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The subjoined extract furnish
es a glimpse at the work of our
missionaries in Japan, as they are
winning souls to Jesus and at the
same time teaching those they
have won to exercise a Christ
like love and sympathy for oth
ers. Heathenism would never
teach Japanese children to make
personal sacrifices for sufferers
in Armenia. Tnis is the Christ
spirit, and in the extract we catch
a glimpse too of what converts in
heathen lands must undergo to
follow Christ. There are to be
found many cases in which men,
women and even children give
Christ the first place, forsaking
mother and father, brothers and
sisters and home for his sake and
the Gospel’s.
The letter is taken from a little
paper published by the Baptist
missionaries in Japan, called
Gleanings." If any of our read
ers would like to receive this lit
tie monthly they can do so by
sending fifteen cents to Mr. E. P
Coleman, Trtmont Temple, Bos
ton, Mass.
Last Sunday three of our Kiris were
led down into the baptismal waters by
our newly ordaimd pastor, Fnjinuma
San I think I never saw a more beau
tiful ordinance, and it was surely an oc
casion for special gratitude and prai-e
to God.
The Armenian persecution appeals
deeply to the hearts of our girls In
their zeal to give something for the re
lief of the suffering Armenians,they sold
all their pieces of silk mosaic work (their
own work).
One little tight-year old tot came in
one night with a beaming face, bring
ing five rin (one half cent, as her contri
bution toward the Armenian fund. She
had received this from the sale of scraps
of waste paper which she had picked up
during the day.
One of our workers has had a rare op
portunity of witnessing for Christ
among her own people who are Budd
hists and bitterly opposed to Christian
ity.
She has been a Christian for three
years, and last April was baptized, but
fearing her parent's displeasure they
were not informed of the step she had
taken.
Sne was engaged as a hospital nurse
at that time, and she longed to tell tho. e
who came to be healed, of the Great
Healer, but felt that before she could
teach otheis she must herself be taught
in the Word; and so. so<n after her bap
tism she came here for Bible study.
Her parents, not supposing this to be
a Christian school, were very angry
when they learned this fact and wrote to
her that unless she returned to them at
once she would forfeit all claim upon
their parental relation to her. The only
question with her seemed to be whether
it was her duty to obey her parents or to
persevere in her Bible studies.
She carried the letter to two of our
helpers and together they spread the
letter befoie the Lord, praying earnest
ly for guidance. After a little, her duty
was made psrff ctly pl tin to her, and she
wre te to her parents that, while she we nt
ed to obey tnem, she felt that she must
“obey God rather than man."
Last month, in compliance with her
m rent’s urgent request she went home
t »isit a sick grandparent. As soon as
s re reached home, her parents, finding
that her purpose remained unshalen,
(onfinedher to an upper room, and al
’owed her to see no one but their Budd
hist friends, hoping thus to persuade her
to abandon her faith in Jesus Christ.
But to every visitor she boldly and zeal
ously gave her experimental knowledge
of salvation—even to the Buddhist
priest, who visited her three times dur
ing her week’s detention. Her fidelity
to Christ amid such opposition evidently
gave power to the testimony of her lips,
for she was finally released and has re
turned to her study with us. Surely the
Word of God is not bound. -Daisy D
Barlow.
Last week we took occasion to
suggest that there was sin in the
lavish adorning of church houses,
while the mission cause is Jan
guishing for want of money. We
compared some churches to Di
ves, rolling in wealth and splen
dor, while suffering Laziruseslay
at their doors starving. Thesame
thought is finding lodgment in
other minds, as witness thisfrom
the Missionary Herald:
The rector of an Episcopal church in
the United States has had his heart stir
red by witnessing the amount expended
in the ornamenta‘ion of church edifices,
while gifts for the proclamation of the
Gospel are diminishing, and he wri es
to the editor of the Quarterly Message an
irdignant protest against such lavish ex
penditure: "While the living st mes,
missionaries after Christ's own -xample,
already half starved, are being cut
down, shut out. despised, and rejected
of their own brethren, Pharisees and
Sadducees, Greeks and Herodians throng
the temple, saying: ’Behold these great
stones! What manner of warble and
oak and gold paint are here! See our
jeweled cross and fine glass:’ and Laza
rus, full of sores of doubt, care, sorrow,
at d shame, lies at the door, and the mis
s’on work for his salvation is in a bank
tupt condition.” The e are strong
words but there aie churches in all de
i ommations in which they might well
be repeated, and with all emphasis.
