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House, New York, print the word of God in
every tongue, and at prices within reach of ail.
A splendid work is done by the Moody Bible
Institute, and in educating men and women to
reach all classes, with special adaptation to our
loreign-bom population.
GOSPEL WAGONS.
iiesjue jts work of preparing tit laborers for
the world's great harvest, the Moody Bible Institute
also goes out into the "streets and lanet>
of the city" with gospel wagons, tents, and
soap-box pulpits, and accomplishes splendid results.
In all our towns and cities pastors and godly
laymen should borrow automobiles and autotrucks
as "gospel wagons" to bring together
the masses. With good music and short, earnest
Talks it is wonderful how the crowds can be
attracted, and men and women and children
who never are seen in our churches can he won
to God.
Finally, the Master needs Spirit-taught and
Spirit-filled men for this work. No others need
apply. God wants his regiment to march forward
on their knees.
St. Joseph, Mo.
MARKS OF THE VISIBLE CHURCH.
In the world we find a mass of people which,
being called out from the rest of mankind, receives
the name of church. It is an army for the
destruction of evil. Its many divisions have a
common banner on which is inscribed, "Lord
Jesus Christ." How may we recognize it where
ever lounai Jtiow may we distinguisn tne
church from .ludaism, Mohammedanism, Paganlsm,
from Sewn, the followers of Mahomet and
those having cults many and various ? How does
the Christian Church differ from all other organizations
of men?
It might be sufficient to refer to the banner
bearing the common inscription, "Lord Jesus
Christbut this being sometimes bidden under
other insignia, though in other sections lumin
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the common marks of the visible church.
They are five. The Greek Church, the Roman
Church, the Protestant Church each hold to.
1. The one Book: the Bible, having Old
Testament and New Testament and comprising
sixty-six books.
2. The one day: the Lord's day, on which God
is to be especially worshipped.
3. The two sacraments: Baptism and Lord's
Supper, symbolizing entrance into the church,
and receiving nourishment and renewing fealty.
4. They all repeat the Lord's Prayer.
5. They all say ''We are the people of God."
THiasa marks ?r#> nnt dinrmAd hilt, criven dis
tinctiveness by definitions, which seem intended
to modify. The Romish Church adds other
sacraments, but makes the two of special prominence.
In placing the Church above all, she adds
other books and tradition, but her reliance is
upon the sixty-six books. The section insisting
upon a special form of baptism thereby gives
prominence to this sacrament. The definition
therefore is only an emphasis and each section
is a fierce defender of the marks as marks.
Therefore any people showing these five marks
form a part of the visible church and is thus
differentiated from all other bodies of men organized
for worship.
McMinnville, Tenn., Baldwin A. Pendleton.
There are a great many missionary motives
that might be named. One of them is admirably
put by Archbishop Whately in this: "If our religion
is not true, we are bound to change it; if
it is true, we are bound to propagate it." That
expresses the whole thing in a few words.
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PRESBYTERIAN OF THE SOU
THE HEIRS OF
BV REV. WILLIAM
"The Heaven, even the Heavens are the
.Liora s, Dut me eartn natn lie given to the
children of men.'' Ps. 115:16.
The character of the persons for whom the
earth is thus specially intended, may be learned
by a careful consideration of man as he was
just fresh from the Creator's hand.
In Genesis 1:27-28 it is written: "So God
created man in His own image, in the image
of God created He him; male and female creatn/^
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said unto them, be fruitful and multiply, and
replenish the earth and subdue it, and have
dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the
fowl of the air, and over every living thing
that moveth upon the earth." Such was man
as God created him, and the purpose for which
he was designed, as the end and aim of his being,
to possess and rule the earth.
To realize this end and aim, three things were
essentially incumbent upon Adam and Eve:
(1) Obedience to God's will: (2) Obedience
to God's will: (3) Obedience to God's will.
He relinquished the power of obedience and
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For this it is clear that mail must get back
Hie lost power of obedience, and be delivered
from the disposition to disobey if he would
realize his inheritance and fulfil the divine purpose
to have the earth peopled with holy beings.
