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VOLUME XXII. MOUNDSVILLE, WEST VIRGINIA, U. S. A., THURSDAY, MAY 29, 4902. NUMBER 22
" DID- YOU DO IT FOR JESUS?"
Did you speak a word of love to- day-
A word of hope and cheer?
Did you bring a smile on some one's face?
Did you wipe some burning tear?
Did you speak of Jesus to the lost?
Did your light shine pure and bright?
Did it lead some lonely broken heart
From darkness into light?
Did you praise your God for life and health,
For the peace and joy within?
For a spotless heart that he can keep,
Midst a world of woe and sin?
Did you do your very, very best
In fighting for your Lord?
Forgetting things which are behind—
Did you read and love his word?
Did you lose all sight of self to- day?
Did you bravely bear your cross?
Did you only long for holiness,
And count all else but dross?
Oh, may your answer ever be,
While in this world you stay,
" Yes, for my loving Savior's sake
I did it all to- day." ' Anon.
The Key to Success.
BY MRS E. E. LAVELL,
ierlils book of the law shall not de-ll
out ot thy mouth; but thou
shalt meditate therein day and night,
that thou mayest observe to. do accord-ing
to ail that is written therein: for
then thou shalt make thy way prosper-ous,
and then thou shalt have good suc-cess."
josh. 1: 8.
It is in the nature of humanity as they
start out in the world to gain earthly
wealth, to desire to be successful in what-ever
they undertake, but the road to suc-cess
in gaining these perishable riches is
so dimly marked out that in no case are
they certain of snec ` ss. Without one
exception, whatever course they pursue
and however bright the prospects, there
are possible failures, even when one has
done their best and even passed through
privation and suffering, often endanger-ing
their health and lives to gain the
desired goal. But how thankful we
should be, that, in this one most impor-telt
pursuit of life, the eternal welfare
of our soul, the true riches, that which
carries us safely through this life and
gives us an inheritance to all heaven
with its untold wealth, our God has
made the Toad to success so plain that if
the directions are carefully followed fail-ure
is impossible.
People who have made failures and
are inclined to think that our chance of
gaining heaven is a mere lottery, or
quite uncertain and that salvation does
not bring success and prosperity equally
to all, must remember that God's prom-ises
are conditional, and those conditions
must be met by all, not just by an un-favored
fey,: and the rest to slip through
on half- hearted service and mercy with-out
judgment. God has no " pets" in
his family. ' We, his children, are all
treated alike by this dear loving lather.
fie does n. otpmdemn one and excuse an-other;
oto as au all- wise Father de-mands
obedience and whole- hearted ser-vice
ot aiL .1So let us understand that if
we would meet with true success and
prosperity * a must meet the conditions
set forth our text: " But thou shalt
meditate therein day and night, that
thou mayest observe to do according to
all that is written therein: for then thou
shalt make thy way prosperous, and then
thou shalt have good success."
While the things to be ob served under
the Mosaic law were different from those
to be observed under the gospel law, yet
the obligations to observe the law under
which we live is none the less, and the
promise of success and prosperity, on con-dition
of obedience, has not been cancelled
because of the change of the covenant
and priesthood; for in Malachi 3: 6 God
has said through his prophet, " I am the
Lord; I change not." So while God
has seen fit. to make a change ot the cov-enant
and priesthood, that. fallen humanity
might be lifted to the plane of heaven's
purity, yet. he himself changes not. His
faithfulness on condition of our obedience
remains the same as it ever has been
since the creation of Adam, and the pen-alty
for disobedience is spiritual death
to the soul.
Some people wonder why they are
not more successful in the Christian life,
why their prayers are not answered, and
why the rich blessings and victories that
others profess to have, . and that they
once, perhaps, enjoyed. Why they so
often have fearful doubts concerning
their relation: with God, while others'
faith is always so clear as to their ac-ceptance
with God.
Now, dear, unstable, unhappy soul,
can you not see the secret of your condi-tion
unfolded in Josh. 1: 8? Has the law
of your Lord departed out of your
mouth? Do you read God's word much?
Do you meditate on it day ' and night,
and with a faithful, obedient, and prayer-ful
heart observe to do according to all
its teachings? Or have yon given place
in your heart for a little of the love of
the world inasmuch that you are less
plain in attire, more worldly in conver-sation,
more giddy in action, than God
by his Holy Spirit taught you to be
when you first gave your heart to him?
There are many other things which are
the fruit of a lukewarm, unstable experi-ence,
such as murmuring, tale- bearing,
evil surmising, attractions for Babylon,
worldly social enjoyments, etc., which
all have a tendency to destroy the soul
and allure the mind farther and farther
away from the things of God.
If this be your condition you have, of
course, lost your relish for the word of
God and the pleasure you once enjoyed
holy meditation and pprraayer. The
others; but let us watch and be sober.
in
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onl y way to enjoy the blessings you crave,
Putting on the breast plate of faith
and love; and tor an helmet, the hope of
is not b y merely resolving to do better,
for you : kill experience failure after fail- ssaa lvation. For God bath not appointed
ure, which finally will discourage you in us Unto wrath, but to obtainsalvation by
tryi ng to live a holy life.
our Lord Jesus Christ." a Thess. 5: 6- 9.
Therefore " watch ye, stand fast in the
The fact is, you have been sidetracked
and are no longer on the highway or faith, quit you like men, be strong." 1
holiness where God can bless you with Oor. 16: 13-
success and victories over the powers of
evil. The only possible way to regain
your experience is to " remember there-,
fore from whence thou art fallen, and re r therefore, the prisoner of the Lord,
pent, and do thy first works." • beseech you that ye walk worthy of the yea
Then with your confidence in God thl eation wherewith ye are called, with all
nerved, your hopes brightened, your Matt lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering,
filled with the love of? Tod, by his g, raoi forbearing one another in love; endeavor-you
will find it natural to live the Christ- ing to keep the uniti of the Spirit in the
life. Then be diligent not to allow tie bond - of peace. Eph. 4: 1- 3.
A Pure Church.
BY GEO. L. OGLE. •
AETIOLE I.
GOD'S part and man's part: God and
man work together; this is true
throughout - the entire plan of salvation,
is true with respect to the church. If
we expect God to do it all, what are we
to do? If we expect to do it all, God is
counted out. Were we to undertake to
do God's part, failure would be the
result. When men undertake to do that
which God proposes to do, it is evident
that they have not discovered that which
God has assigned to them, hence neglect-ed
their part. It may be said from this
standpoint that God does it all, viz., that
which he can not accomplish independent
of human agencies, he must accomplish
through them; " for it is God that
worketh all in all." So the work which
God accomplishes by using human in-strumentality
is no less the work of God,
than that which he does by his Siprit
independent of human agents. But that
which God uses man to do is what we
here denominate man's part.
In sectism the entire government of
the church is supposed to be resting with
man, that man's part is all there is of it,
because God will not use man to build
sects which are contrary to his word;
while on the other extreme, I fear that
many in this reformation have magnified
God's part to the exclusion of man's
part. I have noticed that the greater
part of the preaching on the church
question, almost invariably and exclu-sively
dealt with God's part. I find no
fault with what has been preached, it is
the truth, and the standard has not been
lifted too high. To exalt God's part up to
the full standard is what we ought to do,
and not to leave the other undone; that
is, not fail to teach man's part also. It
is an important matter in church govner-ment
that the church clearly understands
what God expects of her; she is his help-meet.
It is the duty of a wife to take
enough interest in her husband's busi-ness
to understand his part in domestic
affairs and see that she does not usurp
authority over him ( use his authority—
that which belongs to him), but keep her
place in this respect; also to know what
is expected of her as a wife, and with
love and reverence for him nobly do ner
part. It is God's business to have a
pure church. " He hath chosen as in
him before the foundation of the world,
that we should be holy and without
blame before him in love." Eph. 1: 4.
" And now the ax is laid to the root of
the trees: every tree that bringeth not
forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast
into the Ere. . . . He shall baptize you
with the Holy Ghost and with fire:
whose fan is his hand, and he will
thoroughly purge his floor, and gather
his wheat into his garner; but he will
burn up the chaff with unquenchable
fire." Matt. 3: 10- 12. " That he might
present it to himself a glorious church,
not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such
thing, but that it should be holy and
without blemish." Eph. 5: 2T. " Who
gave himself for us, that he might
redeem us from all iniquity, and purify
law ( word of God) to depart out of your
mouth or heart, gird up the loins of your
mind, and " the peace of God which - pass-eth
all understanding shall keep your
hearts and minds through Christ Jesus;"
and whatsoever things are true, honest,
just, pure, lovely, and of good report,
" if there be any virtue, and if there be
any praise, think on these things." Phil.
4: 7, 8. The time you may have spent
in giddy, frivolous, worldly and absent
wandering thoughts, spend now in ear-nest,
prayerful meditation on the things
of God. If you have spent hours into
the night thinking over things of a
worldly nature, so making plans how you
may earn a few dollars that perhaps
would not be spent to the glory of God,
if earned, let such night watches now be
spent in prayer and meditation on things
that will draw your soul into closer com-munion
with God, that you may under-stand
his will and observe to do accord-ing
to all that is written in his blessed
Word, and thus learn by your own ex-perience
the secret of true success in the
Christian life.
Perhaps through failure you have be-come
discouraged, but remember that
your failures were caused by the enemy
of your soul. Discouragement comes
from the same source, and your soul is
of far too great value, and preparing for
eternity is of too mach importance to
listen. to the voice of Satan. Many of
us have made failures in the past, but
God saw that we were honest at heart,
and step by step he led us out, corrected
us by the chastening rod of love until -
we have finally learned the, precious les-son
of abiding in Jesus.
God loves us all with the same tender
compassion. " Like as a lather pitieth
his children, so the Lord pitieth them
that fear him. For he knoweth our
frame; he remembereth that we are
dust." Ps. 103: 13, 14. This does not
mean that he will wink at our shortcom-ings
but it does mean that he has pity
and will show mercy to weak, frail
humanity it'he sees they are honest at
heart and are willing to fear him and
love him enough to obey his word. And
if a ' soul who Is honest at heart makes a
mistake and truly repents and desires the
favor of God, is willing to obey him and
give him his undivided affections and ser-vice,
he will in his love and pity set him
aright and lead him forth unto victory.
Then when once God does crown us
with victory, " let us not sleep, as do
AN EARNEST EXHORTATION.
" born again" are his family; if they
" have not the Spirit of Christ they are
none of Ms." That it is the spiritual
ones that " are built up a spiritual house"
— a pure church. Salvation alone con-stitutes
membership in the church as far
as God's part is concerned, and ' sin
which produces death, separates between
God and the one that sins; hence sep-arates
from the church, which is his
( Christ's) body; therefore God on his
part no longer recognizes such as mem-bers
of his church. You see from God's
standpoint of the church question in this
dispensation he has, had a pure church
all the time. God has never made a
mistake. " Having this seal, the Lord
knoweth them that are his." Sinners
are not saints; God never accepts them
as such. Saints that have turned back
to sin are sinners and not saints. • Have
no part nor lot with God; nor does he
retain their membership in his body
( church). God is faithful to execute his
judgments against evil doers, nor does he
wait for the church to pass sentence on
the trespasser, in order for him to deter-mine
the case. God passed sentence
long ago—" The soul that sinneth it shall
die"— and the spirit executes the word
simultaneously with the act of sin.
