Gospel Trumpet – 14 November 1895

14 November 1895, Volume 15, Number 45.

AUTUMN.

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Gone is the spring with all its flowers,
And gone the summer’s verdant show.
Now strewn beneath the autumn bowers,
The yellow leaves await the snow.

Behold this earth so cold and gray,
An emblem of our life appears;
Its blooming robes sink to decay,
To rise again in round of years.

Earth cheers its winter sleep with dreams
Of springtime’s warmth and gentle rain,
When she shall wake to murmuring streams,
And songs of merry birds again.

So we come forth like springtime flowers,
Soon into manhood’s summer grow;
Then like the leaves of autumn bowers,
Lie down beneath the winter’s snow.

And there our bodies slumb’ring wait,
’Till time’s short winter day has fled,
And Christ our Lord and Advocate,
Shall come again to wake the dead.

Then winter’s storm and summer’s heat,
Shall end in everlasting spring;
And all immortal we shall meet,
And round the throne of glory sing.

D. S. W.

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How to Pray the Prayer of Faith.

A NUMBER of letters have been sent us since publishing the article headed, “The Prayer of Faith” requesting more on that subject, and especially how can we pray the prayer of faith? etc. To all who are in real earnest, and want to pray the prayer of faith for the glory of God, let me give you a few points to your benefit, if put in practice.

First, by the grace of God resist the devil, and believe God’s word, that God does make him flee (for God is responsible for the fulfillment of his word, when we do our part. James 4:7 and 1 Pet. 5:9.). And get more and more vehement in your soul in resisting him and in believing God’s promise, until you know that he is gone. Then draw nigh to God by faith, and do not stop until he does draw nigh to you by faith.

Second, take your stand with and for God according to his holy word, in the most decided and uncompromising position against sin, Satan, and even self, and for God, and his word, up to the New Testament standard. Yes, take your everlasting stand by faith and obedience on the truth of God, since it is impossible for God to lie, and as you do your part just believe that God does his part in fulfilling his promises, and keep on believing, and hold to the promise by faith until you are in real possession of its fulfillment. That is the real prayer of faith that gets the answer from God by faith in his word. But if you are at ease in Zion, or in a dead, stupid, or indifferent state of spiritual stagnation, you are not in a condition to pray the real prayer of faith. But awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead and Christ shall give thee light, in answer to the prayer of faith.

Third, if you will make a real business of praying the prayer of faith daily, and seeking God earnestly for the fulfillment of his own promises, with pure motives for God’s glory, and then give God all the glory by faith for his goodness in fulfilling his precious truth, you will soon find your ability to pray the prayer of faith increasing.

Fourth, the more you pray with and in the Holy Ghost (see Jude) the greater will be your success in prayer.

Fifth, the more you have of the real humility of Christ by faith, the greater wili be your access to him, and from him to all that is needed for his glory. Amen.

Sixth, if your agreement with God in his everlasting covenant is perfect, you will find it easier to be agreed with his people who are agreed with him, and then you can have the benefit of the promise found in Mat. 18:19.

Seventh, let all who can pray the prayer of faith, pray especially for all the needy ones everywhere and for all who are making it their business to pray for such, that God may still make their pray?ers more effectual for the good of mankind, in saving souls and healing the sick, and fulfilling his word with mighty signs and wonders in the name of Jesus. Who can and will be agreed in praying the prayer of faith in the name of Jesus, and make it a real business? We would like to hear from those that God is moving on that line, and count me agreed for all that is most for the glory of God. Your saved brother in the faith of Jesus,

J. Cole.

Grand Junction, Mich.

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A Lesson for all who need it.

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My soul is stirred with a very earnest desire to be a help to the weak ones who love God and are doing his will as far as they comprehend it: but who find it ofttimes difficult to keep the sweet victory in their souls that is their privilege. I have found it a great benefit to go over my consecration to the service of God quite often, asking him to strengthen my decision and to help me more fully to comprehend a daily active living surrender of all things to the will of God, that my faith may be strengthened thereby to receive more definitely the infilling of the Spirit of God with the rich graces and emotions. Amid the pressure of the worldly ones around us we need to seek the closet often to find grace and strength thereby to live before them in victory. Some of us have considered our circumstances great hindrances to our spiritual life, but we desire to show you by a little lesson that our trials are for our good, so we may all hasten to obtain all the benefits possible therefrom.

“Many shall be purified, made white and tried.” Dan. 12:10. We see that the many who are purified are also tried. It does not read that some are tried or a few are tried, but it includes ail the “many.” So dear ones, shall we wait till we have no cares or trials before we praise God for victory? Or shall it be day by day as we cast them upon our Lord for strength, grace and wisdom to give them their rightful place in each of our lives to work for our highest spiritual good? Will your souls unite with mine in one blessed upward step on the line of constant victory over earthly trials? In Dan. 11:35 we read that, “Some of them of understanding shall fall, to try them and to purge and to make them white.” Here some are spoken of who have an understanding of spiritual things but tall from their experience of salvation, and this results in the trying of God’s people. Dear children of God, are you not wonderfully surprised sometimes at the very little things over which precious souls lose their salvation? We consecrate to do al God will require of us, even to going to foreign lands to carry the precious gospel, and then perhaps fail to carry it to the nearest town when called to do so. Or a mother promises to “pray everywhere,” and then shrinks from praying with her family. Is there not a lack of clear comprehension of the greatness of salvation that we should part with it so easily? May we let our God impress its preciousness so thoroughly into our hearts, minds, and very nature, that we shall guard it well by the use of every means of grace, and consider it the business of our lives to grow in grace and the knowledge of God.

But if any are fallen, may they take courage and return to God, knowing that even this may make them wiser in the future and thereby work for their cleansing and strengthening. Once in returning to God, even after my faith had claimed the pardon of my transgressions, my soul was weighed down by the most intense sorrow. It seemed sometimes my heart would cease to beat, and I thought I should die. The Lord showed me the great evil of backsliding, and then as I consecrated to greater carefulness in watching and praying, and in constant immediate obedience, he purged my soul and gave me the kingdom of God which is righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Ghost.

From Zech. 13:9 we learn that all who are in the land shall be brought through the fire for refining and trial. In Isa. 48:10 God says he has chosen us in the furnace of affliction. When our trials take on the appearance of a furnace some begin to wonder if something is not going a little contrary to the Lord’s will, and may perhaps try to make some change therein, forgetting that he has chosen them right there in that furnace of trial, and there is where they can best honor him with real victory of faith. From 1:Peter 1 5-9 we learn that the trial of our faith is more precious than gold, and though it be tried with fire it might be found unto praise, honor and glory at the appearing of Jesus. Then again in 1 Peter 4:12 we are entreated “not to think it strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you, but rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ’s sufferings; that when his glory is revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.” Some have thought ofttimes that it was almost impossible to keep saved amid their surroundings, and have excused themselves from living as devoted lives as others because of their peculiar circumstances. Oh dear Christians, have you forgotten that God permits you to live in the place where you can best glorify him by living to the Bible standard of salvation, and that many times if we did so some of our severe trials would be removed or so graciously mortified that we could desire to live always in the present place if God willed it so. In coming to God the enemy made everything appear very discouraging to me, and after the first few hours of sweet fellowship with Jesus my mind was constantly oppressed by the opposition, when a dear sister remarked that I had “such a good chance to be strong in God.” I said, “Oh my thoughts were just the opposite.” Her reply was that “all the hindrances and difficulties in the way should sink one deeper into God.” Very many times this precious instruction has been of great benefit to me, but sometimes it was forgotten and I would be aroused to see how much greater the oppression was becoming; then casting it on Jesus and trusting for victory, all things proved stepping stones to spiritual advancement.

