Earlier text: A NEW REVISED BIBLELove Divine
By D. Middlemas
O HEAVY heart, with sorrow bowed,
Behold the rainbow in the cloud!
Know for thy joy that in this spot
Where suffering is the common lot,
God loveth thee, and loves thee well. Though Summer’s hand thou canst not
see,
When laid on grass and flower and tree,
Be this the comfort where thou art,
Making glad summer in thy heart:
God loveth thee, and loves thee well. Though winds blow easterly and bold,
As sheep thou art within the fold.
No winter touches thee with frost,
For Love the threshold once has crossed:
God loveth thee, and loves thee well. The kindness that surroundeth thee,
The tender, patient ministry,
So gently shown, so freely given,
Confirm the truth from highest heaven:
God loveth thee, and loves thee well. If thou shouldst walk the world again,
Freed from the shackles of thy pain
And all the weariness that was,
God makes thee free and glad because
He loveth thee, and loves thee well. But if he bring thee where the sea
Of Death lies, full of mystery,
Lean on his hand, it will not fail.
Christ died for thee, thou must prevail:
God loves in Christ, and loves thee well. — D. Middlemas, Edinburgh. An Appeal to Parents—No 2
By Ellen G. White
God’s great lesson book, his holy Word, gives parents instruction regarding the preparation they and their children must receive before they can be admitted into the heavenly family. Parents, hear the word of the Lord to you:— “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.” “What doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul, to keep the commandments of the Lord, and his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good?” Upon obedience depends the life and happiness, the health and joy, of men, women, and children. Obedience is for our well-being in this life and in the life to come. “The Lord commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the Lord our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as it is at this day. And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these commandments before the Lord our God, as he hath commanded us.” If the law of God were taught in the home, if obedience were enjoined upon children from their earliest years, how different the world would be to-day! Temperance, industry, and economy would be seen. Evil would be avoided. Virtue would be cherished. The Scriptures given above are for our admonition and instruction. But they are not studied as they should be. The failure to follow God’s plan is causing him to withdraw his blessing from parents and children. Many fathers and mothers will have a heavy charge brought against them when they stand before the Judge of all the earth. They do not obey the voice of the Lord. They permit their children to do wickedly. Their unruly, disobedient children testify to their neglect of duty. God is watching the families who claim to be Christians, to see how they are conducting themselves. If ever evangelical work was needed, it is needed now in our families, our schools, our sanitariums, and our publishing houses. Let us consider the work to be done. Fathers and mothers need to feel the converting power of God. Their lives need to be cleansed. There are many professed Christians who have never been transformed in character. This is why the Holy Spirit cannot accomplish its work upon hearts. “I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, saith the Lord God. Repent, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin. Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel? For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord God; wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.” “Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean; from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you. A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them. And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.” God calls for a thorough purification of households and institutions. There is need, not merely of a revival, but of a reformation. Every church needs to be stirred as never before. When the light that God has given shines forth through human agencies, a great work will be done. In demonstration of the Spirit, and with power, the truth will be revealed in clear, distinct lines. But this work must begin in the home. As the right work is done in the home, parents will find their hearts subdued and melted. Strange prejudices that have been cherished by brethren and sisters in the church, prejudices that have borne evil fruit, will be overcome, and will disappear. A spirit of candor will come in, a spirit after Christ’s likeness. God’s people will give up the tenacious desire to have their own way and to urge their own ideas; for they will realize that they are in the presence of God’s Son. I beseech the parents in our churches to make a solemn covenant with God by repentance and confession. Confess your past neglect, and in the fear of God take up the work of educating your children in righteousness. Do you not think that it is time to seek the Lord with the whole heart, that you may find him, and co-operate with him in working for the salvation of your children? The Lord will not pass over a neglect to feed his lambs. Teach your children that they are the younger members of the Lord’s family. Guide their feet in the way of holiness. Lead them to God. Guard well your words and actions, that by example as well as by precept you may give the lessons God has instructed you to give. Respond to the striving of the Holy Spirit. Thus you prepare the way for your children to respond to this striving. O parents, for the sake of yourselves and your children, I make this appeal to you. My heart is greatly burdened. I cannot sleep as I think of parental neglect and its fatal results. I pray that you may be impressed with the importance of the work on which so much depends. There is set before you “a blessing and a curse; a blessing if ye obey the commandments of the Lord your God, . . . and a curse, if ye will not obey.” This is your day of trust. Soon will come your day of reckoning. Take up your work with earnest prayer and faithful endeavor. Let Christ find you his helping hand in carrying out his purposes. Prepare for the coming of the Lord. This is the preparation day. Set your own hearts in order, and work earnestly for your children. An unreserved surrender to God will sweep away the barriers that have so long defied the approaches of heavenly grace. When you take up the cross and follow Christ, when you bring your lives into conformity to the will of God, your children will be converted. The world will take knowledge of them that they have been with Jesus and have learned of him. In word and deed they will bear witness to the power of Christ’s grace. Stay With Us, Lord: A Devotional Poem
“STAY with us, Lord, and let thy face
Beam on us; night is nearing.
