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Vol. 3. Los ANGELES, CAL., NOVEMBER 16, 1899. No. 26

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W. E. SHEPARD. "Having- every one of them harps, and

golden vials full of odors, which are the prayers of saints."—Rev. 5:8.

Reader, did it ever occur to you that the Lord had a method of bottling- up the saints' prayers? Do you ask why He does this? Perhaps for two reasons. He may not see it best to answer your prayer just at the time you sent up your petition and so holds the prayer in readiness to answer at His own appointed time. Then again perhaps your prayer and faith were very weak and in His great heart of love would like to answer, but if He did so accord­ing to your faith at that time it would be inadequate, so He just waits and bottles them up as they come and wheu He gets enough prayer and faith to justify Himself in answering, then down comes the answer.

Now if this be true, we should not be discouraged at the delay. Lef^us be sure that on our part is the prayer of faith unmixed with any doubt, and then if there come a delay in the answer let us know that He has bottled it up and will surely send the "desire of our hearts" in His own good time.

Again, if our petition is in accord with His will, and there does not come that assurance to our faith, or in other words, our faith seems to be weak, remember He is bottling up our prayers that later He may pour out the answer in accordance to our increased faith.

How many there are that give up if they do not at once see the answer! The next time just keep on praying till the bottle is full and see if the Lord does not help you out.

The writer was once assisting in a camp meeting which was not making the progress it might, whereupon he resorted to the woods to pray. It was one of those occasions when the Lord seemed so near and the exercise of faith was exceedingly easy. We asked the Lord to give us that night a full

altar of seekers and run it over, etc. When seekers were called that night only one or two responded, greatly to our surprise and disappointment. Satan immediately jumped upon us and began to rub it in very hard. Our heart went right up to the Lord for an explanation, for surely he had given the witness that the prayer in the woods would be answered. Immedi­ately this answer came, '' I have bottled up your prayer and you will yet see what you asked." In a night or two following we saw just what we had prayed for. The altar was filled to overflowing.

There is a great deal of praying, but is the praying done in faith? Does it reach the throne indeed? The Dead Letter department of Washington receives six million pieces of missent mail matter every year. Suppose the Lord somewhere in the universe, had a dead prayer office, how many missent prayers do you think would reach there annually? These never get bottled up for they never reach God's vials.

Mother, those prayers from year to year you have sent from a full heart of love for your wandering child have not been wasted. God has them bottled up. Keep on. That vial will yet be poured out in heaven's blessing upon that child. Dear heart-broken wife, do not despair. Your prayers are filling the bottle. So are your tears. Keep on and do not get dis­couraged. God has not forgotten you. The answer will come. Sorrowing one, are your afflictions heavy to bear? Have you been praying about your condition? The prayers are in the bottle. The answer will surely come.

Thank God we can pray. Thank God for heaven's storage process. Let us multiply the petitions and keep looking and expecting and God will turn the bottle and down will come the answer. "Thy prayers are come up for a memorial before God."

* ¥ THE Christian Witness gives some

of the utterances of Rev. Thomas

Harrison, at the opening of meetings recently in Chicago. He said:

"Some people say I am of the old type. They tell me that there is little call for such sermons as I preach, nowadays, and that no one will want me to speak. Well, if I am not asked to work, I'll go to my home to spend my days in a blessed enjoyment of two great experiences. Behind me I will have twenty-three years of ministry for the Master and 60,000 souls saved; while before me I may contemplate heaven, where I shall spend a blissful eternity. I believe there is not enough preaching of law and penalty today. The way to heaven is made too easy—-sign a card with a lot of questions, hand it in, and you go right up. The way is so easy that few get there.

"You hear people say they are afraid of excitement in a revival. I went to a church one time where the ladies had put down a new carpet, and they hesitated lest in the crowds that came this should be worn out. It was a nice carpet, too. The throngs came, they filled the house of worship nightly, and that carpet was worn to the very threads, but there were 1200 converts. At another place there was great alarm that the varnish on the altar might be scratched. More than 1000 were brought to God, the altar rail was wet with the tears of penitence, and I walked all over the rail and scratched every bit of the varnish off. Those are little things, and the Lord will provide money for the worn carpet or marred altar.

