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2 beginning of his movement he or ganized them into “societies,” which met regularly for work and worship under appointed “preachers. ’ Mr. Wesley died March 2, 1791. Shortly before his death he wrote to a pre late of the church of England a let ter dated Hull, .June 26th, 1790, in which occurs these sentences: “The Methodists in general, my Lord, are members of the church of England. They hold all her doctrines, attend her services, and partake of her sacraments.” In their lite of Wes ley, published in London, within a year of his death, his biographers state that “Mr. Wesley had hitherto ordained ministers only for America and Scotland. But during the period we have mentioned, being assisted by other Presbyters of the church of England, he set apart a certain num ber of preachers for the sacred of fice by the imposition of his hands and prayer, without sending them out of England; one of these he or dained after writing the above letter, and but a short time before his death, strongly advising them at the same time, that according to his example they should continue united to the Established church, so far as the work in which they are engaged would permit.” REV. LUTHER RIOE. BY REV. F. K. BOSTON, MEMPHIS, TENN. As ships sail away to sea, little by little the low lying coast sinks below the horizon, then the taller trees, the last to disappear is the top of the highest hills. The eye sweeps the sea and sky for some land mark, but there is none. So persons who have been great and prominent in their generation gradually fail from the minds of men and disappear from their memories. When I was a child the name of Luther Rice was a household word in many of our Baptist homes, there were little traditions about his visits treasured up among the family rec ords. Children were named after him, but who among the rising gen eration knows Luther Rice ? • Who now reads his biography ? Who has connected his name with this centen nial of missions, the only book that contains his life is now out of print. Luther Rice was truly a great character, a mighty man of God. He stands in close connection with the rise and progress of the spirit of Missions and Ministerial education in the churches of America. The place of a man's birth contrib utes no worth to his life but his achievements may give name and fame to it. Luther Rice was born in the town of Northborough, Worces ter County, Mass., March 251 h 1783. His father was a Revolutionary Sol dier, his mother was a woman of sterling worth. Luther Rice's conversion was very marked and decided.* It was literal ly a new birth. His travail of soul was very remarkable for its depth and pungency. He was 18 years old when he came under permanent conviction. His conceptions of the holy character of God and the claims of the law he had violated, awakened the most alarming appre hensions, and led him to cry earnest ly for mercy. His sense of the transcendent excellence of the law oi God and the desperate wicked ness of his own heart became more fixed and habitual, producing anguish and dread almost intolerable. He says, I was mostly by myself, and day after day for weeks and months, spent most of my time in literally weeping and wailing. Luther Rice's convictions were re markable also for their duration. For a year and a half he labored in sorrow and travail because of his sins and the wrath of God. In this respect he was like the great Spur geon. For a long time the great preacher sought the Lord in sorrow. As God gave King Josiah the hon or of having the law of God found in his reign, as ho called Wm. Carey in Ehgland to bring to the light the long forgotten commission. So the Spirit of the Christ laid his hand on Luther Rice and commissioried him to a similar work. Do you know that it is generally conceded that Luther Rice first conceived the idea of Foreign Missions in America? On his tombstone in the grave yard of Mount Pleasant Church, S.| this sentence is cut, “It is thought the first Foreign Mission, on which he went to India, associated with Jud son and others, originated with him. Rice was at this time a Ministerial student at Williams College. He communicated his thought to a few of the students, they formed the first College Society of Missionary inqui ry. About the same time, the thought of Foreign Missions came into the heart of Juddbn at Ando ver Seminary, and a similar society was formed there. Judson and Rice with four other students prepared a memorial to the General Association of all the evangelical ministers of Massachusetts, convened at Bradford, 1891, urging the pressing claims of the heathen,"and asking an appoint ment in the East. From these ef forts originated the American Board of Commissions for Foreign Missions and the sending out of Luther Rice, with Judson, and others as mission aries of the Gospel of India. We come now to another great and grave crisis in the life of Rice. He sailed for India as a Congrega tionalism and under the patronage of the Congregationalist Church. He left his country loyal to his church and its teachings as to the subjects and mode of baptism. On his voy age to India he met on ship board two English Baptist Missionaries, Johns and Lawson. In his journal he refers to a conversation with them on the subjects of baptism, and to the fact that he was employed in its investigation. He was led to inves tigate the subject by some authori ties being brought to his attention concerning the word Baptiso, partic ularly some remarks from the pen of Dr. Campbell. He was led to in vestigate the Scriptural authority for infant baptism in order to have a clear and more decisive proof jn fa vor of it than he had been able to produce. When he landed in India he was not convinced, the question