Only within this year did I see the privilege of having the evil spirits around us in a bound condition through faith in Christ, or of trusting for victory in every conversation with opposers. There is a firm conviction in my soul that God does not open the way for greater efforts in spiritual work until we have the desired victory in our present position. May the Lord help you, dear ones, not to waste thought upon what might be in other circumstances, but get all the good possible from the present, remembering that God can at anytime make all the changes necessary to place you where he can get the most glory from your life and service. Therefore the responsibility is his and we move forward praising his holy name with joyful lips.

Jennie C. Rutty.

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Let the Lord have his own.

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Dear Saints of God: After reading J. G. Neff’s article in the GOSPEL TRUMPET I feel impressed to write a few words. It is true, those of us who have taken the Lord for our physician have saved ourselves from a great expense thereby. Since he so wonderfully “healeth all our diseases,” is it not our duty to return unto the Lord the means thus saved? I have often heard people say, “I would like to give to the Lord, but I have nothing to give; the Lord knows I am poor,” and so rest satisfied. Have you enquired of the Lord? Are you sure you have done your whole duty, and you haven’t even as much as the poor widow who gave two mites unto the Lord? Dear ones, have you ever thought how much you spent before you were saved for tea and coffee? Almost every family spent at least twenty-five cents a week for those articles, which would be thirteen dollars a year, quite a little sum; and did you not always find means some way to buy those unnecessary articles? If all who have given up the use of tea and coffee would send in the same amount of money they cost to the work of the Lord, there would not be any need for the workers to be cramped for lack of means to carry on the work. Since you do not use tea and coffee any more, what are you doing with the money thus saved? Are you using it to the glory of God, or are you consuming it upon your own Insts? And you who used tobacco, are you spending as much for the salvation of precious souls as you did to indulge a filthy habit?

Last winter when the call came through the Trumpet for a week of fasting and prayer that the debt which was pressing so heavily might be lifted from the Office, there was a young sister who was engaged in domestic duties in her home so she did not see that she had time or opportunity to earn any money, though she felt an earnest desire to do so. The Lord knew she was willing and showed her what she could do. She had a few hens that were her individual property. She told her folks she was going to save the eggs until the day of the free-will offering that she might sell them and give the proceeds to help remove the debt. It was a small offering but she did what she could and the Lord blessed her in doing it; so he will every one who is willing to sacrifice that the work of the Lord may prosper. I relate this only for the glory of God, and that others may see wherein they may be able to do likewise, and that your minds may be aroused to the great importance of the work, and that you may have a part in the glorious work of saving souls. Some have said they have so little to give they do not like to send it. The Bible says, For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not. 2 Cor. 8:12. Oh dear ones, let us carefully examine ourselves and see if we are measuring up to our consecration, and wholly given up to the Lord. We feel sure if every saint of God could feel the weight of the work at the Trumpet office for only one day, the money would soon be raised to pay all pressing bills and expenses, and buy the paper folder. Your sister in Christ,

Prudie Bunn.

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TESTIMONIES.

“Thy Testimonies are Wonderful.” – Psa. 119:129.

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Leasburg, Mo.

Dear Saints: I was converted last April and healed of asthma. I was a sufferer all my life, but I can praise God through Jesus Christ that I am healed. To him be the glory forever.

John Osborne.

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West Monterey, Pa.

Dear Trumpet Readers: The Lord keeps me saved each day, free from all sin. I give him all the praise. He often heals my body. I have peace and joy in my soul, and am on the advance for God. Your sister in the one faith, saved and kept,

L. M. Williams.

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Jenson, Wis.

Dear Saints: I am saved in Jesus and kept by his power divine. I have sweet peace and joy in my soul. To God be all the glory! Jesus has taken away all my sins, and sanctified me by a second work of grace.

Your brother all on the altar,

Andrew C. Welling.

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Bladen, Neb.

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ: I am praising God for a full and a free salvation, freedom from all sin and sickness. The blessed Jesus is still leading and all glory to God, I shall ever follow. My cup is running over with joy in the Holy Spirit. Pray that I ever be kept humble and where the blessed Jesus can use me to his glory. My little boy Arthur, six years old, was sick Sunday and in pain. My wife and other children went to meeting and left us alone. I asked my boy if I should anoint him and pray over him. He said yes, so I anointed in the name of Jesus, laid on hands and prayed for him, and praise God, the pain left him at once. Prayers for wife and children in sickness in the past have been answered. Pray for my unsaved wife and two oldest girls that they may be saved and thus be used to the glory of God, and that there be no hindrances here to the cause. From your brother all upon the altar, purified, tried and made white in the blood of the Lamb,

D. P. Kimmel.

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Dalesville, Quebec.

Dear Brethren: I feel led of God to write my testimony for the Trumpet. I praise God he has saved me from all sin. I got saved one year ago last November, and about three months after, he sanctified me wholly, and now preserves me, spirit, soul and body. Hallelujah! I sometimes get some of the Trumpets to read, and it just sets my soul all on fire to read them. The Lord has called me out to preach the gospel, and has used me in showing the light to some darkened souls. Praise his holy name! The people in this part of Canada are in great darkness. The sect preachers are trying to drive them into greater darkness. My earnest prayer is, that God will expose their false doctrines and deliver those poor deluded souls from bondage. Heretofore I have not been in a position to give all my time holding meetings, but will soon be. Praise God! Your brother, sayed, sanctified and healed,

John C. Blaney.

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THURSDAY, NOV. 14, 1895.

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LIST OF MONEY LETTERS NOT OTHERWISE RECEIPTED

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J. A. Chandler, Jno. H. Overstreet, Wm. G. Schell, Mary Snyder, Wm. Goodwin, D. C. Stauffer, Wm. A. Randolph, R. L. Berry, M. A. Fly, J. L. Pike.

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The dear readers of the TRUMPET in various parts of the world seem to be much interested in aiding us to get a paper folder. We have received letters containing donations for that purpose, from almost all parts of the United States, from British Columbia, Ontario, Quebec and other places in Canada, and three or several from Europe. May God bless the dear ones; we realize we are co-workers together in the gospel. We are now only lacking a little over $100.00 and the Lord willing, will have the machine in a short time.

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Requests For Prayer.

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Pray Nov. 24, at 9 o’clock, for the Lord to heal my wife of tumor.