"Do you fear a scene? I hope and pray that we will have a scene here before next Sunday. I pray there may be excitement. Let the altar be washed by the tears of sinners seeking salva­tion, let the Spirit of God move in this church and this community and there shall be many brought to the Lord."

# 9 9 The object of prayer is not to get

God to do for us according to our own will, but rather to get into a position to do according to God's will.

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H O L I N E S S I N R E L A T I O N T O C O N V E R ­S A T I O N .

REV. F . E. HILL. "But as He which hath called you is holy,

so be ye holy in all manner of conversation." —I. Pet. 1:15.

About the first thing a physician does when he attempts to diagnose the case of a patient is to say: "Let me see your tongue." Why does he do this? Because the tongue is an indi­cator as to the condition of the system, and stage of the malady with which the patient is afflicted.

Generally the first signs of a dis­ordered system are manifest on the tongue. A coated tongue shows a sluggish, inactive state of the system. A swollen tongue shows a general clog of the system. A high colored tongue shows high fever and delirious-ness. A pale and trembling tongue shows failing vitality and extreme weakness.

Now all these symptoms have their counterpart in the spiritual being also. About the first signs of a disordered heart are manifest on the tongue. It is always in the indicative mood, and is a real good criterion of the heart; for, "out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh."

A coated tongue reveals the slug­gish, inactive state of the soul; don't care to take part in secret or family prayer, rarely if ever is heard in the public worship; and when it does work it is to throw out some foul slander or gossip about some neighbor or some member of the church; never has any good thing to say about anyone, only speaks and complains of others' faults and failures. It shows a seriously diseased state of the heart. The patient needs a good dose of Rev. 2:5, "Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do thy first works," etc.

The swollen tongue is evidence of a clog in the heart. In testimony there is nothing definite. If you listen attentively you may catch a word occa­sionally, but it is all about self, "what I have to endure, how I have been treated," etc.

Pride is a very dangerous disease, and when so far advanced as to show a puffed-up tongue is proof of a pre­carious condition of the soul. A good prescription may be found in St. James "Draw nigh to God, and He will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts ye double minded."

The high-colored tongue indicates an inward burning fever, and is caused

by stagnated carnality, and accord­ingly the whole spiritual system is in delirious frenzy; the tongue is con­tinually shooting out rasping, snap­ping words against the members of the household. That soul is stricken with carnality of the heart in the worst degree. There is but one remedy, and that should be used immediately, "For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace." That never-failing panacea will effect a cure. "The blood of Jesus Christ His son cleanseth us from all sin."

The pale and trembling tongue shows that the life and strength of testimony is almost gone, and spiritual death is settling down upon the soul. The patient should take prayer fre­quently as a spiritual tonic, and exer­cise the tongue daily in testimony for Jesus. "Pray without ceasing, in every thing give thanks."

The clean tongue indicates a healthy heart. From a sanctified soul will flow out holy conversation, with all holy tempers; goodness, meekness, gentleness, charity, faith. The heart that is made perfect in love "thinketh no evil, is not easily provoked." Thank God that Christ hath made us free from the law of sin and death.

* » T H E M I N I S T R Y .

DR. JOHN BROWN of Bedford, Eng., in his lectures in Boston to the divinity students, brings from the depths of three centuries the words of Giles Fletcher on " The Calling of a Minis­ter," which are as applicable today as they were three hundred years ago: "If the prophets are God's messen­gers, they must preach God's word as they have seen it. Every preacher is a double interpreter of God to the people—of the people to God. Besides all human learning, there must be the inward learning by the divine Spirit. After studying style and using all helps the preacher's prayer must be, 'Open thou my eyes.' If he preaches reconciliation, he must first be recon­ciled; pardon, he must he sure of pardon himself; grace, he must be conscious of receiving it; sanctifica-tion, it must be from a sanctified heart. Each preacher must interpret from his own soul. His main end must be to win souls; some preach because it is the fashion, or from osten­tatious or ambitious motives. They forget their commission—to deliver men from going down to hell. Like Isaiah, who cried, 'Woe is me,' the true minister, standing in God's room,

