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4 ©he ©hriettan Ind rat Published Every Thursday st 67‘A 8. Broad Street, Atlanta, ba. WHO OUGHT TO PREACH THE GOS PEL. All believers according to their measure of ability should aid in making the Gospel known to the world. From these the Holy Spirit selects men who are to give them selves to the public ministry of the Word. The preaching of the Gos pel is God’s ordinance for the evan gelization of men. What are the qualifications that such should pos sess. First. They should be con verted. No unsaved man knows Christ. He may have heard of Him and may have studied systematic theology so as to be able to give the several doctrines' of the Gospel a clear and distinct statement but his nature must remain in spiritual ig norance of the salvation of Christ unless he repents of sin and believes in the Lord Jesus Christ. He must have an experience of grace if he would preach Christ to a lost soul* No mere catechetical knowledge, no gifts of public, utterance can be a substitute for the love of God shed abroad in Ins heart by the I loly Spir it. This great necessity is funda mental. Second. He should be drawn by the Holy Spirit to the work of the ministry. Every renew ed sou] desires the salvation of men, but every such soul does not regard itself called of God to the ministry of the Word. The love of Christ and the love of men unite in im pressing this duty. Whatever pecu liarities are found in different cases, the Holy Spirit impresses this work with persistent force upon the soul. Some easily yield, others hesitate and struggle in the settlement of this question. Divine guidance Should he earnestly sought. The judgment of thoughtful Christian men should be obtained. No hasty impulse -should dispense with calm, prayerful solicitude. It is the most sacred office which any person can enter and becoming earnestness and interest should mark the conduct of every one seeking to take this work on him. Third. The concurrence of the church should be secured in approval. The Spirit of God, which calls to the ministry is unquestiona bly likely to impress other minds as he has the mind of the individual who is thinking about being a preach er. The church receives these gifts of ministry in answer to prayer and a spiritually minded church is apt to be in sympathy with any one of its members that is so impressed. This judgment of r church is not to be the partial favoritism which has been worked by some persistent, bold faced electioneer for its action in any case. The churches should be guid ed by the Spirit of God in such de cisions. The character of the indi vidual should be known and ap proved. His aptness to teach should be regarded. The mere gift of ready declamation or the natural desire to be a public speaker may mislead men themselves as well as blind the church to other questions of far greater worth and weight than these popular gifts. The official action of the church and presbytery should be the expression of on honest judg ment on the man’s fitness in all es sential respects. Not a notice, for bids the hasty apbointment of some impulsive brother who signalizes his conversion by announcing that he is going to be an evangelist. Such an nouncements are very far from strengthening a sound judgment in his favor. It is the duty of a church to regard the voice of the Scriptures rather than the hasty, self-assured utterances of the unified man. The man who over-rides or disregards the judgment of his brethren is more likely to be wrong than right. Above all tilings the spiritual character of the man should have a controlling influence in forming our judgment. No amount of orthodox zeal can be trusted when the life is not pure and good. Churches should have sense enough not to concur in sending out with its approval any one whose life is not after Christ, no matter how persistently he claims to be sent of God. —————— “And with one accord.’’ Here was a model prayer meeting. The little company of believers with one accord appealed to heaven to di fend the truth and an answer came that shook the place in which they had assembled. Great blessing great grace, great peace and great power vyas the result. Let us in the weekly prayer meeting in the sanct uary w ith one accord appeal to the Giver of every good and perfect gift. Let the family with one accord unite heir petitions and surely receive great blessing. THE GUNS TURNED. Our Brother Meeks of the Central Methodist is always ready with an answer. We clip the following from his last issue: The Baptist Banner, Huntington, West Virginia, publishes a selection of texts in which the word baptize is substituted by sprinkle, and thinks it looks very ridiculous. We take a majority of the quotations, just as given, and substitute the word im merse, and commend it to the pray erful consideration of the Banner. AV ere the Israelites immersed unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea? Hardly. Were the people immersed with the Holy Ghost on the day of Pentecost? The Bible says the Ho ly Ghost was poured upon them, and also says that pouring was baptism. To make pouring shedding forth an immersion is a contradiction which requires more than the ingenuity of the Banner to reconcile. Now let the reader look at the following, and the inconsistency of the exclusive immersion theory will be seen at a glance: Mark i : 4,5, B.