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Here I would linger and wait, dentially handed down to us in “ There is little prospect of convert
listening for the songs of angels purity and fullness, we can make ing the Moslems before Christians
again, and witnessing'Th è struggle -pur individual—excavations,—ex- make peace among themselves and
Sept. 22, 1883.
with night and death, ' and the hume the truth, the true, pure, old approach them with the power of a
Bro. Floyd:
gospel of Christ, clear away the united faith and a conquering love.”
victory of day and of life.
One Confession at Harris’ Biidge
“ Let ns go up to Jerusalem.”
“ No city in thè world excites trash and rubbish of ages, and see
on the 2nd Lord’s day.
such opposite feelings ” as does and hear as did the people of Jeru “ Our feet Bhall stand in thy gates,
I am on my way to Coose Co., Jerusalem. “ It is the most holy, salem on the memorable Pentecost O Jerusalem.” As a lesson prepara
Oregon, where I shall engage in and the most unholy, or the most following the resurrection—“ the tory to our great Sunday-school
the work as an evangelist.
birth day of the Christian church,” work—that we may be sure we are
desecrated spot in the world.”
Truly yours in hope of heaven,
Josephus would have us believe as Smith’s Bible dictionary ex right, let us go to Jerusalem, hear
J. P. E aster .
that during the Paschal feast, in presses it. And this we need to Peter preach the first resurrection
the governorship, .
ti u.^.there. do. His was the beginning corner sermon, witness 3,000 converts—
wCh^TàTFonTaïëstine."
were present over two and a half of the grandest survey ever made. and not „one failure11? AIFIjscatni"’“
Its present Peter calls it “ the beginning. Acts Christians that day who were will
Before the Sunday School Convention, millions of people.
population is placed at from 24,000 11. The inspired history shows ing to obey Christ, and trust in
Los Angeles, Cal., Sept. 12, 1883.
to 36,000—Jews, Mohammedans that it was the beginning. It was him. Let us consider the names,
BY C. KENDRICK.
and Christians. The number of the first time the resurrection was titles, organization, labors and sac
rifices that appear at the very be- ____
•prlgnTTts - is - -’sottre—fc-itne»- 40,000 a announced—to-
™T“cburd~ w^
time penitents were baptized in the ginning. But above the xest, and
was more generally taught in our year.
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The Jerusalem of our Savior and name of Jesus Christ, the first time more important, if possible, let us
schools. It was not taught when I
was in school, and I am not an the apostles, the joy of the whole the church, which Jesus said he pause to realize that these early
adeptiti drawing. Like most great •eai th; the city of tfry-Greafr. K trrg; -wonhl- buiM, is reoognizad as ia- -disciples “ were of one heart and of
men, I cannot even write very now “lies buried from 20 to 80 actual existence. Since that day it one soul.” They would not say
plainly. I do put my notes on a feet under the ruins and rubbish of has existed, and it will continue to that aught which they possessed
black-board behind the stand, and, centuries. The prophesy of Jer. exist, till it “ breaks into pieces all was their own. They loved as
with a pointer, I cause the people (30: 18) that “ the city shall be other kingdoms, and fills the brethren; and if their brother
to understand them—reading them builded upon her own heap ” has world!” “ till the will of God is needed it, it was his; or if the
myself while they are fresh. I been fulfilled many times. There done on earth as it is done in cause, or the poor needed it, it w.a.s
held with no selfish grasp. They
would use the black-board more in is no street left which our Savior heaven.”
“Tarry ye in Jerusalem till ye were the Lord’s, not their own;
Sunday-school work if I was a bet- trod, and no house which he saw.
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to be endowed with power . from on and all they had were the Lord’s, ___
~—t er hancPwith chalk.
But this is not necessary for the identify any of the old siteft. It is high.” “ The law shall go forth for time and for eternity. They
present brief lecture. We have only quite recently—from 1867 to from Zion, and the word of the had no Reverands or Right Rever-
ands, no masters, no slaves of men.
maps of Palestine, and we should 1870, parts of the subterranean Lord from Jerusalem.”
