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Among the leaflets prepared for nee
by the Woman's Missionary Union, for
January, is one on " Home Influences
among the Colored People,” by Prof.
Booker T. Washington, of Tnskegee,
Ala. It is a calm, thoughtful, truthful
surrey of the situation among the col
ored people, and his suggestions as to
methods of improving that condition
are practical and sensible. We give a
few extracts.
Procram, January, 1897.
It will be understood that the Pro
gram as prepared is simply suggestive.
Those in charge are responsible for mak
ing such changes as the interest of the
meeting may demand.
Subject.— Colored People.
“Christ's love was not a sentiment,
but a self giving.”
1. New Year Praise Service.
2. Bcripture—Offerings. Ex. 85:29; 2
Sam. 34:24; 1 Chron. 29:14; Matt.
10:8; Rom. 12:1; 1 Pet. 2:5.
8. Hymn—“ I gave mylife for thee.”
4. In 1620, 20 Africans were brought to
America; in 1896 there were be
tween seven and eight million Af
ricans in America, of which 1,351,-
790 were members of the Baptist
churches in the Southern States.
5. Leaflet—“ Home Influences among
the Colored People,” by Booker T.
Washington.
6. Prayer.
7. Hymn—“We give Thee but Thine
own ”
8. Short exercise answering three ques
tions: (1) What providential op
portunities have Southern Bap
tists for evangelization of colored
people 1 (2) In what way may
women do this work ? (3) What
can I do T
9. Solo or duet.
10. Business—Reading reports, etc., etc
Christmas offering report.
11. Select society’s motto for the year.
12. Collection. Doxology.
JANUARY.
Colored People —“ Teaching them to
observe all things whatsoever I have
commanded you.”
Study Topics.—Providential opportu
nities of Southern Baptists. Industrial
schools. Woman's work among the col
ored people. What can Ido to help ?
Home Inflnences Among the Colored
People*
BY BOOKIR T. WASHINGTON.
That the homes of a people deter
mine, to a great extent, the character
and destiny of that people, is a truism
too generally admitted for argument.
Cbanning calls home “ the chief school
of human nature," and so eminent an
authority as Herbert Spencer says,
41 The welfare of the family underlies
the welfare of society.” #
The progress of the colored people
can be assured only as their homes are
improved Unfortunately, the efforts
of the schools are counteracted, in a
large measure, by the influence of
these homes. As long as this state of
affairs lasts there will not only be re
tardment of growth, but, in many
cases, there will be actual retrogression.
The work of the school must be sup
plemented by the work of the home.
* * • *
It is obvious to the most casual ob
server that the average Afro-American
has a poor foundation for a home ; for,
while the house is not the home, it is
an important part of it, a veritable
trine qua non.
* • * *
In the rural districts of the South,
* * * it is in most cases, a o le
r(omed log cabin, and a sorry one at
that. In feuch an abode, living under
the most unsanitary conditions imag
inable, ten or twelve people crowded
together in one room, little successful
attempt can be made towards cleanli
ness, not to speak of adornment.
In the cities, where the civilizing in
fluences are g>eater, conditions are
somewhat better, but even here the
colored people usually live in crowded
localities. Here, too, there are alley
shantiesand crowded tenement-houses,
more injurious in their effects than
even the one-roomed 1< g cabin, which
has, at hast, the advantage of admit
ting through its cracks pure air from
the outside.
* * * *
In few of these homes are there books
or papers, The nearest suggestion to
them is the presence on the walls of
pictures cut from cast-off periodicals
or from newspapers brought home
wrapped around some bundle. There
is usually a Bible, very large, very
gaudy and very high-priced, consider
ing its value.
If the children go to school they
study their lessons after a fashion, but
there is no reading for general culture
or for pleasure. The parents are not
able to guide the young people in this
respect, and the average teacher is too
absorbed in getting over the ground
expected of her grade to take time to
lead the young minds to an acquaint
ance witu books and a love for good
reading which might prove their safe
guard.
In these homes where there is no
rearing, where there is nothing to
stimulate the intellectual life, there
will almost certainly be gossip. People
will talk about something. If their
minds are not occupied with great
thoughts, petty ones will creep in.
