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the good of others, friends or foes: those one dislikes as well as those one likes. Love is in doing rather than feeling, al though nothing will make us feel kindly to others like doing kindnesses to them. Do not distress yourself because you do nor feel as if you loved, only do the way love does and let the feeling take care of itself. Sunday, September 14 What Missionaries Are Doing in India, Burma and Siam.— Jer. 16:19-21. 1. Geography. Point out these lands and their relations on the map. 2. Government. India and Burma are ruled by England as are the Phillipines by the United States. Siam is an independent kingdom. 3. Population. One-fifth of the population of the globe lives in these lands; only one-seventeenth in the United States. 4. Heathenism. When Britain got India and Burma the nations worshipped hideous idols; practiced in the name of religion, the most vile vices; often sacrificed themselves and chil dren to their horrid gods; burned their widows with the corpses of the husbands, or, though they might be yet mere chil dren, as, multitudes of widows were, held them responsible for their husbands’ death and subjected them to the cruelest treat ment all the rest of their lives. They held women to have no souls, and esteemed them less than cows, which they regarded as sacred. The vast majority of the peo ple were wretched and downtrodden in the extreme. 5. Mission Work. At first opposed.and persecuted by their own countrymen, the missionaries have done and are doing a great work, to evan gelize, educate and reform the minds arid manners of the people. Many wicked prac tices are now forbidden by law, Women and children are more humanely treated, and the low are risirig socially. Schools,
colleges and asylums are working great changes and charities. But above all. souls are being saved, and of late in great num bers, and churches are increasing; and Christ’s command to preach the Gospel is obeyed. 6. What Are You DoingT Not a tenth is being done that needs to be done. Millions are going down to death - unsaved, and millions are living in sorrow npw. You can all pray in faith and love. Each can give something. Some can be come missionaries and go. We are invited and exhorted to pray (John 16:22, 23; Eph. 6:18, 19). God’s promises are conditioned on prayer (Eze. 36:37). A very wonderful and suggestive prayer text, is Philippians 4:6. The following acrostic affords a good outline for study: Preparation. We should prepare our minds for com ing before God in prayer (Tob 11:13,; Ezra 7:10; Ps. 39:3) ; and for this we. must ask Him (Prov, 16:1), Repentance. Sorrow for sin should always accom pany our coming to God. We learn this of, David (Ps. 51:2, 3 ); of Moses (Exod. 32:31, 32) ; of Daniel (Dan, 9 ;4-6); and by John (1 John 1:9). Assurance. But a sense of unworthiness and sin fulness is no reason for discouragement (Heb. 4:14-16). Yielding. Our wills must be submissive,. The broad est promise has its limits not in our wills but in His will. “Not my will but Thine be done” (Matt. 26:39; 1 John 5:14; 2 Cor, 12:8-Í0). Expectation. “My expectation is from Him” (Ps. 25: 11). “He is a rewarder of them that dili gently seek Him” (Heb. 11:6). Rest. “Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently, for, Sunday, September 21 Prayer.—2 Cor. 1:11.
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