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|fcmfey.School I ■ Lesson' I I 23 I THE MACEDONIAN CALL jfl v'«r t»to B I Jovi'S*' T F' h 1B u< ."—Acts 1» *■ I w “‘“ l * rful I T!obo» topic-p^ 1 CMlleJ t 0 Ku “ I “ op “ I . F.rb.dd.n by th. Holy Spirit to I ’ ; <h. Word m Asia ('V. <J-8). I MK ...unation of Haul an J his comfl wa. to tarry In the province* ■ Miner preaching the Wor<L I k t Ltrary to their Inclination they] I „ hurried along. There wareWj I in A>>« who yet neede<l al I f l They might have reasoned.' 1 2 difference would It make where. ■ ‘-Lit SO the Gospel Is preacbedl I ft hive here a fine lesson on Diving ■ Xoce. The Holy Spirit is as active ■ e< faithful Ln closing doors as in I Zh them. "Ths stops as well a. I r,*ps of good men are ordered 1 7. He Lord.” We ought as truly to I iLie God's hand In the “abut-ind I the “open-outs.” ■ II The Call to Macedonia (w. 9-1-). ■I T j e Gospel having broken the con-; I tui of the Jewish city and country, ■ a, abhlle wall of partition having I abolished, the time has come for ■ ft to leap across the Aegean sea and ■ ier.n Its conquest on another contl- ■ wt . Christianity thus ceased to ba ■ u oriental religion, and through th. fl gSturiM has been mainly occidental. | 1. The Vision (v. 9). fl Balog hemmed In on all sides, a I vftlsa was given to Paul of a man fl g Macedonia pleading for help. Till, fl sade plain to him the closed doors fl ibout him. In finding the Divine will I vi should look both ways. Before fl there can be any great forward movefl wnt, there must be a vision. There fl !i do victory without a vision. ; fl 2. The Advance (vr. 10-12.) 1 As soon as the Divine way was fl tom, they moved forward therein, fl Villons must be quickly translated, fl ltd aggressive action taken or else fl they are blotted from our skies. , Paul fl sever questioned the wisdom of God fl tor delayed action. This Is characterfl bdc of all God s true servants. With fl i tonight course, Paul moved out of fl Mi ora country to the strategic center fl of a new continent. I 111. The First Convert In Europe fl (w. 13-16). I The missionaries first went to Philfl Ippl and spent several days in fl studying conditions there. The Jew- ■ Ito element in this city was comfl paratlvely insignificant So much so fl that they could not have a synagogue, fl Therefore, the devout people were acfl CMtomed to worship by the river side, fl To this humble gathering Paul came fl and preached to the women assembled fl there. A certain woman from Tiiyatlra fl named Lydia, a proselyte, believed his I tneuage and was baptize/*.-.//.'be. steps I In Lydia's conversion are worthy of I wte, for they are typical: s I L Attendance at the Place of WorI *lp (r. 13). I Finally those whom God Is calling I ire found at the place of prayer. Lydia I »u a»woman of wealth, culture and I wide experience, and yet she had need I ’f Christ. She was seeking the I itovenly light God sends many an InI fairer to the prayer meeting. h i Listening to the Preaching of I the Word of God (vv. 13-14). The Instrument used In the converts of sinners is the Word of God. I Faith cometh by hearing, and hearI »l by the Word of God" (Rom. 10:17). I « is highly Important that at every I Myer meeting the Word of God shall I J* j * I>olien 80 ,hat the Inquirer after nay find the light I S Her Heart Was Opened by the Urd (v. 14). Only the Lord can convert a soul. i 'laour business to preach the Word od. and it Is God's business to •Pen the heart of the inquirer. Re1 «the Gospel is preached the Spirt! God opens the sinner’s heart,ton reception of Christ She Was Baptized (v. 15). whoße heart Lord has " n9| l desires to confess Him in baps Srd a “ ° UtWard ’ Her Household Believed (v. 15.) When n7 QT . erSlon cannot be concealed, >n those in tha J Practical Hospitality (r. 15). i »vla2 Wh ° hBT ® ex P« r *enced God's tort i/w?* thua to have Hl, mln?Bterfc° rk renderln « ald t 0 I rae Humility CoMlatg »ot in thinkof bnt 111 n °t think. a “Ueld. ** AU-—Capt J. Arthur)

