King's Business - 1914-12

730 M iss H elen S m ith , a graduate of the Institute, located at Soo Chow, China, under the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, in a letter enclosing a copy of her first annual report has many interesting things to say of her work. This report in­ dicates how vast a sphere of evangelistic influence is open to young men and women of the right kind in the world-wide field; one broad enough for the all ambition of such as long to serve Christ and humanity in their day and generation. “The hottest summer in forty years’’ drove Miss Smith, with many fellow-work­ ers, from a wide district, to the mountains for recuperation. There she enjoyed the privilege of meeting and conferring with many consecrated men and women and lis­ tening daily to the addresses of the Sum­ mer Conference. and included visitation with the pastor’s- wife of Chinese women in their homes, from a peep into which she says she never (Concludedformpage 686) Unwarranted Interpretations of Prophecy. of almost prosaic peace in Europe. And so it may be again. We must remember, more­ over, that in the wars of ‘the end of the age’ (Matt. 24:3), which .are to herald the rise of the Antichrist, the people and the land of the covenant will be prominently in evi­ dence; ibut that element is wanting in the present struggle.’ “All one can say about the dreadful war is, that it may prepare the way for the great European confederacy, which in the Holy Scriptures, is designated as the revived Ro­ man empire.” (Concluded frompage 720) Questions and Answers. It has been the purpose of God from the very beginning to keep His people in igno­ rance as to the exact time of our Lord’s re­ turn, and while we believe most positively that He may come.at any moment and that we should always be looking for His ap­ pearing (Luke 12:35-37) we should never

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came away “with a light heart.” In the Sunday school she has a class of thirty lit­ tle girls whose remarkable memories she is storing with verses of the Word of Life, reviewing them Sunday by Sunday with simple emphasis on the great truths they convey. The story of the Prodigal Son is the favorite among them. She also con­ ducts a Tuesday meeting for women, six­ teen of whom had enrolled as enquirers. The missionaries of Soo Chow co-operat­ ing with the Y. W. C. A. have united to reach the non-Christian students. A com­ mittee consisting of one from each mission with both a Chinese and foreign secretary has been formed. Four hundred young women students have asked for Bible in­ struction. Miss Smith has the oversight of a normal training class. Though she is teaching some of the illiterate women to read Scripture verses in their own language she does her public instructing and speaking through an interpreter set a date for His coming nor assert posi­ tively that He will come in our own gen­ eration, but always bear in mind our Lord’s own parting words to His disciples, “It is not for you to know times or seasons, which the Father hath set within His own author­ ity” (Acts 1 :7), and we should go on laying the best plans we can and make the best preparations we can for the most energetic prosecution of His work possible until He actually does come. Furthermore, even if He should come to­ day the buildings that we have built for His work are not built in vain; His work will go on after the Church is caught up, and these buildings will be useful when we are gone and will be used for the glory of God throughout the Millennium. If the Lord should come tomorrow, it would be found that those who had made the mistake were not those who had put large sums of money into buildings for the carrying on of His work but those who had used their money for their own selfish gratification.

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