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fulfillment of the command of our Lord. T h e c a l l for missionary endeavor comes from Inland Africa because of its almost totally unevangelized condition. About fifty years ago Henry M. Stanley passed through this part of Africa on his way to Uganda. He sent a plea to England to send missionaries to Uganda, as the chief of that country wanted to be taught the white man’s religion. In 1878 the first missionary, Alexander M. Mackay, reached Uganda, having been two years and a half on the journey. (The journey can now be made in less than a month.) Mackay stayed in Uganda, amidst great trials and perse cutions, for nearly eleven years, and then came south of the lake to what is now Tanganyika Territory and started a station at Usambiro, where he died in February, 1890. After his death, the Church Missionary Society abandoned the work at Usambiro, but later work was begun at Nasa, the station where we are located at present. In 1909 the Church Missionary Society turned over their work in this part of Tanganyika Territory to the Africa Inland Mission. This Mission has four stations which are fifty to seventy miles apart, as the crow flies. By road, it is one hundred and ten miles to the nearest of our mis sion stations, and two hundred to the farthest one. Between the stations, as well as beyond them on all sides, we have out-schools manned by one or two evangelists and teachers at each -place. A few of these out-schools are in the vicinity where Mackay finished his labors on earth. The call comes because of the false teaching which is creeping in. The need for missionaries in Africa is as great now as it was fifty years ago. Thirty years of answered prayer. Evi denced by: A line of mission stations extending 1,600 miles across the great highlands of Africa; two hundred mis sionaries working in twenty-five differ ent tribes; five hundred native evangel ists and teachers bearing the Light to a people that sit in darkness beyond de scribing; twenty-five* tribal dialects re duced to writing; portions of the New Testament, and even of the Old, trans lated into all these languages .—Selected from “Inland Africa.” ' (All this under the Africa Inland Mission, for 28 years so ably directed by Charles E. Hurlburt.) One of "Our Family,” Mrs. Charles Hinderlong, Marengo, Ohio, a member of the Society of Friends, writes of the unusually helpful and inspiring "Alum Creek Quarterly Meeting,” the messages and songs being all along the line of a surrendered heart and life and "Back to the Old Gospel” which is the power of God unto salva tion. Much interest was manifested and the “ old time power” was felt in every service. God bless every gather- ering of believers everywhere which magnifies the whole Word of God. ' m m A FUNDAMENTAL FRIENDS’ QUARTERLY MEETING
marches on his way surrounded by a host. The tabernacle suggests travel and transiency. Some day all will be taken down and rolled together as a scroll (Rev. 6:14; 20:11; 21:1). “Jesus like a Sun dwells in the midst of revelation, tabernacling among men in all His brightness; re joicing as the Bridegroom of His Church, to reveal Himself to men; and like a champion to win unto Himself renown. He makes a circuit of mercy, blessing the remotest corners of the earth; and there are no seeking souls, however degraded and depraved, who shall be denied the comfortable warmth and benediction of His love—even death shall feel the power of His presence, and resign the bodies of the saints, and this fallen earth shall be restored to its pristine glory.”— Spurgeon. The laws of nature speak of the faith fulness, dependability and immutability of God. The seasons never change, the transmutation of species is unknown. The farmer can depend on these laws. He knows when he sows wheat that he will reap wheat and not corn; that his apple trees will produce apples and not thistles; that his. domestic animals will produce “after their kind.” Nothing is uncertain or speculative in God’s laws. In nature there are no changes in spe cies. There may be developments where man interferes, but these improved spe cies revert to the original type when man takes his hands off. Different phases of nature are used as figures of speech again and again in the Bible. Psa. 1:3; Psa. 52:8; Jer. 17:7-8; Psa. 61:7; Psa. 23:2; Prov. 6:27-28; Song of Sol. 2 :1 ; Isa. 5:2-7; John 15:1- 6; Isa. 17:13; Isa. 40:6-8; Psa. 103:16; 1 Pet. 1:24, 25; Jas. 4:14; Isa. 65:10, 11; Psa. 126:5, 6; Isa. 57:20, 21; Jer. 23:28. 29; Jer. 8:20; Jer. 13:23; Isa. 34:4; Matt. 9:37, 38; John 4:35; John 4:14; 7:37-39; Jude 12; Rev. 22:16. JULY 25, 1026 How Are We Supplying Africa’s Need The Lord Jesus said, “ If ye love me, keep my commandments.” He also said, . "Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.” Have the Christians during the nineteen hundred years since these words were spoken not loved their Lord? If they have, why have they not kept the last command ment which He gave? If they have kept it, why among Africa’s two hundred million people have only a small per centage ever heard the Gospel and still less have accepted Christ as their per sonal Saviour? From Africa, and especially from the great stretches of unoccupied territory in the interior, comes the call for the For Christ?. Acts 8:26-40 (Missionary Meeting)
place for pride In anything that is in any way related to faith or connected with our salvation. Humility adorns the Gospel. We are being constantly watched, and nothing so quickly wins the admiration and ap proval of the unsaved as genuine humili ty. Nothing b o beautifies and adorns the life as the spirit of humility. An drew Murray refers to humility as the “ beauty of holiness." Humility is associated with all true prayer. Pride and prevailing prayer are incompatible. The pride of learning keeps many from dependence in faith on God who can answer prayer. Absolute humility must pervade every prayer. There is no true prayer without trust, and there is no place for pride in trust. Humility achieves exaltation. Phil. 2:9, “Because He stooped so low, God uplifted Him very high” (Way's Trans lation ). The way to the palace is by the pit. The way to the crown is by the cross. The way up is down (Jas. 4:10; John 12:24). The Spirit of the Lord and glory will rest upon us, and this life will be so sweet and wonderful that we will have no thought of self at all— “Moses wist not that his face shone.” Matt. 6:5; 18:4; 20:26, 27; 23 :11 ,' 12; 18;1-4; Psa. 10:17; 138:6; Prov. 22:4; Isa. 57:15; 1 Pet. 5:5; Acts 20: 19; Col. 2:18, 23; Luke 14:11; Rom. 12:10; Jas. 4:6; Prov. 15:33; 18:12; 22:4. JULY 18, 102(1 What We Learn From the Out-of-Doors Psalm 19:1-6 God has given to. us two books, the world-book and the Word-Book. God’s Word and God’s Work do not contradict. The one rather illuminates and illus trates the other. The revelation of God in nature is not enough. We need the written Word. God is not seen as clearly and full .in creation as in re-creation (2 Cor. 5:17). Not as completely in nature as in grace. Spurgeon said there were three pages in God’s book of. nature— the heavens (aerial, solar andi starry heavens); the earth, and the sea. ' , This wonderful Psalm deals with the revelation of God in nature in the first half and in the last part with God and His Word. How anyone can look at the great starry flag that the Almighty has un furled across the sky and be an atheist is indeed a mystery. The magnitude, the regularity in motion, the innum erable host of the stars all speak most eloquently of the glory of God. Every day has a story to tell. The sunlight witnesses to His love and grace. The day suggests work and ac tivity. The approaching night suggests the shortness of life and the necessity to prepare for eternity. The night speaks of sleep and rest, and our Lord invites us to come to Him for spiritual rest, and to beware of the awful, ever lasting night. No man is beyond the revelation of God in nature, no country too far, no land too distant, so that men are “with out excuse.” See Romans 1:18-20. “How shall we escape?” since we have the fuller revelation of God in the Bible. The royal tabernacle was always set in the midst of the camp, so the sun is in the midst of the solar heavens, and
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