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Ch
Remember the words of the

Lord Jesus, that He Himself

said
IT IS MORE BLESSED TO GIVE
THAN TO RECEIVE
Acts 20:35

Vol. IV No. I

January 1958 February

Price: nP. 23

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ALLAHABAD TIMES
Nine Indian brethren and five mission
aries met at Allahabad on November 15th

for the third annual meeting of the New

Testament Publications, Ass'n.
The main business of the association
is to elect an Executive Committee to

whom is entrusted the work of the

association for the coming year.
The missionaries are very happy to

UUCKNOW

KANPUR
Ragaul

KOLPAHAR

banaras

serve on the Executive Committee of the

association; but they would much prefer

that the Indian brethren receive these

positions of leadership. During the first

two years, the Executive Committee was
composed of three Indian brethren and

KATNl

two missionaries. This year the election

resulted in the placing of four missionaries

and a single Indian brother on the
committee.

One

Indian

brother

later

remarked that it had been his hope that

PfNDRA ROAD

the Executive Committee would be com

posed entirely of missionaries.

BILASPUR

Vijai Nagar Too

This preference for missionaries by

the Indian brethren has also been the

case at Vijai Nagar Camp. During the

nine times the Indian brethren have

elected a Camp Manager, they have never

chosen an Indian brother.

We will not make any guesses as to

The Hindi paper, JEEWAN-DEEP has

now begun its second year of monthly

publication. Brother Nathan James of

Satna did an excellent job with the

magazine during 1957, but did not feel

that he could undertake the work during

the coming year. Bro. Julius Yafaat of

why the Indian brethren choose mission Kulpahar was then chosen to succeed
aries for these positions of leadership. him. The paper will now be printed in
We would not be able to prove a word we Kanpur instead of in Allahabad.
said.

Forward March

The Hindi translation of " Bible for

Youth" by C. J. Sharp has now been

sent to the printer. Funds are lacking for
Despite the fact that the Executive the completion of this work.
Committee is over-weighted with mission
Contributions may be sent to the
aries (of whom your editor was the fourth
elected), the work of New Testament Hon'y. Treasurer, New Testament Publi
Publications, Ass'n. is taking great strides cations, Ass'n., 65 Lalitpur Road, Jhansi,
ahead.

U.P.

ACROSTICS
A very interesting and instructive
book, " Bible Lovers' Acrosticsby
Richard Ross has just been published by
the Gospel Literature Service of Bombay.

A few minutes each day spent with this

book will provide a very pleasant way to
increase your Bible knowledge.
Bible class teachers will find acrostics

to be a very stimulating exercise for their,

scholars. The acrostic may be given one
week and the students asked to work on

the answer for the next week.

First

letters

would

remind

us

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A yoimg man fleet of foot to run. ;
High priest of Israel was he. .
To Baal never bowed the knee.

The light God made to rule the day..

Of all who Christ the Saviour know.

One week you may give your Bible

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A martyr of the Church was he.

A city on lake Galilee.
Name give of the fourth son of Saul.

Where Paul was let down by the wall.

First city built after the fall.
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BY INTERPRETATION
ByJIr. A. I. Kinnear

( Condensed from The Balance of Truth)

Dr. Billy Graham said that he had
never used two interpreters at one time
until he spoke into Tamil and Telegu

together in Madras in .1956. Yet ^e

presence of as many as three successive

interpreters alongside the speaker is not
unknown in India today. In such a
situation few preachere seem to know
what to do with their faces and hands in

the interval of waiting for their turn to

speak !
The intelligent preacher leams to
avoid complex dependent clauses. He
uses short finite sentences which give the

the Spirit ** is equally essential to both, and

it will be obvious

therefore

that the

position becomes doubly vulnerable.

Either of the two can destroy the work of
God.

We have known interpreters who are

mere machines churning out brilliant
syntax, or who steal the platform, angling
for the applause. In the presence of such
competition the preacher*s message stands
little chance.

We have known, too, preachers who

will show intolerance of an inexperienced
interpreter, cmshing incipient gift out of
interpreter something to *catch hold of* existence^and effectually destroying at
and which allow for the fact that the the same time their own message.
order of the sentence may have to be
completely inverted in the other language.
Tremendous Advantages
He leanu c^fuUy to arrange his thoughts
so as to ensure a logical sequence of
Two men, perhaps till now quite
argihnent. He leams studiously to avoid
unknown
to one another, meet on the
all 'padding* and unnecessary repetition
in order to keep the message within platform to be, for a brief hour, the joint
reasonable boimds of length. He leams mouthpiece of God. To outward appear
ances the one has the primary, the other the
to use universal illustrations and not those
secondary
part; but a moment*s thought
associated only with a particular back
ground and culture. Above all he leams will make it clear that each is equally
how quietly to adjust his message to the dependent upon the other.
This a is happy situation. Spiritual
capacity of his interpreter where the
latter*s difiEiculties or limitations become men who are engaged in such united
ministry can testify to the deep inward
apparent.
joy of its fellowship. We have known
occasions when the interpreter has literally
Spixit^FIUedi hiterpreters
carried the preacher through, supplying
All preaching is essentially witness in his interpretation the 'lift* of spirit
and for witness to. be effective the preacher and the touch of authority that for the
is entirely dependent, upon the Holy time seemed to elude the first speaker.
Spirit*s anointing.
That is sanctified teamwork. " For if
But it follows from this; that, if two they fall, the one will lift up his fellow**
men share the platform and are together and " they have a good reward of their
the medium of the message, to be "in labour **,

BLIND BEGGING BARTIMAEUS

A RADIO SERMON

By Don R. Davis
The Source of Bartimaeus' Faith
And they came to Jericho; and as he
was leaving Jericho with his disciples and
We may be certain that Bartimaeus
a great multitude, Bartimaeus a blind did not believe on Christ from what he
beggar, the son of Timeaus, was sitting saw, for he was stone blind. If seeing
by the roadside. And when he heard were the only source of faith, Bartimaeus

that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to

cry out and say, "Jesus, Son of David,

have mercy on me
And many rebuked
him telling him to be silent; but he cried
out all the more, " Son of David, have

mercy on rne !"

Jesus said to him,
" What do you want me to do for you ?"
And the blind man said unto him, " Master,

let me receive my sight." And Jesus said

to him, "Go your way; your faith has
made you well."
And immediately he
received his sight and followed him on
the way.

Begging Bartimseus was a man of

courage, faith, and persistence.
Not only was he blind, but he was
stricken with a disease called poverty.

It is a sad thing indeed to be blind.

But

would never have received his sight.

But faith comes by hearing. As
Bartimaeus sat at the gate of the city,

absorbing the penetrating rays of the

sunshine, he overheard stories of this prea
cher from Galilee who could heal.

Those

who passed by told of Jesus raising the

dead and healing lepers.
But alas! poor Bartimaeus was con
fined to Jericho, being both blind and

poor. How his heart prayed for the day

that Jesus would come through Jericho.
But wait ! He hears the trample of
feet in the streets; crowds, rushing to
meet Jesus. Jesus was teaching as he
walked.

Bartimaeus cried out

to Jesus for

We see physical objects before us; but

this is only one phase of blindness. Pity

mercy, his only hope. But the crowd

tried to silence him. Stubbornly, yet
hopefully he cried out again. Jesus did
not pass him by, but called him and
inquired, " What do you want me to do
for you?" The crowd is silent.

the man who turns a deaf ear and a blind

Faith's Results

if a man of means is robbed of his eyesight,

his riches may cheer him and unburden
the heaviness of his heart.

We are all blind and poor by nature.

eye to the gospel of Christ.

Pity the

man who refuses to be enlightened by the

Holy Spirit as He speaks through the

Word. Pity him, pray for him.
We take physical check-ups, reading
the eyecharts to determine the strength
of our sight.

Why will we not endeavour

to discern the blackness of sin?

Let us

join Bartimaeus as he cries out fgr mercy

on the Jericho road.

Bartimaeus' faith is displayed as he

casts away his cloak and addresses Jesus
with a title reserved only for the Messiah.
Note his quickness to unlatch the door,
when opportunity knocked.
Bartimaeus' faith restored his sight
and permitted him to follow Jesus and
witness with his own eyes the remainder
of Jesus' earthly ministry.

A NEW NAME
By WiLUAM Gulick

The importance attached to the Name

of God in the Old Testament is brought

" And the disciples were called Chris

tians first at .^tioch." (Acts 11: 20)

out by the fact that one of the ten basic

commandments is " Thou shalt not take

the name of the Lord thy Gpd in vain:

foif the Lord will not hold him guiltless

that taketh his liame in vain(Exodus

The Name of Christ Ofifers Salvation

" Neither is there salvation in any

other; for there is none other name under

20:7).. Jesus, when giving the model heaven given among inen, whereby we

prayer, taught us to pray " after this must be saved." (Acts 4:12)
manner....

Our Father which art in

heaven, Hallowed be thy name." Each

name ascribed to God in Scripture has

a particular significance of its own.

A name is important. By Divine
decree the name of Abram was changed
to Abraham, Sarai to Sarah, and that

of the supplanter Jacob to Isreal, the

Priiice of (^d.
" And. the Gentiles shall see thy

" And ye shall be hated of all men for

my name's sake, but he that endureth to
the end shall be saved." (Matthew 10:22).
" And everyone that hath forsaken
houses, or bretluen, or sisters, or father,
or mother, or wife, or children, or lands

for my name's sake shall receive an

hundred fold and shall inherit everlasting
life." (Matthew 19:29)

righteousness and all the kings thy glory:

and thou shalt .be called by a new name,

The Name of Christ Is To Be Liyed

which the mouth of the Lord shall liame."

(Isaiah 62:2).

A.

" And in his name shall the Gentiles

trust." (Matthew 12:21).

"Wherefore

God

also hath highly

The deeds of the Christian must

correspond to the Name he wears.

" Let everyone that namedi the name
of Christ depart from iniquity." (II
Timothy 2:19)
" And whatsoever ye do in word or

exalted him, and given him a name which

is above every name; that at the name
of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in deed, do all in the name of the Lord
in heaven, and things on earth, and things Jesus Christ, giving thanks to God and
under the earth; and that every tongue the Father by him. (Colossians 3:17).
shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord,
B. The Christian must be willing to
to the glory of God the Father." suflfer for the Name he wears.
(Philippians 2:9,10).
" But before all these, they shall lay
" Being so much better than the angels their hands on you, and persecute you,
as he hath by inheritance obtained a more delivering you up to the synagogues, and
excellent name than they," (He brews 1:4) into prisons, being brought before kings
" For this cause I bow my knees unto and rulers for my name's, sake." (Luke
the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ of 21:12).
whoih the whole family in heaven and

earth is named." (Ephesians 3:14,15)

{Continued onpage 8\

AHehtion All Sisters !

OUR ROLE AS WOMEN

By H. Kaveri Bai

We hear a great deal about women's

rights and witness the way women agitate

for their rights and equalities with men.

Let women saved by grace see what God
in His infinite wisdom created woman

forj and what place was assigned her.

Otherwise, ifwe substitute our own wisdom
to His, and try to change the divine order,
we may succeed in getting what we want,
and yet not be happy for getting it. Nor
would the world be a really happier place
if women compete with men in what ,for
ages has been men's sphere.

Nature Bears Witness

Returning to . women's rights, nadue

itself bears witness to the fact that woman

is not man's equal even in such matters

as height, weight and muscular power.
World history bears witness to the fact
that God made woman subordinate to

man. Also the greatest names in all the

sciences, inventions, discoveries, arts and
literature are the names of men.

Here Is Wliat^^the Bible Says.

.Rights

" Neither was the man made for the

It is remarkable that the Bible says

nothing about the political and economic

rights for which people fight in this world.
God's children have rights only at
the throne of grace; and we exercise
them in the Name of Him Who alone is

the

Gk)d-appointed

channel

between

heaven and earth, even our Lord Jesus

Christ.

woman; but the woman for the man."

Cor. 11:9.

" He (the husband) shall rule over

thee."

Gen. 3:16.

" Shall I have pleasure, my lord being

old also?" Gen. 18:12. (Lord here
means ' husband' or *master').
"The head of the woman is
man." I Cor. 11 : 30.

the

" Let your women keep silence in the

Except in so far as they have an
eternal consequence, God is not interested churches, for it is not permitted unto
in the perishing things of the earth which thenv te speak; but they are commanded
man considers all-important. Still, our to be silent. If they will leam anything,
rights at the throne cover all aspects of let them ask their husbands at ho^, for
life-T^personal, familiar, nationzd, inter- it is a shame for a woman to speak in the
nationzil. We can use our privilege to church." I Cor. 14:34, gS.
ask Almighty Gk>d to heal a headache, to
" Wives, submit yourselves imtb your
provide die next meal, or to cause the own husbands
for the husband is
rulers and leaders of this world to seek the head of the wife." Eph. 5 : 22, 23.
His favour for world peace. God Al
"Let the wife see that she fear her
mighty can do what the U.N. cannot do;
and if He is ignored, nothing that men husband." Eplji. 5:33.
" Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection
might do will accomplish its purpose or
to your own husbands ". I Pet. 3:L
be enduring.

Problems Facing Wives

Problems arise when one or both

partners happen to be unsaved. How

vital it is to live in the fear

of God!

Paying tit for tat has never macle any

woman happy.
There may be no earthly way out of
despair, but there is always a way out

heaven-ward.

Incessant prayer brings

Homes are peaceless, and often broken up its own reward, for prayer changes things.
altogetherchildren being the innocent Let women, in obedience to God's, word
sufferers^if the Lord Jesus Christ is not keep to their own role and not clamour
ohtyed in the house. It is not sufficient to for rights and equalities with men. God
display an attractive board reading, Himself will be on their side..
" Cinist is the Head of this house ."

Apart froru naturally disobedient and

rebellious wives, some of whom may even
prove faithless from sheer wantonness,
there are others who bring disgrace upon
themselves and: their families by wanting
to pay their ill-treating husbands back in
their own coin.
There are husbands who terrorise
their wives and humiliate them as if

Let not maiden ladies and widows

py that their case is different as they rush

into men's activities. They are still
women, and women have Aeir own part
to play in the world.
" Who can find a virtuous woman?
for her price is far above rubies." Prov.
31:10.

Read^s of this article may wish to corres

they had been sold to them in slavery

and were not their junior partners in the
marriage union. I have seen such men,

pond with the writer: H. Kaveri Bat,

**Blim," Mushirabad, Hyderabad, Deccan.

and therefore I write.

India.

Nothing provokes a woman more than

the arrogance of a husband who is so
jealous of his wife talking to other men

{Continued from page 6)

that he makes all sorts of intolerable rules

and prohibitions for her. At the same

time he is running after other men's
wives and daughters.
Under such provocation and'mental
torture, godly women have pressed deeper
and deeper into the cleft of the Rock

where they haye taken refuge. Here they

have been sustained by the grace of God
and the fellowship of His saints. In this
way they are kept from paying tit for tat,
going mad, or committing suicide. Some
of them have also been ultimately able to
win their tyrants to Christ.

" And they departed from the presence

of the council, rejoicing that they were
counted worthy to suffer shame for his

name." (Acts 5:41)

" Yet if any man suffer as a Christian,
let him not be ashamed but let him
glorify God on this behalf." (I Peter
4:16)

The Name of Christ, Faithfully Worn,

Promises the Abiding Presence and
Care of God

" For where two or three are gathered

Avoiding Calamity

together in my name, there am I in the

Terrible calamities can take place

if women insist on their 'rights instead of
making sacrifices.

name, that will I do that the Father may

be glorified in the Son." (John 14:13)

midst of them." (Matthew 18:20)

" And whatsoever ye shall ask in my

THE MYSTERY OF SUFFERING

By Gurbachan Singh

[Editor, Masihi AwaZi Raipur\

This editorial was written following the burning and looting of the-Gass Memorial
Center at Raipur on August 26th and 27th. We translateJt here fronQthe Hindi.

Throughout his history, man has been

they themsely^ were. sick.

In times such

accompanied by both joy and sorrow. as these the question arises as to what
Man has been conversant with these things

extent is it right for one to suffer for the

from the very beginning. He has sought

sins of others.

the reasons for sorrow, arid has sought a

way .of escape.
Undeserved sufferings have especially
been a somce of frustration.

Men have

Some Beliefs

Some have come to the conclusion that

always pondered why they must often some of the sufferings which we suffer
suffer when they have done no. wrong
while the wrong-doer appears to go on
his merry way.

Natural Calamities

It is very easy for us to understand

when a man suffers for the wrongs he
has done. We say this is just.
But some of the causes of sorrow in

life, such as famines, droughts, floods, and

earthquakes, do not appear to be connected
with the work of any man. In times of
such disasters, sorrow is caused both to

the good and to the bad.

At such times

even the children suffer.

In such cir

cumstances, the important thing is how

one will react to such suffering.
Suffering for Others' Sins

now are due to sins which we committed

in a previous life. Although only a frac

tion of mankind hold to this, still they are
a large number.
The other day some friends were ,dis
cussing the disaster which had befallen the
Gass Memorial. One of the gentlemen
declared that through the incident he
had learned that the work of the Gass
Memorial was not within the will of God
and that God wanted him to do some

other work. This is the belief that through

sorrow God attempts to show us what we
ought and what we ought not to do.
Behaviour in Sorrow

' 0-

We will not here discuss the truth of

the views mentioned above. But let us

discuss how we ought to behave when

sorrow is upon us. It is quite possible
that persecution against the Ghristian
suffer for the mistakes of others. If a
boy or girl leads an evil life, disgrace is Church will grow. In that event, if
brought upon the mother and father. If Christians do not know the meaning of
some member of a religious group or suffering, then the witness of the ichurch'
organization commits some evil, that will be of no avail.
If a man knows that his life is not one
whole community is brought into bad
repute. If a mother or father becomes of virtue, goodness, sympathy, and purity,
ill, then the children must suffer as though but that it is full ofreproach, indifference.
It is sometimes seen that one

must

and corruption, then it is not difficult for

Do Not Fear

him to comprehend that he is the cause

We also ought to learn the lesson that

of his own troubles.

in times of suffering, the Christian ought

But we are told many times in the

New Testament that many sorrows will
come upon the followers of Christ.

not to fear or be troubled.

Is this not the

testimony of Christian history? We are

a part of that history. Did Christ not

As

He was being led out for crucifixion,

Jesus said, " If they do these things in a suffer? If we know we are in the right,
green tree, what shall be done in the dry?" then suffering can only strengthen us.
On another occasion, Jesus said, " If any Then what is there to fear ?
ought to find comfort in the
man will come after me, let him deny factChristians
that they are witnesses for the truth.
himself, and take up his cross, and follow
me." In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus
compared the Christian life to a narrow
way.
In the Beatitudes, He said,
" Blessed are ye when men shall revile
you and persecute you."
From these scriptures it can plainly
be seen that in the Christian life, suffering

Mil

is for the witness of truth instead of a

punishment for sins. Our Lord Jesus

Christ witnessed for truth by suffering on
the Cross. His disciples after Him also
witnessed for the truth by giving their
lives and enduring harm.
Christians ought to know this meaning
of suffering because they also must witness
for the truth: and, as they witness, they
will have to suffer disgrace, sorrow, death,

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Dear Kids,
Some of the most delicious sweets in the world are

sold in the bazaars of India. My mouth just waters at

the mere mention of rasgulla and ladu.
I do not want to refer to these things as candy. To
think of a rasgulla as candy just makes me shake all over.
The use of that word ' Candy' is pretty well limited to
the United States.

We eat more sweets during the winter months than

during the other seasons of the year. There are less flies
in the winter and the bazaar is at its cleanest. During the
hot months our fancy turns to
which is iced-sweetened-

buttermilk.

During the rainy season flies are at their

worst and the bazaar is at its filthiest. Persons who eat

sweets during these months often wish they hadn't.

There was once a boy in Hamirpur District who was
named Eric Das. (Now he is a man named Eric Das).
One day one of his neighbours was having a wedding.
The tables were piled high with all different kinds of
sweets, and Eric was very anxious to get his share. The

neighbour was not slow to see his opportunity. " I will

give you this whole table full of sweets," he said, " if you
will only deny that you are a Christian
Eric sure
wanted those sweets, and he was too small to know just

what being a Christian really meant. But he already

loved his Lord Jesus, and he was not willing to sell his
birthright for a table-full of sweets.
I wonder if any of you nephews and nieces of mine

have ever put your love for candy and sweets before
your love for the Lord Jesus Christ. It is not wrong
to eat sweets; but do not think it is right to spend more
for sweets than you put in the offerings at Sunday School
and Church ?

By eating less sweets you will find that you will have
less trouble with your teeth. The money you will save
on dentists can also be given to the Lord's work.
Now don't let this discourage you from visiting your
old uncle. At least we can eat peanuts when you come.
Your Uncle.

