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Address correspondence: The Gospel Witness, 130 Gerrard Street E., Toronto.

Vol. 2 TORONTO, MAROH 27th, 1924: No. 46

THE SCAPEGOAT.
A Sermon by the Putor.
Preached in Jarvi~ Street Chureh, TOTon,to, Sunday Morning, March 25, 1924.
(Stenographicall" reported.)

"And when he hath made an end of reconciling the hoi" place, and the
tahernacle of the congregation} and the altar, he shall bring the live goat:
"And Aaron shall la" botll his hands up'0n the head of the live goat, and
comess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their trans·
gressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall
send him 'away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness:
"And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land not
inhabited: and he shall let go the goat in the wi1derness."-~viticus 16: 20·22.

T is common to assu·me that a Ufe lived in right relation to God must Of

I necessity be a IUe devoid of pleasure. There are some parents IW'ho have the
unfortunate haJbit of almost continuously saying "don',t" tOo their chHdren;
from morniIlg till ·night they Issue only prohibitions. Some people have that
idea of God--<that God takes special delight in saying "don',t"; and that to be
a Chl'istian, consists, in obeying that almIghty "do!D.'t." All that is the result
o,f the Devil's first and successful lie, 'WIhen to our· ,first parents he misrepre-
sented God, and pIctured Him .as having made a beautiful world with the
intention of surrounding man !With such proJ:tibitions as would prevent his
enjoying ,that which He Ihad made. The truth, however, is to be found in
the opposite direction. If ,I put my wrist out of joint, as I d'id once, I do not
need a doctor 'to 'tell me" it .fs out of joint. 'I ,know 1t Iby the pain it gives.
My hand was not made to ,be used that way; and only as these members of
our bodies are rlg1htly related to the body, and subject to the control 0If the
head, can the 'body be free from pain and realqy enjoy physical health. So.
when the soul is in right relationship .to God. all other things come In.to
their place, and all the .fret and friction Is taken out o·f life. "In thy presence-
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here and now--is fulness of JOY; at thy right hand, there are pleasures for
evermore." The great ,problem of life is evermore the same-llO'w ,to get rid
of sin, that thing that would make men live eccentrically; that would put
them out of step, or out of joint, out of proper relationship to God. Nobody
can be perfectly happy who has a toothache, or ,a headache; and no.'body can
be perfectly happy who has within him, uncontrolled, something which
stains the soull, and which, if not corrected, must ultimately destroy us. C\
Our Lord Jesus came into the world', not to take away our pleasures, ,but 00

