CHRIS I ASIAN

" All the churches of Christ salute you."

Rom. 16 :16

Vol. II, No. 1

JANUARY, 1956

Kanpur, India

ON RAISING OF HANDS

When we were boys and went swim

ming in water that was over our heads,
we used to show how deep the water was
by raising our hands and putting our feet
on the bottom.

Nowadays, people are raising their

hands in religious meetings all over the
world. By doing this, they show that
there is not any water there.

" But you don't know the meaning of

raising of hands," a good friend of mine
recently said.
" Suppose you tell me," I answered.
" It means that a person is fully
accepting the Lord Jesus Christ."

" If it is that important," I replied,

" Why isn't the raising of hands mentioned
in the Bible?"

If the meaning of the

raising of hands were in the Bible, I

would not be so ignorant of it.

You are right in feeling that one should

give an indication of his acceptance of
Christ. Do you suppose that there is any
possibility that Christ intended for baptism
to be that indication of acceptance ?

If the evangelist Phillip had talked

as much about the raising of hands as
modern evangelists do, we would find the
Ethiopian Eunuch saying, " Now what
doth hinder me to raise my hand?" But
judging from what the eunuch did say,

Phillip

must

have

been emphasizing

something else.

I don't suppose that Satan is entirely

happy when his old wards raise their
hands in such meetings. But at least he
has this comfort, that many of these
people will be satisfied with this unscriptural practice, and will continue on
in disobedience.

Except ye repent, ye shall all in like manner perish : Luke 13:3

hill-.'' li-J'Itl.' 1<I

Chewing of the betel leaf in India is

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somewhat like chewing gum in Western

countries except that it leaves a terrific

converted to Christianity. "This fact

should be an eye-opener to the Hindus aswell as to the Government," he said. We

red stain in the mouth, and also on the

streets when it is spat out. For this
reason, sale of the leaf

for it.

prohibited in 47 railway st^ions of nor

thern India in order to keep the stations

dean. This caused a controversy in the
New Delhi Parliament where one member

(a lady) described the ban as a curtail

ment of fundamental rights.
Pandit Nehru has boldly spoken out
against the majority of Hindu Sadhus as
being parasites and anti-social elements.
Of India's half-million roving Sadhus,
Pandit Nehru doubts that there are more

than ten or fifteen thousand genuine

sanyasis. He went on to emphasize that
in a good society, everyone must contribute
something to the welfare of the community.
The President of India, Dr. Rajendra
Prasad has said in a speech in Jaipur that
eradication of untouchability could not
be achieved by enactment of law or by
compulsion. He rightly suggests a change
of heart by the people.
Mr. Vishwanath Agarwal, General
Secretary of the Uttar Pradesh Hindu

Mahasabha has become quite concerned

regarding the spread of Christianity in
India. He has recently contended in the
public press " that thousands of Hindus
are being converted to Christianity today
not only in Travancore-Cochin but also
throughout the length and breadth of the
country ." He contends that.r.ecfintly,Jui

Hyderabad State, more than ' twei^

will just have to take Mr. Agarwal's word

lae^ell, however, to compare

Mr. Agarwal's statement with another he

made less than a

Hindu Mahasabha

month later.

has

" The

brought

back

about 10,000 Christians to the Hindu-fold

so far," he claimed. " We have tried our

best to explain to the Hindus that con

versions to Christianity endanger the

safety and security of the nation; but
neither the public nor the Government has
taken any note of it." In the words of
Mr. Agarwal, we would suggest that this
be an eye-opener to the Christians.

Some Christians were showing film

strips of the Life of Christ in the village
of Ghatampur when a villager came up
from behind the screen to see what his

neighbours were watching.

Since every

one had their attention focused on

the

screen, he took his lantern to the screen

to give it close inspection; but he could

perceive nothing that should arouse
so much attention. Heeding the shouts
of his neighbours, he turned his lantern
down. Only then was he able to see
the pictures on the screen. Many are
wandering around with their own lamps
turned high, and for this reason they
cannot see the Lord. Our lights are
nothing compared to His, but it is still
enough to distract a multitude of souls.
made periect in our "weakness, riot ui our

thousand Harijan (low caste) Hindus were personal strength and pride.

AMPUTATED WIVES

By Kanpurwalla

Cleaners in Bombay recently found a

leg in a dustbin. Murder was suspected
until a local surgeon reported that he
had amputated it the night before.
Amputated wives are also becoming more
commonplace.
That surgeon in Bombay probably had
more difficulty getting that leg off his
patient than today's women have of
getting away from their husbands.
Oh No You Don't

Your correspondent once had a cousin

who received a leg injury in athletics.
He tried very hard to bring the limb back
to usefulness; but it became so seriously
diseased that the surgeon was forced to
amputate it. The boy fought this so
bitterly that it took several strong persons
to sit on him while the doctor injected a.
hypodermic. Only after he had fallen
asleep could they take him from his house
to the hospital where the operation was
performed.
But some women seem to feel that all

they need for enhancement and advance

ment is to be amputated from their
husbands. Thus, many of today's sepa
rations are about as sensible as ampu
tating your leg because you have stubbed
your toe on a brick. No marriage,
whether " successful " or " unsuccessful,"
is without its wide variety of bruises; but
these can hardly constitute a just cause for
amputation.

Husbands Partly To Blame

Many amputations could have been

avoided if proper medical attention had
been given at the beginning of the difficul
ty. Likewise, many wives would not be
amputated today if their husbands, in the
beginning of their marriage, had obeyed

the injunction of the Aposde Peter to

" Give honour unto your wives as imto a"
weaker vessel."

Pet.

3:7.

This is

difficult point to follow in this age of

" 50-50" marriages and feminine in
dependency; but it must be followed if
we are to stop Satan's merciless butchery
of the Christian home.

Husbands ought to regard their wives

as much a part of their body as their own
arms and legs, and even much more than
that. Wives must be given the most
tender and diligent care in order to
promote their greatest usefulness and
spiritual health. Their weakness must be
recognized and the right medication given
at the right time.
Last Ditch Fight
It is inconceivable that anyone would
submit to an amputation until every
possibility of saving the diseased member
had been explored. Even so, no couple
should submit themselves to the operation
of separation without a last ditch fight to
save the unity of the body. Let us not
give up the struggle for marital unity until
we are either victorious or until we are

unconscious with hypo.

Spiritual Meaning

All of this has a deep spiritual meaning

involving Christ and the Church. The
Church is the bride of Christ; and we, as
members of the Church, His bride, are
members of His body. We are weak
members, and diseased; but, thank God,
He has not cast us off. Christ gave His

life that we might be joined to him; and

continues with us that we might be pre
served in Him. We cause Him pain, but
He will not let us go. God help us to
be as faithful to others as He is to us.

THAT MAN FRIDAY

By D. R. Davis, Bilaspur

Robinson Crusoe offers an interesting

in the world about religion, whether

testimony. This literary classic published

in 1719 is read today mostly by Children.
But when it was originally published it
caused quite a stir among adults. Daniel
Defoe, its author, was a strong advocate
of religious freedom. Robinson Crusoe
is regarded as an allegory: Robinson
Crusoe representing England; Friday,
representing India.

niceties in doctrine, or schemes of church

government, they were all perfectly useless
to us, and for aught I can see, they have

Crusoe finds a Bible in a ship that lay

on the shore of his desert island.

He

makes his own study of the book and also

.teaches Friday, whom he had saved from
cannibals.

Friday ..." was now a good Christian,

a much better than I . . . We had here

the word of God to read, and no farther

off from his Spirit to instruct, than if we

been so to the rest of the world.

We had

the sure guide to heaven, viz., the word

of God ; and we had, blessed be God,
comfortable views of the Spirit of God
teaching and instructing us by His word,

leading us into all truth, and making us

both willing and obedient to the instruc
tion of His word.

And I cannot see the

least use that the greatest knowledge of the

disputed points of religion, which have
made such confusions in the world, would
have been to us, if we could have obtained
it.

Defoe makes a strong plea for the

sufficiency of simple Biblical Christianity.
It echoes the voice of a dissenter in an era

had been in England . . . Another thing that sought to unite Christianity through
1 cannot refrain from observing here also, compulsion. It urges the discerning of
from experience in this retired part of religious
from religious funda
my life, viz., how infinite and inexpressible mentals. opinions
Such a discernment will lead
a blessing it is that the knowledge of God, Friday to become " such a Christian as I
and of the doctrine of salvation by Christ
have known few to equal him in my life."
Jesus, is so plainly laid down in the word
of God, so easy to be received and under

stood, that the bare reading the Scripture

made me capable of understanding enough
of my duty to carry me directly on to the
great work of repentance for my sins, and
laying hold of a saviour for life and salva
tion, to a stated reformation in practice
and obedience to all God's commands, and
this without any teacher or instructor
I mean humanso the same instruction

sufficiently served to the enlightening this

savage creature, and bringing him to be
such

Christian as I have known few

equal to him in my life.

" As to all the disputes, wranglings,
strife and contention which have happened

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THE JOY OF THE LORD

By Bakht Singh
[From The Balance of Truth, Bombay]
After God has loved you, saved you,
and poured His love into your heart, He
will begin to sing for joy over you.
Mother's Joy
Watch a mother with a new-born babe.

She is so full of love for the little one,

hugging and kissing it all over, and even

putting its feet into her mouth! Ask her
what she is doing? She will tell you that
she is pouring out her love on her baby.
Her face lights up with joy, and her song
is sweet, as she pours her love into her
baby's heart.
God, too, will sing over us like this
when He can pour out His love over you
and me. Then you will hear Him singing

a song far sweeter than any angel's song.

Such is the joy of the Lordthe joy
which He experiences by pouring His love
into us more and more, and which fills
us with divine strength.

where your food is swine's food. Yet the

love of God is able to pull you out of
that mire, and lift you up on high.
However deep you may have gone into
sin, however low you may have fallen
morally, however much you may be de
filed through abominable practices, how
ever stubborn you may have been in past
years, the love of God is able to save you
from the guttermost to the uttermost.
" Wherefore he is able to save them to

the uttermost that come unto God by

him." Heb. 7 : 25.

Your father may say,' No hope for you,

my son'. Your mother may say in
despair, ' All my hopes for you are
shattered'.

Your

brothers

and

sisters

may be ashamed and refuse to own you

because of your sinful life. Even preachers
may say, ' That man has absolutely no

hope of being saved'. Yet our Lord will

never give you up. There is still hope for
youbecause the grace of God is now
being offered to all men throughout the
world.

Four Dimensional Love

The love of God has four dimensions;

height, depth, length, and breadth. That

is divine love. Human love has only one
dimension and lasts for only 10 or 30

years, or perhaps even 50 years.

But the

love of God has four dimensions; from

eternity to eternity, and from heaven it

reaches to the deepest depths that man
can go. Your sins may drag you to the
very depths of misery, your sinful deeds
may take you to the pit of corruption,
your lusts may take you to places of dark
ness, or of filthiness and abominations

Some Concluding Questions

Can you say truthfully that the joy of

the Lord is your strength? Because you
are entering more and more fully into the
heart of God, is your joy increasing?
Will God sing as He looks at your face,
or shed tears because of your disobedience
and stubbornness, your rebelliousness and
waywardness ?

The joy of the Lord. We offer you

this joy in His Name. Please do not
despise it. Do not reject it.

THE ANGRY PEOPLE OP THE CTFY OF DESTRUCTION

(Translated from Jiwan. ka Pani]
We have been informed by Mr. Talka
tive that nowadays there are a good

for the Jiwan ka Pani Magazine.

Destruction.

publicity in our magazine.

The only thing that makes them happy

many angry people living in the City of is that they are now receiving frequent
The ricksha-pullers are angry because
the majority of people have begun to

Preparations For Christmas

travel by city bus. Those who go by bus

are angry because the buses are so

We have been informed by Mr. Talkative

that preparations for Christmas are
squeeze into the bus, they are angry underway in the City of Destruction.
Beautiful gift items are on display
because they have to goby ricksha. Those
who are standing in the bus are angry in every shop. In the shop of Mr. Greed
because they cannot get a seat. Those there are some new items imported from
who have seats are grumbling because the the U.S.A. such as cigarette lighters and
bus does riot move along any faster. The coloured wine glasses.
Mr. Selfish's son. Double Selfish, is
driver is angry because the rickshas keep
getting in his way. The merchants of beating a path from store to store wonder
Vanity Fair are angry because the buses ing what gifts he will receive this year.

crowded.

When they

are

unable to

go so fast through that bazaar that their

children have difficulty in crossing the

The Christmzis Committee of the City

of Destruction church has decided that

Mr. Big Pastor should act as Christmas

In Jime, the people of the City of Father (Santa Claus) this year because of

street.

Destruction were angry because it did not

rain; and in September they were angry
because it did not stop raining.

In the City of Destruction, Mr. Pride

is the most angry of all.

He says that

everyone should think as he thinks and

then there will be unity and peace in the

city.
The members of the church in the City
of Destruction are angry because the

sermons of Mr. Big Pastor are very long.

Mr. Big Pastor is angry because church

attendance continues to be quite low.

his excessive width. It is hoped that

mission will make arrangement for
gifts. If the mission does not supply
gifts, they will be purchased from

the
the
the
the

church treasury.

Because of friction by the church, there

will be no Christmas drama this year.
There were six girls who wanted the part
of Mary, but there were no boys willing
to take the pzirts of shepherds.
It has been announced in the City of
Destruction Cinema that a special Micky

Mouse program will be presented for the

The editor of" The Destruction Times," children on Christmas morning.

is angry because his electric fan keeps

blowing his papers on the floor. Turning
off the fan, he is angry because of the
heat.

The
price of tickets will remain the same.
It has been learned from the book

store of Mr. Poor Christian that this year,

as was true last year, the Re. 1 cards are

Everyone in the City of Destruction is selling the best.

A new shipment of Ban^i Saris has
angry because everything is so expensive.
The cinema costs Rs. 2 a week, cigarettes arrived in the shop of Mr. Showoff. As
cost Rs. 10 a month, and it seems a a special Christmas offer, the Rs. 50-8-0
tremendous burden to pay Rs. 2 a year

sari is selling for only Rs. 50/-.

Mr. Studied Much has placed a

Christmas tree in his sitting room. It is
decorated with many coloured electric

lights. He informed Mr. Talkative that

he learned this way of celebrating Christ
mas when he was studying abroad. The
Electric Company is happy about the
whole thing.
The editor of " The Destruction Times,"
Mr. Sit Write, offered a prize to anyone
who could write an article on the meaning

of Christmas. As yet no entries have been

received.

Because

of the

excessive

Christmas

expenses, no citizen of the City of Destruc

tion is able to subscribe to Jiwan ka Pani
this month.

To all of you, from all the citizenry

of the City of DestructionMERRY

HOW READEST THOU ?

It is one thing to read the Bible through,
Another thing to read to learn to do.
Some read it with design to learn to read,
But to the subject pay but little heed.
Some read it as their duty once a week.
But no instruction from the Bible seek;
While others read it with but little care,

With no regard to how they read, or where.

Some read to bring themselves into repute
By showing others how they can dispute;
While others read because their neighbors
do,

To see how long 'twill take to read it

through.
Some read it for the wonders that are there,
How David killed a lion and a bear;
While others read it with uncommon care,

Hoping to find some contradictions there.

Some read as if it did not speak to them
But to the people at Jerusalem.
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CHRISTIAN WOMAN ACCEPTS VEDIC RELIGION

By Henry Emmanuel Kurban, Sagar

[Translated from Sandesh Tiirhi of Sagar]

On July 3rdj 1955, Miss Khushalta
Bharos
of
Baikunthpur
renounced
Christianity to become an adherent of
the Vedic religion. At the same time, her
marriage was solemnized with Shri
Raghunandan Prasad Gupta. The name
of the new convert was changed from
Khushalta Bharos to Khushalta Devi, and
a gift of Rs. 40/- was given to the Arya
Samaj. Following the double ceremony,
prasad was distributed to the many guests.

we were little, we had family devotions.

You sat us at your feet and read the Bible
to us. As we knelt, you used to pray for
us. Sometimes I would open my eyes
and look at your face, which was always
turned toward heaven.

" Mother, when

temptations come

upon me, I continue to see before me that

steadfast face that used to pray for us.

" Beloved mother, this is the secret of

the way by which I overcome tempta

tion."

The Responsibility
This is the result of our own weaknesses

which fall upon our children and ruin

them. We must become alert, because
you and I are going to have to give an
answer for all of this.

There are many among us who are

concerned about leading their'cliildren into
the right paths, who teach their children
to pray, and who tell them Bible stories.
A Widow and Her Sons
There was a widow who had two sons.

Friends, what a beautiful life was this

motlier's, who did what she could for the

spiritual growth of her children, and was

successful.

So come, let us together, with a prayer

of faith, make a more earnest effort, as
this mother did, so that our sons and our
daughters will become more firm in the
Christian faith.

Oh, Lord, give us all a more prayerful

and devout heart that we might exert a
righteous influence on our children, that
we might teach them to serve thee with a
pure conscience through our Lord Jesus
Christ.

After the death of her husband, she went

to work to support the boys; and also,

day by day, she taught them spiritual

truths and prayed with them.
After some years, her older son went
to America to study. This made the
mother feel uneasy about him, and one
day she wrote him a letter revealing her
worries for him, and asking him concerning
his spiritual condition.
The widow later received this answer
from her son:

" Dear Mother, There are indeed

many temptations, but when they come

my way I am victorious over them. When

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No.

SA&rJEL BAPTIZED

Samuel's
been

of

the

his

faith

has

concern to us for

past

made

' '

baptism
two

years.

confession

He
' of

at the Sunday,morn

ing service,

Feb. _^2th,,

and was baptised iiimicdiat

ely afterwards.
He .ahd

Horatius are now busy'Hn s

an 'effort to read the '

'Bible through this :^/ear.

VICTOR DASS'

Victor Dass:
the

is

charter iiiCmbers

one

of

of

the

church in Kanpur,
and has
been active throughout the

four

y.-^rs , that

been

here.

with- a

His

we

have

mar^ihge

school teacher took

LIFE OF CHRIST VISUALIZED

Our copies - of the Life of

Clirist Visualized

have

now" been

the

Customs

in

Hindi

released by
officials

in

Bombay and should soon be

on their way toK-mpury
CHRISTIANA CALVER TRACTS

Tv/o months
have passed
without much sign of activ
ity .froiii the printers.As yet
we cannot glorify Cfod by
distributing the tracts;
we are trying to. glorify h'im
by ^an exiiibition of patience.
OTHER ITEIUS" OF "INTEREST

Hanock Singh,, who had pre

viously been inmersed, plac
ed his membership here last

place at our house on Val

month,...The hard winter

is

entines Day.

over

ia

QUITE A BOOSTi ,
vVe were, encouraged this,
month

to

scription
Skillicorn,

receive

sub

and

v;armer weather

here,...We have been working

on our messages for the Kul
pa'har Convention,
They will

begin to appear

serially in

Mr. Keith

next month's Christasian... .

missionary in

Stephen and Stanley SaPiuel,

two of our boys in Bilaspur,
had birthdays last month....

from

India
of the Australian &
British'Churches of .Christ

for 100 copies of Jiwan ka

pani per month. Bundles of

50 copies per month go to
Bilaspur, Katni, and Raipur,

Five of us _ enjoyed a picnic

on

the

16th,

Hindu holiday.

which

was a

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"All the churches of Christ salute you."

Rom. 16 ; 16

Vol. II, No. 3

MARCH, 1956

Kanpur, India

CONFORMED TO THE IMAGE OF HIS SON

By Bakht Singh

I have seen persons who have lived a

very happy married life together for many
years. When I saw them first they did not
in the least resemble each other; but
after many years of married life they
seemed to be rather like twins than hus
band and wife. There is so much likeness

between them because of that happy union.

If this is true of earthly married life,
how much more true it can be with

Imagine God taking out the piece of bone

from that body and holding that before
Adam. Could he have fellowship with
that piece of bone? God breathed upon
it, and it became Eve, the very likeness
of Adam.

