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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-07

ONE people believe that miracles
mover hammered Some believe that
miracles once happened. but grad
~ uaIly or suddenly ceased TO nap
non. Some believe that miracles
happencd in tn" past. are happening TO-
dav and will happen i'm the future IL
is an interesting subject on which to spec
1tIate. The indications are that it IS
bound TO he discussed vigorously during
the next ten years.
As in all animated debates. much de-
pcnds on your definition. If you start
with the dogmatic assertion that a mira
Gle is an event contrary to natures laws
Won are likely to draw from the premise
certain conclusions. But IL your idea
is that a miracle is a suspension OF Ger
tain ordinary methods of natures work
Ing. through the operation of higher
and possibly not yet fully understood law
of nature. then you may find place in
Your philosophy for miracles.
In our day we have come to put nigh
valuation upon the uniformity Of natural
order. Science then becomes possible, for
science Is the orderly arrangement and
correlation of ascertained and verified
facts We are all glad TO live in world
in which the majesty of the natural order
shines out so impresSively. We should not
care to live in a happy-go-lucky universe.
1t would erlbarrass us greatly IL the sun
now and then took fancy to rise in the
west, or the north star shifted It's posi-
tiOn occasionally to any part OF the
heavens which il took a notion 10 visit.
and il should float instead of sink We
should feel that there was something UNI
canny and spooky about such a phenOm-
enon. All our coming and going In the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-07

The allied mission boards seem to have
almost No much difficulty as the govern
ment in keeping up their forces. MIS-,
sionaries die, are invaded home. or need
seirforcements.
SO, all unsupported by the general pub
lie or the average churchman, sys-
tematic and persistent campaign for new
workers IL carried on. OF which TINS
want ad" monthly is only one expires.
sion. The student volunteer movement:
has a considerable force Of secretaries
travelling among the higher institutions OF
learning In tire United States and Canada.
The summer student conferences OF young
men and young women are especially
fertile recruiting ground.
High Qualifications Demanded.
1t may not be generally known that
missionaries are taken almost exclusive
ly from college graduates. The board
nowadays seeks quality first, with the re-
suit that not a few Of the leaders in
college life have gone to the mission field;
and certain universities. among them
Harvard, Yale. Princeton and the Uni
versity OF Pennsylvania. now maintain
their own medical or educational mis-
sions. manned by their own graduates.
Nobody knows what sort of emergency
q missionary is likely to get into; there
fore. he must be Of proved stuff. Thus.
Il was University Of Pennsylvania grad
uate. q missionary teacher Herbert Glib
bons. who was the hero of the recent
Adana massacre in Turkey. At the point
OF pistol he compelled the cowardly vail,
or Turkish ofY1cial. to put detachment
Of soldiers under his (Gibbons) command,
for the protection or threatened Chris
tians. Gibbons was also this l1ader in tho
relief work that the massacre made neces-
sary.
Similarly, it was young American col
le8s man. a missionary teacher named
Baskerville. who died a hero's death In
leading a sOrtie from the beleaguered Per-
sian city during the recent revolution. The
constitutionalsts, now victorious, have al
ready erected a monument to him and de-
clare that he will always be one of their
national heroes. So there is always the
lure OF possible adventure in this call
to foreign service.
"on the Road to Mandalay."
A glance over this little sheet of help
wanted advertisements calls up, by the
mention OF distant places. history. poetry.
romance. The person who has felt the
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The Setting of the Psalm.

