- -i

stenciled by Ralph Harter

112A'^2,. Sv;arupnagar, Kanpui*

U.P., India, on

26, l9&^ and Flown to Clinton,

Ohio, where i^~l7asr--mimeogiriphod and mailed.

BUSY

Ga^nis
the

Timothy

Indian

BUSY

(who

editor

is

of the

Hindi magazine Jeowan-Doep)

and

have-

editing

finished

the Hindi transla

tion of C*j. Sharp's, "Why

Wo Believe." This required
one
and

trip by him to Kanpur

three trips by im to

Allahabad,

T.G-, Rash

giveii

$300

aome

for

has
this

project, so we hope i t vdll

soon be

i n the hands

of the

printer,

A n
elderly man nanied
Solomon- Jacob "v/as baptised

here on Jsntiary 8th. Wo are

happy for this auspicious
beginning to the now year.
I will bo preaching four
sermons

at tlie

annual Kul-

paliar^ Convention from 23rd

to

26th

of February, I am

also slated to
speak at
Banda and Bhopal conven
tions.

BUSY

Prank Rempel

fly to Canada

is

due to

on ilarch 1st h

for furlough while the fam-^

ily will remain in India in
the h i l l s ,
The annual

election

officers

came

peaceable

in

off
the

of

very

Swarup-

nagar congregation,
I was
elected co-pastor to serve
with Victor Das,
treasurer.

During

am

also

November and Do-

comber the Bible Book Store

did

$279*714- worth of busi

ness

which

is more

than a

third of the yeai^'s total

business. Sales included 37

Bibles,

2ij4

2l^ Hew Testaments,

Po rtions,

Felton

book,

202

of

and

greeting cards,

the

[Link]
Rem-

pel was of inestimable help

in renovating old greeting
cards,

her way

and

in

she is well on

preparing

our

stock for next Cnristmas.

Just for the record we must present our annual statistics although they may not parti cularr-y recormiond us.

Sales
Spent " "
Subsidy

1956

1957

1958

|80ij.
|95h

890

838

1208

1611

are incom

125

173
59

plete because

113

|l52

Bibles Sold .

318

I38

1959

i960

The s t a t i s

tics for 1959

7,9
<=4

Testaments

122

132

Portions

31?

122

95

1315

813

589

754

260

Life of Christ

Visualised
Bible for
Youth

83

171

Suniye

Vie

202

opened

our

lendir^_ library

free

In August

and so hur place is kept

very busy with boys and
girls taking out books.
the moirient of writing there

are

56

members

who

have

booliB chucked out. The boys

v/ho clerk

in the bookstore

are kept ojiite busy with

this
since many of the
children

read

one

book a

day. There arc sonje adults

among the members but they
are far outnunibered by the
small fry.
. The
statistics
for our
mission work as a whole are
as. follows;
A
total
of

; $Iiil.3i}-*31 . v/as

and

I was i n USA.
Stocks were
sold but not
much new
stock was ordered.

4261.35

contributed

was expended

during the year.

During 1960,
expended

as

funds v;oro

follows; (The

second . figure

the

represents

per cent age

of

the

missionary dollar.)
Salary
Bookstore

Housing
Furlough
E quipraent
Boys & Girls
H.T.

47a.'34

34!^
11?^

332.03

8^

$3450.00

4.39.2b
371.45

lOe^

290.18

Publi

. cations
Church
Christasian

Publicity
Medical

Library

287.39

23b.14

bd

182.03
171.13

19.84
9.51

Sv

If you are v/orried about

the other
you can figure
It up for yourself.

H2C*D IK KOV. & nC,, 1960

Illinois:

'Avs* Harold Bock

$2,00

^axton \Yomen

20..00

rndiana:

?rank Reas

20.00

?lje .Henrj Schramnis

50.00

Ihe Glenn Morricals

^owa;
Loretta Huntington

fansas;

EXPENDITURES PROM NOV.> 12th

TO DEC. 31 1960
Salary

^250.00

Church
N.T. publications

Boys & Girls

12.63

Publicity

8.I0

10.00

Medical Help

?'il

10.00

Total Expended

Housing
^393--^^P

he Rollin Dunahughs 25.00

Hope Christian Church 8.02
perby Youth
5-00
Kiverlawn, Viichlta
25.00

EXPENDED JAN. 1 to 23, I961

Kentucky:

Christasian

kt. Carmel (Fleming) 33.00

Kollie Story
25.00
Missouri;

Keeper Church

20.00

125.

N.T Publications
Boys & Girls

ll8.i{.9
105.25
55*09

Church

20.11

Library
10,7i}-'
Expended in January vi-l-37h8
Plus Exoendec!^ in

Ohio:

Clxnton Church

[Link]

Bladensburg L.D.s

20.00

Portsmouth Central

20.00

Receipt No. IblpO

lip. 00

Sabina Jrs. VI
Old Stone * .

26.00
20.00

Mrs. Flint

10.00

Brinlmavon Church

26.88

Total Contributed

ii29.90

Vi'e had

Salary

four baptisms in

Kanpur during I960, v/hile

Mr.
Rempel
baptised one

Nov.

Dec. <60

Total Expenditures

393-35
^ii331.53

SUMMARY

Balance, Nov. 10

Contributions

Total Receipts

Less Spent

q.;2736.k6

'1.29.99

3216.30

83I.53

Balance, Jan. Blj.

congregation has
opened the issue.

^23S1j.-83
just re

Please send a l l contri

other i n Delhi.

butions

The idea to buy a church

lot in Kanpur was almost

to our forwarding ag^nt,.

Miss
Florence
Douglas,
Flora, Illinois.

discarded,

but

the

local

and subscriptions

L)

UXOhi

is to compare the

-i-

v;e

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missionary

vdth

1958
38/

1959

bd

bd

1957
Ralph's Salary
Boys & Girls

35^

19^

Christasian
Book Store

11^

Housing

are going

dollar

IV
11^
6/

H.T. Publications
Church

Furlough

lo coro you

other years;

i960

3W
llj/
10^

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dodical

Equipment

Publicity
Library

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Clinton, Ohio

U.S.

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Permit #7
Please

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and Piyg
'IE made

BEFORE THE FACE OF GOD ! "

Moses and Aaron, two brothers,

were both chosen by God for Divine
service, a fact which is well worthy

dwelling of God on behalf of the

of our attention. It is to Moses that

we most often attribute Divine autho

people. Through him the people

confessed their sins. Through Aaron

rity, he being by far the better known

they offered sacrifices for the atone

ment of sin. Aaron, when he spoke,
expressed the desire of the people for
God. He spoke, not for, but to God,
using for this purpose many Divinely
provided media.

of the two.

We must not, however, suppose

that Moses, because he performed
his function in the public eye, had
the more important [Link] of the two.
The service of each, being comple
mentary to the other, was of equal
importance.
Moses was the leader through
whom God spoke to the people of
Israel. Through him God revealed His
judgments and His laws. Through
Moses God built the tabernacle. His

own dwelling place among men.

When Moses spoke to the people, it
was as though God Himself spoke.

Vol. VI No. 2

March

Aaron was appointed the High

Priest.

As such he came into the

Unlike

Moses, who

was

God's

representative and appeared for God

before the people, Aaron was the
representative of man and appeared
on man's behalf before God.

Any student of the fascinating

study of typology " will of course
readily see how these two functions
were combined in Jesus Christ. He
was

Man.

19b*0
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both

Son of

God

and Son

of

Jesus came to us from God,

April

Kanpur, India

2 7 1960

first of all, that supplications, prayers,

[Continued fromfront page)
and went away from us to God. " God intercessions, thanks givings, be made for
" (1 Tim 2:1).
hath
spoken to us in His all men
Son

but the Son, having

given us the Divine revelation, " enter

ed

into heaven itself, now to

appear before the face of God for

We cannot stress too strongly that
there is another means by which this Old
Testament typological picture is completed.
Very vitally associated both with Christ's
proclamatory and His intercessory func
tions are similar ones which are made the

holy duty of the Christian.

Before God, on Man's Behalf

Like the Levitical priesthood; the

"Royal Priesthood" has the function of
appearing before God on behalf of man.
The effectiveness with which a Godly

person can intercede for his own kind

was demonstrated by Abraham. That
courageous and compassionate soul, stand
ing before Jehovah and looking out over
the doomed cities of Sodom and Gomor

rah, identified himself, not with the Judge,

but with the condemned ones, and made

himself their

pleaderwith

dramatic

results.

More Diffitult to Pray Than to Preach

This function is the more difficult of

the two. Preparation for it is more

exacting and intricate, The priest must
meet stringent qualifications,amongwhich
were the washings to which he had to
submit and which made him ceremonially

pure. Only after he had cleansed hands

and heart could he appear in the presence
of the Almighty. Ceremonial purity is
translated for us to mean righteousness
and moral purity, " a washing of regenera
tion and renewing of the Holy Spirit"
(Tit. 3:5).
The priest, himself human, must exer
cise complete understanding of human
weakness.

Even Christ, in order to fulfil

His priestly ministry, found it necessary

in all things to be made like unto His
brethren, that He might become a faith
ful and merciful High Priest in things
pertaining to God, to make propitiation
for the sins of the people. For in that He
himself hath suffered, being tempted. He is
able to succour them that are tempted."
(Heb. 2:17-18).

Many of us would prefer to stand with

The Christian intercessor must not
the righteous, not as priests, but as princes.
Aware though we are of the imminence of look critically at his fellow-manno one
that catastrophe which is about to fall
upon the erring children of men, we rush
far more readily to the pulpit than to the
prayer room. We prefer, it seems, to
represent God and speak to men (often

merely to heap further condemnation on

heads already bowed under a weight of
it), rather than to identify ourselves with
our unfortunate fellows and so to speak to
God on their behalf.

Yet, is the terror of judgment not first

of all to be stemmed by intercession? So
Paul, it seems, thinks: " I desire therefore,

can effectively pray for another while he

harbours a spirit of fault-finding. " Lest
thou also be tempted," should be conti
nually in his thoughts. Carefully guard

ing himself from transgression, he should

with the deepest of compassion intercede
for the souls of those who are under
Satanic bonds.

Friend, there may be those whose

doom you alone can avert. Don then,
your priestly vestments, and offering the

" sacrifice of praise, that is the fruit of lips

[Continued on page 11)

^VV\/V*\A/A/VAAA/VWV/X/\A/W\A/Vl/WxAVl/'V\/\A'\A/\A/^'\/WX,'\A/'vn,'X/VWVUV\'W'W*

THE BIBLE: A MEDOTATIOINI

( SELECTED )
Born in the East, and clothed in Oriental form and imagery,
the Bible walks the ways of the world with familiar feet, and enters
land after land to find its own everywhere. It has learned to
speak in hundreds of languages to the heart of man. It comes into
the palace to tell the Monarch that He is the servant of the Most

? High, and into the cottage to assure the peasant that he is the son
of God. Children listen to its stories with wonder and delight
and wise men ponder them as parables of life. It has a word of
peace for the time of peril, a word of comfort for the day of calamity,
a word of light for the hour of darkness. Its oracles are repeated

I in the assemblies ofthe people, and its counsels whispered in the ear
S of the lonely. The wise and the proud tremble at its warnings,

i but to the wounded and the penitent it has a mother's voice. The

I wilderness and the solitary place have been made glad by it and

i the fire on the hearth has lighted the readings of its well-worn
i pages.

It has woven itselfinto our deepest affections and coloured

i our dearest dreams; so that love and friendship, sympathy and

I devotion, memory and hope, put on the beautiful garments ofits

J treasured speech, breathing of frankincense and myrrh. Above

i the cradle and beside the grave its great words come to us uncalled.
5 They fill our prayers with power larger than we know and the

i beauty of them fill our ears long after the sermons have been

i forgotten. They return to us swiftly and quietly like birds flying

i from far away. They surprise us with new meanings, like springs |

i ofwater breaking forth from the mountain beside a long forgotten |

I path. They grow richer, as pearls do when they are worn near S

f the heart. No man is poor or desolate who has this treasure for |

i his own. When the landscape darkens, and the trembling pilgrim $
I comes to the Valley named of the Shadow, he is not afraid to enter: |

i he takes the rod and staff of scripture in his hands; he says to i

5 friend and comrade: " Goodbye, we shall meet again." Comforted |

i by that support he goes toward the lonely pass as one walks through J

s the darkness into light.

IPOTOiiM filNiNT
A Pnblsshiiig Lapse

The Bible is not Sufficient?

Unexpected and added duties, here

No more prolific source of divisions
in Kanpur, have been responsible for a in the Body of Christ can be found than
serious lapse on the part of the " Christ- in the writing of distinctive and
asian ** staffno January-February issue separatist " creeds '* and " articles of
was published. We apologize.
faith". Even though the " articles " may
be mere re-statements of what the scrip
An Experience in Faith
tures have already said, they are divisive.
When the proposition of printing a
Re-statements of Bible teachings, as
large number of tracts for distribution at articles of faith, are an absurdity. If
the Kumbh Mela, Allahabad, was put to we are merely saying in different words
us, the project seemed impossible. what has already been given to us in
No funds were on hand for it.
How
the Bible, then why do we not content
ever, it seemed so worthwhile and so

necessary that, in fellowship with Bro.

J. Zamen who had written the tract, we
were induced to launch out in faith.

An. appeal to friends of the cause of

New

Testament

Christianity

immediate results.
We were
ashamed of our initial hesitation.

brought
made
More

over, God seems to have known that we

had underestimated the cost of produc

tion so He provided us with the additional
funds needed.

Thus does God honour

our faith, and thus does He use His own

people for the fulfilment of His purposes.

To the friends who contributed so

wonderfully liberally, we say a very

heart-felt thank you ! "
This comment tells by no means the
full story. The remainder must be sup-'
plied by those who ventured out, again

in faith believing, to put the Word of

God into the hands of the pilgrims at
the mela. Brethren from different places
in northern India co-operated in this work.
None worked for personal gain^and some
no doubt at personal sacrifice. Our report
is that it was a wonderful experience for
all of them. ' Perhaps we can obtain a
fuller accoimt of their labours for a later
issue.

ourselves with the Bible itself?

Thus

we shall be giving others, who might be

induced to join us, no cause for suspicion
that we are perhaps putting our own
interpretation upon Biblical statements,
and making 6ur own beliefs a qualifica
tion of acceptance.
Does the N.T. not speak for itself?
Is the Holy Spirit, its Inspirer, incapable
of putting the essentials of Christian faith
sufficiently clearly so that we are forced
to lend Him a hand?

Whom, if this is

the case, has Go^ ordained and separated

for this task of re-writing His revelation?
We reject, out of hand, " creeds"
which supplement the scriptures with
additional items for belief. They are
nothing but Satanic devices for rending
the Body of Christ.
We maintain that ** Articles of Faith "

which merely re-Word what the Spirit has

already [Link], are totally unnecessary.
We believe, further, that they always
raise additional barriers to true Christian

unity.
Let the New Testament alone suffice
us:

(Continued onpage 12)

By Ralph R. Harter

My visit to Japan could hardly have India is ahead in the spiritual realm.
been at a more auspicious time. During Xhe_churches in -India are far more
my visit the cherry trees bloomed, the -numerous" and are stronger than the
churches had a convention, and the Crown Japanese churches. The missionaries and
the Japanese leaders are however leading
Prince was wed.
Japan has made great strides since very dedicated lives and progress is bein^.
the war and there are very few evidences made.
of the conflict left. Except for some
The People
ruins which have befen deliberately pre
served at Hiroshima, I cannot remember
During my three weeks in Japan I
seeing any battle scars; but large groups had a very pleasant association with the
of widows working along the roads bear Japanese people preachers, church mem
mute witness to sorrow that remains.
bers, students, train passengers, and ship
personnel.
They are intelligent, alert,
In many ways the war was a blessing
in disguise so far as Japan was concerned. and efficient; and I hope to visit them,
Japan could hardly have built such agsiin sometime.
Efficiency is^an obsession with themodern cities if the old cities hadn't first
been destroyed. Then, the gracious help Japanese. For hundrecTs oF^ars they haveAmerica has given its defeated enemies been noted for using every inch of space.
The road shoulders are only inches wide
has taken away some of the sting.
and then the rice fields begin. Some of
The trguj^fiedce in Japan is pheno
the roads are pretty good, but the traveller
menal. The trains are fast, frequent, 1 frequently sees automobiles and busescomfortable, clean, cheap, punctual, and which have overturned in the fields.
serve all areas.

Whenever a train is more

than an hour late all passengers get their

money back. You can be sure that this
-docs not happen very often.
The American tourist however, will

find travelling in India much easier than

travelling in Japan. Compared to India,
very little English is spoken in Japan,
and English language newspapers are
difficult to get. One also eats better in
India whether he eats English or Indian
food.
The Church

Th^rhnrrh nf ^Qhrist ip Japan docs

not seem to have kept pace with Japan's

-technological^ progress. Japan may be

ahead of India in material things, but

Most of the Japanese still live in

"paper" hniisps.

Most of the paper

however is on the inside. The fragile

type ofJapanese housing makes it impera
tive that shoes not be worn in the house.

The houses are also drafty, as a result of

which I caught a bad cold.
For several days I attended the mis
sionary convention in a Japanese inn;
and I

don't know which was the more

interestingthe convention or the inn.

The fellowship with the missionaries was
very enjoyable, and so was bathing in
hot ofuro. The only thing I didn't
enjoy was the shark fin soup.
But despite all my enjoyment of
Japan, I must say that India is better
still.

woiSHOP m iriHiE ciHiyicm f tihh LiP

By Dr. G. H. Phillus

{Continuedfrom last issue)

The demand for and the possibility
of such worship are intensified by a
recognition of the very nature of the people
of Christ.

In

their

relation

to

to the "means" as to fail to worship

should these aids be unavailable.

God

" they are not in the flesh, but in the

Spirit", because of the residence of the
Holy Spirit within them. They have

being "in Christ". (Rom. 8) Their

inward or hidden lives, inclinations,
aspirations and longings all result from
the "aid of the Spirit" (Rom. 8: 26).
How, then, shall they be "in the

Spirit" and how shall they .worship "in

Spirit" unless their spirits be free from
the entanglements of the flesh? It is
in this sense that Paul speaks of orthodoxy
in relation to Christ.

never let themselves become so enslaved

It is not to be

estimated by externals, except as these

give indisputable overt evidence of an
inward condition. (Rom. 2:29, 6:17). Such
persons can never be limited in their

spiritual activity to the yoke of legalistic

forms (Rom. 7:6; 2 Cor. 3:6) but are
freed by their submission to " the law
of the Spirit of life, the law of liberty,
written on the heart". (Rom. 8:2, Jas.
1:25; Heb. 10:16). It is with these things
in view that Paul distinguishes the people
of Christ (Phil. 3:3) and writes to the
disciples in Galatia (Gal. 5:25).
We conclude, then, that worship,

Worship in the Assemblies

With these conclusions admitted, the
matter of worship in the assemblies of
Christ is cleair. While ample means of
expression are provided for the individual
member, very few forms or aids for the
group are stipulated in the apostolic
writings. Prominence is given to the
necessity for personal worship rather than

to the social or collective forms of expres

sion.