Before we are bom again, we are just

like that dry bone. Whoever you may
be, as a sinner not born again, you are
nothing but that small dry bone full of
every kind of weakness and infirmity and
shortcomings, and not having the least

regard to your union and intimacy with

your Lord which is eternal?
This, then, is the Lord's final goal

resemblance to the Divine likeness, because

for us.

of the sin which marred us and made us

When God made Eve out of

Adam, the Scripture says, he took only a

piece of rib from Adam, and from the
tiny rib He made Eve like Adam in form
and nature. So much so, tliat if you had
seen them both that day, you would have
said perhaps that they were brother and
sister, because they were both made in
the divine image. Could there have been
any comparison between the tiny bone
which God took out of Adam, and the
woman he brought to him as his wife?

ugly. Yet His high purpose for us is

that we may be like Him. And He is
willing and able to transform us till we
are conformed to the image of His Son.
As God confirms it in I Cor. 13:12 and

I John 3:2, we shall be like Him.

It is hard on earth to understand such

a mystery, such a truth, such a purpose;

but it is indeed going to be so.
From Balance of Truth,

As a bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, So shall thy God

rejoice over thee.

Isaiah 62:5

MNITRIALS
A very caste-conscious Brahmin
recently opened a tea stall in a locality
of Kanpur. Because he refused to serve
people of low caste, he soon became a
prey to their tricks. A low caste man

keep intact the western hold on Indian

Christians with the help of denationalized
Indians whom they have trained in their

went to the

' one management and one purse' which

church Union is achieving will mean

tea stall of the Brahmin

and after taking a seat asked him for

a cup of tea. With this the Brahmin
lost his temper. He became furious
and picked up a stick and asked the
customer to leave. He also yelled out
hundreds of bad

names.

The comfort

ably seated customer enjoyed the shop

keeper's fury. The Brahmin did not dare

own western countries like the British

Indian Civil Service. We are afraid that

worse domination, authoritarianism of a

hierarchy, and dull uniformity in spiritual

life. Mere nationalism or independence
of foreign control will not unify Christians."
Brother Das suggests a greater loyalty to
Christ and His

Word

as a

basis

for

Christian Unity.

to hit the low caste man because then

he would have had to bathe, and the

winter was cold. When the matter began
to look a little serious, the customer left
the shop and came back with several
policemen. When the Brahmin saw this,
he became more furious than ever.

He

threw out the tea pot, cups, plates, chairs,

and even the milk into the street. Pouring
hot water into his stove, he said, " Now
have your t e a I t turned out to have
been a planned joke for which the

Brahmin payed hea^y.

Editor R. G. Das has sounded this

objection to " Church Union," in The

Seeker. "Church Union has largely succee
ded in the South and is about to materialize

in the North.
a

But this very success is

curse-to the Indian church as

such.

medical

student

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Communist

China wrote the following testimony of the

book, "Questions Concerning The Faith."
by John Wu: " This book has already
altered the attitude of a number of people
toward Christians.
There are many
Youth Corps students at our school, and
they are all eager to see this book. At
first they gave the book to the Youth
Corps political teacher specially sent to
set our thoughts right. They wanted
him to discover parts of the book that
were open to criticism, thus giving a
handle to argue with the Christians.
The outcome was that Mr. Huang said,
" I cannot give the answer to many of
the problems raised in the book. They
are certainly worth discussing

Christians are

also reasonable

young

The church thus united will be nothing

Indian in its life and witness but only a
consolidation of foreign church politics,
western form of worship and western
culture with ample funds and a goodly

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their religion and pray." This book

TREASURE IN EARTHEN VESSELS

By Kanpurwalla

Brother Samuel Nath of Jhansi

One of my boys is especially brilliant.
recently preached a very inspiring sermon Everyone brags on him. But that is
on this subject in Kanpur.
just what worries me. He will not have
" But we have this treasure (i.e., the difficulty in getting ahead in the world,
light of God) in earthen vessels, that the but he may have difficulty in entering into
excellency of the power may be of God, the kingdom of Heaven. Because of his
good looks, strong physique, and clever
and not of us." 2 Cor. 4:7.
he will have difficulty in recog
Samuel pointed out that earthen mind,
nizing himself to be a mere earthen vessell.
vessels by themselves are practically
On the other hand, I have tliree
worthless. They can be purchased in
any Indian bazaar two for a pisa (four for fellow workers who have returned from
one cent). But if you fill one with gold, the river of death. All three of them are
another with silver, a tliird with brass, weak physically, and none of them has
and a fourth with iron, their value
would increase according to the value of

the contents. Even so, before coming to

Christ we are as worthless as these earthen

vessels. But God fills us with His Light,

and His Holy Spirit dwells within us.
In this way we become of infinite
value.

Just the day before Samuel preached

this sermon, two of my adopted boys and
I were walking past a new bank building.
One of them jokingly suggested that I
store my wealth in the new bank.

In

matriculated. The result of this is that

their service for the Lord is a humble one.

They have a spirit of contentment and

cooperation that is not found in those

places where the vessels are gold and

silver. With this spirit of love they are
drawing others to Christ. But they are
constantly called upon to apologize for
the actions of their more brilliant brethren.

Not that we can boast of being a

perfect example, for we are not. There are

limes when even the cheapest of us begin

to feel a little polished; and then trouble

historic fashion, I replied that they were always begins.

my jewels and that I might have a little

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TOBACCO IS A HINDRANCE

[ Translated from Sandesh Turhi ]

Because of several financial hindr

ances, India is a very poor country.

But the Indian people have become fed up

with poverty and are trying to eliminate
it as quickly as possible.
We are able to say quite definitely
that one of the most important of the
causes of this poverty is the use of tobacco.
Its use has become widespread. Not only
men, but women also, and not only adults,

but youths and even children are using it.

Considering the extent to which its
use has spread, one might think that the
tobacco plant is a native plant of this
country and that its use dated back to
ancient times. But such is not the case.

This plant came to India from England.

In England, Sir Walter Raleigh had
brought it from America and, despite the
objections of several people, he presented
it in the court of Queen Elizabeth I. In
India, tobacco was strongly opposed by
Jahangir and Shahjahan and those who
used tobacco were punished severely.
First oifenders had their noses cut off, and
second offenders were beheaded.

The Water Pipe

Mr. Brayan, who was Deputy Com

missioner of Disti-ict Gurgaon, Punjab, and
who has done much for village uplift, has
said this regarding the water pipe: " The

water pipe is the greatest enemy of the

village people and is a great waste of
time. If the time the villagers waste in
smoking the water pipe, and just a quarter
of the expense, were given instead for
the improvement of their villages, these
villages would be transformed into a
heaven on earth."

Many years ago, someone told me

the story of a woman in a certain village

who gave her son these instructions as

he was about to begin work for a farmer:
" Son, take this water pipe and remember
not to work too hard.

When the farmer is

not looking, leave your work and begin

to smoke the water pipe and continue to
smoke it until he sees you. When he says
anything to you, you tell him that you
were smoking the water pipe. In this
way you will be spared too much hard
work." She told him the means for escape,
and he learned the lesson of his mother

very well.

In this country, this hindrance

is found with the labourers.

If we should

employ some labourers, we see them

frequently leaving their work to smoke
the water pipe. They do this also in
the midst of their own work.
Evil Effects

The effect of tobacco poison on the

heart

is

such that

the enthusiasm for

improving one's financial condition is des

troyed. Their wisdom also dies. In poor
families, those children who smoke seldom
study beyond the Fifth Class.
If an account were kept of the expense
of tobacco in the family, it would be
shown that in comparison to other expen
ses, the average cost of tobacco is more.
We all know that in such homes a woman

may lie sick, or a child may be weak

and there is not a single cup of milk for
them; but the men of that house, and
perhaps even the women, are regularly
buying tobacco.
Perhaps there are many of us who
because of indifference or for some other

reason, shrink back from telling people

about tobacco. But we are able to exert

a great influence on people by our

example. We should not use tobacco
Continued on Page 6

SAVED TO THE UTTERMOST

Notes from a Sermon Preached in Kanpur

By Samuel Oommen of Coonoor, South India
" Wherefore he (i.e., the Lord Jesus)
is able also to save them to the uttermost

that come unto God by him, seeing he

ever liveth to make intercession for them".
Heb. 7:25.

It is very difficult to translate, explain,

or understand the full meaning of this
word " uttermost".

If we were to clean

a table to the uttermost, we would have

to separate it atom by atom. So when

God's word tells us that Jesus is able to

save us to the uttermost, it means that

He is able to save us in every situation at

any time.

and mother let him in.

He announced

that there was going to be a picnic on the

following day, and that he wanted me
to sing. Recognizing it as a possible
source of income, I readily accepted. He
looked me up and down and said, " Is
this all the clothes you have?" I did
not answer him, but it was true that

I went to school and church, worked,

played, and slept all in the same clothes.
He wrote on a slip of paper and told me
to go to a shop for new clothes. I went
right away and the shop keeper told me
to take whatever I wanted; and I chose
the most expensive items in the store.
Before I had had a chance to ask God for

is limited only to our life after death.

the clothes or enter it in the debit account,

God had given abundantly. God is able

But it means that He is also able to save

to save us to the uttermost and will not be

us in times of sickness, peril, and distress

in this present life.

held a debtor to any man.

It does not mean that God's salvation

When I was a lad in South India, I

began to study bookkeeping on my own.
Being somewhat mischievious, I decided

that I would keep a debit and credit

account

with

God.

When

would

request something from God in prayer,

I would write that item down in the debit

account; and when He would give it to

me, I would enter it into the credit account.

So I made up my notebook out of scraps

of paper and placed it under my pillow.
I thought that by this way I would make
God a debtor to me.

When I

went to

bed the first night, I began to think about

what I would ask of God and place in the
debit account. Having only one suit of
ragged clothes, I decided that in the
morning I would pray to God for clothes
and then write it in the debit account.

Just at that time the superintendent of

the Sunday School knocked on the door

A Bruised Reed and Smoking Flax

There was a man whose wife com

plained of a dog that entered into the

kitchen every evening on the sly and did

some damage. So one day the man took
off early from work and sat quietly reading
by the kitchen door.

After some time he

heard the noise of the dog in the kitchen.

He quietly arose and stealthily approached
the dog.

He took hold of a reed with

which to strike the dog and slowly raised

to strike. But as he raised it, the reed
bent in two. In the meantime the dog
escaped. Now the fury that had been
aimed at the dog was now aimed at the
stick. He broke it up in pieces and threw
it into the fire and said, " I don't want
to see tliis stick again ".

A smoking lamp is another thing

which we will not keep around for long.

If it smokes, we will trim it and try to

repair it. But if we fail to stop the smoHng.

we will throw it out.

But Isaiah 42:3 tells us

that "A

And when I

awake in

Heaven, I

will probably ask, " How did I get here?"

And I think our heavenly Father will say,
" I carried you in my arms". I will have
been saved to the uttermost.

bruised reed shall he not break, and the

smoking flax shall he not quench: he

shall bring forth judgement unto truth."
This is a prophecy of the Christ. Christ
takes the broken reed, mends it, and uses
it. He takes the smoking lamp, remedies
its fault, and uses it. Are any of you like
that bruised reed or that smoking flax?
God can still use you. He will save you
to the uttermost and use you to His glory.

Brother Oommen is

New

Testament

Christian who earns his own way by selling

tea. His address is: Samuel Oomen^ Coonoor,
NilgiriSi South India.

ContinuedJrom Page 4
ourselves.

We should not do that which

is a stumbling block to others. Do we

not have enough self control to leave this

Crossing the River

habit ?

A friend of mine took his son visiting

Are others not able to learn from

our example?

one day to a house a short distance from

But between the two houses

In

there was a river. The boy was worried

as to how he was going to cross the river.

tobacco

his own.

The father tried to reassure him

that

there would be no difficulty, but the boy

this

country,

an intoxicant,

everyone
and

calls

there are

none to defend it. The users of tobacco,

therefore, are lowered in their own
estimation.

replied, " You will be able to cross the

river because you are big; but I won't

This habit is contrary to the standard

be able to cross because I am small."

set forth in the scriptures for it is written

When they reached the river, the boy said,

" Now, you see I told you the river was
too big for me to cross." But the father

picked the small boy up in his arms and

carried him across.

Then the boy began

to sing, " My father is a very clever

man." After a long time at the friend's
house, the boy went to sleep.

But when

he awoke in the morning he found that he

was in his own house.

" Father," said the boy, " Didn't I

go to sleep over there?"
" Yes, my son."
" And aren't we back home now?"

" Yes, my son."

"Then, how did I get here?"

" I carried you in my arms." the
father said.

that we should not allow our eating and

drinking to be a stumbling block to others.
Can anyone imagine the Lord Jesus with
a water pipe or cigarette in his mouth?

A few days ago I became acquainted

with a soldier.

He told me that he had

left the cigarette habit.

how it had come about.

I asked him
He said that he

had been trying to win a friend to Christ

and that his fiiend told him that when

he came to him to talk about such things

that he should not have the smell of
tobacco on liis breath. The soldier told
me that this word was sufficient for him.

At that time the thought came to him

that smoking tobacco is a sin because it
was hindering his friend from coming to
Christ. After he left the habit, his friend
became a true servant of Christ.

THE HOW OF SALVATION

A Sermon in Outline

By John R. Singh, Bina

Scripture Lesson: Gen. 3:15; 12:1-3;

17:1-8; Gal. 3:1-29; Eph. 2:11-22;
Hebrews, Chapters 8, 9 and 10.
The Party of the First Part
I. GOD SAVES US Isa. 45:2.

1.
2.
3.
4.

By
By
By
By

His Grace, Eph. 2:8, Titus 2:11-14.

His Love, John 3:16, Eph. 2:4, 5.
His Mercy, Eph. 2:4, Titus 2:4-7.
the Foolishness of Preaching,
I

8. By Prayer, Rom. 10:13, 14.

9. By Growth in Christian Graces,
I Peter 2:2, 11 Pet. 1:1-11.

10. By Holiness, Heb. 10:12-14; 12:14.

11. By Faithfulness, Rev. 2:10.
12. By Christian Work, Mt. 25:31-46.

13. By Holding Fast the Gospel. I Cor.

15:1, 2.

Cor. 1:21.

II. JESUS SAVES US, Mt. 1:21, Lk. 12:10 KULPAHAR CONVENTION
John 3:17.
1. By His Death, Isa. 53:1-9,
The annual Kulpahar Convention
John 3:14, 15; 12:32, 33.
will be held this year during the first four
2. By His Blood, I John 1:6, 7.
days of March.
3. By His Resurrection, I Cor. 15:12-19.
The circular which has been issued to
4. By His Life, Rom. 5:10, 11.
advertise
the convetion, promises:
5. By His Word, John 6:63, 2 Cor. 3:4-6.
III. THE HOLY SPIRIT SAVES US, SINGINGNew Choruses and old songs;
LISTENINGGreat preachers of the
II Cor. 3:4-6.
Word.
1. By Inspiring the Apostles with the
Word of Life, John 14:26; 16:8-14; PRAYINGGod Almighty in Heaven
I Cor. 1:21; Rom. 1:16.
The Party of the Second Part
I. WE SAVE OURSELVES, Acts 2:40;
Phil. 2:12.

1. By Hearing, Isa. 55:3, Rom. 10-17,

areas.

Harry D. Schaefer of Bilaspur will

preach four messages on the subject,
" God's PlanFor the World, Church,
Christian, and Sinner."

Heb. 2:1-4.

2. By Believing, John 3:14-16; 3:36;

Acts 16:31; Heb. 10:39.

3. By Repenting,

Luke

13:1-5, Acts

2:38, Acts 11:18.

4. By
Confessing,
Mt.
10:32,
Mt. 15:16-18, Rom. 10:9, 10.

5. By Being

FELLOWSHIPChristians from many

Baptized,

Mark

33,

16:16,

Acts 2:38, I Pet. 3:21, Rom. 6:1-6.

Col. 2:12, Acts 22:16, Gal. 3:27.
6. By Receiving the Gift of the Holy

Spirit, Acts 2:38 (last part).

7. By Obedience, Rom. 6:17, 18, Heb.
5:8, 9, I Pet. 4:17, 18, Rev. 22:14.

Your editor will

deliver three messages on the subject,

" The Anatomy and Disease of the
Spiritual Eye." Other messages will be
brought by Alex Joshua of Allahabad, and
John R. Singh of Bina. There will also
be dramas, forums, and films.
Food will be available for

few

annas a day.

Those who are planning to attend,

should write to: The Secretary, Conven
tion Committee, Church of Christ,
Kulpahar, U.P., India.

HISTORY MADE AT KATNI

History was made at the church of Nathan James, Church of Christ, Satna,
Christ in Katni, M.P., India, on Friday V.P., India.
the 13th of January, 1956, when fourteen
Christian bretliren from diiferent parts of
northern India voted the " New Testa
ment Publications Assn." into existence.

The simple aim of this new association

is to promote New Testament Christianity
through the printed word.
Under the Chairmanship of your

editor, a rough draft of the constitution

and by-laws was drawn up, and an execu
tive committee for the present year was
elected.

The Executive Committee for 1956 is

composed of the following well qualified

brethren i Chairman, Don R. Davis of

Bilaspur; Vice Chairman, G. N. James of

Bilaspur; Secretary, Frank Rempel of
Kulpahar; Treasurer, Nathan James of
Satna; and Member Without Portfolio,

T
4

7
*

Gaius Timothy of Kulpahar. The other

members of the association are: I. B.

w**

Kangloo of Raipur, Paras Masih of

Basna, N. Hiradhar of Bilaspur, Roop
Singh of Manendragarh, Maclean Luther
of Allahabad, Kent Bates of Jhansi, Paul
Masih of Ragaul, Julius Yafaat and
T. G. Rash of Kulpahar, and Ralph
Harter of Kanpur.

The policy and program for the

present year will be formulated and
executed by the Executive Committee.
Due to our confidence in the new

association, we are planning to discontinue

publication of Jiwan ka Pani magazine

(in Hindi) with the issueof next December.
At the same time, we will donate some of

our office equipment to the new associa

tion. We request our friends to support
the new association with both their prayers

and offerings so that they will be in a

position to begin a monthly publication

next January.
Funds for the new association are

very urgently

needed. Send to Shri

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MARCH 1956

'More things are. . .

VTroughi By Prayer
. . .than this world dreams'

AS the time for this Issue

of Salute arrives, we deem

it both an obligation and privilege

to bring you up to date with "news."
We know that you are vitally in
terested in the things that are
"wrought" here; and we would only
remind you, as we remind ourselves,
that those things which have hap
pened and those which lie in the
future, will be much more blessed

and fruitful if they are "wrought by

prayer."
Of the more than 100 children

in the orphanage a dozen of them

are now in their teens, that well-

known difficult age. Our young

people here are faced with many of
the same temptations that confront
yours at home. All of these teen
agers are young Christians, and at

this time of their lives Satan battles

most furiously for their souls. Those

- o f us who work

y-

_ with them, inj:_

eluding many of

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1|^

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teachers,
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mie and "Broth-

er Julius realize that we lead and

teach these youth only up to a cer

tain point, then they are on their
own. Our hands are not tied however,
and even as from the sidelines we

still strive to influence, we have a

powerful force at handprayer, We

have set aside the fourth Saturday

night of each month as a time to
meet together in prayer for our
young people. This world cannot
dream what the results of such pray
ing may be. Our first meeting was
held in January when 17 leaders met
for prayerwehope that some of you
hold this "prayer tryst" with us in
the months ahead.

Pray for Brother Bhelwa, travel

ing evangelist, who this month con
cludes his preparations (preaching
charts, itinerary, etc.) and begins
his meetings among the churches.
Also

for

Brother Emmanuel,

A-V

mobile unit operator, as he negoti

ates with officials to secure a re

lease from rigid rulings regarding

public meetings. We believe that
when God's work is being hindered,
PAGE THREE

believing prayer can lead God to

intervene. If you share this convic

are

tion with us, will you share the

burden of prayer?

School teachers and mem

bers
of committeesbut
the elders and other officers

At the time, of writing the 8th

annual convention of the churches

of Christ at Kulpahar is slightly in

the future; by the time you read this
it will be passed. Every convention
sees someone accept Christ as
Savior for the first time, and also

invariably results in many folks

making a determination to live
closer to the Master in the days

ahead. Your prayers and ours can

help make these decisions permanent.

members

of the local

congregation, we are Bible

of

the church, the Bible

School superintendent and

its

officers are nationals.