Through its dark shadows may we trace
Thy look of love—aye, cheering
The heart of all who trust in thee
On restless earth, on angry sea,
Waiting for thine appearing.” At the present time there are over twelve thousand of the inhabitants of the Indian empire serving their sentences for various crimes on the Andaman Islands, five hundred and ninety geographical miles from the Hoogly mouth of the Ganges. About two thirds of these are murderers, and the other third is composed of poisoners, thieves, and other criminals, whose offenses do not admit of classification. They are given various sorts of work to occupy their time, and are employed as clerks, cooks, gardeners, servants, etc. After ten years of good conduct they are given a portion of ground which they clear, and occupy at a small rent. They are allowed to send for their wives and children, or, if not married, they may marry, and settle down as though they were not miscreants, though, of course, they are held upon the islands, and are only left in a semifree state on conditions of good behavior. Those who do not care to become farmers but wish to work at a trade are allowed to do so. Most of those sent to the islands have gone9to serve a life sentence, but in nearly all cases freedom has been granted after twenty years, and they are allowed to stay or return to their homes according to their desire. By this system of allowing convicts to till the soil, since 1858 on Viper Island alone no less than twenty thousand acres of land have been cleared and cultivated; and it is estimated that one thousand one hundred acres are cleared and cultivated every year. This system is one that commends itself to every one interested in the elevation of humanity. Instead of being housed up in prison walls with no employment to lead their minds to higher thoughts, the government has wisely provided this plan, which places within the reach of every man a means of making a change in his life, and becoming a blessing to humanity in place of a curse.—Oriental Watchman. Importance of Our Camp Meetings
By R. A. Underwood
In view of what the spirit of prophecy has said in regard to our camp meetings, and our past experiences in seeing the results that come from them, our conferences should consider well some of these facts before we make up our minds that our camp meetings are too expensive, and must be discontinued. I quote from Volume VI of the Testimonies, No. 34, beginning on page 31, a few of the many things given us at this time concerning the importance and work of our camp meetings:— “The camp meeting is one of the most important agencies in our work. It is one of the most effective methods of arresting the attention of the people, and reaching all classes with the gospel invitation. . . . The reasons of our faith are not understood by the people, and we have been regarded as fanatics, who were ignorantly keeping Saturday for Sunday. In our work we have been perplexed to know how to break through the barriers of worldliness and prejudice, and bring before the people the precious truth which means so much to them. The Lord has instructed us that the camp meeting is one of the most important instrumentalities for the accomplishment of this work. . . . In every city of our world the warning must be proclaimed. All that can be done should be done without delay. “And our camp meetings have another object, preparatory to this. They are to promote spiritual life among our own people. . . . We need to meet together and receive the divine touch that we may understand our work in the home. Parents need to understand how they may send forth from the sanctuary of the home their sons and daughters so trained and educated that they will be fitted to shine as lights in the world. We need to understand in regard to the division of labor, and how each part of the work is to be carried forward. Each one should understand the part he is to act, that there may be harmony of plan and of labor in the combined work of all. . . . If our camp meetings are conducted as they should be, they will indeed be a light to the world. . . . A mistake has been made in holding camp meetings in out-of-the-way places, and in continuing in the same place year after year. This has been done to save expense and labor; but the saving should be made in other lines. . . . “Our camp meetings should be so conducted as to accomplish the greatest possible amount of good. . . . Every camp meeting should be an object lesson on neatness, order, and good taste. . . . Special attention should be given to all sanitary arrangements, and men of sound judgment and discernment should see that nothing is permitted to sow the seeds of sickness and death throughout the encampment. . . . We should ever bear in mind that angels of God are walking through the encampment, beholding the order and arrangement in every tent. . . . “Let the press be utilized, and let every advertising agency be employed that will call attention to the work. This should not be regarded as nonessential. . . . As far as practicable, let the important discourses given at our camp meetings be published in the newspapers. “It is important that the members of our churches should attend our camp meetings. . . . Some will say, ‘It is expensive to travel, and it would be better for us to save the money, and give it for the advancement of the work where it is so much needed.’ Do not reason in this way; God calls upon you to take your place among the rank and file of his people. Strengthen the meeting all you possibly can by being present with your families. . . . Go to the camp meeting, even though you have to make a sacrifice to do so. . . . “None of us should go to the camp meeting depending upon the ministers or the Bible workers to make the meeting a blessing to us. God does not want his people to hang their weight on the minister. . . . “If there was ever a place where the believers should bear much fruit, it is at our camp meetings. At these meetings our acts, our words, our spirit, are marked, and our influence is as far-reaching as eternity.” I have noticed that a number of our conferences are planning the present season to omit the camp meeting. The only reason they give for this is that the camp meetings cost much labor and means. But before we come to such a decision, it seems to me we should weigh well the words of counsel quoted above. If camp meetings are conducted after God’s order and instruction, they are one of the Lord’s most important means of reaching the multitude, as well as being a great help to our own people spiritually. The camp meeting is an educational factor in the various departments of work. Our people come in touch with the Sabbath-school work, the medical missionary work, the Bible work, and nearly every phase of our work, as they do not at any other time during the year. It is a time when all the laborers in the conference come directly in touch with one another and with the delegates from the various churches, with mutual profit. It is a time when our educational institutions are represented, and thus come in more direct touch with a larger number of our young people than at any other time. It is a time when the young can be helped in a special manner, as at no other meeting in the year. It is a time when isolated Sabbath keepers come in touch with our general work, and receive great encouragement. These meetings have a unifying influence upon all classes, and they bring unity into our work at home and abroad. It is a time when the power of God is especially present to witness to the assembling of the saints. We should weigh well the fruits of these meetings, and consider whether we can afford to lose the results attained, before we decide to dispense with our camp meetings. It is true that many of our meetings have failed, sadly failed, in accomplishing God’s purpose; but rather than dispense with the meetings, why not, through the instruction given us, plan to hold them in harmony with this light, and realize the blessings that will be received through them? From a personal experience of a number of years’ labor in connection with these meetings, I know something of the wearing labor that is required to hold them. But I have seen hundreds, yes, thousands, brought to Christ through this God-appointed means. I can call to mind individuals who are now laboring in foreign lands or otherwise engaged in promulgating this blessed truth, who, had it not been for the camp meeting, might to-day be in the world, with their energies devoted to selfish pursuits. I believe that much more should be done to help the young than has generally been done at these meetings. Also much consideration should be given to the point expressed in the quotations above in reference to parents’ work in the home, which will enable them to send forth their sons and daughters, trained and educated and fitted to shine as lights in the world, bearing a part in this closing work of the gospel. The Wedding Garment
By MRS. P. ALDERMAN
JESUS hath wrought a princely dress—
The wedding-garment righteousness;
When on earth’s battle field of foes,
He gave his life to heal our woes. My robe of sin, all worn and soiled,
In which I’ve grieved, and wept, and
toiled,
O, will he change, and let me shine
In his own garment, pure, divine? For gift so great to one so lost,
So guilty, worn, and tempest-tossed,
For grace like this I all resign,
