Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-10-19

CHRISTIAN CHUROlI---sahbuth services
Sunday school ~ 10 Il. m; preaching each after
nate Sunday NJ II Il. m. and w. M EuduHY6r 80,
cietN up, m. Prayer meeting on Thursday NJ 3
y, M IT, D. sElLERs' fHbtOr'
BAPTIST OHURCH-Sabbaths service Sunday
School NJ 10 a. m preaching at II u, m. and y p.
IN; prayer meeting, Wednesday p. m; cove
mint meeting, Saturday before fret sunday, . p.
m. d, r. CRAWFORD fbhIpF
NJ y. CHURCH-Sabbath services. Sunday
SchOOl nt 10 u. m; sreaUhing Nc II Il, m, and g. b.
N; chse meeting IT. u nj ptobntoner class,
fourth Sabbath . p, N; tcWhoT meeting Thur'
day, SOP. M prayer meeting, Ihursd1y bp,
M; Epw6rth League, Friday s p, m; Junior
Tongue saturday, 0 D. mi Official board nrst
Tuesday 3 p. m u. o. STRONG, Fatlof
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O Lord, by all thy dealings with
us, whether Of joy or pain, Of hight or
darkness, let us be brought to thee.
Let us value no treatment Of thy
grace simply because it makes us
happy or because il makes us sad,
because it gives ms or deuies lis what
we went, but may ,all that thou send
est us bring Us 10 thee, that, knowing
thy perfectDess we may be sure in
every disappointment that thou art
still loving us, and in every darkness
that thou art Still enlghtenlng us,
and in every enforced idleness that
thou art still using us--yen, in every
death that thou dldst give life to thy
Son, our Savior JESUS Christ. Amen!
Prayer by PhiliipS Byoohs.
The PROMISES OF GoD-"IBe pros
pect is as bright as the promises Of
God" was the answer Of DR.. Judson
to one who, in his Impotence for re.
suits, had asked him what were the
prospects on his field. Admirable re-
pIyl To build on the promises OF
God is the mark Of the highest mis-
sionary wisdom. A calculating age,
reckoning evermore on numbers and
size and visibility, puts great tox on
those who work by faith. "Show us
your success and we will give you our
money" is the constant challenge Of
worldly prudence. Nowhere have we
seen missionaries moro deeply wound
ed than at this point Exhibit the
results Of your labor, count up your
spiritual assets, give us n catalogue
of your converts" IS the demand of a
prudential Christianity. If these are
not forthcoming, then the laborer is
discredited, however faithful be may
have been on his field.
The promises of God are certain,
but they do not mature in ninety
days Faith is the substance OF
things hoped for, the evidence of
things not SEEM" saith the Scripture.
As the hank-bill stands for the coin
which constitutes it's specie basis, 80
the promises Of God stand for the
sure and certain performances of
God; and we want mon on our mis-
slonary boards, at home aud on the
fields abroad, who shall consider Gods
promises las good as gold" and &C
cept them as collateral for any loan
Of men and money, however large,
which the cause may demand. The
counterpart Of an unripe scepticism,
which denies before it has even
doubted, is u precocious faith which
demands the settlement in full OF
Gods promises before the first install
ment OF the taxes on the same has
been paid in patience and prayer and
seIf-deniaI. A labJnous and highly
qualified missionary was recently JUS
tlfyiug his condueS TO tho writer in
having withdrawn from his board
aud gone beck to his field in sole de-
pendence on the Lord for support.
God can wait; boards cannot" he
said in substance. because my field
has proved unproductive after many
years OF hard labor, they have aban-
doned one of its most important sta
tions. ! am not on the field of fruit
alone. greatly as I long to see it, but
i'll obedience to my Masters commits
mission; therefore [ caunot with
draw" Is there not substance for
serious reflection in his remark? l.
it not the barren field that needs a
missionary quite az much as the fruit
fu| field? 1t should be- ever borne in
mind, moreover, that the final award
reads. well done, good and faithful
8er0drt,' not good and successful
servant" An ambitions zeal has
given out the watohword, "All the
world for CHRIST" and many would
insist on Indications and guarantees
that all the world is coming as q
ground for mstintcd outlay. No
doubt God in His own time will give
the heather to His Son for an lnheri
taucr, and the uttrrmost parts of the
earth for a possession; hut mean
while our business is to carry Christ
TO all the world, to carry him into the
barren fields as we'll as into the fer
tile fields. How slowly the seed of
life germinateS and brings forth! The
kingdom of God is not u mushroom,
spripGing mp in a night; wa may re-
joice if it is even century plant,
blooming at the end of hundred
years. But the promises of God can.
not fail;al that He has spoken con.
corning the triumphs of the Gospel
must come to pass; and it is for us tc
labor on IN the kingdom and patience
of Jesus Christ.
1t IS only in this thought-fathful
ness, not fruitfulness, the criterion o.
reward-that we seem to get any
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