, VOLUME XXII.
The Wachovia noravian E ntered
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'RI. Rev . ED\\ ' RO ROl'DTHALER , D. D ., Editor. lRev . J. KI!NNI";T H PFOHL, Assistanl ErlilClr. Mr. PA L J IIN"V., Bu In es . Manager . . .Mi ss M.A. Fo .LK , Circulalion Mauag·r. Publi hed monthly at Win ston-Salem, N. C ., as th ' ffi ri al osgall o f the Southern Moraviall . ' hut h In Ihe I ' ult ed States o f America, alld devoted I the iutcrests of the Moravl Rns a nd of I heir friend . in Ihi · a nd o th e r lands . .. ubscription price, SO cellls a year, ill ad,'an e. Addr Hs :\11 . uhsn ipli o ns (I ud th er cO lllllluui al iolls to TH ... \VA C H OV IA M O RAVIAN .
EDITORIAL 'T ,HE WA ' HOVIA MORAVIAN starts 'with this month in a new series of monthl), issues, upon which it humbly linvokes the blessing of the great Head of the Church, our Saviour. We want to be used for Hi!, glory, for some Little share of service in the .advancement of His Kingdom on ·earth. We want, by means of our monthly visit, .to do ollr brethren and -sisters all the good we can. We wan t to encourage them, as far as God gives us grace to do it, in their Christian faith and practice, and in their ,work, of whatever kind it may be, ifor the Master. The paper comes lfrom a Moravian office, but it comes with the Apostle's uni.v ersal greeting: " Grace be with you all that love our .Lord Jesus Christ in s!ncerity." 'O\\iing -to ·unavoidable circumstances THE 'WACH \lA MORAVIAN has not been appearing during the the greater part of the year 1910. 'W e are glad .to say that it has been ,missed, .both at home and abroad. .J t sometimes seemed to us while the paper was struggling with its difficul ,ties that nobody cared for it. But when, J0r a while, it was gone, people ,remembered the good it had done, and they missed it. " What has be.come of THE W ACHOVIA MORAVIAN '? " was a frequent question, and one that came to \1S even from across the seas. And so, by an earnest vote of our Southern ministers, and under the ,endorsement of the Provincial Elders' Conference of the South, THE W AOHOVIA MORAVIAN greets you again, and hopes, if God will, to be even more useful than ever before, and asks for a renewed and kindly welconle into your churches., your homes and your hearts.
WINSTON-SALEM , N. C THE W AH VIA M RAVIA ', in the course fit s twenty-thre y aI'S, has called f r the labors 0f a succession of editors. Bishop Epward Rondthaler comm need this work.
APRIL, 1911
NUMBER 210
VfA M RA IA N, believing- it t I mak THE W A ,JJ VI be an almost indispensabl adjunct of mnr wel come visitor. th "ir o\"n work and that of the I
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They have ex· !t witi be w rth \~hile thus to expressed their d sire that BishopRond- chang e gr e t'lOgs an d encouragethaler undertak e th e .edi.torial~ man~ I ments with one another, because we agement. Th ProvlOclal Elders ' al'e look'109 forwar d t 0 a Iar ' Clrcu . Conf ren e has heartily ndor d the latl'o I1 . A rrangemen t save h b. e e 11 action )f the ministers, and has sim - i made to put THE W A'H VIA MORA ply requested their br ther and c o\ l - ·111tO eve,y C011lmWlI.t:allt home IAN
For a number of years th e paper, while remaining in hi , name, was very ac eptabl) ed ite I by th e Rev. Howard E. Rondthaler, at that time pastor of Christ Chur h in \!\Test
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Salem. Wht:11 he was called to be ~ ag-ue "t~ go ahe~d!" H. is trY- i of our Province, including the homes Resident-}lrf')fessor in the Moravian 1I1g to d It, -a nd, In so cloll1g, has of our members who live where there College a 3ethleh Ill, P nna., Dr. found everybody whom he has ap- are no Moravian churches. We beJohn H. t e well took up the \\. rk proached for h lp so kind and willing lieve it will be worth the large liber. with the l ' ~iring spirit which charac- 1that it has g'iven him a new sense of a I'Ity 0 f our congregatIOns, as suc h , terized his twenty-five years of ser- the brotherhood .t hat prevails amongst to carry out this plan, so that in vice amongst us. He is now busy as us. He sits down to his task with every home of the Moravian Church ever, in the Northern Province of the the comfortable b lief that God will it may be known what pastor and Am rican Moravian Church, but we help him and that' his brethren and people are doing; what the Sunday greet him across the line with the sisters will help him. The prospect Schools and Societie.s are accomplish. love and thankfulness due to a man ' of being able, perhaps, directly or ing; what benevolent causes