And claim his righteousness as mine. FIRST we ought to know what the home department is. As its name suggests, it is a department of the Sabbath school conducted in some home. Now we might ask whose home or what home, and in reply we might say that a home where all the members attend the regular Sabbath school is in no need of such a department; so of course some home that does not have the benefit of our regular Sabbath school is the place for the home department. There should be some one appointed to take charge of the work, also a secretary who will make a minute of each Sabbath school held. A collection should also be taken, a class record kept, and the secretary should report as often as each quarter (once each month would be better) to the secretary of the regular Sabbath school of which the home department is a part or branch; and that department should be made to feel that the regular Sabbath school recognizes them as a part of the regular school. Next we will mention the possibility of this department. One or more families may start this department, have a regular hour each Sabbath to hold their10Sabbath school, have a regular superintendent and secretary, so as to make it seem as much like the regular Sabbath school as possible, invite their neighbors in to study the Word of God with them; and in this way many may be led to study the third angel's message, and thus have a part in the closing work of this world's history. While it might not be proper to take up all the lines of thought that might be presented at the department Sabbath school, we could follow up these thoughts with Bible readings and the printed page, and I am sure that the blessings of the Lord would attend our efforts, and we ourselves would be benefited; for in blessing others we receive a great blessing. Those who take part in this department work will feel an increased interest in the study of the Word of God, and will look forward all through the week for the hour to arrive in which to talk over with the rest of the household, or with any who may step in to take part in some way, what they have been studying; then, too, if they should attend any regular Sabbath school, they need not feel embarrassed if called upon in the general review, as they will have kept in touch with the lessons all along, and therefore will feel familiar with each thought that may be presented. Now comes the all-important question of what our school should do with this department work. I believe that we should encourage it wherever there is a home that can be used for this work. We might mention a few ways in which we could assist, such as keeping them supplied with The Little Friend, perchance, for the children, and with the Youth’s Instructor for any young people who may attend, and also see that each family represented has a lesson pamphlet, and that the school has a secretary’s book and class record books, and that some one visits them occasionally to encourage them and render assistance. G. B. THOMPSON
By G. B. Thompson
“A FROWARD man soweth strife; and a whisperer separateth chief friends.” Prov. 16:28. Did you ever see a whisperer? Are there any of these discord makers in your church? Have you ever indulged in this wicked thing? It is closely allied to backbiting. The whisperer usually appears to be a very conscientious, sanctimonious individual, your pretended friend, your professed brother or sister in the faith of Jesus. Instead of looking to behold the Master’s presence in you, he is constantly looking for failures; the things “of good report” are not so interesting as are evil tidings. When a defect, supposed or real, is seen or is heard of, this separator of “chief friends” does not go to the offender to find out if the report is true. To do this in brokenness of spirit would be like the Great Shepherd, who gave his life for the sheep. But instead he goes to some one else, and whispers, hints, and insinuates. “I will tell you, but you must not say anything about it. Brother [or Sister] — is a very nice person, but —.” An unproved report is set forth with an air of confidence, and a doubt concerning some one in the church is placed in the mind, which, if not eradicated, will bear a poisonous crop; it will separate brethren and sisters here, and, perchance, in eternity. This whole business is devilish. The devil was the first whisperer. In heaven he whispered his disaffection among the angels, a word here and a word there, and caused the revolt of nearly a third of the angelic host. He is the instigator of this wicked thing, and all who engage in it are his emissaries. Such persons are dangerous. They stab you by stealth. While pretending to give the kiss of love, they pierce you with a dagger. No wonder the Lord has placed whispering among the most base and wicked things. 2 Cor 12:20; Rom. 1:29-32. “All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt.” Ps. 41:7. “Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no whisperer, the strife ceaseth.” Prov. 26:20, margin. But, says one, “What must I do when a person comes to me to whisper concerning the supposed frailties of my brethren and sisters?” Prov. 25:23 tells us just what to do: “The north wind driveth away rain: so doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue.” Do not listen; beware of lending your ears to any whose business it is to pull down the reputation of your brethren. And do not forget that those who come to you with secret whispering about your brethren and sisters will go to some one and whisper slanderous gossip about you sooner or later. If they come to you with such a mission, freeze them out. Be as cold as a north wind. Let your countenance