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iMarch 21, 19^3

BOOK .St"o~~R~E rnTES HOME

During the past year anda half, our Bible BookStore, has been located onone of the city*s piainarteries. The new locationno.doubt had its value aspublicity, but otherwiseit did not prove as successful as we had hoped.So v/e have moved it backto., its former quartersI' here we will be able toonce again give the publicthe. day and night servicethat they demand.

Getting the old quartersback into condition gaveus several weeks of goodexercise. Figuring how tosqueeze all the book casesinto our already overcrowded quarters was also goodexercise for the brain.

Rubin RecoveringRubin is a talented boy

from Ragaul who was learning painting ^ here in Kan-pur. After various startsand stops, he returned tohis home in October. Hispsychological condit iongrew v/orse, then improved.On January 25th he suddenly reappea.r-od at our housein the middle of the night

*Vi?e finally did what everyone thought ought to bedone; v^e took him to apsychiatric clinic run bythe Methodist Church inLucknow. Two months andten shock treatnents laterRubin is nov/- back with us.He is much .improved. Prayfor him and for us that wemight keep him on the mend.

'•And should not I have regard for Nineveh, that great city, whefein are more than sixscorethousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also muchcattle ? " Jonah 4^11

Rubin's hospital billhas been a large one, butT.G, Hash aiid Dr. Rother-rael have helped generously.The church at Ragaul aiidan Indian friend have alsohelped some.

The other boys have beentoo busy to make any news.Temorarily we have hadone extra boy, Hangal Din.Mangal is staying with uswhile he takes his exams.

Book Store Sales

Just for the record: During January and February,Book Store sales amountedto |;l[|.8. Sales included 21Bibles, 2 New Testar.ionts,and 807 Portions.

Lawrence Lazarus

Our Hindi book editor,Lawrence Lazarus, left forhis home on February li^-thin order to take examinations. He hoped to returnhere by March 13'th. Now itlooks as though he vi/on'tget back until about April13th. Soon after that, ourprinter will be going hometo get married. By thetime he gets back, it v/illbe time for ms to go tothe hills. So it looks asthough it will still be along time before our Hindiedition of "On the Rock"

will finally be completed.Twenty-five of the thirtychapters .were printed before Lazarus took hisleave,

Lazarus thought that hewould be able to studymore if he got av;ay fromhis preoccupations in Kan-pur. We gather from hisletters, hov/ever, that going to Bilas pur did nothelp him any. Despite allof the efforts and sacrifices which have been madethere is little hope thathe v/ill pass the exams.

PreachingBeginning from the first

of the year, our eveningservices have been devotedto a chapter-by-chapterstudy of the Book of Daniel. I also preach occasionally in the morningservices, sometimes extemporaneously when the appointed speaker does notarrive.

On March 17th I preachedin Allahabad where I hadgone to help plan the pro-graoi for our annual can^)v/hich will be held nextFall.

I have been invited topreach in Bhopal duringthe Easter weekend. Bhopalis 12 hrs. distant.

We are happy to aiinouncethat hoine church atClinton, Ohio, his increased their support from $20to $60 a month® We v;ere inneed of the increased support, and v/e are greatlyencouraged by the continued confidence of the folk

at homeoHelen Douglas, sister of

Florence, has recentlybeen hospitalized® She isone of Flora*s finestschool teachers.

I may be mistaken, but Ithink this is the firsttime we have had a contribution from the SouthernHeights Christian Churchof Lebaiion, Mo. Thanks!

The folk at Manchesteraiid Kenmore churches are 'our very old friends. Weare glad to hear from themagain after a long time.

In our last newsletter,we reported that we hadordered a new bicycle. Thebicycle finally came, andI am enjoying it thesedays •

In the meantime, theState Government has takenover the city bus service,and the citizens are enjoying dependable bus service once again after several years of disgracefuldisorganisation. But westill need our bicycles#

Kan pur also now has airservice after an interval

of about ten years. Oneplane a day comes fromDelhi- and then returns toDelhi via Lucknow, Thiswill make it slightlyeasier for those visionaries who- want to tourIndia in three days.

Our annual convention ofchurches, in northern Indiawas held at Ragaul in February, This is the firstyeai^ it was held away fromKulpahar, Kext February itwill be held in Kanpur. Weare wondering just hov/ v/eare going to accomodateall of the visitors.

Our local evangelisticcampaign is slated forApril 28th to May ^th.,Bro. Bemel Getter of Sar-guja and an Indian brother(John ZaBian), of Allahabadhave accepted our invitations to preach. The themeof the iieetings will be,"From Darkness to Light."

The Church Building Fundnow contains $7^^* Littleby little it grows.

This month we are sending each of you a copy of"Itts A Wonderful, Life I"It is printed primarilyfor D.V.B.S., but you canuse it any way you like.Extra copies may be hadfrom Miss Douglas.

FORWARDING AGENT : MISS FLORENCE DOUGLAS, 419 N. MAIN STFLORA, ILLINOIS, U. S. A.

GOSSIPIETTER(Printed for the exclusiveenjoyment of fellow missionaries, For other readers this page contains the

financial report.)The "mission stations"

are a little quieter nowthat the young people havegone back to school aftertheir winter recess. TheGetter home is the onlymission home still ringing with children* s sv\reetvoices•

Frank and Marie are wondering what to do with themonkey that Dale purchasedduring his vacation. Ipredict that it*s end v/illcome the day it upsets atray of type in Franlc^sprint shop.

Tom and Leota were a

little more fortunate be

cause the moniiey whichSteve purchased did notsurvive the v/inter.

Both Steve and Dean havesho'wn a facility this yearof getting around on busses and trains by themselves •

My conclusion from thiswinter*s experiences isthat the little squirts ofyesterday have become the

fat heads of today.Dean did some successful

book selling at Kulpahar,and David Roland helpedout at the Ragaul Convention,

The Rolands and Mrs.Rotherniel spent ,a' good bitof the winter at Ragaul.More lately we have beenenjoying Mrs. Rothermeltspresence in Kanpur.

Latest word from DollyChitv/ood Is that she recently had a small operation on her foot. She isstill expected back in India soon. Her letters havebeen very aieerful.

Some time age the Ren-pels received a ratherfrustrating request fromStandard Publishing for^'stories" for D.V.B.S. material. Having no ideas oftheir ov/n, they gave it tome. I hardly knew v/hatwould be suitable, but Ifinally produced somethingLater we received a letterfrom Cincinnati that the

stories were not what theywanted but that they werepaying me for t hem anyway.We are afraid that the

type of stories they wantdon*t happen here.

"Thanks be to God for his gift beyond words Vn Cor. 9;l5

We are happy to announcethat iny hoine church atClinton, Chip, ias Incre^-sd their support from $20to $60 a month. V/e were inneed of the increased support, and we are greatlyencouraged by the continued confidence of Lhe folk

at home.

Helen Douglas, sister ofFlorence, has recentlybeen hospitalized. She isone of Flora's finestschool teachers.

I may be mistaken, but Ithink this is the firsttime we.have had a contri

bution from the SouthernHeights Christian Churchof Lebaiion, Mo. Thanks!

The folk at Manchesterand Kenmore churches areour very old friends. Weare glad to hear from themagain after a long time.

In our last newsletter,we reported that we hadordered a now bicycle. Thebicycle finally came, andI am enjoying it thesedays.

In the meantime, theState Govermuent has taken

over the city bus s.ervice,and the citizens are enjoying dependable bus service once again after several years of disgracefuldisorganisation. But westill need our bicycles.

Kan pur also now has airservice after an interval

of about ten years. Oneplane a day comes fromDelhi and then returns to

Dellii via Lucknow. Thiswill make it slightlyeasier for those vision

aries • who want to tour

India in three days.Our annual convention of

churches in northern Indiawas held at Ragaul in February. This is the firstyeax' it was held av/ay fromKulpahar. Next February itwill be held in Kanpur. Weare wondering just how weare going to accomodateall of the visitors.

Our local evangelisticcajTLpaign is slated forApril 28th to May 5"bh.Bro. Ber-nel Getter of Sar-guja and an Indian brother{John Zaman) of Allahabadhave accepted our invitations to preach. The themeof the neetings will be,"From Darkness to Light."

The Church Building Fundnow contains $70i{.. Littleby little it grows.

This month we are sending each of you a copy of"It's A Wonderful Lifel"It is printed primarilyfor D.V.B.S., but you canuse it any way you like.Extra copies may be hadfrom Miss Douglas.

FORWARDING AGENT : MISS FLORENCE DOUGLAS. 419 N. MAIN SI-FLORA, ILLINOIS, U. S. A.

THE CliELRPUL GIVERS HIRINGJAN. AND FEB., 19^3

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Remember to give us yourprayers as well as yourfinancial support. We needwisdom from the Loi'd touse these funds where theywill do the most good.

"Thanks be to God for his gift beyond Avor<ls !"11 Cor. 9:15

'*• •III'

DON'T WEEP FOR ME

The following poem was written while its author was a patient in the Mayo Clinic,Rochester, Minnesota, in 1953. It is reprinted here in memory of the late Mrs. HelenBiddle of Akron, Ohio, U.S.A.

As I lay sick upon my bedPerhaps I suffered some;But in comparison to my Saviour,I know I suffered none.

My friends came up to visit me,But His friends fled away.They gave me hypos for my pain,But they gave Him thorns that day.My Saviour had no doctorsTo lend their healing art:He only heard the cursesThat broke His aching heart.My Saviour had no nursesTo wipe His sweat away;My Saviour had no radioTo pass the time of day.And so, my friends and relatives,Don't weep a bit for me;But weep for Christ our Saviour,Who died in agony.

Ralph R. Harter

Vol. IX, No. 2 March 1963 AprU Kanpur, India

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PRESS GLEANKNGS

In a speech in New York City, LordFrancis-WilliaraSj veteran British Journalist, has said that the attributes of afree press were denied in a number ofAsian countries, but that India's newspapers were alive and kicking.- (TakeCHRISTASIAN Magazine for example).

An experiment conducted at the S. N.Medical College in Agra has proventhat the chewing of Mainpuri tobaccocauses cancer of the mouth. The newsitem says that thirty dogs were used asguinea-pigs. After repeated transplantations of Mainpuri tobacco in their mouths,the dogs showed signs of malignancy afterabout ten days. None of the dogs survivedthe experiment.

Acharya Vinoba Bhave has refused aninvitation to visit a temple at Tarapithnear Calcutta since " it is one of thosenumerous places where animals are sacrificed for the so-called pleasure of thedeity. " Acharya Vinoba deprecatedsuch sacrifice of lives in the name of Godand asked the people to stop this practice.We might add that it is impossible for theblood of bulls and goats to take awaysins, and that the blood of Jesus Christlaketh away all sins.

The son of the proprietor of LaxmiTalkies at Haldwani lost one of hiseyes when he was shot at by a man whowas refused a free pass to see the latestfilm. Another person standing nearbyalso received bullet injuries.

Patriotism got the better of possessive-ness in a criminal case at Faizabad wherea buffalo was claimed by two persons.After some arguments, the litigants compromised by auctioning off the animal anddonating the proceeds to the NationalDefence Fund.

One thousand street lamp bulbs werestolen in one month from along the

streets and roads of Moradabad. Thethefts were occurring regularly threetimes a week. The police suspect thatthe thieves are employees of the ElectricSupply Company who, when caught climbing a pole, can always claim to be repairing something.

Mr. Mahabir Prasad Srivastava,Health Minister in the U.P. Government,has disclosed that there are 300 governmenthospitals in the State without doctors.A plan is under consideration to givespecial scholarships to medical studentswho will promise to work in the rural areas.Salary increases for rural workers arealso being increased.

Nine persons were killed and othersseriously injured when a jeep carryingtwenty-one persons met with an accidentnear Rewa.

There have been four (" alleged")murders recently in front of police stationsin the city of Lucknow. In all these cases,the police failed to apprehend the assailants on the spot.

Mr. K. P. S. Menon, who was India'sfirst Ambassador to China, has saidthat one reason for the present conductof China towards India is " the conspicuous lack of tlie spiritual element in theChinese revolution. " He said that Chinahas subverted whatever spiritual foundations she might have had.

Traffic on the Bulandshahr-Dadri Section of the Grand Trunk Road was recentlyparalyzed by a 22-mile race betweentwo tongas. Since considerable bettingwas involved, the police took chase andarrested fourteen persons, two cars andtwo tongas, along with the horses. Fourcars and their occupants escaped. Thepolice also recovered some bottles ofalcohol.

THE ESSENCE OF CIHIRIISTIAN ONITY

By B. L. Turjmer, Lahore

John 11:20-25

This service (held November 17, 1962)concludes the "World YMGA/YWGAWeek of Prayer and World Fellowship "services in Lahore. Mr. Albert and Mr.Wilson honored me a few weeks ago byasking me to speak on this occasion. Inmy brief visit with them at that time theyexpressed the desire that this week ofspecial services might increase the emphasis on the "G" in YMGA/YWGA. Iheartily share their desire. May thismessage provide some lasting contributionto that goal.

The week has been an emphasis onChristian imity. Today's theme, " Together unto the end of the World," linksGhristian unity with Ghrist's promise tobe with His church. It emphasizes thegreat New Testament teaching that God'sfellowship with us is contingent upon ourmaintenance of fellowship with God'speople. John the apostle tells us, "whosoever loveth Him that begat lovethHim also that is begotten of Him.''(1 John 5:1 ARV).

Out of all the topics suggested bytoday's theme it seems most important tome that we imderstand something of thebasic nature of Ghristian unity. If God'scontinued presence is dependent uponour togetherness as His children, which itis, then it is imperative that we seek forthe essence of Ghristian unity.

First, then, I would like briefly toexplore with you some of the currentdefinitions of the essence of Ghristianunity. Fortunately, we live in a daythat has produced a number of popularanswers for us to consider.

Protestantism's Solution

Let us begin TOth one of the contem- , . A„Ui„„y Hamon, Th marnng of Umiyporary answers found m Protestantism. | (London: Highway Press, 1954) pp. 27-28

On. September 27, 1947 the Anglican,Presbyterian, Methodist, and Gongrega-tional Ghurches of South India mergedto form the Ghurch of South India. Sevenyears later Dr. Anthony Hanson, one ofthe participants in that merger, wrote andpublished a very interesting book whichhe called " The Meaning of Unity. " Inhis book Dr. Hanson draws heavily fromthe experience of those who compose theGhurch of South India and from thisexperience offers us his understanding ofme meaning of scriptural unity. ThoughI fail to find a consistent logic in his book.Dr. Hanson formulates one of the popularProtestant views of Ghristian unity. Heapparently felt this was the main basisof the merger which created the Ghurchof South India. Let us hear him:

" There have been divisions in the church inCorinth,each man enrolling himself imdera party.The key verse is 1:13; [i.e. I Cor. 1:13]

Is Christdivided? WasPaul crucified for you?or were ye baptized into the name of Paul ?

This is St. Paul's answer to those who arecausing divisions, a very interesting one if we compare it with what we should be inclined to say ina similar situation to-day. Weshouldsay at once:*You should not be divided: you are wreckingthe church '. St. Paulsays neitherof these things,though no doubt he mi^ht have said them. Hesays in effect: *By baptism you have been mademembers of the one Christ; this is your bondof imity. Christ cannot be divided. The churchis one, whether you like it or not. ' Christ has,by His death on the Cross, redeemed the Churchand thereby made it indissolubly one.

Dr. Hanson's conclusion may be calledunity by foreordination or by inevitability.He says, " The Ghurchisone,whetheryoulike it or not." He aflSrms that theGhurch is " indissolubly one. " But thismakes nonsense out of Jesus' prayer for

unity. It also makes nonsense out of thisweek of emphasis on Christian unity.Verse thirteen of 1 Corinthians, chapterone is not, as Dr. Hanson affirms, Paul'sanswer to the divided Corinthians. Paulsimply tells them that their division cannot be traced to Christ. There is noambiguity in Christ. He is not divided.Therefore, the root of the division is notin him. Paul's answer to Corinth is inverse ten: ** Now I beseech you, brethren, through the name of ourLord Jesus Christ, that ye all speakthe same thing, and that there be nodivisions among you; but that ye beperfected together in the same mindand in the same judgment. " (ARV)

Though Dr. Hsmson's thinking hasgained some popularity in Protestantism,it is not useful. It is not sound Biblicallyand it does not squarely face the realityof a divided church. We cannot remedyour problems by denying their existence.

Roman Catholic concept

Let us turn, then, to the Roman Cathorlie concept of unity. The Second VaticanCoimcil which began just last month,(October 1962) gives us both an opportunity and an incentive to appraise theunity which exists in Romanism. Actually, this appraisal is urgent when wekeep in view Pope John's stated objective-for the coxmcU. " Its prime objective, "he said, " will be to invite the separatedreligious commimities to seek the unityof the church.

Historically, the main factor in theRoman concept of unity has been an outward conformity imposed through anauthoritative hierarchical church adminis-tration. In the pontificate of PopeInnocent III (AD 1198-1216) the RomanChurch" transformed the Roman idea of world dominion into theidea of a Christian theocracy, governingthe world through the church, ruled bythe pope.

Supplementing this rigid authoritari-£inism Rome, taking a cue from Constan-tine, has employed an indulgent accomo-dation to paganism. Thus, " thechiurch being reasonable and takingseriously St. Paul's injunction to be ' allthings to all men,' knew well how tocompromise on the best terms to behad. "4

With even this brief glance at itsmain concepts of unity it prepares usto understand the scandalous divisionwhich seethes just behind Rome's fagadeof conformity. We need go no furtherthan the current reports of the openingdays of the Vatican Goimcil for a contemporary demonstration of this reality.Even the timing of the Council produceda contest of wills. " Many Curia professionals ", Time Magazine reports," made no secret of their dismay, seemedto have no clear idea of what the Popewanted the Council to do."5 But the Curiahad " no choice except to obeythe Pope's marching orders "®

It is just this authority and that ofthe Curia which is coveted by the Romanbhhops. When recommendations for theCouncil agenda were invited, Rome was" flooded with proposals to increase thebishops' authority.And when theCouncil was barely open " RomanCatholic prelates from western Europewere fighting to wrest control of the council—and perhaps ultimately of the church—away from the Roman Curia, the Vatican's Central administrative office. "®

2 " The Ecumenical Council" Newsweek OsbornElliott (ed) Vol. LX, No. 17. Oct. 22, 1962, p. 55.

3James Westfall Thompson and Edgar Nathaniel Johson; An Introduction to Medieval Europe,300-1500 (New York: W. W. Norton and Co. Inc.1937) p. 644.

* Ibid. p. 653.5 " Council of Renewal, " Time, Roy Alexan

der (ed) Asia Edition (Vol. LXXX, No. 14,Oct. 5, 1962) p. 46.

6 Ibid. p. 47.7 cf. Newsweek Op. cit., p. 55.8 " Power Struggle " Newsweek, Osborn Elliott,

(ed.) (Vol. LX, No. 18. Oct. 29, 1962) p. 50.

Glaring disparities between the national branches of Roman Catholicism maybecome even more glaring as the resultof the Council. Time Magazine pointsout that " Missionaries may get moreauthority to incorporate native customsand religious practices into baptism,marriage and fimeral rites.

It seems unnecessary to spend muchtime in evaluation. Jesus prayed for hisdisciples, that they may all be one;even as thou, Father, art in me, andI in thee, that they also may be in as

" (Jolm 17:21 ARV) It is difficult to conceive of a greater antithesisthan Jesus' prayer and the Romanconcept of unity.

World Council Concept✓

Any survey of the concepts of Christianunity, however brief, woffid be grosslynegligent if it failed to consider the ideaof unity in the World Council of Churches.It is still less than a year since the ThirdAssembly of the World Council of Churches met in New Delhi. From the documents of this Assembly and analyses ofthem we may understand sometlimg ofthe idea of unity in this movement.

The World Council's Commission onFaith and Order issued at the Delhi assembly a concise and commendable statement of the nature of Christian unity.I quote:—

" We believe that the imity which is bothGod's will and his gift to his church is beingmadevisible as all in each place who are baptized intoJesus Christ and confess him as Lord and Saviourare brought by the Holy Spirit into one fullycommitted fellowship, holding the one apostolicfmth, preaching the one Gospel, breaking the onebread, joining in common prayer, having a corporate life reaching out in witness and service to alland who at the same time are united with the wholeChristian fellowship in all places and all ages insuch wise that ministry and numbers are acceptedby all, ^d that all can act and speak togetlieras occ^ion requires for the tasks to which Godcalls his people ".*o

Conducive as this statement is of aBiblical meaning, we must enquire of its

actual meaning from the practice of theWorld Coimcil of Churches. Mr. KyleHaselden, Managing Editor of theChristian Century Magazine, gives usimportant insight in his appraisal of themeaning of the Delhi A^embly. Hesays :—

•" Ready for it or not, the World Cotmcil ofChurches now provides the only world setting inwhich the divided churches can seek each other incommon witness across the lines of their diversity.This issomethingnewin the history of Christiatiity-Christians in greatest variety working andwitnessing together in closest unity. Outside sucha body as the world council such diversitydegenerates into futile doctrinal clashes, proselytizing, wasteful duplications of talents andfacilities, even bigotry and name-calling. Withinthe Council, diversities in liturgy, in doctrine, inchurch polity, find their cherished place in a mosaicwhich preserves and utilizes all the Spirit's variedgifts to the churches.""

The key statement is: " within thecouncil diversities find their cherished place in a mosaic " Mr. Haselden has already described the gravecharacter of these diversities.

The unity, then, which is practicedin the World Council of Churches is oneof inclusivism. It is true that wemay achieve a type of unity by endorsingeach other's beliefs and practices. Thus,we may all become one by all becomingeverything. But this type of inclusivismis not sanctioned by the scripture.

On the other hand, it is clear fi:omscripture that the true imity of the churchdoes not force Christians into a drab,stereotyped production line sort of conformity which gives no place for the development and expression of individualthought and personality. (Cf. 1 Corinthians 12:12-27) One ofthe best summariesof the Biblical teaching of corporate unityand personal liberty in Christ is: In

9 Tinut op. cit. p. 47.J. Robert Nelson, " Unity", The Christian

Century, Harold E. Fey (Ed.) (Vol. LXXX No. 2,Jan. 10, 1962) p. 54.

Kyle Haselden, "New Delhi, 1961" TheChristian Century, op. cit. p. 39

matters of faith, unity; in matters of opinion, liberty; in all things, charity !"

Seeing that the unity of the churchis not based on foreordination, authoritarianism, nor inclusivism, then, what canwe say about the essenceof its imity ?

Let us look briefly at the Biblical analysis of the essence of the unity of thechurch.

The basic statement is made by theapostle John. They went out fromus, but they were not of us; for if theyhad been of us^ they would havecontinued with us: but they went out,that they might be made manifestthat they all are not of us (1 John2:19 ARV cf. 1 Corinthians 11:19and Romans 9:6-7).

The implication is unavoidable thatthe essence of unity is being " of us ".There has to be a basic compatibility.Without this, division and separation areinevitable. With it, unity in its fullmaturity is not automatically assinred, butit is at least possible. There is, then,no basic incompatibility which stands inthe way.

We must, therefore, understand whomJohn speaks of with the pronoun " us ".Then we must understand what the basiccause of their compatibility was. Inother words, what made the " us" acohesive group, a basically united group?If we read a little further John clearlyidentifies the "us". "Behold", hesays, " what manner of love theFather hath bestowed upon us, thatwe should be called children of God;and such we are« For this cause theworld knoweth us not, because itknew him not(1 John 3:1 ARV)

The " us " are c^^en of God. Theunity is iij that new existence, in that newnature with which one is endowed throughthe new birth or regeneration. The basic

"compatibility is that of membership inGod's family. The basic antipathy isbetween God and the world. In Christthe lusts are crucified, the old self-seekingis gone and the new life is present.

" Wherefore if any man is in Christ,he is a new creature: the old thingsare passed away; behold, they arebecome new". (2 Corinthians 5:17ARV).

The essence of the unity of the churchis regeneration. Agreement on this point—^as a statement—^will be large amongthose who have seriouslysought the Biblicalanswer.

But now we must face the consequencesof this knowledge. The" persistence ofchurch members in supporting both formaland undeclared faction indicates that theirregeneration may be doubted. It makesno difference whether our faction is novelor " hallowed by tradition, fortified bycustom, protected by economic or socialsanctions, if we persist in divisionwe must seriously question whether wehave been born again.

Much of today's theolo^ has soughteasy options. In doing so it has stressedthe love of God at the expense of hisjustice. It has streamlined the Gospel.It now gains easy converts, but it^ nolonger permits God to be both "justand the justifier of bim that hathfaith in Jesus ". (Romans 3:26 ARV).God must be both or he can be neither.

Faith is one of the basic principlesofregeneration. Butin populartheology'sefforts to achieve results, faith has beendiluted and eviscerated. The Biblicaldimensions of faith have been neglectedand new dimensions drawn on the tiniestpossible scale. Both its character and itscontents have been forgotten.

Paul stresses that faith is inherentlyobedient (cf. Romans 1:5, 16:26). W^eGhristian baptismis constantly depreciated, it is still clear that Paul consideredit an intrinsic element of faith. He toldthe Colossians, ** ye were .... buriedwith him iu baptism wherein yewere also raised with him throughfaith in the working of God, who

{Continued on page 11)

'8 Hanson, op. cit. p. 62.

Sermm Out^nei for Barefeet Bfecue^eH.Bill Gulick, Ennore, India

THE CHOSEN FEW

Matthew 22:1-14

IrUro.: Who are the redeemed ?„ Theopinions of men vary.

1. The predestined.2. Good moral men.3. Universality, i.e. none will be lost.4. There is no hell, no punishment.5. There is neither heaven nor hell,

nothing from which to be saved.I. The message of God has been avail

able always to some men.A. The Jews had a better opportunity

of hearing than many.B. The western nations live in an

age of greater opportunity than many.The " King sent forth his servantsto call them that were biddenAgain he sent forth other servants,saying all things are ready: come. "

II. Those with the best opportunitiesare sometimes the last to take advantageof them. How did they reject?

A. " But they made light of it ".An individual who makes light of the

appointed plan of God will not enterinto the kingdom of God.

1. " Baptism is silly. "2. " Church membership is unneces

sary. "3. " The name doesn't meike any

difference." •

4. " It doesn't matter what you be-Heve."

5. " One church is as good as another. "

B. They " went their ways. " NoteProverbs 14:12.

One is going his own way if he permitsanything to have pre-eminence over thewill of God for his life. Luke 12:29-31;Matthew 19:16-22.

C. " And the rest took those servants and treated them shamefully andkilled them." They deliberately: andwilfully rejected the message in its entirety. They devoted themselves to itsactive opposition.

III. The message of God is nevertheless to be carried to every creature everywhere. " As many as ye shall find. "See also Revelation 22:17.

Cone.: The message of God is forthose who obey. The obedient to thegospel are the chosen few. " Friend,how camest thou in hither not having awedding garment? And he was speechless." T^e.garment of salvation is thefree gift of God. The appointed garmentmust be worn in the appointed way.

GOD PRESCRIBES

II Kings 5:1-14

Intro.: " Now Naaman, (1) captain ofthe host (2) of the king of Syria (3) wasa great man (4) with his master and(5) honorable, because (6) by him Jehovahhad given victory unto Syria; (7) he wasalso a mighty man ofvalor,

I. Bat he was a leper. "

He could not touch his men. He hadto eat alone. He had to keep a carefuldistance between himself and others.He had to take precautions lest he contaminate his family. His entire life wasaffected by his leprosy.