12

Coonoor, India,
20th December, 1957.
Dear Uncle,

who had only two mites pleased God ever!

though she was poor.
It is our duty to love God and serve
Him, and witness for Him.

We can liken our lives to pens.

We have all seen pens, and we have
written some time or other with pens.

A pen has a nib.

The nib is the part

of the pen with which ,we write.

If we

had no nib then our pens would not

write.

Christ is the nib for a Christian.

Without Him we cannot do anything.

Secondly, a pen has a feeder. . If a
pen had no feeder, then it would be no
use trying, to write with it. The feeder

Though I am a very small person, yet

God will bless me and He will give me
strength enough for me to witness for
Him.

Now I want to live the life of a

true Christian, and I offer up all I have

to Him.

On May 26th, 1956, I was baptized at

the Missionary homeat Coonoor by Pastor
H. V. Fose. Four others were baptized
on that day.

Your nephew,

distributes the ink evenly to the nib.

If there were no feeder, the ink would

Philip.

make huge blots on our paper. Jesus

Christ is the feeder in our lives.

He

liberally gives us what we lack.

HOW MANY MISTAKES CAN YOU

Thirdly; a pen has ink. If you bought

FIND ?
a new pen which cost you a good amount
The boy or the girl who finds the
of money, but you had no ink in the pen,
it would be useless trying to write with most mist^es in the following shall
it. You woirld natirrdly be angry and receive a free copy of "Heart's Desire"
return the pen. If the shopkeeper asked by Vijaya. Your entry should reach our
you whether you filled the pen with ink, office before February 15th. Please state
you would say, " I say! I never thought your age.
of that." The Holy Spirit is the- ink.
As the disdples were changed from being Correct this:
a cowardly set of people to a group who
When thou art bidden of any man to
turned the world upside down, we can
also be made brave by the Holy Spirit. a wedding feast, sit down in the highest
Just as a pen helps us, so we must
help others. Some may say, ** I am
poor
others, " I am too yoimg

another, " I amtoo gi^ty". But God can

use us as he did the little slave girl in the

house of Naainan, and little Samuel, and
the boy with the five loaves and two

fishes. All these people were young and

poor, but God used them.

The viidow

room; lessed a less honourable man than

thou be bidden; And he that bade ffiee

come and say to him. Give this man place.

Luke 14: 8, 9.

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Bible Book Store, 112/352, Swarupnagar,
Kanpur, U.P., India.

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Sermo-n OuiXuiBi for Barefoot frecmer^.

WHO ART THOU, LORD?

HAVE YE NOT READ SO MUCH AS

THIS ?
Litke 6:1-5

to the Lord.

Intro.:

1.

When Jesus knocked at the heart of

Paul, Paul asked, " Who art thou. Lord?"
Acts 9:5, As a result, he gave his heart

The Pharisees accused Christ of

illegality.

2. Christ pointed out the reason for

their lack of understanding.

Today, Jesus ,is knocking at the door

of our hearts. Rev. 3:20. Let us, there
fore, consider who He is. .

I. Some Said That Jesus, Had a

Demon.

I. They Did Not Read.

John 7:20, Mt. 12:24, Mt. 11:19,

John 7:47-49.
1. Too lazy to labour.
If this opinion is correct then, we
2. Diverted by world's attractions.
ought not open our hearts to Him.
3. Satisfied with listening.
(a) Listening is not as accurate as H. Some Believed Jesus to be a
reading.
Teacher, Prophet^ and King*
(b) Reading offers a better oppor
John 3:2, Mt. 16:13,14, John 6:15,
tunity to meditate.
(c) In an entire life of listening you John 7:46, Mt. 22:46.
If this opinion is correct, then we
will not hear the whole Bible.
4.

They thought they knew all they

needed to know.

II. They Did Not Read the Scriptures.

1. They read about the Scriptures,

but seldom the Scriptures themselves.

2. They read everything else but the

Scriptures.

HI. They Did not Read with the

Proper Attitude.

ought to respect Jesus and give some

attention to His teachings.

in. Until Death the Apostles Re

mained Stedfast in their Belief
that Christ was God;

John 20:28, John 1:1, Col. 2:9, Phil.

2:6.

What is the basis for such a belief?

Luke 1:34,35, John 10:30-33, John 14:

8-10, Mt. 26:63-67, Acts 2:32.

If this opinion is correct, Aen we ought

to give our whole hearts to Him.

1. Accepted what pleased them and

overlooked what did not.

Com.:

2. We must approach the Scriptures

with an open mind, willing to obey what
the Scriptures teach.

Harden not your hearts, as in the provoca

" To-day if ye shall hear his voice,

tion."

Heb.. 3:7.

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BLESSING, INGRATITUDE,

SOME CAUSES OF |>IVISION

DESTRUCTION

Galations 5:19-21

Jude 5-7

When anyone becomes

Intro. :

sick with

malaria, we not only give the patient

medicine, butwe ^ to kill themosquitoes

All about us we see people and things with
D.D.T. Division is also a disease.
whose condition is not as good as in former We need not only to give the medicine
times. Ever since Adam and Eve were of xmity, but we need to root out the basic
expelled from the Garden of Eden, the cause. Some of the causes of division can
cause of destruction and decay has been be seen from the Book of Genesis.
ingratitude of blessings received.
Let us consider three Biblicalexamples
I. Unfidtlilulness. The Example of
together with the possibility that we may Adam. Gen.3:8, Johii 3:20, 2 Cor. 6:
be guilty of the same.

I.

14-17.

The Israelites.

n. Anger. The example of Cain.

Gen. 4:4,5; Gal. 5:20; Eph. 4:26,31;

Blessing: Saved out of Egypt.

James 1:19,20.
Ingratitude: Disbelieved, grumbled,
disobeyed.
ni. Piride. The example of Babel.
Destruction: Went into bondage, perse Gen. 11:4, 8; Prov. 8:13; 13:10; 14:3;
cuted, scattered.
Application: Are

16:18.

we

faithful

and

obedient?

n. The Angels.

IV. Greed. The example of Lot.

Gen. 13:7-11; Prov." 15:27; I Tim. 6:10.

V.

Blessings: At home in heaven.

Jealousy.

The example of

Joseph's brethren.

Gen. 37:11, Prov.

Ingratitude: Kept not their own princi 14:30; 27:4; Mt. 27:18.
pality, left their proper habitation.
Destruction: Kept in everlasting bonds
under darkness unto the judgment.
We AreVery Happy ToAnnounce
Application:

Are

we

content

with

keeping within the will of God? or are

we prone to go our own way?

A NEW

TRUE-TO-THE-BIBLE

m.

Sodom and G'olmorrah.

Blessing: Lot considered the- place to

be the finest.

Ingratitude: Gave themselves over to

strange flesh.
Destruction : Punishment of eternal fire.

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BEAUTIES OF MY BELOVED
Notes on the Song ofSolomon
By Samuel Oommen, Goonoor

SeciAatL
Restful wd Satisfsctory Gommunion
of Hie Bride With Her Bridegroom

{From Chi !> 1 lo C'A. 2, v. 7)

In the sixth verse of the first chapter of

Song of Solomon we have ,the follovdng

points for our meditation:-^
(1) The Bride's, hesitation at the scru
tinising look of her comrades upon her:

** Looknot upon liie because I am black."

(2) Her testimohy: and confession
before her comrades telling them the
reason of her blacknessBecause the

sun hath looked upon me."

(3) The consciousness of her failure in

her service: Mine own vineyard have
I not kept."
(4) The seriousness of her present
duty :" My mother's children

made me tlie keeper of the vineyards."

If we begin to meditate deeper into
these four sections before us, we can

easily conclude that theise are the primi

tive experiences of a young believer;
This Bride has only just now been married
and brought to the communion and
fellowship of her Bridegrooni. So she is
speaking of her young experiences in her
awakened soul.

{Continued)
It is true that our comrades in the

world do not find the real beauty of this

world in believers.

The worldly-wise are considered as

beautiful in the eyes of the world. They
are well-polished, well-dressed, welltaught in all the wordly manners, welllearned to weigh their words and speeches
before others, well-trained in their

expressions of their views, and wellappreciated in their faith of modernism.

But the believer possesses an entirely
different character from the worldly-wiseman. The believer is always at prayer
before his Master, and our comrades
consider his to be a waste of time.

The

believer testifies of his salvation through

the Lord Jesus Christ, and our comrades
consider this to be nonsense.

The believer

speaks of the gravity of his past sins and

how he was released and redeemed from

them all by the grace and mercy of God;

but our comrades consider it not at all

necessary to dig up the dirt of the past.

Thus we find that in everything this
young Bride difiers from her comrades.
What is charming to her is poison to her
friends.

Now she points out the reason of her

blackness:

Look Not Upon Me

Because the Sun Hhth Looked

The Bride hesitates very much at

Upon Me

the critical look upon her by her comrades,

the daughters ofJerusalem.
." How on earth did our magnificent

The Rays of the Sun of Righteousness

were so severe upon me that they pene
trated into the depth of my heart and

King Solomon get such a charcoal-black

girl as his Bride?" thie daughters of brought out all the blackness before mycomrades.
Jerusalem must have said.

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It is the Light from our Saviour that

brings us to a consciousness of our sins,

wea^esses, failures, and shortcomings.

Let us go forward in our self-examining

before our God, disregarding the criti

according to the will of thfe Lord.

2:10-15).

(I Cor.

Let us be warned also by the parable

in I Kings 20:40 where a war prisoner
escapes because his custodian was busy

here and there at things he thought to

cisms of om* comrades around us.

It was only when Isaiah was brought be more unportiant.

to the closest fellowship and presence of
the Living God that he understood and
My Mother's Children
cried, " Woe is me, for I am undone^
But, I praise and thank God that He
because I am a man of unclean lips." has given me " my mother's children," my
(Isa. 6:5-8).
brethren and fellow-workers in the church

Mine Own Vineyard Have I Not Kept

of God. They have turned me from my

faint and wrong idea of my duties to the

real responsibility in my life towards my

It is only when we are brought into Saviour.
close fellowship and communion with our.
I thank God for their anger towards
God that we will be awakened to our
me. They rebuked me in my foolish
failures in our service for Him.
ideas of my service for God. They were
Alas! how sad that so nmny in these very stem and pointed out the Scriptures
days are satisfied with some sort of social, to show that I was one of those who neg
or welfare, or political work. All the lected the real duty entrusted with me by
time they think they are doing the service God. They revealed to me that the
for God. They believe that God is going other things with which I so pleasantly
to judge them according to the quantity busied myself here and there were not the
of social improvements they , have important things in the service of God.
administered.
What a great joy and consolation it
Others think that building a school,

a hospital, an inn, or a temple, will

conunend them, to God. They call him
a godly man who feeds the. beggars once
a week or who opens an industry to employ
the poor.
What a faint and wrong idea we have
about the real service for God!

" All

is to have the admonitions and exhorta

tions of our brethren in the Church.
LOVE LETTERS

Bilaspur
" The November-December Ghristasian

was one of the best yet printed. I enjoyed,

especially, the thoughts on Christmas."
(He would).

our righteousnesses are as a polluted

garment." Isa. 64:6. It is only when
we are brought to the direct light of the
Sun of Rightenousness that we will Jhansi
exclaim, "Oh, mine own vineyard? The
"Your paper is always something to
real duty and service that I was asked look forward to with expectationone
by God to execute for Him,have I not hardly knows what tp expect next." (He

kept hitherto."
The work which we"do, whether of

wouldhi't).

gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay,

Kulpahar

or stubble, shall be revealed in fire as

" Herewith Rs. 3 for my next two

years subscription." (He's afraid iof
inflation).

to what sort it' is. We ought to take

more heed, therefore, that our. work is

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The attempt by Afsar Khan to set a justified the conunittee in arriving at the
new cyclingendurance record at Lucknow conclusion that foreign missionaries
in November was prevented by ruffians. pursued activities of an undesirable
Even then, he was not stopped until after character."
he had completed more than six days
Improving [English
non-stop cycling. The ruffians broke
through the women's enclosure, broke
An institute to improve the teaching
the electric light bulbs, and narrowed the
track from 13 feet to a yard. The unruly
crowd completely ignored the police.

of English in India is soon to be set up

Bouquet to Christian Schools

the universities that there has been a

Presiding at a variety concert at the

in Hyderabad. It is said that there is a

general feeling among educationists and

general deterioration of standards of

teaching in Engfish. The institute will

Loreto College in Lucknow, Mr. V. V. make available some special training

Giri, the Governor of U.P., said that he courses for teachers of English.
had always had high respect for^arid
Uncle Nehru
appreciation of the education and training
imparted to , the students in Christian

A ten-year-old street urchin of Banda

received 68 nP. from a group of children
of thistype of education and he could not who were returning from a celebration of
help quoting the maxim: " the proof of Pandit Nehru's birthday. The boy had
the pudding is in the eating". The greeted the children with " Nehru Ji ki
Governor said he did not regret sending Jai." When he was asked whom he
his children and grand-children to thought Nehru was, he replied, " Nehru is
Christian schools and from his experience the father of poor ones like me and the
he could say that these convents and uncle of richer ones like you." The
schools produced men and women of offering was immediately forthcoming.
character, integrity and self-respect.
Sampumanand and Vegetarianism
Niyogi Report Echo
Mr. Sampurnanand, Chief Minister of
A United Nations draft report released the U.P., has warned vegetarians that
on Nov. 14th described the Niyogi report unless deficiencies are removed vegeta
convents, schools and colleges. He added

that he and his wife had had the benefit

as highly exaggerated and overstei)ping

the bounds of propriety and national

rianism cannot be saved. " People cannot

be held back for long from kilh'ng animals,"

interest. The Niyogi committee had been

he said, " when there is no other way

Christian missionaries. " Even if the

instances mentioried in the committee's

of their families. Nor can their doing so

be said to be unpardonableMeatr

appointed by the Government of Madhya open to them to save their own life and
Pradesh to investigate the activities of health and the life and health of members

report had been substantiated," the U.N. eating cannot be prohibited merely on the
draft report said, " they wquld not have ground that tfie creature whose rflesh is

18

eaten also has life. The thing we call

life pervades the entire universe. No

attacked and injured more than a hundred

persons. The monkey generally sits on

human being can exist without eating, and

Ae roadside trees and sallies forth with

whatever he eats will have life in it."

lightning speed when he sees a lonely

For Gleaner Restaurants

Health authorities in Lucknow are to

launch an all-out drive against unhygienic

conditions in the restaurants of the city.

A recent survey showed that 80 per cent
of the edibles sold at shops were contami
nated by all kinds of germs, most of them
the cause of enteric fevers. Progress has
so far been hindered because of the

slowness in the prosecution of offenders

and the low fine levied against those
convicted.

pedestrian or cyclist. There has been

hesitation to shoot " the monkey lest it
shoidd hurt the sentiments of the orthodox

section of the people.

A young boy was crushed to death
by .an elephant in a village near Ballia.
It is stated that he was teasing the
elephant.
Lucknow Street Scene

A fourteen-year-old boy who was

riding double on a cycle was killed by

a city bus near the Jai Hind Cinema.

Orissa and Prohibition

The Government of Orissa is repor

ted to be seriously considering the question
of withdrawing prohibition in order to
augment the resources for the Five Year

Plan. This is contrary to the policy of

Pandit Nehru who has warned that

spiritual values must not be sacrificed to

material progress. But taxes gained from

alcoholic beverages have never kept pace
with damage done.
Animal Stories

When a rooster belonging to Noor

Mohammad of Kanpur bit his friend,
Nawab, Nawab tried to chase the rooster.
This infuriated Noor Mohammad who
attacked Nawab with a knife. Nawab was

seriously injured and died in the hospital.

A person named Ghandan was recently

The traffic at this point has been especially

hazardous since the road was not repaired
after the laying of underground sewer
pipes. The bus driver made an attempt
to escape but was held by the police.
It took a long time for legal formalities
to be completed. In the meantime the
body lay uncovered in the street. A
tragedy of errors.
Devotion

On November 12th, Mela Ram Bhagat

of Kanpur, after fasting for twenty days,
slashed his tongue to propitiate the
goddess Durga. While he was in medita
tion he felt an intuition that goddess
Durga wanted the present of his tongue.
He immediately cut his tongue off and
offered it to the goddess.
Vital Statistics

killed when attacked by a cow which

was roaming in his section of the city
of Kanpur. The next day an old woman
who was returning from having a bath
in the Ganges River, had her nose bitten
off by a monkey.
A rabidmonkey has created terror
in Lucknow. Within ten days it had

Diiring the week ending 16th November,

417 births and 334 deaths were reported

in Kanpur.

Tuberculosis and pneumonia

accounted for eleven deaths each.

Four

died of cancer and 24 of dysentery. Ninety

infants, under one year of age died, and
57 others under the age of five.

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dinIg

eIH E E D

We have recently been placed on the

mailing list of the Evangelical Literature
Service in Madras.

They have sent six

books which will interest most of you.

All of the following are published in

English.

a mission hospital where she is cured and

also saved through the Lord Jesus Christ.
This book presents as interesting insight
into village life.
"As Certain As the Dawn"

Organization "

(Bible Study). By J. W. McMillan.

Paper. 82 pages. 50 nP.

(Church Polity). By Donald L. Norbie.

This is an outline study on the Second

Advent, and the author has done a

" New Testament Church

Paper. 69 pages. 50 nP.

This is an abridged edition of an
American book.

This edition is, there

fore, not for sale in the U.S.A.

The title will attract those who are

dissatisfied with denominationalism; and

those thus attracted will not be

thorough job.

It would, of course, be

difficult for any two persons to agree on

all points on such a difficult subject. We

are impressed, however, that the author
is stable in his thinking, and that the
book is worthy of use in study groups.

dis

" A Lamp in a Dark Place"

appointed. The author argues for the
" open meeting," and believes that the
eldership and the deaconship are the only (Bible Study). By J. W. McMillan.
Paper. 86 pages. 50 nP.
This is an outline study on Old Testa

two scriptural offices.

"Heart's Desire"

(Religious Fiction). By Vijaya. Paper.

89 pages. 90 nP.
This is the story of how a family found

Christ through Christian medical work.

At the same time a cousin also accepts

Christ, and also provides much of the

love interest of the book.

The rough sp>ot

of the book appears to be that the elders

of the church at Santoshpur are overly

suspicious of people who want to be

baptized.
" Kamala "

ment prophecy. Same author, same style,

same impression.
"God Calls the Church"

(Sermons). By Dr. Billy Graham.

50 pages. 50 nP.

Paper.

This is a record of messages given

by Dr. Billy Graham in the Madras

Convention in 1956.

It is not within the scope of this

department to discuss the pros and cons

of Billy Graham. We must say that the
book is inspirational and worthy of
purchase. We do not believe that Peter

(Religious Fiction). By Vijaya. Paper.

, 41 pages. 50 nP.
The story of a village girl who be

and Paul would fail to mention baptism

comes a leper. Her parents take her to

of obedience.

in fifty pages of sermons. Dr. Graham

does, however, emphasize"the necessity

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P4PTIMC WODOi
Nirmal Kumar Sinha of Kanpur posed
for our cover this month.

Nirmal is one

able work of the Hindustani translation

committee.

A very old book has newly arrived in

of the youngest members of the One

Thousand

Club of the

New Testament

Publications Association.

Each day he

puts a coin into the earthen bank for the

advancement

of

the

New

Testament

Church through the printed word.

Last month we began a new depart
ment especially devoted to children.
This month Sister H. Kaveri Bai begins a
department for women. At the same
time we arc happy to begin a year's series
of radio sermons by Bro. D. R. Davis.
Our item last month about the recipe
club was not understood by some, and
understood too well by others. One reader
sent a postcard to enlist me in an effort
to collect sixteen pictures. As a sample
the postcard contained an amazingly welldone (for a postcard) watercolour of
myself. I am ratlier at a loss to know
how to return the compliment.
" Uncle " has so many pseudo nephews
and nieces that his readers may not realize
that he does have some genuine ones as
well. The five genuine ones are pictured
on page eleven.
When we opened a recent shipment
of calendars and songbooks from the
Lucknow Publishing Company, we were
pleasantly surprized to find that as packing
they had used some wastesheets from a
printing of the new Hindustani version of
the New Testament. We had been very
anxious for some time to see this new

version to see its faithfulness and language.

We are happy to report that what we have

seen of this Hindustani version is just
absolutely wonderful. It seems very

the

Bible

Book

Store.

It

is

D.

R.

Dungan's, "On The Rock". It was

published first in 1872 and has since gone
through many editions. In this book the
controversy of baptism is handled in a
very interesting and convincing way. We
paid Rs. 4*50 each for the books but arc
selling them at Rs. 3'50 so that they may
enjoy a wider distribution. Stock is
limited.