to take away our sins. He came, if I may reverently say so, to be the sinner's 'l!
Scavenger:' "He ,ta:keth away the sin of the world"; but He will take no~·ing g
away from us that can possi·bly minister ,to our happiness. There are many "
things we desire 'because our minds are corrupted, and ·because we cannot see
things whi-dh He prohi'bits in their ri,giht relations·. But He proh~bits it, or
them, for the same reason that a mother will not allow the ·ba·by to P'1ay rwith
h·is father's razor: it is pretty; !but it is dangerous. And, there is in sin itself
th·at which will do us harm: therefore, He has provided a ,way whereby our
sin may be removed; and, in order that /We may underStand it, we gather here
Sun1iay 'by Sund'ay. That is the whole purpose of the Bible from the first of
Genesis to the last of Revelation-to tell us God's way of taking away sin,
and of 'bringing men ,back into saving r:elationship to Himself.
We all 'know that we have sinned. We do ·not tknow what sin is; :but we
know we are sinners. . A little Iboy says he has ·been naughty; a little ~rl
·admits that she 'has done wrong. They may not 'Call tit ,by that ugly name of
sin; ,but it is ,the same thing. We are out o-f right ·relationship to God.
We have Ibeen studying -in our School this morning the teacking of this
wonderful cha.pter 'l"especUng the great day of a.tonement. The w'ord for atone·
ment here means to 'cover-not to ma:ke at one merely, 'but to cover our sin.
How are we going to have our sins covered? By any good rwor·ks that we can
do? Have you any ability ,to hide your sin from God, so that He cannot see it?
'The Bible says He is of "purer eyes than to 'behold evil, and can' not look on
iniquity." "His eyes are as a fiame of dJ..re." He beholds the evil; for "all
th-ings are naked and opened unto the eyes of him rwith whom we have to do",
dnd from Him no secrets are hid. The day is coming when He win Ibring
every 'Work into judgment, with every secret ,thIng, that we all may receive
our reward ,for the deeds done in the ·body. ,Some day God wHI bring us all
into judgment for our sins. Can you tell me any way 'by lW'hich we 'can h1de
our sins from God? In the ,beginnin'g man tried to hide by hiding himself
from God. He thid himself among the trees of the garden; but God found him
there. What human skill can devise any means lW'hereby we can cover our
sins? The doctor can look through you with his X-ray; ,but God ·can see 'more
than'that. He can not only see the bone and muscle; He can see the' ,thoughts
and intents of the heart; He can see the sin that is within us before it finds
expression' in word or in deed. Horw can we find a covering for our sins so
that ,the eye of God cannot see them? That ds the great problem-"How
shall man be just with Godl?" You: boyoS' an.d· girls hlWe s'een men .going about
wiflh old push-carts, and some of them wUh rwaggons, gathering up all the
refuse of the dty-old automolbile -tires, all kinds 0If scrap iron, old beds and
mattresses, and rags of every descri'ption-and sometimes, when you see one
of those waggons coming along the street, you feel ·as though you want to go
round a ·blo-ck so as not to ·be too near it rwhen it pa.sses. I dare say you
have asked yourself, What are they going to do with it? what can they make
of all this 'W,aste? Well, the metal will be melted d'own and converted into
useful articles. and even the fi'Ithy rags can be made into immaculate paper,
of which, ~erhaps, Bibles may be printed; or some (}of it woven into flne cloth.
But ·can any ·one teU me of any human' s<klH which can d'evise mean.s for
takin'g the stain from the conscience, or -cleansin·g a sinful heart, so flhat the
boy ·o·r ,girl or man or woman may come in peace 1nto the presence of God,
Who sees -us just as we are? 'Can anY'body tell us how sin can ,be covered'?
Yes, there is One Who ·can tell us. The Wio·rd of the Lord tells us that there
is one thing that Ood cannot see throug.h; there is one thing that ,can cover a
wan's sins, and that is ·blood-the ,Mood' of atonement, of cove'l"ing, of propi-
tiation, that hides ou·r sins from God; so tihat if we are covered with the
blood He does not see us as sinners at all. '
Now that 1s the great truth taught in this story of the day of atonement.
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That one aspect I am not going to deal with this morning 'particularly, save
just to remind you that ·these two' goats represent two aspects of the Redeem-
er',s character and 'Work-the crucified and the Tisen SavIour; the mini9try of
Hi!! death, arid the ministry' of':His 'life: "H, when rwe',were enemies, ~e were
reconciled' to ,God Iby the death of His ,Son, much more, ,b~iug reconcIled, we
shall 'be saved 'by his Bfe." We rejoice in a crucified :Saviour; Ibut 'We rejoice
especially this morning in a ,Sav>i.our Willo lives to take away our sins
(u,Aomen!"). When tAaron laid (Ms hand's upon the l1ead of the goat that was
to 'be slain, he claimed in !be'half of the people the covering of that goat's
blood for all the sius of ·the congregation. He ·was their representative. And
when you ,and I believe in the Lord Jesus, and by an act of faith appropriate
Him, His blood covers our sins. '
But the Word ,of God teaches the necessity of our .being cleansed from ,sin's
guilt and delivered from its power. Sin must Ibe covered'; but it must 'be
carri~d away: "T,he goat shall ,bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land
not inhabited." "Behold the Lamb' of God, which taketih away the sin of the
world." Thus John introduced the .SavIour. Very simply I want to as'k and
try to answer these questions: Wihere is the "land not inhabited"? Where is the
. place of 'separation to rwhich my sins are carried? Is there any possi,bility of
my ever meeHng them again? -
1.
"Unto a land not inhwb'ited"-Where is it? IT Is A PLACE WHENCE GOD
HUlSED" WnL NEVER (RXQAIJr, iTHEM. I .remind y·ou of'the principle of the
absolute com'Pleteness of the divine fo~iveness. II ,have tried sometimes to
reconcile peo.ple rwho have quarrelled; I have tried to persuade them to forgive
each other; and have heard them say, "It -is all ,in the past, I give you my
hand. ' The fellowship is ~estored; the barrier that rwas Ibetween us is re-
moved. We are one aga-in"--only rto dIscover that in a little whHe afterwards
one of ,tihem goes to the place where he had, put the other's sin, and IbrIngs it
back again, and, he says, "Here it is. You did so-and-so." "WeIQ, Ibut you said
you forgave it.'" "But I did not forget it." Not thus does our Lor,d forgive.
Wihen ,the sins of the people were mid upon the head of the sca'Pegoat, it was
led away into the wilderness, "unto a'land not inhrubited". And there is no
record that the scapegoat ever came back again; ,nor was anybody ever sent
after, it to .bring it again. 'God never brought 'back to Temembrance the sin
which He had forgIven.
Let us rejoice in that! I do not know where the uninhabited land is,
except that -it is a place where ,God Himself rwill never find our sins. "Whithel~
hsall I ,go from tihy s'pirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?" the -
Psalmist asked. And then he contemplated all ,pos'si.biUties, and 'he said, "If
1 ascend up inrto heaven, thou art there; i·f I ma.ke my Ibed in hell, .behold, thou
art there. H I take the wings of the morning, and dwell 'in the uttermost parts
of the sea; even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy 'ri-ght hand shall Ihold
me. If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the n1'ght shaH be light
about me. Yea, the darkness 'hideth not from thee; bu·t the night shineth as
the day: the darkness and the l<lght are both alike to thee," He said: "I do
not know where to ·go from the ~resence of God where His eye will not see
me." But our sins are carried to. a place where God will never see us. May
1 quote one of the strangest sayings of ,Scripture? Hezeki.ah said, "Thou hast
cast aU my sins 'belIind thy back." Where ds that? Behind the "back" of
God! No more striking metaphor could bl;! em'ployed-certainly it must be to
a place where God wHl never see them. uT,heir sins and, their iniquities will
1 remember no more." Wih,at a marvellous truth that God has provided a way
whereby I am to. be .so completely delivered from my sins that I may come
into the presence of God and know that God will not even remember that I
was a sinner! Can you forgive at will? Can you ·blot from your memory the
experiences in which the iron has entered into your very soul? We have in
the safe yonder, or somewhere among our archives, a minute-book of this
church, dating ba·ck sixty or seventy years. 1 turned -its pages some years
ago, and 1 saw page after page blotted' out. But why was it blotted out?
There was a record there ·that somebody d'id not like. One of the old members
told me that 'he had some recollection ·()f it. 'that 'he Ibelieved ,it had to do
with the man who was clerk of the church at that time; Some action of the
church was inscribed on the pages of that ,book; and he had ta:ken' ink "p'd
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painted it over the writing. And when I looked upon tiJlose 'black lines, I
said: "I do not ,knorw .what is under them, bu.t I know that it is a ·recoI:d of
which some man was ashamed," I ·could not decipher it; I can not tell whlllt
it is; 'but those ,black lines Tecord some ·unwor.thy deed which that man did
not want succeeding ·generations ,to read. Our names, if we are Christians, are
written in the Lamb's ibook of life; 'but is that how God :blots out our sins-
lea'\"ing in His book a remembrance. of my sins? Oh, no! "Their sins and
iniquities wIll [ remember no more." He has found a iWay by whIch angels
may read the record of my lUe and see nothIng tJhere to condemn me, while
God Himself ·is perfectly satisfied with me, 'because my Scapegoat 'has carried
away my sins to a land separated, not inhabited, rwhence God Himself will
never 'bring Uip against me.
Do you not want a salvllltion like that? Is there not something in your
life tJhat you would like to hRlVe carried· away into such a ,place?
This applies to sin in general. He "taketlh away the &in of the world."