should be stricken with great fear and astonishment. The more they shrink the more are they called. In the university there may be occasion of self-conceit, striving after a name, honor, estimation; they are but baits to pride. Our purpose is to serve souls. The preacher should reflect not only on the honor but on the danger of his calling, and humble himself before God; so shall he pronounce wonderful blessings on others. Good words are good, but vain if the life is not good. There is no force in elo­quence or human learning to overthrow sin in others. The coal must be placed on the lips, that uncleanness may be purged away. Unless the church is as much concerned to raise up godly men as good scholars, she will pull down with one hand as fast as she builds up with the other. But ministers should be chiefly concerned about themselves. None are so contemptible in this world, none so miserable in the next, as they who scandalize their doctrine by their lives."

* • *• S E E K I N T E R C O U R S E W I T H G O D .

It is worth our while to cultivate the grace of intercourse with God. The effect is as when one looks at the sun. You gaze a little time at the sun, and then look back again about you on the earth, and everywhere you will see the sun. Up the street, in yonder door­way, among the hurrying people; you seem to have brought the sun down by your look, and now you can see it all about you. The same thing is what happens, too, child of God, when you recognize the value of communion with Him, and give yourself pause in the hurry of life long enough to look into His face. By so doing you bring Him down into your immediate surround­ings, not to dazzle, but to cheer, guide and bless you.

In the midst of the thronging people who press upon your daily life, when you enter the doorway of your office, store, or shop, or among those in your own home, everywhere you see God, you are conscious of His pres­ence, and walk with His light irradiat­ing the whole horizon of your activ­ities. In fact, you have entered into His secret because you are one of those who fear Him. Very blessed are all they who will come into such an exper­ience.—Rev. G. B. F. Hallock, D. D.

* * * The orchard of the church will not

be more fruitful till the plants in the nursery are more cared for.

THE NAZARENE.

T U E S D A Y H O L I N E S S M E E T I N G . REPORTED BY W. E. SHEPARD.

Meeting- opened with singing and a number leading in prayer. Dr. Bresee gave a short message from the ninety-first psalm, which tells of our dwelling place, fortress and refuge. He said: "Our dwelling place is in the very life and heart of God. God could not have anyone dwelling there that had any element of a traitor in him. Jesus' prayer is to be answered and we are to be one in Him. No one knows anything about this unity except those who have been sanctified wholly. You can see it in their very faces. He melts us by His very presence into this unity. It is more than any figure can express, it is marvelous spiritual unity.

"What does the shadow of the Al-mig-hty mean? It is molten glory. With this experience you would not worry and fuss would you? I don't think you would have hard times, for hard times would be easy times. Most of us talk about hard times, but it is a blessed thing- that you have a place to sleep and something to eat. If you are out in the storm fussing, then you are not in the refuge, are you? Some people look as if their religion didn't agree with them.

"The fortress means that there are soldiers. God hasn't much use for anybody that isn't a soldier I think. The church is not a hospital or a place for people to sponge. The Lord is looking for stalwart Christians these days."

TESTIMONIES. Bro. Lash.—I thank God that I have

found Him. I was hungry and thirsty and I praise the Lord that He opened up a way for me. I had a way fixed up, but it wasn't the Lord's way. I heard of the Nazarene church, and I came here. I haven't forgotten the day and never shall forget while memory lasts. I just put my trust in God to lilt me out and He has done it. He poured out His precious blessing in my soul. I am on the old ship Zion.

Bro. Loomis.—I praise God every day lor what He has put in my heart, and ior what He is doing. Just one month ago today he sanctified my heart, and oh, how I praise him for it!

Bro. Dean.—I was a little afraid of these Tuesday afternoon meetings lest I might get my name in the paper. [Job said, "For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me. ' So it seems with our Bro.

Dean.—ED.] The Lord has filled my soul with such a calm. "God said, "This is my will your sanctification," and we both agreed. Can anything prevent this if both are agreed? It is precisely what I want and just fixes everything up. My soul is anchored in God. I love Him with all my heart, soul, mind and strength.

