February, 1939
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“What a city for pillage!” he exclaimed. I have read of another man looking on another city, and the tears were rolling down His cheeks as He said, “Jerusalem. Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy chil dren together!” What is the city to you? A place for pillage—to get your own—to advance your own interests? Or do you look, like your Master, upon the great needy city and reach out your hand to help it ?—Sunday School Chronicle. II. C ompassion N eeded “He was moved with compassion on them” (Matt. 9:36). Can any one, who sincerely desires to have a Christlike love in his heart, ever read that sentence, and tolerate contempt or aversion toward the pitiful multitudes? Go down into Naples, where beggars, degenerates, and defeated peoples throng the streets; or, Paris; or, London; or—San Francisco! Is it a natural reaction to yearn over such people as a mother over her child? . . . “O Lord God, save me from stony-hearted barbarity to ward the multitudes. Help me to feel to ward them just as my Master did!” There is much holy suggestion in studying Christ's attitudes toward “the common herd.” Jesus never flattered them: He never despised them; He never despaired of them. He considered that, through His grace, any one of them might become "finer than fine gold.” —R ichard E llsworth D ay . CHILD EVANGELISM C O R R E S P O N D E N C E COURSE 9 Lessons......................... $D00 9 Examinations..............v Material written by outstand ing children’s workers. Over 200 pages of material, both theoreti cal and practical. TEACHERS ’ TESTIMON IES “The use of this course has built our Sunday School up about one-third, and has also helped our church attendance. I wish it were possible for more Sunday School teachers to study these lessons.” M. R., Rifle, Colo. “I thought you would like to know that twenty-two children accepted Christ as Saviour just a week before Christmas. Others also are interested.” V . R. T ., El Segundo, Calif. Write now for a Prospectus de scribing this and 18 other courses. Correspondence School The Bible Institute of Los Angeles Incorporated 558 S. Hope St., Los Angeles, Calif.
NOTES on Christian Endeavor By MARY G. GOODNER
are some of the many. "Christian En- deavorers” might find places of service in the rescue missions, in tent work, in open- air and street meetings, in establishing night schools among the foreigners where English is taught along with the Bible. Hospitals and jails present a real claim for part of our time, and “Child Evangelism” classes afford wonderful opportunities among the children. The city calls. The Lord wept over one city. Will you ask yourself the question, What am I willing to do to make His gos pel which is “the power of God unto salva tion,” known in my city?
MARCH 5, 1939 U R B A N A M E R IC A— A N EW F R O N T IE R G enesis 18:20-23; 19:24, 25 Meditation on the Lesson When we read this account of the wickedness of Sodom and Gomorrah, we are compelled to admit that the same things could be said of many of our modern cities. Because this is the age of grace, punish ment is not always meted out to wicked cities now as it was to Sodom and Gomor rah. After the departure of Lot and his wife and daughters, these two cities re ceived a rain of “brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven; and he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities” (Gen. 19:24, 25). What a ringing challenge this is to the church in America today! Truly, a "new frontier” is presented by the problems which confront our large cities, problems that only cities can have, problems that only the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ can solve: the slums with their tenement houses, the people in ignorance, the pov erty, sin, lawlessness, and wretchedness
Helps for the Leader L Two V iews of G reat C ities
Blucher, who helped at Waterloo, was invited by the old hero, Wellington, to come to London. Wellington wanted to show him the city, and he took him into the dome above St. Paul’s. The old warrior looked around the city, and at last Wel lington said to him, "Well, what do you think of it?”
Children’s Inalienable Rights
To Hear the Gospel Story
To Accept Jesus as Saviour
To Enthrone Him as Lord
To Worship Him as God
To Know Him as a Friend
Pastors, Department Heads and Teach ers, Youth Leaders and Parents—all who have been challenged by a vision of the great need—join in asking, “How can we win children to Christ?"
Are these possible experiences becoming actual in the lives of the children commit ted to your care?
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