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Immediately following we read, “Yes. He is the same Evan Roberts as in the days of the Revival, and these laws of the spirit have been recognized and fulfilled up to the measure of their knowledge, by those around him, who cannot get conversation with him, even if present in the same houfee, if these laws of the spirit are ignored; and thus he is a ceaseless ‘touchstone’ to all who are in contact with him, whether they, too, ‘walk after the spirit’ in close fellow ship with God.” This is shocking! To make any man the “touchstone” to all others is putting a man in the place no man, no mat ter how Spirit-filled, has a right to occupy. It would be no wonder if a young, over wrought man should have his head turned by this sort of thing. This is unwholesome, utterly unwholesome. derstand strangers; * * * * * * * * “Mother, dear, I am so glad that we came I can scarcely contain myself. As much as I had heard of the terrible need out here, I had never half dreamed of what it is. Daily I become more impressed with the bigness and grandeur of the opportunity out here. In comparison to it everything else sinks into insignificance, and the petty round that so many of our yoting people-at home are wasting their lives at, seems piti fully ridiculous. Oh, it is, grand to be here and I am not able to thank God enough for permitting me to come. Just think what we would have missed if we had stayed at home ! It has been hard to leave you all behind and we miss you very much, but" the compensations have begun to pour in richly.”
man,, that Evan Roberts seems from this article to expect, is to put a man in the place of God. In the next paragraph of the article re ferred to we read, “Since he is a ‘man of spirit,.’ dominated by the spirit-life in strong spiritual maturity, as the result of implicit obedience to the laws and leadings of the Holy Spirit in’ years of hidden walking with God, he is well able to understand the- mind of the Spirit. He cannot open the things of God to those who are severed from him in spirit by doubt or unbelief.” This seems to demand'belief in Evan Rob erts as we believe in God. The Lord Jesus Could say and had a right to say, “Ye be lieve in God, believe also in me” (John 14:1).- Evan Roberts has no right to say it, nor has any other man. “I thank God more and more every day, that we were sent here and that this class was started this year. You cannot imagine what it is meaning to us .and how much easier it is making the work. The old days of desperation and hopelessness are done away with and the work is interesting and made as easy as possible. Chinese has its difficulties but is not nearly so ominous as we thought, when it is taken up this way. It is really much easier than English and I am beginning to realize what our own tongue must be to a foreigner. We also have the great advantage of constantly talk ing before others and losing our timidity, and of hearing others and the teachers from the different stations talk, so that we be come accustomed to listening to others than our own teachers and are better able to un
Word from Reuben A. Torrey, Jr. [We take the liberty of inserting here an extract from a letter to his mother by Reuben A. Torrey, Jr., the- son of Doctor Torrey, who, under the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, has just entered on his life-work in China. ■ May his satisfaction in his chosen ministry never lack, by the grace of God, that holy en thusiasm with which it begins.—ASSOCIATE EDITOR.]
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