Bro. Coleman.—It seems like an age since I have been to this Tuesday afternoon meeting. I have had some marvelous insights into this Holy Ghost teaching. My soul has enlarged in spiritual capacity. I know the Comforter because He has come to abide with me. We are on the great battle line of the ages. We stand where the prophets stood. I thank God that I have caught some of this inspiration. It is thrilling my soul today. I am glad I am in this com­pany. I can't tell you all I have in my soul, but I have salvation. I am going through with Him, sink or swim, live or die.

A Sister.—I thank God I can say that "The blood of Jesus Christ cleanscth from all sin."

Sister Abbie Mills.—I have a very blessed dwelling place under the shadow of the Almighty. I am riding these days, not in an auto-mobile, but in a philo-mobile, love carriage. It is better than bicycles which have to be run with the feet. It lifts me up to ride on high places.

A Sister.—Praise God for a free and full salvation. I am abiding under the shadow of the Almighty.

Sister Mclntyre.—My heart is full of the love of God. Oh, how I praise Him for the love and joy I have. My whole desire is to do His will.

Sister Harrison.—When the small­pox came next door to us, I felt that I could not get along without this ninety-first psalm. It is increasingly precious to me.

* 9 We picture death as coming to de­

stroy us; let us rather picture Christ as coming to save. We think of death as ending; let us rather think of life as beginning, and that more abundantly. We think of losing; let us think of gaining. We think of parting; let us think of meeting. We think of going away; let us think of arriving. And as the voice of death whispers, "You must go from earth," let us hear the voice of Christ saying, "You are but coming to Me."—Dr. Norman Mc-Leod.

H E A L I N G . I,EOT,A SCHOOLEV

"But unto you that fear my name shall the Son of Righteousness arise with healing in His wings."

Blessed healing! How much it means to a child of God. It means a cure for that awful disease—sin. It means peace and rest, and ultimately to dwell with our Savior in glory.

How gently this great Physician binds up the broken heart, pouring in oil and wine! When bruised and torn by the evil one, and we come to Him for help, Jesus speaks the words of forgiveness, which to us is the oil of pardon, and as wine is used to make the heart merry, so the Lord pours in the Holy Ghost, which causes our hearts to leap for joy and starts us to singing His praise.

There are many precious souls struggling against the tide, and battling with the storms of life, trying to overcome in their own strength; when if they would only come to Jesus, how instantly He would calm their fears and bid the tumult cease.

Oh that the world might know more of His healing power! This is what it needs more than anything else. The prophesy of Isaiah was never more true than at the present time: "The whole head is sick and the whole heart is faint . . . full of wounds and putrifying sores, which have not been closed, neither bound up, neither moli-fied with ointment." Yet when the remedy is offered them, the great majority refuse it. How the heart of the Great Redeemer must be grieved, especially with those who once knew His love who for some trifling event have gone back to the world, and by their conduct have brought reproach upon His dear name!

Thank God, if we take a thorough treatment, it will cure all backslidings. The prophet declares, "I will heal their backslidings."

Jesus, the divine Physician, can save to the uttermost. His presence dispels sorrow and gloom. He can save from worry, impatience, and discontent. He hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows, hence He knows how to deliver the godly in time of need.

His healing power sustains us in life, gives victory in death, and is a sure passport to endless bliss in glory.

I have glory in my soul here, but what will it be over there,

"When I shall see Him face to face, And tell the story, saved by grace"?

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P R O H I B I T I O N R A L L Y .

At Illinois Hall, Sixth and Broad­way, this city, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18. All Day Meeting, 10 a.m., 1:30 and 7:30 p. m. Dr. Taft and Bro. J. W. Webb and others will speak in the morning. The W.C.T.U. and other workers in the afternoon. Dr. P. F.' Bresee and Bro. J. W. Webb will speak at night.

9 9 9 AT the meeting of the Official Board

November 6, Rev. Peter C. Hogle, a minister and elder in the Methodist Episcopal church, was received into the Church of the Nazarene, his ordi­nation as an elder recognized, and proper credentials were issued to him.