show that you disapprove of such a wicked work. If a brother has erred, go to him, and in the spirit of love and kindness point out his error. This will help him, and perhaps save him from being overcome upon this point another time. In addressing a society for the study of life, on the dangers that beset children, Anthony Comstock remarked that “it is safe to say that there is not an institution of learning for the young that is wholly free from the corrupt and degrading influence of indecent literature and pictures.” He then said: “A short time ago I was entering a car at a railroad station, and passed through a group of schoolboys on the platform. One was handing a small book to another, and as I took my seat, I recalled it. I went out to see the boy, and asked him to let me see the pamphlet, which he finally did. I tried to find out where the boy procured it. He told me, and I got off the train at Newark with the group, and went to their school. I found so that every boy in that school and several girls from sixteen to nineteen years of age had the same kind of literature. Step by step I traced the source until I came to a beautiful girl in a lovely home, who received it from a young man of good family, living in a neighboring town.” Mr. Comstock then said, “If I had to choose between seeing the mind of my own little girl so corrupted, and burying her, I would cheerfully dig her grave with my own hands.” We have been informed of over twenty institutions of high grade to whose schools Mr. Comstock’s researches have led him, with similar results. His information is chiefly derived from parents who have found such abominable, corrupting things, worse than any adder, viper, or other snake that injects venom, in the possession of their children. The anguish of parents who had the utmost confidence in their children, on ascertaining that they had been corrupted, is something indescribable. Mr. Comstock added: “No mother can be sure that her son is free from these degrading influences; for I have found them in the hands of youths of our best families; in some cases youths who had made themselves agents for the spread of corruption have been regarded as the best boys in school.” Let none who are responsible for children thrust these statements of Mr. Comstock aside as the utterances of a crank or a man who is determined to find what he looks for. The evidence is overwhelming, as the distinguished citizens who act as executive committee of the Society for the Prevention of Vice know to their hearts’ sorrow.—The Christian Advocate. THERE are three lessons I would write,—
Three words, as with a golden pen,—
In tracing of eternal light,
Upon the hearts of men. Have hope! Though clouds environ round,
And Gladness hide her face in scorn,
Put thou the shadow from thy brow,
No night but has its morn. Have faith! Where'er thy bark is driven,—
The calm's disport, the tempest's mirth,—
Know this: God rules the hosts of heaven,
The inhabitants of earth. Have love! Not love alone for one,
But man as man thy brother call;
And scatter, like the circling sun,
Thy charities on all. Thus grave these words upon thy soul,—
Hope, faith, and love,—and thou shalt find
Strength when life's surges maddest roll,
Light when thou else wert blind.
—Schiller. The Pagan Basis of Christian Science
By G. C. Cochran
Within a few blocks of where I am sitting there is a large stone church erecting for the use of a congregation of Christian Scientists, so-called. The cult established by Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy upon the basis of the postulate, “Everything is mind,” or, “Everything is God, and God is in everything,” is by no means original with her. A portion of her philosophy was borrowed from the mind-curist, P. P. Quimby. The foundation of her system is borrowed from Hinduism. The late Madame Blavatsky drew her theosophy from Oriental sources also, from both Hinduism and Buddhism, and the vagaries of the Gnostic sects of the second century, but her agglomeration of philosophies and fraudulent “miracles” is now exploded, and Theosophy is wrecked. The revival of Hindu Vedantism as a substitute for Christianity in this country seems to have been measurably successful, judging from the reports put forth by Mrs. Eddy and her followers, some of whom claim a million adherents and several hundred church buildings. We can receive these figures with some allowance for the exaggerative enthusiasm of the Eddy interest. It is true, however, that the new cult is supported by wealthy people and not a few judges and lawyers and other professional men, business men and women, and persons in moderate circumstances. They profess to be happy in the new connection, which they claim to be the final substitute for all other cults. What is the attraction? The apostles of Christian Science quote the Bible quite freely. They defend their appropriation of the name “Christian” by saying that they recognize Christ as an expert in mental therapeutics, although they claim that Mrs. Eddy is