—John came, who immersed in the wilderness, • and preached the immersion of repent ance unto the remission of sins. * * * I immerse you with water; but He shall immerse you with the Holy Ghost. Luke xii: 50, —But I have an im mersion tt> be immersed with ; and how am I straightened till it be ac complished! Luke xx: 4.- The immersion of John, was it from heaven or from men? •Acts i: s.—For John, indeed, im mersed with water; but ye shall be immersed with the Holy Ghost not many days hence. Acts xi: 16.—And I remembered the word of the Lord, how that He said, John indeed immersed with wa ter, but ye shall be immersed with the Holy Ghost. Acts xix: 3-6.—And he said, into what then were ye immersed? And they said: Into John’s immersion. And Paul said: John immersed with the immersion of repentance, saying unto the people that they should believe on Him which should come after him, that is, on Jesus. And when they hoard this they were immersed into the name of the Lord Jesus. Romans vi: 3.—Or are ye ignorant that all we who were immersed into Jesus Christ were immersed into His death? I. Corinthians x: 2.—And were all immersed unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea. 1. Corinthians xv: 20.—Else what shall they do which are immersed for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why then are they im mersed for them? John xv: 14.—Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you. -Wesleyan’ Christian Advo : , ‘ u : ’ r The foregoing article is copied from the Wesleyan Christian Advo cate, of July 27th, 1892. It is taken for granted that, as the editor of the Wesleyan transfer red this article to his editorial col umn, he indorses what Bro. Meeks of the Central Methodist did. 1. We observe that in adopting the idea of the editor of the Baptist Banner, both Bro. Meeks and Bro. Glenn did a good thing for their readers. For once, they gave thepi a translation of the Greek word bap tizo instead of transferring that word, merely transformed, as was done by the translators of the com mon version. In that version the final letter o is substituted by the letter e, which is of no force, inas much as it is silent. It would have done jnst as well to have left oft’ the o, and to have merely trans ferred the word baptiz, without the e. But the editor of the Central Methodist, and of the Wesleyan Ad-' vocate have given their readers a translation in the texts quoted above. They have properly used the verbs inimprse and immersed, and the noun immersion, instead of the Greek verbs J baptize ami baptized, and the Greek noun baptism. It is true that the words immerse and immersion are Latin words, but they are translations and not mere transformations, and give the true meaning of the corres ponding Greek words. We are glad that the readers of the Central Meth odist and of the Wesleyan Advocate have been furnished with a transla tion of these words and that they have been permitted to see, in their own denominational papers, just what the ordinance is. The word rantizo(sprinkle)is never used in connection with the ordi nance of immersion. I Nor is the Greek word which means to pour over used in connec tion with it. Wherever the Greek word bapto or any of its derivatives is "found, it always conveys the idea of immersion. That word, and that word alone, conveys the true meaning and shows the specific act. 2. It seems a pity that Bro. Meeks and Bro. Glenn should have come so , near giving the whole truth about . the matter and then to miss it. I The flaw, however, is not so very THE CHRISTIAN INDEX: THURSDAY, AUGUST 11. 1892. material after all, since they have given their readers the essential idea by the word immerse. The flaw referred to is in the double meaning given to the Greek preposition “en.” In some places it is translated “in” and in other places “with.” For example, Mark 1: 4, it is said, “John came, who im mersed in (en) the wilderness,” while in 1: 8 it is said “I immerse you with (en) water; but he shall immerse you with(en) the Holy Ghost. Why not use “with,” in connection wtih “the wilderness,” as well “with water.” and “with the Holy Spirit.” How would it do to say “John came baptizing ‘with’ the wilder ness?” That is just as true, just as correct a translation as “with water,” or “with the Holy Spirit.” But as remarked it is not very material, since you can not immerse a person with any kind of material unless you cover him up in it. A m;m buried “with” earth, im mersed with earth, must be covered up “in” it. So if water is used. He can not be immersed with it without being covered up in it. 3. Now a word or two about some questions asked by the ( t'llll'.'ll Met hodist. “Were the Israelites immH< I u.e to Moses in the cloud sea?” Bro. Meeks says, “Hardly say they were, simply because Paul says they were. Paul was an inspir ed writer. He could not have stated what was not true. He says they were all immersed into or unto, Moses in the cloud and in the sea. If Bro Meeks and Bro. Glenn think it hard, they must settle it with Paul. Properly interpreted, there