The first dominion having passed to the
"Seed of the woman'' our Lord and Saviour,
Jesus Christ, after the failure of the one family
established in the Garden of Eden, to live
and do as God would have them, the work of
restoration was inaugurated without any dis
criinuiuuuu ui laiuny or nanon. i nis conunued
until the deluge, when but one family seemed
eligible to the inheritance in question. After
the flood there was a modification to this effect,
that God would thereafter be found in the
tents of Shem. This was a narrowing of the
basis, but not excluding from restoration any
others of Hamitic or Japhetic lineage who
might seek in the tabernacles of Shem where
God was to dwell, thenceforth. This plan not
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mecu-ug wilii uic auuutrss requisite ior peopling
the earth with holy beings was modified by the
call of Abraham of the lineage "of Shem, and
the heirship of the earth was vested in his
Son, Isaac, whose birth was tantamount to a
resurrection from among the dead.
In the course of four centuries thereafter, we
lind the posterity of Isaac, as a host of millions
on their way to the promised land, as a feature
or step in the plan to replenish the earth witli
a better class of man-kind than existed previously.
The children of Isaac have been dispersed
tor more than two thousand years, and it is our
belief that the final effort is now in progress to
bring the Sons of Isaac and purify them in a
gospel dispensation and thus through Christ,
the second Adam, God the Creator will accomplish
the sublime purpose of peopling the world
with holy beings.
When Moses wrote about this, he was so influenced
by the Holy Spirit, that the facts he
recorded are precisely as they appear in the
Bible.
xience, u seems strange that any iiible believer,
whose opinion should be that if God in
Christ had written the Book of Genesis, Himself,
it would be just as we have it.
The Holy Spirit so influenced or moved
Moses, while writing, that hw mental and spirit
ual faculties were brought into such complete
harmony with the mind and will of the Crea
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neuee, 1 repeat it: JLLow strange it seems)
that Christians ol' due intelligence should be
contused, or perplexed when scholarly writers
living thousands ol years Iroin the times ol
ereuiion assert*even in the most audacious and
learned style that Uod s history of the creation
is not accurate and claim too, that they
can give one far better than that given by the
Li eu tor Himself.
it may be fully surmised, however, that the
inspiration and accuracy of what is written in
Uenesis, and other Bible writings, so much as
t lip siiMpruft111 rnI plpiiipnta 111 t.hp fni'ta t.hpm
selves tliut make up the contents.
The uiaiii trouble as 1 aiu given to see it,
with sucii writers is their unwillingness to
recognise and. admit the direct forth-putting of
divine power in human alfairs, and the duty
of moral obedience to Uod, so as to manage the
world, as the Creator would have it.
As to the iinal ellort now in progress, it is
of interest to notice, that about 457 13. C. Ezra
sent a number of his best men to lddo the Chief
at Ca&iphia, 41 that they should bring to us
ministers for the house of our God" Ezra 8:17.
Their success was such that three hundred
priests responded and went up to Jerusalem
with Ezra.
The best authorities like Drs. Smith and Robinson,
are of the opinion that Casiphia was on
the borders of the Caspian Sea, near where the
departed Israelites must have been at that
period. These Levites, belonging to Israel of
the Northern Kingdom, had been taken by
Shalmaneser in Assyria and placed in Halah,
and in llabor on the river Gozau, and in the
cities of the Medes.
The earliest historical mention of an upris
lug of the main body of Israelites from Armenia
was about 500 B. C.
According to lleroditus, a king wishing to
protect the Babylonian race from extinction
provided wives for them from the natives
bordering on Babylonia, requiring these nations
to send fifty thousand young women to
Babylon, from whom the Babylonians of later
times are sprung. lleroditus 3; Sec. 159.
Now as the ten tribes then living on the con_
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mice ui .ouoyionia would have been compelled
to furnish their quota of girls all pious Israelites
must have had feelings of intense indignation;
and it is likely enough may have started
the great emigration to which the second Book
of Esdras refers.
The author of thut book in speaking of an
emigration from the originul place of settlement
in Assyria says: "These are the ten tribes
carried away as captives from their own land
in the time of Hnaheii th? Uin?? ?i<nm
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maneser, king of Assyria captured, aud he carried
them over the river Gozan by which they
reached another land. But they took counsel
among themselves, that they would leave the
multitude of the heathen and go into a far
country where man never dwelt, in order that
they might there keep the laws which they had
never kept in their own land of Samaria. So
uiey crossed me uuphrut.es by the narrow
streams of that river, where the most high restrained
the torrent until they had safely
passed over. And they journeyed onwards a
great distance even for a year and a half until
they arrived at a place culled Asareth." 2 Efr
dras 13:40-48. The course taken by these mi