The children are early affected by this
kind of atmosphere; they hear all
sorts of things, even where notpecial
harm is meant in the telling; their
mental as well as their moral growth
is stunted, and they become more in
terested in the doings of their neigh
bors than in the sayings of the an
cients, more concerned as to what the
Smith girl paid for her new bonnet
than as to the cost in men and money
of the civil war.
That the colored people, as a race,
have not the respect they should have
for the home and the marriage tie is
not at all surprising. Indeed it would
be surprising if they were not lax in
this regard. If there is anything in
the laws of heredity and of past envi
ronment, the influence of two hundred
years of slavery cannot be outgrown
in thirty years. Nor are their present
surroundings such as to foster a growth
in virtue. This herding together in
one room, of several persons of oppo
site sexes, sometimes members even of
different families must have a demor
alizing effect. The poverty of cloth
ing and the almost enforced unclean
liness of person and of surroundings,
also lower the moral tone, as anything
must do which tends to lessen self
respect.
I do not know whether this phase of
the subject has received much atten
tion, but I am of the opinion that the
food these people eat tends to retard
their development in the moral graces
and in the refinements of life.
We do not need, however, to assign
to any cause of a speculative character
the immoralities known to exist. Rea
sons He all around us, too obvious to be
misunderstood. One of the most
prolific sources of evil lies in the fact
that, in very many cases, the mother
had to be away from home all day,
working tor the support of the family,
or at least to assist in its support. Lit
tle children, frequently as young as
five years or age, sometimes even an
infant in the arms of a nurse but little
older thau itself, are left alone in the
house or locked out into the street to
roam at will till mother’s return. Such
children early lose not only the bloom
of childhood but its innocence, and
not seldom are ruined before they are
twelve years old. Even when the
mother is at home with her children,
her failure to win and keep their confi
dence and, as they grow older, to talk
with them concerning the things they
need to know and will know, in some
wav, sends them adrift into the streets
ana uuder the influence of vulgar and
sometimes criminal companions. The
boys early learn to loaf around bar
rooms and other places of low resort,
because the poor mistaken parents fail
to make home attractive and take it
for granted, also, that "boys will be
boys, anyhow,’’ and seem to consider
some forms of vice as the natural con
comitants of young manhood. Espe
cially is this leniency felt and shown
when it is observed that young white
men do the same thing.
The social evil is not the only one to
be deplored. In many of these homes
the children are not taught to respect
the rights of property. When they
find things they are allowed to keep
them without making an effort to as
certain the owner. They are seen with
new possessions and no inquiry is made
as to how they were obtained. Boys
and girls appropriite to their use ar
ticles not their own, and yet get right
eously indignant if they are accused of
stealing. They have only “picked
them up,” as in mauy instances they
will tell you.
What can be done to remedy this
state of affairs? How can these peo
ple be helped to improve their homes ?
Send missionary teachers among them
—earnest, whole-souled, self-sacricfic
ing workers who will not be satisfied
with simply teaching in their school
rooms the learning of the books, but
who will go in at a out among the fam
ilies and teach the men and women
how to better their homes, how to
raise the tone of their domestic life.
Give them a higher type of ministers
—men of intelligence who will awaken
thought and arouse the people to an
intellectual life ; men upright snd fear
less, who are themselves pure and are
not afraid to preach purity, who will
not, for the sake of gift or gain, pan
der to the weaknesses of parishioners.
Train both both boys aud girls for
the family life, teaching tue girls
among other things, the housewifely
arts, including hygiene, the effects on
the human system of different kinds
of food and different modes of tbeir
preparation, and as far as practicable,
the care of the children, teachli g the
boys that purity is as essential to them
as to the girls, that they must respect
their women and seek to protect them,
equipping each one of these boys with
a trade or giving them such skill in
some avocation as that going out into
the world they may be reasonably sure
of remunerative employment, and im-
Eresslng upon them that, as the hus
ands and fathers of the future, they
must learn so to provide for their fam
ilies as to allow the wife and mother
to give to the children God may send
tbein the care they rwwd.
In cities and towns, where such a
measure is practicable, establish
creche s, where the little ones may be
kept and trained while the mothers
who are forced to go out to work, are
away from them.
Disseminate good literature, open
reading-rooms, night schools, coffee
saloons, public baths.
Let individuals or corporations buy
land and sell it to the colored people in
such quantities and on such terms as
will permit them to buy homes.
Hold conferences, similar to the one
held annually at Tuskegee, where the
evils which it is possible to correct are
talked over and remedies sought.