That an outline of the conduct of

the Jerusalem church is given in Acts

2:42 is certain. But that its meaning is
to be confined to the activities of the dis

ciples in their congregational or collective

capacity is to affiinm the presence of that
very legalism that later disturbed the chur
ches. PERSONAL as well as CONGRE

GATIONAL observance of the prin

ciples of life

are summarized in the

statement by Luke. To suggest that a

distinct formal gathering, conducted
according to a stipulated schedule, is
essential to the fulfilment of that statement

is to substitute, for the elasticity of the

precedent, the tension of the law.

It

to be acceptable to God must include the

is to compel the spirit to conform to the

abstract qualities suggested by the terms

used; that its overt expression must be
motivated by a spirit that is subject to
the Holy Spirit. It must therefore be

That social intercourse is necessary

to the perfection of Luke's principles

subject to the TRUTH as it is revealed

in Christ. Such worshippers will avail

themselves of every aid to physical expres
sion as provided by God, but they will

operations of the flesh.

of worship, as given in Acts 2:42, is admis

sible. That bodily nearness is essential
to the spirit ofthe observance is contradict

ed by the scriptures and by experience.

Insistence upon and provision for the

proxirmty of disciples with each other

has widened the distance between God

and His people, and them from each

other, and has replaced the spirit of true

worship with the
orthodoxy.

nor as being essentialto either the SPiRll'

of worship or its truth in the " inward
man " of the individual believer.

activities of overt
In Summary

The foregoing can be demonstrated

To sum up, we are driven to this

to be true. A careful reading of the conviction: worship did not originate

apostolic history of the assembly of the in order to the existence of the church;
the church exists for the perfection of
worship in the experience of the individual.
gether to " worship " as worship is now The disciples did not assemble solely for
understood. It is revealed that they worship nor confine its expression to
assembled for the purpose of " breaking such gatherings. They did not distinguish
bread" or "to eat the Lord's Supper" between a " worship service" and any
(Acts 20:7; 1 Cor. 11:20-23). The other gatherings of the children of God.
church also came together for the purpose They did not prescribe, nor proscribe,
of exercising the various "gifts" given paraphernalia and programmes for " wor
for the benefit of the church as a ^vhole. ship " exclusively, nor engage in the per
Lord reveals that neither the brethren
as such or as assemblies ever came to

(1 Cor. 14:23, 26; 1 Pet. 4:10; Eph.

formance of " service " to be considered

4:7-16).

other than as acts of worship.

The brethren were exhorted to

All that

come together for the express purpose of they did was to be done " in the name
"exhorting one another" to faithful of Christ "expressions of reverence
ness. (Heb. 10:25, 3:13). On one occa and homage toward God in Him

sion the whole church in Jerusalem came

" worship ".

together (and the adjective "whole"

isquite suggestive in this place asimplying

Thus, they worshipped God in spirit
that such was not ALWAYS the practice) and in truth. Because they did so as
for the purpose of considering word from individuals, they availed themselves of
another

local congregation,

that

at

the apostolic aids to proper homage.

Antioch. (Acts 15:4, 12, 22) NO- Therefore, to worship God in spirit and in
WHERE is it discoverable that they came truth is to have the whole man, psychical

together " to worship" as a distinct and physical, receive and conform to

operation or as an expression of their all that God has revealed as being accept
relationship to God or to one another.
able to Him. But the conformity must

begin and come from the heart before

gatherings ^1 provided AIDS to the

it can be properly expressed in the

" forms of worship ", even though they be

demonstration of their reverence for and

" scriptural

The purposes enumerated for their

homage toward God in Christ, but cannot

be conceived as the WHOLE of worship,

nor yet as indispensable to individual

God judges the inward attitude as

being inalienable from true worship.

worship. Further, the practices at these Formal expression often provides no

gatherings

undoubtedly provided for

proper "religious observance" and "di

vine service ", but cannot be considered

as the heart of the worship they depict.

more than a means of fallacious human

judgment; and is often a positive

hindrance to the worship God requires
" in Christ".

Setmm Out&nei for Barefoot Breaefer^.

THE NEW BIRTH "

Introductiont: Read John 3:3-7

There is no event so personal, so
identified with the finest and deepest
emotions of the human heart as a birth.

The seed must be placed in ground

that is conducive to germination and
growth. Only when the soil is right and
the seed is the Word of God can one

The fact that the process of birth is a enter into the process of the new birth.
fixed one in no way alters the deep personal
emotions attached

to

all

its phases II. EVIDENCES OF BEING BEGOTTEN.

Proper evidences inevitably follow
when conception has taken place:

each time another individual is bom.

Nicodemus understood well the fixed

process of birth. Hence when Jesus told

him, " Except a man be born again he
cannot see the Kingdom of God",

A. FAITH" Whosoever

believeth.

Nicodemus immediately countered, " how

that Jesus is Christ is begotten of God ""

(1 John 5:1).

can a man be born when he is old ? Can

he enter a second time his mother's womb

B. LOVE" Beloved, let us love oneanother: for love is of God; and every

and be born?" (John 3:3, 4). A fixed

course of procedure is a process. It may
cover a long or a short period of time,
but it always involves the same process.

one that loveth is begotten of God and

knoweth God ". (1 John 4:7)

The " New Birth " also involves a fixed

seed abideth in him, and he cannot sin

process.

because he is of God".

I.

CONCEPTION IS A
THE PROCESS.

PART OF

In the new birth the Holy Spirit is

the active agent of the God-head, and
the Word of God is the seed. James

(1:18) tells us that " of His own ^1 he

C.

REPENTANCE"Whosoever is

begotten of God doeth no sin, because His

(1 John 3:9)

III. THE BIRTH ITSELF IS A FIXED

PROCESS.

Birth is defined as a " coming forth,

from ", an entering into a new life. The
time and the acts involved in the process

begat us with the word of truth, that we prior to the birth are not the birth itself.
should be a kind of first-fruits of His It is possible to pinpoint the exact time
.creatures".

Peter agrees that we were

" born again, not of corruptible seed but

of incorruptible, by the word of God which
liveth and abideth for ever ". (1 Pet. 1:23)

when one was born, when the entire

process culminated in a single event.

In the act of being immersed intoChrist one indeed comes forth from the

watery grave and enters into a new life.

fashion when he writes that the Gospel Neither sprinkling nor pouring fulfil
necessary symbolism attached to the.
is the power of God unto salvation. He the
new birth.
Paul expresses the thought in different

also affirms that God ordained that by the

foolishness of preaching men are to be

" Or are you ignorant that all we

who were baptized into Christ Jesus

from conception. This begetting depends were baptized into His death? We were
upon the word of God and its reception buried therefore through baptism intodeath, that like as Christ was raised from
into the heart of the individual.
saved. There can be no new birth apart

the dead through the glory of the Father,

so we also might walk in newness of life

eminently fair in that it is a matter of

(Rom. 6:3, 4)

We may choose as to whether we shall

be born again, but we may NOT decide
Conclusion

In physical birth we were not consulted

and had no choice.

The new birth is

choice, and also within the reach of all.

the process for ourselves. " Except a

man be born of water and of the Spirit,
he cannot enter into the Kingdom of
God". (John 3:5)

SOME OyTSTAIMPDN@ WOMEN OF TIHIE

ililLE N. 6
" TAMAR "
By Miss H. Kaveri Bai

The Bible has the story of two Tamars,

::and both of them make tragic reading.
In this article we will discuss

"Tamar.

the first

(Gen. chapter 38)

father lived at Timnath, from where

Samson long after took a Philistine wife
(Judges 14:1) very likely Tamar also
was a Philistine girl. The only thing
that the Bible tells us about Er

'Tamar and Er, First son of Judah

Judah, Jacob's son, had married

-Shuah, a Canaanite woman. Even as
early as Abraham's day the people of

is that

" Er, Judah's first-bom, was wicked in

the sight of the Lord, and the Lord slew

him".

(Gen. 38:7)

In that brief statement lies a world

Canaan were so wicked that God had to

of meaning.

destroy two of their cities, Sodom and

Gomorrah, by fire. We have a faint
picture of Canaanite immorality and

very popular figure in the eyes of men,

Er may well have been a

with plenty of boon companions and

flatterers

around

him.

But

man's

abominations in Leviticus, chapter 18.

"Though Judah well knew what had hap
pened to those two cities and what had

popularity in a Godless world is never

accepted by the Most High as a compensa

happened to his kinsman Lot, and knew

of the conduct of Lot's daughters who had
been reared in Sodom, he yet married

is all the more serious when those sins

a Canaanite woman.

There is no mention that Judah ever

attempted to correct his erring children.
When parents thus neglect their duty,
young people reap the fearful consequences
of their own folly and rebellion against
God.

Judah took a bride, Tamar, for Er,

his first born son.

We arc not'told of

what race Tamar was, but since her

tion for sins and trespasses.

are not recognized as such,
repented of, and are never
That was why " God slew him
man has to reckon ultimately
for his misdoings.
Tamar and

Onan,

This fact
are never
given up.
". Every
with God

second son of

Jud^
Nor did Onan, Judah's second son,
take a lesson from the calamity that
befell his brother to seek after righteous
ness.

10

It seems to have been the practice

in those days, to be codified four and

less widow, she must have been anxiouslylooking forward to her marriage with

a half centuries later in the law of Moses,

that when a man died his brother should

are not told how she was treated at her

Shela.

But that time never came.

We

marry his widow, and raise up seed to father's housepossibly she faced insultsthe deceased. Judah required that his and persecutions there. Her mothersecond son should do this duty by his in-law Shuah was now dead. When life
brother. Outwardly Onan obeyed his had perhaps become intolerable, one day
father, so that in man's sight he was quite she heard that Judah would be coming toblameless. Secretly he did such an Timnath with his sheep-shearers and his.
abominable thing in the sight of Gk)d friend Hirah.
that the thing " displeased the Lord;
Then this desperate young woman
wherefore He slew Him also". (Gen. conceived of a terrible plan to teach
38:9, 10)
Judah a lesson for breaking his promise.
Where God requires strict obedience Tamar had Philistine blood in her veins;
to His holy laws, the world may wink and she showed it now.
at men's misdoings. They may call sin
Veiling her face she disguised herself
by some less odious name and even
as
a public prostitute, stole out of the
declare that the sinner was not responsible
for what he did because he had a natural house, and sat by the roadside waiting
weakness for it. But the terrible nature for Judah to pass by. The widower,
of sin is that a man has ultimately to spying her, took her for a common harlot
face God's judgment, perhaps in this life; and Tamar's shocking scheme worked out.
but most certainly after he has lived his perfectly. Judah had bargained her

short span of years on earth. "It is favour for a kid to be sent from his flocks,,
appointed unto men once to die, but after but Tamar took as a pledge that the kid
this the judgment".

(Heb. 9:27)

Judah seems to have thought well

of his second son who obeyed him impli
citly to all appearances. Just like many
a father, Judah would not believe that
hi? sons paid the penalty for their own
wickedness.

The daughter-in-law was made the

scapegoat. Perhaps superstitious Shuah

held Tamar responsible for the death of
her sons. So, though they [Link] a
third son living, Tamar was not given
to him, but was packed off to her father's
house till " Shela my son be grown".
That was the way Judah put it. In
reality, he was afraid that Shela would
" die also, as his brethren did", if he

would be sent, his signet, bracelets and

staff. Tamar had actually no use for the
kid, which could not furnish the identifica

tion she wanted of the man who was her

partner in sin. Therefore, once she was.

in possession of these incriminating tokens,,
she vanished. Judah's pledges must not
have meant much to him for he soon for

got all about the incident.

Man forgets, but God does not. He

has declared, " Be sure your sins will
find you out". (Num 32:23) Though
Moses would record this only centurieslater, the truth has been in operation
ever since the time that Adam tried to

hide himself from God's sight. Man

himself can take and record and photo

married the twice widowed woman.

graph his words and actions: how much

The Daughter-in-law
Poor Tamar waited, and waited in
vain, at Timnath. As a young and child

man's every word and thought and deed?

On the judgment d^y He is going to pro
duce these infallible proofs of our guilt,.

more efficient will be God's record of

and what a day it will be for those who

do not get right with Him while there
is time and an opportunity!
In

the

matter

of fornication

and

adultery, the man may manage to escape

the consequences of his sinin this life.
It is the woman who carries the proof
of her guilt on her person. So it was with
Tamar. Soon all were talking about it.
The matter was reported to Judah:
"Tamar, thy daughter-in-law, hath
played the harlot; and also, behold, she
is with child by whoredom".
Judah's blood boiled within him.
What a disgrace she had brought on the
family! In those days, when the people
of God were too few to have judges or
kings, or a national government to rule
over them, the head of the family was
the "patriarch", holding the powers of
life and death over the members.

Now

Judah passed the sentence, imposing the

supreme penalty on the guilty member:
"Bring her forth and let her be burnt".
The judgment
But the judgment proved a boomerang
to himself. Tamar produced the pledges
and calmly announced: "By the man
whose

these

are am

Those who had seized

her at her

father's house and brought her there

to be burnt, and all who had gathered
hear

the

sentence

glass houses should not throw stones ".

Judah is to be admired for one thing.

Not only did he confess his sin, saying
that " she hath been more righteous than
I

but also " he knew her no more ".

The story tells us that Tamar gave

birth to twin boys. One of the most
glorious aspects of our Lord's condescen
sion in leaving heaven and His throne in
glory, was not alone his being born in
a poor family, and living so all His
life. More than this, He humbled Him
self to the extent that He took His descent

from women like Rahab the harlot, Ruth

the Moabitess, and Tamar the incestuous
woman. It was in the line of Pharez,

one of Tamar's twins by Judah, that King

David was born.

It was in David's line

that the Son of God was born.

Those who despise the poor, despise

our Lord's earthly relatives. Those who
despise the fallen woman, instead of

making every effort to restore her, despise

our Lord's human ancestry.

with child....

discern, I pray thee, whose they are: the

signet and bracelets and the staff".

to

(Mat. 7:1) for unless the person who

judges is himself free from guilt, his own
evil will be summarily exposed. Our
secular proverb says the same things in
different words: " People who live in

and

witness

the

burning, could readily recognize whose

the articles were. They must have
stared at his worship, the learned judge.

Judah could only hang his head and own up.

Later on, when the law of Moses was

given, it was required that both of the

guilty parties should be stoned to death.
If this law were in operation today, can

{Continuedfrom page 2)
that make confession to His name," appear
before the face of God in holy and com
passionate supplication for such fellow
creatures.

We do not say,

" Be an Aaron and

not a Moses"! We do say, "Be an

Aaron as well as a Moses ".

In a subse

quent article it is our hope to be able to

show that we are, as Christians, the
representatives of God, ordained to stand
before men on His behalf.

But let us

first put an appeal before God on behalf

we count the number of those who would

of our sinner friends, that will gain for us

the time in which to proclaim the saving

perish all over the world? Jesus said,

"Judge not that ye be not judged".

in which to repent.

message of Christ, and for them the time

12

{Conlinued from page 4)

Cause for our reference to this matter

is a newly circulated doctrinal statement

of the *' Fundamental Bible Society of

India". Purportedly organized for the

purpose of translating and circulating the
Bible, this new society nevertheless does
not wish to content itself with letting the
Word speak for itself.
We cannot help but wonder if these
articles of faith will be included as a part
of the text of the Bibles which are produced

mentalists '' unless they conform to the

creed of the society? How will they
know what the creed is unless it is circula

ted along with the Bible?

Search the New Testament as you will,

you will find not a single hint of the

existence of separate " creeds " for differ
ent churches during the apostolic period
of church historynot even an " Apostles
CreedThe christians in Jerusalem
found

sufficient

instructions

in

the

"apostles' teaching", in which, we are

by the new Society. We presume they will told, they " continued steadfastly " (Acts
not find a place there, but why not? 2:42). That same teaching, under the
That would at least indicate consistency Spirit's direction, was finally collated into
for if acceptance of these statements is a our present New Testament. This doc
necessity for membership in the society trine, and this ONLY, have we any right
then surely they are no less essential for to impose upon others as a condition for
the ordinary seeker after truth. How will acceptance in Christ's Church and its
converts find acceptance with these "funda assemblies.

STATEMENT ABOUT OWNERSHIP AND OTHER PARTICULARS ABOUT

THE MAGAZINE, CHRISTASIAN " TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE FIRST

ISSUE EVERY YEAR AFTER THE LAST DAY OF FEBRUARY.
FORM IV

( See Rule 8 )
1. Place of Publication:

Bible Book Store, 112/352 Swaroopnagar, Kanpur, U.P.

4. Editor's name, nationality:

Frank Rempel, Canadian,
7/131 Swaroopnagar, Kanpur.
5. Name and Address of individuals who

2. Periodicity of its publication:

Bi

monthly

3. Printer's name, nationality, address:

Shri S. K. Dutt, Indian,

Job Press Private Ltd.,

Mahatma Gandhi Road, Kanpur.

own the magazine.

Shri R. R. Harter,

112/352 Swaroopnagar, Kanpur.

I, Frank Rempel, hereby declare that
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KEEPING

.COOL

IN'

The daily [Link]

Kanpur is now about .110;

your missionary is under
going any great" difficulty,The temperature inside the

Bible Book Store is kept

.comfortable with the new

Asha and'Pushpa Dass are

was a member of our congre
gation before .she died of

tuberculosis two years - ago. .

They were baptized by

-Samuel Yusuf, one of the

older members of the church

[Link];, and the new re

frigerator is providing its

Well-known services. Except
when necessary, I donit go

visiting or shopping imtil

late in the afternoon.
The weather will become
more unbearable as the hu

in Kanpur.
Mdriyas has passed the
sixth grade at the Kulpahar
Kid's Home; and,, if all
goes Well, he V7ill remain

there untill he passes the

eighth grade. According to
my records, Andriyas should

The.

humidity will also stop the

efficacy of .the air cooler.
So, the [Link]. willing,, I .
will', be spending most of
the month of June .in the

H-EAT

two sisters whose mother

but that does not mean that

midity rises in June.

THE"

hills -aloi^ with the other..

missionaries.' "

We are', happy to report,

two baptisms that "- took

place on Lord's Day, May. 1.

have been in the Fifth in

stead of the Sixth Grade;'

but We have sirjce learned '
that;'he skipped the Fifth
Grade altogether. We are
paying $15 a month for^ hiscare at Kulpahar.
Some of you will remem
ber Samuel Rahim whose edu
cation we interrupted two

years ago.