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Western China.
ISABELLA BIRD BISHOP.
The first thing that impressed
me exceedingly was the beauty of
the countiy. The forests and
glorious vegetation, the magnifi
cent fertile valleys, and the sze
and handsome appearance of the
farm-houses —all struck me great
ly. I could hardly have believ
ed such things existed in China.
Then again the abundance of the
coal, w’hich crops out of the road,
is marvelous; the people have
only to dig it out and use it for
fuel. I traveled in that region
for some time, visiting various
objects of interest, and eventual
ly reached Kuanhsien. Kuanh
sien is in the northwest corner of
the plain of Chengtu, which I
found a most marvelous instance
of fertility and wealth of popula
tion —I have seen nothing like it
anywhere. I have traveled for
eleven days over the plain, and
there is not a place where you do
not hear the sound of rushing
water, so completely is it irri
gated. Kuanhsien is the center
of a great deal of trade with
Northern Tibet, chiefly in drugs.
It is also very interesting as be
ing the place where—nobody
knows how many hundreds of
thousands of years ago—a man
who has to his memory the grand
est temple in China, divided the
waters of the Min, and sent them
to fertiliza the plain of Chengtu,
and made such a wonderful sys
tem of irrigation works that there
can be neither floods nor drought.
Kuanhsien is situated just at
the base of the hills where the
mountainous region begins.
Thence 1 went up the Min river,
which the Chinese.consider the
actual Yangtze, as far as Wei
chau and turning iff the Lifant
ing river went to L’fanting,
where the authorities did every
thing they could to prevent me
going farther—everything short
of actual violence. But I went
one day’s journey farther in Chi
na proper,to the farthest Chinese
frontier post, Tsahkuhlao, where
Chinese officialdom ends. From
that time, for some weeks, I was
in the country of the Mantza.
They are quasi-independent
tribes, who pay tribute to China
through their rulers. They are
actually’ ruled by a chief, Tsusu,
who is appointed by the emperor
for life, and who is generally
succeeded by his son. In the
case of the Soma territory, where
I was, the Tsusu rules a territo
ry containing about 20 000 peo
pie, but I could get no reliable
figures as to the number of the
whole race. These tribes are
perfect Caucasians in their ap
pearance, both men and women
being very handsome. They
live in stone houses, two, three
four, and even five stories high,
many of them resembling feudal
castles. One marked feature is
that in nearly every village
there are one or more lofiy
square towers, from 50 to 90 feet
high, built of stone, the use of
which the present inhabitants
have no records of. Their social
customs are altogether different
from those of the Chinese. They
are extremely rigid Buddhists,
and the signs of religion are ev
ery where. They have many in
teresting peculiarities. One son
in every family becomes a lama;
they either burn their dead, com
mit them to the river, or expose
them on the mountains, at the
decision of the lamas. Their
marriages are, as in England,
love matches, not made by the
parents. They raise .barely
enough of grain and other foou
consurpotjipn .1
kind, friendly' and
hospitable, and at nigh’s slept
on the roof of their houses. The
men do not wear the queue,
whilst the women fasten s rings
ofcoral beads in their hair, which
they wear in coils around the
head. Thecountry,after leaving
the Mir,river is most magnificent,
a combination of Swiizarland and
Cashmere, and at that season of
the year, though there is not
eternal snow, the innumerable
snow peaks give itadded beauty.
