk
this year, and have had some precious
meetings in San Saba County, Texas, also
good meetings in different parts of the
state. _ At some places we met very much
opposition, where we do not see much
results for good at the present time, but
God only knows the good that has been
done. W e are in his hands to do his
precious will at any cost. Praise his
dear name forever! We are in need Of
some consecrated workers in Texas; this
is a large field for gospel workers. It
will take . some who are not afraid to
preach the whole gospel at any cost
and who are willing to work with their
hands it necessity demands it; for if they
stay here very long they will have it to
do, unless God sends them the means.
The cause is suffering in Texas for the
want of a people who have their means
consecrated. My dear brothers and
sisters, it is one thing for people to say
they have salvation, but another thing to
be in possession of it. There are many
people that can sit and hear the gospel
preached in its purity and say amen to
the truth, and call themselves saints, but
when the Lord needs some of their means
they are too poor to help the cause, while
at the same time they claim everything
is on the altar. Now, beloved, those
who have an experience of Bible sancti-fication
have everything on the altar;
for it has to go there before God will
sanctify the soul. So when we see the
saints adding house to house and land
to land and withholding their means
from the Lord, while the cause is suffering
all around them, there is something
wrong somewhere. God has faithful
ones who have consecrated their houses
and all of their time and are willing to
die on the battle- field in the rescue of
perishing souls; and who are having to
Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 21.
I am glad to report victory in the name
of Jesus. The last report was from
Pelzer, S. C., from there I went to
Augusta, Ga., where we had some glor-ious
meetings; then to Aiken, S. C.,
where we found the saints still in the
faith; then to Charleston,. S. C.,
where we had some precious meetings
in the name of Jesus. May God bless
the work in that wicked city. Then
from Charleston to Summerville, S. C.;
had a profitable time and found some
standing alone for Jesus, while some had
forsaken the Lord that bought them.
May God bless the church in that place.
I went back to Charleston, then to St.
Paul, and had scene glorious meetings.
We left the church in good condition;
they were moving out for the Lord.
They were building a meeting- house 40x
25, and the lot paid for, ana only twelve
saints there. They are certainly at
work, so pray for them and the work at
that place. I left there for Augusta;
then to Elberton, Ga., where I met my
wife, and we came to this place for
the assembly- meeting, and have been
here ever since conducting meetings.. The
assembly- meeting began October 19 and
God gave the victory from beginning to
end. Some workers from Macon and
Carrollton, Ga.. attended this meeting.
We had good attendance and the people
seem to be interested about their souls;
several were delivered; twelve baptized
on the Sunday before the meeting closed.
Some have accepted Christ since and have
been buried with him. We have now
opened a mission at No. 8134 Decatur
Street. The rent is $ 15.00 per month.
Pray that God may bless the work here.
There are honest souls in Atlanta. We
held one meeting in Elberton, in a
sect meeting- house. The people seem to
be stirred. May God bless the word
that went forth there. There is a good
place for workers at Elberton. The
harvest truly is ripe, but the laborers
are few, so pray that the Lord will send
laborers into his vineyard. From here
we expect to go to the Augusta as-sembly-
meeting. All are invited to at-tend
that meeting. Come prepared to
take care of yourselves, but if you can
not, do not stay away because you are
poor. Come praying and aspecting good
things of the Lord. Address 301 Taylor
St., Augusta, Ga. Pray for us.
R. J. and M. L. Smith.
If you feel led to send any free litera-ture
send it to 81% Decatur St., Atlanta,
Ga. 	 Oliver Tambro.
Ferndale, Wash.
I am still the Lord's. Praise his name!
We are enjoying better health than
usual, although my foot is severely
afflicted, and as you read this I desire
you to pray for my healing. We
have never received our household goods
which were lost on the way when we
that God enabled us to dispose of nearly
all of them to his glory and the benefit
of the prisoners. Many dear souls be-hind
prison- bars have been led to God
through reading this literature. They
are now enjoying his love in their hearts
and helping us in the work by distribut-ing
among the inmates of the peniten-tiaries
books and papers sent to them for
that purpose. It is truly wonderful to
see with what readiness most of these
dear ones accept the light and move out,
taking Christ as their bavior and Healer.
