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J. C. McMICHAEL,: : Proprietor.
SON-HOOD.
Much has been said lately about
the fatherhood of God.
Father suggests, necessarily, the
relation of child.
By creation all men are the chil
dren of God. So are all animate
and inanimate objects, because all
were created by Him.
There is a peculiar sense, however,
in which the expression “sons of
God” and “children of God,” are
used in the Bible that does not in
clude all men, much less all created
beings.
Hero is a text, found in I John,
8:2, in which one of these phrases
is used in a peculiar and restricted
sense: “ Beloved, now are we the
sons of God.” A careful study of
the character of the person addressed
in this letter of John will show who
are included in the word “we.”
Who are the sons of God? It is
evident that the sonship here spoken
of does not exist because of creation
merely. If it did, then a horse ora
cow or a goat might be called a son
of God with as much propriety as a
man, because all owe their being to
His creative power.
Nor docs it come merely from gen
eration or natural birth. Because
my natural father was a man, it does
not follow from that that I am a son
of God in the sense in which the
expression is used in the text.
To become a son of God one must
not only be born, but “must be born
again.” He must not only be gen
erated, he must also be regenerated.
He must not only Me born of a man,
he must also be born of God. lie
must not only be a natural son, but
also a spiritual son. He must not
only be a partaker of human nature,
but a partaker of the divine nature
also.
Here are the proofs :
John, 1:11-13: He came unto
his own and his own received him
not. But as many as received Him,
to them gave lie power (right or
privilege) to become the sons of
God, to them that believe on His
name: which were born, not of
blood, (that is by natural descent)
nor of the will of the flesh, (that is,
not according to the w ill of a natural
father), nor of the will of man, (no
man can be his own father, either
natural or spirit al), but of God.
Ist Peter, 1:23: Being born
again, not of corruptible seed, but of
incorruptible, by the word of God,
which live th and abidet h forever.
James, 1:18': Os His own will begat
He us, by the word of His truth.
Bom., 8:14: For as many as are
led by the Spirit, they are the sons
of God.
These Scripture proofs show- that
we are begotten of God, the Holy
Spirit being the efficient agent, the
Word of God, the “incorruptible
seed,” being the efficient means.
In this way we become the sons,
or the children, of God, spiritually,
and are thus made “partakers of the
divine nature.”
2. Growing out of this change,
and the new relationship, are certain
privileges, some of which are en
joyed in this, others in the future
life. u
1. We have God as our Father.
Rom. 1;15. We have received the
spirit of adoption, whereby we cry,
Abba—Father.
Born of God, we are His sons,
and because we are his sons, “God
has sent forth the Spirit of His son
into our hearts, crying Abba—Fath
er.” Gal. 4:7. He is our Father, not
simply because He is our Creator,
but because we have been begotten
of Him, and are, therefore, His spir
itual children and have been adopted
into His family, and it is for these
two reasons that we have the double
right to say “Father.”
Regeneration makes us children
by spiritual birth. This is a real
change, imparting the divine nature.
Adoption is a legal or relative change,
which confers upon the child adopted
the rights and privileges of real
children without conferring the na
ture of the father.
Both ideas seemed to be embraced
ho that the favors of gra g and the
rights of law may all center in a son
of God.
To be a son of God, then, in this
true and spiritual sense, one must
not only owe his existence to the
creative power of God, but Jie must
be begotten of God, by the agency of
the Holy spirit and the Word of
God, the incorruptible seed, before
he can truly cry, “Abba, Father.” In
that case only is he “an heir of God
and a joint heir with Jesus Christ.
2. We are members of God’s fam-
ily. We pride ourselves upon our
family connections. The honor of
an honorable ancestry is reflected
upon us. How careful we are
to preserve our pedigree, to trace
back our origin, and to show our re
lationship to some great warrior,
some renowned statesman, to some
rich lord, or it may be to some kingly
ruler. No matter- how direct the
descent, or how honorable the an
cestry, all human blood is tainted.
All along the line, if all the facts of
history were known, there w'ould crop
out the marks of dishonor. But he
w-ho is born of God, who is a true
spiritual child of God, may well
glory in his ancestry. There is none
greater, none richer, none purer,
none more honorable. There is no
taint of blood or cause for shame, in
such an origin.
