The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-02
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rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn of me, for I am meek and lowly in heart, and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light
 Having made peace through the blood of his cross. he is able to say, Peace leave with you, my peace I give unto you; not as the world giveth, give unto you. Let not your heart be troubled neither let it be afraid
 These things have I spoken unto you that in me ye might have peace. In the
 world ye shall have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.
 "T am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.' This is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son He that hath the Son hath life, and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life
 Then haste, 0 man. to live,
 For thou soon must die
 Time hurries past thee like the breeze, How swift it's moments fly.
 Make haste, O man, to live. Make haste o man. to do
 Whatever must be done
 Thou hast no time to lose in sloth, Thy day viii soon be gone.
 Make haste, o man, to live" YEAR OF THE GREAT CALL Brigadier L. M. Simonson. divisional commander of the Salvation Army. is-
 sues the call of the salvationists for
 1921:
 "The general has issued a call for an intensive worldwide campaign through
 out the whole of 1921.
 The appalling condition of the world calls loudly to Gods people to bestir {, themselves to put forth extraordinary efforts for the salvation of the people. Think of sin, how it mocks God. Scarcely a day passes but there records i in the daily press that must make angels
 weep. Think of the breaking hearts and burdened spirits in even the best
 localities. Think of the multitudes or
 pagans in this Christian land of ours;
 men and women who, while living out
 wardly decent lives, ignore Christ and 1 treat His salvation as of no account. | Think of the children being reared In an atmosphere of selfishness and lndlI-
 ference, with little regard for truth and
 righteousness or the law of God i '"The main objects of this campaign are three:
 | "souls-Winning the unsaved for Christ. 1
 whom we can so influence and inspiring
 deathless passion for souls in hearts ! that are now content to remain on the | fringe of salvation service.
 "Service-Raising up a larger oooy oi
 Salvation Army officers for service
 both as home and foreign missionaries ! "The Salvation Army forces in this
 division, which comprises Alabama, MS
 sissippi and Tennessee and part Of Flor i y.~ ovrrnN front
 fighters mad have set our task for lSZi
 to increase our corps from A to 9, or
 ficers 50 to TO, soldiers 200 to 800, and to
 convert 1000 persons who are now non
 churchgoers or members of any reis-
 ion.''
 1 DRINK DEEPY
 From the Edgewood Community church
 the pastor, Rev. T. s. Hickman, in be
 half of faith" for the new year, makes
 the appeal:
 Some people have only enough reii-
 zion to make them miserable. The man who goes about terribly conscious tns' | he is a sinner burdened always with the
 sense of guilt, has only grapsed part ol | the truth. He is sinner and deserves
 punishment He has hurt the heart oi
 God. But there is the wonderiul tac' ] of forriveness by the rnerciful Father l If man takes hold of this truth he VII lnot only cry out with the writer of the l fifty-first Psalm, Have mercy upon me 1 O C,od, but will also shout out or
 heart filled win joy, Blessed is he whose | transgression is forgiven, whose sin
 covered =. .rwe are standing on the threshold ol
 new year. To us have como tho w.s, | dom of the sncients and the ripe ,ru' I of experience. But this will avail hS | nothing unless we maintain faith we
 cannot lose faith in God and keep fa'sn 1 in ourselves and the future. Withou' faith we have no guarantee that VI,
 make effort purposeful. and we snal
 s;ph in vain for a mythical golden aee lying in the past The golden age is
 before us if God leads us. Never before
 have there been greater opportuni.'es ,, tU.
 service in the kingdom Of Goo. WY
 pray. Thy kingdom come;' ana ou'
 prayer will be answered when we make Gods will our will. His ends our ends | ."ro do this we must drink deep ol
 the springs of eternal life. And 1T W. do this we will have manly faitn tna, l our own destiny, maintaining 1altn sn. | God has a place and purpose for us sven
 as He had for those of former days THE YEAR OF THE LORD l Dr Robert N. Simpson, pastor of the First Christian church, sends gree. ings with the chimes of the bells that 1 ring out the old self and ring Tn ene new liberty of spirit, as follows
 "When the Hebrews reckoned time bv the exodus, every fiftieth year was l annointed above it's fellows and ac- claimed the year of jubilee.
 ITO that year many with heavs bonds looked forward with nope, ana
 many with broken bonds looked back : | ward in gratitude. Burdens that ac-
 cumulated within the half century were lifted in the year of Jubilee Death came to bread-winners and pow ] erty put heavy irons on widow ana or phan, but in that glad year came re- lief.
 Bond servants found shackles brok ! en and highways rang with songs oi l freedom. The year righted wrongs rather than abridged rights. The land
 had rest that year from the iron oi plowshare and reaping hook. on that glad morning trumpeters rode over the | highways and sounded in the ears oi
 all the people the silvery notes or tne jubilee call, and so outstanding were I the privileges of that year that 1t was
 known as the year of the Lord.
 "One day the Son of God from whose earthly cradle we reckon the years I spoke in the synagogue or Nazaretn Not far away were shop and cabin, l where he had learned the meaning O. toll and forbearance and patience and 1 before him were those who had put upor
 him and his own the handicap of sus- !, piciOn and social ostracism But tc them He could say. come to pro
 claim the acceptable Year of the Lord
 "The trumpets of the jubilee herald I have corroded The Son of God has l returned to tha father. but He made