We send out literature as fast as possi-ble
almost, and then we get calls from
prisons for books and papers. Of the
hooks sent us we have only a very few
copies of " Divine Healing" and " Secret
of Salvation." We have several song-books
and " The Kingdom of * God."
There is not much demand for them in
this work. We are entirely out of the
following books: " The Boy's Compan-ion,"
" Salvation, Present, Perfect, Now
or Never." The books most needed in
this work are: " Secret of Salvation,"
" Divine Healing," " Trace of Healing,"
" Sal vation, Perfect Now or Never," and
The Boy's Companion" and tracts of all
kinds, with plenty of Trumpets. Oh,
how we are praying God to supply us
with plenty of these to carry on this
work. We thank the dear ones who have
been so kind in helping us to bear the
burden of this great" work; but there is
ranch to be done yet; hundreds of prisons
never have been visited with these mes-sengers
of love and we do not feel like
giving up the battle and the victory so
near won. May God impress upon each
one the great need of carrying on this
great work. We beg all who can pray
the prayer of faith to pray with us
that God supply us with all that we
need to keep this work moving on.
Your saved sister in the prison work.
Laura Pickett.
stop the battle and return home to
labor with their hands, to support their
family. May God help the saints to
measure up to the Bible on all lines, is
my prayer.
J. T. Holland.
Bro. W. R. Duncan, Box 89, Topeka,
Kans. is prepared to fill orders from the
states of Kansas, Nebraska, and Missouri,
and Oklahoma Territory._ Orders sent
to him can be filled on short notice, and
considerable expense saved in freight or
express.
Testimonies
Rossmoyne, Pa.
It is five years since my wife and I
were saved. Both of us have been
healed through obeying the Word in - ' aii-ointing
with oil and laying on of hands.
I was healed of typhoid fever about two
weeks ago, when I just rose from my
bed and went about my usual duties.
James K. Wells.
1S72
6 THE GOSPEL TRUMPET
moved out here. Please pray with us
that the way may be opened for a band
of workers to come here and hold some
meetings. M. B. Bunt.
Lynchburg, 8. C.
I am praising God for his wonderful
salvation that keeps us tree from sin; and
for a Savior that we can cast all our cares
upon and let him bear them all fur us.
I am also praising the dear Lord for his
healing power. He has healed me many
times since I began to trust him. He is
our physician and we have no other. I
ask an interest in the prayers of all
God's true children that myself and
family may keep saved and do all we can
for the Lord. M. B. Evans.
McCall Creek, mss.
It has been five years this month since
the dear Lord sanctified my soul and
healed my body, though I had been a
sufferer for many years. He has kept
me through all my trials. It pleased
him to take my husband from this world
the fifth of last June. Be had trusted
the Lord and stood upon his promises.
For over five years Christ has healed all
our afflictions and neither earthly physi-cian
nor medicine has been in our house
during that time. 1 praise his holy
name for all his blessings to us. I want
tb4 prayers of all God's people that 1
may hold out to the end.
L V. McDonald.
Springfield, Ill.
I am praising God for salvation and his
wonderful love to me. " Blessed is every
one that feareth the Lord; that walketh
in his ways." His yoke is easy and his
burden is light. I have found it so
wnile living humbly at his feet. Oh, 1
do praise God for saving me and calling
me out of sectism. My soul doth
magnify the Lord. I can say with the
poet,
" I have found it, Lord. in thee,
An everlasting store
Of comfort, joy. and bliss to me,
How can I wish for more?"
The Lord is my help in every time of
need. Ile has been my healer fora little
overihree years. The way grows brighter
and 5righter. Praise God for the blessed
holy rest. I used to think I could not
live without sin, but praise God! since
he has saved me and has applied the
cleansing blood in a second work of grace,
sanctifying me, 1 can do all things by
his grace. Praise God! Pray that I
ever may be kept pure and walking in all
the light God gives me.