He had been

[Link] [Link] tiiae and money though I were going to tell

at tlie movies instead of at them about my visit to Mos
school.

He has since repen

ted and has continued

faithful; and he also has a

Jot) with the Electricity

Supply.

cow. Then, by pre-arrange-

ment, I bad my sermon in

terrupted by the arrival of

a special delivery letter.

We are now going to It happened to be a letter

help him further his educa

from the Apostle John tell

tion at night school From

ing of the last week of our

it still took me about

three weeks to get settled

be baptized on "Easter." It

Lord's ministry. After the

July he will be living at
our house again. Samuel has benediction, several boys
the highest I-Q. of any boy rushed up to get the stamps
My Resurrection Day ser
we have ever had.
mon, "So You Want To Be
Frank and Marie Rempel
had my house in pretty good Baptized," was provoked by
those who-biad delayed their
shape when I arrived, but

in. My ex-cook had left the

dishes, utensils, and cabi

baptism so that they might

will not soon be forgotten.

Another sermon of mine,

net in filthy shape, and it

v/as quite a Job making

"Why I Did Not Reach the

Top," will be outlined in

things usable again. I have

definitely decided not to

ASIAN.

hire that man again.

At the present time I am

preparing my own breakfast

and supper, and am eating

luhcQ at the Rempels. The

Reiapels themselves are now

in the hills, but they left

their expert cook behind*
On April 24th I was the

gxiest preacher at Kulpahar.

Otherwise, since ^

return,

I have preached five times

the next issue of CHRISTBIBLE BOOK STORE

Business in the Bible

Book Store during April was

nothing to brag about; but

here are the statistics for
the record. Sales totalled
149.88. Four Bibles were
sold to customers, and five
to another book-store. 16
New Testaments, 16 Portions,
50 Hindi Life of Christ

to the church here inSwa-

Visualized, and 25 Hindi

rupnagar, and three times

at other places in the city

Sharp were also sold.

Some of the brethren are

still puz^slcd about my Good

sermnn, I began as

"Bible for'Youth," by G.J.

COKTRXBUTIONS, APRIL , 1960

EXPENDITURES UP TO MAY 10th

Illinois:
Paxton Women
Indiauia

Salary
^10.00
10.00
25.00
50.00

Frank Reas

Osgood Circle
The Henry Schramms
Kansas

Derby Youth Group

5.00

Missouri

Liberty Bible Glasses 16^56

Keeper Church

10.00

4125,00
1.10

Hindi Publications

Kulpahar for care

of Andriyas
Typewriter Repair
Publicity
Housing
Trip to Kulpahar
Medical Help
Postage
TOTAL SPENT

100.00
24.42

19.05
10.25
2.54
2.12
6.00

$395.48

New York

Binghamton Church

31.35

SUMMARY

Balance, April. 19th 3300.92

Ohio
Clinton Church
Norwalk Homemakers
Linden Homebuilders

Sabina Jrs. 4,5,6

Bladens burg LD.s. ,

20.00
17.95
90.00
33.12
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Tennessee
25.00
Church at Central
.West Virginia
14.20
Sixth Avenue Church
$368.18
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Less spent

BALANCE, May 10th

368.18
3669.10
395.48
3273.62

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Illinois.

raring my first days back in Kanpur, some little chil?T

dren began to vex me at my front door by asking me to
take their photo.

I reasoned thus:

(1)

I don't have a

camera, and so it is not possible; (2) They don't know

what they are asking; (3) It wouldn't do them any good;

(4) It wouldn't satisfy them. Then I wondered if some of

Our prayers aren't just the same. (1) There are some
things God can't give us because of His righteousness;

(2) We do not understand the implications of all we ask;

(3) We do not always know what is best for ourselves; and
(4) We are also hard to satisfy. So I had to stop being
vexed with the little kids for fear of bringing God's
judgement on myself.

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MELA

She had been, for ten years, a sin

cere friend and a most generous sup
porter of the Rempel's ministry in India.
We met [Link] briefly before

The author of the 8 page tract, Mr.

John Zamen, was formerly psstor of
the large Jumna Presbyterian church

quaintance ripened into a lasting friend

in Allahabad. He embraced New

ament

Christianity and was

Test

immersed

into Christ at Kulpahar five years ago.

Bro. Zamen felt

the

need

fur

an

evangelistic bulletin that would reveal

the "whole counsel of God", and he
prevailed upon the Rernpels to under
a decade

HOLI FESTIVAL"

CELEBRATED IN KANPUR
POLICE MEASURES TO MAIN
TAIN PEACE IN THE CITY.

"Holi", a Hindu religioas festiv

al, ocurred this year on March 11 to
13. Its nature is such as to promote
rowdyism to the extent that police in
Kanpur have found it necessar>' to
promulgate the following order, in
order to maintain peace in the city:
- That no person

shall

throw or

sprinkle dry or wet color on any per

take publication. It was under his lead

ership that distribution teams were able
to hand out such a volume of material.

Stationed at strategic points along the

roads leading to the main festival site,
workeis reported that they had no [Link] putting the booklet into the hands
of the pilgrims to the bathing festival.

with Mr. Zamen, whose name and add

ress were printed on the back.

- This order shall come

into force

at once and shall apply to all areas in

the limits of the Kanpur Corporation
and Cantonment Board.

- Contravention of any of the pro

visions of this order is punishable un
der

practicing Christian.

We rejoice in that blessed hope that

sustained Ann in her earthly life and
which has now become glorious realiz
ation in the heavenly kingdom. To the
members of her familv. and to her many

friends who must feel the loss keenly,

we offer our Christian condolences.

R.R. HARTER RETURNS

On schedule, and happy to be back,

B'o. Barter landed in Delhi at the end

of a long air journey from America, via

Holland, Germany and Moscow.
Comrade Barter will resume hia

Frank Rempei ) and as manager of the

Bible Book Store in Kanpur. Ralph is a
"leading light" in the Christian litera

Flash!

ture

CLOVIS [Link]., CHURCH

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TWO

PAPER CUTTER ADDED

A much needed paper cutting mach

ine was purchased in' January from a
Kanpur printer for the amount of $115

The machine, used but very serviceable,

greatly facilitates the printing of chiistian literature which Che Rempels aie
developing as funds
for the purpose.

become available

It is hoped that a "proof-press'

may also soon be added to the gradu
ally increasing facilities in the "woik

room" in the residence, 7/131 Swaroop

Nsi^ar;

section ,188 of the Indian Penal

Code":

ship over the years of our first term

if service in this country. It was our
privilege to spend a few days in her
home in Carthage when we returned on
furlough. Our impression was that Ann
Byers had attained to that must envi
able status - that of a practical and

duties as publisher of "Jeewan Deep"

Hindi monthly publication, Crelieving

or abuse of any type shall be sung or

shouted in any public place.
- That no person shall damage or
cause to be damaged any public or pr
ivate property.
- That no person shall manhandle
or cause to be manhandled any person.
- That no person shall fire crack
ers or use fire works in any public pl
ace which is likely to cause injuries to
men or animals or to damage properly.

we came to India, but that short ac

With more woikers and more tracts as

many more conld have been distributed.

Results from the undertaking are
largely intangible, but some visible re
sults are seen in numerous fo|iow-up
enquiries by readers that are being an
swered by Allahabad workers. They
want to discuss the "Way" more fully

sons who object to it.

- That no person shall ilirow catt

le dung, cattle urine, sullage mud or
any corrosive substance on any person,
animal or property.
- That no obscene song or slogan

ed from this life into her great reward

on Dec. 13. 1959.

BROCHURE WERE DISTRIBUTED THERE.

AT ALLAHABAD. 40,000 COPIES OF THE

FRANK REMPEL
of service.....

Mrs Ann Byers, of the Fairview

Christian Church, Carthage, Mo. pass

MARIE REMPEL

0 J960,

in lndi<i.

program

Christ in India.

of

the

churches

of

The Indian Heritage

.To westerners, the basic differences
in temperament between them and the
average Oriental often become sources

<if petty irritations. The maddening de

lays in offices when we want an insig
nificant piece of work done or a routine
paper signed; the 'baboo mentality' of
the Indian

who has attained to even a

matric fail' certificate; their abhorr nce. hy the upper classes, of manual
iiibor; communal jealousies and strifes-

all these and many more often give

rise to bitter criiicismof the East and
and all its culture.

Too [Link] this preoccupation with

apparent dil ferences hides from us the
dramatic Indian scene as a whole. Tend

ing to look o'iy at what is concerning

us at the moment, we

fail

to see the

picture in proper perspective. As aware

as we are of the traditions and history
that form the background of our own
Civilizations, we seldom take note of
that immensity of tradition and blending
of cultures which has

resulted

in

the

India nf today.

In a preface to an interesting book

India, has written this thought provok
ing statement: "To the outside world
India is often presented as a stage for

ttie conflict of Hindu and Muslim, and

the pomp and pageantry of prince and
princeling. They form but a small part
of the story recorded here. The omiss
is

not

accidental

but

deliberate.

Considering the expanse of the country

and the duration of her history, the
vastness of her population and the strin
gency of their struggle for existence,
commual frictions are few and far be

tween, while prince and piinceling seem

but mere bubbles on

Hinduism may have its foundations

laid here - the worship of a deity simil

ar to the Hindu "Shiv" and the cow

were already in evidence then.

The ARYAN INVASIAN is the second

ingredient in the mixture. This dates

from about 2000 B.C. At approximately

that period in Biblical history Abraham

heard the call of God and journeyed west

ward in response to it. Is it interesting

to speculate that perhaps Abraham, in
addition to leaving friends and family,
may have gone in opposition to the pop
ular [Link] toward the Eist? "Go east,

the

surface

of

Indian life. The record of communal jeal

ousy and confict pales into insignifi
cance when one thinks of the friendli

ness that usually marks the relations of

the community. The pomp and pagean

try of the princes fade into nothingness
against the background of the silent
and massive flow of the dumb and in

ert masses. In the long run they, and

they alone, matter."

Even a cursory reading of Indian

history reveals that its culture is a

wonderful blend - like a food recipe.

What we see today is the end result
of milleniums of mixing. For some
fiOOO years i he ingredients have been
stirring in. My own conviction is that

it is an example of what happens

when a nation is 'put together' without
the help of the living God.

A GLANCE AT INDIAN
HISTORY
The first recognizable ingredient in
the blend is what is called by historians
the 'MOHENJODARO' or 'INDUS VALLEY'

civilization, estimated to have flourished

in northern India some 5000 years ago.

It may be somewhat startling to us
that the archeological artifacts that are
being brought to the light of this 20th
century,A.D. are those of a civilization
that may have perished in the flood of
Noah's time!

Evidence points to the fact that this

civilization was a very well developed

one, extending to nearly half of the

Indian sub-continent. Ethnically, those

early "Indians" bore a striking resem
blance to what is known as the Semitic
race of the Sumerians of Abraham's

time - indeed, of whom Abraham may

well have been one. Their culture was

largely urban, the traces of which are

great Indian empires, culminating in

domination, first by the Mohammedan

Moghuls, followed by the period of rule

by the English, now happily ended.

Their history is more recent and need

not occupy space here.

All of these things that we have

noted, this stirring in of more and more
diverse ingredients, has resulted in the

grand mixture that is India today.

Everyone has brought a fresh influx of
tribes, which India, like the maw of a
mammoth animal, proceeded to chew up
and digest and assimilate till they had
lost all their original identity and be
came just Indians.

young man,go east", may have been a

current slogan. The evidence seems to

This process of absorption continued

be that the movement of the peoples to

India was not an invasion of armies,but

through the age of Muslim rule. The

assimilation of Muslims, however was
national rather than religious, so* that
Muslims became Indians but remained

rather a gradual immigration, that

trickled over the mountain passes that

guard the north-west frontiers of India.

Village India is said to be the result

of this invasion. The Aryans were a pas

entitled "The Indian Heritage", Mr.

Humayan Kabir, a well-known writer in

ion

still in evidence in the dress habits and

pottery of present day India.

toral people and brought their flocks and

herds with them.

Religiously,they added the"Vedas"

to Indian culture and promulgated the

doctrireof the transmigration of soul.

They produced the two great Indian
epics, the 'Ramayan' and the 'Maha-

bharat', the two heroes of which. Ram

and Krishna, were in all probability his
torical figures, later deified. Caste diff
erences also became apparent in this

period, being at first occupational div

isions, rather than religious.

The Aryan civilization reached its

fullest development during the Biblical
period from the time of the .Judges to
the crowning of David as King of Israel.
The third main ingredient to Indian
culture was the PERIOD OF THE BUDHA
AND OF MAHAVIR, corresponding rough

ly, in Biblical history,to the final stages

of the Judean Kingdom in exile. Nebuch

adnezzar IS a dominant figure in the
west.

Gautama Budha's way was at first

strictly rationalistic. He tried to solve
the mystery of existence without recour

se to mysticism ( Modern day Budhists

have slipped rather lamentably from
their founder's dictums > Mahavir was
a sort of Hindu "Protestant" whose
main theme was; "Salvation is within
yourselves, by means of the surrender
of all desirea". Thus Jainism got its
start. The two had a tremendous influ
ence on the Indian scene as a whole.

A fourth ingredient is a matter of

both western and eastern history-the

THE INVASION OF INDIA BY THE GREEKS
UNDER ALEXANDER.

Definice'y a military incursion,this

through the medieval period and on

Mohammedans.

The latest incursion of a foreign

power, that of the English, could not
however, be handled in the great melt
ing pot. The English came as traders
not settlers. When they moved in, bag
and baggage they brought their own

pie^ of England with them, in the way

of Englishmen everywhere, and refused

to be integrated as others had been.

We can perhaps suggest a reason

lor this Indian inability to absorb the

European: he cameas a Christian (even

it in name only) and the nature of the

(hrisiian faith is such that it stands

iilone, wit hout compromise.

THE DIVINE IMPRESS

ON INDIA?
If what we have said is true, that

India IS the end result of these

long periods of building without Divine
direction, is there hope that the Divine
impress may yet be left upon her"?

It is with the fullest confidence that

there is that hope - that the "stone cut

out of the mountain' WILL grow and

grow till earth is filled with the praise

of His glory - that the churches of

Lhrist. and the Rempel's publications

ministry, continue to witness in Hindu

stan to Him Who is the "Desire of
Nations".

"KANPUR KALLING" is la

the nature ofan "occasional report"

from Frank and Marie Rempei,

Kanpur, India, to the'r supportcr.s
in America.

It was at first intended to mail

new injection of cultural material came

it out quarterly, but further thought

of Greek world dominance. The "300

years of silence", Bibiically, was just
beginning. The Jews are being handed
back and forth between the Greeks and
Egyptians. The Maccibeans have not
yet appeared on the stage of history.
The extent of Alexander's rule in
India was not very great, his influence
on the country being far out of prop
ortion to his military conquests. The

makes it seem more advisable to

send it out as there is need for it.

in the year 326 B.C., at the very apex

numerous times the place name 'See

underabad'( means 'city of Alexander' >

appears on Indian maps is symbolic of

his lingering influence even today. His

corning paved the way for the period

of European interest in India.

There follows now the period of the

This particular issue goes out

for the specific purpose ofpublishing

our yearly linancial report.

Our field address is^

7/I3I Swaroop Nagar,
Kanpur, U.P., India.
Forwarding address:

Central Christian Church,

2724 S.E. Hawthorne Blvd

Portland, I5, Oregon.

FINANCIAL PAGE
1959

RECEIPTS

Central Church, Portland,

Livine-Lirk

2460 00

G.M. Timothy
300.00
First Church of Christ,
[Link]." for Dale and Dean, 390.00
Fairview Christian church,
Carthaye, Mo.
Anonymous,
McKinley [Link] church,
Tacoma, Wash.,
Co-Woikers Class,
Amarillo, Texas,
Central church,
Charlottetown, P.E.I.

450.46
795.38
159.13
120.00
285.50

Chrisiian church, Montague,

150 75
Mr. & Mrs.E. Gillam, Portland,
67.50
Friendship class, Plainfield, Ind., 400.00
Ladies' Council,

Church of Christ, Oregon City,

Roanoke Christian church,
Falmouth,Ky.,
Mr. & Mrs. Fordney Morford,
Connersville, Ind.,
Glenmont Christian church,
Danville, Ohio,

120.00
60.00
80.00
125.00

Third Year Juniors,

Church of Christ, Orville, Ohio,
Ladies Aid Society,
Waierford Church of Chiist,
W.M [Link].'s'ian church,

Bradalbane, P.E.I ,

29.14
31 00

51.00

W.M.S..Church of Christ,
Grande Prairie, Alt a.,
37.50
Church of Christ, Jeromesville, 0 , 7.50
Loyal Wotker's class. Church of
Lhcist, Yoncalla, .Oregon,
- _ 0.00
Junior Women, Hanna, Alta.,
10.00

W.M.S, Hanna, Alta.,

10.00

Mrs Ruth Sherman,

The Dalles, Oregon,
Tuxedo [Link] of Christ,
Calgary, Alta.,
Christian church, Minier, 111 ,

11.55
20.94

Missionary Society,Monmouth,Ore., 20.00

BIBLE BOOK STORE

During the months that Rempels

were in charge of tho Bible Book Store,
literature

selling agency in Kanpur, business lu

the approximate value of Rs.2300. was
transacted. With Bro. Barter's return

to India,at the beginning of April, the

store has again come under bis person
al supervision.

89.73

year is never very large in our reports,

a mere 60 names or so. Of those sixty,

The list of contributors over the

Burlington, Indiana,
Night Missionary Group,

50 00

Central Church, Portland, Ore.

Women's Council,
V/aynesburg, Pa.,

15 00

120 93
10 00

Ella Hollin, Portland, Ore.,

Loekliind Chri-^tian Church, *
Ciiiciiinaii, Ohio,

51.00

Ifouth Group,Belvidere, Neb ,

50.00
Mary Freeman, Portland, Ore.,
1.00
Mrs. R Johnston, Newberg,Ore.,
100
Mrs. J Oglesby, Newberg. Ore.,
1.00.
Mrs Rosa Vance, [Link]., 1.00
[Link] Dobbins,Remington,Ind., 1.00
[Link], Yellow Gras.=, Sa^k.,
2.00
Mr. J Holt, [Link] City, Tenn ,
1.00
[Link],Johnson City, Tenn., 1.00
[Link] Pierce,Johnson City,
1.00
Mr. W Patrick, Johnson City,Tenn., 1.00
Mr. J. Lawsiin, Bristol, Va.,
1.00
[Link] B. Herring. Truro, N S.
2.00
Beth Doer, Los Angeles,
50.00
Sharon Cowan, Hanna, Alta ,
5.58
From T [Link] mission account. 634 25
Transfer from Travel Fund,
432.00

39 are

"one time

givers"- in fact a

number are listed only by virtue of 1.00

subscriptions to "Christasian" maga
zine. That leaves a mere twenty one
names of those who have been mainly

responsible for the support of our worL

From them we received an

amount

in

the neighborhood of 6300.00.

