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HOW they helped.
The children had heard the story
Os a country beyond the s»a.
Where they never had learned of Jesus,
Os his love so sweet and free.
And their hearts were tilled with longing.
The message of love to send—
To tell the poor lltt'e children
Os Jt sus—the children's Friend.
“ But w hat can we do for them, mamma ?"
They asked In an anxious v< Ice.
Then mamma helped them make a p'an,
And said: • You may take your choice,
Either Topknot Gray or Speckled Bess,
And we'll sei her this very day.
And the little chicks you may nlse to sell
For the heathen so far away.”
So Topknot sat on a nest In the shed.
And the children eame every day.
And netted and fed the speckled hen.
Making friends with Topknot Tray.
And one bright morn they found In the nest
A fluffy yellow ball,
And the next time they came, with eager
eyes.
There were thirteen chickens small.
Were there ever such wonderful chicks as
these
Before, since the world began ?
They scratched and grew,and scratched and
grew;
Just watch them If you can I
And a; la»t they were large enough to sell,
And the children's dream came true;
They had something to send to the heathen
land
Under the sky so blue.
And what they did, you can do, my dear,
There Is something for every one:
And the savior who blesses his children's
work
Will give you a starry crown.
There is no more Christlike
work being done anywhere in
the world in this day than that of
the medical missionaries in for
eign fields. Like the Master,
they heal bodies that thereby
they may reach souls. How
much their work is needed the
subjoined extract will show.
Would that our Foreign Mission
Board could put a dozen medical
missionaries in China and Africa:
Surely one may say their own medi
cal practice suite their own needs Do
you truly think the two hundred boiled
spiders eaten by one sick Chinese gir’/'r
the serpent's eggs next prescribed, could
do her good? She grew steadily worse,
till at last she went to the foreign hos
pital. ‘ 'This has so many ingredients it
will cure anything,” was the remark of
a Chinese physician to a friend of mine
as he handed her a prescription, in which,
among its twenty five components, I
was most struck by a centipede, a seor
pion, a horned toad, and a beetle. Do
you think a sign makes a real doctor?
Is not some knowledge of anatomy nec
essary? Is not surgical aid often indis
pensable? Would you like to be reliev
ed of a pain by having a long needle
thrust in opposite the aching part? One
woman in China had one thrust in the
interior of her ear to cure the headache
“Os course the typanum was destroyed. ”
Another patient lost his eye by this pro
cess of cure. Even little babies are
stuck all over with red hot needles, till
not an inch of unpunctured skin re
mains. That old lady near Peking who
had bricks piled on her broken leg for
six month’,to cure it and keep down the
swelling, was finally persuaded to seek
the American Board hospital, where she
not only learned no evil, but at last
‘ drank of the heavenly spring.”— Mis
sionaiy Review.
Some people have claimed that
the expenditure of money on
medical missions was a diversion
of it from the legitimate work of
preaching the Gospel. No better
preaching of the Gospel is done
anywhere than is done to the pa
tients in missions hospitals and
dispensaries. When their hearts
are made soft and receptive by
the ministries of the consecrated
men and women in these places,
then is the truth planted in them
Here are some of the ways, which
are many and various, for reach
irg the patients with the truth:
Our Christian physicians are telling
of Christ to the thronging multitudes in
hospital and dispensary. Prescrip
tions have Bible verses printed on
them. in three languages where
needfed. Powders are often put in en
velopes with Bible verses thereon.
While awaiting the doctor, a Bible
reader or missionary telle of the Great
Physician. Some medical missionaries
hold services before attending to the
physical needs. “Oh, I must tell of
Christ,” said a medical missionary from
Siam to me. — Missionary Review..
The Only Good Indian is Civi
lized—There is a current saying,
which I hesitate to repeat, and would
not except to puncture it, that the
“only good Indian is a dead Indian.”
Whether, as commonly reported, the
late General Sheridan ever uttered it. I
do not know, but it certainly expresses
the opinion entertained of the Indians
not only by cowboys who have come
into sharp collision with them on the
plains, soldiers who have memories of
Custer massacres, and politicians whose
constituents have an insatiable greed for
Indian lands, but it passes current
among the thoughtless everywhere.
Easy proverbs save hard thinking. The
fancy involved in this fallacious utter
ance is, that the Indian is utterly incor
rigible, essentially a savage, incapable
of taking on civilized habits; a beast,
devoid of human sympathies. The fact
is that Indian nature is simply human
nature bound in red; that the Indians
have the same affections, passions, de
sires and capacities that other people
have. A somewhat careful study of
them in face to face contact on the res
ervation, in their homes, and in the gov
ernment schools, has led me to the firm
convicti* n, that as a class, under favor
able coi ditions, they are self-respecting,
noble-minded, and responsive to all
rightful appeals to their better natures.
