surprise. " I thought you had done with all that in America. Besides, your emperor would need to be a won- derful man, incapable of mistakes, and extraordinarily competent for leader- ship." "Precisely," was the quiet an- swer; " a nd we know the Man; we are waiting for Him, and His name is— Jesus." " The thrill of that reply," says Dr. Kelman, ' ' will never leave me.".—From " The Life of F a i t h ." That Saves. termined and I had to dress and go. I found the place was a house of ill-fame. In the lower rooms they were drinking and telling lewd stories, and upstairs I found the poor woman dying. I sat down and talked about Jesus as the beautiful example, and extolled him as a leader and teacher, and she looked at me out of her eyes of death and said: 'Mister, that's no good for the likes o' me. I don't want an example —I'm a sinner.' "Jowett, there I was face to face with a poor soul dying, and had noth- ing to tell her. I had no Gospel, and I thought of what my mother had taught me, and I told her the old story of God's love in Christ's dying for sinful men, whether I believed it or not. 'Now you are getting at it,' said the woman. 'That's what I want. That's the story for me.' And so I got her in and got in myself. From that night,'' added Dr. Berry, " I have always had a full Gospel of salvation for lost sin- ners." Can the new religion give us any- thing to take its place?—Misionary Review of the World. nent and sincere worker in China says that present missionary methods re- mind him of the old sexton who went about a chureh and lighted each lamp separately, and that we ought to adopt the method of the modern sexton, who simoly touches a bntton. "Convert a dozen of China's leaders," he cries, " a n d you will convert China." I do not believe in that kind of conversion. I sympathize rather with James Gil- mour, who in a letter shortly before his death, wrote: " I am becoming more and more impressed with the idea that
it is profoundly pessimistic of all that a Christ-rejecting generation is about to do; it is profoundly optimistic of all that an almighty and an all-gracious God will effect in the imminent estab- lishment of His Kingdom. Dr. Kelman recently asked an eminent man of sci- ence his solution of the problems of modern city life. " An emperor!" came the answer, swift and decisive. " An emperor?" asked Dr. Kelman in The Gospel By way of illustrating the defects of false systems, and the power of the cross, we venture to reprint an oft-told story of the lamented Rev. Charles A. Berry's experience (of Wolverhamp- ton) as he toltj. it to his friend, Bev. J. A. Jowett, o r Birmingham, England: "One night there came to me a Lan- cashire girl, with her shawl over her head and with clogs on her feet. 'Are you the minister?' she said. 'Yes.' 'Then I want you to come and get my mother in.' Thinking it was some drunken brawl, I said: 'Y No Change Needed in Methods.
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