MISSIONS. AT one of the villages on our coast there are a good many rough fishermen. There are a good number of churches and ministers there, and they have tried to do something for these men in their way; but finding they could not, they have given it up. The Church said: "We have rung our bell, engaged our quartette choir, and if you do not come, we cannot help it." rough men gathered around. She our substance into God's treasury THE population of the United States in 1886 was estimated at 60,000,000, and the total number of ordained Protestant ministers to A MISSIONARY spirit! What is this but a Christ-spirit-the pure There is no command for the people to go and get the Gospel; the command is to carry the Gospel that population was 79,032, or in flame of His love to souls burning to the people—" Go ye into all the round numbers one Minister to brightly enough in our hearts to world," that means everywhere. every 800 people. The Foreign make us willing first, then longing, to go anywhere and to suffer any Miss Phelps was given up to die. Mission field includes so many privations in order to seek and find but her physicians said, "If you go souls that the figures daze us. the lost on the distant mountains Look and trackless deserts of the whole earth. A SOUL drawn so near to His soul to such a village on our coast, perat them-1,181,000,000! haps the sea air may prolong your Among this vast multitude there are life; but it is an awfully wicked 2,975 ordained missionaries, the place.” That pale woman arrived contributions of all the Protestant there, and took a room. She slept Missionary Societies in Christen- that if pours itself out on the altar but little the first night, and toward dom. In other words, one mis- of sacrifice, because it cannot help morning was sleeping quietly, with sionary to every 400,000 people. it. A will so united to His that the her windows open for sea air, when The total number of Christian moment it hears those divine acshe was awakened by the rough workers of all kinds in the United cents, "Father, I will that they also swearing of men under her win- States, embracing ordained minis- be with Me where I am, " immedidow. She could not bear it, and, ters, lay preachers, women workers, ately responds, "Here am I, send hastily dressing, went down to the and Sunday-school officers and me,' and me," and has no higher joy, no door, and said, "O men, I am a teachers, is 1,333,134, or one in deeper content, no stronger aim, poor, sick, dying woman. I have every 44 of the population. The than to "go" at His bidding. come from the hills to prolong my total number of all authorized PASTOR HARMS, instead of getting life, but you are going to drive me workers in the foreign field, wheth- men from the learned universities, away." er foreign or native, is 37,837, or urged upon his own people-farmOne wicked man said, "Who is one to each 31,213 persons. We ers, artisans, and mechanics-the going to drive you away, you pale have one Protestant Christian in duty of carrying the Gospel to Afwoman?" the United States to 4 2-10 persons, rica. A ship was built for the "You are; you have been swear- or nearly one in five, but in the purpose, and the first band of mising about my Saviour." foreign field we have but one in sionaries reached Zululand in 1854. The man trembled and said, "I 1,712 persons. See what a vast During the following seventeen will knock down the man that force it takes to keep this nation years Pastor Harms' parish in one Hanover enjoyed swears. Nobody shall swear while Christian, and then shall we won-rupted revival, in which 10,000 you are here." A man came along der that we accomplish so little souls were hopefully converted. swearing. Said he, "You stop abroad? If with this vast army at that; there is an angel here." home we would utilize the spiritual In a few days she took a little forces within our reach, our concabinet organ, hired a hall, opened quests would be magnified a thouthe doors and windows, and the sand-fold. Then, if we would pour uninter You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself.-Ruskin. KRAUSE FULL LINE RUBBERS AND OVERSHOES COMPLETE. SAMUEL KRAUSE, 48 SOUTH MAIN STREET, HAS THE BEST MAKES and FINEST SHOES at LOWEST PRICES. Call and See Him Before Purchasing. PLEASE BE COMFORTABLE. BUY AN OVERCOAT OF A. L. NOBLE, SIGN OF THE RED STAR. KOCH & HENNE, FURNITURE, DEALER IN Carpets, Oil Cloths THE COURIER Staple and Fancy Groceries No. 46 South State St., MICHIGAN. ZINA P. KING, Particular attention given to the Law of 46 Main St. South, ANN ARBOR. WILLIAM HERZ, MILLINERY HOUSE, SIGN, FRESCO PAINTER No. 14 Opera House Block, ANN ARBOR, AND DECORATOR. MICHIGAN. No. 4 W. Washington St., ANN ARBOR. THE ANN ARBOR BAPTIST. VOL. 1. ANN ARBOR, NOVEMBER, 1888. PASTOR. Superintendent, C. M. Stark; Assistant Superintendent, Dr. G. W. Lacea; Secretary and Treasurer, Prof. H. N. Chute; Assistant Secretary and Treasurer, Alvin H. Dodsley; Librarians, W. H. Dorrance, Jr., John Dowdegan; Chorister, J. R. Sage; Organist, Miss Jennie Bird. Senior Bible Class, Prof. V. M. Spalding, Teacher; Students' Class, Prof. W. W. Beman, Teacher; Normal Class, Mrs. Dr. Stevens, Teacher. Students' Classes, Professors Beman and Demmon; H. S. Class, Prof. J. W. Pattengill. COMMITTEES AND SOCIETIES. Music Committee-Dr. G. W. Green, Prof. H. N. Chute, W. H. Freeman. Ladies' Aid Society-Mrs. Prof. Beman, Prest. Ladies' Missionary Society-Miss H. M. Spalding, President. Young People's Society-Mr. Grant, President. Committee on Assignment of Pews-H. N. Chute, H. B. Dodsley, G. W. Green. Finance Committee-Prof. W. W. Beman, Paul