an alcoholic of many years). The Bwana talked and prayed with him for hours, the pastor prayed and the church prayed. The certificated African nurse took care of him for six weeks and then Auzi was walking around, eating well and feeling better, but best of all his heart and life had been changed. To morrow he would return to his village and resume his duties as chief of his tribe. The Lord had done great things for Auzi, and he wanted to praise Him. He said, “ This is surely God’s hand on me for good.” After several more testimonies of praise for salvation, restoration and pro tection, the pastor said, “ I too have words of praise to God for His goodness to me. Since the Lord has left me here I am bound as, never before to serve Him only. You all know that it was the Holy Spirit guiding Matayo to take his bicycle and go with me when I left his house to return to my home. Matayo did not know that I was going to fall off my
W e W ere Standing T h ere The death of Christ is each man’s shame Be he a Gentile or a Jew; All men alike bear Calvary’s blame; Each one commits this crime anew. We share their guilt who raised Christ up To hang upon the cursed tree; Our sins forced Him to drain that cup, Thus guilty of His blood are we. The brutal soldier with his spear, Or craven mob are one with us; In God’s sight we were standing there, Our deeds are not less infamous. We too cried out: Him crucify! Our guilt had hands that drove the nails, Yet through Christ’s death we now draw nigh; To conquer sin His cross avails! His suffering eyes still draw men’s gaze— At Calvary Christ still forgives. Some came to mock but stayed to praise; Who stared with hate now looks and lives. That cross the sum of all men’s guilt, God’s love has turned to our account. At Golgotha compassion built A cleansing and a healing fount. —Blanton W. Jones The Indispensable Miracle (Continued from Page 8) not sinless, then He is not qualified to be our Saviour. To say that He was not God makes His shed blood ineffectual, and to say He was not sinless makes Him merely a sinner dying not for our sins, but for His own. His incarnation and sinlessness are indispensable to our salvation. Are not the means thereof in dispensable as well? Dr. James Orr has declared with res pect to the Virgin Birth: “My statement publicly made and printed has never been confuted, that those who accept a full doctrine of the incarnation—that is, of a true entrance of the eternal Son of God into our nature for the purpose of man’s salvation—with hardly an excep tion, accept with it the doctrine of the Virgin Birth of Christ, while those who repudiate or deny this article of faith either hold a lowered view of Christ’s person, or more commonly, reject His supernatural claims altogether.” This holds true as well for those who mini mize the Virgin Birth. But to those of us who believe the gospel, the Virgin Birth is the Indispensable Miracle of our Christian faith. T H E K I N 6 ’ S B U S I N E S S
Adja Church building, place of Christ mas Conference.
afternoon, when the meeting is dismissed and the people must make last-minute preparations for the big feast of the year, which is held in the eucalyptus grove just alongside of the church building. The Bwana (missionary) and some of the African hunters have been able to kill five buffalo and three water- bucks for this occasion, which will go a long way in helping to feed the 3000 present. This is the final session of the four-day Christmas Conference; the final meeting on Christmas Day and the final meeting of the year when all the Christians and friends from miles around will be gathered together. After the banquet of wild meat and gravy, manioc and coffee, the meeting is turned over to a praise and testimony time. There is no lull between testimonies, for hearts are bubbling over with joy and many are eager to tell others of victories won and Divine protection given in the face of certain dangers and many temptations. Abrahama, an outschool teacher, gets up quickly and says, “ I want to praise the Saviour because He finished to watch over me this year. When I was near the stream, on the path to my garden, a python tied itself to my leg and began to wrap his body around me. God gave me quick thinking and I re membered the knife that my wife gave me that morning, (for you know only women carry knives; men have bows and arrows). I took the knife and cut off its head. Then, of course, the snake’s body became very limp and fell from me in a heap on the ground. The Lord God delivered me from certain death and I am praising only Him for that deliverance and want to live and work for Him better than before.” Auzi, the chief of the Kaliko Tribe, expresses his new-found joy in the Saviour. He had been ill, nigh unto death, and the old sages of the village and many witch doctors had tried every known trick and remedy to no avail. The government doctor visited him and said he was very ill and that he did not ex pect him to live. Auzi had his porters carry him to the mission station. (He was Page Twelve
Missionary talks to native woman about the Lord Jesus who came to save from sin. bicycle from the bridge and break my leg, but if he had not been there to see it happen and call for help, truly, truly, I would have died. God has more work for me to do and I want Him to lead and guide me daily.” The hour is late, though many would yet like to voice praise to our wonderful Lord. The day has been long, but so blessed of Him, whose birthday we have remembered; so all voice their praise in singing our favorite hymn of Him, even the Lord Jesus who came “ to save his people from their sins.” Praise the Saviour, ye who know Him; Who can tell how much we owe Him? Gladly let us render to Him All we have and are! Trust in Him, ye saints, forever; He is faithful, changing never; Neither fear nor guile can sever Those He loves from Him. Keep us, Lord, oh, keep us cleaving To Thyself, and still believing, Till the hour of our receiving Promised joys in heaven!
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