is nothing hard about it. “Were the people immersed with the Holy Ghost on the day of Pen tecost?” Certainly they were. They were not only immersed with it, but they were immersed “in” it. It filled “all the house.” Hence those who were in the house must have been completely immersed in it. Be sides it was the fulfillment of a promise made by Jesus himself who said: “Ye shall be baptized (im mersed) in (en) the Holy Spirit not many days hence.” What Jesus and his inspired apostle said,must be true. 4. Verily the guns are turned. Bro. Meeks turned them on his read ers and Bro. Glenn has turned them on his. It is a powerful bat tery consisting of ten pieces.' Each* piece is a hundred pounder. They are not loaded with blank cartridges but with solid shot. The ammu nition is taken direct from the New Testament arsenal. The tenth gun drives home a center shot. “Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I •command you.” Suppose you do not, what then? Roll out the guns, load and fire again, brethren. IN THE LONG AGO. Before us lies a copy of the Chtis tian Index, dated Macon, Ga., Oct. 15,1863. How those figures do crowd the mind with sad memories! Then over our now peaceful land waved in gory glee the blood red flag of Mars! Oh, so long ago! Yet not so long to those of us who lived and made those days of blood and fire. Though a generation has come and nearly gone since the day that the Macon press rolled the sheet from its cylinder, to many it seems but a brief period in the unreturning past. Look at the date again. But three short months bad passed since on fierce field the Confod eracys hope went down! For those awful July days of blood really seal ed the fate of our beloved South. Only a month later Bragg was driven from Lookout Mountain and Mission Ridge. Henceforth the final collapse was only a question of time. Let us look at this old sheet print on dingy Confederate paper. Sam uel Boykin was editor and the sub scription price was“ss.oo in advance.’’, A good motto was floated : “The Pastors Aid, the Christians Guide and the Sinners Friend.” Our sheet is torn and half is gone. “Letters from my Study No. 8” is the title of the leading first page article, which as an interesting discussion of Buckle’s volume on religion. “Fair Play” follows with an appeal to the churches to “double their pastors’ salaries for 1864” in view of the rapid depreciation of the currency. The leading editorial is in the same line. “Appalling Announcement!” is its emphasized heading, and with all the, force of italics the churches are gravely assured that “on the first day of January next, many, probably half, and perhaps three-fourths of the Baptist pulpit’ of Georgia will become vacant, and I the houses of worship closed. Thus | will the light of the gospel, to a great extent, suffer a grievous • eclipse, moral ruin shed its dismal and pes tilential darkness over the state, and Satan be enabled to howl with de moniac joy!” Boykin was stirred, sure enough, wasn’t he? That would have been a “strike” unique indeed— a preacher’s strike for higher salar ies! We opine that it didn’t turn out as bad as the good editor fear ed. The first page is also enriched by a fine article on “The Golden Calf” from the pen of that dear saint w’ho so recently went to heaven-—Basil Manly, Jr. Listen to these burning words: “The covetous man can bring his idols with him always and everywhere, or rather they -have gained such'a control over him, and he is so fully ‘joined to his idols’ that he cannnot leave them behind. And while the eye of man sees nothing bus a decent and apparently atten tive worshipper, God sees in his heart he is really revolving some scheme for the acquisition of proper ty, some plan of gainful investnidht, some profitable arrangement of his affairs. You start as if I had been reading your thoughts! Idolater! Idolater in the temple of God! You cannot wonder at the Israelites, who made the calf in lloreb.” Here is an account of the Hephzi bah Association, which had recently held its annual meeting. The reader is told that Rev. W ,L. Kilpatrick de livered the introductory sermon in his usual clear, quiet and instructive style. The sermon was a good one and was well-received.” Os course it was, and our now “Dr.” W. L. has not forgotten .how to preach just such. The beloved E. W. Warren was there and preached the mission ary sermon on Sunday morning, which is described as a splendid ser mon from James 2: 14. Editorially a brother “A. C. D.” is hauled over the coals—rather the Rehoboth association is thus treated because that body is praised as “the model association of Georgia” in its plans for doing missionary work,— “independent of conventions and boards not under its control.” “A. C. D.” would have been delighted could he have lived to know our modern malcontents, Crawford, Bos tick, Herring, and others, who have begun a new crusade against con ventions and boards. Rehoboth as sociation now keeps step with her sisters in our general work. Under the head of “News from the churches’ipf’ v *' t ’f a column of re* vival intelligence. L. Price tells of “one of the most refreshing revivals” in “old Philadelphia church, Tatnall county.” W. M. Pope writes of how “the