| Summary: | Gospel Trumpet 1881-June 3, 1962, Vital Christianity June 10, 1962-Sept. 1996, One Voice June/July 2004-Apr/May 2007 11 1- 1 . ■ \\ I I/ 1' --- ;- XeliVeT/ F/ EAT/ 0• And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a Trumpet, and they shall gather to-gether his elect from the four winds, front one end of heaven to the other. Mat, 24: 3i. of. NESS IN OARISIle jr," Tcf/ M7//, ketd. So will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all plaoes where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day. Eye. 31: 12, der, 32: 89. VOLUME XVIII. MOUNDSVILLE, WEST VIRGINIA, U. S. A., THURSDAY, AUG. 18, 1898. NUMBER 33 The Ordinances of the New Testa-ment. Part of a series of chapters OIL this subject, from a tract written by Wm. G. Schell. THE THREE NEW TESTAMENT ORDINANCES. COMMUNION. TIIE word 007774712t12207b is applied by the apostle Paul to an ordinance of the New Testament which was instituted by the Savior the night of his apprehen-sion; which ordinance is also denomi-nated, " The Lord's Supper." The fol-lowing are Paul's words: " The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? the bread which we break, is it not the com-munion of the body of Christ?"- 1 Cor. 10: 16: Nothing is more evident than that Paul here refers to the observance by the apostolic church of the very commemora-tive ordinance instituted by our Lord the night he was betrayed by Judas; of_ which he says they all partook. Verse 17. The account of the institution of this ordinance has been handed down to us by four of the inspired writers. Matt. 26: 26- 28; Mark 14: 22- 21; Luke 22: 19, 20; 1 Cor. 11: 23- 29. Matthew was an eye- witness. Mark and Luke were apos-tolical men; hence, received the account from the apostles. Paul testifies that he had received his information from the Lord. They all agree as to the constit-uents and design of the institution. They tell us that Jesus instituted it of the product of the field, and the fruit of the vine; and that it is a monument erected in. remembrance of his death. Ordinance- fighters argue concerning the communion supper as they do concern-ing baptism, that, inasmuch as it was instituted before the Savior's death, which abolished the Old Testament and brought the New Testament into force, it was of the Old Testament and ended with it. We have shown in a previous chapter that with the same argument we could as successfully argue the abolition of the entire New Testament, for while it was not committed to writing, it was all introduced before the Lord's death; and now we will proceed to show the foolishness of the argument in reference to the argument under consideration. This ordinance, as we have seen, was to be observed in remembrance of the Lord's death. How then say the Quakers that it belonged to that dispensation which was brought to an end with that event? Can an event be commemorated before it transpires? If the communion supper was abolished at Christ's death, the New Testament is mistaken in its teaching that it was intended by the Savior to be observed in. remembrance of his death. Our Quaker friends may pause when they come to this point and ask, Can it be clearly proved by scripture that the eating of the bread and drinking of the wine were intended by our Lord as a commemoration of his death? To answer this question we have but to call the reader's attention to the command-ment of the Lord with which he enjoined this ordinance upon us--" This do in re-membrance of me."— Luke 22: 19. W hat particular event in his life did Jesus mean the communion supper should commemorate? " As often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do show the Lord's death till he come."- 1 Cor. 11: 46. Mark well the words: " till 1w come;" which show that this ordinance is to be observed right up to the very second coming- of Christ. If the Quaker theory be true, this text should read: " As often as they ate that bread, and drank that cup, they did show the Lord's death till he died." A Quaker Bible would contain some strange readings. Again, if the theory of antiordinance-ism is correct, this ordinance was abol-ished no later than. twenty hours after it had been instituted, and the apostles had. not a single opportunity of obeying the commandment, " This do in remembrance of me." Surely Quakerism is a mass of confusion. The most substantial argument we can offer to prove the communion supper of the new dispensation, is the very words Jesus uttered on the occasion of its insti-tution. These words have been careful-ly penned down by all four of the in-spired writers who have left us a record of the event. The following are their respective accounts. " For this is my blood of the new tes-tament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins."— Matt. 26: 28. " And he said unto them, This is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many."--. fark 14: 24. " This cup is the new testament in. my blood, which is shed for you."— Luke 22: 20. " This cup is the new testament in my blood."- 1 Cor. 11: 25. Is it reasonable that we should believe the ordinance- fighters' saying, that the communion supper is of the old testa-ment, when the word of God four times tells us it is of the new testament? We will now proceed to the considera-tion of another antiordinance dodge. After they have been driven, by the mul-tiplicity of scriptural evidences, to the admission of the fact that Jesus institu-ted the communion supper for, and en-joined it upon New Testament saints, we often hear them assert that it is to be observed only in a spiritual sense. Then they fly to some passages of scripture teaching a spiritual feast, promised by Christ to his faithful followers, saying; " These set forth the true supper of the Lord." The following are among the principle texts thus used by them. " Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and. sup with him, and he with me."— Rev. 3: 20. " Then Jesus said. unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, - Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you. Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is meat indeed, and. my blood. is drink indeed. Ile that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dw elleth in me, and. I in him. As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father; so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me. This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he. that eateth of this bread shall live forever."— Jno. 6 : 53- 58. • That these texts teach a sublime spirit-ual feast to be enjoyed by faithful Chris-tians, is indisputable. But they afford us no proof that there is no literal ordi-nance called. the Lord's supper. IV e should apply such texts as speak of spirit-ual things, to spiritual things; and such texts as speak of literal things, to literal things. It is both erroneous and absurd, to attempt to identify scriptures which speak of literal things, with those which speak of spiritual things. The Bible student will observe the fol-lowing clear distinctions between the feast of the foregoing text and the ordi-nance instituted by our Lord the night of his betrayal. 1. The one is spiritual; the other literal. 2. The scriptures which. record the spiritual supper will not admit literaliz-ing; while those scriptures which record the literal supper will not admit spiritual-izing. 3. The scriptures which speak of the spiritual supper are addressed to sinners; while those which speak of the literal supper are addressed to Christians. 4. The spiritual supper is a contin-uous feast. When we open. our heart unto him who stands and knocks at the door, he does not come in as a guest to dine with us and then depart, but he says," We will come unto him, and make our abode with him."— Jno. 14: 23. The literal supper is to be eaten at inter-vals. " This do ye, as often as ye drink it, in remembrance of me."