How sweet is family intercourse
and communion of kindred 1 In
proportion as hearts are pure and
ruled by love the intercourse is
sweeter and the communion more
desirable. Who constitute God’s
family ? God, the Father, Jesus, the
Elder Brother, the Holy Spirit, the
Sanctifier, angels who have kept their
first estate, the little ones, who have
not known right from wrong, who,
dying without actual transgressions,
are saved through the merits of
Christ’s atonement, just men made
perfect, and the saints yet to be
gathered from earth.
Love is the riding principle, holi
ness, the characteristic of every
heart, happiness, the inmate of every
breast.
Think of membership in such a
family—of enternal communion with
such a company!
THE COLOR LINE.
The New York Independent loses no
opportunity of berating the unfortu
nate Southbccause of its persistence in
mantaining what it calls the“color line
in religion.”We to dare protest against
the commingling of the races in the
same church congregation and in
other public assemblies. The New
York editor affects to believe this is
very unchristian. One would sup
pose that everything was lovely in
this regard up in his latitude. But,
alas ! The truth is that we are all
made of a common humanity, and
the “color line” is as distinctly drawn
in the North as in the South, when
ever there is in the North any con
siderable colored population. There
are not a hundred among its thou
sands of churches where a mixed
membership is tolerated. Here and
there a few colored members may be
found in white churches, but it is
only where there is not enough of
the colored element to form separate
churches.
A few facts will illustrate our
point. In Camden, New Jersey, a
correspondent writes of the unsatis
factory condition of the “three colored
churches struggling against each
other where one would find it diffi
cult to exist;” and yet in the very
next sentence he boasts, “we have no
color line here.” Why do not the
white churches of that city kindly
take these warring brethren in black
into their membership, and afford
the world the example of
a “Christian brotherhood who knows
no difference in the color of the skin?’’
Pshaw, the correspondent knows that
the doors of his own church would
be shut against them. Writing of
the Northern Methodist General
Conference recently in session in
Omaha, a correspondent laments that
“no w hite homes in the city were
open to welcome the colored dele
gates to hospitality.” They wore ac
tually compelled to find lodging in
fourth-class hotels or in the houses
of their own color! Shameful, wasn’t
it? Compelled to lodge among their
own color!
Even in New York city, under the
very eye, (and nose, too,) of the In
dependent, the colored people must
find church privileges in organiza
tions of their own color. The white
churches would not tolerate their
presence. We really question
whether the phylactried pharisee,
who writes the Independant homi
lies concerning “southern barbarism”
would long sit by side in the
same pew- with one of the odorous
brethren from the black contingent
iof his city! But our eye falls on a
most striking exhibition of “race pre
judice” up north. The B. Y. P. U.
A. the latest alphabetical organiza
j tion among our northern brethren, is
’ about to hold its annual convention
i in Detroit, and the Young People’s
Union has been confronted with the
unkind interrogatory from some sa
ble brethren as to their rights in the
coming conclave of Baptist youth.
See how- dexterously the editor
straddles the fence:
We shall hope to hear soon that
THE CHRISTIAN INDEX: THURSDAY, JULY 14. 1892.
the colored Baptist associations and
state conventions of the country
have associational and state unions
of their young people after the man
ner of the white churches. We have
been asked if delegates representing
the work in the colored churches
would be entitled to seats in the De
troit Convention. The answer is
simple. Our fundamental doctrine
is to urge Baptist young people to
work “through existing denomina
tional organizations.” Hence, we
must urge the colored young people
to stand by their own churches and
form their official relations in such a
way as to honor the existing order
among the Baptist organizations of
the co untry, which favors the prose
cution of the work of the denomina
tion under the two general divisions
of white and colored churches, white
and colored associations, conventions,
etc.
All of which being interpreted
means that doors will be closed when
the Baptists of African descent march
into Detroit. Seriously, is it not
about time that these hypocritical
tirades against the South’s heaping
up the color line, should cease? The
Pharisaic editors who write them
probably laugh in their sleeves at
the supposed gullibility of their rea
ders.
AN INCIDENTAL BENEFIT.
We hope and we blieve that the
observance of “the Centennial Mis
sion Year” will be crowned with the
monetary results which we have pro
posed to ourselves. But if it does
this, it ought to and it will do more.