good Lord has again visited and much blessed old Rehoboth church, Randolph county.” He says: “I baptized 18 lovely, willing souls, amongst them three lovely young men, who must soon leave for the field of blood.” “Oh God help us,” he exclaims, “and hasten the time when this awful tide of blood shall cease and men learn war no more.” George R. Moore has a good word from Union church, Meriwether county reporting seven baptized. There are interesting letters from the soldier boys in camp at Dahlo nega and James Island, S. Q. One of these speaks in highly compime n tary terms of Col. Lee, whom »we take to be Gen. Stephen D. Lee, now the honored president of the Missis sippi A. it M. college, and father of Atlanta’s promising young attorney, Blewitt IL Lee. The 28th Georgia thanks Bro. Boykin for sending hundreds of copies of the Index soy free distrib ution in the regiment and Bro. Boy kin gratefully records the liberal ac tion of the Virginia Sunday-school and Publication Board in “appropri ating SI,OOO for sending the Index to the soldiers.” It is added that “this board has done more for the army than any other organization in the South.” And Bro. Boykin has not yet forgotten to say good things about Sunday-school boards! They have always have been very kind to him. “Brief Mention” is made of liberal contributions to the treasury of that Virginia board. “Sime the first of June 139,000” —but, alas, let vis not forget, it was in “money” of which it took. 120.00 to buy (1.00 in gold. The Presbyterians are commended for having issued an “army hymn book.” The fingers which holds this pen set up the type from which was printed the first hymn-book for our soldiers—“ Hymns for the Camp.” Rev. Dr. Shaver, then editing the Religious Herald, selected the hymns. The First Baptist church, of Rich mond, Ya., is reported as “testifying its grateful of the ser vices of Rev. J. B. Jeter, D. D., dur- ing a pastorate which closed twelve years ago or more, by presenting him with $2,000.” That old mother church of the Richmond Jordanic saints still delights to honor its for mer pastors, as Dr. Burrows, Haw thorne and Warren can testify. “Brief mention”also tells what a Presr byterian lady thought concerning our slaves. Said she: “Our slaves are so much likes children, it seems to me their moral training, like the early education of our children, must de volve, for the most part, on the wo men of our land.” Ah! the negroes born in those days can never know how their fathers and mothers were taught by those women! But we here tenderly fold up this relic of a time gone by. NEED AND SUPPLY : THEIR LES SON. • Through all the works of God there runs this principle : Whatever proves the existence of a need, there in prophecies and promises the ex istence of a supply for it. We know the supply—always know that it is, and know mostly what it is, simply by knowing the need that calls for it. Take a supposition to make the meaning of this statement clear. A child yet unborn is transported by divine omnipotence to a remote quarter of the universe and subject ed to the inspection of intelligent be ings. These beings see the need of the existence of air for the function of the lungs in breathing, and of light for the function of the eye in vision, and of food for the function of the iftomach in nourishment and growth. So far there is to them no room for doubt. But their knowl edge, by virtue of its, reaching to this point, roaches and must reach further still. They know, too, and know with a certrinty as absolute as the certainty with which they know the need, —that in the far-away world destined to be inhabited by that child the air is, and the light is, and the food is. Not even a visit to our globe could deepen their assurance of the existence of these supplies for the child’s needs here. They stand at once securely and immova bly, on the principle: the need is, the supply must be. This principle applies not to the sphere of the outward man only, but to the sphere of the inner man as well. Here also we find need calling for supply, and supply answering to need. We fold here whatever is needed for the consciousness of our own personality, whatever .for the recognition of a world external to ourselves and, like ourselves, a real ity ; w'hatever for judgment of this world as a “cosmos” not a “chaos,’’ as a mighty ordered system, with in finite interweavings of cause and ef fect, of means and end, of purpose and fulfilment; whatever for the intuitions and processes of reason which link this system with “the King of the Ages, immortal, invisi ble, the only God,” at whose call the system sprang into being, whose sov eignty it serves, and to whose “eter nal power and god-head” it bears witness ; whatever for the office of conscience in setting forth, under the shadowings and shinings of this King’s throne, the supreme and in escapable distinction between right and wrong, between good and evil, and, with its'“categorical imperative,” enforcing the sense of moral respon sibility to Him; whatever for tue function of sensibility, not merely in kindling the desires that take and the affections that give, but in in spiring aspiration toward “the true, the good, the beautiful,” as moulding us to the image and lifting us into the fellowship of the divine ; what ever for the freedom and masterv of the will in making life a unity, not as “a struggle for existence” on the plane of natural, physical life like the beasts that perish, but as a heri tage of blessedness on the plane of that spiritual, eternal life, which alone, to us as to the unsinning and undying angels, is “life indeed.” Everywhere, then, need finds sup ply ; everywhere need proves sup ply. We wish to state briefly two inferences from this universal prin ciple in the constitution of the uni verse and in the administration of its affairs. 