The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1906-06-22

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cations that claim our children both il
and out of the church, ] believe the
Junior League comes first of all, fol
through it you can inculcate the teach
ings of the church along all lines
Temperance, missions, etc., and thus
combining our efforts on the one or
Iganization, accomplish much more
than when scattered through SO many
| / trust that we may devise some
tplan by which we may be able to dt
more for this branch of our work.
Our financial showing is fairly good
s761.48 are reported as raised for mis-
sions, an increase of $245.28 over the
Year before; $1,092.53 for other OBJ
jects, decrease of $368.2l. making 9
total of $2,053.73, an increase Of
$12244.
| While ! do not believe in making
the leagues a mere money-getter, tc
help out pastors who do not make an
effort to get their assessments for the
various claims upon the church. yet
young people need to be taught the
grace Of liberality and there is moth
ing that helps one so much in his spir
litual life, as responding to the claims
lof suffering humanity. ! have yet to
hear of anyone who was impoverished
| by giving. On the contrary, you will
find the promise of our Lord recorded
lin st. Luke always fulfilled: "Give and
lit shall be given unto you; good meas
Iure, pressed down, and shaken togeth-
Ter, and running over shall men give
Into you bosoms. For with the same
measure that ye mete withal it shall
he measured to you again"
A year ago at our meeting in Madi-
SON, inspired by the earnest appeal OF
Brother /. s. Patterson, p. e. Tampa
district, a collection was taken and
$500 were pledged for Little Italy"
Tor the mission work among the Ital-
ians in Tampa, and resolution adopt
ed that we raise the amount to $1,000,
to be paid during the year. Your
treasurer in her report will tell us
how much has been paid on that
pledge.
AS Epworth Leaguers we cannot af-
ford to have any deficiency; our word
is pledged for that amount, and we
must make it good.
During our meeting we shall have
a full account of the work from Broth
er Gludoin, the missionary in charge,
and others.
/ think it wise not to undertake too
many enterprises. We need money for
the successful carrying on of our own
work; young people are not, as rule,
in a position to have at their command
large sums of money; your church
has claims upon you, through her
legitimate channels, and too. many spe-
Gals may have a tendency to dis
courage or cause you to enter upon
plans for raising money that consume
your time and energies in wrong
direction. Systematic giving is the
only true course to pursue. Stress is
being laid in these days upon tithing,
and Malachi $40 is quoted, and prop
erly to: Bring We all the tithes into
the storehouse, tnaI there may be meat
in mine house, and prove me now
herewith, said the Lord of Hosts, if l
will not open the windows of heaven
and pour you out blessing, that there
shall not be room enough to receive
II it."
The following extract is to the point
just here:
Our Tithes.- What are we waiting
for and longing hopefully to see is
the conservation of the bast money
power of the world to the work and
cause and kingdom of Jesus Christ;
for that day, when it comes, will be
the morning, so to speak. of the new
creation. That tide-wave in the money
power can as little be resisted, when
God brings it, as as the tides of the
sea; and like these also, it will flow
across the world in day Oh, for the
uprising of this tidei In the history
of America there have been many re.
vivals, and each has had its own dis
tinctive peculiarities. There has been
a revival of the Word; there has been
a revival like that in 1853 in New
York, marked by a wonderful outpuor.
ing of prayer. Each has had its OWL
peculiarly. What / would like to see
now is revival that shall be marked
by Christian giving, by sacrifice for
Christ. say sacrifice. Men wait until
the cup is full and they give the over
flow to Christ, and call that sacrifice
forgetting that the whole contents OF
the cup are His. We hear great deal
jof systematic benevolence. wish il
were more systematic-and of the
Lords portion; but what is the Lords
portion? The Old Testament 1.-THE
No. no; the New Testament Levities
are the whole church; the New Tesla
ment priesthood are the universe
priesthood of believers; and the New
Testament 1.-THE is all that man has
So let us look at ourselves as stew
ards. Rev. VIM. Taylor, d. ID.
A year ago we changed the consti
tuition to admit of the appointment o
district secretaries, who were to hav'
supervision of the leagues in each F