When God saves a soul he accepts him,
then and there; he does not wait to see
if the family is going to accept him.
MAN'S PART IN MAINTAINING A. PURR
CHURCH.
I have not advocated two churches, but
two phases of the one church— one body.
God's part and man's part; the latter
we will now consider. If God were to
use human- instrumentality to organize a
church, there would be two churches, as
we have before proved that God has one
which he organizes, builds, himself set-ting
the members in by his. Spirit. " The
tabernacle which the Lord pitched and
not man." " Not made by hands"—
not by human agents. We are to accept
the one he builds and reject all others;
thus we cooperate with him. When
God saves a soul he receives that person
into his church as a member, then the
church must receive him, too. You see,
when a child is born into a family it is a
part of that family, and every member
of that family must recognize the new-born
child as a member of the family;
their recognizing it does not make it a
member, the birth does that, and recog-nizing
it makes harmony. Therefore,
the scripture says, " Him that is weak
in the faith receive ye, but not to doubt-nil
disputations." Rom. 14: 1.
God wants the whole church to receive
them; but if part of the church receives
them ( that are weak in the faith) and
part rejects them, doubts their accep-tance
with God, this divides the church
and leads to doubtful disputations.
Those that give clear and positive evi-dence
of salvation, t here is no occasion
for a spiritual church to doubt and dis-pute
over them; hut those that are weak
in faith, only so let us receive them with
sll confidence; it they will take nourish-ment
feed them. Many a feeble babe
has grown to be a strong man or woman,
while some healthy babes have died in
a short time, never reaching manhood or
womanhood. But how are we to receive
them? Ans.—" Wherefore receive ye,
one another, as Christ also received us to
the glory of God." Rom. 16: 7. Thisi
The meek will he guide in judgment:
and the meek will he teach his way. All
the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth'
unto such as keep his . covenant and his if
testimonies. Ps. 25; 9, 10, t
receiving is not alto gether one- sided, it
is not altogethei- hy the older members
of the family, aid visa versa. There is
a taking each , ' other into confidence,
there is a knitting of hearts together in
love, f` Ile that loveth him that begat
loveth him also that is begotten of
him." " Love the brotherhood."
" Love one another with a pure heart
fervently." " By- this shall all men
know that ye are my disciples if ye have
love [ for everybody? No] one to anoth-er."
" A new commandment give I
unto yeti, that ye love one another as I
have _ loved you, that ye also love one
another." " By this we kno v that we
have passed from death unto life because
we love the brethren." " Let brotherly
love continue."
There is something about brotherly
love • which belongs with the new birth
and exists between all that are born
again, the same which existed between
the Father and the Son, which Jesus
exercised toward his disciples, and com-manded
them to also love one another,
and is found no where else on earth.
While we are to love the sinner, and
love our enemies, yet there is something
in the tie of love which binds the
children of God together in one; peculiar
to the kingdom and church of God. God
forgives sins, and the church is to for-give
also. There is a twofold sense in
which we are to forgive. We are to for-give
all who wrong us in the sense that
we hold no grudge, complaint, bitter-ness,
etc. in our hearts against them,
whether they ask our forgiveness or not.
But those that repent we are to forgive,
and take them into our confidence as
though they had never trespassed against
us. This is the way Christ forgives us
our sins, and Paul tells us , that as Christ
has forgiven us we are to forgive one
another.' Christ does not hold our past
sintul life before his mind when he thinks
of those he has forgiven, neither should
we. Our receiving, forgiving, etc., is
based upon their repentance toward God
and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ. When
the church is travailing for the salvation
of sinners, the newborn souls are wel-comed,
and easily recognized; it is a
backslidden people that can not discern
when souls receive the new birth. Like
- the joy of a mother, when a child is
born, so the church rejoices when souls
are born again. Thank God, we know
each other, for we are heirs together,
" members one of another."
The church receives those whom God
has received; just as I said before, this
receiving is not to make them members,
God did that when he saved them, and
we receive them because they are mem-bers
of Christ, hence members of us that
are saved. Neither do we take members
into our fellowship; God by his Spirit
places the spirit of fellowship in our
hearts, and we have the happytprivilege
of enjoying, and continuing in the same
steadfastly to the glory of God. Since
God only accepts and recognizes those
that are born again as members of his
church, should the church now in turn
accept, and recognize as members those
who are not partakers of the new birth,
not new creatures. We have a mixture
and something which as a whole God
can not acknowledge as his church; nor
can we say concerning them as did Paul
to the Corinthians, " Now ye are the
body of Christ and members in partic-ular."
" Purge out therefore the old
leaven that ye may be a new lump."
Recognize only those members- of Christ
as the church, and what have we? A
pure church. You see then it is not
enough for us to preach God's part but
cooperate with God, accept those he ac-cepts
and reject those whom he rejects.
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fat who for the joy that was set be-ore
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eeCERVE the Lord with gladness:
singing." Ps.
p s b. efore his presence with
100: 2. There are untold
numbers of individuals in the world to-day
who refuse to serve the God who
made them and gives them all the good
gifts they enjoy. They refuse to submit
to the easy yoke of Christ, but sooner
or later will awaken to the fact that they
are serving a hard master, the devil, who
does not ask for their glad service, but
compels their unwilling service, long
after they are weary of his yoke. To
illustrate: A man may put forth no
effort whatever to retrain from acquiring
the appetite a drink, but after he has
become enslaved to the habit he will toil
and scheme and go to much pain to
satisfy the abnormal : taste. Had he put
forth half the effort to keep from the
coils of this evil that he must manifest
to satisfy its demands, he might have
retained his freedom. It is so on all
lines of living. Did people make halt
the effort to serve the true God faithful-ly,
that the devil compels them to make
to satisfy his ' demands, they might live
happy and prosperous all their days,
instead of in sin and more or less misery;
and then at the end, instead of reaping
the awful harvest of the wicked in hell,
gain a blessed home in heaven.
In the 28th chapter of Deuteronomy
is a list of curses God said he would
send upon the Israelites if they did not
hearken diligently to his voice. The
47th verse reads thus: " Because thou
servedst not the Lord thy God with joy-fulness,
and with gladness of heart, for
the abundance of all things." He wants
his people to serve ', him cheerfully, not
grudgingly; fervently, not coldly, else
he will cast them off, and let them serve
the enemy of. their souls. The 48th
verse reads: " Therefore shalt thou serve
thine enemies which the Lord shall send
against thee, in hurigsr, and in thirst,
and in nakedness, and in want of all
things: and he shall put a yoke of iron
upon thy neck, until he have destroyed
thee."
We need but to look around to see
many dying for want of the sincere milk
of the word of God, and the strong meat
of the gospel, and others destitute of the
robe of righteousness, and in want ot
" all things" that pertain to life and god-liness.
What is the reason? The Word
answers: " Because thou servedst not the
Lord thy God with joyfulness, and with
gladness of heart, for the abundance of
all things."
Dear reader, if you are in this condi-tion,
where you realize Satan has placed
a yoke of iron upon you, and will in
time utterly destroy all your happiness in
time and eternity, hearken to the words
of Jesus: " Come unto me, all ye that
labor, and are heavy laden, and I will
give you rest. Take my yoke upon thee,
and learn of me; for I am meek and
your souls. For my yoke is e
lowly in heart: and ye shall finadsyresatutdo
my burden is light." Matt. 11: 28- 30. r)
• One thing that will help us in serving
God with a joyous heart is to be dead to
our own will. It has been said that
" love lightens labor." So if we have
the will of God ruling in us, we will
naturally will to do the things that
please him, and the service ot God will
themselves;
become
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people to serve
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when we are really dead to self and alive
unto God, it is easy to serve him It
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regard some people pay to their vows,
They will go to the altar and in the
presence ot their Maker and his people,
solemnly promise to be true to God all
their days; promise their heart's dem
lion an
shortly
their alife's
Perhaps they will
ll be living
in utter disregard of their vow, It
questioned, they will try to excuse them-selves
by saying they no longer profess
to be Christians. But I can not possibly
see how their want of profession changes
their obligations a particle. If I sell
something to a party it belongs to him,
whether or not 1 in the future profess to
be honest. " Will a man rob God?
Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say,
Wherein have we robbed thee? In
tithes and offerin gs." Mal. 3: 8.
" Oh, ye of little faith!" Thus no
doubt would Jesus address many es es
who have not served him as joyfully as
we should. Do we for a moment think
that our labor is vain in the Lord, that
we hesitate to serve him with the whole
heart? Or did we not sit down and
couilt the cost before starting to follow
Christ? Mere selfishness prompts many
to have their name placed on a church
class- book, and to pay the preacher a
certain amount yearly; but to follow the
Lord Jesus Christ in the light of his
word means much more than this— it
means that we give up all for him, and
never withdraw the offering; it means to
be true to him under all circumstances,
all the days of our life.
Cutting the Sinews.
THERE are many who do not seem
to know wherein the strength of
Christians lies. They imagine that ii
they can by one means or another per-suade
Christian men and women to fall
in with their plans, and work according
to their ideas, that they will transfer
their strength and influence into a nee
channel, and bring to pass great results.
They may thus perhaps succeed in get.
ting control of an energetic, effective,
and successful worker, and they suppose
that they will now accomplish great
things; but they find when the matter is
tested, that they have gained less than
they thought. The man who was se
strong and effective when walking in the
ways of God, and acting in accordance
with the guidance of the Spirit and his
own conscience, now, when falling under
their influence and their methods, be-comes
as weak as they themselves are.
Men who have been zealous for truth and
strong in the defence ot right, lose the
old- time zeal when the old- time motive
has been displaced by something else.
Men who are willing to suffer, and dare,
and do, to accomplish work for God,
and to advance his unadulterated truth,
when they are induced to follow human
leaders and adopt unscriptural ways, be-come
weak as other men are, and yield-ing
to selfishness and worldly policy, are
shorn of their power and become in-efficient
and unfruitful.
Many a man is strong and efficient
simply because he is strong in God. But
when he ceases to have the help of God
to sustain him, the power of God to gird
and strengthen him, he becomes power-less
and useless, a shadow of his former
self, the echo of men's voices rather
than a messenger with the Lord's own
word. No person can do great things
for God unless chosen, moved, and con-trolled
by the Holy Spirit. And the
more marked the manifestations of di-bz.
i unr, e0 r
the more absolute and abject will be his
ft. v
vine power in the experience of any man,
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hinder the spiritual life, and prevent
effective service in the Master's cause
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unto himself a peculiar people." Tit.
2: 14. " And it shall come to pass, that
every soul which will not hear that
prophet [ Christ], shall be destroyed from
ameeig the people." Acts 843.
" For by one Spirit are we all baptized
into one body." 1 Car. 12: 43.. tNoW
bath God set the members every one of
them in- the body, as it hath pleased
him." 1 Cor. 12: 18. " The Lord added
to the church," etc. " He that sins will
I blot out of my book." " Every branch
that beareth not fruit he taketh away."
These scriptures teach us that His people
are Fall righteous, that those who are
A Glad Service.
BY ROST. ROTHMAN.
1fiay 0132. TilE GOSPR - TRUMPET.
T HE reign of Christ may be scriptural-
' ly divided into two great epochs. The
first beginning . at the time he conquered
death and ascended to the right hand of
God, and lasting until the time that he
shall be " revealed from heaven," and
comes to resurrect the dead and judge the
world. The other epoch begins at the time
he is revealed, and lasts until the judgment
is over and the last enemy is destroyed.