There are now more than 23,000 Indian
youths enrolled in schools, and they
show the same aptitudes as white chil
dren under similar circumstances. They
excel in penmanship and drawing; are
not defective in musical talent; can be
trained to habits of industry and study;
take readily to the ruder and mechani
cal arts, and not a few of them have ac
quired very respectable scholarship.gen
oral and professional. Home Mission
Monthly.
The Pastor’s Mission.—Let any
pastor make it plain that he loves mis
sionary work, and, by an attraction as
true as that of the needle to the pole, he
will jabber about him a missionary
people. Let his public prayers breathe
a genuine sympathy with missionary
workers; let him keep abreast with the
facts of missionary history and weave
them into his sermons and addresses; let
him prove by his own giving that he
feels the pressure of the missionary call
and counts it a joy to respond; let him
dispel the miserable and false notion
that money scattered abroad impover
ishes his own people or shrinks the
sources of his own support; let him
grasp the divine principle of a scatter
ing that increaeeth and a withholding
that tendeth to poverty; let him often
dwell upon the last command of the
great Captain, the marching orders of
the church, until his own soul burns
and his people are inflamed with the
missionary ideal of that church as it
filled the vision of its divine founder:
let him rise to these high levels and
magnify his office as the leader of a
church that is bound from victory unto
victory until all is conquered, and I
venture to predict that clmrc’ies del n
quent in benevolence will disappear,
debts will be unknown, the missionary
forces of the church will never fail, nor
missionary capital be wanting for its
support. —Leaflet.
The Blessedness of Giving —The
Rev. Dr, W. S Langford, in an address
lately delivered in Philadelphia, said:
“ Man's natural drift is toward selfish
ness. Money is power, money is char
acter, and the subtlest devices by which
men are shut up to themselves are in
the desire to get gain, accumulate pos
session, amass wealth, until the venal
grasp of covetousness binds them in
chains. A practice which will counter
act this and hold it in check is the di
vine remedy for a form of evil which
must be fought against if men would
not defraud themselves wholly of their
birthright in God. Through the habit
of giving, men crucify the lust for gain,
break away from the clutch of avarice,
beat back the covetous spirit, and put a
curb on selfishness By habitual and
ample beneficence men have it in their
power to widen their hold upon life, to
enrich its meaning, elevate their own
tone, and grow into conformity to the
Great Giver. ”
How to Pray tor Missions.
[The following paper appeared as the
leading article in a recent number of tie
Paris Journal des Missions, the “abridg
ed translation” of an appeal from Mrs
J. Fuller, a missionary in India. Fail
ing to find the source from which it was
taken. The Missionary Herald translates
a part of it, as a practical aid to that
specific intercession for our missionaries
which is so plainly the duty anl (.reat
opportunity of every Christian.] — The
Missionary Herald.
At the present hour the most urgent
need of Foreign Missions is not so much
of men and money, although these are
indispensable, but of those instant pray
ers without the aid of which the most
favorable external circumstances re
main sterile. Oh, could we be impelled
to pray more; not to repeat incessantly
the phrase, more or less empty, “OGod!
bless the heathen and the missionaries,”
but to pray like those “violent ones”
who, so to speak, wrestle with God, and
to whom it pleases him to give the vic
tory. Let us humble ourselves, let us
confess our failures in this respect, and
ask of God to pour upon us the spirit of
interces: ion.
One day, returning from an evangel
izing tour, I had the feeling that I had
failed completely, and I said so with
tears to an old friend who was a pray
ing woman. “It is a little my fault,”
she instantly replied: “I ought to have
p ayed much for you.” At the begin
ning of my missionary life I received in
to my house six little orphans, bereaved
in a famine. Some months after their
arrival I experienced a great spiritual
refreshing and five of these children
were converted. A month later, I had a
letter from a blacksmith in Ohio, who
said»that he had been irresistibly im
pelled to ask God to restore my soul and
to convert those children.
What could not our missionaries ac
complish, if our people labored in con
cert with them by fervent prayers?
When you pray thus for us, dear
friends, what shall you ask? Oh, ask
above all, that God would himself in
spire our plan of work and that we may
have no will but his Ask also that we
may live in the unity of the Spirit, for
the lack of union among the Lord’s
woikersin non-Christian lands is often
the secret cause of their want of suc
cess. I tie by our Union in Christ as
members of his body that the world will
believe that he was sent of God.
