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What Will You Do With the Bible ? HIS question is of supreme importance to those who profess to follow Him. As to others they are at liberty to believe what they like; but those who call themselves disciples of Jesus have no alternative but to renounce Him or to accept what he says. His Court is the Court of Last Resort for them.. It is just as well to remember this in these controversial times. There are teachers and teachers, but there is only one teacher for Christians. When Hillel and Shammai have spoken their last word, we await his “Verily, verily, I say unto you.” Any man is at liberty to quit Christ; but no man can cleave to Christ and withhold aught of loyalty to Him.” - I). J. BURRELL, O.D., LL. D.
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A Soul Winning Year A S WE stand at the beginning of another year and pastors are fl nlans to make this year the most successful in all their ministry, would it no be weU t o toem to begin to train their people for intelligent soul-wmmng work? Many pastors are organizing classes for the definite training, both■of the younger members of the church and those who are more mature “ ^ g!® °of a n t s f i 1ssss r g B S there^re scores ofpersonsTeady to go^owork w ltfth e ir Bibl™to lead individuals women ind^M ip eo^ le^h^w u ldb^^ a^ a^ an^m omm it^ trrundm t^ c^ ind ivkUm i d e X g with souls? Every sermon should be followed by personal work Even after some of Mr. Moody’s mightiest sermons, there -were more people led to Christ by the personal work of his helpers than were led to Christ by the sermon. No liastor need any longer say that he does not know how to tram his people for this work, for there are a number of books easily obtained which tell him Just ow to do it. Daily Bible Readings H OW many readers of this note will be numbered among .^ose who will start to read the Bible through during 1913, and who will fall by the way Per haps lack of a definite system and of a worthy purpose will account for mo of the failures than any other causes. To take the last first: Need we suggest that the mere ambition to be able to say we have read the Bible through in a year is an unworthy purpose, and toe one who has that for an incentive, and who f a i l s ? V n ^ tru ea n d worth? little, save the weakening of toe will through the S n ^ T S , purpose, in the keeping of which we may rest assured of God s bessmganci help, is that we may know what God has to say m every chapter of His Word. As to toe first- The very simplest plan would be to read three chapters every chapters L Sunl.y. 0 » chapter ment until it was read, when the whole portion would be in the Old Testament. But we would urge our readers that it would be far more profitable m toe S?¿5, hg the persons really prominent in toe narrative of the chapter. This will insure *^?u.^httul nttration {or^om^noiHshrnent.^0It0wUl^be fulf of^suggS* tiveneM, but*matters requiring research may be noted and looked up at another time Thousands of men and women who follow this plan, and who have done so for year^^iv^^rateful^testimony^as^to^its^hel^utoess.^It Moody^ible1Im i ^ a n d s e lw h a f a S ^ y o u r ‘M S g S Z come ¿ d how you wTlf begto to flourish after toe pattern of toe man pictured in toe first Psalm. °8T e
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THE KING’S BUSINESS The Inner Emptiness
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H e rs o h e ? L I J t Se ®^ l lgned to Iead to tbat conviction. So said John mndt ™!i , 2? had more riSht to speak here, “All human discoveries seem to be %feaH[B§§ PUI? ose of confirming more and more strongly the truths con
Back to the Gospel O NE of the most hopeful signs of the times is the wide-spread feeling that e x ists among ministers of the Gospel in every part of the country th lt we have thor- aufht w rififn0Ut the.s°‘called “New Evangelism” and found it utterly wanting , and *5?* there must be a return to the old time methods of Finney Moodv onat°tlle£SfiWlu y y ix a, 5 THE KING’S BUSINESS Missionary Responsibility in Scriptural Terms.* By R. H. GLOVER "without the Gospel and he writes these honest and searching words, “I am debt or.” He did not look upon missions as "a philanthropy. He did not consider he was conferring a favor upon the Romans in taking them the message of the Gos pel. He did not ask men to regard him as a hero. He simply regarded himself as an honest man seeking to do his duty, willing and anxious to pay his debts. “I am debtor.” “I owe these men the Gospel.” It is a very potent figure. The matter of debt makes it obviously not a matter of" choice. Debt is some thing which obligates us. I can rush past this ragged beggar on the street and disregard him with the idea that I owe him nothing, that he is nothing to me for I have no responsibility concern ing him; but I cannot face my creditor that way. I have got to deal with him because I am his debtor. Debt in the very nature of things takes precedence of other things. Suppose my business is prospering, and I am making lots of money, and I choose to live in a mansion, and to surround myself with comforts and luxuries of every kind, and to spend money, like water. I say, “It is no one’s business. I owe no man anything. I can do as I please with my money.” But suppose my business goes wrong and I get into debt, and I owe this man $500 and that man $1000 and another $5000, and I make no effort to pay those debts; I regard it as a very secondary matter, and I go on living in this extravagance and wastefulness. Don’t you see that in this new light of