Teach them to make their religion
practical, to let it consist as much in
doing as in believing, and show forth
fruits in an honest, upright, industri
ous life.
Help and encourage the work of the
Young Men’s Christian Association
and other organizations which are
seeking to rescue our young men and
to throw about them ennobling influ
ences.
Open avenues of employment now
virtually barred against all Afro Amer
icans ; pay them a living price when
they work for you; treat them fairly,
squarely, as you would treat any other
people; let them know that discrimi
nations will be made, but not on the
basis of color; show them that they
will be respected as they prove them
selves worthy of respect. We acknowl
edge that it is not altogether in cur
stars, hut largely in ouiselves, th.‘> we
are underlings, but it is equally true,
in the words of the great Douglass,
that “ the recent boudsmeu can make
little progress without the consent aud
co-operation of the ruling class amoDg
whom they live.”
There is a brighter side to this pic
ture. It is seen in the hundreds of
men and women of character and in
telligence who are nobly performing
tht ir part in life’s work; in the schools
and colleges, where young people,
despite all their hindrances, are prov
ing that a dark skin is no bar to the
acquisition of knowledge. 11 was seen
at Atlanta, in the creditable showing
made by the Negro exhibit; it is seen
in the business houses, banks, news
papers, owned and controlled by men
of As ican descent; it is seen in the
homes of culture and refinement,
which only seem few in number when
compared with the great unfortunate
majority; it is seen in the recognition
already accorded, in the praise and ap
proval vouchsafed by lookers-on who
are generous enough to concede that,
though the negro has many failings,
he has done as well as, under the cir
cumstances, could be expected, and
probably as well as any other people
similarly situated would have done.
These evidences of progress show of
what the race is capable and serve as
incentives to future endeavor.
Colored Catholics.— lt is estimat
ed that the number of colored Catholics
in the principal cities is as follows: Bal
timore, 35,000; Charleston, 800; Chicago,
400; Covington, 140; Galveston, 550, In
dian Territory, 200, Kansas City, 250;
Little Rock, 100; Mobile, 2 000; Nash
ville, 500; Natchez, 1,700; Natchitoches,
9 000; New Orleans, 8.000; New York,
8,000; Philadelphia, 1,500; Pittsburg,
1,500; Savannah, 1,000; San Antonio?
1.000; Wilmington. 400. Thirty-one
priests are now laboring and thirty-sev
en churches have been erected by the
colored people.— lAterary Digest.
Catarrh is a constitutional disease and
requires a constitutional remedy like
Hood’s Sarsaparilla, which purifies the
blood.
THE OHKIBTIAN INDEX: THUBSDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1896.
Uoung JJeopte’a
department*
Topics for 1897.
For some time, following the recom
mendation of the Executive Commit
tee of the Georgia B. Y. P. U., we
have treated, weekly, the topics ar
ranged by the Southern Union. We
shall continue to do this, and trust
that this beginning of a new year may
seethe general adoption of ih’se by
the Unions in Georgia. For the infor
mation of those interested, we give be
low the topics for the first six months
of t:e year. Cards with these topics
already printed may be obtained of
Rev. John D. Jordan, Birmingham,
Ala.:
Jan. 3 —A Retrospective and a Pros
pective View. Phil. 3:13-14.
Jan. 10.—The Inquiry of a Willing
Worker. Acts 9:6.
Jan. 17.—Hand Guidance and Heart
Guidance. Heb 8:9 10.
Jan. 24.—Missions Among Colored
People.
Jan. 31.—The New Commandment.
John 13:34.
Feb. 7.—What and How to Hear.
Mark 4:24; Luke 8:18.
Feb. 14.—Our Gifts, and How to Use
Them. Matt. 25:18-30.
Feb. 21. — Who is My Neighbor?
Luke 10:30 37.
Feb. 28.—Frontier Life.
March 7.—Baptism.) Matt. 3:13-17;
Acts 8:35-40; Rom. 3.T-6.
March 14. —Walking With God. Gen.
5:18-24; Heb. 2:5.
March 21. —The Security of the Be
liever. John 10:27-30 ; Rom. 8:36 39.
March 28.—Missions. Japan.
April 4.—Faith. Heb. 11th chap.
April 11.—The Joys of Salvation.
Ps. 41.12.
April 18.—My Favorite Promise, and
Why it is Dear to Me. Isa. 41:10.