Leprosy is painless. It spreads. Itdeforms. It xiltimately destroys the life.Sin, like leprosy, is painless at first to thesinner. It has small beginnings, but soonspreads. It makes a wreck of a man andhis life. The wages of sin is death.

A good father, but an adulterer. Agood husband but a drunkard. A hardworker, but a backbiter. A good mother,but a nagging wife. Glood moral people,but they died without having obeyedthe gospel.

II. Naaman was fortunate.

A. There was a messenger handy whoknew of a person who could cure, " alittle maiden; and she waited on Naaman'swife. »

1. She couldn't cure him, but shecould tell him about one' who could.Every Christian has been fortunate inhaving had someone who told him aboutthe One who could take away the guiltof sin.

2. There was one who could cure." Would that my Lord were with theprophet that is in Samaria! then wouldhe recover him of his leprosy 1" God hasa prescription, a panacea for sin.

3. Only God himself had the cure.The king of Syria sent a letter, ten talentsof silver, 6,000 pieces of gold and tenchanges of raiment. " And it came topass, when the king of Israel had read theletter, that he rent his clothes, and said,Am I God, to kill and to make alive, thatthis man doth send imto me to recovera man of his leprosy?"

III. Naaman came -with his ownnotions as to how he should be cured." Behold, I thought. " " So he turned andwent away in a rage. "

It is God Who provides salvation, notman. Many will be lost because theyhave insisted on their own ideas or because

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in a rage they have rejected the way ofsalvatibn.

IV. Naaman was cured because heobeyed. As a matter of fact he couldn'tbe cleansed in the rivers of Abanah andPharpar in Syria, but only in the Jordanas God comn^ded. As a matter offacthe had to dip himself seven times into theJordan.

Cone.: " Then went he down and dipped himself seven times in the Jordan

I according to the saying of the man of God;j and his fiesh came again like unto the

flesh of a little child, and he was clean. "" And now why tarriest thou? arise, andbe baptized, and wash away thy sins,calling on the name of the Lord. " (Acts22:16).

ADMISSION INTO THE CHURCH

Acts 2:37, 38, 47; Eph. 1:22, 23

Intro.: The same terms of pardonwhich bring us salvation also bring usinto Christ and His church. The churchis composed of the redeemed.

I. Hearing, Matt. 7:24; Jn. 8:47;12:48; Matt. 17:5; Rom. 10:14, 17.

II. Faith, Jn. 6:29; 3:36; 20:31;Mk. 16:16; Heb. 11:6.

III. Repentance, Lk. 24:45-47; Mk.6:12; Lk. 13:3, 5; Acts 17:30; II Pet.3:9.

IV. Confession, Matt. 10:32; I Jn.4:15; 4:2, 3; Rom. 10:8-10.

V. Baptism, Mt. 3:13-17; 28:19;Rom. 6:1-6.

Cone.: " And the Lord added to thechurch daily those that were saved"(Acts 2:47). If you have obeyed thegospel, you are a member of the churchof Christ.

BALANCE SHEET OF PROHlIBmON

By G. Ramanujam

(This article, copyrighted by the IndiaNews and Feature Alliance, is reprintedhere with their permission).

Ever since the declaration of thenational emergency following the Chineseundeclared war on India, the critics ofProhibition have become louder in theirdemand for its abolition. There was always a view—expressed mostly by the addicts and the well-to-do class—diatProhibition had never been successful,that illicit distillation was always goingon on a wide-spread scale and that theState was .unnecessarily being deprivedof its revenue.

These critics argue that if Prohibitionhad not been introduced, the State wouldhave gained about Rs. 300 crores annuallyby way of excise, and this huge sum wouldhave helped to push forward our programme for economic development and alsoimprove our defense capacity. It appearsthat some state governments have alreadyfallen a victim to this line of thinking;and some States are reported to be doingsome rethinking on their Prohibition policywith a view to augmenting their revenues.It is time, therefore, to pause a while andponder over the implications of thisrethinking as well as to understand theother side of the case.

Let us analyse the implications ofthe criticism against Prohibition andunderstand the economic and moralaspects of it both from the point of viewof the citizen as well as of the State.

The first criticism is that Prohibitionhas been a failure as there have beennumerous cases of violation of the Prohibition law. Assuming that this criticism is foimded on facts—^which, however,is not wholly the case—this by itselfcannot be a good argument for scrappingProhibition.

This criticism is not against theprinciple or policy of Prohibition but isreally against the manner and method ofthe implementation of that policy. It isa naive attempt to call for an end toProhibition just because there are defectsin its implementation. On the other hand,what such criticism should demand isthe effective implementationof the Prohibition policy. Let us suppose a law is notproperly implemented. This will notmake the law itself bad. It will onlymake the implementation bad. Theremedy does not lie in doing away with thelaw itself, but in taking measures to moreeffectively implement that law. If thecritics are right, then it must mean thatall laws, prohibiting stealing, assaultand murder should also be scrappedbecause in spite of these laws, there stillpersists in society stealing, assault andmurder.

This would be an absurd proposition.The same would be the position in regardto the demand for scrapping Prohibition.We should, therefore, make an honest,determined and sustained effort to implement the programme of Prohibition,imlike some of the present half-heartedways it is being done by doubting ourcapacity and in many cases doubting thevery wisdom of introducing Prohibition.

Any number of violations of theProhibition law should not, therefore,be brought up as an excuse for givingup Prohibition. At the same time itcannot be denied that all such violationsshould be reduced to the minimum ifnot altogether eliminated. We shoulddevise better methods of implementation; and for this it is necessary tounderstand how and why these violationstake place.

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It is well-known that there'are alwaystwo sections in society who do not bothervery much about the legal obligationsarising out of their acts and omissions;and they form the two extreines. Onesection is at the topmost strata of societywhile the other is at the bottom. Butthen together these two constitute a negligible section of the community; and violations of the Prohibition law by these twosections should not be the basis for deciding the successful implementation ofProhibition. These two sections will bethe last to conform to the law, Eventhough our efforts must also be directedtoward making them respect the law by ajudicious mixtmre of education and adeterrent, we should concentrate on themiddle group which constitutes morethan 90 per cent of the community.

In this middle group, it is the oldand confirmed addicts who will find itdifficult to give up drinking and will,therefore, resort to the illicit supply. Butsuch addicts too are few. In states likeMadras which introduced Prohibition almost right from the beginning of thecountry's independence, drinking has beenlegally banned for the last fifteen years.The generation that might be consideredas confirmed addicts is fast disappearing;and the new generation has not fallen avictim to the habit of drink and it willnever experience the difficulty. It is nowtherefore, only a question of time; andany hasty step leading to the abolitionof Prohibition will only mean a retrogradestep.

It is common knowledge that theintroduction of Prohibition has greatlyhelped the poorer section of the peopleand more particularly the working class.The one major factor for an improvementin the standard of living of the Workingclassis undoubtedly 'Prohibition.' WithoutProhibition a substantial part of the wageswould have been spent on drinks. Butwith Prohibition on, the wages earned arenot spent on driidcs but are divertedto purchasing other necessities of life.

leading directly to a higher standard ofliving.

There is also peace in the family;family harmony and family happiness haveincreased. The women at home arebetter treated. The incidence of crimehas become less. All these have provideda better take-oflf stage for man for soaringto newer heights of living standards ina civilized society. All these definitelygo to swell the assets side of the ProhibitionBalance Sheet.

Now let us look at the liabilities sidetoo. There is first the alleged loss ofrevenue to the State. Some estimate itto be around Rs. 300 crores annually,which is a grossly exaggerated figure.The argument that the State is losingsomething on accoimt of Prohibition isitself fallacious. It might be that at firstblush the loss to the State exchequer mightappear to be true; but if you go deeperinto it, you will find that it is not so.The truth is that because of Prohibition,people go in for other goods and serviceswith the money they would otherwise bespending on drinks. This gets the(^vernment more money by means ofadditional revenue through sales tax,excise duties, entertainment tax, etc., onthose goods and services.

Further, the increased demand forgoods and services brings in its wake newand more industries and services, thusadding to the State's income and increasingthe volume of employment. Forinstance, if there was no Prohibition,people would not be buying so much clothas Aey are doing now; the purchase ofcloth means more sales tax and exciseduty revenue to Grovernment, and moremilk on the industry side and moreemployment to the people. Again because of. Prohibition more people vkittheatres more often which adds again tothe excise and entertainment tax revenueto government.

Another and perhaps even more important a factor k the incidence of crime.

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Without Prohibition the incidence ofcrime was higher and Government wasforced to spend considerable sums onmaintenance of law and order, boththrough preventive police force andthrough maintaining a larger number ofcriminal courts. Thus, the net effect onthe State's exchequer will be more or lessthe same. Only the scrapping of Prohibition would tend to depress the moral andmaterial standards of the people. It is,therefore, a myth to suggest that abolitionof Prohibition would be all to the good andwould swell the coffers of the State to theadvantage of the people.

Even assuming there will be a smallnet gain in terms of money to the Stateby abolishing Prohibition, such gain isbound to be illusory and nothing as compared to the gain in the moral and materialstandards of the people that would otherwise accrue. Is it suggested that the Stateshould be made to become rich at the costof the moral and material well-beingof the people? That would not be thehall-mark of any good government, muchless of a government whose objective is awelfare State.

It must be remembered that abolitionof Prohibition does not add to the incomeof either the nation or of the individual.The income remains the same, and onlythe manner of its distribution would vary,and that too to the detriment of theindividual and the nation. In short onlythe family budget of people would show achange for the worse, which is certainlyno sign of progress.

Let us not be led away by the practicein other countries. The Indian approachto drinking is different. Indians considerit a sin to drink. No respectable Indianwill take pride in owning publicly thathe drank. We have been taught byGandhiji to respect the means ais much aswe value the end. We have been particularly warned by him against the pitfall

of accepting the philosophy of endjustifying the means. It is too soon toforget Gandhiji.

Giving up Prohibition will amount tochoosing wrong means; and means willnever lead to abiding good achievements.We should, therefore, turn our backsagainst the ignorant and interestedpropaganda against Prohibition. TheseState governments who are reported tobe toying with the idea of giving upProhibition in the hope of finding funds

I for other projects thereby, should considerit their sacred duty to discard wrongmeans for achieving right ends. Evenconsidering the issue purely on a materialistic plane, they must realise that thebalance of advantage is certainly in favourof not merely retaining Prohibition, butin enforcing it vigorously too. (Copyright INFA).

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raised him from the dead. " (Golos-sians 2:12 ARV, cf. Galatians 3:26-27).

The concept of dying with Christfrom the rudiments of the world so thatGod may endow us with a new life is nowlargely unknown. Thus, the churches arepopulated with multitudes of the un-regenerate.

Brevity forces me to be concise. Itis, even in this brevity quite clear, however,that real Christian imity and the continuing presence of God require a personal andbasic examination—an examination morefundamental than the usual quest forunity. Paul's exhortation is an appropriate final analysis: "Try yonr ownselves whether ye are in the faith;prove your own selves. Or know yenot as to your own selves, that JesusChrist is in you? unless indeed yebe reprobate." (2 Corinthians 13:5ARV)

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PRESS GLEANINGS ON PROIHIIIBITION

Compiled by R. H.

After an interval of fifteen years,liquor is once again being sold in Kanpurand other previously dry areas of UttarPradesh. Licences were sold for Rs.60,000 (S 12,732) each, and the shopsare busy making up for lost years.

Many important persons are, however,crying out against the opening of theliquor shops.

Prime Minister Nehru has stated thatin considering prohibition, the financialaspect is not important. He added thata good thing had to be done even at acost.

Mr. Gulzarilal Nanda, Union Ministerfor Planning, Labour and Employment,said that it would be a national defeatif prohibition was scrapped. Mr. Nandawarned that social workers promotingprohibition would have to face powerfulresistance from vested interests, but thatthey should do so boldly.

Acharya Vinoba Bhave, Bhoodanleader, said that prohibition was a must forbuilding the character of the nation.He said that it was not the revenue butthe character of people which should bethe supreme consideration.

Mr. Khandubhai Desai, a prominentlabour leader, said in Rajkot that prohibition had been a real boon to workers andthat it had been a success wherever it hadbeen introduced. Mr, Desai ridiculedthe suggestion that prohibition was a burden on the state exchequer, and cautionedthat its repeal, on the contrary, wouldadversely affect finances of the state inwhich it was in force. He added that theshortcomings of prohibition could beremoved by proper law enforcement andpeople's awakening.

Mr. D. Sanjivayya, Congress President,said in Nagpur that he was of the viewthat prohibition should continue.

Mr. K. Kamaraj, Chief Minister ofMadras, told newsmen that the Madras

Government did not contemplate the ending of prohibition in Madras State. Hesaid that he was sure that even if prohibition were scrapped in the state, that theevil of illicit distillation would continue.If Madras were to scrap prohibition, hewas sure that there would be a state-wideagitation within six months for reintroduc-ing it.

(In this connection it is interestingto note that last year Madras enjoyed a6*94 per cent decrease in crime. This iscompared to an almost imbelievable 92per cent increase in Kanpur).

Mr. Shiiman Narayan, member of thePlanning Commission, has urged thatvolunteers make a house-to-house campaign to educate the people regardingthe evils of drink.

The Bharat Sevak Samaj has set up acommittee to promote prohibition.

Mr. Ganga Sahai Chaubey, presidentof Kanpur's Suti Mill Mazdoor Sabha,has appealed to social workers to launch adrive among the poor workers of Kanpurto dissuade them from taking liquor andother intoxicants.

Also in Kanpur, the Sarvodaya MahilaMandal and the Gandhi Study Circle ofAryanagar, laimched a signature campaign in the city against the scrapping ofprohibition. Public meetings were heldin various parts of the city demandingprohibition.

The Union Finance Minister, Mr.Moraiji Desai, in a speech in Hyderabad,reminded his hearers that the prohibitionof intoxicants was one of Gandhi's fourfundamental teachings. He said thatIndia could not meet the present emergency by forgetting the fundamentalteachings of h^hatma Gandhi.

In tLe meantime, the Central Government at New Delhi, has completely bannedthe import of foreign liquor into thecountry.

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WOMEN OF THE BEBLE

A G H S A H {Continued)

By H. Kaveri Bai

The Second Numbering

The forty years wandering had cometo an end. One of the last acts of Moseswas to number the Israelites again,since all except two of those adults whowere nmnbered after crossing the RedSea were now dead. Those whom henow numbered were the adult men whowere either born in the wilderness orwere mere youngsters when the peoplecame out of Egypt.

To this new generation he must givethe law and the commandments again.To them he must give all the instructionsand exhortations over again before hehimself would be taken away. Achsah'sbrothers and other men of military agestrutted about feqling very important,as they would soon be fighting againstthe inhabitants of Canaan and takingpossession of their land. Even Achsah'suncle Othniel came under the new numbering.

" We have nobody in our family to benumbered," sighed Tirzah sadly. Tirzahwas one of the Zelophehad sisters. " Nofather, no uncles, no brothers."

" But I am hoping that you will be mysister-in-law," Achsah consoled her." You can be proud of my brotherPharez."

Tirzah gaye her a pinch by way ofanswer, and said, " Not in the way thatyou can be proud of Othniel. Everybodywith half an eye can see how fond he isof you ".

Moses now divided the inheritancewhich the different tribes should receiveafter conquering Canaan. The five Zelophehad sisters were left without an inheritance, since there were no men intheir farnily to whom the inheritancecould be ^ven. So they approachedMoses and Eleazer the priest and presented

their case. Was Zelophehad's name toperish just because he had had no son?They asked for a possession among thebrethren of their father.

Moses took the matter before the Lordrather than before a coimcil or a committee. If only individuals, families, andnations would take their problems beforethe All-Wise for His solution today! Whata happy place this earth might be! Godcommanded Moses to grant the sisterstheir request, and to m^e a statute forthe people's guidance in similar cases inthe future. If a man died childless, thenonly was his inheritance to pass to hisbrethren.

A Sad Announcement

One day all the congregation of thechildrenof Israel were summoned to assemble before the Lord. In the campthere was a good deal of nervousness andmuch speculation. " What sin has beencommitted this time, and by whom?"" Are we going to pass over the Jordantoday?" " Is there going to be anotherwar this side of the Jordan?"

But it was to the appointment of asuccessor to Moses that they had beencalled—one who should command andrule Israel after Moses had gone, andshould lead them into Canaan. Eventhose who had not loved the veteranleader much were now saddened at theprospect of his being taken fi:om them.

According to the Lord's commandment, Moses took Joshua, a Spirit filledman, and set him before Eleazer the high'priest before the whole congregationand there laid his hands on him. ThenJoshua was given a solemn charge.Eleazer was to ask counsel of God forJoshua, and only at God's word shouldJoshua go out or come in, " both he andall the children of Israel. "

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A Bitter Avenging

One day Caleb came and told his wife," God wants Moses to avenge our peopleof the Midianites. "

"War again? Why?" she asked." Because of the Midianite women,

whom they employed to lure Israel intosin, for which the Lord had to slay sucha large number of people. The dead areto be avenged. "

" Father, are you going to the war?"anxiously enquired Achsah.

" No, I am not. Not all of our menare going. Only a thousand men fromeach tribe. My brother Othniel andyour brothers Onan, Asher and Pharezare going. "

In this war the Israelites slew all themen of Midian. Among them in theslaughter fell the wretched prophet Balaam,who, instead of serving God had servedmen for the sake of wordly riches andhonor. It was by his counsel thatthe sirens of Moab had ensnared themen of Israel. Now he met an ignominious and terrible end.

When Moses and the elders of Israelwent forth to meet the victorious armiesof Israel on their return from the battle,he was shocked to find that the Midianiteshad not been completely exterminated.Indignantly he said, " Have you savedall the women alive ? Behold these causedthe children of Israel through the counselof Balaam to commit trespass against theLord and there was a plague amongthe congregation of the Lord. " Hecommanded that all except the virgingirls should be killed forthwith. Adreadful judgment and one at whichAchsah shuddered, but it was a necessaryone if God's people were to be kept freeof sin.

Matters of National Adzmnlstration

Before his death one more, matter ofconsequence came before Moses. Thetribes of Reuben and Gad approached him

with the request that their inheritance beassigned to them from the territory onthe east side of the Jordan River, takenfrom the kings Sihon and Og. At thisMoses flared up, thinking that these twotribes wanted to settle down at ease without passing over the Jordan and takingthe land from its inhabitants. " Shallyour brethren go to war and shall ye sithere?" he thundered.

The petitioners explained that theyonly wished to leave their families andcattle in the fenced cities for their protection because their people and animalswere more numerous than those of theothers. " But we ourselves will go readyand armed before the children of Israeluntil we have brought them into theirplace we will not return to ourhouses until the children of Israel haveinherited every man his inheritance."Moses agreed> but added sternly, " Butif you will not do so, behold you havesinned against the Lord and be sure yoursin will find you ouf. "

Achsah was aware that many amongthe other tribes murmured because thesewanted to save their women and childrenfrom the hardships of going into an enemycountry. But she and her friends theZelophehad sisters thought otherwise." Pity those women and children whocannot set foot in the land promised toour fathers, having come up to its borders.We would never agree to being so leftbehind. We are eager to pass over andlive in that land. "

Among the finishing touches Moseswas giving to his labors imder Godwas the appointment of cities of refuge,where anyone who unintentionally killedanother could escape from vengeance.

There was one more thing he wascalled upon to settle. The families ofthe house of Joseph approachedMoses andEleazer with a grievance. Zelophehad,who had left five daughters and no son,was of the tribe of Manasseh, Joseph'sfirst born. Since it had been decreedthat Zelophehad's inheritance should pass

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to his daughters, the complaint was, ifthese girls now married sons of othertribes, " then shall the inheritance betaken from the inheritance of ourfathers "

Moses was commanded by God todecide in the case of Zelophehad's daughters—this precedent to apply to allsimilar cases in future—that the daughtersto whom their father's inheritance had

passed for want of sons, should bemarried only into the families of the tribeof their father. Achsah was a bit disappointed that Tirzah could not becomeher sister-in-law. " But it is not rightthat the daughters of one tribe shouldtake away from the inheritance of thattribe, and add it to the inheritance ofanother tribe, " she admitted.

" Moses looks not like a man, puttinghis house in order for the purpose ofdying, " remarked Tirzah's sister Noah.He is attending to every matter with thesame earnest care and labor as he hasalways served. He does not even seemto be bitter that after forty years of bearingthe burden of our nation and leading amurmuring and rebellious people up tothe edge of the promised land, he himselfis not to set his foot in it. "

Her sister Hoglah answered, " Buthe is going to be gathered to our fatherswho are in a much better land thanCanaan, and he is going to see Abraham,Issac and Jacob, and live with them.He will join Aaron and Miriam again. "

" But we are sure to miss him much,much more than we missed Aaron, "sighed Achsah.

Death of Moses

Moses gave many warnings andexhortations and made many rules andregulations. He also prophesied thecoming of another prophet like himself, a greater Law-giver than he, whowould speak as God commanded Him." The Lord thy God will raise up untothee a Prophet from the midst of thee.

of thy brethren, like unto me: unto himye shall hearken The Lord saidunto me I will raise them up aProphet and will put my words inhis mouth And it shall come topass, that whosoever will not hearkenunto my words which he shall speak inmy name, I will require it of him. "(Deut. 18:15 to 19). This Prophet wasto supersede the written law and give alaw that was to be put in the hearts ofmen. This Prophet would speak of Hisown authority thus: "It hath been said{referring to one point or another in thelaw of Moses) But I say untoyou "so that under this new dispensation the outward keeping of the lawno longer counted.

Finally, this great and veteran leaderblessed one by one all the tribes, and leftthe vast congregation he had governed,shepherded, judged and led, for fortylong years, to go his way all alone " untothe mountain of Nebo; to the top ofPisgah, that is over against Jericho. "No one accompanied him, but all gazed atthe receding figure, grand, majestic, andsolitary, with hearts full of unspeakablesadness, till Moses disappeared from theirview. After God had shown him a goodview of the panorama of the PromisedLand, Moses died on the top of Pisgah,and the Lord Himself buried him in oneof the valleys, so that nobody ever knewwhere.

For 30 days the children of Israel weptfor Moses. Achsah and many others weresore at heart even after the general mourning ended. The children of Israel nowhearkened to Joshua, their new leader,and obeyed him. " And there arose nota prophet since in Israel like unto Moses,whom the Lord knew face to face. "

When that Prophet came, about whomMoses had prophesied, Moses did enterCanaan in company with Elijah, to meetthis Son of God, on the mount of transfiguration, and was seen there by Peter,James and John.

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Some of the. ehrixtiayia of the Sicaroopnagar aH'iemblij in Kanpur.

THE LIFE OF A MISSIONARY IS A WONDERFUL LIFE !

Oh ves, we could write a very large book about our difficulties, hardships,artd disappointments. Chapters could be written about our mistakes, and the thingsmissionaries grumble about when they get together.

But after all is said and done, the fact stands out clearly that the life of amissionary isa wonderful life. Anyone who has been a missionary for even a veryshort time never quite gels over the experience.

In this little booklet we want to fill you with some of the wonders of our liveshere. May it fill you with bubbles of joy and raise you up to join your handswith ours in the preaching of the gospel to every creature.

's m/rnmrftd^'^O BE A CIQUSTIANDean Rbmpel

My parents, who are tnissionaries, hrought rtie and my brother to Indiawhen we were only two years did. We' cOnsider it a great privilegeto havebeen reared' in thiT land. ^ ' •* '

We have been in America only once since then. That w^ when weall went "hortie-' in 1954. While my Mother and Dad •tia^flW*hibUn^ inthe U. S. apd Canada^ Dale and I sthyed with our grandpai'ents iii iforthernAlberta and had one ye^r of schbol there.

t)f course it was all very strange to us at fim—just as it woul'd he strangeto you for a while if you came to India. We had no trouble- keepipg. j^ecretsfrom Grandma because we would speak to each other in Hindi. We n^sed theIndian food very much, although Grandma did make some good tasting curryaud rice-,for us with spices we had brought from India.. , : -[

!The one thing that, w^ the same there as. it;is here, and. I kpow, will notchVnge ever, was the Ipve pf,Gbd. It calls children, and young,peppier andpldpeople alike. .In fact, ,it was while we were home that my pwnheartwas touched./I had been listening to Xlr. Howard Rash (he is ;an. older,brother of pur, owm,.Tom Rash ) preach, and the Lord called me to give myself to Him. I wentforward and my Dad came and asked me to make "the good confession" so that Imight be immersed into Christ., Thus I became a.Christian, and now that I havebeen one for about ten years, I,can say with my, whole heart that, it'swonderful!

Living, as we do. among non-christian, pagan peoples, we are all thiemoreaware of how privileged we are to be free in Christ.

« May I .tell you a little bit about Hinduism ? It is the main non-christianreligio.h in India.

The Hindu scriptures are called Vedas and Gita. They are not as simpleto read and understand is the Bible. ' Mainly they are ancient hymns and philosophic sayings, much older than Christianity and the New Testament. .

The Hindus say that God is divided into three parts, under the titles ofBrahma (the Creator), Vishnu (the preserver), and Shiv (the Destroyer). Eachofthese has had uncountable incarnations, and the chief among these incafnations areones like Krishna and' Ramii About these ancient men now worshipped aS gods,great epicstories have been\vritten: the Mahabharat, and Ramayan.

Teniples to these numerous gbds literally dot the Indian 'boilritry-side.The Indian people do not ghther in their templeIn congregations likewe' db inour chui^ches, but go individually to offer their sacrifices of coconiilis or flowei^

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St'S TO H4VE PETS IN INDIA

Dale REMPSii

' oeyV jvvas our first pet in India. He came to us directlyfrom the jungle,when bo^h he and we were very small. A little shepherd boy had found him,lost from his mother, and brought him to'our home for us. He was a wild pigwhom we kept for nine months.

' Mother, ^ad been reared on. a farm in Gapada and the care of Joey fellto her. H^ was too small to eat ^rain, and Auntie Leah's "baby-fold"

supplied just the right kind of rubber nipples for Joey's milk bottle. Ho\v heloved that bottle! When it came close to feeding time joey would clamp hislittle teeth on to the bottom of Mother's dress and scream for all he was worth.

He /tfhhll)^ became too large, with hiigc long tusks, for us to play witji andDad'penned him up.

Dad does not think much ofour habit of making our petsa part of the familyand it was some time before he would give in to our having another. Finallyhe agreed that•we might have a dog. It would have to be'a good dog," he said,\yith a pi^igree, and with all his hair (you should see some of the horriblelodkiri^ hairless specimens that roam ,the streets here !) Mother insisted on a blackdog, because a neighbor's dog had made himself unpopular by. leaving long whitehair all over her furniture. ' - '

• > Guess what we finally got! Yep, a very much mixed breed.He was'supposed to be a Labrador, but I think he was the world's only whiteLabrador. But he was just the one that I loved when I first saw him in thelitter odr neighbors showed us, and Tuffit-wasi with us for about four years. •:

Besides being a great watchdog and mother's constant companion. Tufflearned all kinds.;of tricks. He sort of turned traitor on me, though, becausehe would almost always take the morning paper from the newsboy to Dad instead .of to me. We sure missed him after he took ill and died.

After a variety of pets-budgie birds, a parrot, rabbits, a fawn, a goose, amongoose, and various cats, we now have the ultimate in house pets, a .rhesus

, monkev. If you don't think so, just ask my Dad ! (I think he has a differentmeaning for the word "ultimate" than I havej though).