We believe that this is a good

indicaiion of how wonderfully generous
our regular
supporters have
been.
Many of these have taken an active
interest in the work from the

time

of

its beginning, 10 years ago.

We are truly grateful, believe us !

BIBLE CREDIT MADE

AVAILABLE TO REMPELS.

In response to a notice appearing

in the January, 1960 issui of '"Salute",
a credK of Rs. 75 has been made avai

lable to us with the Bible Society of

India and Ceylon, against which we
have the priviiege of ordering scriptures
in either Eng'ish or Hindi for distri
bution in the course of our work.

The

donors of that amount are:

8117.15

TOTAL

Miss Berkie Boots

Sania^^uz, Calif.

Balance brought forward fiom

1958

"

"

"54.43

Miss Bessie Wright,

La Harpe, 111.

8171.58

TOTAL RECEIPTS

Others might wish to let us take

advantage of what would be your
normal contribution to the Bible Society.
To do so, send your remittance in the
form of a money order or bank check

payable to the American Bible Society,

with full information, to the ;

DISBURSEMENTS
Book Store subsidy
Miscellaneous expense items

90.65
104.07

Office expense, equipment

Medical expense
PubLshing and printing expense
Publicity expense
House and rent expense

275.16

46.69
962 75
217.75
820.63

Insurxnce, tax expense

Travel expense

165.21
177.21

3281.93

TOTAL

7959.60

Like all such literature

The information required is simply

that you

wish

to

make

this amount-

available to "The Bible Book Slore",

112/352 Swaroopnagar, Kanpur, U.P.
In due course we will be informed by
the local branch of the Bible Society
that we may order Bibles up to the
amount of your contribution.

738.52

Salaries of missionaries

CARRIED FORWARD

New York, 22, N.Y.

97.85

Salaries of workers

BALANCE

American Bible Society

Foreign Department
450 Park Avenue,

981.18

Student tuitions. Women's Home

Children's education expense

Women's Council,

Christian

GRATEFUL APPRECIATION

60.47
6 00

West Amarillo, Texas,

Crabtree Christian church,
Albany, Oregon,

R. Harier's

15.00
10.00

15.00

[Link] Newhouse, Ponland, Ore., 10.00

Mr.& Mrs. Russell MacGregor,
Montague, P.E.I.,
25.00
Mr. Robt. Basford, Nampa, Ida.,
20.00
Christian Service Fellowship,
Plainfield, Inciana,
161 19
Warwood Christian church.
Wheeling, W. Virginia,
25.00
Mr. & Mrs. R.L. Rash,Taber,Alta. 6.00
[Link] Christian church,
Nowata, Okla.,
66.50
New Antioch Church of Christ,
Wilmington, Ohio,
36.75
Shirley MacGregor, Montague,
40.00
[Link] Marshall,Wymore,Neb., 50.00

Mr.

[Link], Portland, Ind.,

Mrs. [Link], Eugene,
Christian W.M.S., Church of
Christ, Liscorabe, la.,
Christian Missionary Society,

211.98

distribu

tion undertakings in India, this work

is not self-supporting, requiring a sub
sidy of at least 10 percent from mission
funds. Tnis is not regarded as excess
ive in view of the fact that the distri

bution of Christian literature is a very

essential part of the evangelistic pro

house for literature procured from

Standard Publishing Co., and for that
whicli is produced indigenously through
the New Testment Publication associa

tion. Orders are received and goods

are despatched by mail as well.
Reirpels express themselves as

having come to a new appreciation of

the importance of such a

work which

they think well deserving of the time

that it takes to conduct it.

gram of the church of Christ.

The Book Store, in addition to its

retail business, serves as a ciearing f-.-

YOUNGER CHURCH LEADER

SHIP IN KANPUR

Bros. Dilawar

CHURCH

SPONSORS TWELFTH

The newly elected church council

of the Church of ChrLt in Kanpur has
now a Bcod proportion of young men
on it.

KULPAHAR

Masih and Sher-

w ood Paul were placed on the council as

<tac<ii p, with the idea that they would
gain valuable experience in church leadersbiti.
It is hoped, too, that their

ANNUAL

CONFERENCE

HILASPUB SPEAKER

FEATURED

Ten persons, including the Rempel

four, journeyed

to

Kulpahar

during

Ihis church leaders group a new deter

February to attend the annual conven

tion sponsored by the church at Kulpa
har. The'well-arranged program featured
as main speaker, Bro. A. S Franklin,

mination to be "up and doing"

Chtiai in this great city.

in the Kududand church of Christ there.

youthful [Link] will infuse into

for

teacher in a Bilaspur school and elder'

An ably performed drama, portray
ing the conversion of-Corneiius, was pre

!- + +++++;

sented by the young people of the Kul

pahar church during the convention.
A MODEST HUNTING BAG
Taking advantage of a convention ,

trip back to Kulpahar, their foririer

home,the Rempels managed to l et in ,

The immersion of [Link]' Into

Christ climaxed a very inspirational ga
thering.

a few hours of hunting, with limited

results - 2 wild ducks, a goose
and a
wild boar. H<wever, 'twas fun!

LIVING LINK CHURCHES

Word has been received that

FURLOUGH PLANS
INDEFINITE
1960, would normally be "furlough
year" for the Rempels. Whether they
will, actually undertake the journey
home is not yet decided.

Indefinite plans for a variation from

the usual,in this regard,are being scout
ed, and have been submitted to our main
apcnsorlng'church, the Central Christ
ian Church, Portland,Ore., for approval.

the

STRIKE THE HOUR OF VACATION TIME,

thanks go also to the

THE STUDENTS SOLEMNLY DEPART FROM

friends of the

Gloyis church , for their deep interest,

shown in this practical way . The amount

they are giving brings our personal suppori'up to a level equal with what our
colleagues are receiving.
Other churches in

the

U.S.

have

been co-operating in the underwriting

First Church of Christ

-H'.)-+ + + +-k

_Bluffton.Ind.
[Link],Church;

INCOME TAX DEbubTIONS

, .Carthage. Mo.

PROCEDURE -

Central Christian Church,

Portland, Ore.

> It has recently been made-; known

that giftp for missionary purposes are

no-longer, tax deductible if they are

sent in the riame of an individual.' Checks

The amounts sent , by the first two

aTe bspeeially designated for the support

emption should he made out to "Central

and education of Dale and Dean Rempel,

while the Centra! Church, Portland,has
been'the living link church of Frank and

and should not have our name on it.

Marie.

for .which you would like to claim ex

Christian Church India Mission Fund",

In [Link] Church acts as

rtUr maifi sponsoring [Link] funds

+++++++!-

are collected and forwarded to us thr-

Mpgh'the church office,by one of the

merfibera;- specially

appointed to the

.church staff for the purpose. Current

ly Miss' Leta Richardson is performing

inis service.

hmtie in b'-tter!

Central Church of Christ, [Link]

Mexico, where Stanley Letcher Jr. min
isters, has pledged $100.00 a month sup
port of the Rempels. This was wonderful
news, and we thank God for it. Our

of the personal support of the Rempels

in India. They are the:

More details later.

iDALE DUNHAR REMPEL

All of these churches have earned,

and receive, our deep gfalitude. Their

'service has been .'<>f value inestimable

to iis atid to the Lord^s work

through

us in India.

WOODSTOCK SCHOOL
"AS

THE

HANDS

OF

THE

CLOCK

THEIR BELOVED HOME, WOODSTOCK, AND

DESCEND THE

MOUNTAIN IN A

FUNERAL

[Link] I'ROCtSSION, OCCASIONALLY STOP-,

I'ING lO TAKE A LAST WISTFUL GLANCE

AT THE SCHOOL .. "

The Woodstock "Tiger" ran the

above facetious caption over a cart
oon of Woodstock students dashing
pell-mell down the mountain side,
cheering, pushing, and without so
much as a single backward glance at..
the school where they had been board
ing for 9 long months.
Just goes to show that "kids is
kids", even when the circumstances,
under which they grow up are defin

itely unusual, to use a mild expression.

In all other respects except one we
consider that our children, Dale and

Dean (now 13. years of age) are vers'

privileged to be able to attend a school
like Woodstock, in the Hlmalyan foot
hills town of Mussoorie. Since it is

approx. 4OO miles from Kanpur,the

boys have to live in the "boarding"
arrangement at school, a circumstance
that neither they nor we like,but about
which nothing can be done.
Excellent supervision is provided for
them in the hostels, however, and they
are well cared for there.

Although patterned on the AmeriANOTHER "NEED"

The bicycle remains the Rempel's

mechanical mode , of travel. A rough

estimate puts the average number of
miles travelled on it daily at about 10.
'J'heie are no particular objections to
'ihat - in season! The

"off-season"

is

'the period froni April to [Link]

Ihe temperature shoots ' up arid "Old
Sol" beams down.

- Plans are (o make do as at pres'ent for this year at leadt, and to try

tb arrange some kind of rnotorized trans

portation during the furlough year com

ing up.

DEAN FRANK REMPEL.

t fint, but

cin school system(it was recently gran

ted accreditation by the Middle State.s
Association of Colleges and Secondary

' Schools) the school is definitely intern itionai in character. Some 25 nat
ions are rcprv^senied there. The larg
est group of rhem is from the mission

population of India, but there is also

a goodly number of students from the
diplomatic missions of several count
ries.

Latest information from them

indicates that Dale and Dean arc well

and .cheerfully happy.

tkool
++++++++++

-l-t-H-M-O

^tom
T^dlpk
]S^s Svvarupnagar, i\an'our

Stencilod by

India, ol^September 193 l^^o _ and flon-n to Clinton,

Ohio,

-iiereit

v;as iiiimeo gr iplied and mailed.

T E B M I 0^-" E S

/kt

prepare

this news-

iettor, a carpenter is busy

/replacing the library cupboards

which v/ere eaten up

er-mite^. Ihey
malting tracks in

also
book
to

store, and so v/e

paint

the

boutom

of the v/alls with coal

Yae aren't sure that v/e

hall

them stopped yet,

but

or the other of us will

soon bo lickod.

one

Our

lending,

attack

libr^y

is

The

appear^ice

Book Store

ced

o f

the

has been enhan

with our first outdoor

expec**

ting ^ a sharp rise in sales

from this now fixture.

Sales

during

July

and

Avigust continued to bo be
low the bragging level. Duriiig the two months sales
amounted to $33.09 and in

cluded sale "of 10 Bibles,

rev/ TespaLients,

tions.

]i}.9

2199 x"'or

Life of ^Iris

pi eking ^Up sp'eM and it may Visualised, 8 The Bible for

soon

prove . to be more po

tent

than

^..^shier

the Book Store.

- a n.d
hoah

have made generous

donations

of books, and we

have promts OS

from others.

' The termites

devoured some

of the Hindi books but they

have now been replaced. Two
noncnristians have borrow

ed

Bibles,

and

New Testament.

another a

Youth, and 2 Christian Doc

trine horkbook.
'

month

is

that

the

of the'

lii^di

version of Vergil Foltcnhs,

hew Testajiiont Studies, is^
nov/ at the printers.

Fraiilv

Hemp el had planned to print

tnis hiijiself

cided

to

but later de

give

the job to

Job Press whore Christasian

llagasine is printed.

The Boys and Girls

At hulpeiiaj;-- Ar-drlyas has

been having some trouble
vdth

his

eyes but is some

better novj".

He

must

wear sunglasses

daytime,

novir

during the

[Link] isn*t a bad

Our house has a

new occu

pant*' iai the person of Semu

he has

other fine young men in our

congregation who give us a

great
are

coiiio from mrs.

Kothermel's iijission faiiiily,

and is hero to learn motor

deal

of

help. They

tv/o

sets of brothers:

Sherv/ood

and Kenneth Paulj

and

idea anjway#

Das.

Besides Samu Das

and Sa
muel Raiiim
there
are four

Prem

and Emiiianuel iia-

sih. They manage the two

Sunday Schools, clerk in
the Book Store, help hunt
mistaices in uhe manuscripts

and proofs of the Hindi ma

gazine. Dilawar Masih who

meohaiiics. He has adapted

hli-iself very v/ell to city
life and reports from his
boss ere good.
V/e are- again puzzled at

Masih brothers

the beliavior

the Rempei's cook.

him

of Samuel Ka-

v/ho ' is

again.

\ie

on

him anotner chance to go to

sc!hool
but
his
school
is

once

again

proving . ^to be highly irre

gular. Vj6 have an idea,
however, that even if he
doesn't

go

v/ili -be

to

school

he

able to pass the

yearly examinavions. Per

haps we v/ill let him do it
his way.

Mavis Washing'ton

ported

to

sently employed in the Kulpahar

mission. The

three

are sons

of

again off

decided to give

attendance

had been helping us is pre

is

re

Church Plot
In our las'C newsletter we

reported that-we were nego

tiating for a plot of land
to build a
paviliion for
v/orship. Y/e are still nego
tiating,
and getting w'iser
all the time.. We are no^Y

offering Jl^OC for tbn lot,

failing which we will wait
a little longer with hopes
of getting sometliing less
expensive later on.

be improving in

her behavior at hpiphany

G-irls' Boarding School. We

surely hope she is. Marjory

Loyal's father,
however,
decided to keep Marjory at
home so we are paying her
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INDEPENDENCE DAY THOUGHTS

Clear thinking
Dr. Rajendra
Prasad, President of the Indian

Republic, called for pre-conditions

of existence as a free and independent
nation," in his 1960 Independence

Day address. To create such condi

tions, he appealed to the people of

India to dev^op, as national charac

teristics, the essential traits of
loyalty and discipline.
We may say, " Well, that's surely
self-evidentso much so that no
more needs be said about it. "
True

enough, that that same message was

doubtless spouted to the nation in
thousands of other places at that
same moment.

But is it not true

also that until loyalty and discipline

on the part of every citizen are more
than just a mere showuntil they are

more than just a cover-up for graft

and other crimes against the state

the preaching, the pleading, must go

on?

Vol. VI No. 5

After all, what is loyalty? Surely

it means more than shouting "Jai
Hind " lustily on Independence Day!
(the idea behind this overt display
often being that one may go about
collecting bribes the more unsuspectedly when the office opens on
August 16th) Loyalty involves the
subjugation of one's own interests
to the interests of the nation so that

even if personal advancement is

hindered the nation's progress is
helped. It involves the surrender
of one's right to his very life, if that
life is needed by the nation.
And discipline? No citizen has
the right to give way to the kind of
temper that leads to mob action, and
that complete lack of self-control
often seen in India.

Discipline that

creates conditions in which freedom

n^ay survive and flourish demands

thought for others first, and the
ability to see another's viewpoint.

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{Continued from front page)

Christian Independence

Citizens of the Kingdom of Godmembers of churches of Christmay well

take such " preachment " to heart! In no
situation are sham and hypocrisy so de
plorable as in matters of the spirit.
" Freedom " is a watchword of Christi

anity. " If the Son shall make you free,

you shall be free indeed." " For ye
brethren, were called for freedom: only
use not your freedom for an occasion to
the flesh but through love be servants
one of another." (Gal. 5:13).

Here too are pre-conditions to be

imposed. An atmosphere must be creat
ed by us (in the power of God) in which
freedom may advance so as to embrace
others as well. For I am not, in fact,
free until I have removed from myself
every barrier to freedom for others.
The church does not save souls. It
exists to create conditions in which the

Gospel may flourish and in which its

message of saving grace may reach into
a maximum number of individual hearts.

That is why there must forever be, from

the church, this appeal to loyalty and
to discipline on the part of its members.
Our loyalty to Christ must go deeper
than words; must be apparent when
we are separated from the brethren
as well as in the assembly. Our
piousness must include doing the will
of God as well as hearing it.
Discipline must be self-imposed,
extending to every realm of life. The
man who is an ''abstainer" only, and does
not develop the positive characteristics
of serenity of spirit, brother-love, and an
even temper, has neglected an important
phase of his development. Physical

habits damaging to the body, on the other

{Continued onpage 4)

]ED][TO)R][A]L CO)MMENT
It is not for a minute maintained
that in order to meet with the demands

of Christian

principles,

all

traces

of

ancient Indian culture must be discarded!

Much of what is so uniquely and comple

tely the "Indian way of life" is a grace to
Indian Christians. Far from being cont
rary to the Word of God, much of it is

most consistent with the Divine require

ments of Christian behaviour.

Other features of it cannot be so

defended. One of these is the deplorable

habit of chewing betel and pan, not of
course restricted to India. One condemns
the habit out of hand for its obvious filthi-

ness. This alone ought to be sufiicient

to make Christians steer clear of it.

Now weight is added to the argu

ment against the habit by the strong
suspicions that the chewing of betel
and pan causes mouth cancer.

Readers

are urged to give a careful scrutiny to

the article, " Cancer, the Killer ", reprint
ed on page five of this issue of Christasian
by the kind permission of the " Herald
of Health ".

The Christian

must remember that

whatever the world may do, he has a

sacred obligation to maintain his body

as nearly clean and pure as possible.
It is the temple of the Holy Spirit.
Whatever defiles the body and in any
way knowingly harms it, is to be avoided.
Deliberately to cause the destruction of
the Spirit's dwelling place is a sin!

" Don't let your characters be moulded

by the desires of your ignorant days, but

be holy in every department of your
lives, for the One who has called you is
Himself holy" (I Peter 1: 14,15)

By R. R. Harter

We crossed from Belgiuminto Holland

At the suggestion of the manager of

at an obscure point, and so my entrance

the Hotel Trion, I took a tour ofthe canals

into Holland escaped, the notice of the

and'harbor on one ofthe many sightseeing

Dutch police..

boats of the city. The glass top of the

ticket to Arnsterdam.

ing the gloom. The guide was a little

boat kept us from getting drenched by the

At the Maastricht raUway station, I rain, but it Was still a miserable trip.
got $ 10 changed into Dutch Giiilders. The guide made wisecracksin three langu
Then I proceeded to buy a Second Glass ages, and he succeeded a little in dispell
While waiting ,for my train to, come
in, I noticed on other trains that some

of the coshes had special signs on them.

I no longer remember what the Dutch
words were, but I concluded, and correctly

upset ,that one of the house boats on the

canal belonged to American missionaries.

He couldn't quite appreciate the fact that
the Americans were sending missionaries
to Holland. Perhaps he womd have been
consoled had he known that Americans

so, that these, coaches were set apart for have missionaries in America.
non-smokers. So, when my train came
in, I foimd myself a seat in one of the non
After the boat trip, I visited the^
smoking coaches., Soop afterward, a man .National Gallery of Art. This didn't
sat down beside me and began to light up impress me too much either. Perhaps I
a cigarette. I pointed to the sign and read am too xmcultured to correctly evaluate
it off to him in perfect Dutch. He the work of Rembrandt, but I don't think.
immediately put his cigarette away, I would want one of his paintings hang
apologizing to me in French, saying that ing in my house. The paintings by some
he was from France and didn't know of the other Dutch Masters were veryDutch. It didn't occur to him that I
beautiful and worthy.
knew neither Dutch lior French.

