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did, not only that the men might be healed who were ailing in body, but that a man might be healed who was sick at heart, saying in his imprisonment and darkness, “ After all, I wonder if this is the Son of God.” The Annual Missionary Rally , lt^HF. C h u r c h and the Institute feasted on the mountain top during the annual missionary rally—March 27 to April 3. The speakers were Dr. R. H. Glover, Home Di rector of the China Inland Mission, an outstanding mis sionary statesman of today, having spent more than twen ty-five years in China, and having traveled extensively in other missionary lands; Rev. Karl D. Hummel, who served for a number of years as a missionary o f the Central Amer ican Mission, and is now the Home Secretary of that so ciety; Rev. L. L. Legters, among the greatest authorities on the life and history of the Indians o f Central and South America; Rev. and Mrs. R. W . Porteous, who have spent twenty-seven years in China, the story of whose hundred days of captivity in the hands of bandits, and deliverance in answer to prayer, thrilled all our hearts; Rev. A. E. Bishop, who went to Central America as a missionary over thirty years ago, and has seen the development of missions in Guatemala; his daughter, Miss Mary E. Bishop, who went to Central America as a child and has grown up with the country, a most successful missionary of the cross; Rev. J. E. Mallis, who was born in India, his father and mother being missionaries under the Ceylon and India General Mission at that time, and whose message reached the hearts of our young people as few have ever reached them; Rev. Frederick E. Holland, who was seventeen years in Africa under the Africa Inland Mission, during which years God has honored his message to the evangel ized tribes in a marked way, and who brought to the hearts o f God’s people not only a knowledge of that continent, but a heart-warming message from God’s W o rd ; Rev. and Mrs. Harold Tuggy, representatives of the Orinoco River Mission, under which they have labored for six years, do ing pioneer work in Venezuela; Dr. H. Virginia Blakeslee, who has given years of service to the Lord in Africa as a medical missionary; Rev. Harry J. Hill, a graduate of the Bible Institute, who has spent fourteen years in mission and pastoral work in Korea, and whose church in Peng Yang, Korea, has a membership of fifteen hundred. The Institute classes were dismissed during this great conference, so that the students might hear nine addresses each day. Over three hundred young people, on the last night of the rally, dedicated themselves to God to be sent anywhere that He might want them to declare the glad tid ings. “ The Lord has done great things for us, whereof we are glad.” The June number of T h e K in g ’ s B u s in e s s will be a missionary number, and will contain extracts of many of the splendid addresses given during the rally. w o n d e r f u l spiritual atmosphere prevails in Church and Institute since the coming of Rev. Louis T. Talbot to the pastorate of the Church of the Open Door. We are all working together in perfect harmony. The evangelistic meetings, under the leadership o f our new Vice-President, “ Mel” Trotter, followed by the missionary rally have, by God’s grace, brought us all into a fine spirit of unity and harmony. Symphony! a
material possession if our pride would go along, and God would give us a humble spirit. We boasted about our won derful program at home and abroad, but it is far better for God to cut down our presumptuous program and give us a program of faith, with the slogan, “ Owe no man anything, but to love one another.” We are passing through the fire, but there standeth One among us whose form is like unto the form of the Son of God, and we know that out of the furnace of testing there shall come a Bible Institute that God will bless. When God’s people accept the divine discipline in the right spirit, when that discipline has exhausted itself, each man will say for himself, “ It was good for me that I was afflicted. Before I was afflicted, I went astray.” “ No chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous; nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.” “ My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers testings, knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.” When God sends the Amalekite upon you, it is that the enemy may teach what the friend has »failed to convey. Christ’ s Commendations id y o u e v e r notice the things that surprised and pleased Jesus? He marveled at the faith of the centurion, saying, “ I have not found so great faith; no, not in Israel.” It was more than amazement; it was gratitude. There were tears in His voice as He expressed His astonishment. He loves faith. He will do anything for faith. “ Believest thou that I am able to do this?” “ Yea, Lord.” “ Then take it all,” said He. Christ withholds nothing from faith. We cannot surprise Him by genius, by brilliance, by boldness of intellectual conjecture and speculation, but we can surprise Him by trust, faith, confidence. He looks for spiritual miracles. We can amaze Him by our love. When one kissed His feet, He was amazed with an infinite delight. When He praises, what does He commend ? He praised a prayer. What was it? The Pharisee’s pompous self- defense? N o; a Publican’s self-abasement:'“ God be mer ciful to me, a sinner.” That prayer pleased the Son of God. It sounded like prayer; it was all prayer. It startled Him into the utterance of a eulogy. He praised a donation. What was it? The widow’s two mites. He saw so much in them—a whole fortune, an absolute devotion, a miracle of wealth. He praised a servant. In what terms did He commend him? In moral terms, “ good and faithful.” Christ’s commendations are all on the same line, all directed to the same point, all rich with the same quality. His com mendation runs upon a line on which all men may stand. This is not a tribute to gigantic stature, to phenomenal genius, to an occasional brilliance, to eccentric gift. It is a benediction pronounced upon actions which children can do, which the common people can execute. When He saw the widow following her dead, “ he had compassion on her.” He is easily touched with the feeling of our infirmi ties. He could have looked upon all the Pharisees in the universe, and passed by them with an infinite disdain, but when we need Him most, and cannot see Him for our tears, He will move all heaven to help us. He was condescending to the weakness of His forerunner. When John sent a doubt to Him, He sent back a gospel. He said, “ I will per form a thousand miracles to heal this heart of doubt.” In that hour—such was the illustrious focal point of the omnipotence of Christ-W“ in that same hour, he cured many of their infirmities and plagues and of evil spirits; and unto many that were blind, he gave sight.” All this* He D
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