are being who toiled with all his might in our indirectly to say a good word for the pushed; what has happened in joy behalf. May God g'ive him great comfort and encouragement it maYor sorrow to one or another of our success in his present important tleld, I be of members and friends far away individual members; who have been the old established Young Ladies' Ias well as near home, to talk with baptized, or confirmed, or marritd, Seminary at Bethlehem. When Dr. them in their homes, to remind them or have, in the providence of God, Clewell was called to his new field, I that even at a distance they are not departed this life. We want a record Mr. George H. Rights, out of pure forgotten - this prospect reconciles in \ovhich your child, in looking up a church patriotism, took his place. I him to the shouldering anew of his back number of 50 years, may see Mr. Rights is no ordained minister, Iold task. If God helps Bishop Rond - note of what, in one or another way, but in his conduct of' local and gen- thaler and his fellow -workers to say came as the sacred event in their eral news in his important journal, something for your help, don't forget lives. Going into every communi he writes · as truthfully and yet as liS, dear readers, before the throne of nicant home and telling as much good kindly as if he were a minister, and grace. \Ve want to be worth as mllch as it can of the greatest IJossible many an article from hi pen might I as we can for YOll in OUl' little way, number of the people THE W ACHO profitably be quoted in the Christian and your prayers to God that He VIA MORA VI AN hopes to be a bond pulpit. I may aid our resolve and carry it into of union. It has advisedly adopted .... -+--+ ! good efiect will be an important fac - the motto: THE W A 'HOVIA MORA\ IAN de- tor in the success of the renewed " Blest be the tie that binds sires to express the gratitude of the W A HO\'J A MORA VfAN. Our hearts in Christian love," Church to Mr. George Rights for his • • .b editorial management of the paper in ecause'It wants to b e a" ml1l1ster a Iong a transition time of peculiar difficulty, 1 It has been the plan all along to that line, so that in our own commuas well as to Mr. Nixon Padget, who I have as many of Ollr members and nion and, measurably, also, outside did excellent service as the Business ' friends as possible speak with you of it, the Saviour's wish may be carManager. They were faithfully sup- : through the pages of this journal. ried out a little more-" tl,al tn,e)' ported by a committee of brethr n, ' We hope to Rive still fuller effect to may a.1I be one." of whom Bro. Ernest Stockton was our old plan. We want you as often • • • the Chairman. In the time and care I as can be to hear the voices of your When Bishop Rondthaler went to which they gave, amid their abundant ministers; we want to give YOIl the the Board of Trustees of the Hom business engagements, to this difficult chance of listening to good word:) Church in Salem, and laid the new religious publication interest, they 1 from your fellow-members, both men plan before them and asked their conhave deserved well of the Church, and women. It will do the reader tribution to send THE WAH VlA and \\ e thank them heartIly in the far away good to hear what his or MORAVIAN into every home of their name of all their fellow-members. her old pastor has to say; what ad- congregation, the brethren listened I vice some former Sunday School kindly, and then said: "You are not -+-+ Isuperintendent, or elder still has to asking for enough; we must give you The ministers of the Province, in a give. And we want a good word morc. ' , And then they added: "it strong and ringing resolution, have I from you who are living at a distance. is going to be worth all that it will called for the renewal of THE It will cheer LIS in the old home and cost us to be, in this way, kept in 1
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rrHE t uch with all our members verywhere.' , If a stro ng congr gation fe els this 'ay, a w ak r on may b eXjJcct 1 to d e rive a still greater ad vantage. lts scatter d m ember - will h 'ar what th ir brethren and si ·t rs ar d oing, a nd will b e k pt los "r t th m , 111 r int rest d and mor r ady to h Ip al ng in very c ngrega ti nal wo rk. S i kn ess and weather and d ista n c will not hind .> r th nited Stat s mail from k e 1 ing m embers ons tantly informed and, therefore, more sympathetic with their cong regational affa ir ' wh th r it be in a large church like th e " H ome" in ' alem, r a little church like" ~I adLO~'ia Arbor" or ' Willo? ) Hill."
