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“The Entrance
of
Thy Woras
Giveth Light.”
A Call to Woman.
“Rise up, ye women that are at ease and hear
my voice; ye careles daughters, give ear unto my
speech.”—lsa. 32:9.
Woman drew man into sin—“ Adam was not be
guiled, but the woman being beguiled hath fallen
into transgression (I Tim. 2:14, and God in His
tender mercy gave her a seed to be a Savior; and
woman through this seed finds power to win men
back to righteousness. She, as mother, wife and
sister and daughter; she, as gifted with undefinable
and irresistable influence; she, as cleansed and re
newed and clothed with power from on high; she
can lift up all mankind. Let woman recover her
holines and man is reclaimed. The world could not
go on in sin if women all were loosed from the
bond of their infirmity to stand upright under the
healing hand of Christ Jesus.
0, sisters, are we responsible for the corruption
and the ignorance and ungodliness of men? Yes;
we sell our birthright for a mess of pottage; or keep
our talent in a napkin, then go about bereft of power.
Through woman a Savior was given to the world,
and it is hers to say to the fallen race, “a man child
is born!” It is ours to publish the gospel. Have we
looked through the Word of God without discover
ing our privilege, our duty, our commission?
“(Stone the woman and let the man go free,” is
an an unwritten principle that has prevailed every
where among men. At first thought it seems cow
ardly and unjust; but, truly, at our door lies the sin
of humanity. If we are at ease, if we rise not up,
if we say “we know it not,” shall our indifference,
our timidity, or our time-established custom of si
lence clear us in the day of judgment?
Men, both personally and collectively, have their
own responsibility before God, who will render to
every one according to his works; but rightfully un
der authority, as she is, and in her own proper
sphere, woman can save the world, woman ought to
save the world, woman must save the world.
As we open our Bibles and begin at Genesis to
read, we reach onl ythe third chapter when the sad
story is told of our mother fallen under temptation.
Can any man born of woman smile as he reads it?
Will he not rather drop his head and let tears fall
from his eyes? But if we pursue ©ur reading to the
end of the book we will see here and there and finally,
wdiat grace hath wrought, for, after the long tale of
sin and shame and suffering and sorrow, the closing
chapter, in Revelation 22:17, gives a picture of wom
an restored, perfected, glorified—ideal womanhood
representing the Church triumphant—the bride,
united with the heavenly Bridegroom, the Son of
God; for, He loved us and gave Himself up for us.
“And it was given unto her that she should array
herself in fine linen, bright and pure; for the fine
linen is the righteous acts of the saints. And He
saith unto me, “Write, blesed are they that are bid
den unto the marriage supper of the Lamb.” Rev.
19:8, 9. “And the Spirit and the bride say, Come,
and let him that heareth say, come. And
he that is athirst, let him come; he that will, let him
take the water of life freely.” Rev. 22:17.
“Christ Jesus came to save sinners.” I Tim. 1:10.
“The Lord giveth the word. The women that
publish the tidings are a great host. Psa. 68.11.
“Go quickly, and tell.” Matt. 28:7.
Mrs. X. T. Bates.
J Bi
The Golden Age for March 8, 1906.
Os Interest to Baracas.
The State Sunday School Convention meets at
Americus, Ga. (First Baptist Church), March 27,
28, 29. A leading faeture of this convention will be
Baraca and Philathea day. This part of the pro
gram will likely consume the afternoon and the eve
ning of the second day. Leading Baraca workers
will deliver addresses.
It is desired that every Baraca and Philanthea
class in Georgia, of whatever denomination, will send
one or more delegates to this convention. Elect at
once, and send names to Mr. T F. Calloway, Ameri
cus, Ga., who will arrange for free entertainment
of all .delegates.
Do this at once.
Yours for Baraca,
Millard A. Jenkins,
Secretary for Georgia.
The Jewish Question.
By REV. L. J. EHRLICH, Converted Jew.