The brethren here, at first

bewildered by our action, have taken

heart and are prayerfully and de
terminedly assiuning full leadership
responsibility in the church. We
know that through prayer and faith
the foundation has been laid, and
now others build thereon. Let their

efforts be girded with your prayers!

From a mere handful of Christians

with no capable leadership 10 years

ago, to a New Testament congrega
tion of about 150 with consecrated,

able leadershipthe story of the

growth at Kulpahar. It was necessary
at the beginning for the missionaries
to direct not only the mission work;
but to assume the main places of
leadership in the local church. Thus
we have all served as either elders,

deaconnesses, superintendents of
the Bible School, etc. through the

years. Very early in 1956, several

of us, individually thinking along
the same line, came to place of
unanimous decisionthat the local

church must be ready after all this

time to manage its own affairs. True,
we count ourselves as "one" with

our brethren here, and the majority

of the brethren hold that same high

concept. But there are those out

siders who consider us as foreigners,

interfering and dictatorial. And so,

that the church here might take an

other step forward, those of us

elected this year have resigned. We
PAGE FOUR

Time and time again it

has been forcibly brought
to

our

attention

that

the

place where God's people

dare to take a stand against
the Evil One becomes the

place where Satan immediately marshalls

innumerable

forces.

The

evangelists connected with the Kul

pahar work recently dared to launch
a rebellion against a situation that
had long since born the seal of
Satan's mastery. Since the beginning
of modern missions in India, evange
lism has depended almost completely
on foreign support. Born of the con
viction that the expansion of God's
church in India must not come to a

stop simply because a mission bud

get has reached its limit, the evan
gelists adopted a plan whereby each
is to be self-supporting by I960 (see
December 1955 Salute, page 14), so
that the present evangelistic budget
MARCH 1956

can take on a new group every five

years.

a housing project, and a grain-grind

ing business.

Even in opportunity-filled Ameri

ca, this would be expecting a lot of
Each morning and evening the
the Christian evangelist. In eco
dispensary opens to serve the ill
nomically-poor India it becomes a and injured of this area, an average
challenge demanding the very best of about 25 people receive medicine.
At the same time they hear a portion
in Christian consecration, coopera
tion and just plain hard work. May of the Word of God from the students
we call on you to build a protective of the Bible college. They are far
wall of prayer around these men of more eager to take help for physical
India, especially the four who take ails than for spiritual onesbut pray
the initiative this month by begin with us, that out of this number there
ning on a very small scale, a cycle will be some who will come to know
rickshaw business, a poultry farm. Christ as the "Great Physician."

"Wherefore, let thy voice rise like a

fountain night and day' for
Tom and Leota, as they ace bucdeaed foe the souls of India who know not
the Christ, and as they lead the Indian evangelists In efforts to
win their own people to Him.
Frank and Marie, as they endeavor to train future preachers and layworkers for India, knowing that the influence of the well-equipped
native far exceeds our own.

Edna, chat her every service, in the Bible college, in the Women's Home,
and chat among the children (in whose work she is helping this
year) might be fruitful.
Helen, that the medical work she is doing may also be a means of bring
ing men and women to Christ.
Leah, that efforts made in providing a home and other necessities for
needy children, may result in souls for Him in years ahead.

Dolly, chat as the miles now separate her from us and the work she loves
so dearly, that the Father above will bless and keep and bring
her safely back.

GOD IS OMNIPOTENT
GOD HAS ALL-POWER

PAGE FIVE

"Ho/ Every One

That Thirsteth'^
Though India is classed as a

/fT7\\

backward

nation it must be noted

that great ingenuity is shown, both

in past and in the present, in the
conducting of water from available

m
ili

fi

sources to the points of need. There

are

numerous

means used

for the

raising of water from a lower to a

higher level for the purpose of ir
rigation, some of which are laborious
in the extreme and others of which
make use of natural laws in a most

workable manner. By the use of

water wheels turned by oxen, by
siphons, dams, canals, and even by
the simple expedient of lifting water
from a well or canal by means of a
bucket, the land is watered and made
to bear fruit, and the animals and

man himself take advantage

water's life-giving flow.

of

ONE
of the substances upon
which life everywhere de
pends is water. In India, because of
the over-powering heat, and in con
sequence of the arrangement of the
seasons, this dependence is greatly
emphasized. There comes that sea
son when the land lies parched, and
the dominant activity to be seen is
that of equally parched cattle wan
dering about in search of life-giving
water.

I-'lant life withers and even

man himself seems to shrink to in

significance and to inactivity in the

face of this need.
MARCH 1956

INDIA BIBLE COLLEGE presented by Frank and Marie Rempel

Ingenious and hard-working as
man may be in availing himself of
this necessary commodity, in the
face of a more serious ne^ed he stands

helpless. It is the need, in India,

for the Water of Life, which, said
Jesus, is available to all who will
worship the Father in Spirit and in
Truth. But this no amount of labor

and human ingenuity can supply. It

is not that the religious leaders have
ignored this needthere is perhaps
no other country in the world where
such attention is given to religion.
But all attempts to quench spiritual
thirst, and to save the people from
dying, have ended in the same dis
mal failure that is recorded of Israel

of old, who "forsaking the Fountain

of Living Waters, hewed them out
cisterns, broken cisterns that can

hold no water." (Jeremiah 2:13)

As a result the people perish
here

in India as in Israel's time.

"The poor and the needy seek water

a pool of water, and the dry land

springs of water." (Isaiah 41:18)
How great is the privilege of
offering oneself for use as a channel
for

this blessed flow.

The means

for the supplying of water for a

spiritually parched people are as
numerous as are those for irrigation.
One may labor here and another there.
It may be as a housewife, or as a
business man, or as an evangelist,
or as in our case, as teachers in a
Bible training school that we serve.
One may be a "minister of finance"
and another a laborer in the "irri

gation department"but it all has

one and the same end and purpose.
Friends, make your own ministry a

holy one by dignifying it with this

concept. Regard your own labors,
which may have seemed insignifi
cant up till now, as a part of a world
wide project in the meeting of this
great human need, and as such, a
vitally important service!

and there is none, and their tongue

faileth for thirst." (Isaiah 41:17)

All the more tragic is this to be

seen

when

it

is realized that the

"fountain of living waters" flow with

an abundance that can supply every
need of all men everywhere. Its

gushing,

sparkling, happy waters

will never cease to flow! How lavish

is the promise of Jehovah God: "I,

Jehovah, will answer them. I, the
God of Israel, will not forsake them.
I will open rivers in the bare heights,
and

fountains in the midst of the

valleys. I will make the wilderness

SALUTE

PAGE SEVEN

"Bread For The Hu

Bread is everywhere con
sidered

basic

to

man's

diet-"the staff of life." At what

exertions and laborious effort it is

produced can best be seen by com

ing to India to see the farmer at
work. The point to note, here, how
Nothing delights out boys mote

ever, is that no matter how hard the

than to assemble with a few friends

labor, or at how great an expense of

effort, grain must be produced, so
that bread may be made to satisfy

behind out kitchen, build a small

chula (stove) and there make their
own

bread.

Each child contributes

his amount of coarse flour, salt, and

labor, which are the three main ingredients. Soon a round of bread,
resembling cardboard and about as
tough, is ready to be dropped into

the

oil for deep

frying.

Such a

this very basic human need.

But "man shall not live by bread

alone," only and mainly, by that
revelation that comes from the lips

"scrumptious repast" was never en

joyed so much at the table.

of God Himself. Is the Indian un

aware of this need? Indeed he is

The Indian people of our com

munity are bread eaters because
ours is a wheat growing area. Many

not. The Asian people exhibit per

haps a greater hunger for spiritual

times we have been asked to dine

with friends in the village. We are

served

food

that

is

excellent but

which lacks the variety found on the

American table. We are offered spiced
vegetables and bread, which we have
learned to relish. The second course

will be vegetables and bread. The

third course, with some variation, of
course, will also be vegetables and
bread. They may serve up to 10
different varieties of bread, all made
from the coarse flour (called atta)
and salt and water.

nourishment than can be found on

any other continent, and the Indians

have among them a greater variety

of systems for the satisfaction of
that hunger than has any other na
tion of people. Several world reli
gions have had their birth and their
greatest success here. There seems
no limit to that which some will suf

fer for the sake of religion, all of

which are designed, ultimately, to
feed the soul on other than material
bread.

rnmmm
PAGE EIGHT

>.

iMOl*

The state of a people so afflict

ed with systems that fail to satisfy
the real hunger of the soul is made
the subject of a lamentation by
Israel's "weeping prophet:" "Arise,
cry out in the night, at the beginning
of the watches, pour out thy heart
like

water before the face of the

Lord, lift up thy hands before Him

for the life of the young children
that faint for hunger at the head of
every street." There is no one who
has seen the piteous state of people
who know not God, yet are des
perately in search of Him, who will
not immediately make this his own
lamentation for the people of India!
It is the glorious mission of our
Lord Jesus to offer Himself as the
only Bread for the spiritual nourish
ment of the human race. How tragi
cally vain is all this striving to
produce spiritual food by human ef
fort when here, free for the taking,
and in an abundance undreamed of,

is the Bread by which it is the

Redeemer's purpose to sustain life
in Himself.

But oh how great is the respon

sibility upon those whom He has

made dispensers of that Bread! With

what great care we must see that
we do not give a "stone" instead!
The tremendous number of the starv

ing only increases the responsi

bilityeach individual must become
a personal concern, for such he is
with God.

It is, indeed, a responsibility

which only the collective strength
of the Church of theXord can pos

sibly bear. We who labor in India

Bible College are very keenly aware
of the partnership we have with
homeland Christians. Their prayers
and material support are without
doubt as vital to the task as is our
own work. In the common cause of

accomplishing the Lord's purpose,

may we join hands and hearts as
never before!

INDIA BIBLE COLLEGE

LOOKS TO THE FUTURE

IOR

some time we have

Ffelt the necessity for "in-

digenizing this ministerial training

school from the standpoint of its
leadership. During all of its exist

ence to date, the work has been

planned and executed by one or the

other of those of us who come from
the west. While it is no doubt true

that such a procedure was neces

sary during the beginning stages,

it must be seen to be equally true
that the very nature of the Gospel,
with its world-wide applicability,
forbids that the work of Christ is

any given country shall forever be

arbitrarily operated by "outsiders."*

control. There is no doubt some ar

gument as to the advisability of adopting these indigenizing measures

while the major part of the support
still comes from foreign sources,
but we feel that such arguments are
rendered ineffective by the necessity
for giving national leaders the op
portunity to develop through practice,
while still under the watchful eyes
of those whom the supporting chur
ches consider to be their stewards.

A Board of Trustees has been

appointed, consisting of nine per
sons, five of whom are nationals and
four missionaries. These persons,
in the initial stage, have been ar

This, coupled with an increasingly

strong demand on the part of govern

bitrarily appointed by us, but will

come into authority, after a year or

ment that Indian Christians be en

so, to appoint their own successors

trusted with leadership positions in

Christian institutions, has brought
us to the decision to re-organize
India Bible College along lines

or to add to their number. They have

been chosen from among persons

described below.

to be interested in the work of the

who have connection with the Col

lege through study or who are known

school. It will be their task to:

NATIVE LEADERSHIP

The set-up will not seem so

strange to people in America where

similar systems are largely followed,

but it is a radical step in India,
where for so many years all Christian
institutions have been under mission
PAGE TEN

1. Formulate the broad, policies

according to which the school will
be operated.

2. Appoint special committees

for re-study of-the needs of the min
istry of Christ in India, with a view
MARCH 1956

to the adoption of a curriculum of

studies that will best fill that need.

3. Appoint the Principal of

college, and together with him
point the teaching staff, setting
them salary scales suitable to

the
ap
for
the

Indian situation as it is at present.

4. Appoint an Executive Staff of

three, of which also the Principal
will be the Chairman, whose task
will be the actual administration of

the College.

It has been stipulated that Frank

Rempel will remain as the Board
Chairman, and as the Principal for

the period of at least a year, and

that Edna Hunt, who has for several

years labored effectively with the

College, be appointed the SecretaryTreasurer for a similar period, thus

Gayas Masih Timothy is 30years |

of age. He was born in Bilaspur of
humble Christian parents, both of
whom have now retired from active

Christian service. Along with his

brothers, he was sent to Damoh Mis
sion Boarding school (Disciples).

While working in Jubbulpur he

heard of India Bible College and
came immediately to Kulpahar to en
roll for Bible training. He graduated
from IBC in 1950 with the degree of

B.Th. During this time he also suc

cessfully appeared for both the matric
and intermediate examinations.

When he was offered a position

asafulltime professor in the college,

Brother Timothy said, "I deem it a
thing of honor, but I feel within my
self incompetent for so great a task."
He has, however, done good work.
Salochna Timothy, also of Jub

bulpur, was bom into a family of

five, the parents of which were also

to form two-thirds of the Executive

in

Staff for the first year.

M. M. Luther, is an evangelist asso

ciated with the Kulpahar work. After

We have every confidence that

we are taking a forward step in the

Salochna

making of the church of Jesus Christ

a. self-perpetuating institution here
in India. We believe it to be a further

freeing

of

Christianity from the

strangling hold of a "mission type"

of leadership. Your interest and
prayer support are earnestly solici

Christian

work.

One

brother,

finishing elementary and high school,

took

teacher's

training,

and has been teaching in the ele

mentary school at Kulpahar for the

past six years. The Timothys have
four children, Asha (Hope), Anugra
(Grace) and Ernest and Arnold.
Salochna has now been asked to

take over the management of the

Bible college students' hostel, a
work for which she is well suited.

ted.
SALUTE

PAGE ELEVEN

The following persons will sit

on the Board of Trustees of India

Bible College.
M. AL La//Kulpahar, teacher in
the Junior High School.

P. S. B/>e/uiagraduate of IBC
and travelling evangelist.
C. Loya/graduate and pastor of
the Church of Christ, Kanpur.
J.

ya/atgraduate,

teacher of

Bible in Mission grade and High

schools.

G. M. TinjotAygraduate, for four

years professor in IB C.
Missionaries as follows: Edna
Hunt, Thomas Rash, Frank and Marie
RempeL

"God is able to make all grace abound unto you;

that ye, having always ALL SUFFICIENCY in

everything, may abound unto every good work."

Annual

Meeting
The first annual meeting, though not termed so then, was

held in August 1947, when Tom, Leota, Dolly and Leah

negotiated with the Disciples of Christ for the buying of the pro
perty at Kulpahar. In retrospect, we remind you that at that time

there was no ^hanage, no children's school, no Bible college,

PACK TWELVE

MARCH 1956

almost no evangelistic work here-there was a weak congregation

of believers with practically no national leadership. But the years
have seen a change:

1948Much time and effort put into raising purchase price of property.
First baptisms at Kulpahar.
1949Arrival of Frank and Marie Rempel.
Edna Hunt came to join us.

1950First five couples graduated from India Bible College.

1951Final payment for mission property made and title secured.
1952Slow but steady growth witnessed in all work.
Third annual convention of the churches of Christ.

1953Eight graduates from the Bible college.

Dedication of the new orphanage.

Helen Doyal arrives to join our staff.

1954CAn'stran Junior High School recognized by government.
Allahabad Fellowship Centre opens as evangelistic work

strides

ahead.

On February 14th all the missioi.aries O' the field (Dolly was
absent as she is on furlough) sat in annual leeting, and we again
praised God for His blessings and His wonderful goodness to us.
None of us have witnessed a real need for which He has not pro

vided, rather His sufficiency has abounded toward us. A glance at

the highlights from our 1955 work reports will cause you to rejoice
with us.

* The Christian Grammar School is recognized by the government.

Total enrollment in

Christian School is 106 with nine fulltime

teachers and fotir parttime.

** The orphanage now provides a home for 103 children, from babies
to teenagers. Two of our older girls are in training, and wedding
plans are being made for Sushilla.
*** The new dispensary building is completed and in use, serving the
needs of the ill of the area.

'** A group of enthusiastic young men are studying in India Bible Col'
/ege, preparing themselves for the ministry and effective laymanship.
"*** Eight national couples are engaged in evangelistic work; four of
whom are beginning to make plans for eventual self-svpport.
SALUTE

PAGE THIRTEEN

1955 FINANCIAL SUMMARIES

Each Kulpahar missionaiy sends a
detailed, mimeographed annual financial
report directly to all of his supporters,

listing their contributions and itemizing

expenditures. Following are brief sum

maries of each such report for the year

1955.

Report of Tom and Leota Rash

Total Receipts for 1955.... .S18,338.84
Transportation, Station
Wagon, Gas
1,263.13
Postage, duty, promotional .. 1,233.90
Supplies, upkeep,
building work
2,324.01
Evangelists salaries
4.098.51

Out-station rent, work allow-

ances, camps, conventions.

Repatriation fund

3,192.30
600.00

Rash family salary

(6 members).

3,060.00

Education
Womens Home, provident fimd.
school fees

394.50
494.80

Medical, income tax.

insurance

602.55
500.00

Rempel's bungalow repair...

totai

4n vz-a vn

l u l al

u7,763.70

January 1, 1955 Deficit

December 31, 1955 Balance

$373.91
$201.23

Report of Dolly Chitwood and Leah Moshier

Total Receipts for 1955
Kulpahar Kids Home (food,
clothing, medicines,
supplies, etc.)

$19,394.83
3,790.79

Mission School (books and

supplies).....

595.90

Mission workers salaries

(teachers, orphanage helpers) 4,091.48

Equipment, general supplies..
557.40
Unclassified: camp, duty, provi
dent fund, womens home, etc.

914.73

Transportation, car upkeep,

petrol, one furlough fare.... 1,952.69
Postage, wires, publicity,

pictures.....
1,297.52
Missionaries salaries
2,400.00
Building work, repairs. ...... 3,592.63
TOTAL
$19,193.14
January 1, 1955 Deficit
January 1, 1956 Deficit

$688.02
$486.33

Report of Frank and Marie Rempel

Balance from 1954
Total Receipts for 1955

Balance

Travel in America, to and in

India, accomodations
Publicity: Salute, circulars.

photographic supplies
Office and related expenses.

insurance.....
College and related expenses.
Mission equipment, building
repairs, labor
Women's Home

PAGE FOURTEEN

884.03
10,927.94

$11,811.97

4,734.07

Light Plant
Living expenses(Livinglink).

TOTAL

Balance januwy 1 1956

Outstanding bills January 1

221.86
2,314.65

$11,674.47

$116.50
$254.00

787.47
Total travel funds received in 1953

216.54

and 1954, not heretofore reported a-

2,081.84

mounted to S4,266.96, This entire

amount was disbursed in travel from

1,063.51

Kulpahar, India to Canada and on tour

254.53

in Canada and the United States.

MARCH 1956

Report of Helen Doyal

Balance from 1954

Total receipts 1955

488.29

3,604.62

Balance

S 4,092.91

Personal salary
Promotional, postage, etc. ...
Language school, travel ....

1,200.00
419.27
242.08

Medicine

390.71

Dispensary.

1,376.15

Women's Home, building,

repaus.

......

216.37
198.33

Workers' Salaries

$ 4,042.91

TOTAL

Balance January 1, 1956

$50.00

Report of Edna Hunt

Total receipts 1955
$4,819.22
Personal salary............. 1,200.00
Jeep, travel expenses.
241.55
Supplies, miscellaneous
213.46

Children, evangelistic.. .....

390.50

Promotional

302.60

Dispensary
TOTAL

1,823.00
$4,171.11

Light Plant Funds

The following gifts so designated
have been received since gifts were
last reported in the Salute of September,

Mr. & Mrs. Emmett Davison....

20.00

Mr. & Mrs. L. E. Raynor

53.00

1955.

Mrs. Lottie Jesperson

6.00

Remember that your contributions

Oxnard, Calif., C C
Lamp Lighter&

35.00

Mr. & Mrs. K. Palmer

29.44

Pearl Parker.
Mrs. Pearl M. Garrett

10.00
2.00

Salem, 111. 1st C C,TheCircle..

Dayton, Ore. Chr.
Fellowsh^ Guild
Newnam, Ga. Chr. Youth Camp..

10.00

to the Lord's work are deductible from

your income tax. Not only can the usual
10% be claimed, but the government
will allow you up to 30% deductions for
charitable contributions, if you can
prove your claim. It is wise to make all

8.00
54.50

then you not only have the forwarding

agents receipt, but also your cancelled

Mr. & Mrs. Galen Thomas......