The position of the twenty-thrd psalm
is significant. When / say that 1t stands
between the twenty-second psalm and the
twenty-fourth psalm. il seems simple
statement, but | mean il rightly stands
there. The twenty-second psalm is a
psalm of the cross: the twenty-fourtll
psa I'm Is a psalm OF the glory. The TWEEN
ty-third psalm lies properly between them
The twenty-second psalm is past and the
twenty-fOurth psalm Is future. The twen-
ty-third psalm is present. everyday
psalm. / say 1t over and over. and al
ways il seems as IL 1t were new to me
The Lord is my shepherd: | shall not
want
All classes of people have said it. 1t
may be that Jesus himself. standing by
Mary's SIDE said in that voice, which must
have been infinitely sweet in the days of
His childhood. The Lord is my shep-
herd. Happy pilgrims have said it, and
they have forgotten the Tong journey they
have made. and the dreary miles stretch
ing out ahead of them, as they have said.
The Lord is my shepherd" Martyrs at
the stake have said it, and they have been
unmindful of the flames and their suffer-
ings. when, with hearts burning, they
have sobbed, Il shall not want" 1t is q
dear old psalm. and the best thing about
it is. it is psalm you can live every day
of your life.
The outline is very brief and very easily
remembered. 1 gave it two years ago in
a boys school i'm America, and a boy who
was not supposed to be religious came to
me about year ago and said: Il heard
the twenty-third psalm. and the outline Is
as follows" And then he gave me every
point that I had made / thought it the
highest possible compliment to a preacher.
and you will, L am sure. remember the
divisions. They all begin with the same
letter.
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Taft, Roosevelt and Bryan.

President Taft is to make an address at
tho opening OF the Washington meetings.
November lila. He has already spoken
for the laymen's missionary movement,
his address at the Carnegie Hall meeting
last winter having been internationally
circulated. President Roosevelt, as Is
well known. has frequently spoken in
favor OF foreign missions. and only MS
absence from the country prevents his
sharing in this winters campaign. He
will be delegate to the worlds confer
ence in Edinburgh next June. as will also
William Jennings Bryan. Mr.. Bryan will
speak at some of the city campaign
meetings.
An interesting aspect of this unprece-
dented movement among the laity OF the
churches in behalf of an interest in the
whole world is the tendency, which some
close observers detect on the part of the
government to support and further it.
Bluntly put. this means that high officials
OF state are using IL to further certain
foreign policies. II Is known that Presi-
dent Taft is determined to see America
firmly established as a factor in the af-
fairs OF the far east. His chief problem
s. how to educate the country up to his
policy. This laymen's movement oppor-
funely offers an educational propaganda
OF the first order. The speakers in this
unique campaign are all crying the crisis
in the orient and Americas unique op-
portunity there. This suits Was hington
perfectly. Every American school. every
American hospital. every American mis-
siOnary at work in the far east enhances
this nations prestige and influence there.
Canada. which conducted similar
campaign last winter. the first In the his
tory of organized Christianity. Is repeat
ing the process this year. The govern
ment leaders there see the value 10 the
imperial spirit of an awakened interest
in all the remote parts of the earth where
British interests are established. Sir
Andrew Fraser, late lieutenant governor
OF Bengal was the favorite speaker at
the eliminating National Missionary Con-
gress. held i'm Toronto last March. with
more than 100 men, from all parts of
the Dominion, registered as delegates.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-07

HE ordinary want ad" page is
full Of human interest to the
discerning person: but there
is an unpretentious little
sheet wherein advertise
ments cost nothing. issued In New
York, which opens fascinating vistas into
nearly all the odd corners Of the earth.
More than three hundred appeals are
printed In the latest issue. for men and
women to take up. what gives promise o.
being romantic IL not adventurous
careers. Each OF these positions offers
assurance Of extensive travel with all
expenses paid. and a comfortable salary.
Whether IT is because the pioneer blood
is thinning out, and young people prefer
the known comforts OF a housekeeping
life. does not appear, but 1t IL evident
that there is difficulty in securing recruits
for these distant pests. Although the
want al paper in question is issued
monthly in behalf of the various mission
AIRY bodies. II also carries the appeal OF
the United States government for physi-
clans to serve In Alaska.
An Army Of Invasion.
This Missionaries Needed bulletin.
which has been published for years. Is a
rather surprising sidelight OF the magni-
tude of the missionary enterprise. The
number of missionaries on the held Is
row well up in the thousands veritable
army Of American and British invasion
II the pa gan lnnds. The work OF these
men and women IS maintained at
cost of SO, 10000 q year. Naturally SUCH
a large body requires constant recruiting.
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Missionary Rally.