By the methods of concerted action
which it renders necessary, it may
help us to see and inspire us to rec
tify the defect in denominational
working, which a distinguished Eng
lish Baptist pointed out ■when he
said that, as a people, we “have not
yet learned battalion drill.” It may
open our eyes, and open our hearts,
too, to many varieties of plans which
would enable us to combine our
efforts, and mass our forces, and de
vise and execute general campaigns
more effectually than we have ever
done; and to do this without detri
ment to the independency of the
churches and the proper individual
ism of every believer. It may
make us better workers together
through the years to come. In other
words, it is an important exercise in
the needful “battalion drill.” It
may give us clearer conceptions of
what our strength really is, and of
what greater strength must ripen
from it. It may thus prepare us to
accept more fully the great principle
that Baptists ought to do their own
work, by their own men, and in
their own way, being careful that the
way and the men and the work are
in every deed the Lord’s—His first,
and theirs because they are His. Its
voice in our cars may bo the Caleb
voice: “Let us go up at once and
possess the land, for we are well
able to overcome it.” At any rate,
wo may reasonably seek this inci
dental benefit from the present move
ment, and wrestle in prayer with
God for it.
“Many Shall Come From the
Sun-rising and From the Sun
setting” to recline at food with
Abraham and Isaac and Jacob..
Jesus said it, and so it shall be.
They will fly in flocks, as doves to
their cotes. It will be a great mul
titude that no man can number.
Benton’s statue in St. Louis repre
sent* him standing and pointing to
the west, saying, “there’s the east.”
From Sinim and India, in the east,
and from Europe and America in
the west, millions redeemed from
death shall feast with the blest.
“Ask and It Shall Be Given
to You.”—lt is our nature to give
when we are asked. The constant
appeal of our child wo cannot re
fuse to hear. Even a great judge
must heed the importunate cry of a
poor widow. And God, who made
us susceptible to the entreaties of
others, will Himself hearken to our
cries. Every one that asks receives.
The poorest beggar with an untrue
cry, will grow rich from asking; and
the child of God need not be poor,
if he will only ask.
“Then was Fulfilled.”—lt may
have had its lesser fulfillment else
where, but here it was “filled to the
full.” The prophecies have in Jesus
their entire and complete fulfilling.
The whole line of prophecy was a
testimony or witness for Him. And
beyond Him they cannot go. We
do not now “look for another.”
“Lord, I Will Follow Thee.”—
If it will bring me an honored home,
provide me a good seat in high
places and allow me to walk in gol
den slippers. But if you are to be
homeless, houseless and despised
of men, let me go the other way.
Thus speaks many a life.
ROMISH POLICY.
Last July, Pope Leo XIII rejected
the proposition that Roman Catholic
emigrants to the United States from
different European nationalities
should have bishops of their former
nationality to preside over them.
This year he has decided that
“parochial schools” may be given up
for “public schools,” in cases M’here
children of Romish parentage may
be gathered into a school with teach
ers of whom the ecclesiastical au
thorities approve, and who are em
powered to impart religious instruc
tion to these children only, and only
after the hours of study prescribed
by law. Both these decisions look
in the same direction. They are
meant to enforce the principle,
avowed in a recent letter by one of
the Cardinals speaking for the Vat
ican, that emigrants to this country
holding that faith must coalesce with
our citizens as one people and form
with us one nation. A sound prin
ciple surely. On the one hand, as
the Pope cannot fail to see, the isola
tion of the emigrants would circum
scribe their influence, and make
them less potent factors in social
life, in business affairs, and in relig
ious propagandism. But on the
other, as the Pope may see less
clearly, the breaking down of the
barriers of the old language and the
old customs lays them more open to
the leaven of other views than those
they were born and bred to, and
measurably puts at hazard their
loyalty to the “1 loly See.” Whether
the educational compromise on the
question of parochial or public
schools is one which tax-payers gen
erally, and Protestants in especial,
can properly accept is a different
matter, and, to say the least, admits
of debate ; but we will not enter on
it here. Perhaps the Pope, without
honoring it, is doing more to Ameri
canize Romanism than to Romanize
America. It is not impossible for
an “infallible” mortal to be infallibly
wrong in policy.
ALL OF GRACE.
ft was God who, of His own pleas
ure, appointed the cities of refuge;
Moses had not asked for them, (Ex.
21:12; Numb. 35:6). And when
Canaan had been subdued, it was not
Joshua who bethought himself to
set these cities apart; it was God
Himself renewing His own order
and enforcing it, (Josh, ph : 2). So,
without assuring or believing that
there was any typical relation be
tween the tw’O, we may say that
from first to last, God only made
provision for the one great Refuge
from the avenger of blood—Christ,
the Lamb. As we learn from the
margin of the Revised Version—
Eph. 1: 4-s—may be rendered: “He
chose us in Him”—in Christ—before
the foundation of the world, that we
should bo holy and without blemish
before Him, having in love”—love
going before and drawing all else
after it—“foreordained us unto
adoption as sons through Jesus
Christ unto Him, according to the
good pleasure of His will, to the
praise of the glory of His grace.”
