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and then to Gardville, all rural places, small and needy. ; 1 * •’ Reports come in from, other places where I have worked, showing that God does bless, and that people do respond to the preaching o f the truth. From one place I hear, that the , prayer-meeting has doubled in attendance since our campaign. From another, a ' society leader burned three packs o f playing cards and established the family altar. Another place has per petuated the Men’s meeting that was organ ized while the campaign was on, and lay men are successfully conducting these meetings on Sunday afternoons. From this place it is reported £hat a Personal Workers’ League has been organized for personal work and Bible study. One young man, found in a personal interview, gave up drink and joined the Pocket Testament League before he left for the cantonment at Camp Dix. Last evening at the Englishtown service, twenty-two persons, half men and older boys, walked out to , the platform and accepted a copy o f John’s Gospel, and promised to read it thfough. So the work goes on. In the regular campaigns, we make a survey o f the whole district, and then visit the homes, presenting the claims o f the Gospel. This house-to-house visitation in rural districts counts for much. Pray for us. JUST OFF THE PRESS! Herald of Praise “ The- King of Song Books" EDITED BY 200 Leading Evangelists and Ministers Contains 256, pages of the best old and new hymns. Regardless of cost the editors tried to make this The Greatest Song Book Published for Churches, Sunday Schools, Evangelistic Services and Young People's Meetings. ' Best manila binding, 15c; 100, $13.00 (not prepaid.) Flexible cloth binding, 20c; 100, $18.00 (not prepaid.) Cloth board binding, 30c; 100, $25.00 (nqt prepaid.) 10 per cent discount for cash with order. Send for free returnable sample copy. THE, GLAD TIDINGS PUBLISHING CO. 202 S. Clark St., Chicago, 111.
an excuse, but reason: the Corinthians had forced him to do it. They should have commended him instead o f listening to insinuations against him. ^ In nothing had he been behind the very chiefest apostles. Then Paul adds in beautiful humiliation: "though I am nothing” , (cf. 1 Cor. IS :9, 10).. Never a man lived who had a truer estimate o f himself than Paul. Paul had proved himself in Corinth to be an apostle by working the signs o f an apostle, i. e., signs and wonders and powers and mir acles. There are those today who claim to be successors o f the apostles, but they do not show the signs o f an apostle. Apos tolic succession, in any strict sense, is man ifestly a myth, (See also, Acts 1:21, 22). The way in Which miracles are mentioned in the -epistles is very suggestive. They are mentioned in a way that shows that they were common, but at the same time in a w ay.that shows that they occupied a very subordinate place. They were very far from being the principal thing. In four teen o f the twenty-one epistles they are not even mentioned. In the remaining seven epistles the reference to them is merely in passing. In speaking o f the miracles God had wrought through him, Paul omits all mention of himself. He does not say they “were wrought through me.” He simply says they “were wrought among you.” Again Paul speaks o f not having received money from them, and admits that in this they were made inferior to the other churches,' and asks their forgiveness for this. The Neglected Fields Mr. R. M. Honeyman, who is working in the neglected rural districts in the East, writes as follow s: “This month has been broken by the coal shortage, but we have visited a larger number o f places .for short week ends,- in place o f going to Plattsburg, where they could not get coal to heat the church. I am now at Englishtown, N. J., and go from here'to New Egypt and Cream Ridge, ‘ - — o ---------------
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