1. Before Herbert Spencer could prove that there has been no divine revelation to mankind, he must first prove that there is and can be no Herbert Spencer. The existence of such a man as he proves irresistibly the need of divine revelation, if the affairs of the universe are to be ad ministered on principles of benevo lence. His acquaintance with the whole circle of modern knowledge and speculative thought, bis marvel lous powers of Subtle analysis which seem to overlook no fact, and his no less marvelous powers of generaliza tion which seem to overlook no rela tion between facts, have earned for him among a growing school of thinkers the title of “the foremost philosopher of the nineteenth centu ry, if not of the English race.” And yet this- man, with this mental fur nishing, having rejected the Chris tian Scriptures, knows nothing of God, except as “a Force that per sists,” a Force which as regards its nature and its characteristics is at once “the Unknown” and “the Un knowable.” Now, we are so consti tuted that God stands to us as “our being’s aim and end that our high er capabilities can have no adequate fruition unless we “call upon Him (not as Force but) as Father” and know that he answers us; that ex istence is a woe and a curse to us and blessedness an unattainable and mocking dream, until consciously “in Ilim we live and move and have our being.” Can it be, then, that we have been doomed to virtual or phanage and absolute and hopeless isolation from our Maker? No, no: for “God is love.” No, no : Her bert Spencer sLinds as demonstra tive proof that the need of revelation is ; and knowing that, we know, in Herbert Spencer’s despite, that the revelation which supplies the need must be. 2. Before R. G. Ingersoll could prove that there is no future world of punishment for the incorrigibly wicked, he must first prove taht there is and can be no R. G. Ingersoll* The existence of a man such as he irresistibly proves the need of that world, if the affairs of the universe are to be administered on principles of righteousness. Like Timothy reared in a godly household and fa miliar with the Scriptures, from a child, unlike Timothy he became a virulent enemy of the faith. A man of culture and of talent if not of genius, gifted with eloquence of lip and pen, he unblushingly blasphemes the Jehovah of the Old Testament and the Jesus of the New, these two who are one. Not the Satan of Mil ton could be more haughty and de fiant, not the Mephistopheles of Goethe more bitter and sneering. No reverential spirit of worship, no awed sense of sanctity is spared from “fleer and gibe and laugh and flout.” No tender, sensitive love Which feels a word against the sinless Savior of sinners as though it were a blow dealt straight at its’ own heart, es capes the remorseless cruelty of scorn and derision. No doubt can so darken the intellect and so drink up the spirits, and no disbelief can so sear the conscience against the sense of purity and right and so enslave the life to the impulses of passion and the sorceries of crime, but he adorns it with graces of style and seductive sophistries of sentiment, and sends it forth to do its deadly work in deadliest fashion. Can man thus wage war against God and Christ, against truth and holiness, and shut out souls from peace on earth and from the glories of heaven, yet render no account and endure no retribution sos it ? I las God set sin free from responsibility and restraint, to waste at will the world of mind, to rob the souls He has made, of Him, to rob Him of love and service from these souls— : which is robbing Him of the souls themselves, and shall no holy indignation smite it, to avenge the wrongs of Creator and creature alike ? Shall Infinite Sov eignjy “stand silent by” and put up no barrier, lest the stream of evil swell into a deluge and drown out all the glories of the universe in drowningall its purity out? No, no : for the righteous Lord loveth righteousness.” No, no: R. G. In gersoll stands as proof demonstra tive that the need of a future world of punishment is, and in R. G. Inger soll's despite, we know, in knowing that, that the world which supplies the need must be. We are told that Coleridge once conceived the idea of a book, “Chris tianity Defended from its Defen ders,” which should separate the pure gold of its truth from the alloy of human errors with which they bad debased it. So, too, had anything like the masterly intellect of Coler idge, been granted us, we, on the line of thought in this article, could have written a book, Christianity protect ed from Rejection by its Rejecters and