Theforestsof magnificent timber
are very extensive. The fl iwers
and ferns have the redundancy
of the tropics I went up to the
source of the Lifanting river, a
branch of the Min, on the Tsuku
shan mountain, crossed the pass,
which appears to be ab >ut 13 700
feet high, and descended upon
the Rongkai river, an affluent of
the great Gold river. Tne castle
of the Tsusu of the Soma tribe is
on a spur rock extending nearly
across the valley, and, being a
sttne structure of several stories
in height and in excellent repair,
has a singularly grand aspect. —
The North China Herald.
At Your Own Door.—Sophia
had been praying for twelve
years to become a foreign mis
sionary. One day she had s i
prayed, and the heavenly Father
seemed to say:
•‘Sophia, stop; where were you
born?”
“In Germany, Father.”
“Where are you now?”
“In America, Father.”
“Welfare you not a foreign
missionary already?”
Then the Father said:' “Who
lives on the floor above vou?”
“A family of Swedes.”
“And who above them?’.
“Why, some Switzers.”
“Who in the rear?”
“Italians.”
“And a block away?”
“Some Chinese.”
“Ard you have never said a
word to these people about my
Son I Do you think I will send
you thousands of miles to the
foreigners and heathen when you
never care enough about those
at your own door to speak with
them about their souls?”
“God delivereth the afflicted”
from his affliction, we say almost
involuntarily, seizing the truth
that lies more in the surface; but
the sacred writer means to con
vey a far deeper truth, less open
to the carnal understanding or to
the heart whose faith is shaken,
and so he says, “God delivereth
the afflicted by his affliction.”
(Job 36:15, R. V.) We grow in
grace through grief; we gather
strength from the suffering.
THE CHRISTIAN INDEX: THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 17.1896.
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A Practical Topic.
Not long since, when preaching
at a church in this city, w r e were
asked to announce for the ensu
ing young people’s meeting,
a discussion of the subject,
“Close Communion.” As we
happen to know, this was not in
the regular list of subjects, but
was specially arranged for. We
like the idea very much indeed.
Our young people need to under
stand such matters. One hour’s
discussion among themselves,
with some wise brethren present,
will be worth many sermons or
books. To have to put into
words their conceptions, will
serve to clarify these, and enable
them to make clear distinctions.
Especially do we approve of this
particular subject being thus dis
cussed. No part of Baptist dis
tinctive beliefs needs plainer pre
sentation to our people than this.
It is less understood and yet more
easily understood, than almost
any other of our peculiar doc
trines. Let our young people
take up this and other doctrines
in open meeting, and become fa
miliar with them.
v.*
Baptist.
It is to be greatly desired that
our Georgia Unions will all em
phas'ze well that word Baptist,in
name, constitution and general
work for at times, especially in
towns, there is great temptation
to speak it low and keep it out
of our meetings. There are
many desirable persons of other
denominations who like to come
to our meetings, and they are
our friends in other affairs, and
we desire to have them with us.
Or,we can get so much more of a
crowd by being less emphatic.
But in the erd it will be disaster.
People worth having will help us
just as well under our true name,
and it will keep us from getting
i ito wrangles that are very un
seemly. We have yet to see a
real live Union hurt by calling
out its right name. For ourselves,
if we did not like the straight out
name and a membership based on
it, we would take the Christian
E ideavor name and use its con
stitution. It is better to be what
we are, fairly and outspokenly,
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The Tennessee Young People.
We are sure all who are inter
ested in young people’s work are
interested in our sister State,
Tennessee. We regretted the
impossibility of accepting an in
vitation to be present. The meet
ing seems to have a remark
ably good one and its program
effective in every way. Rev.
John D. Jordan made his first
appearance as a Secretary and
seems to have won many friends.