April 25.-Missions. Chiua.
May 2 —The Mission of Christ. Luke
4:18-19.
May 9. —The Lord's Prayer. Matt.
6:9-13.
May 16.—“ Where Are the Nine?”
Luke 17:11 20.
May 24 Missions. Africa.
May 31.—The Lord’s Supper. 1 Cor.
11:23-34.
J une 6. —How Can I Help My Church
aud Past r? 1 Cor. 3:9.
Juue 13.—Overcoming the Evil One.
Roui. 12:21.
June 20.—Things to Think About.
June 27. —Mi-sions. Cuba.
The dates named are on Sunday, and
will be considered the Sunday preced
ing the day of meeting, if it be held on
a week day.
The Southern Union Topic—Jan. 3
—A Retrospective and a Prospect
ive View—Phil. 3:14-13.
No man has ever put into words the
principles that should govern a life of
noble effort more connectedly than
does Paul in this passage. It is well
that we take it as a study at the begin
ning of this new year.
Let us clearly set before ourselves as
a first truth, that Paul is only speak
ing to those who have a purpose in
life. His look back and
ward, was the
bilious. Tile
Sresses forward towaral^TOemarK.
tany of us quote his words to direct
the plans ot an idle life and justify
us in a life of indulgence. It is not so
with Paul. To him the daysgone were
days of opportunity to attain, and
those to come days in which to do what
he had failed to do in the past. Only
when we look fairly at both the past
and future from the standpoint of no
ble ambition can we catch the force of
Paul’s words.
In his retrospective view he first be
comes convinced that he has, as yet,
failed to apprehend that for which he
was appre! ended. He has not become
what he had hoped to become. Nor is
he disparaging himself. He has, on
the contrary, many things to say, iliat
he regards as commending himself to
those to whom he writes. His count
ing himself not to have apprehended
is the basis from which he draws his
lessons. In our retrospect much will
depend on the purpose that has con
trolled our life and for the realization
of which we look into the past. We
ought to look back as Christians to see
how much we havegained in Christian
attainments. This is the purpose of
our retrospective.
'The first decision Paul reaches, after
this conviction gets hold of him, is
that he will let the past go. He does
not propose to spend any more strength
on it. He will forget it. Whatever
lessons he has learned he will hold on
to ; but the past, as a time for effort, is
passed. Letting the past go when it
ought to go is the very hardest of all
attainment. It will be noticed, of
course, that the past of which Paul
speaks was rot only one of failure, but
successes. He had not reached to the
heights to which he aspired, but he
had reached to many lesser heights.
The failure and the success, however,
are left out of the future calculations.
So we must expect our retrospection
to complete itself in such a letting go
of the past. To spend either our
time or our strength in thinking over
or living in the past is unwise and
wasteful. The past is neither to be
grieved over nor rejoiced in, except
as it furnishes lessons to guide us.
Too many of us are trying to live
in past experiences rather than
move on to new ones. The most
blissful experience is but a mountain of
transfiguration from which, like the
disciples we must go down into the
valley where new experiences meet us.
We are not permitted to build booths
and stay there.
The next decision Paul reaches from
retrospection is prospective. It is a
decision to keep up the struggle. It is
no new purpose that he forms, but a
renewal of the old purpose. The same
goal is before him and to win it he
presses with renewed vigor. Neither
discouragement nor encouragement
from his look backward leads him to
abate his efforts. He goes on. The
figure is a very graphic one. It
refers to the reaching out of the run
ner for that still ahead of him, as if
anticipative of the moment when hs
shall actually put his hand on the
prize. It is a figure of present effort
to reach to the accomplishment of our
ambitions. Paul knew there was some
thing better for him and he planned
to reach to it.
It may not be amiss to call attention
to the fact that Paul’s purpose stood
the test of a retrospection. Home of
us have been following, as our great
main purpose, something that is far
from being able to bear the scrutiny of
a retrospective glance. It may be that
our retrospection will lead us to a com
plete change of our life plans. Even
then, however, it will still be true of
us, that but one thing Is wise, to forget
and to go on.
Paul groups them as one while they
are two. Why is this? Two in ex
pression, they are but one in wise ac
tion, or rather two sides of oue thing.
Either lacking the struggle will be im
perfect and oursucoess but partial. If
we forget without entering on new es
forts it will do nothing. If we under
take the new without forgetting the
old we will be as surely handicapped.
