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school nine boys who finished the fourth standard and led them all to Jesus. )t is the first village with such a record” (Missionary Review). A Stereopticon lecture on the life of C h r i s t was delivered recently under unusual conditions in Madras City. The missionary entered a com munity in the city where the lecture was expected, but no hall was avail able and the only open .space suitable was in front of a small Hindu temple. He asked permission of the temple at tendant, who gladly gave it, and when the screen was set up in the entrance of the temple it was lound that the small light burning before the idol made just enough of a glow on the screen behind which it was, to render the pictures indistinct. Again he re ferred to the attendant, who very kindly extinguished the flickering light before his god so that people might see more clearly the life and charac ter of Jesus Christ. The pictures were very successful, and the audience was much impressed by the Gospel story (Missionary Review). SEPTEMBER 26, 1926 What Work Shall We Plan This Year? 1 Cor. 3:6-17 To be successful, our plans must be God’s plans, and since they are only revealed in answer to prayer, our plans must include the exercise of that price less privilege. We know that the great business we are left on earth to do is endeavoring to win men to our blessed Lord, hence our plans must include, an earnest, passionate drive for-‘souls. To have brighter, more enthusiastic, more spiritual and more reverent meetings they must be planned. “ Gone up in smoke” will be the fate of all our service that does not result in God’s glory, in the salvation of souls, in the restoration of erring ones and the sanctification of the saved. To glorify God is the purpose of all our work in winning others to the Lord Jesus Christ and in teaching the Word of God to those already saved. So our plans must always have His glory in view. In the Scripture lesson we have (1) The Divine Increase (vs. 6-8). We are nothing. God is everything. “ When ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, we are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do.” (2) The Divine Cooperation (v. 9). In vain is all our work unless we work together with Him. (3) The Divine Foundation (vs. 10- 11). We must be saved ourselves be fore any service from us is acceptable to Him. (4) The Divine Testing (vs. 12-15). Our lives are compared to a house, erected on this magnificent founda tion. Is the house you are building according to the plans and specifica tions? Since the true character of our plans and work will be revealed in that great day of testing by fire, doubtless much of our effort and sac rifice will be forfeited, though the worker himself be s a v e d as one dragged through the flames from a burning building.
CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR TOPICS (Continued from page 631) purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Eph-. 3:10, 11). ‘ ‘For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the min istry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of Ood, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ” (Eph. 4:12, 13). The mission of the church falls into two parts— “ And He said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature” (Mark 16:15). "Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have •com manded you” (Matt. 28:20). To preach the Gospel to the un saved, the story of the cross where Jesus died for our sins, His resurrec tion from the dead and salvation by faith in Him,— this is evangelization. To teach the deeper things of God and to train the saved in methods of definite Christian work (2 Tim. 4:1) — this is edification. SEPTEMBER 19, 1926 Missionary Advance in India Isa. 11:1-10 (Missionary Meeting) A Methodist worker in the Punjab writes in The Indian Witness: “ Prac tically all our Christians are from the outcastes; but there is a readiness on the part of all castes and classes to hear the Good News, in spite of the fact that we áre preaching just that which will erase all caste distinction. In one village we held a service for a community of Chuchras (outcastes) who were inquirers. Afterwards, a group of Moslems came over and said it was not right that we should preach just to the outcastes, but that we should preach to them too. After this service, some high-caste Sikhs came along and requested a service in their quarter. In another village we came upon a group of wealthy Jats (farm ers). We asked if we might preach to them. Forthwith they totok us over to their ‘gurdwars’ (a building much like a church and used as their place of worship), brought out a rope bed for us to sit on, and a big carpet for them selves. About forty of them sat down and listened while the ‘Old Story’ was told, then asked some questions and listened some more until an hour and a half had passed. Yes, indeed, India is wide open to the Gospel, and many of us feel that á movement on the part of the upper classes has begun. We must not slaken, but redouble our ef forts to be found faithful in this time of opportunity.” A new church organized in a section where he says, "unmitigated heathen ism prevailed until about a year ago,” is described by Rev. F. W. Stait, Amer ican Baptist missionary in Udayagiri, South India. He writes: “ The village is called Nandlpadu, and we have a church of forty-seven members. The acting pastor is Peter, a government board school teacher. He has regular services and Sunday School every Sun day. It is a real spiritual feast to at tend one of his Sunday services. God grant that many more may be brought to the Saviour through their influence. Peter has passed out of his
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