4 missionary rally will be held in
Metropolitan Methodist Episcopal Church
this afternoon, under the auspices of the
Woman's Foreign Missionary Society. The
session will be held at $50 O'Clock. when
Mrs Frank NJ. Bristol wife Of Bishop
Bristol OF the Methodist Episcopal Church,
will make an address on "Woman's Work
in South America Miss Barker. a mis-
sionary to Lucknow. India, and Miss
Richmond. a missionary to Cawnpore.
India, will also deliver short addresses.
The music Of the occasion will he given
by Miss Harriet Harding and the Y. W.
c. A. orchestra.
Episcopal Meeting.
There is no foreign or home mission
airy field, so far as the church is con-
cerned." said Bishop Harding to several
hundred Episcopal laymen who gathered
at his home Friday evening. because il
is the duty of every churchman to sup
port all kinds of missionary work. A
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Strength and Tenderness.

sPOSSESSION.-"The Lord is m,
shepherd 1t is great thing for you to
read tie second word. LORD" as it il
printed here. Lord" in capitals, means
Jehovah. Jehovah for strength. Shep-
herd for tenderness. Both sides of His
nature. 1.-THE Lord is my shepherd" II
Is great thing to say that He Is a shep-
herd. Riding out of the city Of Jerusa
lem shepherd told me there were two
things always to remember about a shep-
herd and his sheep In the east First. in
walking along the road. q shepherd al.
ways takes the highest place. and the
sheep are at his feet And II that be
true. ! know where our Shepherd is. He
is exalted at the right hand of God and
has taken His seat because His work Is
finished. He told me. also. that the
shepherd always stood between his sheep
and danger. and l know that IL possible
for my Shepherd. / know IL am living
the way l ought to live temptations must
pass through Him before they smite me.
| know that the devil must overthrow
Him before he can defeat me- 1t is a
marvellous thing to say He Is a shepherd
but my Shepherd-that Is vastly different
gentleman was going through Switz-
erland when he found I'm the mountains
little boy keeping his sheep He thought
he would teach him the twenty-third
psalm, but he could not get 1t all into his
mind. He said. Il can give you one SEN
tence-'The Lord Is my Shepherd and
as long AS he could see the boy he was
ticking 1t Off on his fingers. Three years
aftcrward my friend passed through
Switzerland again and sought the boy
but could not find him. One night, I'm a
shepherds hut. he found an old mother,
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Hints to the Leader.

The Endeavor Hymnal-1O. 50, A. 49,
Dol.
Have the blackboard ready, and some
one who writes or prints clearly to put
down the witnesses. Have the list OF
those named in the nth chapter written
on the board, and then as others are
spoken of, have their names written with
the rest. Ask members to rise rapidly
and speak of other Witnesses telling
briefly an instance of their faith. Call
for personal testimonials to the promise
He that doeth His will shall know OF
the doctrine" Have a quartet sing My
Faith Looks Up to Thee"
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Patterning After the Politicians.

Less attention is being paid to the
speakers for these meetings than to the
local organization of the laymen. In most
cities the committees do not know who
their sneakers will be. although ii is
generally understood that the leading
missionary experts of the country are
ON the staff. as we'll as such others as
Col T.. W. Halford, w. Sherwood Eouy
az India. j. A. Mcdonald Of the Toronto
Globe. William 7. Ellis. d globe-trotting
newspaper man: Robert h. Speer, John
Il. Mott. and J. Campbell White. secre-
tary of the laymen's movement.
Local committees. consisting. in some
cases, of as many as hundred promi-
nent laymen. together with a large CO.
operating committee of pastors. are now
at work in the various cities. providing
for. the banqueting halls and meeting
places necessary leach local campaign
opens with a banquet), arranging for the
formation of subcommittee I'm each To-
cal church. issuing literature, raising
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at Knew You Would Come"

