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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.” 3