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visit with the women. I love the visit ing out in the real forest, often picking our way through high grass and shrub bery, and then sitting down with the women side by side on their own low benches and talking to them. They are always glad to have us come. It certain ly is a privilege to be here. The lan guage is not hard, and with my native teacher and the talking with the peo ple I think I will have some of it be fore long. Give my greetings to the students. I know that many prayers are going up for me from Los Angeles, and I daily feel the need of them. The devil makes things as hard out here as any where. Thank you very much for the “King’s Business.” I get it regularly.” preachers that God needs, but men great in holiness, great in faith, great in love, great in fidelity, great for God—men al ways preaching by holy sermons in the pulpit, by holy lives out of it. These can mould a generation for God. “Preaching which kills is prayerless preaching. Without prayer the preacher creates death, and not life. The preach er who is feeble in prayer is feeble in life-giving forces. The preacher who has retired prayer as a conspicuous and largely prevailing element in his own character has shorn his preaching of its distinctive life-giving power. * 4c * * * * “There are two extreme tendencies in the ministry. The one is to shut itself out from intercourse with the people. The monk, the hermit, were illustrations of this; they shut themselves out from men to be more with God. They failed, of course. Our being with God is of use only as we. expend its priceless benefits on men. This age, neither with preacher nor people, is much intent on God. Our hankering is not that way. We shut our selves in our study, we become students, bookworms, Bible worms, sermon mak ers, noted for literature, thought, and sermons; but the people and God, where are they? Out of heart, out of mind. Preachers who are great thinkers, great students must he the greatest of prayers, or else they will be the greatest of back sliders, heartless professionals, rational-
main undone. We are nine people at this station at present, but the health of sev eral is very poor, so that lessens the force very much. I am for the time helping in the school work. We have about four hundred boys in the school. I teach all the morning; I have the grad uating class, most of their instruction is in German, so I can do that; then I have to a certain extent charge of the other classes. The work is extremely fascinating and I realise what a great re sponsibility I have, as these hoys go out to the villages all over as teachers and evangelists after they graduate. They are really men, but they are so child like. Afternoons I either help with the girls’ school or go out to the villages to O NE OF THE MOST useful books that has appeared in the last two years is one entitled “POWER THROUGH PRAYER,” by E. M. Bounds, published by Marshall Bros., Ltd., Lon don, Edinburgh and New York. We give a few selections from the book, but the whole book is worth reading: “What the Church needs today is not more machinery or better, not new or ganizations or more and novel methods, but men whom the Holy Ghost can use —men of prayer, men mighty in prayer. The Holy Ghost does not flow through methods, but through men. He does not come on machinery, but on men. He does not anoint plans, but men—men of prayer. * * * * * * “The true sermon is a thing of life. The sermon grows because the man grows. The sermon is forceful because the man is forceful. The sermon is holy because the man is holy. The sermon is full of divine unction because the man is full of the divine unction. $ :jc % $ % H* “The preacher’s sharpest and strongest preaching should be to himself. His most difficult, delicate, laborious and thorough work must be with himself. The train ing of the twelve was the great, difficult, and enduring work of Christ. Preachers are not sermon makers, but men makerb and saint makers, and he only is well trained for this business who has made himself a man and a saint. It is not great talents nor great learning nor great
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