105.85

checks out to Church of Christ Mission;

checks.

"The weary one had rest, the sad had joy that day.
And wondered how,
A plowman singing at his work had prayed
'God help them now'

Away in foreign lands we wondered how

Our feeble words had power;
At home the Christians, two or three.
Had met to pray an hoiu.

Yes, we are always wondering, wondering how.

Because we do not see

Someone, unknown perhaps, and far away

On bended knee."

SALUTE

PAGE FIFTEEN

So, in the name of Jesus,

Against the dark gods stand,
Let's gird the earth with valor.
Let's heed our King's command.
Onward the line advances,
Shaking the hills with power.
Slaying the hidden demons.
The lions that devour.

No bloodshed in the wrestling,

But souls new-born arise-;The nations growing kinder,
The child-hearts growing wise.

What is the final ending?

The issue, can we know?
Will Christ outlive Mohammed?

Will Kali's altar go?

This is OUR faith tremendous,

Our wild hope, who shall scorn,

That in the name of Jesus
The world shall be reborn!

Vachel Lindsay

M.

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Kanpur, India

RESURRECTION DAY PROGRAM

KULPAHAK CONm'TION

Fifteen persons from Kan-'

itual refresliment
and app
reciated
the
excellent,

Mr. McLawrence Lai,,

m.
teacher in Kulpahar,
ha
been invited to
bo guest
speaker in Kanpur on.April
1st. Prom March 26 th to
April 1st,
meetings will
be held each evening with

arrangements

different

pur
attended the
annual
convention sponsored by the
church of Christ at Kulpah-

ar. Everyone, received spir

made for them

members

of

the

congregation leading.

by the bretiiren there.

The.Bible Boole Store sold

some $20
the

worth of books at

Convention, not count

VIS.ITORS GALORE

ing sales on credit. We had

Last month wo wore, bless

ed by the visits of six of

to

money to get to

our fellow missionaries.

but.

always enjoy these times of

fellowship
although
the
amenities' in our "Dim~-Vue

borrow

Kulpahar,
_Store

enabled

the
us

to

Book
pay

back the loan and got home

safely.

Hotel" . are not always what

wo

. CHURCH PILLED EVERY VffiEK

Our l i t t l e hall of

wor

ship . can only seat 3$ com

fortably,

and

so

full

We

would

like for

such dis

tinguished
friends.
But
they all seem to suffer the
deprivations
cheerfully
enough.

house is not such a huge

crowd. Some people sit down

DIVtfAN

stairs and hear the message

over
the
loud speaker.

Diwan had his periodic

X^ay and again no sign of

Offerings

T,B.

creased .

have sharply in
during

several.months.

tlie

-past

All around

the congregation appears to

be in good spiritual con
dition.

giving

The

T.B.

Clinic

hifli American, butter

and milk powder to further

increase his strength.

PUBLICATIONS

A friend receht-ly .tpld me

that
ing

last year he v^as- hik

in

the

and

Himalyras and

stopped at a wayside stall

for
a cup of tea",". There,
staring liim in the face,
was a copy of JIWAI-; KA PAMI
^ our Hindi laiguage public
ation,

had

Brother

I)on

JIV/AN- KA PANI

Davis

been distributing them,

had

every "month

recently.-sent an

old copy to a friend south

of Boriibay who ';:read Hindi
and

had

v/ritteh.; them for

Hindi language materials.

Many of the subs-criptions
wMch we receive nowadays
are from people .and places
completely

unlcnown

in that ai"*ea, "No telling

y/hore all they -went," Don

We often
ever got

says,

the .magazines,

Sherwood Paul is a very

^intelligent lad in Kanpur,
Ho" was asked to load Prayer
Meeting aiid worked a week
on iiis topic,. Everyone was
embarrassed when Ms pro
gram

ended

minute,

bright in school.
But ho
took his lesson from JIWAlT
KA PANI
and led a very
effective meeting,

"V/hat
JIW#'

^00 copies of JIWAi'^ KA

PANI and 5 00 copies
of
GTEISTASIAN

do

you

KA PANI for,

a man ask
preacher,

want the
I- heard

an independent
"These
Bible

lessons arc good," he said,

may

not

like very many copies,

they sure get around.

in loss than a

Horatius is not so

to us.

wonder how they

a sample copy of

seem

but

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table," one said,

In Kulpahar,"

"l saw a copy of your TliE

"We got your CHRISTASIAN
tMs" morning

and

have al

ready digested it," a Pres

byterian liiissionary said.
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in Bombay. But v/hon we-were,
in Bombay some months ago,
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wero

two

particular

of

them in that

jjlace

who read

ion

is

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hear

Bilaspur,

arm im

evidentally

tist.

His

voice seems

to be

changing.
Horatius contin
ues
his precipitous exist
ence in the Fifth Grade. My
hopes
for
the
latter two
boys
is
centered in theirefforts

ing -the

through.

month of

but

Stan336

his

nothing serious.
Stephen
and Stanley Samuel are well
and have high
hopes
of
passing
in
school tliis
year. Sariiuel Singh contines as the popular boy with
good Biarks and a clever ar

has already been spent dur

present

that

sprained

to

read the Bible

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of

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month. Other times we real

tiise* who like missionaries

ize

and those who don't.

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" All the churches of Christ salute you.'
Rom. 16 :16

Vol. II, No. 4

APRIL, 1956

Kanpur, India

THE ANATOMY AND DISEASES OF THE

SPIRITUAL EYE
By Ralph R. Harter

Introduction

" I would rather be dead than blind," epistle. " He that lacketh these things,"
people are often heard to say. But, by Peter wrote, " is blind and cannot see
their-actions, it is plain that they would afar off and hath forgotten that he was

rather be spiritually blind than alive.

The consequences of being spiritually

blind are far greater than those of being
physically blind. Many of the world's
happiest people are physically blind; but

purged from his old sins."

What, then, are these things which

mean the difference between light and

darkness in the spiritual eye? " Giving

the spiritually blind are in the gall of all diligence, add to your faith virtue;
bitterness and the bond of iniquity, whose and to virtue knowledge; and to know
part shall be in the lake that burneth with ledge temperance; and to temperance
fire and brimstone.

You would be willing to spend much

time and money, and undergo great
inconvenience in order to save (or restore)
your physical sight. Are you willing to

patience; and to patience godliness: and

to godliness brotherly kindness; and to
brotherly kindness charity. For if these
things be in you, and abound, they make
you that ye shall neither be barren nor

bear with me a little while as we discuss

unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord

your spiritual sight?

Jesus Christ.

The parts of the spiritual eye were

named by the Apostle Peter in his second

But he that lacketh these

things is blind, and cannot see afar off,

and hath forgotten that he was purged
from his old sins."

II Peter 1:5-9.

Chapter I

FaithThe Orbit Of The Spiritual Eye

Faith is to the spiritual eye what the
orbit is to the physical eye.
The orbit of the physical eye is that

bony socket into which God has placed

the eyeball. Those with glass eyes,
insert and extract their glass from this orbit

as they please. The eyeball is comfortably

nestled in this orbit somewhat like a hen's

egg would look in a i^obin's nestonly

much smaller.

Picture of a faithless man.

The eyeball is, after all,

Malformation

only about the size of a small walnut.

There are sometimes defects in the

development of the orbit. This may

result in (1) No eye at all; (2) A very small
eye; or (3) A very large eye.
Fortunately, most of us are born with
normal orbits, and thus have eyeballs of
normal size.

This may givf you an

oi how the
eyeball fits mto the orbit.

But, unfortunately, this is

not true of the spiritual eye. There are

an overwhelming number of people who
have no spiritual eye at all because they
have no faith at all. Or, due to a very

The purpose of the orbit is to contain,

protect, and motivate the eyeball.
small faith, they have a verysmall spiritual
Faith

is

the

solid

structure

that

eye. It is difficult to find people with

spiritual eyeballs of normal size.

envelops the spiritual eyeball. The

spiritual eyeball is contained in it, is
" But," you will say, " it ihust be
protected by it, and receives its motiva wonderful to have a large spiritual eye."
tion from it. The spiritual eyeball is as
comfortably nestled in faith as is Lazarus

An enlarged eyeball, however, is not the

blessing it may outwardly appear to be.

in Abraham's bosom.

The enlarged physical eyeball has symp

toms of the dreaded glaucoma and usually

It would be impossible for us to have

eyes in our heads if we had no orbits. It
is also impossible to have a spiritual eye
without faith.

There is no orbit in the picture of a

skull. The orbit has decayed away and

only the skull cavity remains. Those who

have no faith are like this skull and bones.

ends in blindness.

It is unnatural, out of

proportion to the head, and contaiits a

pressure that is too strong for the tender
tissues of the eye.
In the spiritual sense,
eyeball is like the seed that
rock; and as soon as it was
withered away." These are

the enlarged
fell upon the
sprung up, it
they " which

when they hear, receive the word' with

joy; and these have no root, which for a

while believe, and in time of temptation

fall away." (Luke 8:6, 13. Their
spiritual eye was unnaturally and dis
proportionately large, and was filled with
a pressure too strong for their weak spiritual
condition. The pressure of temptation
damaged the tender tissues; and they were
blind, never to see spiritually again.
It is important that we

have a

perfectly developed faithone that is

neither too large nor too small, but just

right.
Here are a few brief rules to help
you to have a perfectly formed orbit of
faith.

1. " But without faith it is impossible

to please him: for he that cometh to God
must believe that he is, and that he is
a rewarder of them that diligently seek
2.

Heb. 11:6.
" For other foundation

can

no

man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus

Christ."

A spiritual blindness of this variety

is also described in Heb. 6:4-6:" For

For a Perfectly Formed Faith

him."

Not very pretty

I Cor. 3:11.

3. " He riiat believetli and is baptized

shall be saved; but he that believeth not
shall be damned."

Mark 16:16.

Other Affections of the Orbit

Even though the orbit of the eye may

be perfectly formed, it may suffer in
flammations, tumours, injuries, or other
affections. The result of this may be
a protraction of the eyeball from the orbit,
which is not a very pretty thing.

In the spiritual eye, these inflamma

tions, tumours, and injuries are the cares
and riches and pleasures of this life which
are mentioned in Luke 8:1-4

it is impossible for those who were once

enlightened, and were made partakers of
the heavenly gift, and were made partakers
of the Holy Ghost, and have tasted the
good word of God, and the powers of the
world to come, if they shall fall away, to
renew them again unto repentence; seeing
they crucify to themselves the Son of God
afresh, and put him to an open shame."
These were once blessed with an orbit of

faith, but they allowed the affections of

this world to infect it. There was, then,
no room left for the eyeball which was
pushed out and destroyed.
Acts 2:42 very simply but fully
prescribes the cure and prophylaxis for
affections of the orbit of faith: " And they
continued stedfastly in the apostles'
doctrine and fellowship and in breaking of
bread, and in prayers."
Case Histories

John X was 16 years of age and was

considering how he might earn the most
money in life. At the suggestion of his
Sunday School teacher, he read the Bible
through. This cured his desire for riches
and he entered the ministry.

Eunice R. did not partake in the

{From page 8)

Lord's Supper very often. When she did,

her mind was on other things.

Her faith

this reason the faults of leaders are noticed

grew weaker and weaker until she died.

Ernest B. spoke a great deal about

immediately.
Ail the public move according to the

faith but there never seemed to be any

clock in the clock-tower.

If that clock

should stop for a while, or if it should

pointed out to him that he had not yet suddenly become an hour late, there would
obeyed his Lord by being baptized. Soon be confusion in everyone's work. Every
after, Ernest requested baptism, and later one would arrive late at his office, many
would miss their trains, and all the students
became a pillar in his congregation.

manifestation of it.

One day a preacher

Mrs. T. suffered the sudden death

of her husband and was left with the

would arrive late at school.

The clock

acts as a leader to them all.

If it is in

responsibility of three children. She was error, then it cannot tell anyone the correct

time. Everyone will be detracted from the

correct path. This is the condition of
now a great power for Christ in their leaders. If they are not correct, then they
will guide the whole congregation onto
community.
the path to destruction. If the leaders
Alex N. accepted Christ in an evan
gelistic meeting, but did not feel inclined smoke cigarettes and drink liquor then the
to give up theatre going in order to attend people of the congregation will partake in
the Sunday evening services of the church. all sorts of revellings \vithout any hesita
He soon lost all interest in church tion. Two or three times a year they
come to church in grandeur and give an
fellowship.
Berl P. liked to sleep in on Sunday offering. It would be best for such
mornings, and so none of the family leaders to leave their places and listen to
attended Sunday School or Church. But someone who sets a better example.
when his son died he realized that he In this way we will honour our Holy
had not been doing right. He recently Heavenly Father, and some day he will
received recognition for ten years' perfect honour us by allowing us to sit with Him.
" Now unto the King eternal,
attendance, and he is now an elder in the
immortal, invisible, the only God, be
local congregation.
Peter C. accepted an opportunity to honour and glory for ever and ever.
earn extra money on Sunday. He later Amen." I Tim. 1:17.

almost flooded under with grief when she

began to pray. She and her children are

earned a good sized fortune but died an

alcoholic while he was still in his forties.

Charles and Mary Y. were having

domestic troubles and were about to get
a divorce.
Their minister, however,

suggested family devotions and regular

church attendance. They now have two
children and are very active In youth
work.

{To be continued)
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tions for the improvement of this article

since he hopes to reprint it later in

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MNITRIALS
A booklet in the Hindi language,
Railways were the special targets of
attacking Christians has been confiscated mob fury during the recent disturbances
by the U.P. Government. The booklet over the reorganization of States in India.
was written and published by members of The Government has decided to keep the
the Arya Samaj in Kanpur, and was scarred and burnt down railway station
entitled, " A Complete Answer to the at Puri as it is, and will not rebuild it in
Hypocrisy of Christians."

the near future.

The editor of Advance has given a

fitting answer to those who are constantly
criticizing the police. " The police, which
are a part of our society, always remain to

the people of the area that when they

destroy State property, they are only

protect law and order.

But wherever

it has to enforce law, it is subjected to

criticism. We must change our outlook
towards police if we expect them to

perform their duties modestly.

Only

those persons who want to encourage

disorder will disturb the police in per

forming their duties. Clashes with police
have resulted very adversely everywhere
because the losses on both sides mean loss

to the nation as a whole." In forming

tlieir opinion concerning police action,

This will serve to remind

hurting themselves.
Anyone who thinks that missionaries

are laxy, should take notice of the frequent

references by Indian leaders to " missionary
zeal." In an address at Orai, Mr. C. B.
Gupta said, " The need of the hour is
that people should come forward and
work with missionary zeal for the cause of
educational institutions." Without Jesus
Christ, however, there would be no
"missionary zeal;" and so the State leaders
should either accept Christ or connive
some other terminology.
Machineries instead of missionaries

Christians should remember the admoni

have arrived in Lhasa, Tibet.

tion of the Apostle Paul in Rom. 13:

" Let every soul be subject unto the
higher powers. For there is no power but
of God; the powers that be are ordained
of God. Whosoever, therefore, resisteth
the power resisteth God; and they that

Lama now possesses a telephone, a radio

The Dalai

set, and ten motor cars.

The following information may be

helpful to Christian youngmen in choosing
their profession. At present there is an
excess of tailors, carpenters, clerks, un

resist shall receive to themselves damna

trained teachers, unskilled ofRce workers

tion.

and motor drivers. There is a scarcity

of draughtsmen, compounders, trained
teachers, stenographers, overseers, experi

For rulers are not a terror to good

works, but to the evil.

Wilt thou then

not be afraid of the power? Do that

which is good, and thou shalt have praise
of the same: For he is the minister of God

to thee for good. But if thou do that

which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not
the sword in vain: for he is the minister

enced typists, midwives, nurses, qualified

doctors, experienced engineers, road roller
drivers, surveyors, health visitors, accoun
tants and physical training instructors.
We might add that there is an excess of

of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon

mission hirelings and a shortage of Gospel

him that doeth evil."

preachers.

TREASURE IN EARTHEN VESSELS

By J. G. Khan

[From T/ie Balance of Trulh, Bombay]

" But wc have this treasure in earthen
vessels." II Cor. 4:7.

We have a'poverty-stricken world of

sin around us.

It is rich with material

riches, but poor spiritually. It is the

desire of God that the church may become
God's vessel in which he can deposit the
heavenly treasure of the unsearchable,
inexhaustible, and unexplorable riches of
Christ. Then, through us, God desires
to manifest these riches to the heathen

world about us. Eph. 3:8.

Alas! We see that many so-called
nominal churches, like the church of the
Laodiceans, are wretched, and miserable,

and poor.

Rev. 3-17. But the Lord

wants His true church to be a depository of

His spiritual wealth that many may be
abundantly enriched thereby.

Light in the Earthen Vessels

" And he put a trumpet in every

lamps within the pitchers." Judges 7:16.

The Lord wants His people to display
and reveal the light of Christ to the dark
world so that others may also come out
from darkness into God's light. When
the pitchers were broken and the light
the

hands of these

She came with an earthly vessel to

be filled with the earthly water; but the
Lord made her into a vessel filled with the

water of everlasting life. This is the

desire of God for all His people, even to
fill them with the water of life, which
through them may be poured out into
many lives.
May the Lord lead His pedple through
these various stages, processes, and
experiences, that they may become
individually and corporately, a vessel in
which He can deposit His treasure, reveal
His light, and fill with the water of life.
And then He will enrich, enlighten, and
pour out of His Divine Life and riches

man's hand, with empty pitchers and

remained in

shall give him shall never thirst; but the

water that I shall give him shall be in
him a well of water springing up into
everlasting life
The woman then left
her water pot
" John 4:7, 14, 28.

three

into many lives.

Examine These Verses and Your Life

Editor G. C. Khanna of Alma Jagrati

suggests a prayerful reading of the follow
ing verses to determine whether or not we
are in any way hindering the spread of the
Lord's work.

Rom. 5:12; I Cor. 15:22; Psalms

hundred men, the enemy was defeated and

the people of God had a great victory.
So, also, it is the desire of God that the
light of Christ may shine out tlirough us.

19-21; Gen. 4:3-9; Mark 7:21-23; Rom.

8:6-10; Gen. 8:21; Rom. 7:14; Mt. 12:34,

II Cor. 4:6, 7.

35; and Rom. 7:15.

If any of these sins arc found hidden

in your life, then repent and turn again

Water of Life in the Vessels

" There cometh a woman of Samaria
water tliat

that your sins may be blotted out, that

so there may come seasons of refreshing

to draw water. Jesus saith unto her

whosoever drinketh of the

51:5; Jer. 17:9; Mt. 15:18,19; Eph. 2:3;

Gen. 6:5; Rom. 7:17, 19-24; Gal. 5:17,

from the presence of the Lord.

IN HONOUR OF MR. BIGPASTOR

[Translated from Jiwan Ka Pani]

For the past five years, Mr. Bigpastor
has been ministering in the City of Des
truction. This is the longest ministry
which any pastor has ever served in our
great city.
During the past five years, help fron?
the Mission has greatly increased. In
1951, the Mission was only giving Rs. 10/a month, but this year they are giving
Rs. 200/- a month. The credit for this
must go to Mr. Bigpastor and his
splendidly written reports.
Since Mr. Bigpastor began his ministry
in the City of Destruction, he has raised
the hands of 5,432 people, for which his
name has appeared several times in the
Mission's magazine.
Our reporter, Mr. Talkative, asked
Mr. Bigpastor as to what had contributed
to his great success; and this is the answer
he received:

1. I never begin a service on time.

When the people have gathered at their
convenience, only then do I start the
song service. The people are very happy
at this arrangement.
2. When not very many people
come, I give the benediction and send the
people home. In the hope that there will
not be a service, there is sometimes an
overflow crowd.

3. We sing all songs very slowly so

that the brethren can sing in comfort
When no one else sings, I sing by myself.
Another thing is that we begin all songs

in a high pitch so that people think-' our

singing reaches heaven itself.
4. I never ask people for money.
For this reason people have more money
to spare for the theater and cigarettes;
and they are very thankful to me for this.
5. We never give anyone any diffi
culty over becoming members. Which

ever way they want to become a member

is all right with us.
6. I never insist that people should
read their Bibles or pray.

