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KIWB WOKBS®
WEEKLY EDITION.
S. BOYKIN, Editor.
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Two Lessons in this Paper.— As there are two
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served and used two weeks. Postpone distributing the
following number.
Leaf Cluster.— We again recommend to infant
classes the Leaf Cluster, published by Nelson & Phil
lips, 805 Broadway, N. Y. With large colored pictures
and type, it is a most admirable assistant in teaching the
lesson. Send SI.OO and get it without fail.
“Friendly Suggestions.”— A closer examination
makes us more than ever pleased with this little guide
to Sunday School work. We know of nothing in the
same space which embraces so much excellent advice
and instruction on the subject of Sunday Schools, their
organization and management. Send 10 cents to Rev.
T. C. Boykin, Atlanta, Ga., for a copy.
THE LESSONS.
We are sure you will find the lessons you are now
studying interesting and profitable. We beg you to
study hard; and, by all means, keep the map before
you and find all the places.
These lessons teach us several important things about
missions. We will tell you some of them. 1. The
Holy Spirit appointed and sent out the first regular for
eign missionaries, Paul and Barnabas. We learned that
in the first lesson of this quarter. 2. Nevertheless, the
Spirit used the church at Antioch as the instrument, or
means, for sending out and supporting these missiona
ries. So we learn—3. That it is the duty of churches
to send out and support missionaries. Now can’t you
recollect these things? It follows, too, that if we want to
send out a great many missionaries, it is a good plan to
unite our funds for that purpose, just as the Southern Bap
tist Convention tries to get the Southern Baptists to do.
To Teachers. — Begin with the week, and continue
to study the lesson as you have opportunity until you go
before your class. This rule is worthy the considera
tion of all teachers. No person can “prepare” a lesson
without earnest and continued thought. It is a great
mistake to put off studying the lesson to the end of the
week.
KIND WORDS.
OUR INDIAN MISSIONS.
A letter from one of our Indian missionaries, Peter
Folsom, a full-blooded Indian, says: “I am preaching
in two counties, Saniboy and Scullyville. As a general
thing our people are not improving much in morality.
The late war corrupted our people much, and a few
only come into churches. In this state of things we are
depending on God only to cause a great revival among
the people. We are praying to Him to cause much
revivals among the people ; and we are earnestly pray
ing that our white brethren in the States will pray with
us, for the conversion of the Indians.” He sends the
statistics of thirteen Indian Sunday Schools, and they
contain 429 scholars, old and young, and 50 teachers,
making one teacher to every eight scholars, and an
average of thirty-three scholars in each school.
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PAUL.
The more we study about Paul the more shall we
admire him. He was staunch in principle, strong in
will and purpose, brave, courteous, and full of tact and
good sense. No hardship or suffering prevented him
from doing what he thought right and his duty. He
was learned and eloquent, and had the' power of attach
ing friends to him strongly. lie stood up for the honor
of the Gospel, and maintained his rights under very try
ing circumstances. So great was his zeal that for thirty
years he traversed the world in all directions, preaching
the Gospel amid the greatest dangers and persecutions.
Nothing daunted him, and death-only could stop him.
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TRUST AND FAITH.
The first is mostly the Old Testament word; the
seoond, the New. But Hebrews eleventh shows us that
there was a real, active, living “ faith ” in those old
worthies who trusted in God. They were anything but
lazy, dreaming religious quietists. Their “ trust ” was
a working “ faith.” On the other hand, Christian faith
is a thoroughly restful grace, busy as it may be in secur
ing its own and others’ salvation. “ For we who have
believed do enter into rest.” Webster’s Unabridged is
good for definitions, but is it the highest pulpit or closet
guide in experimental Christianity? Yet, the later faith
does make advance on the earlier trust, just as the “ love
of God,” in the New Testament, advances beyond the
“fear of the Lord,” in the Old.— Congregationalist.
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DOTS.
The next session of the Southern Baptist Theological
Seminary will be opened at Louisville, Ky.—and Or.
Boyce is happy.
The Religious Herald gives SI,OOO to the Southern
Baptist Theological Seminary. Well done!