Elizabeth Graham.
Fraley, Ky.
For the glory of God and for the bene-fit
of suffering humanity I wish to testify
to the healing power of God. We are
saved and trusting the Lord for soul and
body. We have witnessed a most wonder-ful
case of healing. Our little girl was
taken with fever September 28, and was
very ill tor three days and nights. The
fever was so high that it did not seem as
if she could live much longer, but we kept
trusting the dear Lord for her deliverance
and on. the second day of October we
wrote to the Trumpet Office for prayers;
and on October 3 the fever left her
and she fell into a deep sleep. The Lord
healed her then and raised her up in a
few day's. All praises be to his holy
name for evermore! We have been
healed many times of many diseases. I
still have catarrh of the head, but have
been greatly benefited and am stronger
now than ever before in my life. Pray
for my complete deliverance from this
inherited disease, and also from inbred
sin. Vary B. Mitchell.
Ky.
I am praising trod this morning for
salvation that saves my soul from all
sin. I find it real easy to serve God;
for in every temptation he makes a way
for our escape. I do praise the dear Lord,
he is so precious to my soul: my way
gets brighter and brighter every day.
me
fied me by a second definite wore which
cleanses my soul from all inherited sin
or depravity. Praise the dear Lord!
How sweet it is to trust him for both
soul and body! It is just natural for us
when we have a sant tilled heart to have
our minds stayed on God; we have the
very peace of God ruling and keeping oer
hearts. Praise the Lord tor his keeping
power! I am a reader of the Trumpet;
would not he without it. 1 ask the
prayers of every saint that I may ever be
humble at the feet of Jesus. read y to do
tue work which God has for me to do.
Praise the dear Lord for the sweet peace
which we receive by living close to him.
Mary C. Obeyer.
Drayton, N. Dak.
Believing it would be to the honor and
glory of God, 1 send m y testimony to
The Gospel Trumpet, declaring What the
Lord has done for my soul. God did in-deed
save me several years ago, but not
being required to measure to his blessect
Word by the denomination to which I
eelonged. I was in a cold or backslidden
state most of the time, yet hungry to
know more of God and his power to save
and keep from sin, so that when any one
came along preaching what seemed a
radical doctrine, 1 readily became a
hearer. In that way I was led out of
the M. E. sect nearly two years ago.
For a time it seemed all went well, but
not having the clear lie- h• en the word
of God error crept in and the doctrine of
the " Fire" being preached with vehem-ence
and force, many were led into doing
and saying fanatical thine- 5, and the
sheep were scattered. But " God is
faithful, he cares for his own." He sent.
his messengers to gather them together.
Praise him! At first I could not believe
this to be the way, being in confusion as
I was, but the Holy Spirit and the Word
said plainly: " This is the way, walk ye
in it." By this time I was convinced 1
must obey and follow on to know the
Lord in his own beautiful way. Later
on I was permitted to attend the camp-
Meeting at Grand Forks, N. D. where
the truth was preached in its purity and
power. I was much blessed in obeying
the Lord in baptism and partaking of the
Lord's Supper. 	 I proved Jesus' words
true in the ordinance of feet - washing.
" It ye know these things, happy are ye
it ye do them." It was indeed a most
delightful service to my soul. Although
many opposers of God's word are scornful
and say Jesus did not mean us to literaley
wash each other's feet, only gave us an
example of humility, yet it takes obedi-ence
to be ti my humble. Jesus said,
a man love me he will keep any
words." Since that meeting the Bible
has been more precious than ever before.
The way so plain, the truth so sweet; al-though
trials or temptations are many,
in Jesus' name we can resist the foe.
To-: ay I praise him for salvation; for
deliverance him confusion- and strife;
for a settled, restful assurance . that I
have found " the way, the truth, and the
light." The work of righteousness is
peace; the effect of righteousness quiet-ness
and assurance. Pray that I may be
faithful, humble, true to God.
Eva Kibbee.
