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dress in the costumes of the people of the land they will represent. I' --¿40f-!." C hoice N uggets . ‘ It is the mission of the church to give the whole Gospel to the whole world. Jesus Christ alone can save the world, but Jesus Christ cannot save the world alone. No interest in missions? The only ex planation is either inexcusable ignorance or wilful disobedience. This is a lost world tp,:be saved, and not simply an ignorant; w.ofld’.Vfo be edu cated. The day o f formal praying and petty giving is over, and the day of big things has come. We have no apology for being in earn est about this thing of missions, and will make none until Jesus Christ tells us that He made a mistake in coming to the world as a missionary. That man’s life is most worth living whose work is most worth while. The best remedy for a sick church is to put it on a missionary diet. Love never asks, How much must I do? but, How much can I do? “ Sherwood Eddy, in ‘India’s Awaken ing,’ tells o f a poor girl who had worked for years as a stenographer: ‘She o f fered to go to the foreign field, blit was rejected on account of her health. Since then she has been saving her money, sup porting native workers at thirty dollars a year. There is a community in native India where more than a thousand souls have been brought to Christ by this one frail girl. A thousand who have passed from darkness into His marvelous light because one girl cared!’ How many are in the light because of what you have done ?” Sg-Forward. The lonely island of Norfolk, once a penal colony, midway between New Cal edonia and New Zealand, has an area of but little over thirteen square miles, and yet is the home o f one of the most re markable printing offices in the world. Here is published a semi-annual mission paper, the Melanesian Mission Press, and other works in twenty-one languages. The editor is a German-American, formerly of New York, who has lived on that island thirty-two years, denying himself the pleasure of modern conveniences that he might publish and send forth the light of the Gospel o f Christ to the dark races of the southern seas. The island itself is but a speck in the great ocean, and yet what a “base of supplies” it has proved for giv ing neglected men “the one thing needful” in making their lives worth living. Small opportunities may be made the means of great blessings to many people speaking many languages. September 30, 1928 Goals For Our Society Gal. 5:22-26 ; 6:10 D aily S cripture R eadings M. Better devotions. Ps. 63:1-8. T. Deeper consecration. Rom. 12:1,2. W. Larger giving. 2 Cor. 9:6-15. T. More faithful stewardship. 1 Pet. 4:10, 11. F. Earnest soul-winning. Jude 23. S. Wider service. Acts 1 : 8 .
their classification, interpretation, and the enumeration o f the accruing intellectual results. “ Some men are doubtful about their immortality, others scorn the idea as un scientific. But there was a man who was in no uncertainty. ‘For we know,’ he wrote, ‘that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.’ He knew it because the Spirit of God had revealed it to him. That is science—knowledge— in the highest'sens e.’’s=Examiner. Dr. McCook has said®)“ ! believe in the Bible from beginning to end, and believe in a Word of God that has no- mistakes.” For a hundred years natural science de clared that Solomon made a mistake about ants being harvesters, and Smith’s Bible Dictionary apologizes for this mis take in a learned way. But a minister went down into Texas and Colorado, camped out among the ants,,and as a re sult of his investigations published a book showing that Solomon four thousand years ago was right. One by one we find the flaws are in the finite critics.” “ Steam is no stronger now than it was a hundred years ago, but it is put to bet ter use.”— Emerson. September 23, 1928" How Missionary Interest Broadens Our Know ledge Acts 14:19-28 (Missionary Meeting) M. Learning to know foreigners. Luke 4>2,5-27. ' T. Broadening sympathies. Jonah 4: 1 - 11 . W . Knowledge of other lands. Acts 28 : 1 - 10 . T. Broadening brotherhood. Gal. 3 :26- 29. F. Knowledge of customs. Mark-7:1- 13. S. Broadening vision. John 3 :16. T houghts on the T opic The entire book of Acts from which our Scripture lesson is taken is one con tinuous story of missionary activities of the early church. Follow the footsteps of Paul through this book and his epistles to the various churches; and your knowledge of the people and lands of Paul’s associ ations will be greatly broadened. Just so is it true with mission lands of today. The greatest source of information .con cerning these lands comes to us from those who are giving their lives in these countries as missionaries o f the Gospel. Only those who live among a people can intelligently convey a true knowledge of that people. To make this meeting most interesting, the leader may select certain mission lands unfamiliar to the society, assigning such countries to certain members who will get as much information as pos sible, both as to the spiritual and eco nomic needs o f that country. If pos sible, it would add interest to the meeting for the different ones asked to speak, to — o —
September 16, 1928 The Service o f Science to Human Life. Ps. 8 :l-9. D aily S cripture R eadings M. Service in healing, John 5 :l-9. T. Service in industry. Exo. 36:1-7. W . Service in art. 2 Chron. 4:11-18. T. Science and invention. Gen. 4:19-22. F. Science and agriculture. Matt. 13: 1-9. S. Science leads to Christ. Matt. 2:1- 12 . Inasmuch as God is the Author of all true science and the Creator of human life, both have their respective relation to each other. Science is not the discovery of something new, but man’s finding what always has been in existence. Therefore the Bible, God’s revelation to man, con tains an accurate account of all things as they always were, are and will be. The true scientist sees behind all material things the. infinite wisdom and handiwork of an Almighty God. It might be said that God has two great books, the Bible and nature, each a commentary on the other. - In the eighth Psalm assigned to this lesson we read of David extolling the Lord for all of His wonderful works. Science is a servant to man. Within the last few years, through science God has revealed many facts to man which have contributed to his pleasure. The whole creation was originally created for man to enjoy, but because of sin man lost all sense o f true enjoyment of the things God intended he should enjoy, and consequent ly it has taken in . some cases centuries for man to discover certain things that always existed. As - someone has said, “ Science is nothing less than the latest and truest interpretation o f the world at which the human,mind has arrived.” We must always bear'.in mind that behind all science and the help it is to human life, is Gpdj to whom all glory and honor belongs. What is Science?—Science, according to J. Arthur Thomson in Science and Religion, “includes all systematized (co ordinated), verifiable, and communicable knowledge, reached by reflection on the impersonable data of observation and ex periment. W e mean by ‘verified’ that its conclusion can be checked by all normally constituted minds when the observation or experiments are repeated with strict adherence to scientific methods. O f course, the checking demands a modicum of confidence. We must be able to speak and read the scientific language. We must be able to use the scientific tools.” There is an implied warning here to the average mind, that, in all probability his equipment is not adequate for understand ing the scientific language, nor for using the tools of the scientist. The latter may be true, but if the scientist uses intellig ible language, there is not much difficulty in grasping the meaning, unless he, wil fully, as seems to be sometimes true, pre fers to leave his hearer or reader in a fog. Put in simple language, science includes the gathering and winnowing of facts, — o — T houghts on the T opic — o — C hoice N uggets
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