9 9 9 THE meeting Sunday night at Mateo

street was very promising. The con­gregation was the largest since Bro. Hill has been pastor. One soul sancti­fied, and one sanctified at the parsonage the following day. The Sunday school in the afternoon was encouragingly large.

9 * 9 THE extra meetings at Mateo street

closed Thursday last with special ser­vices afternoon and evening. Several were converted, and some were sancti­

fied wholly during the meetings. The work seemed very deep and radical, and as a result the experiences of the newly saved were very bright and tri­umphant. The closing services were full of victory. Four united with the church on Thursday night, with more to follow.

9 9 9 SABBATH morning Dr. Bresee

preached on "The Testimony of Jesus" to a very full house. There was one brother at the altar seeking to know his sins forgiven, and four united with the church. The after­noon service was addressed by Bro. Shepard and there was a most blessed spirit of testimony. At night Rev. Dr. Cummer preached.

9 9 9 DR. AND MRS. JOHNSON—prized mem­

bers and workers in the Church of the Nazarene—who are now residing at Santa Clara, writing us on business, find a place to give their testimony. They say: "We want to tell you a little of our experience. Jesus is more precious to us, and we are realizing what it is to be kept by His power, more than we ever did before. We are learning also, the lesson of praising God, as we see more His providential leadings, and guidance."

# # 9 THE Inter Ocean, recently discussing

the subject of the "second blessing," which it called a "strange creed," though it did not seem to know much about it, said some things which came nearer the truth than the utterances of some who ought to know more about it. It said of the holiness professor: "The Bible becomes his one book, newspaper, fashion-plate, almanac, and guide in all matters of soul and body." It gives as its opinion that, "under these conditions, it is not hard to believe that the 'sanctified' people live lives of great goodness and self-sacrifice, and that a community where ' sanctification' prevails is a little bet­ter than some parts of the world."

9 9 9 He that fails to manifest charity for

the failings of others, by this very failure proves himself to be possessed of at least one failure as bad, if not worse, than the ones he so deplores in others.—N.

9 9 9 Be a Christian, throw yourself upon

God's word and get the ability you want in it. No Christian will ever be good for anything without Christian courage, or, what N the same, Chris­tian faith — Horace Bushnell.

S E L F I S H N E S S . Selfishness always believes in

"standing up for its rights." It for­gets the Scripture that says '' in honor preferring one another."

Selfishness hurries for the best seat in the car, in the parlor or at the table. It seeks for the nearest place at the postoffice window when the gen­eral delivery is thrown open.

Selfishness pours the cream that has risen to the top of the pitcher into the coffee cup and lets the rest of the folks take skim milk.

Selfishness looks out for its piece of pie when there isn't enough to go round. It takes the largest orange from the plate, and when it divides an apple keeps the larger half.

Selfishness sleeps all night and snores, and lets the worn-out mother nurse the crying baby. It will take a meal at the restaurant when the family is destitute at home. It will see that its own back is clothed if the other side of the house is practically naked.

Selfishness will take a trip to the beach while the poor wife stays at home and puts out the washing. It goes to places of amusement and spends money that ought to be paid to the baker and butcher.

Selfishness is very selfish. It mani­fests itself in ways too numerous to mention. It always wants to be paid attention to. It seeks its own. It frequently speaks of the wrongs done unto it. It is full of pity for itself. It is a very close observer of its own needs. It believes in watching and preying (on others).

May the Lord save us from the coils of this deadly serpent. It will squeeze the juice out of our Christian experi­ence, and sap the life from our souls. It will break up the harmony of the married life and separate very friends. It wrinkles the soul, spots the life and checks the spiritual growth. It is so self-centered that it cannot help but attract the gaze of those around.

Brother, sister, are you selfish? Would you like to be cured? Then give yourself away entirely to Jesus and trust Him to apply the blood to cleanse you from this evil in your heart. • Surely Christ is the antidote.

—W. E. S. 9 9 9

Who has a greater combat than he that laboreth to overcome himself? This ought to be our endeavor, to con­quer ourselves and to make a fur­ther growth in holiness.—Thomas a Kempis.