was still troubling him. All during his voyage he took the side of sprink ling and infant baptism. When Rice learned that Dr. Judson had changed his views, and was going to join the Baptists, his mind was still more impressed with the necessity of faithful investigation. He went to board with the Judsons. At first, Dr. Judson says he was disposed to give me fierce battle, but I held off and recommended him to betake himself to the Bible and prayer. He did so and lived much by himself, so that I seldom saw him except at meals. But his inquiries, when we met, soon assumed that cool and sol emn air which left me no doubt, as to what would be the result of his investigation. Dr. Judson and his wife were baptized by Mr. Ward Ist of September, 1812, and Mr- Rice was baptized on the Ist of No vember of the same year, by the same great and good man. Every step in this investigation was a fierce battle. llis early religious impres sions, his well set prejudices against the Baptists, the way in which his change of views would bo received in America, the alternations which his plans and hopes for Mission work would have to undergo, the uncer tainty as to whether the Baptists would receive him as their missiona ry amt sustain him. Every natural and pleasant consideration contested his investigation and opposed his conclusions, and we are led to the confession that nothing but the dearest light from God's Word on the one hand and supremo sense of obligation to Christ on the other led him to become a Baptist. The baptism of Judson and Rico placed them in an embarrassing condition, their change of views cut them off from the support of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions and left the lone missiona ries in India without a support or a constituency. But in this how plain ly now is seen the hand of God. Judson and Rice had been used in his wise providence to call into ac tivity the congregationalists as to Foreign Missions, to organize and send out their missionaries and now he uses them to stir the sleeping Baptists of America to the same great work. Without warning or foercasting, he suddenly threw two great men with magnificent powers of mind and heart, and special quali fications upon them. So there went up a cry from India across the seas, to the Baptist hosts in their slum bers and indifference. Awake! Awake! put on thy strength O Zi on, Put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city, shake thy self from the dust, Arise! For Judson God closed up every avenue, and led the way to Rangoon Burma. For Rice God opened a passage to America to organize our churches into a general Baptist Con vention for the maintenance of For eign missions. In no period of the Church does the hand of God seem more visible. As soon as Luther Rice arrived in the United States, he discharged his obligations to the American Board of Commissioners, and made direct and formal endeav ors to promote the missionary enter prise among the Baptists. There were then in existenop Dr. Taylor THE CHRISTIAN INDEX: THURSDAY, JUNE 23. 1892. says, four or five Baptist Foreign Mission Societies in New England. The oldest was located in Salem, it having been organized shortly after the sailing of the missionaries from this country. Besides this, may he mentioned the societies formed in Boston, Providence, and Haverhill, the Society in Boston had already assumed the support of Dr. Judson. These societies formed the nucleus of Rice’s great enterprise. After consulting with Dr. Baldwin and other leading Baptists, a general plan of work was settled upon. Rice undertook the gigantic work of or ganizing our churches unto a gener al convention for Foreign Missions. For this purpose he visited all the great cities, New York, Philadelphia, Washington, Richmond. He travel ed through the South, preached in our churches, visited State and Dis trict Associations, consulted with the leading pastors and laymen of all the states, sent out circulars in all direc tions. As a result of these labors of Mr. Rice, a number of ministers and delegates from different parts of the United States assembled in Phila delphia on the 18th of May, 1814- Dr. Richard Furman was called to the chair and Dr. Thomas Baldwin appointed Secretary. After a care ful consideration of the whole sub ject for several days it was unani mously decided to form the “Gener al Convention of the Baptist denom ination in the United States for For eign Missions. Look around you,see the light that is shining on all sides of our coun try, see the spirit of missions steadi ly growing in our churches. It was first kindled by the hand of Luther Rice, and it will never die out or subside. As Luther Rice traveled over the country North and South he became painfully conscious of the lack of education in our pastors. In addi tion to Missions the subject of Min isterial education came upon his heart. How to provide for the edu cation of the rising ministry became with him an all absorbing question. He began to agitate the question, he spoke of it, in private, he preached on it, he wrote all over the country in reference to it, he called the at tention of the leading men North and South to this crying need. At an early period of his efforts to promote the cause of education a school was opened in Philadelphia for the instruction of young men de voted to the ministry, under the care of Rev. Dr. Stoughton and Rev. Ira Chase. Sometime after this school was started in Philadelphia a great educational idea came into his heart, of a great national college and theological seminary for the whole country located at Washington, D. C. This was the birth of Columbian College. Land was bought buildings erected, and the school at Philadel phia transferred to 'Washington. The college started off under the