indebtedness I am guilty. The things I considered neces sary, when this debt did not face me, are now to be regarded as non-essentials and to be laid aside, and every hones.t, earn est effort put forth to pay my debt. And so, when once Paul was clearly convict ed that he was indebted to take the Gos pel to the unevangelized, he courageous ly took up the task and said, “Therefore I am ready as much as in me is to preach the Gospel unto you.” Now I don’t mean that Paul put his missionary enterprise on a legal basis; but I mean to say that the true response and co-operation, that God is looking for on the part of Chris tians, will never be reached until there Naturally, I should choose to speak as frequently as possible about the great land of China, the appalling need and the splendid opportunity that present them selves in that fast-awakening Celestial Empire. My heart is full of the subject; but somehow I have felt that this morn ing we should not look upon the field of China but have a Bible reading upon the topic, “Missionary Responsibility in Scriptural Terms.” “My heart has been saddened not a little in coming home and moving among Christians to find not only a great mass of utter indifference with regard to this missionary theme and rwork, but more than that, even among those who pro fess to be interested in missions, such weak views and ideas and conceptions of the missionary enterprise. It is im portant, tremendously important!, that you and I and all God’s children get •clear and right conceptions of God’s will, and of our right relation,to this great work of making Jesus Christ known to this world. In this study, as in all else, our cry must be, “To the law and to the testimony,” and I want with you to look into God’s Word very simply and informally this morning, and examine some of the Scriptural terms that are used to express this fact of missionary responsibility. Debtor 1. Now first of all, shall we look at Romans 1:14,15, where we have the first term “Debtor.” We are familiar with this verse, “I am debtor both to the Greeks and to the barbarians; both to the wise and to the unwise. So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the Gospel to you that are at Rome also.” Now Paul was writing to Rome, and he was writing after he had accomplished splendid service to the Gospel ministry in other lands. He had already done more missionary labor probably than any other dozen men, yet he looks out upon Rome, a land which he had not yet visited and which he knew still was "Delivered at the Bible Institute. Stenographic report unrevised by the author. 6 THE KING’S BUSINESS is a deep, inwrought conviction that this missionary responsibility rests upon us. We have got to put it as the Word puts it, as a matter of indebtedness, as a mat ter of obligation that rests upon us. In what light have you been regarding mis sions? Has it been to you the clear and unmistakable duty that the Word says it is? Have you put it in the same cate gory, for instance as your butcher bills, your grocer bills, and your dry goods’- bills? Have you been putting God’s debt and the heathens’ debt, in the same cate gory as these practical debts? Or have you been regarding missions merely as a charity? Stewards The Apostle says again: “For though I preach the Gospel, I have nothing to glory of; for necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if -I preach not the Gospel! For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward; but if against my will, a dispensation of the Gospel is commit ted unto me” (1 Cor. 9:16,17). This is another familiar figure, “stewards.” We know who a steward is; he is the man in whose hands are placed certain as sets, resources; it may be money, it may be food, it may be responsibility of other kind, and these things while in his hands are not to be regarded as his own in trinsically. He is the servant of a mas ter, and concerning the right and con stant use of the things which are thus entrusted to him, he is going ,to be called to give a strict account, sooner or later. The Gospel has been put into our hands in trust for the world. We are stewards, and we are going to be called to account for our right or wrong use of the Gospel. Paul declared to the Ephesians that he had not withheld anything that was pro fitable, and that he was free from the blood of all men because he had not shunned to declare the whole counsel of God (Acts 20:17-27). Would to God that more of his ministering stewards today could give that testimony. You and I are stewards of this Gospel, we have been put in trust with the bread of life for the whole multitude. Trustee In I Timothy 1:11, we have the term “Trustee.” Here the Apostle gives thanks to God for putting him into the ministry according to the Gospel that was commit ted to his trust. The general idea of a trustee and a steward is perhaps the same, but the figure is a little different. A man dies. He leaves a will and an inheritance to be distributed among a great many heirs, and he appoints a trus tee, or an executor, for the administra tion of that will. That man for a time holds the fortune, possesses the inherit ance of the dead man, but not for him self. He has got to search carefully and thoroughly out every heir, and ac cording to the terms of that will to dis tribute the inheritance. One heir may live next door, another may- live in a neighboring town, another may be a thousand miles away. But suppose there are some heirs that have to be reached with difficulty, and real sacrifice, and effort. Is that ¿executor absolved be cause of these conditions? By no means. He