far in advance of Christ, who, in their view, was a healer like themselves. They tell us distinctly that there is no such thing as sin. There is no need of an atonement. Repentance for imaginary wrongs is absurd. Mrs. Eddy, indeed, has with great fidelity taken into her system as the foundation stone the conspicuous feature of the Vedantic philosophy, which is essentially pagan. Her fundamental “principle” is that disease may be healed by denying its existence. They call themselves healers, while denying that there is any disease to be healed. “God,” Mrs. Eddy says, “is supreme; is mind; is principle; not person; includes all and is reflected by all that is real and eternal.” “The only realities are the divine mind and its ideas.” It is taught by Mrs. Eddy and her apostles that all men are emanations from the Infinite, and co-existed with the Infinite from all eternity, and that the miracles recorded in the Bible were only instances where a scientific healer dispelled various illusions of the people, who thought they were sick or possessed of devils! Of course, if God is the only real existence, the legitimate conclusion is that the soul and the world do not and cannot exist as distinct entities. They are not what they appear to be. Missionaries in India say that the commonest peasant, if asked who God is, will answer that he himself is God, very promptly. Brahma is one, and there is no second, is the Vedantic formula. That is, there can be no second anything, and all that is, is Brahma. Indeed, Mrs. Eddy might, consistently with her fundamental dogma, have adopted the Hindu creed, of which the following is one of the popular expressions in India:— “Now by Sivam, I declare that all
That is, is God; yet what I see is not,
It and the thousand evils of the world
Are not of God or true. They Maya
be.”
Maya is illusion. The distinction between sin and righteousness is only imaginary; an illusion. The Hindu philosopher candidly declares that caste, uncleanness, hatred, wandering thought, impure or pure, are all alike to Brahma. Logically, the doctrine of Maya leads to the accounting of personal responsibility as an illusion. God is an impersonal essence, and takes no cognizance of sin or righteousness, and men, therefore, are not responsible for their acts and thoughts. Manifestly, the fundamental dogma of Christian Science is copied pretty closely after the Vedantic, the pagan, model. Mrs. Eddy tacked the name “Christian” on her pagan philosophy apparently to make it draw half-hearted people from the Christian churches, who, following the so-called “liberal” theology of the day, are gravitating to a repudiation of the doctrines of sin, repentance, and atonement, and self-sacrifice in a life of service for Christ, and prefer to identify themselves with the life and precepts of the worldly externalism of the day. The spirit of Christian Science is directly antagonistic to the religion of Christ. While adopting or commending Christian ethics, organizing Sunday schools and churches, the fundamental pantheism so boldly proclaimed by Mrs. Eddy, renders these appurtenances of her system absolutely farcical. She denies that the body exists, although Christ repeatedly discoursed of body and soul as distinct entities, realities. She appropriates the leading feature of a corrupt and corrupting Hindu philosophy, the effects of which may be seen in India to-day. She takes the ancient heresy, and clothes it in new attire. It is not religion, but a system of therapeutics, which promises to heal disease by declaring that disease does not and cannot exist, and that it is a distinct illusion of man. It goes not a step further. It has no healing for the sin-stricken soul. It has no Saviour from sin, compassionate and merciful. It tramples underfoot the precious blood of the Christ, the atoning Saviour, while feloniously appropriating his name in order to deceive, if possible, the very elect of God.— G. C. Cochran, in The Living Church. An Indian Nurse Converted Through Scripture Reading
THE effect upon even the native mind of simply reading the Scripture is illustrated in the case of an Indian ayah, or child's nurse, who went from India to London with an English family to care for their two boys. For five years she daily listened to the reading of a chapter from the Bible in the Hindustani, followed by the Lord's prayer in the same language. The one who read and prayed was not well acquainted with the language; and as the ayah knew very little English, all conversation on spiritual questions was impossible. She often said, however, that she firmly believed in the Lord Jesus, and a few months ago received Christian baptism, the service being effectively performed in her native tongue. Nothing but the pure Word of God had brought about the conversion of this ignorant, unlettered woman. The Little Moments Passing Away
“Just a little moment,
Passing on its way;
Tell me what the little moments say.
‘While I'm passing, use me;
Surely don't abuse me.’
Swift the little moments fly away.”