- 1 Cor. 11: 25. " For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup," etc.— Ver. 26. 5. The terms " Lord's supper" and " communion" are applied to the literal ordinance, but never to the spiritual feast of the soul. 6. Of the literal supper men may par take unworthily ( 1 Cor. 11: 27), but of the spiritual supper none but _ the worthy can partake. 1 Cor. 10: 21. Can the communion supper, in any case, be observed in a spiritual manner? No, because the institutione it was lit-eral. A spiritual observan7e can never be reckoned. in obedience to a command-ment to imitate a literal exemplification. Had Jesus exemplified in a spiritual man-ner the communion. supper ( a thing in-deed impossible), it would have been of a spiritual nature, and could have been observed only in a spiritual manner. Or if, when he had literally exemplified this ordinance, he had made the statement that he was intending only to teach a spiritual lesson, he would have instituted a spiritual ordinance; and we could, without difficulty, have understood that it was to be spiritually observed. But he gave us no such instructions, but when he administered literal bread and literal wine, he commanded, saying, " This do in remembrance of me," which com-mandment can only be obeyed by partak-ing of literal emblems such as Jesus ad-ministered. The apostolic church believed the com-munion supper to be a literal institution, because they taught and practiced a lit-eral ordinance. An ordinance meeting held by them is upon. record in the New Testament. " And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and con-tinued his speech until midnight."— Acts 20: 7. The breaking of bread mentioned. above, signifies the observance of the communion supper. Some suppose this text to teach a weekly observance of the ordinances by the apostolic church. But whether this be true or not it is evident that the text proves at least one obsery ance of a literal Lord's supper thirty years after the death of Christ, which is abundant proof that the apostles under-stood. Christ's institution of the com-munion supper literally. Paul in his first epistle to the Corinthi-ans ( A. D. 59), classes the ordinance of communion with the ordinances of the New Testament, which he commanded them to observe. 1 Cor. 11: 2, 23- 25. We believe we have now produced abundant arguments to convince any teachable mind that the literal commun-ion supper is an ordinance instituted by Christ, and we turn our attention to the third ordinance of the New Testament. Christian Unity. BY LILLIE TIIITSMOND. MMAANNY believe that unity is something that can not be attained in this life. By the help of the Lord I will prove that the holy scriptures teach unity, and that God wants all of his children to be one in Christ Jesus. The first scripture that we will notice is Jer. 32: 39. " And. I will give them one heart, and. one way, that they may fear me forever, for the good of them, and of their children after them." We see that God says he will-give them one heart and one way; hence there can be no division among them. Next we will notice John 10: 16. " And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold; them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall The Evening Hour. BY C. E. ORR. Morning is lovely, but the evening hour The sweetest is of all the twenty- four. How blest when Nature fondly seeks repose, And rests with him who every creature knows. To sit in silence at the close of day, And turn my thoughts from transient earth away, Extols the awful majesty of him, The Lord of all I see and things unseen. The fleecy clouds afloat in western sky, The stars in deepening azure blue on high, The tints of day fading before the night, All waken thoughts of the great Infinite. The little flower refreshed by falling dew, Now opens rarest beauties to my view, And gives a deeper sense of the divine Which serves, my heart, to culture and refine. The gentle breeze in green and lofty wood, Thrills all my soul in sacred solitude. The waves at play along the pebbled shore, All lend their music to the heavenly lore. The brilliant orb of day just gone to rest, The dying rays of light ' bove woodland crest, Awaken solemn thoughts of life's last hour, When I shall cease, yet be forevermore. ' Tis true the morning holds a. soothing balm, And brings to many a troubled heart a calm; But it is when the evening shades draw near The Savior is to my own heart most dear. Dearer than life in all the twenty- four, But dearer still when evening shades steal o'er, When hush of night breathes stillness over all, And I his goodness to my soul recall. 2 THE GOSPEL TRUMPET feed the church of God, which he has house; whose house are we, if we hold not day nor night: but it shall come to pass that at evening time it shall be light." And in Isaiah 30 : 26," Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the Lord bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth. the stroke of their wound." The time has come when. Zion shall arise and put on her beautiful garments. The Word is going forth in its purity, the sick are being healed, and miracles wrought in. the name of Jesus. He is just the same to- day. People are dis-cerning the one body of Christ and com-ing out of all divisions. " Babylon [ spir-itual confusion] the great is fallen, is fallen, end is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and the cage of every unclean and hate-ful bird." And God says, " Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. For her sins have reached un-to heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities."— Rev. 18: 2, 4, 5. " For thus saith the Lord God; behold, I, even I, will both search my sheep, and seek them out; as a shepherd seeketh out his flock in. the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scat-tered in the cloudy and dark day."— Ezek. 34: 11, 12. Dear reader, God is calling his people out of all sects, and is making there one in Christ Jesus. Seetisin and the world e entered into wedlock long ago. God gives the command, " Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins." I write this in the fear of God and for the love of souls, read y to meet God in the judgment on what I have written to you. Lay aside all prej-udice, take up your Bibles, read and see if these things are not truth, and escape the wrath of an avenging God upon all that do not obey him. purchased with his own blood."— Acts 20: 2 g. Scene one may say we read of churches. Well we will read. in Rev. 1: 11: " Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, what thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and. unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamus, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea." We see John the Reve-lator was to write in a book what he saw in the isle of Pathos and send unto the seven churches in Asia. Surely they were all of one faith, for he could send the same book word for word to seven differ-ent places, hence the church of God at each place, gatherings at different locali-ties termed churches, kit all of one mind, one accord. Praise God! We read in Acts 15: 41, that Paul went through " Syria and Cilicia confirming the churches." . Imagine Paul coming into a town with several different sects, and going about to confirm them. He would first go to the Baptists and con-firm them in the doctrine of once in grace always in grace, and also baptism by immersion. Then he would go to the Methodists end confirm them by saying we can not live without sin, and such like, and for baptism he would say you can do as you like, either sprinkle, pour, or immerse. And go to another and teach another doctrine, etc. I hope all can see the unreasonableness and inconsistency of such teaching. Paul simply went about from place to place visiting the churches or congregations of God, confirming them in the one and the selfsame doc-trine. And another says, " But we must be organized." Yes, we agree with you. The first thing is the foundation. " And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ him-self being the chief corner- stone; in whom all the building [ church] fitly framed to-gether groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: in whom ye also are blinded together for an habitation. of God through the Spirit."