is to spare no expense, no effort, no personal inconvenience or sacrifice, as long as one heir of that dead man’s inheritance remains. Now, beloved, a man has died, and His name is Jesus Christ, the Son of God. He has left a will, and an that will He says He is not willing that any should perish, hut that all should have life. And He has left that inheritance not merely for us, a few Americans and Britishers, but for peo ple who are to be called out from every tribe, and nation, and kingdom, and ton gue, and you and I are the trustees of this good news. You and I are the ex ecutors of that will, and upon us lies the clear and solemn duty of searching out and finding, to the best of our ability, every last heir of God and joint-heir with Jesus Christ. I like that term “trustee.” I like the thought of God trusting us. God might have chosen angels, and they surely would have flown at His behest; but God passed them by and laid hold upon us. I wonder if He is able to trust us in the measure we are asking Him to be faithful to our trust in Him? We are pouring our personal petitions into the ear of God day by day, peti tions for unsaved loved ones, for per sonal things, for guidance in our per sonal affairs. I often think of God as He sits there graciously receiving and at tending to these requests in which we are placing our trust in Him, and look ing down upon the millions for whom He has put the Gospel in our trust, and sometimes saying, “Oh, child of mine, I wish that I could trust you, as you feel it a privilege to trust Me.’ Witness. “But ye shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you, and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and in Sa maria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth” (Acts 1:8.) What do we learn from the word witnesses? We all 7 THE KING’S BUSINESS are not there each man for his own selfish interest, not to make money, not to have a good time, but they are there with great national responsibility rest ing upon them. And I notice that the ambassador in China rarely, if ever, pur chases property, and does nothing which would indicate that he is going to set tle down. Some go out to make that country theirs. Not so with an ambassa dor; he is sent on specific business for his king. It may be in a time of un rest, and he may go to deliver the king’s ultimatum. He stays detached from any local interests or attractions, ready at a moment’s notice to pick up and leave for home. Home alone is the anchor for the ambassador, and as soon as his official business is over, he nat urally gravitates to his own country. We are called ambassadors for Jesus Christ. As followers of Jesus Christ we are all foreign missionaries, for heaven is our home, our citizenship is in heaven, from whence we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ. We are here on business for the King. Are we putting first things first? Are we making it the supreme busines of our lives to see that the last commission of Jesus Christ as carried out speedily and effectually, and are all our personal in terests constantly submitted to that great overmastering motive? I believe God is waiting to do His very best for the men and women who cut loose from their selfish ambitions and abandon themselves to the great mission and commission of making Christ known to men. And I believe that when we swing out and get in touch with things that are consistent with our citizenship being in heaven, and the im minence of Christ’s return, God will do greater things for us than we have ever given Him a chance to do. Watcher. The last of these terms that I will mention is in Hebrews 13:7, “Watcher.” These men, and ministers, and leaders, and pastors over the flock of God are represented as being those who are watching for souls. Their great, con stant concern is to think about and plan for the spiritual welfare of men. They are not merely doing a prefunctory duty, they are on the aggressive. They are watching, they are seeking, they are going out for others. Look at the throng that is passing along the street as we observe them from an upper window. Do we think of these men and women as being merely lawyers, or clerks, or know that a witness is one who has seen and heard, and that his duty is to tell faithfully and fully what he has seen and heard, and what he knows by actual experience. Here is a court of justice, there sits the judge and in the prisoner’s box stands the prisoner. He rests under a charge for which he is condemned, and there seems no hope for him. He is condemned justly, according to his own deeds, but I sit in the audi ence in possession of facts which, if I were to rise and state, would be the means of reversing the judgment, and liberating the man that otherwise is condemned to death. I ajm silent, and I do not make an effort to clear that man, and to save that soul. What kind of a man am i? Am I not guilty of his blood? Beloved, there are millions of souls resting under condemnation, who judged 'by their own standards are condemned, who honestly acknowledge that they are not living up to the light they have, who are outbreaking and wil ful sinners in their own sight as well as God’s, who are therefore resting un der condemnation, and you and X have this precious message of emancipation and pardon committed to us. Have we, as much as in us lies, sought to ex tend to them the good news. In Pro verbs 14:25 we read, “A true witness delivereth souls.” Ah, dear friends, if there were more true Gospel witnesses, more heathen souls would be delivered. Ambassador. The apostle says in 2 Corinthians 5:20 that we