Luray, Kansas.
I am so glad to know that we can have
victory in our souls through Jesus.
Eph. 4: 21. So that he could accuse me
wad tell me I had lost victory. Then
giving wa y to do little tihngs that I
ought not, to do or neglecting little duties
that 1 should do, I would get confused
and so impatient sometimes. But the
dear Savior has delivered me and he
keeps me bath soul and betly, and renews
my strength from time to time. God. is
so patient arid lonse sulariies ; surely his
goodness and merc y have no end; the
farther we launch out in the ocean of his
love and mercy the wider it seems. My
heavanly Father has helped' me through
the Spirit to see precious opportunities of
doing good and his grace is alwa ys suffi-cient
fer u- t, but if I begin to think I am
stron and trust a little in myself, then
I find I am weak; but when I realize my
utter 11- pleesness and weakness then Jesus
makes me strong. 1 find in Jesus that
which satisfies my soul; he gives me
peace that passeth understanding and joy
unspeakable. Ile is my all in all and 1
am happy in him to- night; but I desist,
to sinii deeper in his love. I know it is
sweet to be submissive to his will, just et
let Jesus have full possession, to live and
reign in us and manifest his goodness
through us. My desire is to keep humhlt
and submissive to God s9 that he ear
make me victorious to the end.
May Schurr.
dan Hai 	 oat., Can.
I praise the dear Lord that he lets save: 1
and sanctified me, and I am walking in
all the light that lie lets shine ucon my
pathwa y. Praise his deer name! 1 nse: i
to live an up- and- down life. siattieg arid
repenting, until last tali when the Li es1
allowed an affliction to come uptm me.
In October an abcess began to gather.
and in a menth or so entailer one. I
was anointed and prayed tor, but kept
getting worse; so I beeart searching lil y -
self to see why I had to steles so, and
found that I had been disteettliont to the
Lord. Afany times when led to pray in
meeting I held back. throu g h listening to
the su, rrest ions of the enemy, that I could
not pray as well as others, etc., and thii
7riered the Spirit away. Paul says in
the 1 • t pter of Hebrews t hat " whorl,
the Lord leveth he chasteneth." Oh, I
praise the dear Lord for the chastisement.
for it has been the means of drawing me
closer to God than ever before. 	 It used
to seem so hard forme to live a Christ ie
life; but, since I have made a full sur-render
to God and put all on the altar,
Christ Jesus, and ant willing to obey the
Lord in all things, it is a delieht to serve
him. St. John says, " it the Son there-fore
shall make you tree, ye shall be
tree indeed." — Jno. 8: 36. I praise
God that the Son has made me free, and
I am determined to go tit; on, 11 for God
at any cost, trust aim for all things, and
do all 1 can for my heavenly Father, who
has done so niuch for me. " I will bless
the Lord at all times: his praise shall
continually be in my mouth.' '— lesas
34: 1. David says in the hth Versa; of
the same psalm, 0, fear the Lord y e his
saints; for there is no want to thein that
fear him." I pray to God to put just
such a fear ' as David speaks of in each
one of his saints, that they will never
disobey him.
Do not go hack into sin, for the devil has
such a hold on a verse!) if be once gets
them back. It the Lord wants y ou to
do anything, obey him, and do not al-low
the devil to defeat you. W hen I
repented of my disobedience and waver-ing
experience 1 promised God that I
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Beginning Dee. ee, to continue through
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present J. F. Lund y, J. L. Pike, R. J.
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information address J. L. & beards.
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Brownstown, Ills. Assembly. Beginning
Jan. 1, 1901, to continue as lung as the
Lord wills. Bro. Strang and others are
expected. J. W. Skipper.
For years I was a member of the Baptist
sect, where I was dissatisfied, but
thought it would not do to live without
a " church"- home. I praise God that
the time came when he showed me the have not heeded the proniptiners of the
true church, and I gave up . the sect and Spirit ; sometimes I felt impressed to fast
to- day I am attached to the true vine and just commune with Jesus, hut I
that is able to nourish its branches enu would put it off and think I would wait
cause them to bring forth fruit in abun- till next time, and when next time came
dance. Praise his holy name! Oh, bow I would put it off again, and thus I gave
can we fail to walk - straight when it is place to the enemy. God's word says
God that says, " l will dwell in them and we should not give piece to the devil.
walk in tnem, and I will be their God"?