A. F. Kessel,

Altoona, Kan.

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Pray, Nov. 17, that I may be healed of rheumatism. I have laid all on the altar to live for God, and would like for some one to come here to hold a meeting, as the evening light has not been preached here in the surrounding community.

Melissa Stout,

Litchfield, Litchfield Co., Mich.

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Bessemer, Ala.

Please pray for the many anxious souls that are seeking the light in this place. This a very wicked place. Pray that the true light may shine here in all power, that many may come from darkness to light. Yours in Christ,

Chas. Oglesby.

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Will you all please pray for Bro. L. Sample on the second Sunday in December at 11 o’clock, that he may be healed of paralysis. He believes that the Lord will heal him. Those who feel led to fast please do so.

A. L. Creel,

McCall Creek, Miss.

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Los Angeles, Cal.

Dear Saints: I have been afflicted with a cancer in my head for about one year. I had three operations by doctors before I was converted about six months ago, but did not get help. It is pronounced incurable by the physicians. Since I was saved I have taken Jesus for my physician. Have had great relief through prayer and faith in Jesus. The Lord has been teaching me many precious lessons, especially on the unity of the body of Christ and the separation from Babylon. I am still a great sufferer and from all appearances am getting worse. I believe it is the will of God to heal me, and I also believe he will do it. I have felt for several days that I ought to write to the TRUMPET and earnestly ask all the dear saints to pray for the complete healing of my body on Sunday, Nov. 17, at 11 o’clock, and God shall have all the glory. Your saved brother,

Emil Werner.

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Calls For Meeting.

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We want some one to come here and preach the gospel of full salvation.

Sarah Allen.

Arlington, Ark.

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We are praying and waiting for some one to come here and preach the truth to this people. Yours in Christ,

Eva Knight,

Muscatine, Iowa.

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I am praying earnestly that God will send some of his ministers here to preach the gospel soon. Your sister, longing for full salvation,

Mrs. Maude Wheeler,

Jones, Cass Co., Mich.

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Some one is very greatly needed at Stafford, Kan., to preach the pure Word in the power and judgment of the Spirit. Who will go there as soon as practical? Address Sarah R. Hoffman, or Bro. Samuel Helm.

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I wish some good minister who has the gift of healing would come to this place. I am a widow and alone here in the faith, and am afflicted in body.

Mrs. S. J. Howe,

Wampum, Pa.

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Manning, Mo.

We do pray that God will send some well settled worker here to this place. And we pray that God will remove the prejudice and crookedness that exists here. We are anxious for God’s work to move. Whom will the Lord send? We ask your prayers. Yours in the fellowship of the gospel,

R. A. and E. Pearson.

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Chanute, Kan.

Could some of God’s true ministers go to Ottawa, Kan., and hold a meeting? If so, write to me. There is a good opening for meeting there, My father lives there and he will rent a hall. May the Lord send whom he will. Your saved sister,

M. Heller.

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A Week of Prayer.

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To the Church of God Scattered Abroad, Greeting: Dear saints, for some time I have felt impressed that it would be to the glory of God for us to appoint a special week of prayer to be observed in all the congregations of the saints. While we may never expect to meet together in person this side of the judgment, we can all assemble together in spirit and as the voice of one man offer praise, song, supplication and prayer, to God Almighty, the great Leader of this glorious reformation. We feel led of God to appoint Friday, November 22d, the commencement of the week of prayer, to end on Thanksgiving day , November 28. And now let all the people of God everywhere make special arrangements to spend the whole, week in special reverence for God. As much as possible let us lay aside our earthly cares and labor and let the week be spent as one grand and glorious sabbath; let it be a week of self-denial as well as prayer; much fasting will savor our prayers. Let the congregations in different places appoint special services, and let every body put in for special benefits and personal advancement in practical salvation, humility and faith. Let there be a real settling down into God, a great advancement in all the graces of holiness, and an appropriation of more of the precious gifts of the Spirit, especially in the gifts of discernment, faith healing, and miracles. On Thanksgiving day let us have an all-day meeting; all meet with one accord and spend the whole day in special service to God, in the evening have ordinance meeting and healing services. And I have felt, dear ones, that it would be well just before ordinance service in the evening to have a special consecration meeting. Let us all get together around the altar, and on our knees in special supplication to God examine and deepen our consecration, and oh may there be a mighty move forward in all the lines of divine holiness, wisdom and power! Let us more than ever before consecrate our time, talents, means and all to God, for his actual use just as he wills. And during this week let us all lay aside, and bring together of the means that God has blessed us with this year and make offerings to God of the good things he has blessed us with, as much as each one can spare. And now may the mighty power of God and the blessings of heaven be upon the week of prayer. May each of us be especially benefited and advanced and many precious souls be saved, sick healed, and mighty signs and wonders accompany during the sacred week. Amen. Yours in Him,

W. J. Henry.

NOTE.

With all our heart we say amen to this call. We had expected that it would be in God’s order about the close of the year to have another special week of prayer; but it should doubtless be just as well to proclaim it upon the above time as a month later. The Lord prepare all hearts to enter into the holy feast in great earnest. We can add nothing to the. above suggestions, we think all is very well; and may the Lord of the great harvest work mighty wonders during the consecrated week. Especially let there be an earnest and determined effort put forth in personal advancement in the power and glory of holiness. Amen.

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QUESTIONS.

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1. Is it right for the children of God to have a stand on the camp ground and sell coffee, teas and fruits week days and Sabbath, when there is plenty of provisions, on the ground for everybody?

2. What is the proper way of collecting money for preachers in the church of God?

Ans. to first. No, it is not right at all. Where there is no real need of any traffic on a camp ground, the only object in having a sale stand is to gratify some one’s lust to make some money. And to make gain out of the gospel is an abomination in the sight of God. Moreover, to sell such poison drugs as coffee and tea on a camp ground of professed holy people is inconsistent, and a reproach on the cause of Christ.

Ans. to second. Paul’s directions in 1 Cor. 16:1, 2; this is the scriptural and best financial system ever devised. It requires a treasure box in each congregation, and on the regular Lord’s day assembly of the church each one deposits as the Lord has prospered them. In camp and other continued meetings the Lord’s treasure should be open at all times.

Since the scriptures command wives to be obedient to their husbands can we be in perfect obecience to an unsaved husband and please the Lord?

Ans. “Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, AS IT IS FIT IN THE LORD.” Col. 3:18. Not in things directly displeasing to God.

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AN OPPORTUNITY TO SCATTER THE TRUTH.

