| Summary: | Gospel Trumpet 1881-June 3, 1962, Vital Christianity June 10, 1962-Sept. 1996, One Voice June/July 2004-Apr/May 2007 Pitti N\ \\ I I li, .- S4NCT7Firei 770N 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, from one end of heaven to the other. Matt. 24: 31. 0 IENESS IN CI- 051:, , IXI/ YCl/ fi So will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day. Ezell. 34: 12. Jer. 32: 39. VOLUME XXIII. MOUNDSVILLE, WEST VIRGINIA, U. S. A., THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 1903. NUMBER 35 aaV OR thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel The daughter of Bab-ylon is like a threshing floor, it is time to thresh her : yet a little while and the time of her harvest shall come." Jer. 51: 33. We do not hesitate to say that that time has come. The Bible recognizes a time of har-vesting and threshing, just as truly as it does a seed time, and we are positive that the harvest is about past and the thresh-ing time has begun. God is beginning to gather in his wheat into his garner. Blessed be his name! We sow our fields in the spring time and then wait for the early and latter rain, and sunshine to make the grain grow and ma-ture; and thus finally be ready for the har-vesting and threshing. God's Word says. " Hear ye therefore the parable of the sow-er." Mat. 13: 18. " Now the parable is this: the seed is the word of God." Luke 8: U. " The sower soweth the word. ' ' Mark 4: 14. " He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man the field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one_ The enemy that sowed them is the devil the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels." Mat. 13: 37- 43. Jesus and his apostles in the beginning' of this gospel dispensation prepared the field and sowed the seed of God's Word in it. Paul in writing to the Corinthian church tells them that they are God's tillage ( or field that is being tilled). 1 Car. 3: 9 ( Mar-gin). We read that " they went forth eve-rywhere preaching the word." Mark 20. Paul says, in asking if Israel hal not heard the gospel, or the Word of God, " Yes, verily, their sound went into all the THE JUDGMENT. Remember, Man, that awful day When all in judgment must appear, When none can screen or flee away, But stand their sentence there to hear. When all the nations of the earth, Yea, all that are of Adam's race, From east to west, and south, and north, Are called before their Judge's face, Impartial judgments then shall pass Without indulgence, or regard, And every rank and every class Receive its just and due reward. There no respect to man is paid, But all must stand the solemn test: The begger and the crowned head Must be forever cursed or blessed. Those sins and vices here concealed And bidden from the eyes of men Shall be to public view revealed, With every blot, and guilt, and stain. What dread will seize the guilty mind, And what a burning hell within; What horrors will those wretches find Who lived and died in wilful sin Our minds impressed with such a th tight. Our hearts should fill with holy fear; And this should never he f, Irgot, In judgment we must all appear. Selected by Lotfie TheolwItt. The Word of God to Man in This Dispensation. t AN' SIllitiry times and in di-yen; manneN spathe in limo past un-to the fathers, bath in these last da ys spok-en unto us by his Son. whom he bath ap-pointed heir of all thines. ‘ vhont also made the worlds. ileb. 1 : 1. For lie till the Father honer and when there CallIt s snob a voiee to hill! the excellent silory. This is my belovod Son, in whom I am well pitsti--. eti. Aml voiee which eame from heaven wt' / wa• d, when we were with Ililn in the holy 11101111t 2 Pet. 1: 17, 18. ( led did, at sundry t runners, speak father. taneient Israel) by the prophets. but bath in thee), last days ( from A. 30 till the emP spoken unto us ( IvIro live or have lived during this sputa) of time) 1; y his Son. Furthermore, Whoti t ■ oti Spoke his word by the prophets or 1w hie tillt! t'it- z, it was stet'. fast., and " every transgression and disobe-dienee reeeived ea ll, s 11W- 01111) 01W of re-ward." Eel). 2: 2. 1 action has been as highly misrepresented as this Jesus, the Son of the Highest. God has spoken by his Son, and were it not that we have the record under the inspiration of the Holy Ghost, we, no doubt, would be at a loss; but since we have the written Word, we are safe. There are so many who claim to have the Word of God to bear to others that do not give the message true according to the written Word, that we are driven to doubt their trueness. Some indeed preach, " Hear ye him," " Repent and believe the gospel," etc., but fail to proclaim or to deliver the entire message. We are not only commanded to hear him but to hear him IN ALL THINGS. It was declared by Moses concerning this manner in which God was to speak to us as follows: " The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a prophet from the midst of thee. of thy brethren, like unto me; unto hint ye shall hearken; . and will put my words in his mouth, [ saith God] and he shall speak unto them all that I shall com-mand him. And it shall come to pass, that Avhosoever \ rill not hearken unto my words Avhieh he shall speak in ms name, I will require it of him." Dent. 18 : 15, 18, 19. Now that this prophet was Jesus, we have eonti • med to us in the New Testament, by the mouth of Peter, as recorded in Acts: " For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever lie shall say unto you. And it shall come to pass. that every sold which will not hear that prophet. shall be destroyed from a-ntotig the people. God, having raised up his Sun Jesus. sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his inionities." Acts 3: 22, 23, 26. Yon will observe, dear reader, that the Word reads, " Him shall ye hear in all things," and " every soul" that fails to do this " shall be destroyed from among the people." To hear that prophet in the sense of these texts means to obey him. We will euennon a few reliable witnesses to con-firm the statement. " And he stretched forth his hand towards his disciples, and Kalil, Behold my mother and my brethren: for whosoever shall do the will of my Fa-ther which is in heaven, the same is my brother. and sister, and mother." Mat 12: 49. 50. " But he said. Yea, rather, blessed ere they that hear the word of God, and keep it." Luke 11: 28. " And he answered and said unto them. My mother and my brethren are these which hear the word of God. and do hke 8: 21. ' rite foundaC: keeping or doing God's eommandi h; to love him. " This is my eonunanu,. !? at ye love one an-other." John 15,:,:) 1e, cad he says, " If ye love me. keep;,, - teandments," and again. " If a maa„ Fill keep my words " " He l e . , dint keepeth net my sayingeeh Era , eae, e, h my com-mandments, and thee, 1' it is that loveth me: and he a „ at loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself unto hith." " If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love." John 14: 15, 91, 23, 24; 15: 10. " Not eve-ry one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will Lod me in that [ judgment] day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name ? and in thy name have east out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works I and then will I earth, and their words unto the ends of the world." Ram. 10: 18. The see,: was sown in all the world and as the earth has had its seed time, there must necessarily be a harvest and a time of threshing, and, thank God, the Word is not silent about it. As the truth was planted in the world years ago, tares were sown also; but in the har-vest and threshing time, the tares will be separated from the grain: That is what God is doing at the present time. In Isa. 41: 15, 16 God promises to make his church a " new, sharp threshing instru-ment having teeth : thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them. away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them : and thou shalt rejoice in the Lord, and shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel." The mountains and hills here evidently mean the same as in other prophecies; viz., big and little sects of religion. In these sects is where we find the wheat, and this is• the work of this reformation, gathering out the wheat from the chaff and straw of sectism. It will be done just as truly as God's Word is true. In some parts of the country, shortly after harvest the farmers thresh in the shock. This might be called the first fruit. After this they stack the grain before they thresh it. We see the same thing in the work of the Lord. While there has been some threshing going on, some of the wheat beinggathered into God's garner, yet we feel quite certain that what has been done is only a sample of what is to fallow. This reformation is just be-ginning its work in reality. The grain is going to be stacked and the Lord will run his threshing machine, so to speak, up to the stacks and thresh them. There is a gath-ering together of sectism, Gag and Magog. " Behold, they shall surely gather together, but not by me : whosoever shall gather to-gether against thee shall fall for thy sake. . No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn." Ise. 54: 15- 17. " And the peo-ple shall be gathered against them." Hos. 10: 10_ " Now also many na-tions are gathered against thee, that say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye look upon Zion. But they know not the thoughts of the Lord. neither understand they his counsel: for he shall gather them as the sheaves into the floor." And then we have the command, " Arise and thresh, 0 daughter of Zion : for I will make thine horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass : and thou shalt beat in pieces [ thresh] many people: and I will consecrate their gain [ the wheat therein] unto the Lord, and their substance unto the Lord of the whole earth." Micah 4: 11- 13. " And Ephriam [ God's church] is as an heifer that is taught [ broke in] , and loveth to tread out the corn; [ this was the way they threshed in ancient times, used figur-atively now], but I passed over upon her fair neck." The Swede Bible reads, " I will also lay the harness on her neck," im-plying that God will put the harness on us if it is not already on us. May the Lord help us to be willing to thresh. If we are not, the Lord says it is his desire to chastise us, no doubt, to make us willing to thresh, and break us in, and teach us how, etc. Hos. 10 : 10, 11. Remem-ber it is " his sanctified ones" that shall do this. Isa. 13 : 3- 5. I remember when we used to thresh out of the shock we would haul the straw away in little piles and burn it up, so God is doing with the chafe and straw of Babylon after the wheat is gathered out. See Zech. profess unto them [ they who heard the 1Nrord and kept it nat] , I never knew you : depart, from me, ye that work iniquity. Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock. And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house and it fell not : for it was founded upon a rock. And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and do-eth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand. And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and , it fell: and great was the fall of it." Mat. 7: 22- 27. " And that ser-vant, which knew his lord's will, and pre-pared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes." Luke 12 : 47. " But be ye doers of the word. and not hearers only, deceiving vont- own selves." Jas. 3.: 22. " And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?" Luke 6: 46. " For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified." Rom. 2: 13. Thus we might use text after text show-ing the reader the necessity of doing the commandments of God to obtain that en-trance into the heavenly kingdom, but I deem it not expedient, since the above is proof enough. So then I will submit these sayings to the reader with one or two more texts namely, " And I know that his com-mandment is life everlasting;" so then, " blessed are they that do his command-ments that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city." John 12: 50; Rev. 22: 14. Threshing Time. BY Blab XREUTZ. who less, and in vario I observe occasionally that are to be found who do 114) 1 stg9ni to believe that it is neceseattry to obey all the Word of God, even that part which applies to the People of this fleeting age. Inasilinch as God hath spoken unto us by his Son, he purposely says, HEAR YE HIM. " NAtile be yet elude', behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them : and behold e voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well Pleased; hear ye him." Mat. 17: 5. Not only hath God spoken unto us by his be-loved Son, but he says, Hear him. But how few there are that listen with eager ears at his voice. It is said that " faith ewnoth by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God." Man must needs hear be-fore he can believe, and unless he hears the true story, alas! - he may believe a false one. Quite a number have heard of the Son of God, but so few comparativel y have heard the true story. No character that ever - Ploddeda'pilgrimage through this stage of 0 cr. eation, says that " God blessed the sev-enth ' day, and sanctified it; because that in it he had rested from all his work." Gen. 2: 3. You see at a glance that the sancti-fying of the day took place at a later date than God's rest. He rested back at creation; but on Sinai, in the wilderness, 2,500 years later, he sanctified the day, because in it " he had rested." II. M. R. Working With and Confirming His Word. 12: 6; Jer. 51: 25. God says he will make her " a burnt mountain." In the threshing of wheat we also have the fanning and sifting in the separator; allstthee asvelleck grains and those too large and too' light ' A' o with th6 chaff anti; straw., seed are sifte feed: or fed tat other ahisnels. gootrquality is preserved: So, also, do*. Those grains that are swell „ those that ' are too light go over with the chaff and straw, while the eraeked grains and fowl seed are sacrificed to evil spirits. See Ezek. 39: 17- 20; Amos 9: 9, 10. May. God help us to come up to the standard, that we may measure up to the standard, and not be sacrificed, but gathered into the garner. The Sabbath. asked ti n4sed tor -- erVek ated in the wilderness, and " there is no trace of its celebration in the patriarchal times." There is no statement that any of the atriarchs kept the sabbath or knew any-thing about it. Though the record from dam to Moses covers a period of 2500 ears, not a word is said of them keeping e sabbath day. The first mention of it in Ex. 16, and it was enjoined by Mesas. o the sabbath began with Moses. The book of Genesis was not written at e time of creation, but 2,500 years after, d not until the law had been given on inai, in which the seventh- day sabbath d been enjoined upon the children of ael. Moses, in writing the history of p e ep trp B in A y th is S th an S ha Isr mentioned ( Adam, Abel, Enoch, Lot and Melchisedec) though they kept no sabbaths were pleasing to God. "— Dialogue with Trypho, Chap. 19. observe the sabbath, neither do we." — En chins. - Tertuliatn also declared that the re- Mosaic saints never kept the sabbath See his argument against the Jews, section 4. Irenans says, " Abraham believed God without circumcision and the sabbath."— Adv. Hoeres, lib. 4, c. 30. understood that the sabbath originated with Moses. This same position was also held by such learned and eminent men as Paley, Hessey, and Bramhall. John Milton and John Bunyan also held this position. magan was well versed in Scripture, and says, " Now as to the imposing of the sev-nth- day sabbath upon men from Adam to )) loses, of that we find nothing in holy writ, ither from precept or example."