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/^SRE of the greatest temperance oratiors ever delivered in the

English language is said to have been delivered by Ingersol in a case where he was defending a liquor dealer. It was as follows:

"I am aware that there is a preju­dice against any man in the manufac­ture of alcohol. I believe that from the time it issues from the coiled and poisonous worm in the distillery until it empties into the hell of death, dis­honor and crime, it demoralizes every­body that touches it, from its source to where it ends. I do not believe any­body can contemplate the subject without becoming prejudiced against the liquor crime.

"All we have to do, gentlemen, is to think of the wrecks on either side of the stream of death; of the suicides, of the insanity, of the poverty, of the ignorance, of the destruction, of the little children tugging at the faded weary breasts of weeping and despair­ing wives, asking for bread, of the talented men of genius it has wrecked, the men struggling with imaginary serpents, produced by this devilish thing; and when you think of the jails, the almshouses, of the asylums, of the prisons, of the scaffolds upon either bank, I do not wonder that every thoughtful man is prejudiced against this stuff called alcohol.

'' Intemperance cuts down youth in its vigor, manhood in its strength, and age in its weakness. It breaks the father's heart, bereaves the doting mother, extinguishes natural affec­tions, erases conjugal loves, blots out filial attachments, blights parental hope, and brings down mourning age in sorrow to the grave. It produces weakness, not strength; sickness, not health; death, not life. It makes wives widows, children orphans, fathers fiends, and all of them paupers and beggars. It feeds rheumatism, nurses gout, welcomes epidemics, invites cholera, imports pestilence, and em­braces consumption. It covers the land with idleness, misery and crime. It fills your jails, supplies your alms­houses, and demands your asylums. It engenders controversies, fosters quarrels, and cherishes riots. It crowds your penitentiaries and furnishes vic­tims to your scaffolds. It is the life blood of the gambler, the element of the burglar, the prop of the highway­man, and the support of the midnight incendiary. It countenances the liar, respects the thief, esteems the blas-

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phemer. It violates obligations, rever­ences fraud and honors infamy. It defames benevolence, hates love, scorns virtue and slanders innocence. It in­cites the father to butcher his helpless offspring, helps the husband massacre his wife, and the child to grind the paracidal axe. It burnes up men, con­sumes women, detests life, curses God, and despises heaven. It suborns wit­nesses, nurses perjury, defiles the jury box, and stains the judicial ermine. It degrades the citizen, debases the legis­lator, dishonors statesmen, and disarms the patriot. It brings shame, not honor; terror, not safety; and with the malevolence of a fiend it calmly sur­veys its frightful desolation, and, un­satisfied with its havoc, it poisons felicity, kills peace, ruins morals, blights confidence, slays reputation, and wipes out national honors, then curses the world and laughs at its ruin.

"It does all that and more—it mur­ders the soul. It is the son of villainies, the father of all crimes, the mother of abomination, the devil's best friend and God's worst enemy."

® PENTECOST PAPERS.

W. A. POW ERS. "Ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost

not many days hence."

There are two promises here; the first clause has reference to the work,— a baptism; the second promise, is its speedy coming.

These promises come to us in the present day, with the same weight and authority that they did to the early disciples.

However, the majority of teachers of this day say little about the baptism of the Holy Ghost and fire; and as a rule, in the congregations where the doctrine is not made prominent; there is but little desire for either the doctrine or experience.

And it is equally true, where the doctrine is taught from Sabbath morn­ing till the close of the week, hearers are interested and many obtain the experience. Those with the blessing, those seeking it, and those walking in the light, in a clearly justified state, never tire listening to Holy Ghost teaching. If any grows weary while hearing this old Bible doctrine taught, he may safely conclude at once tnat his experience is not up to the Scrip­tural standard.

The baptism of the Holy Ghost, with all that implies, is the leading doctrine of God's Word, and if a man

turns away from that teaching, he closes his heart against the best, the greatest blessing there is for him in this life, and bars the entrance to life eternal.