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To the saints of God and all those who have an interest in the welfare of mankind. Do you know that from now until the beginning of the new year is the very best time to dispose of good books? Thousands upon thousands of dollars will be expended for Christmas presents and holiday goods. The people will buy something; and what is more appropriate for this purpose than a good book which contains the precious seeds of truth, teaching the pure gospel, which will set captive souls at liberty and lead them out into the beautiful evening light? Why not take advantage of this favorable time and give people an opportunity to buy these books; since if they do not get these, many will buy other trashy works. The devil understands this and has his agents at work everywhere. Who will act as a colporteur for the Lord and help defeat the enemy? Do not let the devil say you can’t sell books (he is a liar), but go forth in the name and strength of Jesus, for the sake of precious souls and you can succeed. Offer the larger books on subscription and deliver them a short time before Christmas. You will find it is nearly always easier to get people to promise to pay at some future time than to pay now, and it gives them a chance to save their money to pay for the book when delivered, as they will, want something for presents. As a further inducement we will offer special and very liberal terms to all who take up this work, and you have an opportunity to earn a neat sum for present and future needs. Those who mean business and are really interested in the work, send a stamp for terms and instructions to agents. Select the books you wish to handle, or order sample books with circulars and terms and commence work at once, and begin NOW to save your money to order a larger supply. Decide quickly, for the time is at hand.

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A WORD TO PARENTS.

THERE have been several articles in the TRUMPET for the benefit of parents, more particularly mothers, but I feel led to say some more and if I repeat some of the things, that have been said, it will only be line upon line and precept upon precept. And I pray the Lord to waken up the hearts of mothers to a sense of their responsibility.

There are many mothers who weep over the waywardness of their big boys and girls, but what more do they do? Prayers and tears will never turn the current of their lives if you do not do your duty. Faith without works is dead. You will have to be as much in earnest for their salvation as you would be for your own. Now let me ask you. Are you doing your duty by your children? Is everything done for their salvation that can be done; or do you give them a talking to once in a while and think you have done your duty? How many are there who read these lines that have boys and girls going where they choose, and doing as they please, with no restraint whatever, except perhaps a few weak words which only betray the weakness and timidity of those who should have their children in subjection. There is one thing that is allowed among nearly all the children of the saints, and that is the reading of everything they can get hold of, — even among those saints who themselves read nothing but the TRUMPET and Bible, children can have almost anything to read they want. Parents who would be horrified at the idea of their fourteen and fifteen-year-old boys and girls going to houses of ill fame every few evenings and spending an hour or two; yet they will let them read papers and books full of tales of illegal love scrapes and clandestine meetings and marriages, and like matter, which only paves the way to those ways of death. Many a girl with professing parents is allowed to spend whole evenings reading just such things; and when the story is laid aside, its very essence has been absorbed into that heart and mind, never perhaps to be forgotten as long as she lives. It is these things that sow the seeds of a wild life. The mind becomes filled with romance, and the next thing is to act it out.

I want to ask, How many saved mothers have the confidence of their unsaved growing-up daughters? Do you ever take them alone and tell them the evil of reading novels, and of allowing their affections to run out after every one that comes along? I do not mean give them a lecture, but a confidential instructive talk. Some mothers may say, “Oh my girls do not care anything for the boys; they are only a little wild.” I feel like saying to such, You are deceived; and if you go at it right you will find it to be so. You may think you car, not gain your daughters’ confidence; but do you know why your daughter makes a confident of some girl friend instead of you? It is because she finds in her an adviser and one who understands her. May the Lord help every mother to know something of the inward life of her children. Try making a friend and sister of your girls, and you will be surprised at the result.

And now a word of warning in conclusion. If your boys and girls are allowed to read the popular trash of to day, and indulge in thought which they would blush to own, it will in time have the same effect on them as the practice of self abuse. Now this is plain talk, but in these perilous times we need plain talk, and may the Lord stir up your pure minds and help you to look closer after the welfare of the souls of those entrusted to your care, and help you to know the value of a pure mind. Your sister,

Georgia Cook.

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A SAD SPECTACLE.

In order to provide a single missionary for every 20,000 inhabitants of India, the church of Christ would require to send to that land at once a fresh supply of 13,000 missionaries. This is India.

China has a population of some 400, 000,000, Africa about 200,000,000, and then there is Japan, and Madagascar, and Thibet, and Ceylon, and Turkey and Egypt, and Persia, and the dark regions of Europe and Central and South America, — all swarming with multitudes of souls that know not God.

Now in America are scores of ministers in a little village, separating the flock of God, and dividing those whom Christ unites, most of whom might be as easily supported by the churches in India or China as where they are, if the churches were only Christ’s churches with one faith, rather than “our churches” with forty faiths; and if they were obedient to the Savior’s great commission, instead of obeying the commandments of men and following the human leaders who have divided and distracted the church of the living God.

The missionaries themselves often have unity of spirit and labor, but they are supported at home by their different sects, and are bound to show so many converts made to “our church,” or else their supplies may be cut off. They see the evil and lament it; when will Christians at home see it and abandon it? A plea for Christian union by a missionary is peculiarly touching. Says L. Wharton, in the Christian Standard:

“We see many sad sights in India, but to me one of the saddest spectacles in heathen lands, next to heathenism itself, is zealous, noble, Godfearing men bringing into the midst of benighted Pagan races, in one hand the glorious gospel of Christ, and in the other the sectarian creed and name; with one hand sowing the seed of the kingdom of heaven, with the other the tares of division and strife; with one hand building up the walls of salvation, with the other erecting the walls of sectarianism.”

No wonder that the heathen are stumbled and hindered, and scoffers are made bold by the sectarian divisions of the followers of Christ. Let us join in his prayer that his people all may be one, that the world may know that he was sent of God. John xvii.

“Let party names no more
The Christian world o’erspread;
Gentile and Jew, and bond and free,
Are one in Christ their head.”

– Christian Safeguard.

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News from the Field

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Tyrone, Mo., Nov. 5.

Dear Saints: We are glad to report victory in our souls. We have been laboring since August principally in Dent Co. and Texas Co. In Texas Co. found a few honest souls hungering for the truth. The standard of salvation had been preached so low that people professing holiness were chewring tobacco and drinking coffee, and said they did not feel condemned; but when the Lord hurled forth the thunderbolt of his word — “From all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you” (Eze. 36:26), some were willing, and some were not. The result was, a few were saved and baptized, others left under conviction. We are now holding meeting at Tyrone; this is a new field. Remember us at the throne of grace. Yours in the one body,

W. R. Hfster and Co.

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Smithfield, Ohio, Nov. 5.

Dearly Beloved: Since our last report, we held tabernacle meeting at Butler, and Kelly’s, Pa., which were blest of God. After the meeting at Kelly’s, Sister Fry went to the assembly meeting at Grand Junction, and we brought the tabernacle on to Smithfield, where we held meetings almost three weeks. On our way here we stopped two nights with the Bethel Family, during which time we held a precious ordinance meeting and a few consecrated. We are now holding meetings in a school- house six miles from Smithfield. Several have sought the Lord and found peace. Others are under deep conviction. The prospect is that there will be quite an ingathering of souls. Please remember us in your prayers. Yours in the faith,

H. M. Riggle and Co.

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Grand Junction, Mich. Nov. 6.