— Com-lete Works, page 299. Smith and Bar-um's Dictionary of the Bible says, " In x. 16: 23- 29, we find the first incontro-ertible institution of the day, as one given o, and to be kept by, the children of h-eel." " There is no express mention of it, revious to the time of Moses."— John ' a iblical Archaeology. Both in Chambers' and the People's Cyclopedias it is positive-y stated that the sabbath institution orig-a 2 THE GOSPEL TRUMPET. Aug. 27, by the word of God." Rom. 10: 17.), mazy, have been enlightened and made bold to be. lieve in Jesus for healing, and ner Jesus has worked with, „: his Word that was preached belie I can humbly and gratefully testify our ministry has been accowanie& signs following much more sip* that` than it ever was before, and. r. am. ee that as we are faithful and bold to tinue preaching divine healing ( and ni* God grant grace to increaseaSill his d'"'• ministers in this boldness), more sick and suffering ones enCifniiiteitte believe the Word, and Jesus will work with and confirm his Word with signs following, If we want to see apostolic signs, we must be sure we have the apostolic anointing to preach the apostolic Word with epos. folic boldness. The same Jesus who prom. xi to be with the apostles in the early church, and so gloriously worked with and confirmed his Word with signs following, srtnte to- day. It is just as nee. Word be preached SABBA'lli means rest. The law said, " Six days may work be done; but in - the seventh is the sabbath of rest." Ex. 31: 15. " Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall, be to you an holy day, a sabbath of rest to the Lord: whoso-ever death work therein shall be put to death." Ex. 35: 2. God gave to Israel a day of rest to their bodies, a day when all manual labor was to cease. This was every seventh day. Since the seventh day was a rest day, it was called a sabbath. So in the gospel : whatever is the Christian's rest, the same is our sabbath. I repeat, sabbath means rest. This is the one sole idea it con-veys, flask last, and all the way between— cessation from labor or works; rest. . THERE WAS NO PRE- MOSAIC SABBATH DAY. By this we mean that there was no day kept as a sabbath day a rest prior to the exodus. The first mention of the sabbath as a rest day enjoined upon man that we have in the Bible was 2,500 years after the creation. Open your Bible at Exodus 16, and a new command is given to Israel, something that they were not acquainted with before. Moses said on Friday, " To-morrow is the reet of the holy sabbath." Ver. 23 " To- morrow is a solemn rest, a holy sabbath unto the Lord. "— Revised Version. On Saturday he said, " To- day is a sabbath unto the Lord." Ver. 25. The 30th verse gives the conclusion of the whole matter: " so the people rested on the sev-enth day." This is the first mention of a day heinff enjoined upon any people as a rest day, and the first account of them keeping a day. The only sense that can be derived from the above langnage is, that because the Lord here gave them a sabbath day. the people began resting on the seventh day. It is clear that the keeping of the sabbath was a new thing to the Jews. God here gave a new year and a new beginning of months. See Ex. 12: 2. Hence he gave them a new sabbath, or one for the first time The ac-count of their - first keeping the sabbath shows plainly that they were not accus-tomed to it before. Many other scriptures clearly teach this fact. " Wherefore I caused them to go forth out of the land of Egypt, and brought them into the wilderness. . Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign be-tween me and them." Ezek. 20 : 10- 12. The following facts are here clearly stated. 1, God gave Israel the sabbath when he brought them out of Egypt. 2, He gave it to them in the wilderness. 3, He gave it for a sign between ' himself and that nation. " I gave them my Sabbaths" implies the act of committing it to them, showing that they did not have it before. This shows that the keeping of the sabbath was a new thing to them and only for them. " Thou camest down also upon mount Si-nai, ' and spakest with them from heaven, and gayest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments: and madest known unto them thy holy sabbath, and comraandedst them precepts, statutes, and laws, by the hand of Moses thy servant." Neh. 9: 13, 14. When did God make known the sabbath to Israel? The Bible answers, " Thou earn-est down also upon. mount Sinai, and spak-est with them from heaven. . And madest known unto them thy holy sabbath." This testimony is conclusive. Though the sab-bath had been introduced a short time pre-vious, as seen in Ex. 16, it is but natural that Nehemiah should point to Sinai, as this was the time when God spake the sab- 44C0 then after the Lord had spoken un- 16- 7 to them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God. , And they went forth, and preached evera-where, the Lord working with them, and. confirming the word with signs following. Amen." Mark 16: 19, 20. In this last verse, in the clause, " thei. Lord working with them," the word " them" is supplied by the taranslnatorsd, in the original, the text reads, " The Lord working with and confirming his word with signs following." In the commission tott the apostles as recorded by Matthew, Jesus promised to be with them. saying, " Lo, am with you alway, even unto the end the world." This promise is given upon the imperative conditions that they " g and teach all nations. baptizing- them in th e name of the Father, and of the Son. and 0 the Holy Ghost." And then, in addition this, Jesus hinds upon them that they should teach them ( all nations) to observe all things whatsoever he had commanded them. Every command and precept that Jesus had taught his disciples, they, in turn, should teach all nations to observe and practise. Then he would he with them alway. He was under no obligations what-ever, to he with them, unless they care-fully obeyed the commands connected with the promise. As they went forth, they preached the Word, and did it faithfully; and as they did so, the Lord worked with h; s Word. It is true to- day in the same sense. God honors his Word, and the faith of those who obey it. Those of us who are in the faith once delivered to the saints real-ize that there is no space between us and the apostles. All that Jesus did in the early church, he is as able and willing. and is present to do now. The end of the con-versation of every New Testament minister in both the morning and evening time of this gospel day, is, " Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to- day, and forever:" but all such claims would be folly unless we should be faithful to the commission, and preach the whole Word, and teach all na-tions to observe all things that Jesus com-manded. Jesus is just as anxious to have his Word preached to the world now as he was when he gave the commission and when he finds those who are faithful in Prenehing his Word. he will be faithful to fulfil his promise inthe commission. He will work with and confirm his Word. but will not do so with anything else. We find in the Acts of the Apostles that everywhere they boldly preached the Word, and every-where the Lord was with them. with signs following. This is what gave life to the Word. They preached it with the author-ity of the Holy- Ghost's anointing, and the Lord worked according to that which they preached. For a number of years in my mini iy I was timid in preaching divine healing. I entertained the foolish fear that if I should boldly preach it, I would be brought to the test of having to pray far more sick people for healing, and perhaps in a public manner, and perhaps the Lord would not heal, and thus leave me con-founded before the people. My trouble was, I had not fully assured myself of it being in the atonement, and it being the will of God to heal. Through the force of different circumstances which the Lord so mercifully permitted to come upon us, we were compelled to call a halt and get down before God