"0 ·happy day, that ·fixed my.choice
On Thee, my Saviour and my God!"
What did that '"haPPY day" mean to you? I,t was a day when you. ·Iiook
your place as a sinner, and 'believed in the pardon,ing grace of God, ,Do you
need to confess you·r si·ns over again? Never! What a wond~ful thing that
is! If I ,brIng the sin of my Id,fe up to thIs moment to God, and lay -it upon
Him, every single sin is ,Notted out; I need never confess one of them again.
Is not that wortJh .while? [n our lesson a week ago, we were told .that an
offering was presented ,for the sIns of i,gnoranee. Your sin in Its entirety was
laid upon Ch'rist, and carried to "a land not inhalbited." But as we go on in
Christ, and grow in grace and ·in the k-nowled'ge of our Lord and Saviou'r
Jesus Christ, our secret sins-the sins ,that are ,beneath our consciousness, the
faults of our spiritual1nfancy, are brought to our ·knowledge day iby day, week
by week, month ,by month, year (by year; and' the thi'ngs 'which I do not see
to :be sIn to·day, I may see to !be very wrong to·morrow, as fuller and clearer
light is gdven to me. But as those sins of ignorance are ,brou.~t to my know·
ledge, and as I confess them 'before the 'Lord, they are laid upon Him Who Is
my ,SU!bsUtute, an·d ,carried away forever. Oh, let us have a clean page every
day! Let faith lay holJ.d of the ,promise every day! !Let us be sure this morn·
ing that every single &in is laid where God would ·put it, and ,borne away out
of Hiis sight to a land of sepa:ration. .
1'1.
Where is this uninhabited land? U is A LAND OF WmOH CONSCIENCE HAs
NO iME:AIORY, with which conscience has no communica.tion, Let me speak espe·
cially to you young people a moment. Wlhen you say, "I", 'What do you
mean? You say, ",I have had my photograph talken." Have you? I wish I
could sit down and talk to you, and ask you to let me see U, 'Is 11 a p:hotograph
o'! yourself? '''Well, yes." Wlhat d~ you mean by "I"? Your hands, or feet,'
or head, or body? All these are photog.rapihed; ibut "I" ,is something more than
tihat. What do you mean. :by "I"? ·Even as I ask you the question, you imme·
diately ,begin to think rwhat it Is. T,here is something with1n~ere is the
mind wh'!ch differentiates you from the lower orders of creation. There
are ·certain percepti·ve faculUes-4hey are like the windows of this house,
which let in God's sunlight; they are the avenues of communication with
other realms !by which you receive -im'pressions from without. Then you 'begin to
deal with those ideas, and the !faculty of reason takes hold of them and
estimates them, and you think wbout them. I hope .that Is what you are
doing W1hile I am speaking-unless you are asleep! We do -not have many
sleepers here. But !What else? Somebody here this morning, i·f [ should stop
now and let him· speak, would say, "Wlhile you have Ibeen talk'ing, I have
been reminded"-You what? '~I have been reminded." You /What? "I have
been reminded." Yes; you have remembered. There is a faculty that reiates
you to your past; the intervening years have Ibeen swept away; and some of
you here this morning ihave been living twenty, thirty, forty, and fifty years
back by the memory that brings the past 'up to the present. There ds also
another faculty-the judgment, that takes hold of all this material and
appraises -it, Then there is something within. that leads me to ,want tohings-
deSire., affection. There are some things I like, and some things I don't like;
there are some people I like, and some people, naturally, 'I don't Uke. I have
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to confess U; even as you'; although God.·s infinite gra.ce will 'enable us to love
everybody. But we desire certain th-ings; certain other thln:g.s are oon-trary ·to
our desire. And there is another faculty ,within that leads thllltlittle boy
to say what I heard a nttle 'boy say once. His mother 'had two sons. One
of ,them was a model ,boy; he never did: anytlhing wrong. according' to ihis
mother's estiml\J:e. And she said that all ,boy:s miJ.ght ,be model !boys. lot they
all had model ·'mothers like hers: the ·fault wi·th ~ll other !boys was. they
·were not properly trained! ,Her bo~ always obeyed. But by and by she
had a second boy. He was not as 'big as the :Ilrst. naturallY; and. for some
reason or another. he did: not do exactly as ihe was told. When she tried to
correct him. :he still had h·Is own 'Way. One day she shut him in a dark
closet~I think she was a.bou,t as naughty as he was to do a thing like th.at-
and after she 'had left him there f()q" a long M'me. she opened the door. and
saoid. "Well. wlll you do what 'I tell you?" He /Was only a little fellow; but
he loo.ked at her. and said. ,"Me ·on-t... ·. There /Was. something else ·spelliking"-
the wiil. But there is still another realm of being. There is something within
which takes hold· of all these things. and passes judgment upon conduct: 'We
call it -the moral ,faculty; 'We call it conscience. olt may be bad~y trained: so that
it woJ.ll excuse -things that are w~ong. and sometimes condemn things ·that are
;right. It:ls a mystery I cannot explain; but. somehOlW. God has His wItness in
that faculty. In spite of all its bad training, it refuses to accept a man-made
covering for sin. especially and :particularly when ,the ,S,pirit of God: quickens
it. God's 'Vol-ce is heard in conscience; and all the wealth and all the good
w·or.ks thlllt men may do cannot cover sin. Conscience is telling the man all
the ·time-You may ,be a chu'rdh member; but you are not right /With God.
You are makiing a show of reiigion; 'but at heart you are a sinner. out of touch
with God. A man makes resolutions. and he says. "I will forget all a:bout that.
I will ,bury m,y sin; [ will forget it." But conscience digs it all up again. and
bri,ngs it ·back. He takes' ·himself into some ,far country; but conscience
travels 'with him. and brings -it all back; he cannot get aw·ay from h·is sin.
But when :he lays his sin upon Jesus-I cannot ex.plain how or why. Ibut the
blood of Jesus Christ purges our conscience. covers sin from ,the new of an
awakened: ·,conscience; so that coilscience consents to the acquittal' of the
sinner. and 'his sin is carried away to that uninhabited land. God is at peace;
and the man is at peace with himself.
IDI.
One other word: It is a land WHENCE No ACCUSER MAY COME WITii A
REMEMBRANCE OF OUR SIN. There is an acouser--<one who is aloways finding
fault with you. It is ·not a comfortaJble thing to have many critics.. Have you
any? I used: -to !have a number in .the ,home where 'I lived. because I !had some
brothers and sIsters. Blessed is the boy who has some ,brothers and sisters to
keep him straight! Pity ·the 'boy who is the only iboy in the house. or the girl
who is the only girl! I ·rememlber years ago misspelling a word. I never
heard: ,the last of it. There 1s one word. at least. in the English language
I know how to spell. ,because I had somebody to find fault with .me and, P.ut
me right! I -think I could never ,mIsspell that /Word. There are some accusers
that do us good. But there is one accuser who Is 'determined ,to ,find fault
with us: he is described as "the accuser of the brethren"; he .is our adver-
sary; and he is determined. if possible. to bring us into condemnation and
keep us under condemnation. You know ,who ·he is. Even owhHe you pray.
he Ibrings your sin .to your rememlbrance. .
A year or so ago i read of a mla·n living in a certain part of thiso cit,.. a
. respected citizen. a ·good' /Workman. He had a wife and ,several ClhUdren. One
clay two men 'knocked at the door and enquired. "Is Mr. So-and-so in?" "Yes."
"I want to see him'." They showed their warrant. for oflhey were policemen;
and ·they put the man under arrest. His wife ow,as ·broken·hearted. She said.
"My husband has not done any wrong. He is a good' man-good to me; good
to the child·ren. good to his neighbours. He pays his debts." That was all
true; but away back. years before, he !had come under .the condemnation of
the law. a:nd the la'W had never forgiven him. The ipOlice of many cities had
been searchi.ng for him; and. at last. they dtiscovered· ,the iJ.den,tity of tMa
man who was living under another name. He had to pay the penalty of Ilia
wrong-doing. because his sin of the past had ,been brou&1ht /back to him by
his accuser. There are men who have put the seas between themselves and.
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their old Ufe. The man J·ived unworthily, and he said, "I wrll go to a new
world; and 1 !Will ·begin Ufe allover again in a new country." He came;
and /began life over again; and, to use a hackneyed phrase, he made good.
He dId well runtil-until atter many years, an accuser came from the far
country, and opened !his book, and said, ''There you are. There is your
crime. oIt ·was ·not ·covered; it was not paid for." And the man had to su1rer.
"Ye must be 'born again". You need to 'begin allover &gain. 'But what if you
do? What i·f you leave Egypt 'behind, and set your face .toward the promised
land, and :fI.nally a.ttal·nto the gates of the Oity, and pass through the gates
.of pearl-what then? Blessed 'be God! No accuser can follow you. Even
"the accuser of the ,brethren" shall have nothing against you. Your sin has
been carried to "a land not inlhlllbited"; and ·he can never bring -it home to
yoru again.
What a ·glorious thing it ·is to have a salvation Uke ·thlllt! W.ho will accept
the Lord Jesus thy morn1Dg? He comes to take out of our lives' everything
that will spoil them, and ·to bring to us only those ,things that will minister to
our :peace and abounding JOY. The l'ive goat was ,brought to the door of the
talbernacle of the' congregation. "And Aaron shall lay 'both ihis ihanda upon
the head of the live goat, and confess 'OVer him all the iniquities of the chi14ren
of 'Israel, and all their transgressions i-n all thei·r ains, putting them upon the
head of the goat, and Shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into Ule
wllderness"-never ,to ·be seen again. You and 1 ,may ,bring all our past and
lay d,t upon the head: of the ILord Jesus, and ·be sure ·thls moment that we
shall never see it again.