While our purpose is to ha e th e congregations, as s uch , send THE 'vVA HO\ fA M RAVIA N into every communicant home. we s hall be especially obliged to members and friends who will make personal and individual subscriptions at 50 cents a year. It will greatly help in improving the paper to have a godly number of such individual subscribers. Will you not at once send us your iJldi~ idual subscription? Many people do not care to send or to bring a subscription of 50 cents. If so, please send the subscription for two or more years ; or send in the name of any number of individual subscribers. A very patriotic member, of Bethlehem, Penna., Bro. Abram Scropp, once sent us a subscription in this way for ten years, and we greatly appreciated jt. It may be also that a few subscribers, in \ iew of the temporary ' uspension of the pal er, did not re eive the full return f r th eir subscription. If so, they will do us a special fa vor in sending LIS a postal card stating the date to which their subscriptions run , and perhaps they will be so kind as to r enew th em for a longer period.
W e s ha ll be g lad to have Northern brethren, as well as British , ~erJll a n a nd Mi:; i n brethr n, write to us . Parti cul arly do we appreciate th in tere:t four Ameri a n represe nta tiv in th G neral Mission Boa rd, Bi shop
\ ,VA HOVIA MORAVIAN has been recognized as the chi f means of ommunication between ollr own Province and the other Provinces of the Unity. lt has been a help to our brethren, who, as delegates, have represented our Province in General Synods, because they have found a better understanding of our Southern situation and work than could have been had our fellow-members beyond the seas not been able to read the news of our churches as brought out in our monthly columns. We hope to maintain this connection of the printed page between them and us.
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important constitutional change cong regations has, during a period: with regard to th e ri g ht o f represe n - of some fifteen months, amounted tati n at Prov incia l Synods it will be t $1036. 0 " well for th e Hoards ()f congregations THE M1NISTER S' CONFERto see to it th at th e p as tor's salary ENCE
W e want to for last year has bee n duly made up m et on Thursday m o rning, April ('th ,
John T ay l r Hamilto n.
assure him that his own fre ]ue nt and the prescribed Provincial Coll ecquestion bout TH E W A ' II OVIA M - tions have been made. RA (AN has be n a n impor ta nt fa ct r A MINISTERIAL CHAN 1£ in its r vi a1. We sha ll h artil y wel com his furth r communications, and The success a tte nrlin g th e Fairview thus b broug ht still nearer in ou r . M'ISS I'on · PrOV1l1ce to t h e g rea t F orelgn work which h e so zealously repre· sents. It is one of our most ardent wis h s that th e interes ts of Moravian
all present except Bro. Me nd e nhall , who was d etained by school duties. Bro. H. A. Pfohl, of the Provincia l For eig n Missionary Committee, pre-
sen ted a v ery interesting report of Luckenbac h should be more con- the Committee's work. The four stantl) engaged in that field. He recommendations of the br thren were heartily adopted: has been r elieved of the charge of d'll 1st. The acceptance of th e Com . Missions may, throu g h our monthly of Friedland cong rega tlOn, an WI mittee's mission literature for th e journal, be promoted in the Southern no\-\' have more time for th e ver y best circulation and use in the co n Province. encouraging work 111 the north of gregations. 2d. A mission prayer in connection Winston-Salem. with the stated services of each OFFICIAL NOTI CES Sunday. THE CHURCH BOOKS FROM THE PROVINCIAL ELDERS' 3d. A missionary day for each ONFEREN E It has been found, on inquiry, that Sunday School. 4th. A missionary month in the the larger congregations are all well course of which each congregation THE ANN U AL REPORT supplied with Church Books, con- shall have the privilege of hearing a BLANKS • The new Repopt Blanks have now ducted in the approved Moravian missionary sermon.
work has made it important that Bro.
been printed and di stributed to the way. congregations.
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If any of the smaller congre-
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great deal of very useful information mittees are requested to confer with with regard to the state of the work the P. E. C. on the subject. in each of our churches. They have THE SOUTHSIDE AND CENbeen conformed to the questions TREVILLE CHURCH BUILDwhich the United States Census asks ING ENTERPRISE with reg ard to property, income, ex penses and contributions.
As the Central Boards of the Salem
They will Congregation have agreed
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exhibit the whole financial case of the building of a new church on the beau/
congregation, and will put it under tiful lot at th e junction of Sprague the eyes of each member and of the Street and Sunnyside ~venue the entire Province.
The careful filling Financial Board has decided to con-
out of th se blanks will prove a great vey to this ne w enterprise the accrued help to Church Committees in mak- valu e of the lot which was purchased ing th eir annual collections for minis- some years ago for the purpose of a te rs, salary and for provincial cau es.