, Her favorite word "Coo" has gained her her name of "Puckoo". She wascompletely v^ild when she Came, and hadto be kept tied or in acage^jjut she runsloose all the. tune now. She is the'naughtiest thing you ever saw, but is.so cutethat she gets away with much more than we ever did when we were kids.I thought for g. mipute she had reached ,her "ultimate'' the other day when shegrabbed D^'s fayorite pen and ran up on th^ roof of the house ,with it.Hope she does hot crowd her. luck too far while we are .away at school.

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St SttWmderfiki' TO 'HVE TO "SWAROOPNAGAR"

Frank Rbmpel

Wft siipHl4 probably add "i^ther than in some other parts ofour city ofKanpur" to. the, above .title. The sectiop. of the city known as "Swaroopnagar"is definitely one of the better parts of it^

Oh, I suppose you would hardly call it "Nob Hill" if Swarbophagar wasin your city ! You would probably imme(^iately write to the city commissioners,or the health departrnent, of some, other agency to see if something couldnot be done, about the filthy conditions'of some parts of it. You'd likelysay that the "gaoshallas" (cow sheds ) are a danger to the health of thecitizens, and that something will just have to be done about those breedingplaces for flies and mosquitos. If you saw some of the homes of Swaroopnagaryou'd probably say they are not fit for humans to, live in.. You would^1very sorry for people who are so poor that they have no choice but to live in them.

On the other hand, even you would likely be quite impressed by thesize and beauty of some of the other homes. You would know immediatelythat the people who live here, who keep these lovely, park-like grounds andunbelievably beautiful flower gardens are' very wealthy people indeed. Thoughin India the keeping of servants is general and even the very average familywould have at least one, you would know that all these "chaprasis" ( messengers)and "malis" ( gardeners) and "jamadars" ( cleaners) and "khansamas" (cooks)and "bearers" (waiters) must cost a lot to maintain. And you would be quiteright for Swaroopnagar has many very wealthy residents.

Now, our place too is quite large, and we also have fruit trees and flowergardens and a lawn. We 'even keep some workers around the place - someoneto do my cCoking when I am here alone (the family having gone to the Himalyanfoothills whei-e the boys attend school) and'a part-tinie mali to keep the water run-ing on the flowers. But our place is "smaUpotatoes" compared to someof the onesaround here We are very comfortable indeed, and very grateful that the Lordhas provided such a nice place in a better part of the city, where we can takereasonable precautions about protecting our health.

Yoq can. be sure that there are other, parts of this great city which are indee^NAnot fit for human habitation. The pity authorities are doing a great deal to ylprovide better housing: ,but it is an almost-impossible task to make provision jlfor all of. the hundreds of thousands of poor people who live, in this city.The number is growing by leaps and bounds.

Can you imagine how families of perhaps 6 members can possibly live in oneroom.? Yet this is not at all uncommon in kome piarts of Kanpiir. Even worse,\vhat , about our thousands upon thousands' Who have no house at all to callhome]'but who live oh the streets entirely? Do you wonder that we thinkgratefiilly about the goodness and mercy of God Who has made such fineprovision for us?

•! S.(w TO' iBE-si iMISSIONARY WIFE,Marie Rempel

Vijaylakshmi Pandit, Prime Minister Nehru's sister, once told her daughters:"Your father used to say that marriage is a very unilatural: institution. Fortwo praple to live together all their lives in hatmony does require a high d^i^eof civilization. It is one of the most difficult things in the world to achieve.But life is not complete without marriage."

The result of an *|unequal yoking" together is often illustrate in India.An olx is seen yoke with a buffalo, and sometimes a donkey is seen pullingwith a horse. Such pairs may pull the load, but it is usually only one whichdoes the pulling.

^ After my twenty years ofexperience, I cangratefully say that it isa wonderfulprivilege to be the wife of a conscientious, loving, Christian, preacher husband.For further bonus I am the mother of two boys. Dale and Dean, who arenow sixteen years of age. . •

Although I had dreamed ofsome daysettling in a home ofour own and "stayingput", theLordseems ,to have had other plans for us. The t>venty years of ourmarried life have been spent in many homes (none our own) and many places.In every case the Lord has enabled us to make each home attractive (at least tous) and home-like. .

Let me tell you about three homes we have had in India.

I Wecame to Kulpahar in 1949. Kulpahar is a small village of abqut seventhousand people, in the north India province of Uttar Pradesh. Our work there was

r with the IndiaBible College, and our home a rambling sort of bungalow that wefound very different from the homes in Canada. Kulpahar became a true home tous, however, and the friends we madethere, both Christian and Hindu, are stillveryidear to us. Here we worked until the Bible College was closed down and webegan a printing and publications work in the city ofKanpur.

In Kanpur theLord has provided us with a home fit for a king! —a bungalow with "comi)ound" large enough s^o that we cancarry onour printing woi-k fromthe same premises. There is space for nice flower and vegetable gardens, and wehave fi-uit trees: mango, guava, lime, orange, banana, lichi, jack-fruit, papaya,and mulberry. Many friends come to stay with us here- youcome too sometime I

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n. ^ Our third home is a part-time home. It is what we call our "Himalyany>^9me" ic^^^^^oorie where Dale's and Dean's school is located. A part of every

4r hot is.season spent here and during this time the boys come out of"boarding" andlive with us at "Edgehill Villa". The rest of the time during the school termwhich begins in March and ends in December, they live in the school hostels.

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Sts Wonderful TO SHEPHERD THE liock;iI. i ' •' • ! :; ' :i •' /1': i i

Uncle Ralph

It doesn't seem quite right for an American to shepherd an Indian flock;but, for the time being at least, that is the way it is. Happily, I am notdoing this work by myself The church in Swarupnagar has also chosen afine young Indian man by the name of Lawrence Lazarus to be co-pastor.

When Lawrence and I took over t^ese duties on January 1st of^ this year,we decided to go together arid visit each one of the families of the congregation. Although ours is a small congregation, this proved to be a big job.Kanpur is a very large city and miles of crowded streets separate the homesof our members. • ' ' /

One of the members who needs a frequent visit is Mrs. Albert Pawar.For several years she has been suffering froiri- tuberculosis. Her husband hasvery lovingly cared for 'her during the^ years of illness, and' -he' keeps' fheifhoifee spotlfssly clean. Last summer he' bought an electric fail;'';arid 'his wifesurvived the hot weather -by sittirig in fronL of it. ' " > • -

Some of the families are very backward. In these homes the fathers arekriown to drink and gamble, and they carirtqr make proper arrangemeri'ts fortheir fanlilies. In some of the familiesj 'the' cHildreri-do not even go to schOol.One farnily lives in a single tObm ^th srifch'" a-low-ceiling that I cannotstand up straight inside of it. Anothet family has atfackis of what wbuldappear to be demon possession.

"The persons who are happiest to see lis are thcj'bld folsK:''Ohe eldlerlyman is blind, arid one lady has been a widow for forty-fi^e- years.' -'T^latter weeps when she sees us because' she *is s6 hiafipy'that she' Ha? beenremembered.

In some, of the homes,, there are thOse who ought to be baptized. VVesit dowri arid' teach thesb' bepple i^^^ fiilly. of therii have .'alre^^been baptized. At some' of the homes ive tell, a Bible stOiy to the Children^At all of'ihe horiies ivfe' pfaly before .we Ibave. - , : it ,

It is the custom of many of the people to give us a cup of tea to drink.

Now that we have together visited all Of : the homes - we .tvill goseparately and visit them. This way more homes Nvill be visited more often.Each of us will take a young man with him so that .others can learn throughexperience how church visitation ought to be done.

TO PROVIDE CHRISTIAN LITERATURE

FOR INDIA'S NEW LITERATES

Frank'Rempel

When we came to India in 1949, out of every ten persons in the entirecountry, only^ one could read;and write. After fourteen yeai*s of hard effort onthe part of"missionaries'and^ the goverrtment, now about four out of^en can'read.

When you remember-that there are about 45 million such groups of ten inthis vast nation, it does not take long to see that there are a lot of "readers" inIndia: 180 millions of them.

1^0]Wi of course ^lien wet missionaries ithink of readers, we immediately thinkof ,\Yhat it; is they, ^re reading, and wish:with' our whole hearts that it couldalways be .good literaturo—the .kind' that points the;way. to, the Lord JesusChrist and His way of life. It is truly,wondetffld for us to have apart in .makingthis kind of reading material available to a part of this great multitude.

We, say this becaus^ that is.,what we are seeking to do in Kanpur, both9^1" f^mhyr^nd ,Uncle J^alph,; .(iVyhiie. the.amount we can ,do seems, very smallwhen we Ipok, at the size, of the task,i nevertheless we; thank God for the oppor-ttinity He 1gives us to. work fop Hini in,,the way.,

Mr. Mangal Singh is one of our Indian co-workers in this task. He is anexpert cpmpositpr (typ.e.,Mttei; j .apd Jn^qhine operator as well. Mr. LawrenceIcarus ,is another,.,.valpaole helper.,, His .yvork is translating, and getting"^9Py"..f®^<^y for ;the, printer. ,Both of these men and others who work ^Tthus realize how important this work is and they labor very faithfully indeed.

The^-.^orkroont, at 7/l31,.^waroopnaga^ is uspjally a, very busy place.The. Jnaih .tnaohin^ -i^ the press, fof co,i^e, ,jStan^ing,,piVer thereijin the corner.Eye^hing elsei the supplier type iii both Ht^di and, En the composingtable,^ the pa!per cutter and various, other..itengis m.equtpnient^ are really a partof this machine. The workroom itself is a part of the quite large bungalow inwhich we live.

Perhaps some of you will learn to write and print Christian literature asyou grow up, and come td>India to helpius in tthis'ivery important task..

, :^t s 'Wonderiui sTO RAISE BOySUncle ' Ralph

Our bOys' dormitory in Kahpur.has attracted a lot of interest froiii'bpysand girls in the United States.

Our dormitory is small. The most boys we have ever had living hereat one time was eleven, and it was very crowded then.

Most of thq boys have conie fropti our, mission stations in the rural areas.They have come: to the big city to lelarn a, trade. Among those who .havelearned a trade and are now earning money are two drivers, a tailor^ anda welder,. Others not yet earning their own living are a mechanic, a painter,and a stenographer.

It is one of our aims that, the boys should grow in spiritual things duringthe time that they live here. We have devotions together every evening,and each boy is requested to read two chapters of Ithe Bible each. day.Besides that, they attend the regular seivices of the church.

The boys cook their own food in a shack on top of the roof. Theyget part of their money for food from their parents, part from me, and partfrom other missionaries. At the pr«ent time there is only one boy, anorphan by name of Andriyas, who depends on me for his full support. •'

These boys do have their bad moments. - One of the boys has beencaught smoking,-another stealing. One of the boys is very selfish, and anotherplays hookey. One boy"became psychologically unbalanced because of anover-fascination • with girls. ' . • -

But they have their very good moments as well. The boy who shiokedhas a knack for earning money by accepting odd jobs. The boy who stoleis an energetic, and serious minded lad. The boy who is selfish always obeysthe rules. The boy who plays hookey 'is honest and truthful. The boy whoneeded psychiatric treatment was the best help that we ever had about the house.

As is true in most families, a man is seldom fully satisfied with theway that his sons have, turned out. So lio One should be surprised that wearen't fully satisfied with what we have turned out. hefe; But we believethat all these boys.: are better for having lived here..

During the summer months, some of the older boys will be leaving usand we will be getting a new batch of younger kids. Some say that theyhope that the new batch will be better than the old batch. I rather exoeetthat the new batch will be just about like the old batch since boys insiston being boys. I was one once myself.

S-t s 'W'Ohidrjd "a-iO TRAVEL IN INDIADean Rempel

^ The largeness of the country, the numbers of the travellers and their usuallypoverty ^tridcieii coiiditiohs make travel in- India something quitedifferent fromanything found anywhere else. Why don't, yOu come with me on a typicalovernight train journey ? i

As we >valk onto the station platform we see men selling all kindsof eatablesand hear the familiar nois^ of. men, women, and ciying children, all on.theirway somewere.' People are everyWherie, .sprawled' upon the station platiform andin the'waiting rooms, in the strangest'variety of coldr and cohditipn that you canpo^ibly imagine. Some sit with a few filthy rags clutched about them andnothing else—othere recline on a huge mound of luggage that is somehow goingto have to be pushed into an already over-crowded train compartment.

;Some are rich (and trying unsuccessfully to hide, the fact from,possible robbers)and others are so desperately poor that they will be able to buy nothing to eattill they arrive at their destinations.

An old man comes up to us, begging us to buy his "berfi" (and,Indiansweet) Now, one way to find out where the sweetest candy is is to observe wherethe most flies are gathered. His wares.certainly qualify in this respect but for thesame reason do not look appetizing, so we tell him to be off.

Our train finally arrives—only two hours late. We find a first class compart-nient that is quite comfortable looking, and along with several Indian gentlemen,take up our abode in it. We cjliat with them, while we gaze.out of the windowand the train rolls over the flat countryside for several hours in a leisurely fashion.Further stops are made at way-side stations for more passengers and to load andunload, parcels.

When it; becomes dark we all spread the bedding we've brought for thepurpose and conipose ourselves for sleep. Practice has accustomed us to thenoises that; continue outside and in the third class compartment next to ours andwe sleep (even if fitfully) throughout the night.

'The cry of the "Garam Chay'' (hot tea) vendors at a station awakens us inthe morning. Pushing up the shutters-that have unsuccessfully tried to keepsoot and dust from coming- in during the night, we give a tea wala four annas(5 cents) for a couple of cups of steaming hot tea to have with the breakfastwe've brought along. The.ifact that it is so fiPt assures us that it is quite safeto drink it. :S ;

Breakfast is to the accompaninient of the muttered prayers and bowings{Contimied inside hack cover)

AriidfiS are covclvded on this page'.

BEING A CHRISTIAN

and clarified butter. Usually a priest has charge of these temples and takes sometribute in money from the worshippers also.

As there are so many gtds, naturally there are also many feast days. Theseare regulated on a calendar different from ours, so we never know when one iscoming up. The three main ones are Dashera ( a worship ofDurga, the goddessof prosperity and this marks the opening of the Hindu business year ), Diwah( feast of lights ), and Holi. During this last one they have a dirty habit oithrowing filth and color all over each other. We have to watch ourselves duringthose days or we get drawn into their festival too.

Mostly the Hindu people do not get much joy out of their religion. Theyworship more for fear than for love. The terrible caste system is slowly beingclone away with, but it is still very very strong, especially in thevillages.

We know that the only hope of the Indian people for true freedom fromsin and from the bondage of their religion, is our Lord Jesus Christ.

PETS IN INDIA

A favorite pastime of Cuckoo's is to look in the mirror, for which we'veprovided her with one of her own. She does not look at herself so much aslook at others moving around. My preacher Dad says that is very much likea lot of humans, who never see themselves when they read the scriptures, butalways think it applies to someone else.

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riEING A MISSIONARY WIFE

This home is especially attractive to us because it means getting away fromthe terrible heat of Kanpitr into the cool mountain breezes ofMussoorie. I hishome too Is rented - its just an apartment, really - but we love it.

I don't mind not having a permanent home here on earth, for you see we'—T don't believe that tiiis is our real home. Some day the Lord will take us to one

that is all our own and we'll have it for eternity. He is preparing it for us now.

TRAVEI.LING IN INDIA

ofone ofour fellow-travellers who is a Muslim and who now faces t.oward Meccafor the first of his five daily prayer sessions. Another man, being a devoutHindu chants a "mantra" while he fingers his praVer beads.

The Hindu friend then makes much ado about his morning ritual bath inthe tinv little washroom the compartment affords. Don't pay any attention tothe revolting noises of hacking and spitting. This is customary and the man isperfectly all right.

I'm sure you agree with me that it is quite an experience, travelling in India !

One of the poorer sections of the city of hanpur

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* Additional copies of this booklet may be obtained 4^I from either of the following forwarding agents:*

For Mr. R. R. Harter:

Miss Florence Douglas419, N. Main St.Flora, 111.

For the Rempel :Central Christian Church1848 S. E. 39th Ave.Portland 14, Oregon

* Contributions and prayers for the work in KanpiirI very gratefully received. These also may] be sent% to the above addresses.

MARCH 1963

Printed and published by Frank Rempci, at Service Printing aid Publishing Press,7/131, SWAROOPNAGAR, KANPUR, U. P. INDIA

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Written, Mimeographed, and Mailed by Ralph R Harterat 112/352. SWARUPNAGAR, KANPUR, U. P. INDIA

( Kanjiur sometiDie^-ppJ.Le.dJ^vn-pc.re

May 15, 1963

SECOI^T) ANNUAL PPtEACHIWU MLLY ENDS

The chairs have goneback to the rental agency,the rugs have been rolledup, the speakers have goneon tiieir way, and v;e arelooking forward to futurespiritual feasts.

The attendaiice at this

year-*s rally was less thanat last year's. Surprisingly, one offor this v/as

the reasons

that there

v;ere no messages in English. Another couple ofweeks removed from Eastermay also have made a difference.

Neverthless, the meetings have made their impact. The messages broughtby Bernel Getter and JohnZaman were poweriul. Thisyear we also had the veryeffective help of Tom Rash.The meetings were held in

front of .the "Rempel home,and so most of the burdenof the arrangements fellon Prank's broad shouldera

There we2?e no immediatebaptisms resulting fromthe rally, but one youngman (Raju Washington) v/asbaptized by Prank Rempelon Easter Sunday morning.

The Dormitory

David (the welder) and,Sani (tlie tailor) have nowrented their own house and

moved from here. But even

before they left, therewere four nev/ boys (allfrom Kulpahar) to' taketheir' place. Samuel Deen

how to make

a local fur-

is learningfurniture innlture house. The otheithree boys have not yetbegun their training.

"And should not 1have regard lor Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore ^thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also muchcattle?" Jonah 4:11

Richard is in the finalstages of-his training ^a driver and mechiahio:^ andPredy continues his noh-chalant^. •pass age t o hecoas^ing. a s tenographer. Huhin,who is stii1 recove ringfrom psychological difficulties, is doing excelr-lently in. both paintingand music,

Andriyas is back hereafter having failed the9th G- rade.. We hope to beable to get him enrolledin Trade School, A ninthboy, Yakub, also from Kul-pahar, is here for thesummer only,. So you cansee our house is full,

Lawrence L.asarus willonce again shepherd thedormitory during the riionth^of June while I am in thehills, V,,.

Book S tore . , ; :

Everyone is • happy withthe new arrangement of ourbook store and library.During March and April,sales totalled $195,16,and included sale of 29Bibles, I4.Y New Testaments,and-639 Portions, 'Many ofthese were sold to othermissionaries who, in turn,resold them in hospitals,and other places^ .

Publications

Most nf. the finenoialburden of publishing . the.

Hindi paper, - Jeewan^Deephas been falling on us. Wehad been secretly .wonder'!-ii^ just how long we wouldhe afetie to keep up with it.Help has come in a completely unexpected way. WhenI asked* Brother Rempel howmuch I owed him for thismonth's issue of CHRIST ASIAN, he replied that since1. was .bearing the burdenof the Hindi magazine, he.would finance the Englishone. He is being too generous, and he may have tochange his mind later. Inthe meantime we will takeadvantage of the bonanzato repair our f ences,'

Lawr0 iic e Laz arus is backat work after two monti^at home taking examina-tionsi Oiice again he-is-working slowly but surely,editing the final pages of

:the Hindi edition of "Onthe Roc^,"- T'here is little

, chance that we will getthe book fully printed before the summer recess,

I,B, I^,The biggest news of the

•year is that Mr, and Mrs,T,G, Rash and the- IndiaBihle Institute have movedto Kanpur, Prom the beginning many thought that theInstitute., should be locate here, but w© hesitatedbecause of the. lack ofpi^perty here, ;-...d • ..c^ : olsoVvhorc

FORWARDING AGENT : MISSFLORA,

• aOSSIPIiETTER •-

THe hill- excursion haslong since begun. Tom Rash,and I are left in Kanpur,and Tom will be leavingsoon. I v/ouldn^t haveminded leaving sooner ray-self, but things didn^twork out that way.

The rest of the Rashes,the Rempols, the Getters,the Rolands, the Wurtzos,and Mrs. Rotherrael are atLandour. Lois Callaway is.also reiported to be inthose parts.

Charles Roland led thecommunion service in Lan

dour 9n May 5"th. Charleswas 16 years old on May11th.

In South India, exactinformation lacking, weimagine that the Gulicks,the Art Morrises, and theChester Parkers are cooling themselves off at Ko-daikanol. Edna Hunt willbe visiting the Guliclcs.The Misses Moshier and

Chitwood are enjoyingtheir second visit t oBangalore.

There have been no recent pieces from the DavidReeses. They are most likely at home in Shillong.

FLORENCE DOUGLAS, 419 N. MAIN ST.ILLINOIS, U. S. A.

Information regard i n gRuth Lincoln*s summerplans is also lacking.

"Edgehill Villa," wherethe Rempels and Rasheshave summered for so manysummers, is being sold "byits owner to WoodstockSchool. This is going tocause some inconvenience

to the clan.

The Rashes, as you havenoticed elseviihero, havemoved to Kanpur. They haverented a house about onemile from our house. Thecity busses stop right infront of their gate, butthey would rather havethem stop closer to peoplewho use them. Incredibleas it may soom, busses going in both directionsstop on their side of thestreet. As Prank says,their house h has much ofthe city atmosphere aboutit. This is contrasted tomy house v/ith its cows andwater buffaloes laying onthe doorstep.

Prof. R. H. Zimmerman,who is Columbus, Chiefscontribution to Kanpur*sInstitute of Technology,entertained us men v/ithsupper and roof beer onMay Yum, yumi

"Thanl<s be to God for his gift beyond words !"II Cor. 9:15

B 0 W W 0 W IBy Langrn, the dog

Since I have been squeezed oub Ox" Christasian, Ivrlll have to taliB refugehe3;'e.

Actually, I liave been onthe sick list. This led toa plot on my life, butsoijiohov/ I got spared forfuture activities.

; Mr, Harter waj

happy v/hen he sav/ thismonth's financial report.It looks as though thissuiTirior will not b.o as hardon us as some former suiri-mers have been.

The boys' dormitory isbeing redonditioned. ' Oneof t^rie tv/o bedrooitts is being given its first goodpainting, but this had tobe preceded by the laborious removal of all formerlayers. The nevi boys fromKulpahar got some good exercise for blieir 5^oungmuscles.

Then the boys' kitchenhas been fitted with a newcanvas roof. The . ForKBrone had lasted' tv/o years.All efforts to get thehouse ovmer to build something more pe rmanent havefailed. The back side oft^ roof is also beingfitted v/ith a bamboo curtain because the neighborson that side have constantly complained that

very very

the boys keep gazing atthem and sonetiiiies dropthings over'the side.

Once in a while someoneasks when Mr, Harter willagain be visiting the U.S.I ^ hope it is not soonsince my feeding arrangements are never good whenhe is out of tov/n. Buifc Iunderstand from usuallyreliable sources that Xhave t;vo years of eatingpleasure ahead of me before that evil day comes.He is thinking of visitingThailand, Lorea and Hawaiion the way.

Others write that theycan't find Kan pur on theirmps^ On some liiaps it isspelled Cav/npore. It wasleft off of some othermaps because until recently it had no air service#Tourist rriaps did not showxt since, (until recently)

-there v/asn't much here fora tourist to see. But amillion people living onthe., bank of the GangesRiver can't be hidden.So look again.

Mr. Harter is planningto .leave for the SimlaHill_Station on May-31st.He will be staying at theY.M.C.A. there, and hopesto be back in Kanpur bvJuly 2nd.

Having coiue to the endof my tale, I will signoff until next time.

B 0 W . W 0 W I -• By Langru, the dog

Since I have been squeezed, out. of Chrlstasian, Iwill . have to talis refugehere.

Actually, I have been onthe sick list. This led toa plot on my life, butsomehOTv I got spared forfuture activities.

Mr. Barter was vei*y ve.ryhappy when he saw thismonth's financial 3?eport.It loolQs as though thissuulner will not be as hardon Us as some former^ summers .have been. •

The boys* dormitory isbeing xedonditioned. Oneof the .two bedrooms is be-ing given its first goodpainting, but this had tobe preceded by the laborious remov al ^of all former1 aye rs • The liew boys f romKulpahar got some good exercise .for their youngmuscles.

Then the boys', kitchenhas been fittedvwith a newcanvas roof. T h© Forme rone had lasted- two years.All efforts to get the.house ov/ner to builcj something more permanent havq ,failed.. The back-side ofthe roof is also beingfitted with a bamboo curtain because the neighbors "on that side have constantly complained that

the boys keep gazing atthem and soBje times dropthings over the s ide.

Once in a "while someoneasks" when Mr. Barter willagain be visiting the U.S.I hope it is not soon.since my feeding arrange-iJients are never good when

, he • is out of town. Buifc Iunderstand from usuallyreliable sources that Ihave two years of eatingpleasure ahead of me be^fore that evil day comes.He is thinking of visitingThailand, Lorea and Hawaiion the way. . '

Others write that theycan't find Kan pur on theirmaps.-. . .On sokb maps it isspelled Cawnpore. It wasleft off of some other/maps because until recently • it .had no air service*Tourist maps did not showit since (until recently),there wasn't much here for

^ a tourist to see. Buti amillion people living onthe barik of the GangesRiver ,can't be hidden.So look again.

Mr. Barter is planning -to leave for the SimlaHill Station on Ma.y 31st.He wiii.be staying at theY.M.C.A. there, and hopesto be back in Kanpuf byJuly 2nd.

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NAINI TAL TIMES

By Ralph R. Harter

PART FOUR

The church life of Naini Tal is at avery low ebb.

There is not a single group in thetown that practices immersion.

On Sunday mornings, P attended theHindustani services at the MethodistChurch. On Sunday afternoons, I attended the English services at the UnionChurch. Both services are under theoversight of friendly Pastor Hamilton whowas formerly chaplain of the missionhospital in Bareilly.

Since I was practically unknown inNaini Tal, I was greatly surprised to beinvited to preach two sermons in theUnion Church.

The Union Church with its large organand balcony has seen much better days.Neither the balcony nor the organ areany longer used.

We are informed that many years agothe students from the two Church of England schools used to attend services at theUnion Church; but now those schoolsprovide worship services for their studentswithin the school premises. On the otherhand, many of the regular residents ofthe town are most likely in positions ofservitude that do not permit them timeoff for church going.

There are two church buildings of theChurch of England, and at least two ofthe Roman Catholic Church.

There is no Christian Book Store, andNaini Tal is probably the only major hillstation in India without one. It may bethat less missionaries visit Naini Tal thanthe other hill stations.

One of the interesting people I met inNaini Tal was Miss K. Roulson, anAustralian. Miss Roulson had been

sprinkled as an infant in the Church ofEngland. Later she was immersed as abeliever by a Baptist preacher. Now she isteaching in a Church of England school.She is attending services at the Church ofEngland, but they have refused to giveher communion because she has committed the sin of being "rebaptised". Thegreatest sin of denominati jnalism is tokeep from obeying the Lord; and thesecond greatest sin of denomi.iationalismis to penalise folks when they do obeythe Lord.

Toward the end of my stay in NainiTal, I visited the grave of Sterling Rother-mel who died of pneumonia in a NainiTal hospital on September 28, 1928.Certain sections of the cemetery are setapart for members of the Roman CatholicChurch, other sections for the Church ofEngland. Mr. Rothermel is buried ina section which is marked by an ironplaque reading, "Non-Conformist." Thisis definitely the sort of place where myown bones should repose.

Time does not permit me to mentionall the interesting people I met in NainiTal: missionaries, teachei-s, professors,doctors, merchants, financiers, lawyers,pilots, artists, students f om Africa,retire-ees, boys and girls, and the youthof the land. There didn't seem to be anunfriendly person there.

