Wiiiten, Mimeographed, and Mailed by Ralph R Hai tcr

at 112/352. SWARUPNAGAR, KANPUR, U. P. INDIA

( lOivpnr aotncliwes stpeiled Covnpove )

iMarch 21, 19^3

BOOK

.St"o~~R~E

During the past year and

a
half,
our Bible Book
Store, has been located on
one of the city*s piain
arteries. The new

no.doubt

location

had its value as

rnTES

HOME

Rubin Recovering

Rubin

is a talented boy

from Ragaul who was learn

ing painting ^ here in Kanpur.

After various starts

and stops,

he returned to

publicity,
but otherwise
it did not prove as suc
cessful as we had hoped.

his

So

On January 25th he sudden

v/e

have moved i t back

to., its
I' here

former
we

quarters

will be

able

to

once again give the public

the. day and night service
that they demand.
Getting the old quarters

back

into

condition gave

us
several weeks of good
exercise.
Figuring how to
squeeze all the book cases
into our already overcrow
ded quarters was also good
exercise for the

brain.

home

in October. His

psychological condit i o n
grew v/orse, then improved.
ly reappea.r-od at our house

in the middle of the night

*Vi?e finally did what every
one
done;

thought
v^e

psychiatric

ought

took

him

to be
to a

clinic run by

the
Methodist Church in
Luc know.
Two
months
and
ten shock treatnents later
Rubin is nov/- back with us.

He is much .improved.

Pray

for him and for us that we

might keep him on the mend.

'And should not I have regard for Nineveh, that great city, whefein are more than sixscore
thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much
cattle ? "

Jonah 4^11

Rubin's hospital
bill
has been a large one, but
T.G, Hash

aiid Dr. Rother-

will finally be completed.

Twenty-five of the thirty
chapters

.were printed be

rael have helped generously.

The church at Ragaul aiid

fore

an Indian friend have

Lazarus thought
that he
would be
able
to study
more
if he got av;ay from
his preoccupations in Kanpur. We
gather from his
letters, hov/ever, that go
ing to Bilas pur did not
help him any. Despite all

also

helped some.
The other boys have been
too busy to make any news.

Temorarily we have
had
one extra boy, Hangal Din.
Mangal is staying with us
while he

takes his exams.

Book Store Sales

Just for the record:

Du

amounted

Bibles,
2 New Testar.ionts,
and 807 Portions.

Preaching

Beginning from the first

of the
year, our evening
services have

Our Hindi

Lazarus

book

editor,

Lawrence Lazarus, left for

his home

on February li^-th

in order

to take examina

tions.

his

there is little hope

that
he v/ill pass the exams.

to |;l[|.8. Sales included 21

Lawrence

took

leave,

of the efforts
and sacri
fices which have been made

ring January and February,

Book Store sales

Lazarus

He hoped to return

here by March 13'th. Now it

been devoted

to
a
chapter-by-chapter
study of the Book of Dan
iel.
I also preach occas

ionally
in the morning
services, sometimes extem
poraneously when the ap
pointed speaker does not

looks
as
though he vi/on't
get back until about April

arrive.

13th. Soon after that, our

in

printer will be going home

to
get married.
By the
time he gets back, it v/ill
be
time
for
ms to go to

gone to help plan the prograoi for our annual can^)

the

hills.

So i t

looks

as

though it will still be a

long time before our Hindi
edition of "On the Rock"

On March 17th I
Allahabad

v/hich

will

be

Fall.
I have been

preach

in

preached

where I

had

held next

invited to

Bhopal during

the Easter weekend. Bhopal

is 12 hrs.

distant.

We are happy to aiinounce

that

hoine

church

at

Clinton, Ohio, his increas

ed

their support from $20

to $60 a month We v;ere in

need of the increased sup
port,
and v/e are greatly
encouraged

by the contin

ued confidence

of the folk

at homeo

Helen Douglas, sister of

Florence,

has

been hospitalized

recently
She is

one of Flora*s f i n e s t
school teachers.

may be mistaken, but I

think
this
is
the first
time we have had a contri
bution from the Southern

Heights
Christian Church
of Lebaiion, Mo.
Thanks!
The

folk

at Manchester

aiid Kenmore
churches are '
our very old friends. We
are glad to hear from them

again after a long time.

In our last newsletter,
we

reported

that

we had

ordered a new bicycle. The

bicycle finally came, and
I
am enjoying i t these
days
In the meantime,
the
State Government has taken

over the city bus service,

and

the

citizens are en

joying dependable bus ser

vice

once again after se

veral years of disgraceful

disorganisation.
But we

still need our bicycles#

Kan pur also

service

now has

air

after an interval

of about
plane
a

ten
day

years. One
comes
from

Delhi-

and then returns to

Delhi

via

will

make

Lucknow,

it

This

slightly

easier
for
those vision
aries
who- want
to
tour

India in three days.

Our annual convention of

churches, in northern India

was held at Ragaul in Feb

ruary,

This

is the first

yeai^ it was held away from

Kulpahar, Kext February it
will be held in Kanpur. We
are wondering

just hov/ v/e

are
going
to
accomodate
all of the visitors.

Our

local

campaign

April
Bro.

evangelistic

is

28th

slated

to

May

for

^th.,

Bemel Getter of Sar-

guja and an Indian brother

(John ZaBian),

of Allahabad

have
accepted our invita
tions to preach. The theme

of

the

iieetings will be,

"From Darkness to Light."

The Church Building Fund

now contains

$7^^* Little

by little i t grows.
This month

we are send

ing each of you a copy of

"Itts A Wonderful, Life I"
It is printed primarily
for D.V.B.S., but you can
use it any way you like.
Extra copies may be had
from Miss Douglas.

FORWARDING AGENT : MISS FLORENCE DOUGLAS, 419 N. MAIN ST

FLORA, ILLINOIS, U. S. A.

fat heads of today.

GOSSIPIETTER

(Printed for the exclusive

enjoyment
of fellow mis
sionaries,

For other read

ers this page contains the

financial report.)
The

are

"mission

successful

tion,

The

Rolands

and

Mrs.

little quieter now

Rotherniel spent ,a' good bit

that the young people have

gone back to school after

of the winter at Ragaul.

More
lately we have been
enjoying Mrs. Rothermelts

their

stations"

Dean did some

book selling at Kulpahar,

and David Roland helped
out at the Ragaul Conven

winter

recess. The

Getter home
is
the only
mission home
s t i l l ring
ing with children* s sv\reet
voices
Frank and Marie

are won

dering what to do with the

monkey that Dale purchased
during his vacation.
I
predict that it*s end v/ill
come
the day i t upsets a
tray of type
in Franlc^s
print shop.
Tom
and
Leota
were
a
l i t t l e more
fortunate be

cause
Steve

the moniiey which

purchased did not

survive the v/inter.

Both Steve and Dean have

sho'wn a facility this year

of getting around on bus
ses and trains by themsel
ves

My conclusion
winter*s

from this

experiences

is

that the little squirts of

yesterday have

become the

presence in Kanpur.

Latest
Chitv/ood

word
Is

from Dolly
that she re

cently had a small

opera

tion

She is

on

her foot.

still expected back in In

dia soon. Her letters have

been very aieerful.

Some time
age
the Renpels
received
a
rather
frustrating
request from
Standard Publishing
for
^'stories" for D.V.B.S. ma
terial. Having no ideas of
their ov/n, they gave it to
me.
I
hardly knew v/hat
would be
suitable, but I

finally produced something

Later we received a l e t t e r
from
Cincinnati
that the

stories were not what they

wanted but that they were
paying me for t hem anyway.
We are

afraid that the

type of stories they want

don*t happen here.

"Thanks be to God for his gift beyond words V

n Cor. 9;l5

We are happy to announce

that iny hoine
church at

service

Clinton, Chip, ias Incre^sd their support from $20

of about
plane
a

to $60 a month. V/e were in

need of the increased sup
port,
and we are greatly
encouraged by the contin
ued confidence of Lhe folk
at home.

Helen Douglas, sister of

Florence,
has
recently
been hospitalized.
She is
one of Flora's f i n e s t
school teachers.

may be mistaken, but I

think

this

is

the f i r s t

time we.have had a

bution

from

contri

the Southern

Kan pur also

now has

an interval

ten
day

years.
One
comes
from

Delhi

and then returns

Dellii

via

will

make

Lucknow.

it

slightly

India in three days.

Our annual convention of

churches

in northern India

was held at Ragaul in Feb

ruary.

This

is the first

yeax' it was held av/ay from

Kulpahar. Next February it
will be held in Kan pur. We
are wondering just how we
are going to accomodate
all of the visitors.

The
folk
and
Kenmore

cajTLpaign

our very old friends. We

are glad to hear from them
again after a long time.
In our last newsletter,
we
reported that
we had

ordered a now bicycle. The

bicycle finally came, and
I
am enjoying
it these
days.
In

the

meantime,

the

State Govermuent has

taken

over the city bus s.ervice,

and

the

citizens are en

joying dependable bus ser

vice once again after se
veral years of disgraceful
disorganisation.
But we

still need our bicycles.

to

This

easier
for
those vision
aries who
want
to
tour

Heights
Christian Church
of Lebaiion, Mo.
Thanks!
at Manchester
churches are

air

after

Our

April
Bro.

local

evangelistic

is

28th

slated

to

May

for

5"bh.

Ber-nel Getter of Sar-

guja and an Indian brother

{John Zaman)

of Allahabad

have
accepted our invita
tions to preach. The theme
of the neetings will be,

"From Darkness to Light."

The Church Building Fund

now contains

$70i{.. Little

by little i t grows.
This month

we

are send

ing each of you a copy of

"It's A Wonderful Lifel"
It is
printed primarily
for D.V.B.S., but you can
use i t any way you like.
Extra copies may be had
from Miss Douglas.

FORWARDING AGENT : MISS FLORENCE DOUGLAS. 419 N. MAIN SIFLORA, ILLINOIS, U. S. A.

THE CliELRPUL GIVERS HIRING

JAN. AND FEB., 19^3

Bladensburg L.D.s

10.00

Mrs. Flint

. 10.00

Orrville Church

Indiana;
The Worricals
The ColGstocks
The Reases
The Eades
Illlnols:
Paxton WomenKansas:

The Dunahughs
Derby Jr. Choir
Derby Sr. Xouth

7.00

5.00
70.00

5.00

Sabina Jr. VI, Class

25.96

Tennessee;
Church at Central

20.00

10.00

Total Receipts

20.00

EX ENDED FROM JM .

130.00

5.00
15.00

TO MARCH 13,
Salary
Boys & Girls

Kentucky;
The Oniers

Bock Store
Church
N-T. Publications
Lav/i^ence Lazarus

The Storys

25.00

East Union

ii-3.26

ivg chigan;

16, 163
1963

Chris tasian

Housing

10.00

903.02

250.00

147.52
105.15
80.80

71.90

53.08

30.96

23.34

Liberty Bible School 16.80

Office Supplies
LibraryPublicity

Neeper Church

Total Expended

806.32

S U M MAR
Deficit Forward
Total Contributed

903.02

Credits

8it.0=32

Less Spent

806.32

5.00

A Friend
iuissouri:

The

Peels

Southern Heights
Ohio;
Clinton Church
Branch Hill Church
Linden Homebuilders
W.C.S.

20.00
10.00
10.00

80.00
20.00

90.00

40.00

Guild

Helen Biddlo Memor

ial Fund by Miss

Jerilee Nickerson 50.00
Same by D. Nickerson 80.00
Kenmore

Church

Old Stone S.S.

Manchester Church

25.00
20. 00

25.00

Balance, Mar. 13

Remember to give
prayers
as well
financial support.
wisdom from the

17.74
15.11
10.72

62.70

3i|..00
us your
as your
We need
Loi'd to

use these funds where they

will do the most good.

"Thanks be to God for his gift beyond Avor<ls !"

11 Cor. 9:15

'* III'

DON'T WEEP FOR ME

The following poem was written while its author was a patient in the Mayo Clinic,
Rochester, Minnesota, in 1953. It is reprinted here in memory of the late Mrs. Helen
Biddle of Akron, Ohio, U.S.A.

As I lay sick upon my bed

Perhaps I suffered some;
But in comparison to my Saviour,
I know I suffered none.

My friends came up to visit me,

But His friends fled away.
They gave me hypos for my pain,
But they gave Him thorns that day.
My Saviour had no doctors
To lend their healing art:
He only heard the curses
That broke His aching heart.
My Saviour had no nurses
To wipe His sweat away;
My Saviour had no radio
To pass the time of day.
And so, my friends and relatives,
Don't weep a bit for me;
But weep for Christ our Saviour,
Who died in agony.
Ralph R.

Vol. IX, No. 2

March

1963
Pricet nP. 25

Harter

AprU

Kanpur, India

PRESS

GLEANKNGS

In a speech in New York City, Lord

Francis-WilliaraSj veteran British Jour
nalist, has said that the attributes of a

free press were denied in a number of

streets and roads of Moradabad.

The

thefts were occurring regularly three

times a week. The police suspect that
the thieves are employees of the Electric

papers were alive and kicking.- (Take

Supply Company who, when caught climb

ing a pole, can always claim to be repair

CHRISTASIAN Magazine for example).

ing something.

An experiment conducted at the S. N.

Medical College in Agra has proven
that the chewing of Mainpuri tobacco

Mr.
Mahabir Prasad Srivastava,
Health Minister in the U.P. Government,

Asian countries, but that India's news

causes cancer of the mouth.

The news

item says that thirty dogs were used as

guinea-pigs. After repeated transplanta
tions of Mainpuri tobacco in their mouths,
the dogs showed signs of malignancy after
about ten days. None of the dogs survived
the experiment.
Acharya Vinoba Bhave has refused an
invitation to visit a temple at Tarapith
near Calcutta since " it is one of those

numerous places where animals are sacri

ficed for the so-called pleasure of the
deity. " Acharya Vinoba deprecated
such sacrifice of lives in the name of God

and asked the people to stop this practice.

has disclosed that there are 300 government

hospitals in the State without doctors.

A plan is under consideration to give
special scholarships to medical students
who will promise to work in the rural areas.
Salary increases for rural workers are
also being increased.

Nine persons were killed and others

seriously injured when a jeep carrying
twenty-one persons met with an accident
near Rewa.

There have been four (" alleged")

murders recently in front of police stations
in the city of Lucknow. In all these cases,

the police failed to apprehend the assail

We might add that it is impossible for the

ants on the spot.

blood of bulls and goats to take away

sins, and that the blood of Jesus Christ
laketh away all sins.

Mr. K. P. S. Menon, who was India's

first Ambassador to China, has said

The son of the proprietor of Laxmi

Talkies

at

Haldwani

lost

one

of his

eyes when he was shot at by a man who

was refused a free pass to see the latest
film. Another person standing nearby
also received bullet injuries.

Patriotism got the better of possessiveness in a criminal case at Faizabad where

a buffalo was claimed by two persons.

After some arguments, the litigants com

promised by auctioning off the animal and

donating the proceeds to the National
Defence Fund.

One thousand street lamp bulbs were

stolen in one month from along the

that one reason for the present conduct

of China towards India is " the conspi
cuous lack of tlie spiritual element in the
Chinese revolution. "

He said that China

has subverted whatever spiritual founda

tions she might have had.
Traffic on the Bulandshahr-Dadri Sec

tion of the Grand Trunk Road was recently

paralyzed by a 22-mile race between

two tongas. Since considerable betting
was involved, the police took chase and
arrested fourteen persons, two cars and
two tongas, along with the horses. Four
cars and their occupants escaped. The
police also recovered some bottles of
alcohol.

THE ESSENCE OF CIHIRIISTIAN ONITY

By B. L. Turjmer, Lahore

John 11:20-25

This service (held November 17, 1962)

concludes the "World YMGA/YWGA
Week of Prayer and World Fellowship "

On. September 27, 1947 the Anglican,

Presbyterian, Methodist, and Gongregational Ghurches of South India merged

services in Lahore.

to form the Ghurch of South India. Seven

Mr. Albert and Mr.

Wilson honored me a few weeks ago by

asking me to speak on this occasion. In
my brief visit with them at that time they

years later Dr. Anthony Hanson, one of

the participants in that merger, wrote and

published a very interesting book which
expressed the desire that this week of he called " The Meaning of Unity. " In
special services might increase the empha his book Dr. Hanson draws heavily from

sis on the "G" in YMGA/YWGA. I

heartily share their desire. May this
message provide some lasting contribution
to that goal.

The week has been an emphasis on

Christian imity. Today's theme, " To
gether unto the end of the World," links

Ghristian unity with Ghrist's promise to

be with His church. It emphasizes the
great New Testament teaching that God's

fellowship with us is contingent upon our

maintenance of fellowship with God's
people. John the apostle tells us, "whoso
ever loveth Him that begat loveth
Him also that is begotten of Him.''
(1 John 5:1 ARV).
Out of all the topics suggested by
today's theme it seems most important to
me that we imderstand something of the

the experience of those who compose the

Ghurch of South India and

from this

experience offers us his understanding of

me meaning of scriptural unity. Though
I fail to find a consistent logic in his book.
Dr. Hanson formulates one of the popular
Protestant views of Ghristian unity. He
apparently felt this was the main basis
of the merger which created the Ghurch
of South India.

Let us hear him:

" There have been divisions in the church in

Corinth,each man enrolling himself imder a party.

The key verse is 1:13; [i.e. I Cor. 1:13]

Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you?
or were ye baptized into the name of Paul ?
This is St. Paul's answer to those who are

causing divisions, a very interesting one if we com

pare it with what we should be inclined to say in
a similar situation to-day. Weshouldsay at once:

*You should not be divided: you are wrecking

the church '. St. Paulsays neitherof these things,

basic nature of Ghristian unity. If God's though
no doubt he mi^ht have said them. He
continued presence is dependent upon says in effect:
*By baptism you have been made

our togetherness as His children, which it members of the one Christ; this is your bond
is, then it is imperative that we seek for of imity. Christ cannot be divided. The church
is one, whether you like it or not. ' Christ has,
the essence of Ghristian unity.
by His death on the Cross, redeemed the Church
First, then, I would like briefly to and
thereby made it indissolubly one.
explore with you some of the current
definitions of the essence of Ghristian

unity. Fortunately, we live in a day

that has produced a number of popular
answers for us to consider.

Protestantism's

Solution

Let us begin TOth one of the contem- ,

Dr. Hanson's conclusion may be called

unity by foreordination or by inevitability.
He says, " The Ghurchis one,whetheryou
like it or not."

He aflSrms that the

Ghurch is " indissolubly one. " But this

makes nonsense out of Jesus' prayer for

. AUiy Hamon, Th marnng of Umiy

porary answers found m Protestantism. | (London: Highway Press, 1954) pp. 27-28

unity. It also makes nonsense out of this

week of emphasis on Christian unity.
Verse thirteen of 1 Corinthians, chapter
one is not, as Dr. Hanson affirms, Paul's
answer to the divided Corinthians.

Paul

simply tells them that their division can

not be traced to Christ.

ambiguity in Christ.

There is no

He is not divided.

Supplementing this rigid authoritariinism Rome, taking a cue from Constantine, has employed an indulgent accomodation to paganism. Thus, "
the
chiurch being reasonable and taking
seriously St. Paul's injunction to be ' all
things to all men,' knew well how to
compromise on the best terms to be

Therefore, the root of the division is not

had. "4

in him.

With even this brief glance at its

main concepts of unity it prepares us

Paul's answer to Corinth is in

verse ten: ** Now I beseech you, bre

thren, through the name of our

Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak

the same thing, and that there be no
divisions among you; but that ye be
perfected together in the same mind
and in the same judgment. " (ARV)
Though Dr. Hsmson's thinking has
gained some popularity in Protestantism,
it is not useful.

It is not sound Biblically

and it does not squarely face the reality

of a divided church.

We cannot remedy

our problems by denying their existence.

to

understand

the

scandalous

division

which seethes just behind Rome's fagade

of conformity. We need go no further
than the current reports of the opening
days of the Vatican Goimcil for a contem
porary demonstration of this reality.
Even the timing of the Council produced
a contest of wills. " Many Curia pro
fessionals ", Time Magazine reports,
" made no secret of their dismay, seemed
to have no clear idea of what the Pope
wanted the Council to do."5 But the Curia

had "

no choice except

to

obey

the Pope's marching orders

"
It is just this authority and that of
Let us turn, then, to the Roman Cathor the Curia which is coveted by the Roman
lie concept of unity. The Second Vatican bhhops. When recommendations for the
Coimcil which began just last month, Council agenda were invited, Rome was
" flooded with proposals to increase the
(October 1962) gives us both an oppor
tunity and an incentive to appraise the bishops' authority.And when the
Roman
unity which exists in Romanism. Actu Council was barely open "
ally, this appraisal is urgent when we Catholic prelates from western Europe
keep in view Pope John's stated objective- were fighting to wrest control of the coun
for the coxmcU. " Its prime objective, " ciland perhaps ultimately of the church
he said, " will be to invite the separated away from the Roman Curia, the Vati
religious commimities to seek the unity can's Central administrative office. "
Roman Catholic concept

of the church.

Historically, the main factor in the

Roman concept of unity has been an out
ward conformity imposed through an

2 " The Ecumenical Council" Newsweek Osborn

Elliott (ed) Vol. LX, No. 17. Oct. 22, 1962, p. 55.

3 James Westfall Thompson and Edgar Nath

authoritative hierarchical church adminis-

aniel Johson; An Introduction to Medieval Europe,

300-1500 (New York: W. W. Norton and Co. Inc.

tration. In the pontificate of Pope

Innocent III (AD 1198-1216) the Roman

1937) p. 644.
* Ibid. p. 653.
5 " Council of Renewal, " Time, Roy Alexan

Church"
transformed the Ro
man idea of world dominion into the

der (ed) Asia Edition (Vol. LXXX, No. 14,

Oct. 5, 1962) p. 46.
6 Ibid. p. 47.
7 cf. Newsweek Op. cit., p. 55.
8 " Power Struggle " Newsweek, Osborn Elliott,
(ed.) (Vol. LX, No. 18. Oct. 29, 1962) p. 50.

idea of a Christian theocracy, governing

the world through the church, ruled by
the pope.

Glaring disparities between the na

tional branches of Roman Catholicism may

become even more glaring as the result

of the Council. Time Magazine points

out that " Missionaries may get more
authority to incorporate native customs

and religious practices into

baptism,

marriage and fimeral rites.

It seems unnecessary to spend much

time in evaluation. Jesus prayed for his
disciples, that they may all be one;
even as thou, Father, art in me, and
I in thee, that they also may be in as
" (Jolm 17:21 ARV) It is diffi
cult to conceive of a greater antithesis
than Jesus' prayer and the Roman
concept of unity.
World Council Concept

actual meaning from the practice of the

World Coimcil of Churches. Mr. Kyle

Haselden, Managing Editor of the
Christian Century Magazine, gives us
important insight in his appraisal of the

meaning of the Delhi A^embly. He

says :

" Ready for it or not, the World Cotmcil of

Churches now provides the only world setting in

which the divided churches can seek each other in

common witness across the lines of their diversity.

This issomething newin the history of ChristiatiityChristians in greatest variety working and
witnessing together in closest unity. Outside such
a body as the world council such diversity

degenerates into futile doctrinal clashes, pro

selytizing, wasteful duplications of talents and

facilities, even bigotry and name-calling. Within

the Council, diversities in liturgy, in doctrine, in
church polity, find their cherished place in a mosaic
which preserves and utilizes all the Spirit's varied
gifts to the churches.""

Any survey of the concepts of Christian

unity, however brief, woffid be grossly
negligent if it failed to consider the idea
of unity in the World Council of Churches.

It is still less than a year since the Third

Assembly of the World Council of Chur

The key statement is: " within the

council diversities

find their cherish

ed place in a mosaic

" Mr. Hasel

den has already described the

grave

character of these diversities.

The unity, then, which is practiced

From the docu
ments of this Assembly and analyses of in the World Council of Churches is one
them we may understand sometlimg of of inclusivism. It is true that we
the idea of unity in this movement.
may achieve a type of unity by endorsing
The World Council's Commission on each other's beliefs and practices. Thus,
Faith and Order issued at the Delhi assem
we may all become one by all becoming
bly a concise and commendable state
everything. But this type of inclusivism
ment of the nature of Christian unity. is not sanctioned by the scripture.
ches met in New Delhi.

I quote:

On the other hand, it is clear fi:om

scripture that the true imity of the church

God's will and his gift to his church is being made does not force Christians into a drab,
" We believe that the imity which is both

visible as all in each place who are baptized into

Jesus Christ and confess him as Lord and Saviour

stereotyped production line sort of con

rate life reaching out in witness and service to all

thians 12:12-27) One ofthe best summaries

are brought by the Holy Spirit into one fully

committed fellowship, holding the one apostolic
fmth, preaching the one Gospel, breaking the one
bread, joining in common prayer, having a corpo

formity which gives no place for the deve

lopment and expression of individual
thought and personality. (Cf. 1 Corin

of the Biblical teaching of corporate unity

In
Christian fellowship in all places and all ages in and personal liberty in Christ is:

and who at the same time are united with the whole

such wise that ministry and numbers are accepted

by all, ^d that all can act and speak togetlier

as occ^ion requires for the tasks to which God
calls his people ".*o

Conducive as this statement is of a

Biblical meaning, we must enquire of its

9 Tinut op. cit. p. 47.

J. Robert Nelson, " Unity", The Christian

Century, Harold E. Fey (Ed.) (Vol. LXXX No. 2,

Jan. 10, 1962) p. 54.

Kyle Haselden, "New Delhi, 1961" The

Christian Century, op. cit. p. 39

matters of faith, unity; in matters of opi

nion, liberty; in all things, charity !"
Seeing that the unity of the church
is not based on foreordination, authori
tarianism, nor inclusivism, then, what can

we say about the essence of its imity ?

Let us look briefly at the Biblical analy
sis of the essence of the unity of the
church.

The basic statement is made by the

apostle John.
They went out from
us, but they were not of us; for if they

" Wherefore if any man is in Christ,

he is a new creature: the old things

are passed away; behold, they are

become new". (2 Corinthians 5:17
ARV).

The essence of the unity of the church

is regeneration. Agreement on this point
^as a statement^will be large among

those who have seriouslysought the Biblical

answer.

But now we must face the consequences

had been of us^ they would have

of this knowledge. The" persistence of

church members in supporting both formal

continued with us: but they went out,

and undeclared faction indicates that their

that they might be made manifest

that they all are not of us
(1 John

regeneration may be doubted. It makes

no difference whether our faction is novel

11:19

or " hallowed by tradition, fortified by

The implication is unavoidable that

the essence of unity is being " of us ".

sanctions,
if we persist in division
we must seriously question whether we

There has to be a basic compatibility.

Without this, division and separation are

have been born again.

John speaks of with the pronoun " us ".

faith in Jesus ". (Romans 3:26 ARV).

Then we must understand what the basic

God must be both or he can be neither.

cause of their compatibility was. In

other words, what made the " us" a

ofregeneration. Butin populartheology's

cohesive group, a basically united group?

efforts to achieve results, faith has been

If we read a little further John clearly

diluted and eviscerated.

2:19 ARV cf. 1

and Romans 9:6-7).

Corinthians

custom, protected by economic or social

Much of today's theolo^ has sought

inevitable. With it, unity in its full easy options. In doing so it has stressed
maturity is not automatically assinred, but the love of God at the expense of his
it is at least possible. There is, then, justice. It has streamlined the Gospel.
no basic incompatibility which stands in It now gains easy converts, but it^ no
longer permits God to be both "just
the way.
We must, therefore, understand whom and the justifier of bim that hath

The Biblical

he

dimensions of faith have been neglected

" what manner of love the

and new dimensions drawn on the tiniest

identifies

says,

Faith is one of the basic principles

the

"us".

"Behold",

Father hath bestowed upon us, that

possible scale. Both its character and its

we should be called children of God;

contents have been forgotten.

Paul stresses that faith is inherently

and such we are

For this cause the

world knoweth us not, because it

knew him not(1 John 3:1 ARV)

The " us " are c^^en of God. The

obedient (cf. Romans 1:5, 16:26). W^e

Ghristian baptism is constantly depreciat

ed, it is still clear that Paul considered

unity is iij that new existence, in that new it an intrinsic element of faith. He told
nature with which one is endowed through the Colossians, ** ye were .... buried
the new birth or regeneration. The basic with him iu baptism wherein ye
"compatibility is that of membership in were also raised with him through
God's family. The basic antipathy is faith in the working of God, who
between God and the world. In Christ
{Continued on page 11)
the lusts are crucified, the old self-seeking

is gone and the new life is present.

'8 Hanson, op. cit. p. 62.

Sermm Out^nei for Barefeet Bfecue^eH.

Bill Gulick, Ennore, India

One is going his own way if he permits

anything to have pre-eminence over the

THE CHOSEN FEW

will of God for his life.

Matthew 22:1-14

IrUro.: Who are the redeemed ? The

opinions of men vary.

1. The predestined.
2.

vants and treated them shamefully and

Good moral men.

3. Universality, i.e. none will be lost.

4. There is no hell, no punishment.
5. There is neither heaven nor hell,
nothing from which to be saved.
I. The message of God has been avail
able always to some men.

