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tions are more exempt from contagion than Christian nations. Our missionar ies introduce measles, smallpox, etc., to the heathen, but do they show them either by precept or example the Power of God, Truth, how to prevent and de stroy disease? But the poor heathen, ignorant of what is termed hygienic laws, is healthier than the devotees of his supposed laws. What shall we think of “a law more honored in the breach than in the observance?” (vol. 1, p, 250.) If everyone were as ignorant as Mrs. Eddy of the health conditions which ex ist among the heathen before the arri val of missionaries, her argument might run some chance of being accepted, but anyone who is informed upon this sub ject will not be misled into believing that there is the slightest truth in her statement. The writer’s brother happen ed to be the first medical missionary to Arabia, and the first white visitor to the Behrein Islands. And he states that,, up on his first appearance in this heathen land, he found smallpox, tuberculosis, lupus, and other forms of epidemic dis ease raging much more destructively among these people than he had ever seen them among Christian nations. In stead of individuals, whole villages were repeatedly swept out of existence by a great epidemic. And the history of these particular diseases traces them all back from the more enlightened portions of the world into which they have come, to their sources in these heathen' countries. —A. C. Wycoff. M m AND CHEER UP The following advice to ministers has been handed to us. For our part we would like to emphasize the third “up” for we know several ministers who are in arrears on their subscriptions to this. Magazine. “Stand up, preach up, pay up, and never give up, let up, back up, or shut up, in the cause of Christ, and the church will be built up and stay up.”
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a , . uwQR contemplation and study the IjJlilgjjj greatest and grandest subject is GOD. The highest created intel- IMS* ligence can but skim the surface of this vast and infinite f i e l d of Divine knowledge. To be brought to God is a blessing outside the range of h u m a n attainment. The study of God is the Divine lesson of time and eternity. Angel, Cherub, Ser aph, and Man are each called to the growing knowledge of God. Here is a sea without a shore, an ocean measure less in its depths. Here every human ves sel from its highest to its lowest capacity can be filled unto the fulness of God, which ever remains the same (Eph. 3:19). For 6,000 years men have been ex ploring the works of God. In the re sult how little we know, and what bound less stores of knowledge lie outside hu man ken or observation. This surely is one great lesson of the ages: Our proved inability to penetrate the secrets of Na ture, save in the most superficial de gree. But God is greater than His works, as the engineer is greater than his engine. Let the study of God Himself absorb more of our time. The greatness of the study wil lift us out of our nothingness, and make us morally great in the great ness of God! The great fact in the Universe is God. The great controlling power in the wide sphere of creation is God. The opening word in the Epistle to the Hebrews and the fourth word in the Bible is God, sig nifying might, power, supremacy. The first mention of a leading BIbical word or term gives its signification in all sub sequent occurrences. “In the beginning God created” gives rest to the wearied
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