Now

don't ask me how I knew what he said,

but I did.

The trip across the Netherlands was

very interesting. > I was very intrigued

by the low-lying land, the canals and
dykes, and the windimlls. I was also
impressed by the many large factories
such as Bata Shoe Co. and PhiUips Lamps.

After a quick change of trains at

Utrecht, I arrived forthwith at Amsterdam.

It rained most of the day that I was

in Amsterdain, and so I did not have the
opportunities here that I had during my
three beautiful days in Brussels.

My rooih at the Hotel Trion was verynice and reasonably priced, but I thought
the price of the mpals was a bit too high.
My lunch cost me almost as much as theprice of the room. In the evening, after
a long search, I ate supper in a Chinese
restaurant.

That night I went to bed early.

had been a hard day.

It

The next morning the weather wasbetter, but there was no time for sight
seeing now. At the appointed time I
reached the air terminal, and we were:
soon on our* way to Moscow.

Somehow I had failed to understand

just how the plane was going to get to

Moscow, and so the trip was full of several
pleasant surprises. We passed over and
got beautiful views of Copenhagen, Den
mark, a corner of Sweden, and the
Baltic Sea. Later we landed at Warsaw,
Poland. Most of the passengers got off
here and only four of us remained to
proceed to Moscow. We were here for

about an hour while the plane re-fueled,

but oiur movements were restricted, and
we saw very little.

On this part of the journey I was

travelling by K.L.M., the Dutch airlines.
Of the three airlines I travelled, this

was no doubt the best.

I was very pleas

ed with their food and service.

There were many signs that Amster

dam was about to blossom forth in a riot

of beauty. If I could have stayed a couple

of days longer perhaps I would have been
better impressed.
Next Issue: Russia

temple of the

Holy Spirit."

The Christian experience is a perpetual

" Independence Day

For " for free

dom did Christ set us free: stand fast

therefore, and be not entangled again in

the yoke of bondage. ".

{Continuedfroni page
" I have sacrificed my whole life for
this causereceived almost nothing for
twenty-five years of the time. Baptized
my thousandsI think seven thousand
as

near

as

could

tell^but

have

a beautiful home ready for me on the

other side of Jordan. I am in my eightieth

year, preach yet much, my voice as good
as ever; can speak in the open air so as
to be heard by one thousand people.
Amen."

CHURCHES

{A Reprint from ^'Restoration Herald^*)

The bane of the churches today is the
hierarchy, whether Catholic or Protestant;
the pompous clergy who lord it over God's
heritage. Local churches have been train

ed to look to the ecclesiastics for light and

leading, and to take orders from the
bedecked oligarchy.

In the present system of church govern

ment the. local congregation, in surrender
ing its independence, has abdicated the

lof^ place given to it under the charter

of Christ. No longer a queen, she is a

vassal. Relieved of her important mini
stry, which was gradually taken over by
governing boards, she pays tribute to the
organization in the peaceful illusion that
her major responsibilities have been dis
charged. The more docile the congrega

tion, the greater its importance.

{Continaed from page 2)

hand, do violence to the

LIBERTY IN THE

This is the deadening effect of sacerdo

tal rule. The spirit of initiative dies. The
spiritual life decays.
We plead for a congregational renais
sance, a revival of the liberty and the
loyalty of the New Testament church.

Stripped of bureaucratic red tape, tasting

the sweets of Grospel liberty, let the loc^

church take up its own Godgiven work of
evangelism which too long has been
delegated to imscriptural officials.
The greatest stride we can make
toward Christian unity is to. induce our
preachers and local churches to rouse
themselves to proclaim to their own
commimities the pure and powerful New
Testament message, and to enter upon
practicail efforts to lead all the people
of their own neighbourhood to walk in
the light.

CANCER-THE KILLER
By D. K. Down

{Reprintedfrom " Herald of Health ")

every twenty adults that die.
More

Indians

suffer

from

cancer ?

What is

What are its causes and how can

it be avoided?

cancer of the mouth than any other

nationality in the world.
Why?

The body is constantly growing new

cells to replace worn-out tissues. Old

cells pass out of the system, and nature is

The author puts his finger

on the popular habit of Indian
people: PAN CHEWING.

constantly at work replacing the discarded

units. In normal health the system grows

just the right amount of body cells to

A few

weeks ago

visited

the

replace the old ones.

But under certain

circumstances not fully understood, the

Chittaranjan Cancer Hospital in Calcutta. growth of new tissue runs wild and gets
The medical superintendent, Dr. Subodh out of hand. Body tissue grows beyond
Mitra, who is a highly skilled doctor of the replacement needs of the body. The
international experience, accorded me redundant tissue spreads its deadly ten
courteous and valuable assistance in tacles beyond its local sphere, strangling
my investigations. The information he blood-vessels, crushing vital organs, dest
supplied, and the facilities he placed at roying life functions, until the body is
my disposal made a deep impression on not longer able to operate, and nature
my mind. I offer these observations to gives up the struggle for existence.

thinking people everywhere who should

The patient's only hope is to arrest

the growth of the tissue before it has rioted
beyond control. This arrest can be
Every year approximately two lakhs achieved by destructive treatment such as(two hundred thousand) people in India radium, or elimination by surgery. Re
die of cancer. In most cases their death cently chemotherapy has been used with
is painfully slow, yet terrifyingly certain. success. But to have any hope of cure the
Their tortured bodies sink slowly to the cancer must be detected early. For this
grave, often accompanied by agony and reason the public should be very
despair. At the present moment some i thoroughly acquainted with the early
six lakhs of people are in the grip of this symptoms of cancer.
disease. Most of them have very little
know more about this dread disease,
its nature and its cause.

hope of recovery. They face certain

death.

The great tragedy is that much of this

suffering is avoidable. An enlightened
public could largely escape the clutches of
this killer, which accounts for one out of

What is the cause of this disease?'

Why should otherwise normal cells run

amok and threaten life? The complete
answer to that question is not known
to medical science as yet. But much
has been learned. It has been demon
strated that
continued
irritation
ta

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the acti-

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who smoke in India, it is obvious that

smoking often" eixacts' a terrible wagelung cancer. Of course, not everyone

who smokes will contract this terrible

disease, but possibly this is only because

At"the, Chittaranjan; Hospital I saw it develops so slowly that the smoker will
rabbits arid mice ujpoh which experiments die of some other cause before his smoking

^e being conducted. Chemicals are

injected under the skins of animals and the
Pathology staff informed me that contrac
tion of the disease is almost certain to
follow.

causes his death.

Statistics show that the

minimum age for lupg cancer at this hosr

pital was 38 in 1954, and that the average
was 57. So probably more smokers would
die of lung cancer if they lived long
enough for it to develop.

In human beings such irritation may

originate in a variety of ways^perhaps
from a broken pipe stem, or an ill-fitting
dental plate. The public should be sus
picious of; the .growth of hard lumps
anywhere on the body, persistent pain,
or internal bleeding. But in recent years
it has been generally. recognized that
some of man's social habits are guilty of

This is far in excess of the European

paving the way for cancer.

countries.

The Indian Scourge

For Indian more striking than lung

cancer is cancer of the mouth and throat.

In one year the Chittaranjan hospital

alone reported 571 such cases, a total of
52'7 per cent of the male cases treated.
Wherein lies the difference?

Europeans generally do not chew

In America 20 thousand people die
annually of lung cancer, of which smoking pan, but Indians do. The conclusion is
is undoubtedly the major cause. The in obvious. Your pan chewing may one day
crease in the consumption of tobacco turn from a pleasurable habit to a deathshows a proportionate rise to the increase
in the prevalence of lung cancer. Tobacco

dealing disease. Dr. Mitra pointed out

that one of the places having the great

tars, smeared oh the ears of rabbits and

est incidence is Shillong in Assam. I

have lived among the Khasis for nearly

on the backs of mice, produced fatal cancer

in nearly 50 per cent of the animals
tested. Lung cancer has assumed such
ominous proportions that 10 per cent of
all cancer cases are now cancers of the

lungs. Doctor Ochsner, a leading Ameri

can lung surgeon, predicts that in ten
years time lung cancer will constitute
about 40 per cent of all male cancers.

two years, and have observed, as have

others who have visited Shillong, the

constant pan chewing of both men and
women. They are paying a terrible price
for their pleasure, in the prevalence of
mouth cancer.

The habit, once established, is difHLung cancer does not seem to be so. ^t to discontinue. One m^, I visited

prominent in India, though Dr. Mitra

emphasized that it is on the increase.
That smoking is the main cause, suggest

in Shillong, told me hisexperience. Allhis

life he had been a

devoted addict to

the habit until he developed a painful

ed by the fact that generally. spea!]^g ulger of the cheek. His doctor advised
Itis. a man's disease.. In 1954, thishospit^ hhn to disqontinue. chewing pan, which he
reported 39 cases in males and only 4 di<|. After some time, die ulcer cleared

in ' females..

it' is mostly _the. men up. Two years later he forgot his previous

apprehensions and became emboldened to

again start chewing pan. Soon after he
had once more to consult his doctor
because of a sore cheek. This time the

fateful verdict was pronouncedcancer.

No doubt the irritating spices, constantly

biting into the delicate membrane of the

cheek had done their work. As he spoke
to me his cheek and lower lip were a

sickly white and pouted out in an ugly

growth. He spoke with difficulty as in
broken tones he cursed the day he had

resumed his pan-chewing.

He died soon

afterwards.

A few days ago a man came to me for

advice. Two and one half months ago
he had noticed a sore in his lower lip.

It gradually spread until at the time of the

interview a repulsive white growth extend
ed from his lip to his chin like a cauli

flower. At the centre of the growth the

cancer had eaten a hole right through
his lip out of which the saliva poured
from the inside of his mouth. With
bitter tears he confessed to me that for

many years he had chewed 8 to 10 annas

worth of tobacco daily. He was beyond
medical aid, and by the time you read this
article, he may be in his grave.
Some conservative individuals may
consider that the relationship of pan
chewing to mouth cancer is not conclusive.
But no one will deny that pan chewing is
a possible cause. During 1960 up to
40,000 men and women in India alone
will die of mouth cancer. Why run the
risk of being one of them? The safest
course for your health's sake is to abstain
from the habit of chewing pan, tobacco
or other irritating spices.

INDIAN PRESS GLEANINGS

On a previous occasion we mentioned
that in India it would be difficult to

know a drowning man if we saw one. A

Kanpur juggler recently proved this
point by hanging himself before a large
crowd.

After assembling the crowd by

means of his tricks, he threw a rope over

On a recent visit to Allahabad, a well-

wisher approached the Prime Minister to

apply some scent on his clothes; but Mr.
Nehru stepped back, then told the man
that the perfume would make him sick.
Eight women who demonstrated at

a tree and hung himself. The crowd Jullundur against increased taxes were
evidentally thought
good stunt.

Pandit Nehru
his

consideration

it

was

pretty

recently interrupted
of the

serious issues

of the world in order to say a word about

taken to see the Bhakra-Nangal dam on

an education tour instead of being fined
for contempt of court. A half-dozen
others who refused to go on the tour

were fined Rs. 200/- or one month simple

imprisonment.

a domestic matter which he considers to

be of basic importancethe brooms of the

sweepers. He pleads for long-handled
brooms and refuse-cans with lids.

On the other hand, Panditji has made

it plain that he doesn't care for perfumes.

Some of the unpunctuality of trains

has been blamed on the birth of babies

on trains. In the Nagpur division alone

there are an average of 15 babies a month
bom on trains, and each childbirth held

up the trains for 30 to 55 minutes.

Two marriage parties got mixed up on

a crowded train near Bijnor and the brides

second place with 295 movies during the

year. Japan is first with 360 films, and the

accidentaUygotexchanged. It wasn't un^

United States is third with 288.

five days later that the mistake was dis

covered by the parents of one of the girls.
Both husbands have again exchanged

During the years 1958 and 1959, there

were only 15 cases of divorce in the state

their brides.

of Uttar Pradesh.

At the inauguration of the Air Wing

of the N.G.G. at Indore, a large crowd of
dignitaries, including the Ghief Minister
of Madhya Pradesh, were astonished to
see a young girl clad in a red sari climb
into an aircraft and quickly take off.
Consternation was increased when the

plane flew low over the spectators. The

airport sounded the alarm sirens summon
ing the fire brigade and the police, but the
plane landed safely. The girl was brought
to the Ghief Minister where it was dis

covered that the " woman " pilot was the

Chief Flying Oflficer in disguise. '

People in Bodh Kharbu Valley in

Ladakh Saw an automobile for the first

time in their lives when a convoy of about

a dozen jeeps passed through the valley
on its way to Leh along the newly-built
Kargil-Leh road. While many watched

This statistic does not,

however, give a true picture of the

situation. A recent survey in the city
of Kanpur showed over a thousand desti
tute children who had no one to care for

them.

Many of them were of illegitimate

birth.

Villagers in the inaccessible and

mountainous Gilgit and Baltistan areas
of occupied Kashmir have recently resort
ed to the novel method of " planting "
glaciers in order to ensure supply of water

to food crops. The process is to cut oflf

a slice of a glacier and transport it to a
spot where there is no glacier. It is then
buried in a pit with indigenous chemicals
and herbs to reduce the temperature. If
the planted glacier remains without
melting till winter snowfall, it gets roots
and goes on growing. These glaciers can
then ensure an adequate water supply
during years when there is no snowfall.

curiously, some of them muttered prayers

with folded hands.

An old woman and

a group of children bent low to examine

the underframe of the vehicle.

When

they touched it they were disappointed

since they had imagined it to be some

It took Rs. 100/- worth of salt to bury

"Lucky", an elephant of the Kamla
Circus when it died at Indore.

After six

months the bones will be disinterred and

sold.

new kind of animal.

A young sailor washed overboard in

a heavy sea in the Bay of Bengal is still
believed to be alive because of his horo

scope. For this reason the boy's relatives

have asked the authorities to m^e a search
for him on uninhabited islands.

India is among the five largest book

producing countries in the world with the
United States ranking sixth. In tfie
production of feature films, India is in

Twenty-five persons travelling on the

roof of the Kathgodam Express were killed
and himdreds were seriously injured when
they were knocked off by the ceiling of
a covered bridge over the Yamima River
near Mathura. The dead and injured in
cluded a large number, of women and
children. The bridge had recently been
covered with steel girders leaving a gap
of about a foot between them and die roofs

of passing trains. The train was over

crowded because of a religious fair.

A villager who found the fish plates

removed from a railway track near Katihar
saved a train from disaster by standing on
the track and waving it down. Coincidentally, the man was a fisherman.
Ramu, the wolf-boy, who has been

undergoing treatment in Lucknow for the

past six years, has once again broken into
print.

In the U.P. Assembly, a member

of the opposition

asked

the

Health

Minister whether Ramu could now be

come a member of the cabinet. The

Health Minister replied that in his present

condition Ramu could onfy become a
member of the Legislative Assembly,
adding that he was capable of only being
a member of the opposition.

The large number of failures in the

recent Mysore University examinations
has caused widespread concern. Of a
total of nearly 16,000 students only about

3,000 were declared successful. Of 117

examinees from two rural colleges, only
nine passed.

In advertising the arrival of a new

film, Kanpur's Vivek Cinema advertised,
" For Disappointment, Book Your Seats
in Advance." Despite the discourage
ment, the rush for tickets was so great that
the city magistrate had to issue an order
prohibiting the carrying of guns within
200 yards of the place.
One of the recent endeavours of

India's indefatigable pedestrian Vinoba

Bhave was to learn Esperanto. One of
the first books he studied in this Inter

national language was the Bible.

Our readers will be sorry to know that
Kanpur's daily newspaper ADVANCE,
whose errors we quoted so profusely, has
finally expired after a long illness.

AN OLJy PREAVCHER'^S AUTOBKOGRAPHY

Samuel Rogers "

(From

Memoirs of A, Campbell")

" I was born in Old Virginia, Novem

ber 6, 1789; moved to Kentucky in 1793,

settled in Clarke County, Ky. until 1801.

Moved then to Missouri, called Upper
Louisiana, then under Spanish rule.
" My mother, a pious Methodist, sewed
up her Bible in a feather-bed to keep the
priests from finding it. This was the only
Bible I ever saw till I was grown. My
father urged my mother to leave her Bible,
as it might give her trouble in the new
territory, but she said she must have
it to read to her children, and she did
read it to us much, and by her piety
and counsels tried to impress its truth
upon our minds and hearts. As I was the

eldest child, this was all the preaching

I heard till a grown man.
" After my mother had taught me to
write my name and spell a little, I
was sent

to school

three months.

At

the end of this time I graduated with

honor, having learned to read, write,
and cypher to the rule of three. This
was about all our teachers knew them
selves.

" My mother's readings, prayers and

counsels gave me early a high regard
for her religion. Though my proud
heart often rebelled, yet a mother's
voice would bring me back to sober reflec

tion again.

I heard a Methodist preach

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the first discourse I ever listened to; soon

after that I heard a Baptist. I liked the
free salvation of the Methodist, but dis

liked his baptism.

I liked the baptism

of the other, but disliked his Calvinism.

" I returned to Kentucky about

dreams and visions and vague impressions

some super-human aid; often went oh

long tours upon a mere impression of the

mind, taking it as a call. I thought I
ought to perform miracles. My niind was
often in a wretched state.

nineteen year old, and found a great^tir

" About this time I got the " Ghristizin

occasioned by the late strange revivals Baptist" and found relief. I believe I
under B. W. Stone and others. Many should have gone crazy but for Alexander
abused Stone, while others praised him; G^pbell. I was not slow to embrace
I, however, went to hear him for myself his view, but knew it to be the truth the
and was much pleased. He called on all moment I saw it, and at once and in haste
to come to Christ, and invited all to lay adopted it. This was about 1825.
aside their creeds and take the Bible as

the only rule of faith and practice. I

was pleased with his preaching: it sound
ed like the truthlike the religion I
had read of. Whatever may have been
said of the errors of Stone and those

people, it was evident that they were

spiritually minded, and the most prayerful

people of their times.
" I was baptized by Stone, 1812.
The war came on and the church became

greatly demoralized; and I among the rest

was [Link] meeins exempt from its unhappy
infiuences. However,

after

the

war,,

" I had travelled thousands of miles,

preached all over the wilds of Ohio,
Indiana, Illinois, Missouri^swam rivers,
exposed myself to every dzinger, saying,

" Woe is me if I preach not the Gospel!

I was ardent, impulsive, enthusiastic and

my labors were greatiy blessed. But a
heavy gloom himg over me when I would
think of my call and compare it with that
of the apostles.