Pray for the health of our mission
aries; ask strength of God and refresh
ment of spirit for those who have been
long at the breach. Ask for the young
missionaries that they may face with
courage, atd at the eame time with
prudence, the difficulties of a life abso
lutely new to them; ask facility in learn
ing the languages and in adapting
themselves to the climate and to the
food Ask especially that Christ may
reign over their whole being, for God
cannot serve -himself mightily for the
conversion of souls except with instru
ments consecrated to him without re
serve.
Ask God to prepare native evangel
ists; ask him that our publications in
European or in native languages may ad
vance his kingdom.
Could you not, in some sort, adopt a
missionary as your own representative
in pagan lands, and pray for him and
his work as if they were really your
own? Could you not take possession of
a country, of a district, of a missionary
station, and give yourself no rest until
God has shed his spirit upon this object
of your best prayers?
An old lady said to me one day:
“When you speak at your meetings
could you not indicate to us also, old
people who love missions but who alas!
have almost nothing to give, some way
of being useful? Very well, we ad
dress ourselves in a special manner to
these aged friends and others who sigh
because they have no power to do any
thing for our work, and we say to them
“To you above all belongs the great and
beautiful task of supporting us by your
prayers. We will count upon them
henceforth, and we thank you in ad
vance.”
Pray that the Lord will bless our mis
sionary secretaries, that they may be
able to place his world wide work in
theright light before bis people, Pray that
the Lord will make his people willing
hearted in giving for the sustenance of
missionaries. But above all pray for
the missionaries Which mission shall
be the especial object of your daily pray
ing?
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It is part of my religion to look
well after the cheerfulness of
life, and let the dismals shift for
themselves, believing with good
Sir Thomas More that it is wise
to be “merrie in God.”— Louisa
M. Alcott.
Continual Regret.—Sow
tares and you reap not wheat.
Sow an evil habit, and when you
escape its fell grip, if you ever
do, you will carry a bitter regret
to your latest day.
THE CHRISTIAN INDEX: THURSDAY. OCTOBER 1.1886.
people’®
department.
The Executive Committee.
By the time this is seen the Ex
ecutive Committee of the Georgia
B. Y P. U. will have met and
decided on some plans of work.
It is to be regretted that this
meeting has been so long delay
ed. Much could have been done
by having our plans ready for
this season when work naturally
begins. This, however, was un
avoidable, and we must now get
at our work as quickly as possi
ble. We presume all matters can
be outlined for immediate an
nouncement. We must work hard
this year and advance the work
of our Unions, both in extent and
quality of the work done.
Our Unions a Part ot Our Churches.
Os course we all recognize this
in theory, but sometimes do not
as clearly stand by it in practice.
If we do practice it we will
never be found making our con
nection with the Union an excuse
for negligence of any other part
of our church’s life and work. It
will be to us but one part, and
that a preparatory one. We will
rather be endeavoring to enter
more and more generally into the
work of the church as a whole.
It has always been to us a mys
tery when we have found mem
bers of a Union boasting of the
Union and disparaging the
church meetings. That is radi
cally wrong. If the church meet
ings are not as well attended or
effective as those of the young
people, a part of the blame
may well be laid at the door of
the Union for failing to do its
full work. Let us try to see how
far reaching and helpful we can
make the influence of our Un
ions.
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Amenable to the Church.
The question of the church’s
control over young people s un
ions and Sunday-schools needs
some new discussion. That there
ought to be some connection we
are sure. When an organization
bears the name of a given
church it ought to really re pre
sent that church. The theory
that permits organization, justi
fies them only on the ground that
they are sub divisions of the
church s work. They must there
fore be truly controlled by the
church. We believe it should be
a rule that no organization should
be allowed without the approval
of the church, and after organ!
zation, all officers and rules must
be subject to confirmation and
approval. This ought tQ be ob
ligatory in the matter of officers,
and always possible with rules.
These safeguards are not needed
in ordinary times, but when they
are needed they are badly needed.
We believe the Union ought to
ask the church to do this,and not
wait for the church. If it has
not alieady been done let it be
done at once. It will be a sheet
anchor in time of need.
The Baptist Union Topic, Oct. 4
Seeking to see Jesus. Luke
19:1 to.
This Bible instance is not only
familiar, but very instructive. It
is an indication of the profound
interest Jesus aroused wherever
be went. Crowds went to see
him and for many varied pur
poses. Each day must have had
its incidents of conversion or
miracle. The crowds of each day
brought events that caught the
attention for renewed crowds the
next.