Southside Church and
Parsonage,
An annual copy will be deposited but is now too near the new Southwith each congregati on, so that th re bound Railway to be used for Church may b e a com pari o n of every year purposes. with the previolls one.
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The info r- on the new building will soon b e
mation will thus be ready which the begun. Synods are always calling for, and which is needed for wise and helpful Synodal action.
THE CHURCH AID AND EXTENSION BOARD
The ministers will
The Board met on Tuesday, April please send in their filled-out report 4th, the members present being Bishat their earliest convenience. As soon op Rondthaler and J. W. Fries, of as they are all in the Provincial Sheet the P. E. C., and the brethren Leon will be printed in THE W A HO\ IA G. Luckenbach, Walter T. Spaugh MORAVIAN. and Edgar A. Holton, of the Church THE TRIENNIAL SYNOD OF Aid. The Financial Report of the THE SOUTHERN PROVINCE first year was presented. It showed The date fixed for the meeting of that the new Eoard is getting its the Triennial Synod is Tuesday, Nov. affairs well in hand. 14th.
The offerings
As the Synod of 1908 made of the churches for the aid of weaker
The Statistics for 1910. The following table presents the Statistics of our Southern Province for the past year. Most persons find statistics uninteresting, and, we admit, they are rather dry food. The rna· jority of our readers will scarcely take time for more than a casual glance at them, noting the size of their own congregation and passing all the rest by. And yet, each year,. they tell their story. Not the story of actual work done, the effort put forth, the difficulties overcome; not the sum total of the good achieved, nor the amouut of the full harvest gathered in ( spiritual results can never be estimated by mere numbers) ; but the actual numerical increase or decrease in the membership . of congregations and Province an I the sources from which it has come. The year just closed was an average one in point of increase, but unusually heavy in its decrease. The latter is in part accounted for by the largest number of deaths ever reported in a single year, and because of the practice, especially noticeable in recent years, and by no means a discouraging sign, of the careful revision of the membership ltsts. Several features, decidedly encouraging, may be noted. The fact that our town congregations are receiving quite large accessions from other congregations, while it may appear somewhat discouraging to the country congregations from which they come,. is really to be considered as a gain
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son of Bro. and Sr. R. R. Clmard, on March 29, 1911, by Rev. J. Kenneth Pfohl , ;
OBITUARY NOTICES
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NOT K.- Mirn st rs and members are r eq uested I to selld th e ohituar y lI ot i cf's to the ollie ' 01 THE WACHO\' IA MORAVIAN by th e first of eac h monlh . I If th er e a re int erestin g particulars with rt'ga rd to : th,e dep~rtNI. ,000 And, further, even when after a If a farmer were to say that he morning of Salem College, May 24th, in case the remainder of 8300,000 period of years the Endowment has expected to plant ' his crop of corn, the President stood up to say whether should be fully pledged by ] une 30, all been collected, the annual income and tend it, and gather it all in the or not the Endowment of 8300,000 1911. This left '100,000 still to be from it will be small compared with course of a week or ten days, his had been raised. He himself did raised, and to this end, especially the cost of running a colleg'e. New neighbors would consider that he not know. He had a sealed envelope during the last nine months, the buildings and improved equipments had lost his mind. And yet, that is -in his hand, the contents of which intense efforts of President Rondof every sort will be needed and gift just the expectation which many would state the fact. On Commence· thaler and his faithful helpers have after gift will be required in order to p eople have in regard to the rev.ival ment morning, at the beginning of been put forth, What made the procure them. The raising ~of the meetings which are coming this fall. the exercises, 81,060.72 needed still labor very much greater was the fact Endowment has been a great victory They expect that the good Seed of to be raised, after every sort of effort that Salem Academy was in debt - but, after all, it is only.one victory the Gospel shall be sown in the had been made. When the enveloye nearly 320,000, and this sum needed in a long campaign. hearts of the young people shall be was opened it was found to contain likewise to be raised in order to nurtured there, and prayed over and "the result of !1la~t emergency canvass secure the 875,000 from the General reaped in the way _of their conversion, On the 9th of June the Provincial made during the preceding night, Education Board. The;! story of the $2,056.75. The audience was listen· last nine monlhs is one of splendid Synod of the German Unity ",ill -all in a one or two weeks' meeting. "ing with breathless interest. When effort and of splelldid response, -in meet at Herrnhut: We hope to give It is this undue expectation of what ,this final result of the -long, hard Salem, in Winston, among the Alum - the readers of THE W ACHOVIA Mo· a meeting can do that makes so ::s truggl~ was announced the applause nae and the friends of the Academy RAVf AN some account of its proceed- many of th ~m failures. If you expect I
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THE W ACHOVIA MORAVIAN. any thing from your ('protracted" me ting this Fan, it i high time to begin preparing for it now. Let every pastor who expects to hold a meeting start on his s arch after indi vidual s uls at once; let 5uperint ndents, tea hers, fath ers and moth rs , all g ad Christian members and personal Christian friends be busy from time n. Sow your seed of friendly advice and inAuence and prayer, and tend it kindly and faithfully, and then yO tl may, under God' 5 blessing, expect some harvest of sou ls in October c no November.