The two must go together aud be wed
ded so that, as to Paul, they may ac
tually be but one idea.
This passage gives us by revelation
the outlines of the results of our new
year retrospection or anticipation. We
must put in the details of our own
work and aspiration and till in the de
tails. The great thing is to face our
own lives, aud let these inspired
words actually become our purposes.
May this be done for us by the Holy
Spirit.
Duty.
Is it possible that some of our young
people are forgetting their duty to
Christ and the church ? Must we have
an “iron-clad” pledge to keep us up to
time? Perhaps our observation has
been one sided, but in many of our Bap
tist Young People’s Unions we have
noticed a distinct lowering of the stand
ard from year to year. The work has
gone on but it has been confined to a
narrower and a narrower circle of faith
ful workers. Committee work has been
thrown on the chairman; the participa
tion in the meetings has fallen to the lot
of half or a third of the members in
stead of all of them. It may be said that
this deterioration, where it occurs, is
owing to the failure to enforce the rules;
that the chairman should insist on the
members of their committees doing a
share of the work; that the lookout com
mittee should never allow such a state
of things to come about that half of the
members of the society never take part
except when their names are called. But
the difficulty lies back of that. You can
not change character by by-laws. Af
ter all, the committee and officers can
do no more than urge upon recreant
members the obligations that belong to
them as Christians. Any additional
duties that may be incumbent upon
them as members of a society are not
likely to seem very serious or binding
to people whose interest in the society
is already waning. We need to call at
tention not to constitutions aud rules,
but to the commands of God.-- 'Die
Standard.
From the Baptist Union.
Missionary Trial.— Some Baptist
Endeavorers recently held a very inter
esting missionary meeting. Twelve
jurymen were appointed and given the
task of deciding which missionary sac
tor accomplishes the most good in India
—evangelistic work, medical missions,
or the printing press. Each of the three
factors was represented by two lawyers,
and the court was presided over by a
competent judge.— Christian Endeavor.
Proverb Social —Let each mem
ber of the society be given two cards
upon which is placed a number (the same
on both). On one of these is to be writ
ten a common proverb; on the other
must be drawn or pasted a picture illus
trating this proverb. Parts of several
pictures may be joined together to give
the idea if the person is not apt at draw
ing or cannot easily find a cut which
will answer the pa These cards
are th^
is
per, and from vtle must
guess i: UU iy as possible of the pro
verbs, v 1 it ; ag the same on the paper
opposite us appropriate number. The
papers are then collected and inspected
by a committee for this purpose, and
the name of the one guessing tne largest
number correctly is announced with
honorable mention.
One Method of Nominations.—
A Pennsylvania society follows this
method in selecting a nominating com
mittee. At the business meeting pre
vious to the time of the election, the
members vote by ballot for their choice
for president. The two receiving the
highest number of votes are placed in
nomination for the position aud a vote
taken on these names. The one th<-n
receiving the highest vote is elected as
the nominee for president and as such
is made chairman of the nominating
committee. Another ballot is then
taken and the four receiving the high
est number of votes become the other
members of this committee. The new
president is thus given a voice in the
selecti n of the officers who will be
associated with him during his term of
office.
Selection of Committees. —An In
diana society elects only the officers of
the society, and this is done one month
in advance of the end of the term of
office of the old officers. During this
month the president-elect chooses the
chairmen of the various committees.
These chairmen, in turn, select those
whom they desire to serve on the com
mittees with them. These nomina
tions are then submitted to the society
for ratification. This method has the
merit of giving the president and
chairmen the privilege of choosing
those with whom they feel they can
work to best advantage.
gmtdaaj School
THE HOLY SPIRIT GIVEN.
Lesson for Sunday, Jan. 10, 1897
Scripture Lesson. —Acts.2:l 13
Pentecost. —The word “Pente
cost” means literally fifty days,
and this was the time elapsing
between the Passover and the
feast of Pentecost. The feast
of Pentecost seems at first to have
been meant to commemorate the
giving of the law on Sinai, which
was fifty days after the passage
of the Red Sea. Later it came
to partake of the character of a
harvest festival, coming at the
end of the grain harvest.