Oh, praise the Lord for the promise! lie
' has saved 	 from all sins, also sancti-
Though I have not kept peafeet victory woule serve him IN the d tees ° I my life,
at all times, still it has not been through thote sh t! le enemy tied to keep me front
any fault of the clear Savior, but all of that decision; then when I was sanetilietl
my own. I can see where so often I I felt led to testify to the same, but the
enemy said it was better not to do so
now, but wait until I should see whether
I was or not; but I had the witness within,
and I obeyed. When you seek salvation
or sanctification, seek until you find,
then keep it and do not let the enemy
bring in doubts. James says, " Resist
the devil and he will ! lee from you. 1
praise God that- his is my physician tor
both soul and body. Ile is a present
help in every time of need. When I get
sick I go to Jesus and tell him all about
it, and he helps lies' every time. Some-times
he does not help me at once, may
want to try me to see whether I would
stand true to him, whether I would give
up when the test comes. Well, praise
Cron, I can say with Jo ie, " Though he
slay me, yet will I trust in him." Just a
few weeks ago the Lord graciously healed
me of cramps in my limbs, which for
two years had troubled me occasionally,
but for two weeks before I was healed
they came inure frequent until I had them
every night; so I took it to the Lord in
pra y er, anal praise Goa: he healed me;
although I MIA tested a couple of times
afterwards. I held on to God's promises,
knowing [ net the work was done. I hare
not had any cramps trout that day to
this. Praise the dear Lord! I trust for
the little things as well as the great. A
tee- days I g.) I gilt something in my eye.
1 tried and tried to get it out, but could
not; then 1 asked the Lord to do it, and
he did, for which I give hint all the praise.
I ceitht relate many more inetan• es of
how the Lord has healed me, and I give
him all tile glory tor what he has done for
me. Some ' temple say the y bel ieve in
divine heeling, hut when the y get sick
they take a little modicine, or perhaps
send for a dieeor, as thottelt the y thought.
Cod needed help. Yesetnti then the y say
they give. Gee the praise, when the y get
well. I balieve we dishonor God when
we try tit help him. by usintl: medicine.,
and it als, w;: akens our faith. " - Cis so
sweet to trust in . Itms, Just to take him
at his % vont." All glory to his name.
Pray for Ow w.) rk iCnana la. " The
harvest truly is great, but the` laborers
are few; pray ye therefore the Lord of
the harvest, that he would send forth
laborers into his harvest."— Lukel 0 : 2.
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THE GOSPRL TRUMPET
I " The word Babylon became the emblem
ll tia vas hanghty and opprmiyet
and especial of all that persecuted the
I church ( of (:; al. 	 The word here ( Rev.
i 18: 4) must be used to denote some
power that resembhal the ancient and
1
literal Babylon in these characteristics.
The Ii eral itabylon was nci 	 but
the name might be used
denote a similar power.
Win. Rini: ewe, in " Bible Doctrine,”
page thilh says: " I think Christ has a
true chareh on earth, but its members are
scattered among the various denomina-tions,
and are more or less under the in-fluence
of mystery Babylon and her
daughters.''
iilexander Campbell says: " The wor-shiping
establishments now in operation
throughout Christendom, increased and
- emented by their respective voluminous
confessions of faith, and their ecclesias-cal
constitutions, are not churches of
Jesus Christ, but the legitimate daugh-ters
of that mother of harlots, the Church
of Rome."
Lorenzo Dow says of the Romish
church: " If she be the mother, who are
the daughters? It must be the corrupt,
national, established churches that came
out of her."— Dow's Life, page 542.
In the " Religious Encyclopedia," Art.