••• We are greatly encouraged by th e degree of interest!which THE W A HOVI A MORAvIAN!hae awakened in our congregations and among our minIsters. Friedberg, which was the first to send in its congregation-subscrfption has expressed its warm approval. One of its oldest members presented his separate subscription the other day with the emphatic remark: "That paper is coming, and I want to pay for it !" We hope that Bro. Charles Rothrock's view of the case will spread every where. Each separate fifty cent~sl1bscription is a great help to us. '!!!!!!!~I!!!!I'~~!!!!I'I!!~~~~~~IIIIiIIIItI~J - -- -. SERMON- - - '
Delivered by .R ('v. EDWARD S. C ROSI.AND befo~ the Baraca·P hilathcn C Oll velltioll al Greensboro, N . C., Apri l 23 , 1911.
You betrayed Jesus; YOll did it for money, and you did it with a kiss. Now tell us what you think of Him. ( Matt. 27: 4. ) "I have sinn ed in that I have betrayed the innocent blood." Pontius Pilate, take th e witness I st-md. You were governor of Judea under C ~sar, and in that capacity YOll came in tOll ch with Christ. He was tried before you. You passed sentence that He should be crucified. Now tell LIS, Pilate, what do YOll think of Christ? John 18: 3 .) (, I find in Him no fau lt at all." . Centurion, take the witness s tand. YOll are th e one that carried out th e sentence of Pilate against Christ. YOll, and the soldiers under YOll, drove Him along the Via Dolorosa to Golgotha; nailed Him to the Cross, and beheld Him as He suffered and died. Tell us, what think ye of Christ? (Matt. 27: 54. ) Certainly tllis was a righteous man; truly this was the Son of God. " Thomas, take the witness stand. You were one of Christ's disciples. You are called' ( Doubting Thomas" , because, after Christ had risen from the dead, you said that unless you could see the print oM'fie nails in His /I
hands and put your finger in the print of the nails, and thrust your
It is a simple' gospel message that I bring you, nothing more, and I trust, nothing less. The text is found in Matthew's Gospel, • 22nd chapter. 42nd Verse: I I What think ye of Christ?"
hand into His side, you would flot believe. Now, Thomas, tell · us, what think ye of Christ? (John 20: 28. ) / I My Lord and my-God." Simon Peter, take the witness stand. You were one of the three favorite dis1 do not know of a more important question. Can you think of one of ciples. You were with Jesus when He greater importance? It is a sweeping raised Jairus~ daughter. You were question which embraces all of faith with Him on the Mount of Transfiguration. You were one of those that and all of love. It is an intensely personal question, but before I press went farthest with Him in the ga-r den it, let us hear what others think of on the night of the betrayal. And, Christ, and in order that we may be Petel', you denied your Lord; you perfectly fair, let us hear what his swore that you did not know Him. enemies as well a:; his friends' think Now tell us, what do you think of of hiin. Him? Scribes and Pharisees, take the (I Peter 1: 18; 2: 24.) "Ye were -witness stand. You ' dogged His not redeemed with corruptible things, footgteps. It was your influence that as silver and gold, but with the prenailed Him to the cross, and now we dous blood of Christ, as of a lanlb want you to tell us what you think without blemish and without spot. Who His own self bore our sins in of Christ. Tell us the worst thing you know about Him. His own ~dy on the tree, that we (Luke 7: 34. ) «« He is the friend ~ing dead to sins, should ' Ii~e unto of publicans anti sinners." nghteousness: by whose stripes ye • I were healed." . J u d as Iscanot, take the witness . stand. You \\'~re one of the twelve John, ~k~ the WItness stand. You disciples. You were the treasurer are the diSCIple whom Jesus loved. for the company. You found fault ~n the upper chamber at Jerusalem, with Mary when she anointed the JUst befor~ He went forth to suifer, . . you 10 His bosom; you felt the feet of Jesus, saymg that It was throbbmg of His heart. John what wasteful to use the ointment.that way. do you think of Christ? '