are ambassadors. ‘‘Therefore on behalf of Christ as though God were entreating by us, we beseech you be ye reconciled to God.” What does ambassa dor mean? An ambassador is one who is on official business. We are familiar at every national capital with this idea of ambassador. These ambassadors are men of outstanding prominence to whom peculiar honor is given by their fellows, not because of any intrinsic prominence, not because they are men of the most superlative gifts, or abilities, or of high family, but purely because of the fact that they are in official standing, that they are there representing some great monarch and his kingdom. It is that which gives honor to their office, and imposes great responsibility upon them, greater than any of their fellows in his private capacity. The ambassador is first in honor, and he is first in responsi bility. And I notice that they always regard their official relation and work as the thing of prime importance. They 8 THE KING’S BUSINESS cooks? Or do we catch a vision of them as so many priceless, immortal souls? How are we regarding men? Are we on the outlook for souls as we rub up against them and come into contact with them in a hundred ways? Are we watch ing for souls? Does it bum in on us that the mass of humanity is going the wrong way? Do we have any sleepless nights? Are we really watchers? The awful Titanic catastrophe is still fresh in our minds. We remember how it all came about through lack of watching. Whether we place the blame at the hands of the captain, or the agent of the line, or the selfish company, or no mat ter where, we know the fact—that thou sands of precious souls were lost through the neglect of some precaution; that 1,650 souls were swept into eternity because of the lack of watching. Over against that, I think of an incident that occurred on the Pacific. The steamer that came next to the one I was crossing on was the great Mongolian, a splendid ship, fully passengered. As she was passing around the coast of Japan one day the passengers on deck heard the telegraph ring from the bridge, and they felt the pulsating of the engines stopping. They looked over the rail in this direction and that, but saw nothing. Up on the bridge they saw the officer on watch, with a telescope rivited to his eye, looking into the distance. For a time they could see nothing to attract his attention, but message after message followed, and the engine room respond ed. Soon they saw in the distance a little object on the water, and as they came nearer and nearer they saw two helpless victims, the only survivors of the crew, clinging to a Japanese jupk. A boat was lowered from the great Mon golian and these two refugees were lifted on board, and cared for. Why? Because some one was watching for them; be cause the man on the bridge was at the post of duty. They could not be seen with the naked eye. They were like these souls in heathen lands who are absent from our daily vision. We have got to put our eye to the telescope of faith and love, and see souls that are perishing at a distance, as well as souls that are close around us. God help us to see those who are heathen by neces sity, because no man has cared for their souls. We might classify this responsibility under three heads: First, For the heathen’s sake. Be cause in the Gospel we have something fitted to meet the social and physical needs of those eastern races, and, above all, fitted for the salvation of their souls. Second, For Jesus Christ’s sake. Be cause He enjoined it, ajnd three times gave the post-resurrection command, “Go, dis ciple all nations.” The last recorded sentence that fell from the lips of our Lord was “Unto the uttermost parts of the earth.” That same Jesus sits in heaven today expecting us to carry out His last command. Third, For our own sake. Because our highest spiritual welfare depends upon it. The law of propagation is the law of the spiritual life. A living organism must either grow or die. Life depends upon propagation, and the so-called church today is not worth keeping alive if it is not doing something outside itself. These texts apply just as literally to you and me as they did to the apostles, and they express a pressing obligation. As we read the times in the light of Scripture, as we see the signs of the age in which we live, as we see things ripen ing for the Lord’s return, and yet see millions without an opportunity of :sal vation, does not this obligation *press upon you? As we see conditions chang ing in eastern lands, and means of ac cess and communication multiplying so as to make missionary effort far more easy and effective, and the accomplish ments of results greater than ever be fore in the history of the Church, does not the obligation become enhanced to us? If ever men had a pressing obliga tion to take Jesus Christ to the world, surely we have. May this thing grip us. May it grip our heads to think; may it grip our hearts to feel; may it grip our hands to give; may it grip us to go, until every nation shall have heard of Christ the Lord. GAIN AND LOSS But all through life I see a cross Where sons of God yield up their breath; There is no gain except by loss, There is no life except by death. There is no vision but by faith, Nor glory but by bearing shame, Nor justice but by taking blame; And that Eternal Passion saith, Be emptied of glory and right and name. THE KING’S BUSINESS 9 Great Revivals and Great Evangelists. Harry M oo reh ou se By J. H. HUNTER (T auffht by h isto ry th a t God h a s alw ay s used the re c ita l of p a s t out- Dourings of H is S p irit upon individuals