Two facts stand out in the religious realm of thought today most promi­nently. First, the churches of the land need the baptism of the Holy Ghost more than all else; second thought is, those having the baptism must proclaim it unceasingly, fear­lessly, lovingly. Teach purity to all, but straight from God's Word to God's people.

Christ came to teach men and to pre­pare their minds for a more spiritual dispensation than the Jewish, which was then about to close. He preached repentance for the remission of sins. His disciples followed on the same line. But the three years of our Savior's ministry on earth were not attended by any great or mighty re­sults, in the immediate salvation of men. Those were years of necessary teaching, of preparation and training: educating His disciples in spiritual things, and leading their thoughts away from a temporal to a heavenly kingdom. He also went about doing good, healing the sick, etc., to teach the people there was a natural and compassionate element in His Gospel. In these works He was successful.

But now Christ was about to leave his disciples, and sorrow filled their hearts. He told them that it was "expedient that He should go away" and promised the Comforter, the Holy Ghost, should be sent them to abide. At the close of the forty days' sojourn with His disciples after the crucilixion He again repeated the promise of tiie Holy Ghost, and instructed them not to depart from Jerusalem, but wait the promised baptism. That city was their circuit home. And does not that command come with equal force to every teacher of the present day; "tarry," wait the promise of the Father; stay at home till endued with power from on high, "the power of the Holy Ghost," and to every earnest, consecrated seeker the Hoiy Ghost comes, "not many days hence."

the earth." These were our Savior's last words to His disciples before He ascended on high. If "last words" have special significance, then these are entitled to careful thought and attention.

"After that," (the baptism of the Holy Ghost) "ye shall be witnesses unto Me." Perhaps it will be perti­nent, just here, to ask, does God send out men, in our day, to "witness for Him," without this baptism?

The disciples did wisely and faith­fully, as instructed, "tarried at Jeru­salem. And they not only waited, but were with one accord in one place, in prayer! Soon Pentecost came; most auspicious day! Few days, if any, ever dawned upon this earth so fraught with blessings to mankind. It was the dawning of a new day; a new crea­tion; an opening of men to God and heaven. The Pentecost inaugurated the kingdom of Christ upon earth. That day witnessed the giving of the divine Spirit; the baptism of the Holy Ghost. Wondrousday! Mighty power! Oh that the intellect and heart of the Christian church might arise and grasp the glorious facts and possibilities that Pentecost ushered in to save and bless mankind! That day there was begotten of the triune God, and manifested to the world, a power greater than all other forces in the universe combined. And this, "the power that worketh in us," conies to human hearts to save, to cleanse, to keep. And wherein the Christian church fails to recognize this power, to the same extent it fails in its mission.

* * «• Love all for Jesus, and Jesus for

Himself: Jesus Christ alone is singru-larly to be loved; and He alone is found good and faithful above all friends, n or Him, and in Him, let friends as well as foes be dear unto thee; and all these are to be prayed for, that He would make them all to know and to love Him. Lever desire to be singu­larly commended nor beloved, for tnat appertameth only unto God, who hath none like unto Himself.—A'Kempis.

After our Lord came back from the tomb, He again repeated His com­mand to tarry- at Jerusalem. The pow-er of the Holy Ghost was to come upon them, then " after • that," said He, "ye shall be witnesses unto Me,

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LUCY P. KNOTT,

LESSON IX., NOV. 26, 1899. WOES OF INTEMPERANCE.

Prov. 23:29-35. GOLDEN TEXT.—Wine is a mocker,

strong- drink is raging: and whoso­ever is deceived thereby is not wise. While Solomon is the anthor of the

greater part of the book of Proverbs, it is conceded that many of the wise sayings were collected and edited by him from other sages of Israel—the last two chapters were written by Agur, the son of Jakeh, and a king named Lemuel.

The words of warning in today's lesson were written by Solomon.

Even in Solomon's time the horrors of Intemperance were known, and the picture he draws of sottish drunken­ness is very familiar to thousands and thousands of mothers and wives at the close of this nineteenth century. It needs no explanation; it is the crying sin of our day. Proper legislation could hold it in check. If the vote of every professing Christian was against it, our boys would find it calendared with murder and theft.

