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Sunday, M ay 17. What Is a Christian Life ?—Jas. 19:27. UNION MEETING WITH SENIQRS. 1. Its Beginning. “E xcept one be born ANEW, HE CANNOT SEE THE KINGDOM OF god .”— John 3:3, R. V. This new birth is just, as real, and by the power of God, as our first birth, and ought to show itself in oúr acts as does the first birth. 2. Its Cause is the Word óf God (1 Peter 1:23), and it gives life only to those who receive, i. e:, believe it. Belief is life and only believers have life, 3. Its Nature. The Christian life is thus a new creation, or new creature (2 Cor. 5:17). Christians will live differently from others; their food and drink; •their likes and dislikes ; their ways of doing will be spiritual (John 6 :48; 7 :37; Ps. 119 :ll3 ; Eph. 4:17; Rom. 6:4). ' 4. The Christian Life. Is life from Christ (Col. 3:4); is the life of Christ (2 Cor. 4:10, 11); is eternal life (Rom. 6: 23) ; is secure in Christ (Col. 3:3) ; it ful fils the law (Rom. 8:2-4) ; it is a peaceable life (Rom. 12:18 ; 2 Cor. 13:11); it is with out malice or envy (Titus 3 :3) ; it is un selfish (2 Cor. 5:15); it is a prayer life, 5. Personal Questions: Are you born again? Are you living the new life? Do you act , like a new creature? Do you breathe the “Christian’s native air ?” By what power did Paul sáy that he lived the new life (Gab 2 :20) ? desire—the distress of a selfish nature. A man may be highly regarded here and be without character there. Nature is the same in- this world and in the next, therefore the need of a new nature. Destinies are' determined here and are eternal. Identity of the individual is certified to. Memory is active in the next world and takes in at a bound the whole of life. The only known prayer to a departed -saint is this one and it was unanswered. :
Sunday, M ay 10. Our Brothers and Sisters in Africa. —Eph. 2:17. FOREIGN MISSIONARY MEETING. 1. Show Africa on the Map. Look up and describe its size and population. 2. Question: As to the pupil’s knowl edge of Africa, its people and their ways. Have they seen Africans? Why should they be called "Our Brothers and Sisters” (Gen. 9:10, 32)? 3. Missions in Africa. The leader must get and give information, we have no space here. Send at least to your foreign board for tracts on Africa. Read any Encyclo pedias on "Livingston,” “Stanley,” “Mof fat”; on the African slavers. See “A t Home and Abroad” in back numbers of T he K ing ’ s B usiness . 4. Special Obligations to Africa. The wrongs inflicted on the blacks demand eager recompense; the fact that the grace of Christ delights in seeking the most de spised and downtrodden; the fact that in no field are so great results as are now realized in Africa; the marvellous examples afforded of the transformation of the most hopeless savages. 5. Scripture References to Africa. What great and - good man was a slave there (Gen. 39:1) ? What African bore the cross for Jesus (Mark 15:21) ? What African officer was converted in a chariot (Acts 8: 27) ? What prophecy on Africa do we find in the Psalms (Ps. 68.31) ? in alleviating the condition of the poor. ' Does he. fear the presence of his broth ers will add to his misery? Will they taunt him with his neglect? Had Lazarus testi fied to him and would he,-now feel the power of that testimony, the truth of it? Men are. responsible for the use, of means, for what they do and.for what they do not dp. The worldly-wise awake to an awful judgment. There is the torment of unap peased appetite—the torture of. unsatisfied
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