— Eph. 2: 20- 22. We read that we are built upon the foun-dation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner-stone. Who sets the members in the body? " But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him. And_ God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healing, helps, governments, diversities of tongues."- 1 Cor. 12: 18, 28. It is God that sets the members in the church as it pleaseth him. We are to live true to God, and. be willing to take the office he sees fit for us to Wave; and abide in our calling. The prophet Isaiah says, " And the government shall be upon his shoul-der." It is Christ that governs Ids church and shows every one his place in the body. Amen. We must have some-thing to keep us together. " That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God and of the Father, and of Christ." — Col. 2: 2. " And ye are complete in. him which is the head of• all principality and power."— LVerse 10. What can be stronger than love, and our hearts knit together in love? what can break them asunder? And we are complete in him. Christ says, " I am- the door; by me if any man. enter in he shall be saved." Praise God! And if we are in Christ we are in his church, hallelujah, and are at home. " But ye are conic unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an in-nurn6ralsle company of angels, to the gen-eral assembly and church of the first-born, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just melt meek perfect."— Efeb. 12: 22, 23. But Christ as a son over his own be one fold and one shepherd." Christ says he has other sheep which are not of this fold. We will read in the 10th chapter of Acts and see what other sheep it is which he will bring, that there be one fold. We see that it was an unlaw-ful thing for a Jew to keep company or to come unto one of another nation. But the Lord gave Peter a vision and said, " What God hath oleansed, call not thou common or unclean." The Jews were God's chosen people, but in the 1- 0th and 11th chapters of Acts we find where . the Gentiles were brought on a level with the Jews. " There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor fe-male: for we are all one in. Christ Je-sus."— Gal. 3: 28. So we see the other sheep were the Gentiles. In what are we to be one? " Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ, that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel."— Phil. 1: 21. " Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous."- 1 Peter 3: 8. " Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be like-minded one toward another according to Christ Jesus: that ye may with one mind and one mouth glorify God."— Rom. 16: 5, 6. " Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye Jse perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judg-ment."- 1 Cor. 1: 10. The apbstle says, " Be ye all of one mind." Why is there so much division in. the world to- day? Because of carnal-ity existing in the heart, which must be cleansed by the blood of Jesus, and Christ enthroned within; then we can have the mind of Christ and see eye to eye, and all eat of the hidden manna of God's word. There is but one Lord, one way, one heaven; surely we must have but one mind; error will not stand in the judg-ment, but the plain teachings of the word of God, which we are to be judged by in the last day. Jno. 12: 48. " And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called the way of holiness; the- unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein."— Isa. 35:$ Some one might say the apostles could be of one mind, but perhaps we can not be. We will read some of Christ's prayer which he prayed while in. this world. " Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall be-lieve on me through t. eir word; that they all may be one; as thou, Father, art it me, and I in thee; that they also nia` y be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hest sent me."— Jno. 17: 20, 21. We must be one, THAT THE WORLD MAY BELIEVE. Division is mak-ing more infidels than anything else in the world. We must be one, that the world may believe. How are we to be one? " And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and. I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hest given me, that they may be one, as we are."— Jno. 17 : 11. Now we see it is necessary to - be kept in the Father's ' name to be one. He says, " Keep through thine own name . . that they may be one." Divisions are not of God, they are man- made,' and the fruits of carnality. The Father's name is Goa. Hence church of God. " Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our * brother, unto the church of God which is at Corinth, with all. the saints which are in all Achaia."- 2 Cor. 1: 1. " Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to fast the confidence and the re joicing of the hope firm unto the end."— Heb. 3: 6. Christ as a son over his own house, whose house we are; and God says, " I will dwell in them and walk in them, and I will be their God and they shall be my people." Father rules his house; we are Mg children. The class- book is kept in heaven. " To the general assembly and church of the first born, which are written in heaven."— Heb. 12: 23. " He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father and before his angels."— Rev. 3: 5. And the seventy which Christ had sent out to preach and to heal the sick returned with joy, saying, " Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name." But he says, " Notwithst- and-ing this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice be-cause your names are written in heaven." — Luke 10: 20. In the morning age of the gospel era when God's truth went forth in its pur-ity and they were all of one mind, one accord, the sick were healed, miracles wrought, devils east out, and great power was in the church. This continued about two hundred and seventy years, then there came a falling . away; some began to drift away from the truth, drifting from the plane of holiness to man- made schisms and impurities, then came the great Catholic reign which lasted 1260 years, when the saints of God were martyred and had to flee dens and caves in order to worship God and the Bible was withheld from the common people. Then was the fulfillment of the scripture in the 8th chapter of Amos: " And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord, that I will cause ti , e, sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day, and I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your,. songs into lamentation, and will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head, and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day. Bahold the days. come, saith the Lord, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine for bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord." The earth was darkened in the clear day. Oh, such darkness I People were com-pelled at the peril of their lives to dis-own Christ and acknowledge the pope as being the head of the church. It is said that in. those days Martin Luther was turning through a library and found a Bible and pressed it to his bosom, and said; " Oh, if I could only have one of these in my library!" We read in Rev-elation. 