My visit to Naini Tal was-so enjoyablethat I am tempted to re-visit it again thisyear; but that would be breaking mypractice of visiting a different place eachyear. The Lord willing, I will returnthere again some other time.

( Concluded )

ACQUAINTANCE WITH JESUS.Mr. B. L. Turner

"And this is the life eternal^ that th^shouldknow thee^ the only true Gody and Himwhom thou didst sendy even Jesus Christ,*^( 1 John 17:3 ARV) 1

ETERNAL LIFE CONSISTS OFACQUAINTANCE WITH GOD ANDJESUS CHRIST! How refreshinglyunderstandable, this is contrasted with thesubtleties of human theology. Back ofthis astonishingly simple statement is theidea of identity through intimate acquaintance. Thus, since Jesus triumphed oversin and death, through acquaintancewith him we may become identified withhim and share in his triumph.

The basic idea should not seeitf strangeand foreign." Think, foy example, of ourword "sympathy". It comes from twoGreek words which mean to 'suffer with*.This basic meaning is still preserved inour English word. It means "an affinity,association, or relationship between thingsso that whatever affects one similarlyaffects the other." The sympathetic person is the one who knows you so intimately that your joys, your ideals, your aspirations and sorrows are his. He feels whatyou feel. He is the one who rejoices withthose who rejoice, and weeps with thosewho weep. ( Cf. Romans 12:15 ). The

With the proliferation of the English trans-lations on the Bible, particularly in the last twodecades, it is easy for the English speaker tosavor some of the nuances of the original languages. Often the freshness of a new choice ofwords, even if the meaning is not enhanced, isso stimulating that this alone warrants the useof a number of translations. But, the uninitiated may be confused by the abbreviations usedto identify quotations from the various renderings. In this -sermon, four translations arequoted from, identified by the followingabbreviations: ARV—^The American RevisedVersion; RSV— The Revised Standard Version;and NTME — The New Testament in modemEnglish, translated byj. B. Phillips.

sympathetic person is not simplya mirrorwhich reflects our condition. Rather, hehas become one with us, and thus sharesour experiences.

In a similar way, by knowing Christwe become one with him, and we share hisbeing. This is the way Paul explains hishope of eternal life. We cannot miss hisexpressions of intimate acquaintancewhen he says: "I count everything sheerIpsSy because all is far outweighed by the gainof knowing Christ Jesus my Lord for whosesake I did in fact lose everything, I count itso much garbagefor the sake of gaining Christandfinding myself incorporate in Aim, with norighteousness of my own—no legcd rectitude—butthe righteousness which comes from faith inChristy given by God in response tofaith. AllI care for is to know Christy to experience thepower of his resurrectiony and to share hiss^erings ingrowing conforrriity with his deathyif only I may finally arrive at the resurrectionfrom the dead," {Philippians 3:8-11 NEB)

How well, then, do we really knowJesus Christ ? Have we become so well acquainted mth him that we share in hislife—eternal life ? I do not imply thatthis question is easy to answer. We probably would welcome assistance even if weattempted to describe how well we knowour own wives or husbands. Evaluatingour acquaintance with Christ may beconsiderably more difficult. Fortunatelyin the New Testament there are someclassic descriptions of acquaintance withhim. By comparison with these we mayeasily identify the level of our acqaintancewith Jesus. Let us look at six cases:

The Ridiculous Level

At one time Nathanael, later one ofChrist's apostles, expressed the RIDICULOUS level of acquaintance with Christ.You may recall his statement. His bro-

ther Philip had just believed in Christand in the flush of his new convictiontold Nathanael, "We have met the manspoken of by Moses in the law and theprophets: it is J^us, son of Joseph, fromNazareth. (John 1:45NEB) He nieededto hear no more. "Nazareth!" Nathanael exclaimed, "can anything good comefrom Nazareth?" (John 1:46 NEB)Knowing Nathanael as we do (cf. John1:47) we have good reason to believe thathe would have welcomed Philip's news ifit had not been for that bit about Nazareth. It was welcome good news indeed thatthe Messiah had come at last. " But then,really, he hadn't come. He couldn'thave come~not from Nazareth ! Eventhe thought was ridiculous—absurd.

Nazareth was odious even to a loyalGalilean like Nathanael. What a liability it must have been to Jesus theNazarene in the estimation of the Judeanswho looked with disdain upon all thatwas Galilean I Even history has despisedNazareth. It has not bothered to recordthe details of its infamy. There is,though, one solid example that tells ussomethingof its pride, arrogance, bigotry, narrowness, intolerance, and impenitence. When Jesus in his fame paid avisit to his home town, his otfB neighborstried to throw him off a cliff becausethey didn't like what he said in his sabbath sermon 1 (Cf. Luke 4:18-30)

Nathanael didn't know much aboutJesus, but what he knew convinced himthat he was not the Christ. What heknew made that claim ridiculous. Butit is often this way. At first, what we knowof Christ makes his claim preposterous.Just recount a few of the details. He is aking ? A barn, then, is hardly a fittingplace to have been born. He is theMessiah ? It would have been less incredulous had his mother been more than anunknown Galilean peasant woman andthe heavenly announcements come tosomeone more influential than a band ofshepherds. And it isn't a good recom

mendation to know that the leading religious figures of his own people had himexecuted as a common criminal.

It is not hard to understand Nath-anael's ridicule. Often we ourselves mayfind it hard to avoid. But this arises because in our surprise we momentarilyforget the nature of truth. Truth is veryindependent. If we insist that it mustmeet us according to the rules of our ownsense of propriety, it will often elude us.Truth is rarely obliging. We must not,therefore, assume what it is and in whatform it will appear before we havesought it.

If we, like Nathanael, have a love forthe truth that tempers our initial shockand is determined to embrace the truthdespite its apparent liabilities, we are notfar from God's Kingdom. On deeperreflection we realize that these apparentincongruities speak of the trustworthiness of the Gospel of Christ. If theGospel were a fabricated message, canwe suppose its authors would haveimposed such unlikely liabilities upon it ?To suppose this requires far greatercredulity than acceptance of the Gospel!

We must never forget that those whomade the greatest committment to thismessage, the apostles, were not gulliblemen. At first they too were repelled bythese facts. But the greater fact predominated. They passed through the ridiculous to higher levels of acquaintance withChrist. As a proverb says, "He thatwould rightly understand a man, mustread his whole story."

2"Proverb", ideals, van b. hooper (Ed.) Vol.

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To be Continued

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PredestinationPeter Rama Rau, Madras, India

Many comments are made in connection with Esau's and Jacob's lives beingpredestined. The views expressed by somehave caused many to misconstrue theWord ofGod, blaming Himforbeing partial and comparing their lives to that ofEsau. Such a delusive topic needs a spir-.itual explanation.

The conflicting verse. Genesis 25:23,reads: "And the Lord saidunto her, (1 )twonations are in thy womb and (2) two manner ofpeople shall be separated from thy bowels^ and(3) the one people shall be stronger than theother^ and(4) the elder shall serve the younger,

The above markings outline' the orderof the study so as to make it understandable.

(1) The first words of promise to Reb-bekah are: "Two nations are in thywomb." Now let us see from the accountof the twinswhich, in your estimation, wasthe cleverer. Youwill say Jacob, becausehe supplanted Esau. However, this wasGod's foreknowledge of their characters.It was the characteristics of these twothat were responsible for the change ofnames, by which the two nations werecalled. Esau becomes Edom and his descendants were the Edomites. Jacob becomes Israel and his people were theIsraelites.

(2) The next point says, "Two manner of people shall be separated from thybowels." From the words, "Two mannerof people," we understand that it indicated the character of the people whothrough the times of the old dispensationhad "blessings" or "cursings" pronouncedon them according to their "faith andworks".

In Genesis 9:25 we find a curse pronounced on Canaan, the descendants ofHam. Then, in Genesis 28:1, Esau hearshis father charge Jacob not to take a wife

of the daughters of Canaan so that heshould not be like Esau who had alreadymarried one of the daughters of Heth, notof the covenant race. This displeased hisparents. Esau goes against his father'scharge in again marrying outside thechosen people ^Genesis 28:8,9. The namesof his Ganaanite wives are to be found inGenesis 36.

These violations of the old law branded Esau and his descendants as a cursedand a lost race. But Esau was fortunatethatGod gave him a temporary "blessing"through his prophetic father, as recordedin Genesis 27:39,40. The first part of theblessing gave all material benefits for awhile (vs. 39). The last part of the blessings (vs.40) was a promiseand states: "Itshall come to pass when thou shalt have;dominion, thou shalt break his yoke fromoff thy neck." This . was fulfilled atEdom's revolt against her enemv(2 Kings 8:20).

ButEdom's reign was crushed by Am-aziah and his sons (2 Kings 14:17,22; 2Chronicles 25:11,12), whereby their power was completely broken in accordance,withJacob's blessing.

(2) B. Jacob received Esau's rightful'birthright and blessing (Genesis 25:33;27:27). Later he flees to Padanaram. Hav-ing received his father's blessings (Genesis 28:1,7) he marries the daughters of hisuncle Laban. Now Laban was a descendant of Shem,, who received a blessingfrom his father Noah (Genesis 9:26). References to the line of Shem are found inGenesis 11:29; 24:24.

Thus the people of Jacob inherited a"blessing". Jacob paid for his deceit by hisuncle's trickery. Jacob's blessing and hisobedience led his people to present Christto the world.

(3) The third point states: "And theone people shall be stronger than the'other." This accounts for the paternalblessings of Esau and Jacob. Now inRomans 9:13 we read: "As it is writtenJacob have I loved and Esau have Ihated." This is explained in verse 10 ofObadiah: "For thy violence against thybrother Jacob shame shall cover thee, andthou shalt be cut off forever."

This was the cause of the hate, whichdid not apply to Esau, but to his descendants as explained in verse 8 of Obadiah,"Shall I not in that day, saith the Lord,even destroy the wise men of Edom, andunderstanding out of the mount of Esau."

Here we see the downfall of theEdomites who were first conquered byDavid (II Samuel 8:14). And Malachi1:1—4 states that Edom shall never berestored permanently. Thus the Edomites became the servants of David.

The Israelites, the descendants ofJacob, had many oppressions and sufferings, but in the end were faithful to theblessing. Since the Edomites became theservants of David, who descended fromJacob, Israel became the stronger nationin fulfilment of the prediction.

(4) The last point Solves the problem.It states, "The elder shall serve theyounger." This calls for closer study.

Esau means "hairy." He had a roughappearance at birch (Genesis 25:25). Jacobmeans "supplanter," suggestive of hischaracter and nature as affirmed by hisbrother (Genesis 27:36).

Esau was a skillful hunter (Genesis25:21). Jacob was clever and resourceful(Genesis 27:36; Hosea 12:3,4; Genesis 30:25-43).

Esau was worldly and carnal (Genesis25:34), profane ( Hebrews 12:16 ) andbrutal - he wanted to kill Jacob ( Genesis

27:14 ). Jacob's faith was unwavering(Genesis 48:15,16; Hebrews 11:21).

Esau became "Edom," which means"Red," obtained at the price of hisbirthright ( Genesis 25:27-34; Hebrews12:15,16 ). Jacob's name was changedto "Israel," meaning "striving with God,"given by the angel with whom hewrestled(Genesis 32:28; 35:10).

Esau was the father's favorite. Jacobwas the mother's favorite.

The above gives us a clear picture oftheir character and nature. Now in the

j whole life of Jacob and Esau there is notj a Scripture which shows Esau servingi Jacob. The flight of Jacob ( Genesis 28:

6 ) till his return and meeting with Esauin chapter 33 clearly shows that Jacobfeared Esau. This view is further strengthened by Jacob calling Esau "Lord"(Genesis 33:13,14), and from verse 16 thetwo have no further connection apartfrom being present at their father's deathto bury him (Genesis 35:29). ThereforeEsau never dominated as an individual,which leaves only his descendants whoserved Jacob's people as we have alreadyseen.

Furthermore, Rebekah was the one toreceive the announcement of Esau andJacob's destiny from the Lord. Jacobasstued himself of the promise his motherreceived by stealing Esau's birthright andblessing, while Esau despised his birthright and was not entitled to the blessingas he had sold his birthright. Thereforewe see that a prediction was alwaysmade to certain individuals who made itknown to the concerned. Thus such incidents recorded in the Word of God \vereintended to prepare the way of Christ..Then if you say that predestination isfor individuals, who proclaims it to youand what is its purpose ?

THE FESTIVAL OF THE FIRST-FRUITS

Frank Rempel

The day of Pentecost, or the "Festivalof the First-Fruits", was an extremelyimportant event to any Hebrew backbefore the beginning of the Christian era.Tltousands upon thousands of Jews fromevery corner of the known world madetheir appearance in the Holy City forthe occasion, some of them probably having come for the other very importantfeast, the Passover, and having stayedover to participate in this one also.

The particular Day of Pentecost towhich the scriptures refer in Acts, thesecond chapter, was certainly no exception. "Jews from every nation underheaven" were there, the narrator of theBook of Acts says. The city's inhabitantsstill had fresh in their minds the crimethat had been perpetrated there but ascant fifty days ago—on the occasion ofthe Passover feast—when the prophet ofNazareth had been crucified there by theRomans as a sop to the chief priests andrulers of the Jews.

The flame of public interest had sincethen not waned at all, but had ratherbeen fanned meanwhile by vague andseemingly wild rumours that the onewhom Nicodemus and Joseph of Arima-thea had laid in the garden tomb afterhis death on the cross, had risen to lifeagain.

Interest became suddenly concentrated attention when the eleven menknown to have been the Nazarene's intimate followers were heard to speak inforeign languages — the very languagesthe hearers had learned in their respective adopted home-lands. Nine or tendifferent tongues were understood by thecrowd that gathered as by magic.

The attention thus gained was quicklyutilized by Simon Peter, the spokesmanfor the eleven, in delivering to thatmultitude and to the generations then

and to follow, the first "official communique" regarding the outcome of thatseeming tragedy of fifty days past. "Godraised Him from the dead," is the wondrous truth he imparts. That the reportis authentic is fully verified by appeal tothose sources that the hearers acceptedas being reliable: the ancient prophets.Even the most incredulous must have

been convinced by their own hearing andseeing of the singular, miraculous demonstration given to them by the apostles ofJesus.

The emotional state of the Jewishhearers, already in a turmoil over thespeaker's accusation that they bore theresponsibility for Jesus' death, reachedthe breaking point when Peter made thisstartling conclusion: "Therefore let allthe house of Israel know assuredly thatGod hath made Him both Lord andChrist, this Jesus whom ye havecrucified."

"Men and brethren, what shall wedo?" was the anguished question — still-the cry of all who find the burden of theirguilt too heavy to be borne alone. Peter'sanswer is a classic for directness and

simplicity: ^

"Repent ye, and be baptized everyone of you, in the name of Jesus Christ,unto the remission of your sins, and yeshall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit."

Three thousand persons on that memorable day heeded the word of the preacher and were added to the originalgroup of believers. The Festival of theFirst-fruits, till now significant only in amaterial sense, takes on a greater, a spiritual significance. These are the first-fruits of God's eternal harvest, the beginning of an in-gathering that has beengoing on ever since. It will go on until

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Press Gleanings on ProhibitionCompiled by R. R. H.

The Government of Uttar Pradesh isrejoicing over the several million rupeesthey have just received from licensingliquor and bhang (narcotic) shops in thecity of Kanpur for next year. .

In the meantime, the shops are posinga law and order problem throughout thecity. The following are some of thethings that have happened in Kanpur.Information is lacking as to what ishappening in the rest of the state.

During the Hindu festival called Holi,one man was stabbed to death in admnken brawl.

On March 18th, three young menwere killed in a drunken brawl thatoccurred inside of a liquor shop.

Near the Ganges River Bridge, a dozendrunken men attempted to steal a truck.When the watchman stopped them hewas stabbed to death.

A police constable was assaulted bysome intoxicated persons when he attempted to stop them from teasing >vomenandother pedestrians.

Many cases of rowdyism by drunkenmen are not reported to the police.

Although the Government had decreed that liquor shops were to be closedon Tuesdays, the shopkeepers did not carefor all that. On one Tuesday the policevisited two shops and arrested nineteenpersons. They also arrested two personsfor selling ganja ( another narcotic )without a licence.

The gentlemen who threw open thelong-closed doors of liquor shops throughout the state do not seem to be muchconcerned with its evil results. But manyof the citizens have expressed their ire.

The liquor shops of Banda are wearing a deserted look since several hundredmembers of the "backward" classes and

Harijans have pledged to abstain fromalcoholic beverages for the rest of theirlives. Eight hundred members of onecommunity took the pledge. Any member of the community found contraveningthis community decision will bebeaten with shoes in public by everymember of the community, and will alsobe fined a sum of Rs. 10.

The citizens of Safedabad, a smallvillage near Bara Banki, have protestedagainst the opening of a liquor shop intheir village. They say that-they do notwant their village to becorhe a haunt ofbad characters.

Meanwhile the city ofLucknow, whoseliquor shops had never been closedj isdrinking seven thousand gallons of liquorper year more than in the past. Butsince licence fees had been increased illicitdistillation has greatly increased. Canthis be one of the reasons why the condition of the city of Lucknow hasdeteriorated ?

Lucknow, which is the state capital ofUttar Pradesh, was recently visited bya member of the Central Governmentwho bitterly criticised the scrapping ofprohibition. Mr. Gulzari Lai Nanda,Union Planning Minister, was addressinga meeting of the Bharat Sewak Samaj.Mr. Nanda said that the scrapping ofprohibition would be a national and moraldefeat. Mr. Nanda pleaded that it waswrong to say that prohibition affectedrevenue of the Government. The revienueof the states which had enforced prohibition had gone up from other taxeslike entertainment tax and sales tax.Mr. Nanda believes that prohibition canbe successfully enforced. If prohibitionis to be scrapped because it could not besuccessfully enforced, then the state could

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"CHRIST'S CHALLENGE TO YOUTH"By Frank Rempel

Much is being said these days aboutleadership (and the lack of it) in thechurches of Christ. Leaders must befound and their training facilities provided, it is averred, so that the church mayhave leaders who will take the initiativeand lead God's people in India into anew era of freedom and "independence".Young people must be challenged to stepforth to lead, Moses-like, into the promised land of self-sufficiency.

Let us beware! Hidden among the talltrees of such lofty sentiment are the worldly thorns that have been the undoingof more^sJ>irants to the mantle of theapostles than all other causes put together.

The concept of such "leadership" isentirely foreign to the New Testament. Idiscovered this to my own utter amazement when I took the time recently tosearch it out. Apart from the many references to God as the leader of His people,practicallythe only references to "leaders"and "leading" are the warnings againstthose who would lead astray! Typicalamong them, and very significant, is thereference to blind leadership of the blindwhich, it is said, invariably leads to thepredictable result.

The Lord was quick to point out toHis disciples the pitfalls inherent in theambition to be considered "great"—theambition that is almost synonymous withthe ambition to leadership in the modernunderstanding of the word. This, He said,is Gentile thinking. The new and strangely challenging way is to attain to greatness by the \yay of servitude.

The challenge to youth today must bethe challenge to service rather than toleadership. Back of the challenge mustbe the idea of total committment; theidea ofself-effacing devotion to God andto His cause.

The thinking that "training" will

provide leadership of the kind that thechurch needs is built upon a false premise.Training may be necessary ( more; it ISnecessary!) to increase knowledge; andeffective leaders must indeed be well-informed persons. But let us not forgetthat the possession of knowledge by itselfhas never been the measure of man's usefulness in the Kingdom of God.

Somehow the way must be found toimpart consecration, not as an alternativeto knowledge, but as a primary characteristic of God's servants. To the committed life alone may the complement ofknowledge be safely added.. Only thetruly consecrated person will escape thecorrupting influences that the possessionofa better than average theological educartion always seem to be. Consecration aloneis the bulwark against pride and worldlyambition and corroding discontent.These in their mildest forms lead to complete uselessness in the matter of trueChristian service: in the ultimate they leadto spiritual ruin.

Consider again the New Testamentconcept. Even the apostles of Christ werenever led into thinking of themselves asleaders of Christ's church. They becamefoundation stones in the building of God;They are pillars of the church. Theywere the "friends" of Christ by virtue oftheir subservience to Him. Their following of Him involved "crossbearing" andthe denial of self.

Jesus sends them forth as "sheep,among wolves" with the warning thatthey will have to endure many kinds ofhumiliations and sufferings. Their willingness to endure all of these fitted themfor the place Christ chose for them. Paulthus became a "chosen vessel", emptiedentirely of self so that he might bear thename of Christ before Gentiles and kings

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use the same principle to permit all sortsof evil.

The Finance Minister of the state ofMadras, Mr. M. Bhaktavatsalam, hassaid that prohibition has been a successin the state. Mr. B. said that thanks toprohibition 80 per cent of the formeraddicts had been saved from the drinkevil. With cooperation from all, the reform could be made a 100% success.

Sardar Pratap Singh Kairon, ChiefMinister of the Punjab, has said thatprohibition would be imposed throughouthis State and that illicit distillation inrural areas would be stopped with aniron hand.

Mr. D. Sanjivayya, President of theCongress Party, declared in Hyderabadthat prohibition is not a failure and ithas come to stay. He added that prohibition is. an all-India question and it isnot desirable for states to adopt differentpolicies.

Not all of the legislators in UttarPradesh are in favour of scrapping prohibition. Mr. Madan Mohan Lai Varmahas decried the ending of prohibition ineleven districts of the state as a movethan ran counter to the national prohibition policy. Mr. Varma brandedthe new policy of the Government as aretrograde step opposed to the characterof the people.

The retrograde steps taken in UttarPradesh have sparked the CentralGovernment to greater action. A retiredjudge of the Supreme Court is beingdeputed to head a campaign to createpublic opinion in favour of prohibition.He will also study the problems involvedin the enforcement of piphibition.

"Never swerve, in your conduct, fromyour honest convictions."

Horace Bushnell

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the "Lord of the Harvest" calls in Hisreapers.

God adds to the assembly of Hispeople daily those who in a similar manner are being saved. John the Revelatorsees in inspiring vision "a vast multitude,which it is impossible for anyone to number, gathered out of eveiy nation, andfrom all tribes and peoples and languages,standing before God's throne", ascribirigto Him glory and praise for theirsalvation.

.It is the time of the in-gathering, the"accepted time" when repentant believersin Jesus Christ may still avail themselvesof the means for salvation He has provided through His death and resurrection.We urge uncommitted readers to examinevery carefully those means by the readingand study of the New Testament, so theytoo may be led to an acceptance ofChrist as Saviour.

{Continued from page 9)and the children of Israel.

Each one of the apostles and otherdisciples of apostolic times does indeed,in our meaning of the word, become aleader in and of the church; but theleadership he offers is one of examplerather than of position. It is exercisedby virtue ofservice rather than of honorand preference demanded. The matterof superior intellect and higher trainingdoes not at all enter into their recognitionas such.

The challenge to dedicated service, letus be sure, is far more powerful when itis understood, than a worldly call ofambition and a desire for the high placesof authority can ever be. As it led mento their glorious death by martyrdom inother ages so it can bring about a transformation of human life today, moldingout of the human clay "vessels that aremeet for the Master's use."

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WOMEN OF THE BIBLE

"ACHSAH"

ISRAEL COMMANDED TO CROSS THE JORDAN

One day Caleb and the officers whomJoshua had summoned, circulated amongthe people proclaiming that the Lordhad commanded Joshua to cross theJordan River in three day's time. Thepeople were to prepare victuals accordingly. The usual remarks and speculations started their rounds and some ofthe people were quite uneasy.

"We will not be simply marchingthrough Canaan as we marched throughthe wilderness. We will have to fight tillwe conquer the whole land from theinhabitants and so possess it. If we aredefeated anywhere the nations will jointogether and wipe us out. Will thenations of that land sit still and watchwhile we dispossess them ? In thefirst place, how are we going to cross theJordan ? The river is rising and thereare no fords now." Some, who wereundaunted, who had been teenagers whenthey had crossed the Red Sea, answered:"Why are these people always murmuringand complaining ? Did not the Lord niakeus a way through the Red Sea ? Is Henot the same who is going before us now ?What is this Jordan compared to the RedSea ? Why should we fear the nationswhen the Lord is on our side ?"

One of these men was Salmon of thehouse ofJudah. By his side was anotherhero who assured the faithful that theLord was repeatedly encouraging Joshuasaying, "Be strong and courageous. Aslong as Israel will obey the Lord, not allthe world can prevail against us. Onlylet us not rebel against the Lord or Hisservant Joshua."

This Salmon was Achsah's kinsman.One day she heard her father tell howJoshua had sent Salmon and another

Israelite as spies to Jericho to search outthe country and bring back a report onthe strength and disposition of the enemy.Later on, the story she learned was this:

The spies had entered Jericho just before dusk, and made for the house of aharlot named Rahab. This house stoodon the wall of the city. It was usual forall kinds of men to visit the houses ofharlots. But these spies were being hotlypursued by the king's men, who now demanded of Rahab that she surrender themen to them. Rahab, who had hastilyhidden the Israelites behind stalks of flaxon the roof, told the pursuers that thevisitors had already left. She urged iffiesoldiers to ride out quickly and overtakethe strangers. The messengers rode outin haste and forthwith the gate was shut.

Rahab went up and informed thespies, "I know that the Lord has givenyou the land and that your terror is fallenupon us, and that all the inhabitants ofthe land faint because of you". She further described the fear of the people, andrequested, the men, when they took thecity, that she and her father's house mightbe spared, asa reward for having protectedthem from the hands of their enemies.She had then let them down by a cordthrough the window, after receiving themen's solemn promise that she and herpeople would be saved, provided they all;stayed inside the house. The spies thengave her a scarlet thread to bind to thewindow by which they had been let down,for its identification.

Acting on her advice, the spies hadthen escaped to the mountains and hiddenthere for three days till the pursuers hadreturned from a fruitless chase.

Now that the spies had come back

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with good news, the Israelites would allbe crossing the Jordan soon. Achsahwas excited. If her father was unafraid,she was not going to have any fears. Thecamp moved from Shittim to the edge ofthe river, ready for the crossing.

The officers went among the host andcommanded the people, saying, "Whenye see the ark of ths covenant of the Lordyour God, and the priests, the Levites,bearing it, then ye shall move from yourplace and go after it." But they emphaticallywarned that the people should always keep the specified distance betweenthem and the ark.

On the day of the crossing Joshua personally came and told all the people tosanctify themselves, and conunanded thepriests, "Take up the ark of the covenant,and pass before the people......when yeare come to the brink of the waters of theJordan ye shall stand still."

The Jordan Was now in high flood,andthe waters had overflowed the banks andspread out far on each side. There wereno fords now. All w^itched anxiously asthe priests, bearing, the ark of "the. Lordof all the earth" walked towards thewater. The main river at a distance wasracing toward the Dead Sea, carrying onits bosom driftwood and whatever otherobjects had come in its way. But theoverflowthat had spread itself over thebanks was not swift, and at the edge thewaters were shallow so that only the solesof the feet of the priests were wet as theystepped forward. Someone, who remembered the parting of the Red Sea whispered, *'Now watch how the river willpart iiself in the middle and the waterstand up like two walls on either side ofthe parting." Othniel answered, "Therewill this time be only one wall, on theright, because the flow will be stoppedthere. On the. left side all the water willcontinue to flow down into the Dead Sea,"

As soon as the feet of the priests touched the water, the river parted between

the two banks. The water down streamsoon disappeared. Upstream, at a considerable distance, the water stopped andbegan to pile up till the river stoodupright like a cliff.