7. And what can we say concerning

the value of distributing gifts !
8. I never ask people why they do
not come to church; and because of this

there is a spirit of peace in the membership.

9. We sponsor many amusements,
and this is well liked by the people.
10. The most important thing is that
I never say anything about sin. The fruit

of this is that we have gained many

drunkards and

adulterers to

the mem

bership.
The weekly programme of the City of
Destruction Church is as follows:

SundayWorship at 11 a.m. Last

week there were fifteen in attendance,
and these were members of the Mission.

MondayThis day is left free for

theater-going.
TuesdayA Discussion of the Latest
Films.

WednesdayDiscussion of the Latest

Books.

ThursdayBridge Party.
FridayBingo.

SaturdayDance.

After looking at this programme, you

will realize that Mr. Bigpastor is a very
busy man.

When he was invited to attend

the Kulpahar Convention, he rightly

replied, " I haven't the dme." '

Next week, the subject of Mr. Bigpastor's sermon will be, " What I Learned

in College." This should be interesting.

Another " Please Send Subscription "
notice has been received from Jiwan Ka
Pani magazine. The Church in the City
of Destruction has decided not to subscribe

because the magazine does not contain

anything of value.

I AM GfflEF
By Miss Ivy C. Roberts

[Translated from an Editorial in Dipak Mag.]

Paul said these words concerning

himself. Did Paul truly consider himself

to be the chiefest of all?

boastful man?

Was he such a

If not, then how did these

words escape from his mouth? From the

Holy Scriptures it is plain as to the type of
persons of whom Paul said, " I am the
chiefest." Among whom did he consider
himself to be the chiefest?

" Faithful is

the saying, and worthy of all acceptation,

that Christ Jesus came into the world to
save sinners; of whom I am chief."
I Tim. 1:15.

Can any Christian claim today that

he is the greatest of all sinners ? Perhaps
there is not enough courage in me for
me to stand in front of everyone and claim
that I am the greatest of all sinners. If
we make some slight mistake, we tell
some lies in order to hide it, and then to
hide

the

lies

we

tell

some

more

lies.

Then, in order to deflect guilt from our

selves, we accuse others and criticize them.
In this way sin is added to sin. Every
Christian ought to confess his mistake at
the time of making it. In this way he
will save himself much difficulty and no
quarrel will arise.
Look at the Lord Jesus Christ. He
did not have mercy on us in order that
we should continue to deceive people,
tell lies, and engage in all kinds of
uncleanness.
He had mercy on us
that we might love him, serve him, and
make our lives holy and beautiful for him.
See what Paul says as to why God had
mercy on us:" Howbeit for this cause
I obtained mercy, that in me as chief
might Jesus Christ show forth all his
long suffering, for an ensample of them that
should thereafter believe on him unto
eternal life." I Tim. 1:16.

Do we give the Lord Jesus this

opportunity that his long suffering should
be shown in us? Do we try to be an
ensample to others ? Many Christians are
giving Satan the opportunity that all of
his evil should be seen in us, and with his
help they become a stumbling block to
others. There are many leaders who have
resolved to be ensamples for the faithful
unto eternal life; but they speak something
else from their mouths, and their works
are a constant cause of stumbling for new
converts. Because of their actions, the
faith of the weak becomes even more

unsteady. These weak ones are not able

to understand which is the true religion.
If Christians would be a proper example
for others, then there would be no diffi

culty in understanding which is the true

religion.
Now you will ask, " Why do people
only criticize the pastors and leaders ?
Are they not men? People do not see
their own evil-doings, but first of all
blame

their

leaders.

It

is

natural

to

criticize leaders because people recognize

them as examples and expect good from
them at all times. Everyone looks to
wards them with the expectation that
they will teach us some good thing. For
{See page 4 Col. 2.)
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Swaroop

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News; of the V/ork of RsilphR. Harter at 112/352,

Swaroop Nagar, Kanpur,
India on April l5, 195^
AT CYRIL^B HOUSE

KAI-TPRR

It is

perhaps difficult

for our friends

to I'oalize

thac IT.anpur (Ga\rnpore) is a

On April ifth a spark was

the

cause

of

a fire that

ci'oy of more than a mi 11.-.on"

burned all of i.vs, C^/ril'a

wiirdrobe which wfts hanging

inhabitants o

on the stairvi^ay* Five'days .

112/352

Our

nuiiiter

means that ours is

lite
houso in the 112h
section ' ^ the city,,

their

son f e l l

down

he stone vSteps and had to

e rush^ed to the hospital*-

a strong move-

L;ien

K OY!

Tost ament

t-iat v/ooden steps wore less

"cy in tills city^

vVe^
of (. urse, have a scrong inflv iiice on tfiis move-bU:- we are lot seeklent,
nr< to supervise it#

stone stepsi ^ ho
replied
than in a fire stone steps

There
inent
i(,
C hr .1 s t i r-CTr

hater

One of the New Testament,

jreachera of ttd s city is a

Jamuel Masih*
Ho has a job
n
a
factory
and spends
iiost
the

of

his spare tiBio in

Lord's

v/ock.

He does

not seek mission support^

since mission support would

probably
dranceBut

o ur

dangerous

v/er o

rdonticned ho CiTil

to cliildron than

dangerous*

IC!

Now;

they have moved to a house;

without .steps,,
IN. DEiIRA i m
We received
with mixed
emotions,
the
nev/s of the

closure

of DIPAK MAGAZINE

and
the Book Store there*
There
was a definite need

be more of a hin-

for a magazine for women &

to him than a help*

children* But the publish

fr i ends will wait

to pray for him*

ess

somehow

got diverted

from the intended purpose.

THE CHILDREL^ AT KULPAIUR

CHRISTASIAN SUBSCRIPTIONS

Subscriptions

The thruo boys at Bilas-

piip,
and the two boys in
Kanpup continue to bo my
direct responsibility. But;
no funds
for
any of the
cliildren at Kulpahar siiould
be sent to me or to my for
warding agent. Funds foi"
the cliildren
at Kulpahair
should be sent

to Mis's Leah

Moshior tlirough Mrs. Leland

Raynor, 23'03 Berkeloy Ave,,
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From others, how

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inois,
i t is
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asi

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fore, have no hesitation in

continuing the support of
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quainted with Mrs. Moshier.

sale.

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does not want

to receive it,,
us

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And if you are not a con

tributor to the work

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Christ Visualized have arr

ial friend or relative,

ived

ing a brisk sale.

would be happy to have youc'

subscription soon.
Those who have recently

Our throe Christiana Cal

vor Memorial tracts are sot

magazine for l4 years.

up

Some of you may want to

subscribe for your friends,

and

now

occupy

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guest room. They are enjoy

in

typo

and will soon

roll from the press.

David Reese

spoilt
month.

of

Assam

week with us this

wo

sent 1,5Q will receive the

or

interest

scribing

for

them

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is Box llji^-.

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MOTHERS*

The

Lord

has given mo

many mothers
around
the
v/orld,
but I v/aiit to itient

ion three in particular.

As far as I can remember^
never had an argument
v/ith my mother-in-law, Mrs.

Ervin

Eagley

of

i|.07,

N.

Portage, Buchanan,Michigan.
Mother Eagley has had her
left leg amputated and is:

very ill.
want

to

Some of you will

send

her a card.

My missionary mother, Dr,

Z.S, Rothermel

is as ener

getic as ever at the age of

73* She stops in to see mo
when she is shopping in the
city,

and

always

her

visits are

refreshing

to

us.

Mother Hai-'ter is greatly

responsible for my contin
ued stay in India, If she
had been selfish she could
probably have had me
at

homo. But, Instead, she did

all she could to encourage
us to continue my work for
the Lord here in Konpur.
She gave both moral and fi
nancial support when it v/as
needed most. At a time when

I should have been thinking

of supporting my parents.,
they were supporting me,
I want to tell you of the

greatest

lesson

that

mgr

mother ever taught mo.

Like most children (of

that
my

era
parents

anyway) I obeyed
out of fear of

DAY

being punished.
of

nine,

At the ago

was

baptized

mostly out of fear of going

to Hell if I did not obey.
But the day cm?io

when I

was no longer afraid of my

mother.
Now
I was big
enough

to give her a beat

ing

if she tried to punish

me.

One

day

v/hon she waa

about to punish me, I dared

her to do so and see what
would happen. She did not
punish mo, but
I
would

rather have a thousand pun-

is hirients than the mtaiiory of

how

I broke her heart that

day.

That day, in her greatest

wealmess, my mother taught

me that one should obey be
cause of love

and not just

because of fear.
It

was

about this time

that I decided I would like

to bo a preacher. This de
cision v/as made out of love
and not out of foar.
This may be one of the

reasons

why people fail to

progress

in

the ciirlstian

life after they have been

baptised, perhaps these are
His disciples
because of
fear

love,
might

and

not

because

of

I pray that they

learn the lesson my

mother taught me.

F I
V/e

A N c

of

contributions

l5th

where

our

coiuing

A t

REPORT

been very much

have

encoiiragod by the

Llarch

v/e
food

from;,

fine l i s t
belov/. On
v/onderedi
would
be

but on April

15 th wo find that t he Lord

has given us cxcee ding luore
than

v/e

asked or

50a0(3>

Henry SclTL^ai^mis

io.<.oa.

27.3I4.

38.88

Boys

32.^,9

Church

41 .bQ)'

Housing '
Dank Chnr"ges

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thought,

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EXPEMDITHRES FOR
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Book Store Sales

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Less Expenses

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Balance

Hai":ipton
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Kens as
The Barbees

10-.00

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2

iv'iira H iuiller
li ebras kai
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will also
0.

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10,00

Edith Thiu-sl'y

-i>0Q^

Branch Hill

t-iis

omo

t h. '

V/e
tjco iialf-sal ary'

month

(April) sinlce

some funds
v/er i dusitynatcd
for that pia-^pos . These oy.p.jnditures

v/il

bo listen)

next Mont]i>

10.00

Be-reans. Sobrivig

30.00'
The Koldrons
l^Iaccdonia Endeavorors 30.00
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Church at Sabina
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balance ;vill be- s u f -

ficient to pa;.'' off

In 11s wliich have boon g
ering since last month,

2; .00)

3.^0.01-

We are thankful evf-n for

that last penny. This sui;!
means ahnost 170Q- Rupees in
the currency of India.

TriE BOIS

Horatius; S?u?iuel, Stat ley

Nath,

Stephoii

and Staiiley

Samuel
are
ail
busy with
examinations.
They
have
their

ing

bo

sunmier

/acation d u r We w i l l
theifi out with

May and Juno.

fitting

new Qlothos before they re

sume their studies in July,
The Henry Sclirar.ims of Ind

iana have designated theirgift for this purpose

which v/ill bo sufficient.

APR 19^

ASIAN

CHRIS

All the churches of Christ salute you,"

Rom. 16 :16

Vol. II, No. 5

Kanpur, India

MAY, 1956

IN THK MIDST OF TIDEVES

[ A Story for Children, Translated from Dipak Magazine ]

Children, you have, no doubt, all
heard of the Good Samaritan who helped

frowned and said, " What a foolish man

to have fallen among the thieves!"

a man who had been robbed and beaten

Mr. Proud Lion should have been ashamed

of himself.

by thieves.
I want to tell you of a boy who fell
among thieves. His name was Sushil.
Once upon a time Sushil went walking
by himself in the street and was surrounded
by thieves like that man who was going
from Jerusalem to Jericho. These thieves
were Great Selfishness and Evil. They
robbed Sushil of his peace, character, and
good habits. They did not beat Sushil
in the same way that the thieves beat the
man going to Jericho in the parable of

Jesus; but they left him with an aching

headbecause he had to weep for his bad
habits, and he had trouble on every hand.
As Sushil lay in his wretched condi
tion, Mr. Hasty came along. He had to
go along very quickly because he had so
much work to do. He could only give a
quick glance to this lad whom the robbers
Great Selfishness and Evil had looted.

He rushed away without giving any help.

After this, Mr. Proud Lion arrived

on the scene. Seeing Sushil he only

But the third man who came by there

like the Good Samaritan, poured oil on
Sushil's wounds. He poured oil on his
anger and made him gentle again. He
poured oil on his bad character and
habits; and by the road of Repentence
he brought him to the City of Peace.
Beloved

children,

don't think that

all of the thieves of this world can be seen

and heard. Some thieves are very clever

who inflict injury to the soul. They
leave

their

victim

in

much worse

condition than those robbed of worldly

possessions. Only a Good Samaritan
through the preaching of the Gospel,
can bring such a one back to the paths of
righteousness.
Will you also become a Good
Samaritan ? Reason with your friends and
companions who have fallen into bad
habits, and try and bring them back into
the Correct Way.

THE ANATOMY AND DISEASES OF THE

SPIRITUAL EYE
By Ralph R. Harter

Chapter II

VirtueThe Cornea of the Spiritual Eye

To draw a diagram of the cornea of

brotherly-kindness, or love. It is our

the physical eye would be like drawing virtue that allows people to look into
a diagram of a pane of glass or a piece our spiritual lives. Our virtue is a fruit
of cellophane. In other words, the cornea by which people can know and judge us.
is the clear transparent front window
pane of the eyeball.
Viitue is the front window pane of
the spiritual eyeball.
The cornea of the physical eye has
live layers, like five pieces of Scotch Tape

stuck together.

Diseases

We have all seen some shop windows

and some display cases that contain such
clear panes of glass that it is difficult
to tell whether there is glass there or
not. But, after several hundred people

have touched the glass to satisfy their

curiosity, the glass becomes so smudged
that there is no longer any doubt as to
its
existence. People then stop touching
whatsoever things are honourable, what
soever things are just, whatsoever things the glass, fearing, perhaps, that they
are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, might get their hands dirty. They then
whatsoever things are of good report: if begin to complain to the shop-keeper
there by any virtue, and if there by any about his dirty glass. So the owner
praise, think on these things
Phil. 4:8. polishes it up, and people begin to touch
The Apostle Paul describes six layers
of virtue in the spiritual eye. " Finally,
brethren, whatsoever things are true,

It is the cornea that allows the light

it all over again.

to enter into the eye resulting in our

ability to see out into the world about

us. It holds and protects the contents

within the eye, and it allows people to

look inside our eyes.
Virtue serves all of these purposes
in the spiritual eye. Built on a foundation
of faith, virtue is the means by which the
Light of God begins to be made manifest
in our spiritual lives. It is the virtuous
Christian who is recognized to be the
light of the world.

And not until we

possess some virtues can we begin to

clearly perceive the spiritual world about
us since " faith without works is dead ".

James 2:26b.
Without virtue, the
spiritual eyeball could not contain under
standing, temperance, patience, godliness.

It is impossible to get a clear view through an

opaque piece of glass.

The above window

is half clear, and half opaque.

The cornea of the eye can become dirty

and marred just like that shop window.
This may be caused by inflammations,
ulcers, or injuries.

called photophobia. These unfortunate

friends can only be comfortable in a
darkened room, on a cloudy day, or
before and after sunset.

Persons with a scarred virtue also hate

the Light. " For every one tha,t doeth

evil hateth the light, and cometh not to
the light, lest his work should be reproved.
But he that doeth the truth cometh to the

light, that his works may be made mani

fest, that they have been wrought in God."
John 3:19-21.
Treatment

Many times, affections of the cornea

ai'e so slight that they will take care of
It is impossible to get a clear view through a
cornea that has become opaque.

themselves in the course of a few days time.

More severe cases require salves and othcr
medical treatment.

The spiritual vision of many has be

come hampered through a marred and
dirtied virtue. The inflammations, ulcers,
and injuries which are responsible for this

When the cornea has become perma

nently opaque, corneal transplantations
are now sometimes performed. Beneficent
persons make arrangements so that as soon

are the works of the flesh mentioned in

Gal. 5:19-21. "Now the works of the
flesh are manifest which are these: fornica

as they should die, the cornea from their

eyes are transplanted into the eyes of

tion, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry,

persons whose corneas have been des

troyed.

sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousies, wratlis,

In the spiritual sense, the cornea of

envyings, Jesus' spiritual eye has been transplanted
drunkenness, revellings, and such like; and grafted into ours. " Seeing unto us
of which I forewarn you, even as I did all things that pertain unto life aad godli

factions,

divisions,

parties,

forewarn you, that they who practise

such things shall not inherit the kingdom
of God." If any one of these things
should come to damage the virtue of the
spiritual eye^ then spiritual vision ceases.
Photophobia
A

little

dirt on a

windshield

can

become quite a distraction to a motorist.

So much so that it may be the indirect
cause of a very serious accident.
For
this same reason, dirty spectacles are worse
than no spectacles at all.

ness, through the knowledge of him that

called us by his own glory and virtue.'^

II Pet. 1:3. " For by grace have ye been
saved through faith; and that not of
yourselves, it is the gift of God; not of
works, that no man should glory. For
we are his workmanship, created in Christ
Jesus for good works, which God afore
prepared that we should walk in them."
Eph. 2:8-10.

Gorneal transplantations in the physi

cal eye are not always successful.

The

opaqueness that was in the old cornea

A scarred cornea is also very distracting. sometimes invades the new cornea. Then
Those who suffer this handicap often the last condition may be worse than the
develop a morbid dislike of light, which is fii'st. Some of the most successful trans-

^nd they enter in and dwell there; and

the last state of that man becometh worse
than the first. Even so shall it be also

unto this evil generation." Mt. 12:45.

The transplantation of the virtue of

Jesus is usually most successful upon

those who recognize the wretchedness of
their previous condition. " They that are
whole have no need of a physician, but
they that are sick
I came not to call
tlie righteous, but sinners
Mt. 9:12, 13.
Case Histories

From early childhood John D. took

pride in the fact that he had no bad habits.
He often boasted that he was better than
the members of the church.

He never

accepted Christ and died spiritually blind.

Emily D. fell into sin while a young

girl of seventeen.

Wrecked by the pain

in her soul, she accepted Christ as her

Saviour. For the past thirty years now
she has been walking in His light.
Jusus Christ opened a spiritual eye bank so that
you and I might see eternal things.

plantations have been those where the

opaqueness of the old cornea was the
most dense.

Onl/ the working of the Holy Spirit

within our lives can keep afresh the
transplanted virtue of Jesus in our

spiritual lives. " But the fruit of the

spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering,
kindness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness,
self-control; against such there is no law."
Gal. 5:22,23.

The transplanted virtue of Christ

without the fruit of the Holy Spirit is
like the house which the unclean spirit

After his baptism, Antony E. made no

effort to bring forth good works in his
life. He gave stingily to the work of
the Lord, all the time filling his own
house with the most expensive of furnish
ings. He soon stopped going to church
except on special occasions, and he is
now without any spiritual perception.
Alberta K.

had

never

been of bad

repute, but she realized that she was

walking in her own strength. Accepting
Christ, she began to give Him all the
glory. Her good works have been success
ful in bringing others to Christ.

Arnold A. thought that he could

partake in the works of the flesh without
any danger to his soul.

After ten years

found empty, swept, and garnished. of filthiness, he still thinks that he is quite
" Then goeth he, and taketh with himself the saint; but his funeral will be difficult
seven other spirits more evil than himself, to preach.

M0NIT0RIALS
Most of what we know on this page
is what we read in the Advance Daily of
Kanpur.
The Advance makes some interesting
errors at times. In an item describing
a gory murder in South America, the
Advance reported that the citizens were
so angry that they stormed the jail in
an effort to " lunch " the murderess.

Near Faizabad, a thief was digging

a hole into the wall of a mud house when

the house fell on him. His body was

not found until the next morning.
An educated young man recently
advanced

his wisdom in

front

of the

Kanpur Telegraph office. Two girls

whom he had offended took to beating
him with their shoes. They were joined
by about a hundred others who finally
succeeded in shoe-ing the man away.
One of Kanpur's many roaming cows
recently knocked down a thatched roof.
Since a fire was burning underneath,
the roof was soon ablaze and the Fire

Brigade had to be called. The cow

escaped without serious injury.
For the paltry sum of Rs. 3 (64 cents)
a woman lost her life and a man has been

sentenced to life imprisonment. The

man had borrowed the money from the
woman and murdred the woman because

she kept asking for its return.