Then he will deliver the kingdom over to
God, and he himself be subject to him
( God) that put all things under him
( Christ), that God may be all in all. 1 Cor.
15: 24- 28. The first part of his reign is an
invisible reign. It is not visible to human
eyes. It is without observation. Jesus
s old the Pharisees that his kingdom " corn-eth
not with observation." Luke 17 : 20.
" The kingdom of God is not meat and
think; but righteousness, and peace, and
joy in the Holy Ghost." Rom. 14 : 17.
" Blessed are they that have not seen, yet
have believed." Jno. 20: 29. " Whom hav-ing
not seen, ye love; in whom, though now
ye see Tam not yet believing, ye rejoice
with joy unspeakable and full of glory,"
1 Pet; Jesus told Nieodemus that
" Except man be born again [ or from
aboveb he can not see the kingdom of
Clod, ' alio. 3 : S. Many people have not
had their eyes anointed with eyesalve
( Rev. 3: 18) to see the kingdom in its pre-sent
state, the glorious spiritual kingdom
ever whichTe3hrist at present reigns. They
see a idugelom in the Bible, but it is away in
the future to them. True, there is a future
kingdom, which will only be the same
kingdom in its_ visible state; but we should
riot look away ahead to that, and by so do-ing
miss seeing the kingdom in its present
state. Jegus, said, " The kingdom of God
is at hank:, repent ye, and believe the gos-pel."
Mari 1: 15. Again, " The- law and
the prophets here until John : since that
time thenlh- kingdom of God is preached, and
every Man - Preneseth into it." Luke 16: 16.
And hove ' ilo We get in ? e" Ye must be born
again," " Verily, verily, I say unto thee,
Except a man be born of water and of the
Spirit, he can not enter into the kingdom
of God." Jno. 3: 7, 5.
Jesus reigns. He reigns at present over
all who will accept him, all who will al-low
him. He is the King of saints. Rev.
15: 3. Praise God forever! Not the
king of the world at present. The world
can disbelieve, they can scoff at him, they
can ridicule him, but the time will come
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when they shall see, and also confess that shows himself, his glory will be so bright,
he is Lord. Every knee shall bow, and ev- his power so great that the most wicked
ery tongue confess. He is now the King of will melt and sink upon bender' knees, and
saints. His saints adore their. King, they perhaps, cry for mercy only to find out they
love him, they worship him, and crown him
King— not only in heaven, but in their own
hearts. The kingdom of God is within
them— a kingdom of love, a kingdom
that is taken and enjoyed by faith in this
life. " They which receive abundance of
grace and of the gift of righteousness shall
reign in life by one Christ Jesus." Bora.
5: 17.
He is the head of the church, not the
head of the world, because the world know-eth
him not. 1 Jno. 3: 1. Jesus is es-pecially
in the present dispensation ruler
of his church. If he ruled the world, it
would surely be a differen world. At the
same time he reigns far above the world.
His kingdom being of a spiritual and in-visible
nature, mortal hands can not do it
any harm. The gates of hell can not pre-vail
against it. " Fear not them which kill
the body, but after that have no more that
they can do." A man that has thekingdom
of God within him can be persecuted even
unto death, but after he passes out of this
world he continues to be in the kingdom of
28.
Let us pass on to the kingdom and reign
of Christ in the second epoch. This will be
a visible reign, a temporal reign, when all
nations shall behold the King Christ, his
kingdom and all that are therein. Paul in
giving instruction to Timothy, used words
like these: " That thou keep this command-ment
without spot, unrebukable, until the
appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ: which
in his time he shall show, who is the blessed
and only Potentate, the King of kings, and
Lord of lords." 1 Tim. 6: 14, 15. When he
appears, when he is revealed from heaven,
he will show who is king Some are
teaching that when he comes this time
there will be a chance for those who have
rejected him in this life, and salvation
work will go on even more abundantly than
ever before. Ah, dear one, be not deceived.
What does the word of God say he will do
when he comes? " I charge thee therefore
before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who
admired in all them that believe
our testimony among you was believe4)
that day." 2 Thess. 1: 7- 10.
have waited too long, and it is too late. ID
Rev. 6: 14- 17 is a very good picture of the
approach of his visible reign. " And the
heaven departed as a scroll when it is
rolled together ; and every mountain and
island were moved out of their places, and
the kings of the earth, and the great men,
and the rich men, and the chief captains,
and the mighty men, and every bondman,
and every freeman, hid . themselves in the
dens and in the rocks of the mountains; and
said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us,
and hide us from the face of him that sit
teth on the throne, and from the wrath of
the Lamb : for the great day of his wrath
is come: and who shall be able to stand?"
Again, let us read a few verses in Rev_ 11:
15- 18: " And the seventh angel sounded
[ To find out what will take place at the
sounding of the seventh angel, read Rev.
10 6, 7, which says there shall be time no
longer] ; and there were great voices in
heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world
are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and
of his Christ; and he [ the Lord God] shall
God, only to be manifested when the king-- reign forever and ever. And the four and
dom shall be revealed to the world. Then twenty elders, which sat before God on
those who rejected and persecuted him shall their seats, fell upon their faces, and wor-weep
and gnash their teeth. " Whenn ye shiped God, saying, We give thee thanks,
shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, 0 Lord God Almighty, which art, and wast,
and all the prophets in the hie • dom of God, and art to come; because thou hest taken
and you yourselves thrust out" Luke 13: to thee thy great power, and hest reigned
land then will the nations rejoice and be
glad 1]. And the nations were angry
[ will God have mercy?], and thy wrath is
come [ will there be another chance for sal-vatianf],
and the time of the dead, that
they should be judged, and that thou
shouldest give reward unto thy servants
the prophets, and to the saints, and them
that fear thy name, small and great; and
shouldest destroy them which destroy the
earth." Rev. 11: 15- 18.
There is no use to look for a better time
to obtain salvation before the coming of
Christ than now, and surely there will be
no time after he comes. " Behold, now
is the accepted time; behold, now is the
day of salvation." 2 Cor. 6: 2.
BY SARAH WADDELL.
UCH of our blessed Lord's teaching
shall judge the quick and dead at his ap- when on earth was by parable
peering and his kingdom." 2 Tim. 4: 1. ( Matt. 13: 3), and he has not changed
The judgment will be set and the books since, for Heb. 13: 8 says: " Jesus Christ
opened. " Behold he eometh with clouds: the same yesterday, and to- day, and
and every eye shall see him, and they also forever." Ile teaches now through his
which pierced him : and all kindreds of the Holy Spirit: " But the Comforter, which
earth shall wail because of him." Rev. 1: is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father - will
7. A very different picture the Bible pre- send in my name, he shall teach you all
sents to us, from the one that is preached things." He taught me a beautiful
by men. " And to you who are trouble& lesson recently, from the sewing- machine
rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shallebe- on being in God's order, which I believe
revealed from heaven with his mighty an het wants me to pass on to the readers of
gels, in flaming fire taking vengeance on = te Trumpet.
them that know not God, and that obey not I was sewing with a machine with
the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: who hlch 1 was not familiar. I had been
shall be punished with everlasting destruct- ho „ oneehow to thread it, but on ac-tion
from the presence of the Lord . and - --
from the glory of his power: when heshall eet'i. 4009X to , thread it again, I missed
Puttn-*` the , come to be glorified in his saints, and to be thread through one of the
holes made ' for it, and not noticing the
mistelee I attempted to sew, but without
success. This caused me to look into the
In this last- end of his reign, - evenheye matter and make inquiries as to what
shall see him, every tongue shall aonfesq rwaVwroksAnd when the mistake was
him, every knee shall how to him. Tectt work went on. till right as
11, 12), and every one shall stand liefor6.
his throne to receive a reward according. fo - ' oreetimes we fail in getting the results
the deeds done in the body whether' they' meted in our Christian work. There
be good or bad. 2 Cor. 5: 10; Rom. ' a' " reason for it, to be found some-
11. " When the Son of man shall eetee: ixt,
angels
iort 7 ere, if we are determined to discover
his glory, and all the holy. Ta' il; eald if it is removed success will fol-him,
then shall he sit upon the throne oaf The vessel that the potter made,
glory: and before Min shall be gathered'arele'---= 7r‘ e'. f. e• rred to in . ter. 1: 4, was marred in
nations: and he shall separate them oloe':' egg' hands; but he made it again, using
from another, as a shepherd dividetk- th: ; the same clay. Presumption is the
sheep from the goats: and he shallgBqeatt4le: 0a.,* vil's counterfeit of faith, and expects
sheep on his right hand, but the the leftis- 4a*,- reuslts without all the conditions having
the left, . . a. nd these ( on
go' away into everlasting punishMent: AnVt. met. When they fail to come, he
the righteous into life eternal." Matt: .,: 5' t: i- sititimpts to discourage us. But the fail-
31- 33, 46. • 7, etit: 10 should only put within us a greater
In this dispensation of the invilsit4O: 94! idetermination to have what we are ask-of
Christ, kings may deny him, infO e
and unbelievers may defy him;- hirt
dispensation of his visible reign.,=. 4h
, ing for, if we know it is in accordance
with the will of ' God as revealed in his
Word. The lessons in faith, patience,
obedience, humility, perseverance, and
separation to God alone, may be God's
highest will for us, before granting our
petition. When these lessons are learned
and any others he desires to teach us;
we will get the thing we asked for, and
appreciate it more on account of the
difficulty in obtaining it.
Sometimes God can not answer our
prayer without counteracting a former
one. After nine years of discipline on a
certain line in which I could not under-stand
why my prayers were not answer-ed,
finally the answer came. The dear
Lord reminded me of a single prayer I
had offered nine years before from the
depths of my heart, which he could not
answer, and at the same time give me
the answer to the continued prayers of
the nine intervening years.
I was so glad the Lord remembered
the prayer which 1 had forgotten. I
do not remember ever thinking of it after
offering it, until he brought it to my
remembrance by the Holy Spirit. But
two or three days after the former prayer
was answered, the answer eame to the
others. That hole in the machine had
to be threaded before the work would
go on all right. Both prayers were ac-cording
to the will of God; but they had
to be answered in God's order or neither
he nor I would have been satisfied.
Indeed the answering of the latter, de-pended
upon the answer to the former.
Sometimes in assembly or camp- meet-ings,
after we have recognized Christ as
the head of the church and put the con-duct
of the meeting entirely into his
hands, and some have ', really believed
that he did answer prayer and take his
place as Captain of the Lord's host, we
have heard workers say that such a man
was out of order. Dear'ones, let us be
carotid that in our mistaken zeal we do
not commit the sin of ITzzah, who put
forth his hand to steady the ark of God,
and God smote him there for his error.
2 Sam. 6: 6, 7.
Because judgment does not follow at
once, the designs of God in a certain
direction may be misunderstood, and the
results we expected fail to follow. God
could not give victory at Ai, until Achan
was discovered and punished. It was
not in the order of God that Achan
should commit sin; but alter the sin had
been committed it was necessary that it
be punished, sand that was the order of
God for the time, and then victory could
be achieved. We pray for God to un-cover
the enemy and, perhaps, when he
does it in the ranks of those who profess
to be his soldiers, in the face of the
world, their hearts sink, instead of cheering
up and going forth in his strength to take
the place of the fallen one. And perhaps
the older soldiers may contend against
the David who comes in the name of the
Lord, with the simple weapons God has
given him to use, to defeat the enemy.