The people received orders to passover and wait on the other bank, on theplain ofJericho. Achsah and her friendsgave one glance at the towering wall ofwater and with palpitating hearts hastened to cross over to safety on the otherside. After the whole congregation hadcompletely passed over the river, at theLord's command Joshua selected twelvemen, a man from each of the tribes, for aspecial task. "Pass over before the arkof the Lord yoiir God into the midst ofthe Jordan and take you up every man

a stone upon his shoulder thatwhen your children ask their fathers intime to come, saying, 'What mean ye bythesestones ?' then ye shall answer them,'The waters of the Jordan were cut offbefore the ark of the covenant of theLord*." These stones were to be a memorial unto tjie children of Israel forever.Thus,"Joshua set up twelve stones inthe midst of Jordan, in the place wherethe feet of the priests stood."

Achsah saw that it was Othniel who'picked up the stone that was to representthe tribe of Judah. After everybody elsehad crossed over the river the prieststhat carried the ark passed over theriver. "As soon as the last man's footwas lifted out of the water the waters ofJordan returned unto, their place andflowed over all its banks as before."

The courage of the people of Jerichofaltered all the niore when all this happened. But Rahab rejoiced, because sheknew that the God of Israel was theonly living God and none could resistHim. The Israelites set up camp in'Gilgal, "in the east border of Jericho,:and those twelve stones which they tookout of the Jordan did. Joshua pitchin Gilgal."

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Sermon OtMinei for Barefoot freae^er^.

QJUALDIED LEADERSHIPExodus 18:17-23

By G. D. Yesudian

INTRO. : The proclamation of thegospel and winning souls to Christ requirecertain qualifications.

ILLUS. The army will fail in battleunless only qualified military men are recruited.and appointed.

The father-in-law of Mo.ses advisedhim to appoint qualified men to helpjudge the people. Men called of God suchas Moses, Caleb and Joseph were qualified men. Jesus called the twelve apostlesand Paul. Today He calls all to carryout His great commission.

I. ABLE MEN. One must be ablein body and in spirit to fight the goodfight of the faith. To win souls is not aneasy task. Able men must preach, teachand baptize. Cf. Matt. 28:18-20.

II. GOD-FEARING MEN. Cf.Prov. 1:7. It is most essential to followin His steps, in the way of righteousness.Those who do not fear God are on thebroad way that leads to destruction. Thefew who fear God will enter through thenarrow gate into heaven.

III. HONEST MEN. They mustnot be hypocrites. God knows thethoughts, words and actions or deeds ofevery man in every place.

IV. MEN HATING COVETOUSNESS.Preachers should not be greedy, should

live on what they have and should notthemselves rob God. Illus: Cain inGenesis 4; Ananias and Sapphira in Acts5. . Some are covetous of the honor, glory.Word and. church which rightly belongto God. Cf. Matt. 22:37-40.

CONC.: The churches today needleadership composed of "able men, suchas fear God, men of truth, hating covet-ousness." Friends, quit yourselveslike men!

THE WORD

John 1:1

By V. Azum

INTRO.: God used the word increation as the instrument of each creative act. The word became flesh m theperson of Jesus Christ. John the Baptist was the voice preparing the way forthe Word. The Word of God is immutable, Matt. 5:18.

I. The Spoken Word, Heb. 1:1,2.A. To Noah, Gen. 6:13,14.B. To Abraham, Gen. 12:1-3.C. To David, Ps. 89:3,4.

II. The Written WordA. On tables of stone, Ex. 13:18.

In the Book, Ex. 24:4,7; Lk.1:3; I Cor. 14:37; Rev. 1:19.In the heart, Heb. 8:10

III. The Confirmed WordA. By God Himself, Gen.

22:15-18.

By Moses, Deut. 28:56,57.By Isaiah, Isa. 2:3; Lk. 24:47.

CONC.: The Word of God wasspoken to the fathers, written on stone, inthe Book and in the heart. God has con-

B.

C.

B.

C.

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firmed it and will fulfill all He hasspoken, written and eonfirmed.

A CHILD IS BORN

- Luke 2:11

By Peter Rama Rau

Intro. : In history and in literatureoccasional predictions have been made ofthe birth and greatness of particularinfants. The birth of the Christ childfulfilled innumerable predictive prophecies.I. A SAVIOUR KING.

A. Born King of the Jews, Mat.2:2.B. Crucified as King of the Jews, John

19:19.C. Reigns as King of Kings! I Tim.6:15

IL CHRIST.

• A. Denied by the Jewish, nation, -Acts3:14.

, B.-Preached by some of contention,Phil. 1:15, 16.

C. Believed on by some,John 6: 69.III. LORD.

A. Lord of Lords, I Tim. 6: 15.• B. One Lord, Eph. 4:5.

C. Both Lord and Christ, Acts 2: 36.Cone. Today we know Hini throughHis word as our Saviour, Lord andChrist. We may accept Him as Saviourand Lord by confessing Him as Christanb obeying Him in the way of salvation.

THE SONS OF GOD

John 1 : 13,

By D. Somi

Intro.: By receiving Christ webecome sons of God.

I. BORN NOT OF BLOOD.

A., Born of the love of God, I Jn. 3:1B. Born of the Word of God, I Pet.

1 :23.C., Born of the will of God, Jn. 1*43.

II. NOR OF THE WILL OF THEFLESH.

A. Flesh and blood are not capable.

Mat. 16:17.B. The spirit is willing but the flesh

is weak, Mk. 14: 38.C. The flesh profiteth nothing, Jn.

6:63.

III. NOR OF THE WILL OF MAN.

A. We must do the will of God inorder to enter heaven. Mat. -7: 21

B. It is the will of God that weshould be saved. Mat. 18: 14.

C. We are sanctified by Hb will,Heb. 10: 10.

Cone. But of God. God is true, Jn.3: 33.God b light, I Jn. 1; 5. God is love, I Jn.4: 8.

THE MIRACULOUS BIRTH

John 1 :1 - 18

• By Dishington

Intro.: Miraculous evidences surroundthe birth ofJesus.I. Hb. pre-exbtence, Jn.l:l-5, 9,10

A. In the beginning, Jn. l:l;Gen.l:l- Heb. 1:10

B. Hb deity, Jn. 1:1; Heb. 1:8C. Hb part in creation, Jn. 1:3; Col.

1:16; Heb. 1:2II. The annunciation

A. Through the angel Gabriel, Lk.1:26

B. To Joseph, Mat. 1:18-25C. To Mary, Lk. 1:26-36

III. The visitations

A. Vbit of the shepherds, Lk. 2:15-20B. Vbit of the wbemen, Mat. 2:1-2C. Vbit to the temple, Lk. 2:21-38

Conclusion: Among the millions ofbirths that have occurred in the worldnone b sostriking, as that ofJesus. How doyou react to the miracles at Hb biithwhich attest to Hb deity ?

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Christian Duty to the ChurchBill Gulick

ENNORE, INDIA

We become christians through faithin Jtsus Christ, repentance from sinsand baptism through immersion in waterfor the remission of sin>. Now we turnour attention to what it means to be aChristian, how we live the life after wehave begun it in baptism.

Ourchristiai clucks may be dividedunder two main heads: (I) our duties asChristians toward the church and (2) ourduty as christians in everyday life withfamily, friends and colleagues. We are toconcern ourselves in this article with thefirst heading: our duty toward the churchand its work.

WORSHIP

It is our Christian duty and privilegeto worship with other christians on thefirst day of the.week, Acts 20:7. Each ofus can of course worship privately anyday of the week and should do so inprayer, Bible reading and hymns. But wemust come together with others onthe first day of the week to break bread.This public worship helps each of us tobe strong in the Christian life and ourpresence at the worship encourages otherchristians. Hebrews 10:25 admonishes usto be diligent in this Christian duty of assembling that we might exhort and encourage one another.

WORKING TOGETHER

Each of us has a duty to work in theprogram of the church. Each must do hispart of the work and must cooperate inthe general plan of the church as a whole.

Paul tells us the church works like thehuman body. Each does his own particular work, which may be unlike the work

of the other members; yet each is relatedto the work of the whole body. I Corinthians 12:12 - 31 shows that the body is notone member or one type of work, but ithas many members and many differentjobs. If the work of one member is neglected, the efficiency of the body suffers.

The body functions gracefully onlywhen each member does the particularwork which it is fitted to do: the footwalking, the ear hearing, the eye seeing,etc. So in the church some christians

can lead in the singing, some teach classes,some can preach, some can do personalwork in bringing others to hear the gospel,some can meet strangers at the door, etc.Each does his work and each work is important.

The healthy body is not the one inwhich a few of its members functionwonderfully, but that in which eachmember does its work. The eye can beperfect, but it cannot hear. So each hashis own work for the church and its program as a whole.

FINANCIALSupport

It is our Christian duty to the churchto support it with our financial means.Money is required to carry on the workof the church and to preach the gospel inother places. The only Scriptural wayof raising these funds is through the freewill giving of Christian people.

SUBJECTION TO ELDERS

It is our Christian duty to be subjectto the elders of the congregation. Peaceand order in the congregation dependupon the elders. But the elders cannotdo their duty in this regard unless the

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members are loyal to them and respecttheir authority.

Hebrews 13:17 warns that we shouldbe subject to those who watch on behalfof our souls. We should make their work

a joy and not a task.

In matters of doctrine, of course,Christ is the only Head of the body andall members obey His directing. But inthe practical everyday matters that comeup within the life of the church, theelders are the ones to make decisions.The obey is one in doctrine if all members obey Christ, the Head. The Ijodyis one in function and work if all members submit to the discipline of the eldersof the congregation.

SETTLING OF DIFFERENCES

Our cliristian duty to the church demands that we settle personal differenceswithin the church, rather than in thecourts of law. Study Matthew 18:15 ff.and I Corinthians 6:1-6. Notice that disputes between Christians.should be'settledbetween themselves alone if possible. Ifthey cannot reach a peaceful solution together, they are to take it before thechurch. The decision of the church isto be received by them. If one refusesto abide by the impartial decision of the

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The Christians are not to go to lawbefore a non-christian court for the settlement of their disputes.

LOVING ONE ANOTHER

It is our Christian duty to love everyother Christian with a filial affection. AChristian must of course love all men.For through creation all men are thechildren of God.

But there is a special warmth andcloseness about the love among those whohave obeyed the will of the Father of thefamily.

Notice that Christians are to be knownby all men for this love that they havefor one another. Read John 13:35.

Paul's comparison of the .church withthe human body makes it clear that thereis a strong sympathy and fellowshipamong the members; when one suffers,the l)ody as a whole suffers. If the handis infected the whole body will suffer witha fever, and the whole body may perishbecause of the hand.

In the chtirch we are all one, for eachis united with Christ.

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Written, Mimeographed, and Mailed by Ralph R Harterat 112/352. StVARUPNAGAR, KANPUR, U. P. INDIA

( Knnpur somftimes spelled Caiciipire )

BACK

On July 2nd I returnedto Kanpur from the coolheights of Simla. The weather during the first weekat home was very miserablebut the rainy season beganin earnest on July 9 thbringing cool relief tornch and poor alike.

?/hile I was gone, thedormitory boys succeededin cleaning the officev/alls of old paint. X knoviT

that that

22, 19^A C K TO W IWORK

our radio-less house. Mypresent intentions are tokeep it that vy;ay.

It might be intei'estingto mention here that Kan-pur*s first radio stationis in the process of construction. This is remarkable when one considersthat Kanpur has a population of more than a million people. I will behappy if T.V. never getsthis far.

Most of the boys havebeen marliing time thismonth. Andriyas, Peter,Harold, and (our latestaddition) Patrick are hoping to get admitted to theIndustrial Training Institute. Richard has finished his drivers train

ing and hopes to get hislicense soon. In the meaii-

from experienceis no easy job.has now been

with a lightwhich promi sesc le an atmo s phe reoffice hours.

The boys did fairly v/ellduring my , absence. Theymanaged to break the radiobut I am thankful for the

peace that now reigns in

The office

repaintedblue color

to lend a

to our

'=An,i :ih( "..M no; 1 Inv-' c gaid for Nin'iveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscoreIhousand p rsons that <•. innoi di o.rn between iht ir right liand and their left hand; and also muchcall!.' Jonali .4* 11

tlBie he is helping out inthe- bookstore. Rubin seenis

-to have', pi^etty well surmounted his^ psychologicaldifficulties but he has"yet to locate himself insome paying; occupation.

Three boys v/hose - namesappeared ifi our.'last newsletter are no longer withus. Yaqub is back at hisschool, many, miles to thenortheast. Manors fatherhas reaccepted responsibility of his son and hastaken him back hoiiB. Predywas caught smoking onceagain and left tovm thesame day. He was double-crossed by his best friendwho gave him the cigaretteto smoke and then came andreported him. .-There is nohonor among thieves.

•THE GIRLS

Our financial reporthints that we help girlsas well as boys, but wedon't say much about them.

Mavis Washington is avery stupid girl who getspromoted once in awhilebecause of advancing age.After another , year inschool maybe her parentscan marry her off.

Anita and Cuckoo are twodaughters of our formeremployee Cyril Loyal.-Theyare bright youngsters anddeserving of help.

There are three otherboys whom we help vdao arenot often mentioned. Daniel is a brother to Mavis,and he is'doing well. Anupis a brother to Anita andCuckoo. Ke may be slowerthan Anita, but doing wellnevorthless. Harold Dassis a fine youth, and weare helping him by buyinghis books for him.

. SISTER HELEM-You v/ill be sorry to

hear of the continued serious illness of HelenDouglas, sister of ourfor«.vardlng agent. Yourprayers for her will begreatly appreciated.

BOOK STOi^ & LIBRARYOur free lending library

was very busy during thesummer school vacation.Most of the readers are

Hindu school boys who mayhave no other opportunityto become informed of the

Gospel of Jesus Christ.The sales department

sold 3S, Bibles and 29 NewTestaments during May andJune. Receipts totalled§l[}-6.

"On the Rock," is stillon the rocks.

Our ndssionary friendswill not,get their specialpage this month. .

TEA TIME

I leave my house almostevery afternoon at 3:25and arrive' at the 'Rempels*house at 3:30. This is regular enough that youmight set your clocks "byit.

There in the coolness ofthe Rempel dining room wehave a daily pow.-wev; between sips of tea.

T he RerapeIs and;' •I arenot connected by any typeof mission organization,and so we have no officialbusiness meetings. Butthese tea sessions servethe same purpose in a farmore cordial atmosphere.

Also drinking tea withus is Prank's printer,Mangal Singh. So the conversation invariably touches on the progress ofthe printing program andthe day's printing problems. If something isabout ready to be printed,I am usually given the.final opportunity to lookfor any mistakes.

Then there is an opportunity to discuss any problems from my establishment, viz. the book store,the dormitory, and the department of manuscriptproduction.

Marie's advice on painting and other housekeepingproblems is inestiifiableiand Prank is very deft

with his many varied toolswhen!- something at ourhouse needs fixing. Allthese things . get plannedwith the second cup oftea. •

As I leave the house I

sometimes ask if Prsink istaking his Jeep anywhere,just in case X might want

-to hitch a ride. - •

VJhen Mrs. Rothermel is

In the city, I usuallyhave tea v/lth her on Wednesdays. Besides conversing on matters of commoninterest, we also exchangereading material. One ofour recent problems hasbeen the proposed marriageof one of my boys to oneof her girls.

The Rashes live just farenough away that" thoy arenot often troubled to provide my liquid refreshmentbut our communications arefrequent neverthless.

A.t my house tea isserved once a v/eek on Pri-days. This is a socialevent at which twelve tofifteen persons may bepresent. The dorraitoiyboys take full advantageof this and often neglecttheir supper afterwards.On July 12th, Marie donated a cake for the occasion. This is a good timefor the Rempels and o-chervisitors to become betteracquainted with the boys*

FORWARDING AGENT ; MISS FLORENCE DOUGLAS, 410 N. MAIN STFLORA, ILLINOIS, U. S. A. '*

THE CHEEI^UL GIVERS DURINGMAX AND JWm, 1963

Illinois;

Neon Class, FloraGlofee Trotters "Ladies at Paxton

Indiana;Osgood Miss^y Circle 25»00The Colestocks "

I ov/aiMrfi. Hunting ton ,Kans as;

The R.'W. DunghughsMrs. M.E. DunahughDerby Sr.Derby Jr.Kentucky;Mt. PleasMissouri:Neepor Church 20.00The Peels 20.00Ohio:

Clinton Church 120.00Sabina Jrs. 22.32Orrville M'y Dept. 5-00Bladensburg L.D.s 30.00Old Stone 20.00Mrs. Flint 10.00The Ira Brandons 50.00Branch Kill Church 20.00Linden Vi/.C.S.G. 3^*00Acme Tapes, Clinton 11.10Penn s ?;•1Van i a;Oak Grove 3l]-*78

TOTAL RECEIErS 627.45

Youth

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llf.7520.00

10.00

25.00

90.008.00

10.00

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EXIENDED PROM MY 11th TOJULY 17th, 1963

Salary 250.00Boys u Girls 189.56Housing' 89.41Book Store 77*49La^vrence Lazarus 52.20N.T. PublicationsChristasian 34.46Office Supplies 32,33Library 22.Letters to donors 3.18T otal Expended 8OO, 71

SUivIMARYBalance, May 10" 108.90Contributed 627.45Total Receipts 736.35Deficit, July I7 64-36

Although we are showing adeficit again bhis iiioiith,v/e are not in any difficulty whatever. Our friendshave given wonderfully andsufficiently for our present needs.

The "deficit" reallyamounts to arrears on mysalary. At the presenttime I do not need my fullsalary, and I am mosthappy to let it pile upfor a day of greater need,such as tomorrow.

"Thanks be to God for his gift beyond words !"II Cor. 9:15

Written, Mimeographed, and ^ failed by Ralph R Harterat 112/352. SWARUPNAGAR, K.\NPUR, U. P. INDIA

( Kanpnr

THE LOCAL CONGREGATION GAINS STRENGTH

On Sunday September 1st,Tom and Leota Rash placedtheir membership with theSwarupna.gar congregation,Seeing thio good example,three others Y/ho had beenbaptized elsev/here alsocame and placed their membership, That same dayLeota said the winningword to one of our youngpeople, Roselatta Masih,who consequently made theGood Confession and wasbaptized on July 8th.

Church attendance is at

an all-time high, and latecomers have difficultyfinding a place to sit. Soour need of a church buil

ding grows more and moreacute as the months go by.Happily our Building Fundis also growing month bymonth, and we now have

$1000 saved for that purpose. Prank Hempel is corresponding v/ith the Muni -cipality about a piece ofland.

V/hile morning servicescontinue to be held at our

Swarupnagar address, theHindi evening services arebeing held in the Pandu-nagar area where the IndiaBible Institute is locatedo

English language servicesare held at Rempels'•

We have lost one of our

members by death: Mrs. Albert Pawar v/ho had been

wasting away with tuberculosis for more than threeyears. Her two sons havebeen in the Kulpahar Kids'Home since last year.

We also conducted thefuneral of the ten-monthold son of one of our

'•And should not I have regard for Nineveh, that great city, wherein arc more than sixscorethousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also muchcattle ? " Jonah 4;] 1

backslidden members. The

child had died of piieumo-nia- As per the rules ofthe Kanpur Cemetery Board,the child had to bo burledia "unconsecrated ground"along with other "unbapti-sed" children and nefarious characters.

DORiVtirORY NEWS

There have been a number

of changes in our dormitory since our last newsletter. Richard, the driver, has returned to hishome. He has a job linedup but must await issuanceof his driver's license.

Licenses are far more difficult to procure here,than in the U.S.

Rubin, who had been beset v/ith psychiatric dif -ficUlties, left here because he did not want toattend Bible classes.'Heis reported to be livingwith some M-^sllm friends.

Rubin's place has beenfilled by his brother>Jonathan. Since J. had no"city clothes" of his own,he conveniently broughtwith him some that had belonged to Rubin.

Jonathan was the typicalcountry rustic v/hen hearrived at our door. Hishair was unkempt, he worea red rag around his neck,he had no sandals on hisfeet, and he spoke a vil-Ifre dialect that I could

not understand. Later heput on a v/hlle shirt thatdisplayed a variety ofblack and blue buttons. Hehad only managed to passthe l|.th Grade in school,so we just don't knav whatwo will be able to accom

plish with him. He readsthe Bible very poorly, andunderstands little of what

he reads. He has begun an-apprenticeship in a localgarage. His progress willbe interesting, if hemakes any.

Two of the boys havebeen admitted to theGovernment trade school.

Peter is learning LeatherGoods ivlanufacturingtf And-riyas is learning "PatternMalcing," which is a specialized form of carpentry. They make parts outof wood which are later

cast in metal.

Harold was not acceptedat the Trade School be

cause he had only managedto pass the Fifth Grade.This poor showing' inschool was partly due topoor health which has plagued him since childhood.It was suggested to usthat we provide Haroldwith a bogus certificateshowing him' to have passedthe Eighth Grade, but weknew that God would never

bless that sort of anarrangement. In the end weenrolled him in a private

tailoring school where wehope with the Lord*s 'blessing, he will do better than in the Governmentinstitution. He also continues to learn Hinditypewriting.

Our fifth boy, SamuelBeen, continues to plodalong in learning furniture making. He also plodsalong in Bible reading.

Andrlyas has taken a vov;not to shave until he cat

ches the cat that killed

his fan-tailed dove. Thismorning he has been building a trap for it.

One of the boys (we willnot say which was) was recently caught stealing: anold habit of the human

race. The dormitory punished him by ostrasizinghim for two days.

Wow and then our neighbors have complained thatthe boys gaze down on themfrom the rooftop. (Shadesof King David). So we havehad to demark a boundary,now nicknamed the BerlinV/all, to keep the boysfrom the observationpoints. So far none of theboys have crossed thecheck point.

CHRISTMAS IS COMINGThis may be a pleasant

thought to some of you,and a horrible thought toothers I but it is comingneverthless.

The number of friendsv;ho like to reiiiember ifie at

Chris tnas-time, and alsoon my birthday (Dec. i|.th)has been growing from yearto year. This year I amscheming to take betteradvantage of this benevolence.

The best thing you cangive me as a special giftis travel funds fornext furlough. Xour lovegifts this year will bringme miles nearer home.

There is a slight possibility that I may begin myfurlough a little earlierthan planned, say aboutSeptember next year. Thereason for this is thatthe Rempels would like togo on furlough when theirson Dale graduates fromHigh School in June *6^,Since it would be difficult for us both to begone from Kanpur at thesame time, it remains forme to take my furlougheither before or afterthey take theirs. The Rempels would prefer that Igo first, while I wouldjust as well go last,Butif the Lord wants me tovisit the U.S. next year,then I will come nextyear. Your gifts to thoTravel Fund will help decide the case. Send asusual to Miss Douglas, butdesignate "Travel Fund."Thanks in advance.

GOSSIPLETTER

At this v/riting, everyone soenis to be in goodhealth.

Ward Patterson and motorcycle have arrived in Kan-pur on their Asian expedition. He comes to us fromHew Delhi where he visitedwith the Chester Parkers.

Mrs. Rothermel has returned to Kanpur from thehills and continues to enjoy life- with great zip.She is looking around fornew duties to perform.

Prank Rempel had a nar-'row escape when his Jeepwas sideswiped by a busnear Dehra Dun: only God'sprovidence sa"\/ed him. Theroads of India are becom -ing more and more perilous.

Leah Moshier left forher furlough during thefirst week of September.

The U.S. may Lear a lotabout India in 196i|.« TheGullcks, the Rolands, and

^Edna Hunt are planning to/ give their darshans States-

side. Others may also join.the parade. They will notcompete with each other,but they may have competition from the Airiericanelection campaign.

After her hill vacation,when Edna Hunt resubscribdfor her daily newspaper,the paper began to arriveaddressed to The ReverendMother, Edna Hunt. TheCirculation Department has

changed their minds.The report seems exage--

rated, but we hear thatArt Morris is receiving- agift of ten thousand neckties, How rich can one getS*• William and Ethel Gullckare very busy with their58 hostel boys. But stillBill found time to cooperate with Art Morris in atwo week evangelistic meeting. No baptisms resultedfrom the meeting, but aformer leper was recentlybaptized at Ennore.

We are expecting DavidRees to participate in ourAnnual Men's Gamp fromOctober 2ij.th to 30th, WardPatterson may also be withus if he returns from Burma and Nepal on time..

Tom and Leota Rash havemoved into a new house andhave redecorated it verydecorously.

Helen Douglas, sister ofour forwarding agent, Florence, continues seriouslyill at home in Flora, 111.

The Lee Turner home inLahoro has been blessed bythe arrival of a new daughter. Name and date are ina letter which has beenmisplaced. The work in Lahore has also been blessedby the arrival there of ayoung lady from the churchin Coos Bay, Oregon. Thelr-work in Lahore has begunto bear fruit. You are allinvited ^ visit them..

tailoring school v/here wehope with the Lord'sblessing, he will do better than in'the G-overnirientinstitution. He also continues to learn Hinditypewriting.

' Our fifth boy, SamuelDoen, continues to plodalong in learning furniture, making. He also plodsalong in Bible reading.

Andriyas has taken a vpwnot t.0 shave until he catches the cat that killedhis fan-tailed dove. Thismorning he has been building a trap for it.

One of the boys (we willnot s-ay which was) was recently caught stealings ahold habit of the humanrace." The dormitory punished him by ostrasizinghim for two days.

How" and then our neighbors have complained thatthe boys gaze down on themfrom the rooftop. (Shadesof Kihg David). So we havehad to demark a boundary,now nicknamed the BerlinWall,' toV keep 'the boysfrom" the observation

points. So fsir none of theboys have crossed thecheck point.

CHRISTMAS IS GOMIHGThis -may be a pleasant

thought to some of you,and a horrible thought toothers I but it is comingneverthless.

The number of friendsv/ho like to reiiierabor pie atGiiristirjas-time, and alsoon my birthday (Dec. l^th)has been grov^ing from yearto year. This year I airischeming to take bettoradvantage of this benevolence. ^ y

The best thing'you canhrgive me as a special gift •is ^travel funds for mynext furlough. Your lovo"gifts this year will bringme miles nearer home..

There is a slight possibility that I may begin my •'furlough a little earlierthan- planned, say aboutSeptember nexi; year. The •'''reason for t. '!B is that 'tlie Rempels would Tike to ygo on furlough when their . 'son Dale graduates froim._..^High Scho?-:!-^-in J^ne '65. /Since It would bo diffi- /cult for us both to begone from Kanpur at thesame time, it remains for _me to take my furlough -•either before or after /they take theirs. The Rem- -'-^7pels would prefer that Igo first, while I would •' -just -as v/ell go last.But ..--yif the Lord wants me to ./visit the U.S. -next year,then I will "come next- >year. Your gifts to the XTravel Fund will help deycide the case. Send ai—__•usual to Miss DouglSs, butdesignate "Travel Fund." •" 'Thanks in advance.

FORWARDING AGENT : MISS rLORENCE DOUGLAS, 419 N. MAIN S TFLORA, ILLINOIS, U. S. A.