The headquarters were establish
ed at Chattanooga and the work
will be vigorously pushed At
present there are but a few or
ganizitions. The most hearty
support of the Southern Union
was pledged and its literature ap
proved. We look for great things
in Tennessee. The Chattanooga
young people are aggressive and
bid fair to bring in a new era in
that great city.
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The Baptist Union Topic—Sept 20
Church Attendance Heb. 10:25.
This verse indicates that very
early people began to neglect
public worship. It was the
manner or habit of some, even
when this epistle was written.
Ever since it has been the man
ner of some to do the same
thing. Let us first see some of
the reasons for church attend
ance and then some of the temp
tations to neglect it.
We need habitual church at
tendance for our own sake. The
oretically it is possible to live a
consistent Christian life without
worship; practically it is not, if
the opportunity is at hand to do
so. Even when the spirit is wil
ling but the opportunity lacking,
there will be some loss. Tne
habit of attendance is a restraint;
it brings us where we get unex
pected help, and it keeps relig
ion uppermost in our minds.
Worship neglected means other
things neglected also.
We need to attend church with
regularity for the sake of others.
Those not Christians make much
of the short comiogs of Chris
tians. From the doctrines pre
sented to them they frame a line
of conduct which they think the
acceptance of such a doctrine
would involve. By this they
judge professing Christians.
The neglect of church attend
ance does not impress the out
sider as right. He doubts wheth
er it is at all to be valued when
he sees others despise it.
Again regular church attend
ance is necessary for the church.
You may have a live Sunday
school or anything else, but
nothing short of a well attended
church worship will count. Neg
lect that and all the rest go.
Where that is found all the oth
ers are possible. It is a pastor’s
delight. It is the fulfillment of
the Gospel plan, that preaching
comes first. We cannot afford,
for any other duties, to neglect
church attendance.
' one of the reasons that leads
us to neglect is being busy. The
cares of life play a great part in
our neglects. It is easy to get so
honestly busy about the house
as to be prevented from
going to church. Nothing but a
downright, earnest purpose,
backed by determination, will
get us over this difficulty. We
just have to do it.
Another reason for neglect is
worldliness. We get tangled up
with parties and engagements.
Callers come in and we encour
age them to come. This is a
great difficulty with young peo
pie. It just must be overcome.
We must set ourselves against
any engagements that interfere
with our church attendance. We
must put that first.
Again a laziness of mind will
interfere. It takes thought to
enjoy worship, and indolence is
bound to get tired of it. In the
same way, lack of spirituality or
coldness will do the same. When
we are in these states we most
need worship and least want it.
List of all. a contrary habit
interferes. The habits of a life
time are hard to break. We must
get a new habit. Many of us
are detained by little obstacles
simply because our habit has
been that way Habitual wor
shipers go in all weathers.
We may well examine our
habits and correct them. Then
let us examine our neighbors’
habits and try to induce them
also to make a correction.
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The Young People’s Leader Topic-
Sept 20.—Numbering our Days.
Psalm 90:12.
This psalm is supposed to be a
prayer of Moses. It is worthy of
him. It proceeds from no pessi
mistic view of life. It is in view
of the shortness of life, and yet
the greatness of God and of eter
nity, that we are to number our
days. It is a glorious text. Let
us divide it into four lessons.
1. The need of reckoning our
days. We ought to realize just
how much of life we are to have.
Then we must see into what pe
riods it is best to divide our
lives to get the best out of them.
It is wisdom to rightly view our
livesrin all their possibility. De
spite the protests of people
against anticipating the future,it
is a good Bible doctrine to do so.
Not with anxiety, but with faith.
2. This reckoning of our days
is for the purpose of making the
wisest use of them. Some reck
on up their days in order to have
pleasure to the last permitted
moment. For foolishness, not
wisdom, is their reckoning. We
reckon our days so to use
them. The of
youth are such says
make it a ti ne or.
Some lines
eatjp cut wisdom
work, not get ready to we rk.