F,ROM A SOUTHERN CONTEM·PORARV.

The ~llow.fng item is from tille ·Baptist and, 'Refiector, of March 6th, the
"Organ of the Tennass·ee IBaptist Convention":
PO'I"mR'S .AlIMA. MlATERS.
".In their announcements about' the ~lIIttle Over the Bi'ble', the first
of a series of ·flve debates between Rev. John Roach Straton (Baptist)
and Rev. Chas. iFrancis Potter (Unitarian), Geo. .H. Doran Oom·pany,
pu·bUshem, have this to say about :Mr. Potter: 'He entered! the Unitarian
ministry dn 1914 after'studying in BuCknell and' Brown: UniversIties and
'Newton Theological Iins:titution'. /Now 'it happens that every on'e of
these scl.hools is under the control of the (Northern .Ba.ptist Convention;
and while we would; not hold them responsIble fur the theological wan-
derings of ·their child, It does seem that allter :he had! passed througfh
three BaptIst institutions, he would! ·have been' better trained, unless
they were either careless or heretical in tih.eir indluence over him., ..
The Brown Univel\Sdty referred to is the institution of which 1Dr. W. IL P.
Jilaunce is the iPresdd'Emt, upon whODll .MCMaster University conferred a degree
in connection with the inSitallation of the ,present Chancellor of ,MdMa'llter,
1Iilld, according to ·the t!ltatement of the .Senate "becaus·e of the fact that 'Brown
is ·the oldest Univer-Slity under Baptist control and, has ·a unique history, asso-
ciatedt from the earliest dlllY;s with d-istiDictive principles ilf religious liberty;
and als'o because ,of tille ddS'tinction and stand-iug of its present president as
SlCholar, od·ministrator andl aeader iDi the Ifleld· of education." We are nolt at
all su~prised that a UniverSlity,' pr8Slid'ed ·over by one holding Dr. Faun.ce's
views, should ,prooduce &uch Unitarians as Dr. Potter.
(
A Toronto lady, who attended ·the last debate between Dr. Stiraton and
Dr. Potter, writes us from New York coneel'll!iDlg iDr,. lPotter's presentation of
his case as' follows': '
. "I -think elVery Ohrlstian In, the house must have· shuddered to have
heard 8I1lch Wloxdt!l oil 'blasphemy. There were modernists: Slitting on
either tl'id,e ·of me; and· when they clapped at these word·s, 1 WaBI fOl'lood
to say, 'How can you clap at wch wol"ds of blasphemy'?"
. .But all this is· the dnevita'ble fruit of the teachIng ,of ,such men as Dr.
Faunce.
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(under cost) per year. If any of the Lord's stewards who read this have received blesaing,
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the names of ministers at home and mislionaries abroad.