earnestly for more power and authority, and promise him that we would be more faithful to his Word and preach it boldly, just so he would assure us of that Word. Necessity. compelled us to seek for help and light in the Word for healing is a redemptive blessing I healing. When I was plainly shgowneothaaldt boldly declare it to this sick and suffering world. The happy result has been, that, through the preaching of the Wo rdd (" Faith cometh by hearinga, n dd hear ng bath commandment in their ears, and de-livered it to them in written law. : Since God made Anownestsabbath - to Israel in the wilderness, fatW- a ia aiiew institution. " Ands Denim ® that thou west a Ser-a* of Egypt, and that the nought thee out _ thence d and. by a stretched the Lord thy God corn-eep the sabbath day." This clearly shoosthat the sabbath a Jewish institution. It was not given ti after their deliverance from Egyptia bondage. The above text could not apply the patriarchs, nor to New Testament Chri tans, for neither were delivered fro Egyptian bondage. One more text we wi here bring forward. " The Lord our God made a covena with us in Horeb. The Lord made not thi covenant with our fathers, but with us, eve us, who are all of us here alive this day. Dent. 5: 2, 3. Here it is stated that God made a cov rant with Israel, and the words of th covenant are found from verses 6 to 2 which are the ten commandments. " An he added no more. And he wrote them o two tables of stone." Ver. 22. So it is fo ever settled that the covenant enjoining th observance of the seventh clay as a sabbat was the one given in Horeb. That coy mint, enjoining the observance of the se enth- day sabbath ( Dent. 5: 2- 15), Moses d dares, God made with us— Israel— wh were " all alive this day." Ver. 2, 3. Thi is conclusive in the matter. But was no the sabbath covenant given to the fathers and patriarchs from Adam te Moses? Moses answers, " The Lord made not this eovenan with our fathers, but with us, even us, wh are all of us here alive this day"— Israel the wilderness. I will here briefly add the testimony otherswho are good authority. Justi Martyr, who wrote only 44 years after th death of Jahn says, " Enoch and all th rest, who neither observed sabbaths, no any other rites, seeing that Moses enjoine such observances." He further declares that since there was no need " of the ob servance of the sabbath before Moses, n more need is there of them now." " Th sabbath began with Moses."— Justin Mar tyr to Trypho, a Jew. He further says ` Moreover, all those righteous men already " They ( the pre- Mosaic saints) did not From thin it is seen that the early church ntanee p. m ed k with the and confirm his he re- Faith and Feelings. I1ALLIE M. RICE. W E are told in Rom. 1: 17 that the just shall iiNT by faith. Is there any aerip-ture in the Bible that tells us that the just shall live by feeling? We do not receive anything from God by feeling. By faith we art` saved. also by faith we are sancti-fied, and by faith in tiled and the Word of God we are healed. Our feelings are some-thing the eon not trust. Yet it is strange how many of God's children are trying to live by their feelings. Many times the enemy will cause a feel-ing of darkness to overshadow our souls and if then we should trust in feelings and listen to the enemy we would many times give up Our experience. But., praise God, at such times we have the privilege of re-sisting the devil and by faith standing upon the Word of God, and claiming vic-tory. Then we know we have kept our covenant with God, despite our feelings and the accusations of the devil, we have no reason to give up our experience. Some-times it looks so dark around us and every-thing seems so discouraging, but God does not leave us at such times. He has prom-ised to be a very present help in every time of need. In time of trial and affli c - tions God is always with us to strengthen but we must. have faith. and encourage us if we have faith in him; Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Heb. 11 : 1. Faith is not feeling. Many would believe they were healed if at the time of asking God to heal them they could feel it. But God does not always heal in that way. Sometimes he wishes to try our faith. When we ask God to heal us we must be-lieve that he does it. We read in Mark 11: 24, " What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and Ye shall have them.” Here it says, What things soever ye desire. So if we desire salvation, or sanctification, or even Vie-tory over a trial, we must believe that We receive it; that is our part. God's part wtoe gsi: aellitretcoeiuvse,. and he has promised that Many dear souls get saved and live , for unity and all t ruth. Jesus will not fail tu aceompe,. ny. anti work with his Word, Notice the t+° url of (: fed h all the refortuations in the past. He raised up faithful heralds to preach the truth that had been buried under the rubbish of the dark ages. These truths went forth against all the errors of this dark world. The Lori lionomd his Word and made it life to all wi ► () were disposed toward him, and great light sprang up and beamed out in glo- ' t bt'a 11 Ty. Dear imIliren and fellow laborers, let us not shun to & elan,. to all nations the whole Word of ( iod. and teeth them to observe ill things whatsoever Jesus commanded in his Word, so that he may be able to work with and muting his Word with signs fol. Anwn• J. W. B. and for at least nine years of my life I hbauvt eI lhivaevde wneivthe rt hyee ts amveatg wesi tohf aN sewin gGleu imneaan, or woman, or with a single people, that your civilization without Christianity has civilized. Wherever there has been the slightest spark of civilization in the South-ern Seas, it has been where the gospel is preached and wherever you find in the island of New Guinea a friendly people, or a people that will welcome you there, it is where the missionaries of the cross have been preaching Christ. Civilization ! The rampart can only be stormed by those who carry the cross." The gospel, and the gospel alone, is the power of God - onto salvation, and nothing else can lift up men out of the darkness of a lost race into the light and joy of peace-ful civilization and temporal prosperity, in this world; and nothing else can give them hope of endless life and glory in the world to come. Sel. The Nature of God's Kingdom. gig. 27, 1903. THE GOSPEL - TRUMPET., 3 ' TIRE notion that the Messiah would es-tablish a literal kingdom upon the earth originated with the Jews. Many of them placed literal interpretations upon those prophecies which relate to the coining of Christ, and as a result they expected him to establish a temporal throne, subdue the nations, and restore again the kingdom of Israel. This gross error led them to re-ject Christ, oppose his spiritual kingdom, and consent unto his death. Because he did not meet their expectations, he be-came a stumbling- block to them. At one time they tried to " take him by force, and make him a king," but he departed from them. John 6: 15. He said, " Ye do err, not knowing the Scriptures." " My king-dom is not of this world : if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight." John 18: 36. Jesus acknowledged himself a King, and said, " To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world"— namely his mission was to set up a kingdom, and reign as a king; but this kingdom was " not of this world"; i. e., not temporal or literal. Through all his teaching he endeavored to show the people that his mission was to establish the kingdom of heaven in the hearts of men, and there reign— the " King of peace." " And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with ob-servation [ outward show— margin] : neith-er shall they say, Lo, here ! or, Lo, there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you." Luke 17: 20, 21. This is positive and elear, and should stop the mouth of every latter- day advocate of a literal reign upon earth