Antichrist, we read: " The writer of the
Book of Revelation tells us he heard a
voice from heaven saying, ' Come out of
her, my people, that ye partake not of
her sins, and receive not of her plagues.'
If such persons are td be found in the
' mother of harlots,' with much less
hesitation may it be inferred that they
are conueeted with her unchaste daugh-ters,
those national ceurches which are
founded upon trhat are called Protestant
principles."
Tile Tennessee Baptist says: " This
‘ eoinan ( popery) is called the mother
harlots and abominations. Who are
t ie daughters? The Lutheran, the
Presl: ' erian, the Episcopalian churches
are all branches ot the ( Raman) Catholic.
re not these denominated ' harlots and
i tiond nations' in the above passage? I so
decide. I could not, with the stake be-fore
me, decide otherwise. Presbyterians
and Episcopalians compose a part of
Babylon, They hold the- distinctive
prineiples of papacy in common with
papists."
In. the " Encyclopedia of Religious
Knowledge" we read: " An important
question, le evever, sates Me. . tones, still
remains for inquiry: ' le antichrist con-fined
to the Church of Rome? The
answer is readily returned in the affirma-tive
by Protestants in general and happy
bad it been tor the world had that been
the case. 	 Bat although we are fully
warranted to consider that church as
' the mother of harlots,' the truth is that
I desire to testify to the healing power
of the Lord. Last summer while in Texas,
some of my children became afflicted
with chills, and the people there had
never heard of divine healing in these
last days. They said I would have to
give chill tonic, if I remained in that
country, but I told them that I knew in
whom I put my trust. One man oflered
to give me the tonic if I would use it.
I had placed the trutn before them
the help of the Lord and now Satan was
trying to hinder what seed had been
sown, and the Lord allowed me to be
severely tried. But glory to King Jesus,
after a close examination and a deter-mination
to walk closer to him at any
cost, I looked to God in whom I trusted
and he healed the children of chills, one
of slow fever; for which I give him all
the praise and glory. The people saw
that there was something in it utter all.
Three made their escape out of the dark-ness
they were in and tound the Lord pre- .
- cious to their souls. If we can not preach
sermons as others do let us not get dis-couraged;
for we can by our lives preach
sermons that will tell fur God. The
eyes of the world are upon us, therefore
let u, live that our good may not be evil
spoken of. No* that the seed has been
sown in Texas in many other places, pray
that God may send some one there to
gather the harvest. Pray that I may
be kept humble before him and be used
to his glory. • Mrs. Ella Boone.
at his word." There is only a few of us
here, but the Lord is with us. Bless his
dear name! He is always with his chil-dren.
I am so glad we have the Bible to
read for ourselves, and the blessed Holy
Spirit to lead us. Oh! I do love the dea r
saints, and when I read their testimonies
I feel as if I was really acquainted- with
them. Let us be faithful, then some
sweet day we Nvill all meet face to face.
ay the Lord bless you all.
Mrs. Chas.
Healed of a Broken Arm.
I can testify to the glory of God that
the precious promises recorded in Beb.
13: 8---" Jesus Christ the same yester-ddaayy,,
and to- day, and forever," is true
And we read in Exodus 15: 26 where he
said to the children of Israel, " I am the
Lord that healeth thee." And again in
Matt. 8: 11 it says, " Himself took- our
infirmities, and hare our sicknesses.',
Then in Mark 5: 22- 43 we see three who
were healed by faith. And we have the
precious promise in Mark 16: 17,81--" And
these signs shall follow them that believe:
. In my name they shall cast out devils;
they shall speak with new tongues; they
shall take up serpents; and if they drink
any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them;
they shall lay- hands on the sick, and
they shall recover." And again in
James 5: 14 he says, " Is any among you
a H icted? let him pray... . Is any sick
among you? let him call for the elders of
e church; and let them pray over him,
anointing him with oil in the name of
the Lord: and the prayer of faith shall
save the sick, and the Lord shall raise
him up."
Praise the Lord, 1 can say by experi-ence
that these scriptures are true, and
he is the same Jesus that healeth me.