most promising circumstances. To the realization of his dream. Luther Rice gave the last years of his life and strength. The great university at Chicago was what he had planned for Washington. (1.) Rice was a person of portly and commanding presence. He was above the ordinary height, he was blessed with a robust and perfectly erect form, he had great dignity of appearance and manner. This was especially true when he arose in the pulpit. He produced on the behold er a most favorable impression. He was consecrated. He was on the Lord’s side, his acceptance of the Savior was absolute and Gods will was his will, God’s work was his work, he never labored for self, it was all for God and needy suffering humanity. He was ready for service or sacrifice. AS A PREACHER Mr. Rico was superiorly educated. Ho was a full graduate of Williams College and Andover Theological i Seminary. lie was well equipped for the ministry. His style of ser mons was argumentative and doctrit nal. Ho dwelt largely on the great doctrines of grace, the glory of God and the atoning blood of Christ where his great themes. He was als o a most powerful pulpit speaker, ho controlled and carried his audience with him, they felt his magnetism, his voice clear and melodious, he had but little action, but that was appro priate and graceful and he was re markable for self possession. He was blessed with such gifts as preach er and pastor that Dr. Taylor says that he could have filled the highest pulpit in -the land. Luther Rice was a man of great elevation of mind. Ho had large and clear views of the great commission. In this thing he was ahead of his generation, he was a leader, a Moses, to lead the churches on and out to the world wide fields of endeavor, and larger and higher attainments in the ministry. When Luther Rice was converted there was not a Foreign Mission from Ameri can churches, when he died said Dr. Chapin the missionary spirit was burning with a bright and spreading flame, and mission stations quite en circled the globe, without a doubt it can be truly said of this great man of God that he was the father of the rise and progress of the spirit of Mis sions and ministerial education in our Baptist churches. Let us honor his name and keep his memory green. Every testimonial regarding Hoods Sarsaparilla is an honest, unpurchas ed statement of what this medicine has actually done. BEOUEITY OF THE BELIEVER. Are you a believer in the saving power and grace of the Lord Jesus Christ? Then know where your se curity rests. Righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins and faithful ness the girdle of his reins.” The girdle is a type of service. When Jesus performed that last act of lov ing, humble service for His disciples, He “took a towel and girded himself.” Jno. 13:4. Our salvation depends upon Christ’s service for us, not upon our service to Him. Christ’s atone ment, Christ’s righteousness, Christ’s intercession avail for us. The Lord, our righteousness, must clothe us in His righteousness; ours is but filthy rags. Our security rests upon His faithfulness in keeping the law. “By grace ye are saved,” Eph. 2:8. “We walk by faith,” 2 Co. 5:7. not by faithfulness nor by fepling. A poor Scotch woman,attending one of Whit tle’s meeting, promised, after many tears and much trembling, to believe God’s promise, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that hearcth my word, believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation.” Jno. 5:24. The evangelist wrote the promise on a card and gave it to her, and she went home radiantly happy. Her little boy, attracted.by her joy asked her what had happened. She told him and showed him the little card and read the text to him out of the Bible, and he, too, believed and re joiced. The next morning when the mother a^ lu “the glow of feel ing waiy^y^ on y|itiid she came down stairs du„ nnso ll»»4A The little boy, noticing her gloom, asked what was the matter. “Oh, I have lost my blessing, I thought I was saved, but the feeling is all gone.” “But,,’ said the laddie, “has the verse changed ?” Quickly he brought the little card and read it and said brightly, “Why, no, mitlier, it’s Just the same.” Then he turned to the Bible and read it there, and cried out, “It’s here, mith er, the verse is just the same.” heaven and earth shall pass away, but God’s word shall not pass, and He is faithful that promised. The use of Hall's Hair Renewer promotes the growth of the hair, and restores its natural color and beauty, frees the scalp of dandruff, tetter, and all impurities. A LITTLE CHILD LED HIM. Oftiines we are taught by little children, “and a little child shall lead them” says the Psalmist. This is spiritually true to-day as it will be literally true in the millennium. A little boy was walking with his fath er who was smoking. They met sev eral little boys with stubs of cigars and pieces of pipes, on which they were pulling diligently. The father spoke earnestly to the little ones about some of the evils of children smoking. A bright little face turned up to his, and the child said: “Is’nt it worse for a many father?” As the little one’s eye met the father’s eye, his own fell. He was uneasy that he had spoken what he should not. “Do you think it was worse for a man Edgar?” the father asked. “Pleas father,” in a tremulous voice said the boy. “I think the boys would not want to do it if the men did not.” The father had his answer. He threw away his cigar and never smoked again. THE EARTH’S AXIS. That the earth’s axis changes its position is a new discovery. This change helps to understand two great changes that the earth has un dergone. One is the glaciation of the earth. The other is the extension, during the Tertiary epoch, of a very rich flowering and fruit-bearing veg tation, now characteristic of Southern Europe, over a wide continent which embraced Greenland, Spitzbergen, the Arctic Islands of Siberia, and North America. For a disordered Liver try Beech am’s Pills. ©lie THE ASCENSION OF CHRIST. Lesson for July 3, 1892. Scripture Lesson : Acts 1:1-12. Motto Text.