Zaccheus seems to have been
moved merely by curiosity. He
wanted to see what kind of man
Jesus was. He had evidently
heard of him and of his great
spiritual power and his wonder
ful works. This curiosity leads
him to such a place as this to see
Jesus from. One good quality
shows in him—he does not stop
until he has done all that is pos
sible. He climbs a near by tree.
So much for his efforts to see
him.
Jesus sees him, however, as
well. The result is that Zaccheus
gets more than he went for. Je
sus commands him to ccme down.
Somehow a new light breaks
upon him. By time he reaches
the ground he is a new man. Let
us see some things he saw in Je
sus.
He saw in him a Master. He
began his new relation with him
by obedience. At once and un
hesitatingly he met that com
manding personality of Jesus
and acknowledged his power and
right. One of the first things we
all will see in Jesus, if we get to
see him lightly, is this Lordship.
There is but one dominion fitting
to such beings as men, and that
is the dominion of Jesus Christ.
Again he saw righteousness.
Some have supposed his act of
restoration one of superabun
dance. That is, he just offered
this in case such an act ever had
been done, while not conscious of
any such act. In any event, it in
dicates a conscience fully awake
to what was right. It was even
scrupulous in its desire to be
honest. No one has ever truly
seen Jesus who has not been led
to righteousnes.
Once more,his seeing Jesus led
to unselfishness. He gave up
half his goods. It seems to have
been his first thought. Perhaps
he had been mean and covetous,
and when once he got a new
heart, it turned over completely.
At any rate he at once takes up
the generous role of benefactor.
Jesus gave an example of unself
ishness and it was natural one
who saw him should be unselfish.
It ought to be so with us.
Last of all, when Zaccheus saw
Jesus he found a friend. He was
invited to friendship in the first
moment that Jesus spoke to him.
It was no long time of trial, but
at the very beginning. He ex
pected to see a stranger. Out of
curiosity he saw One who should
enter his house and greaily bless
him. Jesus offers that friendship
to us as he did to Zaccheus.
The Young People’s Leader Topic—
Oct 4.—Solomon Anointed King.
1 Kings 1:28 40.
Owing to a break in the list of
subjects we shall use the Sun
day school lessons for a short
time. Fortunately they are of
exceptional interest. Solomon
is a character of great attrac
tiveness for young people. So
we may well occupy this break
with some lessons in his life.
His anointing is preceded by
an interesting view of his father,
David. It is well for us in tak
ing up Solomon’s life to realize
that he followed a father who
nad been useful and successful.
Children must take up the
wokrs of their predecessors and
carry them on. We may as well
anticipate this. We may as well
plan our lives to that end. We
will shortly be in the place where
responsibility rests. Our work
now is to get ready. We shall
be false to our youth if we make
it not the preparation for our
life after youth.
We may also see the need of
God’s approval on our plans
Benaiah was a wise man. He
added to the king’s words “The
Lord God . . . Say so too.”
When our purposes are God’s
purposes as well, all will go
right. In this case it seemed
God’s way. The father’s way
and the Lord’s way coincided.
That is always good. When the
boy’s way also coincides,the mat
ter is adjusted.
Solomon has no part in the
earlier portion of the lesson, and
is a passive figure throughout.
The lesson shows how he was
started off and tells what advan
tages were his. He was greatly
favored. Even the fickle people
gave their huzzas and cheered
him on his way. |But it was only
a start. He had (I- make the ad
vantages his He‘had to
do his own work. We must not
be deluded by advantages. They
give a start, and at best are but
stepping stones. They are the
promises of things to come.
We may incidentally learn a
lesson from David’s willing yield
ing of his kingdom. The time
had come for it and like a brave,
true man he gives it up, asking
God’s blessing on him who shall
come after him. It is a lesson
hard to learn even in old age and
yet harder in youth. To resign
our place to others is not easy.
It may be God’s plan and then
graciously and prayerfully we,
like David, must do it.
The last lesson is the connec
tion between our work and our
religion. The oil from the tab
ernacle was the anointing mate
rial and the priest the anointing
agency. It was fitting. The
king was to do his work in God’s
sight and as God’s servant. The
closer our work and lives become
bound to the sanctuary the bet
ter. They ought to run together
and help each other.
©Re gtundajj Qchfrirt
SOLOMON’S WISE CHOICE.
Lesson for Sunday, Oct. 11, 1896.
Scripture Lesson. —1 Kings
3: 5-15.
Motto Text. —“The fear of
the Lord is the beginning of wis
dom.” Ps. 111:10.
Solomon's Way Cleared.—Adon
ijah’s conspiracy to possess the
throne after David was very
much lacking in cohesive power.