EDITORIAL
BRITISH COLUMrBIA BAPTISTS AN'D BRAN'DON COLLEGE. ,
In our issue o.f February 14th, we ex;presSle'd our .gr!l;tification that the
Baptist Union of Western Canada. had dropped' Branili·on College' from its
Ml&&ion Budlget, 'because we lbeHeved: that wlJuld permit thoi:le who are loyal
to the Word of God to SUPIPort 'the IMisiSionr work of' the Baptist .Union. 9:n
last lWeek's issue, we publisib.ed letters from Rerv. Archibald :Wwrd, an'd the
Rev. M. iL. Orchard, 'PreSl:id'6lllt anrd ,Secretary, respectively, rof the Baptist Unrlon
of Westerrn ·Canadra. Both, letters declared! that the 'Baptist Union atanid8
"soli~ 'behillid: Brand'OD! College". On th1S1 '8.'Ccount, we expressed the oplindon
thalt the MiSlllio.n ;]3oardl of the Western Un'ilon ought not to be truslted with
tJhe money of .loyal BaptiBltSl. We dro DIOt 'believe there' is a 'pe'rs'On in Jarvis
Street Baptist !Church who would be w'i1[1D!g to g'ive any m:mey into the hand'S
ot tJhos'e who Sitand! "solidI.y be'hin'lll 'Bran'll:OD! IOollege", while it hai:l on its
faculty wch men. as Dr. 'Franklin Sweet anld. Dr. 'Hwrry L. MaCNe'ill. Our
Editorial on Branili10lll College of ,February 14th has beeD! Widely read in tJb-e
'West, and among Bri1liBih Columbia !Baptists. A few da,.ys ago we received
the following cOm/muni-dation, Sligned 'by s'ix 'British Columbia !Pastors who
attended' the Baptist Union iMeeting at Calgary:
Van.cou'Ver, ~.C., MarCh: 12, 111'24.
'Rev. T. T. Shields, Editor, The G08pe~ Witne88.
In! 'View of 'Y'our statement in "Tha GOllipel 'Witn·ess," we as minister.s
.who attendeldl the IBaptiSit Union o't Western Canada of JanuwrY' 24-218 at
Calgary, d.elllire to expres'S our view ot matters und'er ddscussriron.
1. iWhen. tJhe question of Furture !Policy was 'being discu's>se:d in re-
ISition; to Brandon C'ol:leg·e, Rev. A. F. ·Balker mad!e the statement that
the three comm,ill&'I.onerSi roll iBJC., comllOsad! of Rev. G. R. IMlllguire, :Dr.
Wolverton and himself, Sligned the report on 'Brandon 'College OD! the
unders-tan'llli~ that 1Pr0f. H. L. JM'acNeiU would sever 'his conuectllon
with the ·college that year.
In respect to tJhJia statement, !Dr. Wolverton stated, that he imf,glht n·ot
have siJgned' the report -if he hBdJ not DOwn that rDr. MacNeill intended
to reSlig'D! in order to pUrSlUe fUl'ther Sltudiesr in ,England.
MR. BAKER STATED FURTHER THAT NOT A SINGLE
COMMISSIONER BUT ,WHAT KNEW, AND WOULD NOT DENY
THAT PROF. MACNEILL DID NOT ACCEPT THE VIRGIN
BIRTH, THE PHYSICAL RESURRECTION, AND THE PLENARY
INSPIRATION OF THE SCRIPTURES.
HE CHALLENGED ANY ONE OF ITS MEMBERS TO DENY
\, HIS STATEMENT ON THE FLOOR OF THE HOUSE. THERE
WAS NOT A SINGLE DENIAL OF THE STATEMENT. MR.
BAKER ALSO POINTED o,UT THE FACT THAT HE AND REV.
G. R. MAGUIRE HAD VOTED AGAINST RETAINING PROF.
MACNEILL IN ANY CAPACITY WHATEVER IN THE COLLEGE,
MAKING,COMPLAINT THAT THIS VOTE DID NOT APPEAR IN
THE REPORT.
THE UNION PASSED A MOTION SIGNIFYING REGRET OF
THE CLERICAL ERROR, AND ORDERED THE CORRECTION
TO BE MADE IN THE CURRENT YEAR BOOK.
2.. !Brandon ICollege was gIven a lIleparate budget for one prImary
reason only, na.meLy, the ,poslition taken. by many ·Baptis·tBl of B.le. who
would D!ot su~port the 'budget wrlth Bran·don included, therein.
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When the matter waS' dis'cllssed' in tIlLe :F'utu:re Policy Committee,
there were two alternatives, the firSit ·and. id'eal (lne in the estimation
of all 'Would have ;placed the full mai'ntenance fund of -Brandon in the
bud·get.
The eondition· in BritiS'h :Oolumbia, when sue'll action woulld, h'ave
occasioned a S1Plit in the 'CoDIVentioD', ·WIIIS :broJIght forward as the reason
for ad:optin,g the .second aJ.ternative in the report of the Future ·Policy
ICommittee.
The college all!thorities' agreedl for the present year with t'he idea in
minJd that more money; might !be raised by personaJ. a·ppeal to the
churches.
We toOk ·our lirtland and votedJ a.gain'Bt tJh:e vote of coIllfl.dence in
·Bran'llon 100Uege lbeC8lUse we eouM not felloW\!llhip the erroneouS! tea.cll-
ings of ,prof. H. [". 'M'81dNeill, as' ·Sleen in the report of the O()l)lmissIon.
We take our Sltan'd further agwiIllSt th.e Union because we cannot fellow-
s'hip their end'orsation of such teachings.
3. The iOoDIVent:!on of B./C. must therefore· -decide ·the is'sue which'
has been properly placed. before iher by the Union. We wiU vote to go
'bac'k into the Unlion or to form a separate lOonvention apart from the
Union. . .
We are now stin consid·ered' 'as! being a part of the Union, but in
posses8'i!on of 'Provinclal '&utonom'y. .
By a clause in the lC'onstitution a sim·ple vote of our 'Conventlo'n
will dete'I'Imine ·the future of our work.
It can be fairly said that what is true ,or many B.IC. Baptislts is ·also
true of a goo·dly number of Baptists on the Prairie.
H. L. Kempton
Reid IMcCullou·gh
A. F. lBaker
F. Wo. Auvache
Ernest J. Plenderleith
And·rew Grieve·
It will 'be seen from the foregoing that at least s'ix Br'itis'h iQolumhilll Pas-
tOI'lS put the same construction u·pon the action of ·the 'Con'Ven,tion at ,Calgary
as we 'did in our IEdlitorlal of ,February 14th.. 'Mr. Ward, in his letter ·of
• Felbruary 215th,. says:
"Your interpretat'ioDi of the action taken art; 'Calgary is- entirely wrong,
and therefore quite .mlis,leadling to all w.ho read it, who d'o not know
the flllcts·. . . '
"The 'fact is, that the amount of money available for Brandon Col-
lege from the Un'ion bud'get, r.as felt to be quite inad'equate and, d.is'pro-
portionate to the value of the wOl'k· being done illl Branldon; it was
therefore, with the -clear intention of ·givillig Brand~n a l'al'ger a.cope,
tha;t . the Un~on voted on, andi accepted! a 'budget of '$25,0.00 for Brand~n
College, an,d gave .her the rIght-of-way to the Union ,coIIJStituency, and
authorized the Union Executive to co-operate with the 'Brandon Board
in' .laying plans for the rlllisdng of the money. It was certain,Iy not a
'd'l't>ppin:g' of Brand'on, but the .gran'ting to her of a wi-deT" and freer
colirse ot action."
.On: the ot!her hand', tlhes·e Brit:!sih ,Colum'bia iPastol'S' declare:
"Brandlon ICollege w~ gdven R s·eparate· bud'get for one .primary
reason only, namely, the position taken by man·y Bapt'iB'ts, of B.C. wh,o
would! not support the bu'diget with !Bmnd'on includ'ed' therein. W1hen· the
matter wa;s d1s'cuSSIed in the Fu·ture .Policy ICommittee, there were two
alternatives, the lfirst. and· ideal one 1111 the estimatiolll of all ·would' have
placed the ful.J" maintenance tund' of Brandlon' IC'OlIege in. the ·bu'Cl,get. 'l1he
condlition in ·Britis'h Columlbia, when such aetion would have .occasioned
a s'pHt in the IConvention, waS' iIl·rought ,forward' as the reason for a'diopt-
illlg the .second alternative 'in the repol't of the 'Future Policy ICommUtee.
The oollege a..utihOl'itie9 lI.IgTeedJ tor the presen.t yeaT w'ith the id'ea in mInd,
that more money might be raiB'ed' bY' pers'onal appeal to the churches..
"We took our standi and· voted lIJgI1·inSlt the vote of confl.den'ce in
Brand,on College belause we could not feHow:sh'ip the erroneous' tea"h~
ings of Prof. ill. L. :MacNeUl, as seen ill; the report 'Of the. Commf,ssfon.
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We take our sltand, further against tche Union b~aJ\lse we ,cannot feIlow-
ship their endorsaUon of S'llch teachinp;"
Jarv·is Street will lContinue to send her Western Mission money to iBritish
Columbia Baptists; for we calli ·place no conMance 1111 a Board! whose offiCials
endorse a college wlhdc.h retains on its faculty one holding s.uch view. as
Prof. H. L. ,MacNeill.
iWe call our reade~ attentiolll to the startling paragraphs in the lBr'itielh
OolumbIa letter which we have printed! illl capitals. No dlOO.;ial waS! given to
the allegation that Prof. ·Ma.c'Neill dIdJ not lIlCCept the Virgin Birth, the iPhy·SIical
ReS'llrrection, and' the plenary Inspiration of tJh·e ;Scriptu'l'l!ISI; and the Exe·cutive
of the Baptis,t Un,ion of ;Western Canada is 8'8id' to stand "!lolidly beh!lnd" a
college that perm·its' such teaching.
We also call attentiolll to the fact that the vote of Mr. Baker and Mr.
Maguire against retain~ng Prof. !MacNeill in any capacity in Brandon College
was omitted from the Comm1s·sd,on's report. ·So far as· we 'know, no explana-
tiOili of that omis'Mon hllJdi been given 'by the ICommission' j.tgelir un.til attention
was called to it on tJhe Uoor of the Con.vention, andJ the Un.ion, 'by vote, ordered
the correction to 'be made in the current year book. We hope there was
reason f·or the charitable assumption that the om~ssi01L was due to "a clerica;l
error". 'B1l:t we Siubm[t that any C'ommds·sdon that eould: omit &0 importan·t
III qualificatiolll 8;8' the contrarY vote of two of its members, and a110w their
report to be ·printed· andl cir.culated· wUhou dis'cove·rin.g their error, showed
itself to be hopelessIy in:competelllt ·for such an important taSk.
This. Brand,on C'ollege matter relates' to the 'Baptists of Ontario and Quebec
in two WIIIYS: First, 'because the ;MiSlsion worik: of! the .Western Union 'is
largely supported by 10llltariO &n·dJ Quebec Baptists; and, s'econday, becaus,e the.
man who was President of iBrando·n .CoIlege up to and u'ntil S'ome Ume· after
the Commissdon reported, is now Chancellor of ·McMaeter University.
In a statement puiblished with the report of the Brandlon C'ollege Com-
mriS8ion, the then .Principal, Dr. H. P. ,Whidden·, said!:
. "I have no hesitation in declaring myself without sympathy for the
views of 'Ex:tremists' of any kind! illl our d·enomination (if we have ·any). i
am .simpJ.y 'a midme-of-'the-roadl 9I1:pt1&t.· And! that n·ot !because tJhe great
majority are such, but because of pers'onal aperience and· conviction. ,As
such I would have 'been, ullItrue to my trust if·]; had cons.cousI:y encouraged
·or entertained! the tea'ching of 'extremist' or 'radical' views', at either end,
in 'Brandon College. Each and every teacher is loyal to the great
eS8'entials of 'Christian l'ife and! -truth, emphasizing in experience and. in
teachingtli'e div,ine ·Saviourhood and Loroship of Christ." . .
It would thus appear that, in Dr. ·W.I1idden's judgment, one who d09& not
accept the Virgin IBirth, or jp·hy.sical iResuTrectiolll of 'Christ, or the .plenary
InspiraU(ln of ,the !Scri.ptures, .fs neither an "extremist" nor a "rad·ieal". . It
is Ulus'trative of this principle, which we ihave everywhere observed. that those
who describe themselves as "middle-Of-the-road" Baptists can tolerate the
den,ial of many of ·th·e fundamentals of the faitih, 'but are ever "with-out SIyIm-
pathy" for those Wlho "contend! for the faith once for all delivered' to the
saints."