Several weeks ago, Langru, our dog,

unexpectedly brought a wife home with
him. We thought we might have to
appeal for extra subscriptions to buy extra
bones; but whenever we gave Mrs. Langru
a bone, Mr. Langru would take it out
of her mouth. She was very docile about
it and knew that she should not eat a

bone unless Langru also had one. Perhaps

this is one of the things that led to their
divorce. I suppose it is all right for dogs
to divorce. But send in your subscrip
tion awayway.
THE CHRISTASIAN
Ralph R. Harter,
Editor and Publisher,
112/352, Swarup Nagar,

Kanpur, U. P. India.
Annual Subscription Rates:
1 Copy Rs. 1/50; 5 Copies Rs. 6
10 Copies Rs. 10; 25 Copies Rs. 20
In the U.S.A, subscriptions at $ 1 per
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unfortunate that the misdeeds of the

Hindi translation committee should have

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Illinois.

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'Every tongue should confess

PUNJAB)
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that Jesus Christ is Lord,

to the glory of God

the Father/'

Phllippians 2:11

MUMAIU"

Vol. IV No. 2

March 1958 April

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Kanpur, India

MADRAPAKKAM TIMES
As soon as one steps abroad any of the
three Delhi to Madras Express trains, he

might as well forget that Hindi is India's

national language.

Stepping into the Sleeping Coach of

the Janata Express at Jhansi, I spoke to
a Sikh gentleman in Hindi.
" So you are trying to speak Hindi?"
he asked in English.

he preached on the subject, " Be Faithful

Unto Death." Although I could not
understand the language of the message,

I appreciated its fervor and fluency.

Bro. Yesudian is now 30 years of age.
Christ Nagar Hostel

Christ Nagar Hostel is comparatively

a small project; but it is one of the most
interesting and promising we have seen

"What language do you speak?" I

anywhere.
asked. " Gurumuidii ?"
Eighteen Christian boys studying in
" Gurumukhi is the written language."
the Sikh replied. " The language we Junior High and High School live in this
hostel. They receive their schooling in
speak is Punjabi."
The next morning our train was the Government school, and attend Bible
passing through the Marathi language classes in the Hostel.
But perhaps the most interesting thing
area. When it was time to sleep again
we were in the Telegu language area. about the Christ Nagar Hostel is that
The second day we arrived in Madi'as any boy who does not work also does not
where the language is Tamil. On a eat. They receive tickets for doing their
previous trip we had travelled further to chores, and they must pay these tickets
the Malayalum language area. It is to receive their food. They also have an
amazing that with all these language arrangement so they can bank any excess
difficulties, India possessesthe unityit does. tickets which they earn.
Journey's End

On Sunday morning and Sunday

evening we heard one of the 15 year old
members of this Hostel preach.

Some 45 miles from Madras is situated

the friendly village of Madrapakkam. In

many respects it is little different from a
thousand other villages; but the Lord has
chosen it to be a center for His Gospel

Deva

Piryan is an orphan and preached his first

sermon at the age of twelve.

Again we

could not understand the language, but

we could grasp enough to know that he

was preaching a clear-cut expository

work.

sermon from I Peter 5.

When we visited this portion of the

Lord's vineyard five years ago, things

After a week of rest and good food,

we took our leave of Madrapakkam early

were in a more or less temporary stage.

This time we found that the vines had

matured and were bringing forth good

fruit.

Among the native

Yesudian appeared to
in the things of the

past five years. On

one Wednesday morning. The women of

the village were drawing mosaics with
chalk in front of their freshly-swept houses.

Two pigs were being butchered in the

preachers, G. D. market place. Everything from those two
have grown much pigs would be usedeven the squeal.
Spirit during the Somehow the approaching bus had
Sunday afternoon captured that.

CROSS; NO CROWN
By Markkapapa

It was the " Day of Preparation " in

prelude for a coronation ceremony. Pilate

the capital city of Jerusalem. The holi

day festivities of the Passover drew vast
throngs. Every province of the suppres
sed country was represented along with
their kinsmen that lived throughout the

sent Him to Herod, and Herod sent him

back again.

Mediterranean coast.

Notice the irony of the matter. Jesus

was found innocent, yet condemned.
He was betrayed by a friend. He was a
religious man condemned by religious
leaders. He was scourged by foreign

The worshipper of Jehovah took pride

in his national heritage, most particu
larly the wondrous deliverance from Egypt
they had experienced under Moses'
guidance. This they commemorated with
the feast of the Passover.

Many planned to stay over for the

Feast of Pentecost, which followed the
Passover by fifty days.

Irony

soldiers of the Roman army of occupa

tion, mocked by the King. Pilate who
represented the mighty empire whose
name was synonymous with Law and

Justice, had investigated the case and

declared his conviction of the innocence

of Jesus.
This year Christians will observe
Easter on April 6th, and the Day
of Pentecost on May 25th.

Though he had the authority

to release this Innocent One, he referred

the matter to the crowd.

With one voice

they cried that Barabbasnotorious

though he wasmight be released and

that the blood of Jesus might be upon

But this year the holiday was unique.
A young prophet from the northern pro
vince of Galilee was in the city of the
temple. Earlier during the week when he
entered the city with his disciples he
received a spontaneous welcome, if not
to say worship, of the people.
But, in execution of a carefully laid
plot, and with the assistance of Judas
Iscariot who betrayed him with a kiss,
the chief priests and scribes arrested Jesus.

so it was that Jesus Christ was crowned

Arrested as a common criminal; tried

Jesus himself declared, " He that taketh

before

Annas,

then Caiaphas;

finally

condemned by the Sanhedrin and sent to

Pilate the Roman governora. strange

them and their children.

Pilate grasped at a way of escape,

but the insistent mob must have its way.
Theatrically, he washed his hands. And
with thorns and delivered to be crucified.

Adversity Assured

" Must Jesus bear the cross alone and

all the world go free ?" No! For as
not his cross and followeth after me is not

worthy of me."

discipleship.

This is the cost

of

Jesus told his disciples point-blank

that they must endure adversity for His
name's sake. The message He gave them
caused Christianity to spread like a

and triumph. "

till the end," places
a time limit on this promise and reminds
us of its consistency, continuance and
finality.

prairie fire. It is not a stale message

The cost of discipleship is a great
today. If we do not achieve the same one, but the promise of reward contained
results as these pioneer preachers, it is in the terse phrase, "
shall be saved,"
because we are stunted messengers, not

because the message is out-dated.

Can we become strong and reliable

servants without having passed through

the fiery furnace of adversity ? Could
the mighty oak tree reach its arms heaven
ward without having first endured the
raging elements? God cursed the land
and caused thorns to spring up because
of Adam's sin. But God is so good that
even His curses become blessings. Great

is proportionately greater.
Declared Paul, "

if so be that we

suffer with him, that we may be also

glorified together. For I reckon that
the sufferings of this present time are
not worthy to be compared with the glory
which shall be revealed to us."

Trying of Patience

Said Ruskin, " We bleach cotton, we

races and great men come battling through refine silver, we shape pottery; but to
the storm.

shape, refine and cultivate human souls

does not seem to enter into our estimate

The Glory of Pioneers

This makes the glory of the pioneer.

He fought the elements and felled the

forests. Why don't his children rise to
the father's standard?
vated them.

Luxury has ener

Ease has made them weak.

Thus a generation of hot-house plants

spring up.
Solomon went down under the golden

weight of affluence and succumbed to

pleasure. Alexander the Great conquered
Persia, but Persian harems conquered
him.

Men rise victoriously over adver

sity; but how few can endure prosperity!

It was Phillips Brooks who said, " Do
not ask the Lord to take the burdens

from your shoulders, but ask Him to make

your shoulders strong enough to carry
them."

of values." Instead of counting " it all

joy when ye fall into divers temptations,"
we often blame God. Do we not forget
that " the trying of our faith worketh
patience." Patience has a perfect work,
that we may be perfect and entire,
wanting nothing.
The Hebrew prophet pictures the great
servant of humanity as a " Man of
Sorrows and acquainted with grief."
Look at the features Michael Angelo
gives to Moses. The face of this giant
is battle-scarred and more glorious than
angelic halo. And where do we find
other great leaders of men? Socrates in
prisonEzekiel banishedDante exiled
Paul shipwrecked, scourged and stoned
Joan of Arc in flamesLincoln in
povertyHandel blindGandhi
and
Nehru in jail! How striking is the con
fession of Mendelsohn that he could have

Till the End

" He that endureth till the end shall

composed far sweeter music if he had

gone through a more tempestuous life!
We cannot reign with Him unless we

be saved." This conditionary challenge suffer with Him.

embodies endurance, testing, tempation i no crown!"

Assuredly, " No cross;

MOTHER'S LOVE
By Miss H. Kaveri Bai

There is nothing on earth like a

mother's

love.

Those

who

have

not

sent away their. children to be educated

in their own homeland.

But these soft

have

hearted mothers never realised that they

might be sending away their own children

But God's love for sinners exceeds a

to hell for ever by a foolish love that

refused to give pain by checking or
disciplining their offspring when neces

realised it during her lifetime,

realised it after she was gone.
mother's

love

for

her

child.

" Can a

woman forget her suckling child?

Yea, they may forget, yet will I not
forget thee." Isa. 49:15.

sary.

God's love chastens and corrects.

" As many as I love, I rebuke and

chasten."

Foolish Love

A mother's human love for her child

can, in the long run, be harmful to the

child. Many cannot distinguish between
wise and misguided love.
Have we not heard the story of the
murderer who, when being led out to be
hung, obtained a reprieve to go and
kiss his weeping mother goodbye. But,
instead of kissing her, he bit her nose.
He said that had she only checked him
in time he would not be going to the
gallows now.

Rev. 3:19.
The Father's Part

We speak more of a mother's respon

sibility than a father's in the upbringing
of children.

have

no

This is not because fathers

responsibility,

but

because

children are borne by the mother, nursed

at her breast, and are on her hands most
of the time while the father goes out to
win bread for the family.

But though God's love far surpasses

a mother's, He is essentially our Heavenly,
FATHER, and not our Heavenly
MOTHER.

There are human fathers who regard

Few parents realize that little children
have no experience of the world. How no personal sacrifice too great for the
ever much one may try to explain to them, welfare of their offspring. But there are
they cannot understand how serious the others who are indifferent and even utterly
consequences of their small sins may be. callous.
Some instances can be mentioned of
Only pain and fear of punishment can
deter them. They must be corrected the second type. There are many who
as often as they repeat doing something leave the wife to struggle single handed
wrong. In this way their activities will with the upbringing of the children,
be turned into the right channels and never lending a father's authority in
good habits established.
discipline. Sometimes they are glad to
Not so long ago, Indian mothers used find a job away from home, being content
to think that English mothers residing only with sending remittances, sufficient
in India were heartless because they or insufficient, regular or irregular.

In one known instance the children's

education was utterly neglected. The

schools attended by other boys and girls
were

considered

unsuitable.

How

it was to them to hear themselves dis

cussed as uneducated. How bitterly they

felt when people asked why they were not
going to school! And they were such
bright children. Too soon the years
passed by and the older ones were no
longer children. The parents will not
admit it, but they had reason to be broken

hearted for their neglect because an idle

brain is the devil's workshop.

A Mother's Opportumties

A good mother can often manage to

find ways and means to counter her
husband's
harmful influence
on
the
children. But she must realize that her

offspring are no more extra-ordinary than

any other mother's.
She must never resent being told that
all is not well with some son or daughter.
Most mothers, instead of quietly investi

gating the truth, at once flare up and

say, " My sister's children are that sort,
but not mine." (Or it may be brother's
children or neighbour's children).
I have known some mothers referring
the matter at once to their children for

Good mothers are generally God

fearing women. They want to teach the
children about God and to pray.
number of fathers interefere even

in this matter. " Why religion so early?"

they ask; or "Don't let them have too
much religion." Yet, these very children
are not considered too young to be taken
to see the filthy pictures in the cinema;
and a father never says he is earning

too much money for the children.

Watch That Pride

the

children longed to take up satchels and

go to school also. But they were put off
with promises of special tuition at home,
which never materialized. How galling

should not be sown early. It leaves a

spiritual vacuum for his own designs.

remarks. The son or daughter, of course,

who had the daring to do something not
right in the first place, has the daring
to lie about it in the second place. The
child looks so innocent that the parent
is thoroughly deceived.
Many mothers, even though they are
God-fearing, spoil the children by over
indulgence. They expect the Sunday
school teachers to cure their naughty
behaviour.

Such

Again, there are quite a number of

consider as truth infallible the

parents who leave the children to their

ever-changing opinions of psychologists

own sweet will during their tender and

formative years. They do not realise

fathers

and philosophers.

They have no respect

at all for God's solemn declarations and

that the crooked tendencies of a tender

warnings. They want their children to

be free to develop " Self-expression."

sapling can be corrected, and that disci

pline during the early years is compara
tively easy. They try to assert their
parental authority after those children
have grown up and have taken to un
desirable paths and have opposed the
parental will. In the resulting classes,

This way, or rather this lack of a way,

of bringing up children is the main cause
of the staggering lists of statistics in
juvenile delinquency.
Satan does not consider anybody too

young to begin his own work of indoc

trination.

The devil is very happy at

the common belief that the Word of God

the recalcitrant son or daughter often

leaves home and wanders away rather

than yield to the authority of the " old

fogies."

WHAT CHRISTIANITY MEANS TO ME

By Rajan T. S. Claudius
Nineteen hundred years ago Jesus
Christ was crucified in Jerusalem.
Within five centuries Christianity was

with its precepts of high exaltation made

possible by the indwelling Spirit.

so completely triumphant over all oppo

sition and bitter persecution that the
Roman Emperor had to become a convert
in order to maintain his power. Thus
Christianity became the official religion of
all civilized countries west of Afghanistan.

The Fullness of Christ

The coming of the Christ to this

earth as an incarnation of God was to

seek and to save those who were lost,

and to establish peace, love, and harmony

into the whole world.

The name Jesus means "Jehovah is

salvation." He was born in the village
of Bethlehem, which means, " The house
of bread."

Whatever is good and true in any

religion can be found in the teachings
of Christ.

In addition, Christ corrects

what is wrong, and adds what is wanting.

You will find something higher in Chris
tian teaching which cannot be found
elsewhere. The teachings of Christ are
free from all the unnecessary bondage of
rituals, rites, and ceremonies.
There are some who teach that what

ever is is wrong, while others teach that

whatever is is right. The Gospel teaches
that whatever is can be made right.
Christ is the Way (Ethics), the Truth

(Philosophy), and the Life (Religion).

Jesns and the Mosaic Law
Jesus did not come to demolish the
Mosaic law. He came to fulfil, to edify.
He was born under the Law and lived in

perfect obedience to the Law. He was a

minister of the Law to the Jews, clearing
it from the rabbinical sophistries, en
forcing it in all its severity upon those
who professed to obey, and confirming
its promises.

Jesus fulfilled the types of the Mosaic

Law by his holy life and sacrificial death.
He bore vicariously the curse of the Law
that the Abrahamic Covenant might
avail all who believe. By His redemp
tion He brought out all who believe from
the place of servants under the Law into

the place of sons. By His' blood He

mediated the new covenant of assurance

and grace in which all believers stand.

He thus established " the law of Christ"

In the home Christianity is Kindness.

In business it is honesty. In society it
is courtesy. In work it is fairness.
Towards the unfortunate it is pity.
Towards the weak it is help. Towards
the

wicked

it

is

resistance.

Towards

the strong it is trust. Towards the

fortunate it is congratulation. Towards
the penitent it is forgiveness. Towards
God it is reverence and love.

Christianity gives birth to a new

dominant affect by which God's con
sciousness hitherto marginal and vague
becomes focal and dynamic. Through
faith and fellowship with Christ, a Christian
becomes Christlike in character.

Our Modern Age

In this age of thermonuclear invention.

Megaton Bombs, colour television, guided
missiles, and rockets of supersonic speed.

it appears senseless to some to talk of pseudo-religion. Iliis sordid spectacle in

religion. It is now commonly held that
the myths of religion have been exploded
and religion is now an anachronism to
which one must in good faith bid goodby.
Moreover, the divergent and conflicting
dogmas and rituals of various Tcligious in
the world have been the cause of much

blood-spilling in the past. Some preach

that religion is nothing but an opiate of
the people.
Some years ago, a learned professor,
after a long study, calculated that in
3,357 years of history between 1946 B.C.
and A.D. 1861, there had been 3,130 years
of war and only 227 years of peace. For
every one year of peace, man had fourteen

the history of mankind is the result of

spiritual bankruptcy. The cult of science
for power, the materialistic interpretation
of history, and the negation of moral

values are bringing doom on humanity.

Bigotry, intolerance, and selfishness
lead from one misery to another in a
vicious circle. Religion being identified

with reaction and conservatism, people

indulge in all sort of excess.

The result

is that the fabric of society is terribly

disturbed.

Conclusion

years of war.
The wars have also been increasing

in frequency. Fifty-seven years inter

vened between the Napollian and the
French-German war; forty-three years
between

the

French-German

war

and

World War I; and only twenty-three

years between World War I and World
War XL In spite of the most brutal war
in history in which many parts of several
continents were devastated, the nations
are preparing themselves for a third world
war.

Between 1920 and the outbreak of

World War II in 1939, 4,568 treaties of

peace were signed. In the eleven months
preceding the outbreak of World War II,
211 treaties of peace were signed. What
does it show ?

The Greeks said. Be moderate and

know thyself. Rome said. Be strong and

order thyself. Gonfucionism says, Be
superior and correct thyself. Buddhism
says. Be disillusioned and annihilate thy
self. Hinduism says. Be separate and
merge thyself. Mohammedism says, Be
submissive and bend thyself. Judaism
says, Be holy and confirm thyself. Modern
materialism says. Be industrious and enjoy
thyself. Christianity says, BE CHRIST
LIKE AND GIVE THYSELF.

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CHURCH HISTORY IN NORTH PARUR

By John L. Dorsey, Editor

[Biblical Witness, Kanpur'\

Little did we realize when we were

invited to minister in N. Parur (Kerala

State, India), that Parur was a place of

such historic significance. It is of parti
cular significance to the history of the
Gospel of Christ here in India.
As far as we know, early in the first

century the apostle Thomas came to this

land, " preaching,baptizing and teaching"

ing is of the same architecture as many

Hindu temples of the early first century.
This building is now used as a store
room, and a new edifice has been erected
in front of the older building. The wall
that remains on one side of the older

building is the same type of wall that

surrounded other ancient Hindu shrines.

The converted Brahmins gave their

founded by him about 52 A.D. As far as

temple to Thomas for a place of worship.

From the pieces of the story two
things seem to be established in tradition
and fact. The Apostle Thomas, in

we are able to ascertain, there are no

obedience to the Lord's command, did

facts contrary to this belief.

" Kottakkavo " means " grove of a
Hindu deity". When Thomas came to

preach the Gospel in Parur; and, the

Lord Jesus, to whom all power is given

in obedience to Christ's command.

Tradition has it that St. Thomas Church,

Kottakkavo, is one of the seven churches

India he found a number of Brahmins

in Heaven and earth, worked in the hearts

of some Brahmin men, who, in thankfulness
for their salvation, turned their temple

doing worship in a bathing tank. They

were throwing water into the air. He into a place of worship for the living
asked them what they were doing, and and true God.
they explained that they wereworshipping.
Today nearly 40 per cent of the popula
He pointed out to them that the water tion in and around Parur is at least
was falling back to earth again.

Then,

to the amazement of all, he is reputed to

nominally Christian. However, much

that is termed Christianity is nothing more

have thrown water into the air which

than

another

form

and

religionthe

remained suspended in the sight of all of Christians' religion.

the worshippers, and the mark of his
hand remained in the water of the pool.

At this sign they were supposed to have

accepted Christ.
So the story is told.

The Jewish Community

Side by side with the descendents
of these early Christians is one of the
larger Jewish communities in India.
This community traces its history back
to the second dispersion at the destruc
tion of Jerusalem in 70 A.D.; but they

Here we must
let our readers separate the fact from the
fiction. One thing is certain. Men are
saved by believing that Christ died in
their place, and not by believing in a sign. readily confess that they are not sm"e.
Perhaps they are from among the first
Evidence from Architecture
dispersion mentioned in the book of

According to those who know Indian

architecture, the ancient church build

Esther where we read that there were

Jews in every province of King Ahasuerus,

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who " reigned from India even unto

Ethiopia, over a hundred and seven and
twenty provinces." Perhaps they, even
as their brothers throughout the areas of

the Mediterranean and Europe, prepared

the way for the light of the Gospel. It
is quite possible that they preceded the
Apostle Thomas and laid the foundation
for his ministry. God has been very
merciful in seeing that India has received
the Gospel. In the day of Christ's i-eturn
she will be without excuse.

The Jewish community still keeps its

distinct nature.

All of the children read

Hebrew. Each Saturday they gather in

their synagogue, the reader stands facing
Jerusalem and reads from the Pentateuch,
or the Prophets.
The community is today much smaller
than it was at the close of the war for

Today these posts stand as a mute sad

testimony to the conflict of the two
religions.