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I John 1: 7. (. If we walk in I bad? Is it that they are opposed to · the light, a He is in the light, we 11 that is pure and good? Nay. ·It have fellowship one with another, and is imply this: they are not thinking the blood of Jes ll~ Christ clean seth li S of Christ. He has not His rightful from all sin." place in th e mind, in the heart and Pau l, take th e witness stand. You in the life plan. are the greatest of all the apostle . A gentleman said to a fri end one ' You are a man of broad informa- day: '( What think ye of Christ?'" tion, - a man of great learning, He replied: 1/ I suppose I never think having studied in the school of Ga - of Him." I I Well," said the friend, maliel. Your testimony will be worth (' when were you born, B. C. or ' so much. We are anxious to hear A. D.? Have you been dating letfrom you, Paul. What think ye of ters all these years without even . Christ? reflecting that you were daily com( Rom.1 :16.) "I am not ashamed memorating the nativity of Christ? ' of the Gospel of Christ; for it is the Have you actually not formed an , power of God unto salvation." opinion concerning that personage ' Angels of Heaven, what think ye whose advent among men changed of Christ? the reckoning of time, whose birth-( Luke 2: 11. ) "Unto you is born day shook the race into a new era?'" a Saviour which is Christ the Lord." It is true, very true, sadly true, that · Father in Heaven, most reverently many seldom, if ever, think of Christ. do we ask, what think ye of Christ? Baracas, Philatheas, what think ye ( Matt. 3: 17. ) ' I This is my be- of Christ? I mean the Gethsemane · loved Son in whom I am well Christ; the Golgotha Christ; the pleased. ' , Christ with furrowed brow; the ChristWhat think ye of Christ? It is with the nail marks in His hands. It astonishing that a great many people is ~aid that on~ Lord's day morning~ are not thinking of Him at all. They while St. Martan ~as at pr~yer, there ' are thinking' of other things-think- app~ared before.hlm a radiant form, ing a great deal of other things, but I havmg UPO? hiS .head. a crown of never of Christ. That is the position g~ld sparkhng With ~lad~m, ~nd) that Felix took,-and where is Fdix? \ said: I I I am the Chnst, fall down That' is the position that a young ~nd worship me:" 5t. Mar~in looked', man took by whose grave I stood mto the face; It was ra.dmnt. He ' the other day. We laid him to rest looked upon the robe; It w.as gor- · gently, but it was all dark ; there was geous. But when he l~oke~ mto the not one ray of hope. hands there were no nall-pnnts the~e; There is no need to think of Christ , whereupon the good . man said: ' you say? No need to think of Christ? I cc A ~'aunt! thou devIl! As an .angel No need to think -of Him of whom Iof hght thou hast come. I Will not we read in Col. 1: 17: 'I He is before worship thee I' , Some one has said: all things, and by Him all things I I Watch for the modern strategy of' the devil which brings before men consist?' ' the radiant form of Christ without, No need to think of Him of whom the print of the nails; that exalts the we read in John 1: 3: I I All things life of Christ' at the expense of His · were made by Him, and without Him death, and thus leaves out the key- · was not anything made that was stone in the arch of salvation." . ( made?" No need to thiuk of Him of w.hom WHEN WE THINK OF CHRIST, WE we read in I Thess. 4:16: I I The Lord THINK OF THE CROSS. Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the There is no Christ without the archangel,and with the trump of God; cross. Christ and the cross go to-and the dead in Christ shan rise gether. Anything that does not bear" the stamp of the croBS i. not of Christ. first?' , No need to think of Him of whom Any Church, any organization thatL we read in Acts 4: 12: "Neither is does not bear the stamp of the cross there salvation in any other; for there is not of Christ. I believe that the · is no other name under heaven given Baraca-Philathea movement bears the · among men whereby we must be stamp of the cross. But let this . saved?" stamp be more and more deeply setl: No need to think of Him who says into your organization; into every (Rev. 1: 18): "I am He that liveth part of it, and then your slogan,. and was dead; and, behold, I am ,. We do things, " will flame with gloalive forevermore, AIQeIl; and have rious realization. A proper estimate· the keys of bell and of death?" of Christ, a proper recognition of the .. What is the matter with so many power of the cross as set forth in His. to-day? Is it that they are "'hoUy' Ctm/i1lwd on page 3·
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