THE JARVIS STREET BA1PTIST BI·BLE INSTITUTE.

At this' writing we baNe not ·heldi OUr first claS!&et\l; but we are glad, to
report that eighty-nine have tb.ue far enrolled. Naturally, the majority of
these are from our own church, !but a very cons·iderable numlber of them
are from other churches. For the course in Christian Doctrine, we sIball
use as a tetx:book the Con'feS'Sion of Faith of the Baptist lBible U~OIII of'
North America, which is' a NlIV'isIon of the ihistoric New 'Hemisphere Oon-
feBISion of Faith. It cons·istsof ei·ghteen. articles, 'as follows: (1) Of ·the
Scrf.ptu'l'es; (2) Of the True God; (3» Of the H.o~ ·,Spir.ft; (4) or the·
Devil,. or 'Satan; (16) :Of the iQreation; (6) Of the iFall' of Man; '(7) Of .t.Ihe
Virgin 'Birth; (8) Of the Atonement for ,Sl.n; (9) IOf Grace in the New Crea-.
tion; (U) Of the Freeness· of ·Salvation; (11) Of Justification;' (1a) of
Repentance and 'Faith; (13) Of the 'ChUrch; (14) Of Baptism and the iLordr!s
:Supper; (15) Of the Perseverance of the 'Saints; (16) Of the RighteouSi aDd
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the Wicked;" (17) oQf 'Civ.il Government; (18) Of the 'Resurrection, !Return of
OhriS't and Related' Even·ts.
A class .for those only who have the mInistry in view will meet on Friday
8ven'i'ngs<from ·seven to eight. The general class, tBlkin.g the cours·e in IChristian
Doctrine," will- ·meet··Friday eveningS' from eigtht to nine.. A third' clasS! will'
meet,·Saturda:.y: afternoons· from half·pa,sot three to halof·past four. We shall
deteI'llIliDie this week, on consultation with our stud'en~s, Whether the ,Saturday
class· :'will co.nUnu·e ·the ·.S'tud,y· of the evening 'before In Christian Doctrine,
tl!.us 'making two s'es-sions a week of the one class; or whether we s,hall
arraDlge . a s-pecial cour.se in ·Evan,geliSlm, open to all who desire instruction in
practical Christian wOl,k. Fourther announcement of these matters will 'be
mad'e ·next ·week.