Dear Trumpet Readers: We left Grand Junction Oct. 19 and went to Geneva Center, this county, and commenced meeting in Bro. Doty’s house in the name of the Lord. There was not a very large attendance, but the church was edified and strengthened. There were seven

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consecrations in all for sanctification and four for pardon. On Thursday, Oct. 31, Bro. Doty took us 17 miles to the poor house, where we had the privilege of talking to the dear people about Jesus. One dear soul found the Lord, while others stood by and wept. We returned, and on Sunday four were baptized, and in the evening we had a precious ordinance meeting, in which 32 took part.. We closed the meeting on Wednesday, after which one precious soul found the Lord. Your humble brother,

Leroy Sheldon and Co.

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FROM THE CHURCH OF GOD IN OGDEN.

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Ogden, Utah. Nov. 3

Dear Brethren: We have longed very much to have some one come here to preach the pure word of God in the evening light. But glory be to Jesus, the Holy Spirit has come in forever, and the writer is a new man in Christ Jesus, dead indeed unto sin. A few of us are gathered into the name of the Lord. We have the flame kindled. The Salvation Army captain. Miss Ruth Haynes, is no longer captain of the Salvation Army, but glory to Jesus, she is now enlisted under the Captain of the one body, which is Christ. The Lord filled her cup overflowing, and some more got under the fire and the blood. If the Lord should move some of his ministers to stop with us we would like it very much. Your saved brother in the one body.

Earnest Herrboth.

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Biardstown, Tex., Nov. 8

Dear Saints: I am happy to report that we are still on the advance for God. We started from Frisco, Ark., Oct. 15; came to the Ark. river, held two meetings. One sister saved and sanctified. Then we came to Talihina, I. T. Had meeting in the M. E. house one night. As the preacher was not there the trustees let us in. There was such interest that it did not take the trusters long to decide to let us hold meeting the next night. Next morning the M. E. preacher came home, found the people stirred up for God. Some told him how they had heard the truth. As it (M. E sect) is man-rule the preacher told them not to leave us in, or thought it not best; so the door was closed. We went and held meetings on the street with good interest. We distributed papers and tracts to a number of hungry souls. We never saw one that had ever heard the evening light preached. We got here the 6th. Meeting is going on with good interest. Any one wanting meeting herein the South, address us at Biardstown, Tex. Pray for us. Your contending for the faith of the gospel,

M. A. Fly and Co.

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Milton, Ore., Nov. 5.

Dear Trumpet Readers: From Woodburn, Ore. we went to Latourell Falls and began meeting Oct. 1st, closing the 22d with victory. The people seemed under deep conviction during the first part of the meeting, but when the testing time came to move out for God and pay the Bible price for gospel salvation they began to draw back. A number of hands were raised for prayers. Two persons were reclaimed to a justified state, and two were sanctified wholly; others were benefited, and two were baptized. A number were taken violently sick with much suffering, but were quickly healed by faith according to James 5:14, 15.

Here we found a man and his wife professing to be fully saved, having drifted into the delusive doctrine, “Once sanctified, forever sanctified,” yet bearing the fruits of carnality, pleading that we would have a little anger. We labored with them, but they were unwilling to repent and get straight. From here we stopped off at Dalles and held a precious street meeting and distributed papers. We are now at Milton. God is working, truth is prevailing. Pray for us.

F. N. Jacobson.

Emerado, N. Dak., Nov. 6.

Dear Brethren: Praise the Lord, we have reached our journey’s end, with victory in our souls. We had many trials and tests on the road. We can say like David, Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivereth him out of them all. Psa. 34:19 We began meeting four miles south-east of Emerado Oct. 28 in a school house. Up to date there have been seven saved from their sins. Several have been healed. I feel that God has a people here, and now is the time to gather them out. We have much prejudice to contend with, but the hail of God’s truth is sweeping away the refuge of lies and conviction is settling down on the people. Bro. J. C. Peterman has gained the victory over an attack of fever. Thank God, the great Physician is ever with us.

Dear brethren, Montana is ripe and ready for the harvest. Who will go? Is not God calling some one there to rescue the perishing that are dying for want of the truth? Missoula, Helena, and Great Falls have some of God’s people there that need to be gathered home to Zion. Let all the dear saints pray much for the work in North Dakota. Any one desiring to correspond with us, or wish us to hold meetings in their vicinity, address us at Emerado, North Dakota.

Geo. W. Bailey and Co.

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OPEN DOOR MISSION.

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396 Dearborn St. Chicago, Ill.

Dear Saints: May God bless you with all spiritual blessings. It has been some time since I have written to you all through the TRUMPET, but all the time God has been wonder fully keeping us in this awful Sodom. We have been passing through deep waters and at times the very heavens seemed as brass to us. The devil has been so enraged against us causing us to suffer persecutions, being put in jail, threatening our lives and keeping dear ones from giving of their means to the support of this work. But through it all praise God we are standing upon the sure promises and have on the whole armor, and we know nothing can harm us only what God permits, and our consecration reaches to the stake. And too we know God has enough means to support this work which he has planted in this place. Dear ones as you read this offer, up the prayer of faith in our behalf and by the grace of God it shall not close up. Praise the Lord! God’s word for it. Quite a large number of the brothels in this neighborhood are by French Catholics, and they are becoming so enraged at this mission they have threatened to blow us up with dynamite; but praise God, we are not afraid of the face of man, and by his help and your prayers we will stand true and fight the battle through until we receive orders from our heavenly Father to come home. One of the dear brethren who came to labor with us was decoyed into one of these awful places last week and locked up in a room and would have lost his life had it not been for the wonderful miraculous power of God to withhold the deadly blows, and enabled him to make his escape by plunging through the panels of a large door. O dear ones, you don’t know what a place this is until you will have come here and seen for yourself. Your heart would fairly ache to see all around us in the bowery (in which the Open Door is located) running in fall operation a system of which the violations of virgins is one of the ordinary incidents. The girls are mostly of tender age being yet too young in fact to understand the nature of the crime of which they are the unwilling victims. That these outrages are constantly perpetrated with almost impunity and that arrangements are made with a simplicity and efficiency, is incredible to all who have not made some demonstrations of which this crime can be abolished.

Many many are the dear young girls who have left their country homes and came to this awful city to hunt work, and have been simply snared and trapped and outraged, either when under the influence of drugs or after a prolonged struggle in a locked room, in which the weaker succumbs to shun downright force. Others are regularly procured, bought at so much per head in some cases, or inticed under various promises into fatal chambers from which they are never allowed to emerge until they have lost that which women ought to value more than life.

Oh dear ones, pray for these poor prisoners, and that God will keep this lighthouse open for the rescue of these unfortunate girls. Last week we had a wonderful conversion of a woman that kept a large brothel, and she was noted as the most treacherous thief on the street. She was the queen of the bowery. She was taken sick and I went to call on her, but she positively refused to talk with me, and I was ordered out of the house. In a short time after my visit, I was sent for to come back, and when I returned I found the woman all broken up and under deep conviction, and after I prayed with her she made a complete surrender and was marvelously converted. She then asked to be taken to our home and we did so. In about a week she passed away into eternity very happy. We kept her remains two nights in the home, and as scores of the girls and inmates would come in to view the body at all hours of the night, we would stand beside it and preach to them, and it was marvelous. Many promised to quit the sin business and lead better lives.