The question, why the Church, as such, has sin
gled out the Jew from the Gospel, is a most puzzling
one to the Jewish Christian. Why should the
Church of Christ, which is enlightened, which is
fighting the battle of the Gospel of Christ so hero
ically, which does not know distinction between
man and man, having adopted Paul’s utterance on
Mar’s Hill, that all nations have been made of one
blood; the Church, which has through the Gospel
saved hundreds of millions of (Satan’s slaves from
the bondage of sin which was eating out of their life
all that was pure and good, why should this Church,
which is the depository of the Gospel of Christ
which is the power of God, shrink from bringing the
Jew under its power? Are the Jews, in the opinion
of the Church, as in that of so many corrupt people
outside of the Gospel, members of a different species
of the human race, unworthy of the Gospel of Jesus,
their own Messiah? (Societies and individual church
es which are sending out missionaries to all the dif
ferent nationalities, have almost nothing to do with
Gospel work among the Jews. The Jewish question
is to them like the statue of Janus in ancient Rome,
having two faces and a hundred aspects. Wouldn’t
you, dear friends, who see plainly their great mis
take, pray earnestly that God may speedily open
their eyes to the importance of the divine order of
the Gospel? God’s word says, “To the Jew first.”
God willing, in the near future, I expect to open a
Hebrew Christian Messia’ or reading room in the
Jewish quarters of Atlanta, and any one wishing to
help in this work of spreading the Gospel both in
tract form and also direct from the Bible, can ad
dress The Golden Age.
An Echo From the Students Volunteer
Convention at Nashville.
Among the interesting people attending the Stu
dent Convention are two Southern girls who have
been for some time doing missionary work in Brazil.
These young ladies were sent out by the Board of
Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
Thoroughly imbued with the missionary spirit, capa
ble and fearless, traines and equipped for the work,
together with their years of experience, these ladies
give most interesting accounts of their schools and
school life among the Brazliians.
Miss Glenn, the first of the two to take the field,
is a Georgia girl. Miss Davis is from North Caro
lina. The former has been a missionary to Brazil
for ten years. Miss Davis has been there but two
years. They received their special training for the
work at the Scarritt Training School, Kansas City,
Mo.
Both girls are still distinctly Southern, though
perhaps in Miss Davis, who has been in the foreign
field for the lesser period of time, the voice and
manner of her native section still clings wuth more
pronounced distinctness.
The School at Rio.
“I am located at Rio, the capital,” said Miss
Davis, in reply to a question. “Rio is a great city,
the most important of all, being the capital city. Our
schools are of two kinds, boarding and day, just as
our American schools. The Rio school is a day
school, graded, pretty much the same as the Ameri
can public school. We have ninety Portuguese pu
pils. Our pupils are from the best families in the
city, and are all wealthy. The upper classes are very
cleanly, too. Consequently we come in contact there
with only the better element—in that individual
school, I mean. There is a great deal of wealth among
them, and none of the dirt which we of this country
are largely disposed to believe attaches to this
country.
“ Brazil, of course, has her lower clases, and they
are largely in evidence. They are very much the
same as our slum classes of America. But they do
not attend the day school. The boarding schools are
not in Rio.”
“Are the children quick and ambitious?” the re
porter asked.
“That they are,” she said. “They are all keenly
alive to the value of the English language. That is
the great inducement to them to attend our school.
“How do we teach them? In Portuguese. But the
teacher has to be translator as w T ell as teacher. Books
are extremely scarce with us. So we take the English
book, translate it into Portuguese, which the pupils
take down into note books. The next day this is re
cited as their lesson. In that way we bridge over the
lack of books.” .
“When we begin we offer only to teach them
the Bible. Os course, they do not take particularly
to that beginning, but in a very short time they be
come intensely interested and are anxious to get all
they can of ‘the old, old story.’ We teach them,
however, all the ordinary branches of English—arith
metic, reading, and so on. We do not teach household
matters in the day school, as the children of the
wealthy do not need to know these things.”
“In our boarding schools all these things are
taught. Cooking, sewing and all such things that are
necessary for them to know. ’ ’
Miss Glenn ' nd Miss Davis have been in America
since September, 1905. They have spent the inter
vening time with friends and kindred in their home
states, and are visiting, lecturing and arousing, as
far as possible, a home interest in foreign work.
They will remain in Nashville during the conven
tion, after which they will probably visit Kansas
City and other points. They will return to Brazil
in September, their year’s furlough expiring at
that time.
“1 Am
The Way,
The Truth, and
The Life.”
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