It fell to pieces without being at
all resisted, as soon as the report
of Solomon’s anointing had gone
forth. Adonijah receives forgiv
ness for his crime, but soon af
ter again proves unworthy and is
put to death. Abiathar was de
posed from his office as priest
and banished, while Joab was put
to death It was not many
months till David died, and Sol
omon then sat upon his father’s
throne, a young man about eigh
teen years old. As we see him
beginning his rule, and in this
lesson catch something of the
spirit of the man, the prospect is
one of great hope.
A Test Question. —“ Ask what I
shall give thee.” Let any heart
be assured that one thing is
promised, that the thing most
prized and longed for may be had
for the naming; what would that
one thing be ? Any one’s judg
ment as to what is the chief good
will give a very clear revelation
of his character. Any intense
desire for some specific thing is
likely to be gratified. “ Blessed
are they that hunger and thirst
as ter righteousness;for they shall
be filled.” How many are they
who, having steadfastly set their
hearts on some evil way, have
been given over of the Lord to
their idol, sin. It becomes us of
ten to test our conception of the
chief good in the light of God’s
mercies and truth and of our own
frailties and responsibilities.
Solomon's Worthy Thoughts.—
There dwelt upon Solomon’s
mind,like a gracious benediction,
a remembrance of the Lord’s mer
cies shown to his father David.
He remembered also how David
sought to honor the Lord by
walking in truth, in righteous
ness and uprightness of heart.
He regarded the specially prized
blessing to David of appointing
his son Solomon to reign in his
stead. A priceless heritage to
any man is a parent’s godly life,
a father’s example of daily walk
ing in the divine fellowship and
grace. These things are worthy
of cherished remembrance.
Solomon’s thought of himself
is as worthy as his thought of his
father. What simplicity and
beauty of meekness in his saying,
lam but a little child: I know
not how to go out or come in.”
He is just about the age, too,
when a boy commonly thinks he
knows it all, and when a father’s
matured experience and wisdom
are most despised. Exaggerated
estimates of one’s self always
preclude just estimates of others.
Solomon has a worthy concep
tion of the responsibilities of his
office. He is not puffed up with
a sense of his own dignity and
honor. He is rather pressed
down bytheweightof solemn ob
ligations and sacred opportuni
ties. He was not come to the
throne for idle boasting or for
vain display. Forthe Lord’s peo
pie, a great, a chosen people, he
was to be servant.
The Wise Choice.— Out of such
worthy thoughts about his fath
er’s character and relation to the
Lord, about himself, and about
the office to which he had come,
there comes his worthy choice.
He asks for an understanding
heart, that he may judge the peo
ple righteously. He asks for
that which he may not possess
except as a gift from the Lord.
Solomon made an unselfish
choice. H a looked chiefly to the
benefit of his people. He sought
not anything for outward show,
but for real worth of character.
No higher thing can be sought
than wisdom to do well one’s part
in life. That part may be great
or small, distinguished or ob
scure, but in the faithful doing
of it there is great reward. Ev
ery day we need the wisdom that
is from above. The good and
the bad are continually about us
in myriad forms and every one
must make choice for himself ac
cording to his own duty and sta
tion.
There is to be noted particular
ly the things Solomon did not
choose. He did not ask for long
life. The best life is not meas
ured by the dial plate. Jesus
lived on the earth only thirty
three years. He did not ask for
riches. Did you ever make a list
of the things gold cannot buy ?
He did not ask for the life of his
enemies. No sweet morsel to
him was the vengeance that re
pays.
Solomon' chose what was high
est and best. He was granted
the thing of his choice and much
was added thereto. “Seek ye
first the kingdom of God and his
righteousness, and all these
things shall be added unto you.”
Keep Your Own Sky Bright.—A
quaint rhyme runs:
I ain’t one o’ the meachin’ kind
That sits an’ thinks for weeks
The bottom’s out o’ the universe,
’Cause their own gill pot leaks.
We all know such persons, and know
that not only can they themselves see
nothing in all the universe but a reflec
tion of their little tin measure and its
disastrous leak, but they will allow no
one to see or think of anything else
while in their company.
Two happy girls were once planning
a trip to the country, and deciding what
companions to invite to accompany
them.
“Don’t ask Eliza!” interposed one
quickly, as that name was mentioned.
“If the sun is too warm for her, none
of the rest of us will be allowed to enjoy
the day. If she has a headache, we can
talk of nothing else; and if she gets a
stone in her shoe, the walk will be
spoiled for all of us ”
Try to keep the clouds out of your
own sky, but when they must be there,
don’t spread them until they darken
the heavens for everybody. —Forward.
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Catalogue and Frloes. aMkUMO, ot performer.
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Receivefl Highest Award -w
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