THE CHEERFUL GIVERS DURING

JULY MD AUGUST, 1963Illinois;

Eva Wood Circle $20.00PaKton Women 20.00Indiana:

5.0050.00'25.00

The Golestocks

Mr. Franli ReasBright ChurchKans as:

Derby Seniors 10.00Nortonville DVBS 12.00The Rollin Dunahughs 90*00Mrs. M.E, Dunahugh 9*00Kentucky;East Union 36.2[{.I'vlissouri:

Keeper Church 30.00Liberty S.S. lb<,55New York:

Mrs. Seufert 5*00Ohio;

Clinton Church 120,00Clinton Busy Bees l5o00North Terrace Church 16.60Orrville 5-00Linden Homebuilders 90.00Mrs. Flint 10.00Barberton First Ch. 100.00Bladensburg L.D.s 10.00Old Stone 20.00

Brihkhaven Church 25.28Sabiha Jrs. #lp -52.00Pennsylvania:-Oak Grove DVBS 30.93Tennessee; •Church at Central 20.00Third Church Ladies 10.50

Virginia:Mrs. Belle Burkley 5.00Total Contributed 859*10

EXPENDED FROM JULY l8th TOSEECEMBER l6th, I963

Salary 250.00Boys cc Girls 125.09Housing 61.63Book Store k Libr^y 61.63Lawrence Lazarus ' 51*14.N.T, Publications ll-3.67Christasian 38.22Church 28.1^2Office Supplies 25.I16•Airletters 6.37Total Expended 69I.63

859.10

61^.3719h-'P691.63

103-10

SUMB/IARY

Amount ContributedLess Deficit of

July 17th

BalanceLess Expended

Balance, Sept. 16

Unless we are under somedelusion, our finances arein a healthy state. {If Iam dreaming, let me dreamon). Thanks to all of youfor helping us thrive.

During Juljr and August,the Book Store , .sold 26Bibles, 13 New Testaments,175 Life of Christ Visualized, and other books.

"Thanks be to Go<l for his gift bcyoncl words !"ri Cor. e:l5

Who shall ascend into the hill of Jehovah ?And who shall stand in his holy place ?

He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart;Who hath not lifted up his soul unto falsehood,

And hath not sworn deceitfully,Ps. 24:3.4

Vol. IX, No.5 September ^Q0Q October Kanpur, India

Price: nP. 25

£ife is JSilte a (fountain ^ailwai^Ralph R. Harter

On June 1st, 1963, I arrived at Kalkaby the Howrah-Kalka Mail. According tomy pre-formed plans, I went first of allto the station restaurant where I leisurelyate my breakfast. Then I summoned acoolie and directed him to put me on thetrain for Simla.

The rail distance from Kalka to Simlais 96 kilometers. But because of thedifficult mountain terrain, the railwaycharges for 287 kilometers.

The fastest train takes five hours tomake the trip while the slowest requiresseven hours. During this time the trainclimbs to a height of 7000 feet.

The trains on this run are small inboth length and width, and so they cannot take as many passengers as othertrains.

Four Trains

When I arrived on the platform afterhaving eaten my breakfast, there werefour Simla-bound trains sitting there.They were due to leave one after anotherat intervals of twenty-five minutes.

But three of the trains were alreadyfull of passengers. Only in First Glasswas there any room, and it would havecost me Rs. 16 (fS-'iO) more to take aseat there.

There was plenty of room in thefourth train which would follow the othersup the hill. I cast my lot with this lasttrain. I opened up my bedding roll and,making myself comfortable, began to reada book.

After an hour-and-a-half, when allthe other trains had left, we also tookleave of Kalka Station and began to

climb to the scenic heights. Seven hourslater when we pulled into Simla station,I had had abundant time to meditate onthe similarities between life and theKalka-Simla section of the Indianrailways.

Higher, Higher!

Every round goes higher, higher!This is true of a mountain railway, and itshould be true of our lives.

It is much easier to descend a hill andremain on the plains than it is to climb.A train that runs on the level doesn'tpuff as hard or burn as much coal as docsa climbing train.

An ascending life also requires a greatdeal of effort and expense. Unless weaf-e willing to expend the time and theeffort, it is quite impossible to climb theheights in our spiritual lives.

In most cases, people are not willingto pay the cost of the climb. Or else,they climb a little ways, tire, and flagout. Very few people reach the top.

It is sad to say that today, whereverwe look, church members are satisfiedwith living on the plains.

Where do you stand today ? Areyou willing to pay the price of climbingupward ? Or is your life like the trainsdescending from the heights and travellingon the plains ? Qh that our lives mightbe ascending lives!

(To Be Continued)

RANDOM THOUGHTS OF A READER

TIME Magazine reports that Lutherans have become, much disturbed bytheir own inability to understand andappreciate the "doctrine of justificationby faith", as revealed in their recentLutheran World Federation meeting in,Helsinki, Finland. The teaching, saysone of their leaders, is for the church today "clearly an enibarrassmeht."

This is extreniely sad! The tragedyof such a state of affairs is not that it runsdirectly counter to the Very foundationalteachings of •Lutheranism,' but that ateaching so proniinent in the New Testament and so straight-forwardly put thereshould prove to be an embarrassment toa group of people claiming membershipin the Body of Christ.

A well known Lutheran leader. Dr.Gerhard Gloege, of Bonn University, saysthat/'today neither the church nor theworld knows what to do vvith the dpctrineof justification". He refers, presuniably,to the Lutheran thurch, Uhd it is a sorrycommentary on the state 6f Lutheranismthat he is probably right. ;

THE church knows well enough whatto dp with the doctrine of justificationby faith! Its members know, having had"the eyes of the heart enlightenedwhat; the exceeding greatness of His powerto us-vyard who believe," which resultedin Ghiist's resmrection and in His elevation to a position ps "Head over all thingsto the church, which is His body, thefulness of Him that filleth all in all."(Eph. 1:18-23)

THE church knows that it exists because of and through faith, its members,each one, having been made alive tOgeth-:er iwith Christ and having been seatedin heavenly places in Christ Jesus. "Bygrace have ye been saved, through faith,and that not of yout selves, it is the gift ofGod,,not of works, lest any man shouldglory," is the positive, incontrovertible

statement of the Holy Spirit through Paul(Ephesians 2:1-10)

Perhaps the Lutherans, like many, other people, fail to rightly understandthe meaning of the word 'faith*. Hencethey seem to see a contradiction betweenPaul's positive statement that faith," apartfrom works, saves, and that of Jam6s thaf''faith apart from works is dead." (James2:26) Surely it is not too hard to see thatthere is a vast difference between "worksof the law", performedto gain merit withGod, and deeds perforrried be;cause of aperson's faith; It is the latter to whichJames had reference and it is the formerthat Paul excludes from the plan of salvation. To people possessing true faith nocontradiction exists.

I suppose it was . inevitable that,Lutheranism should run into trouble •atthis point, .They started pffwith so ex-,treme a view of " justification .by,faith" ,that even simple obedience to Gh|:ist*scoinmahds was often categorized as a,forbidden work. Luther hhnself is the,author of such statements as: "Unlessfaithis'witbotit any- even the leastj works,it db'es-hot justify, nay is not faith!" "'The'true saints of God must be good strongsinners'^ This was, ofcouree, the violenceof his reaction against the undue empha-.sis on works for salvation, placed by hisCatholic opponents, expressing itself.

Thispreposterous view hasbppn Inherited by rhahy who have followed afterand is especially prevalent today amongthe "faith only" proponents. Baptismfor the reihissiOn of your sins must not beperformed, they say, lest; you take away.from grace through faith. This they sayeven though Christ commanded it (Mark'16:16) as did Peter also. (Acts 2:38 )"Arise and be baptized and washaway your sins, calling on His name," wasthe instruction given to Paul, but we today mjist never associate this act of faith..

with the remission- of sins; we are told. •;Such an understanding of the mean;

ing of fkith does indeed create a contradiction-and gives rise to the confusedthinking of so many.

We hope that the Lutheran gropingfor the truth (though, why they shouldput the whole responsibility for discovering the tfuth upon the *'new theologicalcommission" they have appointed, I can'tunderstand) will finally result in a returnto New Testament teaching.

But if they ever do come to such anenlightennient, we must warn them thatif will entail far more changes than justin the matter of justification.^ We mustgive them advance notice that the Lutheran Church will disappear, for the New

Whether, two hundred and seventymillions of India's people live on nP. 19(4 1/2 cents) per day or Whether in factthe}?', are able to expend for their nec-e^ties .iip to nP. 46(99!) seems academic,and-a' foolish question, perhaps, ,for well-fed and highly paid niinisters of state, todebate.

But when Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia,ah Opposition leaderjin Parliament contended that sixty percent of the peopleof. India are living on nP. 19 per day, hevyas hotly disputed by the, h^inister forLabour, Planning,and Employment, whothen released the higher figure. Readingthe newspaper report, it almost sounds asthough Mr. Nanda were proud of thegood life his planning had brought to therhasses. • '

But even Mr. Gulzari Lal Nanda'shighly optimistic' figures do not comeanywhere near to. the minimum requirement for the preservation of health.Remember that these folks, involved inthese figures, are those who perform: withtheir hands the hard, laborious tasks thatin more highly developed countries aredone by mechanical means. They earn

Testament knows nothing of such anorganization. Lutherans will have to getaccustomed to being called just, plainChristians, members of the Lord's church.The Augsburg confession will give wayto a way of faith and practice foundedon Christ's teaching, and written by theapostles. Having once tasted of thesegood things, though, how they will lovethem!

It is good that the flow of God's graceis npt interrupted by the foolishness menso often dbplay. Sincere seekers afterthe release from the burden of sin maystill find a resting place in Jesus, quiteapart from all creeds and controversies oftheologians.

Thanks to be God!

that pitiable amount literally by the sweatof the brow.

Mr. Nanda admitted that the poorest10% of Indians spend, per capita, Rs. 8,to Rs. 10 per month for their living ($1.70 to 2.10) With food •prices still risingsteadily, this means that for about 46millions at least of the people of this nation, there is nwer enough to eat.' .Thework of discreditihg the govern

ment for its unfruitful policies may safelybe left to the political opponents of it,and they may be counted on to make thehighest political capital out of the situation. For the rest of us, it is essential thatwe do riot allow the spring of our compassion to be dried up. All who are interested in hqman welfare—and Christiansmore than others—^must seize everypossible opportunity to do their part inalienating distress and need.

Beyond this, how desperately anxiousthe Christian ought to be to make knownto the burdened and'suffering ones of thisworld that in God's grace a place is beingprepared for all who will enter it, wherewant and distress can never come. "Heis Lord of ALL,'and is RICH unto ALLthat call upon Him."

ACQUAINTANCE WITH JESUS,. Mr. B. L. Turner

The Gommitted, I<eyel

It is this very persuasion which leadsus to the next higher level of acquain-

.tance with Christ—the committed level.

It is this decision of utter committmentto Christ which the Bible calls repentance.This committment is a major decisionthat makes a host of minor decisionsentirely unnecessary. The man who truly

.meant that statement in his marriageceremony: "I promise to keep myselffrom all others and to keep myself to heronly till death do Us part," that mandoesn't have to wonder if he wants to propose to the beautiful young lady whoworks in his office. That decision wasincluded in the major decision he madewhen he married his wife. So, the manwho tsuly commits. hnrisplf to Christmakes a basic and permanent decisionwhich places him continually under,Christ's direction. He seeks Christ's mindin moral and ethical decisions whether inpersonal/ social, political, academic oreconomic matters. He looks for Christ'swill in the choices that lie before him.Even when following Christ involves personal sacrifice and sacrifice of person hedoes it cheerfully for Christ's sake.' ' It was just this kind of acquaintancewith Christ" which Paul made .with him onthe way to Damascus. Bitterly opposedto Christ because he believed him to bean imposter, he was journeying toDamascus to harrass and arraign theChristians. Near his destination Christsupematufally appeared to him. Paul'sarguments were now in shreds. His logicsimply did not conform toi reality. Jesusiof Nazareth is the Christ! There couldbe no denial. "With utter disdain for hispersonal loss he saw the only course ofhonor—the only course of true gain in

submksion to Christ. In classic snnplicityhe committed alh "What shall: I do.Lord?" (Acts 22:10 ARV)

THE EXPERIENTIAL LEVJEL

It was this committrheiit which ledPaul to the highest level of acquaintancewith Christ—the experiential or identification level of acquaintance.

Here we enter Into Christ's life. "Thisis life eternal that they should knowJesus Christ." (John 17:3 ARV) TMs isthe meaning of being a Christian. We entttinto Christ's experience so we may say,with Paul, "I have been crucified withChrist," (Galatians 2:20 ARV)

Here we may see the significance ofChristian baptism. It is not a liturgicalor ritualisric ceremony for receivingmena-bers into the church. It is certainlynotmagical nor efficacious in itself. It suretyiis npt a meritorious work. It is, however,an obedient act of faith (Cf. 2:11-12 andGalatians' 1:26-29) in which we join Christin his death, burial and resurrection.Paul asks us: "Do you not know that allof us who have been baptized into ChristJe.sus were'baptized into , his death, thatas Christ was raised from,the dead ,by theglory of the Father, we too might walk ipnewness of life." (Romans 6:3-4 RSV)

We then, in the power of God's Spirit,(Cf. Acts 2:37-39) go on'experifeiicingthelife of Christ. We can say, as Paul did,"I have been crucified with .Christ* thelife I now five is.not my life, but the lifewhich Christ lives in me." (Galatians 2:20NEB)

This identification with Christ is thesecret pf redemption. God can nowaccept us in Christ. It is the secret of thepower of the Christian life. Th6 Chrisi-tian isi in Christ and Christ is in him.

INDIAN PRESS GLEANINGS

Compiled By 'R. R. H.

An distant executive engineer of the'Westerri Railway travelled in a trolleytover nearly 1,000 feet of track hangingloose over a flooded -rivulet on the •nightof July 5th in order to inform the nextstation' about the damage to the tracks.jAny train .coming from that directionwould not be aware of the peril that

[awaited, them. Any mishap to the trolleywould'have throWn the engineer andothers accompanying him iiito the watersthirty feet below.• • In 1961, the Bible retained its titleas the world's , most translated book.There were 246 trans^lations of the Bible,185 translations of Lenin's works, 115translations of the works of Count Leo

.^Tolstoy, and 101 translations of IndiansRabindranath Tagore. '

' Ail' •'India's London office recently"made an enqui^ with the Finnish Government r^^arding^ the restrictions' inimporting . thahgoes into that- country.

:The reply; they received from. Helsinkivyas, "What type ofanimal is a mangb ?" .

•As;everydnb in Ihdia knows, •the mangois the world's-most delicious fruit. .

' . A tense sitiia'tion exists- between tbeticket collebtors and the railway police

-in the Ranpur Central Railway Station.• . Recently when 'a ticket •collector-caught a'boy Without a ticket, a constablepleaded With the tickpt collector to let

,him go. This led to hot words and blows.The T. G. then lodged a Complaint with,the Station-master. For his part, theconstable collected some^ of his cohortsand :dragged the; T. C. to their Office.Next,; the ticket collectors-and other rail-waymen combined their forces and marched on the -police office to release their.detained associate. A strong contingent.of the city police finally arrived to endthe crisis.

Tombstone thieves are active in Delhi

these days. They remove tombstonesfrom'the older cemeteries dotted over thecapital and sell them. Many of the lootedtombstones date back to the middle ofthe nineteenth centuty and are of moredurable quality and more easily engravedupon than tombstones made today.

The headmaster of a girls' high schoolnear Trivandrum in South India has beenfined Rs. 100 (:^21) for practicing un-touchability in his school. He had formedclasses in the school separating the untouchables from the other students. Theaccused pled that this was done withthe aim of improving the standards of theuntouchables, but the magistrate turneddown this argument.

A woman near Jhansi who had beenpraying to her idol to protect her familyfrom smallpox, lost her balance of mindwhfen five of her children died from thedisease. , She not onlystopped praying tothe deity, but tried to remove it. Thisaction was resented by other devoteeswho reported the matter to the police.

During 1962, 4,500 person were convicted in the state of. Xlttar, Pradesh forselling adulterated or sub-§tandard articles of food. In .97 cases the offendersweresentienced to jail. The highest percentage of adulteration was found in milk,spic^, soft drinks, and sweets.

The incidence of lung cancer has increased.300% in India during the pasttwelve years according .to a survey conducted by the Vallabhbhai Patel ChestIpstitute in New iDelhi.

The Delhi-Madras "Grand Trunk Express" killed eleven head of cattle nearAgra on July.16th. When the driver sawthe cattle grazing on the track he soundedhis-whistle but the cattle, ran right infront of the engine and one after theother they were all overrun and killed.

WOMEN OF THE BIBLE"ACHSAH"

By Miss H. Kaveri Bai

Joshua at once despatched messengersto Achan's tent, who ran and dug out thestolen things and brought them to Joshuaand laid them all before the Lord. Achsahwhispered to her mother, "Oh, thatgarment is really beautiful! But it waswicked to disobey the Lord." ThenJoshua and all Israel took Achan and allAchan's children and all his livestock andproperty, including the stolen things, andbrought them all to the valley of Achor.There, "all Israel stoned him with stones,and burned them with fire. And theyraised up over him a great heap of stones."

After this thorough purging, the Lordbade Joshua himself go up in personagainst Ai, promising to. deliver it intohis hands. Ai was taken and the fear ofthe Israelites fell on all the inhabitants ofthe land once more. •

After this victory Joshua built an altarof whole stones, without cutting or trimming, between the two mountains ofGerizim and Ebal. The ark of God, withthe priests who carried it, was broughtinto the centre and the tribes of Israelwere placed, one half toward' Mt.Gerizim and the other toward Mt. Ebal.

Joshua then wrote on the altar stones thelaw of Moses, and read it out to all thepeople. It enumerated all the divineblessings for obedience, and also thecurses that were sure to follow disobedience.

Everyone in Israel must hear the lawover and over again in all their generations, since Israel's special relationshipto God and their separation from theheathen nations required their knowingthe law and obeying it. By obediencethey enjoyed God's special blessings andfavors, as enumerated in the one list whichJoshua read; by disobedience they in

curred God's wrath and His chastisements,in the other list. None could blame Godfor His severity, or claim ignorance, afterhaving been so clearly told what the conditions of their relationship to Him were»Indeed, the Lord punished His ownpeople more severely than He did theheathen, for Israel knew His commandments and warnings.

Rahab had married Salmon and hadthereby become Achsah's kinswoman.The men of her family had all beencircumcised and become Hebrews, Atthe time the blessings and curses wereread out she happened to be by the sideof Achsah and had observed how thepeople had listened with awe to the wordsof Joshua. "I never have heard suchthings before," she said in a low voice toAchsah, "but the people of Israel knowthe living God. Why should any man orwoman rebel against Him ? What follyto turn away from such a God, who isthe fountain ofallgood, and of^1 peaceand joy and blessing. What folly indeed!"

"Sin blinds people's eyes, darkens theunderstanding and hardens the heart",answered Achsah. "So they become foolsand are like beasts. Else why ^vould theyleave the safety of the Rock of their refugeand seek danger and destruction ?"

THE LEAGUE WITH THEGIBEONITES

Gibeon was a large neighboring citybut the inhabitants went into a panicwhen they he^d of the mysterious fall ofJericho's walls, the conquest of Ai and allthe slaughter that had taken place. Nowthere could be no halting of the conquering advance of the invaders from thewilderness. How were they to save theircity and escape the sword? They planned

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a ruse whereby they ipight deceiye theIsraelites into making a pact with them.When the trick would be discovered,being bound by their oath, the Jsraeliteswould spare their lives.

One day there was excitement in thecamp. Pharez came and told his motherand sister that some ambassadors from afar country had come to Gilgal to seeJoshua and they made such a queer sightthat quite a little crowd, including his bigstep-brothers, Onan and Asher, wasgathered to stare at them.

"You are sure they came from a farcountry and are not the inhabitants ofCanaan whom we have to drive out before us?" asked his mother. Achsahwanted to know the name of the country.

"They must have come from a farcountry, though I do not know the name'of it. Mother, you should see them.They are a sight. They may be greatmen and princes in their owncouqtry, butthey are looking so shabby, in old andtattered garments. Their shoes are wornout, and the bags they carry are very old.The bread which they presented to Joshuais all mouldy ,and as hard as a potsherd..They must have travelled many, mainydays, for they say the bread was fresh andtheir clothes were quite new when theyset out.

**Do you think I could take a peepajt them?" asked his.sister.

"No no; Joshua will not allow-womenthere."

For once, Joshua acted' at his owndiscretion without consulting the Lord.He believed'the bogus ambassadors andmade the desired league with them.When it was too late to rectify his mistakeJoshua discovered the truth. In the camp,everybody was amazed. "They are notat all ambassadors from a far country, onlyour neighbors, the Gibeonitcs, who haveplayed this trick on Joshua. Now whenwe have taken Gibeon, we may not slay

the inhabitants because of Joshua'soath!"

God would not consent to having hispeople live together with the inhabitantsof Canaan, who, for their wickedness,"were either to be utterly destroyed ordriven completely out of the land, lest alittle leaven should affectthe whole lump.The nineteenth chapter of Leviticus givesa graphic description of the kind of abominations practiced by the nations ofCanaan. From Abraham's time toJoshua's, God had given them opportunities to repent of their sins but they hadnever repented. Now the time had comefor their judgment. Joshua's mistake wasto cost Israel dearly in the time to come.

The next campaign of the Israelites wasagainst Gibeon'and the cities round about.After subduing them, since they couldnot slay the Gibeonites, Joshua madethem drawers of water and hewers ofwood. But the Gibeonites remained athorn in the side of their masters. TheIsraelites were later to adopt their idolatry and many of their abominable practices.

The women in the camp were alwaysnervous whenever their men folks wentto war. After the warriors had returnedfrom their conquest of Gibeon they spenta few days resting. Then an urgentmessage came from the Gibeonites toJoshua, claiming his protection at once.The kings living in the vicinity had entered into a confederacy to fight and crushthe Israelites. Seeing that such a largecity as Gibeon had made peace with theenemy—a "unilateral peace", as wewould call it today—the confederatesattacked Gibeon to punish it.

Night had fallen as Joshua and hismen began their all night march. Joshuawas determined, if possible, to surprisethe enemy who would not be expectingsuch speedy help to arrive. The Lordhad given him the assurance the confederate kings would be delivered into his

DRUNKEN TIMES

By R. R. Harter

, The night was hot and sticky.Thousands of people were sleeping outdoors where a light breeze had waftedthem to sleep.

But there were, still three or four whocontinued to talk the clock around. I'wouldn't knpw what they were talkingabout, and they have probably forgottenthemselves. ,

. For suddenly they lifted their eyes toa most incredible sight. Eveil for India,the land of the unbelievable, this was toomuch to be grasped.

"It is alleged that'the bus driver wasdrunk at the time," the newspapersreported later.

The bus driver in question' had justreturned to Lucknow from a charteredruntoKanpur. As he drove his emptybus down the Gautam Buddha Road, itseems he decided to round off his eveningwith a little fiin.

The early moiming peace was suddenlyrent with the screanis of the injured, thedying, and the bereaved. The newspapersdisagreed as to the number of casualties,but either eleven or twelve were deadand up to twenty others seriously injured.

One of the newspaper accounts reported that the bus driver had driven"boisterously" over the beds of the peoplewho were sleeping outside.

This wais the biggest-ever single roadaccident in the history of the city ofLucknow. Twenty-five years ago, in asimilar accident, a drunken driver killedhve sleeping pisrsons in the same locality.

We must remember that in this latesttragedy that took place on Friday, July,

•26th, 1963, the drunkenness of the drivercan only be "alleged." The police inthese parts are not equipped with the

modern equipment necessary to prove aman sober or drunk. It may also be thatthe present laws make no distinctionsabout drunkenness, and so it would bepointless for the police to prove it oneway or another.

Thus the liquor industry, and thepoliticianswho are promoting it, can takecomfort in the fact that it can only be"alleged" that their product has anythingto do with these tragedies. They themselves allege that there is no connectionbetween the scrapping of prohibition andthe increase of accidents and crime.

The city of Kanpur now has as manyas six major motor accidents withintwenty-four hours In many instances, aswhen a driver drove into a house, it mustbe stated that, "It is obvious that thedriver of the vehicle was not in his proper senses." (National Herald of August3, 1963,)

In the meantime, crime in KanpurDistrict has increased by seventy percentsince the opening of the liquor shops ninemonths ago. Kanpur now holds thedistinction of being India's most wickedcity. The police authorities attribute therecent rise in crime to the lifting of prohibition and the opening of the liquorshops. The undesirable elements in thecity, after getting drunk, quarrel amongthemselves over trifles and assault eachother with knives, resulting in deaths.

But not all is doom and gloom.Thousands of policemen, officers, inspectors, district officials, and bus drivers havepledged not to take liquor or otherintoxicants. The State Government hasalso closed;liquor shops at the importanthalting stations on the dangerous routesto Badrinath and Kedarnath.

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The women and the children in theIsraelite camp arose the next morning togo about their several tasks. Rahab cameto see Achsah and gave her an invitation: "Come and see a garment I havemade and embroidered. It is in colorand pattern like the Babylonish garmentAchan stole in Jericho. It is not so . richand gorgeous—a poor imitadon, really—but it looks somewhat like it. I knew thepeople in Jericho who owned that garment and have seen and admired it often.Come and bring your friends too, andtake bread with me."

''What a clever needle woman youmust be!" exclaimed Achsah. "Whattime shall we come?"

"This evening when the shadow ofthat fig tree creeps to your lent door.Have those five sisters come and join youhere before you come over. There isgoing to be a full moon and we can havea nice time." Those in the camp usuallylooked to the shadows and to the position

. of the sup, moon and stars, in the sky fora rough calculation of the time.

After their midday meal the Zelophe-had sisters came to Achsah's house andthey all rested till the shadow of the figtree, should creep toward the tent door.Some hours went by and still the shadows

•had not lengthened. Achsah went out,greatly puzzled, and looked at the sky.

THE TIME IS SHORT

The time.is short!If thou wouldst work for God

it must be now!If thou wouldst win the garland

for thy brow.Redeem the time.

The sun hung exactly where it was whenshe had stretched herself on a camel skinrug, along with her friends, for the restperiod I . . , , •

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God's Spirit dwells in the Christianand gives him peace and .moral victory.

This intimate identification withChrist is the secret of having the mind ofChrist It is also the basis of all progressin Christ.

Identification with Christ is deepenedthrough participating regularly and earnestly in the Lord's Supper^ the Communion; through prayer, study of the scriptures and through Christian fellowship.It is given practical expression throughChristian benevolence.

Whether we ridicule Christ or arecurious about him; whether we hold hisclaims plausible or have been persuaded,we only know Christ's power when wecommit ourselves unreservedly to him,and become united with him. "

THE END.

With His rewardHe comes; He tarries not; His

day is near;When men least look for Him

will He be here.Prepare for Him!

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' Gontributed by F. Rejipel

^<i>IVINE - HUMAN CO-QPSRATION"

/ Text:. Matthew, 11:28-29

INTRpDUGTION

1. -Jesus,who as the "son" of a carpenter may have shaped many yokes, understood well the function of a double yoke.

^ a. That'it'divides a load betweentwo parties. •

b. That it limits each party to ONLYhalf a load.

c. That unle^; there is perfect cooperation no progress can be made.2. With this illustration He points out

• some important facts:a. That God has limitied Himself,

and has made Himself in some respectsdecffeWdeht oil man.''.

b. That there is to be a DiVine-hu-mah'^-'cd-dperatidh, by which God andman are to \i^6rk tbgfefher in harmony.3. This possibility seems remote to ns, forhow can sinful riiaii walk with a holy God?

a. But remember, it is His invitation:*'Take My yoke upon you,.. "

b. Hence His grace will be sufficientto meet such a prpbjem.

Pro posit ion

THERE ARE THREE AREAS INWHIGH. MAN thus BECOMES.