For some weeks past I have been much
interested in watching a case of sickness,
and partial healing. There was a com-plication
of diseases, some of which were
entirely healed after the prayer of faith
had been offered. We continued to keep
the case before the Lord for some time
for' perfect healing of all the diseases.
But instead of answering prayer on this
line, God began to throw light on his
word in other directions. The patient
became so absorbed in the spiritual
teaching and what world be involved in
following the light received, that for the
time the physical conditions, except when
suffering severely, was almost lost sight
of. The perfect healing is according to
the will of God, but not his order for
the present.
In Sohn 7 we have an illustration of
how Jesus recognized the order of God.
as well as in many other places. Here
he says in verse 6 concerning going to
the feast, " My time is not yet come,"
and again in verse 8, " My time is not
yet full come." Ver. 10, lie ` went up
secretly later on, and went to the temple
and spoke openly. Dearly beloved, let
us pray one for another that we mey all
get into God's order in oar Christian
work.
thin tomerlY did the Lord's work; and
do neelagatroet the energy and interest In
the vileAreett danilding their institutions,
defending their ideas. and pushing for-ward
their, enterprises ; that they were
accustomed to put into the work done in
the named Christ and for the glory of
God. They need not wonder. The
man of eGod who knows he is right
stands ready to put in all the strength
he has to defend the right and over-throw
the wrong; but the man who only
works under human guidance and on
lines of mere expediency, who is not cer-tain
that he is right, or who is certain
that he is wrong, and only hopes that
the matter is one of indifference, and not
worth maid he: trouble about; such a
man will necessarily be half- hearted in
all the work he does. Ile has left the
high ground of noble principle and
neroic impulse, and has come down to the
plane of expediency and human policy,
where his heart has lost its courage and
his hand its strength. How many men
there are who once were mighty for
God, who from the love of fame, or
worldly position, or pleasure, or wealth,
have lost all the power they once pos-sessed,
and have become mere ciphers
where once they were moving forces in
the great drama of life. Let Christian
men be warned of the dangers of such a
course. Let them hold fast the faith of
Christ, and stand fast in the fear of God,
and they shall find blessings here and
triumph in the end.- 11. L. H, in " The
( Ariagam."
The Reign of Christ.
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44THEREFOEZE being justified. by
faith, we have peace with God
through our Lord Jesus Christ: by
whom also we have access by faith into
this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice
in hope of the glory of God. And not
only so, but we glory in tribulations
also: knowing that tribulation worketh
patience; and patience, experience; and
experience, hope: and hope maketh not
ashamed; because the love of God is
shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy
Ghost which is given unto us." Rom.
5: 1- 5.
We see by Paul's writings that we are
justified by faith and have peace with
God, which is grand and glorious; next
we have access or admission into this
grace wherein we stand, which is sanc-tification—
entered into the spiritual land
of Canaan. When the children of Israel
were fleeing from their enemies, crossed
the Red Sea, looked back and saw
Pharaoh and his army drowned in the
sea, how they did rejoice and glorify
God. Before, it seemed to them, they
were going to be overtaken and fall into
their cruel hands, but, no, God was
marching before them and slew Pharaoh
and his host before their eyes; which is
typical of the justified state. Bat on
they go, there is something better on be-fore.
Some tempted God, limited the
Holy One of Israel, judging after the,
sight of their eyes, and hearing of their
ears, and were not permitted to enter,
into that rest, but died in the wilder-,
nes& Their children could pass over.
They came to the river Jordan, over-flowing
its banks, but when the priests
pressed the soles of their feet upon the
waters they divided and they went over
on the dry land. The same day the
manna ceased. The y could now have
stronger food and enjoy the corn and
wine and fruits of the land, etc. So it
is in sanc tification; when we have enter-ed
the fullness et joy, we find we are in
larger t erritory, there is so much more
to enjoy, the Holy Spirit within oar
cities are to be taken.
souls a thine, etc 	 But now, all the
anxious to h
Next, experience.
tion also." Why? Knowing
h ave
ex pe rAi'eensce. weriaeresa;:
" Not only so, but we glory in tribula-that
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will come as a thief in the night; in the
which the heavens shall pass away with
a great noise, and the elements shall melt
with fervent heat, the earth also and the
works that are therein shall be burned
up. Seeing then that all these things
shall be dissolved what manner of per-sons
ought ye to be in all holy conver-t
sation and godliness, looking for and
basting unto the coming of the day of
God, wherein the heavens being on am
shall be dissolved, and the elements shall
melt with fervent heat." 2 Pet. 3: 9- 12,
I see no time to repent and get saved
after Jesus bursts in on this old world,
much less a period of one thousand years
on this earth. Ah l how are men going
to reign on this earth, and it passing
away with a great noise, and melting
with fervent heat"? but this is just
what some say they expect to do. " And
to you who are troubled rest with us,
when the Lord Jesus shall be resealed
from heaven with his mighty angels, in
flaming fire taking vengeance on them
that know not God, and that obey not
the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:
who shall be punished with everlasting
destruction from the presence of the
Lord, and from the glory of his power;
when he shall come to be glorified in his
saints, and to be admired in all them
that believe ( because oar testimony
among you was believed) in that day."
2 Thess. 1: 7- 10. " Wherefore, beloved,
seeing that ye look for such things, be
diligent that ye may be foand of him in
peace, without spot and blameless."
Amen.
E. E. BYRUIVI, Editor.
PubllsheA by GOSPEL TRUMPET PUB. CO.
Love the Stranger.
BY EMIL KREUTZ. A NO1ENT Israel were commanded to
" love the stranger. " For the Lord
your God is God of gods, and Lord ot
lords, a great God, a mighty, and a
terrible, which regardeth not persons,
nor taketh reward: he cloth execute the
judgment of the fatherless and widow,
and loveth the stranger, in giving him
food and raiment. Love ye therefore
the stranger: for ye were strangers in
the land of Egypt." Deut.: 10: 17- 19.
This no, doubt it written for us as well
as for ancient Israel. For " whatsoever
things were written aforetime were writ-ten
for our learning, that we through
patience and comfort of the scriptures
might have hope." 1- tom. 15: 4.
Now, who is the stranger? The a-postle
Paul commands: " Be not for-getful
to entertain strangers." Reb.
13: 2. Jesus - says, " I was a stranger,
and ye took me not in." Matt. 25: 43.
Perhaps, again you ask, Who is the
stranger": The meaning of the word
stranger is, a foreigner, a person un-known,
or one with whom we are not
acquainted. There are times perhaps
when people with whom we are not
acquainted will come to us for aid, or
hospitality, and we ought to show them
kindness and assist them in that which is
right.
But is that all it means, to love the
stranger? Let us turn to Eph. 2: 12, 19,
and find a New Tr. tiinient definition for
the word stranger. hi verse 12 Paul
speaks to the Ephesian church and tells
them that they had at one time been
aliens from the commenwealth of Israel,
and strangers froth the covenants of
promise, having no hope, ari d without
God in the world. In etim a they had
been sinners. Pea God, who is rich in
mercy, for his great love wherewith he
ARTICLE III.
BEFORE taking up the second death
and the second resurrection for ' con-sideration,
let us see what precedes these
events and what will take place at his
coming. First, we will notice that Jesus
declared at his first coming, that he was
coming the second time. Turn with rue
to John 14: 1- 3--" Let not your heart be
troubled: ye believe in God, believe also
in me. In my Father's house are many
mansions: it it were not so, 1 would have
told you. 1 go to prepare a place for
you. And if 1 go and prepare a place
for you, I will come again, and receive
you unto myself: that where 1 am, there
ye may be also." " And when he had
spoken these things, while they beheld,
he was taken up; and a cloud received
him out of their sight. And while they
looked steadfastly toward heaven, be-hold,
two men stood by them in white
apparel; which also said, Ye men of
Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into
heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken
from you into heaven, shall so come in
like manner as ye have seen him go into
heaven." Acts 1: 9- 11.
THINGS THAT TA IS PLACE AT HIS COMING.
First, all the dead shall be raised.
" Marvel not at this: for the hour is
coining, in the which all that are in the
graves shall hear his voice, and shall
come forth." Jno. 5: 28, 29. Second,
all will be judged. " When the Son of
man shall come in his glory, and all the
holy angels with him, then shall he sit
upon the throne of his glory; and before
him shall be gathered all nations, and he
shall separate them one from another,
as a shepherd divideth his sheep from
the goats." Matt. 25: 31, 32. Third.
this will be a speedy work. " In a mo-ment,
in the twinking of an eye, at the
last trump: for the trumpet shall
sound, and the dead shall be raised in-corruptible,
and we shall be changed." 1
Cor. 15: 52. " They that have, done good
unto the resurrection of life; and they,
that have done evil, unto the resurrection
of damnation." John 5: 29. " For the
Lord himself shall descend from heaven
with a shoat, with the voice ot the arch-angel,
and with the trump of God: ana
the dead in Christ shall rise first: then
we which are alive and remain shall be
caught up together with him in the
clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and
so shall we ever be with the Lord.
Thess. 4: 16, VT.
Reader, this last text does not by any
means give us the least intimation that
there will be a literal reign of Christ
lasting one thousand years here on this
earth. The phrase " the dead in Christ
shall rise first" only means what it says.
Some of the saints will be alive at his
coming and some of them will be in their
graves, that is, their bodies will be there.
These bodies shall be resurrected " in a
moment," and then we are to take our
journey into that place prepared for us,
to dwell with him forever." The a-postle
Paul in 1 Thess. 4: 16, 17 does not
mention: the destiny of the wicked, nor
of their resurrection, he only speaks of
the saved—" the dead in Christ" — but
we have already seen that all are to
" come forth" and receive their final
rewards at the very same " hour."
, GENERAL STATE Oh' THE WORLD AT HIS
COMING.
Some are looking for his righteousness
to cover the earth, as the waters cover
the sea, etc., not knowing the scriptures
nor the signs of the times. But I am con_
vinced that at his coming this world will
be " waxing worse and worse," with un-godliness
in every form conceivable to
man, and this I shall endeavor to prove
by the word of God. " This know also
that in the last days perilous times shall
come. For men shall be lovers of their
own selves, covetous, boasters, proud:
blasphemers, disobedient to parents, un
thankful, unholy. without natural affec-tion,
. .. false accusers, . . . despisers
of those that are good, . . . lovers of
pleasure more than lovers of God;
having a form of godliness, but denying
the power thereof." 2 Tim. 3: 1- 5.
We have just heard the testimony of
Paul about how it will be in the last
days; now hear what Peter says about
it. We want our witnesses to agree, and
if they all testify alike we can easily ac-cept
their testimony on this question:
" Tbis second epistle, beloved, I now
write unto you; in both which I stir up
your pure minds by way of remem-brance:
that ye may be mindful of the
words which were spoken before by the
holy prophets, and of the commandment
of us the apostles of the Lord and Savior:
knowing this first, that there shall come
in the last days scoffers, walking after
their own lusts, and saying, Where is
the promise. of his coming?" 2 Pet.
3: 1- 4.
Now since these witnesses declare that
in the last days there will be " perilous
times," with ungodly men and even
" scoffers" walking in their own lusts,
let us see if they knew these things of
the Lord himself, or were they just
guessing at these things, and writing
about it to fill space. Turn to Matt.