One who visits Parur today can easily

see how the simple faith of Thomas and

the early believers has gradually become

hiddenhidden behind the haze of a
religion so different from that about

which we read in the Epistles and Acts.

This new religion is similar to Thomas'

unbelief as expressed when he said,

" Except I shall see in His hands the

print of the nails, and put my finger

into the print of the nails, and thrust
my hand into his side, I will not believe."
The great majority of those who call
themselves

the return of their Messiah.

Gifts from Israel have made this migration

possible.

About the year 1600, the Portugese

entered this area and came into power.
Along with their power came their Roman
Catholic religion. They wrested the little
building which had been given to Thomas
from its rightful owners, the Jacobites,
and took possession of it, installing their

Parur

now

The Jacobites Today

Today

very

little

separates

the

Romanists, who now own the shrine of

St. Thomas,
The Roman Catholics

in

they can see, handle or smell.

nearly two-thirds of the Jewish population

have gone to Israel, unconsciously fulfilling
prophetic Scriptures and preparing the
way for

Christians

connect their faith with pictures, crosses,

candles, form, ritual, incense,anything

Kottakkavo,

from

the

Jacobite-Syrians to whom it formerly

belonged. Both pray to Mary, have
mass, withold the cup and exalt a man-

madepriesthood whomediate for the people

before the central altars where the tapei-s,
candles, and incense burn.

One differ

ence, however, is outstanding, and that

is that aside from the image of the cross,

no other images are found in the Tacobite

idols.

Church.

Not only did they have their idols

inside the building, but periodically they
took their idols in procession through
the city. This was a great offence to the
Jews, and when they attempted to parade

The simple Gospel of grace has become

as indistinct as the history of Parur.
Outside of the present Jacobite Church

their idols through the Jewish area there

was bloodshed and fighting. To prevent

oil in the same manner in which Hindus

disorders the Government built two stone

their religion.

pillars outside the Jewish colony marking

a point beyond which the Roman
Catholics could not parade their idols.

is a metal cross over which the devotees

of the Jacobite religion pour cocoanut

pour water and oil over the symbols of
In the Roman Catholic

Church there are as many idols as there

were in the temple before the. Brahmins
were converted.

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Dear Kids,

This morning at the breakfast table we were talking

about how good Indian children are in going to church.
They can sit through a three hour preaching service and
actually enjoy it. They don't have any T-V sets or funny
papers to run home to; and they find "the meeting"
rather exciting.
And the Gospel ofJesus Christ is so simple that even
a small Indian child can understand what it is all about.

Twenty years ago, Mrs. Nancy Morris was in Bihar

and stopped to tell some shepherds the story of Jesus.

Among them was a young boy. After some time the
other children tried to get him to come and play. " No,"
he said. " You can play any day, but you cannot hear
this every day."
Mrs. Morris went on to tell how Christ suffered and

died on the cross so that His blood might wash away

m

our sins.

" Did Jesus do all of this for me?" the boy asked
with tears running down his face.
" Yes, he did," Mrs. Morris answered.
" Can I love him too? " he asked.
EJiijcy

" You certainly can," she answered.

And so can you.

Perhaps you have been so busy filling in your

colouring books and reading the interesting stories in your
Sunday school papers that you haven't had a chance to
find out what Christianity really means.

Perhaps that

shepherd boy, who had never been to Sunday School or

Church, really knew more about it than you do. Do
you know that Christ died for you and that you ought
to love Him ?

Sometimes we uncles are very slow to tell you

these things.

Maybe we think you already know. So

many children grow up and never do know.

You will soon be having Easter. During this time

we especially remember that Christ died for us. It would

be a good time for you to show your love for Him by
beginning to follow in His footsteps. Christ died, (We
believe and repent); Christwas buried, (We are baptized);
Christ rose again, (We rise to walk in a newness of life).
Your Uncle.

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NOTES FROM THE KIDS

From Bilaspur Mary Esther Roland
writes

that

she

celebrated

her

13th

birthday on the 21st of January. They

now have running water at their house.
On January 15th her daddy shot an 8 ft.
2| inch tiger. That is 8 feet more of
tiger than I would want to meet.
Uncle has received a picture showing
the three Morris kids of Madrapakkam.
Nice kids. David was working to " Find
the Mistakes," but he got rushed off to
school before he could complete it. Be
sure and try this month.
From Ohio have come pictures of
Mary Helen, David, and Ruth Ann Lair.
The picture itself was taken amongst the
vineyards of Pennsylvania. Their mother
was the first person your uncle ever
baptisedway back in 1943.
Three

of the

five

Barber

kids

of

Florida wrote and sent their pictures.

They are pretty well taken up with their
schooling and pet animals.
We are informed from Dayton, Ohio,

mine.

It was meat that we should make

merryfor this thy brother was dead

and is alive; and was lost, and is
founded." Luke 15:31, 32.
FUNNY STORY

One of Mr. K. L. Bates many friends

in Jhansi made him a present of a wild
duck. When Mrs. Bates saw it she said
that she would like to have the feathers

to make a pillow for the baby. So when

Mr. Bates gave the duck to the cook he
told him that Mrs. Bates wanted the

feathers for a pillow. The rest of the day

they looked forward to the duck they
would eat at supper. But when supper
was served there wasn't any duck.

Mr.

Bates quickly called the cook and asked

him where the duck was. " But I thought

all you wanted was the feathers,"
the cook said; " We have eaten the
duck."

that Ted Baxendale is now in the 5th

Grade and that he is no longer to be called

YOUNG DOCTOR

Teddy.
HOW MANY MISTAKES CAN YOU
FIND?

The boy or the girl who finds the

most mist^es in the following shall

receive a free copy of the New Testament.
Your entry should reach your uncle at
112/352, Swarupnagar, Kanpur, U.P.,
India, by May 1st, 1958. Please state
your age.

Correct this:

" And he said unto her, Wife, thou

art ever with me, and all that I have is

Babu, the son of Oswald Claudius,

may make a good doctor when he grows
up. One day when Babu was home alone a
man came and asked for medicine. "Give

me four annas and I will give you the

medicine," the boy said. Thinking that
the boy's father was inside the house, the
man paid the money. Soon the boy
reappeared with the medicine and told

the man to take some every hour. In the

evening the man felt better and returned
for some more of the wonderful medicine.
It was then that the father learned that

the boy had given the man a teaspoon of

table salt.

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SemoH OutiLne6 for Barefoot freaefver^.

Cone.:

FEED MY LAMBS

If a man seeketh the office of a bishop,

he desireth a good work. I Tim. 3:1.

John 21:15-17
Inlto.:

Christ

here

appoints

Peter

to

WHY ONE WOMAN BELIEVED

pastoral ministry. The passage brings

John 4:4-26

out the basis, the beneficiaries, and the

method of this pastorate.
Intro. :

1.

The Basis is Our Love for Christ.

" Lovest thou me."

Christ only calls those to the pastorate

who truly love Him.

Our prime reason for entering the

pastorate is that we love the Lord Jesus

Christ.

Those who have other reasons for

being pastors can only wreck harm.

John 10:12, 13; Acts 20:29, 30.
n.

The Beneficiaries are Lambs and

Sheep.

The members of the congregation are

not devils upon whom judgement is to be

announced. They are lambs and sheep
who need nourishment and care.

Lambs and sheep are innocent, weak,

and open to attack. We must recognize

the condition of our flock.
TTT.

Our Method is to Feed and Tend.

We must feed them the Word of God.

Expository sermons are valuable in this

respect. We must have a thorough grasp
of the Word if we arc to feed others.

We must tend the sheep by leading

them in the right paths and by protecting

them from wolves and poisoned weeds.
Not a moment's carelessness or indiffer

ence is permissable.

Why did the Samaritan woman be

come a believer on Christ?

I.

Christ Offered Her Something

She Did Not Have.

v. 14.

Christ enticed her by promising her

the water of life. To this day this is
still the true enticement.

Despite the

many stumbling-blocks

which modern Christiandom has erected,

men and women know that Christ gives

something which no one else can give.

That something is the water of life.
Those who have their eyes fixed
on the material benefits of Christianity
have not yet caught sight of the real
treasure.

Christ Showed

Was.

Her What

She

vs. 17, 18.

The woman thought of herself as

without husbandthe innocent victim of
circumstances.

Christ convinced her of

her sin.

Before we come to Christ we thiii

pretty good of ourselves. But Christ

reveals to us the blackness of our hearts;

or pride, greed, selfishness and filthiness.

Only Christ can reveal to us our
true selves. No friend, relative, philo

sophy or religion of mankind can do this.

m. Christ Spoke To Her the Simple

Truth.

V. 24.

Those who know enough of the Gospel

to desire a vision like Saul's, already
know enough of the Gospel so that they

One of the secrets of the power of

Christianity is its simplicity. Through

do not need a vision. Paul had not asked

for a vision, and it was not the vision

that washed his sins away.

few words of Christ

this

unlearned

village woman came to understand the

true nature of God and religion.
Those who muddle Christianity with

II. He Fasted Three Days.

Paul was fasting out of grief for his

past life and out of grief for losing his
sermons will be those which a village sight. We also ought to grieve for our
their much learning are not doing any

service

to

Christ.

Our most

effective

woman can understand.

sins and our spiritual blindness.

IV.

search our inner selves.

Fasting gives us an opportunity to

Christ Admitted to Her that He
was the Messiah, v. 24.

Christ made great claims for himself.

Luke 22:70, 71; John 14;8-10;John 10:30.
We must either accept these claims or
conclude that Christ was the greatest
imposter that ever lived.

But Paul was

still unsaved.

III. He Prayed.

He no doubt prayed for salvation, the

restoration of his sight, and a place of
usefulness in the service of Christ.

His

prayer was ans^vered, but the prayer itself

Cone.:

did not save him.

These are good reasons why men and

women today should accept Christ as

IV.

He Was Baptised.

their Lord and Saviour.

Ananias told him to arise and be

baptized and wash away his sins calling

HOW ONE MAN WAS SAVED ?
Acts 9:1-19

on the name of the Lord.

Intro.;

unnecessary ?

Saul was both a very good and a very

bad man. In whichever category you

rv.

may place yourself, his conversion can be

an example to you.
I.

He Contmued Stedfast.
I Cor. 9:27.

Baptism is the beginning, not the

He Had a Vision.

end.

The change which this vision wrought

Concl.;

on the life of Saul should convince all of

the truth of the Gospel.

Acts 22:16.

This Saul did immediately before break

ing his fast. If this was necessary for
Saul, why do men today consider it

Rom. 6:4.

" What was good enough for Paul, is

good enough for me."

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BEAUTIES OF MY BELOVED
By Samuel Oommen, Coonoor

" Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth,

you need? Then why don't you ask

Him?
" For every one that asketh

thy flock to rest at noon: for why

receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth;

by the flocks of thy companions?

opened."

where thou feedest, -where thou makest

should I be as one that turneth aside

and to him that knocketh it shall be

" If thou know not, O thou fairest among

The Place To Feed

women, go thy way forth by the

footsteps of the flock, and feed^^thy

kids beside the shepherds' tents.
The Song of Solomon 1:7, 8.
Ask to Receive

" Feed thy kids beside the shepherds'

tents."

This should always be the desire

of the Lord's Church and of every bornagain child of God.

We are easily tempted to turn aside
from the Lord and join ourselves to those
whom the world considers civilized, cul

From these two verses it is seen that

the fact unknown to the Bride is revealed tured, educated, enlightened, wealthy,

to her by her Bridegroom only after

wise, and famous.

But these are not the

getting an enquiry from her.

shepherds of the Lord.
The Bridegroom is fully aware of her
The Christian is expected to seek out

present condition that she is as one that and find the shepherds belonging to His
Lord.
panions. The Revised version, supported
friends often worry and weary us
by the original Hebrew, reads, For why withOur
their efforts to get us to turn aside.

turneth aside by the flocks of this com

should I be as one that is veiled

" Why is it that you alone want to follow

But in spite of his complete knowledge that particular doctrine or path from the

of this fact. He does not open the Treasury Bible. Why don't you agree with so and

until she asks of Him.

so who is more educated and refined and

It is true that God knows our need

even before we know it ourselvesand

enlightened with his many University

degrees? Why don't you come and
worship with us? But how many of those

not supply until we ask.

" Ask and it shall be given you,'' is

they all could come and rest and have

the Divine command. Is there someliiing

God.

he often supplies our needs without our

asking of him. But there are other have asked the Lord, " Tell me where
blessings which He is anxious to give us thou feedest." If they would, we are
if we will only ask Him. Even though sure that they would surely find their
He is fully aware of our need, He may way to the real church of Christ wherein

communion with one another and with

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It has to be very shamefully admitted

today that we have many Societies by
different beautiful and pleasant names by

Who dare to stand the test;

God has His second choice for those

which they differenciate themselves one

Who will not take His best.

God has His best things for the few

from the other; and they all claim to be Let us sing before Him:
the church of Christ and the company
My Jesus I love thee,
of God's people. It is in these days that
we have to ask God more earnestly for
His guidance.
If we turn aside from the Lord and

seek to learn of His Church from them,

we will always be misguided and misled
by them. They will lead us away from
His Word.

Why do we not listen to what God

I know thou art mine;

For thee all the pleasures

of life I resign.
Fairest Among Women

How graciously and encouragingly the

Lord speaks this to His bride. How many
fears and doubts assail the seeking soul;

has taught us? "If any of you lack

but what encouragement we have from

wisdom, let him ask of GOD."

our Lord.

We

should not depend for our guidance upon

some church or priest or bishop or mis
sionary or any body else. Gk)d giveth to
all men liberally and upbraideth not.

We have previously noticed that the

bride calls herself black and ugly. We
can now conclude that it was all from
her fear and doubt before Him.

Now

see how the Lord encourages her-just

Whojoi My Soul Loveth
Her soul loveth Him because He loved

her first.

as the angel told the women at the sepul

chre, " Fear not ye; for I know that ye
seek Jesus which was crucified."

Yes, it is a soul-stirring love

with which He loves us.

He loved us

and gave Himself for us and died for us.

Rom. 5:6 is quite forcible in Greek.

" For when we were powerless or helpless,

Christ died for us, the ungodly, according

to the time of our need." Again in v. 8,

" While we were yet sinners Christ died
for us." Again in v. 10, " When we
were enemies, we were reconciled by God
by the death of His Son."

What a love

is this! As the aged and blind Matheson

sang in one of his songs, " O Love that
will not let me go."

Yes, He loves us with an everlasting

love. In return we have to say, " O thou
whom my soul loveth." If we subdue
and yield more of ourselves to Him, He
will surely reveal more of Himself to us.

Once, a sister in Christ sent me a poem

which runs like this:

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1-7

The Labour Department of Uttar

Pradesh, India, has accomplished a great
deal in alleviating the condition of the

poor in Kanpur. Up to the end of

December, the Department had completed

the Goddess Bhagwati.

She thought the

goddess was angry with her since she had

had no issue after several years of marriage.
During a hockey tournament at Saugor,

fifty persons were injured in a dispute

seating arrangements. All the
injured, who included nine military

13,272 houses in Kanpur for industrial over

workers.

These houses would make a big

sized town in themselves.

But the population of Kanpur conti

nues to mount.

During the past year

there were 25,585 births as compared to

17,500 deathsan increase of 8,000 in

population. 560 persons died of tuber

culosis, 81 of cancer, 349 of malaria,

1,059 of dysentery.

Talking about statistics, the people

of Kanpur ate 116,046 animals during
the past year. This included 14,946
cattle," (evidentally water buffalo),
92,621 sheep and goats, and 8,476 hogs.
Prime Minister Nehru's opponent in
the 1957 elections is still trying to prose
cute the Prime Minister for, as he says,
deliberate and malicious intention of

outraging the religious feelings of the

Hindu community. Pandit Nehru is
reported to have stated in a public
speech that he looked upon a cow as a
horse.

Some mischief mongers have outraged

the religious feelings of the Sikhcommunity

by throwing cigarette packets into the
sacred tank of the historic Golden Temple
at Amritsar. The cigarette packets con

tained a printed poster welcoming the

Sikhs to use cigarettes. The ban on

cigarette smoking by the Sikhs has evi

dentally outraged the religious feelings of
the cigarette companies.
During January, Dharmi, a 26-yearold married woman of Shujatganj in

Kanpur, chopped offher head to appease

recruits, thirty policemen, and eleven

students, were removed to the hospital.

Every 13 minutes round the clock,

somewhere in India a passenger train on
the run is compelled to stop out of
schedule as a result of pulling of the
emergency alarm chain by passengers.
The trains were stopped altogether on
24,000 occasions during the first seven
months of 1957. In 84 per cent of the

cases, the train stopping was unjustified,

the emergency alarm chain having been
pulled by passengers for trivial reasons.
In most cases the passengers did not
cooperate with the train officials in tracing
the offenders.

A travelling ticket examiner of the

Northern Railway at Allahabad was
assulted by some persons when he was
going to market on January 18th. It is
alleged that the ticket examiner had
earlier detected one of those persons
travelling without a ticket and had handed
him over to the Naini railway staff.
The reduction in the number of

holidays by the Government of Uttar

Pradesh has not been kindly agreed to
by all. The Secretariat Staff believes
that any drastic reduction in the number
of holdays would impair the efficiency of
Government servants.

The item does not

state in which field of endeavour they

desire efficiency.
A teacher of a school at Gonda slapped

a boy when he failed to give a proper

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answer to a question. The boy feared

further punishment if he kept silent, and

so he gave the teacher the most appro
priate answer he could think ofslapped
the

teacher

twice

in

the

face.

The

principal thought the answer was too harsh

and fined the boy five rupees.

Testament has now been concluded on

most points.

The translation committee

has decided not to diffcrcnciate between

God and

Jesus by the use of different

pronouns.

We

congratulate the Bible

Society for deciding at least this much.

The editor of Biblical Witness is also to

The deceit of an editor one hundred

years ago has just resulted in the loss of

be congratulated for bringing this matter

to the notice of the public.

Rs. 50,000 by the Government and has

angered the citizens of Bithur. The
editor of the London Illustrated News

wanted some picture to illustrate the

news of the 1857 uprising, but had none.

In desperation, he published a picture

of an Indian contractor and declared it

to be a picture of Nana Saheb.

picture

was later

This

widely circulated.

The translation committee has decided

to use honorific pronouns instead of

intimate pronouns when God and Christ
are addressed. This does not excite any
enthusiasm from this quarter. The
translation will no doubt be best enjoyed
by those who have no intimate relation
with the Father and the Son.

When the Government came to erect a

statue of Nana Sahab, they unwittingly

copied from this false photograph. The

Whenever the new version is avail

able for sale, it will have to stand on its

statue has now been covered with sacks.

own merits. If the people like it, they

Some of the citizens of Bithur are seriously

considering demolishing the statue if it

At least here in Kanpur, we feel quite

is not soon removed.

The Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh

had some exciting moments when he

opened a wild life sanctuary near Banaras
in December.

The Chief Minister cere

moniously let loose a lion and two lionesses.

But one of the lionesses had evidentally

not understood what she was supposed to
do. Instead of moving off and eating a
goat which was tied nearby, she turned
toward

the

Chief Minister and

other

spectators who were atop 20 ft. high

machans.

For half an hour the V.I.P.s

were gripped with fear.

When the lioness

finally left, the spectators did too, only

more quickly.
NEW HINDI BIBLE

The controversy with the Bible Society

over the new Hindi translation of the New

will buy it.

If they don't, they won't.

sure they won't.

The old version is in process of being

reprinted. This is being very carefully
done, and it is hoped that they will be
available by May or June.
A new printing of the Roman Urdu

Bible has recently arrived from England.

Cloth bound copies are available for
Rs. 5/-, and Leather bound copies for
Rs. 25/-.

The story recently came to light of

a man in Kanpur who wanted to read the
Bible but did not know that it was

printed in Hindi. For a large sum of

money he paid a man to read him a
running translation of the English Bible.
This did not prove to be very satisfactory.
He was very happy when he finally found
a Hindi Bible.

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HAVING NO HOPE ... And Without God

By Lois Callaway
From Tribes and Trials in Thailand

I made a shroud today with trembling worship. Immediately the chant of a

fingers and a heart that ached for the priest began. Praying for wisdom, I
Yao mother who was laying her child down explained that I had been praying to the
Heavenly Father, who indeed ^vas the
for his last sleep.
Like the child whom Elisha raised

from the dead, Big Brother Two was

playing in the field where his mother
and father were hai*vesting rice. Sudden

ly he cried, "Oh, my head, my head!"

Though he was very ill all night, they
did not seek help until the child went
into a coma this morning.
When I arrived the mother was wailing

hysterically and the family assured me

that the child was dead. Seemingly the
child was not breathing, and there was no

only one who could help this tired little

body. They agreedthe Creator of
mankind could surely helpthe devils
could

not.