yet future. The Pharisees believed that Messiah would establish a temporal kingdom, set up his throne at Jerusalem, etc. ( Many modern Pharisees are looking for the same thing to- day.) So as Christ claimed to be the true Messiah, they naturally asked him when the kingdom of God should come. How clear his answer- a" The kingdom of God cometh not with observation." This would not be true were it literal; for such would conic with observation. The fact that it cometh not with observation or out-ward show positively proves it to be a spir-itual kingdom— Christ ruling and reigning in the hearts of his people. Yes, dear read-er, " it is your Father's good pleasure to give yon the kingdom:" even the " king-dom of heaven," a kingdom greater than Alexander or Napoleon ever swayed seep-ter over. And all this you will find in the full salvation of Jesus Christ. " If any man serve me," saith the Lord, " him will m Father honor." Possessing the kingdom, and enjoying this glorious reign is not located in some future age; but John writing to the seven churches in Asia, in the first century of Christian grace, declared that Jesus Christ, who is the faithful Witness, " the Prince of the kings of the earth," him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood, also " hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father." Rev. 1: 5, 6. John testifies that he was " in the kingdom, and patience of Jesus: Christ." Ver. 9. At the very opening of the plan of redemption the blood- washed celebrated the praises of God with a " new song, say-ing, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open - the seals thereof : for - thou wart vale time- on a good feeling but when God perraits - them to pass through a trial, 0d they lose their good feeling, they eon_ dada they have- done something wrong; and then, of- course, the enemy comes a-oast them with accusations and doubts and they give up because they have not held ap the shield of faith. In. Jas. 1: 2- 4 we read, " My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; knowing tins, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. . But let patience have her per-fect work, that ye may be entire, wanting nothing. " A Igo in 1 Pet. 1: 6, 7, it says, owaeeein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations : that the trial of your faith, being much more pre-cious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honor and glory at the appear-ing of Jesus Christ." It seems that sometimes we are in heavi-ness through manifold temptations, but this is only to try our faith. And when we go through trials of this kind with victory, we just have that much more victory for the nest trial; but if we become discouraged and give up, we are then only more weak in faith, and it is much harder for us to go through a trial with victory. There are some of God's children, it seems, who never have a chance to get victory over a trial because they give up in the first trial they have. Well, praise God, we do not have to please the devil by giving up to him, but we can please God by having faith in him. " Looking unto Jesus the author and fin-isher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God." Heb. 12: 2. So Jesus is the author and finisher of our faith. It does not say that he is the author and finisher of our feelings, for the enemy would sometimes like to control them by causing dark and discouraging feelings to overshadow us, but we know such do not come from God. In Rom. 5: 1, 2, we read, " Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: by whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.' " This scrip-ture tells us that being justified by faith, not feeling, we have peace with God. Truly, when God MIN'(!; US WO have peace in our souls, and as long as WO trust and obey him he will not withdraw his peace from Ds. Jesus said, " grace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you : not. as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart he troubled." Dear ones, let us each day be found trusting God, and, " Above all, taking the shield of faith, NVI1OrOWitIl ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.'' ' Eph. 6: 16. What Civilizes Men? THERE are people who believe that lization and education will meet the world's need, and that the Bible and Chris-tianity are- not requisite for the redemption of lost humanity. But how are men to be civilized, educated, and enlightened with-out the Word of God? Infidelity never has done it, and never will do it. The culture of the ancient nations was but a thin ve-neer over unspeakable barbarisms, cruelties, debaucheries, and idolatries; and in mod-ern times though savages have been civi-lized and peoples have been regenerated, it never has been done by infidel theorists and philosophers. The world may be defied to Point out an instance where a language has been written down, a literature created, or a tribe of savages civilized by infidels. This is the work of Christian people and Christians only. James Chalmers, a veteran missionary, - said in an address delivered before the London Missionary Society: " I have had twenty- one years' experience among na-tives. I have seen the semi- civilized and the civilized I have lived with the Chris-tian native, and I have lived, dined, and slept with the cannibal. I have visited the islands of the New Hebrides, which I sin-cerely trust will not be handed over to the tender mercies of France. I have visited the Loyalty Group I have seen the work of missions in the Samoan Group I know all the islands of the Society Group I have lived for ten years in the Hervey Group know a few of the groups close on the line, slain, and hest redeemed us to God by thy blood, out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; and halt made us unto our God kings and priests, and we shall reign on the earth." Rev. 5: 9, 10. " And they reign an the earth."— Rother-ham's Translation. Peter also denominates God's church in this dispensation " a royal priesthood" that is, a priesthood of kings. Paul declares that they which receive abundance of grace and the gift of right-eousness, " reign in life by one Jesus Christ." Rom. 5 : 17. Halleluiah! All who live in sin are slaves to their own lusts, and are not able to govern them-selves : but salvation makes us " kings" in rule over our own selves; over our passions, appetites, and desires. He that ruleth his spirit is greater than he that taketh a city. Prov. 16: 32. Salvation places us in kingly triumph over all the elements of this world; over sin, fashions, and popular sentiments. " Whatsoever is born of God avercometh the world" ( 1 John 5 : 4) and hath the victory over the beast ( Rev. 15: 2) and Satan himself, who claims to be the ruler of the earth. " Behold, I give unto you power . over all the power of the enemy." Luke 10: 19. You see, dear reader, that the truly saved now possess that for which blind formalists are look-ing in the future. " Now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness." Ram. 6: 22. A master of the situation of life, with a peace that nothing disturbs— this is real-ized in the kingdom of God. Well hath the poet said: " One we hail as King immortal, He did earth and hell subdue; And bequeathing us his glory, We are kings anointed too. " Shall we then by sin be humbled? Must we yield to any foe? No, by heaven's gift we're reigning Over all this world below. " Oh, what grace and high promotion, That in Jesus I should be Raised from sin to royal honor, Even reigning, Lord, with thee! " All this life is blissful sunshine, Earth is subject at our feet; Heaven pours its richest blessings Round our throne of love complete. " I am reigning, sweetly reigning, Far above this world of strife; In my blessed, loving Savior, I am reigning in this life." But let us hear the Savior's answer to those Pharisees further. " Neither shall they say, Lo, here! [ in Utah, as the Mor-mons believe] or, Lo, there ! [ in Jerusalem, as the Pharisees believed, and modern mil-lennium teachers advocate] for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you." " Being questioned by the Pharisees when the reign of God should commence, he answered, The reign of God is not ushered in with parade; . for, behold, the reign of God is within you."