For forty days after his resur
rection Jesus was going out and
in among his disciples till his as
cension. He has now been in
heaven ten days. A momentous
period was this ten days to the
disciples. They knew not the
future, neither its sorrows nor
its joys, neither its persecution
nor its blessings. But a love for
their common Lord, a regard for
his commands, a trust in his
promises kept them together in
expectant attitude. They were
dependent on the Lord for all
help and guidance. So they
meekly waited on him in prayer.
What a prayer-waiting that was
for ten days.
The Promise Fulfilled. Our
waiting often seems long,but God
knows best when to show his
mercies. The events of the Cru
cifixion and of the Spirit’s de
scent had a meaning so far
reaching that it was meet they
should be attested by the vast
multitude who came up to the
great annual feasts. It is not
clearly indicated whether the
wind like noise and the llame-like
appearance had any other mean
ing than powerfully to attract
attention to and impress the fact
of the Spirit’s presence. The
symbolism of these signs is a
little obscure. The speaking
with tongues is especially re
marked upon and marveled at,
and strongly suggests the mis
sion of the Gospel to all the races
and nations of the earth.
The wonders of the Spirit’s
manifestation at Pentecost are
special and miraculous. We may
be very confident that the ordi
nary workings of the Spirit are
not with noise and demonstra
tion. A religion of too much
fussiness and show may well be
suspected. It would be profi
table to institute a careful com
parison between these wonder
ful signs and the effects pro
duced on Peter’s thought and
character by the spirit’s power.
Remember the weakness and
cowardice shown by Peter just a
few weeks ago, and then con
sider the courage, the insight
into the meaning of the Scrip
ture, the skill of discourse that
he exhibits as he stands before
thousands. These results on
mind and character are a greater
marvel than the miraculous
signs.
Out of Every Nation. —We can
form little conception of the
vastness of the multitudes who
went up each year to the great
feasts at Jerusalem, The Jews
had become a large part of the
population in large parts of
Egypt and Persia, and of nearly
all the cities in Asia Minor.
Even in Rome and other cities i s
distant they had become quite
numerous. The more devout
among them from all the coun
tries went regularly to Jerusa
lem. Though widely separated by
distance and by varied languages
and customs, there was a com
mon tie to bind them in the
temple of worship at Jerusalem.
By means of these conditions the
wonders of Pentecost were given
ia wide publicity. The impres-
profound
/ favor
. iTi?"- ’'
On the day of Pentecost the
Gospel was heard in various
tongues through the agency of a
miracle. If the names given be
a complete enumeration the
whole number was less than a
score. The Bible is at present
translated into, and the Gospel
preached in, more than two hun
dred and fifty languages and di
alects, and nearly all this has
been the work of just a part of a
century, and that without any
miracle. More aud more are the
interpretations of the Scriptures
and the providences of God con
verging upon the fact that the
Gospel is for all lands and na
tions.
Filled with the Holy Spirit. —Are
we to take “filled with the Holy
Spirit” and “baptized with the
Holy Spirit” as equivalent terms?
Evidently so in this chapter, since
what Jesus had promised as a
“baptism” is here realized and
described as a “filling.” Strik
ingly similar seems the power of
the Spirit that came on the Samar
itans and on the household of
Cornelius. But whether “filled
with the Spirit” means always
“baptized with the Spirit” is
doubtful, and much more uncer
tain is it that for our times there
is any baptism of the Holy Spirit.
We need to guard between two
extremes —the one of making too
little of the Spirit’s work, the
other of expecting too much.
Apostolic Power—Pentecostal
Blessings. —These expressions are
not infrequently heard in dis
course, or made use of in prayer.
It would be well that we think
upon the words, and know how
much we mean by them. Have we
any apostolic mission or work?
Have we any new church to set
up, or any New Testament to write
and verify? It is well to think
what power for the apostles and
what blessings at Pentecost were
needful for the peculiar offices
and labors committed to them.
The Lord suits blessings unto
actual needs. He is a great econ
omist, in that he wastes nothing,
as well as a liberal Master that
supplies every lack.
Too often we are not willing to
see just one step ahead, and take
one step at a time. We are not
willing to perform small and ob
scure tasks in that measure of
grace that is sufficient. We vainly
look for a power which we can
use for noise and display. The
best plea we can make for the
larger power we so much need, is
to be fully ready to be used by
the Spirit for any service to which
he may lead us. Do not try to
use the Spirit, but yield yourself
to be completely used by him.
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