—“ When he had spoken these things, while they be held, he was taken up ; and a cloud received him out of their sight.” (Verse 9). INTRODUCTION. We now begin six month’s of study on the most interesting book in the New Testament—Acts. It is a his tory or narrative of the planting and spread of Christianity, by the Apos tles, after the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. The Book was writ ten by Luke, as a continuance of his Gospel, about the year G2or 63. The narrative begins with the as cension of Christ, forty days after his resurrection, and covers a period of thirty years. This period was chiefly occupied in preparing the apostles for disseminating the Gos by thoroughly convincing them of the resurrection of the Jesus and of the true nature of Christ’s spiritual kingdom—a kingdom henceforth to be carried on and established upon earth by the efficiency of the Holy Spirit, the Vicegerent of Christ upon earth, who would act mainly through the services of the apostles. EXPLANATIONS. I. The Risen Christ—l-3. In a former treatise, or narrative, says Luke, writing to some person of dis tinction called. “Theophilus” and alluding to the third Gospel written by himself, he had related the do ings and teachings of Christ, from the beginning of his ministry on earth, unto the day “when he was taken up”—or ascended to heaven, after he had “through the Holy Spir it” —in conjuction with whom he acted. He alludes to the incidents mentioned in Luke 9:57 : 24:51, and Mark 10:19. For the divine plan of co-operation between the Holy Spirit and Christ, see Luke 4:18 ; John 20:22. The “command ments” which he gave to the apostles are those mentioned in Matt. 28:19 ; Mark 16:16; Luke 26-19, which re fer to the universal dissemination of the Gospel. And then Luke goes on to say that Jesus, “after his pas sion”—or sufferings and death on the cross, “he showed” or proved him to be “alive”—and risen from the dead by many infallible proofs”— proofs that convinced his disciples of his resurrection, such as conversing and eating with his disciples and permitting them to handle his per son. They were to be witnesses throughout all the world, to his resurrection, and it was necessary absolutely that they should be thor oughly convinced of its reality, that they might preach that doctrine on which the truth of the Gospel de pends. It was, also, necessary that they should comprehend the spiritual truths relating, or “pertaining” to Christ’s Spiritual Kingdom, called here “the kingdom of God,” (1 Cor. 15:5) and, hence, during the “forty days”—between hia resurrection and ascension. Jesus instructed the apostles in regard to those “things”' or matters, pertaining to his king dom, by his personal intercourse. 11. His Parting Promise.—4-8. At length the day for his ascension came, and he led his disciples forth from Jerusalem to that part of the Mt. of Olives, near to Bethany. Previous to which, however, he bade them “not depart from Jerusalem,” but wait there, “for the promise of their Father”—that divine inspiration which should accompany, the out pouring, or coming, of the Holy Spirit, see Joel 2: 28 ; Zech. 12:10) “which ye have heard of me”—as re lated in Luke 24: 49 and John 15:20; 16:13. T his referred to the outpouring of the Holy Spirit which would be so overwhelming that Jesus himself compares it to an immersion, saying as John had immersed them in water so shonld they be “baptized with (immersed in) the Holy Spirit not many days hence”—it was, in truth, just ten days afterwards, at Pente cost. When baptism is spoken of in connection with the Holy Spirit en (in) is always used. (Alvah Hovey.) Dr. E. 11. Plumtre, in the “Handy Commentary” edited by Dr. C. J. Ellicott, Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, has the following on this passage: “Now they were told that their spirits were to bo as fully bap tized—i. e.,' plunged into the power of the Divine Spirit, as their bodies had been plunged in the waters of the Jordan.” It was after they had reached Mt. Olivet, near to Bethany, that the apostles on that late occasion, show ed their ignorance of the spirituality of Christ’s kingdom, by asking Jesus, if we was not about to “restore again the kingdom to Israel”—free the Jews from the Romans and restore their former power and prosperity, referring to a temporal, earthly king dom, misapprehending the nature of Christ’s kingdom. (Isa. 1:26; Dan. 7:27 ; Amos 9:11; Micah 4:8.) Verse 7. “Times or seasons” — general periods or fixed dates of fu ture events. Put in his own power —settled or appointed by his own authoriiy—kept within his own ab solute disposal. But the mother which most im mediately concerned them, which the work they had to perform, and for the efficient performance of which, they should receive “power” —of a spiritual nature, or efficiency 7 , referring to the requisite endow ments “from on high” (Luke 24:49) to capacitate them for being witness es unto me—my witnesses, to testify to his miracles, teachings, death, and ascension, and that he was the Mes siah in all parts of he earth. (John 15:27 ; Luke 24:48; 1 John 1:1). HIS ASCENSION TO HEAVEN 9:12. When he had thus spoken, and even while in the act of blessing them with uplifted hands Jesus as cended into the air and was conceal ed from their ardent gaze by a cloud. This happened on the 18th of May, in the year 30. And, as an angel said, Jesus will, some time or other, return in the same manner. 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