and comm unities to arouse and aw a k e n 3H is people to seek an o u tp o u rin g in th e ir own day, we Purpose t^ n u b U s h each m onth e ith er a bio g rap h ical sk e tch of some m an whom God w as Pleased to use, or an account of some of the g re a t rev iv als which HedbIstow ed w hen H is people, som etim es a very 'f o f n ^ h e of H is prom ises in “effectual fe rv e n t prayer. W ill th e re ad e r join m e w rite r in p ra y e r th a t God w ill bless these a rtic le s in th is w ay?) H ARRY Moorehouse was one of a remarkable group of men who were shall ye algo appear with Him in glory” (Col. 3:3, 4), was God’s message to the awakened conscience, and John Hamble ton found the “peace that passeth knowl edge.” He threw himself into the work of open air preaching and won hundreds for Christ. He became Harry Moore- house’s teacher, after the latter’s con version, and his bosom friend. A third convert was Joshua Poole, or, as he was often called, “Fiddler Joss.” Joshua Poole and his wife were of those who stroll from place to place in Eng land and pick up a precarious living on the streets and in low class saloons, by their playing and singing. His wife had him committed to Bradford jail for threatening to kill her. While in prison he had an attack of delirium tremens. On recovering from this he began to read the Bible in his cell, and soon found Christ. Reunited to his wife, who had also been saved, the two went forth in faith to sing and tell ,of their “wonder ful Saviour.” Time and space will not permit me to say more of these men, or to speak of the others associated with them, but these will help us to understand some what the atmosphere in which Harry Moorehouse lived and worked, for these men far from seeking to out-distance one another, traveled together, and work ed together when' circumstances per1-' mitted; when separated, prayed for one another, corresponded, and rejoiced to gether in God’s using them to bring men to the Saviour, whom they loved and served. But to return to the special subject of our sketch: Harry Moorehouse was born in Ardwick, Manchester, September 27th, 1840, and entered into his Saviour’s pres ence December 27th, 1880. His father was a working man, a pious Christian, and a Sunday school teacher in Bank Meddon Methodist Church. The lad was brought up to attend church and Sunday school, and awakened by the Spirit of God during that great period of revival which began in the United States in 1857, and in the north of Ireland in 1859, and which spread from Ireland to England and Scot land. Many of these men were rich and cultured, like Brownlow North and Reg inald Radcliff, and they joyfully yielded themselves and their possessions to their newly-found Saviour and Lord. Others, like Harry Moorehouse, Richard Weaver, John Hambleton and Joshua Poole, were uneducated and had no earthly posses sions, but they gave themselves to their Lord for use as He saw fit, and He saw fit to use them all mightily. Of the last mentioned group, Richard Weaver was a drinking, cursing, poach- ' ing, prize fighting coal miner. His com mon name among his own set was, “Un daunted Dick.” One night he came home from a fight, his face all smashed and bleeding. His old mother weeping, wash ed his battered face, and knelt down and prayed for him. He swore he would murder her if she did not stop, and he actually jumped out of bed, caught her by her gray hair and shook her. She took him by the hand and prayed, Ah, Lord, this is hard work; but bless my boy and save him.” God not only saved him, but made him one of England’s mightiest savers of other men. He and Harry Moorehouse were loving co work ers, and Moorehouse owed much to his friend. John Hambleton was another of the group. He wandered over the world, in his unconverted days, and had many wonderful escapes from sudden death. Awakened, apparently without any spe cial human instrumentality, he sought peace in reformation and good deeds, but in vain. A sermon in an Episcopal church on the text: “For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God; when Christ, who is our life, Shall appear, then ro THE KING’S BUSINESS though he drifted far away from all he was taught there and in his Christian home, yet the seed sown in prayer and tears brought forth fruit in God’s own good time, as it always does. He began to work when twelve years old, but the friendship of a Christian girl kept him in attendance at the Sun day school, and exercised a powerful in fluence on his young manhood. He was of an adventurous disposition and got himself into many unpleasant and dangerous predicaments. The spirit of unrest led him to enlist in the British army, from which, at some •sacrifice, his farther bought him off, only to see him become the leader in a set of profane, drinking gamblers in the principal gam bling hell in Manchester. But even when the “fun” was at' its height, the con science of the leader refused to let him enjoy it. Sometime in 1859 or 1860 one of Har ry’s companions in evil, a miner named Thomas Castle, was soundly converted, and he immediately began to pray for, and plead with Harry that he, too, might be saved. It may have been to escape the pleadings that he joined the army as already mentioned. His friend, Mary, also continued to remember him at the throne of grace, as did his godly father. In December, 1861, after returning from the army to Manchester, he was walking down an obscure street with some boon companions, and passed a house where they heard sounds of sing ing. For mischief his friends proposed that they go in, assuring him that there was lots of drink and fun. The room was so crowded with working men and women that he had to stand on the stairs. Ed ward Usher, another of the group of converts already alluded to, assisted by two others, was conducting a Gospel meeting and began to read and expound the parable of the Prodigal Son. When he reached the words—“bread enough and to spare,” he described a man in exactly Harry Moorehouse’s condition. The conscience-smitten man recognized his own picture and murmured to him self: “Harry! thou art the man.” The Holy Spirit pierced his heart with one word, and that was “Jesus.”’ So over come with a sense of guilt was he that he had to grasp the banister of the stairway to keep from falling. But he was not yet a child of God, born from above; only an awakened and terrified sinner. He returned to his father’s house and was lovingly welcomed, but tried to silence God’s Spirit by rushing into dissipation. One day, especially, he drank and drank, yet could not make himself drunk. For three weeks he en dured this awful struggle. Sometimes he attended Gospel meetings, but with out finding relief. Sorely tempted was he to despair of God’s mercy, and even to commit suicide. A kindly Christian gentleman, Mr. Walter Caddell, invited him to his house and talked with him, without being able to lead him definitely to Christ. Then Harry remembered a former friend, who had been converted and was an engineer in Rylands & Son’s warehouse. He went to see him, and heard from him the story of his own conversion. This, however, did not help Harry, and his friend turned to Romans 10:8-10, in his Bible, and read it slowly to him. “Do you believe that?” said he. “Do you believe that Christ is indeed risen, and that the work of redemption is fin ished?” “I do, with all my heart,” replied the earnest seeker. “Then are you going to confess what you believe?" “Of course I will.” “Then what follows?: ‘Thou shalt be saved.’ ” Moorehouse, trembling all over, ex claimed: “Oh! I see it, I see it. I am saved!” A soul had been born again. Harry Moorehouse had passed from death unto life. The child of Satan had become a son of God and a joint-heir with Jesus Christ. Harry entered into partnership with his old friend, Tom Castle. They decided to become peddlers of thread, tape, pins, needles, etc. The paid-up capital of the firm was three pence. Harry was a born business man, but Tom had no taste for it, so at the end of the week the firm was dissolved, each partner receiving thirty shilUngs(?7.50), which was not a bad showing, and which is really an indication of what our friend might have become had he devoted him self to money making. Tom died soon after as the result of an accident in the sawmill where he had secured employment, and passed away peacefully and happily, trusting in Jesus. Harry secured a position as salesman in a large notion store and, to reduce a stock that was too large, rented a store in another street where he pro ceeded to sell the surplus by auction His employer was highly delighted with him, and Harry seemed on a fair way 11 THE KING’S BUSINESS to a useful career as a Christian busi ness man, one who should achieve a competence, and at the same time devote his spare time to preaching the Gospel, or to other forms of Christian service. But God’s ways are not our ways. One evening When Harry was busy auctioning his wares, an odd looking character pushed his way through the crowd and 'confronted the auctioneer. This man wore no hat, his long hair fell down his back, and his long beard fell down in front. A piece of green baize was worn like a shawl, leather knee breeches, and a pair of boots com pleted his costume. He usually carried an open Bible. Standing before Harry Moorehouse he cried out: “Thou ought to 'have thy Bible in thy hand out amongst the people, and not that ham mer for the devil.” Having delivered his message he disappeared in the crowd. Harry took the message as from God, gave up his business, went to Liverpool, joined John Hambleton and started with him on an evangelistic tour. Having quit the world’s service for Christs’, he quit it forever. The remainder of his short life was spent to the limit in pro claiming the Gospel of the Love of God. From Revivals^How and When? By WM. W. NEWELL, D. D. ARMERS are told in ag ricu ltu ra l Since then a harvest of souls has been _ ■ i x a J a n n a R n m o l r F works just what to do each week in the year. One of these papers is . said to be a “perfect encyclopaedia of use ful information.” , , . our study and our aim every year. Noth ing has been, to us, so absorbing, so joyous, so precious. As the years rolled on our ch,urch has reached a higher stan dard, our emotions steadier. And it has been more and more easy and delightful to enlist in our work the warm and efficient aid of new-born souls. Medical students are not only taught in lectures, journals, and books just how to discover and heal each disease of the body, but they are called to Witness the method and progress of the healing. Large committees are appointed to search out and to publish the best methods of curing occult and infectious diseases. How infinitely essential is such knowl edge to those who are to give an account for the “cure of souls.” No wonder that in their straits they ask for the plans, feelings, and methods of those who, m propitious or intricate circumstances, have led many to the Great Physician. God has disclosed to us the methods used in the revivals of Josiah and Nehe- miah. Jesus shows how the revival be gan in Samaria, and Luke how it com menced in the Jerusalem chamber. In my young days I received