WHY GO TO CHURCH? We are meant tor something more than we have attained, very man admits that there is room for improvement in his own life. There Is constant dlaappointmeait in others and often with ourselves. There Is an urge within that seems to say, "Try a little harder to be a little better '. We were divinely created with that urge whhin as we have been created with other physical urges such as for food and water. It is written "As many as received him to them gave he power to become the sons of God". This explains the provision for the satisfaction of the moral urge to be better There is no dodging the issue. The man who is consistently wanting to rise to fuller manhod will accept the truth and practice the way that makes the desired attainment certain. While many a man has found the way outside the walls of the church, nevertheless the greatest help in the pathway to God is within the church. WHY NOT GO TO CHURCH NEXT SUNDAY —— —o—

Trifles make the sum of hnman things. ♦ ♦ ♦ Ideas are the great warriors of the world. ♦ ♦ ♦ A bad man is worse when he pretends to be a saint. ♦ ♦ ♦ You can only make others better by being good yourself. ♦ ♦ ♦ Often the fruits best worth waiting for ripen the slowest. ♦ ♦ ♦ We seldom rise 'higher than the mountain hoad of mother's character. ♦ ♦ ♦ Influence is to be measuer not by the extent of surface it covers, but by its kind. ♦ ♦ ♦ A slip of the tongue may take root, and bring forth a thorn that will torture the soul. ♦ ♦ ♦ We ought to love everybody anti make everybody love fl. Then every thing else is easy—Alice Freeman Palmer- ♦ ♦ ♦ You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer ano forge yourself into one. ♦ ♦ ♦ Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say. abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact—George Elliot. ♦ ♦ ♦ I,ot every dawn of morning lie to you as the beginning of life, and every

e-TL ‘fi'U /fil. fl Endowed w/7/z Modesty HOW DIFFERENT from today. Women and men were not allowed together on the same bathing beach. In 1870, a lady would have been overstepping the bounds of modesty if she had sought to manage her own affairs. Today how different. Women as well as men arc creating for themselves endowment insurance that guarantees their independence. We shall be glad to explain to you this most effective of all methods of saving and investment. Decatur Insurance Agency E. WALT JOHNSON SCHAFER BLDG. aaMMBM■MMwaw ■> a 1 in ■> i

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setting sun be to you as its close— John Ruskin ♦ ♦ ♦ Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many; not upon your past misfortunes, of which all have some—(’har)es Dickens. ♦ ♦ ♦ The man who doesn’t dream of be ing president and who doesn't fit himself for the presidency will never be Secretary of State. ♦ ♦ ♦ Opportunity fllec in a straight line, touch ns but once and never return, but the wrongs we do others fly tn a circle; they come back from the place they started —T. DeWitt Talmage. o Weekly Story Os Early Education In The Homes “I simply cannot see how your Joe has time to waste on baseball, skating and coasting!" said a neighbor who failed to understand the need of recreation and who therefore wrongly influenced Joe's mother. "My Jim is in the same class with Joe at school .anti though he is clever, he has time for nothing but his lessons. I simply do not see how Joe keeps up with his classes". Joe's mother being unduly influenced by this ill-advised neighbor began to find fault with her boy rebuking him for neglect of study and for lazi-ness.-not pausing to examine facts. She required Joe to sit at his lessons daily for a definite period after school hours and punished him if be rebelled. The result of the mother's action induced by the influence of a friend is that Joe is now doing poor work at school and there is a constant Irritation and quarrelling between Joe ami his mother. The mother is distressed and bewildered but the explanation is simple. She had been swayed by her friend who has only one standard of ability for children and does not understand the larger program which should be provided for the full developement of youth. 0 — Religious News Gathered All Around The World ■ - — The Jewish population of Palestine has doubled since 1921- ♦ ♦ ♦ Lutherans at Chautauqua, New York have their own summer home or as sembly. ♦ ♦ ♦ Southern Baptists have closed theii six years effort to get $75,000,000 in subscriptions for missions and education They raised $59,000,000 in cash and there is the likelihood of receiving more. ♦ ♦ ♦ An American church in Paris worthy to represent the interdenominational interests of the United States is assured through, gifts ranging from

$5 00 of an unnamed Presbyterian washer woman of Philadelphia, to the SIOO,OOO of John D. Rockefelled, Jr„ The total cost of the lot, church and parish house will be $500,000. A number of Church boards in America have contributed substantial amounts. ♦ ♦ ♦ Four young Chinese women graduates of the mission school of the Methodist Episcopal church have heen licensed as local preachers in the Kian, gsl annual conference, in China. Fifty years ago a woman seen along upone upon the street was considered a bad wamon. Now these young women admitted in councils and are given responsibility on committees, besides teaching and preaching. ♦ ♦ ♦ Kagawa, the "Gandhi" of Japan, on his recent visit to the United States said, "Forty years ago there were forty divorces for every one hundred marriages in Japan. Now there are only ten. That is the victory of Christianity for Japan. So Is the decrease of thirty per cent of convicts in prisons during the past ten years. Hut I understand that divorce cases are growing in the United States. We need your prayers for Japan, but we are going to pray for you. COLLIER'S WEEKIY recently prin-

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ted the following paragraph Government figure* show forty million persons engaged in gainful occupations. That leaves some seventy million of non-producers Leaving out children, sick persons, the aged, the imbecilles, and the infirm, there are still many millions of loafers who are not pulling their weight In the national boat." What Is true of the country at large is true of the church. Not more than one-third of tfle enrolled membership are pulling on the oars; perhaps another third pay for a substitute; but the other third neither pull nor pay They are not "pulling their own weight lu the church boat." ——oTHE QUESTION BOX (Send problems tn question form to Church Editor; answers wl.l appear in later issue). 1. ('an you suggest any unusual plan of graduation for the departments of our Church School? 1 E’irst Methodist Church School of I/>s Angeles has a rather unique plan of graduation. The graduates from all the department are dressed in cap and gown, each department having a • different color Those for the Young People’s Department are the usual ! black college cap and gown, the aenI iors are arayed in violet, the inter- ' mediates in red, the juniors in green, the primaries in blue, the beginners in

pink, and the Cradle Roil graduates in white. Those from the Young People's Department ar« graduated first As thej leave the platform they hand to the seniors, who have «inw forward, their caps and gowns. The seniors in turn doff their violet iu exchange for the black and hand them to tbe intermediates, and so on down tbe line to the Cradle Roll Department. The tea chers are also garbed in the color of their respective departments. 2. Our ,class wants to do something for the lone.y ones of our town at Christmas time - Not the very poor; these are taken care of by the charitable organizations of the town and the churches but employed folks who have no relatives and close friends in town. A capital suggestion! And fine to begin early to form plans. First appoint a commlttten to look up the lonely— and another committee to form plans for their entertainment. Get lists from Y. W. and Y. M C. A. and business places. Omit no one, Ix>t each member of the class adopt one or more as their Christmas Friend Plan dinners not to interfere with fam. ily dinners. Plan for something in the home during the afternoon and serve dinner in the church parlor-having it appropriately decorated. Arrange small tables if possible that individual groups may visit privately—but see that every one meets every member or person present. Plan homey, inexpensive gifts for each one present. Have

plenty of candy, nuts and jiopcurn to make the evening go off as a Christmas night should. Some such a plan should do much to bring tbe “loueiy” together. —a QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION The Macedonian Call—Acts IC:6 15-. for Sunday August 23. 1 What does America owe to missionary effort? 2. What countries, if any, are now calling "Come over and help us?" 3. How can we know when Provi denc.e is guiding us? 4. What are the steps in a normal conversion CLERlCVS—Christianity was estab llshed In Europe first of all in the heart of a woman and then in her home, she opened her heart, and then she opened her home to Christ. Consecration of life comes first, and then the consecration of the home. It is interesting to remember that from Europe came the home ideals that reached America through the Puritans LESSON PRAYER Dear Lord Jesus, we are not proud of the record we have made in follow- , ing thee, in mercy forgive our many ' failures; in love call us back to thy- ' self; with long-suffering kindness guide today and every day, to thy glory. Amen.