" Bless the Lord1 Alexander Campbell

came to my relief. His debate with
Walker, and . then his debate with

McCalla, waked up the people and to me

it was like the rising up of the sun after
we ^1 got to work again, renewing a long gloomy night. I heard him at

through the preaching of Stone and others,

our covenants with God, and a glorious

revival followed.

" I became an exhorter by necessity.

Wd held little meetings from house to
house, and often had to send for a preacher
to baptize our converts. The preachers
told me I was called of Gk)d to preach.
I had not thought of being a preache^,
but being convinced by their arguments
that I was Divinely called, I was ordained
by Stone at Caneridge 52 years ago.
He then gaye me a Bible, saying, " Preach
its facts, obey its commands, enjoy its
promises
" I was greatly troubled about my

Wilmington, Ohio, on his first visit.

I compared him to Ezra of old, that great

reformer who restored to Israel the lost

law of God. Stone had given me the

book, but Campbell taught me to read it
in its connection. I took his first periodi
cal, the " Christian Baptist", and since
that time have taken and read everthingf^
he ever published. I owe him more
than any man since apostolic times. He
preached no new, Gospel and brought
m [Link] God, but taught us to worship,
intelligently the God whom we had
ignorantly worshipped, and to go back;
over the heads of all hiimem teachers to-

as were the apostles, I ought to have their

the great Fountain of truth for our faith

and practice.

.credentials and be able to prove my

aposdeship. I attempted to draw from

{Continued on page 4}

call.

I contended that if I wzis called

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SOME OOTSTANBMe WOMEN' OF 'THE-

Jochebed.
By Miss H. Kaveri Bai

A Hebrew Family

Imagine a scene on the flooded banks

of the Nile.

It is some time since the

river has been in spate.

which

The pits from

the earth has been excavated for

the making of bricks have water standing

in them. The gleaming river, bordered
with a thick growth of green papyrus
reeds and with the flaming colors of a
sunset sky overhanging it, must have

gladdened the hearts of all that evening.

All, that is, but the gangs of weary
Hebrew slaves who toiled on its banks

under the eyes of pitiless taskmasters.

Some were at work making the millions
of bricks for Pharaoh's new treasure cities
of Rameses and Pithom. Others had the

task of transporting the bricks to the build

ing sites, carrying them in baskets slung
from the ends of poles that they carried
on their shoulders. Still other gangs were
engaged in the actual building works.
Young Amram, his back bent under
the load he czuried and his shoulders

calloused by constant friction where the

yoke rested, was a brick carrier. His
wife Jochebed, full with child as she squatted on her feet, rolled the wet clay and
formed it into bricks.

Both of them were of the tribe of

^Levi. ^Under yon date palm stands their

fair . little daughter, Mimin, sucking
chubby fingers'as she watches Ae urchins

catching mudfish from the poolat her ifeet.

She keeps an eye cocked on two sly crows

on the branch above, who are waiting to
snatch, if they can, any fish the boys
may catch. Recently Miriam herself has
had a narrow escape from a crocodile
which dashed up at her from the river
only her mother's presence of mind had
saved her.

Groaning under. the weight of his

burden, Amram heaves a sorrowful sigh

as he shoots a glance at his wife,

so

delicate in health but still having to

work so hard. The couple have longed
for a son but-when a daughter came
instead they had at least the consolation
that the king's cruel decreefortheslaughter
of male children did not apply to her.
But like all eastern parents, they still long
for a son. Would this one be a boy? If
so, Gk)d grant that the midwives may
not be present at the delivery to strangle
him!

Amram and Jochebed must have been

a Godly couple and have prayed earnestly
for a son, for God not only granted them
a boy, but preserved him from the terror
of the Pharaoh. littie did they know that
God had selected them to bring forth
children, each one of whom was appointed
by Him for a high destiny. The day came
when almost without labor, Jochebed gave
birth to a sturdy Httle boy. He was a
beautiful child and how the parents

rejoiced that he had given them no reason

to c^ the mid-wives. They called him
Aaron.

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A Baby Escapes the King's Decree

having to feed their, own children to the

Nile crocodiles.

None of the Hebrew boy babies had

been killed so far.

The mid-wives had

had to explain to an angry king that

the Hebrew women, laboring at their tasks
almost to the hour of delivery, were so
active that their babies were bom suddenly
and easily. Not to be thwarted in his way

any further, Pharaoh now issued a fresh

decree. Every new bora Hebrew male
child was to Ije cjist into the Nile river.

There would be no circumventing this

Jochebed foimd herself with child

again, and she and Amram contemplated

with terror the birth of the child. Again
she contrived to keep the birth of the child
a secret from the Egyptian authorities.

God was keeping watch of this most

famous of famous children of Amram and

Jochebed-^Miriam the. prophetess, Aaron

the firstHSgh-Rriest of God,and nowMoses,

the leader, law-giver, and deliverer of

edict!

all Israel.

Thus the slaughter began. Many a

parental heart was broken when a'much
longed for son came, only to be snatched

ing between his people and God, ^d

governing them
the coming of the

away.

There was great lamentation

everywhere. Agonized prayers went up

to the living Grod from His people who,

ground under crushing tasks and deprived

Was not this infant ordained

to be the type of God's own Son, mediat

Anointed One?

Apart from her fierce maternal. con

cern, Jochebed may have had a sense of
Moses' high destiny. She managed to

even of their silver and gold, were now

hide him for three months before his

An bKteresting Sidelight

the household. So, one sad day, the

lusty voice began to attract attention to

A recent account of how oil was struck

in Egypt comes as an interesting sidelight

to this story.

An. Englishman who firmly believes

in the Bible had reasoned within himself

that if Jochebed found pitch in Goshen

with which to daub her basket there must

be oil there too, since pitch does not occur

where there is no oil. With great diffi
culty he finally managed to persuade the
directors of an oil company to invest the
necessary capital for prospecting. Ridi
cule, it may be imagined, was heaped
upon himthat a -businessman should
believe so implicitly a mere Bible fableI
But the man's confidence could not

be shaken, though it was severely tried

when hole after hole was drilled in vain.

But success was heralded, one day, by

a great rumbling noise as a colunm of

oil shot to tlie surface. Egypt had become
an oil producing country!

poor mother " took for him an ark of

bulrushes, ^d daubed it with slime and

pitch, " mid placed her treasure in a cozy

little nest prepared for him. Then she laid

the basket *' in the flags by the river's

brink". One may imagine that she

committed him to the river's embrace as

to the protecting arms of God. She

knew that the spot was one where
Pharaoh's daughter came to bathe, and
hoped that the ark might catch her sight.
Perhaps the princess would spare his life.
. To Miriam she said, " Now Miriam,

hide yourself in the flags here and watch

and see what happens to your little
brother. In case the princess sees him
and her heart is moved to save him alive,
go out and meet her and ask her if she

would like a nurse for the baby. If she

says yes, run and bring me word. But
don't let anyone suspect that you are the

baby's sister, and that you are fetching

his

own

mother."

13

She was paid to bring lum up for the

princess till he should be old enough to go

JHie Foimdliiig
" And the daughter of Phziraoh came
down to wash herself at the river. "

Like

a company of fairies the princess and her

maidens came tripping down. " They
sauntered a while on the edge of the river
before they entered the water.
" What is that yonder? Fetch it here
quickly, " cried the royal damsel. When
an attendant brought the little ark to her

" she opened it, and saw the child and

behold the babe wept. " Her heart was
moved.

" Oh how sweet; you little darling.

Must be one of the Hebrew children.

want him for myself."

She hugged the

little one to her breast.

" Mistress," remarked one of the

maidens, " he is a real baby and not a
doll. . He must be fed and looked after.

What can you do with him? "

" Oh, what shall I do ? " exclaimed

the princess, " I want him and I am sure

the king my father will not forbid me to
keep him."

" You could engage a wet-nurse for

him, " suggested another.
. Now there suddenly appeared a little

girl before them, making a low obeisance

to live with his foster mother.

Thus it

happened that the child, named Moses

by Pharaoh's daughter, spent the early

years of his* life amPng his own people.

That he was taught early to fear the living

God we cannot doubt.

Nor can we doubt

that, this early training made a lasting

impression upon him.
When he went to live in the palace

he was to all appearances an Egyptian

prince. He received the latest and best

education in Egyptian arts and sciences.
He had access to whatever his heart could

desire. The way seemed open to him to

the very throne of his foster-grandfather.
But his heart was the heart of an

Israelite. He saw the oppression suffered

by his people, and the sight preyed on
him night and day. As he continued to
visit his people, incognito, his heart burned
to liberate them. Knally there came the
day when he fled from the royal palace,
" counting the reproach of Christ greater
riches than the treasures of Egypt."
(Heb. 11:26).
We cannot but conclude that Jochebed's guiding hand, under God, had
made of Moses

the

man he

became.

The men whom it has delighted God to

to the king's daughter and saying, " Prin-r use have usually had Godly mothers who
cess, dp you wish a nurse for that baby? " shaped their Uves.^ Jochebed was an

The heart of Miriam^ poimded with a

delight which she dared not betray. " I

can fetch one to you for nursing him. "
" Yes, go and -fetch one quickly,"
answered Ae princess, and. away flew
Miriam to carry the good news to her
mother.

A Mollier Hired to Nurse Her Own Baby

Jochebed sent up, a, prayer of grati

tude to the living Grod who had heard
her cry, and hastened with joy to receive
back her own darling.

ordinary mortal, subject to all the frailties

of human flesh. That she must have erred

many times no one can doubt. It is an

encouraging thing for us all to note that
God can use human flesh for the shaping
of His own ends. Jochebed was the one
chosen to [Link] bring up Moses, Israel's

one ^authority till the Lord's own advent.

Ck>d can use [Link], if we will let Him.

Obedience toHis plem, and the submission

of our wills to His, is the condition laid

down. For us too, the reproach of Christ

must be counted greater treasure than the
riches of Egypt.

14

See,Hum OutScnes for Baeefoot feeoM^iik.

IS ANYTHING TOO HARD FOR THE
LORD?
. Genesis 18:14
I.

IMPOSSIBILITIES OVERRULED
IN THE LIFE OF ABRAHAM.
1.
2.
3.

Divine Revelation: Gen. 12:1-3, 7.

' but ipast victories do not ensure us against

being tried again. The tougher [Link],,
the harder the test; i mid it is almost as

though Abraham had -been*training 'all

his l2e for this ultimate test. It was not

enough that Abraharn. had Iqft Ur of
Chaldees and obeyed the Lord in previous
days.

Protection by Divine Intervention

II.

Gen, 12:17; 20:3.

4.

It can also be called a catalogue qf those

who feared . Grod.- Consider how God

knew that Noah, Moses, Rahab, and the

martyrs feared Him. .

1. The Virgin Birth

IN OUR OWN LIVES

Mt. 17:20

1. Forgiveness of our Sins, I JnJ 1:9.

2.

Salvation to the Uttermost, Heb.

3.

Divine Providence in our Daily

7:25.

Lives, Rom. 8:28.

4.

III. REGARDING OURSELVES.

The Miracles
The Resurrection

HI. IMPOSSIBILITIES OVERRULED

Is there a project which, you are

God. tests our fear of Him by such

tests as baptism, observance of the Lord's

Supper, assembling of ourselves together,,

daily devotions, witnessing, pure living,,

stewardship, loving our enemies, and

perseverancein trouble. We grow strongger as we gain victory in these trials.
Our ultimate test may still be in the
future and we must ptepar'e to'meet it.

Cone: What a joyous day it 'will be

when it can be said of us, " Now I know
that thou fearest God."

considering, e.g. full-time Christian

HOW TO MAiSK A LIVING

service, establishment of a new

congregation, becoming a missio

nary, or building a church build
ing? They, are all possible when we
work in the strength of the,Lordf;
Cone: Phil. 4:13.

REGARDING OTHERS.

Heb. 11 is a catalogue of the faithfuL

Birth of Isaac.

II. IMPOSSIBILITIES OVERRULED

IN THE LIFE OF CHRIST.
2.
3.

Future foretold..

. 'PS^ 37:16.27

i. THE WROl^G WAY.

. 1. Laziness: ^ov. 6:10, 11; 10:4;
20:4, 13.

2. Drunkenness, Gluttony: Prov. 23:21.

3. Bad Compianions: -ftpy.. 28:19.

NOW I KNOW THAT THOU

FEAREST GOD

4. Get Rich Quick Schemes: Prov.

Genesis 22:12 '

I.

regarding ABRAHAM.

It amazes us that at the age of about

114, Abraham was still bemg tested;

28:19-22.

5. All. Work: Luke 12:18-20.

6. [Link] for No. I: Mt. 19:2L

22; Luke 16:25.
7. No CJo-Gettiveness: Mt. 25:18.

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II.

THE RIGHT WAY.

3. Be diligent: Prov.

10:4;

12:24;

13:4; 22:29.

1. Be Righteous: Ps. 37:25.

2. Determine at the very beginning
of your life to give a tithe to the
Lord. Gen. 28:20-22.

4. Use what God has given you.

Mt. 25:20-23.

Be Profitable.

5. Be Generous: Luke 5:38; Prov. 28:27

Cone: Num. [Link].

(CAN YOU ][MA\G](NE?

Dear Sir and Brother:

Doubtless you will recall the invitation you extended to me to come

over into Macedonia and help the people of that section. You will pardon me
for saying that I am somewhat surprised that you should expect a man of my
standing in the church seriously to consider a call on such meager information.
There are a number of things I should like to learn before giving my decision,
and I would appreciate your dropping me a line, addressing me at Troas.
First of all, I should like to know if Macedonia is a circuit or a station.

There is another item that was overlooked in your brief and somewhat
sudden invitation. No mention was made of the salary I was to receive.
I have been through a long and expensive course of training; in fact I may
state with reasonable pride that I am a Sanhedrin man, the only one in the
ministry today. Kindly get the good Macedonian brethren together and see
what you can do in the way of support.
You have told me nothing about Macedonia beyond the implication
that the place needs help. What are the social advantages ? Is the church
well organized?

I recently had a fine offer to return to Damascus at

an increase of salary, and am told that I made a very favourable inipression

on the church at Jerusalem.

For recommendations write to the Rev. Simon Peter, D. D., at Jerusalem.

I will say that I am a first class mixer, and especially strong on argumentative
preaching. If I accept the call, I must stipulate for two months vacation and
the privilege of taking an occasional lecture. My lecture on " Over the wall
in basket" is worth two drachmas of any man's money.

Sincerely yours,
Paul

(If you think that the above is not correctly given as Paul's answer to the

"Macedonian call", you are quite right. See Acts: chapter sixteen, from
verse [Link]).

16

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Facing

Churches of

Christ in India."

SPECIAL SPEAKER : Mr. William Gulick, Madras, India.

CAMP FEE ;

Rs. 4*50 total (including charpai charge) or

80 nP. per day.

For further information please write to the editor of Christasian.

THE CHRISTASIAN

Frank Rempel,
Editor and Publisher,
112/352, Swarup Nagar,

Kanpur, U.P., India.

Telegraphic Address: 'Bibletruth', Kanpur.
Telephone No. 4295.

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or to

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cfl c/f K. J

K.

Stenciled by "Rnlpb

U.P., India,

pt- 11,f?../35^j Sv/crupnagar, Kaiipuj?

on,^vember lOj 1955^ and Plovjn to Clinton,.

Ohio, v/hore it v/as mimeo^aphed and raailed.

at

WORK

H E

IS

Columbus Day was a happy

day for us this year be

cause it was the day that
i'Jr.
and .Mrs. Mangal Singh
found the Lord. Thoy are an
elderly couple and had been
our friends

for

nvmiber of

years. They would have pre

ferred to have been

sed

by

their

preacher
v;oiftld

(and

have^

immersed
rules of

Methodist

he probably

likot.

them),

immer

to have

but

the

t h e i r denomination

forbad him to do so. At the

present ti^ie they v/ill con

tinue their membership in
the Methodist Church.

YJe also rejoice with Mr.

Rompel on the occasion of
the baptism of his landlord
who-is noir/ living in Delhi.

This is
a vrondcrful story
which you will want to hoar
from the pen of Mr. Rompol.
This is

the

convention

PROSPERING

and camp

season

and so v/c

have boon busier thon busy..

I

preached - four sermons at

the annual

"BilaspLir" con--

vontion which was held this

year at Katni. A week laterI preached five sermoxis at

the 12th Annual Vijai Nagar

Cainp.

on

v;as elected to be

the , Program

for

next

also

to

GoBir/dtteo-J-

year's cai'ap, and'

act

while Prank
furlough.

as Treasurer

Rerapel

is on

I have also been elected

to succeed Pranlc as treasu
rer of Now Testament Publi

cations Ass'n. This, too,

wo hope, will only bo for
the one year.
The Ass'n.
has

also chosoa

tor

for

its

Jeewan-Deep.
of

Allahabad

Julius Yafat
Julius
was

new edi

Hindi paper,

Gaius Timothy
will succeed!
of

Kulpahar.
very

I'm

OlllwVj.'

u'tXJ-U.t*

-i.S

uVOH

better qualified for the

job. The future looks very
bright.
The Hindi

edition

of

Virgil Poiton's,

"Novf Tes-

taiuont Studios,"

is now on

t u a XiXiii i ex"

One [Link] of

Sharp*s

"VfiiyWo Believe,"

is ready

iiJ.4.-U.1.0

i-

I.

loring school. Two montlis

ago we resumed partial sup
port at ii^lO a month so that
he could work as an appren-*

tico with a nosxrby tailor.

It begins to look, howevonf

that

s ale

c*

he cannot succeed

iii

that profession.
On the
other
hand,
there is a

wo

slight possibility that thp

hope, .to prepare the other

half during Christinas vaca

loca.1 church may desire to

employ him as a pastor be
ginning with the new yeai^

for

the

tion,

printer,

and

Funds are on hand to

print the book , but v;o must

Ho preaches fine messages ^

await

and is good at visitation^

Recently ho had a chance to
prove his worth when one of
our members diod while, .X
was out of the city, Ssthet'

the

convenionco

of

the chief editor, Gaius Ti

mothy

vho

is

school

to'achor.

On Nov.

2l}.th

missionaries
to

leave

all

.are

for

wo

planning

our

annual

missionary camp. This year

it is "being'held at Shil-

long

which

is

some

1000

miles from Kanpur,

.. " The termites

caused
have

next
end

us

so

which

much

retreated

rainy
we

had

some
some

steel
people

this

viill

had

grief

until

the

season. In the
to

invest in

shelving but
say that oven
not

stop

the

(his ?;ifu) .is presently em*ployed at

H'^spital.