— Campbell's and Young's Transla-tion. This is too clear to need comment. Let God be true though ever man a liar. Some latter- day teachers try to evade the truth contained in this text, by affirm-ing that Jesus did not mean what he said; for in the language of the text he would imply that the kingdom of God was in those wicked Pharisees. Such reasoning we maintain is not sound. By using the words " within you" Jesus did not mean to teach that the kingdom was in those wicked Phar-isees, but simply wished to convey the truth to them that his kingdom, throne, and reign were not temporal, but spiritual in the hearts of his people. Wilson, who translated the Emphatic Diaglott, was a Second- Adventist, and believed in a future literal kingdom. He renders it " among you." But nothing specially is gained in this; for it would prove that instead of its establishment in a future age, it was then present among the people. But we believe " within you" to be the correct ren-dering, and the troth Jesus wished to con-vey. Besides the standard, it is rendered " within you" by the following transl a-tions Revised, Bible Union, Young, Saw-yer, Campbell. Paul makes a clear, ringing statement on this point in Rom. 14: 17: " For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost." By being born " of water and of the Spirit" we " enter into the kingdom of God." John 3 : 5. The same is taught in Mat. 18 : 1- 6; namely, that through conversion we enter the king-dom— are delivered from the power ot " And Jesus said unto them, . If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you." darkness, and translated into the kingdom of God's dear Son. Col. 1: 13. Men are commanded to " seek first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness." When this is done, and every Bible con-dition fully met, through the work of con-version— the new birth— the soul enters through Christ the door into the church or kingdom of God. Yet there remains in the heart a sinful nature—" the carnal mind. This causes an inward warfare between the flesh and spirit. Before Christ reigns supreme this inward foe must be destroyed. The thrones of iniquity must be obliterated. This is accomplished in the glorious work of sanctification. So the ful-ness of God in the baptism of the Holy Ghost, or the complete establishing of his throne of fire ( Dan. 7: 9, 10), which is holiness ( Psa. 47: 8) in our hearts, is something for which the believer must seek. In this sense he prays, " Thy king-dom. come." Mat. 6: 10. The promise is: " Fear not, little Bock, it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom." " This is the will of God, even your sancti-fication." " The very God of peace sanc-tify you wholly." \; v hen the believer presents himself " a living sacrifice" upon Christ the altar, when the last condition is fully met in a complete death to sin and self, then the Holy Ghost with the blood of Christ de-stroys the body of sin, and moves in us in all his fulness, as a personal abiding Com-forter, to abide with us forever— Christ fully enthroned within " God sitteth upon the throne of his holiness." Psa. 41: 8. ' The reign of God is within you." This is the sense in which the saints of the Most High " take the kingdom, and possess the kingdom forever, even forever and ever" ( Dan. 7 : 18), which is " righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost." It will be well also to observe that the kingdom of God is represented in Scripture as one of constant conquests and victories. Prom, " The Iiingdom of God and One Thousand fears' Reign. LOWLINESS OF AIMTD. " But in lowliness of mind let each es-teem other better than themselves." Phil. 2: 3. This is Scripture. it is an experience of the heart and mind offered unto all through salvation. lo have this experience is to be fully free from that awful peace-destroying disposition called envy. in Wil-son's translation this text reads, " But in humility esteeming others as excelling your-selves." It excites not the least of envy, jealousy or mortified feeling in you to hear others praised more than yourself when you look upon them as having greater ex-cellence than yourself. Looking within your awn heart and character and capabil-ities, you will see defects and weaknesses that are known to you alone, and you conclude you are the most unworthy and the nearest nothil g of all men. Your brother has defects and weaknesses known to himself alone. You see him in his strength and worthiness and knowing the littleness of your capabilities, and your weakness and so many things that need correction you esteem him of greater ex-cellence than yourself. Then if he should be spoken of more favorably than yourself your heart says, Amen, because you see it just that way. In Phil. 2: 5, we learn that to measure to the full gospel standard of purity of affections and dispositions we must be of the same mind as Jesus. In the following verse we discover something of the Savior's lowliness of mind. Though " being in the form of God he thought it not robbery to be equal with God." The thought here is perhaps a little better expressed by some other translators. Cyprian says, " He did not earnestly affect to be like God." Stuart says that to be equal with God he did not hold as an object of solicitous desire. And Turnbull says that he did not meditate a usurpation to be like God. This was the mind of the Savior, and, dear reader, let this same mind be in you. Though you are here in the form of other men, do not desire to excel them, but in lowliness of mind, look upon others as having greater excellence than yourself. C. E. O. we alu prais • i: e!< 1 lur iris love mitt Care for our souls. tine fur .1%. en c Iii - with Bro. J. C. 1' etearrirau acrd Liontens, We lattored fur two weeks. We found but very little wheat, but a great dear of ulna. Sectarian preachers fought its bitterly, doing all in their power to seaudairze the smuts and influenee the peo-ple iigainst us. Notwithstanding the sin-ners saw it Wa- i the MILLI and tlaitlIOWiedgUi it. Truly it is the same to- day as Jesus told the • The publicans and har-lots go in heroic you. To- day the non-ssur goes nt before the sectarian. May the Lord help the dear souls to see the aw-ful sin of sect Babylon and escape her e left there in company with Bro. W. lizildWill for uotUitie, Idaho, where we pitehekt our tent and started meeting Jesus' name. ' The Lord has a few in the tap of the mountains here, Woodside be-ing about 27 nines from 11. It on top of crings . 11ountiun. God gave us a royal feast. The attendance and interest kept increasing up to the close of the meet-ing. Eight were buried with eauist in the liquid grave. May the dear Lord help them to truly walk in newness of life. Four were saved several consecrated for sanctification. On Saturday we observed the ordinance of feet- washing and the Lord's supper, in which sixteen happy saints took part, it being the first time some ever had the privilege of obeying this part of God's Word. We have just arrived here and pitched our tent. We will start meet-ing as soon as possible. Truly this place is ripe for harvest and. is a good field as they are not bothered so much by sectarian preachers. Cal Is are comer g from all sides. Brethren, pray for us. S. H. and Lillie Eddings. TUE GOSPEL TRUMPET 1 is because they have no - fixed purpose or regular habits respecting the Lord's treas-ury, and theeportion which should be sepa- Moundsville, W. Va., Aug. 27, 1903. rated to be used exclusively in the advance- A WEEKLY HOLINESS JOURNAL. Entered st the Post- office at Moundsville, W. To. as Second- elms Matter_ E. E. HYRUM Editor. A. L. BYERS Office Editor. Contributing Editors H. AL FauGLE Springs, Pa. Cass. E. ORR . . - Federalsburg, Md. .1. C. 13LtNEY Lemieux, Ont. .1. W. BYERS Lodi, Cal. GE0. L COLE . 