instructions upon this subject, and my early ministry was blessed with revivals. I loved to read and talk of them. I loved to pray and labor in them. But as we were told, not to press the work too long, we did our best for the time. And so we had a great excitement followed by a melan choly reaction. The church and the con verts sank down into a state of spiritual lethargy. This disheartened the church and brought disrepute upon the work of the Holy Ghost. T ,, At length I discovered that the Lord s hand was not shortened, that it could not constantly save, but that unbelief had grieved away the Spirit. The crudities and barrenness of in experience are often disastrous and mel ancholy. But we may learn from the experience of others. Help may be ob tained from their failures, as well as from their successes. We may learn how to secure the help of God and the co operation of man. We shall see the su preme worth of right feeling, true prayer, and wise action; and that revivals with out the power of the Holy Ghost are a monstrosity and a failure. Notwithstanding occasional imperfec tions, the Spirit of God in a revival often arouses the people from a state of spiritual stagnation. It greatly invigorates and develops Christian character. It fills the heart with penitence, prayer, love and song. Tongues are loosened and testi monies are given to the preciousness of Jesus. It heals church divisions and church scandals. It reclaims backslid ers. It arouses the self-deceived. Fear fulness surpriseth the hypocrites. There is a new atmosphere, a new influence, a new standard, a new activity. The emo tions of the heart are quickened and sanctified. Christians encourage and strengthen each other. The waste places are built up. And thus revivals add vast ly to the force of religion. 12 THE KING’S BUSINESS Egyptian Archaeology in Relation to the Bible A LL things are related to the Bible. Of the train of a comet, the brain of an ape; of the actuality of an em By J. H. SAMMIS than mines of precious metals, ai costly gems, so securely and hope- lessly beyond the reach of man tnat their interpretation seems a pire, or the locality of an hamlet; of the capacity of a water-pot, or the soundings of a sea; of the malignancy of a moon beam, or the efficacy of a fig poultice; of the junction of atoms, or the conjunc tion of planets ; of a spot on the sun, or a stroke in a theta; of a stone from a quarry, or a cylinder from a desert; of a mound in a delta, or a cave in a cliff; of the measure of a fish’s maw, or the motion of a coney’s jaw; the main ques tion is, what are its relations to the Bible? Anthropology, biology, chronology, ge ology, philology, physiology, archaeology, all science is related to the Bible; and when rightly interpreted corroborative of its claims and teachings. Archaeology is intimately related. And of its several departments that of Oriental archaeology most intimately. Of this the Egyptian is perhaps the most interesting and im portant. The climate of Egypt more favorable than even that of the delta of the Tigris and Euphrates, has preserved to us in richer profusion and greater per fection the monuments of antiquity. Her metically sealed in drifts of the desert, or treasured in mountainous masses reared by forces of nature or the art of man, a world of wonders slumbered un molested through centuries unnumbered. The Pharoah and the fairy-land, thus lay, embalmed by the physicians of Egypt and’ the Providence of God, waiting the re moval of their wrappings by the hand of the modern antiquary. Amid grim and gloomy solitudes, dead cities and cities of the dead, the memory monumental of a misty past, lay waiting the accident that should restore them, and their rec- • ords, to the consciousness of the world. A world that once was, it stood in the sand and out of the sand; darkness was upon the face of the deep; the genius Investigation brooded on the face of chaos and there was light; and again the sons of God shout for joy. More inaccessible than sandy wastes; more impenetrable than rocky strong holds; weird and grotesque inscriptions of a long lost language locked a vast treasure of knowledge, more valuable greater miracle than their preservation. But God who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, blest seeming acci dents, shrewd guesses, diligent study and toilsome labors with abounding success. The world of Abraham, Joseph, Moses and the prophets has been recreated; them history and teachings illustrated a, .“ lun^in^ted; and the sacred record gloriously vindicated. The marvelous civilization of the valley of the Nile had already reached its zenith and would ' b®g.™ lts decline, when the “father of the faithful” found refuge there. Per- haps this very Abraham, the “father of a multitude,’’ with his own eyes admired the sculptured representation of his pre decessor, Ab Sha, the “father of sand,” at the court of the great king. By the ' aid of the monuments the career of Jo seph may be traced from the Ishmaelitic caravan, to the house of Potophar, throughout the discharge of his duties, as that great man’s steward; his associa tion and temptation with the faithless wife; his imprisonment at the White. Castle of Memphis, and intercourse with the troubled dreamers. We may follow him from jail to the barber’s, the tailor’s, and the court. We may duplicate his sudden elevation. to a seat beside the throne; the years of famine and the provi dent garnering and distribution of the corn of Egypt, and note the revolution in the economy of land tenure from his day. The surroundings, the schools, the studies, the