12th chapter, " And the woman fled. into the wilderness where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed . her there a thousand two hundred and three score days [ 1260 years]." The woman is the church. She was not swept out of existence, but was nour-ished in the wilderness 1260 years during the great reign of Roman Catholicism. But - the time came for a reformation to be made. Martin Luther, being one of the reformers, seeing that we were to be justified by faith in Christ, stepped out at the peril of his life and began to preach Christ. One by one they began to draw off, forming sects, having some light, but still to some extent in darkness, but do-ing the best they knew at that time. This reformation. lasted 350 years; peo-ple had some light but still were in dark-ness to some extent; they were yoked up in. sectism. with unbelievers, and did not see that we must live a holy life, and they were on a compromise with the world to some extent. But now one. more reformation, the great and the last. Praise God!- We will read in Zech. 14: 6, 7, " And it shall come to pass in that day that the light shall not be clear nor dark; but it shall be one day which shall be known to the Lord, The Tobacco Habit. BY JENNIN 0. ItrrrY. feafttintw from itut iwm.) Who will be the next witness? re is our friend and neighbor, little Sans Now, boys, listen carefully while he speaks, as he is so weak he can not make you hear unless there is good attention. Sammy. I would like to put all my weight and strength against Mr. Tobacco; for I owe him a good fight for what he has done for me. My father and mother both used tobacco for many years before I was born. When I was a baby my father had a sick spell, and as he was a long time get-ting well he sat in the house smoking most of the time. My mother was not strong. She did not smoke, but chewed, and she said that she felt just awful bad and had faint-ing spells. I was sick also. So when a new doctor came to see a neighbor, mother called him in and told him how poorly we all were. He looked at mother carefully, then. at my father who sat smoking, and said that he did not wonder at us all being sick in that close room with the tobacco smoke so thick. Then lie went on to ex-plain how the smoke is breathed into the lungs as small particles of poisonous sub-stance that irritate the delicate membranes of throat and lungs, causing inflammation and preventing the organs from performing their natural office. If the room was full of smoke, there was an overabundance of carbonic acid gas, just the substance the lungs are continually throwing off. This prevents the reception of pure oxygen gas, the life- giving principle. He told her much more about the use of tobacco, and she was so thoroughly alarmed that she stopped chewing, and tried to persuade father to give up his pipe. When he looked at ere he said unless there was a great change, in less than a month I would be in the grave. Then my mother kept me in another room and made my father open the windows when he smoked. So father seeing her concern tried hard to stop smoking and used. less and less every day until he stopped in a long and severe illness. When he recovered, THE GOSPEL the appetite for it was gone . anel he could hardly bear the sight or smell of the duff , tiny Mote. The doctors agree that iity nerv-ous system, my brain, arid my lungs etc all affected by tobacco. My fat! . te. and mother often ell When I ani sick, and wish. they could take my place as they consider theitie selves to blame for my condition; bat t tell dint that ignorance of the harmful effects of tobacco is the cause, and I mean to talk all I can against it. I have heard of differ-ent people being healed by the power of God, and so I am learning to trust the Lord, and after awhile when my faith is stronger I expect to be healed of the effects of to-bacco, and grow up strong like the rest of you, who never have been injured by it. That is right, little Sam, I believe you will be a man in more ways than one when the Lord heals you; for you have the true courage of a man, if the body is weak and small. Now, boys, shall we count one against Mr. Tobacco, since it shows the re-sult of using it, upon helpless little chil-dren? " Oh, yes, yes," you. say so earnestly that I am sure that you mean it from the lliT t h of your hearts. Well, Lewis, speak on; for you surely have something to tell us worth hearing. Lewis. Well, boys, you often hear it said among us, that some one is so foolish that he will nut learn to smoke - or chew, because his mother thinks it is harmful. You have heard enough testimony to show clearly that it is harmful to the pocket- book and to the body, and now I would like to help you to see that- it is harmful to the mind. You know that we boys are generally so strong in body that we are apt to laugh at folks when they speak of us becoming sick from the We of tobacco. But I know enough about sickness to , know that it often i911103 1W01110 * 110 thick they Mt the eeitithieet and the strongest people living. My uncle Amos wits one of those large, strong men, and oft- en remarked in his droll way that he " s'posed he'd live always un-tas sorn'tlein' happened." He chewed and stnekad• would sit in his room and smoke f. tr hours, until the room was full of thick , mteke, and then he would sleep in it; as e did not w tnt a particle of tobac- • o smoke too good to lose. to stop doing it, atilt while he was at work. A year ago he be-gged to eomplain of his head, null so was prevailed Nam to stop smirking in his room. Ilk heed grew worst'; so he went to a doc-tor, w1n, said that the tine particles in tobac-ve smoke had affected the membranes of the h eed, mid he note: calla emokng or he would suffer more, lit' gave it up for a time and ap-peared Madt bet tor, hut he had such a crav-ing for it that he began , to smoke again. day he bt, 03111e 11110011St` itillS, and the said the whole trouble was in his ! wad, and revonintended quiet and absti-eenee from tobacco. Ile was able to walk . runnel, but seemed to be simple as a little child just as if the brain had ceased to wark b',' snst. it WWI bellUtlIbVt1 by poison. ' le was a great rare to his parents, although tee good and never asked. fur $ el to notice much but his parents. At last they began to pray with him and he seemed to like it and gradually , eot better until one day he said aloud, her, it ryas tttobabtacco that did it. I'll never ttse it a s • n." lie got well real fast after that- and was soon at work. But oh, how differently he acted. He said to me one day, " Lewis, you ought to praise God that tuck is not in the insane asylum, and has his right mind to serve God and alone." I asked mother about I she said she had seen it stated that there were 70,000 insane people in this ceuntry and over 15,000 of them owe their insanity directly to tobacco. So I have made up my mind to think too much of myself to put something into my mouth to steal away my brains. Some young men have been so affected by its power on the mind as to take their own lives. Now, boys, let us be men, and keep our money, our health, and our minds. It pleases me very much to hear the boys so strong for the right. Now how many are willing to give this evidence one in count against Mr. Tobacco? Oh, yes I see yon are willing to do so; for you all want to be strong minded. Who comes neat upon our witness stand? Well, Fred, we are all look-i ng to hear something good from you; for you are " your father's own son" and we know he has told you many good things. Pred. Yes, boys, he I that, have kept my I has, call year and I some things by careful last y ears and eyes open the , observation. Father says he has watched many of his friends who began to chew when they were young, and he finds the larger number of them learned to drink and to gamble. He says he is sure tobacco causes a thirst for strong drink and tends towards other gross evils. The appetite is not satisfied with the tobacco poison, but craves something