A Baptist lady in South Carolina lately received a
legacy of $20,000, and gave SI,OOO of it to the Seminary,
SSOO to each of our Boards, SSOO to Furman University,
and SSOO to the Baptist State Mission Committee of S.
C. May God bless her!
One of the best reports adopted by the Southern Bap
tist Convention was that written and offered by Dr. J.
R. Graves, on sending the Gospel to the Wild Tribes in
the West.
Another admirable report adopted by the Convention
was offered by Dr. I. T. Tichenor, on evangelizing the
colored people.
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Bible Catechism.—We hope teachers and parents
are using, every week, the Bible catechism we are pub
lishing. It gets better and better, and will prove a
regular series of lessons for the young. By all means
teach it to the infant classes and to the little ones in the
family.
An Address. — At the Convention in New Orleans,
Dr. E. T. Winkler, President of the Home Board, de
livered an address on our Italian missions, which was
greatly applauded. It has been printed in pamphlet
form, under the title of Rome: past, present and future.
Send 25 cts. to Dr. J. S. Lawton, Atlanta, Ga., for a copy.
BIBLE CATECHISM—I 4. Temptation of Jesus.
Question* — After his baptism, where was Jesus led by
the Spirit ?
.Answer. —lnto the wilderness.
Q. What took place there ?
A. He was tempted by Satan.
Q. What was the first thing Satan asked him to do?
.zL To make these stones bread.
Q. What was the next thing?
A. To cast himself down from the temple.
(>. And the last thing?
A. To bow down and worship him.
Q. What did Jesus say to him ?
A. Get thee hence, Satan; for it is written, thou shalt
worship the Lord thy God, and him only shall thou
serve.
(J. What did Satan do ?
A. He left Jesus alone.
Q. How long had Jesus fasted ?
A. Forty days and forty nights.
Q. Who supplied his wants at that time ?
A. The angels ministered unto him.
Q. Was Jesus a rich man?
A. No, he was very poor.
(?. Was he rich in heaven ?
A. Yes, the worlds were his.
(?. What, then, brought him to earth ?
zf. Love, nothing but love.
Oh, for this love, let rocks and hills,
Their lasting silence break,
And all harmonious human tongues
The Saviour’s praises speak.
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INFANT CLASS PAPER.
“ I have just seen your notice about issuing an infant
class paper. Now that is the thing I have been looking
for. If you put one forth, we will certainly take what
we need.” J. N. Rogers, Jacksboro, Texas.
We have received a good many such notes as this,
but we wish to hear from more superintendents.
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TO AMUSE BOYS AND GIRLS.
Among the ignorant people of England, humorous
mistakes often occur, even when correctness and solem
nity would seem to be required.
A puddler went the other day to get his child christen
ed. “ What name,” said the parson, “ shall I call the
child ?”
“ Thoo can caal the kid owt thoo likes,” says the
father.
“ Weel,” says the parson, “ I think Benjamin is a
very nice name.”
“Varry weel,” says the father, “caal him Benjamin.”
The puddler came out of the church with his wife and
child, highly delighted with the name, when a thought
struck him. Rushing back into the church, and over
taking the parson walking down the aisle, he exclaimed,
“ Hey, mister, the young squeaker’s a lass!”
The parson was at a loss what to do under the cir
cumstances. However, he put in an aat the end of the
name, and they called it Benjamina.
“ My son,” said a doting mother to her eight-year-old,
“ what pleasure do you feel like giving up during the
Lent season?” “ Well, ma, I guess I’ll stay away from
school,” was the reply.
After looking at the picture of a spouting whale for a
long time, a little boy seemed to become more and more
puzzled. At last he turned to his uncle and pointing to
the picture, said: “ Oh, my, doesn’t he sneeze a good
long way ?”
A boy came down Linwood avenue a few nights
since, and in an excited manner, said that there were a
lot of lights in the Jewish burial ground. Half a dozen
scientific men, four loafers and a dog started oft to sec
them. The graveyard was as dark as such places usu
ally are. “ Where are the lights?” asked a big man of
the boy. The youngster backed off to a safe di.T<. ce,
and yelled out: “Underground, they ait Isiaeites.
He then ran for life.
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