FARMERS.
Bishop Berkeley said that “the
characters of philosopher and of
farmer are not so inconsistent in na
ture as by custom they seem to be.”
He said also that “it is doubtful
w hether one can carry on his studies
with more advantage in the closet
than in the field, where his mind is
seldom idle, while he prunes the
trees, or follows the plough, or looks
after the flock.” Georgia Baptists,
at least, will confess that there is no
slight measure of truth in this view,
when they recall the fact that the
denomination reached its foremost
rank in the State, largely through
the labors of farmer preachers.
These fathers were Christian philos
ophers, if no more; they knew that
Christ, as the author of grace and
the administrator of providence,
stands to all human things (if we
may borrow a homely figure) in the
relation of “an engine stationed on a
mountain top to draw up trains from
below ;” and they knew how to “set
his glories forth” in such way as to
«‘draw reluctant hearts” to him and
to save souls. Thank God, our race
of farmer preachers is not extinct
yet! Will it ever be ? Wo think
not.
“Tell Everything I Say.”—We
sometimes say that, but we would
not have all that we say repeated.
Who alone of men except the Lord
Jesus could say such words. Never
uttered he a word he would be un
willing to have reuttered. “What I
say to you in the darkness speak in
the light. What you have heard in
the ear proclaim on the house-top.
AS TO OUR THEOLOGY.
In the case of any living thing, as
of a tree, there is no true “conserva
tism” in attempting to prevent its
normal growth, and no true “pro
gress” in cutting away its roots with
the dream that it will live the more
securely and grow the more rapidly.
This is an allegory; its interpreta
tion respects the treatment of cer
tain “burning questions” in theology.
It has a lesson, on the one hand, for
certain divines who hold that the
citadel of sacred truth is under
mined if an elaborate human creed
is subjected to revision; and, on the
other, for certain divines who prac
tically ask us to modify and reject
Christ’s judgment as to the Old Tes
tament, and to accept in lieu of it
what are called “the results of mod
ern scholarship,” by what calls itself
“the higher criticism.”
The Northern Presbyterian church
did not have a remarkable growth
the past year. The statistics pre
sented at the Portland meeting show
the number of ministers to be 6,266,
an increase of 43. They report
7,075 churches, an increase of 6; the
number of persons admitted on ex
amination is 56,301, a falling off of
3,249; the whole number of commu
nicants is 816,457, an increase of
9,631. Their missionary contribu
tions show up well. For homo mis
sions they gave $996,934, an increase
of $309; foreign missions show an
increase of $28,217, the total being
$812,622. These financial figures
show that the Northern Presbyte
rians, who are about equal numeri
cally to the Northern Baptists, gave
neany twice as much for missions.
The 161,000 Southern Presbyterians
gave more for foreign missions last
year than the 1,250,000 white Bap
tists of the South!
The country .was made sad last
week at the war between combined
capitol and organized labor at Home
stead, Pa. The management of the
Carnegie Steel works, had scaled the
wages of the workmen and notified
them if they did not accept the scal
ed price, by July Ist, their places
would be supplied with other men.
The Company tried to get Pinker
ton detectives on the premises, and
the workmen resolved to resist
them and the result was a war be
tween them, which resulted in four
workmen being killed and three of
the detectives and several wounded.
'Hie fighting continued much of one
day, and resulted in the detectives
being driven back. This conflict is
only an introduction, we fear, of oth
ers more dreadful to follow’.
. Brethren sending us reports of
meetings and news items, will please
not wait till such matters get stale
before they write. If you do, no no
tice of them will appear in the In
dex. We have just received the report
of an Associational General Meeting
held August 14, 1891. This is news,
nearly a year old. The brother who
wrote it, covered nearly five pages
of foolscap paper. New s a year
old will not find a place in our col
umns. Brethren, the Index must
be fresh and entertaining and in
structive. Please note these feat,
ures.
The Texas Baptist Standard well
remarks that there “are too many
men in the world looking for soft
places. There are no soft places
where a man can accomplish much.
All the fields where there is large
usefulness are hard fields. A man
that has a position that is easy to fill
doesn’t do much at anything.