7300 Stewart Ave., Chicago, ILL Published by GOSPEL TRUMPET CO. DEFINITE, RAnicAE, and ANTI- SECTARIAN, sentforth 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, - $ 1.00 Foreign Countries, $ i. 50 Expressed in English Currency, - 6s. 2d " German Currency, - 6 mark 18 pf gitr- AN Subscriptions must be paid in Advance. In about two weeks after your subscription is re-ceived, receipt and credit of same will be shown by the 3ddress label attached to your paper or wrapper. Business Conanstmle2Ilongt moneys. etc., must be addressed to GOSPEL TRUMPET CO., Mousinsvain. W. VA. lb Insure credit otherwise we will not be respousible. Read the notice of the Neosho Falls meet-ing on seventh page. The tract on the " Sabbath," now being published in the Trumpet, will supply a leng- felt want. This is one of the subjects on which the true doctrine is specially needed. What have you been doing? The service of the Lord is sweet to en who serve through love. Nothing but whole- hearted service is ac-ceptable with the Lord. You shall give an account of your stew-ardship on earth when you get to the judg-ment- bar of God. MI firms with good business tact keep a strict account of every transaction, and can review their accounts at pleasure. I have often thought that if every saint would keep a strict account of all his or her income, and of what was placed in the Loria'a treasury; and then would review the accounts occasionally to see how they balance, some would awaken to see how little God was receiving in proportion to what was spent on self and selfish interests. Since we are stewards for God, and God is, keeping record, I think we ought to keep a record, too. Our record can be looked over for improvement, and reviewed as of-ten as we like; while the Lord's record will not be open to our view until the judg-ment- day. It will be too late then for us to make any amendment to our methods, plans, labors or efforts. There are but few of us whose business la so extensive that it requires any- special ability or effort to keep account of one income, and the amount that finds its way into the Lord's treasury. A small memorandum, such as can be earned in the vest pocket is sufficient. Write the name of the month at top of page„ draw a line through the center from top to bottom, forming two columns; then daily, weekly, or monthly-, or as - fast as the means come in, place accurately in figures the amount received: and on the right col-umn that which you have separated for the Lord's portion. Then you can see what you are or are not doing. Try this for twelve months and observe the effect. Most of God's saints are poor in this world's goods, and for this reason ell must do something if anything of note is accom-plished. None of us are as deep in pov-erty as the widow who fed Elijah. Who among us can not east in the widow's mite? Ans. Those who own more than she did. Remember she cast in all she had, even all her living. All who have the widow's con-secration will not be wanting in good works. The reason that saints have to be stirred up frequently respecting financial matters meat` Of his wOrk, etc., G. L. C. - NEOSHO FA LLS CAMP STING. . We are informed, since printing last week's notice of Neosho Falls C. M., that reduced rates privileges cover the entire states and territories of Karma% Missouri, Oklahoma, and Indian Territory, instead of just part of this territory, as appeared in last week's notice. See seventh page. DESIRES TO ACKNOWLEDGE EVERY WRONG. To the Saints and Faithful Brethren in Christ: Greeting. Nearly two years ago, ' through lack of real Bible humility and meekness, I took a stand against the anoint-ing of handkerchiefs and a few other points, mentioning them. in two or three sermons and privately talking them to the brethren. This God has showed me was wrong._ In. place, as I thought, of keeping the unity of the faith, I was destroying it. I began to lose confidence in the breth-ren, and as I lost confidence in. the breth-ren, I began to lose confidence in this reformation and in God. A year ago at the Neosho Mille camp- meeting I so much lost confidence that I said I never wand preach another sermon, and that instant I lost all the love I had for God, his cause, and the brethren. The dear Lord alone knows what I passed through in the last year. I desire to make every wrong right, so I ask all the dear saints everywhere to forgive me wherein I may have discouraged them through lack of unity with the breth-ren, or by my life. I can truly say to- day that I love God with all my heart, and that the precious blood of Jesus cleanses me from all sin, and that I prize the unity of God's children as never before, as I know Jesus died for our oneness. John 11: 51, 52. By God's help, I ever expect to be found striving to-gether with the brithren for the faith of the gospel. Your brother in. Christ, S. G. Bryant. Neosho Fells, k. OFFICE ITEMS. We are glad to welcome back to the Office Sister Josephine McCrie, of Mandemin, Ont., who has been absent for a year. She works in the order department. This week we note the departure of Sister Lillie Smith, to her home in Wilton Junction, Iowa, and Bro. F. Krenz and wife to their home in Michigan. We are constantly receiving manuscripts of books or tracts, submitted for the read-ing of the publication committee. Some of those received are " Men- His Present and Future," by H. M. Riggle; " The Care of the Body," by R. Rothman; and " The Holy Spirit," by D. 0. Teasley. Also we have " The Sabbath," which is now go-ing through the Trumpet. A new porch on the south end of the Office building has been built to replace the old , one, which had become unsafe. A not uncommon sight, these days, is now and then a worker who is engaged in work with one hand, perhaps, while with the other engaged in eating a ripe tomato. The members of the family still continue their Sunday- afternoon work of holding meeting and Sunday- school at Tom's Run schoolhouse, and Sunday- school at Mc- Mechen, and at the County Infirmary. Pri-vate prayer- meetings are sometimes held in Moundsville an week- day evenings. estions Answered. ' Define the term " selah." 2. Is Rev. 9: 16 th be literally under-stood? 3. Does Acts 2: 20 have reference to the " dark day" of May 19, 1780? 4. Why does the Lord permit so much evil to exist? 5. Will imfants and aged people, when resurrected, appear in heaven as such? O. A. P. Ans. 1., The real meaning of the word " selah," which occurs so frequently in the Psalms, is not known. It was probably a musical term of the Hebrews, meaning a pause, used when the Psalms were musically rendered. Ans. 2. No. Such numbers have a sym-bolic meaning. Ans. 3. Possibly such natural phenomena as the dark day referred to may form the literal fulfilment of the prophecy in Acts 2: 20, since many of the prophecies have both a literal and spiritual fulfilment. The primary and most important fulfilment of this passage is, no doubt, the spiritual one, having reference to the great religious apostasy. Ans. 4. For the same reason that he per-mits any evil to exist. He is " not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance." 2 Pet. 3 : 9. Over four thousand years ago God saw thee. ' the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth," and declared that he would never again smite every living thing, as he had done by the flood. Gen. 8: 21. So he per-mits evil to exist, whether it be much or little. In these latter days of the world's existence, when it is ripe fur judgment, could not be expected to be otherwise than wicked in the extreme. Ans. 5. We have no reason to think that infants, adults, and aged people will not appear as such in heaven. Christ's body, the first- fruits of the resurrection and ou example of the incorruptible body, was