In every possible condition we
are to so reckon that we may ap
ply our hearts to do the v ise
thing to utilize our life. Njt our
ambitions or our pleasures, or
bow far we can venture, s the
purpose of this reckoning, tut the
wisest ends of a life.
3. Our reckoning alone will
not suffice, it must be so as to
lead us to application. That we
may apply our hearts is the peti
tion. That indicates a set pur
pose. The mere reckoning of
our lives will do no good. It
must be such a reckoning as will
lead us to apply our hearts to
wisdom. We must act on our
conceptions of life. Everything
finally gets back to this one
point. We must act as well as
think. We must not only be
guided but we must act on the
guidance.
4. This reckoning is from God
in answer to prayer. Moses
prayed to be taught. We do not
knov the future. Ourbestreck
oning may fail. He who counts
on a long life may have a short
one, and he who expected but a
few days, a long life. Moses
prays to be guided in his esti
mates and rightly taught. We
need God’s help. May he give
it to us abundantly that we may
rightly conceive of what is be
fore us.
Lesson for Sunday, Sept. 27,
1896.
Instead of a comment on the
Review, we give a selected arti
cle this week on
a teacher’s PERSONAL PREPA’
RATION.
Preparation is more than half;
indeed, in many things, it is
nearly all. Work for which
preparation has not been made
is scarcely worth while. One
who expects to make anything
of his chosen calling prepares
for it with great diligence and
painstaking. Men serve long ap
prenticeships to be ready to do
the work of their tra.de. Inade
quate preparation insures in
competent workmanship, and
that foredooms one to failure.
No man can hope to succeed in
business without a business
training which will enable him
to grapple with the problems of
trade Most of the failures in
i life may be traced directly to the
lack of thorough preparation.
What is true in general of all
callings and pursuits,is yet more
true of work on mind and heart
Those whose duty it is to train
human lives must prepare for it
most sedulously. Before a man
is considered competent to be a
physician, to be intrusted with
the treatment of diseases, and
the performance of critical sur
gical operations, he must under
go a training of years. Can it be
any less responsible work to be
a physician of souls, —to be a
teacher, for example, of a class
of children or young people in a
Sunday-school ? Ofttimes the
only one who brings spiritual
truth to bear upon the scholar’s
life is the teacher. In any case,
the teacher is set to be the co
worker with Christ for the bless
ing of the scholar, and it is im
portant that his work shall te
done skilfully.
Two kinds of preparation are
necessary. One is general,
bearing upon the life and char
acter of the teacher, and running
through the years. It is that
which qualifies one to be a teach
er without reference to any
definite or immediate prepara
tion for teaching a certain class
or a particular lesson. This
preparation begins with per
sonal surrender to Christ. One
who is not Christ’s by listening
to his call and going after him,
is not ready to be a teacher. The
disciples were bidden to follow
Christ, and then he would make
them fishers of men. Following
must come before fishing. The
twelve were appointed “ that
they might be with him,” and
that, when they were trained he
“might send them forth ’ We
are not ready t> be inti u ted
with the care of souls until our
o wn soul is saved, and we are in
deed following Christ.
Preparation for teaching in
cludes also a personal knowl
edge of Christ. It is not enough
to know about him, we must
know him. Teaching never can
be effective which is only a re
telling of what some other one
has said. That was the weak
ness of the teaching of the
scribes in our Lord’s day. We
must be able to tell what we
know ourselves. We are to be
witnesses. How can we make
others acquainted with Christ if
we are not ourselves acquainted
with him ? Personal friendship
with Christ is a necessary quali
fication for one who would be a
teacher in the school of Christ.