24: 37- 39. " But as the days of Noe
were, so shall also the coming of the Son
of man be. For as in the days that
were before the flood they were eating
and drinking, marrying and giving in
marriage, until the day that Noe entered
into the ark, and knew not until the
flood came, and took them all away; so
shall also the coming of the Son ot man
be."
Fourth. This world will be destroyed
at his coming. Jesus says, " Heaven aria
earth shall pass away, but
my words
shall not pass away." Not the heaven
we are going to after death, but, the
heavens or elements that help to compose
this world. After Peter says there will
be scoffers in the last days walking alter
the promise of his coming?"
,
their own lusts, and saying,
he says
" Where is
" The Lord is not slack concerning his
promise. . . . But the slay of the
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Those who can not attend the camp- meet-ing
can pray the prayer of faith for its
success.
There will be trumpet published
next week, as the office workers desire to
attend the camp- meeting and care for those
in attendance.
The camp- meeting at Hawick, Minn. will
be held June 7- 17, instead of July, as for-merly
advertised. .
Bro. Jas. B. Peter miin writes that the
Washington camp- meeting at the Saints'
Home will be held June 26— July 6, ten
miles northwest of Pullman and ten
miles south of Colfax.
A very urgent request is made for a
meeting near Maple Hill, Ky. Special em-phasis
is made that the minister or workers
be able to preach the word in its purity
without compromise. Address Mary C.
Cheser, Maple Hill, Ky. or Bro. M. Foster,
Willisburg, Ky. The truth has been plant-ed
there and the believers are anxious for
a tent or grove- meeting the last of August
or first of September.
loved us, even when we were dead in
sins, hath quickened us together with
Christ," and brought us ugh. by the
precious blood ot Christ, , that we should
no longer be aliens, foreigners, or
strangers, bat fellow- citizens with the
saints and of the household of God.
This had been done for the Ephesian
church— brought nigh by the blood of
Christ.
In the text first quoted God told us
that be " loveth the stranger." Dent. 10:
18. He so loved the world— when all the
world was a stranger— that he gave his
only begotten Son that whosoever be-lieveth
in him should not perish but have
everlasting life. Israel had been
strangers in the land of Egypt. We
have been strangers to God by a lib ot
sin, but now since God has saved us and
delivered us from sin, God wants us to
love those in sin; " To speak evil ot no
man, to be no brawlers, but gentle,
showing all meekness unto all men. For
we ourselves also were sometimes toolish,
disobedient, deceived, serving divers
lusts, and pleasures, living in malice and
envy, hateful, and hating one another.
But after that the kindness and love of
God our Savior toward man appeared,
not by works of righteousness which we
have done, bat according to his mercy
he saved us, by the washing of regener-ation,
and renewing ot the Holy- Ghost;
which he shed on us abundantly through
Jesus Christ our Savior." Tit. 3: 2- 6.
As he loves the sinner so we are to love
the sinner; we are to love those who are
strangers to God, and bestow kindness
upon them, that we might win them to
the Lord. May God increase our love
and pity for the stranger, that we may
not be harsh but kind and gentle even as
God has been kind unto us.
Christ's Second Coming.
EY J. E. FORREST.
Temptations And Trials.
BY LILLIE B. THURMOND.
May 29, 1991
THE GOSPEL TRUMPET. 	 5
tribulation worketh patience; and
patience, experience; and experience,
hope," etc. All glory to our God, who
fights the battles for us; but we must
have experience. We read of the Savior
before he started out on his earthly
ministry. He was led of the Spirit into
the wilderness to be tempted of the
devil. We know not of the many temp-tations
he endured while there alone.
When he became exceeding hungry after
tarty days of fasting, Satan said, " Cora-mand
that these stones be made bread."
But ah, he remembered what was writ-ten,
" Man shall not live by bread alone,
but by every word that proceedeth out
of the mouth of God." Right in the try-ing
time when the body was so fatigued,
so weak, and needed food. No; if he
could not get it in the right way he
would not have it at all. Then the devil
taketh him and setteth him on the
pinnacle of the temple and says, " Cast
thyself down: for it is written, Ile shall
give his angels charge concerning thee:
and in their hands they shall bear thee
up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot
against a stone." No; he remembered
it is written, " Thou shalt not tempt the
Lord thy God." Again, the devil took
him up into an exceeding high mountain
and showed him all the kingdoms of the
world, and the glory of them, and said
to Jesus, " All these things will I give
thee if thou wilt fall down and worship
me." This is what so many people are
seeking after to- day. The glory of God
and his kingdom are far more glorious
than all the kingdoms of the world. But
Jesus said, " Get thee hence, Satan for
it is written, Thou shalt worship the
Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou
serve." Then the devil left him, and,
behold, angels came and ministered unto
riim. Now he is ready to go and min-ister
to poor fallen humanity. He knows
tow to succor them that are tempted.
Why? Because he has had experience.
It is no wonder to my mind that the
apostle when telling the requirements of
an elder said, " Not a novice, lest being
lifted up with pride he fall into the con-demnation
of the. devil." Without an
experience, he may probably present the
letter, but the heart is not experienced
in the word of truth. I have heard it
said, so it is true, " Let the mother who
has lost a child comfort the mother who
is bereaved." Why? Because her heart
once ached just like this mother's heart
is now aching, and she can console her
by telling her experience and how God
bound up her broken heart.
" Not only so, but we glory in tribula-tion
also." We would dwarf and dwin-dle
away spiritually if our souls did not
have exercise, and the trial or distress or
temptation we are passing through
worketh patience, and patience expe-rience.
The beloved apostle Peter says
not to think it strange " concerning the
fiery trial which is to try you, as though
some strange thing happened unto you.
And if needs be ye are in heaviness
through manifold temptations, that the
trial of your faith, being much more
precious than of gold that perisheth,
though it be tried with fire, might be
found unto praise and honor and glory
at the appearing of Jesus Christ." Ah,
we know how to apply the word of God
to our own soul when in need, and as
David of old, we look unto the hill from
whence cometh our help. And if we
prove true, stand the test, we find we
have launched out deeper in spirituality,
our hearts enlarged, etc. I know by ex-perience
from that which I have passed
through, that which 1 have tasted, bat-lied
for and gained the victory in the
name of our God. How my heart is
teuched when I see one battling through
the Fame thing, and we can enter into
their troubles as our own. We read
where the disciples were crossing the sea
and Jesus in the ship asleep on a pillow.
There arose a great storm of wind and
the waves beat into the ship, and they
were frightened and cried out, " Master,
carest thou not that we perish?" Ile
arose and rebuked the wind and the sea,
and said, " Peace, to still," and there
was a great calm, and he said, " Why are
ye fearful? how is it that ye have no
faith?" Ah, let us keep our eyes upon
Jesus and when the rains come and the
winds blow, we know it can not shake
us, for we are founded upon the Rock—
and Father is just permitting to come
that which will fashion and mold us
more like himself. All glory to his pre-cious
name! - Whose eyes are over the
righteous and whose ears are open unto
our cry and who will not permit us to be
tempted above that which we are able to
bear, but will with the temptation make
a way for our escape.
We conclude with the words of the
beloved apostle, " Who shall separate us
from the love of Christ? shall tribula-tion,
or distress, or persecution, or fam-ine,
or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
As it is written, For thy sake we are
killed all the day long; we are account-ed
as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in
all these things we are more than con-querors
through him that loved us. For
I am persuaded, that neither death, nor
life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor
powers, nor things present, nor things to
come, nor height, nor depth, nor any
other creature, shall be able to separate
us from the love of God, which is in
Christ Jesus our Lord." Amen.
News from the Field.
Burkeville, Texas, May 12.
I am glad - to report victory in the name
of Jesus, our blessed ' Wing. Oh, halleluiah!
The meeting at Hawthorn, La. was owned
and blessed of God. One was baptized and
more are to follow soon. The meeting here
was indeed grand; there were very large
crowds. Sixteen were baptized and many
won to the truth. Many more to follow
Jesus in the ordinance of baptism at the
July meeting. May God bless this, people
for their kindness to me. Brethren, pray
for this people. I am still your holy broth-er,
all on the gospel altar until the end,
R. H. Owens.
Crayton, Ky., May 18.
Since my last report I have held a fey
meetings at Kentontown, in the Union
meeting- house. Quite a crowd was presenu
to hear the word expounded. From there
we came back to Nicholas Co., and made ar-rangements
to hold meetings in the court-house
at Carlisle. We had the consent of
the county judge and the jailer, and also
had the janitor employed. When the time
came for services, we soon found that the
sects had persuaded the jailer to lock the
court- house against us. But this disap-pointment
has only caused the county
judge and many of the business men of
Carlisle to see the evils of sectarianism,
and they have offered to rent the city- hall
for us, which would cost about $ 10.00 a
night. The Lord willing, we will either
hold meeting in the city- hall or rent a lot
and get some of the brethren who have a
tent to come and help us hold a meeting
at Carlisle some time this summer; - Per-haps
can see some of the brethren at the
June camp- meeting. The Lord willing, I
desire to stop very mach with the sainkt, at
Mole Mil, W. Va., and. also at Pomery, 0.,
shortly after the Moundsville C. M. Any
one desiring me to hold. meeting in' their
vicinity, please address me at Moundsville,
W. Va. M. N. Roark
saints offer special prayer for us that the
Lord will use us to his glory. Your
brothers and sister in Christ,
Chas. Bright and Wife,
and Hugh Caudel.
Bower Mills, Mo., May 20.
Our last report was frcm Plew, where
God sent forth his word with the Holy
Ghost. It was a very busy time, but the
meeting was well attended. There were
souls at the altar almost from the first;
many said it was the best meeting they ever
attended. It was & truest a new field, but
God raised up eleven happy saints. Seen
of these were saved and four sanctified in
this meeting. To God be all the praise.
Eight of that number were baptized in
Spring River, near Bower Mill, where we
again pitched our tent and commenced
meeting again. This is a new place and it
was truly a seed- sowing time. Some said
they had never heard the Bible preached
before. The last Sunday of the meeting a
dear sister was sanctified.
We go from here near Sircoxie, to preach
in a schoolhouse a few days, at Sister
Kimberlin's home. Dear ones, the harvest
truly is ripe and the laborers are few. So
many in our own land who never heard
this blessed way preached, nor ever read a
tract or Trumpet. Some tear their papers
up to plat on shelves or paste up, and dear
hungry souls perhaps in your own county
so anxious to get one to read. Pray for
ns that God may keep us little in. our own
eyes. Your brother and sister in Christ,
J. W. and Annie Shipley.
Emmet, Miss.; May 6.
I have been lynsiTy laboring with my
hands and also doing all I can in the Mas-ter's
vineyard for the salvation of souls,
' and I want to say to the glory of God that
the approval of God has been resting - upon
my labors. To God be all the praise. Since
I have taken up this line of work the truth
has begun to settle in some nooks and cor-ners
that seemed to be overlooked.
On the third Sunday night of February
I was riding along about dark and eight
miles from home ( I was returning from
one of my appointments) I heard some
singing. I- was greatly impressed to stop,
so I rode up and met with some boys who
told me there was to be preaching there.