fellow-students, their tricks and quips, the foster-brother, and the palatial home of Moses are all there. They illustrate ithe nature and incidents of the plagues. The bondage with its bitter •toils and hardships are all pic tured in minute detail. Even the strawed and strawless bricks of Pithom may be seen and handled. The monuments deepen the impres sions and convictions produced by the sacred writings in a multitude of par ticulars. Their theology, also, derives man from a creative act of Deity. Their chronology is within the limits of the Biblical. They deny the claim that they 13 THE KING’S BUSINESS a bale of linen on his back, with a mod ern-looking trunk, slung by the handle, on his arm; and a merchant displaying his wares and brushing the flies from his basket of sweetmeats. From the same neighborhood comes a miniature pleasure boat of the Nile, a good model of those plying its waters today. It is complete even to the tiny voyagers re clining in the saloon. Also battalions of soldiers, Egyptian and Soudanese, uni formed and armed, the former with weapons of steel, the latter with flint- tipped arrows and bows. (Illustrating how stone and metal march side by sids from the beginning.) They are in ranks, four abreast, and seem, by tjieir indi vidualities, to be lifelikenesses. Glass mosaics, bo exquisitely laid that their lines of jointure are invisible to the unaided eye, bear testimony to the use of the lens, and adamantine rocks, microsco pically traced, indicate the use of tools of a hardness unknown to the graver of to day. It is evident that Egypt was not the kindergarten of the race. Sayce remarks, “The monumental history of Egypt gives no countenance to the fashionable the ories of the day which derive civilized man by a slow process of evolution out of a brute-like ancestor.” The earlier morals, theology, science and literature, as well as arts, excel those of succeeding ages, and not only make possible, but more than probable, all that the Word of God by the mouth of Moses ■declares. Legislation, priestly order, ceremonial; all are harmonious with the spirit and conditions of the Mosaic, and not with those of a later period. Nor is there reason to doubt, in contradiction to the record, that, familiar with this civilization, there were among the Israel ites artisans well qualified to construct the tabernacle of the wilderness and its vessels of gold and silver, and jewels adorned with precious stones, of a form fitted to shadow even heavenly things, and that that sacred edifice was not the hideous Bedawin tent and clumsy furni ture depicted by one of our Eastern pro fessors in his charts. It is inexcusable, against such facts, to assume that the descendants of Jacob were universally ignorant of this civilization because they were .bondsmen, especially since their subjugation was of a comparatively re cent date, and their ancestors for ages the honored guests of the empire. That Jews dwelt where such jewelry was pro duced as that which was discovered at Dashur, the mere description of which makes the eye sparkle with wonder and adorn the original seat of the race, and with the Bible look to the East for the first inhabitants of the Delta of the Nile. Orientalists are coming into harmony on this; the features of the early Egyp tians are Asiatic in cast; there is kin ship in language, similarity in literary characters, in the names of cities and the functions of1gods. Remains on the Isthmus of Suez indicate that it was the bridge over which the Asiatic immigrants passed to settle the land of the pyra mids; and late announcements declare an antiquity of Chaldean civilization which harmonizes with these conclusions. The monuments are again in harmony with Scripture in assuming a high state of civilization among primitive mankind. They know no age of barbarism, with its successive stages of development; no prehistoric man in the absolute sense. Sayce says, “The earliest culture and civilization of Egypt, to which the monu- mentis bear witness, was, in fact, already perfect. It comes before us fully grown. The organization of the country was com plete, the arts were known and practised, and life, at all events for the rich, was not only comfortable buit luxurious. Egyptian civilization so far as we know at present has no beginning, the farther back we go the more perfect and devel oped it is found to be. * * * Yet Up- per Egypt is a country where nothing perished save by the hand of man. And Petrie, also, says, “This early civiliza tion was completely master of the arts of combined labor, of masonry, of sculp ture, of metal-working, of turning, of car pentry, of pottery, of weaving, of dye ing, and other elements of a highly or ganized social life, and in some respects their work is the equal of any that has been done by mankind in later ages. ’ His examination of the great pyramids shows that five thousand years before the excavation of Mount Cenis tunnel, when first employed by modern engineers, the diamond drill was operated in Egypt. No quarryman in England would under take to produce a monolithic obelisk, like the smaller ones of Egypt, as a monu ment to Prince Albert, and a large force of workmen under skilled engineers, with modern mechanical helps, were seventy- five days in merely turning over an or dinary obelisk of the ancients. A tomb at Meir, near Assiut, affords, with a por trait image of its mummied proprietor, a number of wooden figures representing the trades and professions in the sixth dynasty, a thousand years before Abra ham Among them is a porter bearing
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