The age-herald., 1901-01-21

the whole earth. rendering impossible ever again upon earth any such concerted at tempt to invade heaven. Never in all the ages has the world seen a completed city and tower of Babel.
 But this same history bears record of another community In which all those bound by the magic circle of the love of Christ being of one mind and gathered for the realization of a common purpose were so made of one language and one speech that by the faithful exercise of the consequent possible cooperation and CO., ordination of action the common motive of their gathering was crowned with the gar land of successful realization. In accord ance with the promise the Lord again came down to his people, but this time to enlighten, unify and accomplish, not to be- wilder separate and destroy. And in the enjoyment of the gift he bestowed, the wisdom of the Holy Ghost, 'Parthians and Medes and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judea and Cappa- docia, in Pontus, and Asia. and Phrygia, and Pamphilia-in Egypt, and In the parts of Libya about Cyrene-and strangers or Rome Jews and Proselytes Cretes and Arabians' heard each other speak in their own tongue the wonderful work of God Never in all the ages has there been re- corded the defeat of the cooperative and coordinate endeaYor of men gathered to- gether for the accomplishment of the com- mon purpose of a Pentacostal mission.
 lmperfection in This World.
 And these records of history are in ac cord with the actual experiences of our everyday life. The consciousness that oth CTS need our cooperation is source of reorganization to us. Not one of us can boast that he needs not the help of others. This is true in every department of life, and especially in the sphere of the church. And this is a perfectly natural consequence of one universal imperfection of our fallen human nature and constitution. I refer to the universal imperfection of human limi- tation Every man, we know him, is limited, in the performance of any work, to a specific sphere, and makes fruitful his labor only among a certain class of people, or under the conditions of a special environment.
 This imperfection is, as I have said, universal in it's scope and application, but specific in its divinely directed operation. AS we see 1t in the practical work of life 1t denies one man successful accomplish ment where another Is crowned victor and visits failure upon that other where the one gloriously succeeds. And this fact it is that renders absolutely necessary the co-opera- tive and coordinate action of all engaged in concerted endeavor to accomplish a cer- tain common purpose in the world among all kinds of people, under all conditions of environment
 'As we are given to view and understand ourselves and others here some of us seem SoOu lVI HOlHlilS dL dIlyln Wnlle OJDeTS appear perfect in everything. This, how ever, is all deceptive. The fact is that in the concrete every one is good for some thing. Successful accomplishment, even of individual purpose, when that accomplish ment depended upon simple individual en- deavor unaided by God or fellow-men, has never attended the action of warrior in the battle of life. Every fighting Joshua must have his praying Moses. Every praying Moses must have his supporting Aaron and Hur. No Apollos can be a Cephas. No Cephas can be an Apollos. An Apollos and Cephas combined could not give the world Paul. And yet in the coordinate and cooperative work of all, we have the per fectly accomplished eternal purpose of God In the individual endeavor of each and every one"
 MT. Murray also spoke of the hindrance to perfect accomplishment of our human in- firmity and how human limitations can be removed by Gods aid. Let us appre- cate each other in labor together. Let us be thankful to God that 1t is our priv ilege to be laborers together with Him."