AN ASSOCIATE OF GOD

God hasf•decreed man's.conversion shall bie.a co-operative matter.1. There are many objections heard tothe above statement: . . .,

"Materialism" denies that Godhas anyp^t in conversion, andsays thatman ^tist save himself. But hearJehovah's ominous word: "Cursed is the manthat trusteth in man, that maketh fleshhis arm, whose heart departeth fromJehovah" (Jeremiah 17:5)

b. There is an extreme religious em-•phasis that reverses the order—man is buta p^sive subject in the hands ofan autocratic God,,,for Him to. do with as Hepleases. Robs man of all properties ojfchoice and self-determination. '*Faithonly" advocates come under this heading.2. But th^ Bible clearly conditions aUof God's promises of salvation on:

a. Man's voluntary acceptance pfGod's plan fpf;salvation.' ' .' ' b. Man's willing obedience to all

God's commands.3. An illustration in Acts 2:37^40

a. The promise of remission and giftof the Holy Spirit to ALL.

b. The conditions binding uponALL:**Repent ye and be baptized everyone ofyou." This is man's part.

c. 3000 added in that day—the evidence that God did His part.

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tihe Christian life is a hiatterof our co-operation with God.I. It was for failure to realize this thatthe Gklatian Christians were severelyrebuked:,...... "having begun in the Spiritare ye now perfected in the flesh?"(Galatiahs 3:3) THey thought they didnot need God's help through the Spirit

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and longer.2. Adversely, we must not expect Godto do it all. The Philippian Christianshad fallen into this error, and Paulinstructs them: "Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling "

. (Philippians 2:12).3. Hence Jude. exhorts all Christians:"Building up yourselves in your most holyfaith, praying in the Holy Spirit, keepyourselves in the love of God looking forthe mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ untoeternal life." (Jude 20:21}

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The Christian's task of witnessing can only be effective when

.we become "workers togetherwith him". (2 Corinthians 6:1)

1. God reconciles the world to Himselfthrough Christ, but He has given "untous the ministry of reconciliation." He

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2. Our task ison God's behalf-alone can God speak to the world.(2 Corinthians 5:20)3. It is a sobering thought that God hasno other me^ns for the salvation .ofmankind.

CONCLUSION

Enoch, who is said to have pleasedGod so much that he "translated himthat he should not see death", "walkedwith God." (Heb. 11:5; Genesis 5:21-24)May we walk together with Christ, withHim under His gentle yoke!

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St Soever ©ccurred zJo S)(teI work for the Department of Internal Revenue. I am the chap whom;

everyone loathes. I-gO over your income-tax return.The other day 1 checked a queer return. Some fellow with an income

under'five thousand \dollars claimed he .gave six hundred and twenty-fourdollars, to a church. Sure, he was within his 15 percent limit, but it lookedmighty suspicious to me. So I took a bus and went to see Ais chap to askhim about h.s contribution.

f thought he'd become nervous like most of them do and say that hemight have made a mistake. Not this mari! He came back at me about that|624 without batting an eye.

"Have you a receipt from the chinch?" I asked him, figuring that Wouldmake him squirm. ' Sure" he said, "I always drop them in the drawer whereI keep my envelopes." And off he went to fetch his receipts! '

Well, he had me! One look at the receipt and I krie:vy he was on thelevel; ;'So I apologizai for bothering'him, explaining that I have to check Upon-deductions that seem unusually high. As we shook hands at the door, hesaid "I would like to invite you to attend our church some Sunday."

"Thanks, but I belong to a church myself", I said."Excuse me, that possibility had notoccurred to me,"he said. ^As I walked away I kept wondering what he meant by that: last remark.

It wasn't until Sunday morning when I dropped my usual quarter into theoffering that I suddenly realised what he'd meant.

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"IN THE MIDST OF A CROOKED AND PERVERSE GENERATION", .

: There is no substitute for good parents.Parents are particularly fitted to drawout. and, channel into useful direction thebit of greatness that God has implantedin every child.

When parents fail their children inthis respect, young lives often remainaimless, incomplete, and stunted. Juvenile deliquency, more often than not, isthe result of being unloved and unwanted.

On the other. hand, parents whomagnify what is good in their sons anddaughters automatically restrain and dimi-iiish any tendencies toward evil.

Over fifty years ago, a small boy work-ittg in a factory in Naples, Italy, longedto be a singer. But this ten year old boywas told by his first voice teacher that heshould forget about singing. "You Oan'tsingj" the.teacher.^said, ,"\^ou haven't anyvoice at all.' It sbunds like' the Wind inthe shutters.',*

" But the boy's mother, a poor barefootpeasant woman, knew better. Puttingher arms around the boy she told him sheWassure he could become a great singer.To prove her complete faith in him shem'adie eveiy sacrifice in order to pay forhis singing lessons. Her confidence andconstant encouragement brought but thehidden power in her son. Enrico Carusobecame one of the great singers of alltime.

Said Henry Ward BeecHer: "There isno friendship, no love, like that of theparent for the child "

^HOME, THE PLACE TO TEACHAND LEARN

• It is written in Proverbs 22:6, "Trainup a child in the way he should go, and

What of your Children?Marie Rempel

Iwhen he is old he will not depart'firomit;" Home is the best place fo^ childrento leam about God. This teaching may

!be given in school and church but •Whenit ^is taught and lived in the home, >thechild will learn that Jesus is an everpresent and a wonderful Friend .Ii

In Jamshedpur, some time ago, a-manwas arrested for operating a bar withdefective brakes, horn, muffler, and tires.In court :a few days later, the magistratedendanded an explanation. The man said:"I was on my way to the repair shop,your honor." Many people are givingthis same kind of an unconvincing replyto the question of their, respopsibilides.

1Parents ignore the fifst signs of defectsin the character of their children and astime goes .on the defects grow worse and'othCT,. defects are added. Still parentscontinue in their presumption upon:^o 's,mercy that He will, in some SvJty, draw^their children back iiito His love'Withouttoo much harni. But this is possiblewithGod only if the children have been givena grounding in proper behaviom andgood conduct in the home.

GUA^ AGAINST EVIL, ODTSIDEINFLUENCES

A great craze for comic books andother such literature has swept overnearly every home in America and inIndia. Before the children's eyes, thepoliceman lies groaning in the ditch,clutching his bullet-riddled groin with onehand, reaching for his gun with the other;The cop-killer, a neurotic juvenile delinquent type, is making a fast getaway upa fire escape. There is the wail of the

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sirens on the police cars, and a longjawedyoung man jumps from the prowl careven before it stops: none otherthan pickTracy himself. He in turn will riddlewith bullets the crazy mixed up kid, whowill drop from the second storey to thepavement. Tracy will hand to the "copper's, widow" a little,purse the boys haveqollected. .Her children will look sad butthey will feel awfully ,proud of poorpoppa.

-.1: Clare Booth Luce has written criticallyabout the commercials which are used ontelevisionL........."Use Toothsome Toothpaste. Don't let Johnny's teeth 'decay.Nqyer mind about his morals," they seemto imply.

One of my boys. Dale, who is away atrchool, Wrbte today to say that sincenothing had happened it was not veryeasy to find anything to write. Theradio and thie newspapers, however,contradict him, for daily through them^we. learii, as the boys are learning to do,"what is wrong with the world"i ratherthan what is right and normal.

:' It had been a dull'day in the newsija-per• o^C(^-^no murders, no arsdn, no sex'critt^s, ' no train robberies, no , othersqribiis bffhhCes to report. A reportersighed to' the editor ': "I'm" frankly getting'discouraged. Nothing has happened inthe last twenty-foiir hours."

"Don't let it,get you down," repliedthe editor ' "Something will surely turnup. I still have faith in human nature."We have grown to expect evil,, conflict,trouble, as the normal pattern of life.; God help us in these days ivhen the

world is tempting our children with suggestive advertising, tantalizing picturesand signs, in India as everywhere. God;help us to pray 1

As Dr. Dhebar of Bombay has said,'*Ybu too -can do something to help ouryouth on to proper and useful paths where

they will be able to dedicate their energiesand talents in the constructive mannerintended by God."

The U. P. government has repealedprohibition. Our city now boasts itsscores Of wayside pubs and drinkingplaces. : ' Never before have we seendrunks on the streets as we do now. Mr.Gupta, U. P.'s Chief Minister, had saidthat there would be no public advertising,of liquor. Now Kanpur's main street,Mahatma Gandhi Road, boasts two hugeneon sings advertising Whiskey and lager,beer. They are placed on the highestbuildings for all to see.

The result ? In this city of nearlytwo million people, the Statesman carriedthe announcement that crime had increased 92%—later, fearing that this soundedtoo drastic (or perhaps because of pressurefrom the liquor industry) the next issueof the paper said it was not quite as bad

that.

"Greater;is he th^t is in you"Still, there is no lim it to the power'

for good-in the heart of your child. Temptations must surely come but , if the fear-and love of God is implanted in his heart,his yielding to temptation is not inevitable. Rather, a stiength to conquer is-the glad,possession of that heart—and hq.who conquers will, obtain happiness tothe .full in the Lord Jesus Christ.

Let us as parents-^Christian parents—'follow a few simple, practical rules formaintaining in our homes the kind ofatmosphere that our children deserve andheed. Let there be an atmosphere ofaffection, of mutual respect, and regard,for all members of the family. Enforcereasonable and firm discipline and obedience from the children. Make provisionfor teaching in integrity and.clean living,by daily scripture reading and by settingan undeviating example of the Samebefore them. '

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WHO WAS IT?By Sant Kumar James

TheStory ofLawrence Lazarus who meets a poor Punjabifamily on a Katni-hound Train,Translated from Jeewan-Deep Hindi Patrika,

Wrapping her child up in the quilt Ihad given her, the woman lifted up herhead to thank me, but tlie words caughtin her throat. Two diamond-like te^dropped and tolled on her cheeks fromher sunken eyes. Her face was deeplyimpressed with the cruel marks of time.

Gaining my attention, the Sardarasked me where I was going.

Sleepiness had long since fled fromme and returned to its own place. Inorder to promttte the conversation, Ilustily replied that I was a.Christian andthat I was going to Sahdnl to show filmsto the Ghiistians there on the occasion ofChristmas.

"I used to go to a Convent school,"the Sardar replied. "I know a great dealabout the Christian religion. There aremany Christians in Lahore. They alsoused to have big programs on Christmas.Day, and I sometimes went with myfriends."

"Where do you live nowadays?" Iasked him directly.

"We have no fixed abiding place. Iam a labourer and we go wherever I canget work. Nowadays we are residing inKatni. In Lahore my uncle taught me atrade, and that is our livelihood in thesetimes. In Katni I am working as a carpenter. I went to Raigarh to seeabout ajob. I have relatives there—my in-laws. Igot a job, but the pay ws notenough. Just tell me how it is possible tomanage on sixty rupees (f1 ) a month insuch expemive times!

"-I am a veryunfortunate man Babu'ji.In 1947 during the Hindu-Muslim riotsthat followed the partitioning of Indiaand Pakistan, my house was burned to

the ground. My mother and youngerbrother and sister were burnt to death init. I was the only one who survived tomourn my fate. If I had been home thatday I probably would not be here now.Everything I had was there: here I have,become a beggar."

He choked and could not speak further.Pausmg for a moment, he dried his moistened cheeks with the end of his turban.Then he began again: "Some of oup^luggage containing our money was stolenin the station at Bilaspur."

The train began to slow down andthen it stopped. It was Anuppur Station.I invited the Sardarji to come on to theplatform \vith mQ and have a cup of teato chase away the cold. As we got out,his wife said something to him in Punjabiwhich I could not understand.

When we had finished our tea, theSardar'ji asked if I would mind showingone more kindness.

"Only say the word," I replied."Please give me the price for a cup of

tea for my tvife. She has been hungryall day."

"Of course!"

Going to one of the stalls, I boughttwelve annas (159!) worth of sweets andtwo cups of tea, and returned to the trainbefore it moved on.

The woman was truly hungry. Sheopened the packet of sweets and fell towork. Seeing her greediness, I had tosmile; but when she saw me watching hershe became embarrassed. I looked theother way so that she might satisfy herhunger in peace.

(To be Concluded)

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By Langru

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I have looked at the picture on thecover for hours wondering in whichdirection that train was travelling. If thatquestion must remain unanswered, I doknow that the photo was taken by "ThePhoto Studios," a shop in Simla. Thetrain belongs to the Kalka-Simla sectionof the Northern Railway, and there arejust lots and lots of tunnels on that line:no place for a dog like me.

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We were so sorry that the July-Augustissue of GHRISTASIAN was late in getting to you. When the thing finally gotprinted, the ink on the cover refused todry because of the rainy weather. Therewas also the disadvantage that we dogswere in the midst of our annual holidayand were not on hand to help lick thestamps.

Now Mr. Rempel and Mr. MangalSingh of the Service Printing andPublishing Press have learned that thecover should be printed first instead oflast since the cover takes longer to drythan the inside pages. Oh we are learningthis business fast! On the whole wc arevery well pleased with the work of theS. P. P. P., and they give us nothing tosputter about.

Now that you have read the last pageand glanced at the first page, I hope youenjoy the rest of the magazine as muchas I enjoy introducing it to you.

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Tweuly nion and hoys fromKanpur attended the l5thAnnual Vijai Hagar Camp,joining others from otherplaces. Five of our Kanpurgroup were unbaptised whenthey went to the camp, butonly one (the youngest)was unbaptised vihen hecame back. Crosv/ell*s baptism is a star in thecrov/n of Andriyas, one ofmy Indian boys. Tom Rashand the India Bible Institute may be given much ofthe credit for the baptismof Harry David, Sushil S.Singh, and Rov/el Kaitha.The baptisms took place onSunday October 27th.

The Building Fund of theSwarupnagar congregationis being given a boost byWilliam Stobaugh, Rt. 2,Williams town, Ky. Bill has

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produced a long-play record of 12 songs withbacking by the SongstersQuartet. The record sellsfor UhOO, #1.00 of whichis being contributed toour building fund. Here isa chance to love gospelrecordings and the work- inKanpur with one kiss. Bro.Bill hopes to contribute#1000 to the Building Fundin this way: the first 100has just arrived.

HELEH DOUGLASOur friends will be

sorry to hear of the passing of Helen Douglas, muchbeloved sister of our forwarding agent. Memorialfunds are being contributed to Janet Dittemore*sEducation Fund.

"And should not 1 have regard for Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscorethousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also muchcattle?" Jonah 4:11

• OUR G4NG•At th^; mome nt of writ Ing

the • Bb^s * Dormitory .is.c onfro nting us v/ i th a fewdiscouragements.

Peter was misiaissed fromthe govermtient technicalschool becauae of his bad.•eyesight. We we arrangingfor an operation withinthe next few days. In themeantime he has allowedhis extra leisure to gethim into mischief.

Peter's companion inmischief is Patrick whoalso has more leisure thanis healthy for teenagers.All of these boys needyour frequent pj^ayers.

Andriyas continues tostudy at the technicalschool, as well as raisepigeons -in.:'his remainingtime. He caught a thief incamp, and he shows a goodtalent toward detectivework.

All of the doctors havegiven Harold Deen a cleanbill of health. (He hadhad tuberculosis.) He islearning H^ndi typing andtailoring, and he is agood help about the house.

Samuel Deen (no relationto Harold) became dissatisfied with the arrangements we had made for histraining, and so he madesome of his own. After several months of failure.

ho has now returned to our'original plans. We hopqthat he is wiser for hisexperiences

Jonathan (who is somewhat mentally retarded) isat home recovering from avery bad attack of fluthat hospitaiized him, for

i^ten days. Vife have just received a rather long billfor his treatment.

PUBLICATIONSAt long last we can

announce Uie completion ofthe printing of our Hindiedition of "On the Rock."Only the printing of thecover remains. We aro giving January 1st, 196[|., asthe date of publication.

Our Hindi publication,JEEWAN -DEE P Monthly has a -new editor I, but he is anold editor returned. Aftersitting it out for threeyears, Julius Yafat hasreturned to replace G.M.Timothy, who had replacedhim. Lawrence Lazarus hasbeen appointed publisherin my place at my request.

Our free lending libraiymembership roll has nowreached 1100, althoughmany of them are now inactive •' As of this date, 110of bur books are out onloani and we expect to getmost of them back.

The sales record in the

Bible Book Store duringthe . past four months hasbeen as follows:

July; Total Sales $5318 Bibles, 10 Testaments.

August: Sales of $9il.o82,8 Bibles, ij. Testaments.

September: Sales, $99.p5i)| Bibles, I}. Testaments.

October: Sales, $l58.27>5 Bibles, 9 Testaments..

INCOjyE TAX TROUBIESEvidentally some of our

contribu tors have had s omedifficulty with the Bureauof Internal Revenue whenlisting contributions forour work ' for the purposeof deductions in their income tax.

As far as we know, allsuch deductions have beenallowed, but it has takensome fast explaining onthe part of the taxpayer..This is, of course, aproblem only for those fewindividuals who do notmake their contributionsthrough some congregation,Bible School class, orsome . other organization.We do not, however, wantto lose the support ofthose " few individuals •"

When you contribute toour work, you are contributing to the Chris tianPublications Mission Fundof the First Church ofChrist, Clinton, Ohio.

The church at Clinton hasauthorized Mj^ss Douglas toissue receipts on theirbehalf ^ The re ceipts youre ceive, the refo re, arelegally receipts from, theClinton Church.

But if you are weary ofexplaining these detailsto The Bureau, we mightjust as well arrange foryou to get a regular indisputable church receipt.

So if you are_' an individual contributing to our7/ork, and you are fearfulof not getting your rightful deduction from yourincome tax, just let Miss

-Douglas Imow that youwould appreciate.a churchreceipt.

. FURLOUGH FLAmFurlough plans will con

tinue to be indefinite forsome time; but tentatively

. I am planning to arrive inNew Yoi^k City in time toattend the National Mj^ss-ionary Convention whichwill be held there duringthe last week of Sept'ember196!^.

LATEST NEWSAs we go to press, it

seems as though Petei? willnot have an operation. Itappears that his retina istoo weak to allow any improvement .

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But for you who fear my name the sun ofrighteousness shall rise, with healing in its wings.

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Vol. IX, No. 6 November X903 December Kanpur, Ttnlia

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j£ife is £if^e a (^Mountain ^ailwai/PART TWO

Ralph R, Harter

A Slow Climb

The train that climbs up to Simladoes not' travel as fct as No. 1 and 2Mails that cptmect the great cities ofNorth India.

This ought to teach us that when weare climbing to new peaks in our spirituallives, that we should do so.with patience.We should not be like the stony groundthat produces quick but fruitless growth.

We should not expect to reach thepeak in a single sweep. We will have toovercome many obstacles before we reachthe top.

Occasional Descent

The train climbing to Simla is notalways climbing. About half-way to Simlathe . train descends a short distance downone mountain before ascending another.

It would be Vwonderful 'if our liveswere always ascending lives, but (exceptfor the life of Christ) that is never thecase. All of us, at some time or other,descend from the heights.

One thing worth remembering is thatin a mountain range, the higher peaksare always situated behind smaller peaks.In order to reach the higher peaks, onemust first overcome the smaller ones. Itis regrettable that we sometimes descendfrom the heights, but it can be a meansof reaching higher peaks beyond

When you come to recognise that youhave made a descent, don't waste yourenergies in grief. Remember from whereyou have fallen, repent, and begin toclimb again.

Purposefid JourneyOnr train climbed for seven bourse

curving one way and then another. Itsendless twisiings seemed without any aim.I got the idea that Simla was a .little boywho had "hidden himself, and the trainwas his little sister who was trying toseek him out.

But in the end we arrived precisely atSimla station. Then when we lookeddown from the heights and could see fromabove the terrain over which we had travelled, then we could understand whythe train had twisted so much.

In our spiritual lives also, our climbis not straight up. Ascending lives areequally full of great horseshoe bends.

In John Bunyan's, " Pilgrim's Progress", we follow Christian and hiscompanions over very circuitous routes.Yet, in the end, they arrived at theCelestial City. We follow in their steps..

Jesus is waiting to give the Crown ofLife to those who overcome all the obstacles and reach the top.

If your life is frustrated with muchcurving about, remember that it- is allin God's plan. The reason for it all maybe hidden from us now, but when at lastwe look down from the Celestial Heights,then, yes, then, we'll understand.

Then trust in God thro all thy days ;Fear not,for He doth hold thy hand;Though dark thy way still sing andpraise;Sometime, sometime we'll understand.

—M. jV. Cornelius

Concluded Next Issue

CHRISTIAN DUTY

IN DAILY LIVINGBill Gulick

ENNORE, INDIA

Conversion is the change that comesabout within us through the power ofGod when we yield as penitent confessedbelievers to His command to be immersed.Immersion has no value and no meaningunless this inward change takes place.We are not only ''born of the water" butalso "of the Spirit." Thus, the entireChristian life is the product of conversionwhich God works in us. The good deedsof the Christian life are, then, the work ofGod, and not of man. See Romans 12:2.Christians are not like the world in theirlives because they are of a renewed mindwiihin. This renewing of the mind is acooperative accomplishment of man andGod; man yielding in surrender and Godworking the change through His grace.The clay can be fashioned by the potterinto a vessel of beauty provided the claycooperates by being pliant. The claycannot however say it has fashioned itself.Notice Ephesians 2:8 ff. and Galatians2:20 ff.

Tlie "new birth" presented by Jesusin John 3 is simply this inward change or,as Paul calls it, the "renewing of themind." Notice in verse 8 that those whoare born of the Spiiitare compared tothe wind. No man can see the wind,that is, the real power itself, though wecan see the effects of it in the trees andgrass and debris along the way. Just sowith conversion. No man can see the realpower within, the grace ofGod. Yet the

results of the power in the outward lifeare manifest to all. We can see a manliving according to the Christian way.And by these fruits we can be convincedthat he has been born "from above."

Christian living is a demonstration ofthe power of God, testimony that JesusChrist yet lives. See Matthew 7:16 ff ,II Peter 1:5-9; I Corinthians 3:1-4. Thislast passage makes clear that when brethren are jealous, factious and divisive,they are still carnal, that is of the fleshrather than of the Spirit. Paul speaks ofthe "fruit of the Spirit," that is, the gooddeeds and attitudes that result from thisinward change wrought by the Spiritfrom above. Study Galatians 5:22-26.If these fruits are not borne in thelife, then the Spirit has not converted thelife within. This may seem toomystical to some who hold that becominga Christian is simply a legal change ofrelationship; I believe the Scripturescertainly teach that becoming a Christianis a radical and dynamic change within aman.

Naturally the result of the new birthis a "new creature," at first a "babe inChrist." The Scriptures teach that, although the conversion is radical andthorough, the whole life is a constantgrowth in grace. The newly-born babyis fully a human being at birth, and the

fact that he needs to grow does notdetract from the completeness of his birth.So fully converted and fully born Christians must grow in the Christian life.How, then, is this growth accomplishedin practical ways?

Prayer is the exercise of the soul toward God; it is one way that the soulcultivates friendship with the Most High.Prayer is the honest searching of theheart in the presence of the Lord; it isthe vigorous commitment of the life toHis will for it. Prayer is the hill top fromwhose height we can survey the surrounding scene and see all things in their trueproportions and in their relation to oneanother; we can see from that vantagepoint just where we are and just whichway we want to go. While walkingthrough Ihe valley, we may become confused and lose perspective and direction,but .when we climb the hill, we can seehow foolish we were in our confusion andmisdirection. "The world is too muchwith us" and unless we are often in prayer,we shall find our Christian goals beinghidden from us or being disguised or disfigured in our sight. Without prayer thereis no growth in grace, but only a gradualbut certain spiritual death: "even thatwhich he hath shall be taken away."

By studying the Bible we learn moreand more of what God has done for usand of what He wants us to do. Whenwe are first baptized, naturally we wantto do whatever God wants us to do- butthen we must study that we may knowwhat He wants. We cannot do the willof God, however much we may be willing, if we have not studied enough toknow what it is. Our faith must havecontent as well as intention.

In a previous article we noted at somelength the meaning of fellowship withinthe church and its value in spiritua!growth. The faith and hope of each isaided by the meeting of mind and heartin public worship and Christian society.

It would be very hard indeed for man tobe a Christian by himself; he needs thereassurance, the comfort, the insights andeven the rebukes of other Christians if heis to keep his ideal clear and sure. Paulsays there were "saints in Caesar's household"; surely if men could be true to theChristian faith in that corrupt place, theycan be Christians in spite of everything.The story might have been different, however, if there had been only one saintthere, isolated in a world of bribery,prurience and degeneracy.

Basic to human life is the propagationof the species. Man reproduces himself.Christ has laid upton His followers thepersonal, universal and obligatory commission to teach and preach the gospel toevery creature, to baptize into the nameof the Father and of the Son and of theHoly Spirit, to teach them to observe allthings whatsoever He has commanded.Obedience to this command is importantto the spiritual growth of the Christian.A basic goal should be that each one winone each year.

We can give you no hard and fast rulefor living the Christian life, for we are nolonger living according to law but according to grace through faith within. Wecannot simply list a number of prohibitions and a number of commands andsay that these constitute Christian life. Itis more dynamic than that. ConsiderJesus' summary of true religious living ofall time: Love God with all your beingand love your neighbor as yourself. SeeMatthew 22:36-40. Augustine said that aman should love God and then do justwhat he wants to do. And so it is: if welove God, we want to do what is good.Until we want to do what is good, wecannot live the Christian way. TheChristian life is not conformity to arigorous code, but the springing up ofgood from within the heart that has beenlaid hold upon by the Spirit of God.

"APOLOGETICS"By Dr. Herbert Jai Singh IN INDIA TODAY

Dr. Jai Singh is an Associate Director of "The Christian Institute for the Studyof Religion and Society" at Bangalore, India. The article here reprinted fromthe "United Church Review", was first presented by Dr. Singh at a consultationon apologetic literature held at Nagpur. We invite comment from other scholars,apologetists, both in India and America.

The Gospel is the good news of theredemptive act of God in Jesus Christfor the whole world. Duty is laid upon

every Christian to share this news withall mankind. The news however, has tobe told in the language and thought patterns of the hearers, otherwise it wouldbe understood either not at all, or imperfectly.

The Christian Church in India is calledupon to proclaim this news in the contextof mid-twentieth century. But the Churchoften employs apologetic methods thatwere successful a hundred years ago buthave outlived their usefulness today. TheChurch has not always been sufficientlysensitive to this change and adapted itsmethods to the altered situation.

Claims of SuperiorityThe old apologetics in India proceeded

from a sense of superiority of Christianreligion over other religions. It argued itssuperiority in terms of the criteria whichwere generally acceptable to both Hindusand Christians. Sometimes the criterionwas "reason," and apologetics attemptedto show that the tenets of Christian religion were more reasonable than those ofothers. Hence the Christian faith became

a redeemer from all superstition and falsebelief. Reason, however, is a servant thatcan be employed on either side dependingupon the intellectual ability of the masterand his cultural attainment. There wasthe further difficulty that reason led torational difficulties within the Christianfaith itself. The rationality of miracles in

the gospels and most important—the questions concerning the resurrection of Jesusand the immortality of the soul presentedreal obstacles to purely rational apologetics.