So I told the Lord if it was his will that
I should stop, to give me a chance to speak
for hint So I went in and the Lord did
more than I asked him to do, as I had a
hearty invitation to preach. The preacher
gave down and the Lord had his way.
But God had begun to work on some of
their hearts and they had begun to see
some of the evils of sectism, and were hun-gering
and thirsting for something better.
As the word of God is something better,
and it went forth, they began to eat. Let
us pray God that they may continue to eat
until they are filled with righteousness.
I have preached for them seven times since
ray first stop with them, and last Saturday
five had their names taken off the class-book
and have taken a stand for the truth
and are satisfied with their names written
in the Lamb's book of life. Many are
halting between two opinions. Let us pray
that they may decide for the truth. Dearly
beloved, this country is in need of a band of
consecrated workers who will say, " Here
am I; send me." Dear ones, answer when
God calls. ( Any one desiring to correspond
with me can address me at Emmet, Miss.
Pray that God keep me humbly at the post
of duty. Your brother saved to- day and
all on the altar, and the altar sanctifies the
gift by a second, definite work of grace
wrought in the heart by the Holy Ghost,
L. V. Strickland.
Moundsville, W. Va.
To- day finds me still saved to the
uttermost. I was glad to meet again
with the church at Canton, 0., where
we were greatly strengthened and edified,
and one was saved. After two days
meeting I went to Farmerstown, O.,
where the Lord manifested his power in
opening the schoolhouse, which had been
closed against the saints; also in teach-ing
the right way of baptism to a sister
who could not understand English. The
four- days meeting was wonderfully
blessed of the Lord and the old- time
811011143 WISr0 heard. Bit were baptized,
and we observed the ordinances of the
Lord's house, and the dear ones were
greatly encouraged. I feel that the Lord
would have me work in the South this
summar. G. T. Clayton.
Fresno, Cal., May S.
Our annual assembly- meeting, which
took phi e here on the tt, te8 previously
announced, viz., April 13 to 20, was a
precious gathering together of God's
saints from far and near, and was very
profitable, as well as enjo y able, to all
who were privileged to attend. A
number were saved and others reclaimed
during the meetings, while still others
were sanctified and healed. The church
had the advantage from the beginning of
the meetings of being in a good condi-tion
for the work, and other preparations
having been made, matters progressed
nit ely throughout. Sister Lena L.
Shoffner was present as a visiting min-ister,
also Bro. J. W. Byers arrived after
a part of the meeting was over, remain-ing
to the end. God's precious word
went forth in its purity and power, the
Lord confirming with signs following.
Among local elders attending were Bros.
Eli Leusney, J. J. Frame, B. F. Arnett
and M. Wright. On the 19th ( Satur-day)
' about ten followed the Lord in
the holy ordinance of baptism,. which
was indeed a precious service. On the
next day, which was the closing day of
the meetings, the ordinances of the com-munion
and feet- washing were partic-ipated
in by about sixty or seventy per-sons,
all of whom proved the saying of
our Lord, that " if ye know these things,
happy are ye if ye do them."
During the meeting Sister Grace E.
Kriebel arrived from the east, whose
presence refreshed us and who ' also
proved a valuable aid in leading the
singing. Quite a number of saints from
Visalia, Farmersville, Hanford, and
other places attended and profited by the
meetings. The Lord very graciously
supplied the financial needs of the meet-ings,
leaving a neat little balance in the
treasury. To His precious name be all
the praise for all the benefits derived
from the meetings. Sister Shoffner with
her company, including Sisters Kriebel,
Kinney, and Batton, after a trip to
Farenersville, have gone north to the
Lodi camp- meeting. Quite a number of
saints from here have also gone. Our
services are now held in the tent, which
has been removed to the old camp- meet-ing
grounds on Park Avenue, extension
of North L. street. Yours for the
Master, J. L. Chaffin.
Testimonies
Stonega,
I praise God for a wonderful Savior
that keeps me saved day by day and
sanctifies me by power divine. Oh! praise
God for saving such an unworthy, un-godly
sinner as I was, but now I am safe
in Zion and I have joy unspeakable and
fall of glory. 1 thank God that I know
we can live free from sin in this life.
We know oar names are written in heav-en,
and not only hope so, as most sect-arians
do; and no wonder, when they
say they sin every day and can not be
free from sin. Christ said, " Except ye
be converted, and become as little chil-dren,
ye shall in no wise enter into the
kingdem of heavea." So their sins bar
them from the kingdom, for we know
little children do not sin. I thank God
for the Trumpet and for the truth it,
teaches. I pray ' God to keep the
Trumpet pure. Pray God to strengthen
me, so that I can walk and work for
him. Ella Parks.
Michigan City, Ind.
I want to praise the Lord for his
wonderful saving and keeping power.
Since my last report in the Trumpet I
have been rejoicing in my soul to know
the love of God is shed abroad in my
Oswego, Kan., May 15.
Dear saints of God : May the rich bless-ings
of God rest upon yon all. Amen. Vie =
are here in this place holding up the words!
of life and truth to the people. There art.-=.
a few that are attending with seemiligiz:
great interest, but the third work heresy
here, and its advocates are doing all- they
can against the real truth. My God, have:
mercy on their souls.
We go from here to Webb Cityi110. fur
a few days meeting with the church there,
then go to Baxter Springs, Kan, to , Om-mence
a tabernacle- meeting, the Lord mill-ing,
May 28. Others wanting meetings**,
address us at the above place. Let the
heart by the Holy Ghost which is giver,
unto as. Praise God ter the fullness of
joy! Since I left my home in Kentucky
I hay been in several good meetings,
among which eas the Chicago assembly-meeting,
which I enjoyed very much.
Tie_ word went forth with power on
many lines, which was real food to my
soul and to all who were not blinded by
the devil, and honest at heart. Dear
ones, let, us be true to God and his cause,
and he will bless us. Well, I am saved
by two works of grace, and healed
through the precious blood of Jesus.
Amen. Pray for me that I keep true to
the Lord. I am as ever your brother in
eae one body, W. F. Jones.
Aster, Miss.
I would like to say a few words as
it might be a help to some poor person
who is down in darkness. I wandered
in the shades of darkness all my days
until a short time ago. 1 saw it I did
not change my way of living my ; out
would be lost. Satan had me bound
with the chains of sin and according to
Luke 20: 25 on Dec. 25, 1901, 1 turned
Satan loose and gave myself to Jesus, the
one that bought me with his own blood
Oh, how glad I am that Jesus can
destroy old Satan's work; for the wage
of sin is death, but the gift of God is
eternal life through Jesus Christ our
Lord. Oh, dear friends, won't you let
Jesus come into your heart, so that you
may obtain eternal life and go to dwell
with God forever and ever. where pleas-ures
never die and everything is purer
than gold. Oh, what a blessed day it
was so the fallen race when Jesus left
the sky and for sinners came to die.
What a friend we have in Jesus. He is
ready to save every poor sinner. Oh!
my friends, you must repent of your
sins and Jesus will forgive. Let us
preach repentance; preach it, preach it.
God called me out in the field and now I
am preaching his holy word. Glory to
God in the highest! As I preached last
Sunday from Rom. 6: 23, I saw the rosy
cheeks wet with tears; they* seemed as
though they wanted to repent, but did
not. Glory to God for his wonderful
love and power! 0 beloved, will you
not flee to Jesus for refuge, he will save
you from all your sins. Glory, glory
to God! I want all the dear saints to
pray that I ever keep down at Jesus'
feet • where the precious blood may ever
flow over me. C. II. Lancaster.
St. Edward Neb.
I have been reading your paper for a-bout
two years. It was sent to me by a
sister from San Francisco, think her
name was Sister Maggert. I was on the
ten cent list. Well, I was reading the paper
and I thought it seemed all right, but when
aFree Methodist preacher cameIasked him
about it and what kind of doctrine it was
he said it was wrcng and I should not tali..
it. I asked another one and he said it was
not worth taking one thought about, and
I told him that the Bible tells us to prove
all things, hold fast that which is goad, and
that was the way I did. T took the Bible
and examined it and I thought it was just
the way the Bible teaches us. Well, some
body may say- it is not necessary to rim
from one thing to another, if we be-long
to a church we should stay by it
and not be tarried away with all the Winds
of doctrines; but I think that means doc-trine
of men. I think that if we hear any-thing
taught that we see in the Bible, we
should obey it and let people say about us
what they like, let them call us c comeont-ers.'
If we follow the Lord and the Bi-ble
it is. better than all the church regula-tions
there are. Oh, how I wish people
would just look to the Lord and study their
Bible and there would not be so many sects,
but we would all be one in Christ Jesus.
I am saved and willing to learn of the
Lord every day of my life. Your sister
that loves you all, Sofia Johnson.
Albany, Ore.
I feel led to write my testimony to
what the dear Lord has done for me. Ile
has saved and sanctified my soul. and has
manifested his healing power many
times in our family, for which we give
him alt the glory. I am so glad we
have such a loving Lord that hears all
our prayers. He has wonderfully le
livered us in times of trial and tempta-tions.
Bro. Byrum's book, " The Secret
of Salvation," has been much help and
comfort to me. We do not live near
enough to any saints to attend meetings.
Pray that we may be faithful to God in
ail things. Your sister in the one body,
Viola E. Bounda
SPECIAL NOTICE.
There will be a tabernacle- meeting in
' West Dayton to begin June 12. Let all
come who can. Some German workers are
much needed. Address A. Apple, 2903 E
5th St, Dayton, 0.
. Lord is good unto all, and his ten-der
mercies are over all his works."
REQUEST FOR, PRAYER.
Granby, Mo. My husband, S. S. Sun-derland,
has been very sick, and while the
Lord has greatly relieved him, he still
suffers much. He has stomach trouble
and rheumatism, or neuralgia. Please
pray for a permanent healing. Cornelia
A. Sunderland.
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CALLS FOR MEETINGS.
We would like to have some of God's
anointed ones to come and hold meet-ings
here. I. M. Cook, Kokomo, Ind.
A tabernacle- meeting is wanted here.
Will some one filled with the Holy'
Spirit and with power please respond?
Address Mrs. Lillie L. Babcock,
McCracken, Kans.
Meeting Notices.
GENERAL STATEMENT.
We have adopted a plan for the publication of
meeting notices which will require no more space than
necessary and at the same time be satisfactory. Each
notice will be continued, in brief, giving place, date,
and name of party to be addressed for special infor-mation_
And then, two or three weeks before each
respective meeting, a notice in full will be published
( if such has been furnished us) giving further infor-mation.
As a general statement that will apply to all
meetings, will say that the saints at the different
places arc accustomed to meet at the trains those com-ing
from a distance ( if notified to do so), and so far as
practicable, to provide for the comfort of all. Provide
yourselves with bedding if possible. Provisions can al-ways
be procured at reasonable rates. In no case are
there gate- fees or charges for admission. Invitation
is extended to all.
Merlin, Ore. C. M. May 3C- June
8. Merlin is situated on the S. P. R. R.,
in the southern part of the state. P.
T. Everton, W. S. Clark.
Vichy, Mo. Assembly. June 6. Be-ginning
at night, to continue over Sun-day.
This meeting will be on the saints
new camp- ground, two miles south of
Vichy, ten miles north of St. James,
Mo. - C. C. Kennedy.
Daisy, Wash. May 30- June 8. Write
Uriah Eslick or Thos. Cooper, Daisy,
Wash.
Hawick, Mimi. Camp. June 7- 17.
