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“ Faith Missions” Friends of the interdenominational Mis sions popularly called “Faith Missions” will be glad to secure the recently published p a m p h l e t summarizing the service of the agencies composing the Interdenom inational Foreign Mission Association of North America. This Association was formed in 1917 by a group of foreign mis sionary societies that were not denomin ationally related, but which held identical doctrinal convictions and adhered to sim ilar missionary principles and practices. Prayer fellowship, conferences concerning missionary policy, and united appeal for world evangelization are aims of the or ganization. Listed in the order of their inception, the sixteen societies that are now members of the Association are: The Woman’s Union Missionary Society of America, The China Inland Mission, The India Christian Mis sion, The South Africa General Mission, The Central American Mission, The Sudan Interior Mission, The Ceylon and India General Mission, The Africa Inland Mis sion, The Bible House of Los Angeles, The Inland South America Missionary Union, The Bolivian Indian Mission, The North East India General Mission, The Evangelical Union of South America, The American European Fellowship, The Or inoco River Mission, and The Latin Amer ica Evangelization Campaign. The pamphlet contains a list of the o f ficiary of each Mission, and a brief state ment concerning each society’s origin, aim, and ministry. Copies of the pamphlet may be secured without cost from the head quarters of the various mission agencies listed, or from the Secretary of the Asso ciation, George H. Dowkontt, 113 Fulton Street, New York, N. Y.
One Sunday evening at the close of the service held at the mission, Mr. Harvey beckoned me to come outside. He looked pale and troubled, and he said, “ Could you come down to see me tomorrow? I am very miserable, and I want to be saved.” The old man produced a letter written by his sister, in which she said, “Dearest Harry, be sure to meet me in heaven.” God made that simple sentence—which Harry Harvey had doubtless.heard many times before—like an arrow that went straight to his heart. With tears on his face, the old man realized for the. first time that unless Christ saved him, he would be lost forever. But it was not long until with joy he was en abled to believe that Christ meant Harry Harvey, as He means every sinner, when He said, “Him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out” (Joh.n 6:37). I can hear his voice now as he repeated with assurance the words of the old hymn: “Jesus, I will trust Thee, trust Thee with my soul. Guilty, lost, and helpless, Christ can make me whole.” Soon the whole Port knew that Harvey had been saved. About a fortnight after his conversion he was taken ill, and within a few days, he went to be “ for ever with the Lord.” Before he died he said confi dently, “I am trusting only in Jesus.” Thus it was that old Harry Harvey went to heaven after all. He forsook sin, and turned to God just before he was called into eternity. He was saved, but he went to God empty-handed, so far as a lifetime of service was concerned. He never knew the joy o f leading even one of his fellow sinners to Christ. Though his soul was redeemed, his life was wasted. But if just one person who happens to read this account is induced thereby to “seek .. . the Lord while he may be found," old Harry Harvey will not have lived in vain.
How Old Harry Harvey Got to Heaven after A ll B y KATE MACKY T hose who have lived at Port Ahuriri (Napier, N. Z.) for any length of time, will remember old Harry Har vey, and will no doubt be interested to hear o f his conversion at seventy-five years of age. He lived in a small cabin behind the mission called the Sailors’ Rest, and for several months he was caretaker of the building, and attended the meetings occa sionally. “ Old Harry,” as he was called, lived a quiet, respectable life. He neither drank nor swore. He paid his debts and did no harm to anybody. He lived a better life than many so-called Christians do who go to church, take the Sacrament, and put money in the plate. Yet in spite of his apparently good life, Old Harry was a very wicked man, for he rejected Christ, hated God, and despised His Word. When Old Harry was approached about his need of forgiveness and salvation, he would say, “I don’t believe a word of the Bible. It is not properly translated.” (He had never even read it.) And when it was explained to him that Christian faith is based on the best authenticated fact of history, the resurrection of Christ from the dead, he would go away muttering, “The Bible is a pack of lies. I don’t believe a word o f it.” Several times a week as I passed his cabin I would knock at the old man’s door, and say cheerily, “Wake up, Mr. Harvey, you haven’t any time to waste.” Then, more seriously,. “Death will be knocking at your door some day, and you need to be ready. You are the one to choose, you know, whether you will go to heaven or to hell.” But the old man would invariably reply, “ Oh, it’s you again, is it? Well, I don’t believe a word of what you say.”
ofJubilee stand that “ the profit of the earth is for all” (Eccl. 5 :9). What an equalization! Today, the men who build palaces, live in shacks; men who build Packards, rattle along in old Model-T’s ; men who build Pullmans, spend their night in an old day coach; men who weave silks and satins, walk in linsey-woolsey. It isn’t right! “ Jubilee” will right all that. “ Communism” and “ Socialism” never will. It is promised that when our Lord shall sit down on David’s throne, then “ they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit o f them. They shall not build, and another inhabit ;.they shall not plant, and another eat” (Isa. 65:21, 22 ). Why Communists and Socialists should hate Jesus Christ and despise the “ blessed hope,” when it promises them the goal they claim to seek, is diffi cult to understand. The jubilee will bring cessation from all wearisome toil (cf. Lev. 25:11, 12). No more will a cursed soil compel man to secure his bread by the sweat o f his brow, for “ Instead o f the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the briar shall come up the myrtle tree” (Isa. 55:13). And, blessed be the day o f atonement that always ushered in the year o f jubilee, every scattered family shall be reunited in that coming day. It is written: “ And ye shall return every man unto his family” (Lev. 25:10). Such shall be our experience when that “ jubilee” period dawns, “ For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, . . . the dead in Christ shall rise . . . Then we .. . shall be . . . together” (1' Thess. 4:16, 17) !
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[Continued from page 299] of the church have almost universally believed thus. Bishop Newton ( Discourses on Prophecy, p. 587, on Revelation 20) wrote: “ That the Jewish Church before John, and the Christian Church after him, have believed and taught that these one thousand years will be the Seventh Millenary of the world. A pompous heap o f quotations might be pro duced to this purpose, both from Jewish and Christian writers.” Bishop Latimer ( Sermon on the Lord’s Prayer, No. 3 ) said: “ The world was ordained to endure, as all learned men affirm . . . six thousand years . . . Therefore, all those excellent and learned men, whom, without doubt, God hath sent into the world in these lattei; days to give the world warning, do gather out of Scripture that the last day cannot be far off.” The year o f jubilee comes on apace. The clouds hang heavy in the East. For us, the darkening clouds in the East have no terror, for our Lord shall come with clouds. He shall catch us up in clouds, through the clouds, and above the clouds. When the days o f tribulation shall have passed, He will return with the saints and plant His feet upon old Olivet’s brow, overthrowing His enemies, and establishing His reign o f peace. The world will then know and experience her promised jubilee! Then every bondslave shall find deliverance. Death it self shall yield up all the prey that it has taken from the saints throughout the ages. All alienated property shall be restored ( c f . Lev. 2 5 :13, 28, 41). Men will come to under-
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