stronger. I saw this statement in a little book on tobacco. " There were 600 prisoners in the state's prison in Auburn, N. Y. a few years ago for crimes committed while under the influ-ence of strong drink. Of these 500 testi-fied that they began their course of intem-perance by the use of tobacco. Prison sta-tistics show with scarcely an exception that forgers, defaidters, and swindlers use to-bacco, while 97 per cent. of all male con-victs first lost their freedom by bondage to tobacco." Now, boys, I do not want to run any risk of being a drunkard or a pris-oner, and so I am going to shun the first steps that lead that way— e- ven. tobacco. - I am glad to find that our boys can use theft eyes and their ears and prove it by what they observe. How many think this is strong for one against Mr. Tobacco? Say yes quickly; for we- want to get through and shut him up in prison before he does any more mischief. Your answers of " Yes, yes," come so thick and fast that it surely means victory on the side of right. Well, William, I see you are so full of some-thing good against our foe that you can hardly stand still or keep still; so you may have the floor. William. Oh yes, I am. I feel like boiling ovcr, but wanted my testimony to be one of the last. I am glad to say I am a Christian boy and look at things very care frilly in view of eternity. A year ago the boys told me I was foolish to listen to mother about tobacco; for she was a Chris-tian and they always make such a fuss about little things that they imagine are bad. So I wondered if it was only Christian peo-ple who were fighting the use of tobacco, but I find it is not true. Doctors, auth-ors, scientific men, dentists, business men, farmers, yes all who do not use it and have studied about it, are uniting in condemning it, for the good of the young men and boys. And now we boys are enlisting in the battle, and whether we are Christians or not we will cry out against tobacco, But I am sure we Christians ought to be stronger against it, as the Lord has opened. our eyes to see how it allures the beys into sin and bondage to evil, and hinders them from be-ing and serving God. When our friend was speaking & bent tobacco injuring the mind I thought how awful it would be to be living without the right use of our minds, and then the thought came: How much worse to have our souls dead in sin, not to be able to see, hear, or feel the things of God that pertain to eternal life and God. I know, boys, if some great king should set before us life and death and tell ns we must give up all to have life, we would gladly lay down all our evil habits, our money, our all to gain natural life. The king of glory offers eternal life to all who will give up all sin and love and. serve him. It is a rare opportunity of gaining present and eternal joys. In order to gain these we must give up the sinful ones, as they would hinder us in the enjoyment of the good, and when he asks us to do so he provides the way by taking away the desire for them. So if you want to give them up, just look to him and he will give the help needed. It makes me so glad to think that the worst case of tobacco slavery is broken by the Lord Jesus. Now, boys, I believe we have evi-dence enough to convict Mr. Tobacco as the worst tyrant dwelling among boys. So let us sum up- the evidence and see. Well, William, just wait a moment. How many boys really consider the soul the most important part of our being? Oh, I see most of you do. Now how many counts shall we give this evidence against Mr. To-bacco? Many witnesses testify that no earthly power could break their bondage to tobacco, but Jesus has stepped in and de-livered from it, taking away even the least desire for it. If Jesus does this, then- it shows how very displeasing to him its use is. * Shall this testimony count two against Mr. Tobacco? " Yes, yes." Any more evidence before we close the case? George. Yes indeed! Medical men are awakening to the fact that tobacco is the cause of many of the diseases that destroy life. It not only affects the users of the poisonous and filthy weed, but it seriously affects all who come in contact with it. It is thus sapping the life from the greater part of humanity. The children inherit appetite for it, diseases from it, and weak-ened minds and energy, with depraved na-tures as the result of parental indulgence. There is not a faculty of our being but what is impaired by the use of tobacco poison. One might just as well take a dose of strychnine daily and expect no serious re-sults as to take into the system in different ways this nicotine poison. Sometimes to-bacco is used for a stimulant in hopes of at-taining intellectual strength and victory. The hope is a false one, as its tendency is the opposite, producing dullness and indif-ference toward mental exertion. Dear boys, if you want to be men, strong,- wise, pure, and good, leave tobacco to its natural lovers, for food, the great ugly green WOMB. Thank you, George. The boys are get-ting truly awake on this subject and. are cry-ing, " Count one against Mr. Tobacco." " Give him to the worms." • Tom. I just want to say that we ought to spake a word against our foe for our mothers and home. Did you think seri-ously how anxious they are for our welfare? Well, I hear our mother say she . would rather see her little boys laid away in their graves than to see them commence chew-ing; as it generally led to deeper sins that some of us know nothing about, at least their most serious effects. Another moth-er said she would be willing to live on corn bread and water to see her sons grow to manhood without forming the habits of chewing, smoking, and dr- inking. Then think how some of us have punished our best friends by ' polluting ourselves, our homes, and the air they breathe. I think the home circle has a right to cry out in thunder tones, " Count one for us." I am sure we could go further by thinking of blighted. lives, lost hopes, lost aspirations, betrayed confidence, and selfish and unholy desires, but let us close the case and. sen-tence the offender. Well, boys, you surely will give a good strong count in behalf of mothers and home. You may not understand it so well now as when you have homes of your own. Let us sum up the evidence briefly. One count for finance. One count for scientific experiment. One count for dentists. One count for children's sickness. One count for the mind. One count for appetite. Two counts for the soul. One count for general good of all. One count for mother and home. Now there are ten good solid counts against our foe. Who can say a word in his favor? Silence reigns! Now, boys, what shall be the sentence? Stand up, Mr. To-bacco and answer for yourself why the ex-. treme penalty of the law shall not be passed upon you. Tobacco. " Guilty— the only wonder is why I was not sentenced years ago." Boys. Then hear your sentence. Go back to the dark pit from whence yon came, and never show yourself in your deceitful-ness to another boy or man while this world shall last; and then receive your final sen-tence from God Almighty. A Warning to the Unsaved. Er S. E. FORREST. A S I look around and see the darkness that is almost universally reigning in this present world, I realize the truth where the blessed Son of God told the Jews that for judgment he was come into the world, that they which see not might see, and they which see might be made blind. Dear reader, has the coming of the Son of man made you blind? if so, let him open your eyes. Are you under bondage? he will make you free-. And when he makes you free you will be free indeed. Are you claiming to be Abraham's children, and were never under bondage? If so, you are blind. You are yet in your sins, even unto this day. I per-suade you by the meekness and gentle-ness of Christ that you call upon the Lord, that he may open your eyes. If the way seems dark before you, let Christ into your soul. He is , the way, the truth, and the life. He will bring you out of darkness into the marvelous light and liberty of the children of God. Does the way seem hard with you? are you yet the servant of sin? if you are, then the way is hard: for the way of the transgressor is hard. Are you burdened with sin? then Christ says unto you, " Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." Let Christ take the great burden of sin front you, and let him put his yoke upon you, for his yoke is easy and his burden is light. Blessed is the man whose trans-gression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit - there is no guile. 