In the mission the Lord is pouring out his Spirit in a most wonderful way; at each meeting is a real pentecost. The house is crowded to its utmost capacity with poor boys and men who are strangers in the city, and out of work, out of money, discouraged and disheartened, no friends, no Christ. Many each night raise their hands, asking God’s saints to pray for them, and many find their way to the altar and find Christ.

In the last four weeks between fifty and seventy-five have professed to be converted at the Open Door Mission. It would do your soul good to read some of the letters I receive from different parts of the country who have been converted at this place. From seventy-five to one hundred and fifty men sleep on our floors each night. Remember these are all mothers’ boys and have souls to save. Will you do what you can to carry on this work, if in no other way than to offer up a prayer in our behalf? The Lord is showing forth his power in healing many that come to him. The Lord is raising up a little church here, and we look forward to the time when God will have enough consecrated pocket books in this city to carry on this work. But until that time comes there is certainly a responsibility on each one who is in the one body. God bless you all. Yours saved and sanctified in the body of Christ,

Gorham Tufts and Wife.

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TESTIMONIES.

“Thy Testimonies are Wonderful.” – Psa. 119:129.

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Ironton, Mich.

Dear Saints of God: We are praising God for full salvation, a salvation that not only saves, but keeps us free from sin each day. All glory to God! Wife and I were buried with Christ in baptism Oct. 20. Oh what a blessing we received, obeying the command of our Lord and Master! Pray for us that we be kept low and humble at the feet of Jesus. Your brother saved and sanctified,

Lorenza Compton.

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Chesaning, Mich.

Dear Saints of God: I feel I must write my testimony for the Trumpet. It is so blessed to be tree and clear in God. I am so glad that I went to the St. Louis camp meeting; I thought I understood the true wav and the real light of God’s word; had left the Free Methodist’s for some time past, but still used to go to a few meetings among them. So when I went to the camp meeting I did not feel quite at home with the saints at first; found there was some of Babylon left about me. I could not sing nor testify. God showed me I must walk in the light while I had it, lest darkness come upon me. So I gave all up and broke down before him and let him teach me how to walk. Praise the Lord for deliverance from the yoke of bondage! God give me his yoke, which is easy and his burden is light. Your sister saved,

Ellen Street.

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Grant’s Pass, Ore.

Dear Saints of God: It will be two years next winter I first heard the evening light preached and I accepted it. I walked in it for awhile and then I let the cares of this life choke the good seed and I got where God could not use me. But praise his holy name, I have come back to Father and he saves me from all sin. He has healed me several times. I have always had a scalp disease; I asked the dear Lord to heal it, and it is going away, for which I give God all the glory. Praise his holy name! We are living out here in the far west where there are not many of God’s true children. Praise the Lord, he is able to keep us from all sin here as well as anywhere if we only trust him. The Lord saved my dear husband not long ago, for which I give Him all the glory. Dear saints, we ask an interest in all your prayers that we may ever be kept humble at Jesus’ feet, Your saved brother and sister,

J. A. and M. L. Wik..trom.

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Neosho Falls, Kan.

Dear Saints: I am glad to say I am walking in the light God gives me, and am so glad that I ever met with Bro. George and Sister Mary Cole at Neosho Falls camp meeting, held here in July. I was sanctified wholly, July 27, ’95. I have been deaf since a little girl, ten years of age. But the saints prayed for me that I might be healed of deafness, and praise the Lord! He has healed me so that I can hear a whisper, or any kind of a common conversation. But I want all the saints to pray for me that I may be entirely healed, also for my brother. He is very hard of hearing, but I know he can be healed, for he is a child of God. Pray also for my little brother that he may be healed of chills. My mother wishes to say that she praises God that she ever gave her heart to Him, and for his keeping power. Praise his holy name forever! The children have been sick so often but have been healed every time through prayer. The saints have prayer meeting at our house every Thursday evening and oh, what glorious meetings we do have! Glory to God! My father has not been saved yet, but I pray that he may be saved before it is too late. Asking the prayers of you all that we may be kept in the straight and narrow way, I am, Your sister in Christ,

Belle D. Gray.

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Grand Junction, Mich.

Dear Saints of God: I thank God for his love and mercy to me. I am saved and sanctified through the precious blood of Jesus. A little over a year ago, I became interested about my soul, so much that I began to look around to see if I could find the right church. I consulted different ones, and finally concluded to reform myself. I knew of an institution in Louisville, Ky. for young ladies to reform. I at once made secret preparations to go. I could not let my father know of my plans, for he would have prevented me from carrying them out. I found the home to be a large stately building, nicely furnished, with good rules, exercises, wholesome food, etc., library with plenty of good moral books, and many friends. Yet my soul was not satisfied; they lacked the spiritual food which my soul hungered for. I being an inmate of my own desire I was not compelled to remain. In a few weeks I left, and went out in the city to get a position, but I firmly believe the hand of God was upon me. I did not get work. Night was coming; I had nowhere to lay my head, and and not a cent of money. How well I remembered the scripture, “The Son of man hath nowhere to lay his head.” The devil had a trap laid for me, but by an experience in the past and help of the Lord I escaped it. I heard of the Mrs. Claxon Mission and went there for the night, but remained about two months. While there I heard of a people called Saints; somehow I had a great desire to see them; the fourth sermon I heard I gave my heart to God. Five weeks afterwards the Lord opened the way for me to come to Grand Junction, which proved a great blessing to me. In my sinful life I was very fickle and frivilous, so changeable that it was not safe to rely upon me. It being a weak point I often lost the victory and would get very vain and worldly in my thoughts, and would act very disagreeable. The dear children of God there could not see me lost; they kept holding on to God for me, and doing all they could to save my soul. I learned a lesson from that, in long- suffering, and patience that will profit me all my life. The Lord has opened the way for me to go to the Children’s Home and School. Praise his dear name! Pray for me that I will improve each moment and do all the good I can for others. God bless you all. Amen. Your sister in Christ,

Mattie L. Helton.

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OBITUARIES.

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HOOVER. — Died at his home, Oct. 10, Bro. Jacob W. Hoover; aged forty-nine years, eight months and twenty-five days. Bro. Hoover was a preacher in the U. B. sect for nearly twenty years, and was one of the first to embrace the evening light in this country and come out for the whole truth. He leaves a wife and eight children; was a kind husband and loving father. He died triumphant in the faith. God bless the wife and children in their bereavement. Burial conducted by the writer,

J. A. Chandler.

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YOUNG. — Died of typhoid fever, in Crowland, Out., Oct. 16, 1895, Emma Jane, daughter of Alfred and Mary-Ann Young; aged twenty- one years. Sister Emma embraced the apostolic faith about four years ago, living and walking in all the light that shone in her path. Renewed her covenant with God while- attending the Canada camp meeting. Died triumphant in the faith. Her last moments called the unsaved friends, father, mother and brothers to her side, entreating them to give their hearts to the Savior of mankind, and meet her on the other side. She gave orders for a plain funeral, selecting her text. Rev. 14:18. — “I heard a voice from heaven, saying unto me, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord.” Lifting up her humble feeble voice to the God of her salvation, cried out, “I want to go home.” Those by her bed side enquired, What home? “Heaven! heaven!” Oh may this scene of a dying saint be the means of bringing the unsaved father, mother, and three brothers to Christ. God bless the bereaved ones. Funeral service by the writer.

