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Bibanga, in Belgian Congo. When the mis sionaries sadly tell them they have none to send, they often ask, “How long must we wait ?” and urge that in their villages there are many old people who cannot afford to wait.—E. W. S m ith . III. C hina Mrs. F. Howard Taylor states that, though living in not a large Chinese city, she has been sent for as often as four times in one day to visit heathen homes where women had attempted suicide. In this greatest of mission fields, a missionary was returning from a religious service, when suddenly he heard a wail that stopped him like a bullet. If ever he had heard the cry of a breaking heart, he heard it then. It came again and again in broken and strangled words. Going nearer, he saw a woman apparently about thirty years of age crouching beside a heathen temple. She was crying, “O Grandmother, O Grand mother, where is righteousness? I cannot bear it. I cannot endure to live any longer!” She was in the grip of some in supportable anguish, and all she had to cry to was the spirit of her dead grand mother.—E. W. S m ith . What Christian can look on China with out sympathy and compassion? “Poor China,” writes a missionary from the field, “famine, bandits, war, and a reign of ter ror—poor China 1 Poor China! The suf fering, the hopelessness, the terror, the need, that is yours I” IV. A C all for M issionary A ctivity Time would fail to tell of all parts of the world that are still unevangelized. Our hearts ache as we think of Tibet, of the Barbary States, of darkest Russia, of Mo hammedan lands, and the islands of the sea. Only the gospel of Jesus Christ can bring joy and light to these benighted lands. Let us carry it to theml With the incidents given here and others gathered from missionary magazines, a group of earnest Endeavorers who are on fire with missionary zeal can present a vivid call to increased missionary activity on the part of your society. Costumes of the various countries, and articles from the places, will assist in making the appeal more real. Enlist the assistance of some earnest member of your Woman’s Mis sionary Society. You will be delighted to find how glad she will be to assist you. MAY 28, 1933 HOW MAY WE BE TRUE TO THE MISSIONARY SPIRIT OF JESUS? M atthew 28:16-20 S uggestions fo r th e M eeting Hymn—“Let the Lower Lights Be Burn ing.” Hymn—“Rescue the Perishing.” Scripture. Prayer. Piano Solo—Variations of “Onward, Christian Soldiers.” Leader’s Message. Testimonies—How may I be true? Quiet Hour. Benediction—Numbers 6 :24-26. M editation o n th e L esson Jesus’ last meeting on earth with His disciples is naturally a most impressive one. All last messages are interesting, and when we consider that this is our Saviour’s last command, we listen with reverence and awe.
Dr. Brumbaugh’s Itinerary Please pray for the summer min * istry of Dr. Roy Talmage Brum baugh, of Tacoma, Wash.: June 25 and July 2— Morning and evening at the Tenth Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia, Pa. June 27^-Short address, Com mencement Exercises,}\N o rth e a st High School, Philadelphia, Pa. July 3 to 9-— Young People’s Bible Conference, Montrose, Pa., director and evening speaker. July 10 to 16— Pine Brook Inn Conference, near Stroudsburg, Pa. August 6 to 11— Bible Conference, Mt. Hermon of the Pacific. “Of all superstitions, it is the most im moral. Emblems of vice are objects of public worship. The courtesans are as much a part of the establishment of the temple, as much the ministers of the gods, as the priests. Crimes against life, crimes against property, are not only permitted, but enjoined by this odious theology.”1;., Hinduism’s holiest city is the vilest in all India. Says Robert E. Speer: “I suppose that, of all the obscene carv ings in the world, there are none more loathsome than the friezes around the tem ple of the Rajah of Nepal, in the holiest city of Hinduism, on the bank of its most sacred river.” The unspeakable cruelties inflicted upon millions of little girls and women as a re sult of the child-wife and widow systems, both of which are sanctioned and upheld by Hindu orthodoxy, have scarcely a par allel in sheer human suffering outside of Dante’s Inferno. India pleads for the gospel through suf fering and ignorance. Thousands there are still without Christ. Will you not pray that they may be evangelized? II. A frica Again we hear a voice from Africa: “Come over and help u s!” Throughout Africa, the practical religion of the masses of the people is a combination of demonism and some form of ancestor worship. It is a religion with no joy nor love, hardly anything except fear. Its adherents are in constant dread of evil spirits that may be lurking by the roads they travel, in the water they drink, the clothing they wear, the houses they live in. In the Congo one day, a newly arrived missionary saw a great crowd rushing out into a field where, when he reached the spot, they had already given the poison cup to two old women. One succeeded in vomiting the poison and therefore was not a_witch; the other could not vomit and died in great agony. The total of such vic tims is incredibly great, for whenever a man dies or is sick or has any ill luck or misfortune, it is because of a witch. These hideous practices are due not to abnormal cruelty, but to false beliefs. Where the gospel comes, they disappear, but in vast portions of Africa the witch doctor is still sending to an agonizing death tens of thousands whom his deadly finger points at as being in league -with evil spirits. A pathetic part of mission work is the missionary’s inability to answer the calls for evangelistic teachers. An average of two delegations a week the year round from villages, near and far, come begging for Christian teachers and preachers at had lived for years in India, Lord Ma caulay said:
H onor T hy F ather and T hy M other How are we to do this ? Always, readily, cheerfully, and loyally. Why do this? It is a command, and the blessing that will follow is long life and prosperity. A young person who disobeys his Christian parents will never prosper in the true sense. II. T he G ospel A ccording to M other She never told us He was looking out To catch us tripping as we played about, She never taught us that He wouldn’t love us If we did wrong. She said it made Him sad— For, though He was so high, so far above us, He knew and cared what sort of thoughts we had. She said that bad thoughts made our spir its blind and lame, And ’twas that we might see and walk, the pure Lord Jesus came. She taught that, just as fire would surely . burn us, And water wet us, if we handled it, So, just as surely, sin would hurt and turn us, Until we didn’t love God’s ways a bit. And if in willful sin our lives were spent, We should get wages. She said it must be awful to be “lost,” Because the gentlest lips that ever spoke Said it was like the sting of being burned; Like a shut door when wayfarers were turned Sadly away, and like an unslaked thirst; Like longing, when the heart thinks it must burst; Like pains that never die; weepings that never cease, Like prison, with no hope of a release, That such a place was not made for men. Then she would tell how “God so loved” again. And when she failed, she had a charming way Gf owning she was wrong. She didn’t set Herself upon a pedestal and say That we were “cross” while she was, “nervy yet.” “I was cross, too 1” she said. And closer than before We clung to her, and loved her all the more. The old simple truths, people tell us are gone. Their ghosts theologians may smother.' But to age of the ages my faith will rest on The gospel—according to mother. B e BF ay I nchfawn . MAY 21, 1933 WHAT PARTS OF THE WORLD ARE STILL WITHOUT CHRIST? A cts 16:8-13, S uggestions fo r th e M eeting Hymn—“Go, Labor On.” Hymn—“O Zion, Haste.” Prayer. Scripture Read Responsively. Quartet—-“We’ve a Story to Tell to the Nations.” Missionary Message. Quiet Hour. Benediction—-Matthew 28:19, 20.
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Listen to India’s need—-you say they have Hinduism. Of Hinduism, after he
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