NAV / close with this? When our civil
war was on. one Of the most terrific
battles of all the war had ended. They
were gathering up the MANNED and dy-
ing from the battlefield. They carried
into the hospital the smallest boy in the
regiment. When they put him on the
cot. one of the doctors bent over and
said: This boy is going to die" An
orderly saluted and said: Sir. if he is
going to die. I must sent word to his
mother. She put him in my charge
must send word to his mother" SO
message went away to the north, and
the mother started to see her boy. She
came to the hospital and the doctors
met her at the door and said: You can't
60 in Your boy is dying in stupor;
and If you were to go in you would
But you can't bind up mothers heart
with doctors rules, and she said:
Doctor. il you will let me go In | will
not speak to him. So the physician
hospital. She went over to the cot where
the boy was fast slipping away to
eternity. He had one leg gone, his face
as white as death could make it. and
sat beside him. Pretty soon she saw by
the twitching OF his face that he was
suffering, and she kept her word. She
didn't speak. but she leaned over her
boy so that her breath could fall upon
his face, and she put her hand upon the
side of his cheek. and you men know
what that means. Thirty years age and
more my mother put her hand against
this side of my face. 1t was her last
night upon earth, and I have felt II
every day since. There is nothing like
the touch Of a mothers fingers. The
boy did not open his eyes: he was too
near gone. But she saw his lips moving,
and bending down she heard him whisper
ing: Il knew you would come. / knew
you would come
Oh. thou blessed Christ of God. know
You will come My heart will ache. but
You will come. The heart strings will
almost snap. but You will come. THE
Lord is my Shepherd: shall not want"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-07

VHE book OF Hebrews is the doom
of faith. 1t is a great and won
derful synopsis OF our faith in
Jesus Christ. with proofs and
witnesses The dictionary says
that faith is "a firm conviction of the
truth Of what is declared by another by
way either Of testimony or authority,
without other evidence But long ago
hebrews gave the same definition: How
faith is the assurance Of things hoped
for. the proving of things not seem
And after the definition comes the SOL
elm procession of witnesses who had the
faith to sacrifice and endure and to give
up life that they might gain life. What
witnesses! Who could doubt after hear
ing them and knowing what they endur-
ed. All this leading up to our wonderful
twelfth chapter. Is 1t true that We too,
are comprised about with witnesses? Are
there any today who have sacrificed and
obeyed and endured for the hope that
was in them and received the promises?
Can you bring one? What about that
of yours? That mother? That
faithful pastor? What about the poor.
suffering old woman who had learned to
thank God for the blessings past when
she had nothing left in the house to eat?
Think of all the good ministers and eld-
ers, and men, women and children who
have suffered and even died for Christ's
sake. or who have done what is even
harder than dying-have suffered and
lived and made the world better and
brighter because Of the faith that was
in them. Then think of Livingston.
Carey, Patton. Patterson. Whitman.
Mackay and the hundreds of other
Christian missionaries and martyrs to the
faith. Do you suppose one OF those men
would have gone out into the dangers
that they braved IL they had not had the
witness of their. faith i'm them SO that
they could not disbelieve? They knew.
for they had seen Jesus. had felt His
blessed peace in their hearts, and be-
cause they had felt and knew they were
filled with zeal to take the knowledge
to others. Oh. yes. we have great
cloud of witnesses. and shall We halt
longer from the race?
What a wonderful picture there is in
this first verse! A great gray sky, with
clouds. and from each cloud
a face. which, as We look, takes the like
ness Of face we know. Here We trace
the features Of Abel and the exalted look
Of Enoch. Over there is Noah and be-
yond Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. That IL
lumined face belongs to Moses. and there
are all the others. Stephen and Paul and
John and Peter: down a little further the
martyrs and the missionaries. Then sud
denly we are surprised perhaps to see
one standing there with whom we daily
walk and to see the same uplift In the
familiar eyes that daily meet our own.
which We have learned comes only from
with Christ.
Then look closer in the picture. below
the clouds, to the ground. Is that you
and 1 standing there. with an open road
before us, and the race already begun,
and vet we stand? What is that that is
holding US down? Weights? Yes; fasten-
ing US hand and foot. and as We look
more closely they, too. have familiar
look, and we know them for the Sins
which do so easily beset," the sins that
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brother. he whispered 10 hm-for he couiG
do no more-"Put your face down cl Sc. y
When their lips met, he said, Il want to
kiss you and ! want you TO take IL home
and put it on ny mothers cheek. and /
want you to tell her that when I came
down into the valley of the shadows lie
was near me" And He will be with you.
THE Lord is my Shepherd: ! shall not
wan..
PROVISION. He preoareth table IN
the presence of mine enemies. They say
that there is an cid Roman custom that
when a man has gone forth to fight an
enemy, ana won the victory and taken
this one captive and that. 1t is possible
for him to be banqueted. And as he sits
i'm the banquet room the men whom he
has taken captive are bound to the pill
lars. and he feas.s in Their presence. III
that is an cid Roman custom, 1t may
have existed earlier, and David may have
had it in mind when he said. Thou pre-
parest a table before me in the oresence
of mine enemies" What Is your enemy?
You say Pride. What is yours? You say
Lust What Is yours? You say Intemper-
ance. What is yours? You say Dishonesty.
But whatever your enemy, He will b nd IL.
Strange change there. isn't 1t. from
walking TO feasting? Yea. though 1
when you walk with Him you always
feast with Him. Coming across on the
ocean the other day a gentleman told
me that there was another interpreta-
ton OF this scripture. ne SdlO. "Htu
a shepherd leads his flock into this field
or that to eat. I'm the eastern country
he goes ahead of them. He drives away
everything that might hurt the sheep or
endanger the life Of the sheep. and when
he has driven all away the sheep feed
i'm the presence of those things round
about that may have made feeding dan
gerous" ] have an idea that that Is the
real Interpretation. but l know this, that
if a man walks with God. and talks with
God and lives with God. there can't be
enemies enough sent from hell to over
throw him, because He IL near
PROSPECT Goodness and mercy
shall follow me all the days Of my life"
Now note again the divisions:
l. POSSESSION-'My shepherd"
2 POSITION-"He maketh me to lie
down..
g. PROMISE-"He restoreth my soul
T. PROGRESS-"Yea. though i walk
). PROVISION-"He prepareth."
6. PROSPECT-"Goodn and mercy
shall follow me-"
F. B. Meyer says that goodness and
mercy are the shepherds dogs. Well,
there again the figure holds, because In
the eastern country the shepherd leads
the sheep and the shepherds dogs follow
after And David knew 1t when he said:
Goodness and mercy shall follow me all
the days" What a protection! The shep-
herd ahead. goodness and mercy hard
after.
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Christian Endeavor Hour


drag us to earth so that We cannot run
the race.
ut'look up higher in the picture. where
the glory in the face of Jesus. 1.-THE au-
thor and finisher of our faith" sheds a
marvellous glow over the whole. Listen
to the words, WHO for the joy that was
set before Him endured the cross, despis-
ing the shame All, When we re-
member that and see how little in contrast
is the sacrifice We have to make, can We
not give up the hampering sins which
have become so sweet and run the race.
trusting In Him?
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Riffs in the Lutte.

Heretofore the laymens missionary
movement has stood exclusively for for
eign missions, and the Home Missions
Council. which Is also running series OF
city meetings this winter, was formed by
the various home missions boards as a
sort OF counter attraction. Now, how
ever, such strong pressure Is being
brought to bear on the general committee
of the laymen's movement to follow the
clude both home and foreign missions,
that the announcement may be expected
any day TO the effect that the campaign
will include all forms Of Christian mis-
sions. The question has been the subject
OF deep and long discussion I'm the execu-
tive committee and the broad-gauge ad-
vocates seem sure to win out.
By agreement with the officers of the
Young Mems Christian Association and
the allied brotherhoods of the denomina-
ions, the eliminating convention In Chi
Sago, May 3-6, was to be "A National
Congress on World Brotherhood, tho
6rst national meeting of all the mems
Christian organizations in America Now
the brotherhood leaders are protesting
that the laymen's movement officials have
monopOlized the program for foreign mis-
sions, In violation Of the agreement, and
they are withdrawing. II is likely, how
ever, that the laymens movement will
see q great light before next May and the
original plan will be carried out-the most
impressive demonstration OF the mascu-
Unity Of American Professionalism ever
made
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Some of US have SO little faith. or such
a poor quality of ii, that We shall never
find ourselves numbered among that cloud
Of witnesses who testify to the faith. We
are somewhat like the old lady who was
asked how she felt when the horses were
running down hill, and she replied: Il
trusted to Providence till the breechin
give way: then I shut my eyes and give
up for lost" Dr. Cuyler in comment once
said that this woman was not the only
Christian whose faith held only by
strap.
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This Sheet Issued for Cir
culation Among Students in
Colleges and Universities
Seeks Missionary Recruits
1t Calls for Teachers, Doc
tors, Nurses, Preachers and
Mechanics, Who Are Needed
for Many of the Strange
Corners OF the Earth-3oo
Chances for Adventure.