But the red wine sparkles, and fathers, mothers, and family, and friends, sip it together in the cosy din­ing room, heedless of the fact that they fondle a serpent that may coil itself around one of their number, and fasten its fangs upon soul and body.

Intemperance is a SIN, and until Satan is bound and cast into the bottomless pit the world will be cursed with it, but there is a cure for every individual who will take it. It will not be found in Keely cures, nor moral reformers; the wine cup is stronger than these, but thank God, there is a cup of salvation that will destroy the serpent and heal his bite.

Some months since in our Elysian Heights mission a poor man, who was the victim of strong drink, became deeply convicted of his need. He came to the altar, an object lesson of the wages of intemperance. It took divine love to see in that storm-beaten wreck of humanity anything worth saving, but the power of God fell upon him, as he broke his heart at the foot of the cross, and he realized he was not only forgiven, but the terrible appetite for liquor was de­stroyed. By pressing on he soon entered into the blessing of a sanctified life, where he is rejoicing today.

The application of the lesson is to

avoid intoxicating drinks, as you would avoid a serpent. Look not upon it. Keep away from it. A minister in this city when at a Masonic supper turned his wine glass upside down, and so avowed his temperance principles, but he would have done better had he with righteous indignation refused to attend an entertainment enlivened by wine.

Let teachers press upon the children in connection with this lesson the great importance of not looking upon evil of any kind—the sensational pic­tures at the news stands, the indecent posters on bulletin boards, the cheap and undermining literature that floods the country.

9 9 9 H O L I N E S S H I N T S . REV. C. A. SNELLING.

We have in our lesson today phys­ical or sensual drunkenness described, with a warning against it. We find that there is also a spiritual intoxica­tion. While Solomon has described the former, Isaiah speaks of the latter. "They are drunken not with wine."

Should we take a golden text it shall be, "And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit."

1. We gather that one kind of intemperance indulged in is excessive, while the fullness resulting from the baptism of the Holy Ghost is not. "They that tarry long at the wine." They are full, they are drunk, they are surfeited, they are overcome with slumber. They that tarry in Jerusalem also are filled, but with the new wine of the kingdom which Jesus drinks with them at Pentecost—the Spirit of the living God, the Holy Ghost. "I will come in and sup with him and he with me." Glory.

2. Solomon says, "Look not upon the wine when it is red," while Zach-ariah says, "Corn shall make the young men cheerful and new wine the maids." From this we certainly gather that there was a wine, red wine, that was intoxicating, poisonous, from which they were to turn away, and that there was a wine, new wine, that was exhilarating without being intox­

icating and was a healthy drink. So there are pleasures of the world that are intoxicating and soul destroying, against which we are warned, and there are joys at "thy right hand for-evermore" that are imparted -to us when we are baptized with the Holy Ghost. "Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these shall be added unto you."

3. The actions of those who are filled with the Holy Ghost are some­what similar in some respects to those intoxicated with wine. "Who hath babblings?" Solomon asks. On the day of Pentecost they received the gift of tongues and began to talk to the people in their mother tongues, and for this cause the mockers declared that they were drunk with new wine.

Greek was the universal language of communication between different nations at that time, though each language had its mother tongue. It was an acquired language. The lan­guage of sin is an acquired language while the language of Canaan is the mother tongue lisped by the child at mother's knee in prayer. Pentecost restores the mother tongue while the Babel of sin scatters. The language of sin is a conventional language, a language of society, a language of deception, a language of confusion, while the mother tongue of Pentecost is the language of the spirit, of the heart, of the home, of heaven.

4. The end of the wine cup is first, selfishness entire, that of the Spirit is self-sacrificing. Second, the wine cup gives satiety without satisfaction, but the Spirit imparts fulness of joy. Third, the wine cup results in delir­iums ["At last it biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an adder. Thine eyes shall behold strange things." R.V.], while that of Pentecost is the third heaven experience. Fourth, the wine cup winds up in eternal death, the fulness of the Spirit in eternal life.

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