,',' ';"THE WHOLE' BI,BLE SUN·DAY SCHOOL LESSON COURSE •

. ... :' '.' LE:8S0N XXVII. APRIL 6, 1924•
.... ' . ' CONQUEST·OF CANAAN-Joshua 1·5.
: .. , We rea.<! in John's .gosperl that "the law was given by .Moses, 'but grlllce
and' ·truth· came by ;Jesus- Christ." lAs Moses wa·s a Soymb-ol ·of the l'aw, so
JQSlhua .. was a t'ylpe audl repres~mtative of the gospel .
.:!,' : The Pro",ise of the Inheritance is contained in Chapter one.
(1') It was after. the .death of Moses that J·oS'hua received his commission.
,So the Ibeli-ever becomes dead to the lll;w 'by the 'bod'Y' of IChrist, that we mll;Y
'be married. to another. The chUd,ren ·of fa:ith are n'Ot ullldier the law 'but under
grace.. (2) The people u.nder Jos·hua were commanded· to possesS' tJhe land.
It was already given to them in the pur.pos'9 and promi-s-e ·of God. Every' be·
liever. is be'gotten to an inheritance iIlicorruptible and und·efiled. We are not
cII/lIed· out of the '!bondage of Egy.pt to be left in the wild·erness. 1G0d ,brings
us ·out that He ·may 'brlIJJg us. iIi. 'Con'Version' is the passage through the -Red
Sea; 'd,epartti:re' from Egypt; 'but it is' onl,y the beg,inn·ing of the iQ'hris-tlan pil-
grj,mage. We 'are then'Cef:or·jjh to go on unto perfect:ion, and ·enter into our
.promi-sed poS'seBsion in ICh-ri-st. (3 \Joshua was assured that no one would
Ibe able to stand 'before him; that God'·s .powe.r w·ould be equal to their need.
Thus we may a~ways' triumph in IChrist. The battle a.gainst the giantS' of'the
land' of promise is potentially won 'in the vi·ctory which our Lord has achieved.
(4) The ,coridition of success was meditation in and obed,ience to the book of
the law: . So, too, in the gOoS'pel d.ispens·ation: "If ye IIibide in me, and my
wor.ds a'bide in you, ye ,shall as'k what y.e will, and it shall be d,one unto you."
(5) From' the 12.tlh to the l'5th verses, we are tau:ght the obIigation resting
upon ,those who have already entered into their inheritance to assist those
whose battle is still !before them. ''!bus those who are strong ought to bear
the infirm-ities of the weak, and not to please themselves.
.II. -The Prospect of Faith is suggested in the second chapter.
(1) The two spies learned that the enemy was afraid of them. The Devil
is' not an un'believer: he knows that ,his day is coming. We may also learn
here ·that ",hat God does for His own people is not without effect upon those
who are aliens from the commonwealJ.th of Israel. (2) The sign of the promise
of' -immunity from judgment given to Rah8.b was a scarlet threllid. The
scarlet threllid runs all through ,Scripture: 'by the si'gn of the blood we are
saved. .
III. The Preparation for Possession of the Land is suggested in ,Chaps. 3·4.
a·o·d prom-ised ,to do 'Wonders among a sanctified people. The elements of
tlJ.at preparation may ,be ·found -In these dIlapters. (1) They were to tSlke up
a·.rig.M relation to the ar.k. All that the ark sy.mbolized, Ch'l"ist Is to the believer.
TJi,e condition of spiritual ·pro!iperity is a proper relatioonshoip to Christ.
(~), :Attention to' the ·words of God: was another prerequisite. Those words
promised a superna:tural pa.ssage throug.h the Jordan. ,So, too, we have need
of, .a"power that -is more tihan human; and that is pledged to us in the Word
of ";·the .Lord. Power to dispossess the inha.bitants of Canaan was also gnar-
an~d .to them ·in otIhe Word.' By refusing to hear the Word of the Lord; the
child·ren of God often l'emain in i-gnorance of tihe power,s that are at the com-
.8.nd.of a, progressive faith. (3) As the feet of the priests bearing the ark
tOuched:, the: waters, .,they were divided, and all the Israelites passed over on
d'JT1 ·ground .. ,W'hen 'our ·Lord Jesus commands that we follow Him, His oom-
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mand implies the .promise that ·such following shall 'be inade poss~ble to us.
-Even rivers will ·be dried up in our path; and, -nothing shall .be imp0SoSible to
those ..wb.o ibelieve. (4) The erecUo()-n of a'memorial_to-God's faithfulness to
His promise is commanded in chapter four, in the requirement that they
shou'ld erect twelve stones, one for eadh of -the tribes, to keep in membry' the
supernatural passage of the Jordan. 'Memory is designed to 'be the handmaid
of faith. Remem'bering what God has done ·in the past, 1-1 should become
increasingly easy for us to trust Him in ·the future. (5) In the view of the
writer of this 'book, there was no dOUlbt as ,to the supernatural character of
Israers elQperience in entering upon t'he promised land. (,See VEIS. 21.!24); By
what power may we enter into the possess-i'o.n of our inheritance? Only by
the power of the Holy Ghost, W'ho is Himself the earnest of our inheritance.
(6) Obedience to the promise' of the covenant, of w.hich circumcision was the
sign,- ·was a further oondition of progress. Thus we must oIbey the Word of
the Lord. T·he Holy Spirit is given to them that obey Him. (7) Strength
for the day is suggested in vss. 10-12 of cha.pter ·five. The manna continued as
long as it was necessary; but, ,following that, they were permitted to eat the
old corn of the land. (8') A clear vision of the Captain of our salva.-
tion (Vss. 13-1'5) is the final and indispen-sable element in that preparation-
necessary ,to success. When Joshua S8IW the man with his sword drawn in
hiS- hand he instinctively felt tha.t victory would lie on the side on which that
man fou·ght. Enquiring as to his identity, all 1iou-bt of vIctory was dispelled,
when he answered, "As 'captain of the host of ilie Lord am I no()w come." When
thus ~ur eyes behold a risen. interced'ing, coming, conquering Christ. we stand
upon holy ground, and nothing shall ·be impossible to us!

A MESSAGE TO JARVIS STREET MEMBERS.

Sunday, March 30th, promises .to be a great day in Jarvis Street. wben
we shall close our Church Year. We shall meet to give God thanks for the
many blessings of the twelve monilis. _A number 'Will ,be baptized Sunday
evening; but we have to praise Go-d' for 369 add·itions to our meIl).,berahip
dUl-ing the year up to -this day of writing, 24'5 of wihom' have been baptized.
We have also to recogniZe tha.t this is ,the third year o-f great blessin-g, during
w.hioh Ume 780 have been brought into the church, of whom 4'61 have been
baptized. -
During thi-s year, also, our great Bi·ble School Movement has been inaugur-
a,ted; and this Ib.as already proved an ·institution of great ·blessing. T,he
attendance last ;Sunday morning was 520. We hope to pass the 600 mark
next Sunday.
Another new Movement, 'Which has ·reached g.reat proportions during the
year, has been the ,pu·bUcation of The GospeZ Witness, ·no()w nearing -tile end of
·the second year of its ministry. This has !proved to be one of our greatest
m·issionary enterprises, and. has been made a means of grace to thousands
of people too far removed from Toronto to attend: Ol1r servi,ces.
Another reason for ·than,ksgiv-ing is to ,be ·found in the fact thatt 'We shall
close the year with a 'balance in all fun·ds. It has been an exceed·ingly diffi-
cult year in business. There has !been much unemployment; and many
of our own members have had great diff.1culty i·n making ends meet. Not-
witJhstan1iing, according to His promise,_ our God has sup.plied all olUr needs.
Another -reason ·for thanksgiving is ·fua.t the fogs of prejud-ice, resulting
from misrepresentation and misundemtandtng in respect to Jarvis Street
Chul'\ch, are ra.pidly 'being dispelled. Numbers of people are turn·ing to
Jarvis Street wIth grea.t heartiness, as tihou~h to m8lke amen1is for their
'former prejudices against -us. T,his, hGwever, is ,the -inevitable reaction against
false accusations. The word of the Lord i-s forever true:
- "Commit thy 'Way unto the Lord; trust also in him; and he shall br.ing
it to pass.
"And, he shall .bring ,forth thy righteousness as the liglht, and thy judg-
ment as the noonday. -
- "Rest In the Lord, and wait patiently for him; fret not ,thyself -because
of him who prospereth in his 'Way, because ·of the man who bringeth wicked
devices to pass .
.- ''Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: -fret not thyseJ.f in any "'.ise to
do evil.
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"For evildoers shall 'be cut off: ,but tJhose that wait u.pon the Lord, tJiey.
shan inherit" the earth.
"For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yea, thou shalt dUl·
gently consider has place, and it shall not 'be.
"But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delfght themselves in
tJhe abundance of peace. ,
"The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth ·upon him with· his
teeth. .
"The Lord shall laugh at him: for he seeth that his day is coming.
"The wicked have drawn out the sword, and ihave bent their :bow, ·to east
down the poor and needy, and to Slay such as Ibe of upright conversation.
"Their sword shall enter into their own heart, and their bows shall be
broken.
. ",A little ·that a righ·teous man hath is 'better Nlan the riches of many
wicked.
. "For the arms of tlhe w·icked shall lIle ·broken: 'but the Lord upholdeth the
righteous. .
"The Lord ·knoweth the days of the upright: and their inheritance lihaU
be for ever. .
"They shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of famine
they shall be satisfled." .
This Scripture is ibeing 'Wonderfully IfulflUed in the experience of Jarvis
Street; and, for all these meroies, we are profoundly grateful to .God. ..
Our great prayer,meetings are increasing, rather than d·immishiDg, 1D
attendance, interest and: power; and ·the ear of 4'aith clearly discerns the
"sound Ctf Blbundance of rain." Let us (pray for a drenching, soaking, rain of
bles'sing on ,Sunday. As we bring our ~ithes into the storehouse wI! may expect
a blessing there is not room to contain.

JARVIS STREET CHUR·CH AND MISSIONS.

During ·the strenuous years through whdch we have ·passed, we have sought
to ·fulfll our obligation to those 'Who are without a ,knawledge of Christ at
!home and abroad, and whose debtoll's 'We are 'made illy the redeeming grace
of God. It has, however, been necessary for us to concentrate upon our own
church work, in order to "strengthen the things iWlhich '1'emain". During these
years God has Ibrought into our fellowship a great army of young people, many
of whom are now thinking of preparing themselves for various forms of Chris-
tian .service at home and abroad. It is our confident expectation that out or
Jarvis Street a large num'ber of missionaries ,will go forth to 'preach the gos;pel
in the regions 'beyond. From this forward,'U is our ·hope that we shall be
able to do more for Missions than we have done hitherto. We urge every
. member of ·the church ,to do hIs or her utmost to make the than·k-offering foo1'
Missions on Su·nday .next a worthy expression of the gratitude we feel for the
abundant blessings W:b.i·ch have ,been ours.

SUNDAY SERVICES, MARCH 30.

We prop·os.e that ·Sunday morning .shall be observed as an ·occasion o,f special
consecration.' We shall present gifts of money to the Lord ,to preach the
gospel 1-n other .Jands. But 'We hope not a few of our you·ng people may 'be led
of the ,Spirit of G<ldo to giVe what is of far more value than money, namely,
.~~j:t~;:e~~t~~&~~ei~ s~:i~e~en~ .~~st;~~t:or!~fIg iP~:::g~wi,l2ri::e~!~i:'
·MUJ.ionaire of Jarvis Street Church". Two .and 'a !half years ago, the iPastor
prea·ched on the subject, "Wlhat a ·Multl·Millionaire will do for Jarvis Street
Church." He was as sure then as he is now that his utterances were pro-
ph-etic; . for more ,than all that was IPredicted has ·been ~ulfllled; and Sunday
evening we shall rejOice in ,the contemplation of what our' !MuIti-M1lliooaire
has 'done for us, and what 'He proposes to d{) ·for us in the future. We shall
,begin ~he. eveni.n·g serv~ce at 6.415 to allow more _time for baptism.

Sunday and Tuesday.~Sunday twenty-one or two respond·ed· to the invi-

tation morn1n.g and evening. Three were baptized In the evening. Tuesday's
meetiifg was one of bles·s·lnlg. ," . .