established by its Assailants , against all Assault! ON THE MOUNTAIN. I met a brother to-day who had just returned from Monteagle. As soon as we had clasped hands he be gan to tell me of his delightful visit to that summer resort The pure mountain air and the cool, refresh ing water, together with his social and religious surroundings sent him home, rejoicing in renewed vigor and increased energy. He seemed to have enjoyed, most of all, the company of the refined and culti -1 vated people whom he met there, and particularly emphasized the pious Christian influence which seemed to go out from the visitors at that place. I said to him, “you have come back, my brother to your work, down upon a lower plane than that which you left, where you are brought into daily contact with the uncultured and unrefined, as well as among those who know nothing of Christ as a personal Savior, and are therefore exposed to the currupting, destroying consequences of sin. Up on the mountain top, amongst the refined and pious was a high privi lege. Amongst the pure and good there come to us influences strength ening to mind and exalting to spirit. Upon the lower level, amongst the rude and unsaved, is a plane upon which we find our duty and our work as Christians. It is those who who are down that must be lifted up; those who are lost that need to to be saved; those who are sinners that need to be brought to repent ance, If we are saved ourselves we are commissioned as missionaries to to the unsaved. We are to be to the world around us as salt, and light, Moses could not stay upon tho mountain top always. He was need ed at its base. As soon as he re ceived tire law, it was his business to make it known to the Israelites. He must go down and encounter the dangers and the hardships of the wilderness. As the spokesman of God, he must lead that perverse and rebellious people to the borders of the promised Land. It was not to him a season of personal pleasure, of social enjoyment, or of spiritual ele vation alone. But he must come down amongst the common people, guide, instruct and warn, and point out the way to them. It was exalt ed privilege on the mountain top, but the burden of duty at its base. Peter, James and John enjoyed the exalted privilege of witnessing the transfiguration of Jesus upon a high mountain. They looked upon the brightness of His face and upon the beauty of His raiment. They saw Moses and Elias and heard them talking with Ilim. They were cov ered by tho bright cloud that over shadowed them, and heard the voice from the most excellent glory, de claring Jesus to be the Son of God, So overwhelmed were they by this surpassing vision that Peter desired to build there three tabanacles and abide.. Scarcely had they heard and seen, when the vision was gone, and they saw none save Jesus only and themselves. He charged them as they came down from the mountain, that they were to tell no one the vis ion, until He had risen from tha dead. So transporting was the scene» so delightful their communion with the pure and holy upon the mountain top, that had not Jesus bid them keep silence, they could have talked of nothing else, and thus been unfitted for their duties in the plane below. These disciples were called to la bor and sympathy and self-sacrifice amongst their brethren. Exalted privileges but inspire and prepare ua for the real work set before us. Paul, though caught up into the third Heavens and his spiritual eyes opened and permitted to look upon things in glory, was not permitted to stay there, but was brought back lo earth and silence enjoined upon hin. He was brought down from the very mountain of heavenly glory to the low’ level of earth. With a thornin his side to puncture his pride, he was to bear the gospel, not only to his ow-n people, but to “the heathen," in distant lands, to suffer for the good of others, and then die a martyr to the cause of Christ. ’ The good fight ended, there was “a crown of righteousness laid up for him. So, let us each one not forget, that that while there are times of special privilege, when upon the wings of faith and hope we may be lifted above the clouds and darkness of earth, that we are not to remain in this exalted position. It is there that we may gather fresh inspiration and have our energy renewed for the per formance of the duties which de volve upon us as followers of Christ. He sought not his own ease, or com fort or pleasure, save as it came from the ease and comfort ’and pleasure which He conferred upon others. Amongst the lowly, the destitute, the suffering, the dying and the sin cursed of earth He found His work and his chief joy. It was of the travail of His soul that He was satis fied. It was out of the valley of the lowest humility that He ascended to the loftiest mountain of His glory, So should it be with each one of us, fellow-ehristians. A soul saved should be a soul saving. WANTED I A situation to tench in school or private fam ily by a Virginia lady of i xp< rienco who is t distinifiiishod full grad note in Latin, French, English and Matln'inutlcs. Refers to promi nent teachers mid Baptist ministers. Best tes timonials. Music taught if desired. Address Miss Makia M. Moxcvnz. Ila tn* un Bowling Green, Va.