Snauble, Prof. V. M. Spalding. Advisory Committee on Membership and Discipline-The Pastor and Deacons, and Dr. S. Haskell. SCHEDULE OF BENEVOLENT CONTRIBUTIONS. Second Sunday in June subscription for Minister's Home, payable first Sunday in July. Second Sunday in September, subscriptions for State Missions, payable first Sunday in October. Second Sunday in November, subscription for Home Missions, payable second Sunday in December. Second Sunday in January, subscription for Foreign Missions, payable second Sunday in February. Second Sunday in March, subscriptions for Ministerial Education, payable second Sunday in April. Last Sunday in each Month, collection for expenses of the Sunday School. CHURCH LIST. Adams, Mrs. A. D., Ithaca, N. Y. Banfield, Henry, 96 Main st. Benham, Mrs. Amelia, Pettysville. Burnett, Miss Clara, 15 Lawrence st. No. 3. Colgrove, Mrs. Emma, 5 Church st. Cornwell, Mrs. Lucinda, 80 Hill st. Eastwood, Rev. N., 20 S. University ave. Eastwood, Mrs. Harriet, 20 S. University ave. Ellis, Mrs. Carrie, 140 S. Main st. Eldridge Miss Emily, 78 E. Washington. Elmer, M. B., 73 E. Ann st. Elmer, Mrs. Irene, 73 E. Ann st. Elmer, Flora B., 73 E. Ann st. Feiner, Mrs. Katrina, 37 S. Fourth st. Feiner, Bertha, 37 S. Fourth st. (Continued on page 8.) The Peace of God. make our whole nervous system them in their universal relations, When I think what a troubled morbid-at any rate, super-excit- how we smile! And yet we come We are time it was in Judea and Galilee able. a super-excitable back again to the world, and do the during our Lord's ministry; when I people; and we go into everything same thing right over. We keep think how over the land of Pales- with such intensity, we give our running the same round. tine had rolled one invasion after affairs such momentum, we center If I could stay where I someourselves on the results which we times get, what a capital fellow I are to attain with such eagerness, should be! I get up where these that when they fail or delay they little wrinkles in affairs, these conpluck us up, so to say, by the cussions and disturbances, seem small; and the great sense of divine another; when I think how the people had been oppressed and tormented; how, under the rule of the Roman governors, they were taxed and fleeced; how, oftentimes, roots. breaking out into insurrections, The consequence is that we lack love and divine brotherhood, and they were repressed with hideous serenity, we lack peacefulness, we the common pilgrimage of hope slaughter, carrying confusion and lack that undisturbed rest which and promise that are "yea and loss into every single household surely belongs to the development amen" in Jesus Christ and the when I think of all these things, I of Christian character. We need Holy Ghost for the sanctification am fervently impressed with a sin- it more than any other people of men's hearts-these things seem gle feature of the ministry of our in the world, and we have less of large-more than hemisphericalLord, namely, that everywhere He it, from a variety of considerations. spherical and universal. And while went it was "Do not be anxious," Aggression, enterprise, working, I am in that mood, I seem to my"Do not be excited," "Be at venturing-we are full of every self to be like a racketing fool, peace;" "Come to me, and I will thing of that nature; it is easy to when I remember what disturb. give you rest; and, even at the rouse us up to activity; but when ances I have allowed myself to feel last, when the shadow of his own it comes to the power of patience, in the lower moods; and then I say great and bitter suffering hung over when it comes to the power of kind to myself, "I will now make three Him, "Peace I give you-my and gentle endurance, when it tabernacles, or one anyhow, and peace;" and among the very first comes to that serenity which dimin- stay up there," but I do not. It is words he uttered when he came ishes the things of this life, when hardly an hour before I find myself again after the resurrection, "Peace it comes to that elevation of soul at the foot of the mountain, where be to you;" and all the way which they have who are lifted by the devil is tormenting some poor through, if you will group together divine inspiration into the conscious soul, and I become interested, and the points in his ministry, you will presence of God, so that they are pitch in, and it is as though there be struck, I think, with this, that able to minify physical things and had not been a Christ, or a revelain the midst of the whirl and anx-magnify the things of the spirit, tion, or a transfiguration, or anyiety as to what was to happen, in and tread the world underfoot-thing else. spite of all the fretting cares which when it comes to these things, our What a poor fool I am, and how belonged to his daily domestic life, Christian character is signally defihe steadily breathed serenity, sweetness, hope, joy, peace. cient. unfit I am to inspire you or anybody else under such circumstances! Oh, how much larger is the universe than any such little punctuation point in God's literature as this world makes! The earth is not a full stop; it is not even a comma; and what nonsense it is for us to fritter away our time on these minims and infinitesimals! And so we find, from day to day, Now, in this particular, I feel that that we put a great deal too much our Christian character is signally emphasis on little things. If, in a deficient, and that the American year from now, we mention to peonational character makes our Amer-ple things that to-day blaze and ican Christian people very faulty. burn in their zeal, and that they We are an excessively nervous think