The moral excellence of the Christianreligion was often put forward as a proofof its superiority. The moral criterion, itwas believed, followed from the self-evidentmoral law written in the nature of things.Judged from this law, morality as prescribed in the scriptures of Christian religionwas superior to that of others. It wascustomary to point out the immoral character of some Hindu deities. The practice of devadasis used to be held up as astock example of the degenerate moralsencouraged by religious custom. Theamours of the Puranic Krishna were oftencompared to their disadvantage with theaustere grandeur of the moral personalityofjesus Christ. Christian apologetic wasnot slow to point out the faults of theHindu social system. The general degradation of the Hindu women, especiallythe custom of sati, was under strong fire.,The caste system, which permanently divided Hindu society on the basis of birth,relegating the lower castes and outcastcsto a mean position of humiliation andsuffering, was cited as evidence of theincompetence of Hinduism to bring abouta just and humane society. Careful analysisof Hindu philosophy was used to showthat the above social maladies were anintegral part of Hindu religion as closely •bound up with the law of Karma-Samsarawhich was, and is, indeed, a central tenet

which was, and is, indeed, a central tenetof the Hindu way of thought. Hinduismcould redeem itself from these social evilsonly by a radical feat of dehinduisingitself. Integral as these evils were to thewhole seamless fabric of Hinduism, areally reformed Hinduism was consideredout of the question and Chvistianity waspi'esented along with other reasons, asthe only viable alternative. |

Renascent Hinduism |The challenge of Chrisianity has been j

taken up by Hinduism, and the answer ;has two aspects. The first is concerned !with a defence of the Hindu faith itself. ;The Hindu apologists have been sayingthat in their criticism of Hinduism, Chris- ;tian evangelists misunderstood the essen- jtial nature of Hindu religion, in that theymistook the appearance for the reality ofthe faith. The social and moral evils ofHinduism, they contended, were not anessential part of the sanatana dhartna. Suchabuses are accidents of history from whichno religious tradition can claim exemption. Hence the many reform movementsin Hinduism in modern times have setthemselves the task of eradication of theseevils. The Hindu concience has beenkeenly sensitized against moral abusesconnected with temple worship. A greatagitation is going on against the socialevils of the paste system. Hindu intellectuals are busy reinterprenting Hinduphilosophy with a view to relating it tothe living questions of contemporary man.The forces of law as well as social opinionhave closed ranks in order to renovateHinduism.

The second aspect of the Hindu apologetics is the attack upon Christianity. TheChristian outlook is described as narrowlydogmatic and irrational. It claims afinality which it is unable to support byreason, they say. When pushed into acorner it resorts to revelation which isreported to carry its own assurance oftruth. This is no way to continue a dia

logue beween faiths, it said. Hinduism, onthe other hand, is willing to accept whatever is of value in other faiths. It has nohesitation to regard Jesus Christ as anavdiara, a descent of God in the midst ofmen. Many would willingly bow beforehim as the supreme avatara. Christianity,we are told, is exclusive, whereas Hinduism is inclusive; Christianity aims to destroy other faith, Hinduism seeks to learnfrom all; The Christian attitude is nothelpful in the world of today when therealisation of human solidarity is the onlyway of hope for the survival of mankind.The Hindu attitude makes for communityas it tends to free men from narrow allegiances for larger loyalties.

Christianity has been weighed in thebalance and found wanting. The mosthorrible wars have arisen among nationswhich take pride in their allegiance tothe Prince of Peace. The record of imperialistic exploitation, of feeling of racialand national superiority of the so-called"Christian oeoples " bears ample testimony.10 the incompetence of Christianityto be the sole redemptive force for thebetterment of the world. Hinduism, onthe other hand, has stood for - "reverencefor life." Its emphasis on Ahitnsa as ameans of settling national and international disputes might well be the "goodnews" for which the world waits today.

;Such is the reasoning of the Hindustoday.

The new Hinduism is, therefore,opposed to conversion. Sanatana Dharamacan absorb all that is of value in theChristian faith. A Hindu can learn fromChrist without being alienated from histraditional faith. There is ho need forconversion from Hinduism to Christianity.Furthermore, all religions finally lead tothe goal, the Brahman, the Eternal Spirit.The enthusiasts for conversion are therefore advised to practise a "little less ardour, a little more enlightened scepticism." (Radhakrishnan)

The New ApologeticsHere and there the old patterns of

Christian apologetics may still be used butas an effective method of proclaiming thegospel its day is irretrievably over. Proclamation of the Christian faith by claiming superiority of its Jreligious institutionsand cultural achievements alienates rather than wins men for Christ. Hinduismhas stopped many holes in its religiousand cultural fabric. Therefore a merelynegative approach has become irrelevant.

The new apologetics needs to takeserious account of what has happened inHindu thought and practice at present.It must realise the remarkable power ofrenascent Hinduism to inspire men witha faith that helps them live. Christianapologetics must learn from Hinduismits attitude of openness to absorb culturaland religious values found outside itsown precincts. Christian witness consistsboth of speaking as well as of listening.Too long and too much have we talked,we need to listen also. We are beginningto learn the methods of Hindu sadhana forthe cultivation of the life of the spirit. Wehave not been able to avoid altogether theuse of Hindu religious terms for the expression of the meaning of the gospel inthe past. There is need for study to seehow the Hindu philosophical categoriescan be employed in the communication ofthe Gospel, for semantics and philosophical world views are important, if notindispensable, for the conununication ofmeanings. Our efforts in this respect havebeen sporadic and fragmentary. And thenew apologetics might well be moreconcerned with this.

Influencing Social StructuresThe main theme of the Christian

.apologetic, here as elsewhere, is JesusChrist. It should, therefore, avoid becoming an apologetic for a culture, an institution, or an ideology. Jesus opens up all

these to the working of God through hisHoly Spirit. Christian apologetics is rightlydirected to the task of convincing men ofthe truth of God in the mystery ofJesusChrist: the mystery of the descent of Godin the world for the redemption of theworld. It invites men to accept the newcreation offered to all in Jesus Christ.Conversion and entrance into the Churchis the symbol of the acceptance of the newlife. This is the most obvious puiposeof Christian apologetics : the winning ofmen for Jesus Christ.

Christian apologetics, however, is alsoconcerned with the task of influencing theimpersonal structures of human socialexistence. In the past as also today,Christian faith has been a tremendouspower In renovating social structures, bybringing to bear upon them the Judgment of a living and holy God, revealedin Jesus Christ in the context of contemporary India when structures of societyare in a process of rapid flux, the task ofChristian apologetics as a formative influence for good need hardly be overemphasised, Indeed this is something withwhich Christian apologetics must alwaysbe concerned, for social institutions, nomatter how perfect, are always in needof being kept under the judgment ofCod so that they may be saved fromany kind of self-idolisation.

More and more, Christian apologeticswill have to be concerned with secularismin India. Christian apologetics will haveto show that the questions that men areasking find their adequate answers inJesus Christ. The task of apologetics,therefore, is not the defence of the faithalone in the categories of "true and false"vis-a-vis Hinduism, but of showing theunique relevance of Jesus Christ forhelping men realise the meaning of theirlives in the context of the new emerging

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I LOVE CIDER

A TRUE CONFESSION By Ralph R. Harteb

WE people from the state of Ohio enjoy our cider. So when I arrived inEngland and saw all the cider

advertisements, I naturally wanted some.But when I suggested to a British

friend that we enjoy a glass of cider hewas horrified at the thought. He quicklyconcluded that all the Christians ofAmerica are drunkards.

The difficulty was that what theBritish call cider is something differentfrom what the Americans call cider. InEngland, cider is an alcoholic beverage;while in Ohio it is ordinary sweet applejuice. When our American type ofciderbegins to go "hard," we throw it out.

The same sort of misunderstandingconfronts American Christians when theyvisit the homes of Christians in Italy.We American Christians are horrified tofind^ wine being served in the homes ofItalian Christians. We quickly concludethat all Christians in Italy are drunkards.Little do we realize that much of theordinary table wine in Italian homesisn't any more intoxicating than a bottleof Coca Cola.

Before the Christians of England adjudge that all American Christians aredrunkajds, they ought to make a studyof American customs and the Americanusage of the word cider. And beforethe Christians of America adjudge theirItalian counterparts to be drunkards,they ought to make a study of Italiancustoms and the Italian usage of theword vino.

And before anyone concludes thatJesus approved the use of intoxicatingbeverages, he ought to make a study ofthe customs of the people of Palestinetwo-thousand years age, as well as corae

to an understanding of the Greek wordOinos which is translated wine in theEnglish Bible.

As for the word Oinos, it means thejuice of the fruit of the vine whether itis fermented or unfermented : just likecider in Ohio can be either sweet or hardand like vino in Italy can be intoxicatingor non-intoxicating.

The Greek word oinos in itself doesnot indicate whether the wine of Canawas intoxicating or non-intoxicating.Some people think that the use of theword wine in the English Bible provesthat the beverage used at Cana was intoxicating, but that is definitely not thecase.

As for the customs of that place andtime, it is an indisputable fact that thepeople of Palestine two-thousand yearsago drank grape-sherbet in much thesame way as the people in north Indiadrink tea today.

When I askmy friends here in Kanpurwhat they would serve at their weddingsif they didn't have any tea, they tellme that they would serve sherbet (dilutedfruit juice.) Tea was unknown to thepeople of Cana in Galilee, and so theyserved grape sherbet.

Whether the wine (sherbet) was"good" or "bad" depended on thequality of the grapes from which it wasmade, the amount of water with whichit was diluted, and the spices which wereadded.

That the wine of Cana could notpossibly have been intoxicating is provenby the fact that the ruler of the feast,after having partaken freely of the firstbatch, was in full possession of his faculties when the second batch was served.

DIRT IN

A newspaper clipping carries thisastonishing news:

"Seven tons of dirt have been removedfrom Westminster Abbey, which is havingits first scouring for 900 years The taskhas revealed astonishing beauty.

Wheelbarrow and lorry have removedseven tons of dirt. No one saw it carriedin. Particle by particle, speck by speck,borne on breeze and foggy air, it collected in the shrine. Its acid eroded thewhite stone work, darkened the surfaceand blurred the clean cut edge."

The old Abbey was built by King Edward the Confessor, in 1065 A. D.— atthat time a heavy, ugly building. HenryIII began rebuilding in 1245 and put thework under the charge of Ado, the Goldsmith, and Master Henry of Westminster,an architect.

One could wish the significance of thescouring of the shrine to be wider still.The Abbey pretty much representsEngland's worship life. The faith andtraditions of the land find home andsymbol here.

But let us not miss the value of thelesson to us personally. Our bodies are

THE

ABBEY

By Marie Rempel

the temple of the living God, through theSpirit. I could wish that the Abbey'scleaning held much meaning for us.Particle by particle, speck by speck, sincomes into our lives. In such a fashionmen and nations decay. "No one suddenly becomes a scoundrel" wrote theRoman Juvenal. Day by day and littleby little, integrity is lost. Small surrenders corrupt soul and mind. The declineis not apparent as standards weaken andcharacter deteriorates. The clean surface slowly tarnishes by contact with environment. The sharp edges lose theirstraight lines.

The "prodigal Son" did not fall intosin. A fall indicates a sudden descent,but such was not his case. He walkedthe downward way, obviously quite unaware of the direction he was taking.But one day "he came to his senses".(Luke 15:17 NEB). With his eyes onceopened, he could see how far he haddescended. His condition now contrastedmost unfavorably with that of even theservants in his father's house. The crisishad come!

The word 'crisis' is a Greek wordmeaning 'judgment'. In my small dictionary two meanings are given: "Indisease, a change, indicating whether theresult will be recovery or death." "Anydecisive moment".

So it must be when men and nationsbecome aware of the accumulation of dirt

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in the sacred place, and happy the decision (but not easy) to begin to scrapethe ugliness away, because, of course,unless the decision is taken voluntarilythe filth must finally be the victor.

We have kept many pets in Indiaduring our fifteen years here, our two boysbeing very fond of animals. Just now theyhave a rhesus monkey, snatched by themfrom the certainty of an early death—shewas headed for her destiny as a tiny bitof Salk vaccine ingredient. But doesGooGoo makeany attempt to safeguardher ''salvation"? ,By no means! instead,little by littleshe ispilingup an accumulation of mischievous deeds that will oneday be her undoing.

At first the practice of some small faultmay seem harmless enough. "It is justa little thing and it does no one anyharm," is the frequent saying. But smallfaults have a way of growing larger andof growing into destructively huge faults.

An English army officer in Indian service found' a small lion cub while returning to camp one day. Picking it up inhis arms he carried it home. As timepassed he became so fond of the animalthat he kept it in his tent. One nightthe oflBcer woke up in a cold sweat. Thebaby lion, trying to show its affection,was strokinjg his hand wUh its paw,which now held a newly grown set ofsharp talons. The officer's hand wascovered with' blood. The only thing hecould do was to remove his revolver fromunder his pillow and kill his pet.

Our failures are generally our ownfaults. We add to, or subtract from "whatis written-." , When I was a small girl andit came time for me to learn to cook, myfirst task was the making of a cake.All I had to do was. follow the recipe,I was told. The recipe was from a reliable book that had certainly been testedbefore being entered there. But mybeautiful cake fell—'bait gaya' as we sayin Hindi (it sat down, literally.)

Instead of a half cup of butter, a littleextra would make it that much richer,I reasoned. In place ofone cup of sugar,surely a half more would make it all thesweeter. And certainly the batter in thepan gave no indication that there was notenough fiour. The recipe said to put itin the oven for thirty minutes so for thirtyminutes I did not open the oven door.I have learned since to check the heatof the oven. When it was removed, alas,the cake had 'sat down', and was black.

What solution does Jesus offer to theproblem of the sin that collects in ourlives, unnoticed by us ? He makes useofthe only 'agent' that can do the job: Hisown blood. "How much more shall theblood of Ghrist, who through the eternalSpirit offered Himself without blemishunto God, cleanse your conscience fromdead works to serve the living God."

The initial scouring, upsetting andhumiliating as it may be (for it is usuallycarried on in the full view of others) isunavoidable. "Repent ye, and be baptized, every one ofyou, unto the remissionof your sins, and ye shalt receive thegiftof the holy Spirit," said Peter (Acts2:38)

Once having been so cleansed, the process needs never to be repeated, PROVIDED WE TAKE GARE TO KEEPGLEAN by a daily contact with the Saviour. In answer to Peter's insistencethat the Lord should wash not only hisfeet, but head and hands as well, Jesussaid : "He that is bathed, needeth notsave to wash his feet, but is clean everywhit." Only the filth that gathers on thefeet in the daily journey of life needs tobe cleaned away.

"If we confess our sins," John says toChristians, "He is just, and may betrusted to forgive us our sins and tocleanse us from every kind of wrong."(I John 1:9 NEB)

Thus will the "beauty of holiness"shine forth from our lives.

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WOMEN OF THE BIBLE"ACHSAH"

By Miss H. Kaveri Bai

"Mother," she broke into her mother'spresence, "Mother, is anything the matterwith my brain ? Did we not take ourfood at midday, or was it much earlier ?I thought I saw the sun in the middle ofthe sky then, and it is still there !"

"You took your food at noon, all right,and then went to fetch your friends. Itoo think something has happened. I amwaiting for the evening shadows to fallin order to go out and fetch water for thepreparation of the evening meal. But theevening has not come."

Sosaying Achsah's mother rose to herfeet, and bidding Achsah put away theflax and spindle and other things into thebasket, she walked to the tent door tolook at the sun. By that time everybodyin the camp was talking about the strangephenomenon. Rahab had made a smallfeast ready and waited for her friends tocome, but no evening came and thefriends did not appear.

More hours passed and the sun wasstill in the middle of the heavens overhead. Finally Achsah's eldest step brother,Onan, came into camp and announcedthat the battle was going strong, Joshuahad determined that it must be fought toa finish that very day. He had orderedthe sun and moon thus : "Sun stand thoustill upon Gibeon, and thou moon, in thevalley of Ajalon," and God had causedthese luminaries to obey Joshua's words.

"And there was no day like it before,or after it, that the Lord has hearkenedunto the voice of man " That wasthe explanationwhyno eveningcame thatday nor night.

Wars and More WarsTaking possession by conquest meant

wars, till the inhabitants of the land become a subject people. God did not want

"co-existence". That would mean hispeople forsaking the fountain of livingwaters, and contaminating themselveswith all the corruption and filth of thepeople in whose midst they lived.

God always wants His people to beseparate from the world. He had wantedIsrai 1 to expel the inhabitants fromevery area they conquered and settled.By going against the Lord's word andtaking the easier way of only subjugatingthe inhabitants and then allowing themto stay on, the greatest possible danger toIsrael was left in their midst. The con

quered peoples were always just waitingfor the opportune time to rise up andoverthrow their conquerors.

Still, all would go well as long as Israelobeyed the Lord and took counsel of Himin all things. Whenever they ignoredHim and went their own way they forfeited His protection and help. Sincenumerically they were a minority in theland, their enemies could easily overcomethem. As long as Joshua lived, and thoseelders lived who had come over the

Jordan River, there was peace and safetyfor the people.

The Inheritance at Last

After the preliminary conquests whichgave them a substantial foothold in theland, the whole congregation of Israelgathered together at Shiloh and set upthe tabernacle there. Here also Joshuacast lots for the inheritance of the tribesbefore the Lord.

As time went on the five Zelophehadsisters were married to men of their father's tribe, and of our friends only Achsahwas left a spinster.

One day, Caleb came and told hisi family that his heart was set on Kirjath

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Arba, which, as a spy sent out by Moses,he had visited with Joshua forty yearsbefore. Kirjath-Arba, later known asHebron, hadfallen to the lot of Judah inthe division of the inheritance. Thereforehe had asked Joshua for permission toconquer and possess the city.

"But you are now eighty-five yearsold, and the inhabitants of that city, thechildren of Anak, are giants !" gaspedAchsah.

"But I am as strong this day as I wasin the day Moses sent me there," andCaleb bared his right arm and displayedhis muscles and sinews to prove his words."The Lord promised it to me, and withHim at my side what can the Anakim do?"

Joshua blessed Caleb and gave himHebron for an inheritance to conquerand possess it. After taking Kirjath-Ai ba.the old warrior came to the city calledKirjath-Sepher, later known as Debir.Caleb said : "He that smiteth Kirjath-Sepher and taketh it, to him will I giveAchsah my daughter to wife."

Caleb's step-brother Othniel had longloved his beautiful niece. In his veinsflowed the same warrior blood as inCaleb's and hewent and stormed Kirjath-Sepher and took it. Then he came toclaim his bride.

But when Achsah came to her bridegroom she asked him a boon. Othnielwould do anything to please her. Shetold him to go ask her father for a certainfield. "Come with me and ask him yourself. He will not deny you anything,"Othniel said, and gently placing her onan ass took her to her father. Aware thatthe visit had more than a casual purpose, Caleb said affectionately, "Whatwouldst thou ?" Achsah answered inher most winning way: "Give me a blessing, for thou hast given me a south land ;give mealsosprings ofwater." Caleb gavehis dear child "the upper spiings and thenether springs

One day a number of friends weregathered together in the house of Salmon

and Rahab for a little son had been bornto them and he was to be circumcised.In years to come this same infant, namedBoaz, was to become a judge in Israel.In the still more distant future his grand-son, Jesse, was to become the father ofDavid the king. Achsah and some of herfriends were also present to see Rahab'sbaby for the first time. While Achsahwas fondling him, his mother said teas-ingly, "You will have a baby of yourown some day. Then you will not carefor anyone else's child but your own "Milcah added: "Has not our predictioncome true? We knew one day Othnielwould get you."

In Achsah s day following the deathof Joshua, the children of Israel hadjudges, the first of whom were men whohad been with Moses andJoshua in thewilderness. These men governed Israelunder the law ofGod, and on many occasions were able to extricate the peoplefrom the predicaments they would getinto due to their attachment to theworld.Othniel was the first ofsuch judges, leading the people with great valor in battle,and bringing a period of for-ty years ofpeace to the land.

It can be said ofthis wonderful couplethat "they lived happily ever after".

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culture. This is the most serious task thatChristian apologetics in India mustundertake. Its main concern must be thesouls of men as they grope for meaningand purpose in life.

All good apologetics must realise itslimitations. In itself, as purely the work ofman, it cannot convince men of the truthofjesus Christ. Men are not convertedby apologetics. Conversion is always amiracle of grace through which Godworks in men towards the conviction thatJesus Christ is Lord.

OPEN MANIFESTATION

AND JUDGMENT:

By S. Nath, Jhansi, U. P.

The author of Corinthians speriksof a tabernacle, or temple, betterthan that of King Solomon's. As theSpirit of God dwelt with Israel in atent in the ^vilderness, so the spirit of

. man dwells in a temporary dwelling—thebody—while he journeys on his way to thenew Jerusalem. At journey's end however, he will lie a given a "house not madewith hands" It seems thai this human

body is almost within the compass ofhuman construction today—but even if itis, to what advantage if men do build it?Our eternal habitation is a spiritualhome, much to be preferred and desired.

It is this latter home and its life thatshould occupy our thinking and efforts.The apostle gives us a solemn warningthat we are to follow his example in thismatter. Verse 10, of chapter 5 of IICorinthians speaks of things that shouldgreatly concern us in thought and prayer,for they deal with things to come. Paulspeaks of an open manifestation andjudgment. Christ, thejudge, will judgewhether what we have done on this earthis good or bad. Christians! —preachersteachers, pastors, LISTEN. Where arewe "

ful to ourIt will be a day of horror for us if wehave done contraiy to the teachings ofChrist, and have filled our bellie.s underthe guise of serving Him. The Spiiiisays : "I know th)' works." No need of

' What are we doing ? Are we faith-to our work ? Think of that day.

calling witnesses, or engaging a prosecuting attorney.

But he will be a just Judge. TodayHe is the Redeemer and Saviour, but Hisrole must change, and he will becomeour righteous Judge. When that timecomes, no more opportunities for repentance can be given.

To indicate that the apostle took thismatter seriously, it should be pointed outthat Paul repeats this warning in Romans14:10. The expressions are peculiar tothese two passages and are taken fromthe tribunal of the Roman magistratewho may be considered representative ofthe best justice then exhibited.

The Judgment seat of Christ needsto be considered step by step. Notice :FIRST that there is NECESSITY of it.It has to be, for God has decreed it.Our very re^on tells it must be. Butwhy ? Not that God may learn howwicked men are, for H^ already knows.But that His grace may be glorified andthat righteousness may finally prevailover unrighteousness. That God's justiceand complete consistency may be shown.He judges in order that he may possesswhat He has purchased. He calls for anaccounting in order that He may knowwhat has been done during His absence.

Notice, SECONDLY, that this judgment will be UNIVERSAL. All men who

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ever were will be involved along witHthose who will yet be. Not age nor sexnor nationality can furnish us a hidingplace from it. .No amount of-dignity,wealth, or greatness can excuse us.

Notice, THIRDLY, the JUDGE whowill preside. Christ comes to be the.world's Judge, and none ev^r q.ualified forsucha responsibility so well. To a judgethere must belong these four things :(a) Wisdom (b) Justice (c) Power (d)Authority. All four reside, in the perfectcombination, is this Divine Judge. Hiswisdom isinfinite. (Hebrews 4:13) Lookingon the heart, as He does, we need notfear of being punished for what othershave done : justice will prevail in Hisjudgment. He will be equally just toothers in the evil of which we may beguilty. ALL power and ALL authorityin heaven and upon earth were grantedto Him as the Only Begotten Son of theHeavenly Father.

Notice, FOURTHLY, the MANNERof His judging. We must so appear as tobe made manifest. Not only that nosinner can escape Him, but every deed,every thought, every sin of every sinnerwill be laid bare. "All things are nakedand open before the eyes of Himwithwhom we have to do." (Heb. 4:13)Perhaps it is important to note that notonly will all things be manifest to Him,but He will make them so to us. All ourpast judgments will be set aside or readjusted as the need may be in order toalign them with the righteous and truejudgment of God. Our earthly deceptions, practiced even on ourselves, will beclearly revealed.

What is in us will come out. If wehave lived to self, it will be known. Ifwe have lived for Christ, it will be known

when "the books are opened". (Rev.20:12) It will be known how many timesthe Gospel has been slighted, as it willalso be known under what grievous hindrances the faithful have followed Hin issteps.

An Obligation to MeditateLet it be a part of our daily business

to think seriously on these things: thevanity anfi the shortness, the uncertaintyof our lives; the eternity against the background of whichwe play out our earthlyroles; the justice each one must one dayface; of the open manifestation of what isnow hidden to view.

Perhaps the most soul-stirring thoughtto each one of us, personally, is that "Iwill be there." You young men, you willap)pear there; you aged, do you know thatyou too must come before Him? Are yourich? Your dainty dress will be put off.Are you poor? your rags will not exemptyou from attendance. No disguise willbe possible.

Who then can be saved?

It must surely be our first thoughtthat in the view of these things salvationwill indeed be difficult, for we know ourselves. But the opportunity to assureacquittal is given to all who hear theGospel, for "there is therefore now nocondemnation to them that are in ChristJesus, who walk not after the flesh butafter the Spirit."(Romans 8:1) RememberChrist is not yet the Judge; He is still theSaviour from sin, and is still pleading thecause of all those who have accepted Himas their intermediary before the righteousFather.

Let us prepare, NOW, to meet God.

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WHO WAS IT?

By Sant Kumar James

The Story of Lawrence Lazarus who meets a poor Punjabi family on a Katni-bound train.Translated from Jeewan-Deep Hindi Patrika

"When will you return to Bilaspur?"Sardar'ji asked.

"I don't know for sure," I answered,"but it will be after three or four days.''

"Then if you know where I can get ajob, please let me know."

Just then the Sardar's wife finishedeating the sweets and threw the leaf, inwhich the sweets had been wrapped, outof the window. Taking one of the cupsof tea from her husband's hand, shequickly gulped it down. Placing theempty cup in her husband's hand, shewas about to lift the second cup to herlips when, on second thought, sheproffered it to her husband, saying, "You drinkit."

"No, you drink it," he answered. Shequickly finished the second cup and deposited the second empty cup in herhusband's hand. The little nourishmenthaving revived her, she clasped her childto her breast and said, "If there are anyopenings for a carpenter in Bilaspur, besure to let us know."

"Please jot down my address,"Sardar'ji said.

I happened to have a copy ofJeewanDeep Pati ika in myhand,and so* I wrotedown his address on an empty spot onthe front page. "I will surely write you,"I said.

Several stations had come and gone,and the train'was moving through the

hills at varyingspeeds: sometimes fast andsometimes slow. The fearsome noise ofthe great engine split the quiet night airin all directions. It's moaning was as ofa sick man groaning witli pain.

The Sardar and his wife began tonod and doze in their seats. I didn'tconsider it proper to try and continue theconversation, so I wrapped myself up inmy blanket and closed my eyes.

"Sahdol, S-A-H-D-O-L" the portercried as the train came to a standstill. Iquickly rolled up my bedding and beganto call, "Coolie, Coolie!", but no cooliepresented himself on the night scene.The train stops ten minutes at Sahdol,and now only three minutes of that timeremained.

Awakening the Sardar, I said,"Sardar'ji, would you please help ine getmy baggage off the train?"

Only with great difficulty were thetwo of us able to unload all the paraphernalia that I had with .me. As hereboarded the train, the Sardar calledback to me, "Don't forget me, Babu'jil"

Before I could answer him, the whistleblew and the train began to move.Sardar'ji joined his hands and gave mehis namascar, and I replied with mine.

To be Concluded

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Harter may love cider, but I don't—nor tea, Coco-Cola, nor sherbet. In fact,I am not overly fond ofwater. I onlyc rink to live.

Ass t. Editor Gulick was perturbedthat none of the articles on train travelmentioned smoke. It seems that BrotherDulick is the world's foremost authorityon the subject of train smoke. Of coursethe way these articles get continued frommonth to month, the subject of smokewill inevitably puff up. In the meantime you can have smoke by putting thearticles to a match.

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