The man who would serve God and
serve him right must be content to
fill the hard places. Leave the soft
places for the soft men.”
“Sheet’s Clothing.” —lt is
largely true with many that even in
religion, “the tailor makes the man.”
Many Christians judge their teach
ers, not by what they are within, but
by the clothes they wear. If the
clothes look like sheep's clothes, for
them that is enough. If the teach
er's voice be like that of a lamb,
that will suffice for them, though at
heart he lie a dragon. There are
very many now’ who are clothed
aright, but within are ravening
wolves.
“As Serpents.”—The child of
God should not be as a serpent, ex
cept in his wisdom. Wisdom is that
which chooses the best thing to be
done and the best way and means of
doing it. It is no difficult thing for
some Christians to begin the doing
of the worst thing to be done, or to
choose the very worst ways of doing
even a good thing. Great is the
need of wisdom and few ask enough
of Him who gives to all men liberal-
Iv and unbraideth not.
“As Sheep.”—You are not sent
out as wolves to rend and tear, nor
as jackals to unearth and devour the
dead, nor as foxes to take by stealth
the treasures of the farm. You are
sent “as sheep,” without rending
teeth and tearing claws. The sheep
endures, complains not and does no
injury. So you should be. You
are not Goliaths, nor Joabs, nor
Herod*, but should be as Peter,
James and John.
“Do Not Judge,” for the judge
ship is Christ’s. He is the master to
whom we are to stand or falL If
you are censorious, men will be so
toward you. The kind of judgment
you visit upon others will be the
kind that shall be visited upon you.
“As I have done, so has God. requited
me.” Haman was hung on Mor
decai’s gallows.
“As Doves.”—The dove must live
and, therefore, feeds as man does
upon the product of the field. But
it is a harmless bird. No talons or
rending beaks are its. Made for
beauty, for cooing softness, gentle
ness and love, it does no hurt. Be
ye harmless as doves. Work injury
to none, by tongue or pen, by hand or
heel.
Don’t Disfigure Your Face to
let men see how holy you are. Be
yourself and let the hypocrisy go.
Religion, if it be Christianity, is not
a religion of masks. Don’t put on
piety, but put it in the heart and
life, and it will speak out for itself
in the face.
Mrs. Browning wrote, “whoever
fears God fears to sit at ease.” God
says, “woe to them that are at ease
in Zion.” Here we have a good
text and good poetry. There is no
room in this busy age of work for
Christ for idlers in the vineyard.
The commission as given in Math
ew’ says, “He that believeth and is
baptized shall be saved.”—Texas
Baptist Standard.
Not in our Bible.
GENERAL.
Rev. J. F. Purser, D. D., Troy,
Ala., is the way to address him now.
Texas has a new paper called the
Baptist Index, by Anderson and
Price.
Dr. W. R. L. Smith, of Nashville,
has proffered to give ten days ser
vice to state mission work at needed
points.
Rev. S. M. Richardson, at the
campaign meeting in Florence, S. C.,
publicly rebuked Governor Tillman
for his profanity.
Rev. W. J. Millard graduated re
cently at Wake Forest College, has
been called to the pastorate of Rocky
Mount Church, N. C.
Rev. S. C. Clopton, of Richmond,
has accepted the call to Parker Me
morial church, Anniston, Ala., and
will get to work August, Ist.
President Harper, having obtained
the additional million of dollars he
sought to raise a short time since,
now wants a half million more.
Rev. Geo. E. Truett has resigned
the pastorate of his church at Ports
mouth and accepted the pastorate of
College Hill Church, Lynchburg,
Va.
Rev. Gilbert Frederick, D. D.,
writes to friends in Chicago that the
railroad from Joppa is completed to
within 20 miles from Jerusalem, and
that within two months the iron
horse w ill have entered the city.
The management of the A. & M.
College at Auburn, Ala., have de
cided to admit women for instruction
and thus adds another institution to
the list practicing co-education of
the sexes.
Dr. F. R. Boston, has resigned the
pastorate of the Central Baptist
church, at Memphis. The pastors of
the city in conference passed com
plimentary resolutions of him and
regrets at parting with him.
Rev. E. Pendleton Jones, who has
been pastor of Duffy Street Church,
Savannah, has been appointed a mis
sionary to Brazil, by the board. He
is a son of Dr. J. William Jones, as
sistant secretary of the Home
Board.