A ten year old boy in the local Muslim

orphanage fell sick and it was suspected

that he was under the

influence of evil

spirits. As a treatment, one of the

servants of the orphanage was ordered to
give the boy a beating. The result was

that the boy became unconscious and

began to vomit blood. He was imme

diately rushed to the hospital where he

succumbed to his injuries.
From other sources

We

are

indebted

to

Brother

Max

Jahn for this item from the South India

Prayer Circular. Mrs. Merriweather of

Kotagiri writes: Recently out with a team

of Christian workers in a village someone
said, " I hear the priest of M. has become
a Christian. That surely cannot be the
truth."

Upon hearing this, the conver

ted priest stepped forward to give his

testimony and said "I am the.priest!"
and proceeded to give his testimony much
to the amazement of the enquirer. In
another village a Hindu said to him,
" You just wait and you will see what
persecution is coming to you Christians."
To this he replied, " Yes, the Bible tells us
about that, for it tells us that in the last

days perilous times will come, and yet,

knowing all that, I believed on Jesus.
" My husband had prayed for the conver
sion of that priest for over 30 years. He
is a great joy to us. "
At the Kulpahar Convention, Harry

D. Schaefer informed us of a good cure

for those whose language is filthy. The
affected person should be taken mountain

climbing. The higher (and hungrier)

the person gets the purer his speech will
become. At last, when he reaches the
top and views God's handiwork all about

him, there will be nothing but praise on

his lips.

EVENTS ATTENDING THE CRUCIFIXION

[ Translated from Final Issue of Sandesh Turhi ]
" And behold, the veil of the temple
3.
The Rocks were rent.Rocks arc
was rent in two from the top to the solid, immovable, and indestructible. But
bottom; and the earth did quake; and the they became ashamed in the presence of
rocks were rent; and the tombs were a thing more solid, immovable, and inopened; and many bodies of the saints , destructible than itself. Christ has died
that had fallen asleep were raised; and i for the sins of mankind. Splitting their
coming forth out of the tombs after his I throats, the rocks cry forth that the
resurrection they entered into the holy precious blood of Jesus Christ has been

city and appeared unto many." Mt.

The

crucifixion

of

Christ

had

an

effect on many men such as the repentent

thief, the centurion, and Judas Iscariot.
But the crucifixion was attended by
miraculous signs from God as well.
1. The Earth.^With its powerful
tongue, the earth gave witness that drops
of the Holy Blood of Jesus had fallen
upon it. For this reason the earth quaked
and

the

shed as a sacrifice for many.

Do you

j hear the immutable message of the rocks ?

27:51-53.

rocks

were

rent.

Since

its

creation, this miserable world had seen

4. The Sun.Its light was blotted out

i as though it had pulled a curtain to
I hide its face. In the New Jerusalem, its
I light will also vanish away because there
I the sacrificed Lamb of God will be the

I Sun. Is it not a marvellous thing that

j the light of the sun was hidden the day

j that Jesus died? Have you found Jesus

j to be the True Light of your salvation?

5. The Graves.They came open.

I The graves were depositories in which the

j bodies of the saints had been laid. After

so much sin, transgression, and shame, I a short while, that is, on the day that
but it had never seen the race of man so
debased as now. Now it had seen the Son

I Christ arose from the dead, they became

!
manifest in glory and majesty with Jesus.
of God, bearing the sins of mankind, The graves teach us this: "You also
hanging upon a cross; and for this it
trembled. May the Lord give us grace
that we, looking at His cross, might
tremble for our sins.

2. The Veil.From the top to the

bottom, the veil of the temple was rent
in twain. By this it gave witness that
all

hindrance

to

the

reconcilliation

of

watch with patience because the Lrod will

soon show himself in the skies to those

who love His appearing.

Prayer: O, Lord Jesus, Teach my
heart to always listen to and pay attention
to the language of the Cross, and the
message of that Blood that speaketh
better things than the blood of Abel.

man to God had been removed by the

Amen.
sacrifice of the Cross. Through the
Atonement of Jesus Christ, man is now
able to enter into the Holy of Holies. NEW TESTAMENT PUBLICATIONS ASS'N.
The figure of an angel was drawn on
Is Worthy of your Support
this veil. With the veil, the figure of
the angel was also rent in two. Now,
Shri Nathan James, Treasurer,
not only angels, but man also may enter
into heaven. Are you able to understand
Dhawari, Satna, V.P., India
the language or sign of the Veil.

EASTER OBSERVED IN THE CITY OF DESTRUCTION

[Translated from Jiwan ka Pani]

On Easter Sunday morning, the
Destruction City Church was filled with
the gentry of the metropolis. Mr. Bigpastor spoke on the subject, " The Flowers of

and so was unable to enter.

After stand

ing outside for a while, he noticed that

his pocket had been picked and his
daughter was missing. By telephone, he
told our reporter Mr. Talkative that
Eastertime."
Mrs. Showoff was presented with a j Master Vandal is being seen outside the
watch as a prize for being the best dressed i theater and so there is no reason to
person present. She wore a grass-green I buy a ticket.

sari on which was embroidered every |

Mrs.

Contentious

celebrated

the

variety of flower and fruit.

j occasion by leaving her husband. By
telephone, she told Mr. Talkative that
A special offering was taken for ' she was applying the sermon of Mr. Big

building repairs and two rupees was

realized
therefrom.
Following
this,
Mr. Pride came forward and presented
his check for one hundred rupees. In
appreciation, he received the euologies
of Mr. Bigpastor. At this point. Mr.
Jealousy came forward and presented
his check for 105 rupees. It is hoped
that the church house can be fitted with

pastor in which he said that Easter was

a day for beginning a new life. She
had decided to do just that.
Nowadays Mr. Talkative is staying
inside his house since some persons have
threatened to beat him up.
A carnival was held on Monday to
celebrate the end of Lent. Many people
were present. Mr. Poverty lost so much
in the games that he later had to take a

some cooling device before it becomes

too hot in the City.
After Mr. Bigpastor's short message, loan from the bazaar. Mr. Clever won
a number of prizes.
the children presented a play entitled,
Someone has complained that Easter
" The Easter Bunny," which was enjoyed
by all. The son of Mr. Fickle took the Sunday morning people began to smoke
as soon as they left the church house. If
part of the rabbit.
the complainant would go to church
At noon, all the children of the City every Sunday he would see that this
met on the church grounds to hunt thing occurs every Sunday in the City
coloured eggs.
In the end, Master of Destruction. Even Mr. Bigpastor,
Badtemper and Master Covetous got into after preaching his sermon, stands at the
a fight over a red coloured egg. The door with a cigarette in one hand and
children were soon divided into two groups I shakes hands with the other. It would
and started to throw eggs. Twenty j be good if smoking were allowed within
children were injured. After surveying the church auditorium. Mr. Badhabit

the littered lawn, Mr. Bigpastor announced I had

to leave the service several times in

that the Sunday School would remain , order to smoke, and a large number
closed for one month.
began to cough. Since the church house
Sunday evening, the " Lucifer Palace " was built with our money, why can't we
theater was filled to capacity. The smoke in it like we do in our own homes ?
film " Master Vandal " was being shown. We don't want to read or hear any more
Mr. Lazy arrived late at the theater complaints on this subject.

S
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THOU ART DEAD

By J. C. Khan

[From The Balance of Truth, Bombay]

Many so-called churches all over the
world are spiritually dead. The Lord
Jesus Himself, seeing the wretched condi

but do not possess Christ. Many prea

chers can declare the whole history of

tion of the Church in Sardis said, " Thou

hast a name that thou livest, and are

they themselves have never known Him

personally. But those who receive the
Lord Jesus into their lives have LIFE.

dead." They must have been praying

in the name of the Lord Jesus, they must
have been engaging in many religious

the Bible and of the life of Christ when

" He that hath the Son hath life."

activities in the name of the Lord Jesus,

they must have been mentioning the name

of Christ in their preaching and teaching.
Then wliy is it that the Lord Jesus

The CHRISTASIAN
Ralph R. Harter

Christ Himself had to say to her: ' Thou

art dead." Because everything there was
outward, formal, intellectual, and cere
monial\vithout inward experience and
heart reality. Much in Christianity today
is like thatoutward rituals, outward
practices, theoretical repetition of Bible
teaching with the name of Christ attached
to all' such activities^ Men profess Christ

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Kanpur, U.P., India.
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. NewSi of the Work of Ralph H. Harter

Swarup hagar, Kanpui--, U.P., India

21, 1956^

SCHOOL'IS GOT
V/e

that

are

happy

Horatius,

Stanley

the

EZRA LEAVES
to

report

Saj^iuel,

2nd

This

nev/e

and prise

passed

will not sur-

anyone

since v/e had

in earlier v/ritton that Ezra's,

school this year. But Stephen work in Kanpur v;as only

and Sta:iloy Hath have failed, tauporary. perhaps the best

The latter two \d.ll be decid way to describe his depart

ing their future plans during ure from Kanput' is to say

the auTiimer.
that he v;as "caught away by
the Spirit."

You

113 IN THE SHADE

are

issues

of

receiving

two

CRHISTASIAH

thia

month because
to spend the

DIWAti ALSO LEAVES

This was more surprising,

we are hoping The day before he loft for

next month in his sui:'ii:ier *s vacation, he

tne mountains. Xt will, tnen, decided

that

he would not

be two montlis before you hear bo coriiing back, Altliough wo

from us again.

will

miss

tiiat

it

him, 'we believe

will all work out

li-cji-jP FROr.'i BILASPHR

for the best. He was being
We are much indebted to t?ie supported by the Liberty
folk at Bllaspur for allov/ing Church at Cairo, hissouil
one

Das,

of-

to

their teachers, Noel They may now either discon-

spend

the month of tinue

their

support,

or

May with us. He has helped to send it for the geneiral

publish two issues of JIWAJ^I v/ork of publications^ v/hhch
KA PANI (in Hindi), helped we are doing. We v/ill not
finalize t/io Hindi edition of be employing aiiyone to

"Ghristiaii Doctrine Workbook" his place, 'but' will --make

and gave a final chock to the

Calver Memorial Tracts#

best

v/e can with

the help of tne boys.

THE TREND

BIBLE BOOK STORE

The Bible Book Store did

a baiirior month in business

during Api'il vdth

sales.

in

Sales Included nine

Bibles, 11 Nov/ Tostarnents ,

Portions, and .17$ copies
of

the Life of Christ Viz-

ualized in Hindi.

gap:
in
information. Y/o.
appreciate v/hon our friends;
drav/ thera to Qur attcsition.

our

reports,

it

appeared to one Triond that

Clinton might have stopped

their support' since I said
I had no living-link. As it
turned out,
the riiontlily

, gif.t from Clinton

used to
church

supports

is being

pay the rent. The

at

Clinton

l].

also

yesir old Karen

Rash of Kulpahar who is one

o^

the most lovable child-

...ren

on the mission roster.

As a treat for passing,

the three boys v/ero given
their choice of sightseeing

in Lucknov/ or a joy ride in

an airplane.,

chose

Samuel

and

the former.,

and Horatius the latter. In

this

way

enjoy

was

able

both.

The

cost_ for

either
per boy.

treat

increases..

One

be surprised,
that

should not

therefore,,

hero in Kaiipur we are

not increasing the number

of our taiiployeea, but aro.
decreasing them. As

a matter
have one

of fact, we onl^
mission employed

left with us. Cyril Loyal;

And the day

may not be fah

away when he, too, shall be

self-supporting and off the

mission payroll.
This does not moan that
the Church in Kanpur is de

creasing.
believe

It moans that v/e

that the Church, la

becoming strong

enough , to

stand on its own rosourc-es.

Wo aro not the only ones

who hold this conviction.
Another missionary,
jiioro
educated than myself, has

recently written that he .is

proceeding to get all of

his eroachcrs off the

TREAT

Staiiloy

in India that the Mission

must decrease as the. Church

rather

GAP IN INFORMATION
V/o rei^ot when we leave a

from

It is the belief of m^y

to

was about 1

mission pay-boll.

We pray that our frienda

hi

^he

IT.So A. will undor-

stanc these trends as they

see ehem transpire, have
confluence in your mission

aries that they are doing

v/hat they consider-best for
the
auvancement of
the
Church. It is very diffi
cult for t; hem to make those
changes. Pray for them.

FATHER'S
Dad Harter

is

ombarrassed

by

think

that

In .

soDietlmoffi

peoplo who
inherited mj

DAY
recent

years

Dad

Harter has widened his rel

igious

interests.

Ho is a

religious inclinations from

trustee

him.
He has, neverthloss,
had a great influence upon

Christian Asseriibly, 'and has

had a groat part in improv

the

work

doing

v/hich we are now

for the Lord hero in

of

the Round Lake

ing the physical equiptmont

of the camp.

Kanpur .
Dad Harter

my love
allowing

of
me

started rue on

journalisru by,
to play with

the typewriter
at the ago
of seven. He only insisted
that

f i r s t memorize the

keyboard. Uy first efforts

he titled as, "The Rock
Hill Scream." He pushed me
along v/ith purchas-es
of
duplicating oquiptment and
by encouraging
reporting
trips
to "che Now York Pair
of 1939

sxid the Republican

Convention of 19I4-O.'
About the tirae Dad Harter

had my journalistic
all

marked

out, I

careerThis

burst his balloon;,

but

nowadays

he is one of

the

most-

"enthusiastic

readers

ot^ THE CHRISTA3J/iIU

Although
entering
the
Cincinnati Bible' Seminary
was definitely against his
advice, he helped liie gener-ously
during
'my
years
there,
And he Still helps
generously
although
his
resources
inishod.

though I had been baptized',.

X lost

a l l interest

in Sun

day School and Church until

Dad Dusenberry rointcrested
me. As my Siuiday School
teacher he got me going in
the right way. He later en
couraged me to enter the
ministry and attend C.B.S.
He later came himself,
and
is

still

there

vrith

Moift'

Dusenberry doing a humble*'

but
loving and effective
work for t ho Lord.

decided

to become a preacher.
sort of

Dad Harter might have had

his way if it had not been
for Dad Dusenberry.
Al

are noV/ much dim-^

My father-in-law,
Dad
Eagley lives
in Buchanan,
Michigan.
He took, it as a
personal.challenge to fatt
en mo up during my fur

lough in 1953* He succeeded

in getting me

weight,
been

My

difficult

ever since.
had

30 lbs over

v/aist line has.

several

to

manage

Dad Eagley has

heart

attacks

in recent years
and is not
able to v/ork so energetical.ly as before.

FINANCIAL
VVe are thankful that the

Lord has once again sent ua

fluids

sufficient

needs.

We

for

our

are thankful to

the
following
friends
tlirough v/hon He worked.
CONTRIBUTIONS FOR APRIL
I ndi anai

Frank Re-as
Hunt

$10,00;
1,3'Q'

REPORT
EXP;DITURSS PCR

Jiwan ka Pani

Christasian & H.T

APRIL

. $3k.7S

Book Store

56,22

109,72:

Boya

61i.,lQj

Church

14.9.35

Housing

25.89

Bank Charges.

.32

Calvor Tracts

-2,56

Salary for Ralph

50,00

TOTAL

395.il-i

Kont'iiclcy;

Thoiias R. Oner

l^J.OO-

231,6q

3.00
1,00

Contributions

197*36

9*01

Less Expenditures .

iiichigan;

jiuiiors at Suuaier
Mrs. Clyde Miller
i'.Ilssouri;

Liherty Jrs. & Inter.

Adults & primary

RECjiPITULATION

Brought Forv;ard

37*75

Book Store Receipts

95*36

Total Recoixjts

5^;-.3^i;

Balance

123.93

395.i}-i

N ebraskat

Church at Ord

3*$0j

0 ill o|.
North Terrace
Nor walk Horn en ak era
Old Stone

2:,00
10.00/
20i00~

Church at Bladensburg lO^iOO;

Mrs. Boris Atdck
18.00
Church at Clinton

Church at" Branch Hill

The balaice of $123,93 isthe

20,00

5*00

anount

we iiave on hand

for the months work"

ahead.

I t is not the anount v/o have

left over
at the end of the
month.

We

sonotinea

ruention

the

forget

address

to

of our

Church at Rittnan
Tennessee;.

21,00'

forwarding agent; but v/e do

not wait you to forget her#

Johison City Central

10,00

Miss Florence Douglaa

Flora, Illinois

TOTAL

197.36

/For Christasian Magazine,

CHRIS

ASIAN

" All the churches of Christ salute you.'

Rom. 16 : 16

Vol. II, No. 6

"JUNE, 1956

Kanpur, India

CHRISTIANITY IN INDU
By Madhur Minz, Bilaspur

Christianity in India is older than in

most countries of Europe and the New
World.

Christianity first reached our country

in South India and on the Malabar coast.

Tradition says that the .Apostle Thomas

preached here in the 1st century and
that he was martyred near Madras city
in 68 A.D. This is fully accepted as true
by all Roman Catholics and by most of

brought to light Roman coins of the time

of Augustus and Tiberias who were
emperors before Nero. Besides these,
signs of Jewish colonies are found near
Bombay, Beni-Israel, and in Poona
district.

There are ample proofs to show that

Christianity began in India either during

Apostolic times or very shortly after.
This is accepted by all historians.

the Protestant scholars.

During the close of the 3rd century,

European countries like England,

Scotland, Ireland, and Northern Europe

Thomas the second, student of Manes

were evangelized many years later by

preached the Gospel here.

missionaries,

traders,

and

Christian

soldiers.

In the 8th century, Thomas Cana

the third of Armenia evangelized here

The New World was not open to

and became the first Christian Father of

evangelism until Columbus explored it

Malabar.

in 1492.

The existence of India was well known

We Christians of India thank God

in Mediterranean countries in ancient

times. Its existence was known in North

that we were among the first to hear that

God sent His only begotten Son into the

Africa, Egypt, Arabia, Syria and other

world that whosoever believeth on Him

progressive countries of that time. Roman

might have eternal life.

vessels visited Malabar

and

Ceylon.

Excavations along the sea coast have

May God help

us to be more ambitious in preaching

that Good News to others.

MNITR1ALS
You have probably noticed that we are j which will clear the rivers of some of their

very fond of stories about Pandit Nehru, j filth, but not all of it.
Prime Minister Nehru has strongly
During one week in April, 80 infants
disapproved the habit of people to praise died in the city of Kanpur. The Advance
him sky-high. This was all the more

reports that this is

disgusting, he added, when it was done

in his presence. At Hubli where a man

" infantile morality." Fifty-seven children

was extolling the personal virtues of

Pandit Nehru in a public address,
Pandit Nehru jumped from his seat,
snatched the man's speech away from
him, and asked him not to continue.
Then the Prime Minister said, " It is

strange that I am made to hear my own

praise. I do not want to hear my own
praise. I have no time for this sort of
thing. There are many important things
awaiting me. X am interested in what
you are doing ".
Here is an illustration I

used in a

sermon on " Stumbling BlocksRecog

nizing jewellery to be a hindrance to the
nation's progress. Pandit Nehru recently
announced in Parliament that it might

be a good thing to take all jeweller^' and

cast it into the deepest part of the sea.
Compare Mt. 18:6.
Pandit Nehru also

considers astro

logers to be a hindrance to the nation.

" Astrologers are dangerous," he said,
" But people who go to them are more
dangerous."

Rajkumari Amrit Kaur (a Christian)

new record of

between the ages of one and five also died.

Ten people died from T.B., eight from

pneumonia, two from cancer, and eight
mothers from childbirth. All in all, there

were 299 deaths during the week as

compared to 397 births.
Yes, all in
Kanpur.
A hero of Surjanpur killed with a
club a hyena that had been responsible
for the death of about a dozen children.

As he was carrying the animal home, he

was met by a jealous neighbour who
threatened him with a gun and demanded
that he be given the credit for having
killed

the beast.

The man

was

later

arrested on a charge of attempted murder.

From an account of an address by
J. C. Khan in the Biblical Witness, we
quote the following: " There are Christians

who use so much soul energy in God's

service. You will find them shouting,
screaming, dancing, rolling on the ground,
clapping hands, and using vain repetition
of certain words and phrases. They are
deceived by the Devil. They are using
the strange fire in the service of God
as some priests used in the day of Moses,

who is the nations' Health Minister, has

and

warned that sewage has polluted the holy

rivers of India thus endangering the
health of the masses who claim special
benefit by drinking from them. A number
of projects are being rushed to completion

against them and consumed them.

the

wrath

of God

was

kindled

What

they call the baptism of the Holy Spirit

is nothing but emotionalism and the power
of the soul. The power of the Spirit is
Continued on page 5.