A. The Jews had a better opportunity

of hearing than many.
B.

Luke 12:29-31;

Matthew 19:16-22.
C. " And the rest took those ser

The western nations live in an

age of greater opportunity than many.

The " King
sent forth his servants
to call them that were bidden

Again he sent forth other servants,

saying
all things are ready: come. "

killed them." They deliberately: and

wilfully rejected the message in its enti
rety. They devoted themselves to its
active opposition.
III. The message of God is neverthe

less to be carried to every creature every

where. " As many as ye shall find. "
See also Revelation 22:17.

Cone.: The message of God is for

those who obey. The obedient to the
gospel are the chosen few. " Friend,
how camest thou in hither not having a
wedding garment? And he was speech

less." T^e.garment of salvation is the

free gift of God. The appointed garment

must be worn in the appointed way.

II. Those with the best opportunities

are sometimes the last to take advantage
GOD PRESCRIBES
of them. How did they reject?
A. " But they made light of it ".
II Kings 5:1-14
An individual who makes light of the
Intro.: " Now Naaman, (1) captain of
appointed plan of God will not enter
the host (2) of the king of Syria (3) was
into the kingdom of God.
a great man (4) with his master and
1. " Baptism is silly. "
(5) honorable, because (6) by him Jehovah
2. " Church membership is unneces
had given victory unto Syria; (7) he was
sary. "
also a mighty man of valor,
3. " The name doesn't meike any
I. Bat he was a leper. "
difference."

4. " It doesn't matter what you beHe could not touch his men.

Heve."

5.

" One church is as good as ano

ther. "

B. They " went their ways. "

Proverbs 14:12.

Note

to eat alone.
distance

He had

He had to keep a careful

between

himself and

others.

He had to take precautions lest he conta

minate his family. His entire life was
affected by his leprosy.

Leprosy is painless. It spreads. It

deforms. It xiltimately destroys the life.
Sin, like leprosy, is painless at first to the
sinner. It has small beginnings, but soon
spreads. It makes a wreck of a man and
his life. The wages of sin is death.
A good father, but an adulterer. A
good husband but a drunkard. A hard
worker, but a backbiter. A good mother,

but a nagging wife. Glood moral people,

but they died without having obeyed
the gospel.
II.

Naaman was fortunate.

A.

There was a messenger handy who

knew of a person who could cure, " a

little maiden; and she waited on Naaman's
wife.

in a rage they have rejected the way of

salvatibn.
IV.

Naaman was cured because he

obeyed.

As a matter of fact he couldn't

be cleansed in the rivers of Abanah and

Pharpar in Syria, but only in the Jordan

as God comn^ded. As a matter offact
he had to dip himself seven times into the
Jordan.
Cone.: " Then went he down and dip
ped himself seven times in the Jordan
I according to the saying of the man of God;

j and his fiesh came again like unto the

flesh of a little child, and he was clean. "

" And now why tarriest thou?

arise, and

be baptized, and wash away thy sins,

calling on the name of the Lord. " (Acts
22:16).

1.

She couldn't cure him, but she

could

tell him about one' who could.

Every Christian has been fortunate in

having had someone who told him about
the One who could take away the guilt

ADMISSION INTO THE CHURCH

Acts 2:37, 38, 47; Eph. 1:22, 23

of sin.

2.

There was one who could cure.

" Would that my Lord were with the

prophet that is in Samaria! then would
he recover him of his leprosy 1" God has
a prescription, a panacea for sin.
3. Only God himself had the cure.
The king of Syria sent a letter, ten talents
of silver, 6,000 pieces of gold and ten
changes of raiment. " And it came to
pass, when the king of Israel had read the

Intro.: The same terms of pardon

which bring us salvation also bring us
into Christ and His church.

The church

is composed of the redeemed.

I. Hearing, Matt. 7:24; Jn. 8:47;
12:48; Matt. 17:5; Rom. 10:14, 17.

II.

Faith, Jn. 6:29; 3:36; 20:31;

Mk. 16:16; Heb. 11:6.

III.

Repentance, Lk. 24:45-47; Mk.

letter, that he rent his clothes, and said,

Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that

6:12; Lk. 13:3, 5; Acts 17:30; II Pet.

this man doth send imto me to recover

a man of his leprosy?"

IV. Confession, Matt. 10:32; I Jn.

4:15; 4:2, 3; Rom. 10:8-10.

III. Naaman came -with his own

notions as to how he should be cured.

Rom. 6:1-6.

" Behold, I thought. " " So he turned and

went away in a rage. "

3:9.

V.

Baptism,

Mt.

3:13-17;

28:19;

Cone.: " And the Lord added to the

It is God Who provides salvation, not

man. Many will be lost because they

church daily those that were saved"

(Acts 2:47). If you have obeyed the
gospel, you are a member of the church

have insisted on their own ideas or because

of Christ.

BALANCE SHEET OF PROHlIBmON

By G. Ramanujam

(This article, copyrighted by the India

News and Feature Alliance, is reprinted
here with their permission).

This criticism is not against the

principle or policy of Prohibition but is
really against the manner and method of
the implementation of that policy. It is
Ever since the declaration of the
a naive attempt to call for an end to
national emergency following the Chinese Prohibition just because there are defects
undeclared war on India, the critics of
in its implementation. On the other hand,
Prohibition have become louder in their

demand for its abolition.

There was al

ways a viewexpressed mostly by the ad

dicts

and

the

well-to-do

classdiat

Prohibition had never been successful,

that illicit distillation was always going

on on a wide-spread scale and that the
State was .unnecessarily being deprived
of its revenue.

These critics argue that if Prohibition

had not been introduced, the State would
have gained about Rs. 300 crores annually

by way of excise, and this huge sum would

have helped to push forward our program
me for economic development and also
improve our defense capacity. It appears
that some state governments have already
fallen a victim to this line of thinking;
and some States are reported to be doing
some rethinking on their Prohibition policy
with a view to augmenting their revenues.
It is time, therefore, to pause a while and
ponder over the implications of this
rethinking as well as to understand the
other side of the case.

Let us analyse the implications of

the criticism against Prohibition and
understand

the

economic

and

moral

aspects of it both from the point of view

of the citizen as well as of the State.

The first criticism is that Prohibition

has been a failure as there have been
numerous cases of violation of the Pro

hibition law. Assuming that this criti

cism is foimded on facts^which, however,
is not wholly the casethis by itself

cannot be a good argument for scrapping

Prohibition.

what such criticism should demand is

the effective implementation of the Prohibi

tion policy. Let us suppose a law is not
properly implemented. This will not
make the law itself bad. It will only
make the implementation bad. The
remedy does not lie in doing away with the
law itself, but in taking measures to more
effectively implement that law. If the
critics are right, then it must mean that
all laws, prohibiting stealing, assault
and murder should also be scrapped
because in spite of these laws, there still
persists in society stealing, assault and
murder.

This would be an absurd proposition.

The same would be the position in regard
to the demand for scrapping Prohibition.
We should, therefore, make an honest,

determined and sustained effort to imple

ment the programme of Prohibition,
imlike some of the present half-hearted
ways it is being done by doubting our
capacity and in many cases doubting the
very wisdom of introducing Prohibi
tion.

Any number of violations of the

Prohibition law should not, therefore,

be brought up as an excuse for giving

up Prohibition. At the same time it
cannot be denied that all such violations
should be reduced to the minimum if

not altogether eliminated. We should

devise better methods of implemen
tation; and for this it is necessary to
understand how and why these violations
take place.

10

It is well-known that there'are always

two sections in society who do not bother
very much about the legal obligations
arising out of their acts and omissions;
and they form the two extreines. One
section is at the topmost strata of society

leading directly to a higher standard of

living.
There is also peace in the family;
family harmony and family happiness have

while the other is at the bottom.

has become less. All these have provided

a better take-oflf stage for man for soaring
to newer heights of living standards in
a civilized society. All these definitely
go to swell the assets side of the Prohibition

But

then together these two constitute a negli

gible section of the community; and viola
tions of the Prohibition law by these two
sections should not be the basis for decid

ing the successful

implementation of

Prohibition. These two sections will be

the last to conform to the law, Even

though our efforts must also be directed

toward making them respect the law by a
judicious mixtmre of education and a
deterrent, we should concentrate on the

middle group which constitutes more

than 90 per cent of the community.
In this middle group, it is the old
and confirmed addicts who will find it

difficult to give up drinking and will,

therefore, resort to the illicit supply. But
such addicts too are few. In states like
Madras which introduced Prohibition al

most right from the beginning of the

country's independence, drinking has been
legally banned for the last fifteen years.
The generation that might be considered
as confirmed addicts is fast disappearing;
and the new generation has not fallen a
victim to the habit of drink and it will

never experience the difficulty. It is now

therefore, only a question of time; and
any hasty step leading to the abolition
of Prohibition will only mean a retrograde
step.

It is common knowledge that the

introduction of Prohibition has greatly
helped the poorer section of the people
and more particularly the working class.
The one major factor for an improvement
in the standard of living of the Working

classis undoubtedly 'Prohibition.' Without

Prohibition a substantial part of the wages
would have been spent on drinks. But
with Prohibition on, the wages earned are
not spent on driidcs but are diverted
to purchasing other necessities of life.

increased. The women at home are

better treated. The incidence of crime

Balance Sheet.
Now let us look at the liabilities side

too.

There is first the alleged loss of

revenue to the State.

Some estimate it

to be around Rs. 300 crores annually,

which is a grossly exaggerated figure.
The argument that the State is losing

something on accoimt of Prohibition is

itself fallacious. It might be that at first
blush the loss to the State exchequer might

appear to be true; but if you go deeper

into it, you will find that it is not so.
The truth is that because of Prohibition,

people go in for other goods and services

with the money they would otherwise be
spending on drinks.
This gets the

(^vernment more money by means of

additional revenue through sales

tax,

excise duties, entertainment tax, etc., on

those goods and services.

Further, the increased demand for

goods and services brings in its wake new

and more industries and services, thus

adding to the State's income and increasing

the volume of
employment.
For
instance, if there was no Prohibition,

people would not be buying so much cloth

as Aey are doing now; the purchase of
cloth means more sales tax and excise

duty revenue to Grovernment, and more

milk on the industry side and more
employment to the people. Again be
cause of. Prohibition more people vkit
theatres more often which adds again to
the excise and entertainment tax revenue

to government.

Another and perhaps even more impor

tant a factor k the incidence of crime.

11

Without

Prohibition

the

incidence

of

crime was higher and Government was

forced to spend considerable sums on
maintenance of law and order, both

through preventive police force and

through maintaining a larger number of
criminal courts. Thus, the net effect on
the State's exchequer will be more or less

of accepting the philosophy of end

justifying the means. It is too soon to
forget Gandhiji.

Giving up Prohibition will amount to

choosing wrong means; and means will
never lead to abiding good achievements.
We should, therefore, turn our backs
against the ignorant and interested
propaganda against Prohibition. These
State governments who are reported to
be toying with the idea of giving up
Prohibition in the hope of finding funds

the same. Only the scrapping of Prohibi

tion would tend to depress the moral and
material standards of the people. It is,
therefore, a myth to suggest that abolition
of Prohibition would be all to the good and I for other projects thereby, should consider
would swell the coffers of the State to the it their sacred duty to discard wrong
advantage of the people.
means for achieving right ends. Even
Even assuming there will be a small considering the issue purely on a materia
net gain in terms of money to the State listic plane, they must realise that the
by abolishing Prohibition, such gain is balance of advantage is certainly in favour
bound to be illusory and nothing as com

pared to the gain in the moral and material

standards of the people that would other
wise accrue. Is it suggested that the State

of not merely retaining Prohibition, but

in enforcing it vigorously too. (Copy
right INFA).

should be made to become rich at the cost

of the moral and material well-being

of the people? That would not be the

hall-mark of any good government, much
less of a government whose objective is a
welfare State.

It must be remembered that abolition

of Prohibition does not add to the income
of either the nation or of the individual.

{Continuedfrom page 6)
raised him from the dead. " (Golossians 2:12 ARV, cf. Galatians 3:26-27).
The concept of dying with Christ
from the rudiments of the world so that

The income remains the same, and only

God may endow us with a new life is now

largely unknown. Thus, the churches are
populated with multitudes of the un-

the manner of its distribution would vary,

regenerate.

and that too to

Brevity forces me to be concise. It

is, even in this brevity quite clear, however,
that real Christian imity and the continu
ing presence of God require a personal and

the detriment of the

individual and the nation.

In short only

the family budget of people would show a

change for the worse, which is certainly
no sign of progress.
Let us not be led away by the practice
in other countries. The Indian approach
to drinking is different. Indians consider
it a sin to drink. No respectable Indian
will take pride in owning publicly that
he drank. We have been taught by

Gandhiji to respect the means ais much as

we value the end. We have been parti
cularly warned by him against the pitfall

basic examinationan examination more

fundamental than the usual quest for

unity. Paul's exhortation is an appro
priate final analysis: "Try yonr own
selves whether ye are in the faith;
prove your own selves. Or know ye
not as to your own selves, that Jesus
Christ is in you? unless indeed ye
be reprobate." (2 Corinthians 13:5
ARV)

12

PRESS GLEANINGS ON PROIHIIIBITION

Compiled by R. H.

After an interval of fifteen years,

liquor is once again being sold in Kanpur
and other previously dry areas of Uttar
Pradesh.

Licences

were

sold

for

Rs.

60,000 (S 12,732) each, and the shops

are busy making up for lost years.
Many important persons are, however,
crying out against the opening of the
liquor shops.

Government did not contemplate the end

ing of prohibition in Madras State. He
said that he was sure that even if prohibi
tion were scrapped in the state, that the
evil of illicit distillation would continue.

If Madras were to scrap prohibition, he

was sure that there would be a state-wide

agitation within six months for reintroducing it.

Prime Minister Nehru has stated that

(In this connection it is interesting

in considering prohibition, the financial

aspect is not important. He added that
a good thing had to be done even at a

to note that last year Madras enjoyed a

6*94 per cent decrease in crime. This is
compared to an almost imbelievable 92
per cent increase in Kanpur).
Mr. Shiiman Narayan, member of the

cost.

Mr. Gulzarilal Nanda, Union Minister

for Planning, Labour and Employment,

Planning Commission, has urged that

said that it would be a national defeat

volunteers make a house-to-house cam

if prohibition was scrapped. Mr. Nanda

warned that social workers promoting
prohibition would have to face powerful

paign to educate the people regarding

the

resistance from vested interests, but that

committee to promote prohibition.

they should do so boldly.

Acharya Vinoba Bhave, Bhoodan
leader, said that prohibition was a must for
building the character of the nation.
He said that it was not the revenue but

the character of people which should be

the supreme consideration.

Mr. Khandubhai Desai, a prominent

labour leader, said in Rajkot that prohibi
tion had been a real boon to workers and
that it had been a success wherever it had
been introduced. Mr, Desai ridiculed

evils

of drink.

The Bharat Sevak Samaj has set up a

Mr. Ganga Sahai Chaubey, president
of Kanpur's Suti Mill Mazdoor Sabha,
has appealed to social workers to launch a

drive among the poor workers of Kanpur

to dissuade them from taking liquor and
other intoxicants.

Also in Kanpur, the Sarvodaya Mahila

Mandal and the Gandhi Study Circle of
Aryanagar, laimched a signature cam
paign in the city against the scrapping of
prohibition. Public meetings were held
in various parts of the city demanding

the suggestion that prohibition was a bur

den on the state exchequer, and cautioned
that its repeal, on the contrary, would
adversely affect finances of the state in

prohibition.
The Union Finance Minister, Mr.

which it was in force.

of intoxicants was one of Gandhi's four

He added that the

Moraiji Desai, in a speech in Hyderabad,

reminded his hearers that the prohibition

shortcomings of prohibition could be fundamental teachings. He said that

removed by proper law enforcement and India could not meet the present emer
people's awakening.
gency by forgetting the fundamental
Mr. D. Sanjivayya, Congress President, teachings of h^hatma Gandhi.
said in Nagpur that he was of the view
In tLe meantime, the Central Govern
that prohibition should continue.
ment at New Delhi, has completely banned
Mr. K. Kamaraj, Chief Minister of the import of foreign liquor into the
Madras, told newsmen that the Madras

country.

13

WOMEN OF THE BEBLE

A G H S A H {Continued)
By H. Kaveri Bai

their case. Was Zelophehad's name to

The Second Numbering

perish just because he had had no son?

The forty years wandering had come

to an end.

One of the last acts of Moses

was to number the Israelites again,

since all except two of those adults who
were nmnbered after crossing the Red
Sea were now dead. Those whom he
now numbered were the adult men who
were either born in the wilderness or

were mere youngsters when the people

came out of Egypt.
To this new generation he must give
the law and the commandments again.
To them he must give all the instructions
and exhortations over again before he
himself would be taken away. Achsah's
brothers and other men of military age
strutted about feqling very important,
as they would soon be fighting against
the inhabitants of Canaan and taking
possession of their land. Even Achsah's
uncle Othniel came under the new num

bering.
" We have nobody in our family to be
numbered," sighed Tirzah sadly. Tirzah
was one of the Zelophehad sisters. " No
father, no uncles, no brothers."
" But I am hoping that you will be my
sister-in-law,"

Achsah

consoled

" You can be proud of

brethren of their father.

Moses took the matter before the Lord
rather than before a coimcil or a commit

tee. If only individuals, families, and

nations would take their problems before
the All-Wise for His solution today! What
a happy place this earth might be! God
commanded Moses to grant the sisters

their request, and to m^e a statute for

the people's guidance in similar cases in
the future. If a man died childless, then
only was his inheritance to pass to his
brethren.
A Sad Announcement

One day all the congregation of the

children of Israel were summoned to assem

ble before the Lord. In the camp

there was a good deal of nervousness and
much speculation. " What sin has been
committed this time, and by whom?"
" Are we going to pass over the Jordan
today?" " Is there going to be another
war this side of the Jordan?"
But it was to the appointment of a
successor to Moses that they had been

her.

calledone who should command and

my brother

rule Israel after Moses had gone, and

Pharez."

Tirzah gaye her a pinch by way of

answer, and said, " Not in the way that
you can be proud of Othniel. Everybody
with half an eye can see how fond he is
of you ".
Moses now divided the inheritance
which the different tribes should receive

after conquering Canaan.

They asked for a possession among the

The five Zelo

phehad sisters were left without an in

heritance, since there were no men in
their farnily to whom the inheritance

could be ^ven. So they approached

Moses and Eleazer the priest and presented

should lead them into Canaan. Even

those who had not loved the veteran
leader much were now saddened at the

prospect of his being taken fi:om them.

According to the Lord's command
ment, Moses took Joshua, a Spirit filled
man, and set him before Eleazer the high
'priest before the whole congregation
and there laid his hands on him.

Joshua was given

a solemn

Then

charge.

Eleazer was to ask counsel of God for

Joshua, and only at God's word should

Joshua go out or come in, " both he and
all the children of Israel. "

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with the request that their inheritance be

A Bitter Avenging

One day Caleb came and told his wife,

" God wants Moses to avenge our people
of the Midianites. "

"War again? Why?" she asked.

" Because of the Midianite women,

assigned to them from the territory on

the east side of the Jordan River, taken

from the kings Sihon and Og. At this

Moses flared up, thinking that these two
tribes wanted to settle down at ease with

out passing over the Jordan and taking

whom they employed to lure Israel into

the

sin, for which the Lord had to slay such

a large number of people. The dead are
to be avenged. "

your brethren go to war and shall ye sit

" Father, are you going to the war?"

anxiously enquired Achsah.
" No, I am not.

Not all of our men

are going. Only a thousand men from

each tribe. My brother Othniel and
your brothers Onan, Asher and Pharez
are going. "
In this war the Israelites slew all the

men of Midian. Among them in the

slaughter fell the wretched prophet Balaam,
who, instead of serving God had served
men for the sake of wordly riches and
honor. It was by his counsel that
the sirens of Moab had ensnared the

men of Israel.

Now he met an ignomi

nious and terrible end.

When Moses and the elders of Israel
went forth to meet the victorious armies

of Israel on their return from the battle,

he was shocked to find that the Midianites

had not been completely exterminated.

Indignantly he said, " Have you saved
all the women alive ?

Behold these caused

the children of Israel through the counsel

of Balaam to commit trespass against the
Lord
and there was a plague among
the congregation of the Lord. " He
commanded that all except the virgin
girls should be killed forthwith. A
dreadful judgment and one at which
Achsah shuddered, but it was a necessary
one if God's people were to be kept free

land from its

here?"

inhabitants.

" Shall

he thundered.

The petitioners explained that they

only wished to leave their families and
cattle in the fenced cities for their protec
tion because their people and animals
were more numerous than those of the

others.

" But we ourselves will go ready

and armed before the children of Israel

until we have brought them into their

place
we will not return to our
houses until the children of Israel have

inherited every man his inheritance."

Moses agreed> but added sternly, " But
if you will not do so, behold you have
sinned against the Lord and be sure your
sin will find you ouf. "
Achsah was aware that many among
the other tribes murmured because these
wanted to save their women and children

from the hardships of going into an enemy

country. But she and her friends the
Zelophehad sisters thought otherwise.
" Pity those women and children who
cannot set foot in the land promised to
our fathers, having come up to its borders.
We would never agree to being so left
behind. We are eager to pass over and
live in that land. "

Among the finishing touches Moses

was giving to his labors imder God
was the appointment of cities of refuge,
where anyone who unintentionally killed
another could escape from vengeance.
There was one more thing he was

Matters of National Adzmnlstration

called upon to settle. The families of

the house of Joseph approachedMoses and
Eleazer with a grievance. Zelophehad,

Before his death one more, matter of

who had left five daughters and no son,

was of the tribe of Manasseh, Joseph's

of sin.

consequence came before Moses.

The

tribes of Reuben and Gad approached him

first born.

Since it had been decreed

that Zelophehad's inheritance should pass

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to his daughters, the complaint was, if

these girls now married sons of other
tribes, " then shall the inheritance be
taken from
fathers

the
"

inheritance

of

our

his mouth

Moses was commanded by God to

decide in the case of Zelophehad's daugh
tersthis precedent to apply to all
similar cases in futurethat the daughters
to whom their father's

inheritance had

passed for want of sons, should be

married only into the families of the tribe
of their father.

Achsah was a

bit dis

appointed that Tirzah could not become

her sister-in-law. " But it is not right
that the daughters of one tribe should
take away from the inheritance of that
tribe, and add it to the inheritance of
another tribe, " she admitted.

" Moses looks not like a man, putting

his house in order for the purpose of
dying, " remarked Tirzah's sister Noah.
He is attending to every matter with the
same earnest care and labor as

he has

always served. He does not even seem

to be bitter that after forty years of bearing
the burden of our nation and leading a
murmuring and rebellious people up to
the edge of the promised land, he himself
is not to set his foot in it. "

Her sister Hoglah answered, " But

he is going to be gathered to our fathers
who are in

of thy brethren, like unto me: unto him

ye shall hearken
The Lord said
unto me
I will raise them up a
Prophet
and will put my words in

much better land

than

Canaan, and he is going to see Abraham,

Issac and Jacob, and live with them.

He will join Aaron and Miriam again. "

" But we are sure to miss him much,
much more than we missed Aaron, "

sighed Achsah.
Death of Moses

Moses gave many warnings and

exhortations and made many rules and
regulations. He also prophesied the
coming of another prophet like him
self, a greater Law-giver than he, who
would speak as God commanded Him.
" The Lord thy God will raise up unto
thee a Prophet from the midst of thee.

And it shall come to

pass, that whosoever will not hearken

unto my words which he shall speak in
my name, I will require it of him. "
(Deut. 18:15 to 19). This Prophet was
to supersede the written law and give a
law that was to be put in the hearts of
men. This Prophet would speak of His
own authority thus: "It hath been said
{referring to one point or another in the
law of Moses)
But I say unto
you
"so that under this new dis
pensation the outward keeping of the law
no longer counted.
Finally, this great and veteran leader
blessed one by one all the tribes, and left
the vast congregation he had governed,
shepherded, judged and led, for forty

long years, to go his way all alone " unto

the mountain of Nebo; to the top of
Pisgah, that is over against Jericho. "
No one accompanied him, but all gazed at
the receding figure, grand, majestic, and
solitary, with hearts full of unspeakable
sadness, till Moses disappeared from their
view. After God had shown him a good
view of the panorama of the Promised
Land, Moses died on the top of Pisgah,
and the Lord Himself buried him in one

of the valleys, so that nobody ever knew

where.

For 30 days the children of Israel wept

for Moses. Achsah and many others were
sore at heart even after the general mour
ning ended. The children of Israel now
hearkened to Joshua, their new leader,
and obeyed him. " And there arose not
a prophet since in Israel like unto Moses,
whom the Lord knew face to face. "

When that Prophet came, about whom

Moses had prophesied, Moses did enter
Canaan in company with Elijah, to meet
this Son of God, on the mount of trans
figuration, and was seen there by Peter,
James and John.

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'63

It's

WONDERFUL

LIFE!

DEAN

DALE

MOM

AND

DAD

REMPEL

AND

UNCLE

RALPH

BARTER

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Some of the. ehrixtiayia of the Sicaroopnagar aH'iemblij in Kanpur.

THE LIFE OF A MISSIONARY IS A WONDERFUL LIFE !

Oh ves, we could write a very large book about our difficulties, hardships,

artd disappointments. Chapters could be written about our mistakes, and the things
missionaries grumble about when they get together.

But after all is said and done, the fact stands out clearly that the life of a

missionary is a wonderful life. Anyone who has been a missionary for even a very
short time never quite gels over the experience.
In this little booklet we want to fill you with some of the wonders of our lives

here. May it fill you with bubbles of joy and raise you up to join your hands
with ours in the preaching of the gospel to every creature.

's m/rnmrftd^'^O BE A CIQUSTIAN

Dean Rbmpel

My parents, who are tnissionaries, hrought rtie and my brother to India

when we were only two years did. We' cOnsider it a great privilegeto have
been reared' in thiT land.

'

We have been in America only once since then.

'

That w^ when we

all went "hortie-' in 1954. While my Mother and Dad tia^flW *hibUn^ in

the U. S. apd Canada^ Dale and I sthyed with our grandpai'ents iii iforthern
Alberta and had one ye^r of schbol there.

t)f course it was all very strange to us at fimjust as it woul'd he strange

to you for a while if you came to India. We had no trouble- keepipg. j^ecrets

from Grandma because we would speak to each other in Hindi. We n^sed the
Indian food very much, although Grandma did make some good tasting curry
aud rice-,for us with spices we had brought from India..

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!The one thing that, w^ the same there as. it;is here, and. I kpow, will not

chVnge ever, was the Ipve pf,Gbd. It calls children, and young,peppier andpld
people alike. .In fact, ,it was while we were home that my pwnheart was touched.

/I had been listening to Xlr. Howard Rash (he is ;an.older,brother ofpur, owm,.

Tom Rash ) preach, and the Lord called me to give myself to Him. I went
forward and my Dad came and asked me to make "the good confession" so that I
might be immersed into Christ., Thus I became a.Christian, and now that I have
been one for about ten years, I,can say with my, whole heart that, it's wonderful!

Living, as we do. among non-christian, pagan peoples, we are all thiemore

aware of how privileged we are to be free in Christ.

May I .tell you a little bit about Hinduism ? It is the main non-christian

religio.h in India.

The Hindu scriptures are called Vedas and Gita. They are not as simple
to read and understand is the Bible. ' Mainly they are ancient hymns and philoso

phic sayings, much older than Christianity and the New Testament.

The Hindus say that God is divided into three parts, under the titles of

Brahma (the Creator), Vishnu (the preserver), and Shiv (the Destroyer). Eachof
these has had uncountable incarnations, and the chief among these incafnations are
ones like Krishna and' Ramii About these ancient men now worshipped aS gods,

great epic stories have been\vritten: the Mahabharat, and Ramayan.

Teniples to these numerous gbds literally dot the Indian ' boilritry-side.
The Indian people do not ghther in their temple In congregations likewe' db in
our chui^ches, but go individually to offer their sacrifices of coconiilis or flowei^
{Continued inside back cover)

St'S

TO H4VE PETS IN INDIA

Dale REMPSii

'^oeyV jvvas our first pet in India. He came to us directlyfrom the jungle,
when bo^h he and we were very small. A little shepherd boy had found him,
lost from his mother, and brought him to'our home for us. He was a wild pig
whom we kept for nine months.

' Mother, ^ad been reared on. a farm in Gapada and the care of Joey fell

to her. H^ was too small to eat ^rain, and Auntie Leah's "baby-fold"

supplied just the right kind of rubber nipples for Joey's milk bottle. Ho\v he
loved that bottle! When it came close to feeding time joey would clamp his
little teeth on to the bottom of Mother's dress and scream for all he was worth.

He /tfhhll)^ became too large, with hiigc long tusks, for us to play witji and
Dad'penned him up.

Dad does not think much ofour habit of making our pets a part of the family
and it was some time before he would give in to our having another. Finally
he agreed that we might have a dog. It would have to be'a good dog," he said,
\yith a pi^igree, and with all his hair (you should see some of the horrible
lodkiri^ hairless specimens that roam ,the streets here !) Mother insisted on a black

dog, because a neighbor's dog had made himself unpopular by.leaving long white
hair all over her furniture.

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> Guess what we finally got! Yep, a

very much mixed breed.
He was'supposed to be a Labrador, but I think he was the world's only white
Labrador. But he was just the one that I loved when I first saw him in the
litter odr neighbors showed us, and Tuffit-wasi with us for about four years. :
Besides being a great watchdog and mother's constant companion. Tuff
learned all kinds.;of tricks. He sort of turned traitor on me, though, because
he would almost always take the morning paper from the newsboy to Dad instead .
of to me.

We sure missed him after he took ill and died.

After a variety of pets-budgie birds, a parrot, rabbits, a fawn, a goose, a

mongoose, and various cats, we now have the ultimate in house pets, a .rhesus
, monkev. If you don't think so, just ask my Dad ! (I think he has a different
meaning for the word "ultimate" than I havej though).

, Her favorite word "Coo" has gained her her name of "Puckoo". She was
completely v^ild when she Came, and hadto be kept tied or in acage^jjut she runs

loose all the. tune now. She is the'naughtiest thing you ever saw, but is.so cute
that she gets away with much more than we ever did when we were kids.

I thought for g. mipute she had reached ,her "ultimate'' the other day when she

grabbed D^'s fayorite pen and ran up on th^ roof of the house ,with it.
Hope she does hot crowd her. luck too far while we are .away at school.
{Continued inside hack cover)

St SttWmderfiki' TO 'HVE TO "SWAROOPNAGAR"

Frank Rbmpel

Wft siipHl4 probably add "i^ther than in some other parts ofour city of
Kanpur" to. the, above .title. The sectiop. of the city known as "Swaroopnagar"
is definitely one of the better parts of it^

Oh, I suppose you would hardly call it "Nob Hill" if Swarbophagar was
in your city ! You would probably imme(^iately write to the city commissioners,
or the health departrnent, of some, other agency to see if something could
not be done, about the filthy conditions'of some parts of it. You'd likely
say that the "gaoshallas" (cow sheds ) are a danger to the health of the
citizens, and that something will just have to be done about those breeding
places for flies and mosquitos. If you saw some of the homes of Swaroopnagar

you'd probably say they are not fit for humans to, live in.. You would^1
very sorry for people who are so poor that they have no choice but to live in them.
On the other hand, even you would likely be quite impressed by the
size and beauty of some of the other homes. You would know immediately

that the people who live here, who keep these lovely, park-like grounds and

unbelievably beautiful flower gardens are' very wealthy people indeed. Though

in India the keeping of servants is general and even the very average family
would have at least one, you would know that all these "chaprasis" ( messengers)

and "malis" ( gardeners) and "jamadars" ( cleaners) and "khansamas" (cooks)

and "bearers" (waiters) must cost a lot to maintain. And you would be quite
right for Swaroopnagar has many very wealthy residents.

Now, our place too is quite large, and we also have fruit trees and flower
gardens and a lawn. We 'even keep some workers around the place - someone
to do my cCoking when I am here alone (the family having gone to the Himalyan
foothills whei-e the boys attend school) and'a part-tinie mali to keep the water runing on the flowers. But our place is "smaUpotatoes" compared to some of the ones
around here

We are very comfortable indeed, and very grateful that the Lord

has provided such a nice place in a better part of the city, where we can take
reasonable precautions about protecting our health.

Yoq can. be sure that there are other, parts of this great city which are indee^NA

not fit for human habitation. The pity authorities are doing a great deal to yl
provide better housing: ,but it is an almost-impossible task to make provision jl
for all of. the hundreds of thousands of poor people who live, in this city.
The number is growing by leaps and bounds.

Can you imagine how families of perhaps 6 members can possibly live in one
room.? Yet this is not at all uncommon in kome piarts of Kanpiir. Even worse,
\vhat , about our thousands upon thousands' Who have no house at all to call
home]'but who live oh the streets entirely? Do you wonder that we think

gratefiilly about the goodness and mercy of God Who has made such fine
provision for us?

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TO' iBE-si iMISSIONARY WIFE,

Marie Rempel

Vijaylakshmi Pandit, Prime Minister Nehru's sister, once told her daughters:
"Your father used to say that marriage is a very unilatural: institution. For
two praple to live together all their lives in hatmony does require a high d^i^e
of civilization. It is one of the most difficult things in the world to achieve.
But life is not complete without marriage."

The result of an *|unequal yoking" together is often illustrate in India.

An olx is seen yoke with a buffalo, and sometimes a donkey is seen pulling
with a horse. Such pairs may pull the load, but it is usually only one which
does the pulling.

^ After my twenty years ofexperience, I can gratefully say that it is a wonderful

privilege to be the wife of a conscientious, loving, Christian, preacher husband.

For further bonus I am the mother of two boys. Dale and Dean, who are
now sixteen years of age.

Although I had dreamed ofsome day settling in a home ofour own and "stay
ingput", the Lordseems ,to have had other plans for us. The t>venty years of our
married life have been spent in many homes (none our own) and many places.
In every case the Lord has enabled us to make each home attractive (at least to
us) and home-like. .

Let me tell you about three homes we have had in India.

We came to Kulpahar in 1949. Kulpahar is a small village of abqut seven

thousand people, in the north India province of Uttar Pradesh. Our work there was

with the India Bible College, and our home a rambling sort of bungalow that we

found very different from the homes in Canada. Kulpahar became a true home to
us, however, and the friends we made there, both Christian and Hindu, are still
veryidear to us. Here we worked until the Bible College was closed down and we
began a printing and publications work in the city ofKanpur.

In Kanpur the Lord has provided us with a home fit for a king! a bunga
low with "comi)ound" large enough s^o that we cancarry onour printing woi-k from
the same premises. There is space for nice flower and vegetable gardens, and we
have fi-uit trees: mango, guava, lime, orange, banana, lichi, jack-fruit, papaya,
v.

and mulberry. Many friends come to stay with us here- you come too sometime I

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n. ^
Our third home is a part-time home. It is what we call our "Himalyan
y>^9me" ic^^^^^oorie where Dale's and Dean's school is located. A part of every
hot is.season spent here and during this time the boys come out of "boarding" and
live with us at "Edgehill Villa". The rest of the time during the school term
which begins in March and ends in December, they live in the school hostels.
{Continued inside back cover)

Sts Wonderful TO SHEPHERD THE liock

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Uncle Ralph

It doesn't seem quite right for an American to shepherd an Indian flock;

but, for the time being at least, that is the way it is. Happily, I am not
doing this work by myself The church in Swarupnagar has also chosen a
fine young Indian man by the name of Lawrence Lazarus to be co-pastor.

When Lawrence and I took over t^ese duties on January 1st of^ this year,
we decided to go together arid visit each one of the families of the congre
gation. Although ours is a small congregation, this proved to be a big job.
Kanpur is a very large city and miles of crowded streets separate the homes
of our members.

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'

One of the members who needs a frequent visit is Mrs. Albert Pawar.

For several years she has been suffering froiri- tuberculosis. Her husband has
very lovingly cared for 'her during the^ years of illness, and' -he' keeps' fheif
hoifee spotlfssly clean. Last summer he' bought an electric fail;'';arid 'his wife
survived the hot weather -by sittirig in fronL of it.
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Some of the families are very backward.

In these homes the fathers are

kriown to drink and gamble, and they carirtqr make proper arrangemeri'ts for
their fanlilies.

In some of the familiesj 'the' cHildreri-do not even go to schOol.

One farnily lives in a single tObm ^th srifch'" a-low-ceiling that I cannot

stand up straight inside of it. Anothet family has atfackis of what wbuld
appear to be demon possession.

"The persons who are happiest to see lis are thcj'bld folsK:''Ohe eldlerly

man is blind, arid one lady has been a widow for forty-fi^e- years.'^-'T^

latter weeps when she sees us because' she *is s6 hiafipy'that she' Ha? been
remembered.

In some, of the homes,, there are thOse who ought to be baptized. VVe

sit dowri arid' teach thesb' bepple i^^^

fiilly.

of therii have .'alre^^

been baptized. At some' of the homes ive tell, a Bible stOiy to the Children^

At all of'ihe horiies ivfe' pfaly before .we Ibave.

: it ,

It is the custom of many of the people to give us a cup of tea to drink.

Now that we have together visited all Of : the

homes - we .tvill go

separately and visit them. This way more homes Nvill be visited more often.
Each of us will take a young man with him so that .others can learn through

experience how church visitation ought to be done.

TO PROVIDE CHRISTIAN LITERATURE

FOR

INDIA'S

NEW

LITERATES

Frank'Rempel

When we came to India in 1949, out of every ten persons in the entire

country, only^ one could read;and write. After fourteen yeai*s of hard effort on

the part of"missionaries'and^ the goverrtment, now about four out of^en can'read.

When you remember-that there are about 45 million such groups of ten in
this vast nation, it does not take long to see that there are a lot of "readers" in
India: 180 millions of them.

1^0]Wi of course ^lien wet missionaries ithink of readers, we immediately think

of ,\Yhat it; is they, ^re reading, and wish:with' our whole hearts that it could

always be .good literaturothe .kind' that points the;way. to, the Lord Jesus
Christ and His way of life. It is truly,wondetffld for us to have apart in .making
this kind of reading material available to a part of this great multitude.

We, say this becaus^ that is.,what we are seeking to do in Kanpur, both

9^1" f^mhyr^nd ,Uncle J^alph,; .(iVyhiie. the.amount we can ,do seems, very small
when we Ipok, at the size, of the task,i nevertheless we; thank God for the opporttinity He 1gives us to. work fop Hini in,,the way.,

Mr. Mangal Singh is one of our Indian co-workers in this task. He is an

expert cpmpositpr (typ.e.,Mttei; j .apd Jn^qhine operator as well. Mr. Lawrence

Icarus ,is another,.,.valpaole helper.,, His .yvork is translating, and getting

"^9Py"..f^<^y for ;the, printer. ,Both of these men and others who work ^Tth
us realize how important this work is and they labor very faithfully indeed.

The^-.^orkroont, at 7/l31,.^waroopnaga^ is uspjally a, very busy place.

The. Jnaih .tnaohin^ -i^ the press, fof co,i^e, ,jStan^ing,,piVer thereijin the corner.

Eye^hing elsei the supplier type iii both Ht^di and, En

the composing
table,^ the pa!per cutter and various, other..itengis m.equtpnient^ are really a part

of this machine. The workroom itself is a part of the quite large bungalow in
which we live.

Perhaps some of you will learn to write and print Christian literature as
you grow up, and come td>India to helpius in tthis'ivery important task..

, :^t s 'Wonderiui sTO RAISE BOyS

Uncle ' Ralph

Our bOys' dormitory in Kahpur.has attracted a lot of interest froiii'bpys

and girls in the United States.

Our dormitory is small. The most boys we have ever had living here
at one time was eleven, and it was very crowded then.
Most of thq boys have conie fropti our, mission stations in the rural areas.
They have come: to the big city to lelarn a, trade. Among those who .have

learned a trade and are now earning money are two drivers, a tailor^ and

a welder,.

Others not yet earning their own living are a mechanic, a painter,

and a stenographer.

It is one of our aims that, the boys should grow in spiritual things during
the time that

they live here.

We have devotions together every evening,

and each boy is requested to read two chapters of Ithe Bible each. day.
Besides that, they attend the regular seivices of the church.

The boys cook their own food in a shack on top of the roof. They
get part of their money for food from their parents, part from me, and part
from other missionaries. At the prent time there is only one boy, an
orphan by name of Andriyas, who depends on me for his full support. '
These boys do have their bad moments. - One of the boys has been
caught smoking,-another stealing. One of the boys is very selfish, and another

plays hookey. One boy"became psychologically unbalanced because of an

over-fascination with girls.

'

But they have their very good moments as well. The boy who shioked
has a knack for earning money by accepting odd jobs. The boy who stole
is an energetic, and serious minded lad. The boy who is selfish always obeys
the rules. The boy who plays hookey 'is honest and truthful. The boy who
needed psychiatric treatment was the best help that we ever had about the house.
As is true in most families, a man is seldom fully

satisfied with the

way that his sons have, turned out. So lio One should be surprised that we
aren't fully satisfied with what we have turned out. hefe; But we believe
that all these boys.: are better for having lived here..
During the summer months, some of the older boys will be leaving us
and we will be getting a new batch of younger kids. Some say that they
hope that the new batch will be better than the old batch. I rather exoeet
that the new batch will be just about like the old batch since boys insist
on being boys. I was one once myself.

S-t s 'W'Ohidrjd "a-iO TRAVEL IN INDIA

Dean Rempel

^ The largeness of the country, the numbers of the travellers and their usually

poverty ^tridcieii coiiditiohs make travel in- India something quite different from

anything found anywhere else. Why don't, yOu come with me on a typical
overnight train journey ?
i

As we >valk onto the station platform we see men selling all kinds of eatables
and hear the familiar nois^ of. men, women, and ciying children, all on.their
way somewere.' People are everyWherie, .sprawled' upon the station platiform and
in the'waiting rooms, in the strangest'variety of coldr and cohditipn that you can
po^ibly imagine. Some sit with a few filthy rags clutched about them and
nothing elseothere recline on a huge mound of luggage that is somehow going
to have to be pushed into an already over-crowded train compartment.

; Some are rich (and trying unsuccessfully to hide, the fact from,possible robbers)

and others are so desperately poor that they will be able to buy nothing to eat
till they arrive at their destinations.

An old man comes up to us, begging us to buy his "berfi" (and,Indian

sweet) Now, one way to find out where the sweetest candy is is to observe where

the most flies are gathered. His wares.certainly qualify in this respect but for the
same reason do not look appetizing, so we tell him to be off.
Our train finally arrivesonly two hours late. We find a first class compartnient that is quite comfortable looking, and along with several Indian gentlemen,
take up our abode in it. We cjliat with them, while we gaze.out of the window
and the train rolls over the flat countryside for several hours in a leisurely fashion.
Further stops are made at way-side stations for more passengers and to load and
unload, parcels.
When it; becomes dark we all spread the bedding we've brought for the
purpose and conipose ourselves for sleep. Practice has accustomed us to the
noises that; continue outside and in the third class compartment next to ours and
we sleep (even if fitfully) throughout the night.
'The cry of the "Garam Chay'' (hot tea) vendors at a station awakens us in

the morning.
soot and dust
(5 cents) for a
we've brought

Pushing up the shutters-that have unsuccessfully tried to keep

from coming- in during the night, we give a tea wala four annas
couple of cups of steaming hot tea to have with the breakfast
along. The.ifact that it is so fiPt assures us that it is quite safe

to drink it.

:S

Breakfast is to the accompaninient of the muttered prayers and bowings

{Contimied inside hack cover)

AriidfiS are covclvded on this page'.

BEING

CHRISTIAN

and clarified butter. Usually a priest has charge of these temples and takes some
tribute in money from the worshippers also.

As there are so many gtds, naturally there are also many feast days. These
are regulated on a calendar different from ours, so we never know when one is
coming up. The three main ones are Dashera ( a worship ofDurga, the goddess
of prosperity and this marks the opening of the Hindu business year ), Diwah
( feast of lights ), and Holi. During this last one they have a dirty habit oi
throwing filth and color all over each other. We have to watch ourselves during
those days or we get drawn into their festival too.

Mostly the Hindu people do not get much joy out of their religion. They
worship more for fear than for love. The terrible caste system is slowly being

clone away with, but it is still very very strong, especially in the villages.
We know that the only hope of the Indian people for true freedom from
sin and from the bondage of their religion, is our Lord Jesus Christ.
PETS

IN

INDIA

A favorite pastime of Cuckoo's is to look in the mirror, for which we've

provided her with one of her own. She does not look at herself so much as

look at others moving around. My preacher Dad says that is very much like
a lot of humans, who never see themselves when they read the scriptures, but

always think it applies to someone else.

A***********

riEING

MISSIONARY

WIFE

This home is especially attractive to us because it means getting away from

the terrible heat of Kanpitr into the cool mountain breezes of Mussoorie. I his
home too Is rented - its just an apartment, really - but we love it.

I don't mind not having a permanent home here on earth, for you see we

'T don't believe that tiiis is our real home. Some day the Lord will take us to one
that is all our own and we'll have it for eternity. He is preparing it for us now.
TRAVEI.LING

IN

INDIA

of one ofour fellow-travellers who is a Muslim and who now faces t.oward Mecca
for the first of his five daily prayer sessions. Another man, being a devout

Hindu chants a "mantra" while he fingers his praVer beads.

The Hindu friend then makes much ado about his morning ritual bath in

the tinv little washroom the compartment affords. Don't pay any attention to
the revolting noises of hacking and spitting. This is customary and the man is
perfectly all right.

I'm sure you agree with me that it is quite an experience, travelling in India !

One of the poorer sections of the city of hanpur

* Additional copies of this booklet may be obtained 4^

I from either of the following forwarding agents:
*

For Mr. R. R. Harter:

For the Rempel :

Miss Florence Douglas

419, N. Main St.
Flora, 111.

Central Christian Church

1848 S. E. 39th Ave.

Portland 14, Oregon

* Contributions and prayers for the work in Kanpiir

I very gratefully received. These also may] be sent
% to the above addresses.

MARCH

1963

Printed and published by Frank Rempci, at Service Printing aid Publishing Press,
7/131, SWAROOPNAGAR, KANPUR, U. P. INDIA

Written, Mimeographed, and Mailed by Ralph R Harter

at 112/352. SWARUPNAGAR, KANPUR, U. P. INDIA
( Kanjiur sometiDie^-ppJ.Le.dJ^vn-pc.re

May 15, 1963

SECOI^T) ANNUAL

PPtEACHIWU MLLY ENDS

The
chairs
have
gone
back to the rental agency,
the rugs have been rolled
up, the speakers have gone
on tiieir way, and v;e are
looking forward to future
spiritual feasts.
The

attendaiice

at

this

year-*s rally was less than

at last year's. Surpris
ingly, one of the reasons
for

this

v/as

that

weeks

removed

from Easter

also have made a dif

ference.

Neverthless,
the meet
ings have made their im
pact. The messages brought
by Bernel Getter and John
Zaman were poweriul.
This

year

we also had the very

effective help of Tom Rash.

The meetings were held in

of .the "Rempel home,

and so

of

most

the

of the

burden

arrangements fell

on Prank's broad shouldera

There we2?e
no immediate

baptisms
resulting from
the
rally,
but one young

man

(Raju Washington) v/as

baptized by Prank Rempel

on Easter Sunday morning.

there

v;ere
no messages in Eng
lish.
Another couple
of
may

front

The Dormitory

David (the welder)

and,
Sani (tlie tailor) have now
rented t h e i r own house and
moved from here.
But even

before

they

left,

were

four

nev/

from

Kulpahar)

their' place.
is
learning
furniture

nlture

there

boys (all

to' take

Samuel Deen

how
to make
in a local fur-

house.

The

three boys have not

begun their training.

othei

yet

"And should not 1have regard lor Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore ^
thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much
cattle?" Jonah 4:11

Richard

stages

is in the final

of-his training ^

a driver and mechiahio:^ and

Predy

continues

his noh-

chalant^. pas s age t o he coas^

ing. a s tenographer. Huh in,

who

is

stii1

re cove ring

from psychological diffi

culties,
is doing excelrlently in. both painting
and music,

Andriyas is back here

Hindi paper, - Jeewan^Deep

has been falling on us. We

had been secretly .wonder'!-

ii^ just how long we would

he afetie to keep up with it.

Help has come in a comple
tely unexpected way. When
I

asked* Brother Rempel how

much I
owed him for this
month's issue of CHRIST AS
IAN, he replied that since

1. was .bearing the burden

of the Hindi magazine, he.

after having failed the

9th G- rade.. We hope to be
able to get him enrolled
in Trade School, A ninth

boy, Yakub, also from Kulpahar, is here for the

summer only,. So you can

would finance the English

one. He is being too gene
rous, and he may have to
change his mind later. In
the meantime we will take

advantage

of

the bonanza

see our house is full,

Lawrence
L.asarus
will

to repair our f ences,'

Lawr0 iic e Laz arus is back

once

at work after two monti^

at home taking examinationsi Oiice again he-isworking slowly but surely,
editing the final pages of

again

shepherd

the

dormitory during the riionth^

of June
hills,

while I
V,,.

am in the

Book S tore .

, ;

Everyone is happy with

the new arrangement of our

book store and library.

During March and April,
sales totalled $195,16,
and included sale of 29

Bibles, I4.Y New Testaments,

and-63 9 Portions, 'Many of
these

were

sold to other

missionaries who, in turn,

resold them in hospitals,
and other places^ .

:the

Hindi

, chance

that

Most nf. the finenoial

burden of publishing . the.

we

will get

the book fully printed be

fore the summer recess,
I , B, I^,

The biggest news

of the
year is that Mr, and Mrs,
T,G, Rash and
the- India
Bihle Institute have moved

to Kanpur, Prom the begin

ning many thought that the
Institute.,

Publications

edition of "On

the Roc^,"- T'here is little

should be loca

te here, but w hesitated

because of the. lack of

pi^perty here,
;-...d
..c
^

olsoVvhorc

FORWARDING AGENT : MISS

FLORENCE DOUGLAS, 419 N. MAIN ST.

FLORA, ILLINOIS, U. S. A.

Information regard i n g

aOSSIPIiETTER THe

h i l l - excursion has

long since begun. Tom Rash,

and I

and

are left in Kan pur,

Tom

will

be leaving

soon.

minded

leaving sooner ray-

v/ouldn^t

have

self, but
things
work out that way.
The rest of

the Rashes,

the Rempols,
the Rolands,
and

Mrs.

didn^t

the Getters,
the Wurtzos,

Rotherrael are

at

Landour.
Lois Callaway is.
also reiported
to be
in
those parts.
Charles
communion

Roland
service

led the
i n Lan

dour 9n May 5"th. Charles

was 16 years old on May
11th.

In South India,
exact
information lacking,
we
imagine that the Gulicks,
the Art Morrises, and
the
Chester Parkers

are

ing themselves
daikanol.

be

Edna Hunt

visiting

The

Misses

Chitwood
their

will

the Guliclcs.
Moshier

are

second

cool

off at Ko-

and

enjoying

visit

Bangalore.
There have been

no

re

cent pieces from the David

Reeses. They are most lik
ely at home in Shillong.

Ruth

Lincoln*s

summer

plans is also lacking.

"Edgehill Villa,"
the

Rempels

and

where
Rashes

have summered for so many

summers,
is being sold "by
its

owner

School.
cause
to the

to

This
some
clan.

Woodstock

is going to
inconvenience

The Rashes,
as you have
noticed elseviihero,
have
moved to Kanpur. They have
rented
a
house about one
mile
from
our house. The

city busses
stop right in
front
of
their gate, but
they
would rather have
them stop closer to people
who

use

them. Incredible

as it may soom, busses go

ing
in
both directions
stop

on their side of the

street.
their

the
it.

As

Prank

house h has

says,

much of

city atmosphere about

This

is

contrasted to

my house v/ith its cows and

water buffaloes

laying on

the doorstep.
Prof.
R. H.
Zimmerman,
who
is Columbus,
Chiefs
contribution to Kanpur*s

Institute

of

entertained
supper
and

May

Technology,
us
men
v/ith
roof beer on

Yum, yumi

"Thanl<s be to God for his gift beyond words !"

II Cor. 9:15

B 0 W

the

W 0 W I

By Langrn, the dog

Since I have been squee

zed oub Ox" Christasian, I
vrlll have to taliB refuge
he3;'e.

Actually, I

liave been on

the sick l i s t . This

a plot
soijiohov/

led to

on my life, but
I
got spared for

future activities.
; Mr,

happy

Harter waj

v/hen

very very

he

sav/

this

month's financial report.

It looks as though this
suiTirior will not b.o as hard
on us

as some former suiri-

mers have been.

The boys'

dormitory

is

being redonditioned. ' One

of t^rie tv/o bedrooitts is be

ing given

its

first good

painting, but this had to

be preceded by the labor
ious removal of all former

layers. The nevi boys from

Kulpahar got some good ex

ercise

for

roof.

The . ForKBr

house ovmer to build some

thing more
pe rmanent have
failed. The back side of

roof

fitted

is

again be visiting the U.S.

I ^ hope
since

it

is

not

ments are never good

he

is

when

out of tov/n. Buifc I

understand

from

reliable

sources

pleasure

ahead

have

soon

my feeding arrange

t;vo

usually
that

years of eating
of me be

fore that evil day comes.

He is thinking of visiting
Thailand, Lorea and Hawaii
on the way.

Others

write

that they

can't find Kan pur on their

mps^ On some liiaps it is
spelled Cav/npore. It was
left off of some other
maps

because until recent

ly it had no air service#

Tourist rriaps did not show

xt

since, (until recently)

kitchen

one had lasted' tv/o years.

All efforts to get the

t^

drop

things over'the side.

Once in a while someone
asks when Mr, Harter will

million people living on

the., bank of the Ganges

has been fitted with a new

canvas

gazing at

sonetiiiies

5^oung

blieir
boys'

keep

and

-there v/asn't much here for

muscles.

Then the

boys

them

also

being

v/ith a bamboo cur

a tourist

River

can't

be

Mr. Harter
to .leave

But a

hidden.

is

for

planning
the

Simla

Hill_Station on May-31st.
He will be

staying at the

Y.M.C.A. there, and

to

be

back

July 2nd.

on that
stantly

of

con
that

see.

So look again.

tain because the neighbors

side have
complained

to

Having

my

coiue

tale,

hopes

in Kanpur bv
to the end

I will sign

off until next time.

B 0 W

W 0 W I

the

By Langru, the dog

them

Since I have been squee

zed, out. of Chrlstasian, I
will . have to talis refuge
here.

Actually, I have been on

the sick list. This led to

a plot
somehOTv

and

gazing at

soBje times

drop

things over the s ide.

Once in a "while someone
asks" when Mr. Barter will

again be visiting the U.S.

I

hope

.since

it

is

not

soon

my feeding arrange-

understand

Mr. Barter was vei*y ve.ry

when

he

saw

this

month's financial 3?eport.

It loolQs as though this
suulner will not be as hard
on Us
as some former^ sum
mers .have been.

The boys*
being

keep

iJients are never good when

on my life, but , he is out of town. Buifc I
I
got spared for

future activities.

happy

boys

dormitory

xedonditioned.

is
One

of the .two bedrooms is be-

ing given

its

first good

painting, but this had to

be preceded by the labor

ious remov al ^of all former

1 aye rs T he liew boys f rom
Kulpahar got some good ex
ercise .for their young
muscles.

Then the

boys', kitchen

has been fittedvwith a new

canv as
roof. T h Forme r

one had lasted- two years.

All efforts to get the.
house ov/ner to builcj some

from

reliable

sources

pleasure

ahead

have

two

usually
that

years of eating
of me be^

fore that evil day comes.

He is thinking of visiting
Thailand, Lore a and Hawaii
on the way.
.
'

Others

write

that they

can't find Kan pur on their

maps.-. . .On sokb maps it is
spelled Cawnpore. It was
left off of some other/
maps because until recent
ly it .had no air service*

Tourist

it

maps did not show

since (until recently),

there wasn't much here for

^ a tourist

to

see.

Buti a

million people living on

the barik of the Ganges
River ,can't be
So look again.

Mr. Barter

to

leave

for

is

hidden.

planning -

the

Simla

Station on Ma.y 31st.

permanent havq , Hill
He
wiii.be
staying at the
failed.. The back-side of
Y.M.C.A.
there,
and hopes
the roof is also being
to
be
back
in
Kanpuf by
fitted with a bamboo cur
July
2nd.
tain because the neighbors "
Having come to the end
on that side have con
ofmy tale, I will sign
stantly
complained that
thing more

off uatfi1 nex t t ime

FORWARDING AGENT : MISS FLORENCE DOUGLAS, 419N. MAIN ST.,

FLORA, ILLINOIS, U. S. A.

THE CHEERFOL GIVERS DURING

MARCH MD APRIL, I963

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20.00

A friend
Indiana:

5.00

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Illinois;
pax ton Women
Kansas:

20.00

Derby Senior Youth

10.00

175.00

The. R. Dunahhghs
Mrs. M.E. Dunahugh

' 7.^00

Kentucky;

Mt. Zion Miss ion ary

Minnesota;

23.90

35^00

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Missouri;

20.^00

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li.0.00
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Ohib^:

120.00

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20.00

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10.00

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Standard Publishing

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2l8.6ii.

Book Store

118.99

Lawrence Lazarus

295Q

Church

27.57

Housing

26.47

N.T. Publications

2q..6l

Office Supplies
Chr is t as i an,

Publicity

Library
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Tennessee;

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We are happy "to welcome

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the ladies at Third Church
Johnson City, who are new

among

our

contributors.

The |i|,0 from Standai*d Pub

20.00

lishing

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Churchj J.C.

10.50

not to use.

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So everything is looking

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TO MAY 10th, 1963
Salary
^ $250.00

ries

was for some sto

which

they

decided

Thank you one and all

for your kindness.

'^Thanks be to God for his gift beyond words !"

II Cor. 9:15

a
HAVE

eA woman that fearetk

ike orclf

ske skall 6e praised.

if'

Prov. 31:30b

Mrs. E.P.Paul is a compcundcr in one of

Kanpur's hospitals and is welt known for her
kindness and help to all.

Vol. IX, No.3

May ][^003
Price: nP. 25

Kanpur, India

NAINI

TAL

TIMES

By Ralph R. Harter

PART FOUR

very low ebb.

sprinkled as an infant in the Church of

England. Later she was immersed as a

There is not a single group in the

town that practices immersion.
On Sunday mornings, P attended the

believer by a Baptist preacher. Now she is

teaching in a Church of England school.
She is attending services at the Church of
England, but they have refused to give

The church life of Naini Tal is at a

Hindustani

Church.

services

at

the

Methodist

On Sunday afternoons, I at

tended the English services at the Union

Church.

Both services are under the

oversight of friendly Pastor Hamilton who

was formerly chaplain of the mission
hospital in Bareilly.
Since I was practically unknown in
Naini Tal, I was greatly surprised to be
invited to preach two sermons in the

her communion because she has commit

ted the sin of being "rebaptised".

The

greatest sin of denominati jnalism is to

keep from obeying the Lord; and the

second greatest sin of denomi.iationalism

is to penalise folks when they do obey

the Lord.

Toward the end of my stay in Naini

Tal, I visited the grave of Sterling Rothermel who died of pneumonia in a Naini
Union Church.
Tal hospital on September 28, 1928.
The Union Church with its large organ Certain sections of the cemetery are set
and balcony has seen much better days. apart for members of the Roman Catholic
Neither the balcony nor the organ are Church, other sections for the Church of
any longer used.
We are informed that many years ago
the students from the two Church of Eng
land schools used to attend services at the

Union Church; but now those schools

provide worship services for their students
within the school premises. On the other
hand, many of the regular residents of
the town are most likely in positions of
servitude that do not permit them time
off for church going.
There are two church buildings of the
Church of England, and at least two of
the Roman Catholic Church.

There is no Christian Book Store, and

Naini Tal is probably the only major hill

station in India without one.

It may be

that less missionaries visit Naini Tal than

the other hill stations.

One of the interesting people I met in

Naini Tal
Australian.

was

England.

Mr. Rothermel is buried in

a section which is marked by an iron

plaque reading, "Non-Conformist." This

is definitely the sort of place where my

own bones should repose.
Time does not permit me to mention
all the interesting people I met in Naini

Tal: missionaries, teachei-s, professors,

doctors, merchants, financiers, lawyers,
pilots, artists, students f om Africa,
retire-ees, boys and girls, and the youth
of the land.

There didn't seem to be an

unfriendly person there.

My visit to Naini Tal was-so enjoyable

that I am tempted to re-visit it again this
year; but that would be breaking my
practice of visiting a different place each
year. The Lord willing, I will return
there again some other time.

Miss K. Roulson, an

Miss

Roulson

had

been

( Concluded )

ACQUAINTANCE WITH JESUS.

Mr. B. L. Turner

"And this is the life eternal^ that th^

shouldknow thee^ the only true Gody and Him
whom thou didst sendy even Jesus Christ,*^
( 1 John 17:3 ARV) 1

sympathetic person is not simplya mirror

which reflects our condition. Rather, he
has become one with us, and thus shares
our experiences.

CONSISTS OF

In a similar way, by knowing Christ

ACQUAINTANCE WITH GOD AND

JESUS CHRIST! How refreshingly

we become one with him, and we share his

understandable, this is contrasted with the

hope of eternal life.

subtleties of human theology. Back of

this astonishingly simple statement is the
idea of identity through intimate acquaint
ance. Thus, since Jesus triumphed over
sin and death, through acquaintance
with him we may become identified with
him and share in his triumph.
The basic idea should not seeitf strange
and foreign." Think, foy example, of our
word "sympathy". It comes from two

expressions of intimate acquaintance

when he says: "I count everything sheer
IpsSy because all is far outweighed by the gain
of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord for whose
sake I did in fact lose everything, I count it
so much garbagefor the sake of gaining Christ
and finding myself incorporate in Aim, with no
righteousness of my ownno legcd rectitudebut
the righteousness which comes from faith in
Christy given by God in response tofaith. All
I care for is to know Christy to experience the

ETERNAL

LIFE

Greek words which mean to 'suffer with*.

This basic meaning is still preserved in

being. This is the way Paul explains his

We cannot miss his

power of his resurrectiony and to share his

our English word. It means "an affinity, s^erings in growing conforrriity with his deathy
association, or relationship between things if only I may finally arrive at the resurrection
so that whatever affects one similarly from the dead," {Philippians 3:8-11 NEB)

affects the other." The sympathetic per

How well, then, do we really know

son is the one who knows you so intimate

Jesus Christ ? Have we become so well ac

quainted mth him that we share in his

ly that your joys, your ideals, your aspira

tions and sorrows are his.

He feels what

you feel. He is the one who rejoices with

those who rejoice, and weeps with those

who weep.

( Cf. Romans 12:15 ). The

With the proliferation of the English trans-

lations on the Bible, particularly in the last two

decades, it is easy for the English speaker to
savor some of the nuances of the original lang
uages. Often the freshness of a new choice of
words, even if the meaning is not enhanced, is
so stimulating that this alone warrants the use
of a number of translations. But, the uniniti
ated may be confused by the abbreviations used
to identify quotations from the various render
ings. In this -sermon, four translations are
quoted from, identified by the following
abbreviations:

ARV^The American

Revised

Version; RSV The Revised Standard Version;

and NTME The New Testament in modem

English, translated byj. B. Phillips.

lifeeternal life ? I do not imply that

this question is easy to answer. We prob

ably would welcome assistance even if we

attempted to describe how well we know

our own wives or husbands. Evaluating

our acquaintance with Christ may be
considerably more difficult. Fortunately
in the New Testament there are some

classic descriptions of acquaintance with

him. By comparison with these we may

easily identify the level of our acqaintance
with Jesus. Let us look at six cases:
The Ridiculous Level
At one time Nathanael, later one of
Christ's apostles, expressed the RIDICU
LOUS level of acquaintance with Christ.
You may recall his statement. His bro-

and in the flush of his new conviction

mendation to know that the leading reli

gious figures of his own people had him

told Nathanael, "We have met the man

executed as a common criminal.

spoken of by Moses in the law and the

prophets: it is J^us, son of Joseph, from
Nazareth. (John 1:45NEB) He nieeded

anael's ridicule.

ther Philip had just believed in Christ

to hear no more.

"Nazareth!"

It is not hard

to understand Nath-

Often we ourselves may

find it hard to avoid.

But this arises be

Natha

cause in our surprise we momentarily

nael exclaimed, "can anything good come forget the nature of truth. Truth is very
from Nazareth?" (John 1:46 NEB) independent. If we insist that it must
Knowing Nathanael as we do (cf. John meet us according to the rules of our own
1:47) we have good reason to believe that sense of propriety, it will often elude us.
he would have welcomed Philip's news if Truth is rarely obliging. We must not,
it had not been for that bit about Nazar
therefore, assume what it is and in what
eth. It was welcome good news indeed that form it will appear before we have
the Messiah had come at last. " But then, sought it.
really, he hadn't come. He couldn't
If we, like Nathanael, have a love for
have come~not from Nazareth ! Even
the truth that tempers our initial shock
the thought was ridiculousabsurd.
Nazareth was odious even to a loyal
Galilean like Nathanael.

What a liab

ility it must have been to Jesus the

Nazarene in the estimation of the Judeans
who looked with disdain upon all that
was Galilean I Even history has despised
Nazareth.

It has not bothered to record

and is determined to embrace the truth

despite its apparent liabilities, we are not

far from God's Kingdom. On deeper
reflection we realize that these apparent
incongruities speak of the trustwor
thiness of the Gospel of Christ. If the
Gospel were a fabricated message, can
we suppose its authors would have

the details of its infamy. There is, imposed such unlikely liabilities upon it ?
though, one solid example that tells us To suppose this requires far greater
something of its pride, arrogance, bigo credulity than acceptance of the Gospel!
try, narrowness, intolerance, and impen
We must never forget that those who
itence. When Jesus in his fame paid a made the greatest committment to this
visit to his home town, his otfB neighbors message, the apostles, were not gullible
tried to throw him off a cliff because

they didn't like what he said in his sab

bath sermon 1 (Cf. Luke 4:18-30)
Nathanael didn't know much about

men. At first they too were repelled by

these facts. But the greater fact predomi
nated. They passed through the ridicu

lous to higher levels of acquaintance with

Jesus, but what he knew convinced him Christ. As a proverb says, "He that
that he was not the Christ.

What he

knew made that claim ridiculous.

But

would rightly understand a man, must

read his whole story."

it is often this way. At first, what we know

of Christ makes his claim preposterous.

Just recount a few of the details. He is a

king ? A barn, then, is hardly a fitting
place to have been born. He is the
Messiah ? It would have been less incred
ulous had his mother been more than an

unknown Galilean peasant woman and

the heavenly announcements come to
someone more influential than a band of

shepherds. And it isn't a good recom

"Proverb", ideals, van b. hooper (Ed.) Vol.

XIX, No. 4 (Oct. 1962)
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Predestination
Peter Rama Rau, Madras, India
Many comments are made in connec
of the daughters of Canaan so that he
tion with Esau's and Jacob's lives being should not be like Esau who had already
predestined. The views expressed by some married one of the daughters of Heth, not
have caused many to misconstrue the of the covenant race. This displeased his
Word of God, blaming Himfor being par parents. Esau goes against his father's
tial and comparing their lives to that of charge in again marrying outside the
Esau. Such a delusive topic needs a spir-. chosen people ^Genesis 28:8,9. The names

itual explanation.

of his Ganaanite wives are to be found in

The conflicting verse. Genesis 25:23,

reads: "And the Lord said unto her,(1 )two

Genesis 36.

The above markings outline' the order

of the study so as to make it understand

in Genesis 27:39,40. The first part of the

These violations of the old law brand

nations are in thy womb and (2) two manner of ed Esau
and his descendants as a cursed
people shall be separated from thy bowels^ and and a lost race. But Esau was fortunate
(3) the one people shall be stronger than the thatGod gave him a temporary "blessing"
other^ and(4) the elder shall serve the younger,
through his prophetic father, as recorded

blessing gave all material benefits for a

while (vs. 39). The last part of the bless

(1) The first words of promise to Reb- ings (vs.40) was a promise and states: "It
bekah are: "Two nations are in thy shall come to pass when thou shalt have;
womb." Now let us see from the account dominion, thou shalt break his yoke from
of the twinswhich, in your estimation, was off thy neck." This . was fulfilled at
the cleverer. You will say Jacob, because Edom's revolt against her enemv
he supplanted Esau. However, this was (2 Kings 8:20).
God's foreknowledge of their characters.
But Edom's reign was crushed by AmIt was the characteristics of these two
aziah
and his sons (2 Kings 14:17,22; 2
that were responsible for the change of
Chronicles
25:11,12), whereby their pow
names, by which the two nations were
able.

called. Esau becomes Edom and his de

scendants were the Edomites. Jacob be

comes Israel and his people were the

er was completely broken in accordance,

withJacob's blessing.

(2) B. Jacob received Esau's rightful'

Israelites.

birthright and blessing (Genesis 25:33;27:

(2) The next point says, "Two man

ner of people shall be separated from thy

27). Later he flees to Padanaram. Hav-

ing received his father's blessings (Gene

bowels." From the words, "Two manner sis 28:1,7) he marries the daughters of his
of people," we understand that it indi

cated the character of the people who

through the times of the old dispensation
had "blessings" or "cursings" pronounced
on them according to their "faith and
works".

In Genesis 9:25 we find a curse pro

nounced on Canaan, the descendants of
Ham. Then, in Genesis 28:1, Esau hears

his father charge Jacob not to take a wife

uncle Laban. Now Laban was a descend

ant of Shem,, who received a blessing

from his father Noah (Genesis 9:26). Ref
erences to the line of Shem are found in
Genesis 11:29; 24:24.

Thus the people of Jacob inherited a

"blessing". Jacob paid for his deceit by his

uncle's trickery. Jacob's blessing and his

obedience led his people to present Christ
to the world.

(3) The third point states: "And the

one people shall be stronger than the'
other." This accounts for the paternal
blessings of Esau and Jacob. Now in

27:14 ). Jacob's faith was unwavering

(Genesis 48:15,16; Hebrews 11:21).
Esau became "Edom," which means

Romans 9:13 we read: "As it is written "Red," obtained at the price of his
Jacob have I loved and Esau have I birthright ( Genesis 25:27-34; Hebrews
hated." This is explained in verse 10 of 12:15,16 ). Jacob's name was changed
Obadiah: "For thy violence against thy to "Israel," meaning "striving with God,"
brother Jacob shame shall cover thee, and given by the angel with whom he
wrestled(Genesis 32:28; 35:10).
thou shalt be cut off forever."

This was the cause of the hate, which

did not apply to Esau, but to his descen

dants as explained in verse 8 of Obadiah,
"Shall I not in that day, saith the Lord,
even destroy the wise men of Edom, and
understanding out of the mount of Esau."
Here we see the

downfall

of

the

Esau was the father's favorite. Jacob

was the mother's favorite.

The above gives us a clear picture of

their character and nature.

Now in the

j whole life of Jacob and Esau there is not

j a Scripture which shows Esau serving

i Jacob. The flight of Jacob ( Genesis 28:

Edomites who were first conquered by 6 ) till his return and meeting with Esau
David (II Samuel 8:14). And Malachi in chapter 33 clearly shows that Jacob
1:14 states that Edom shall never be

feared Esau. This view is further streng

thened by Jacob calling Esau "Lord"
ites became the servants of David.
(Genesis 33:13,14), and from verse 16 the
The Israelites, the descendants of two have no further connection apart
Jacob, had many oppressions and suffer from being present at their father's death
ings, but in the end were faithful to the to bury him (Genesis 35:29). Therefore
blessing. Since the Edomites became the Esau never dominated as an individual,
servants of David, who descended from which leaves only his descendants who
Jacob, Israel became the stronger nation served Jacob's people as we have already
restored permanently. Thus the Edom

in fulfilment of the prediction.

seen.

(4) The last point Solves the problem.

Furthermore, Rebekah was the one to

It states, "The elder shall serve the
receive the announcement of Esau and
younger." This calls for closer study. Jacob's destiny from the Lord. Jacob
Esau means "hairy." He had a rough asstued himself of the promise his mother
appearance at birch (Genesis 25:25). Jacob received by stealing Esau's birthright and
means "supplanter," suggestive of his blessing, while Esau despised his birth
character and nature as affirmed by his right and was not entitled to the blessing
brother (Genesis 27:36).
as he had sold his birthright. Therefore
we
see that a prediction was always
Esau was a skillful hunter (Genesis

25:21). Jacob was clever and resourceful

(Genesis 27:36; Hosea 12:3,4; Genesis 30:
25-43).

made to certain individuals who made it

known to the concerned. Thus such inci
dents recorded in the Word of God \vere

intended to prepare the way of Christ.

Esau was worldly and carnal (Genesis .Then if you say that predestination is
25:34), profane ( Hebrews 12:16 ) and for individuals, who proclaims it to you
brutal - he wanted to kill Jacob ( Genesis and what is its purpose ?

THE FESTIVAL OF THE FIRST-FRUITS

Frank

The day of Pentecost, or the "Festival

of the First-Fruits", was an extremely
important event to any Hebrew back
before the beginning of the Christian era.
Tltousands upon thousands of Jews from
every corner of the known world made
their appearance in the Holy City for
the occasion, some of them probably hav
ing come for the other very important
feast, the Passover, and having stayed
over to participate in this one also.

The particular Day of Pentecost to

which the scriptures refer in Acts, the
second chapter, was certainly no excep

tion.

"Jews from every nation under

heaven" were there, the narrator of the

Book of Acts says. The city's inhabitants

still had fresh in their minds the crime

that had been perpetrated there but a

scant fifty days agoon the occasion of

the Passover feastwhen the prophet of
Nazareth had been crucified there by the
Romans as a sop to the chief priests and
rulers of the Jews.

The flame of public interest had since

then not waned at all, but had rather
been fanned meanwhile by vague and

seemingly wild rumours that the one

whom Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathea had laid in the garden tomb after
his death on the cross, had risen to life
again.
Interest became suddenly concen
trated attention when the eleven men
known to have been the Nazarene's inti

mate followers were heard to speak in

foreign languages the very languages

the hearers had learned in their respec

tive adopted home-lands. Nine or ten

different tongues were understood by the
crowd that gathered as by magic.
The attention thus gained was quickly

utilized by Simon Peter, the spokesman

for the eleven, in delivering to that
multitude and to the generations then

Rempel

and to follow, the first

"official com

munique" regarding the outcome of that

seeming tragedy of fifty days past. "God
raised Him from the dead," is the won

drous truth he imparts. That the report

is authentic is fully verified by appeal to
those sources that the hearers accepted
as being reliable: the ancient prophets.
Even

the

most incredulous must have

been convinced by their own hearing and

seeing of the singular, miraculous demon
stration given to them by the apostles of
Jesus.

The emotional state of the Jewish

hearers, already in a turmoil over the
speaker's accusation that they bore the
responsibility for Jesus' death, reached
the breaking point when Peter made this
startling conclusion: "Therefore let all
the house of Israel know assuredly that
God

hath made Him both

Christ,

this

Jesus

whom

Lord and

ye

have

crucified."

"Men and brethren, what shall we

do?" was the anguished question stillthe cry of all who find the burden of their
guilt too heavy to be borne alone. Peter's
answer is

classic for directness

and

simplicity: ^
"Repent ye, and be baptized every
one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ,
unto the remission of your sins, and ye
shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit."
Three thousand persons on that mem
orable day heeded the word of the prea
cher and were added to the original
group of believers. The Festival of the
First-fruits, till now significant only in a
material sense, takes on a greater, a spiri
tual significance.

These are the

first-

fruits of God's eternal harvest, the begin

ning of an in-gathering that has been
going on ever since. It will go on until
{Continued on page 10)

Press Gleanings on Prohibition

Compiled by R. R. H.

The Government of Uttar Pradesh is

rejoicing over the several million rupees

they have just received from licensing
liquor and bhang (narcotic) shops in the
city of Kanpur for next year. .
In the meantime, the shops are posing
a law and order problem throughout the
city. The following are some of the
things that have happened in Kanpur.
Information is lacking as to what is
happening in the rest of the state.
During the Hindu festival called Holi,
one man was stabbed to death in a
dmnken brawl.

On March 18th, three young men

Harijans have pledged to abstain from

alcoholic beverages for the rest of their
lives. Eight hundred members of one
community took the pledge. Any mem

ber of the community found contravening

this

community

decision

will

be

beaten with shoes in public by every

member of the community, and will also
be fined a sum of Rs. 10.

The citizens of Safedabad, a small

village near Bara Banki, have protested

against the opening of a liquor shop in
their village. They say that-they do not
want their village to becorhe a haunt of
bad characters.

Meanwhile the city ofLucknow, whose

killed in a drunken brawl that
liquor shops had never been closedj is
occurred inside of a liquor shop.
Near the Ganges River Bridge, a dozen drinking seven thousand gallons of liquor
drunken men attempted to steal a truck. per year more than in the past. But
When the watchman stopped them he since licence fees had been increased illicit
distillation has greatly increased. Can
was stabbed to death.
this be one of the reasons why the con
A police constable was assaulted by dition of the city of Lucknow has
some intoxicated persons when he attemp
deteriorated ?
ted to stop them from teasing >vomen and
Lucknow, which is the state capital of
other pedestrians.
Uttar Pradesh, was recently visited by
Many cases of rowdyism by drunken a member of the Central Government
men are not reported to the police.
who bitterly criticised the scrapping of
prohibition. Mr. Gulzari Lai Nanda,
Although the Government had de
creed that liquor shops were to be closed Union Planning Minister, was addressing
on Tuesdays, the shopkeepers did not care a meeting of the Bharat Sewak Samaj.
for all that. On one Tuesday the police Mr. Nanda said that the scrapping of
visited two shops and arrested nineteen prohibition would be a national and moral
persons. They also arrested two persons defeat. Mr. Nanda pleaded that it was
for selling ganja ( another narcotic ) wrong to say that prohibition affected
were

without a licence.

The gentlemen who threw open the

long-closed doors of liquor shops through
out

the

state do not seem to be much

concerned with its evil results. But many

of the citizens have expressed their ire.
The liquor shops of Banda are wear
ing a deserted look since several hundred
members of the "backward" classes and

revenue of the Government.

The revienue

of the states which had enforced pro

hibition had gone up from other taxes
like entertainment

tax

and sales tax.

Mr. Nanda believes that prohibition can

be successfully enforced. If prohibition

is to be scrapped because it could not be
successfully enforced, then the state could

{Continued on page 10)

"CHRIST'S CHALLENGE TO YOUTH"

By Frank Rempel

Much is being said these days about

leadership (and the lack of it) in the

churches

of Christ.

Leaders must be

found and their training facilities provi

ded, it is averred, so that the church may
have leaders who will take the initiative

and lead God's people in India into a

new era of freedom and "independence".
Young people must be challenged to step
forth to lead, Moses-like, into the prom
ised land of self-sufficiency.
Let us beware! Hidden among the tall

trees of such lofty sentiment are the world

ly thorns that have been the undoing

of more^sJ>irants to the mantle of the

provide leadership of the kind that the

church needs is built upon a false premise.
Training may be necessary ( more; it IS
necessary!) to increase knowledge; and
effective leaders must indeed be well-

informed persons. But let us not forget

that the possession of knowledge by itself
has never been the measure of man's use

fulness in the Kingdom of God.

Somehow the way must be found to
impart consecration, not as an alternative
to knowledge, but as a primary character
istic of God's servants.

To the commit

ted life alone may the complement of

knowledge be safely added.. Only the

apostles than all other causes put together. truly consecrated person will escape the
The concept of such "leadership" is corrupting influences that the possessionof
entirely foreign to the New Testament. I a better than average theological educar
discovered this to my own utter amaze
ment when I took the time recently to

search it out. Apart from the many refer

tion always seem to be. Consecration alone

is the bulwark against pride and worldly
ambition and corroding discontent.

ences to God as the leader of His people,

These in their mildest forms lead to com

those who would lead astray! Typical

to spiritual ruin.

among them, and very significant, is the

Consider again the New Testament

concept. Even the apostles of Christ were

practicallythe only references to "leaders" plete uselessness in the matter of true

and "leading" are the warnings against Christian service: in the ultimate they lead
reference to blind leadership of the blind
which, it is said, invariably leads to the
predictable result.
The Lord was quick to point out to
His disciples the pitfalls inherent in the
ambition to be considered "great"the
ambition that is almost synonymous with
the ambition to leadership in the modern

understanding of the word. This, He said,

is Gentile thinking. The new and strange
ly challenging way is to attain to great
ness by the \yay of servitude.
The challenge to youth today must be
the challenge to service rather than to
leadership. Back of the challenge must
be the idea of total committment; the

idea ofself-effacing devotion to God and

to His cause.

The

thinking that "training" will

never led into thinking of themselves as

leaders of Christ's church. They became
foundation stones in the building of God;
They are pillars of the church. They
were the "friends" of Christ by virtue of
their subservience to Him.

Their follow

ing of Him involved "crossbearing" and

the denial of self.

Jesus sends them forth as "sheep,

among wolves" with the warning that
they will have to endure many kinds of
humiliations and sufferings. Their will
ingness to endure all of these fitted them
for the place Christ chose for them. Paul
thus became a "chosen vessel", emptied
entirely of self so that he might bear the

name of Christ before Gentiles and kings

{Continued on page 10)

10

{Continued from page 8)

{Continued from page 7)

use the same principle to permit all sorts

the "Lord of the Harvest" calls in His

of evil.

reapers.

God adds to the assembly of His

people daily those who in a similar man
ner are being saved. John the Revelator
in the state. Mr. B. said that thanks to sees in inspiring vision "a vast multitude,
prohibition 80 per cent of the former which it is impossible for anyone to num
addicts had been saved from the drink
ber, gathered out of eveiy nation, and
evil. With cooperation from all, the re from all tribes and peoples and languages,
form could be made a 100% success.
standing before God's throne", ascribirig
Sardar Pratap Singh Kairon, Chief to Him glory and praise for their
Minister of the Punjab, has said that salvation.
prohibition would be imposed throughout
.It is the time of the in-gathering, the
his State and that illicit distillation in "accepted time" when repentant believers
rural areas would be stopped with an in Jesus Christ may still avail themselves
iron hand.
of the means for salvation He has provi
Mr. D. Sanjivayya, President of the ded through His death and resurrection.
Congress Party, declared in Hyderabad We urge uncommitted readers to examine
that prohibition is not a failure and it very carefully those means by the reading
and study of the New Testament, so they
has come to stay. He added that pro
hibition is. an all-India question and it is too may be led to an acceptance of
not desirable for states to adopt different Christ as Saviour.
policies.
Not all of the legislators in Uttar
{Continued from page 9)
Pradesh are in favour of scrapping pro
The Finance Minister of the state of

Madras, Mr. M. Bhaktavatsalam, has

said that prohibition has been a success

hibition.

Mr. Madan Mohan Lai Varma

has decried the ending of prohibition in

eleven districts of the state as a move

than ran counter to the national pro

hibition policy. Mr. Varma branded
the new policy of the Government as a
retrograde step opposed to the character
of the people.
The retrograde steps taken in Uttar

Pradesh have sparked the Central

Government to greater action. A retired

judge of the Supreme Court is being

deputed to head a campaign to create
public opinion in favour of prohibition.

He will also study the problems involved

in the enforcement of piphibition.

"Never swerve, in your conduct, from

your honest convictions."
Horace Bushnell

and the children of Israel.

Each one of the apostles and other

disciples of apostolic times does indeed,
in our meaning of the word, become a
leader in and of the church; but the

leadership he offers is one of example

rather than of position. It is exercised
by virtue of service rather than of honor
and preference demanded. The matter
of superior intellect and higher training
does not at all enter into their recognition
as such.

The challenge to dedicated service, let

us be sure, is far more powerful when it
is understood, than a worldly call of
ambition and a desire for the high places
of authority can ever be. As it led men
to their glorious death by martyrdom in
other ages so it can bring about a trans
formation of human life today, molding
out of the human clay "vessels that are
meet for the Master's use."

11

WOMEN

OF THE BIBLE

"ACHSAH"
ISRAEL COMMANDED TO CROSS THE JORDAN
One day Caleb and the officers whom
Joshua had summoned, circulated among

the people proclaiming that the Lord

had commanded Joshua to cross the
Jordan River in three day's time. The
people were to prepare victuals accord
ingly. The usual remarks and specula
tions started their rounds and some of

the people were quite uneasy.

"We will not be simply marching
through Canaan as we marched through
the wilderness. We will have to fight till
we conquer the whole land from the
inhabitants and so possess it. If we are
defeated anywhere the nations will join
together and wipe us out. Will the
nations of that land sit still and watch

while we dispossess them ?

In the
first place, how are we going to cross the
Jordan ? The river is rising and there
are no fords now."

Some, who were

undaunted, who had been teenagers when

they had crossed the Red Sea, answered:

"Why are these people always murmuring

and complaining ? Did not the Lord niake
us a way through the Red Sea ? Is He
not the same who is going before us now ?
What is this Jordan compared to the Red
Sea ? Why should we fear the nations

Israelite as spies to Jericho to search out

the country and bring back a report on
the strength and disposition of the enemy.
Later on, the story she learned was this:
The spies had entered Jericho just be
fore dusk, and made for the house of a
harlot named Rahab.

on the wall of the city.

This house stood

It was usual for

all kinds of men to visit the houses of

harlots. But these spies were being hotly

pursued by the king's men, who now de
manded of Rahab that she surrender the

men to them.

Rahab, who had hastily

hidden the Israelites behind stalks of flax

on the roof, told the pursuers that the

visitors had already left. She urged iffie
soldiers to ride out quickly and overtake
the strangers. The messengers rode out
in haste and forthwith the gate was shut.
Rahab went up and informed the
spies, "I know that the Lord has given
you the land and that your terror is fallen
upon us, and that all the inhabitants of
the land faint because of you". She fur
ther described the fear of the people, and
requested, the men, when they took the
city, that she and her father's house might
be spared, as a reward for having protected
them from the hands of their enemies.

when the Lord is on our side ?"

She had then let them down by a cord

One of these men was Salmon of the through the window, after receiving the
house ofJudah. By his side was another men's solemn promise that she and her
hero who assured the faithful that the people would be saved, provided they all;
Lord was repeatedly encouraging Joshua stayed inside the house. The spies then
saying, "Be strong and courageous. As gave her a scarlet thread to bind to the
long as Israel will obey the Lord, not all window by which they had been let down,

the world can prevail against us. Only

let us not rebel against the Lord or His

for its identification.

This Salmon was Achsah's kinsman.

Acting on her advice, the spies had

then escaped to the mountains and hidden
there for three days till the pursuers had

One day she heard her father tell how

Joshua had sent Salmon and another

Now that the spies had come back

servant Joshua."

returned from a fruitless chase.

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with good news, the Israelites would all

be crossing the Jordan soon.

the two banks.

The water down stream

Achsah soon disappeared. Upstream, at a consid

was excited. If her father was unafraid, erable distance, the water stopped and
she was not going to have any fears. The began to pile up till the river stood
camp moved from Shittim to the edge of upright like a cliff.
the river, ready for the crossing.
The people received orders to pass
The officers went among the host and over and wait on the other bank, on the
commanded the people, saying, "When plain ofJericho. Achsah and her friends
ye see the ark of ths covenant of the Lord gave one glance at the towering wall of
your God, and the priests, the Levites, water and with palpitating hearts hast
bearing it, then ye shall move from your ened to cross over to safety on the other
place and go after it." But they emphat side. After the whole congregation had

ically warned that the people should al

ways keep the specified distance between

them and the ark.

On the day of the crossing Joshua per

sonally came and told all the people to
sanctify themselves, and conunanded the
priests, "Take up the ark of the covenant,

completely passed over the river, at the

Lord's command Joshua selected twelve
men, a man from each of the tribes, for a
special task.

"Pass over before the ark

of the Lord yoiir God into the midst of

the Jordan and take you up every man
a stone upon his shoulder

that

and pass before the people......when ye when your children ask their fathers in
are come to the brink of the waters of the time to come, saying, 'What mean ye by
these stones ?' then ye shall answer them,
Jordan ye shall stand still."
The Jordan Was now in high flood, and 'The waters of the Jordan were cut off
the waters had overflowed the banks and
spread out far on each side. There were

before the ark of the covenant of the

Lord*." These stones were to be a memo
rial unto tjie children of Israel forever.

of the feet of the priests were wet as they

waters were shallow so that only the soles

river. "As soon as the last man's foot

was lifted out of the water the waters of

stepped forward. Someone, who remem

Jordan returned unto, their place and

no fords now. All w^itched anxiously as

the priests, bearing, the ark of "the. Lord Thus, "Joshua set up twelve stones in
of all the earth" walked towards the the midst of Jordan, in the place where
water. The main river at a distance was the feet of the priests stood."
racing toward the Dead Sea, carrying on
Achsah saw that it was Othniel who'
its bosom driftwood and whatever other picked up the stone that was to represent
objects had come in its way. But the the tribe of Judah. After everybody else
overflowthat had spread itself over the had crossed over the river the priests
banks was not swift, and at the edge the that carried the ark passed over the

bered the parting of the Red Sea whis

pered, *'Now watch how the river will
part iiself in the middle and the water
stand up like two walls on either side of

the parting." Othniel answered, "There

will this time be only one wall, on the
right, because the flow will be stopped
there.

On the. left side all the water will

continue to flow down into the Dead Sea,"

As soon as the feet of the priests touch

ed the water, the river parted between

flowed over all its banks as before."

The courage of the people of Jericho

faltered all the niore when all this hap

pened. But Rahab rejoiced, because she

knew that the God of Israel was the
only living God and none could resist

Him. The Israelites set up camp in'

Gilgal, "in the east border of Jericho,:
and those twelve stones which they took
out of the Jordan did. Joshua pitch
in Gilgal."

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Sermon OtMinei for Barefoot freae^er^.

QJUALDIED

LEADERSHIP

Exodus 18:17-23

By G. D. Yesudian

INTRO. : The proclamation of the

gospel and winning souls to Christ require
certain qualifications.
ILLUS. The army will fail in battle
unless only qualified military men are re
cruited.and appointed.

CONC.: The churches today need

leadership composed of "able men, such
as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness."
Friends, quit yourselves
like men!

THE

The father-in-law of Mo.ses advised

him to appoint qualified men to help

judge the people. Men called of God such
as Moses, Caleb and Joseph were quali
fied men. Jesus called the twelve apostles

WORD

John 1:1
By V. Azum

and Paul. Today He calls all to carry

out His great commission.

INTRO.: God used the word in

creation as the instrument of each crea

I.

person of Jesus Christ. John the Bap

tist was the voice preparing the way for

ABLE MEN.

One must be

able

tive act.

The word became flesh m the

in body and in spirit to fight the good

fight of the faith. To win souls is not an the Word. The Word of
easy task. Able men must preach, teach table, Matt. 5:18.
and baptize. Cf. Matt. 28:18-20.
I.

II.

GOD-FEARING

MEN.

Cf.

in His steps, in the way of righteousness.

Those who do not fear God are on the

broad way that leads to destruction. The

III.

HONEST

MEN.

not be hypocrites.

They

God knows

II.

The

A.
B.

must

the

C.

thoughts, words and actions or deeds of

every man in every place.

The Spoken Word, Heb. 1:1,2.

A. To Noah, Gen. 6:13,14.

B. To Abraham, Gen. 12:1-3.
C. To David, Ps. 89:3,4.

Prov. 1:7. It is most essential to follow

few who fear God will enter through the

narrow gate into heaven.

III.

IV. MEN HATING COVETOUSNESS.

Preachers should not be greedy, should

C.

Genesis 4; Ananias and Sapphira in Acts

5. . Some are covetous of the honor, glory.

By

God

Himself,

Gen.

22:15-18.
B.

Cain in

Word

The Confirmed Word

themselves

Illus:

Written

On tables of stone, Ex. 13:18.

In the Book, Ex. 24:4,7; Lk.
1:3; I Cor. 14:37; Rev. 1:19.
In the heart, Heb. 8:10

A.

live on what they have and should not

rob God.

God is immu

By Moses, Deut. 28:56,57.

By Isaiah, Isa. 2:3; Lk. 24:47.

CONC.:

The

Word of God

was

Word and. church which rightly belong

spoken to the fathers, written on stone, in

to God.

the Book and in the heart. God

Cf. Matt. 22:37-40.

has con-

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firmed it and

will fulfill

all

He has

spoken, written and eonfirmed.

II. NOR OF THE

FLESH.

A.

Mat. 16:17.

is weak, Mk. 14: 38.

By Peter Rama Rau

C.

The flesh profiteth nothing, Jn.

6:63.

III. NOR OF THE WILL OF MAN.

A.

The birth of the Christ child

We must do the will of God in

order to enter heaven. Mat. -7: 21

fulfilled innumerable predictive prophecies.

B.

It is the

I. A SAVIOUR KING.

C. Reigns as King of Kings! I Tim.6:15

of God

that

we

C.

We are sanctified by Hb will,

Heb. 10: 10.

Cone. But of God. God is true, Jn.3: 33.

God b light, I Jn. 1; 5. God is love, I Jn.
4: 8.

IL CHRIST.

A. Denied by the Jewish, nation, -Acts

THE MIRACULOUS

3:14.

, B.-Preached by some of contention,

Phil. 1:15, 16.
C. Believed on by some, John 6: 69.
III. LORD.

A. Lord of Lords, I Tim. 6: 15.

B. One Lord, Eph. 4:5.

C. Both Lord and Christ, Acts 2: 36.

Cone.

will

should be saved. Mat. 18: 14.

A. Born King of the Jews, Mat.2:2.

B. Crucified as King of the Jews, John
19:19.

THE

B. The spirit is willing but the flesh

- Luke 2:11

infants.

OF

Flesh and blood are not capable.

A CHILD IS BORN

Intro. : In history and in literature

occasional predictions have been made of
the birth and greatness of particular

WILL

Today we know Hini through

His word as our Saviour, Lord and

Christ. We may accept Him as Saviour
and Lord by confessing Him as Christ
anb obeying Him in the way of salvation.

BIRTH

John 1 :1 - 18

By Dishington

Intro.:

Miraculous evidences surround

the birth ofJesus.

I. Hb. pre-exbtence, Jn.l:l-5, 9,10

A. In the beginning, Jn. l:l;Gen.l:l
-

Heb. 1:10

B. Hb deity, Jn. 1:1; Heb. 1:8

C. Hb part in creation, Jn. 1:3; Col.

1:16; Heb. 1:2
II. The annunciation

A. Through the angel Gabriel, Lk.

THE SONS OF GOD

John 1 : 13,
By D. Somi

Intro.:

By receiving Christ we

become sons of God.

I. BORN NOT OF BLOOD.

A., Born of the love of God, I Jn. 3:1

B. Born of the Word of God, I Pet.
1 :23.

C., Born of the will of God, Jn. 1*43.

1:26

B. To Joseph, Mat. 1:18-25

C. To Mary, Lk. 1:26-36
III. The visitations

A. Vbit of the shepherds, Lk. 2:15-20

B. Vbit of the wbemen, Mat. 2:1-2

C. Vbit to the temple, Lk. 2:21-38

Conclusion:
Among the millions of
births that have occurred in the world

none b sostriking, as that ofJesus. How do

you react to the miracles at Hb biith

which attest to Hb deity ?

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Christian Duty to the Church

Bill Gulick

ENNORE,

We become christians through faith

in Jtsus Christ, repentance from sins

and baptism through immersion in water
for the remission of sin>. Now we turn
our attention to what it means to be a

Christian, how we live the life after we

have begun it in baptism.
Ourchristiai clucks may be divided

under two main heads: (I) our duties as

Christians toward the church and (2) our
duty as christians in everyday life with

INDIA

of the other members; yet each is related

to the work of the whole body. I Corinth
ians 12:12 - 31 shows that the body is not
one member or one type of work, but it

has many members and many different

jobs. If the work of one member is neg
lected, the efficiency of the body suffers.
The body functions gracefully only
when each member does the particular
work which it is

fitted

to do: the foot

walking, the ear hearing, the eye seeing,

family, friends and colleagues. We are to

etc.

concern ourselves in this article with the

can lead in the singing, some teach classes,

some can preach, some can do personal
work in bringing others to hear the gospel,
some can meet strangers at the door, etc.

first heading: our duty toward the church

and its work.
WORSHIP

It is our Christian duty and privilege

to worship with other christians on the
first day of the. week, Acts 20:7. Each of
us can of course worship privately any
day of the week and should do so in
prayer, Bible reading and hymns. But we
must
come together with others on
the first day of the week to break bread.
This public worship helps each of us to
be strong in the Christian life and our
presence at the worship encourages other
christians. Hebrews 10:25 admonishes us

to be diligent in this Christian duty of as

sembling that we might exhort and en
courage one another.
WORKING TOGETHER

Each of us has a duty to work in the

program of the church. Each must do his

part of the work and must cooperate in
the general plan of the church as a whole.
Paul tells us the church works like the

human body. Each does his own particu

lar work, which may be unlike the work

So in the church some christians

Each does his work and each work is im

portant.

The healthy body is not the one in

which a

few of its members

function

wonderfully, but that in which each

member does its work. The eye can be
perfect, but it cannot hear. So each has

his own work for the church and its pro

gram as a whole.
FINANCIAL Support

It is our Christian duty to the church

to support it with our financial means.
Money is required to carry on the work
of the church and to preach the gospel in
other places. The only Scriptural way
of raising these funds is through the free
will giving of Christian people.
SUBJECTION TO ELDERS
It is our Christian duty to be subject
to the elders of the congregation. Peace
and order in the congregation depend
upon the elders. But the elders cannot
do their duty in this regard unless the

16

members are loyal to them and respect

their authority.
Hebrews 13:17 warns that we should

be subject to those who watch on behalf

of our souls.

We should make their work

a joy and not a task.

In matters of doctrine, of course,
Christ is the only Head of the body and
all members obey His directing. But in
the practical everyday matters that come
up within the life of the church, the
elders are the ones to make decisions.

The obey is one in doctrine if all mem

bers obey Christ, the Head. The Ijody

church, he is to be considered as a
"publican and a Gentile."
The Christians are not to go to law
before a non-christian court for the settle

ment of their disputes.

LOVING ONE ANOTHER

It is our Christian duty to love every

other Christian with a filial affection. A
Christian must of course love all men.

For through creation all men are the

children of God.

is one in function and work if all mem

But there is a special warmth and

closeness about the love among those who

bers submit to the discipline of the elders

of the congregation.

family.

SETTLING OF DIFFERENCES

Our cliristian duty to the church de

mands that we settle personal differences
within the church, rather than in the
courts of law. Study Matthew 18:15 ff.

have obeyed the will of the Father of the

Notice that Christians are to be known

by all men for this love that they have

for one another.

Read John 13:35.

Paul's comparison of the .church with

the human body makes it clear that there
is a strong sympathy and fellowship
and I Corinthians 6:1-6. Notice that dis
among
the members; when one suffers,
putes between Christians.should be'settled
between themselves alone if possible. If the l)ody as a whole suffers. If the hand
is infected the whole body will suffer with
they cannot reach a peaceful solution to
gether, they are to take it before the a fever, and the whole body may perish
church.

The decision of the church is

to be received by them. If one refuses

to abide by the impartial decision of the

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Written, Mimeographed, and Mailed by Ralph R Harter

at 112/352. StVARUPNAGAR, KANPUR, U. P. INDIA

( Knnpur somftimes spelled Caiciipire )

22, 19^
BA
A C
CK
K

On July 2nd
to

Kanpur

from

TO

returned

our radio-less

the cool

present

heights of Simla. The wea

ther during the first week
at home was very miserable
but the rainy season began
in earnest on July 9 th

bringing
rnch and

?/hile

cool

relief

to

repainted
has
now
been
with a
light blue color
to lend a
which promi ses
c le an atmo s phe re
to
our
office hours.

The boys did fairly v/ell

during my , absence. They
managed to break the radio
am

is in the
process of con
struction. This is remark

that Kanpur

that t h a t
from experience
is no easy job. The office

peace

to mention here
that Kanpur*s first
radio station

able

gone, the

thankful for

that

the

now reigns in

My

keep i t that vy;ay.

It might be intei'esting

poor alike.

was

house.

intentions are to

dormitory boys succeeded

in cleaning
the office
v/alls of old paint. X knoviT

but I

WORK
W I

when

tion of

one

considers

has a popula

more than a

mill

ion people.
I
will be
happy if T.V. never gets
this

far.

Most of
the
boys have
been marliing
time
this
month.
Andriyas,
Peter,
Harold,
and
(our latest

addition) Patrick are hop

ing to get admitted to the
Industrial
Training In
stitute.
Richard
nished his drivers

ing

and

has f i
train

hopes to get his

license soon. In the meaii-

'=An,i :ih( "..M no; 1 Inv-' c gaid for Nin'iveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore
Ihousand p rsons that <. innoi di o.rn between iht ir right liand and their left hand; and also much
call!.'

Jonali .4* 11

tlBie he is

helping out in

the- bookstore.

Rubin seenis

There

are

three

boys whom we help

other

vdao are

-to have', pi^etty well sur

mounted his^ psychological

not often mentioned.

difficulties

and he is'doing well. Anup

but

he

has"

yet to locate himself in

some paying; occupation.
Three boys v/hose - names
appeared ifi our.'last news
letter are no longer with
us. Yaqub is back at his
school, many, miles to the
northeast.

Manors

Dan

iel is a brother to Mavis,

is a

brother

to Anita and

Cuckoo.
Ke may be slower
than Anita, but doing well
nevorthless.

is

fine

Harold

Dass

youth, and we

are helping him

by buying

his books for him.

father

has reaccepted responsibi

lity of his
son and has

You

SISTER HELEM-

v/ill

be

sorry

to

taken him back hoiiB. Predy

was
caught smoking once

hear of the continued ser

ious
illness
of
Helen

again and
left tovm the
same day.
He was doublecrossed by his best friend
who gave him the cigarette

Douglas,

to smoke

and then came

THE

GIRLS

financial

hints that

we

report

help girls

as well as boys, but we

don't say much about them.
Mavis Washington is a
very stupid girl who gets
promoted

once

in

awhile

because of advancing age.

After another , year
in
school maybe her parents
can marry her off.
Anita and Cuckoo are

daughters

of

our

prayers

of

agent.

for

her

our

Your
will be

greatly appreciated.

and

reported him. .-There is no

honor among thieves.

Our

sister

for.vardlng

two

former

BOOK STOi^

& LIBRARY

Our free lending library

was very busy during the
summer
school
vacation.
Most
of
the
readers are

Hindu school boys who may

have no other opportunity
to become

informed

of the

Gospel of Jesus Christ.

The
sales
department

sold 3S, Bibles

and 29 New

Testaments during May and

June.
Receipts
totalled

l[}-6.
"On the Rock,"

is still

on the rocks.

employee Cyril Loyal.-They

are bright youngsters

deserving of help.

and

Our ndssionary friends

will not,get their special
page this month. .

and arrive' at the 'Rempels*

house at 3:30. This is re

with his many varied tools

when!something
at our
house needs fixing. All
these
things . get planned
with the
second cup of

gular
might

tea.
As

TEA TIME

leave my house

every

afternoon

almost

at

3:25

enough
that
you
set your clocks "by

it.

There

in the

coolness

the Rempel dining room

of

we

have
a
daily pow.-wev; be
tween sips of tea.
T he RerapeIs
and;' I are
not connected by any type
of mission organization,
and so we have no official
business
meetings.
But
these

tea

sessions

the same purpose

more
us

cordial

serve

in a far

atmosphere.

Also

drinking

tea with

is

Prank's

printer,

Mangal Singh.
So the con
versation invariably tou
ches
on
the
progress of
the
printing program and
the day's printing prob
lems.
If
something is
about ready to be printed,
I
am usually given
the.
final opportunity to look
for any mistakes.
Then there is an oppor
tunity to discuss any pro

blems

from

my establish

ment, viz. the book store,

the dormitory, and the de
partment
of
manuscript

leave

the

sometimes ask

house I

i f Prsink is

taking his Jeep anywhere,

just in case X might want
-to hitch a ride.
-
VJhen
Mrs. Rothermel

In

the

city,

is

usually

have tea v/lth her

on Wed

nesdays.
Besides convers
ing on matters of common

interest, we also exchange

reading material.
One
of
our recent
problems has

been the proposed marriage

of one of my boys to one
of her girls.
The Rashes live just far
enough away that" thoy are
not often troubled to pro
vide my liquid refreshment
but our communications are

frequent neverthless.
A.t
my
house
tea

is

served once a v/eek on Pri-

days.

This

event

at

is

social

which twelve to

fifteen
persons may be
present.
The
dorraitoiy
boys take full advantage
of this and often neglect
their supper afterwards.
On July 12th, Marie dona

production.

ted a

Marie's advice on paint

ing and other housekeeping
problems
is
inestiifiablei
and Prank
is very deft

ion. This is a good time

for the Rempels
and o-cher

cake

visitors

for the occas

to become better

acquainted with the boys*

FORWARDING AGENT ; MISS FLORENCE DOUGLAS, 410 N. MAIN ST

FLORA, ILLINOIS, U. S. A.
'*

THE CHEEI^UL GIVERS DURING

MAX AND JWm, 1963

JULY 17th, 1963

Illinois;

Neon Class, Flora

Glofee Trotters "
Ladies at
Indiana;

Paxton

GO

llf.75
20.00

Osgood Miss^y Circle 2500

The Colestocks "
I ov/ai

10.00

Mrfi. Hunting ton ,

25.00

Kans as;

The R.'W. Dunghughs

Mrs. M.E. Dunahugh
Derby Sr. Youth
Derby Jr. Choir

90.00
8.00
10.00
10.00

Kentucky;
Mt. Pleas
Missouri:

Crusaders

Neepor Church
The Peels

EXIENDED PROM MY 11th TO

6.00
20.00
20.00

Salary

250.00

Boys u Girls

189.56

Housing'

89.41

Book Store

77*49

La^vrence Lazarus

52.20

N.T. Publications

Christasian

34.46

Office Supplies

32,33

Library

22.

Letters to donors

3.18

T otal Expended

8OO, 71

SUivIMARY

Balance, May 10"

Contributed
Total Receipts
Deficit, July I7

108.90
627.45
736.35
64-36

Although we are showing

Ohio:

Clinton Church
Sabina Jrs.

120.00
22.32

Orrville M'y Dept.

Bladensburg L.D.s

5-00
30.00

Old Stone
Mrs. Flint

20.00
10.00

The Ira Brandons

50.00

Branch Kill Church

20.00

Linden Vi/.C.S.G.

3^*00

Acme Tapes,

11.10

Clinton

deficit again
v/e are not

in

any diffi

culty whatever.

Our friends

have given wonderfully and

sufficiently for our pres
ent needs.

The

"deficit"

really

amounts to arrears on my
salary.
At the present
time I do not need my full

Pe nn s ?; 1Van i a;

salary,

Oak Grove
TOTAL RECEIErS

happy to let it pile up

for a day of greater need,

3l]-*78
627.45

bhis iiioiith,

such as

and

tomorrow.

"Thanks be to God for his gift beyond words !"

II Cor. 9:15

am

most

Written, Mimeographed, and ^ failed by Ralph R Harter

at 112/352. SWARUPNAGAR, K.\NPUR, U. P. INDIA
( Kanpnr

THE LOCAL CONGREGATION GAINS STRENGTH

On Sunday September 1st,

Tom and Leota Rash placed
their membership with the
Swarupna.gar congregation,
Seeing thio
good example,
three

others

Y/ho had been

baptized elsev/here
also
came and placed their mem

bership, That same

day
Leota
said the winning
word to one of our young

people,

Roselatta

Masih,

who consequently

made the

Good

and

Confession

saved for that pur

pose. Prank Hempel is cor

responding v/ith the Muni cipality

V/hile

morning

continue to be

services

held a t

our

Swarupnagar address, t h e
Hindi evening services are
being held
in the Pandunagar area where the India
Bible Institute

is

locatedo

was
at

members by death: Mrs. Al

We have
is

about a piece of

land.

English language services

are held at Rempels'

baptized on July 8th.

Church attendance

$1000

lost

one

of our

an all-time high, and late

comers
have
difficulty
finding a place to sit. So

wasting away with tubercu

our need of a

years.

church buil

ding grows
more and more
acute as the months go by.
Happily our Building Fund
is
also growing month by
month,
and we now have

bert
losis

Pawar

v/ho

had been

for more than three

Her

two sons have

been in the Kulpahar Kids'

Home since last year.
We
also
conducted
the
funeral
of
the ten-month
old
son
of
one
of
our

'And should not I have regard for Nineveh, that great city, wherein arc more than sixscore
thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much
cattle ? "

Jonah 4;] 1

The

not

understand.

had died of piieumo-

put

on a v/hlle shirt that

backslidden

child

members.

nia- As
per the rules of
the Kanpur Cemetery Board,

displayed

the child had to bo burled

had

only

ia "unconsecrated ground"
along with other "unbapti-

the

l|.th

sed"

children

wo w i l l be

ious

characters.

and nefar

of changes
in our dormi
tory since our last news
letter. Richard, the dri
ver,
has returned to his
home. He has a job lined
up but must await issuance
ficult

driver's license.
are far more dif

to

procure

here,

than in the U.S.

Rubin, who had been be

set v/ith psychiatric dif ficUlties,
left here be
cause

he

attend

did not want to

Bible

classes.'He

is reported to be living
with some M-^sllm friends.
Rubin's place has been
filled by
his brother>
Jonathan.

Since J. had no

"city clothes" of his own,

he

conveniently

with him some

brought

that had be

longed to Rubin.
Jonathan was the typical
country rustic
v/hen he
arrived

at

our door. His

hair was unkempt,

he wore
a red rag around his neck,
he

had

feet,

no sandals

on his

and he spoke a vil-

Ifre dialect

variety

of

black and blue buttons. He

managed to pass

Grade in school,

so we just don't knav what

able

to

accom

plish with him. He reads

the Bible very poorly, and

DORiVtirORY NEWS
There have been a number

of
his
Licenses

Later he

that I

could

understands

little

of what

he reads.
He has begun anapprenticeship in a local
garage. His progress will
be
interesting,
if he
makes any.
Two of the boys have
been
admitted
to
the
Government
trade
school.

Peter
Goods

is learning Leather
ivlanufacturingtf And-

riyas is learning "Pattern

Malcing," which is a spe
cialized form of carpen
try. They make parts out
of
wood
which
cast i n metal.

Harold
at

the

cause

was
Trade

he

are

later

not accepted
School

be

had only managed

to pass the Fifth Grade.

This
poor
showing'
in
school was
partly due to
poor health which has pla
gued him since childhood.
It was
suggested to us
that we
provide Harold
with a
bogus certificate
showing him' to have passed
the Eighth Grade, but we
knew that God
would never
bless
that
sort
of
an

arrangement. In the end we

enrolled

him in a private

tailoring school where we

hope
with the Lord*s '

The
number
of
friends
v;ho like to reiiiember ifie at

blessing,

Chris tnas-time,

he will do bet

ter than in the Government

institution.
He also con
tinues
to
learn
Hindi

typewriting.
Our fifth boy, Samuel
Been,
continues to plod
along in learning furni
ture making. He also plods
along in Bible reading.
Andrlyas has taken a vov;
not to shave u n t i l he cat
ches the cat that killed
his fan-tailed dove.
This

on my birthday

and

also

(Dec. i|.th)

has been growing from year

to year. This year I am
scheming to take better
advantage
of this benevo
lence.

The best thing you can

give me as a special gift
is

travel

next

funds

furlough.

for

Xour love

gifts this year will bring

me

miles nearer home.

There is a slight possi

morning he has been build

ing a trap for it.

bility that I may begin my

One of the boys (we will

not say which was) was re

than planned, say about

September next year. The

furlough

a little earlier

cently caught stealing: an

reason

old

the Rempels would like to

go on furlough when their
son Dale graduates
from

habit

of

the

human

race. The dormitory pun

ished him by ostrasizing
him for two days.
Wow and then our neigh
bors have complained that
the boys gaze down on them

from the rooftop.

(Shades

of King David). So we have

had to demark a boundary,
now

nicknamed

V/all,
from

to

keep
the

the Berlin

the

boys

observation

points. So far none of the

boys
have
crossed the
check point.
CHRISTMAS

IS COMING

High

for

this

School

Since
it
cult
for

is

that

in June *6^,

would be diffi
us
both
to be

gone from Kanpur at the

same time,
i t remains for
me
to take my furlough
either

before

or

after

they take theirs. The Rem

pels would prefer that I
go first, while I would
just as well go last,But
if the Lord wants me to

visit the U.S.

next year,

then

come

year.

Your

will

gifts

This may be a pleasant

thought to some of you,
and a horrible thought to
others I but it is coming

Travel Fund

neverthless.

Thanks in advance.

cide

the

next

to tho

will help de
case.

Send

as

usual to Miss Douglas, but

designate "Travel Fund."

changed their minds.

GOSSIPLETTER

At this v/riting,
one

soenis

to

every

be in good

The report seems exage-rated, but we hear that

health.

Art Morris is receiving- a

Ward Patterson and motor

cycle have arrived in Kan-

ties, How rich can one getS*

pur on their Asian expedi

William and Ethel Gullck

are very busy with their

tion. He comes to us

from

Hew Delhi where he visited

with the Chester Parkers.
Mrs. Rothermel has
re

turned to Kanpur

from the

hills and continues to en

joy

life- with great zip.

She is looking around

for

gift of ten thousand neck

58 hostel boys. But still

Bill found time to cooper
ate with Art Morris in a

two week evangelistic mee

ting. No baptisms resulted
from the meeting, but a

former leper was recently

new duties to perform.

Prank Rempel had a nar'row escape when his Jeep

We are expecting David

Rees to participate in our

was sideswiped by a bus

near Dehra Dun: only God's

Annual Men's Gamp from

October 2ij.th to 30th, Ward

providence sa"\/ed him. The

roads of India are becom -

ing more and more perilous.

Leah

Moshier

left

for

her furlough during the

first week of September.

The U.S. may Lear a lot

about India in 196i|. The

baptized at Ennore.

Patterson may also be with

us if he returns from Bur
ma and Nepal on time..

Tom and Leota Rash

have

moved into a new house and

have

redecorated

it very

decorously.
Helen Douglas, sister of

^Edna Hunt are planning to

our forwarding agent, Flo

rence, continues seriously
ill at home in Flora, 111.

.the parade. They will not

compete with each other,

Lahoro has been blessed by

the arrival of a new daugh

Gullcks, the Rolands,

and

give their darshans Statesside. Others may also join

The Lee Turner

home

in

but they may have competi

ter. Name and date are

tion

a letter which has been

misplaced. The work in La
hore has also been blessed

from

the

Airierican

election campaign.

After her hill vacation,

when Edna Hunt resubscribd

for her daily newspaper,

in

by the arrival there of a

young lady from the church

the paper began to arrive

in Coos Bay, Oregon. Thelr-

addressed to The Reverend

Mother, Edna Hunt. The

work in Lahore has begun

Circulation Department has

to bear fruit. You are all

invited ^
visit them..

tailoring school v/here we

hope
with the Lord's
blessing,

he will do bet

The
number
of
friends
v/ho like to reiiierabor pie at

Giiristirjas-time,

on my birthday

and

also

(Dec. l^th)

ter than in'the G-overnirient

institution.
He also con

has been grov^ing from year

tinues

to year. This year I airi

scheming to take bettor

to

learn

typewriting.
' Our fifth

boy,

Hindi

Samuel

Doen, continues to plod

along in learning furni
ture, making. He also plods
along in Bible reading.
Andriyas has taken a vpw
not t.0 shave until he cat
ches the cat that killed
his fan-tailed dove. This

morning he has been build

ing a trap for it.
One of the boys (we will

not s-ay which was) was re

advantage

of this benevo

lence.

^ y

The best thing'you canhr

give me as a special gift
is ^travel
funds
for my
next furlough. Your lovo"
gifts this year will bring
me miles nearer home..

There is a slight possi

bility that I may begin my

'

furlough a little earlier

than- planned, say about
September nexi; year. The ''

cently caught stealings ah

reason

old
habit
race." The

of
the
human
dormitory pun

tlie Rempels would Tike to y

go on furlough when their . '

ished

by ostrasizing

him

him for two days.

How" and then our neigh
bors
have complained that
the boys gaze down on them

from the rooftop.

(Shades

of Kihg David). So we have

had to demark a boundary,
now

nicknamed

the Berlin

Wall,' toV keep 'the

from"

the

boys

observation

points. So fsir none of the

boys
have
crossed the
check point.
CHRISTMAS

IS GOMIHG

This -may be a pleasant

thought to some
of you,
and a horrible thought to
others I
but
i t is coming
neverthless.

son

for

t.

Dale

High
Since
cult

'!B

is that '

graduates

froim._..^

Scho?-:!-^-in J^ne '65.

It

would bo diffi-

for

us

both

/
/

to be

gone from Kanpur at the

same time,
it remains for
me to take my furlough

either before
or
after /
they take theirs. The Rem- -'-^7

pels would prefer that I

go first, while I would

' -

just -as v/ell go last.But ..--y

if the Lord wants me to ./
visit the U.S.

-next year,

then

"come

will

year. Your
Travel Fund

next-

>

gifts to the X
will help dey

cide the case. Send ai__

usual to Miss DouglSs, but
designate "Travel Fund." " '
Thanks

in advance.

FORWARDING AGENT : MISS rLORENCE DOUGLAS, 419 N. MAIN S T

FLORA, ILLINOIS, U. S. A.

THE CHEERFUL GIVERS DURING

Virginia:

Mrs. Belle Burkley

JULY MD AUGUST, 1963

Total Contributed

Illinois;

Eva Wood Circle

PaKton Women
Indiana:
The Golestocks
Mr. Franli Reas

Bright Church

859*10

$20.00
20.00

EXPENDED FROM JULY l8th TO

5.00
50.00'
25.00

Salary

250.00

Boys cc Girls
Housing

125.09
61.63

Kans as:

Derby Seniors

10.00

Nortonville DVBS

12.00

The Rollin Dunahughs 90*00

Mrs. M.E, Dunahugh
9*00
Kentucky;

East Union

5.00

SEECEMBER l6th, I963

Book Store k Libr^y 61.63

Lawrence Lazarus ' 51*14.
N.T, Publications

ll-3.67

Christasian

38.22

Church
Office Supplies

28.1^2
25.I16

36.2[{.

Airletters

Keeper Church

30.00

Total Expended

69I.63

Liberty S.S.

lb<,55

SUMB/IARY
Amount Contributed
Less Deficit of

859.10

I'vlissouri:

New York:

Mrs. Seufert

5*00

Ohio;
Clinton Church

Clinton Busy Bees

120,00

l5o00

North Terrace Church 16.60

Orrville
5-00
Linden Homebuilders
90.00
Mrs. Flint
Barberton F i r s t Ch.

61^.37

19h-'P

Balance

Less Expended

691.63

Balance, Sept. 16

103-10

Unless we are under some

100.00

delusion, our finances are

10.00

Old Stone

20.00

Brihkhaven Church

July 17th

10.00

Bladensburg L.D.s

Sabiha Jrs. #lp

6.37

25.28

-52.00

Pennsylvania:-

in a healthy state.
am dreaming,

on).

{If I

let me dream

Thanks to all of you

for helping us thrive.

During Juljr

and August,

Oak Grove DVBS

30.93

the Book Store , .sold

Tennessee;
Church at Central

20.00

Third Church Ladies

10.50

Bibles, 13 New Testaments,

175 Life of Christ Visual
ized, and other books.

"Thanks be to Go<l for his gift bcyoncl words !"

ri Cor. e:l5

26

Who shall ascend into the hill of Jehovah ?

And who shall stand in his holy place ?

He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart;
Who hath not lifted up his soul unto falsehood,
And hath not sworn deceitfully,
Ps. 24:3.4

Vol. IX, No.5

September

^Q0Q

October

Price: nP. 25

Kanpur, India

ife is JSilte a (fountain ^ailwai^

Ralph R. Harter

On June 1st, 1963, I arrived at Kalka climb to the scenic heights. Seven hours
by the Howrah-Kalka Mail. According to later when we pulled into Simla station,

my pre-formed plans, I went first ^of all

to the station restaurant where I leisurely

ate my breakfast. Then I summoned a

coolie and directed him to put me on the

I had had abundant time to meditate on

the similarities between life and the
Kalka-Simla section of the Indian

railways.

train for Simla.

Higher, Higher!

The rail distance from Kalka to Simla

is 96 kilometers. But because of the

difficult mountain terrain, the railway

charges for 287 kilometers.

The fastest train takes five hours to

Every

round

goes higher, higher!

This is true of a mountain railway, and it

should be true of our lives.

make the trip while the slowest requires

It is much easier to descend a hill and
seven hours. During this time the train remain on the plains than it is to climb.
climbs to a height of 7000 feet.

The trains on this run are small in

both length and width, and so they can

not take as many passengers as other
trains.

Four Trains

When I arrived on the platform after

having eaten my breakfast, there were

four

Simla-bound trains sitting there.

They were due to leave one after another

at intervals of twenty-five minutes.
But three of the trains were already

A train that runs on the level doesn't

puff as hard or burn as much coal as docs

a climbing train.
An ascending life also requires a great
deal of effort and expense. Unless we
af-e willing to expend the time and the
effort, it is quite impossible to climb the
heights in our spiritual lives.
In most cases, people are not willing

to pay the cost of the climb. Or else,

they climb a little ways, tire, and flag
out. Very few people reach the top.
It is sad to say that today, wherever

full of passengers. Only in First Glass we look, church members are satisfied
was there any room, and it would have with living on the plains.
cost me Rs. 16 (fS-'iO) more to take a
Where do you stand today ? Are
seat there.

you willing to pay the price of climbing

upward ? Or is your life like the trains
fourth train which would follow the others descending from the heights and travelling
up the hill. I cast my lot with this last on the plains ? Qh that our lives might

There was plenty of room in the

train. I opened up my bedding roll and,

making myself comfortable, began to read
a book.

After an hour-and-a-half, when all

the other trains had left, we also took
leave of Kalka Station and began to

be ascending lives!

(To Be Continued)

RANDOM THOUGHTS OF A READER

TIME Magazine reports that Luther
ans have become, much disturbed by
their own inability to understand and
appreciate the "doctrine of justification
by faith", as revealed in their recent
Lutheran World Federation meeting in,
Helsinki, Finland. The teaching, says
one of their leaders, is for the church to

day "clearly an enibarrassmeht."

This is extreniely sad! The tragedy

statement of the Holy Spirit through Paul

(Ephesians 2:1-10)
Perhaps the Lutherans, like many
, other people, fail to rightly understand
the meaning of the word 'faith*. Hence
they seem to see a contradiction between
Paul's positive statement that faith," apart

from works, saves, and that of Jam6s thaf

''faith apart from works is dead." (James
2:26) Surely it is not too hard to see that

of such a state of affairs is not that it runs

there is a vast difference between "works

directly counter to the Very foundational

teachings of Lutheranism,' but that a
teaching so proniinent in the New Testa
ment and so straight-forwardly put there
should prove to be an embarrassment to

of the law", performedto gain merit with

God, and deeds perforrried be;cause of a

a group of people claiming membership

in the Body of Christ.
A well known Lutheran leader. Dr.
Gerhard Gloege, of Bonn University, says

that/'today neither the church nor the

person's faith; It is the latter to which

James had reference and it is the former

that Paul excludes from the plan of salva

tion. To people possessing true faith no
contradiction exists.

I suppose it was . inevitable

that,

Lutheranism should run into trouble at

this point, . They started pffwith so ex-,

treme a view of " justification . by,faith" ,

that even simple obedience to Gh|:ist*s
to the Lutheran thurch, Uhd it is a sorry coinmahds was often categorized as a,
commentary on the state 6f Lutheranism forbidden work. Luther hhnself is the,
that he is probably right. ;
author of such statements as: "Unless
THE church knows well enough what faithis'witbotit any- even the leastj works,
world knows what to do vvith the dpctrine

of justification". He refers, presuniably,

to dp with the doctrine of justification

by faith! Its members know, having had
"the eyes of the heart enlightened
what; the exceeding greatness of His power
to us-vyard who believe," which resulted

it db'es-hot justify, nay is not faith!" "'The'

true saints of God must be good strong

sinners'^ This was, of couree, the violence

of his reaction against the undue empha-.
sis on works for salvation, placed by his

in Ghiist's resmrection and in His eleva

Catholic opponents, expressing itself.

tion to a position ps "Head over all things

to the church, which is His body, the

ited by rhahy who have followed after

fulness of Him that filleth all in all."

(Eph. 1:18-23)
THE church knows that it exists be

cause of and through faith, its members,

each one, having been made alive tOgeth-:
er iwith Christ and having been seated
in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. "By
grace have ye been saved, through faith,
and that not of yout selves, it is the gift of
God,,not of works, lest any man should
glory," is the positive, incontrovertible

Thispreposterous view hasbppn Inher

and is especially prevalent today among
the "faith only" proponents. Baptism
for the reihissiOn of your sins must not be

performed, they say, lest; you take away.

from grace through faith. This they say

even though Christ commanded it (Mark'

16:16) as did Peter also. (Acts 2:38 )
"Arise and be baptized and wash
away your sins, calling on His name," was
the instruction given to Paul, but we to
day mjist never associate this act of faith..

with the remission- of sins; we are told. ;

Testament knows nothing of such an
Such an understanding of the mean; organization. Lutherans will have to get
ing of fkith does indeed create a contra accustomed to being called just, plain
diction-and gives rise to the confused Christians, members of the Lord's church.
The Augsburg confession will give way
thinking of so many.

We hope that the Lutheran groping

for the truth (though, why they should
put the whole responsibility for discover
ing the tfuth upon the *'new theological
commission" they have appointed, I can't
understand) will finally result in a return
to New Testament teaching.
But if they ever do come to such an
enlightennient, we must warn them that

if will entail far more changes than just

in the matter of justification.^ We must
give them advance notice that the Luther

an Church will disappear, for the New

Whether, two hundred and seventy
millions of India's people live on nP. 19
(4 1/2 cents) per day or Whether in fact
the}?', are able to expend for their nece^ties .iip to nP. 46 (99!) seems academic,
and -a' foolish question, perhaps, ,for wellfed and highly paid niinisters of state, to

to a way of faith and practice founded

on Christ's teaching, and written by the
apostles. Having once tasted of these
good things, though, how they will love
them!

It is good that the flow of God's grace

is npt interrupted by the foolishness men
so often dbplay. Sincere seekers after
the release from the burden of sin may

still find a resting place in Jesus, quite

apart from all creeds and controversies of
theologians.
Thanks to be God!

that pitiable amount literally by the sweat

of the brow.

Mr. Nanda admitted that the poorest

10% of Indians spend, per capita, Rs. 8,
to Rs. 10 per month for their living ($1.
70 to 2.10) With food prices still rising
steadily, this means that for about 46

millions at least of the people of this na

debate.

But when Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia,

ah Opposition leaderjin Parliament con

tended that sixty percent of the people
of. India are living on nP. 19 per day, he

tion, there is nwer enough to eat.

' .Thework of discreditihg the govern

ment for its unfruitful policies may safely
be left to the political opponents of it,

vyas hotly disputed by the, h^inister for and they may be counted on to make the

Labour, Planning,and Employment, who

then released the higher figure. Reading
the newspaper report, it almost sounds as
though Mr. Nanda were proud of the
good life his planning had brought to the
rhasses.

'

But even Mr. Gulzari Lal Nanda's

highly optimistic' figures do not come

anywhere near to. the minimum require
ment for the preservation of health.
Remember that these folks, involved in
these figures, are those who perform: with

their hands the hard, laborious tasks that

in more highly developed countries are
done by mechanical means. They earn

highest political capital out of the situa

tion. For the rest of us, it is essential that
we do riot allow the spring of our com

passion to be dried up. All who are inte

rested in hqman welfareand Christians
more than others^must seize every

possible opportunity to do their part in

alienating distress and need.
Beyond this, how desperately anxious
the Christian ought to be to make known
to the burdened and'suffering ones of this
world that in God's grace a place is being

prepared for all who will enter it, where

want and distress can never come.

"He

is Lord of ALL,'and is RICH unto ALL

that call upon Him."

ACQUAINTANCE WITH JESUS,

. Mr. B. L. Turner

The Gommitted, I<eyel

It is this very persuasion which leads
us to the next higher level of acquain.tance with Christthe committed level.
It is this decision of utter committment

to Christ which the Bible calls repentance.

This committment is a major decision
that

makes

host

of minor decisions

entirely unnecessary. The man who truly

.meant that statement in his marriage
ceremony: "I promise to keep myself
from all others and to keep myself to her
only till death do Us part," that man
doesn't have to wonder if he wants to pro
pose to the beautiful young lady who
works in his office.

That decision was

included in the major decision he made

when he married his wife. So, the man

submksion to Christ. In classic snnplicity

he committed alh "What shall: I do.
Lord?" (Acts 22:10 ARV)
THE EXPERIENTIAL LEVJEL
It was this committrheiit which led

Paul to the highest level of acquaintance

with Christthe experiential or iden
tification level of acquaintance.
Here we enter Into Christ's life. "This

is life eternal that they should know

Jesus Christ." (John 17:3 ARV) TMs is

the meaning of being a Christian.

We enttt

into Christ's experience so we may say,

with Paul, "I have been crucified with

Christ," (Galatians 2:20 ARV)

Here we may see the significance of
Christian baptism. It is not a liturgical
or ritualisric ceremony for receiving mena-

who tsuly commits. hnrisplf to Christ

makes a basic and permanent decision bers into the church. It is certainly not
which places him continually under, magical nor efficacious in itself. It surety
Christ's direction. He seeks Christ's mind iis npt a meritorious work. It is, however,
in moral and ethical decisions whether in an obedient act of faith (Cf. 2:11-12 and
personal/ social, political, academic or Galatians' 1:26-29) in which we join Christ
economic matters. He looks for Christ's
will in the choices that lie before him.

Even when following Christ involves per

sonal sacrifice and sacrifice of person he
does it cheerfully for Christ's sake.
' ' It was just this kind of acquaintance
with Christ" which Paul made .with him on

the way to Damascus.

Bitterly opposed

to Christ because he believed him to be

an

imposter,

he

was journeying to

Damascus to harrass
Christians.

and arraign the

Near his destination Christ

supematufally appeared to him.

Paul's

arguments were now in shreds. His logic

in his death, burial and resurrection.

Paul asks us: "Do you not know that all

of us who have been baptized into Christ
Je.sus were'baptized into , his death, that

as Christ was raised from,the dead ,by the

glory of the Father, we too might walk ip

newness of life." (Romans 6:3-4 RSV)
We then, in the power of God's Spirit,
(Cf. Acts 2:37-39) go on'experifeiicingthe
life of Christ. We can say, as Paul did,
"I have been crucified with .Christ* the

life I now five is.not my life, but the life

which Christ lives in me." (Galatians 2:20
NEB)

simply did not conform toi reality. Jesus

This identification with Christ is the

iof Nazareth is the Christ! There could

be no denial. "With utter disdain for his

secret pf redemption. God can now

accept us in Christ. It is the secret of the
power of the Christian life. Th6 Chrisi-

personal loss he saw the only course of

honorthe only course of true gain in

tian isi in Christ and Christ is in him.

INDIAN PRESS GLEANINGS

Compiled By 'R. R. H.

An distant executive engineer of the

'Westerri Railway travelled in a trolley
tover nearly 1,000 feet of track hanging

these days. They remove

tombstones

from'the older cemeteries dotted over the

capital and sell them. Many of the looted

loose over a flooded -rivulet on the night

tombstones date back to the middle of

of July 5th in order to inform the next

the nineteenth centuty and are of more

durable quality and more easily engraved
upon than tombstones made today.
The headmaster of a girls' high school

station' about the damage to the^tracks.

jAny train .coming from that direction
would not be aware of the peril that
[awaited, them. Any mishap to the trolley
would'have throWn the engineer and

near Trivandrum in South India has been

fined Rs. 100 (:^21) for practicing un-

others accompanying him iiito the waters touchability in his school. He had formed
thirty feet below.
classes in the school separating the un
In 1961, the Bible retained its title

touchables from the other students.

as the world's , most translated book.

There were 246 trans^lations of the Bible,
185 translations of Lenin's works, 115
translations of the works of Count Leo

accused pled that this was done with

The

the aim of improving the standards of the

untouchables, but the magistrate turned
down this argument.
.^Tolstoy, and 101 translations of Indians
A woman near Jhansi who had been
^Rabindranath Tagore. '
praying to her idol to protect her family
' Ail' 'India's London office recently from smallpox, lost her balance of mind

"made an enqui^ with the Finnish Gov whfen five of her children died from the
ernment r^^arding^ the restrictions' in disease. , She not only stopped praying to
importing . thahgoes into that- country. the deity, but tried to remove it. This
:The reply; they received from. Helsinki action was resented by other devotees
vyas, "What type of animal is a mangb ?" . who reported the matter to the police.
As;everydnb in Ihdia knows, the mango
is the world's-most delicious fruit.

During 1962, 4,500 person were con

' . A tense sitiia'tion exists- between tbe

victed in the state of. Xlttar, Pradesh for

ticket collebtors and the railway police

-in the Ranpur Central Railway Station.
. Recently when 'a ticket collector

were sentienced to jail. The highest per

selling adulterated or sub-tandard ar

ticles of food. In .97 cases the offenders

-caught a'boy Without a ticket, a constable centage of adulteration was found in milk,

pleaded With the tickpt collector to let spic^, soft drinks, and sweets.
The incidence of lung cancer has in
,him go. This led to hot words and blows.
The T. G. then lodged a Complaint with creased.300% in India during the past
,the Station-master.
For his part, the twelve years according .to a survey con
constable collected some^ of his cohorts

and :dragged the; T. C. to their Office.

Next,; the ticket collectors-and other railwaymen combined their forces and march
ed on the -police office to release their
.detained associate. A strong contingent
.of the city police finally arrived to end
the crisis.

Tombstone thieves are active in Delhi

ducted by the Vallabhbhai Patel Chest

Ipstitute in New iDelhi.
The Delhi-Madras "Grand Trunk Ex

press" killed eleven head of cattle near

Agra on July.16th. When the driver saw
the cattle grazing on the track he sounded

his-whistle but the cattle, ran right in

front of the engine and one after the
other they were all overrun and killed.

WOMEN OF THE BIBLE

"ACHSAH"
By Miss H. Kaveri Bai

Joshua at once despatched messengers curred God's wrath and His chastisements,
to Achan's tent, who ran and dug out the in the other list. None could blame God
stolen things and brought them to Joshua for His severity, or claim ignorance, after
and laid them all before the Lord. Achsah

whispered to her mother, "Oh, that

garment is really beautiful! But it was
wicked to disobey the Lord." Then

having been so clearly told what the con

ditions of their relationship to Him were
Indeed, the Lord punished His own
people more severely than He did the

Joshua and all Israel took Achan and all

heathen, for Israel knew His command

Achan's children and all his livestock and

ments and warnings.

property, including the stolen things, and

brought them all to the valley of Achor.
There, "all Israel stoned him with stones,

and burned them with fire. And they

raised up over him a great heap of stones."
After this thorough purging, the Lord
bade Joshua himself go up in person
against Ai, promising to. deliver it into

Rahab had married Salmon and had

thereby become Achsah's kinswoman.

The men of her family had all been

circumcised and become Hebrews,

At

the time the blessings and curses were

read out she happened to be by the side
of Achsah and had observed how the

people had listened with awe to the words

of Joshua. "I never have heard such

his hands. Ai was taken and the fear of

the Israelites fell on all the inhabitants of
the land once more.

things before," she said in a low voice to

ming, between the two mountains of

Gerizim and Ebal. The ark of God, with
the priests who carried it, was brought

the fountain ofallgood, and of^1 peace

Achsah, "but the people of Israel know

After this victory Joshua built an altar the living God. Why should any man or
of whole stones, without cutting or trim woman rebel against Him ? What folly

into the centre and the tribes of Israel

were placed,

one

half toward' Mt.

Gerizim and the other toward Mt. Ebal.

Joshua then wrote on the altar stones the

law of Moses, and read it out to all the
people. It enumerated all the divine
blessings for obedience, and also the

to turn away from such a God, who is

and joy and blessing. What folly indeed!"

"Sin blinds people's eyes, darkens the
understanding and hardens the heart",

answered Achsah. "So they become fools

and are like beasts. Else why ^vould they

leave the safety of the Rock of their refuge
and seek danger and destruction ?"

curses that were sure to follow disobe

dience.

THE LEAGUE WITH THE

Everyone in Israel must hear the law

over and over again in all their gener
ations, since Israel's special relationship
to God and their separation from the
heathen nations required their knowing
the law and obeying it. By obedience

Gibeon was a large neighboring city

but the inhabitants went into a panic
when they he^d of the mysterious fall of
Jericho's walls, the conquest of Ai and all
the slaughter that had taken place. Now

they enjoyed God's special blessings and

ing advance of the invaders from the

favors, as enumerated in the one list which

wilderness. How were they to save their

Joshua read; by disobedience they in

GIBEONITES

there could be no halting of the conquer

city and escape the sword? They planned

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a ruse whereby they ipight deceiye the the

Israelites into making a pact with them.
When the

trick would be discovered,

being bound by their oath, the Jsraelites

would spare their lives.

One day there was excitement in the

camp. Pharez came and told his mother

inhabitants

because of Joshua's

oath!"

God would not consent to having his

people live together with the inhabitants
of Canaan, who, for their wickedness,"
were either to be utterly destroyed or
driven completely out of the land, lest a

little leaven should affectthe whole lump.

The
nineteenth chapter of Leviticus gives
far country had come to Gilgal to see
Joshua and they made such a queer sight a graphic description of the kind of abo
that quite a little crowd, including his big minations practiced by the nations of
step-brothers, Onan and Asher, was Canaan. From Abraham's time to
Joshua's, God had given them opportu
gathered to stare at them.
nities to repent of their sins but they had
"You are sure they came from a far never repented. Now the time had come
country and are not the inhabitants of for their judgment. Joshua's mistake was
and sister that some ambassadors from a

Canaan whom we have to drive out be

fore us?" asked his mother. Achsah
wanted to know the name of the country.

to cost Israel dearly in the time to come.

The next campaign of the Israelites was
against Gibeon'and the cities round about.

"They must have come from a far After subduing them, since they could
country, though I do not know the name' not slay the Gibeonites, Joshua made
of it. Mother, you should see them. them drawers of water and hewers of
They are a sight. They may be great wood. But the Gibeonites remained a

men and princes in their owncouqtry, but

thorn in the side of their masters.

The

they are looking so shabby, in old and Israelites were later to adopt their idola

tattered garments. Their shoes are worn try and many of their abominable prac
out, and the bags they carry are very old. tices.
The bread which they presented to Joshua
The women in the camp were always
is all mouldy ,and as hard as a potsherd.
nervous
whenever their men folks went
.They must have travelled many, mainy
to war. After the warriors had returned
days, for they say the bread was fresh and
their clothes were quite new when they from their conquest of Gibeon they spent
a few days resting. Then an urgent
set out.
message came from the Gibeonites to

**Do you think I could take a peep Joshua, claiming his protection at once.
ajt them?" asked his.sister.
The kings living in the vicinity had en
"No no; Joshua will not allow-women tered into a confederacy to fight and crush
the Israelites. Seeing that such a large
there."
as Gibeon had made peace with the
For once, Joshua acted' at his own city
enemya "unilateral peace", as we
discretion without consulting the Lord.

He believed'the bogus ambassadors and

made the desired league with them.
When it was too late to rectify his mistake

Joshua discovered the truth. In the camp,

everybody was amazed. "They are not
at all ambassadors from a far country, only

would call it todaythe confederates

attacked Gibeon to punish it.
Night had fallen as Joshua and his
men began their all night march. Joshua
was determined, if possible, to surprise

the enemy who would not be expecting

our neighbors, the Gibeonitcs, who have

such speedy help to arrive.

The Lord

we have taken Gibeon, we may not slay

erate kings would be delivered into his

played this trick on Joshua. Now when had given him the assurance the confed

DRUNKEN

TIMES

By R. R. Harter

, The night was hot and sticky.

Thousands of people were sleeping out
doors where a light breeze had wafted

modern equipment necessary to prove a

man sober or drunk. It may also be that
the present laws make no distinctions

them to sleep.
But there were, still three or four who

about drunkenness, and so it would be

continued to talk the clock around.

I'

wouldn't knpw what they were talking

about, and they have probably forgotten
themselves.

. For suddenly they lifted their eyes to

a most incredible sight. Eveil for India,
the land of the unbelievable, this was too
much to be grasped.
"It is alleged that'the bus driver was
drunk at the time," the newspapers
reported later.

The bus driver in question' had just

returned to Lucknow from a chartered

runtoKanpur.

As he drove his empty

bus down the Gautam Buddha Road, it

seems he decided to round off his evening

with a little fiin.

The early moiming peace was suddenly

rent with the screanis of the injured, the
dying, and the bereaved. The newspapers

pointless for the police to prove it one

way or another.

Thus the liquor industry, and the

politicianswho are promoting it, can take
comfort in the fact that it can only be
"alleged" that their product has anything
to do with these tragedies. They them
selves allege that there is no connection
between the scrapping of prohibition and
the increase of accidents and crime.

The city of Kanpur now has as many

as six major motor accidents within
twenty-four hours In many instances, as
when a driver drove into a house, it must
be stated that, "It is obvious that the

driver of the vehicle was not in his pro

per senses." (National Herald of August
3, 1963,)
In the meantime, crime in Kanpur
District has increased by seventy percent
since the opening of the liquor shops nine

disagreed as to the number of casualties, months ago. Kanpur now holds the
but either eleven or twelve were dead

and up to twenty others seriously injured.

One of the newspaper accounts re

ported that the bus driver had driven

"boisterously" over the beds of the people
who were sleeping outside.
This wais the biggest-ever single road
accident in the history of the city of
Lucknow. Twenty-five years ago, in a
similar accident, a drunken driver killed

hve sleeping pisrsons in the same locality.

We must remember that in this latest

distinction of being India's most wicked

city. The police authorities attribute the
recent rise in crime to the lifting of pro

hibition and the opening of the liquor

shops.

The undesirable elements in the

city, after getting drunk, quarrel among

themselves over trifles and assault each

other with knives, resulting in deaths.

But not all is doom and gloom.
Thousands of policemen, officers, inspec
tors, district officials, and bus drivers have

pledged not to take liquor or

intoxicants.

other

The State Government has

tragedy that took place on Friday, July, also closed;liquor shops at the important

26th, 1963, the drunkenness of the driver

can only be "alleged." The police in
these parts are not equipped with the

halting stations on the dangerous routes

to Badrinath and Kedarnath.

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( Continued from page 8)

The sun hung exactly where it was when

hands.

she had stretched herself on a camel skin

The women and the children in the

Israelite camp arose the next morning to

rug, along with her friends, for the rest

period I

go about their several tasks. Rahab came

(Concluded in next issue)

to see Achsah and gave her an invita

tion: "Come and see a garment I have

made and embroidered.

It is in color

and pattern like the Babylonish garment

Achan stole in Jericho. It is not so . rich
and gorgeousa poor imitadon, really
but it looks somewhat like it.

I knew the

people in Jericho who owned that gar

( Continued from page 5)

God's Spirit dwells in the Christian

and gives him peace and .moral victory.

This

intimate

identification

with

ment and have seen and admired it often. Christ is the secret of having the mind of
Come and bring your friends too, and Christ It is also the basis of all progress
in Christ.

take bread with me."

Identification with Christ is deepened

through participating regularly and ear
nestly in the Lord's Supper^ the Commu
nion; through prayer, study of the scrip
"This evening when the shadow of tures and through Christian fellowship.
that fig tree creeps to your lent door. It is given practical expression through
''What a clever needle woman you

must be!" exclaimed

time shall we come?"

Achsah.

"What

Have those five sisters come and join you

here before you come over. There is
going to be a full moon and we can have

Christian benevolence.

Whether we ridicule Christ or are

a nice time." Those in the camp usually curious about him; whether we hold his
looked to the shadows and to the position claims plausible or have been persuaded,
. of the sup, moon and stars, in the sky for we only know Christ's power when we
a rough calculation of the time.
commit ourselves unreservedly to him,
and
become united with him. "
After their midday meal the Zelophehad sisters came to Achsah's house and

they all rested till the shadow of the fig

tree, should creep toward the tent door.
Some hours went by and still the shadows
had not lengthened. Achsah went out,
greatly puzzled, and looked at the sky.

THE

TIME

The time.is short!

If thou wouldst work for God
it must be now!

If thou wouldst win the garland

for thy brow.
Redeem the time.

THE END.

IS

SHORT

With His reward

He comes; He tarries not; His

day is near;
When men least look for Him
will He be here.

Prepare for Him!

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'

Gontributed by F. Rejipel

^<i>IVINE - HUMAN CO-QPSRATION"

/

"Materialism" denies that God

Text:. Matthew, 11:28-29

has any p^t in conversion, and says that

man ^tist save himself. But hearJeho

INTRpDUGTION

1. -Jesus, who as the "son" of a carpen

ter may have shaped many yokes, under
stood well the function of a double yoke.
^

a.

That'it'divides a load between

two parties.

b. That it limits each party to ONLY

c. That unle^; there is perfect co
operation no progress can be made.
2. With this illustration He points out
some important facts:

That God has limitied Himself,

and has made Himself in some respects

decffeWdeht oil m a n . ' ' .

b.

that trusteth in man, that maketh flesh

his arm, whose heart departeth from
Jehovah" (Jeremiah 17:5)
b. There is an extreme religious emphasis that reverses the orderman is but

a p^sive subject in the hands ofan auto

cratic God,,,for Him to. do with as He

half a load.

a.

vah's ominous word: "Cursed is the man

That there is to be a DiVine-hu-

mah'^-'cd-dperatidh, by which God and

pleases. Robs man of all properties ojf

choice and self-determination.

'*Faith

only" advocates come under this heading.

2. But th^ Bible clearly conditions aU

of God's promises of salvation on:

a. Man's voluntary acceptance pf

God's plan fpf;salvation.' '

' ' b. Man's willing obedience to all

God's commands.

3. An illustration in Acts 2:37^40

man are to \i^6rk tbgfefher in harmony.
3. This possibility seems remote to ns, for
a. The promise of remission and gift
how can sinful riiaii walk with a holy God? of the Holy Spirit to ALL.
a.

But remember, it is His invitation:

*'Take My yoke upon you,..

"
b. Hence His grace will be sufficient

to meet such a prpbjem.

Pro posit ion

b. The conditions binding uponALL:

**Repent ye and be baptized everyone of

you." This is man's part.

c. 3000 added in that daythe evi
dence that God did His part.

. " n. / :

THERE ARE THREE AREAS IN

WHIGH. MAN thus BECOMES.

Gontimiation and growth in

AN ASSOCIATE OF GOD

tihe Christian life is a hiatter

of our co-operation with God.

God hasf decreed

I.

man's

.conversion shall bie.a co-oper

rebuked:,...... "having begun in the Spirit

ative matter.
1. There are many objections heard to
the above statement: .

It was for failure to realize this that

the Gklatian Christians were severely

are ye now perfected in the flesh?"
.,

(Galatiahs 3:3) THey thought they did

not need God's help through the Spirit

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and longer.

1.

God reconciles the world to Himself

2. Adversely, we must not expect God through Christ, but He has given "unto
to do it all. The Philippian Christians us the ministry of reconciliation." He

had fallen into this error, and Paul

instructs them: "Work out your own sal
"
vation with fear and trembling
. (Philippians 2:12).
3. Hence Jude. exhorts all Christians:
"Building up yourselves in your most holy
faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, keep
yourselves in the love of God looking for
the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto
eternal life." (Jude 20:21}
m.

has "committed unto us. the word of

reconciliation"., (2. Corinthians 5:18-19)
2. Our task is to "entreat" the world
on God's behalf- -through the Christian

alone can God speak to the world.

(2 Corinthians 5:20)

3. It is a sobering thought that God has

no other me^ns for

the

salvation . of

mankind.

CONCLUSION

Enoch, who is said to have pleased

The Christian's task of witness

God so much that he "translated him

ing can only be effective when

.we become "workers together
with him". (2 Corinthians 6:1)

with God." (Heb. 11:5; Genesis 5:21-24)

May we walk together with Christ, with
Him under His gentle yoke!

that he should not see death", "walked

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I work for the Department of Internal Revenue. I am the chap whom;

everyone loathes.

The other day 1 checked a queer return.

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Some fellow with an income

under'five thousand \dollars claimed he .gave six hundred and twenty-four

dollars, to a church. Sure, he was within his 15 percent limit, but it looked

)*

I-gO over your income-tax return.

mighty suspicious to me. So I took a bus and went to see Ais chap to ask
him about h.s contribution.

f thought he'd become nervous like most of them do and say that he

might have made a mistake. Not this mari! He came back at me about that

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|624 without batting an eye.

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"Have you a receipt from the chinch?" I asked him, figuring that Would
make him squirm. '^Sure" he said, "I always drop them in the drawer where
I keep my envelopes." And off he went to fetch his receipts! '
Well, he had me! One look at the receipt and I krie:vy he was on the

level; ;'So I apologizai for bothering'him, explaining that I have to check Up

on-deductions that seem unusually high. As we shook hands at the door, he
said "I would like to invite you to attend our church some Sunday."
"Thanks, but I belong to a church myself", I said.

"Excuse me, that possibility had not occurred to me," he said. ^

As I walked away I kept wondering what he meant by that: last remark.
It wasn't until Sunday morning when I dropped my usual quarter into the
offering that I suddenly realised what he'd meant.

(Reprinted from "The .Voice of Evangelisni")

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"IN THE MIDST OF A CROOKED AND PERVERSE GENERATION", .

: There is no substitute for good parents.

Parents are particularly fitted to draw

What of your Children?

Marie Rempel

out. and, channel into useful direction the

bit of greatness that God has implanted

in every child.
Iwhen he is old he will not depart'firom

When parents fail their children in

it;"

Home is the best place fo^ children

this respect, young lives often remain to leam about God. This teaching may
aimless, incomplete, and stunted. Juve !be given in school and church but When
nile deliquency, more often than not, is it ^is taught and lived in the home, >the
the result of being unloved and unwanted. child will learn that Jesus is an ever
present and a wonderful Friend .Ii

On the

other. hand,

parents who

magnify what is good in their sons and

daughters automatically restrain and dimiiiish any tendencies toward evil.

In Jamshedpur, some time ago, a-man

was arrested for operating a bar with
defective brakes, horn, muffler, and tires.
In court :a few days later, the magistrate
dendanded an explanation. The man said:

Over fifty years ago, a small boy workittg in a factory in Naples, Italy, longed "I was on my way to the repair shop,
to be a singer. But this ten year old boy ^your honor." Many people are giving
was told by his first voice teacher that he this same kind of an unconvincing reply
should forget about singing. "You Oan't to the question of their, respopsibilides.
singj" the.teacher.^said, ,"\^ou haven't any
1Parents ignore the fifst signs of defects
voice at all.' It sbunds like' the Wind in

in the character of their children and as

the shutters.',*

time goes .on the defects grow worse and'

othCT,. defects are added. Still parents

" But the boy's mother, a poor barefoot

peasant woman, knew better. Putting
her arms around the boy she told him she
Was sure he could become a great singer.
To prove her complete faith in him she
m'adie eveiy sacrifice in order to pay for
his singing lessons. Her confidence and
constant encouragement brought but the
hidden power in her son. Enrico Caruso
became one of the great singers of all
time.

continue in their presumption upon:^o^'s,

mercy that He will, in some SvJty, draw^

their children back iiito His love'Without

too much harni. But this is possiblewith

God only if the children have been given
a grounding in proper behaviom and
good conduct in the home.

GUA^ AGAINST EVIL, ODTSIDE

INFLUENCES

A great craze for comic books and

Said Henry Ward BeecHer: "There is other such literature has swept over
no friendship, no love, like that of the nearly every home in America and in
India. Before the children's eyes, the
parent for the child "
policeman lies groaning in the ditch,
clutching his bullet-riddled groin with one
^HOME, THE PLACE TO TEACH
hand, reaching for his gun with the other;
AND LEARN

It is written in Proverbs 22:6, "Train

up a child in the way he should go, and

The cop-killer, a neurotic juvenile delin

quent type, is making a fast getaway up

a fire escape. There is the wail of the

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sirens on the police cars, and a longjawed

young man jumps from the prowl car
even before it stops: none otherthan pick
Tracy himself. He in turn will riddle
with bullets the crazy mixed up kid, who
will drop from the second storey to the
pavement. Tracy will hand to the "cop

per's, widow" a little,purse the boys have

qollected. .Her children will look sad but
they will feel awfully ,proud of poor
poppa.

-.1: Clare Booth Luce has written critically

about the commercials which are used on
televisionL........."Use Toothsome Tooth

paste. Don't let Johnny's teeth 'decay.

Nqyer mind about his morals," they seem
to imply.
One of my boys. Dale, who is away at
rchool, Wrbte today to say that since
nothing had happened it was not very
easy to find anything to write. The
radio and thie newspapers, however,
contradict him, for daily through them^
we. learii, as the boys are learning to do,
"what is wrong with the world"i rather
than what is right and normal.
:' It had been a dull'day in the newsija-

per o^C(^-^no murders, no arsdn, no sex'

they will be able to dedicate their energies

and talents in the constructive manner

intended by God."
The U. P. government has repealed
prohibition. Our city now boasts its
scores Of wayside pubs and drinking
places. : ' Never before have we seen
drunks on the streets as we do now.

Mr.

Gupta, U. P.'s Chief Minister, had said

that there would be no public advertising,

of liquor. Now Kanpur's main street,
Mahatma Gandhi Road, boasts two huge
neon sings advertising Whiskey and lager,
beer. They are placed on the highest
buildings for all to see.
The result ? In this city of nearly
two million people, the Statesman carried
the announcement that crime had increa

sed 92%later, fearing that this sounded

too drastic (or perhaps because of pressure
from the liquor industry) the next issue
of the paper said it was not quite as bad
that.

"Greater;is he th^t is in you"

Still, there is no lim it to the power'
for good-in the heart of your child. Temp
tations must surely come but , if the fear-

and love of God is implanted in his heart,

sqribiis bffhhCes to report. A reporter his yielding to temptation is not inevi
sighed to' the editor ': "I'm" frankly getting' table. Rather, a stiength to conquer isdiscouraged. Nothing has happened in the glad,possession of that heartand hq.

critt^s, ' no train robberies, no , other

the last twenty-foiir hours."

"Don't let it,get you down," replied
the editor^' ^"Something will surely turn
up.

I still have faith in human nature."

who conquers will, obtain happiness to

the .full in the Lord Jesus Christ.

Let us as parents-^Christian parents'
follow a few simple, practical rules for

We have grown to expect evil,, conflict,

trouble, as the normal pattern of life.
; God help us in these days ivhen the
world is tempting our children with sug
gestive advertising, tantalizing pictures
and signs, in India as everywhere. God;
help us to pray 1
As Dr. Dhebar of Bombay has said,
'*Ybu too -can do something to help our

maintaining in our homes the kind of

atmosphere that our children deserve and
heed. Let there be an atmosphere of
affection, of mutual respect, and regard,
for all members of the family. Enforce
reasonable and firm discipline and obe

youth on to proper and useful paths where

before them.

dience from the children. Make provision

for teaching in integrity and.clean living,

by daily scripture reading and by setting
an undeviating example of the Same
'

15

WHO WAS IT?

By Sant Kumar James

TheStory ofLawrence Lazarus who meets a poor Punjabifamily on a Katni-hound Train,

Translated from Jeewan-Deep Hindi Patrika,
Wrapping her child up in the quilt I
had given her, the woman lifted up her
head to thank me, but tlie words caught
in her throat. Two diamond-like te^
dropped and tolled on her cheeks from
her sunken eyes. Her face was deeply
impressed with the cruel marks of time.

Gaining my attention, the Sardar

asked me where I was going.

Sleepiness had long since fled from

the ground.

My mother and younger

brother and sister were burnt to death in

it. I was the only one who survived to

mourn my fate. If I had been home that
day I probably would not be here now.
Everything I had was there: here I have,
become a beggar."
He choked and could not speak further.

Pausmg for a moment, he dried his mois

tened cheeks with the end of his turban.

me and returned to its own place. In Then he began again: "Some of oup^
order to promttte the conversation, I luggage containing our money was stolen
lustily replied that I was a.Christian and in the station at Bilaspur."
The train began to slow down and
that I was going to Sahdnl to show films
then
it stopped. It was Anuppur Station.
to the Ghiistians there on the occasion of
I invited the Sardarji to come on to the
Christmas.
platform \vith mQ and have a cup of tea
"I used to go to a Convent school," to chase away the cold. As we got out,
the Sardar replied. "I know a great deal his wife said something to him in Punjabi
about the Christian religion. There are which I could not understand.

many Christians in Lahore. They also

When we had finished our tea, the
used to have big programs on Christmas. Sardar'ji
if I would mind showing
Day, and I sometimes went with my one more asked
kindness.
friends."

"Where do you live nowadays?" I

asked him directly.

"We have no fixed abiding place. I

am a labourer and we go wherever I can

get work. Nowadays we are residing in

"Only say the word," I replied.

"Please give me the price for a cup of
tea for my tvife. She has been hungry
all day."
"Of course!"

Katni. In Lahore my uncle taught me a

trade, and that is our livelihood in these
times. In Katni I am working as a car

Going to one of the stalls, I bought

twelve annas (159!) worth of sweets and
two cups of tea, and returned to the train

penter. I went to Raigarh to see about a

job. I have relatives theremy in-

before it moved on.

laws. Igot a job, but the pay ws not

opened the packet of sweets and fell to

work. Seeing her greediness, I had to

The woman was truly hungry.

She

enough. Just tell me how it is possible to

manage on sixty rupees (f 1 ) a month in smile; but when she saw me watching her
such expemive times!

she became embarrassed.

I looked the

"-I am a very unfortunate man Babu'ji. other way so that she might satisfy her
In 1947 during the Hindu-Muslim riots hunger in peace.
that followed the partitioning of India
(To be Concluded)
and Pakistan, my house was burned to

16

We were so sorry that the July-August

issue of GHRISTASIAN was late in get

ting to you. When the thing finally got

printed, the ink on the cover refused to
dry because of the rainy weather. There

was also the disadvantage that we dogs

were in the midst of our annual holiday

and were not on hand to help lick the

stamps.

By Langru

Now Mr. Rempel and Mr. Mangal

Singh of the Service Printing and
Publishing Press have learned that the
cover should be printed first instead of
last since the cover takes longer to dry

The Publisher's Dog

than the inside pages. Oh we are learning

this business fast!

On the whole wc are

very well pleased with the work of the

I have looked at the picture on the S. P. P. P., and they give us nothing to
cover for hours wondering in whichdirec sputter about.

tion that train was travelling. If that

Now that you have read the last page

question must remain unanswered, I do
know that the photo was taken by "The and glanced at the first page, I hope you
the rest of the magazine as much
Photo Studios," a shop in Simla. The enjoy
as I enjoy introducing it to you.

train belongs to the Kalka-Simla section

of the Northern Railway, and there are

just lots and lots of tunnels on that line:

Caninedly yours,

no place for a dog like me.

Langru

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( Jinnjiiiv

i
ember

Tweuly nion and hoys from

Kanpur attended the l5th

Annual

Vijai

Hagar Camp,

joining others from other

places. Five of our Kanpur
group were unbaptised when

they went to the camp, but

only
was

one

(the

unbaptised

youngest)
vihen

he

came back. Crosv/ell*s bap

tism

is

star

in

the

crov/n of Andriyas,
one of
my Indian boys. Tom Rash
and the India Bible Insti

tute may be given much of

the credit for the baptism
of Harry David, Sushil S.
Singh, and Rov/el Kaitha.

The baptisms took place on

Sunday October 27th.

The Building Fund of the

Swarupnagar

congregation

is being given a boost by

William Stobaugh, Rt. 2,
Williams town, Ky. Bill has

produced a long-play re
cord of
12
songs with
backing by the Songsters
Quartet.

for UhOO,
is

being

The record sells

#1.00 of which
contributed

to

our building fund. Here is

chance

to

love gospel

recordings and the work- in

Kanpur with one kiss. Bro.
Bill hopes to contribute

#1000 to the Building Fund

in this way: the first 100
has just arrived.
HELEH DOUGLAS

Our friends will be

sorry to hear of the pass

ing of Helen Douglas, much

beloved sister of our for
warding agent.
Memorial

funds are being contribu

ted to Janet Dittemore*s
Education Fund.

"And should not 1 have regard for Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore
thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much
cattle?" Jonah 4:11

ho has now returned to our'

OUR G4NG

At th^; mome nt of wr it Ing

the Bb^s * Dormitory .is.
c onfro nting us v/ i th a few
discouragements.
Peter was misiaissed from

the

govermtient

school

technical

becauae of his bad.

eyesight. We we arranging
for

operation

within

the next few days.

an

In the

meantime

his

he

extra

has

allowed

original

very bad attack

that hospitaiized

in

is healthy for teenagers.

All of these boys need
your frequent pj^ayers.
Andriyas continues
to
study at
the
technical
as

well as raise

pigeons -in.:'his remaining

time. He caught a thief in
camp, and he shows a good
toward

detective

work.

All of the doctors

have

given Harold Deen a clean

bill of health.
(He had
had tuberculosis.) He
is

learning H^ndi typing

tailoring,

i^ten days. Vife have just re

ceived a rather long bill
for his treatment.

and

he

some of his

veral

Our Hindi publication,

JEEWAN -DEE P Monthly has a new editor I, but he is an
old editor returned. After

sitting i t out for three

years,
Julius Yafat has
returned to replace G.M.

Timothy,
him.

who had replaced

Lawrence Lazarus has

Our free lending libraiy

so he made

own. After se

months

ing January 1st, 196[|., as

the date of publication.

is

made for his

and

Only the printing of the

cover remains. We aro giv

been appointed publisher

in my place at my request.

with the arrange

ments we had

At long last
we can
announce Uie completion of
the printing of our Hindi
edition of "On the Rock."

and

good help about the house.

Samuel Deen (no relation
to Harold) became dissa
training,

of flu
him, for

PUBLICATIONS

companion

mischief
is
Patrick who
also has more leisure than

tisfied

hopq

leisure to get

Peter's

talent

We

Jonathan (who is some

what mentally retarded) is
at home recovering from a

him into mischief.

school,

plans.

that he is wiser for his

experiences

of failure.

membership roll has now

reached
1100,
although
many of them are now inac
tive ' As of this date, 110
of

bur

books

are out on

loani and we expect to get

most of them back.

The sales record

in the

Bible

Book

the . past

Store during

four months has

been as follows:

July; Total Sales $53

18 Bibles,

10 Testaments.

August: Sales of $9il.o82,

8 Bibles, ij. Testaments.
September: Sales, $99.p5
i)| Bibles, I}. Testaments.
October: Sales, $l58.27>
5 Bibles, 9 Testaments..
INCOjyE TAX TROUBIES

Evidentally

some of our

contribu tors have had s ome

difficulty with the Bureau

of

Internal

Revenue when

listing contributions
our

for

work ' for the purpose

of deductions in their in
come

tax.

we

know, all

such deductions

As far as

have been

allowed,

but i t has taken

some fast explaining on

the part of the taxpayer.
.This
is, of course, a
problem only for those few
individuals

who

make

contributions

their

do

not

through some congregation,

Bible School class,
or
some . other organization.
We do not, however, want
to lose the
support of

those

" few

individuals "

The church at Clinton has

authorized Mj^ss Douglas to

issue
receipts
on their
behalf ^ The re ceipts you
re ce ive,

the refo re,

legally receipts from,

are

the

Clinton Church.

But if you are weary of

explaining these details
to The Bureau, we might
just as well arrange for
you
to get a regular in
disputable church receipt.
So if you are_' an indivi
dual contributing to our
7/ork,
and you are fearful
of not getting your right
ful deduction from your
income tax,
just let Miss

-Douglas

Imow

that

you

would appreciate.a church

receipt.
.

FURLOUGH FLAm

Furlough plans will con

tinue to be indefinite for

some time; but tentatively

. I am planning to arrive in
New Yoi^k City in time to
attend the National Mj^ssionary

Convention

which

will be held there during

the last week of Sept'ember

196!^.
LATEST

NEWS

When you contribute to

our work, you are contri
buting to the Chris tian
Publications Mission Fund

As we go to press, it
seems as though Petei? will
not have an operation. It

of

too weak to allow any

the

First

Church

Christ, Clinton, Ohio.

of

appears that his retina is

provement .

im

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Housing

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670.69

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very

happy

December

25th whether
call
our

your

it

or

the

not you

"Christmas." And

fondest

wishes

happiness

perity in 196!^..

"Thanks be to God for his gift beyond words !"

II Cor. 9:15

for

and pros

Vou MUST BE made

But for you who fear my name the sun of

righteousness shall rise, with healing in its wings.

You shall go forth leaping like calves from the stall.
Malachi 4:2

Vol. IX, No. 6

November X903 December

Price: nP. 25

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jife is if^e a (^Mountain ^ailwai/

PART TWO

Ralph R, Harter

Purposefid Journey

A Slow Climb

Onr train climbed for seven bourse

curving one way and then another. Its
Mails that cptmect the great cities of endless twisiings seemed without any aim.
I got the idea that Simla was a .little boy
North India.
who had "hidden himself, and the train
This ought to teach us that when we was his little sister who was trying to
are climbing to new peaks in our spiritual seek him out.
The train that climbs up to Simla

does not' travel as fct as No. 1 and 2

lives, that we should do so.with patience.

We should not be like the stony ground
that produces quick but fruitless growth.

We should not expect to reach the

peak in a single sweep. We will have to
overcome many obstacles before we reach
the top.

But in the end we arrived precisely at

Simla station.

Then when we

looked

down from the heights and could see from

above the terrain over which we had tra

velled, then we could understand why

the train had twisted so much.

In our spiritual lives also, our climb

is not straight up. Ascending lives are

Occasional Descent

equally full of great horseshoe bends.

The train climbing to Simla is not

always climbing. About half-way to Simla
the . train descends a short distance down

one mountain before ascending another.

It would be Vwonderful 'if our lives

were always ascending lives, but (except

for the life of Christ) that is never the
case. All of us, at some time or other,
descend from the heights.

One thing worth remembering is that

in a mountain range, the higher peaks
are always situated behind smaller peaks.
In order to reach the higher peaks, one
must first overcome the smaller ones.

It

is regrettable that we sometimes descend

from the heights, but it can be a means

In John Bunyan's, " Pilgrim's Pro

gress", we follow Christian and his
companions over very circuitous routes.

Yet, in the end, they arrived at the

Celestial City. We follow in their steps..

Jesus is waiting to give the Crown of
Life to those who overcome all the ob

stacles and reach the top.

If your life is frustrated with much
curving about, remember that it- is all

in God's plan. The reason for it all may

be hidden from us now, but when at last

we look down from the Celestial Heights,

then, yes, then, we'll understand.

Then trust in God thro all thy days ;

of reaching higher peaks beyond

Fear not,for He doth hold thy hand;

When you come to recognise that you

have made a descent, don't waste your

Sometime, sometime we'll understand.

energies in grief.

Remember from where

you have fallen, repent, and begin to

climb again.

Though dark thy way still sing andpraise;

M. jV. Cornelius
Concluded Next Issue

CHRISTIAN

DUTY

IN DAILY LIVING
Bill Gulick

ENNORE, INDIA

Conversion is the change that comes

about within us through the power of
God when we yield as penitent confessed
believers to His command to be immersed.
Immersion has no value and no meaning
unless this inward change takes place.
We are not only ''born of the water" but

results of the power in the outward life

are manifest to all.

We can see a man

living according to the Christian way.

And by these fruits we can be convinced
that he has been born "from above."

also "of the Spirit." Thus, the entire

Christian life is the product of conversion

Christian living is a demonstration of

the power of God, testimony that Jesus
Christ yet lives. See Matthew 7:16 ff ,

which God works in us. The good deeds

of the Christian life are, then, the work of

last passage makes clear that when breth

God, and not of man. See Romans 12:2.

Christians are not like the world in their

ren are jealous, factious and divisive,

they are still carnal, that is of the flesh

lives because they are of a renewed mind

wiihin. This renewing of the mind is a

rather than of the Spirit. Paul speaks of

the "fruit of the Spirit," that is, the good

The clay can be fashioned by the potter

into a vessel of beauty provided the clay

life, then the Spirit has not converted the

II Peter 1:5-9; I Corinthians 3:1-4.

This

cooperative accomplishment of man and deeds and attitudes that result from this
God; man yielding in surrender and God inward change wrought by the Spirit
working the change through His grace. from above. Study Galatians 5:22-26.

cooperates by being pliant.

The clay

cannot however say it has fashioned itself.

Notice Ephesians 2:8 ff. and Galatians

2:20 ff.

Tlie "new birth" presented by Jesus

in John 3 is simply this inward change or,

as Paul calls it, the "renewing of the
mind." Notice in verse 8 that those who
are born of the Spiiitare compared to
the wind. No man can see the wind,

that is, the real power itself, though we

can see the effects of it in the trees and

grass and debris along the way. Just so

with conversion. No man can see the real

power within, the grace ofGod. Yet the

If these

life

fruits

within.

are

This

not

borne in the

may

seem

too

mystical to some who hold that becoming

a Christian is simply a legal change of
relationship; I believe the Scriptures
certainly teach that becoming a Christian
is a radical and dynamic change within a
man.

Naturally the result of the new birth

is a "new creature," at first a "babe in
Christ." The Scriptures teach that, al
though the conversion is radical and
thorough, the whole life is a constant
growth in grace. The newly-born baby
is fully a human being at birth, and the

fact that he needs to grow does not

detract from the completeness of his birth.

So fully converted and fully born Chris
tians must grow in the Christian life.
How, then, is this growth accomplished
in practical ways?
Prayer is the exercise of the soul to
ward God; it is one way that the soul
cultivates friendship with the Most High.
Prayer is the honest searching of the

heart in the presence of the Lord; it is

the vigorous commitment of the life to
His will for it. Prayer is the hill top from
whose height we can survey the surround
ing scene and see all things in their true
proportions and in their relation to one

It would be very hard indeed for man to

be a Christian by himself; he needs the
reassurance, the comfort, the insights and
even the rebukes of other Christians if he

is to keep his ideal clear and sure. Paul

says there were "saints in Caesar's house
hold"; surely if men could be true to the

Christian faith in that corrupt place, they

can be Christians in spite of everything.
The story might have been different, how
ever, if there had been only one saint

there, isolated in a world of bribery,

prurience and degeneracy.
Basic to human life is the propagation
of the species. Man reproduces himself.

point just where we are and just which

way we want to go. While walking

Christ has laid upton His followers the

personal, universal and obligatory com
mission to teach and preach the gospel to
every creature, to baptize into the name

through Ihe valley, we may become con

of the Father and of the Son and of the

fused and lose perspective and direction,

Holy Spirit, to teach them to observe all

things whatsoever He has commanded.

another; we can see from that vantage

but . when we climb the hill, we can see

how foolish we were in our confusion and
misdirection. "The world is too much

with us" and unless we are often in prayer,

we shall find our Christian goals being
hidden from us or being disguised or dis
figured in our sight. Without prayer there
is no growth in grace, but only a gradual
but certain spiritual death: "even that
which he hath shall be taken away."
By studying the Bible we learn more

Obedience to this command is important

to the spiritual growth of the Christian.
A basic goal should be that each one win
one each year.
We can give you no hard and fast rule
for living the Christian life, for we are no
longer living according to law but accord
ing to grace through faith within. We
cannot simply list a number of prohi
bitions and a number of commands and

and more of what God has done for us

say that these constitute Christian life.

and of what He wants us to do.

is more dynamic than that. Consider

Jesus' summary of true religious living of
all time: Love God with all your being
and love your neighbor as yourself. See
Matthew 22:36-40. Augustine said that a
man should love God and then do just

When

we are first baptized, naturally we want

to do whatever God wants us to do- but

then we must study that we may know

what He wants.

We cannot do the will

of God, however much we may be will

ing, if we have not studied enough to
know what it is.

Our faith must have

content as well as intention.

what he wants to do.

It

And so it is: if we

love God, we want to do what is good.

Until we want to do what is good, we

the church and its value in spiritua!

cannot live the Christian way.

The
Christian life is not conformity to a
rigorous code, but the springing up of

aided by the meeting of mind and heart

laid hold upon by the Spirit of God.

In a previous article we noted at some

length the meaning of fellowship within

growth. The faith and hope of each is good from within the heart that has been
in public worship and Christian society.

"APOLOGETICS"
By Dr. Herbert Jai Singh

IN INDIA TODAY

Dr. Jai Singh is an Associate Director of "The Christian Institute for the Study
of Religion and Society" at Bangalore, India. The article here reprinted from
the "United Church Review", was first presented by Dr. Singh at a consultation
on apologetic literature held at Nagpur. We invite comment from other scholars,
apologetists, both in India and America.

The Gospel is the good news of the

redemptive act of God in Jesus Christ

for the whole world. Duty is laid upon
every Christian to share this news with

the gospels and most importantthe ques

tions concerning the resurrection of Jesus
and the immortality of the soul presented
real obstacles to purely rational apologe

all mankind.

tics.

The news however, has to

be told in the language and thought pat

terns of the hearers, otherwise it would

be understood either not at all, or imper

fectly.
The Christian Church in India is called

upon to proclaim this news in the context

of mid-twentieth century. But the Church
often employs apologetic methods that
were successful a hundred years ago but
have outlived their usefulness today. The
Church has not always been sufficiently
sensitive to this change and adapted its
methods to the altered situation.

Claims of Superiority
The old apologetics in India proceeded
from a sense of superiority of Christian
religion over other religions. It argued its
superiority in terms of the criteria which
were generally acceptable to both Hindus

The moral excellence of the Christian

religion was often put forward as a proof

of its superiority. The moral criterion, it
was believed, followed from the self-evident

moral law written in the nature of things.

Judged from this law, morality as prescrib
ed in the scriptures of Christian religion
was superior to that of others. It was
customary to point out the immoral char

acter of some Hindu deities. The prac

tice of devadasis used to be held up as a
stock example of the degenerate morals
encouraged by

religious custom.

The

amours of the Puranic Krishna were often

compared to their disadvantage with the

austere grandeur of the moral personality
ofjesus Christ. Christian apologetic was
not slow to point out the faults of the

Hindu social system. The general degra

dation of the Hindu women, especially
and Christians. Sometimes the criterion
the custom of sati, was under strong fire.,
was "reason," and apologetics attempted The caste system, which permanently divid
to show that the tenets of Christian reli
ed Hindu society on the basis of birth,
gion were more reasonable than those of relegating the lower castes and outcastcs
a redeemer from all superstition and false

to a mean position of humiliation and

suffering, was cited as evidence of the

belief. Reason, however, is a servant that

can be employed on either side depending
upon the intellectual ability of the master

a just and humane society. Careful ana

lysis of Hindu philosophy was used to show

others. Hence the Christian faith became

and his cultural attainment.

There was

incompetence of Hinduism to bring about

that the above social maladies were an

the further difficulty that reason led to

integral part of Hindu religion as closely

rational difficulties within the Christian

bound up with the law of Karma-Samsara

which was, and is, indeed, a central tenet

faith itself. The rationality of miracles in

which was, and is, indeed, a central tenet

of the Hindu way of thought. Hinduism

logue beween faiths, it said. Hinduism, on

the other hand, is willing to accept what

could redeem itself from these social evils

ever is of value in other faiths.

only by a radical feat of dehinduising

itself. Integral as these evils were to the

hesitation to regard Jesus Christ as an

avdiara, a descent of God in the midst of
men. Many would willingly bow before
him as the supreme avatara. Christianity,
we are told, is exclusive, whereas Hindu
ism is inclusive; Christianity aims to de
stroy other faith, Hinduism seeks to learn

whole

seamless fabric of Hinduism, a

really reformed Hinduism was considered

out of the question and Chvistianity was
pi'esented along with other reasons, as

the only viable alternative.

Renascent Hinduism

from all;

It has no

The Christian attitude is not

| helpful in the

world of today when the

The challenge of Chrisianity has been j realisation of human solidarity is the only

taken up by Hinduism, and the answer ; way of hope for the survival of mankind.

has two aspects. The first is concerned ! The Hindu attitude makes for community
with a defence of the Hindu faith itself. ; as it tends to free men from narrow alle

The Hindu apologists have been saying

giances for larger loyalties.

that in their criticism of Hinduism, Chris- ;

Christianity has been weighed in the

tian evangelists misunderstood the essen- j balance
and found wanting. The most
tial nature of Hindu religion, in that they
mistook the appearance for the reality of horrible wars have arisen among nations
the faith.

The social and moral evils of

Hinduism, they contended, were not an

essential part of the sanatana dhartna. Such
abuses are accidents of history from which
no religious tradition can claim exemp
tion. Hence the many reform movements
in Hinduism in modern times have set
themselves the task of eradication of these
evils. The Hindu concience has been

keenly sensitized against moral abuses

connected with temple worship. A great

which take pride in their allegiance to

the Prince of Peace. The record of impe

rialistic exploitation, of feeling of racial

and national superiority of the so-called
"Christian oeoples " bears ample testi
mony.10 the incompetence of Christianity
to be the sole redemptive force for the
betterment of the world. Hinduism, on
the other hand, has stood for - "reverence
for life." Its emphasis on Ahitnsa as a
means of settling national and inter

national disputes might well be the "good

news" for which the world waits today.
evils of the paste system. Hindu intellec
tuals are busy reinterprenting Hindu ;Such is the reasoning of the Hindus
philosophy with a view to relating it to today.
the living questions of contemporary man.
The new Hinduism is, therefore,
The forces of law as well as social opinion opposed to conversion. Sanatana Dharama

agitation is going on against the social

have closed ranks in order to renovate

Hinduism.

can absorb all that is of value in the

Christian faith. A Hindu can learn from

The second aspect of the Hindu apolo

getics is the attack upon Christianity. The

Christ without being alienated from his

Christian outlook is described as narrowly

dogmatic and irrational. It claims a

finality which it is unable to support by
reason, they say. When pushed into a
corner it resorts to revelation which is

reported to carry its own assurance of

truth. This is no way to continue a dia

traditional faith.

There is

ho need for

conversion from Hinduism to Christianity.

Furthermore, all religions finally lead to
the goal, the Brahman, the Eternal Spirit.
The enthusiasts for conversion are there

fore advised to practise a "little less ar

dour, a little more enlightened scepti
cism." (Radhakrishnan)

The New Apologetics

these to the working of God through his
Here and there the old patterns of Holy Spirit. Christian apologetics is rightly
Christian apologetics may still be used but directed to the task of convincing men of
as an effective method of proclaiming the the truth of God in the mystery ofJesus
gospel its day is irretrievably over.

Pro

clamation of the Christian faith by claim

ing superiority of its Jreligious institutions
and cultural achievements alienates ra
ther than wins men for Christ. Hinduism

has stopped many holes in its religious

and cultural fabric. Therefore a merely
negative approach has become irrelevant.
The new apologetics needs to take
serious account of what has happened in
Hindu thought and practice at present.
It must realise the remarkable power of
renascent Hinduism to inspire men with
a faith that helps them live. Christian
apologetics must learn from Hinduism
its attitude of openness to absorb cultural
and religious values found outside its
own precincts. Christian witness consists
both of speaking as well as of listening.
Too long and too much have we talked,
we need to listen also. We are beginning
to learn the methods of Hindu sadhana for

the cultivation of the life of the spirit. We

have not been able to avoid altogether the
use of Hindu religious terms for the ex

pression of the meaning of the gospel in

the past.

There is need for study to see

how the Hindu philosophical categories

can be employed in the communication of
the Gospel, for semantics and philosoph
ical world views are important, if not
indispensable, for the conununication of
meanings. Our efforts in this respect have
been sporadic and fragmentary. And the
new

apologetics might

well be

more

concerned with this.

Influencing Social Structures

The main theme of the

Christian

.apologetic, here as elsewhere, is Jesus

Christ. It should, therefore, avoid becom

ing an apologetic for a culture, an institu

tion, or an ideology. Jesus opens up all

Christ: the mystery of the descent of God

in the world for the redemption of the
world. It invites men to accept the new
creation offered to all in Jesus Christ.

Conversion and entrance into the Church

is the symbol of the acceptance of the new

life. This is the most obvious puipose

of Christian apologetics : the winning of

men for Jesus Christ.
Christian apologetics, however, is also
concerned with the task of influencing the
impersonal structures of human social

existence.

In the past as also today,

Christian faith has been a

tremendous

power In renovating social structures, by

bringing to bear upon them the Judg
ment of a living and holy God, revealed
in Jesus Christ in the context of contem
porary India when structures of society
are in a process of rapid flux, the task of
Christian apologetics as a formative in
fluence for good need hardly be overem
phasised, Indeed this is something with
which Christian apologetics must always
be concerned, for social institutions, no
matter how perfect, are always in need

of being kept under the judgment of

Cod so that they may be saved from
any kind of self-idolisation.
More and more, Christian apologetics
will have to be concerned with secularism

in India. Christian apologetics will have

to show that the questions that men are
asking find their adequate answers in

Jesus Christ.

The task of apologetics,

therefore, is not the defence of the faith

alone in the categories of "true and false"
vis-a-vis Hinduism, but of showing the

unique relevance of Jesus Christ for

helping men realise the meaning of their
lives in the context of the new emerging
{Continued no page 12)

I LOVE CIDER
A TRUE CONFESSION

WE people from the state of Ohio en

joy our cider. So when I arrived in

England and saw all the cider

By Ralph R. Harteb

to an understanding of the Greek word

Oinos which is translated wine

in

the

English Bible.
As for the word Oinos, it means the
juice of the fruit of the vine whether it

advertisements, I naturally wanted some.

But when I suggested to a British
friend that we enjoy a glass of cider he is fermented or unfermented : just like
was horrified at the thought. He quickly cider in Ohio can be either sweet or hard
concluded that all the
America are drunkards.

Christians

of

and like vino in Italy can be intoxicating

or non-intoxicating.

The difficulty was that what the

British call cider is something different

from what the Americans call cider.

In

The Greek word oinos in itself does

not indicate whether the wine of Cana

was intoxicating or

non-intoxicating.

England, cider is an alcoholic beverage; Some people think that the use of the
while in Ohio it is ordinary sweet apple word wine in the English Bible proves
juice. When our American type of cider that the beverage used at Cana was in
begins to go "hard," we throw it out.
The same sort of misunderstanding
confronts American Christians when they

visit the homes of Christians in Italy.

We American Christians are horrified to

toxicating, but that is definitely not the

case.

As for the customs of that place and

time, it is an indisputable fact that the
people of Palestine two-thousand years

find^ wine being served in the homes of ago drank grape-sherbet in much the
Italian Christians. We quickly conclude same way as the people in north India
that all Christians in Italy are drunkards. drink tea today.
Little do we realize that much of the
ordinary table wine in Italian homes

When I askmy friends here in Kanpur

what they would serve at their weddings
isn't any more intoxicating than a bottle if they didn't have any tea, they tell
of Coca Cola.
me that they would serve sherbet (diluted
Before the Christians of England ad fruit juice.) Tea was unknown to the
judge that all American Christians are people of Cana in Galilee, and so they
drunkajds, they ought to make a study served grape sherbet.
of American customs and the American
Whether the wine (sherbet) was
usage of the word cider.

And

before

the Christians of America adjudge their

Italian counterparts to be drunkards,
they ought to make a study of Italian
customs and the Italian usage of the
word vino.

And before anyone concludes that

Jesus approved the use of intoxicating
beverages, he ought to make a study of
the customs of the people of Palestine
two-thousand years age, as well as corae

"good" or "bad" depended on the

quality of the grapes from which it was
made, the amount of water with which

it was diluted, and the spices which were

added.

That the wine of Cana could not

possibly have been intoxicating is proven

by the fact that the ruler of the feast,
after having partaken freely of the first
batch, was in full possession of his facul
ties when the second batch was served.

DIRT IN
THE
ABBEY
By Marie Rempel

the temple of the living God, through the

Spirit. I could wish that the Abbey's
cleaning held much meaning for us.
Particle by particle, speck by speck, sin
comes into our lives.

A astonishing
newspaper news:
clipping carries this
"Seven tons of dirt have been removed

from Westminster Abbey, which is having

its first scouring for 900 years The task
has revealed astonishing beauty.
Wheelbarrow and lorry have removed
seven tons of dirt.

No one saw it carried

in. Particle by particle, speck by speck,

borne on breeze and foggy air, it collect
ed in the shrine.

Its acid eroded the

white stone work, darkened the surface

and blurred the clean cut edge."

The old Abbey was built by King Ed

In such a fashion

men and nations decay. "No one sudden

ly becomes a scoundrel" wrote the

Roman Juvenal. Day by day and little

by little, integrity is lost. Small surrend
ers corrupt soul and mind. The decline
is not apparent as standards weaken and
character deteriorates.

The clean sur

face slowly tarnishes by contact with en

vironment. The sharp edges lose their
straight lines.
The "prodigal Son" did not fall into
sin. A fall indicates a sudden descent,
but such was not his case.

He walked

the downward way, obviously quite un

aware of the direction he was taking.
But one day "he came to his senses".

ward the Confessor, in 1065 A. D. at

that time a heavy, ugly building. Henry

(Luke 15:17 NEB). With his eyes once

opened, he could see how far he had

III began rebuilding in 1245 and put the

work under the charge of Ado, the Gold
smith, and Master Henry of Westminster,

descended. His condition now contrasted

an architect.

One could wish the significance of the

scouring of the shrine to be wider still.
The Abbey pretty much represents
England's worship life. The faith and
traditions of the land find home

and

symbol here.
But let us not miss the value of the

lesson to us personally. Our bodies are

most unfavorably with that of even the

servants in his father's house.
had come!

The crisis

The word 'crisis' is a Greek

word

meaning 'judgment'. In my small dic

tionary two meanings are given: "In
disease, a change, indicating whether the
result will be recovery or death." "Any
decisive moment".
So it must be when men and nations
become aware of the accumulation of dirt

10

in the sacred place, and happy the de

cision (but not easy) to begin to scrape

Instead of a half cup of butter, a little

extra would make it that much richer,

the ugliness away, because, of course,

unless the decision is taken voluntarily
the filth must finally be the victor.
We have kept many pets in India
during our fifteen years here, our two boys
being very fond of animals. Just now they
have a rhesus monkey, snatched by them
from the certainty of an early deathshe

I reasoned. In place of one cup of sugar,

surely a half more would make it all the
sweeter. And certainly the batter in the
pan gave no indication that there was not
enough fiour. The recipe said to put it
in the oven for thirty minutes so for thirty
minutes I did not open the oven door.

GooGoo make any attempt to safeguard

What solution does Jesus offer to the

problem of the sin that collects in our

little by littleshe is pilingup an accumula

lives, unnoticed by us ? He makes useof

I have learned since to check the heat

was headed for her destiny as a tiny bit of the oven. When it was removed, alas,
of Salk vaccine ingredient. But does the cake had 'sat down', and was black.

her ''salvation"? ,By no means! instead,

tion of mischievous deeds that will one

the only 'agent' that can do the job:

day be her undoing.

At first the practice of some small fault

own blood.

may seem harmless enough.

"It is just

a little thing and it does no one any

harm," is the frequent saying. But small
faults have a way of growing larger and
of growing into destructively huge faults.
An English army officer in Indian ser
vice found' a small lion cub while return

ing to camp one day. Picking it up in

his arms he carried it home. As time
passed he became so fond of the animal

that he kept it in his tent.

One night

the oflBcer woke up in a cold sweat. The

baby lion, trying to show its affection,
was strokinjg his hand wUh its paw,
which now held a newly grown set of
sharp talons. The officer's hand was
covered with' blood. The only thing he
could do was to remove his revolver from

under his pillow and kill his pet.

Our failures are generally our own
faults. We add to, or subtract from "what
is written-." , When I was a small girl and
it came time for me to learn to cook, my
first task was the making of a cake.
All I had to do was. follow the recipe,

I was told. The recipe was from a reli

able book that had certainly been tested
before being entered there. But my
beautiful cake fell'bait gaya' as we say
in Hindi (it sat down, literally.)

His

"How much more shall the

blood of Ghrist, who through the eternal

Spirit offered Himself without blemish
unto God, cleanse your conscience from
dead works to serve the living God."
The initial scouring, upsetting and
humiliating as it may be (for it is usually

carried on in the full view of others) is

unavoidable. "Repent ye, and be bap
tized, every one of you, unto the remission
of your sins, and ye shalt receive the

gift of the holy Spirit," said Peter (Acts

2:38)
Once having been so cleansed, the pro
cess needs never to be repeated, PROVID
ED

WE

TAKE

GARE

TO

KEEP

GLEAN by a daily contact with the Sa

viour.

In answer to Peter's

insistence

that the Lord should wash not only his

feet, but head and hands as well, Jesus
said : "He that is bathed, needeth not
save to wash his feet, but is clean every

whit." Only the filth that gathers on the

feet in the daily journey of life needs to
be cleaned away.
"If we confess our sins," John says to
Christians, "He is just, and may be
trusted to forgive us our sins and to
cleanse us from every kind of wrong."
(I John 1:9 NEB)
Thus will the "beauty of holiness"
shine forth from our lives.

li

WOMEN OF THE BIBLE

"ACHSAH"
By Miss H. Kaveri Bai

"Mother," she broke into her mother's

presence, "Mother, is anything the matter
with my brain ? Did we not take our
food at midday, or was it much earlier ?
I thought I saw the sun in the middle of
the sky then, and it is still there !"

"co-existence".

That would

mean his

people forsaking the fountain of living

waters, and contaminating themselves
with all the corruption and filth of the
people in whose midst they lived.
God always wants His people to be

"You took your food at noon, all right, separate from the world. He had wanted
and then went to fetch your friends. I
too think something has happened. I am

waiting for the evening shadows to fall

in order to go out and fetch water for the
preparation of the evening meal. But the
evening has not come."

Israi 1 to expel the inhabitants from

every area they conquered and settled.
By going against the Lord's word and
taking the easier way of only subjugating
the inhabitants and then allowing them
to stay on, the greatest possible danger to

Israel was left in their midst. The con

So saying Achsah's mother rose to her quered
peoples were always just waiting
feet, and bidding Achsah put away the for
the opportune time to rise up and
flax and spindle and other things into the overthrow their conquerors.

basket, she walked to the tent door to

Still, all would go well as long as Israel
look at the sun. By that time everybody
in the camp was talking about the strange obeyed the Lord and took counsel of Him

phenomenon. Rahab had made a small in all things. Whenever they ignored
feast ready and waited for her friends to Him and went their own way they forfeit
come, but no evening came and the ed His protection and help. Since
friends did not appear.

More hours passed and the sun was

still in the middle of the heavens over

numerically they were a minority in the

land, their enemies could easily overcome
them. As long as Joshua lived, and those

elders lived who had come over the

head. Finally Achsah's eldest step brother, Jordan
River, there was peace and safety
Onan, came into camp and announced for the people.
that the battle was going strong, Joshua

had determined that it must be fought to

a finish that very day. He had ordered

the sun and moon thus : "Sun stand thou

The Inheritance at Last

After the preliminary conquests which

still upon Gibeon, and thou moon, in the gave them a substantial foothold in the
valley of Ajalon," and God had caused land, the whole congregation of Israel
these luminaries to obey Joshua's words.

"And there was no day like it before,

gathered together at Shiloh and set up

the tabernacle there.

Here also Joshua

or after it, that the Lord has hearkened

cast lots for the inheritance of the tribes

unto the voice of man

before the Lord.

"

That was

the explanationwhy no eveningcame that

day nor night.

As time went on the five Zelophehad

sisters were married to men of their fath

er's tribe, and of our friends only Achsah

was left a spinster.
One day, Caleb came and told his
wars, till the inhabitants of the land be
come a subject people. God did not want i family that his heart was set on Kirjath

Wars and More Wars

Taking possession by conquest meant

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Arba, which, as a spy sent out by Moses, and Rahab for a little son had been born
he had visited with Joshua forty years to them and he was to be circumcised.
before. Kirjath-Arba, later known as In years to come this same infant, named
Hebron, had fallen to the lot of Judah in Boaz, was to become a judge in Israel.
the division of the inheritance. Therefore In the still more distant future his grandhe had asked Joshua for permission to son, Jesse, was to become the father of

conquer and possess the city.

David the king. Achsah and some of her

Achsah.

ingly, "You will have a baby of your

"But you are now eighty-five years friends were also present to see Rahab's
old, and the inhabitants of that city, the baby for the first time. While Achsah
children of Anak, are giants !" gasped was fondling him, his mother said teas"But I am as strong this day as I was own some day. Then you will not care
in the day Moses sent me there," and for anyone else's child but your own "

Caleb bared his right arm and displayed Milcah added: "Has not our prediction
his muscles and sinews to prove his words. come true? We knew one day Othniel

"The Lord promised it to me, and with would get you."

Him at my side what can the Anakim do?"

In Achsah s day following the death

Joshua blessed Caleb and gave him of Joshua, the children of Israel had
Hebron for an inheritance to conquer judges, the first of whom were men who
and possess it. After taking Kirjath-Ai ba. had been with Moses andJoshua in the
the old warrior came to the city called wilderness. These men governed Israel

Kirjath-Sepher, later known as Debir. under the law ofGod, and on many occa
Caleb said : "He that smiteth Kirjath- sions
were able to extricate the people
Sepher and taketh it, to him will I give from the
predicaments they would get
Achsah my daughter to wife."
into due to their attachment to the world.
Caleb's step-brother Othniel had long Othniel was the first ofsuch judges, lead
loved his beautiful niece. In his veins ing the people with great valor in battle,
flowed the same warrior blood as in and bringing a period of for-ty years of
Caleb's and hewent and stormed Kirjath- peace to the land.

Sepher and took it. Then he came to

claim his bride.

But when Achsah came to her bride

groom she asked him a boon.

Othniel

would do anything to please her. She

told him to go ask her father for a certain

It can be said ofthis wonderful couple

that "they lived happily ever after".

THE END

{Continuedfrom page 7)
field. "Come with me and ask him your
self. He will not deny you anything," culture. This is the most serious task that
Othniel said, and gently placing her on Christian apologetics in India must
an ass took her to her father. Aware that

the visit had more than a casual pur

pose, Caleb said affectionately, "What

undertake. Its main concern must be the

souls of men as they grope for meaning

and purpose in life.

All good apologetics must realise its

her most winning way: "Give me a bless limitations. In itself, as purely the work of
ing, for thou hast given me a south land ; man, it cannot convince men of the truth
give mealsosprings of water." Caleb gave ofjesus Christ. Men are not converted
wouldst thou ?"

Achsah

answered in

his dear child "the upper spiings and the

nether springs
One day a number of friends were
gathered together in the house of Salmon

by apologetics. Conversion is always a

miracle of grace through which God

works in men towards the conviction that
Jesus Christ is Lord.

OPEN

MANIFESTATION

AND JUDGMENT
:

By S. Nath, Jhansi, U. P.
The author of Corinthians speriks calling witnesses, or engaging a prose
of a tabernacle,
or temple, better cuting attorney.
than that of King Solomon's. As the
But he will be a just Judge. Today
Spirit of God dwelt with Israel in a
He
is the Redeemer and Saviour, but His
tent in the ^vilderness, so the spirit of
. man dwells in a temporary dwellingthe role must change, and he will become
bodywhile he journeys on his way to the our righteous Judge. When that time
comes, no more opportunities for repent
new Jerusalem. At journey's end how
ance
can be given.
ever, he will lie a given a "house not made
with hands"
It seems thai this human
To indicate that the apostle took this
body is almost within the compass of matter seriously, it should be pointed out
human construction todaybut even if it that Paul repeats this warning in Romans
is, to what advantage if men do build it? 14:10. The expressions are peculiar to
Our eternal habitation is a spiritual these two passages and are taken from
home, much to be preferred and desired. the tribunal of the Roman magistrate
who may be considered representative of
It is this latter home and its life that
should occupy our thinking and efforts. the best justice then exhibited.
The apostle gives us a solemn warning
The Judgment seat of Christ needs
that we are to follow his example in this to be considered step by step. Notice :
matter. Verse 10, of chapter 5 of II FIRST that there is NECESSITY of it.
Corinthians speaks of things that should It has to be, for God has decreed it.
greatly concern us in thought and prayer, Our very re^on tells it must be. But
for they deal with things to come. Paul why ? Not that God may learn how
speaks of an open manifestation and wicked men are, for H^ already knows.
judgment. Christ, thejudge, will judge But that His grace may be glorified and
whether what we have done on this earth
that righteousness may finally prevail
is good or bad. Christians! preachers over unrighteousness. That God's justice
teachers, pastors, LISTEN. Where are and complete consistency may be shown.
we ' What
"
are we doing ? Are we faith- He judges in order that he may possess
ful to
to our
our work ? Think of that day. what He has purchased. He calls for an
It will be a day of horror for us if we accounting in order that He may know
have done contraiy to the teachings of what has been done during His absence.
Christ, and have filled our bellie.s under
Notice, SECONDLY, that this judg
the guise of serving Him. The Spiiii

says : "I know th)' works."

No need of

ment will be UNIVERSAL. All men who

14

ever were will be involved along witH when "the books are opened". (Rev.

Not age nor sex 20:12) It will be known how many times
nor nationality can furnish us a hiding the Gospel has been slighted, as it will

those who will yet be.

place from it. .No amount of-dignity, also be known under what grievous hind

rances the faithful have followed Hin is

wealth, or greatness can excuse us.

Notice, THIRDLY, the JUDGE who

will preside. Christ comes to be the.
world's Judge, and none ev^r q.ualified for
such a responsibility so well. To a judge

steps.

An Obligation to Meditate

there must belong these four things :

Let it be a part of our daily business

to think seriously on these things: the

others in the evil of which we may be

will be there."

vanity anfi the shortness, the uncertainty

Authority. All four reside, in the perfect of our lives; the eternity against the back
combination, is this Divine Judge. His ground of which we play out our earthly
wisdom isinfinite. (Hebrews 4:13) Looking roles; the justice each one must one day
on the heart, as He does, we need not face; of the open manifestation of what is
fear of being punished for what others now hidden to view.
have done : justice will prevail in His
Perhaps the most soul-stirring thought
judgment. He will be equally just to to each one of us, personally, is that "I

(a) Wisdom (b) Justice (c) Power (d)

You young men, you will

guilty. ALL power and ALL authority ap)pear there; you aged, do you know that
in heaven and upon earth were granted you too must come before Him? Are you
to Him as the Only Begotten Son of the rich? Your dainty dress will be put off.
Heavenly Father.
Are you poor? your rags will not exempt
Notice, FOURTHLY, the MANNER you from attendance. No disguise will
of His judging. We must so appear as to
be made manifest. Not only that no

sinner can escape Him, but every deed,

every thought, every sin of every sinner
will be laid bare.

"All things are naked

and open before the eyes of Him with

whom we

have to do."

(Heb. 4:13)

be possible.

Who then can be saved?

It must surely be our first thought
that in the view of these things salvation
will indeed be difficult, for we know our
selves. But the opportunity to assure

Perhaps it is important to note that not acquittal is given to all who hear the
only will all things be manifest to Him, Gospel, for "there is therefore now no
but He will make them so to us.

All our

past judgments will be set aside or re

adjusted as the need may be in order to
align them with the righteous and true
judgment of God. Our earthly decep
tions, practiced even on ourselves, will be
clearly revealed.
What is in us will come out.

If we

have lived to self, it will be known.

If

we have lived for Christ, it will be known

condemnation to them that are in Christ

Jesus, who walk not after the flesh but

after the Spirit."(Romans 8:1) Remember
Christ is not yet the Judge; He is still the
Saviour from sin, and is still pleading the
cause of all those who have accepted Him
as their intermediary before the righteous
Father.

Let us prepare, NOW, to meet God.

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WHO WAS IT?

By Sant Kumar James

The Story of Lawrence Lazarus who meets a poor Punjabi family on a Katni-bound train.
Translated from Jeewan-Deep Hindi Patrika
"When will you return to Bilaspur?"

hills at varyingspeeds: sometimes fast and

sometimes slow.

Sardar'ji asked.

The fearsome noise of

the great engine split the quiet night air

"I don't know for sure," I answered,

"but it will be after three or four days.''

in all directions. It's moaning was as of

a sick man groaning witli pain.

"Then if you know where I can get a

job, please let me know."

nod and doze in their seats.

Just then the Sardar's wife finished

eating the sweets and threw the leaf, in

consider it proper to try and continue the

conversation, so I wrapped myself up in

The Sardar and his wife began to

I didn't

which the sweets had been wrapped, out

of the window. Taking one of the cups

my blanket and closed my eyes.

of tea from her husband's hand, she

cried as the train came to a standstill.

"Sahdol, S-A-H-D-O-L" the porter

I

quickly gulped it down. Placing the quickly rolled up my bedding and began
empty cup in her husband's hand, she to call, "Coolie, Coolie!", but no coolie
was about to lift the second cup to her presented himself on the night scene.
lips when, on second thought, she proffer The train stops ten minutes at Sahdol,
ed it to her husband, saying, "You drink and now only three minutes of that time
it."

remained.

"No, you drink it," he answered. She

Awakening the Sardar, I said,
quickly finished the second cup and de "Sardar'ji, would you please help ine get
posited the second empty cup in her my baggage off the train?"
husband's hand. The little nourishment
Only with great difficulty were the
having revived her, she clasped her child
to her breast and said, "If there are any

two of us able to unload all the para

sure to let us know."

reboarded the train, the Sardar called

back to me, "Don't forget me, Babu'jil"

openings for a carpenter in Bilaspur, be phernalia that I had with . me. As he

"Please jot

down my

address,"

Sardar'ji said.

Before I could answer him, the whistle

blew and the train began to move.

I happened to have a copy ofJeewan Sardar'ji joined his hands and gave me
Deep Pati ika in myhand,and so* I wrote his namascar, and I replied with mine.
down his address on an empty spot on

the front page. "I will surely write you,"

I said.

Several stations had come and gone,

and the train'was moving through the

To be Concluded

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Harter may love cider, but I don't

nor tea, Coco-Cola, nor sherbet. In fact,

I am not overly fond ofwater. I only

c rink to live.

Ass t. Editor Gulick was perturbed

that none of the articles on train travel

mentioned smoke. It seems that Brother

Dulick is the world's foremost authority

on the subject of train smoke.

Of course

the way these articles get continued from

By the Publisher'j> Dog
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a "dairy" (of the odoriferous kind), I time you can have smoke by putting the

have seen many calves come and go.

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