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church period;' Martin Luther of the R ef ormation period; John Bunyan; John Knox; David Livingstone o f A frica; Robert Morrison o f China; David Brain- erd, missionary to the American Indians; John Wesley; Hudson Taylor ; D. L. Moody. Biographies of these men may be found in either your church or public li braries. -— o — C hoice N uggets When the Christian Endeavor society was organized, a young people’s ■ society in a dhurch was the exception; today it is the rule, thanks to Francis E. Clark.— William Shaw. Missionaries to a barbarous people de serve a vote of thanks from the commer cial world.— Robert Moffat. The leader dies, but the movement goes on. Who can calculate its influence ? It is like a river that never dries up, bring ing new blessing every day. John Williams was one o f the pioneer missionaries to the Society Islands in the southern Pacific, to which he went nearly a hundred years ago, at the age of twenty. He had learned the work o f a mechanic, Ühd used his skill in his missionary la bors, teaching the natives how .to make houses and furniture and boats and ar ticles of metals and many other things. He led the natives in raising sugar-cane and built a sugar mill. He reduced the language to writing and drew up a code of laws. At his first baptism he received seventy into the church. He explored many groups o f islands in a remarkable vessel which he made himself. He was finally murdered by the fierce natives o f the New Hebrides, who mistook him for a cruel trader. A Moravian missionary named George Smith went to Africa. He had.been there büt a short time and had only one con vert, a poor Woman, when he was driven from the country. They found this man dead one day. He had died praying for the Dark Continent. Failure? And yet when they celebrated'-the' one hundredth anniversary of the founding of that mis sion, they learned that a company, acci dentally stumbling upon a place where he
fabric may cleanse it, but the mere pass ing of reading matter through the mind is different. American newspapers are printing more and mote religious’ editorials. They would print yet more if the - demand were greater. Remember that the newspaper fairly well reflects American life.—Hr. Wade. August 26, 1928 What the World Owes to Religious Leaders 2 Cor. 12:1-12 (Missionary Emphasis) “ Oh, it-sears the face and it tires the brain, It strains the arm till one’s friend is Pain, In the fight for man and God. But it’s great to be out where the fight is strong, To be where the heaviest troops belong, And to fight there for man and God.” - —o - - T houghts on the T opic From, time immemorial great leaders have always been men o f vision, insight and faith. They have given their very lives in the interests o f their fellow men.. They have given to the world examples of noble .courage, perseverance, acts of kind ness, implicit •trust in God. Such lives have left a lasting influence upon the fol lowing generations.’” ; We study i n ’ school the lives of our noble statesmen, and such they were; but do we ever stop to think of the religious leaders that have wielded as great an in fluence in the establishment of righteous ness in the lives p^lcountjess,, millions throughout the world, men Who have risked their lives to, carry the Gospel of Christ to darkened lands ?. For this meeting we suggest that the leader appoint various members, of the society to give a brief sketch of the lives o f some of the outstanding religious lead ers of the past as well as the present. Such leaders as Paul of the early
August 19, 1928 How Magazines and Newspapers Help or Hinder Christian Living ' 2 Tim. 3 :1-17 Mightiest of the mighty means On which the arm o f progress leans— Man’s noblest mission to advance, His woes assuage, his weal advance, His rights enforce, his wrongs redress-— Mightiest of the mighty is the press. — Bowring.■ - -o— T houghts on the TopioSy One can pick up almost any current newspaper today and find depicted just such conditions in the world as are de scribed in vs. 1-7 of the chapter assigned for our lesson today. Surely we are liv ing in the last days referred to in v. 1 , and if so, as children of God,'- how cau tious we should be o f the many pitfalls of Satan, especially along the lin&tof what we read and how we read. Newspapers that continually give the greater amount o f space to crime and filth, and refuse to publish anything o f a constructive nature, encourage the very thing they publish and are a menace to civilization. The country is ' being flooded with magazines o f a similar nature. On the other hand, there is much that comes off the press in the way o f constructive newspaper : arti cles and helpful magazines, providing en couragement, sun-shine, hope and valuable instruction, which, tend to -help Christian living. The reading o f such articles and magazines should be encouraged in all C. E. societies. For this meeting it would be a good plan for the leader to ask the members, one week in advance o f the meeting, to come prepared to mention one good maga zine and their reason for considering it profitable reading. —o—- The follies, vices, and consequent mis eries o f multitudes, displayed in a news paper, are so many admonitions and warn ings, so many beacons, continually burn ing, to turn others from the rocks on which they have been shipwrecked. E -Bishop Horne. The press, important as is its office, is but the servant o f the human intellect, and its ministry is for good or for evil, ac cording to the character o f those who di rect it. The press is a mill which grinds all that is put into its hopper. Fill the hopper with poisoned grain, and it will grind it to meal, but there is death in the bread.— Bryant. W e never read without profit if with the pen or pencil in our hand we mark such ideas as strike us by their novelty, or correct those we already possess.— Zimmermann. Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. ............... Histories make men wise ; poets, witty ; the mathematics, subtle ; natural philosophy, deep ; moral, grave ; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.— Bacon. Magazines and papers that coptain arti cles that stir ambition, that encourage the discouraged, are helpful. They wake us up, start us on a better way. Our great dailies are mixtures o f good and evil. They should be read for infor mation only. Water passing through a
“I met God in the morning When the day was at its best. And His presence came like sunrise, ; Like a glory within my breast. “All day long the Presence lingered, All day long He- stayed with me, And we sailed in perfect calmness O’er a very troubled sea, “ Other ships were blown and battered,- Other ships were sore distressed. But the winds that seemed to drive them, Brought to us a peace and rest. “Then I thought o f other mornings, With a keen remorse o f mind. When, I too, had loosed the moorings, With the Presence lefit behind. “ So I think I know the secret, Learned from many a troubled way: You must seek God in the morning If you want Him through the day.”
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In the Morning
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