290
THE KING’S BUSINESS
Church in this age,—and to make for the greatest blessing also of His peculiar peo ple and brethren, the Jews, and of the world as well .—E d ito r o f the Sunday School Tim es. A t L ovedale , in the southestern corner of Africa, is a great school for negroes, perhaps the best on that continent. Though its academic and trade-school features are best known, its primal objective is the pro duction of strong, vitally .Christian charac ters. At a recent communion season over two hundred students participated, forty- five for the first time. Friends of missions will be interested to know what led these young people to accept Christ, and here are some of the facts in the case : “The peace ful and happy death of a Christian friend created in one girl’s heart the desire to know Christ. Another was impressed by a sermon on ‘God so loved the world,’ and after some days of hesitation and question ing, had a vision in the night of Christ beckoning her to. come. A youth said he had been slightly struck by lightning, and the thought that he might have been killed and have had to appear before his Maker unprepared made him pray, and step by step he was led to faith. A lad gave the desire to escape the pains of hell as the motive that made him give up his evil ways.” T h e story is told of a poor girl, a stenog rapher, who offered herself for the foreign field, but was rejected on account of her health. With a heart almost breaking with disappointment she began saving money to support native workers. Now there is a community in Northern India where there are more than a thousand souls who have been brought to Christ by this one frail girl—a thousand who have passed “out of darkness into His marvelous light” because one girl cared! O Master, help us to “care" like this. B erea C ollege , Kentucky, has not only a large band of student volunteers for for-
and one in 500 of their number as a mis sionary, that the unevangelized world should not perish but have eternal life.” What must be the temperature of the mass of such Christians since that eight cents aver age was given by about every eighth indi vidual of them? How to raise men and money for mis sions is to lift Christ and the Cross among Christians. “W h e n these people in Central Africa speak of the death of Christ,” says Mr. Dan Crawford, “they always say ‘the vic tory of Golgotha.’ Before leaving Africa I said to one man: ‘Now, before I go to England, just you tell me what that means. I cannot understand it. When the very God became very man and died the death of a felon, I cannot understand how you people see anything but defeat in it;’ And then that man said something that made me proud my days had been spent in Cen tral Africa. First of all he took a little bit of stick and held it up and said: ‘Here is the Cross.’ Then he took another little bit and laid it across the first one and said, ‘Just here at the Cross when Satan did his very, very worst, just here, just then, God did His very, very best.’ At the Cross the very worst and the very best meet.” “I f C h r ist came to Chicago,” was a much-quoted phrase made famous by Wil liam T. Stead as the title of a book that challenged the Christian world. But if Christ had come to Chicago during the days of the International Prophetic Conference which met at the Moody Bible Institue last month, He would have received a joyous and expectant welcome from the eager, rev erent, whole-hearted Christian disciples who made up the great audiences of that remarkable meeting. They gathered there because they believed in the imminent com ing of the Lord Jesus Christ for His wait ing church. They came together because it was on their hearts, by so doing, to give a public testimony to their belief that the Lord’s return is the “Blessed Hope” of His
Made with FlippingBook - Online magazine maker