0 sinner, will you not let Christ the Lord into your being that he may keep you from the evil ? Oh, let him put his Spirit within you, then there will be no guile. Are you partaking of the pleas-ures of this life? if so, better leave them off. They only last for a season, and are gone. Better enter into the joys of sal-vation which is of our Lord. There your happiness will last throughout all eterni-ty. Surely you will find that in Christ only there is true happiness. Alit truly you will find that the ways of the right-eous are ways of pleasantness. " Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near."— Isa. 55: 6. " Turn you at my reproof: be-hold, I will pour out . my Spirit upon you, I will make known my words unto you." " Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own. understand-ing. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths."— Prov. 1: 23; 3: 5, 6. I would to God you would obey the gentle warnings of the Holy Spirit, and be saved from the wrath which is to come. Do not wait for a more conven-ient time. There will never be a better time than now. Behold, now is the day of salvation, now is the- accepted time. Let the wicked forsake his ways, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Your days are but few upon earth at best; why not surrender? why not halt before you are plundged into eternity and con-sider your way, lest ye be hurled into destruction and mjsery and woe? Christ is standing at the door of your heart just now desiring to enter in. He says: " Behold, I stand at the door and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. "— Rev. 3: 20. He is always ready to receive those who go to him in faith. He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. He de-livers those who go to him for deliver-ance. He lifts up those that are cast down. He strengthens those that are weak. Do not be discouraged, limy dear reader, there is hope for you for in Christ dwells all the fullness of the God-head bodily. Flit grace is sufficient for you. All power in heaven and earth - is his. He is King of kings, Lord of lords. Ile will give you living water, that you will never thirst. He Le the true vine. Wilt thou not be grafted in him and live? " For evil doers shall be cut off: . . . for yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be. . . . A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked. For the arm of the wicked shall be broken: but the Lord upholdeth the righteous. . . . I have seen the wicked in great, power, spread-ing himself like a green bay tree. Yet he passed. away, and. lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found. Mark the perfect man, and be-hold. the upright; for $ the end of that man is peace. But the transgressors shall be destroyed together: the end of the_ wicked shall be out TRUMPET 3 eom good in the daytime THE GOSPEL TRUMPET partakers of his holiness." " For whom the Lad loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom. he delighteth." — Prov. 3: 12. " Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty: for he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole. He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee."— Job 5: 17- 19. - It is really a privilege to pass through trials sometimes, because they bring us into the deeper things of God, and enable us to get better acquainted with him, where we can better know his will, and have a deeper understandin gof his Word, where otherwise perhaps these things would not have been known. " Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange ' thing happened unto you." It is a blessed thing, and we get the bene-fits of it when we suffer for righteous-ness' sake; for," If ye suffer for righteous-ness' sake, happy are ye."- 1 Pet. 3: 14. But the apostle also says, if we are buffeted for our faults, it profiteth us nothing. - When we are being buffeted about we should examine ourselves in the light of God's word and by his Spirit and see whether we are being persecu-ted and suffering for righteousness' sake, or for our own faults. And if we should find it is on account of our own faults, or misdoings, then we should come to the Lord, and immediately make all things right with him, and ask him to overrule all the past, and get glory out of it in the end, and destroy all the evil that may have gone forth, and thereby learn a. lesson which may be of profit in the future. Jesus said, " If they perse-cute me, they will persecute you also. And when. we learn that he passed through such severe persecutions, trials, and temptations, need we be discouraged, knowing that he is our example? because he has promised to help us in every time The people must see and feel something in us better than they have, before we can do them any good. And again, some make a great hobby of healing, claiming the Lord heals them, and yet they are nearly all the time complaining. Did you ever notice that the apostles were persecuted because the healing was act-ually and completely done, and not be-cause they practiced it and it . was not done? Or can you find any failures of healing recorded in the Bible? Now, dear ones, we believe the whole doctrine as generally taught in the TRUMPET. And we love to read the tes-timonies of divine healing, such as are radical and convincing, but we also be-lieve that more salvation work needs to be taught and testified to, a closer walk with Jesus, more of the blessings and power of. God on both soul and body. W hen I belonged to a sect I enjoyed sanctification. I enjoyed the power of God and blessings on my soul and body beyond all that tongue could tell. I now have been free from sectiom for about seven years, and I still enjoy the power and blessings of God to such an extent that sometimes I am. almost as helpless as a child in his hands. Although it makes me strong' in him, it makes me humble, it makes me obedient, it makes me love everybody, it makes me watchful, it makes me prayerful, it makes me fearful lest I should do something that would offend his Holy Spirit. I love it so much at no price could be placed upon it that would attract my attention for even a moment. I receive great persecutions from sectarians ( the ungodly ones), but I count it all joy, and profit by it. And now while we teach against all divisions, let us be careful to have the love of Jesus in all things, and not fall into a rut ourselves. Also let us be careful not to use scripture to suit our belief, and apply the wrong meaning. For in-stance, the scripture that says, " Make straight paths for your feet, lest that Babylon, which is typified by literal Babylon of old. After the flood. the people were of one language and of one speech. And it came to pass as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there. And they said one to ea. other, " Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And. they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar." And they said, " Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the Whole earth." We see then that Babel was in build-ing to make the people a name, or fame, to keep them from being scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth. But their works