Preaching in both. English and Scandi-navian.
Bro. Thos. Nelson and other
ministers are expected. 0. II. and
Mary Tubbs.
Chanute, Kans. Tabernacle. June
10, to last as long as the Lord wills.
Bro. and Sister Shipley are expected
with their tabernacle. For further par-ticulars
write to Sister Nora Lea, Chan-ute,
Kans. We desire all interested to
pray earnestly for the success of this
meeting. Emil and Daisy Kreutz.
Creston, Wash. Camp. Sig miles
northeast of Creston. June 13- 23. V.
C. Maiden, Creston, Wash.
The Oregon annual camp- meeting.
June 12- 22. in Woodburn, about one-half
mile east of the post- office, in the
Fash Grove, being the same place the
meeting was held last year. Jas. Bam-ford,
243 Ash St., Portland, Ore.
Edgewood, Ia. Tent. June 12- 22.
This place is situated on the C. M. and
St. P. Ry., Calmar division. Brethren
from Chicago and east, come via Oxford
Junction; from the south, via Cedar
Rapids and Marion; from the northeast
and west, change cars at Jackson Junc-tion,
Ministerial help is needed. Those
going west from Moundsville are request-ed
to stop oft here. F. A. Newville
Dorena, Nrississi ppi- Co. , Mo. Camp.
Junt 16, to ' est as long as the Lord
wills. Dorena is opposite Hickman, Mo.
Address Willis M. Brown, Hickman,
Ky. Box 97 J. 0. King, Dorena.
Bit , Emmet Co., Mich. Camp.
June 19- 29. Those coming by rail will
be met at • L) everiog; on G. E.. and I.
will be met at Devering twice daily until
Saturday, after that notify us and we
will meet vou. For further information
write to Bro. Jerome Riser, Bliss, Mich.,
or Bro. Frank Isaac, Canby, Mich.
Ministers led to come write to Jerome B.
Douglas, Conway, Mich.
Grand Forks, N. Dak. June 27-
July 7. We desire to call the attention
of all the saints in the northwest to this
meeting. Be sure to come it possible.
There will be need of some experienced
and established workers, and as there
will be preaching in Scandinavian also,
any workers who are able to use this
language should be sure to come. Grand
Forks is located on the Great Northern
and Northern Pacific railways. Thomas
Nelson.
Serena, Concordia Co., La. Tent.
June 27- July 6. T. F. Crouch, Serena,
La., or R. B. Owens, Sherwood, La.
Connerville, Chickasaw N., I T. Meet-ing.
Beginning June 28, at or near
Connerville, and will last as long as the
Lord wills. Those coming will find a
welcome at Bro. J. A. Ponnell's or Bro.
Chas. Moore's. Ministerial help needed.
We earnestly ask God to move on
some to help us in the work here. Our
address will be Drake, I. T. G. W.
Johnson.
Macon, Ga July 4- 13. T. H. Holmes,
224 2d Ave., P. II.
Camp. July 10- 20. J.
Sallie
Camp, Fulton Co., Ark.
Sept. 4- 14. S. R. M'Elmurry,
Eubank, Ky. Camp. Aug. 10, to
last as long as the Lord wills. We are
trusting the Lord for a blessed meeting.
Let all interested pray and work to this
end. James F. McKinney.
7-_ 1N7e. oLs. h Mo aFsatelrls, , Kan. Camp. Aug-
0 Blene. ssemer, Ala. Aug. 15- 24. Dan.
May 29, 190 .
e fre rsonvIlle, Montgomery Co. Rv,
Camp A ag. 15- 25. Ministerial laudii
needed. Taos. Carter and J. E. Wad
Simpson, La. Camp- meeting,
22- 31. Address F. 0. Parker,
son, La.
Greensboro. Ala. Date not settl
A tent- meeting will be held in
n
ede cro and Alexander City in SepteM
the Lord willing.
St. Louis, Gratiot Co., Mich. 0- 4-- L
Aug. 21- 30. Will be held on the At
ccaommpin- ggrobuynetrainnearg etS to. Laotuis
s. t. Louis,
Those
Mich. 1Vm. E. Warren or Henry
Yeasting.
Norton, BKa ns.. Camp. Aug. 21- 31.
John Spencer, Calvert, Kans.
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Indianapolis, Okla. Camp. Aug.
21-
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aS, tanbce. rrmy...
Clete, Okla. Camp. Sept. 4- 14.
n., B 3Aug. 1 21
.
latex
W. M. Wilson.
St. Peter
Edwards
B. , Engstroms,
Neb. Camp.. Sept. 4.
14.
Blue Mound, Livingston Co., Mo,
Camp. Sept. 6- 14. James Chesnut,
Pottersville, Howell Co., Mo.
Barney, Madison Co., Iowa. Camp.
Sept. 6- 16. For forther information ad-dress
W. R. Adcock, Barney, Iowa.
J. M. Harrington.
Timber Lake, Okla. Camp. Sept.
18- 28. Geo. Howard, Miland, Okla.
The Saints' Home camp- meeting will
be held June 27- July 7, on the saints'
camp- ground, ten miles south of Colfax
and ten miles north- west of Pullman.
Write B. B. Naff, Colfax, Wash.
Hurst, Fla. Camp. Oct. 10- 19. Will
be held on the Saints' camp- ground,
near Hurst, Fla. W. 0. Williams.
Obituaries.
Marion, Ore.
GEORGE.- Sister Ahneda George,
wife of A. B George, of Marion, Mari-on
Co., Ore., daughter of Zenas and
Lydia Carry, was horn near Westfield,
Ind. ; died NI, ty 13, 1902; aged 61 yr.
10 mo. - 27 ( ht. Sister George was saved
out of sectism some time last year and
so far as we know has lived a devoted
life ever since. She leaves a husband and'
a family of grown up children to mourn
their loss.
Jas. Bamford, Portland, Ore.
Hubbard, Ore.
CHTTINARD.- Bro. Amable Chain-ard,
of Hubbard, Ore., atter a long ill-ness
which he endured patiently, fell
asleep in Jesus, May 15, 1002; was born
April 21, 1825, at Three Salmons,
L'Islet Co., Province of Quebec, Canada.
Bro. Chuinard was raised a Catholic bat
left Romanism in 1877, joined the Pres-byterians,
and lived a member of that
sect until March, 19 ► , at which tiele he
was fully saved out of all sin and divi-sion,
and has lived a consistent Christian
life ever since. He leaves a wife and a
family of seven children and many
friends to mourn his loss; but we are re-joicing
that our loss is his gain.
Jas. Bamford.
CAMPBELL.-- John M. Campbell
was born in Paulding Co., O., . Nov.
12, 1876; died May 8, 10021. h/ wed 25
yr. 5 mo. 26 da. Ile was , e; OSarted at
the age of eight rears. iitte has been a
sufferer for nearly ten years, but bore
his afflictions with much patience. In
his diary under date of Jan. 13, 1900,
he wrote: " The grace of God has been
very precious to me lately, causing rnY
afflictions to seem light." During his
last sickness he spoke much of the good-ness
of God to him and felt that all the
Lord's dealings with him were for his
good. We had been permitted to see
him and care fcr him and were with
hint the night before he died. He prais-ed
God and was reconciled to go. lie
bade his dear brother and sisters and
father the long farewell and exhorted
them to meet him in heaven. fly talked
often of the meeting by and by, and ha
quoted for his consolation Rev 14: 13,
which we used for the funeral service.
to his reward. His mother, two
He met death with a smile anti pa ssad
broth.
ere, and two sisters preceded him'
Father, a brother, and three sisters are
left to mourn their loss. ANT God bless
and comfort the bereaved ones and help
them to live so as to meet him in heaven'
Funeral services
Foote,
by thee w r.
Louis,
iter. Neb.
Guy
Enid, Okla.
Brees.
Johnson, I. T. Camp. July 10- 20.
Ministerial help needed. J. M. Hor-ton,
McGee, I. T.
Burkeville, Newton Co., Tex. Tent.
July 12- 20. J, R. Cousins, Burkeville,
Tex., or R. H. Owens, Sherwood, La.
Buffalo, Ala. July 18- 27. Thos.
Asberry.
Wade, I. T. Camp. July 20 30. 25
miles southeast of Durant, I. T. and 30
miles north of Bonham, Texas. Thos;
coming from the south, come to Bonhame
those from the north, to Durant, and
some - one will meet you. Ministerial
help needed. Address W. T. Seeton or
Jas. D. Ferrill, Wade, I. T.
Federalsburg, Md. Camp. July 24-
Aug. 3. Bro. H. M. Riggle and wife and
Bro. 1. S. McCoy and other ministers
will attend. Those coming from the
south and west to Baltimore, take steam-boat
at Light St. Wharf, pier 4, Chop-tank
river line, for Choptank. Those
coming from north and east via Phila-delphia
take train on Penn. R. R.,
Broad St. station, for Federalsburge
Md., changing cars at Seaford, Del.
All who expect to come please write me
as early as you can. Chas. E. Orr,
Federalsburg, Md.
Social Point, Panola Co., Tex. Meet-ing.
July 26- Aug. 3. The Lord will-ing,
I shall be there. R. H. Owens,
Sherwood, La.
Shoup's Ford, Burke Co., N. C. Tab-ernacle.
Beginning July 26, to Aug. 4.
Shoup's Ford is 20 miles north of
Cherryville on the S. A. L. Ry., west of
Clearlotte, N. C. J. J. Shoup.
Bexar, Fulton Co., Ark. Camp or
grove. July 26- Aug. 3. Bro. flinsley.
Obadiah, Miss. Assembly. July 27
-- Aug. 3. Ministerial help needed.
Thos. Mosley•
Grand Junction, Mich. Camp. Aug.
1- 10. A. B. Palmer, Bangor, Mich.
Hartsells, Morgan Co., Ala. Camp.
About five miles east of Hartsells. Aug,
1- 10. For further information write
Tom Senyfelt, Hartsells, Ala.
Oxford, Ala. Aug. 1- 10.
Morgan.
The annual camp- meeting of the
church of God will be held this year at
Sherwood, La. Aug. 8- 17. R. H. Owens.
Camp.
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I wish to testify to God's healing pow-er,
as 1 promised him J would. Ho
healed me of numbness in my hand and
fingers. I could not use a thimble. I
was so weak I could not do my work aria
had no appetite to eat. 1 sent tor a broth-er
and sister to come to a uoint me, and
the Lord made me every whit whole. I
was also healed instantly of rheumatism,
female weakness, and cramps. Pray
that I always do my Master's will at all
times. Mrs. Lizzie I3aumgardner.
Carr, Pa.
GOD'S HE 1. LING POWER.
THE GOSPEL TRUMPET.
May 29, 1902.
I want to testily in the Trumpet to
the blessed Savior's saving and keeping
power, and also of his healing power
which was bestowed upon me, as I prom-ised
him I would do if I were healed. I
was taken down a week ago to- morrow
night with a terrible cramping in my
stomach and diarrhea, unspeakable
misery in my whole body. 1 fully in-tended
to trust my healing to the Lord,
but there are no elders here, and
but one Christian that l know of that
believes in divine healing, except myself.