THE ANATOMY AND DISEASES OF THE SPIRITUAL EYE

By Ralph R. Harter
Chapter III

KnowledgeThe Conjunctiva of the Spiritual Eye

Our readers are no doubt well aware

of the efficacy of door hinges. Thanks

to hinges, the smallest child can easily
swing an open door back and forth.
The conjunctiva is like a hinge.
One of the parts of the
physical eye is like a hinge.
It is called the conjunctiva.
Like a hinge, the conjunctiva
has two halves joined toge
ther. The right half is
connected to the eyeball,
and the left half is connected

to the eyelid.
The eyelid can be considered as the
door of the eye. When we " close " our
eye, we mean that we are closing our
eyelid. This is done with the help of the
conjunctival hinge.
There is one other benefit derived from

the conjunctiva in the physical eye. It

contains small capillaries through whose
blood the eye linds its vitality.
Knowledge

Knowledge is also like a hinge. One

half of knowledge is attached to things
spiritual, while the other half is attached

to the things of our daily experience. By

means of knowledge, we are able to open
and close our spiritual door. In this way
we are able to close our spiritual eye from
error, and open it to the Light of God.
Knowledge also provides the spiritual eye
with energy and vitality. But the smooth
operation of this hinge, requires that,
first of all, the faith and virtue of the
spiritual -eye b e in sound condition.

The knowledge with which we are here

concexned is not a knowledge of this world.
Actually, our bi'and of knowledge is
considei-ed foolishness by most of the
people of the world. In this regard, the
Apostle Paul wrote to the Church at
Corinth, " We speak wisdom, however,
among them that are fuHgrown: yet a
wisdom not of this woidd, nor of the rulers
of this world, who are coming to nought:
but we speak God's wisdom in a mystery,
even the wisdom that hath been hidden,
which God foreordained befoi'e the worlds

unto our gloi-y: which none of the rulers of

this world hath known: for had they known

it, they would not have crucified the Lord
of glory." I Coi\ 2: 6-8. The wordly
wise of that day, however, considered Paul
to be a fool. (I Cor. 4:10).
Knowledge for the spiidtual eye is to
be found only in Christ in whom are
all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge
hidden."

Col. 2:3.
Diseases

One of the most common of eye

affections is " Red Eye," which is an
inflammation of the conjunctiva. Besides
the redness, the disease is marked by
itching, swelling, sensitivity to light,
blurring of vision, and an excretion of pus.
A diseased knowledge also has its
evil consequences.
Such a diseased knowledge can be
the beginning of a very wicked existence.
" And even as they refused to have God
in their knowledge, God gave them up
unto a

reprobate

mind,

to

do those

things which are not fitting: being filled

with

all

unrighteousness,

wickedness,

covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy,

murder, strife, deceit, malignity, whisperers,
backbiters, hateful to God, insolent,
haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things,
disobedient to parents, without under
standing,

covenant

breakers,

without

natural
affection,
unmerciful: who,
knowing the ordinance of God, that they
that practise such things are worthy of
death, not only do the same, but also
consent with them that practise them."
Rom. 1:28-32.

" But the Spirit saith expressly, that

in later times some shall fall away from the
faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and
doctrines of demons, through the hypocrisy
of men that speak lies, branded in their
own

There are a wide variety of possible

causes of conjuntivitis.
They include
dirt, cinders, exposure to wind, dust,
smoke, micro-organisms, dirty fingers,
handkerchieves and towels, measles,
scarlatina, small-pox, hay fever, influenza,
and the common cold.

as

with

hot

iron."

Treatment

Most times, the natural cleansing and

healing processes of the eye will clear
an eye of conjunctivitis within a day or
two.

Causes

conscience

I Tim. 4:1, 2.

Otherwise, lotions should be used

in order to prevent the infection from

spreading to the cornea where it eventually
could result in blindness.

If a spiritual eye is in good condition,

it will, by itself, take care of a slightly
infected knowledge. But in order to
prevent a diseased knowledge from
spreading and destroying the other parts
of the eye, we recommend the following

There are also a wide variety of lotions.

possible causes of a diseased knowledge.
Study the following verses and notice the
Lotions for a Diseased Knowledge
things which corrupt knowledge.
" For they that are such serve not
" The fear of the Lord is the beginning
our Lord Christ; but their own belly; of knowledge: But the foolish despise
and by their smooth and fair speech they wisdom and instruction." Prov. 1:7.
beguile the hearts of the innocent."
" From a babe thou hast known the
Rom. 16:18.
sacred writings which are able to make
" That we may be no longer children, thee wise unto salvation through faith
which is in Christ Jesus." II Tim.
tossed to and fro and carried about
with every wind of doctrine, by the 3:15.
sleight of men, in craftiness, after the
" Give diligence to prevent thyself
wiles of error." Eph. 4:14.
approved unto God, a workman that
" For there are many unruly men, needeth not to be ashamed, handling
vain talkers and deceivers, specially they aright the word of truth." II Tim.
of the circumcision, whose mouths must 2:15.
be stopped; men who overthrow whole
" Let us hold last the confession of
houses, teaching things which they ought our hope that it waver not; for he is
not, for filthy lucre's sake." Titus 1:10, 11. faithful that promised:
not forsaking
" For many deceivers are come into our own assembling together, as the
the world, even they that confess not custom of some is, but exhorting one
that Jesus Christ cometh in the flesh." another; and so much the more, as ye see
II John,9.
the day drawing nigh." Heb, 10:8, 10.

Case Histories

Mr.

D.

S.

was

invited

THAT MAN ON THE INDUS.

to

attend

Bible School, but he replied that he

probably knew more than the Bible
School

teacher

since he

had

studied

Bible in col'ege. Later, when the

Jehovah's Witnesses held a convention
in his town, he became one of their
members.

Mrs. G. understood plainly the

scriptures which the preacher showed to
her about the necessity of baptism. " But
our preacher says that it is an unimportant
matter," she said, closing her mind to the
truth.

Mr. D. was told by a friend that

church services ought to be held on
Saturday instead of Sunday. At first he
thought this was plausible, but he conti
nued to study his Bible. He soon saw
plainly that the early Christians met
together on the first day of the week.
Bro.

Y.

preached in
sprinkling.
infants," he
Fred C.

had

been

immersed

but

a congregation that practised

" If I refused to sprinkle
said, " I would lose my job."
was not specially brilliant,

but he was in constant attendance at all

the services of the church. Because of

Our friend, A. Samuel of Allahabad,

continues to be very much concerned
about the man on the Indus who may die
without ever having heard about Jesus
Christ.

I must admit that some ten years ago

the same problem troubled me. In the
end, I decided that God is more just and
more merciful than myself and that I had

better leave the judging up to Him. I

knew that Christ died for men on the
Indus, and that Christ had commanded
his followers to tell those men on the
Indus all about it.
When a

case is

to

be decided in

court, a judge does not call in a jury

from the District Jail. If juries were
composed of criminals, the jails would
soon be filled with the guiltless and the
criminals would be set free.
Now who are we to decide the fate
of the man on the Indus? We are all

criminals.

If someone would do to us

what we have done to God, we would

probably have them arrested immediately.

We all deserve to be thrown into the Jail
of Hell forever.

So let us not

be so

his continued Bible study, people gradually

began to consider him an authority on

proud of ourselves that we think we can

give God advice in His work.

Bible teachings. He was chosen to teach

the Men's Class in the Bible School, and
preaches occasionally when the preacher

cleanseth us from every sin!

is away.

Thank God, the blood of Jesus Christ

This is

Good News for that man on the Indus!

If you were to ask him now if he has

received salvation, he would probably
Continuedfrom page 2.
answer in the negative, But, after he
not given to those who shout most, but has heard and believed the Gospel of
the Word of God says that, " The people Jesus Christ, he will shout, " Yes, Praise
that do know their God shall be strong." the Lord!" Wouldn't you like to be the
It is the personal inward, increasing cause of bringing this joy into his life!
knowledge of the Lord which can bring
spiritual power in your inner man. May
We are sorry, Samuel, that we have
the Lord deliver you from false conceptions no copies of the November issue for you.
of the Holy Ghost, which are only one's But for Rs. 3/- we can supply you with a
own soulish power."
bound volume of all 1955 editions.

CHRISTIANS CONVERTED IN DEHRA DUN.

Miss Ivy G. Roberts, Editor

[ Translated from an Editorial in Dipak Magazine ]

" There are some people in your
The Dipak Shop is the only Christian
shop in Dehra Dun, and ever/ day some religion also," I said, " who are greedy for
one or other comes to enquire about ^e money. They become Christians for some

C^stian religion. Sometimes they just physical benefit. Then, when they do

want to ai^e; but we always tell them not get what they wanted, they become
to read the Bible and then they will
understand. We tell them that if, after

Hindus again. There are a lot of nominal

Christians like that who go wherever they
get fed. Perhaps those who are returning

reading the Bible, there is something

they don't understand, then we will to Hinduism became Christians for the
try and answer their questions for them. sake of money. It is good for them to
But if they just want to argue, we have no
desire to argue with them.
One, day a group of boys came and
gave us some leaflets. The leaflets read,
" CHRISTIANS

CONVERTED.

We

Hindu brethren are happy to announce

that several of our brethren who had

gone astray jure, tomorrow, returning to

our religion. It is, therefore, the duty of
every Hindu brother to come and receive
them back."

We read the leaflet but

said nothing. The Hindus laughed as

they passed our shop, but we paid no

attention to this.

But they were not

satisfied with this. Seeing me standing

by myself in front of the shop, several
men came to vex me with questions.

" What is happening to the Christians ?"

they asked. "There is a large crowd
gathered on the Parade Ground."
" It is one of your holy days," I

replied. It was the day of Basant, the

Hindu Spring Festival.
" We have heard that Christians are

being converted," they said. " Aren't

you going to go and see them? Why are
they changing their religion? Why don't
you stop them?"

return to the religion from which they

came. Christianity is greatly harmed by
those who are Christian in name only."

I went on to tell them that whereas ten

persons were here forsaking the Christian

religion, there were ten thousand in South
India who were accepting Christ. There
is no power in the world which is able to
stop the inarch of truth.
At two o'clock in the afternoon, we
went to witness the proceedings. Among

those who had fors^en Christianity was

a former preacher who, with a marking

on his forehead, was taking up an oflering.
It was proudly announced that the man
taking the offering was, for several years,
a Christian preacher, and that today he
was returning to his former religion. On
this occasion we distributed 500 tracts on

Salvation and the Christian Religion.

I have not told you this just for you
to throw the magazine in a corner and
forget it. We should learn its lesson and
examine ourselves to see if we are strong
enough to be steadfast in difficult times.
Don't consider yourself to be so perfect.
Many people say that they would never
forsake Christ.

But when a little sorrow

comes their way, they begin a quick

retreat.

CITY OF DESTRUCTION CHURCH SPLIT.

[ Translated from Jiwan ka Pani ]
We have learned from Mr. Talkative

and Mrs. Anger with her and went over

of the City of Destruction that there is

to

some confusion in the Church there.

which resulted was so great that it

awakened Mr. Lazy, who called the Police
by telephone. Only the quick arrival of
Mr. Bigpastor saved Mrs. Bigpastor from
being locked up.
When a measure of peace was restored
and church attendance began to dwindle,
Mr. Bigpastor began to distribute milk
powder. Because he brought a small dish,

The main reason for the split is that

not as much money was received from the
Mission last month as was received in

previous months. When this became

known, the congregation voted that

Mr. Bigpastor should be dismissed; but

the Mission did not agree to this.

Among those who voted against

Mr. Bigpastor was his cook, Mr. Dirty.
When news of this reached Mr. Bigpastor,
he dismissed Mr. Dirty. At this, the
congregation voted that Mr. Bigpastor
should forgive Mr. Dirty, but Mr.
Bigpastor could not agree to this.
Last Sunday, because of the fighting,

the church house was filled to capacity.

Mr. Bigpastor preached on the subject,
"American

Restaurants".

After

the

sermon, Mrs. Dirty hit him with her shoe.

Some persons tliought that this action

was not proper, but others agreed with

Mrs. Dirty.

Mrs. Lie's house.

The commotion

Mr. Poverty did not receive his full share.

When he emptied his dish and returned

for more, he was rebuked by Mr. Big

pastor. In the meantime, Mr. and Mrs.

Greed and all of their children had come

and

benefited

distribution.

greatly from

Mr.

the

free

Showoff carried

his

milk powder home in a silver bowl, while

Mr. Jealously brought a golden bowl for
bis.

Mr.

Pride did not come.

It is

evident from Mr. Bigpastor's gain in

weight that he is receiving the greatest
benefit from this distribution.
Another cause of dissension in the

church is that Mr. Bigpastor asked Mrs.

In memory of his paternal grand Noise to remove her children from the
mother, Mr. Pride has placed a red light auditorium, while his own children cried
in the church auditorium. Mr. Jealousy throughout the service. Mr. Noise is
followed with a red light for his paternal still snoring in the services, however.
grandmother, a green light for his maternal
In the end, the fighting in the
grandmother, a yellow light for his paternal congregation has been a great boost to
grandfather, and a blue light for his church attendance. The church audi
maternal grandfather. Seeing all of these torium remains full as long as there is a
lights, Mr. Play came and sat down in fight. There is a danger that the people
the auditorium. Until the collection was will get tired of fighting, and then
taken, he did not realize that he was not
attending the theater.

There is also fighting among the

women of the church. It all began when
Mrs. Lie libelled Mrs. Bigpastor. When
Mrs. Bigpastor heard of this through
Mrs. Talkative, she took Mrs. Profanity

attendance will suffer.

There is one thing on which all the

members are in agreementno one wants

to subscribe to the Jiwan ka Pani magazine.

There is hope that some one will want
to take it, and then we will have a new
split in the flock.

THE PURPOSE OF SERVICE.

By G. C. Khanna, Pastor and Editor

[Translated from Atma Jagreti]
There is a reason and purpose for

everything we do. Have you ever sin

cerely, with your hand on your heart,
asked yourself the purpose of your
labours?

There is no doubt but that there

are many in Christian service today

"for filthy lucre's sake." I Pet. 5:2.
Their mind is always fixed on, " What

will I get out of it?" They "suppose

that godliness is a way of gain." I Tim.
6:5. "Their god is the belly." Phil.
3:19. They serve in order to fill their
stomachs.

For this cause, many have

crept into the churches in our day who

" with feigned words make merchandise of
you."

II Pet. 2:3.

for

service

are

examination before the Lord of our motives

for service. And if our motive should be

something other than for " the glory of

the Lord," then let us confess it and, by
the grace of God, do everything from now
on for His gloi-y alone.

Help publish
CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE WORKBOOK

One of the reasons for the fallen

condition of the church today is that
church workers are serving for some

reason other than for the glory of God.

In II Cor. 8:19, Paul testifies that his

ministry was " to the glory of God, and

to show our readiness."

When our motives

pure, there will certainly be a spiritual

awakening. On Mt. Carmel, Elijah
said, " O Lord, I have done this all
according to thy word." He worked for
the glory of the Lord, and that people
might fear the Lord and turn to him.
Come and let us once again give an honest

Beloved brethren,

can you sincerely and truthfully say

before the Lord that you are serving for
the glory of God? Do you always place
this aim before youi'self as you work?

Oh, how many there are who seek their

own glory. They are intent on the
promotion of their own particular group
or organization. The aim of their
ministry is their own glorification and the
engrandizement of their sect. They are
only interested in the expansion of their
own particular association. This is the
very cause of disputings and dogmatism.
If we would all sincerely be of one mind
to work for the glory of God, there
would certainly be a transformation. Our
methods of work would change, and we
would also change.

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cPki

CHRIS

ASIAIV

ASl the churches of Christ salute you."

Rom.

16 : 16

(^JVhY> 1956

Vol. II, No. 7

Kanpur, India

THE MEANING OF UFE.

By Paul Sudakar in The Seeker

Life is for living.

Yet the greatest

of all mysteries is life itself.

That I have

life, I know. But when I probe into its

origin and meaning, my problem begins
to take a mysterious appearance. Life is
explained away as an illusion; but the
reality of life and the struggle to live is
plainer than the explanations of philo
sophy concerning it.
My life is moulded by the view I
hold of it. Since religion is mainly
concerned to solve the mystery of life, all
our views of life ai'e derived from our

conscious or unconscious religious convic

tions.

That all religions arc the same is no

explanation. The Cannibal religion of
Africa and the super mysdc religion of
ancient India are obviously not the same.
The religion of Caesar's Rome that
delighted in sensual extravagence and the
religion of the Indian Yogi are poles
apart. What made Kipling say that
" East is East and the West is West" is

religion that teaches that God delights in

war.

It is a curious phenomenon that

though ideas emanated from man, man is
unconsciously led by the ideas that come
from him. So what is Supreme; the
principle or personality?
All our explanations of life hang on

this thorny question. Did pnnciple

produce personality? Or did personality
produce principle?
To those who hold the former view,
life does not exist for man but man for

life. Life is an eternal chain, changing

and re-changing, being caused by an
abstract principle that knows no change.
Thathvam is the last word to such a one.
It is not dilference nor distinctiveness that

matters to him, but a sublime mystic

unity.
The position of Gnana Yogi is some

the fact of conflicting views of life each

what similar to this.

held.

all is a great truth. He is a seeker. He is

a clear thinker and a logical thinker too.
{Continued onpage 8)

The religion that enthrones Ahimsa

(Non-violence) is not the same as the

To him oneness of

An " All India Converted Catholics

laboratory, workers, -and

pr^chers. For two and a halfdays during

December, 1956. The convention will Christmas vacation they dug on the well.
be held in. South..Jndia. at. Mangalore, They not only dug during the day, but
" The Rome of the East." The conven
with the help of a gas lantern, they dug
tion will mark the climax of "The also during the night. They were dis
Cohvehtidhj" is

being planned

for

Martyrs Commemorative Year," during

which more than 100 meetings will be

appointed that they did not have time to

feish the well; but they were successful

held all over India.

in getting it dug to a depth of ten feet.

Brother

William

Gulick

of South

India has sent us the following item from

the Hindu newspaper of April 20th.
" The Communists will campaign for pacts
of friendship and co-operation between
India and all other place-loving coimtries."
^

Hlf

One is never surprised at seeing one

or two children crying in the street; but

one night I met a group of six boys who

were all crying loudly.

From the confu

sion, I gathered that the boys had been

throwing stones

at

each "other ' with

evident success. Unfortunately, too many

The City of Kanpur contains more of our churches are in this condition. In
beggars than any other city in Uttar; many congregations we find the members
Pradesh. A recent census disclosed 1,689 crying because they have been so expert
Muslim and 1,314 Hindu beggars. There I at throwing stones at each other.
were 14 belonging to other communities.
Of the total, 1,912 are able-bodied, and

A cycle thief of Srinagar, Kashmir,

1,105 are disabled. 427 of the beggars
are lepers who move freely about the city^ has named liquor as his indispensable
One woman beggar is 132 years old. confederate in crime. After drinking, he
Another is putting her son through college.
Some women beg in order to get money for
the marriage of their daughters. A home
for beggars has been opened in Kanpur
but it is not popular with the beggars.

:(c

said, he could boldly take away people's

cycles, and neitlier his conscience nor his
nerves would bother him.
^ .

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4:

'

A recent survey showed that more

than one hundred million families of Asia

The April issue of Masihi Awaz

reported a good example of helpfulness

are living in crowded and insanitary

that occurred in a small village in

Vindhya Pradesh. A man who had been
a Christian for eight years had received
a pfoce of land, but the property had no
well on it. Fifty miles away, a yoimg man

example, has a population of 700 persons,

named S. Prakash enlisted his friends to

go help their village brother. The group

included a compounder, a carpenter.

conditions. One mohalla of Kanpur, for

for whom there are three water taps and
nine latrines. A huge housing scheme
is underway in Kanpur which may well
serve as an example for other cities of

Asia. The .Kanpur waterworks, which

was built to iserve 400,000 people must
now. satisfy the needs of 1,200,000.