One week ago I fell and broke my arm
and also put it out of place at the elbow,
and it was badly bruised. My husband
d it into place. Those who were
present said to go to the physician, but
t was hurting me so badly I thought if
tent to have it examined perhaps my
faith in God would weaken; so I said,
" No, I will go and have the saints pray
for it."' So I walked three- quarters of a
mile to Bro. J. L. Green's. My husband
went for Bro. and Sister Vredenberg,
and they came, and while we were pray-ing
I laid my hand on my arm where I
broke it and felt the bones settling back
eir places. Then Sister J. L. Green
anointed it and immediately I raised it
above my head. I did not even tie it up
that night and slept as sound as usual.
I have done my work ever since, such as
had to be done. I suppose those same
people who wanted me - to go to the phy-sician
will say my arm was not broken,
but- 1 know it was, for I have had the
same arm broken twice before. The first
time it was broken in the same place as
this time, and I had a physican and
he kept a bandage on it for six weeks and
it was six months before I could use my
arm good. The next time it was broken
I went to the Lord and he healed it.
Praise his holy name: I just give him
all the praise for what he has done for
me. " Bless the Lord, Q my soul, and
. forget not all his benefits: who forgiveth
all thine iniquities, and who healeth all
thy diseases; • who redeemeth thy life
from destruction; who crowneth thee
with loving- kindness and tender mercies.
.. 1 as a father pitieth- his children,
so the Lord pitieth them that fear him.
For he knoweth our frame; he remern-bereth
that we are dust. But the mercies
of the Lord are from everlasting to ever-lasting
upon them that fear him, and hit
righteousness unto children's children: to
such as keep his covenant, and to those
that remember his commandments to do
them." " 0 give thanks unto the . Lord;
for he is good: for his mercies endured'
forever." My testimony- is that 1 am
saved, not by any works of righteousness
that I have done, but by the grace of
God, and faith in. the atoning blood . of
Divine Healing.
" He that cometh to God must believe
that he is, and that he is a rewarder of
them that diligently seek him." — Rom.
11: 6.
Headed of Jaundice.
I feel imjressed to make known how
the Lord healed my fiiteen- year- old
son from jaundice. Be was very sick;
confined to bed, but would take no medi-cine
and tainted God for his physician.
We sent to the Trumpet Family for
prayer, he was soon healed and is again
et school. We give the Lord all the
praise. I can not praise my - Lord too
- much for what he has done for me and my
family. I am saved and kept by the
power of God. Jesus is my physician
and has been for over seven years. Praise
his holy name! H. N. Moyer.
Columbana, Ohio, Nov. 11.
Testimony of Healing.
" The Lord healed me of a spell of fever
- which lasted for three weeks. I was
further tried with chills, which lean also
thank him for healing. God has a small
remnant here who accepted the truth when
it was first preached here; others seem
to become case- hardened, and the more
of God's ways they see, tie farther they
get from the truth. 1 want you all to
pray for me and the little flock here.
We all have had many afflictions this
year, but the Lord is still standing by
us, and will stand as long as we look to
him. - We would be glad if some minister
would come here. F. A. Lee.
Veto, Missy
Heated of Chills and Fever.
Trusted in God.
Oh, how I do praise God for this
blessed salvation. 1 am saved and
trusting God for all things. Our little
girl had stomach trouble very bad, she
would take spells that it seemed she
would die. The dear Lord would always
raise her up, but she got very poor and
still took bad spells. I sent to the Trum-pet
Office for an anointed handkerchief,
and asked the saints to pray for her, and
before we received the handkerchief she
got better ma has never had a spell
since. Oh, I do bless the dear Lord for
teaching me to trust him. ulis so
sweet to trust in Jesus, just to take him
Jesus. I am in the kingdom, and the
kingdom is within me. I have the Spirit
of God witnessing to my spirit to the new
creation and to my acceptance with him.
Praise his holy name! I am writing this
with my arm which was broken but is
now healed. Mrs. J. C. Green.
