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soon be opened for Him. His songs will yet‘be sung by many hearts now deep in sin, and far from God, and in the bondage of the devil. The interior o f Borneo and the Celebes, where wild men, head-hunters, still live in the jungle, will some day soon hear the glad sound o f the Gos pel, see the great Light, and be saved. We are debtors to the Chinese, the Malay, the Java nese, the Indian, the Arab of these parts,:—and most of all to the pagan wild men of the interior. Their blood is re quired of pur hands. W e must not only warn them, but we owe them a debt that we must pay to them. What is it? The debt of the Gospel o f the Lord Jesus Christ. Some may pay this debt in one way and some in another way. Some one will have to go, and some one will have to send, ere these people can call upon the name o f the Lord. “ For how shall they call on Him in whom they have not.believed ? And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard ? And how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach except they be sent?” (Rom . 10:14, 15). Beautiful indeed will be the feet o f those who have a share in bringing to these benighted peoples the Gospel of peace, the glad tidings of good things! It will take some sacrifice; it will cost tears and blood. But it is worth while. What a joy to go with Him all the way, to preach Him to “ the uttermost parts o f the earth,” to the millions.“ where Christ has not been named.” I have much more to write about this trip and these peoples. If God will, I shall writp soon again. and saving lost sinners. He set His face steadfastly to complete the work which the Father had given Him to do, A C onstructive P rogram Paul wrote o f apostasy in his day. He wrote to the Thessalonians: “ The mystery o f iniquity doth already work.” He constantly warned the believers against it. Yet we never find Paul arguing with the rationalists. He rather seems to have lost little time over them. The con trolling passion o f Paul’s life was to save souls. He had received a commission from the glorified Christ and this commission burned constantly within his heart. In Acts 20:24 he defines it “ to testify the Gospel o f the grace o f God.” His was a constructive program carried on faith fully in an ever-growing sphere so that he could write the Romans, “ I have strived to preach the Gospel, not where Christ was named.” In warning Timothy of the time when many within the church would “ turn away their ears from the truth, and would be turned unto fables,” Paul gives an outline of procedure for all true Christians in the face o f apostasy. “ Watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work o f an evangelist, make full proof o f thy ministry.” Holy living, sound teaching and soul saving would be Paul’s message to orthodox Christians today. The Sadducees o f Jesus’ day are the Modernists o f our day. They “ do err, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power o f God.” The Pharisees are with us in the person ¿s'c*
it was enough to let me know beyond a doubt, that I was in the enemy’s territory, where the true Light had never shone, where His wonderful Name was unknown,' where the reign of the devil had never been challenged. If you do not believe in a personal devil—“Come to one o f these places where his dominion has never been disputed, where he has full sway, and you will meet him face to face. But, unless you are covered with the blood of Calvary, do not dare to come. D ark C orners N eeding th e L ight Again I hear the call of great cities like Makassar and Surabaya. Those names were new to me. They may be new to you. Now they ring'in my ears all day long, and are in my dreams at night. “ Makassar! Makassar! Sur abaya ! Surabaya!” They .now represent to me places of midnight darkness. I was particularly interested in the thousands of Chi nese in these cities. They were as sheep without a shep herd. There had been little churches, but they are now dying. The little flocks have no leader. At one place they had not had a service for three years. If we can supply the Chinese workers, and help some in a financial way to save these dying churches, and open wofk in new cities where there has been no Chinese work commenced^ it need not be long till we have a score of ' self-supporting Chinese churches in these parts. But we must have foreign missionaries also. The Light will yet shine in the dark places. Gospel halls will j ESUS lived' in a time o f apostasy. What did He do? Jewry was divided into several religious camps. There was the remnant pf devout Jews who, like Simeon and Anna, awaited the “ consolation of Israel” ; but the groups which took the lead were the Sadducees, the Pharisees •and the Herodians. The Sadducees were religious rationalists who did not believe in the supernatural. They occupied places pf lead ership in the Sanhedrin and priesthood. Christ had one word for them: “ Ye do err, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power "¿' What Shall We Do About the Apostasy? B y W . C ameron T ownsend : ( Central American Mission )
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