destroyed the very object which they sought to accomplish. For the Lord came down to see the city and the tower. And the Lord said, " Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do." Then the Lord confounded their lan-guage, so that they could not understand one another's speech. So the Lord scat-tered them abroad from thence, upon the face of all the earth. And they left off to build the city. T THE GOSPEL TRUMPET. Moundsville, W. Va., Aug. 18, 1898. A WEEKLY HOLINESS JOURNAL. Entered at the Yost- office at Montasville, W. Ya., as Second- class Matter. E. E. BYRUMe Editor. E. E. BYRU1VI and N. H. BYRUM, Publishers DEFINITE, RADICAL, and ANTI- SECTARIAN, sent forth in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, for the publication of full Salvation, Divine Healing of the body, and the Unity of all true Christians in " the faith once delivered to the saints." Subscription price, postage paid, United States, Canada, and Mexico, - - $ 1.0o. England, - 6s. 2d. Germany, 6 marks 18 pf. Business Comrounirstions, moneys, etc., must to addressed to GOSPEL TRUMPET PUB. CO., MOUNDSVILLE, W. VA. to insure credit; otherwise we will not be responsible. When you pray, let it be a prayer of faith. " Whatsoever things ye desire when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them."— Mark 11: 24. There is no need of a Christian " falling by the wayside," and yielding under the awful oppression and temptations of the enemy: Jesus Christ came to save his people from their sins, and he is not only able to keep them free from sin one min-ute, but will keep those continually at all times who put their trust in. him, and obey him. Many people can serve and trust God " as a good soldier," just as long as every-thing is favorable and prosperous, but in time of adversity, when the battle becomes fierce, the enemy attaching on every hand, persecutions arise, opposi-tion, discouragements, and the awful op-pression of Satan come thick and fast, it is then when loyalty to God is tested. Severe Testings. T HIS Christian life is called a war-fare, a holy warfare, and one need not expect to go through without having some battles. Whenmen conclude to go to war they generally expect to fight. They go with the intention of gaining victories. But in this holy warfare our God fights our battles, and as the messenger told Jehoshaphat, in 2 Chron. 20: 15, " The battle is not yours, but God's." But this man ended : his prayer by say-ing, " Our eyes : are upon thee." When we keep our eyes upon God and go forth at his direction and in the power of his might, there is no enemy that can stand before us. They may be permitted to persecute us, revile us, say all manner of evil against us, but there is a getting hold on God that they can not stand before us. God may not always command the forces just as we would were we to have our plan about planning affairs; but he knows just how to defeat the enemy; and he will give us understand-ing of how to pray, and be submissive to his will; then it is none of our business what course he pursues. And when we keep our eyes upon him while we go forth to fight, it is really God who fights our battles. If we are slow in moving out for him, or do not fully measure up to his Word as he desires, or become slack in. any way, he will chasten us in some way; and if we heed the chastening we will be bene-fited; if not, we will receive a scourging from him " My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when. thou art rebuked of him • for whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons."— Heb. 12: 5- 8. It is for our profit that our heavenly Father corrects us, " that we might be of need; has promised to be our help and our stay, and the Holy Spirit the abid-ing Comforter to dwell within, to lead us into the ways of all truth. The most se-vere testing time is the very time when we need to stand. true to God, because to give way then means defeat; means a victory for the enemy. But God is able to deliver in every time of trouble, yet he wants to be inquired of; he wants to hear a petition going up in behalf of our needs; though it only be a gentle whis-per, moving of the lips, or the silent prayer of the heart in fervent, humble petition, he understands it all, and does not pass it by unheeded. — From " The Secret of Saivation." Use Wisdom. BY E. A. SOULES. ,,, THE fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise."— Prov. 11: 30. Dearly be-loved saints, in love I greet you by way of admonition, as careful observance has taught me, that to win souls to Jesus means more than to teach doctrine only. It means more than to know that sectiom is wrong. Of course we must teach the word, and have it dwelling in us, but Col. 3: 16 says, " in all wisdom." Some seem to think they must preach against sectism, whether they preach anything else or not, and class all alike that belong to a sect; therefore leaving a comunity in such a prejudiced condition, that it is very hard to ever get them to hear the word again. And others will make such hard statements that the peo-ple will be driven away. Some say, I used to belong to a sect ( naming the one), but now I belong to the church of God; as much as to say that those in sectism were all outside of God's church. Sec-tarians are accused of many things that only the greater part of them are guilty of, and it means a real experience in sal-vation with a fullness of God's love to separate the precious from the vile. which is lame be turned out of the way." Now while this has been cited as phys-ical lameness, would not a better ap-plication be, " Walk so holy before God that those who are babes in Christ and those who are not established will not. stumble at us, but be led into a glorious experience of salvation?" May God bless these few lines to the furtherance of the gospel. The Advanced Teaching. BY O. W. PRINK. T HE Lord is calling his people out from the mists of Mystery Babylon the Great, the Mother of Harlots and Abominations of the Earth ( Rev. 17: 5), saying, " Come out of her, my people" ( Rev 18: 4). All religious denominations that hold any doctrine contrary to the Word and Spirit of God, or even those whose doctrines as far as they teach measure up to the word of God, do not have the advanced knowledge or teaching of the angels which were to come blow-ing the trumpets, giving fair warning to all the children of God in sectism, to " come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye re-ceive not of her plagues; for her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities." Therefore her doom is sealed; and we are instruct-ed to reward her even as she has reward-ed us, and double unto her double accord-ing to her works; in the cup which she has filled we are to fill to her double. _ Those then who neglect to receive this advanced light, and come not out of her, shall be damned with her. It is plainly manifest to all who have read. these things and considered them well, that those religious organizations which measure not up to the word of God and the teachings of the apostles, even to the teaching that there should be no divisions among the disciples of Christ, are naught else than mystery IMMO of it called Babel. Genes - of simply trusting; together, to do they ( that sought so is, their oe make a name, to win fame). Then God put them all to vonfusion, so that they ccould not understand one anether ( even as it is in mystery Babylon), and scat-tered them over the face of all the earth. And while they were yet being scattered more and more, gang called Abram out front among them. This is typical of Zion, that has been and is dwelling with the daughters of Babylon, and is the true seed of . Ahraliam, being circumcised in heart, walking not after the letter but after the Spirit. There can be no divisien among thiise - rho walk after the S4pirit, for there is but