Woodburn, Ore., Nov. 17. '
EXTRACTS.
BY A. B. PALMER.
by whatsoever arguments we succeed in
fixing that - odious charge upon her, we
shall, by parity of reasoning, be obliged
to allow other national churches to be
her unchtste daughter:, anti for this plain
reason, anions others, because in. their
very constitution and tendency they are
hostile to the nature of the kingdom of
Christ."
When one of Martin Luther's guests
remarked that the world might continue
fifty years, he replied: `' fray God, it
' nay not exist so long; matters would be
even worse than they have been. There
would rise up infinite sects and schisms,
which are at present hidden in men's
hearts and nature. No; may the Lord
come at once, for there is no amendment
to be expected."
• Harthy, a learned thurchman, has
rernarketi as follows; " There are many
prophecies which declare the tall of the
ecclesiastical powers of the Christian
world and though each church seems to
flatter itself with the hope of being ex-emptc
d, yet it is very plain that the
prophetieal characters belong to all.
They ail have left the true, pure, simple
eligion, and teach for doctrines the cam-mandments
of men."
T is needful to irquire what the term
Babylon means. It occurs several
times in the New Testament. Here ( in
the Apocalypse) it is spoken of as ' that
great city,' and her fall is doomed ' be-cause
she bath made all nations drunk
with the wine of her fornication.' In
Rev. 17: 5, a scarlet harlot is seen sitting
upon the seven- headed and ten- hornet
monster, and upon her forehead is written,
ystery, Babylon the great.' With
this woman the kings of the earth are
said to have committed fornication. In
chapter 18 the fall of the great city,
Babylon, is detailed at length, and it is
again said, that all the kings ofthe earth
have committed fornication with her.
The harlot with Babylon stamped upon
her brow, and the great city of fornica-tion
styled Babylon, in chapters 14 and
18 are one and the same existence.
There is an ancient city of Babylon
otters mentioned in the Old Testament,
but ages before John wrote, it had ceased
to be inhabited, the only dwellers among
its lonely ruins were howling wild beasts
and hissing serpents. It has never been
rebuilt to this day and has passed away
sever. John refers theretere not to
old Babylon, but to some power yet un-seen
( when he was upon the earth), that
hould be revenled in due time, and o
which old Babylon was a symbol. Let
us notice some of the features ot ancient
Babylon.
1. On that site took place the con-fusion
ot tongues which divided those
who before had been of one speech and
one family, into various ti i hes and schisms
at variance with each other and of
various tongues. The word Babylon, a
memorial of this event, means confusion,
and is derived from babel.
2. Old Babylon persecuted the people.
of God and destroyed the temple in
Jerusalem.
3. It carried the people of God into
captivity.
1. h. was a mighty, resistless uni-versal
Empire. The antitype, the spiritual
Babylon, must correspond. There is a
power that exhibits all these character-istics.
By apostasy from the truth it
originated the set ism which has divided
the family of God into sects and parties
which speak a different spirituel language.
It has carried the church into a long
captivity by binding upon it the thrall-dom
of superstition. It has been a con-stant
persecutor of the saints, and has
enjoyed an almost universal donhnion.
That power is the - woman that sits upon
the seven headed beast, the seven hilled
city, the false woman, symbolical of a
- false ceurch, the great apostate spiritual
dominion of Rome.
And we may add, out of which have
come— directly or indirectly-- all the re-ligious
sets or the present day."-- From
Vision of the Ages; or, Lectuers on the
Apocalypse. By B. W. Johnson, member
of the Christian Sect.
The above extract, coming, as it does,
from a sectarian, speaks volumes. it
seems strange that great men, such as
Johnson, and Alexander Campbell, of
the Christian and Disciple orders, and
many others teach either directly or in-directly
that sectism is not ot God, and
then remain in them. We will give a
few extracts showing how noted men of
different religious denominations view
this subject, thus showing the readers
of the Trumpet that we are not alone in
our denunciations. We quote from r
" Facts for the Times." Dr Barne ssays: