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 Paul was adjudged insane, there were religionists who mocked Jesus even in his agony and apostles who slept in Gethsemane. This modern visitation is also thus marked. Thousands go on in the broad way, church people mock as they hear and see something of Christ’s compassion and suffering in his disciples, and even ministers sleep or deny him or betray him.

Sunday night. March 4, when all had been saved in the Sunday School, when many had come at the morning and afternoon services, when the people who had been praying for three and a half months, stayed on from afternoon to night asking for Pentecostal power and when both auditoriums up stairs and down, were overflowing and more people had gone away than could get in, and while the male quartette were singing, a noble and refined and modest woman arose and in a quiet way went from one to another saying "Bless the Lord, O my soul." Others began to do the same, among them some timid children speaking in a clear voice, and saying "Pentecost has come! Pentecost has come." Here a group of four young men who had come from different parts of the house standing with arms about each other weeping and praising God, here were two gray-haired fathers, there a group of children, yonder kneeling or on their faces were the others praying for the lost souls, back there a sister speaking out in clear, sweet, persuasive voice, "O, sister, why don’t you come and be saved? Why don’t you come? it is so sweet to trust Jesus." A little girl says, "I have always wanted the old-time religion. I was happy when I was saved, have been happier still since, but this is what I have longed for." For an hour or two this continued, and Christians rejoicing turned to earnest effort for the lost who were there.

The above speaks for itself. Let us all pray that we too may have Pentecost in all our churches this summer. It is possible. God does not love Paducah one whit less than he does us.

 

The kindness of my churches has not been in scraps, but in bolts of large proportions. To start with, the young men’s prayer meeting of Buckhorn gave me a set of books, seventeen volumes: “The Men of the Bible by the Men of the Times. ’’ If the three volumes read are fair samples, nothing awaits me but intense interest, many helpful sug­ gestions and a larger conception of the possibilities of sanctified hu­ manity. Today finds me in the midst of the first vacation I have had in seven years. The churches voted heartily for me to visit the whole of July, and I am resting to the best of my ability. Nor is this all: Members of Robert’s Chapel church gave me the money and said: Go on to Jack­

son Springs and enjoy tl;e Sunday School assembly. If so much about myselt can be excused, a few words as to the Sunday School assembly. Surely one, (if not a dozen), such meetings ought to be held in N. C. every 3'ear. In some respects, Jackson Springs is an ideal place for the meeting, but if there were hotel ac­ commodations either Wake Forest or Thomasville would be a good place to meet. But neither the place, the people who meet, nor the program for this year are to be objected to. In the absence of many who were expect­ ed, but did not go, Bro. Moore sliowed wisdom in substituting ready men, and the time was filled with good things for mind and heart. Each morning after a prayer and praise service we had the delight­ ful feature of fifteen minutes with the word. These moments were full of suggestions and blessings. The appointees for the noon ad­ dresses were all present and brought messages worth hearing. These addresses were by N. B. Broughton on, “A larger view of the Sunday School work.’’ R. T. Vann on, “Christ as a preacher.’’ F. D. Hale on. “The duty of the superintend­ ent,’’ to see that the distinctive doctrines of the Baptists are taught in the Sunday School. L. Johnson on, “Sunday School and State Mis­ sions” W. L. Potiat on, “Christ as a teacher,” and an address by J. W. Bailey. The sermons.at night were, it seems to me, extra good. The preachers were: C. J. Thompson, C. D. Graves, J. J. Hall and J. C. Masser. Variety was as pronounced in the discussions as it usually is in our Bertie Union meeting. While I en­ joyed them all, what Prof. C. E. Brewer told us of his work on Sun­ day afternoons at a cotton mill, es­ pecially pleased and interested me. The truth is, no phase of the Sun­ day School work was more on the hearts and consciences of both speak­ er and people than the mission school. “Go out after the folks,” must still linger in the minds of those who heard the discussions. Saturday night we visited, and had a social gathering in the hotel. The resourceful ladies prepared quite a treat for us, and all enjoj^ed the recitations and music. Sundajq the last day, came all too soon. There was the mass meet­ ing at 10 a. m. and preaching at 11. by Oscar Haywood, a North Caro­ linian from New England. At 3:30 T. L. Vernon, of Tarbow, preached to a large crowd of people from the country around the Springs. These are good people and good people to preach to. Sunday night a delight­ ful prayer service at the hotel closed this profitable meeting, and Mondaj' morning we turned our faces homeward, with thankful hearts for the privileges enjoyed and the Lord’s people whom we had met. —C. W. Scarborough.

A Thousand Bible Verses for Mem­ Thanksgiving—Psalm 95. ory

To begin with: Since the whole of Scripture cannot (and, for that matter, need not) be verbally memoized, it will be well to indicate cer­ tain mountain-peak passages of Spripture worthy of a place, word for word in every mind from early youth through all of life. A sug­ gestion is herewith offered in a Jlist of one thousand Bible verses for memory selected because they are among the Scripture classics and so arranged in sections as to be adapt­ able to pupils of various grades. SECTION I—FIFTY VERSES

Praise—Psalm 145. The Sluggard—Prov. 6:6-11 A Cluster of Contrasts—Prov. 11., A Group of Observations—Prov. 20. The Rest for the Soul—Matt. 11:2830. The Last Things—Matt. 25. A Group of Observations—Prov. 20. The Rich Man and Lazarus—Luke 1J:19-31. The Intercessorj" Prayer —John 17. Last Words of Jesus—Acts 1:8. Paul to Ephesian Elders- .-cts 20: 17-38. Paul Before Agrippa—.-cts 26:1 29. Justification—Romans 5:1-11. How to Be Saved—Rom. 10:9. Christian Duties—Rom. 12. The Resurrection—1 Cor. 15. The Flesh and the Spirit —Gal. 3:117. Bishops and Deacons— 1 Tim. 3:113. The Grace of God—Titus 2:11-14. The New Man—Col. 3:1 17. The Triumphs of Faith —.if.b. 11. Pure Religion—Jas. 1:27. The Tongue—Jas. 3:1-12 Millennium and Judgement—Rev.

The Lord’s Prayer—Matt. 6:9-13. The Shepherd Psalm—Psalm 23. The Golden Rule—Luke 6:31. The Children’s Invitation—Matt. 19:14. The Gift of God—John 3:16. The Duty of Love—Luke 10:27. The Beatitudes—Matt. 10:2 4. The Apostles’Names---Matt. 10:2-4. The Great Commission—Matt. 28:18-20. The Ten Commandment—E.xodus 20. 20:3-17. The River of Life—Rev. 22. SECTION II—ONE

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The First Psalm—Psalm 1. ThePraj'er of Moses—Psalm 90. The Messiah Foretold—Isaiah 53. The Old and the New—Matt. 5:1748. The Life and Light of Men—John John 1:1-18. The Returning Lord—1 Thess. 4:1318, The Heavenly Multitude—Rev.7:917. SECTION

III —ONE

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The V orks and Word of God— Psalm 19. The Mercies of the Lord—Psalm 103. The Value of Wisdom—Prov. 3:120.

Early Piety Commended—Eccles. 12 Duties in the Kingdom—Matt. 6. The Savior’s Farewell—John 14:115. The Traits of Love—1 Cor. 13. The Redemption of Saints—Rom. 8:28-39. The Message of Light—1 John 1:510. SECTION IV—TWO HUNDRED VERSES

The Repose of Faith—Psalm 27. The Cry of Penitence—Psalm 51. God Everywhere and All-Wise— Psalm 139. The Right and the Wrong—Prov. 10.

An Object Lesson to Parents That Should Give Them Pause BY PROF. BRUCE CRAVEN

Recently in the Burke countj court room, a grief-stricken mother surrendered the last cent she could rake and scrape and borrow to save her son from the chain-gang. It was a piteous spectacle and one presenting a great moral lesson. The son had been reared and en­ couraged in idleness and shirking and selfishness and carelessness until he had naturally and inevita­ bly developed into a lawless disor­ derly citizen. The lesson is that there are hundreds and thousands of boys (ten, twelve and fourteen years of age) headed in that direction now. and traveling as fast as life allows. They drop out of school be­ cause they do not want to work and then take to the streets and the byways that lead to ruin. ’’They have sown the wind and thej’ shall reap the whirlwind.” They are idling on the streets and they shall work on the roads unless something is done to head them off from their logical destination. A sad day is dawning when parents acknowledge their inability to control their own boys, and these same boj's ought to be kept at work at something even if the parents have to pay for the privilege otherwise there will be a harder debt to pay in later years by the boys and the parents and the community.

The Offer of Mercy—Isa 55. Warning and Command—Matt. 7:127. The Last Supper—Mark 14:22-25. The Prodigal Son—Luke 15:11-32. Nothing is more wonderful about Paul at Mars Hill—Acts 17:22-31. our Lord than his perfect natural­ The Chri.stian Warrior—Eph. 6:10- ness, his absolute balance, his real­ 20. ity, reasonableness, artlessness, The Love of Brethrem—1 John 3:13- completeness. Nothing e.xcessiye» 24. nothing wanting: nothing artifi­ The Vision of the Redeemer—Rev. cial, nothing unsymmetrical; no underdoing, no overdoing. The 1:9-20. goodness of Christ was like the SECTION- 5—FIVE HUNDRED VERSES sunshine, the breeze, the dawn, like Forgiveness—Psalm 32. the sweet summer rain braided with the rainbow.—William L. Worship—Psalm 84. Watkinson. Gratitude—Psalm 92. 