T HE K I N G ' S B U S I N E S S to face with God for direct dealing with Him. To assume that God does not un derstand human nature— that men can add important, essential elements to the system of agencies by which God’s Kingdom is to be built up— that the beauty and power of holiness in the Church needs to be supplanted by at tractions and expedients borrowed 'from high-pressure human intrusions— this shocks the reverent mind. The introduction of this tendency, in any form whatever, into the domain of Sacred things, disgusts the thoughtful portion of the Church. It provokes and justifies the acorn of sincere, dissatisfied men in the Roman priesthood, who are not to be made captive by any such shallow and unwholesome devices. It multiplies the difficulties of the portion of the Evangelical ministry which, both from taste and from profound and sol emn conviction, shrinks from the use of all such artifices. It repels from the Protestant ministry not a few of the choicest men who, year after year, are severing their connection with the Roman Catholic Church, who, finding what are the conditions of reputed suc cess in too many churches, and un willing to again bend their necks to thralldom, or to discipline their powers to such uses, decide to serve God in other avocations, sure that to this they have not been called.— The Converted Catholic. YOU DIDN’T DO IT You learned of a neighbor in trou ble. It was in your thought to go to him to offer him help. But you did not do it. The day closed, and there was that brotherly kindness that you ought to have done left undone. Yon der, at the ending of the day, your neighbor is still bowing in the dark ness, beneath his burdens. He might have been rejoicing, had it not been for your sin of omission.— J. R. Miller.
172 tains. Even more difficult to obtain than the water was the necessary clay. All that end pf the Island is a sandy, desert waste, in which no one had ever thought of digging to find clay. But as the people prayed, the Lord led them to think of digging for the clay. This they did, and had not gone more than six feet.j when the cry was heard, “ Barro! Barro!” ( “ Clay! Clay!” ) and the praying and working ended in sing ing praises to God. Then came the question of the neces sary ' water. Again they sought the Lord and were led of Him to dig still deeper for the water, and now for the first time in the history of the Island there is a beautiful and abundant well of water in that town! They first gave themselves to the Lord, and how richly He blessed them! When we left we promised if they would build the Chapel, we would bring a bell for it when we returned to the work. On the 17th of September, 1919, the building was complete and dedi cated to the Lord free from all debt. We plan to return in the spring of 1920, and are asking the Lord to sup ply the bell as He has supplied the build ing, and also to supply the necessary funds to enable us to return. The heathen do not need educating, nor to be Americanized, but they do need the Gospel which is the power of God unto salvation. Pray for us. MR. AND MRS. VAN V. EDDINGS. m m PULPIT BUFFOONERY Sensationalism, in all its phases and measures, resorted to by the so-called Protestant ministry as a means of help ing out thq unattractiveness and un palatableness- of the Gospel of the grace of God,- has greatly contributed to bring Protestantism into disrepute. The pupit which is in itself most in visible, is the most true to the Divine intention. Men are to be brought face
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