J. A. Dillon.

Farewell, dear Emma, rest In peace;
Thy sufferings now are o’er;
With Jesus now you’re safe at home,
Just on the other shore.

In Jesus’ arms He bore thee safe
To his bright home of love;
We too are hastening on to join
The host of saints above.

Your saved sister,

B. B. Fleming.

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GRANNIS. — Valleria, youngest daughter of William and Eliza Shockley, was born near Crains, Ky., Nov. 2, 1870. She was converted in June, ’84; was married to B. S. Grannis, Dec. 23, 1886, and died at her home in Flemingsburg, Ky. after a week’s illness, Oct. 10, 1895. She took part in prayer and testimony services and enjoyed family worship. She was much loved wherever she was known. She was unconscious during her illness, but in answer to earnest prayer become conscious a short time before her death, and testified sweetly of Jesus in her soul; of her readiness to go to Him, kissed her loved ones good-bye, urged her husband to bring their two precious little boys with him to heaven, asked the others to meet her there, then fell asleep. She was devoted to study, and was doing all she could to help train her children for usefulness and for heaven. She dearly loved the society of her mother to whom she looked for spiritual help, and with whom she shared temporal cares and joys. Of late they sang, prayed, studied” the Word and had much sweet counsel together. Being next to me in the family circle she was the almost constant companion of my early school days, and my most interesting pupil when I taught. May the blessings of God rest upon her precious little family and loved ones, and lead us to keep the promise to meet her in heaven. Her brother,

Jambs B. Shockley.

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DIVINE HEALING.

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By E. E. Byrum.

THE WILL OF GOD TO HEAL.

Is it the will of God to heal the sick in these days? What a question! You may as well ask, “Is it the will of God to forgive sins in these days?” The same scripture in speaking of the power of God says, “Who forgiveth all thine iniquities, who healeth all thy diseases.” It does not say forgive all our iniquities and heal just such diseases as is according to his will, but it says, “all.” Now here we can see the will of God concerning the matter.

The people of God as a general thing who have believed in divine healing in a sense have often gone to the Lord in prayer like this: “O Lord, heal me if it be thy will, or heal this brother or sister if it be thy will.” Now we wish to say that as far as his will is concerned, he wills that the sick be healed. Because they are not healed sometimes does not change his will concerning the same. In the instructions given in his word to his children it is very plainly and emphatically set forth that “any” among you may be healed. It does not just say some among you, nor a few among you, but it sets forth his will, and that is that the sick be healed. The scripture reads like this: “Is any sick among you, let him call for the elders of the 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,” etc.

God plainly sets forth his will in his word, but the next thing, Are we living up to the privileges of his will? It is evident that we have in the past been living far below our privileges on the line of healing. God plainly made his will known to Moses in Exodus 15:26, and to us who are under the gospel dispensation we have so many wonderful promises that surely we need not hesitate in moving out with all faith and confidence in God for the healing of our bodies.

Notwithstanding it being the will of God to heal in all cases as far as disease is concerned, yet there are times when the healing is not done immediately; sometimes for lack of faith; sometimes because there is some precious lesson to be learned, or something to be removed out of the way. But because some of these hindrances are there, and in many cases never removed, does not change his will in our privileges. There are many instances to which we might cite you concerning his will. Remember when a leper came and worshiped him, saying: “Lord, if thou wilt thou canst make me clean.” Now here it was left to the will of God, and what did Jesus say? He said, “I will, be thou clean,” and the work was done immediately. Then came a centurion in behalf of his servant who was sick of the palsy, beseeching healing through the great Physician. And again we hear the words of Jesus, “I will come and heal him.” — Matt. 8:7. There it was just as easy for him to heal the sick as it was to forgive sins, as we hear him say concerning the palsied man in Matt. 9:5: “For whether is easier to say, Thy sins be forgiven thee, or to say, Arise and walk? And he said unto the sick of the palsy, Arise, take up thy bed and go into thine house.”

It was because of their faith in him that this work was done. We find it just as necessary now as it was in that day to have faith in God, and a willingness to follow him in all things. His mission on earth was not only to forgive sins, but we read in Matt. 8:17, that “Himself took our infirmities and bare our sicknesses.” If that be the case, why need we go about burdened down by sin? Why need we go about burdened with disease and suffering when he came for the purpose of bearing them for us?

When we look at these things in the fight of God’s word, surely we can have more faith for the healing of our bodies, knowing that it is not his will that we should be so filled with disease and suffering, but that it is his will to heal us, and thus fulfill his mission on earth in and through us. If we will not let him save our souls from sin his mission is not being fulfilled in us. If we will not let him heal our bodies his mission is not being fulfilled in us. Can we not take an advanced step on this line? We see how plainly he has set forth his word concerning the healing of our bodies, and he says in Jno. 14:23, “If a man love me he will keep my words.” So if you want to love the Lord with all your heart, begin to ask him to help you on this line, that “you may be in health, even as your soul prospereth.”

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The Dunkard Soup Feast.

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Sister R -.

Your letter of the 20th received. Praise God it finds us well and joyful in glory. I apprehend from what you have written that the Dunkards endeavor to bring in their beef-soup supper by denying that the supper of John 13:2 was the passover. This it is impossible to do without wresting the scriptures. That supper was the passover. No supper is mentioned in connection with that night by any of the four evengelists, but the passover of the Jews and the Lord’s supper, the bread and the cup.

Notice, sister, that John 13:1..-3 is an adverbial element. The whole thing has the force of an adverb, and qualifies the time of the action set forth in the verses following. “He riseth from supper,” etc. If we ask when he did so, the Word answers thus: “Now before the feast of the passover — before he ate it — when Jesus knew that his hour was come,” etc. “And supper being ended — generally rendered ‘supper having come’ the preparation only was ended — the devil having now put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him, Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands,” etc. “He — at the time of all the afore mentioned circumstances — rises from supper, and laid aside his garments,” etc., “and washed the disciples’ feet.” Now it is very evident that the passover meal was at hand, or there would have been no occasion for him to have spoken of the passover in connection with his rising from supper. Had this washing of feet taken place some days before the passover, the record would have showed the intervening time, and there would have been no need of recording that he washed their feet before he ate the passover.

That the passover was the supper eaten the night Jesus washed the saints’ feet and instituted that ordinance, and also the communion of his body and blood, is very clear from the whole record.