are everything, they will say, people. We live in a very stimu-"O yes, I remember, but I had lating atmosphere. Our political quite forgotten." Things that to- Why, we are the sons of God. affairs are stirring us up perpetu-day set us all on fire-if we wait a We are the noblest creatures of the ally. Our commercial affairs are month or six weeks, and then think universe. We are men expectant driving us forward. The habits of of them, or if we play ourselves of crowns. Where is our nobility? our social intercourse are keyed out of the reach of earthly disturb- Where are our larger and nobler very high. Everything tends to ances, and sit alone and think of feelings? Where are our magna nimities? of Christ? How are we followers We have put our treasure where tion of his own presence in proviAre we his followers moth and rust do not corrupt, and dence, and by the direct and immejust because we talk a good deal where thieves do not break through diate consolations of the Holy about him? If we are Christ's, it nor steal. We have not lost any- Ghost, the things that annoy us is because the spirit of Christ is in thing that heaven has got. We are here. By the divine influence may ns. He is the very God of peace, enriched. We are stronger than we rise so high that we shall not and courage, and hope, and content- we were before. We have seen one hear the noises of the world, nor be ment, and sweetness, and divine more victorious passage through disturbed by its wants, nor weighed love; and by what title are we his life; one more ascension; one more down by its calamities, but abide disciples? opening of the gate of heaven to- in a stable, settled peace. ward this church; and the ingoing of one who has been trained here among the "spirits of just men made perfect." Well, that is good talk; but if to-morrow God should take away one of my children, how it would upset me! I should know that it had gone to the "rest that remaineth for the people of God;" and yet, after all this talk, if it should please God to come into my family and strike down one that I loved, it gratitude to God, that we should would bankrupt me. I should fight hard to keep that loved one here. Why, every time trouble comes Why, the sweetness of one child gone home, it seems to me, ought to overhang this church with such light and gladness, and with such Each care, each ill of mortal birth, And every pang that wrings the breast, -Plymouth Pulpit. Sorrow Not an Accident. wipe the tears from our eyes, and Sorrow is not an accident, occurrise above our lower feelings. ring now and then; it is the very God is wondrously blessing us. woof which is woven into the warp into the families of my congrega- He is deepening the spiritual life of life. God has created the nerves tion, think you I do not feel it? of many. He is bringing joy to There is not a bell that tolls for many. To many, also, he is bring and before a man dies almost every to agonize and the heart to bleed, any dear child of yours, or of any-ing sorrow. body's, that it does not strike me I hail and congratulate the de-nerve has thrilled with pain and in the very heart. I always have parted ones; and, oh, that I could every affection has been wounded. The account of our life which repthis sinking feeling for the moment. send peace to the hearts that mourn resents it as probation is inadequate ; I have thought of things for you to fathers and mothers that have that you do not know now, and lost children; to husbands and wives so is that which regards it chiefly that you will not know till the that have lost their inseparable partas a system of rewards and punishments. The truest account of this Judgment Day. I live in you and ners; to those who leaned on friends, mysterious existence seems to be for you, as a part of Christ's great and to whom it seems as though that it is intended for the developkingdom. But I confess my weak- friendship had burned to the socket; ness, and acknowledge that when to all those who feel the cares and ment of the soul's life, for which sorrow is indispensable. sorrow comes to me I am as foolish disturbances of life. Oh, that I Every son of man who would as you are when sorrow comes to could bring Christ to you! Oh, attain the true end of his being you. When I see the sorrow, it that I could be to you as One was must be baptized with fire. looks to me as does the little cloud to the disciples of old when he said the law of our humanity, as that of which covers the acre where I live, to them, "Peace be unto you-my Christ, that we must be perfect and which seems to wrap the whole peace.' And the Apostle-that through suffering. And he who globe. When one brother leaves fiery, nervous, mercurial Paul, who has not discerned the divine sacredthe church and goes up on high, was so sensitive that a leaf could ness of sorrow, and the profound It is the first feeling is, "Well, the not quiver without making him meaning which is concealed in pain, church has lost a member." What! shiver, in the moral kingdom-how has yet to learn what life is. The to have one of the brethren of this thoughtful he was of others? How church exalted to the grandeur of he breathed forth messages not only the highest life, alone interprets it. cross, manifested as the necessity of the other state, and lifted above of peace, but of aspiration! care and trouble and sorrow-do call that losing a member out you of the church? We have invested. May God keep us in his peace, and sanctify to us, by the revelation of the world above, by the revela -F. W. Robertson. who stand on their heads; they see Passionate persons are like men all things the wrong way.-Plato. |