I kept praying earnestly to God and
asked this sister to pray for me. She
did not is my presence, bet said she
would pray for me. My sufferings grew
more intense, and I felt that it was a
necessity to comply with Jas. 5: 14, 15;
but that being impossible, I did not know
just what to do. I felt willing for God's
divine will to be done, and my sufferings
became so intense it was almost more
than my frail body could bear. Friday
about 5: 30 p. m. a spell came upon me,
I could not move a member of my body
except my head. A friend being called
in persuaded me to let her send for a
physician, as she thought inflammation
had gone to my brain, and I told her to
use her best judgment. She called a
physician, but I was not satisfied. I
took his medicine that night and the next
morning he called again, and I asked
him what he was giving me, and on re-ceiving
his reply, I just simply refused to
take any more. I fully resolved to trust
my body wholly in the hands of God.
Praise his holy name! I got better.
Saturday I prayed continually and Sun-day
afternoon a Baptist minister came to
pray with me. I told him I believed in
divine healing. He once having been
healed of consumption by the Almighty
God, he prayed a fervent prayer in my
behalf and I felt better; but still 1 was
not satisfied. I promised God 1 would
testify in the Trumpet if he would heal
me, and last night my whole soul was in
communion with God. I can never for-get
the clear atmosphere of faith into
which the Lord lifted me. Before all
seemed against me, but 1 thought—
blessed thought— God can work and
none can hinder. Oh, the precious
word of God was so clear to me! 1 felt
as if his promises were all meant for me!
I prayed for faith if I lacked faith, and
praise God, I got on my knees and
prayed the prayer of faith! The answer
came in the healing of my body. To-day
( which is Monday) I have been sit-ting
up most all day, praising God all
the time and, praying him to ever keep
me at the feet of Jesus. Oh, I am
so happy. Praise God, I feel so humble
and so thankful to him that we have
such - a blessed Savior, that we can trust
our souls and bodies wholly into his care.
My whole desire is to serve him and to
do all I can. to rescue the perishing. I
know it pays to serve God even in this
life, for the comfort we receive in every
trial, and the blessed assurance of being
with Jesus throughout eternity. Pray
for me, and my unsaved husband and
for my two little boys. I have not the t
opportunity of being with the true li
Early in March 1896 1 was suddenly
taken with a severe pain in my right
hand, which quickly extended over my
entire body. When the doctor was
called in he pronounced it to be articular
rheumatism of the joints and inflamma-tory
rheumatism of the muscles, a cora-plicatihn
seldom met with in medical
practice. He said it was a very difficult
case to manage, as the medicine that
would help the one disease would be in-jurious
to the other. However, he
treated me for about three months and
then. gave me up. We called in. another,
who treated me for four months. I then
decided to come here for treatment, but
the doctor said I could not live to reach
the train. The third physician was a
specialist who had come from the North
and was considered one of the best in the
South. lie attended me for a year, but
as I found his medicine was injuring me
I gave it up. I then tried a celery com-pound
manufactured in Chicago, using it
for a year. it helped me but finally my
stomach would not retain it. I then
resorted to a cure for rheumatism, which
I took for several months from a com-pany
in Atlanta. It helped for a time
but afterwards lost its effect. Next
came a course of treatment from a phy-sician
in New York, but I did not receive
much benefit. A company in Chicago
was then applied to, but the medicine
failed to reach the seat of the disease.
The next help sought was from a doctor
in Philadelphia, but like the others he
failed. I then applied to another
specialist in this city, who said there was
no help for me, but left me four dollars
worth of medicine, which I took without
permanent benefit. After examining my
limbs he said that the flesh about some
of the joints had turned to bone and no
doctor on earth could do anything for
me. However, having a strong im-pression
that - at some time I would be
well and not knowing that it was my
privilege to be healed by faith in God
alone, I corresponded with a physician
in Racine, Wis., who said he would
guarantee a cure, but under his treat
went I grew worse instead of better. I
certainly was like the woman in the
gospel who suffered many things of many
physician and was nothing bettered but
rather grew worse, for during these
years my whole body became diseased.
Many of the physicians became so inter-ested
in my case as such a peculiar one
that they treated me for almost nothing
for the sake of having my testimony if a
cure was effected.
While under the treatment of the last
physician mentioned, the sister with
whom 1 boarded advised me to cease
taking medicine and trust the Lord.
Without having light on divine healing
but knowing that God was the hearer of
prayer, she had been healed of a stroke
of paralysis by carrying her case to God.
When her persuasions failed to affect me,
the Lord sent some of the saints along to
tell me God's way of healing, and after
a second visit from them I dropped my
medicine. I did not know there was a
people anywhere on earth who carried
out the prescription for sickness as given
in James 5. A lady who visited me be_
came so much interested in me that she
wrote her brother, who has a faith heal-ing
home, and he wrote me , that God
wanted to heal me. His letter coming
near the time of the saints' visit made
me believe hat God must have some-hing
for me, and 1 began praying for
ght. The saints then brought a sister
to see me and on her second visit she
brought me two books to read: " Divine
Grace of Healing." While reading
Healing of Soul and Body," and " The
these books i was as deeply convicted for
healing as I had been for salvation and
sanctification, and in answer to prayer
the Lord spoketo me at different times
by his Spirit., " I am the Lord that
healeth thee"; " Alt things in Christ are
ready now"; " Worthy is the Lamb that
was slain."
On March 7, which was set apart by
the saints as a day of fasting and prayer,
hands were laid on me in the name of
the L ord, and 1 was immediately healed
of many of the diseases. From an en-tirely
helpless condition 1 rose up in
the bed, partially dressed myself, was
assisted to a chair, and sat up for sev-eral
hours, which I had not done for
months. My stomach, which had been
unable to digest any heavy food, not
even milk, nor any thing sweet, was
immediately and perfectly heeled. I also
had a cough and soreness in the chest,
which were both healed. For the first
time in six years, I slept that night like: a
tired child. I had been. suffering every
night for three years with spa sms in my
limbs, but praise the Lord! 1 have had
none since. From the time I was taken
sick my body had been so cold that I used
whiskey constantly as a stimulant, and I
never expected to be able so drop that,
but the Lord put the warmth in my body
so that there was no more need of it,
and these warm days I pegs ire as freely
as when in perfect health. After a test
of faith 1 was also healed of constipation
and piles. The pain also entirely left me
on that day and since then the swelling
has been greatly reduced. The forma-tion
around some of the joints which the
physician said was bone has disappeared.
My body, which was almost in the form
of an 8, has become much straighter and
for a few days I was able to walk about
with difficulty in a bent condition, but
from some cause my power to walk has
left me and much of the soreness, stiff-ness,
and weakness have never yet been
removed, but as the Lord assured me by
his Spirit that I should be made perfect
in his strength, I am looking for a com-plete
work.
I have been withholding my testimony
for these weeks waiting till the perfect
work was done, but since the Word says,
" Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me," I
now desire to testify to what the Lord
has already done and ask the prayers of
all of God's saints that when the lessons
are fully learned which he desires to
teach me, the work may be fully accom-plished
for his glory. I have made a
full consecration to God to walk in all
the light that he may shed on my path-way,
and my heart is full of praise for
what he has already done, while at the
same time, 1 am reaching forth to those
things which are betore. Yours in the
Our souls are moved with deepest feelings
of gratitude to God for it all. Our _ ea.
are more and more lost and enrapt
in his precious love.
He is not only our complete Sia
and holy Redeemer indeed, to
souls, but he is also our sure and re
Friend and. Physician for our bti
The latter part of February last,
daughter Ruth was taken very sick
the scarlet fever. After a few days
and I with Sidney, our son, gathered
around her bedside, prayed with and laid
hands on her and Jesus perfectly healed
her. Bless the Lord ! From that time
she was well and healed. Naomi was
born unto us March 19, and she had the
scarlet fever from her very birth. After
a day we prayed for her and laid hands
on her little body in the name of the
Lord and she was healed. In about ten
days or two weeks after she became very
much afflicted with the yellow janders.
I was out visiting the church at the
Saints' Borne. In a prayer- meeting I
requested prayer that my wife might be
healed. God gave me the sweet . assur-ance
in my soul at the hour of prayer
that the was healed. On returning
home I found it even so. Bless the
Lord! Our Sidney was saved about last
Christmas and recently sanctified. Wife
is also sweetly saved. We are truly a
happy family, serving God with all our
hearts. F. N. Jacobson.
Colfax, Wash., April 21.
THE GREAT PIIYSICIAN.
saints of God here, nor of hearing the
gospel preached in all its purity. I take
great delight in reading tha Trumpet.
Pray that God may have his way with
me and use me to his glory. I am your
sister washed in Jesus' blood,
Addie L. Smilry.
raysboro, Mo., April 14.
ANSWER, TO PRAYER AND
REQUEST.
It is with real peace, joy, and victory
in My soul 1 write you at this time, It
is some time since I have spoken or
testified unto you all, through the blessed
Trumpet. I have been humbly sitting
under the mighty hand of God in the
valley of humiliation. Truly my ran-somed
soul has been reaping and gather-ing
unto itself all the peaceable fruits of
his righteousness and enriching itselt
with the refined gold, yea, with the fine
gold from the furnace flames. The
sweets and fullness of his glorious re-demption
and the deep feelings of a
sacred union with him, now fill my soul.
Bless his ( teas.. name forever! Oh, the
mercy, love, and goodness of God is
boundless as the mighty seas, unspeak-able
and unfathomable. Praise our trod
forever! Amen. God has shown me
his wondrous love and mercy in so many,
many ways during the past four months.
love of Jesus, Robuta D. Lee.
222 Poe St., Macon, Ga.
SCARLET FEVER.
The Lord has been our only Physician
for almost five years. We use no med-icine
of any kind in our family. We
have two children, twelve and seven
years of age. The oldest was sick a
great deal before we trusted the Lord for
the healing of our bodies, but he is a
strong, healthy boy now, and when they
do become sick, which is not often, they
never ask for medicine but want us to
pray the Lord to heal them. A friend
remarked not long ago, " Your little girl
is the very picture of health." Before
we trusted the Lord we were a sickly
family and always had one shelf in the
cupboard almost filled with bottles and
packages of medicine. I have tried
medicine and I have tried the Lord for
the healing of the body, and I know the
Lord is far the best, although he : does
not always heal us instantly as we would
like, but teaches us lessons of patience
and obedience which are always for our
good, and when he does heal us our
system is not poisoned with drags. 1
was afflicted for ten years and had never
received more than temporary relief from
physicians, al though my husband em-ployed
the best he could get. The Lord
healed me. Bless his dear name!
About four weeks ago I took what I
supposed was nervous headache. We
prayed, as usual, but 1 got very little
relief. I would feel better, but as soon
as 1 would stand on my feet a short time
my head would ache as badly as ever.
The thought came to me to send to the
Trumpet Office for an anointed handker-chief,
but the more 1 thought about it
the stranger it seemed to me that the
Lord would require me to send for an
anointed handkerchief. There were no
elders that 1 could get to anoint me with
oil. But finally I sat up in bed gad
wrote the letter and sent a handkerchief
which, when it returned, 1 applied in the
name of the Lord, and am praising the
Lord for complete healing. While there
is nothing in the handkerchief, 1 felt very
humble before the Lord that he had per-mitted
me to resort to what 1 considered
the humblest way I had ever received
healing. I am saved and sanctified, free
from sectism, and willing to obey every
command of the Bible.
Mrs. - Win. High.
Purcell, I. T.
" Fear God and keep his command;
ments; for this is the whole duty of man: