Frankfort Pilgrim College - Pilgrim Yearbook (Frankfort, IN)

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551121 it Cfflwwe 'kkdily Literary HAPPY TIMES THE CHALLENGE T0 THE FIELD QConc1udedJ strongest calls of the hour. They form a large percent of the population of Mexico, of Guatemala, of Bolivia, of Peru, of the Amazon Valley. No work is more fascinating. Pray the Lord of the harvest . Go ye . Say not that this modern nationalistic spirit in the nations capacitates them to care for their need. They themselves appeal for help! They likewise appeal for the individual recognition that is their due. The native church of these countries desires us to realize that to them belongs in a peculiar way the task in their respective localities and to assist, advise. ,You will note that the plea from every land is for New Testament Chris- tianity, that the native Christian as well as the true Missionary cries for a Christianity and a Holiness that is holy. As Mr. Snead says of Central China we may say of the great Field, 'tThe present situation is a special challenge for us to advance strongly along the line. The Christian task still lies ahead, the great mass and volume of it still unac-coinplishedf' , , Ch, Church of Christ, awake, arise! h - -Elizabeth Bodle, 4 J S

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Fifhv mamma ' 5 x . .' 6' Llterary is Eg THE CHALLENGE T0 THE FIELD ' gay The field lies out before us, more distinct, more appealing than ever before. B nlu, And still that last. command of our risen Christ has hardly been comprehended G by his tardy followers. Still that plea, Pray ye, has 11ot been fathomed. ga Put the woe upon us, the go in our feet! EQ Say not that pioneer days are over! If we have truly learned our lessons 5. of the field, we discern more clearly than ever the great unfinished task, Q 'We have touched the edges. An honest vision shows expanses of China Q sf as yet untouched. Out over plains with thousands of cities and villages where a gospel message from native or foreign lips is not heard once a year. Have 61 we considered? In her crisis the native church of China appeals to us to ad- Q Q vise, to uphold, to assist her native leaders. We must adjust ourselves to the present demand. We must not coinplain. Vile must not look back. We must not criticize. We must not cling to the non-essential. We must look to God! Y.: We must step carefully! We must get the demand in humility-in the spirit of C9 Jesus! Qi ca There lies Persia! Mile after mile one may travel in its North country C9 with no evidence of a touch of the Truth. Yet the Gospel forces at work in Persia were never so unified in purpose and so keen to the meaning of the Q hour. Who will go 'E Who will give as to the Lord himself? E, Lola Rajput Rai of India appeals for the indescribable condition of F .... child widows. Gandhi, himself, laments the vitiating influence of child mar- - riages in his own loved land. The death rate there, as in China, is three times G9 that of our country. One million uncared-for blind of North India appeal to E9 us for salvation! One to every fifteen thousand of the same territory is said Q to be a leper. Oh, He touched them in Galilee! Dr. Paul of India cries, We need you, come over and help us with your it lives. Come for the love of Jesus Christ. NVQ have rejoiced at some work of scope and vision for Japan. Some fool- Q, ish oneshave said, Now Japan can read. Our work is done. By novmeans! The native church sends out to us a strong appeal for unoccupied areas of C9 city and country-side. Q9 Q3 Unreaehcd villages, hopeless students, distressed children appeal to us C9 G still. The cry of eommereialized womanhood is pitcous! We are so slow to 5 hear! J When we consider the strong movements in Europe toward the gospel in ca spite of persecutions and loss, when one meditates on torn, broken Russia, the P . strong cry of Belgium for the good news, the distress of the believers of Italy, ,u 3 how he is moved with compassion! How he adores the Master-Christ! How f he wonders at the pure, perfect workings of the Moderator-Spirit! Behold He B' is unfolding His plan. The worly unknowingly enters into it. A few of His own see and rejoice and fear. Through a glass darkly but how glorious! Q, There lies the heart of South America unreached by holy waters or fy by the Spirit. We have penetrated a bit. But the great. interior cries to us to enter. Commerce advances. The automobile presses inland. The sins of civi- tfji lization stalk about. Error is heard on the way. Soldiers awake, awake! E3 Spanish territory threatens to close on us. Let us speak while we can! Up! Away! EQ 4-A The masses of unevangelized Indians of the south lands are one of the 5 M CConcluded on page 885 V

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Uhr, 6512211115 L1terary WHAT TIME IS IT? In order to ascertain time correctly there must be a standard of measure- ment. This standard is given to us by the government as U. S. Naval Ob- servatory time, this time is calculated from the stars and is confided to clocks which run in a vacuum in a place many feet below the surface of the earth at Washington. All our clocks and watches in order to give the correct time, must then be regulated to keep this time. lf they give this time they can be depended upon as correct, and so when asked,ftWhat time is it '? my mind turns at once to my watch Zllld I answer according to what it says as compared with the standard. But if I am asked this same question with regard to'thc time of the age in which we are now living, my answer, to be depended upon, must be made from a correct standard of measurement. God, through our Lord Jesus Christ, has set that standard, set it out from the heavenly city, calculated it from the Star of Bethlehen, set the clocks of the Bible by it and placed them many feet below the surface of the earthly wisdom. Therefore, if 'I am to answer the question, What tin1e is it'? , I will be able to do so only in as far as the Holy Ghost gives me the time from God's clock in the written word. The first clock from which we shall get the time, we shall call God's day clock. In the early part of Genesis, we learn that God wrought mightly works for six consecutive days to rehabilitate an earth wrecked through sin, then rested on the seventh. Man soon spoiled the six days of God's labor and God finally said he would toil six days and rest. on the seventh. We learn in Revelation that this earth is to have a thousand year Sabbath from the power and dominion of sin. Therefore it seems reasonable to infer that as man is to labor six days a week and rest one and as the earth is finally to have a thousand- year Sabbath, that this Sabbath will be preeeeded by one-thousand year days of toil in the midst of sin. Chronology will show that we are approaching the end of this six thousand years. The Jew counted a day from sunset till sunset the next evening. What time is it then by this clock? We answer, t'Satur- day evening near sunset . The second clock we shall consult is God's clock of the watches of the night. The Romans divide the night into four Watches, namely, first watch from six in the evening till nineg second watch from nine P. M. till midnight: third watch from twelve till three A. M.g fourth watch from three A. M. till six. We may call the church age the night of four watches. Let sunset be re- presented by the ascension of our Lord. Then the first watch of six to nine o'clock we will represent by the first to the sixth century and call it the after- glow of sunset. The second watch from nine till twelve o'clock we will repre- sent by the sixth to the sixteenth century when the Dark Ages were on the church and the world. The third watch from twelve till three A. M. let us call the cock-crowing during the sixteenth to eighteenth century of the Re- formation. The fourth watch from three to six A. M. would then include from the eighteenth century to Christ 's coming, the Morning glow of sun rise. What time is it then by this clock, we answer in our judgment about five o'cloek i11 the morning watch. Let us next get the time from God's clock of the seasons, summer, winter, fall and spring. The church was hottest and cleanest during the first three centuries which we may call summer. Then followed the fall of the sowing GQ ff! G3 P vi Q GZ EC, E3 P I Q Q fi Ga 91 Qu EQ fi Q Q21 G: E' vi -39-.