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he said, “th a t all these little doubts and heartaches of yours were not the expres sion of your manhood at its best; these were your periods of humiliation, your experiences of night darkness. Christi anity says, ‘What think ye?’ Let your mind speak. What is your best thought, what is the thought of this morning, the dewdrop of this dawn? Oh, wondering, stupid, half - intoxicated, half-heresy- poisoned Church, awake!” THE GREATEST HONOR A minister once asked his Sunday School children, if there should be any such thing as contention in heaven, what they thought it would be about. “O, sir!” they replied, “there will be no strife there.” “Well, but supposing there should be such a thing: what do you think it would be about?” “Well, sir,” said one, “I suppose, if there be any contention, it will be who shall get nearest to Jesus Christ.” '
leans relate God’s gracious goodness to them thus far, and how, although the day after their arrival was election day, He had the Bolivian Consul down at his office, most unexpectedly so far as the Consul was concerned, to vise Miss McCahan’s passport. This makes twelve of our Institute young people now laboring in this hard and neglected field, making twenty-one members of the Mission now on the field. The prayers of the readers of this magazine are earnestly desired for the work of the Bolivian Indian Mission, which is an international and interdenominational faith mission. Sample copies of The Bolivian Indian, the quarterly magazine of the Mission, can be had from the Secretary, Bolivian Indian Mission, 536 South Hope Street, Los Angeles, Calif. FATE OF THE APOSTLES St. Matthew suffered martyrdom by being slain with a sword a t a distant city of Ethiopia. St. Mark expired at Alexandria, after having been cruelly dragged through the streets of th a t city. St. Luke was hanged upon an olive- tree in the classic land of Greece. St. John was put into a caldron of boiling oil, but escaped death in a miraculous manner, and was afterwards banished to Patmos. St. Peter was crucified at Rome with his head downward. St. James the Greater was beheaded at Jerusalem. St. James the Less was thrown from a lofty pinnacle of the temple, and then beaten to death with a fuller’s club. St. Philip was hanged up against a pillar a t Heiropolis in Phrygia. St. Bartholomew was flayed alive. St. Andrew was b'ound to a cross, whence he preached to his per secutors until he died. St. Thomas was run through the body with a lance at Coromandel in the East Indies. St. Jude was shot to death with arrows. St. Matthias was first stoned, and then be headed. St. Barnabas of the Gentiles was stoned to death by the Jews at Salonica. St. Paul, after various t o r ^ tures and persecutions, was a t length beheaded at Rome by the Emperor Nero. —Schumacher. jilfc MS’ WIDE AWAKE RELIGION The late Dr. Joseph Parker once de scribed Christianity as the wide-awake religion, the sublimest appeal to man at his intellectual best. “You know,”
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