Rev. W. C. Luther, of Corsicana,
Texas, has been elected correspond
ing secretary of the Sunday School
and Colportage Convention of Tex
as. He' may or may not accept the
place. He and his family are now
visiting relatives in Dalton Geor
gia.
The Central Baptist says: Dr. J
B. Hawthorne will supply the pulpit
of the First Baptist church, Rich
mond, during the absence of the pas
tor. During the seven years that
Dr. Cooper has been pastor of this
•church the contributions have been
$145,000.
Rev. S. E. Jones has accepted the
call to the pastorate of the Third
Church at Knoxville, Tenn. He was
popular and did a good w’ork at
Murfreesboro. He is one of the con
tributors to the Index, and will give
us something soon from Knoxville,
Rev. J. B. Cranfill, editor of the
Texas Baptist Standard, wrns nomi
nated for the Vice-Presidency on
the National Prohibition ticket. But
recently he became the editor of a re
ligious paper and now he is looking
wistfully at the presiding officers
seat in the United States Senate.
The Western Recorder quotes
Rev. H. C. Woods, D. D. as saying
that the seminaries at Newton, Up
land, Rochester, Hamilton and Chi
cago teach that alien immersion
is valid. That list includes all the
Baptist Seminaries in the North.
The Southern Baptist Thelogical
Seminary stands alone in its opposi
tion to alien immersion.
Colgate University has conferred
the D. D. on Rev. James A. Spur
geon, brother of the great Charles.
By-the-way we see one of the nu
merous “Lives of Spurgeon” con
stantly calls him “Dr.” Spurgeon, a
title never conferred on him, because
all colleges felt that he was too great
to be known otherwise than Charles
11. Spurgeon.
Dr. Dargan’s removal to the semi
nary is a great loss to S. C. as
well as his church. Rev B. W. Key
who for zeal, ability and consecration
has taken a prominent place among
the ministers of S. C. becomes pastor
at Society Hill. His place at Willis
ton will be filled by Galphin of
Piedmont. Stringincy in financial
matters has thrown the State Mis
sion Board behind somewhat. It
did the most work and reaped the
best results of its history, last
year.
Rev. W. D. Herring, one of our
missionaries in China has resigned.
The Foreign Mission Journal, gives
as the cause of his resignation that
he came from China and asked to
appear before the Board. The Board
heard him and he submitted a plan
of work, which the Board could not
endorse, and in consequence he re
signed. His plan was that a number
of missionaries were to be enlisted
who should go into the interior of
China, live in Chinese style, as to
houses, clothing, etc., and by con
stant itineration, preach the gospel
far and wide. No chapels or schools
were to be erected and established
and no native helpers of any kind
employed. These missionaries were
to be directly supported by individ
ual churches or groups of churches
entirely dependent of the Board,
which should have nothing to do
with the money—unless to forward
it to the missionary “without cost”—•
and have no control over or direc
tion of the missionaries. To support
the plan suggested, the Board felt it
must assist in the inauguration of a
work, which in its ultimate results
would be to disintegrate the work of
the Southern Baptist Convention,
and open the way for the destruction
of all organized work by our denom
ination, by doing away •with all
boards and remanding all missionary
work to individual churches, dealing
directly with the individual mission
ary.
Dr. A. T. Pierson recently preach
ed his farewell sermon to several
housand people in Spurgeon’s Met
ropolitan Tabernacle. Rev. D. L,
Moody, writes us from London,
June 21st:
Our countryman, Dr. Arthur D.
Pierson, has made a remarkable im
pression on this side of the
more than fulfilling Mr. Spurgeon’s
anticipations. Dr. Pentecost has al
so been more than well received on ■
his return from India by the congre
gation of the late Dr. Donald Fraser
and by the large audiences to whom
he has spoken of his experiences in
India. On the other hand, we in the
United States have been greatly
helped by brethren from Great Brit
ain, the visits of Rev. John McNeill,
Rev. F. B. Meyer, and the Rev.
John Smith of. Edinburgh last year
will be long remembered. I have
pleasure in letting my friends know
that I have prevailed on Mr. Meyer
to pay another visit to Northfield,
lie expects to sail on the last of Ju
ly arriving about August 6th, in
time to take part in the closing days
of the Convention and will continue
until the 24th August to give Daily
Bible readings, after the greater
meetings have closed. I hope this
may induce many to prolong their
stay. Mr. Meyer is becoming well
known to large numbers of readers
in America, through Jiis Expository
and Devotional works which are ob
taining a large circulation there, m /
well as here.