We are once again giving

soKe help to Cyril Loyal

who preached for us several

years ago. (Ho was the pro

ject of Prank Reas'of Indi

Kanpur Eyt

Bible Book Store s'alci

during Sept. & Oct. totaled
125^98
included Ij
Bibles, 30 hovj Tostamontf;j

572 Portions

(mostly mt^

Kik., Lk., & Jn,),

of

Christ

61

hlfo

Visualized

Hindi, and 12 of the Peltan

booklet. Wc also supplied
20
Bibles
to another book
store,
100
of
the Pelfioa

booklet

termites,.

tho

by

have

Bemel

been ordered

Getter and ano

ther 100 by Kent Bates,

,1.1.

copies of ' the same hafo

been ordered by an Indian

ana). After leaving us, the

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SMOKE SCREENS
What masters we humans are at

throwing up smokescreens!

In order

to evade something that goes con

Divine edict, but he rationalized

that his disobedience was in a good
cause and would please Godhe

trary to our own wills, we can think

up substitutes clever enough to fool
everyonewell,
nearly
everyone.
And no one is quite so easily deluded
by our deviousness as we ourselves.
Take the case of King Saul of

thing to do. How human, but oh,

Israel for example. Faced with a

definite command from Jehovah,

He greeted the man sent to face him

through the prophet Samuel, to

remove every trace of the people
of Amalek (read the full story
in 1 Samuel 15) who were a

would offer the forbidden animals to

Him.

Undoubtedly Saul had even

convinced himself that it was the right

how wrong!
The smoke screen he cast up to
cover his wrong was a thing of art.

with his disobedience with a great

and very forced piousness'*
Blessed be thou of Jehovah: I have

performed

the

commandment of

grave danger to Israel, Saul respond

Jehovah."

ed heartily. It did not seem " rea

sonable " to him, however, COMPLE
TELY to comply with the command
of God, and he appropriated, as spoils
of war, the best of the enemy flocks

deaf to such blandishments for he

had heard the clear voice of the

and herds.

King's disobedience: the bleating of

sheep and the lowing of cattle.
Caught " flat-footed, " Saul tried
another tactic.

He knew this to be contrary to the

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But Samuel's ears were

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He blamed the dis

obedience on " the people " who, he

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implied had saved the better animals alive

against his own wishes. Samuel had no

]ED][TO)R][A]L COMMENT

trouble clearing the air of that smoke with

the comment (in effect); " Weren't YOU
supposed to be the head of the Israeli

Attention is directed, in this issue,

to two articles by American authors, a
close study of which will yield a rich

tribes? "

harvest of food for thought; "LEADER

Whether we are pleased with it or not,

the whole basis of the divine-human rela

tionship rests on our obedience to God's

commands. God may graciously forgive
our wilfulness on occasion, but it jiever

pleases Him.

The good man, the right

eous man, the man whom God honors is

SHIP

IN

CHRIST'S

CHURCH

TO

DAY ", by Charles Mills, stresses the need

for a church leadership patterned on the
New Testament model. Well supported
by quotations and references from the New
Testament itself, the article could well
serve our Indian churches as a basis for

the man who prizes the Word of God

class studies on this subject.

above his own rationalized conclusions.

are

" Hath Jehovah as great delight in

burnt .offerings and sacrifices as in obeying
the voice of Jehovah? Behold, to obey

comments regarding
this important
matter. Questions asked will be answer
ed either in private correspondence or

is better than sacrifice and to hearken than

the fat of rams ". Human " rebellion "

in future articles.

against what God

has

decreed

and

" stubbornness" in the support of our

own wills, the prophet goes on to say.
Is as bad as the " sin of witchcraft" and

" idolatry".

It is a rejection of the

The smokescreens we raise

to cover

up for our own wilfulness are different

from Saul's only in their details. The
command of God most frequently disobey
ed and then rationalized is the command

to " be baptized and wash away " sins

(Acts 22:16).
" See what a good servant I have
been" is a favorite. Examined closely
the service rendered turns out to be mostly

a sort of " busy-ness ". As a substitute

for obedience in baptism one sincere
Christian lady defended her father's
unimmcrsed state thus; "But he has
worked for the Lord all his life !" Obe

dience is much more acceptable to God

"service"

"Good
offered

as

of this kind.

intentions"

are

frequently

for

obedience.

substitute

to

write

the

Readers

editor

their

"THE BIG LIE", by Russell

Boatman, is the first section of a two-piece
study of a very widely held denominational
teaching. It may not please all of us
it is presented in a lucid and plain-spoken
stylebut it should awaken each of us to
a new examination of fundamental Chris

rule of God over us.

than

invited

{Continuedcn page 13)

tian preaching and practice.

In this

connection too we would welcome serious

enquiry.

The great problem today, says Dr.

W. A. Visser't Hooft, General Secretary
of the World Council of Churches, is to
" make the church think of itself as a
church of Christ and not of this or that

country or denomination

We wish the important and very widely

influential

Doctor had

asked

us for

solutionwe think its fairly simple to

state.

It

is

of

course

another

matter

to apply the solution.

Lei; the churches cease the practice
and the preaching of national and deno
minational Christianity and come back
to the purity and the simplicity of New
Testament Christianity, and inevitably,
{Continued on page 15)

CHRISTS CHURCH IN OUR TIME:

ITS LEADERSHIP
By Charles E. Mills

Reprintedfrom " Christian Standard "

Scripture describes flexible, practical pattern for the divine institution

No facet in the nature of the church

Yet there are those who maintain that

is of more critical importUice than its

leadership.
In its leadership the church foimd its
ancient strength and stability. In its
human leadership it experienced one of
its earliest deviations from apostolic pre
cedent. Over its human' leadership it has
engaged in many of its most violent
controversies. Its human leadership has
been one of the chief factors in its age
long and increasing division. It is there
fore not amiss that this aspect of the
church be investigated in these days of
booming religious interest^an interest
which, we are convinced, is in urgent need

the church is indeed without divine plan

and that its organization and program are

of direction.

A divine institution
The church is a divine institution

to be determined by its responsiveness to

the needs of each successive generation of
mankind.

The advocates of this position may be

divided into four groups: (1) Those who
recognize the church as being divine, but
who reject the idea that its constitution

is of divine design. (2) Those who recog

nize a pattern in the organization of the
apostolic church, but who consider that

the given design is not obligatory for the

church in later ages. (3) Those who claim
to detect no pattern of church organiza
tion in the New Testament. (4) Those
who reject the existence of a divine pattern
for the church in that they reject the New
Testament itself as being the divinely re
vealed word of God.

divine in its conception, in its design, and

in its establishment. It was &ected
toward a divine objecrive and provided
with divine powers by which to attain
that objective. Its persistence in the
face of the massive opposition it has faced
throughout its history marks it as being

With respect to the last of these groups,

this essay is hardly the place to frame an
answer. The advocates of this position
could be answered only by a full considera
tion of the evidences for the genuineness
of the Scriptures.

divine.

the above groups, let us note that both of

these positions leave the church without
any kind of objective standard of organiza
tion and completely at the mercy of the
whim and ambition of men. It is hardly

The church should ever function within

the full recognition of this truth. Never

should it presume to act as though it were
of the nature of the institutions of society
which arose in answer to hmnan need

alone. During the period of its leader

ship by the apostles, the church was
established and functioned in keeping
with a divine pattern.

In answer to the first and second of

conceivable that God would leave His

divinely commissioned church without

organizational pattern.
With respect to those who profess to
detect no pattern of church organization

in the New Testament, we can only say

that their position finds little echo in the
scholarship of the church from its early
centuries to the present time.
Irenaeus
of Lyons in the second century, Tertullian
and Cyprian of Carthage in the second
and third centuries, and Jerome of the
late fourth century wrote at considerable
length with relation to the organizational
pattern of the church. They all referred
to the Scriptures of the New Testament
and drew some definite conclusions from
them. Hosts of scholars from their time

until today have professedly foimd in the

New Testament a definite design for the
human leadership of the church. Even
the new revision of the Challoner-Rheims
edition of the New Testamenta Roman

occurrence of-the church that does not

share in these essentials cannot be said

to be truly the church.

Thus, when we study those portions of
the New Testament that furnish all the
authoritative information we have with

respect to the establishment and early

development of the church, there is to be
found a clearly discernible pattern of
organization. We turn now to a considera

tion of the pattern of the church's human

leadership.
The pattern in Scripture
TTie human leadership of the church
during the apostolic age may be divided

Catholic translation^recognizes a distin

guishable pattern.
Furthermore, the coiurts of our coimtry
reach verdicts based upon what they learn
of the church of the first century from

into two classes.

On the one hand was a

thing with which we deal has a definite

maimer.

and distinctive form, and it is by this form

that objects are unerringly identified.
In such a world as this it is only com

These leaders served the church during

the decades before the Scriptures of the

mon sense to expect and insist that the

and distinctive form, that each occurrence

by the churches. During that time when

Christian messengers possessed no objec
tive authority such as the New Testament

of the church must share in certain essen

tials of form with all other occurrences

were given special " gifts of the Spirit"

group of leaders who have been designated

by the title charismatic officers (from charis
mata, extraordinary powers). These are so
named because they were marked by the
possession of extraordinary powers im
the pages of the New Testament. This is parted by Christ through His apostles. It
a tacit admission that the legal minds of is to this class of leaders that Paul ap
our day do not agree that no pattern of parently refers in his letter to the Ephechurch organization is to be detected in sians, where he names apostles, prophets,
the church of the apostolic age.
evangelists, pastors, teachers (Ephesians
In general, all four groups mentioned 4:11). While it does not appear that all
above minimize the importance of the preachers of the Word (evangelists) and
form of the church as far as its effectiveness all pastors (shepherds) and all teachers
is concerned. To them, any insistence were of this charismatic class, it does seem
upon the authoritative nature of any that there was a certain number of evange
particular form of organization is not lists, pastors, and teachers who shared with
valid.
the apostles and prophets in having been
In answer to this position we should granted extraordinary powers enabling
note that we live in a world in which every them to serve the chxirch in a special

church of Christ has, by design, a definite

of the church, and that any claimed

New Testament were written and collected

became, there was a class of leaders who

which were utilized to authenticate the

message they spoke. When an objective

authority had been established in the
Scriptures of the New Testament, these
leaders disappeared from the ranks of

shepherd emphasizes his responsibility as

one who cares for the "flock of God".

In each congregation there was a

plurality of bishops. In no instance does

Christian leaders. Paul announces the the New Testament use the tide of bishop
forthcoming disappearance of this class of in such a way as to suggest that any
temporary leaders in his first letter to bishop had responsibility in more than
the Corinthians (13;8).
one congregation. (See, for instance,

Philippians 1:1).
Administrative officers

A second class of human leaders of the

apostolic church may be designated by the

title administrative officers. Whereas the
charismatic officers may be said to have
been appointed by God rather than man,
the administrative officers were chosen by
the local congregations. Whereas the
charismatic leaders served the church as a

whole and were seldom, if ever, attached

to a single congregation, the administra

tive officers were limited in their functions

to the congregation in which they were

elected to their places of leadership.
Of these administrative leaders, there
were two classes.

The first of these were

called bishops. This term is the English

translation of the Greek word meaning
" overseer

Each congregation is

thus completely autonomous, has its own

overseers, and is responsible only to the
Lord.

As their name implies, the function of

these leaders was that of oversight. It
was their task to lead the congregation in
carrying out the will of God.
That this was a relationship deeply in
grained in the structure of the churches
may be seen from reading the works of
Jerome, the translator of the Vulgate
version of the Bible, who lived in the fifth
century. In an age in which many in
dividual bishops had obtained the over
sight of whole congregations or of several
congregations, Jerome declares that
according to the Scriptures, the office
of bishop and that of elder are the
same.

The men in this class were

The overseers in each congregation had

also called elders (or presbyters) and pastors the assistance of helpers, called deacons.
(or shepherds). The words elder and pres This title comes from the Greek word
byter are both translations of the same meaning " servant, helper, assistant".
Greek word meaning " older man ". The In general, it appears that these helpers
word pastor is the translation of the Greek were men. However, there is evidence
word meaning " shepherd ".
that there was a class of female helpers in
All of these terms, bishopy elder, pres at least some congregations.
byter, pastor, refer to and are used to
The fimction of these male and female
indicate the same office. This may be helpers was to assist the bishops in carry
seen by examining Acts 20:17; 1 Peter ing out the program of the church. Care
5:1-4; and Titus 1:5-7.
ful instruction is given with respect to
Each of these titles emphasizes a the work of bishops, and careful instruc
different aspect of the office. The term tion concerning the spirit in which that
bishop emphasizes his function, which is work is to be carried out. On the other
that of oversight. The term elder {pres hand, nothing is said about the work of
byter) emphasizes his station in life as a the deacons and deaconesses. The obvi
mature man, "not a novice".

The title

ous reason for this is that these officers

had no designated function except that to may, within the limitation of that pattern,
which they were assigned by the bishops.
make adequate arrangements to meet the
It may be objected that this pattern of needs of the kingdom of God as they are
church leadership permits too much lati

tude to the bishops in their leadership.

On the contrary, however, it has safe
guards not to be foimd in any plan devised
by men in the ages since the apostles. In
the first place, these officers are subject
to the membership of the congregation
which has elected them.

In the second

translated into the responsibility of that

congregation.

In sm^ler congregations

xmpaid bishops with unsalaried deacons

may administer the work of the church.
As the work grows, it is not outside the
province of the bishops to employ such
paid assistants as may be deemed neces
sary to carry on the program of the con

place, responsibility for leadership is gregation, both within and without the
limited to the single congregation and is locd community. Jesus in His instruc
vested in not one, but a plurality of men. tion to the apostles sets the precedent and
This is much less subject to corruption Paul in his teaching furnishes the positive
and dereliction than having a single bishop authorization for the employment of
over a congregation or over a group of salaried assistants for the overseers (Mat
thew 10:10; Luke 10:8; 1 Corinthians
congregations.
9:14).
Added to the safeguard of plurality of
oflSce is that of the queilifications for the
Step to unity
offices of bishop and deacon outlined in
the Scriptures (1 Timothy 3:1-12; Titus
In this century, when the tragedy of
1:5-9). If each congregation exercises
care to see that these quaMcations are met division and urgent demands of Christian
on the part of each person to whom it imity are occupying the attentions of re
entrusts any position of leadership, it will ligious groups the world over, it is par
find that the God-designed plan of church ticularly urgent that renewed considera
leadership will furnish it with the effective tion be ^ven to the matter of the human
leadership of the church. No issue
direction it needs.
earlier, more deeply, or more persistently
divided the followers of Christ than this
Flexibility in applkiation
one. A return to the divinely designed
The leadership of the church thus and revealed pattern of leadership would
qualified and selected provides a strong go far to remove the barriers which today
undergirding for the successful direction separate the widely diyergent communions.
of its program. It is close to the grass
Among
Christian churches
and
roots of church life. It is marked by high churches of Christ there should be a
spiritual quailities. It minimizes the revival of self-study with particular refe
temptations of power and the dangers of rence to the divinely given standard of
corruption and dereliction. It is simple church leadership. \Vhile giving lip
enough to be effectively applied to the service to that standard, mziny have in
small congregation, yet flexible enough one way or another strayed far from the
to meet the complex requirements of the apostolic pattern. It has often been easy
large congregation.
to permit devotion to the divine standard
This latter point is one that needs to to become little more than a shibboleth
be emphasized. Under the leadership of to be mouthed with Pharisaic conceit
the bishops, the individual congregation
{Contirmdonpage 13)

THE CONVERSION 0)]F THE

TERROR OF TARSUS
By

It has been said that the entire system

of Christianity would fall if the resurrec
tion of Jesus Christ and the conversion
of Paul could be successfully denied. It
is with the latter that we want to deal in
this article.

Here is

Paul's own account of his

conversion as he relates it to an angry

mob:

" I am a Jew, born of Tarsus in Cilicia,

but brought up in this city at the feet
of Gamaliel, and educated according to
the strict manner of the law of our fathers,
being zealous for God as you all are this
day. I persecuted this way to the death,
binding and delivering to prison both
men and women, as the High Priest and

Markapapa

hand by those who were with me, and

came into Damascus.

One Ananias, a devout man spoken

of by all the Jews who lived there, came
to me, and standing by me said to me,
" Brother Saul, receive your sight
And

in that very hour I received my sight

and saw him.

And he said: "The God

of our Fathers appointed you to know

His will, to see the Just One and to hear
a voice from His mouth; for you will
be a witness for Him to all men of what

you have seen and heard. And now, why

do you wait ? Rise and be baptized,
and wash away your sins, calling on His
name !"

them I received letters to the brethren,

You may go over the details of the

cases of conversions as they are recorded
in the first church history bookthat is,

and I journeyed to Damascus to take

those also who were there and bring them
in bonds to Jerusalem to be punished.

the New Testament Book of Acts. It

leaves us a record of conversions and nonconversions. The record of Paul's con

the whole Council bear me witness.

From

As I made my journey and drew near

to Damascus about noon a great light
from heaven suddenly shone about me.
I fell to the ground, and heard a voice
saying unto me, " Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me ?"

And I answered: " Who

art Thou Lord ?"

And He said to me,

" I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom you are

persecuting". Now those who were with
me saw the light, but did not hear the voice
of the One who was speaking to me. And
I said:
What shall I do, Lord ?" And
the Lord said to me, " Rise, and go into
Damascus, and there you will be told all
that is appointed for you to do
And
when I

version is significantly recorded three

times. One account is given in Acts 9;
another in Acts 22; and still another in

chapter 26 of the same book. When we

put all of these together, and add the
frequent allusions Paul makes to his con
version in other letters, we have all there

is to know on the subject.

We should use them all when we are

endeavoring to form a conception of the

event as it really transpired.

Pursuing

the same method as the historian, let us

look at this " terror of Tarsus " previous

to the time of his conversion to Chris

tianity.

could not see because of the

brightness of the light I was led by the

{Continued on page 14)

LIBERALISM
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FUNDAMENTALISM

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Ftth based on "experience'

SALVATION BY WORKS

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(ALONE)

Sacctdotalintt

SALVATI(I BY FAITH

Praying Through
The Mourner's Bench

"Water Sdvation"

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Election.

^^PREDESTINATION

DOGMA OF ORIGINALSIN

A Compilation and Analysis of the Deviations of Doctrine and Perversions of

Practice Ariang out of die Dogma of Original Sin.

