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THE VIRGIN BIRTH (Continued from Page 137) “He is dead; far hence He lies In a lorn Syrian town; And on His grave with shining eyes The Syrian stars look down.”
Give Books This Christmas and you will never regret it. Nearly every body likes a Good Missionary Story. These are that kind. Shelton of Tibet By Mrs. A. L. Shelton Told by Mrs. Shelton, the constant companion of his heroic service and adventures, this life story of Dr. A. L. Shelton, missionary to Tibet, is a book of surpassing interest and importance in the realm of missionary biography. “In the murder by bandits of Dr. A. L. Shelton, the brilliant and adventurous missionary, the cause of Christ in Asia lost one of the boldest and, most heroic spirits known to missionary life in this generation.“ Cloth, $2.00
How will a man live who believes that, who believes He is dead in the lorn Syrian town? Let Matthew Arnold him self tell you— ¡‘‘The world which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, Hath really neither hope, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor balm for pain; But we are left as on-a darkening plain, Filled with confused alarms of struggle and flight. Where ignorant armies clash by night." That is the world of a man who has no resurrected Jesus, but believes in a dead Christ. But what does Paul say? “Now is Christ risen from the dead and become the first fruits of them that sleep: and if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, we shall also believe those who sleep in Jesus will appear with Him.” And what does Jesus say? Because I live, ye shall live also.” And the resurrected Jesus having gone up to glory, we know where every be lieving saint who passed away from the earth is at this moment, and we know where we are going. They told me at a funeral a little while ago that they wanted to sing “Beautiful Isle of Somewhere” In the service. But I said, I would not, if I were you, because that would be all right to sing over Ingersoll who did not know where he was go ing; but over a saint who died with a firm belief in Jesus Christ, and has gone to be with Jesus, what foolishness to sing a hymn of agnosticism. For when you ask to sing that hymn over a saint, why do you not ask the preacher to preach from “I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way.” You see, Jesus did not stay in the grave, but He arose. He died for our sins, and rose for our. justifica tion. And what preceded His resurrection? Assuredly His crucifixion. Do you remember how I told you once how on the White Chapel Hoad in London as the story was being told of Jesus’ death, a burly man pushed his way through the crowd and said, “You are making altogether too much of that death. There was nqthing in that that differenti ated it from the death of John Brown at Harper’s Ferry.” But if I die as an impenitent sinner, I shall die with no body’s sin on my soul hut my own, while if I die as a re generated saint, when I am dying I shall be comforted by the assurance of my Father’s presence. Yet when Jesus died, He died with the sin of the whole world upon Him, and He died saying, “My God, why hast Thou forsaken me?” And these two facts make the death of Jesus the exceptional, the unique death. He died for our sins. With my last breath I hope to talk about the atonement of Jesus Christ. One of our own men dared say a little while ago that Calvary was an “immunity bath” where people got rid of their sins. Weil the blood of Jesus Christ is no bath of physical blood, as everybody knows.' But that blood was the life surrendered at the cross that we poor sinners might not die hut have everlasting life, and so it is the blood that cleanseth from all sin. And that life that terminated at that cross was the one sinless life. For there has never been but one perfect life lived under God’s stars, and that was lived by Jesus Christ. And I thought last week with an ever increasing wonder how Jesus Christ said a few sentences that have been gath ered up and that have come down these ages, and those (Continued on next Page)
One Thousand Miles of Miracles in China By A rchibald F. G lover T his is a book entirely o u t of the ord in ary . It is a m a r velous 372 p ages of m ission ary rom ance, unexcelled in his to ry . The reading of it draw s forth m any tears, m any p ra y ers an d m ore praises. C loth, $1.50
Chinese Heart Throbs By Jennie V. H ughes A ch arm ing ten d er series of sketches a n d sto ries w ritten by one w ho h as a ra re in sig h t into an d sym pathy w ith th e people of China am ong whom she has labored m any years as a m issionary. C loth, $1.50
Dragon’s End
By Josephine H ope Westervelt A thrilling story of a Care-free young doctor who on a dare“ goes out to the bandit-ridden sections of China, as a substitute for a medical missionary who has been invalided home. He has no conception of real mission work—does not really know Christ himself—and being honest, he soon sees the impossibility of his position, but finds the Saviour, and his work takes on an entirely new aspect. This story was written in this attractive form for our Christian young people, that they may know of the deep joy and satisfaction that comes from engaging in such work. Cloth, $1.25 Anna Coope;
Christian Forsyth of Fingoland
Sky Pilot of the San Bias Indians An A utobiography—
By W . P . L ivingstone Am ong th e m o st fascinating annals of m issionary b io g ra phy. Aw ay off in Fingoland dow n in so u th ea st A frica, C h ristian a F o rsy th o r “Sm oy- an a,” as she w as adoringly called by th e K afirs gave th e th irty y ears of h er life to w ork am ong one of th e w ildest, and m ost treach ero u s trib es in th e d ark continent. Cloth, $1.50
T his book will give you hours of delight an d a rich fund of inform ation. It tells of th e new w om en an d ch il dren of San B ias Islands, off the co ast of C entral Am erica. U tterly alone, M iss Coope took the sw eetness of hom e-life an d civilization to th is isolated people. C loth $1.25
Pastor Hsi, One of China’s Christians By Mrs. Howard T aylor This is a very unusual life story of a man who was one of China s scholars, but who, through the opium habit, descended to the lowest depths that it would seem possible for a human to go, and then, Christ came into his life, as it was transformed and he became an out standing figure for God. One of China’s great Christians. Cloth, $2.00 If m oney does n o t accom pany order, goods will be sen t C. O. D., unless otherw ise specified. If books are to com e by m ail ad d 10% for postage.
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