Another element of prepara
tion is familiarity with the
Bible. Os course, the book is
such a vast treasure-house that
even a lifetime spent in re
searches in it cannot exhaust it;
hence it cannot be said that one
must know all about the Bible
before one is prepared to be (-a
teacher. One may begin with
very little knowledge of the
Scriptures and yet be an efficient
teacher, but he must be a diligent
student of the Word. He should
seek to know the book as a whole,
so that he may see truth in its
relation. Tne anatomist will
pickup any bone, large or small,
from a thousand bones lying be
fore him, and will tell you in a
moment where it belongs and
what its function is A teacher
should know his Bible, so that
when he comes upon any ti uth
he shall know its place in the
body of Christian doctrine. Then
he will never place undue em
phasis on any particular teaching,
knowing how it may be affected
by other truths.
Another element of pre para
ratkn in a teacher is his own
spiritual life. Miss Havergal
used to say that a great deal of
living must go to a very little
writing. It is quite as true that
a great deal of living must go to
a very little teaching. Really,
we can teach only what we have
learned by experience. When
the minister said he had been
thirty years preparing his ser
mon he spoke truly, although,
perhaps, the immediate prepa
ration of the discourse had taken
but a few hours. Thirty years’
life, with its experiences, had
gone into the sermon. Any ser
mon or lesson is valuable just in
proportion to the amount of life
that has entered into it.
Some one said of Whittier: “To
live near the heart of Christ was
his creed.” The teacher should
live near the heart of Christ.
That was where John received
the preparation for his work. He
lay on Jesus’ bosom, and the
very life of the Master with all
its sweetness and heavenliness,
passed into John’s soul, until
even his face shone with the glow
of the divine light. A teacher
who lives near the heart of
Christ, and comes from that sa
cred place to speak the words of
life, will have power in teaching.
Back of the lessons taught will
be the force of a spiritual energy
which will make the simplest
words mighty in their influence.
Then will the teacher’s character
enforce the instruction given. In
consistencies in conduct on week
days will notneutral’zethe work
of the Sabbath, for all the life
will be holy and beautiful. To
live near the heart of Christ is
to live in the atmosphere of com
munion, as in the very presence
of the Master. Those who have
attained this blessed nearness go
out into the world bearing in
their hands heaven’s gifts. All
their “garments smell of myrrh
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“When one that holds communion
with the skies
Has filled his urn where those pure
waters rise,
And once more mingles with us
meaner things,
'Tie e’en as if an angel shook his
wings;
Immortal fragrance fills the circuit
wide,
That tells us whence his treasures are
supplied.”
Westminster Teacher.
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The Bible behind the age?
Yes, it came down to us embalm
ed in dead languages; its history
is of peoples of the long ago; its
imagery is drawn from antiquity.
It talks of shepherds and char
iots and spears and helmets and
sandals. But the hearts of the
men of those days were like the
hearts of the men of to day.
Their dress and speech are an
tique, their souls are modern.
When we come to the climax of
divine revelation in the person of
Jesus, we see a strange face. Its
outline is familiar enough. But
the great brotherly sympathy of
Jesus, his love as boundless as
the sea, his unselfish service, his
patient sacrifice, his broken
heart, these do not belong either
to the past of earth or to the
present. This age has not yet
reached the divine manhood of
Jesus We are far behind him as
yet. Jesus is the one ideal man
way beyond the best of human
ity, where he beckons us on and
upto the prize of the high call
ing.—Ex.
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The Fireside as a School.—
It may have occurred to many
that the fireside is real’y an ed
ucational institution —a seminary
of infinite importance. There
are many parents who would be
glad to give their children the
benefit of college training, but
find it impossible, owing to
straitened circumstances. Yet
every child who has a home is a
graduate of the hearth. So wo
ven in with the woof of chi d
hood is the education the fireside
bestows that it gives color to the
whole texture of life. It is no
uncommon thing to see an aged
man holding fresh in his recol
lection the events of his child
hood. All the wide space be
tween that and the present hour
is a forgotten waste; but the im
pressions of his childhood were
so deep that they have become
lasting. At your seminary of
learning—the family fireside —
are you making your instructors’
task an easy one?— Christian Her
ald.
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