.-W

''THE BIG

By Russell Boatman

The most noxious seed ever sown in the soil of the Christian faith

is the dogma of original sin. Every branch of the Christian doctrine

of salvation has subsequently been corrupted. Someone has said, "one
of the nicest things about telling the truth is that one doesn't have to
remember what has been said." On the other hand, telling a lie is like
stepping off onto a ski slide. There is no stopping until one hits the
bottom. The bigger the He the more precipitous the slide. For every
He that is told, another, and another, etc., etc., etc., must be told. Such
is the history of the "big He" in denominational dogma.
The dogma of original sin produced the doctrine of total hereditary

depravitythe teaching that man isbynature, in consequence ofAdam's

transgression, dead in sm from the moment ofconception. This doctrine

is generally attributed to "Saint" Augustine who lived in the latter
half of the 4th century. Historians, however, point out that Augustine
should only be credited with the particular form of the doctrine attri
buted to him. He was a compiler, not an originator.
A Jewish sect as early as the ExiHc period is known to have taught
a doctrine of similar import. This is attested by the vigorous refuta
tion of such contemporary prophets as Jeremiah and Ezekiel (See Jer.
31.29, 30 and Ezekiel 18, particularly vs. 1-4 and 19,20).. Notwithstzmding the thoroughness and finality of the prophet's refutation the teaching

persisted, supported by false application of such passages as Exodus

20.5 and Psadms 51.5.

The Jewish form of the doctrine sought only to provide excuse for
man's personal wickedness. It was argued he came by it naturally.
Father was a sinner, his father was a sinner, his father also, etc., etc.
The phrase that was coined to express this was a cute one"The fathers
have eaten sour grapes and the children's teeth are set on edge" (See
Ezek. 18.2, Jer. 31.29, 30). The modem behavioristic school ofpsycho
logy would find in the ancient Jewish sect minds kindred to their own.
The Augustinian doctrine is a perversion of deeper dye. Not the
consequences only, not even just a susceptibility or tendency to sin, but

the very guilt of Adam's sinthis too is transmitted unto all generations
through the process! of procreation ! This is the big He in denomina
tional dogmathe most noxious seed ever sown in the soil of the
Christian faith.

Behold how every branch of the Christian doctrine of

salvation has been cormpted by it.

10
PART I

APOSTASIES CULMINATING IN THE DOCTRINE OF SALVATION

BY WORKS (ALONE)
Infant Baptism
Out of the doctrine of total hereditary
depravity grew the practice of infant
" baptism
(Quotation marks may be
omitted, insofar as the mode is concerned
at the outset, for the Roman Church

as well as the Greek branch in Augustine's

ministers
(sacerdotalism,
the
basic
ingredient of the Romanist hierarchial
system), or (2) by assuming that the faith
of believing parents sanctifies their

children, through baptism. The logical

outgrowth ofsuch reasoning is the doctrine
of baptismal regeneration (water salvation,,

as it is sometimes scornfully called).

Our brethren, in this the heyday of thefor several centuries afterwards). If the
doctrine of total hereditary depravity faith only cult, are often charged widi
teaching and practicing baptisnial re
be allowed then infant " Baptism" be
time immersed, and continued to do so

generation. To make such a charge is

to neither understand the terminology
in the New Testament. As soon as it employed nor the teaching and practice
began to be believed that" there are babes of our people. Baptismal regeneration is
in hell not a span long " (because of the a necessary corollary of infant baptism.
transmissions of Adam's guilt) mothers In our insistence upon believer's baptism
began to clamor for their babies to be we reject the very conditions that neces
sitate such a doctrine. No, not the bap
admitted to the rite of baptism.
tism of penitent believers " for the remis
The reason is not hard to understand.
sion of (personal) sins " (Acts 2:38) but
If babies are bom sinners, then (since the " baptism" of imwitting and (often
baptism is for the remission of sin)* unwilling) infants for the remission of
obviously babies should be baptized at the Adam's sin^this is " baptismal regenera
earliest time possible.
tion."
comes mandatory even if it isn't command
ed, alluded to, or allowance made for it,

Sacerdotalism) Baptismal Regenera

tion, etc.

John 3.3-5 clearly informs us we must

be spirit begotten (regenerated by the
Holy Spirit) as well as be bom of the water

Out of the practice of infant baptism

arose a cluster of closely related perversions
of Christian doctrine. Obviously the
" baptism " of infants posed a problem.
In that infants cannot fulfil the require
ment of faith (Mark 16.16) it was neces
sary to reason around tim requirement.
This was accomplished (1) by attributing

to enter into the kingdom of heaven.

Thus we insist that baptism be reserved
for those who have first been evangelized
by the Christian gospel, who profess
their faith in Christ thereby, and who
come repentantly surrendering body and.
soul to the Lord Jesus Christ.

" priestly" powers

to

the

officiating

NOTE;
The notion that "baptism for
remission of sins" violates the principle of justificatioii by faith is ofmuch later orig^, being a reaction

to the d^trine of sacerdotalism which arose out of

the practice of infant baptism.

Confirmation

Another outgrowth of The Big Lie

is confirmation, as practiced throughout
the Pedo-baptist denominations. In a
society where it was customary for the

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parents to make life's greatest decisions

for their children, even to their occupa

tions and partners in marriage, it was not

at all difficult to develop this corollary to
infant baptism also. The child, " baptiz
ed " without his (or her) knowledge or
consent, upon reaching the age of accoimtability was required to confirm (person
ally accept) the decision the parents had
made for him.

Salvation by Works
The " leaven of the pharisees " (Matt.
16.6), the doctrine that salvation is secur
ed by ritual was infused into the " lump "
of Christian doctrine by the foregoing
development. Two divergent movements
have grown out of such a notion^Romah
Catholicism and Protestant Liberalism.

truth wherever it may be found. But the

road to salvation blazed by the papists
is the road these would travel also. Only
the vehicles in which they would have us
travel differ. These too expect to find
salvation (whatever that may mean to a
liberal prbtestant) by works.

Ethicism and sociology replace the

vehicles in which the Romanists expect

to ride up to the pearly gates. Liberal

protestants may not be too sure the road
they are traveling leads to eternal life in
that " better country ", but to whatever

ultimate goal they do expect to arrive, if

any, they are sure the way to get there is
by " works of righteousness which we do
ourselves " to borrow a phreise from Paul,
in which he denied the very thing the
liberals avow! (Titus 3.5).

R,oman Gatbolicism

Roman Catholicism represents one

end

to

which

the

doctrine

of

total

hereditary depravity has led. Besides the

foregoing a number of kindred errors
peculiar to the papist system have arisen.
The doctrine of the immaculate concep

tion (introduced to spare the Christ child

AUTHOR'S NOTE:
The tracing of the
doctrine of salvation by works is not a dihScult task.
The lines of dependency, especially in the papal
system, are clear; and are generally conceded. That

protestant liberals share the concept ofsalvation by

works is a fact of common knowledge, although it

may not be as generally recognized diat they are
indebted to the Romanists for the development of
the idea.

In Part Two we wish to show Aat 20th

the guilt
of Adam's transgression) century Fimdamentalism also, in its teaching of
by faith alone" is likewise an outgrowth
and more recently the doctrine of "salvation
of the same basic error.
the assumption of Mary are contin
The doctrine of salvation by faith (alone) stands

gencies.

Purgatory, works of supereroga

tion and a munber of other encrustations

are other contingencies. The bridge

between these and the Augustinian dogma
is the sacerdotal system.
Protestant Liberalism

Protestant liberalism has avowed to

cut itself adrift from all tradition, to seek

today as die antidiesis of the doctrine of salvation

by works (sdone, or otherwise), but Ae roots there

of are the same.

Fundament^sts simply represent

another of&hoot of the same parent stock.

Not

since Adam and Eve ate of the forbidden tree and

introduced sin and death into this world has one act

of man had such dire consequences as the introduct

ion into the church of the dogma of original sin. In
Part Two we propose to refute this dogma and dis
cuss also the omer branch thereof20th century
Fundamentalism.

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CHRIST^S C^ORCH ANJD SECTARIAVNISM

" A

hundred

sects,

qr

even

two,

cannot be right; but all n^ay be wrong.

All, indeed, are wrong, tjiat are built

on anything but the one foundation of

the apostles and prophets^ Jesus Christ

Himself the chief-cornerstone.
There cannot be two houses

upon the same foundatipn.

built

There is

but the one true, visible^ real church

of Christ

on

earth.

Houses are not branchps of a house!

There may be partial followers of

Christ in all parties; but this will not make
the parties Christian churches. Presby
terians, Methodists, Baptists, etc, have
among them many good people, many who
follow Christ as far as those systems will
permit men to follow Christ; but none of
them being Christ's church will permit its
members to follow Christ fully. Christ's
religion can only be preached and enjoy
ed in

Christ's own church".

Neither are Roman, Greek, or Protestant

(Alexander Campbell, 1840)

parties the branches of Cl>rist's church.

A TEMPE][iAN(C]E <Qp[0)TE
(From:

Christian Standard ")

"Alcoholism is a disease, of course.

But it scarcely seems tq me that this

excuses or

clears

the

distillers of res

ponsibility. Cancer does not advertize

itself as a symbol of ' thoughtful hospita
lity '; heart disease does npt spend a quar
ter of a billion dollars annually to
announce that it is an ^aid to gracious
living'. Neither polio nor tuberculosis
describe themselves in handsome posters

and

colorful magazine spreads

means

to

healthful

relaxation

fi

as a

" The BREWERS DIGEST once dis

cussed the sales condition of the beer

industry, and reached the conclusion

that it ' had not yet found a satisfactory
answer to the problem of introducing
beer to a high percentage of the younger
generation '. Other diseases are not sold,
advertized, pressured, promoted, lobbied
and press-agented in this way. Other
diseases are fought with drastic surgery
or skilled preventive medicine ".

and

(Upton Sinclair in " Cup of Fury ")

enjoyment.

^^TRAJIN 1U(P A

CeilLD^^

Some parents say, " We will not influ and atheistic teachers will.
We use our influence in training
ence our children in making a decision in
flowers, vegetables, cattle, dogs and we
the matter of religion. '' Why not?
The press will try to influence them. try our utmost to make them do what is
So will the liquor industry. The movies best. Are our children not as important
will. The neighbors will. The schools as these ?

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{Continued jrom page 2)

Joshua was the one. What military pre

That formed part of Saul's defence of

cedent was there for trying to over-throw

thick city walls by marching around them

his actions. " I intended to obey but

circumstances prevented me from doing
so. Grod will accept my intention in

and blowing trumpets? The scoffers

must have had a real picnic! Just wasn't

lieu of the actual deed ".

The result wds a full vindication of the

Friend who

" reasonable "but it was " obedient".

so reasons, I shouldn't depend on it if burden of thife article.

I were you. Our smokescreens cannot
The apostlb Paul carried about with
fool the Almighty One, and cases are
extremely rare in which a determined him the fear that even after having
" preached to others " he himself might
person could not overcome his " cir
cumstances " against New Testament miss the diviiie mark. Yet how many
baptism. An old couple, whose immersion preachers seem to try to fool themselves
into Christ the writer witnessed only- that in the fact of their preaching alone,
hours before this writing, could easily regardless of what departures from
have pleaded that excuse, but the evident the truth that preaching may contain or
of what gross misconduct they may them
joy that was theirs when finally obedi
ence was complete was convincing enough selves be guiltyj their salvation will lie.
proof that good intentions alone are no Constant attention to the will of God,
substitute for fulfilment of God's com
mand.

" Sincerity" comes high in the list

of substitutes for obedience. Sincerity
is a good thing; it is a most attractive
quality in the Christian. The thing to
guard against is being " sincerely wrong ".
God cannot accept sincerity as a cover
up for disobedience.

" Reason" (rationalization, really)

is often tried. God's requirements, it is
true, do not always seem reasonable to
us^they often have no purpose that is
visible to us. If anyone ever had a

and a

buffeting of the body " in order

to " keep it iii subjection" must be

maintained if the prize is to be gained.

As in all things eternal, the Saviour
is our example in this matter also. Of

Him it is said (Hfeb. 10: 5-7) that when

He came into the world He acknowledged
that Grod did not require " sacrifices and
offerings " (service) " whole bnmt offer
ings and sacrifices " (ceremonial correct
ness) merely for their own sakes. He
confessed (as it was Written concerning
Him): " Lo, I am come to do Thy will,
O God ".
The result of His obedience is

our

good opportimity to t^ that one, surely salvation if we but follow in His steps.
(Continuedfrom page 6)

tion among His people.

and with disdain for those who make no

divinely revealed will of the Lord, and in

earnestly seeking to fulfil His wishes. His
church will find both unity and the fulfil
ment of His hope that it might be " a
glorious chiurch, not having spot, or
wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it
should be holy and without blemish".

boast of being a New Testament people.

A renewed effort should be made by each
congregation correctly to understand the
Scriptural plan of leadership and to
embody in its own leadership all the high
qualities the Lord would bring to realiza

In hun^ty, in consistent studyof the

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{Continuedfrom page 7)
He himself declares, in a passage
to Timothy, that he had been a persecutor,
a blasphemer, injurious, the very chief
of sinners of his day. All this is confirmed

by the previous accounts; Luke's descrip

tion of him when he started from Jeru
salem to Damascus is that he was yet

continent were given a call by the visio

nary man from Macedonia, until they
found their way to that prayer-meeting,
on the river-bank at which Lydia and her
household were converted to Christ.

But

this Paul, how was such an one to be

converted?

God had always sdnt his messagethrough human agency, but it would be
against the disciples of Jesus. He admits a hazardous thing to send a preacher to*
that he gave his consent to the murder Paul. If Paul had known a man to be a
of Stephen, the church's first martyr. He Christian preacher he would. immediately
had gone, at the head of a body of armed have put him into chains and hauled him
men, through Jerusalem, seizing and captive back to Jerusalem. No angel is.
dragging to prison both men and women, sent. No preacherat this stage^is
because they were following Christ. He sent to the rabblerouser. Instead,, the
says to King Agrippa: " I pimished them Lord Jesus Christ Himself comes down
often in all the synagogues and I strove from heaven to commission Paul as an.
to make them blaspheme ". " When they apostle to the Gentiles.

breathing out threatenings and slaughter

were put to death, I gave my vote against

Proud Paul is knocked down into thisthem
being exceedingly mad against humiliating position by the One whom he
them. I persecuted them even unto has been persecuting. The proud Jewish
foreign cities ".
rabbi of the strictest sect of the Jews,
When he had scattered the church is to be a special vessel to minister to the
in Jerusalem, until there were no more Gentiles. Paul^paradoxicallyhad to
meetings or preaching there, he sincerely be struck blind before he could see. Even,
believed that he had l^ed the first church. in this ageof theincandescentlight, no man

has seen such a light as was experienced

by Paul. It was brighter than the sim
ples at work in Damascus, one himdred at noon-day. Paul and his escort fall to
and fifty miles from Jerusalem, he obtain the ground like dead men, as did those
ed authority from the chief priests to go guards at the tomb when the angel rolled
down there and seize and drag them back the stone away for Jesus. Only one of
to Jerusalem, every one of them, for pimish- the company heard his name called, and
ment. He was on that journey at the time that was Saul.
of his conversion to the Lord Jesus
How loud the voice was, we do not
Christ.
know. It certainly arrested the attention
of blinded Paul. Addressing him in
How can such a man as this ever be
come a humble disciple of Jesus Christ! his Jewish name, the voice cries out:
To the Ethiopian nobleman God sent an " Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me P'*"
angel-directed preacher, Philip, so that Persecute whom? Is it Stephen, coming
this hitch-hiking messenger might tell bade to haimt the one who has caused his
the Ethiopian treasurer of Jesus. Another death? Can it be the imited voice of all
angel was despatched to send Peter, at the others whom he has persecuted ? No,
Joppa, to Cornelius so that that officer it is the voice of God!
Paul, bravely, searchingly, asks his
in the army of occupation might be saved.
In the case of Lydia, men from another accuser: "Who are you? The Lord?"
Not content with this, and hearing that

there were some of these scattered disci

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had

But how could it have been any

different ? Paul was remembering the
pain and sorrow he had caused to others,

risen and glorified

how he had driven men and women from

" I am Jesus, whom you persecute, " is the

answer.

Paul!

What a revelation this was for

Jesus,

whom

crucified was this

the Jews

being? Jesus, still alive? What should

he think now?

fighting

against

He had been wickedly

Jehovah

and

His

Son, and here He is now, alive and

speaking to his mcst deadly enemy. The
conviction dawned on

Paul:

" I

have

been wrong !"

When this soul-shaking realization
came upon Paul, what could he say ?
Simply, " Lord, what wilt Thou have me
to do ?"

their homes, how he had seized others and

scourged them to make them blaspheme
the name of Jesus. No man ever had
more reason for agony of soul than he did.
No man, therefore, ever repented so
completely and so bitterly as Paul did
in those three days of fasting and pray
ing. There can be no doubt about his
repentance, or about his faith.

To Paul, perhaps reluctantly, came

Ananias to heal him and to act as God's

That was all.

For our own salvation we have no

spokesman, as he told Paul of the con

ditions

of salvation.

Paul

arose,

was

need to ask such a question today. The baptizedonly then he ate food and was
record of what Jesus requires us to do is strengthened.
His agony is over; he has
written in the New Testament. He has
told us what we must do to be saved

further questioning would be purposeless.

The outline and pattern of Paul's
future life was to be clearly stated later in
the words: " You will be a witness for Him
to all men
but the instructions

for his immediate acts were, " Go into

Damascus and it shall be told thee what

thou must do ". You, sinner-friend, must

go to the pages of the New Testament, to
a book called the Book of Acts, where
it will be told to you what you have to
do in order to be saved.

The same con

ditions of salvation that Peter presented

to the heart-pierced crowd on Pentecost

received his sight. His sins are forgiven

and he is filled with the Spirit of God.
He is a Christian now, and this is the
simple story of his conversion.

Looking back, we can see how God

providentially used this man for a two

fold purpose: to scatter his disciples so

that they might spread the Gospel to
a greater area; and secondly, as a pioneer
preacher to the Gentile world.

He pass

ed from Paul, the persecutor, to Paul, the

persecuted.
Thank God for men like Paul! Praise

God for those who will obey the heavenly

vision!

in A.D. 30 are the terms of salvation for

you today. The grace that was bestowed {Continuedfrom page 2)

on Cornelius, Lydia and upon Paul is
bestowed today in like manner.

Paul repented of his sins. Quite

a change it was, I'd say. For three days
and nights he went without food and drink.

He prayed-oh, how he must have prayed!

for he was weighted down with a great

agony of guilt.

It was a weight that

would have crushed the life from him had

it not been for the mercy of God.

the " real sense of the church " as he puts

it, will be there. Let the denominations,
casting off all the appurtenances of

centuries of human invention, become in

truth churches of Christ by obeying the

Divine requirements for such, and the
problem will be solved.
This is the very thing " Christasian "
stands for and pleads for.

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Behold, I show you a mystery;

We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling
of an eye, at the last trump:

For the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible and we
shall be changed.
For this corruptible must put on incorruption,
And this mortal must put on immortality.
So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption
And this mortal shall have put on this immortality,
Then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written,
" Death is swallowed up in victory! "
O death, where is thy sting?
O grave, where is thy victory?
The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.
But thanks be to God,

Which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye steadfast, unmovable.
Always abounding in the work of the Lord,
Forasmuch as ye know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
The Apostle Paul

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