one Lord, one faith, one baptism. Zion dwells among the daughter of mys-tery Babylon until the angel blows the trumpet, calling ller out from the midst of them, that she. be not partakers of their sins, nor receive of their plagues. Zion was ( in a sense) as the leaven that leavened the whole lump. That is, she kept the name of God and Christ exalt-ed in Babylon until the latter's cup of iniquity should be full, then Zion should be called out, preparatory to the judg-ment of mystery Babylon and her harlot daughters, and Babylon should be re-vealed to be even what she is, who as long as Zion was in her, kept herself covered as with a mantle, that her naked-ness should not be discovered. But now she is being made manifest to all the peo-ple of God, and is become the hold of. every foul spirit, and the cage of every unclean and hateful bird. She is also be-ing burned with fire; that is, the judg-ments of the Word and Spirit of God; and the smoke of her burning shall as-cend up forever and ever. For by her sorceries were all nations deceived; and in her was found the blood of prophets and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth. Blessed are they that hear and obey; for the Lord Jesus has said that the trumpet should sound and he would gather his people from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other, until the saints shall possess the king-dom even forever and ever. How to Test Our Relationship With The Father. BY S. R. li) ELMITRILY. THERE are two kingdoms in this world, the kingdom of God, and the kingdom of the Devil. In the kingdom of God, the Father has the jurisdiction. And all in his kingdom belong to MB none with God! what i • tt what it takes -' v could, the vies in the and all peo-ade any pretentious toward vonitl be seeking to get er and the nts of ". . Now the works of the flesh lin o HI: fest, which takes to bo takes to he a to be a believer! enfrrnclus a gog un cease to e PERSECUTIONS. BY E. L. MAYS. heathen rage, and the imagine a vain thing? The set themselves, and the rulers thke counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed, t us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us."— Ps. 2: 1- 3; 46: 6. Now we do not have to go far away to find this class of peo ple, for it is to be seen daily. How sectarians are trying to " break the unity of the saints" and bring discord; but praise God, we have the comfort of these words of our precious Redeemer, " Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and say all manner of evil against you."— Matt. 5: 11. And this is not all, but he says, " Leap for joy."— Luke 6: 23. Dear reader, let us see if we can not glory in tribulations also, " knowing that tribula-tion worketh patience; and patience, . ex-perience; and experience, hope; and hope maketh not ashamed, because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us."— Rom. 5: 3- 5. Now God gives us the Holy Ghost, and by this we are sane-family, and are led by his Spirit. " For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God."— Rom. 8: 14. To be in his kingdoin means to be a fit subject for heaven. To be a fit subject for heaven, is to be dead to sin, and alive unto God. Salvation is the mode of induction into God's kingdom. And in his kingdom there is no sin committed, never has been, and never will be; be-cause all . sin is without the body and the body of Christ and the kingdom are one and the same thing. The moment we cease to have the Spirit of Christ that moment we cease to remain in his kingdom. Hence we see very plainly that all who belong. to God's family are spirit-ual, because ' if any man have not the Spirit of Christ he is none of his. "— Rom. 8: 9. In Gal. 5 : 16, St. Paul says we should " walk in the Spirit," and in verses 22 and 23 he gives us some of the fruits of the Spirit, so we may know when we are following the Spirit. They are " love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentle-ness, goodness, faith, meekness, tem-perance." To have fellowship with the Father, to be a member of his family, to be grafted into the true vine Jesus Christ, to abide in him, and to have his words abide in us, means something far more than to be lusting after tobacco, or seeking riches, or striving for the honors of this world. " For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but right-eousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. "— Rom. 14 : 17. Oh, that people could see what it fro these; Adultery, fornication, un-eleannesN, 1 slIt'Si idol: it/ T. witch-craft, hatred, varia emulations, wrath, strife, st - esies, envy - mat- tiers, revellings, ell you in t hue thing's gdem oIf God." — t4 Tti la in possession o any of the above mentioned things is to have condemnation. And to he in Christ Jesus there is no condemnation. Rom. if we live in the Spirit, let us : elk in the Spirit." Praise the Amen. titled. Rom. 15: 16. Made clean through the word. Jno. 15: 3. We know that the rulers are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming them-selves into the apostles of Christ.- 2 Cor. 11: 13. They are ignorant; " for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory."--- 1 Cor. 2: 8. Which of the prophets have they not persecuted? Even Jesus himself they nailed to the cross, being grieved at his words; and he has told you they would persecute you, because ye are not of them ( the world). They will hate you. It is surprising to hear the un-called- for lies that the Devil can get his servants to tell; but we know he is a liar and the father of lies. Let us ever prove true; the reward is to them that hold out faithful to the end. Therefore put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand. Pray God for victory and he will give it to you. Amen. PURITY. BY CHAS. E. ORR. HE preparation of man for heaven was the object of the Savior's corn-ing to this world. That man might enjoy everlasting life in the paradise above was the purpose of God in sending his beloved Son to earth. Jno.- 3: 16. ' What are the moral requirements enti-tling man to those paradisiacal glories? The scriptures answer by saying, " He that hath clean hands and a pure heart." — Ps. 24: 4. Purity is one of the loveli-est of Bible themes. The sacred verse is sublime in its description of the purity of Christ's bride. It is his own glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle, but is holy and without blemish. Eph. 5: 7. " My dove, my undefiled is but one. . . Fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners."— Cant. 0: 9, 10. " Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than which is to flow pure and unfeigned love. We stated above that if the moral being be pure, it is pure in all its functions and parts. " Unto the pure all things are pure. "— Tit. 1: 15. In the latter part of this text of scripture we learn that the defiled moral being is defiled in all his parts, even. to the mind and the con-science. W e then may rightly conclude that purity includes a pure mind and conscience as well as a pure heart and soul. This is clearly taught by two other texts of scripture. In 2 Pet. 3: 1 Christians having pure minds are ad-dressed, and Paul in 2 Tim. 1: 3 testifies of his serving God with a pure con-science. " Out of the heart are the issues of life," and in the days when man may experience a pure heart God. will return unto him a pure language. Zeph. - 3: 9. Where purity of mind is enjoyed there will of necessity be naught else but pure and holy thoughts. We recently heard a much noted lady evangelist quote from Proy. 24: 9," The thought of foolish-ness is sin," and then remarked, " Who dare say they live without committing sin?" Paul places before us proper- subjects for thought, and" foolishness" is not found in the list, but he says, " Whatsoever things are true, . . . whatsoever
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