There is much—often everything, They fully realized the meaning of
all be familiar with them—we who city have been brought to the
are here better to prepare for teach knowledge of the world, by the in a right beginning. I know a “ all ye are brethren.” True, they
noble exertions of the Palestine large and valuable tract of land in had no Sabbath (Saturday) school.
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ing the young.
_ Palestine, a strip of country Exploring Society. These labors Texas legally belonging to parties They had no Sunday or Lord’s day
averaging about 50 miles in width, "were iffterrupted. arid ’the “shaftff'bwho have it not in possession;- or school -either,-in ottrpresent man- ------
from the Great Sea to the Arabia, closed up. At present the topo under their control. It is in the ner and style, for they had not the
and some 180 miles in length, from graphy of Jerusalem is more con possession of others. The owners facilities. But they had
Dan to Beshebee, has, for nearly fused, by new theories and specula have the patents, the decrees of the
THE FAxVflLY SCHOOL
courts,
and
the
filed
notes,
but
they
tions,
than
ever.
It
is
to
be
hoped
4000 years, been of greater interest
Parents taught and trained their
cannot
identify
it.
They
cannot
that
ere
long
further
excavations
to the world than all the world be
children in the nurture and ad
sides. So it is to-day, and so it will be made on a larger scale, and run it out, because they cannot find monition of the Lord, bowing in
will continue to be for years to under the protection of a better the beginning corner.
prayer night and morning, and
come. Lt was the land of Promise government. The streets and walls, ■ In our Sunday-school work we singing the praise of God, and they
to the Jews. It is the land of pro the holy sepulcher, and other tradi do not wish to pile up rubbish, or had their church meetings every
tional sites of interest will, no teach for doctrines the command first day of the week.
mise to Christians.
I have tried to master the re doubt, be made bare, and fully ments of men. Hence, it is ne
THEIR lord ’ s DAY MEETINGS.
ports of travellers from Stephehs identified, when the rubbish and cessary for us to go to Jerusalem —
This was the church school, next
k
to the last explorer of the Holy “ the mists have passed away.” By to the fountain head, where the
in
interest
and
importance
to
the
Land. I have listened to lectures what has been done we can see waters of life were, and are, pure.
The Sunday-school work is ac family school. There we see them,
from personal observers, and have what can be done at Jerusalem, at
been more interested than by any Nineveh, at Babylon,, etc., till the complishing more for the union of with their families, in decency and
book or series of letters. But I ancient land is better known than Christians, and so for the conver order, teaching, learning, exhorting,
sion of the world, than any other encouraging, admonishing, strength
find myself longing, beyond mea for ages past.
But it is most fortunate that in one agency, So, I think, we all ening, comforting one another, ob
sure, to see it for myself. I shall
see its grand antitype ! The Dead our Sunday-school work-in teach understand, The church of the serving the Lord’s supper, contri
Sea in the south, the Sea of ing and training the rising and on future is not to be divided as we buting into the church treasury, as
they had been prospered, and call
Gallilee, the wilderness- of Judea, coming race, we are not particularly are.
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Dr. SchafT says; “ In the early ing on sinners to give themselves
the hill country of the north, Heb dependent on these excavations.
ron, Macpelah, Jacob’s Well, etc., True, the moral and spiritual, as ages of persecution the heathen to Christ, heart, soul and spirit, in
and the river Jordan are of special well as the literal and material were forced to exclaim, ‘ How these holy and unreserved obedience to
interest. But two places are of Jerusalem, has been largely cover Christians love one another.’” the gospel. “ And many of the
priests became obedient to the
supreme interest; they are Bethle ed, occupied—enveloped by the tra “ Now,” he adds, “ they have reason faith.”
hem and Jerusalem—the birth ditions and commandments of
to oay, How ■ these Christians hat« pVThey all spoke the same thing.
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place and death place of Jesus' But with the word of God, provi- one another !” And he then says : called Bible things by Bible names,
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