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kept in peace. The Bible School continued its work with out interruption right up to the end of the school year. S tudents H elp to M eet A G reat N eed A happy incident occurred that illustrates the splendid way in which our several departments fit into each other. It also shows what fine opportunities we have for coopera tion with the different missions working in the same great Province of Hunan. Our Biola Evangelistic Band No. 4 had completed its work in one of the districts of a mission in whose field it had been invited to work during the year. Practically every home in that district, which is about ten miles square, had been visited. The young converts had been taught how to study the Bible and to pray, and a little church had been organized—a self-supporting, self-propagating, indigenous church, the thing most needed in China today! A group of from fifty to sixty earnest Christians were meeting regularly for worship, for the study of God's. Word, and for prayer. But the men of Band No. 4 had to go on to a new field. The mission had no evangelist whom they could send to care for this little flock. What could be done? Representatives of the mission came to us and said: “ Can you let us have one of your student bands to go to that field and minister during the summer months to the needs of those babes in Christ?” O f course, Mr. Roberts was glad to assign one of the best of our student evangelis tic bands—a group composed of some of our most mature students, men who, by God’s grace, would be a real help to those little ones in the faith. C hinese E vangelists F or C h ina A few days ago a letter came from one of our faithful supporters, a lady who formerly was in active service on the mission field. The closing words of her letter are sig nificant in view of the situation in China at the present time. She writes: “ Our prayers go with you as, you go back to the work, which is a wonderful one to me in that it can go on even when foreigners cannot be there.” This is one of the keynotes of the work. It is a work carried on, under God, by carefully trained and deeply spiritual Chinese Christians. They go to their respective fields unaccompanied by any foreigners, and they go in their simple Chinese way. Therefore, they can gain an entrance into villages and homes which would be prac tically impossible if any foreigners were with them. After they have won the confidence of the people among whom they are working, and have succeeded in leading a few to faith in Christ, then it is possible and also advisable for the missionary to visit them and spend a few days with them. These workers are trained to look directly and defi nitely to the Holy Spirit for daily guidance, not to the foreign missionary. This plan develops in them a spirit of direct dependence on God that is of immeasurable value, and helps to make real leaders of men who otherwise might go on all their lives looking to human leadership for in spiration and guidance. During the past year, even in provinces where mission aries have been compelled to retire from their stations, the men. of our eight Biola Evangelistic Bands have been able to go right on with their blessed work, and God has given rich rewards. A most gratifying and inspiring summary of the year’s work of our Biola Evangelistic Band No. 4 has just been received. It would take too much space for this article, so it must be left until another time.
Other Sheep B y H amilton W atts Lord Jesus Christ, by Whom alone Our deepest needs are met, Fill us with Thine own sympathy, Lest others we forget. From favored lands where Thou art known W e scan the world with shame; Millions with needs as deep as ours Have never heard Thy name. Samour o f men! O f Thee bereft, Our lives were dark with dread; From guilt and fear Thou hast set free By dying in our stead. In many lands men seek for rest, By painful, toilsome ways; When shall their futile strivings cease, And faith be crowned with praise? Some grope in darkness for the truth Till baffled hope burns low; Some veil their deeds in deepest night, And love to have it so. Thou art the Truth, the Light o f L ife ; Thy penetrating ray Sheds light o’ er heart and mind and will, And leads to perfect day. Shepherd o f souls! Like straying sheep, They wander far away; Teach us to see them helpless, lost, To evil things a prey. Teach us to bear our brother’ s load O f tragedy and sin; And take us with Thee all the way To bring these wanderers in. —L ife o f Faith.
Divine Promises and What to Do With Them Let us know the promises. Should we not carry them at our finger-ends ? The promises should be the classics of believers. I f you have not read the last new book, and have not heard the last act of the Government, yet know right well what God the Lord hath said, and look to see His Word made good. We ought to be so versed in Scripture as always to have at the tip of our tongue the promise which most exactly meets our case. We ought to be transcripts of Scripture: the divine promise should be as much written on our hearts as upon the pages o f the Book. It is a sad pity that any child of God should be unaware of the existence of the royal promise which would enrich him. It is pitiful for anyone of us to be like the poor man who had a fortune left him, of which he knew nothing, and therefore he went on sweeping a cross ing, and begging for pence. What is the use of having an anchor at home, when your ship is in a storm at sea? What avails a promise which you cannot remember so as to plead it in prayer? Whatever else you do not know, do endeavor to be familiar with those words o f the Lord which are more needful to our souls than bread to our bodies.— C. H. Spurgeon.
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