Creator,

If

had access

should pray.

worship stopped.

The

to

the

devil

I continued to pray

and administer medicine.

But after I had squatted four hours

beside him on a tiny stool, his soul slipped
away to the God who had given it. The
mother again became hysterical, and
while I went to make the little trousers

asked me to make for his burial

The father tenderly laid him on they
(he
had
never had a pair during his five
a mat on the cold dirt floor, and I busied
years on earth), the father bathed him

pulse.

myself with comforting the mother,

assuring her that her tiny son had found

a place in the loving arms of his Heavenly

Father. Suddenly the earthly father
cried, " His body does not grow cold.
He is not dead!".

Imogene Williams quickly went for

a stethoscope and we found the faintest
heartbeat.

With remorse for my delay I

began to work with the child, adminis

tering such medicine as I had, and listening
to the tiny heart, praying constantly that
the Father would spare the little fellow
and through a little child lead the mother
to the Lord Jesus.

The heart beat grew stronger. There

was a fluttering of the pulse, and then
I noticed the devil money (plain pieces
or rice straw paper, thought to be capable
of fooling the demons into thinking it was
the real thing) being prepared for devil

and dressed him in a red flannel shirt more

lovely than any he had had in life. Then

they tucked some of the " devil money "
and a boiled egg in his hand. Thus they
thought to provide for his spirit in the
after life.

Later when the mother was more quiet

I could make her understand that though

she longed for her little one, still he was

happy and well with the Heavenly Father.
Her face lighted with an instant joy as
she said, " Oh, then, someday you will
see him."

" Yes," I agreed, " I shall see him

and someday you will, too, for when I
can tell you all about it in your own

language, you will believe in Jesus, too,

and walk the Heaven road."

Will you pray that the Spirit will soon

bring understanding to her longing heart?-

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IIIPAlilPlllllC lAVOiPIDS
There were no lights in that train

1. . Place of Publication: Bible Book Store,

that took us to Madras in January. But

112/352, Swarupnagar, Kanpur, U.P.,
we hope the page about Madrapakkam
India.
will be enlightening just the same.
2. Periodicity of its publication; Bi
You may be surprised at the new name
monthly.
of " Markkapapa " on page three. He is
no relation of Madrapakkam on page two. 3. Printers' Name: Shri R. Ganesan.
Nationality: Indian.
" Mark ka papa " means Mark's father.
Address: Job Press Private Limited,
Besides Mark, he has two other boys.
Lakshmi Building,

Who is he?

Miss H. Kaveri Bai's articles arc so

lucid.

Bro. Claudius came into our midst

about a year ago wearing a beard and

the saffron-coloured clothes of a sadhu.

Mahatma Gandhi Road,

Kanpur, U.P.
4. 5, & 6. Publisher, Editor and Owner:

Name: Ralph R. Harter.

Nationality: American.

A wife has since changed his ways, as

Address :112/352, Swarupnagar, Kanpur.

only a wife can.

Mrs. Lois Callaway, who works with
her husband in Thailand, is one of the
most popular Christian writers of our
day.
The first proof of the Hindi transla

I, Ralph R. Harter, hereby declare that

the particulars given above are true to
the best of ray knowledge and belief.

tion of C. J. Sharp's, " Bible For Youth "

has come from the press. The illustra
tions in it are just elegant, and it promises
to be a very popular production of the
New Testament Publications, Ass'n.
That famous dog Langru is still

Dated: March 1, 1958.

around.

He appears to be well fed.

The

number of houses from which he gets

tid-bits

is

equal

to

the

number of

(Sd.) Ralph R. Harter.

THE CHRISTASIAN
Ralph R. Harter,

Editor and Publisher,

112/352, Swarup Nagar,
Kanpur, U. P. India.

countries in which we have subscribers.

Telegraphic Address: ' BibletruthKanpur.

Incidentally, we have a new subscriber

Annual Subscription Rates:

1 Copy Rs. 1/50; 5 Copies Rs. 6
10 Copies Rs. 10; 25 Copies Rs. 20

from New Zealand.

Annual Statement:

About Ownership and other particulars

about CHRISTASIAN in compliance to
the Registration of Newspapers (Central)

In the U.S.A. subscriptions at $ 1 per

year may be remitted to Miss Florence
Douglas, 134 E. North St., Flora,

Rules, 1956.

Illinois.

Edited and Published by Mr. Ralph R. Harter and Printed by Shri R. Ganesan at the
JOB PRESS PRIVATE LIMITED, KANPUR.

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N0V/S of the-Work of Ralph R, Harter at 112/352,

Sv/arocp Nagar, Kanpur, UoPo, India, on March 1st, 1958
Mr 3

R o t herme 1 and I. mad e.

our trip to Madras in Jaauary as planned-,

I was much
snc our aged to soo the pro
gress
being made
in ,the
work down thereo

'

Stanley Nath has

since
gone
to Ragaul to be Mrs ^
Rothermsl'ri drivero

From Peba 20-23 we at ten-ded _ the

^iriual :convention..

at Kulpahar and brought one

of the messagesD
Also-sold
books,.

At

the same time I

was weakened" with

the .flu,

90 year old ' ^Papa" ' Davy

Singh,

whom

Ito ok-to -the

Bilaspur . Convention .,last

P all #

di ed ' on, p eb ^ A-th^' He

One of our former boys,

Paul,, was baptized at the.
Kulpahar Convention,
He itno w 13 years old,.
"The Kanpur congregation
re- elected . me

pastor

for

gate it

around

city.

tunnel vision is to realise

that

you only have to go a

himo

turn by turn

congregation, the mother of

four children,
died of tu
berculosis on Jan lst

the

The secret to riding a bi

cycle when you only have
foot at a timoo

of our

Bernel

G-etter has promised to hold

a n
evangelistic meeting
here in Aprils
It hardly seemed that it.
could ever be possible, but
I have bought a bicycle for
myself and am able to navi

had been living in the Cem

etery a h d the Genie tery'
Board was wanting; to evict
One of the ladies

to be their

1958,

Our

vices

Sunday

are

neighborhoods
In this way
reach

evening ser

now
in

being held
different

of the cityo
we hope to

those who have never

heard the Gospelo

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increase

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Since we

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HOUSE EXTRAORDINARIUS

One

of

the

^rdlnai'y
/orId is

most

extra-

in

the

houses
the one

112/352,

located at

Swarupnagar, Kah"

jur, UnPa, Indiao

Prom outv/ard appearances
the house hardly looks wor

thy

of

rent.

the ' $21

If

it

monthly

were.not for

the sign bo utv^s

you would
hsrdly e;*we the place a
s f o n d look.

But

there are

r e a d s,
"Bible, Book Store," Bibles
and

books

are sold fi'om a

little

room whi ch

you will find on your right

as
you enter the house, -In
this

same room I

several thousand copies

the

do a l l

of

my writing, editing, ,'mid

publishing v/ork..
Another sign reads,"Masih
hi Kalisiya,
ioO,
Church
of Christ, Services

are

of

Lt fe of Ciirist .Visual

ized in Hindi.
In the l a s t room

house

of

the

lay myself down to

sleep surrounded by
an
addr 0s s ogr aph, a mime ogr aph

machine and my new bicycle

We eat on a porch that
opens onto an inside court

yard, During the

the signboards.
One signboard

Cr ov/d ed

sajiio room is a filing Cabi

net.,
a
steel, almira, and

rainy

s e as on we s le ep on this
verandah. During the hot
season we sleep on the roof
which is f l a t .
The address

has

been

printed more than 100,000

times., Thousands of pieces
of mail . have been received
here, and tens .of thousands
have been sent.

Hundreds

of

people come and go.

2-g-

years

for

left as you enter the house,

v/e 'could put up another

ernment
has now sanctioned
it
and i t w i l l soon be in
stalled.
The house
contains elec

si ^n

to

Hotel."

read "Heaven-Viev/
It

is

a favorite

halting, place for a number

of friends when they are in
the city. A room halfway up
the stairway to the roof is
reserved for this purpose,
Andriyas,
an orphan boy,
occupies
a room way in the
back

of

the house.

In the

ago we applied

held in a small room on the

telephone. The Gov

tricity,

and modern plumb

ing (Indian style). We also

own a washing machine.

Whatever other

viev/s you

may have regarding the es

tablishment,
you will have

to adiriit
ing our
the house.

that we are gett

$21 worth out of

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68,09
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News of the V/prk of Ralph R Harter'at 112/352,

Swaroop Nagar, KaXipur, U.P, India, on April 15th, 1958
ENCOURACtING^" MONTH
This

mos t

has been

one of the

en cour aging

months. we.

have ever had*.

During
Easter,

the

v/eek

before

several of the men

of the church ' at Swarupnagar took turns at preaching

at evening services* They
all did surprisingly well,
and

it

they

was

are

evidence' that

in
things of the Spirit*

It was

growing

the

perhaps to" be ex

pected that both our church

room and verandah

packed

to

Easter, morning'*
been

had

tiine.

war

capacity

on

But it has

long time since we

four

baptisms

at one

They* included a man

and his wife,, another house

wife,, and a school girl.
The
Wednesday
evening
services do not selem to be

making any headway*

But

Friday night Boys Class has

stated off great guns .The

girls class o n Saturday
night has not had such an
illustrious start, but it has a hopeful future*
Our telejphone was finally

installed*. -- Besides

hoipful to us,

b^lng

others come

in to telep.hone. and some

times buy something frgm
the bookstore . before they
leave.
Bro.,Barnel Getter

could

not make it to Kanpur for

an.evangelistic meeting in

April* We arp now hoping

that he can get .here for
the last week in July*
The weather is now very
hot and many of the mission
aries have already left for
the hills* Our ovw plans
are not definite, but there

is a possibility that we
will repeat
last year's
trip to Darjeeling. a
d
Shillong*

BIBLE BOOK STORE

Prom 1st March to l^th

April, the Bible Book Store
did 71.72 worth of busi
ness.

Sales

Bibles,

included

11

11 New Testafionts,

and 6 copies of the Life of

Christ visualized.

help

the

t ime

t o

Das

is

deserving from

timeo Mrs. Vic tor

receiving

$3.20 a

month for fees

for teachers

training

six months.
is receiving,

for

Sherwood Paul

a like sum for a tu.tor for

three months.
Mrs.
Dharam

Society inadvertedly sent

our last shipment of Bibles

Sowak received some glucose

after an illness, , and Wil
son Masih Lai received help
when his daughter was ill.

to

These

Our lot was made a little

difficult because the Bible

someone

time

else.

By

the

the matter was strai

ghtened out Easter v/as past

and the annual me la of the
Indian Christian Associat
ion was gone.

are

Andriyas* surruner vacation

will soon begin. He is sure

to pass into the i^th Grade.

Stanley Rairiadhar is get
ting along v/oll V/ i t h
Mrs. Rothermel

at

Ragaul.

She may send him back to

Kanpur for A month'or so
for further training.
There is no trace of Hor-

atius. Sai?iuel Singh, has al

so left school. The school
authorities removed h i s
name off the roll because

he had been present

out of l\.0 days.

only 6

age.

of

the

night

Samuel

Singh

informed
us
that
his ten
month
old
sister was sick

with smallpox.
The next
morning I went to see and
found the baby dying. Even
then they had not called a
doctor.

summoned a

doc

tor who gave medicine, but

the baby could not swallow
anything.. When I went
back in the evening to see
how the baby fared, I found
that

it

had

died and was

already buried. The family

is Roman Catholic, which is
why wo were not summoned
for
the
funeral#
Samuel,
the brother, evidentally

. HELPING THE NEEDY

One

members of

his work in his home v i l l

One
THE BOYS

all

the local congregation. One

of our former boys, Ezra,is
receiving $2.13 a month for

problems of

missionaries is to know who

is genuinely in need o f
help. But it is a joy to

did

of

not

his

learn of

sister

the death

until

the

next day,
even though he
was only three miles av/ay.

TOTB-NAIL SKETCH

Bro Rollin Dunahugh. of

ColuiTibus,
Ohio,
has asked
for

thumb-nail sketch

was'

ied

devout woman

who prayed that a nuiTiber of

her family would enter the

ministry.

greatly

Prom

of

my background.
My great-grandmoth'er
Rhoads

this

She died'v/ithout

her prayer being-answered,

and I entered the ministry
not Imowing that she had
prayed. But I believe that
the Lord showed
special
mercy on me
in . answer
to her prayer.
My home background was

enlarged

m y

faith..

19i|-2 to I9I4.6 I stud

Cincinnati

Bible

Seminary where I
was only
an average student.
I
had been baptized at

the

age

short

of

nine * after

illness.

knew

that

At the time

if

:I died. I

would go to hell. Since -the

day of my baptism I have
not been afraid to die.

The

hymn,

J es us , "

"Anywhere V/lth

inf luenc ed

m e

greatly to become, a. mission

ary. There car;ie a'time when

wholesome but not 'especial

ly pious. My father still

I said, "Anywhere but India"

wonders

India

how

son of his

became a preachef.
One of the
things
t o
which I
owe the saving of
my soul is Diy poor eye

sight,

now improved*

prevented me from

too

easily

This'

becoming

entangled with

evil companions
and the
pleasures of this present

but

then

needed

me

.place that,

most. I

have ne

Lord intended mo to do.

As- for my work v/ith Hindi

publications, 1 can only
say that the L03:*d pushed me
into

The personswho inspired

me most were very humble

thought

persons such as Mr, and Mrs.

P.E, Dusenberry and Mr. and

when I

Mrs. L.E. Evans.

Erieside Christian

v/ell.

Ser

realized that

the

ver been sorry for that de-cisioni

and. I api o/ox* more
convinced novi th,an
then
that
this
is t.he work the

world.

vice Camp made its very im

portant contribution in the

was

it.

it. I

would never have

myself

But

capable of

there came a

time

had to do i t ; and i t

has worked out surprizingly

Anything
lished

the

I. have accomp

must be credited to

Lord

Jesus

Christ. I

early 19ii-0*s .
During the winter of 19il-l
191^.2 I read the Bible from

could never have passed an

examination by a mission

Genesis

the chairiTian.

to

Revelation and

board,

even

if I

had been

COUTRIi^OTIOIfS

FOR PEBRU/JIY

,/jrD K/iRCH, 1959

TO APRIL 15th, 1958 _

Book Store

Illinois;

Women at Paxton

$20.00

$93^17

Boys

35*^0

Christasian

Indiana;

Darlington Church

7O.OO

Prank Reas*

20.00

The Henry Schramnis

50.00

The Glonn Morricals

5*00

Kontuckys

Mt. Zlon Church

8.00

Michigan;

Suraher Jrs.

10.00

37*^

Church

21.^9

Housing

3*-^!
15000

TOTAL SPEt'T

l|.7357

SHMMARY

Balance March 1st

Contributions

15.lb

Donald P. Peel

10.00

Ohio:
Old Stone S.S.

20.00

Total Receipts
Less Spent
Balance April 15

Bladensburg L.D.s ,

20.00
11.00

Clinton Chur'ch

[j.0.00

Clinton Ta;s Stamps

No. 1110
Linden Homebuilders
Manchester Church .
West Virginia:

11.30
25.00
75*00
25.00

Follansbee P.P.s

10.00

bl.iL3

Medical
Ralph's Salary

W^ne McKinney

Norv;alk Homemaker s

70.9?

N.T. Publications

5*00

Missouri;

Neoper Church"

EJCPEfTDITTJRSS PROM MARCH 1ST

.26

lj.50.[j.6

Book Store Sales.

71.^72

522Jji|.
k-73S7
ij.8.-87

There
have
been no fur
ther contributions
to
the

furlough fund,
ance

so the bal

of . that fund rema^-ns

at $30* This will be enough

to get me to Calcutta.

TOTAL RECEIVED

SEND ALL CONTRIBUTIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS TO

Miss Plorence Douglas

13ij. E. North St.

Pldra,

Illinois

All Contributors receive free subscriptions to CHRISTASIAN

TEKEL,

thou art weighed

in the balances
and

art found wanting.

Daniel 5:27

Vol. IV No. 3

May IfJoS June

Pficei nP. 25

Kanpur, India

MOMIOSiPlTAIL TlMiS
Fiction^Not True Yet

When the policeman stopped me I

thought all he wanted was to check my
bicycle license.

" We are very sorry to inform you,"

he said, " that you have become heavily
conatomated and are now a public

" I am afraid that that will be im

possible. They will never know what

happened to you. Otherwise there would
be panics among the masses, and we must
avoid that. I am sure you understand."
From the first I

knew that I

was

getting better treatment than I deserved.

menace."

I was caught in a Geiger Trap.

In my panic I jumped back on my
cycle and began to dash away as though X
had no cycle license.
But I had not
noticed that the policeman had fastened
a new type of transparent chain to the
cycle. So instead of gaining my freedom
I fell on my face.
The next thing I knew, I was in a
lead-walled room at the Atomospital, five
hundred feet underneath the Ganges.
The Government must be thanked for

making my room at the Atomospital a

I did not deserve such a comfortable room.

I had not come by my conatomation

innocently.
As much as ten years previously the
Government had banned a long list of
vegetables and beverages as having ab
sorbed an excess of atom fall-out. Any
one found growing or selling any of these
things was arrested and jailed. But I
didn't feel I could get along without
these things, and so I secretly grew my
own supply. After all, I had survived
the

cancer scare of the fifties

without

reducing my intake of nicotine and so

rest mattress on the bed, a large screened why should I not eat whatever I please.
television set, and plumbing, for hot, I also avoided the Geiger-tested foods
cold, and iced water. This was, of since their lead-foil wrapping always
course, to be my home for the rest of my made them more expensive.
For some time I had been growing
life.
As I slowly gained consciousness at weaker, but I attributed all of that to
the Atomospital, I noticed a man dressed my advancing age. I would probably
in protective clothing standing by my have died peacefully at home if it had not
bed. " I am your Atomosphysician ," he been for that Geiger Trap.
said. " I will visit you each morning
One day I asked my Atomosphysician
and set you up in business for the day.. just how it was that I got caught. He
.. I am the only person you will ever told me that the policeman, who was
really an Atomspector, possessed a deli
see."
" How long will I be here ?" I cate instrument called Geigerdar. In
this way he knew of my approach while I
asked.
"As yet no one has left here
was still a quarter of a mile away.
comfortable one.

There was a Beauty-

Even then we have found it

To make a short story shorter, I was

best to leave the body in the room and seal

it up as a tomb. We must take every
precaution to keep conatomation from
spreading."

only in the Atomospital five years. Con

atomation soon became so prevalent that
the Government had to give up the idea
of the Atomospital. In the meantime I
forgot how to work and have thus chosen

alive that is.

" May I correspond with my family

and friends?"

writing for my career.

GTOWIIMQ UP
By Markkapapa

" When I was a childwrote Paul

to the Corinthians, " I spake as a child, I

understood as a child, I thought as a
child; but when I became a man, I put
away childish things." I Cor. 13:11.

can evaluate himself as well as the world

around him in a realistic manner.

When we are young we often live in

a world of fantasy or unreality. In this
world of make-believe we picture our
A child is obviously immature selves to be the chosen one, the prince
physically, mentally, emotionally. A child charming, the hero, or else the rejected,
cannot walk alone, either in a literal or the despised, the " ugly duckling." As
a figurative way; it is dependent on others we grow up we gradually learn to under
for the satisfaction of its needs, for support stand ourselves better, to evaluate ourselves
as we actually are. We come to know our
and guidance.
Nor can a child think logically or strengths and weaknesses, our abilities
rationally, or have much control over and disabilities. We gain insight into
its expressions and actions. But with the our thinking, our feeling, and our
years there generally comes added bodily behaviour.
As we grow up we also leam to face
strength, physical independence, greater
intellectual ability, increased emotional responsibility and look realistically at
developmentan ability to act and react the facts of life. We learn to anticipate
the results of our actions. We leam to
with physical and emotional control.
foresee the possible consequences of our
Some children fail to grow up physi
cally and remain weak and stunted; some behaviour. We no longer permit our
fail to develop intellectually and are desires to dominate completely our think
mentally deficient; and some remain ing or actions.
Emotionally, a mature person develops
emotionally undeveloped and immature.
In a word: many people never grow up a sense of independence. When we grow
fully. In their thinking, in their feeling, up we can stand by ourselves. We are able
and in their actions they continue to be to make our own judgements and deci
sions. The dependent person lacks a
" like a child."
sense of security; he lacks confidence in
Biology declares that life is charac
his own abilities. He therefore tends to
terized by growth. Similarly, the spiri
tual life is characterized by growth. It lean on other people and looks to someone
is not enough to say that men must else for support and protection. But the
experience a spiritual birth. The twice- mature individual is self reliant and
born man must mature; and by maturity assumes responsibility for his behaviour.
He does not seek to escape reality by
I mean simply growing up.
turning to daydreams, fantasy, or to
artificial means of sedation or stimulation.
Signs of Maturity
Another sign of being grown up
A mature person has, first of all, emotionally is the ability to show and to
insight and foresight in his thinking. He share love and affection, to actually care

for someone. In infancy and childhood

the feeling of love is basically self-centered.
A child'Wants things for itself, to satisfy
its own desires and needs.

The child has

little feeling for giving or sharing with

someone eke.

The love of a. mature

person, however, k of a different quality.

There k a genuine desire to share with
another personto share thoughts and
feelings as well as possessions. There
is the desire not only to be happy but to
give happiness; not only to obtain
satkfactiori, but to give satkfaction.
Thk k the kind of love, incidentally,
that k essential for any Ghrktian
relationship.
Mature thinking and feeling express
themselves

in matiu-e actions

and

be

haviour. A child k likely to act reflexly;

an adult, reflectively. The child k impukive in its actionshe runs after the ball
in the middle of the street without thought
of the potential dangers; an adult's re
actions are more deliberatehe recognizes
hazards and will change hk action
accordingly. Here, then, k the mature

factors which have moulded us during the

course of our life.

Similarly, the difference in our

personalities, in our feelings suid attitudes
are partly the result of inherited constitu
tional factors and partly the result of the
psychological and social conditions to
which we have been exposed from infancy.
As these environmental factors of necessity
differ from individual to individual, so do

our attitudes and behaviour patterns vary.

A child, for example, brought up in
an atmosphere of love and protection
develops a sense of being wanted, of
belonging, of security; while a child
brought up in an indifferent or hostile
environment may never acquire these
feelings.
Many of the feelings and attitudes
which men and women acquire during
their formative years they carry over
into maturity; and these influence the
personality of the individual and the type
of adjustment he makes in his family, hk
work, hk church and social life.

person:

(1) In hk behaviour the mature

person shows both flexibility and control.
(2) He k neither rigid nor compul
sive, but adapts hk action to the situation.
(3) He can accept authority and
discipline as well as responsibility and
power.

(4) He leams to cooperate with other

people, to make the necessary adjustments
and adaptations to life.
Differences in Maturity

No two individuak are really alike.

They differ from each other in physique,
in intelligence, and in emotional reactions.
Our bodies and minds are what they are

The Gall of the Unattainable

Most of us show evidences of inrniaturities of one kind or another. We

are likely to revert at times to childish

forms of thinking or behaviour. If, how
ever, we try to understand the signs and
causes of occasional immature actions and

reactions on our part and on the part of

others, we can become more tolerant and
acceptive. This is in itself evidence of

being grown up. Ideally speaking, it is

what one contemporary scholar has called
" The Call of the Unattainable."

Some

groups call it Christian Perfection; sanctification is a term often used. It can also
be called consecration.
To achieve full

as a result of nature and nurture; of the maturity k difficult, perhaps an unattain

constitutional qualities which we inherit able call. We are but Christians in the
from our parents, and of the environmental making.

yBTANDilMQ WOMilNI F
No. 1 - EVE

By Miss H. Kaveri Bai

Our thoughts go back to our first

ancestress, Eve. She was not born of
mothen and father, but was made out of
her husband's rib.

The last created object in Eden, her

eyes opened on a scene of transcendent
beauty, grandeur, purity and peace, such
as no mortal has since seen or imagined.
The Creator Himself, Who had bestowed
on Adam and Eve the whole

dominion

over the earth, took delight in their

company; and they rejoiced in His
fellowship.
They lacked nothing. They were
free to enjoy the fruits of the trees of the
garden, an inexhaustible store. Only
one tree was forbiddenTHE TREE OF
THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND

EVIL. Regarding this, God lovingly

warned them before hand, " In the day
that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely
die." (Gen. 2:17). They thought no
thing wrong in that.
Adam and Eve were no doubt created

grown up. But they were still innocent

children. We can imagine that had they
not disobeyed God, God would have
increased their knowledge, more and more
unfolded heavenly mysteries, and finally
taken them into fullest confidence.
The Disobedience

But, as we know, they did disobey

God.

The woman might plead that she had

Human logic in these days of world

wide apostasy and moral decay would
always ask perverse questions: " Why
should God place that tree in the
Garden?" It is like a child stealing a

cake might ask, " Why was it on the table

anyway?"

Then again, we hear talk like this:

" Could not God with His almighty power
prevented Eve from plucking that fruit?
Can't He prevent us from committing sin ?"
Those who ask such questions must be
very ardent admirers of ruthless tyrants,
who by murders and massacres, prisons
and concentration camps, torture and
brain-washing, want to compel every one
to think, speak and act in the one and
only way prescribed to them.
These critics of God, who blame Him
for not reducing hmnan beings to auto
matons, would be the very ones to fiercely
denounce Him had He attempted any
thing like that. What was Gandhi's
answer

to

our former

British

rulers ?

" We must be free even to mismanage our

own affairs

Eve's Unreasonable Conduct

Eve's conduct is very puzzling; but

so is that of most women (and men too),
who honour a
God's.

liar's words more than

Eve knew God's goodness perfectly

well. But when a stranger, about whom
she knew nothing at all, approached her

not existed when that commandment was

in her husband's absence, she readily

given. But Adam could not plead thus,

for the commandment was given to him
direcdy.

believed every slanderous word of Im

against God. To this day, not only
women, but educated men, take for granted

any theory or speculation which attempts

DEATH and MURDER! But thank
to discredit the Bible. They accept mere God, He immediately promised the
opinions as established facts. They prefer Redeemer, " the woman's seed" who

to teach as ' SCIENCE * even silly fables, would " bruise" the serpent's head.
so long as these contradict the Word of " Gk)d sent forth his own Son, made of a
God.
woman" to redeem mantod. (Gal.
The stranger gave Eve his false 4:4, 5). "I am the resurrection and
assurance, " Ye shall not surely die, for the life: he that believeth in me, though
God doth know that in the day ye eat he were dead, yet shall he live." (John
thereof, your eyes shall be opened and 11:25).

ye^ shall be as gods, knowing good and

evil."

(Gen. 3:4,5).

Eve straightway

plucked and ate the fruit.

And when

Adam joined her, she gave him a piece,

and he also ate it in defiance of God's
commandment.

Eyes Opened

Their eyes indeed were opened, but

to see the good they had cast away, and
the evil they had brought on themselves.
But they would not own up to it, Adam
especially. For his deliberate trans
gression of God's commandment, he

blamed God Himself saying, " The

woman
.thou gavest
she gave
me
and I did eat." (Gen. 3:12).
To this day, Adam's descendents
throw the blame for their misdeeds upon
some one else
even God Himself.
" God had ordained that this should

happen," " Why should he be so importu

nate?" " Why should she take me there?"
Their eyes were indeed opened to see the
evil consequences of their disobedience,
but they were closed from seeing God.
Had. the first pair not eaten that
death-giving fruit they would be living
today. But, as it was, they had already
begun to feel the processes of decay
and death in their bodies.

Eve realized

the full import of what she had done on

that day when her anguished eyes gazed
upon the lifeless form of her second son,
slain by her own first-bom, who had fled

from home a haunted fugitive.

God is giving us loving warnings

through the Bible: " The wages of sin is
death," Rom. 6:23. "If thy right hand
offend thee, cut it off: it is better

to enter into life maimed than having

two hands to go to hell, into the fire that
shall never be quenched: where their
worm dieth not. Similarly about the
offending eye and foot. (Mark 9:43-48).
From end to end the Bible speaks of
the sinner's doom and urges him to repent
and retum to God and escape damnation.
But the old serpent still whispers, " Yea,
hath Gk)d said so? But I say, NAY."
Modem Eve listens to him, and modem
Adam

also.

The

same

old

liar

and

murderer goes about telling, " Sin is only

a weakness, a disease, a pardonable
mistake, or a thing for which a clinic will
do...... There is no such thing as hell,
except perhaps in your conscience. Even
if there were One, God is love and will
not cast you there. If need be. He will
give you a second chance after death."
As for God's wonderful plan of salvation
through our Lord Jesus Christ, Satan tries

to make you disbelieve the whole thing,

or, at any rate, to cut out some links in

the chain as incompatible with reason and

experience. In this way the whole chain
of facts snaps, and the effect is the same.
But modem Eve listens to him, and so
also modem Adam.

But remember that God says, "It is

appointed unto men once to die, but
after this the judgement." (Heb. 9:27).

isys CIHIilST INIEEi IISI|irEy ilNIPOA

By SwAMi Atmananda
From The Seeker & Pilgrim^ Varanasi

A few articles on the subject have

been coming out indirectly through news

" Neither I nor any of my lamas have

any knowledge about the existence of

papers for the last few years. Attempts

su^ a manuscript in my library either at

have been made to lower the digmty

present or in the past."

I have photos of different parts of
Himis Muth, the Chief Lama and others
who inspected the library with me.

of the character of one who has been

adored by the major portion of the

world*s population. These reports are
derived from a baseless fable created by
a Russian vagabond.
Nicholas Notovitch, the Russian
traveller, is said to have come to visit

India in the autumn of 1887 and imagined

the existence of a manuscript in the Himis
Muth of Ladak containing the life story
of Jesus Christ. I have sufficient proofr
to show the forgery of Nicholas Notovitch.
The following is the true copy of
the English translation of the Tibetan
assertion given to me by the chief Lama
(Kushak) of Himis Muth(Copyright
reserved).
" Sadhu J. N. Hulder of 85, Dr.
Suresh Sarkar Road, Calcutta 14, India,

very kindly visited my monastary in

Himis from the 7th to 9th and 12th to

13th November 1954.

His object was to

research into the travel of Jesus Christ

in various parts of India about which he
had read in the book published by one
Russian

Mr.

Nicholas

Notovitch.

The

Diary in Ldh

In order to help the public of India

and abroad to understand the facts of

the case, I am subjoining herein below

another excerpt of the diary of the Chris
tian Church of Leh, the Capital of Ladak,
25 miles to the west of Hu^.
The extract of the diary of the church
in Leh (Ladak) for the year 1894 reads as
under:(Copyright reserved).
"In autumn 1887 appeared here a
Russian, Nicholas Notovitch, who also
visited the Himis convent in the neigh
bourhood of Leh. That gentleman lives
now in Paris, and in 1893 published
a biggish book, a ' New Life of Jesus.'
He pretends to have seriously injured his
foot near KKmis during that journey and
to have been taken to. the convent and

nursed by the monks. These shew him

then a Tibetan copy of a work to be found

traveller visited my Monastary in the

in Lhassa, ' Life of Issa'.

autiunn of 1887.

Muslim name for Jesus.

" According to that book Jesus would
have set out for the East as a youth,
and have investigated Brahmanism in

" Sadhuji, with the help of Messrs.

P. Vittoz, S. S. Gergan, E. Tsetan
Puntsog, Jonathon Paljor, my mukteer,
manager, personal attendant and some
of my lamas, who are masters in Tibetan,
tried to find out the manuscript which is
said to have been mentioned in the afore

said publication, but nothing could be

traced out.

Issa is the

India and Buddhism in Tibet. He would

then have returned to Palestine as a

mature man and, proclaiming his acquired

knowledge and teaching as divine wisdom,
would have been generally highly revered
by the Jews. But against the expressed

will of the Sanhedrin, Pilate had taken

him prisoner and crucified him. As Pilate

still feared a popular agitation aroimd the
tomb of Jesus, he had the body removed
secretly to another tomb. From this
arose the tale of the Resurrection of the
Crucified.
" Notovitch assures that he translated
that life. of Chirst written in Tibetan

with the help of the monks, although he

does not understand the Tibetan language
and quite certainly could not talk with
the Lamas comprehensively in Urdu

the manuscript. When he enquired at

the Himis Monastary the indigation of
the Abbot knew no bounds.

No such

MS. was in the Library, nor indeed in

Tibet anywhere. The whole story was
an impudent lie. Professor Douglas des
cribed his journey in the " Nineteenth
Century" for April 1896; and Mr. Nicholas
Notovitch was recognized to be an un
scrupulous adventurer. Yet many make
use of his lies even today.
3. In more recent times (1923 or
thereabout) Swami Abhedanand of the

either.

Ram Krishna Muth and Mission in a book

" The aim of this new gospel is quite

clear; the writer will bridge the period

on his journeys in Tibet and Kashmir

makes use of the same shady story without
going into the matter in a scholarly way
and judging it by standards of historical
criticism. The present day popular agita
tion both in Bengal and Bombay is not a
little due to the spread of his writings.
4. In the three articles published in
the Blitz by Shree B. J. Bhandari and

between the thirteenth and the thirtieth

year of Jesus' life and trace the divine

teachings of Christ back to the wisdom
of Bralmans and of Buddha.

" For the protection of Truth howeva: we were obliged to oppose the author
openly after thorough inquiries, for it is
not the teaching of Chnst which is a
plagiarism, but the whole story and the
whole book are nothing but humbug
and aberration.

" Mr. Notovitch is naturally very

angry about , our assertion and traces it
back to calumny arising from petty envy.
But Mr. Webber has in hand an official

written document in which the prior of

the convent explains that no sick European
was nursed in their convent and that their

library does not possess any book about

" Issa or Jesus."
4:

4:

ADDED POINTS

others, a careful reader must have noted

their misquotations from the New Testa

ment, and their drawing on their imagina
tion rather than documentary evidences.
5. It is sad that mere curiosity and
popular credulity are being exploited to
no purpose and an issue which is obsolete
and dead as mutton is revived from time
to time to create sensation.

6. This whole thesis of an alleged

visit to India by Jesus has been challenged
in an elaborate and scholarly fashion in
a book written by Swami Atmanand
entitled " Bharati Bible" (The Indian
Bible) i.e. the alleged visit of Jesus to
India to be published soon.

By R. C. Das, Varanasi
1.

In an article in the " Nineteenth

Century " for October 1894, Max Muller,

the great Orientalist, saw clearly that
the tale of Notovitch was false.

2. Professor J. Archibald Douglas

of the Government College, Agra, used
his hot weather holiday in 1895 to take
a journey to Ladak in die hope of finding

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During our stay in China, we asked influence contrary to its own pattern of
political economy; and they were deter
tionship between the Church and the mined to enlist the undivided support of

several Christian leaders about the rela

State. The answer we invariably got was

that when the Communist Party took

every citizen of the country.

As these were the nece sary conditions

on which religious freedom was offered,

the Christians agreed to sign a Manifesto
government towards the Church. The pledging their loyalty to the State.

control of the country, the Christians were

uncertain as to the policy of the new
Christians knew that the Communists

Thereafter the new Constitution, in the

drafting of which five leading Protestants

were
invited, provided for the freedom of
and they themselves were called " eater
of foreign religion." Many of them anti religious faiths. This freedom, howevCT,
cipated severe persecution and eradica cannot be compared with what it means in

looked unfavourably on foreign missions,

India or any other democratic country.

tion of religion altogether.
It
is more a toleration on the part of the
But contrary to their expectation,
the Communists did not wish to eradicate State than an acknowledgement of a
religion from the country. What they fundamental right of the citizen.
The Christians in China justify their
required of people was complete alle^ance to the Chinese Peoples' Republic, allegiance to the State by the Patdine

and wholehearted support of the country's teachingofsubjection to the higher powere.

plans for social reconstruction. They also But the disturbing factor is lhat some of
demanded a complete break with all them are inclined to regard the Communist
foreign missions so that the Church was Party more like Cyrus in Isaiah 45 than
entirely autonomous within the country the Assyrians in Isaiah 10.
The Gk)vemment is now confident of
as far as administration, finance and
the loyalty of the Christians and appre
religious activities were concerned.
Many Christians, however, in the ciative of their services. It acknowledges
early stages of the Communist regime, that Christians have special qualities and
could not see their way to concede to these skills which the new China needs in its

requirements as it meant interference with task of reconstruction. Several Christians

their religfious freedom and several of hold high offices in the State. Many
them were- put iri jail. These included Christians hold offices at the various
Bishop Kimbar Denwho was only recently levels of the Peoples Consultative
Conference.

released.

Since the Government now feels well

Attitude Cihanged
Towards the end of 1950, however,
the Christians came to realise that resis
tance could be of no avail, as the State
was determined to eliihinate all foreign

established and is confident of the loyalty

of most of the Chinese people, the Cl^tians as well as other minority communities
are allowed to invite visitors from other

countries and also to send delegations

abroad..

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Chinese Christians and Communism

them; and I believe not without some

effect on them.

The Communists in China are quite

" W^e do not automatically support
frank about the irreconcilability. of everything the Commmiists do. They
Marxism and religion. They do not have done certain things which I regard
^ect Christians to subscribe to their as extreme and haphazard today.
ideology.
^" When Christ wanted to teach His
^Among the six hundred million disciples about being one's neighbour He

Chinese there are only eleven million used the parable of the Grood Samaritan.
Communists; and these are not anxious At its end He said, ' Go and do thou
to increase their number. Unless a likewise'. Seeing what the Chinese
person wanting to join the party is pre Communists have done and are doing we
pared to abandon religion altogether they feel humbled. We thank God for them
will not accept him. They regard religion and we want to leam firom them through
as an opiate. Therefore none ofthe Christians what they do. However, Christ has not
are communists.

told us, 'believe thou likewise.'

We also

We were told that in the early stages feel we can serve our people best by
of the communist regime, some Cluistian maintaining the integrity of the Christian
leaders attempted to effect a theological faith.
synthesis between Christianity and Marx
" A few Christians in the early days
ism. But such ail attempt was neither of the liberation thought it was their
acceptable to the Communists nor to the mission .to establish a certain synthesis
Christians in generat. So while the between Chiistianity and Marxism. The
Christians have given their wholehearted Church can best serve the people by
political allegiance to the State, they maintaini^ the purity of its message and
stand entirely apart and imcompromised thus keeping its own initiative in saying
as far as their religious convictions are

its *yes' and ' no ' on the merit of each

concerned.

moral issue."

Bishop Ting on Commnnism

Church Well Established

We are quoting Bishop Ting at

length because his statement on this
subject represents the attitude of the
Chmese Christians towards Communism

in their country.
" The Communists have their definite
views about the non-existence of God

and the complete irrelevance of Christ.

They do not have a conception of man as

standing in need of redemption. They

believe that sometime in the future,
perhaps one hundred years from now,
people will not need to believe in religion
any more and religion will wither away.
" Of course we do not pretend to
agree with this view. In fact, in Nanking

we very often discuss these matters with

One thing quite obvious in our visit

to Cl^a was that the Church was well

established and that there was a definite

imderstanding between the Government

and the Church.

There was no indication

of what was in some quarters reported

recently that nearly 50 per cent of the

Chinese Christians had been driven imder-

ground by Communist persecution, that

Christians dare not openly attend Church

Services, and that the Communists keep a

close^ t^y on church attendance and

discriminate against those who attend.

This may have been the case in the early

years of the Communist regime, but it is
not evident now.

Dear Kids,

f. Your mother has probably told you that sometimes

your uncle is very slow to " catch on." Some people
blame this on my visit to Englandperhaps I inhaled
too much of the London fog.
Well, last Saturday was one of those days.
In the afternoon I went out to visit a member of

the church who was sick. The house was very clean and
shining.

There was a beautiful calendar on the wall

for which I congratulated them. Then gradually it

dawned on me that some other things were hanging on
the wall which should not have been found in a Christian
home. I should have noticed them as soon as I entered

the room, but, as I say, your uncle is awfully stupid some

times.

"Just for today, just for today," the lady of the

house said. She went on to say that some Government
official was making a tour of that neighbourhood that
day and that these pagan pictures had been hung just
to please him.

When I asked her what she thought Jesus would

think about it, she had to admit that He would not
approve. A lot of people say that Christ is the unseen

guest in their house; but just because He is unseen does

not mean that He is unseeing. There is nothing that is
hid from His eyes.
It did not take the lady very long to see her mistake.

She immediately had the pagan pictures taken down

and Christian pictures put up instead.
Yes, it is very easy to say, "Just for one day," or
"Just this once." But if you really love the Lord Jesus,
you won't want to sorrow Him for even one minute.

You will always want to do that which will make Him

happy.

You will probably say that you would never hang

up a pagan picture in your house.

But there are many

other wrong things which we do when we forget that

Jesus is near. If Jesus was really a guest in our homes,
we would be more faithful in our Bible study, prayers,
and church attendance; and we would be more choosy
about how we entertain ourselves.
Your Uncle.

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have a shelter firom Satan and sin.

Annie Oommen Writes:

That

shelter is God. He will keep us safe under

We have all seen houses and buildings. His wings.
Now I am going to tell you something
Now I think we have finished the
about houses.
house. We have a foundation, a strong
A house can be compared to our wall and a roof. But what about the
lives.

When *we build houses we should

first see that the site is good. We should

clear away all the thorns and bushes and
plants that are harmful to the house.
In the same way we should put away all
our sinhil natures if we want to receive
Christ.

We should get a good mason to build

the house. There is no use having a
mason who does not build houses properly.
In the same way we can have only one
mason in our lives and that is the Lord

Jesus. He is the only one who can help

us.

Then we should see that we have a

good foundation. If we do not have a

good foundation, the house will fall down
flat. In God's word (Luke 6:48, 49)
there is a parable about a foolish man
and a wise man. The wise man built his
house on a rock and when the rains came
the house stood firm on that rock. But

the foolish man built his house upon the

door?

The door is the entrance to the house.

There is only one way back to God and

that is through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Jesus said in John 14:6, " I am the way
the truth and the life.

No man cometh

imto the Father but by me."

Then we should have the windows to

let the light and the firesh air come into

the house. In the same way we should
let the Holy Spirit into our lives. We
need fresh air every time and we need
the Holy Spirit every time. We cannot
live without the Holy Spirit. In John
14:18, Jesus tells us that He will not
leave us comfortless.
The Holy Spirit
is " Another Comforter."

Now I think that we have got our

house completed. I hope you will enjoy

reading this small article and I hope it
will help you.
L. Annie Oommen

sand and when the rains came the house

fell flat. The Lord Jesus should be our

foundation. Only then can we stand
firm during the trials and temptations in
our lives.
Then there are the walls. The walls
should be firm and connected with the

foimdation.
our faith.

The walls speak to us about

Our faith should be firm.

We

should have faith in Jesus who is the

foundation of our lives.

The roof speaks to us of shelter from

the winds and from the rain. Psalm 61:3
fells us that God is our shelter. We must

FUNNY STORY

The people of the United States of

America have sent some powdered milk
for needy persons in India, and some of
it has been given to us for distribution in
Swarupnagar. In order to make sure
that the most needy get it, we usually
ask them why they need the milk. Some
will say they are sick, and many are
badly undernourished. But one boy wzis
rather startled by the question. " I need
the milk to drink," he said.

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Serm-n Out(M6
THE EMPTY HOUSE

Barefoot freae&ers.
vacancy with the Holy Spirit. Obedience
is necessary for this. Acts 2:38; 5:32.

Mt. 12:43-45

swept.

Intro.: This short parable may greatly

effect your life.
I.

The Unclean Spirit Departs

when he is gone out of the man.

Most likely Christ here refers to an
^unclean spirit which He has cast out.
Unclean spirits can stand religiosity and
many other things, but it cannot suffer
any communion with Christ.

It does not

require miraculous powers to cast out

imclean spirits^he will flee when one
believes and repents.
passeth through waterless places.
In my opinion this abhorance of
water dates from the Flood. They no

doubt panic at the thought of immersion.

seeking restandfindeth it not.
It is impossible to flnd rest outside
ofJesus Christ.
n. He Returns.

he saithy I will return.

He always tries to come back again.

We should never feel that we are perma
nently immune from his attempts.
into my house.
He thinks it is his, but actually it is
not.

God made us, then redeemed us.

We are His house.

he findeth it empty.
This is the great sin of many who
would follow Christ. They rid their lives
of the imclean spirit without filling the

Some succeed in ridding, their lives

of the sins of lying, stealing, adultery etc.
and yet neglect to accept the Holy Spirit.
Cleansing without filling is not sufficient.
garnished.
Some times we see people leading
beautiful lives without having obeyed
the Gospel; and we wonder how it is
possible. Their houses are indeed gar
nished, but they are stiU empty.
m. The Last State.

he taketh with himselfseven other spirits

more evil than himself and th^ enter
in and dwell there.

Satan likes the.finer things of life.

He enjoys nothing better than to enter
into the garnished lives of churchgoers,
innocent youths, and Christian workers.
and the last state of that man becometh
worse than the first. Heb. 6:4-6;
II Pet. 2:21, 22.
Cone.: Even so shaU it be also unto

this evil generation if we do not allow

the Lord Jesus to live in us. Rev. 3:20.
Gal. 3:27.

THE CONVERSION OF PETER

Intro.: In the story of Peter we see

how Christ can take an unlikely, unread,
rough, and bimgling man and lift him to
heavenly places.
I. His Weaknesses and Mistakes.

Mt. 16:21-23:

He tried to correct

the Lord; Mt. 17:4, 5: He had bright

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ideas which were not in the will of the

Presence with the Bride^oom. v. 3.

Lord; Mt. 17:24-27: He incorrectly re

No sorrows.

presented the Lord; John 18:10, 11: He

misunderstood the Kingdom of God and
began to fight with the sword; Mt. 26:
69-75: After all the fellowship with the
Lord which he had experienced, he denied

Ultimate beauty. Rev. 21:11, 19-21.

Him thrice.

The educated Judas Iscariot

must often have wondered

how this

character got included in the band.

n. What Good Did the

Lord See in

Him?

Luke 5:8: There is hope for a man

who admits he is a sinner; Mt. 16:16, 17:

There is hope for a man who believes that

Jesus is the Christ the Son of the Livii^

God; Mt. 26:75d: and for a man who will

cry over his sins; John 21: 15-17: and

for. one who loves the Lord.

Rev. 21:4.

Place of Praise. Rev. 19:6-8.

n. Some Results of this Hope.

Boldness, II Cor. 3:12.
Love, Col. 1:4,5.
Patience, I Thess. 1:2.
Comfort, I Thess. 4:13.

Rejoicing, Heb. 3:6.

Purity, I John 3:3.

in. The Way to Get this Hope.

Jesus is the only way. John 14:6.

Cone.: Set your hope perfectly on the
grace that is to be brought to you at
the revelation ofJesus Christ. I Pet. 1:13.

m. The Finished Man.

Peter became an unflinching pro-

claimer of the Gospel. Acts 2:36-39, 41;

3:17-19; 4:18-20; 5:28-32; 4:13; 10:25,
26.

FEARFUL THING
Mt. 22:1-14

Intro.: The fear of the Lord is the

Cone.: The greatest change in the ^e beginning of wisdom. Prov. 1:7.

of Peter came when he was filled with

1. We ought to fear making light of

the Holy Spirit on the day of.Pentecost. the Lord's invitation to come. v. 5. The
The same Spirit is available to us today. world makes light of obeying the Gospel

Acts 2:38, 39. _

ONE HOPE

a!nd growing in the Faith.

2. We ought to fear giving such high
esteem to our properties and goods.

John 14:1-6

V. 5. Mt. 6:33.

Intro.: A good bit of the confusion in

many Christians' lives is that they take

servants of God.

they really want to go.

V. 12. Rev. 3:17, 18.

3. We ought to fear mistreating the

v. 6.

4. We ought to fear not being pro

their eyes off" the goal and forget where perly dressed when we stand before God.

ought to fear the judgment of

I. Some Aspects of the Father's House. God.5. V.We
7, 13; Mark 9:48; Rev. 21:8.
Mt. 10:28.
Many Mansions, v. 2.
Cone.: If we fe^ Him as we ought we
A Place personally prepared by our
Lord. V. 2.

will partake of the marriage feast, v. 10.

EAyTiiS OIF MY BilLOVliD

By Samuel Oommen, Coonoor

" I have compared thee, O my love, to a

l^company of horses in Pharaoh's

I explained to us all the heavenly mysteries

j in terms of wordly similees; the Sower

of the Seed, Tares among the wheat, a

" Thy cheeks are comely with rows of grain of mustard seed, hidden leaven,
jewels, thy neck with chains of gold." ' the field of treasure, goodly pearls, and
Song of Solomon 1:8, 9.
the net cast into the sea. These are all
These verses are very beautiful in familiar to us. None of these is from
chariots.

the expression of some similees spoken His own country Heaven. Can any man
by the Bridegroom concerning His bride. say that he cannot follow Christ because
Later on we shall see that the Song con he does not understand these similees?
tains other similees as well.
The words of Christ are so simple and
understandable that no man can escape
Object Lesson
from the responsibility of being saved.
The bride is compared to a company
of horses in Pharaoh's chariots. Why does
he not compare her with the horses of his

Power

Horses in a king's chariot denote

power. The Bridegroom says that His
The reason is very simple. The Bride bride has the greatest power in this world.
is still in her " engaged " state and so
The true believer also has great
she is not familiar with the objects of power. This power is given to him by
her husband. Therefore the wise Solomon God Himself through Christ.
tliinks that it would be better for him i
But not everyone appropriates this
to explain the similees in terms of objects power. The Giver of this power to man
own chariots?

well known to her.

is God; but the responsibility to appro

How precious are these thoughts to

us that our Heavenly Solomon has ex

priate this power in himself is man's.

" Wherefore I also, after I heard of
your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love

plained the Beauties of His Bride in similees

which

we

can

understand before

our

Marriage with Him and while we are

still in this world.

He speaks in well-

unto all the saints, cease not to give

thanks for you making mention of you in
my prayers; that the God of our Lord

Jesus Christ, the Father of Glory, may

of His Church can say that they did not give unto you the spirit of wisdom and
understand His Word.
revelation in the knowledge of him; the
If he had spoken in heavenly similees, eyes of your understanding being enlight
they would have been too hard for us. ened; that ye may know what is the hope
When our Lord was in this world. He of his calling and what the riches of the
familiar terms so that none of the members

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glory of his inheritance in the saints, and

what is the exceeding greatness of his
power to US-ward, who believe, according
to the working of his mighty power, which
he wrought in Christ when he raised him
from the dead
and gave him to be
the head over all things to the Church
which is his body." Eph. 1:15-23.
Beloved Reader, are you in this plan of

for these horses. The whole glory and

honour is for the King. Those who
honour the King will honour His horses
too; but the horses have always only this
duty of carrying their Master. Where
ver He directs tihiem to go, they go; and
wherever they go, others see only their
King in the chariot.
Ornaments

God?

What a force is in horses of chariots!

How true is the statement of Christ, " The

kingdom of heaven is gotten by force;"

or, as the original suggests, " Those who
have a vehement desire seize upon it,"
(Mt. 11:12).
Other Qualities

The ornaments with which the cheeks

and the neck of the Bride are decorated

are worth noticing here.

" Thy cheeks are comely with rows
of jewels," our Bridegroom says of us.
The cheeks of our Bridegroom became
very beautiful to us because the Roman
soldiers smote Him on His cheeks and spat
on His face.

Our cheeks will, therefore,

The following other qualities are also become comely only if we .observe the
seen in horses. They show love towards same principle in ourselves. Are we
their master, are quick in obedience, are patient and willing to bear the spits and
easily steerable, show patience, trust smites of our enemies when we have done
worthiness, self-control, and long-suffering.

no wrong?

In the original, these qualities are

Our cheeks will become comely only
made more clear by the word, " female if we obey our Bridegroom's comeliness:
horses ". It should be imderstood by all " I say unto you that ye resist not evil:
the Christian believers that the Lord

but whosoever shall smite thee on thy

Jesus came to this world not only to die right cheek, turn to him the other also.
for us but also to get us these qualities And if any man will sue thee at the law,
that we can note in a female horse. " For and take away thy coat, let him have
even hereimto were ye called: because thy cloke also. And whosoever shall
Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an compel thee to go a mile, go with him

example, that ye should follow his steps:

Who did no sin, neither was guile found
in his mouth: Who, when he was reviled,
reviled not again; when he suffered, he
threatened not; but committed himself to

him that judgeth righteously." I Pet.

2:21-23.

twain. Give to him that asketh thee

and from him that would borrow of thee

turn not thou away." Mt. 5:39-42. If

His Bride does these things in this world
certainly He will say, " Thy cheeks are

comely with rows of jewels."

really carry Him. In this we have to be

He also finds chains of gold on her

neck. These are nothing but the golden
words that come out of her throat zdways.
The only way that the Lord can testify
that His Saints have golden chains round
their necks is by hearing their testimonies,
songs of praises, prayers, and messages.
These are the golden necklaces of His

sure that there is no credit or honour

children.

Duties

The duty of these horses is to carry

their master and King wherever He wants
to go.

Yes, His Saints are those horses who

In an Information Bulletin of the

Evangelical Literature Fellowship of

India we learn these startling facts from a

passengers from getting inside the compart

ment.

Two hillmen, an uncle and nephew,

were recently travelling from Lucknow
million literates in the two Hindi-speaking to Gonda. But since they were unable to
states of U.P. and M.P. received 111,000 get inside the compartment, they were
scriptures in 1956, while in the peak obliged to travel on the foot-board outside.
distribution year of 1920 when there were As the train sped along the uncle's shaky
only about 3 million literates in the same hands lost their grip and he fell down.
area, the distribution was about 284,000. The nephew jumped down after him only
Thus in 1920 one in nine readers received to find the imcle already dead. All night
a gospel. Nowadays only one in 100 he protected the body from jackals and
readers receive a copy, with literacy in other animals. The nephew said that
creasing at a much fester rate." Bro. there was room in the compartment but
Jahn believes that this decline is due they were not allowed to get in.
largely to a lack of enthusiasm but that a
The death of a pet dog at Salarpur
cheaper price on the Gospels would help.
village in Sabarkanatha District was
The per capita national income in recently mourned in traditional Hindu
India has gone up by Rs. 28 bet\yeen manner. At the end of 13 days, all the
1953 and 1957. In 1953 the per capita dogs of the village enjoyed a sumptuous
national income stood at Rs. 266.4 and feast for three days, including sweets.
now it stands at Rs. 294*3, i.e. $ 62*50
One thousand villagers of Karnal
per person per year.
District have given up smoking and have
There are now one crore or ten invested the money thus saved in small
million bullock carts in India.
savings certificates.
The famous Raghunath temple, all
A 90 year old farmer named Babha,
living near Ahmedabad, had four wives hotels and restaurants in Devaprayag, a
who blessed him with 54 children. Fifty pilgrim centre in the interior of Tehriof these are boys. The sons occupy an Garhwal were closed recently when a
entire street in their village and this is convention of out-castes was held there.
called Babha Street by the villagers.
The inner precincts of the famous
Vishwanath
temple at Banaras have now
Mr. Krishna Menon has compared
population control fanatics with third been thrown open to all Hindus. The
class railway travellers in India. He temple has been considered to be pollu
report by Bro. Max Jahn.

" The 10

said that human advent in this world was

like a passenger trying to get into a

crowded railway compartment. Every
body inside the compartment tried lus

best to prevent him from coming in, but

he got in anyway. At the next station,
however, this passenger joined the ranks
of others in trying to prevent other

ted since last December when out-castes

forced their way into the temple and

touched the idol. A new temple is being
planned.
When two district officials were un

successful in passing a truck on a moimtain

road, the ofiicials stopped and made a
complaint at a roadside police station.

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The police then took chase and punctured method for rooting out corruption m
the tyre of the truck by a gim shot and Government offices. " Let parents take.
then

arrested

the

driver.

The

driver

said he could not pull to the side for fear

of falling in a khv^, i.e. chasm.

Twelve persons were injured in a

a vow not to marry their daughters to

persons known for taking bribes and you
will see how effective it will prove in
fighting out the menace of corruption,"
hesaid.

dash which occurred when a bus knocked

down a buffalo in East Calcutta. Imme

Religion and politics got strangely

diately after the collision with the buffalo,

a group of people prevented the bus from

mixed when Mr. Moti Lai Awasthi was

elected to the State Vidhan Sabha. It

and the conductor. They were challen

ged by passengers in the bus and some by
standers of the locality. A section of one
group later set fire to some nearby

Singh dreamt that the Goddess Kali

wanted everyone to vote for Mr. Awasthi
failing which she would be offended and

proceeding mrther and attacked,the driver is alleged that a student named Mathura

buildings.

Fifteen, persons were injured in a

bus accident near Nowgong, Assam when
some merrymakers cdebrating the Hindu
festival of Holi suddenly threw mud on
the driver. The bus skidded, rolled into
a ditch, and then turned turtle.

In another incident some merrymakers

tried to stop a bus so that they could throw

colour on the passengers. When the bus
did not stop, they caught up with it at the
bus station and seriously beat the driver.
A court case between the Punjab
National Bank and Narain Flour Mills at

Lyallpur, is still pending after eight

years. During this period, it is learnt
that five Senior Civil Judges have tried
the case, and there are more than 1,000
pages of testimony on file.
Several years ago a scheme was
undertaken to improve the Hindi script.
This necessitated the destruction of 596,000
text-books. . When the scheme later proved

to be impractical, another 100,000 books

were destroyed.

her wrath would destroy the village.

After the polling, the student cut out his
tongue to propitiate the goddess. As his
election symbol, Mr. Awasthi chose the
banayari tree which is worshipped. It is
alleged that women voters were told to
ciast their votes at the sign of the banayan
tree, otherwise they would earn the wrath
of God.

According to a report in Masihi Awaz

it will be practically impossible for any
member of the Church of North India

who has once been sprinkled to ever be

scripturally baptized. If a person be
comes dissatisfied with sprinkling, the local
pastor is to try and settle his doubts. If
he fails, he is to enlist the help of another
pastor. If they fail, the matter is to be
brought before the Diocese. The report
does not state whether, in the eiid, the
man will be immersed or disfellowshipped.

DESCRIPTION OF SKETCH

The people of India stand before

the empty tomb of Christ. A police
man explains to a pandit that Christ
is not here for He is risen.

Dr. K. N. Katju, Chief Minister of

Madhya Pradesh, has suggested a unique

Reprintedfrom Jeewan-Deep.

0.0 jO

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soon as CHRISTASIAN is delivered at

their house, she always sits right down

and reads every word. Later she marks
the most important articles for her hus
band to read.

I bet a Hook at that marked

copy would sure deflate the editor's ego.

I wish someone would woof up an
edition of CHRISTASIAN in Doglish.
Some people would no doubt subscribe to
it for their dog even though they do not
subscribe to it for themselves.

For a long time I have been trying

to tell Mr. Harter that it was not right

The little girl on our cover this

month is 4| year old Rahisa, the daughter

for him to always have the last words

in his magazine. When he asked who

of Mr. Harter's Mohammedan cook.

should write the parting words, I humbly

offered my services.

He doubted that a

dog could write, but I hope that every

one's doubts will be settled from

this

very first article.

My mother tongue, of course, is
Doglish. So if I get the languages mixed
now and then don't let it agrrrrravate you.
And now for my frank opinions.
The article on " Atomospital Times,"
is perhaps the years most useless article.
Don't waste your time on it.
If the author of" Atomospital Times,"
had first read the article on page three,
" Growing Up," he could not doubt have
given us something more worthy of our
attention. Even I got some benefit out
of Markkapapa's dissertation. (Pretty
i)ig word for a dog, isn't it).
I finally got Mr. Harter to quit
printing that " Find the Mistakes
con
test. There are enough mistakes in his
magazine without deliberately printing
some more. If he had printed that thing
once more I think 1 would have bitten

his leg for sure.

Annie Oommen's dainty article
should have been printed in the last issue.
If you could see how messy the editorial
desk usually is, you wouldn't wonder that
things get lost now and then.
I overheard one lady say that as

A letter came from some people in

Shillong, Assam, (Grease or Rees or
something like that), and they want to
start a Christian paper in the Khasi
language. If I could get up there I
would get them off to a barking good
start.

hear that the bones in Assam

are juicier than the ones in Ultar Pradesh,

letter just came from Markkapapa

saying that he asked for a pseudonym
and got a Harteronym. I know just
what the poor soul means.
He signed
his letter, "Son of C. J. Davis". Which
reminds me that my own dear father's
name was Kutan.

(Signed) Cu. Langru.

THE CHRISTASIAN
R.alph R. H.^rter,
Editor and Publisher,

112/352, Swarup Nagar,

Kanpur, U. P. India.
Telegraphic Address: ' Bibletruth

Kanpur.

Telephone No, 4295,

Annual Subscription Rales:

1 Copy Rs. 1/50; 5 Copies Rs. G
10 Copies Rs. 10; 25 Copies Rs. 20

In the U.S.A. subscriptions at $ I per

year may be remitted to Miss Florence
Douglas, 134

E.

North

St.,

Illinois.

Edited and Published by Mr. Ralph R. Harter and Printed by Shri R. Gancsan at the
JOB PRESS PRIVATE LIMITED, KANPUR.

Flora,

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News of the V/ork of Ralph R. Barter

Swaroop Nagar> Kanpur^ UP> India> on^^^iine 25th, 195^

THE WEATHER

Everyone has been talking

about

the

were

streets

and

weather, people

falling

dead

in the

from the high heat

humidity.

It is a bit

cooler as I write

109 from III4.'),

expecting
to begin

(down to

and

we are

the rainy season

v/ithln the next

few days.

One
died

of

the

So they had to
and
arrange a

"Christian"

funeral

al

though the boy would pro-bably have been surprised

to
have
heard
himself
called a Christian.
So we

collected

the

body

from

the parsi cemetery and in

terred i t in the Christiafei
c emetery.

persons who

on one of the hottest

days v/as Mrs. Kabbibulla of

whom

arose.
hurry

you v/ill read on page

OTHER ACTIVITIji'&
Andriyas went to Lueicnow
for
a
"two mont,li3 visit

nineteen of CTIRI3TASIAK

with

Happily all of our own

membership have so far sur

in the Indian f'ashion, un

vived.

We

did,

however,

his

sistifjr. He went

announced. W^Ven he arrived

there
he
found
that his

sister and far.iily had gone

perform the -guneral o-f an

11 year old boy who had

on

died

Agra. So v/lthin ten days

of

having

Heatstroke

been

measles.

Pars!

His

weakened

after

b y

father was

and his mother v;as a

Christian

of

a sort. They

took the body to the parsi

cenetery but some
quarrel

he

an una;anouncd

was

But it
He had
and so

back

visit

with

to

us.

was just as well.

failed in English
we have been busy

giving him an intciwlxj^ed

courso in that subject.

when

we

issue of

wrote

our last

EARTER THROBS, we

v/ere wondering to v/hat hill

station we might go for
some cool air. -Aud w.e- fept
vrc)ndering.
1/Ye knew what
t iuie

th e

di f f er ent t r ai ns

was decided at long last to

discontinue help to Samuel
Singh whoru we had supported
since

TWO NEW MElilBERS

The congregation

rupnagar

about i t .

As the weather deterlat

my enthus i asm for th e hills

grew. But then I received a

others.
They
have five
children. The fsurilly has
many talents which we hope
they v/ill develop for the

number

Lord.

of

invitations

preach,, and it

to

neyor did

seem the Lord's will to

leave. Now I will be busy

get t ing my " f airiily"

has

at Swa-

left for the different hill

stations, in^at time they
arrived, hovi far it was,
and hov/ much it-coat. One
friend said I v;as like the
man who Icnov; all there was
to Iciow. about the Gospel
but didn*t
d o
anything

received two

previously imniersed persons

(a man and his wife) into
their fellowship.
He was
baptized last winter after

he

had

read a copy of "On

the Rock" v/hich v/e had lent

him. But he was baptized by

Attendance at the Sunday

morning
v/orship service
'^o-atinues

to

grow, and so

r eady

for school.

does our seating problem.

The Lord has
opened a

THE FARttLY - ^
In cooperation with the
local congregation, we will
he giving partial assist

n ew Government Hous ing D evelopments.

Services are
nov/ being held there each
Sunday evening,
and they

ance

are well attended.

door

for

the schooling of

five girls' . and tiiree boys

of very poor f ajmilies.
The cases pf two-or three
o t hers, ar e und er c ons ideration awaiting further in
formation.

_ In addition . to thes-o is
^driyas of whom we have
the will

much
of

concern
the

us

in one of the

A recent questionaire re
cently asl^d how many prea
ch ers V/ e hav e. B es id es mys elf
the .Swarupnagar - con
gregation has three other
preachers.. But they are un
paid,
and of the Eastern

variety..

There are aiother

half dozen;or so other Gos

full responsibility.

.After

for

for

Lord, it

pel . preachers in the

city

with whom we have occasion

al fellowship.

THE WILL OP THE LORD

Last Sunday night v/hen we

were' walking home from the

ev^lng.

service,

Stanley

upon His
altar.. Lose all
concern for yourself. Tell
the Lord that you are v/ill-

asked ; how i t was possible

fo^ us to know the will of
the . Lord
in our daily

ing to do His will even

though it cause you h^ger,
pain., or death itself. It-

affairs

v/ill not be long before you

I don *fknow snj ques t ion

I would rather have someone
ask than this.

It is perhaps no exagger
ation to say that the vast
majority
o f
Christians

have His answer.

The answer
will

rcome as

though
the Lord "Hiiiiself
were speaking to you. Jind
you .v/ill tell your friends, '

scoff at the idea of "divi

" The Lord t o Id me....;" and

they will laugh.

ning" the will of the Lord..

This multitude>
surprising
to say, includes many prea

one thing; the Loird will

no t. " t ell" you anything

chers and missionaries. The

reason
for
their derision

is nothing but an unwill

ingness to pay the price of
walking in His wi.ll. .
Romans 12:1,2 gives the
answer to t h e question

fully and simply. "I besee

ch you therefore, brethren,
by the mercies of God, to
present your bodies a ii
ving sacrifice,
holy, ac
ceptable to God, which is
your spiritual service. Ahd
be not fashioned according
to this v/orld:
but be ye
transformed by the renewing
of your mind,
that ye may
prbve what is the go ocL and
perfect.will or God...

When 70U are confronted

by some gr eat problem; and
you want t o know the L ord *s
will,
just empty yourself

Be

sure,

v/hich

of

course, of

is not in. co ordinat

ion .v/ith Ilis Holy v/ord. And,

when you rec eiv e your ahswer from the Lord, you will,
know that it is according
to His .V/ord. As a matter of
fact.
He will most likely
answer you by brin"'"''^^ : to
your mind a" vers e or pass
age- of Holy Scripture.
Nov/
you v/ill probably
want to

this

attach some terra to

exercise of the soul.

But nb matter what you. call

it,
itis satisfying,
and
it is guaranteed,
'
There

is

mubh much more

to , say on the subject, and

many illustrations to prove,
it.

When the. Lord ,wi1 Is

that we should once again
visit the U.S.A.> we.,to

to ^speak

at length on this

very important matter.

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It is as yet too early to
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. ];i ews of t iie Work of R alph R

Harter

at

"gusTT^^th, 19i

Swaroop Wagar, Kanpur, iJ.P-., India, on

The rainy season was a
little

tiiis

late

i n

year,

but

arriving

the rains

^/hich

than -in

gr am 5

have been steadier

other

years.

The

rainy"

season also brings clouds

of
insects,
and it is the
most unhealthy of all sea
sons .

Our Su:iday Morning church

service has

We have a nui'.iber of small

(but

just about been

Hindi Magazine; As .publi-

ling.

med for staying home

11.

Our two regular services

became three v/ith the addi
tion
of
a
Saturday night
service. These three servi
ces
are all held at diffe

At . presen-t 1 ' ai'i transla

which

was

v/e
a:id

arrangement of -items, supp

lying the blocks,
proofr eading,' ctid printer-hiist-

Rock,"

. v/hon

duties

sher of
Jeewaji
Deep,
make final corrections

pained out
three times so
far
this
season. Most of
the mei.ibers lack uiiibrellas,
pain coats, and tpansportation
ajid so cainot be bla
it-rains. Lov/est .attendanoe

iraportai-it)

add up to a full pro-

ting D.R. Dungan*s, "On the

suid

running

it in

monthly installments. 1 al
so

v/rite

Hindi

Acrostics

have proven popular.

Occasionally, 1 v/rite other

Hindi articles besides^.
Book Store; During

past _tv/o" montiis

the

we did ^89

worth" of
business,
\/hich
includes the sale of 0 Bi

bles, If. Rev/ Testaments, 121}.

rent places. Five- different

copies

men of

Ciirist Visuali;ied in Hindi,

the

congregation

(including niyself)

take

turns in bringing the mess

ages ,

of

the

Life

o f

QXid the first four copies

of "Bible for Tenth."

(Continued on back page.)

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# 67.69

Mis S.Douglas
inforr.is
us
that- ;,|;23 more has been re
ceived
for
the Furlough
Fund, This brings the total

Clinton Church '

1^.0i00

oo ^53^-

Bladensbm^g L,D.'s
Co lUDibus \J. M. S. G.
Mrs. Martha V/right

PLEASE STD
ALL COITRIBUTlOWS AviD SUBSCRIPTIONS TO

Caldv/ell D.V.B.S.

20.00
23 00
3.00
62.50

Branch Hills Church

10,00

Receipt Wo. II63

ii.1.00

Mr, Flint Funeral

20,00

P ennsyIv ania;

Oak Grove D.V.B.S.

TOTAL RECEIVED
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Illinois, U.S.A.

3.00

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Miss Florence Douglas.

Rt. 3, Flora, Illinois.
T hank You II I

CITY VIEIVS

In preparation for fur

lough, I
nave boon taking
some coloured pictures to
make into elides. The came

ra v/as
lent to me by Bro.
Prajik Rempel and the film ;
was sold ' to me by Bro, Tom
Rash. I t remains' to be seen

what the fruit

of all this

whether

or

not the

pictures turn out to be-any

good, it has given me an
excuse

once
its

to

tour

'again

the

city

and reappraise

sites.

Since Kanpur^. is tv/ice as

big

as

see some

you

ten piiles

would
of Kan-.

pur "that v/ould .make you ad:judge Kunpur

as the most
beautiful city in India.
On this .trip you would
trave 1 on the.

wide Mahatm.a

Caiidhi Road '"pa'St

very mo
dern business
buildings,

t he , f o unt ain s and monura ent s ^

cooperation will be.

But

Riverside Road,

any other .city

the State,
.it. has
health;/
people
and

in

more
more .

of Oanesh
Udhyan,
modern
theaters, colleges,
parks,
p al at i.an hoKies , the tr eraendous Power House,
a couple
of decent looking factories
a:id finally
the
majestic
Ganges River Bridge. %
Vifhile you wer e r est-in'g a
d ay at Kaial a .R e t r e at, y o u
would no doubt liKe to take,
a ..short ride to sou the -as-

siclc people, more r i c h

people and more poor people
mor e good people *and more
bad people more Christians

Mandir,

and more non-Chr Istians

viTonders the Coco Cola Bott

etc.

touiding new Medical Col

lege,
the towering Kara la
and that wonder of

The city is one of the

m o s t dansislj populated

ling Factory. lou would al

areas in the world contain

ho us in g pr o j ec t s s p ons or ed
by the
Governtient"" for" the
labouring class.
But we better not let you
go any further.,
You have
now travelled sorae 13' miles
within the city <'ind have
not yet seen where most
of
the people live An<^,
did
you notice","""."'you
haven* t

ing well
persons.

lation

over one million

Many of the popu

live

i xi

pig

pen

slums where life is cheap.

But a person could,drive
through Kanpur
and visit
it ;.for. several days v/i-ihout
finding this
out. If you
v/ore .to
arrive
at Kanpur
Central Station

and

drive

from the C antoniiient to Kaml a Retreat

Central

and then back to

Station," along the

so

want

seen
the
either.

to

see

t]io

new

Bible Bdok'Store

--Actually,. Swarupnagar is
one of the nicer parts of
the city. Come and see us
sometime.

tion

Wti are in charge of gett

ing

the books published by

Ii ew Test ainent

P ubl i c at i ons

Ass*no

out

to

stores

all

over India. Hy

other book

cook, Malmiud, often helps

to -pack parcels and des- -

patch thei from the.Railway

Station.

Church Pastor;

past two years

For

the

have been

the elected pastor of the

Sv/arupnagar congregation. I,
have a great deal pf help
but the flock s t i l l demands

great

deal

attention.

monthly

We

of perspnal
put

out

lies.

to
We

another 1^0 fai.iirhave

evolved an

efficient
system which is
much appreciated by t h e
authorities.

U^igiasian. Editing and

publishing!
Harter Throbs,
Drafting,
cutting stencil,
and mimeographing. Address

ing, mailing> and maintain

ing mailing list, including
sending out of expiry noti
ces.

Correspondence;

;vant ing

m:/ letters done properly, I

do theDi myself. I have no

secretarial assistaiice, but

church bulletin in

Andriyas- saves a lot of my

time by acting as messe.nger
b oy aft er s c hoo 1 hour s .

the Roman Urdu language.

Boys? One eye must be

kept on Aiidriyas to spe
that he is v/ell-fod,

v/ell-

Callers; Oui' house is ea-

peclaliy
susceptible
to
callers
for
purpo'ses both
angelic and nefarious.

read,
well-clothed,
and
\7oll disciplined. I am gi
ving another boy some free
tutoring in English
We
have a Boys* Bible Class on
Friday ni.ghts which is usu

good cook, I do not have to

plan meals or do the market
ing. But wu wash clothes on

ally taught by V/ilson ivlasih

Saturday,

v;ho is one of our alumni.

Bible Society^

ily^

Secretary of t he" Kanpur,

Brarch of the Bible Society.
Since the Secretary does

not Icaov/ typing, a good bit .

of the'.burden has fallen on
me .

Milk .Distribution;

It is

no easy job to see that the

powdered milk sent from the
U.S.A.- is properly distri
buted. Vi/e personally dis
week

Thanks

and 'do

cleaning by spurfes."

to

house

Temporar-

I im serving as Ass't.

tribute

Housework;

to 50 faiJiilies per

and oversee distribu

Oh yes, I s t i l l have time

for leisure. That is, I do
take time for

i t . I-

have no

hobbies, nor do I take part

in sports; but sometimes, atn i ght (esp ec i ally when t hb
bugs are bad) I sit out in
front' of the house and l i s
ten tb music
on the radio.

And I like to take Saturday

afternoons "off."

Our "hours" are- generally

6;30 a.m. to 9^30 p.m. v/ith
an hour's nap at noon.

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Nev/s of fXo work of Ralph R. Hartfap-^it:

Swaroop Nagar, Kaiipur,. XJ.P,, Iiidia, oiKpctober 31st,

SIX MORE BAPTISMS
There }iave been six
more

additions by baptism in the

Swarupnagar Church since we

last- wrote.
They Include
three fathers,
one mother,'
and two young men. Three
others

transferred

membership,

their

making a total

membership gain of nine,

on the other hand, the con
gregation
has
disfellov/shipped
one brother for
adultery.
These

additions

are due

The aniiual meeting of the

New Testament publications,
and the 10th Ai^nual Vljal
Hagar Men's
Gamp
are now
history. We are much happi
er

at

the

outcome'of the

elections, this year than we

were last year.
Last year

four

Ass'n.

This

year the com

mittee will consist of only

mostly to personal evangel

two missionaries

ism

Indian

on

the

part

of

the

Indian brethren.

mission

aries
and
one Indian bro
ther
were
chosen to serve
on the
Executive Coirimittee
of
the N.T.
publications

and throe

brethren,

v;hich Is

much much better. An Indian

brother. Gal us Timothy, v;as

WILSON INJURED

Many of you will remember

Wilson

whom we put through

carpentry training.
cently fell 50 feet

chosen

to

be

chairman of

N.T. publications,
later

and v/as

chosen to bo dean of

He re
from a
ladder while at work. None-

next

of his Injuries v/ere perrna-

So these signs are very en

ment,
bed.

but

he

is

s t i l l in

year's

positions
been held
couraging.

camp.

had

These

previously

by missionaries.
Brother

Gaius

Timothy is a protege of the

folk in Kulpahar.

OTiiiP. :iz:.is

At thu Vljal iL.*g;iimGamp

it was my prlvllu,g.; to give

Thj latest report

froiii
school shows that Andriy^:'.s

some tr.lks

is fourth in his cla.ss. But

of ilod, viz. Abraham,''iu OSes

on some sorv.gnts

even tht,n he failed in (of

Caleb,
Job,
a.nd Nehomiah..
all subjects) En^^lish,
Prom Nov. ;6th to. 9th ! will
(Shaiuel Shajiiel)
b e .V s 1-iar Ing
the p1 at form
/iKioa^ the recently bapti
.^^with Bro. T.G-. Rash at the
zed is Keniieth Paul, a racri-annual ' "Bllaspur" Conventber of our Boys.' Class aiid ion, which, - is being hold
a
constant
companion-- o f
this year ; at Sahdol. v/e
Andr.l;yas'> He v/as..baptized will be giving foiur messa

at Vijai Nagar Camp. "'

Wg
that

ges each,

are much encouraci;ed

the Furlough Puiid now

has

a balance of $256.96.

It looks as though
have to swim

" after all.

A very kind in

vitation has

Howard

I won't

from Calcutta
come from Bro.

Davis

i n

Nagoya,

Japan, to .speak at the AllJapan

Convention

next

April. This we -will do, the

Lord willing in all things.
There was a sharp rise in
business

Store

in the Bible Book

duping

months,

the past two

JlTT-SJp

worth

of

business was done, compared

to $89 reported in our last

issue.
Sales
Included 26"
New Testaments,
12 Bibles,

126

Hindi

Life

Visualized,125

of Christ
Hindi edit

ion of C.J.'Sliarp's

"Bible

for Youth," and 7I Eleanore

Line Christmas Cards,

1959

Calendars "are also selling,

and will^ guarantee a good
volume of business . up to
the end of the year..^

The colored pictures

o f

Kiiiipur which are being pre"p.ared for ahpv/ing next...year

in the

U.S.

turned

out

.'are ' taking

have

very

so' far

good. vYo

more .and more.

The Saturday evening mee

tings which v/e reported in
our
las-t issue have been
discontinued.
The
Indian

brethren have now begun a

Wednesday
evening prayer
meeting which promises to
be more successful than the

mld-wook meetings

we

had

inaoe.'^i'ated. It is most na
tural that they should take

more interest in the things

they start
than in
things which we vStart.

the

The Swarupnagar congrega

tion is
very anxious to
have a meeting house of its
Own.

We would like to give

them

piece

then have them

of

lahd,

build their

own meeting house. We may

b.e asking your help in this.-project next year.

fiOT'jREs 0-^ ^{3 LOFD'S vfO^K IF

'//u havti s.ome vory nice

plcturua of -]ifrc--^nt parts
of Ktaipur;

but

our

end to get soiJie

wi'C's

we

ai'e at

pictures of the Lord's work

boing-done here.

We do not have the proper

lighting necessary for tak-

ing^ pictures

of our Sunday

morhlng service or - of the

inside of our- book store,
although we may succeed in
making some arrangement in
the end.

Besides this, our congre

gation sits on tv/o wings
each

invisible

.^other.

Only

from

those leading

,'the, service can

'how- many people
sent,

am

the

see just
are pre-

afraid, that a

^photograph of this vifould

.not' be very hiipressive

Then why not take a group

'_^picture outside? The best
time

to

do

that would be

before the service, and not

too many people are present

before

the

service. After

the-service

the sun-'is not

in the right position for a

good picture.

pictures - of baptisiris have

been handicapped
by the
fact that I have been doing
most

others
good

of

do

the baptizing and

not

pictures.

take

very

Also,

the

best place for baptizing

happens to. be a shady spot.

y
hose a siuxiy
foi' the baptism so
v.'e might got a photo-

Tjas'b week

spot
that
grapn.

i3ut tne bajii^

was-so precarious

thoi'o

that the

event ahfiost ended in .disa

ster.

LateX'

fou.nd th,at

the film had a?-rGady been

finished and no picture re
sulted Gn:/v/a7f.
Any true pictu-o of the

Lord's v/ork in-kanpur ought

to shov; the -work being done
by others, and not just the
v/ork being done by oursel
ves". But some of them, would

feel that we

e taking un

due advantage of them to

raise money for o.urselves.
Others

would

feel that v/e

really ought to raise money

for them in the U.S.

One

schoolmaster
has already
asked ui;; to raise money for
his school.
I t would seem
very strange to him for us
to shov/ a picture of his

school' all around the U.S.

and then not bring him back
a couple

thousand dollars.

And yet to ignore liis work

completely is to give
a n
incomplete* picture of the

Lord's work^ in
largo city.
to

this very

But we are working hard

get some really worth

while pictures to shov/ you

next year.

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jU:D 3i.PT^i-j;-;, 1933

TO OCjOBhR 23, 1933

I Il.t-:'iOis?
Paxto;.'! Jojicn.

Book Store
1." .T . publioatlo;is

Boys

-u

iU#

Fronirina;j

20 00

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Dra'li;>yoon Chui^ch
Mrs.

.59

Vera Mills

Tho Fai-'l Stahls if

Kontucky;

C aiup

Bethel Chur*ch, Anabol l\$ .00

20 .00

Donald Peel }:

20 .00

Shidrnore Ladies 4f
- 5 .00
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Old Stone Bible Schl, 20 .00

Linden Homebuilders
Linden D.V.B.S. 4!-

75 .00.
103 .99

ipO .00

Bladensburg L.D.s

1 .00

Mllford Church

71 .li.2

TOTAL RECEIVED

'3l3,99

Designated for Furlough

F und.

31.35
100.00

I2ST^

t o t a l spent
SUIvIB/IARY

Balance Ang. -20

C ontrlbutions

67.69
613.99

Total Receipts'

636.68

Less Spent

11-25.59:

Balance, Oct. 2 8
In Furlough Fund

260.09
25 6.9 fe

In G-eneral Fund

3-13

PLEASE SEKD
ALL CONTRIBUT
IONS AI' SUBSCRIPTIONS TO

Miss Florence Douglas

Ht. 3? Flora, Illinois.

Thank You Very Muchl

BOOK STORE ACCOUNT

Mission Subsidy

photography

20 .00

R.G-. Prosher

Sales

3-0 o39
ii-3.09
i4oi

5 .00
10 .00

ITeeper Gh^er-ch

Expenditures -

63.32

Housing
Chur oh

10 .00

Missouri^

Clinton Church

Chtieuasiaii

70 * 00

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27.16

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