For instance, we find Jesus concludes his explanation of the object of his humble act upon his disciples, by disclosing the astonishing fact that one of them should betray him. Whereupon they all said, “Is it I?” Judas was pointed out as the traitor. He immediately left the house. See John 13:17-30. Then follows a connected discourse of the Savior extending to and concluding with the Lord’s prayer, chapter 17. Then in John 18:1 we are told, “When Jesus had spoken these things, — namely, the same night in which he washed the disciples’ feet, ate the passover, gave the precious lessons of John 14:16, and offered that memorable pray- for the church, when he had finished all these things, and had spoken these words, — he went forth with his disciples over the brook Cedron, where was a garden, into the which he entered, and his disciples.” Then follows the same things that stand recorded in connection with the giving of the bread and the cup in Matt. 26, and Mark 14. Namely, the agony in the garden, the betrayal of Christ by Judas, his apprehension, Peter’s denial of his Master, the cock crowing as Christ had predicted, his trial before Pilate, etc. Now any person with ordinary sense and common honesty must see and confess that the record of John 13, as well as that of Matt. 26 and Mark 14, relates to our Savior’s last night before he was crucified, and there is no possible chance for our Dunkard friends to separate the records of John and Matthew, and make the supper of John 13:2 anything else but the passover. The only shadow of example they find for their beef-soup meal is that of 1 Cor. 11, where the Corinthian church, in shameful confusion and utter perversion of the word of God, ate their own supper and not the Lord’s supper at all, because they ate a meal instead of simply the morsel of bread and a sip of the cup, as Jesus set the example and as Paul declared he also received of the Lord Jesus. And the same rebuke the apostle gave to the carnal Corinthians, falls upon the head of the carnal Dunkards, — “If any man hunger, let him eat at home; that ye come not together unto condemnation.”

We would like to know how any one can possibly bring in the passover after the Savior washed the disciples’ feet. Upon his words respecting that ordinance is immediately connected the announcement of his betrayal, and from that on we have a connected narrative of the same night’s record from the passover room to the judgment hall. It was then the passover feast which is spoken of in John 13:2 and no other.

But our Dunkard friends think they find an argument for their soup feast in John 18:28. We are told here that the Jews went not into the judgment hall, lest they should be defiled; but that they might eat the passover. Their supposition is here that the passover meal had not yet been eaten. But they overlook the fact that the entire feast week was sometimes called the “feast of the passover,” owing to the feet that the paschal lamb, which was eaten the first night of the feast, was the most solemn and expressive part of the whole feast. Hence we say the whole feast was called the feast of the passover. This we shall now prove. In Deut. 16:2 we read, “Thou shalt sacrifice the passover unto the Lord thy God, of the flock and of the herd.” Here the word passover is applied to all the days of the feast, and not exclusively to the first supper which took no cattle from the herd, but only a lamb from the flock. Read again 2 Chron. 35:7-9, and there we find the following spoken of as “passover offerings;” viz., lambs, kids, bullocks, small cattle and oxen. Three times over these are called “passover offerings.” Now we know very well these offerings were not required for the passover meal proper; but were to be offered up daily during the whole week of the feast which is commonly called the “feast of unleavened bread,” but sometimes denominated the feast of the passover, so named from the first night. With this fact before us we have no trouble to understand the language of John 18:28.

The next day after the crucifixion was the Sabbath. Mark 15:42. And “that Sabbath day was a high day.” John 19:31. Namely, the “paschal Sabbath,” so translated by George Campbell. It was the sacred services of this “high day” of the passover week that those Jews wished to be prepared for, and not the eating of the paschal lamb which had been regularly eaten on its proper time the night previous. Here George Campbell’s notes on John 19:14 are to the point. “The word PASKA was not always confined to the sacrifice of the lamb or kid, appointed to be on the fourteenth of the month Nisan at even; but was often extended to the whole of the festival, which continued the seven days of unleavened bread.” This he proves by the Word. Then continues, “If the whole period, and the sacrifices offered therein were sometimes familiarly called the passover, it is extremely probable” that the Sabbath of the passover week should, in the same way, be distinguished;” that is, as the passover Sabbath. “This — he further remarks — serves also to account for what we are told, chap. 18:28, that the Jews entered not into the pretorium, lest they should be defiled, and not in a condition to eat the pass- over. If we suppose (and in this supposition there is surely nothing incongruous) that the evangelist used the word in the same latitude that Moses and the writer of the Chronicles did, the whole difficulty vanishes. No more is meant by “eating the passover,” than partaking in the sacrifices offered during the days of unleavened bread.”

Again we say in the name of Jesus and in the light of all God’s truth, that the Dunkard meal is without a shadow of support in the Word. No one of the four gospels, nor Paul who received the whole gospel direct from Christ, mentions any other supper in connection with the institution of the bread and wine, but that of the Jewish feast. The regular time for the passover feast had arrived. Mat. 26:17. Mark 14:12. The disciples made ready the passover, they all sat down to the same, and at the close of that feast which was nailed to the cross the next day and ended, “Jesus took bread and blessed it, and brake it, and gave to the disciples, and said. Take, eat; this is my body. And he took the cup and gave thanks and gave to them, etc. Following this they sang a hymn, then went out into the garden, where, after much suffering, the Master was apprehended, and the next day crucified. Nothing was commanded but the bread and the fruit of the vine, and that other ordinance of washing of feet recorded by John. So the Corinthian disorder and the Dunkard feast, are both human works of supererogation, without divine sanction, and not in any honor to the Head, Christ.

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TESTIMONY.

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Raber, Ind.

Dear Saints of God: I can say this morning that I am saved, sanctified and kept by the mighty power of God. Praise his name! I was terribly afflicted in body, but praise the Lord, he has healed me entirely. I had very weak eyes, and had to wear glasses for nearly two years. But when I went to the Payne camp meeting I was anointed and had hands laid on in the name of Jesus and my eyes were instantly healed. Pray that I may be kept humble and obedient at the feet of Jesus. Your sister in the love of Jesus,

Estella Dunfee.

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Langley, S. C.

Dear Saints of God: To-day finds me saved and sanctified through the truth, and also praising dear heavenly Father for the mighty healing power. He has healed me and that without man’s help. Praise his holy name! I was unable to walk for more than a week, without feeling that I must fall on my face. I had faith to believe that he would heal me in answer to prayer, and in a moment of time it was done. I praise him for not only healing my body, but also he has heard my prayer for the healing of others. Dear saints, pray that I may keep humble at Jesus’ feet. I am out in the field to work for him. Your humble sister,

Jane Williams.

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Petersburg, Ind.

Dear Saints of God: I wish to testify to my experience of God’s healing power, believing it will be to his glory. Oh bless the Lord! I have been weakly six years; had falling of the womb and ovarian trouble, but praise the Lord, I am well. I obeyed what God’s word tells us to do in James 5:14, 15, and praise the Lord, he did raise me up. I give him all the glory. Before, when I would meet friends and they would say, Are you well? I could not say I was, for I never missed a day without pain somewhere. It has been three weeks since my healing, and I have never felt any pain. Praise the dear Lord, I know I am healed. Pray for my unsaved husband. Your sister, saved and kept by the power of God,

Rosa H. Smith.

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