the same in reference to size, features, etc., as before he was crucified. We are shown in 1 Cor. 15 that our bodies will die corrupti-ble, - but will be raised incorruptible; but nothing is said in the Scriptures about, our being entirely different creatures in our proportions. A. L. B. God- given Rules for Every- day Life 66T ET your speech be alway with grace 1-- e seasoned with salt." Col. 4: 6. " Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it." Prov. 3: 27. " Walk in wisdom toward them that are without" Col. 4: 5. " Do all things without murmurings and elisputings." Phil. 2: 14, " Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth." Prov. 27 : 2. " Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks." Prov. 27: 23. " Eat so much as is sufficient fur thee." Prov. 25 : 16. " Be not wise in your own eoneeits." Rom. 12: 16. " Abstain from all appearance of evil." 1 Thes. 5: 22. " See that none render evil for evil un-to any man." 1 Thes. 5: 15. " Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love." Rom. 12: 10. " Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good." Rom. 12: 21. " Be content with such things as ye have." Heb. 13: 5. " Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might." Bed. 9: 10. " Let all your things be done with. char-ity." 1 Cor. 16: 14. " Count it all joy when ye fall into di-vers temptations." Jas. 1: 2. " Keep thyself pure." 1 Tim. 5: 22. " In everything give thanks." 1 Thes. 5: 18. " Keep yourselves in the love of God." Jude 21. Aug. 27; 11003.: took part in the washing of the saints' feet, and the Communion Supper. When we left home, wife and I expected to attend the Claypool, Lad., camp- meeting, but eireum, stances changed our plans, and we were not able to reach - there. I will hold meet, ing in the Church of God house at Hender-son, Pa., Aug. 24 and 25, after which will go to the Payne, Ohio camp- meeting Yours in Christian love, ne ht. R, Wolff, Ala., Aug. 15. We left our home in Columbia, S. c. July 22, and stopped and held one service with the church in Greenwood, then went to Willianiston, S. C. and held _ a five- days meeting with the church at Zion, where much rubbish was cleared away and a few got an experience. A thorough meeting is needed there. We left the meeting in prog- - ess. We next came to the liartsells, Ala, camp- meeting, where a glorious feast was enjoyed. The Word uncovereel the hiding places and a general = diming began, and the work was deep and thorough. The urd prepared the hearts so the work was stitisfaetury yet very simple. Some days rite altar was tilled two or three times. fallowing ministers were present: Bros, N. E. Setser, teem; Butler, Win. Butler, Morgan, and Sister Lizzie Ilitchell. About saints took part in the ordinance var. , ice. Solis are being saved at this place. 4 c go to Somerville, Ala. next week, then hold some ineetiugs on our way back to South Carolina. tiur adcirtm is 914 Wash-ington St., Columbia, S. C. O. T. Clayton. inclutster, Idaho, Aug. 11. It has been & nue lane since we reported ', rough the tiospel trumpet the goodness THE GOSPEL TRUMPET. " Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and suppli-cation for all saints." Eph. 6: 18. " And for me." Eph. 6: 19. c. E. o. " There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the Most High." News from the Field. Cambridge, Springs, Pa., Aug. 17. We just closed a precious meeting at Stonebora, Pa., which continued over three iSnu natdteanydsa. nCcoen garte tghaitsi opnlas cwee froer t hyee alarrsg. e Ast few were added to the number of believers, among them a man and wife from the Methodist sect. There were some clear cases of healing. Eleven followed the Lord in the sacred ordinance of baptism. Thirty I am thanking God to- day for salvation from all sin, and for victory in Jesus' name over all the power of the enemy. On July the first, we left the state of Florida in company with Bro. W. 0. Williams. Our first meeting was held near Wrightsville, Ga., where the presence of God was felt, and his power manifested in saving a few souls. After stopping with the brethren there about ten days we went to the Hain-mond, La. camp- meeting, where we were greatly refreshed in spirit by meeting the brethren. The dear Lord gave us a very precious meeting, which will not soon be forgotten. Such a sweet spirit of fellow-ship and harmony prevailed that every- - thing crooked and perverse was made man by the word of truth, and God- ifest crowned the meeting with glorious vietori. THE GOSPEL TRUMPET. Aug. 27, 1903. and salvation. From this place we were expecting to go to the Kentwood meeting, but with much regret were compelled to disappoint the brethren who were expect-ing us there, in order to reach the meeting at Burkeville, Tex., as it was already ad-vertised. The meeting at Binieeville lasted twelve days, and was held under tent located in a beautiful little grove. We found much prejudice here but the same was largely removed as the meeting continued. The Lord manifested his power in healing the sick and encouraging the brethren. From there we returned with Bro. W. F. Ward. to his home, where we are taling a few days of much needed rest. From here we will go to the Sherwood, La. camp- meeting. In conclusion, I feel like earnestly soliciting the prayers of the saints in behalf of the cause in these parts and for me that I may be kept perfectly in the order of God. My permanent address is Hammond, La. Yours in Christ, Geo. Coplin. Salem, Ore. I gave my heart to God over seventeen years ago, and made a firm decision to live for heaven and serve God. I did not know anything about repentance, but as my sin.- ful life came up before me, I wept and. con-fessed and forsook the wrong and prayed until my sorrow was turned into joy; and I would not have given up my hope of heaven for ten. thousand worlds. One of the first thoughts that came to me was, What church ( as they are called) shall I join? but after praying about it, I decided not to join any until I should read the Bible all through carefully and be sure I knew which one was right: for I read that Jesus said that the way is strait and that few find it; also that many should strive to enter in, and. should not be able. And I wanted so much to not strive in vain. I attended the M. E. sect, and one evening, without praying or con-sidering the matter properly, I consented to join. But oh, what a guilty feeling took possession of me as I left that meeting. Be-fore that I had been so full of joy and hope, although my life seemed to be filled with trials and sorrow, but in. Jesus I rose _ Milton, Mo., Aug. 18. I am glad to report victory in Jesus' name over all the powers of the enemy. The Forest City, Mo. camp- meeting has come and gone, and it was a glorious meeting. God gave victory front the first to the last of the meeting. Souls were saved and sancti-fied, healed and delivered from the one-work heresy. Fourteen were baptized. E. G. Masters was there over the last Sunday, but took no part in the meeting. We treat-ed him the best we knew yet, we gave him to understand we did not hold him as a broth-er. lie said with tears in his eyes, God was with us, and that he appreeiated the love shown him and asked fur prayers in his behalf and said when he & INV he was wrong he would freely confess. Let us ad remember this dear man that God may de-liver hat All expenses were met and mean provided for the workins. Many remarked it was the best eamp- lneeting in their life. We received a subscription of :,, 201i. 00 to be paid on the indebtedness of the Gospel Trumpet Company. Let all do all they can to clear away this debt aud God will bless every soul that dues his duty on the line of giving. We were pleased to see the spir-it of liberality that was manifested at this camp- meeting. Ministers present were Gee. Vielguth, S. G. Bryant, J. G. Collins, A. A. hinzie and wife, W, lie Shoot
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