Df nr^

THE ANATOMY AND DISEASES

OF THE SPIRITUAL EYE

By Ralph R. Harter
y\9t

CHAPTER IV

ef

TemperanceThe Iris of the Spiritnal Eye

The iris is that coloured membrane

learn intemperate habits from their parents

in the physical eye which marks us as

being ' blue-eyed,' or ' brown-eyed,' or
*green-eyed.' It is round in shape, and

and families and/or in early childhood

which permanently limits their comprehen
sion of the Light.

has a hole in the middle which we call

the pupil. The purpose of the iris is to

regulate the amount of light entering the
eye, and to eliminate marginal light rays
which would otherwise disturb our vision.

In a dark room, or on a dark night, the

iris contracts makii^ the pupil larger.
This allows more light to get into the eye.
On a sunny day, or in a brightly lit room,
the iris expands making the pupil smaller.
This keeps too much light from entering
the eye.

The light entering the spiritual eye

is regulated by one's temperance, better
translated, self control. The Christian
who exercises self-control will always be

Albinos do not have any coloui* in

their irises. For this reason, the iris is

not effective in eliminating marginal rays.

This individual, therefore, is unable to

see sharply, and prefers darkness to light.

Satan finds a great opportunity among
those who have no temperance. With his
marginal rays, Satan can so vex the
intemperate Christian that he will forever
separate himself from the Light.
Iritis

Inflammation of the iris is called

iritis.

The iris changes colour and loses

its lust3-e. The pupil becomes irregular

assured of a correct supply of the Light of in shape and is sluggish in its movements,
God reaching his inner man.
The patient suffers from pain, blurring of
vision, and dread of light.
Developmental Defects
'' God is faithful, who will not suffer

In an unborn child, the pupil of the

eye is covered with a small membrane
which is usually absorbed before the child
is

born.

Sometimes,

however,

the

membrane remains either in whole or in

part. This, of course, interferes with the

clear passage of light into the eye. Some
people seem to be blinded by intemper
ance from the very beginning.

They

you to be templed above that ye are able;

but will with the temptation make also
the way of escape, that ye may be able to
endure it." I Cor. 10:13. But too many
Christians find the temptation so enjoy
able that they do not care to seek the way

of escape. They believe in sinning that

grace may abound. (Rom. 6:1). They
have failed to add self-control to their

faith, virtue, and knowledge. In failing to

discipline their- lives, t^eir self-contiol

because of matrimonial

difficulties.

womm*s anger may be traced to a lack of

becomes so infected that dear spiritual love from her husband. A young man
may become a chain-smoker because his
employer is over-critical. Others may

vision is impossible.

indulge in intemperate habits in order to

Doctor, Take Care

hide some sin.

Sometimes inexperienced people may

think that a patient has conj^ctiyitis

(an inflammation of the conjunctiva)

instead of having iritis. The result is
that the proper treatment is delayed until
the error is discovered.

In the spiritual

Thus, in order to cure

intemperance, the basic cause will have

to be found and. rooted out.
Treatment

Besides

the

treatment

mentioned

realm, a man who is suffering from lack above, iritis can be cured with Atropine,
of self-control, may be thought to be

dionin, and leeches.

an effort is made to increase his knowledge,

Here are some ant^eptics which will

help cure a diseased temperance.
(1) "Be not drunken with wine,

suflfering from lack of .knowledge. So

and the'proper treatment needed for the

treatment of his intemperance is delayed.

Another

error sometimes

made

is

that a person is sometimes thought

to be suffering from iritis when he is
actually suffering from glaucoma. This
is more serious since the medicine for

iritis is harmful to glaucoma. In the

same way, people are sometimes thought
to be suffering from a diseased temperance

when they are really suffering from a

diseased faith. In this case, the giving of
so much attention to temperance may do
more harm than good to the diseased
faith.

We must, therefore be more expert

in knowing when a man is suffering from

a diseased temperance and not something
else.

wherein is riot, but be filled with the

Spirit." Eph. 5:18.

(2) " And every man that striveth in
the games exerciseth self-control in all
things. Now they do it to receive a
corruptible crown; but we an incorrup
tible."

I Cor. 9:25.

(3) " Know ye not that your body is

the temple of the Holy Spirit which is in

you, wmch ye have from God? and ye
are not your own; for ye were bought with
a price: glorify God, therefore in your
body." I Cor. 6:19, 20.
(4) " Whether therefore ye eat, or
drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the
gloiy of God." I Cor. 10:31.
Case Histories

Cause

Iritis is most frequently caused by an

infection somewhere else in the body.

This may include decayed teeth, inflanuned tonsils, sinuses, and syphilus. Thus, in
order to clear up the iritis, it is necessary to
cure the basic infection.

Intemperance is usually the result

of some malignant frustration in life.
Many men begin drinking, not because

they particularly like intoxicants, but.

Mrs. James R. lived under very trying

circumstances, but she never seemed to

lose her temper. She said she accom

plished this by loving people who vexed
her, praying for circumstances that tried
her, and in all things saying, " Thy will
be done."

George M. had tried several times to

give up cigarette smoking by " tapering
off," but each time proved unsuccessful.

One day his preacher asked him if he was

not larger than the cigarette. He tore his
remaining cigarettes in pieces and threw

SON OF GOD," then He replies that th'g

knowledge came not to them by their

them in the sewer.

own efforts, but by Divine revelation from

He has not touched a

cigarette since.

"THOU ART THE CHRIST, THE

the eternal Father.

Bernel H. was such a drunkard that

Bhakthi,

too,

has two sidesthe

many people thought leaving alcohol might

kill him. But in a revival meeting he

worshipper and the worshipped. My

difficulty was regarding the latter. But

came to the conclusion that it would be

in the historic Jesus, God revealed in

better to die an abstainer and go to

Heaven than to live many years as a
drunkard and go to Hell. With the help
of God, he gave the habit up immediately

history and also in the realistic experience

of the devotee my difficulty on that score

without any evil effect.

The whole town

was impressed at the change Christ made

in this man's life.

Thomas B. preached very sternly

against drinking and smoking in the pulpit.
His hostesses, however, were often shocked

at the enormous quantities of food he

ate.

The men-folk could

not see

is solved. And proudly and triumphantly

I exclaim before Christ, " My Lord and

My Godr
Karma Marga, too, has two sides

the man who works for good with the

ultimate aim of salvation and the one

who accepts the work or sacrifice or

offering. In Christ Jesus, I find the
greatest Karma, the wonder of eternality.

that

I mean the Cross of Christ where He

their smoking and drinking was worse

than his intemperate eating habits. The

cried out for the salvation of man, offering.

preacher recently died of a heart attack.

Himself before God, His Father, as the

There is a rumour that one of the pall

one offering,Prajapathy Yagam, acceptable

before God. And when I survey the

bearers was drunk.

wondrous cross on which the Prince of

Glory died, I realise that any act of mine

Continued from Page 8
originated evil? What is the good action
that overcomes evil?

good?

Can a bad man do

if not, who is the good one who

did that good thing that destroyed evil?

IN JESUS OF NAZARETH I FIND
MY ANSWER TO ALL MY PROBLEMS:
HE
IS THE
CHRIST OF GOD.

Gnana Marga has two sides; the seeker

who is willing to seek and the sought
who is willing to show himself. In Jesus
Christ I find my perfect answer. He
creates a searching spirit in his disciples
and when they afterwards tell him,

to add to what He had done for me and

my salvation is nothing short of blasphemy.

So as Gnana Yogi I trust Christ for
salvation,

As Bhakthi I trust Christ for salvation,

As Karma Yogi I trust Christ for
salvation.

For Jesus says, " I am the Way, the

Truth, and the Life."

Now I know the meaning of life. In

Christ Jesus is life. For He Himself is
life. And I also say with Paul, " For
me to live is Christ."

SIN WHICH CHRISTIANS ARE DOING

WITHOUT FEAR.

THERE IS A

By.G. C. Khanna, Editor and Pastor

(Translated from Atma Jagrati.)

Not long, ago, a preacher came .into

they say,." You just pray for that ihan

began to find fault and speak evil of

I know about him."

The author of the book of Proverbs

our. house, and,, ^er sitting for a .while, because I do not want to tell everything
well known preacheirs.. He also poked
It is the custoni in many families
today to criticize the pastor's sermon.

tells us six. things that God hates. He

said that God hated haughty eyes, a
lying tongue, hands that shed innocent

and the Bible.

brethren.

fun at faithfiil Bible Churches.

The evil consequence of this is that the blood, a heart that diviseth wicked
children, hearing such things from their imaginations, feet that be swift,in running
parents, are ruined as a result. They to mischief, a false witness that uttereth
lose all respect for the pastor, the church, lies, and he that soweth discord among
Prov, 6:16-19.

There is no.benefit in discussing what

How many Christians there are who
are not able to talk with you for five kind of hate God has for these sins. The
minutes without speaking evil about main point is that He hates these things.
Someone has said that a man is known by
somebody else.
People rightly consider adultery, his words. Jesus said that that which
thievery, and murder to be very evU. proceedeth out of the mouth defileth the
But have you forgotten that, in the sight man. Mt. 15:11. In another place
of God, sin is sin? Every kind of sin is (James 3:10) it is written that out of the

despised in the sight of God. In Galatians same mouth cometh forth blessing and

5:19-21, enihities, strife, and jealousies

are given the same place as fornication,
sorcery, and drunkenness.

cursing. " My brethren,

ought not to be."

these things

From one side of the mouth comes

Another thing which some Christians

evil, lies, and gossip, and from the other

side comes truth, love, the praise of God,
and the proclamation of the Gospel. ,In
regards to this, the Word of God says, " If
any stumbleth not in word, the same is a
perfect man, able to bridle the whole body
also." James 3:2.
The Apostle Paul wrote to the

often do is to write letters which are a

Ephesians to " Be filled with the Spirit;

The Apostle Paul wrote, Let all

bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and
clamour, and railing, be put away from
you, with all malice: and be ye kind one
to another, tenderhearted, forgiving each
Other, even as God also in Christ forgave
you."

Eph.4:31,32.

great disgrace to God. These letters speaking one to another in psalms and

are very

hymns and spiritual songs, singing and

making melody with your heart to the
Lord; giving thanks always for all things
in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to
God, even the Father; subjecting your

clever to say, " Of course you don't know

selves one to another in the fear of Christ."

are filled with hateful, despicable and

disgraceful things.
Fault finders and gossipers have no

courage. They never speak openly or to

one's face.

Sometimes they

as much about him as I do."

Or else

Eph. 5:18-21.

Mr. LAZY ELECTED BIBLE CLASS TEACHER

{News from the City of Destruction.)

The question of holding a Bible Class

in the City of Destruction should never

Mr. Talkative reported that no one

have arisen; but we are happy to report

with whom he had talked was in favour

of holding a Bible Class.

satisfaction of all the citizens.

The motion for a Bible Class was

the floor.

that the matter has been settled to the

made by Mr. Show-Off. He thought that

a Bible Class might help to give an

With a hearty laugh, Mr. Jest gained

" I make a motion we order

some copies of Jiwan ka Pani Magazine."

He was shouted down immediately.
Mr. Poverty said that he could not

impression of respectability to persons possibly bear the added expense of a

who are on the verge of moving to the Bible Glass. It would mean extra bus
City. It might also help to discourage fares, pencils, paper and it might even
peojple from ordering Correspondence lead to the necessity of buying a Bible.
Bible Courses from the Outside.
Mr. Pride was the first to raise his

voice of opposition to the proposal.

" Does Mr. Show-off mean to imply that
people who read the Bible are more

respectable than people who don't," he

asked. At this rebuke, Mr. Show-Off's
ears showed off red.

Following this, the room was filled

with the suave tones of Mr, Bigpastor's

thrilling voice. " Surely my sermons are
sufficient for everyone's needs," he said.

Mr. Lazy was the last to speak on

this question. He said that it was be
coming more and more difficult for him

to get twelve hours sleep a night. LooWng

up Bible references, he added, was hardly

his idea of a restful evening.
The motion failed for want of a
second.

Mr. Show-Off once again took the

floor. " The fact still remains," he said,

" That the existence of a Bible Class might
impress some Outsiders.

It would not

be necessary to attend the Class. If any

Mr. Discouraging Factor predicted Outsider asked about Bible classes, we
that very few people could be expected to could tell him that the Destruction City

A two minute silence followed.

attend the Bible classes.

The weather is

not favourable for classes, and civic

duties had to come first.

Mr. Good-Time announced that he

had absolutely no spare time left for

Bible Classes. As it was, he could only

attend a small fraction of the services of
the church. "Is Mr. Show-Off unaware

that two new cinema houses have opened

in the City?" he asked.

church had voted to have them."

The motion was then seconded by

Mr. Bigpastor and passed unanimously

except for one abstention. Mr. Lazy

failed to vote because, he said, his arm
was tired.

Mr. Lazy was voted to be teacher

of the class since it was thought that

there was no danger of his becoming
serious about his work.

the meaning of life {Continued).

His final discovery is that there is only and sets me to work.

I' wonder lyhether

one Supreme one and that only is ultimate I am near the truth now. Against the
reality. Anything else that man thinks philosophic detachment. Karma M^ga

as real is Maya. But how Maya came, teaches me to live aiKl} at the same time,

why it is here, why the difference instead gives an explanation of life. It accepts
ofunity is more prominent in the universe the difference between good and e^.
are not satisfactorily explained. The

Gnana Yogi is seeking tmth and ends his

Evil actions set in a chain of evil under the

dominion of which man is suffering to

search that he is not different firom the day. But there is no cause for despair,
one whom he seeks. In short, the seeker for they can be overcome by our good
is himself the sought! This may be an deeds.
intellectual gymnastic par excellence but
I, then, ask myself. Who is to decide
it does not satisfy my questionWhy I which is good and which is bad? Who
live. There is neither action nor inaction
{Continued onpage 5).

in this philosophy, neither good nor bad.

With philosophic detachment, anything
can be explained away by this; and I
need not move an inch from my state.

So I seek elsewhere for truth. And

I come to Bhakthi. I am delighted in it.

It is easy to practice. It produces the

greatest and the best'in me. But, Alas!

I am again disappointed. I am not

happy to worship anything and everything.

My object ofworship must be worthy of
worship. I cannot worship a person who

is created by my imagination nor by

another's imagination. I search in vain.
If I worship anyone who can be fully

explained and reasoned by my intellect,

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Vol. II, No. 8

AUGUST, 1956

Kanpur, India

BUDDHA AND CHRIST

A Letter to the Editor of The Statesman

By Samir Kumar Ghosh of Calcutta.

Sir,

In the Statesman of May 25th, Swami

Sankarananda of Viswa Bharati University
expressed the opinion that Christ and the
Buddha were one and the same person.

This is not supported by history.

If the Buddha were Christ, how will
the Swami reconcile the fact

that the

" Pilate at the suggestion of the principle

men among us had condemned him to
the cross", and he spoke of "the race
of Christians so named after him,"

In

another passage he says that " Ananias

called a Sanhedrin together, brought
before it James, the brother of Jesus
who was called Christ and certain others
.........And he caused them to be stoned."

2500th birthday of the former was cele

brated only the other day, whereas Christ
was born 1956 years ago? Does he mean
that the Buddha was alive roughly for a
period of 500 years? His interpretation

Tacitus, writing about 115 A.D. describes

of the word Christ is also not correct.

Christ does not mean " a saint" but

adds, " this name comes to them from

Christ, whom the Procurator Pontius

" the Messiah ". Again, the Buddha was

born while his mother was travelling, and

Pilate, under the rule of Tiberius, had

handed over to torture." There are many
other references about Jesus and Chris

Christ in Bethlehem at the end of his

mother's journey.
Historical facts, references in Roman

writings and in Jewish scriptures prove

that Jesus was Christ and not the Buddha
or anyone else. Josephus, the Jewish
historian, who was born in the year 37
or 38 and thus nan-owly missed being

Jesus' contemporary, in his Antiqmties

mentions Jesus. He says Jesus was, " a
wise man ", " a doer pf wonderful works ",

As for evidence in Roman writings,

Nero's rule when in 64 A.D. he blamed the

burning of Rome on the Christians and

tians in those earlier writings, which

prove that Jesus and Buddha were not
one and the same person.
The Swami claims that before Christia

nity came into being, Buddhism was

flourishing in Greece. History gives no
evidence of it, though it refers to certain
mysterious religions and cults.
Yours etc.

MeNITRIALS
This month we are writing from the
Himalyian hill station of Landaur. This
morning the clouds have lifted to give
us a view of the snow-capped peaks. It
is a magnificent sight even if Mt. Everest
cannot be seen from here.

From time to time, the Prince of Berar

has incurred debts totalling 4| crores of

rupees (about |10 million) which has
even proven burdensome to the Nizam.
Official figures now show that labour

Strikes in Kanpur last year resulted in

There is a question as to whether a loss of 1,744,940 man-days of work.

altitudes or mentalitudes are the greatest Thirtyone thousand three hundred and
hazard to mountain climbing. When the fifty workers lost Rs. 54,62,262/- (much
Swiss climber Luchsinger was hospitalized more than $1 million) in wages.
at the Thyangboche Monastary, it appea
The cause of Christian publications
red that he was in need of a surgical in India is to be further advanced by
operation to remove his appendix. The j Frank Rempel of Kulpahar, U.P., India
Head Lama, however, refused permission who is purchasing a small off-set press
on the grounds that it involved the use of 1 from the Gospel Literature Service of
scissors and knives and resulted in blood

shed. Luchsinger later arrived at the top

of Mt. Lhotse with his appendix intact.
Meanwhile, the Japanese climbers had
to pay 7,000 rupees (About $1500) for
passage through the village of Sama.
Four thousand rupees of this is to be used
to rebuild a temple which fell due (as
supposed) to the anger of the gods to the
previous expedition of the Japanese to
Mt. Manaslu.

Talking about money, the postal

authorities at Gurgaon have been troubled
with a Sadhu who has been dropping
money into the letter box. In one week
he dropped a total of Rs. 25/- into the
box.

The

Sadhu

refused

to

take

the

money back since he says that it is dedica

ted to God. The Postmaster is soliciting
advice from his superiors.
We suggest that the Postmaster at
Gurgaon forward the money to the Prince
of Berar who has recently been disinherited
by his father, the Nizam of Hyderabad.

Bombay.

Rs. 4,000 ($1000) is needed

for this equipment.

Contributions for the

purchase of this press may be sent to

Mr. Rempel. Mr. Rempel is, incidentally.
Secretary of the New Testament Publica
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The

Hindi

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Doctrine Workbook by J. H. Dampier has

been submitted to the printers by the
New . Testament Publications, Assn.
Rs. 1,000/- or $200 is still needed for this
project. The treasurer is Shri Nathan

James, Church of Christ, Dhawari, Satna,

V.P., India.

Cherrapunji, Assam, which has had

its claim as the rainiest place on earth
challenged recently, recorded a rainfall
of 37 inches during a twenty-four hour
period early in June. Seven more inches
of rain fell during the succeeding nine
hours.

And so the rainy season has once

again come to India. Rivers are up,
bridges are out, and vegetables are scarce.

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THE ANATOMY AND DISEASES

OF THE SPIRITUAL EYE
By Ralph R. Harter

CHAPTER V
9106

Patiencethe Ciliary Body of the Spiritual Eye

fyi

The ciliary body of the physical eye

extends backward from the base of the

iris. These two are so intimately asso

ciated that many authors often consider
them together.

In your patience ye shall win your

souls." (Luke 21:19). "Count it all
joy, my brethren, when ye fall into mani
fold temptations; knowing that the proving
of your faith worketh patience. And, let
patience have its perfect work, that ye

In the spiritual eye, patience (as the

ciliary body) and temperance (as the iris) i may be perfect and entire, lacking in
are so closely associated that it is difficult nothing." James 1:2-4.
to think of one without the other.

Diseases

The ciliary body contains the muscle

of accomodation.

It is this muscle which

adjusts the thickness of the lens so that

we can see near and far objects with equal
sharpness.

Since the ciliary body is so closely

connected with the iris, a diseased iris is

usually, if not always, accompanied by a

diseased ciliary body.
In the spiritual eye, if a man's tem
perance is diseased, his patience will also
be diseased. It seems impossible that
anyone could possess a healthy patience
without first possessing a healthy tem
perance. On the other hand, if a person
possesses a healthy temperance, his
patience will most likely also be healthy.

Patience is the great muscle of

accommodation in the spiritual eye. It
is patience which has the power to adjust
our spirits to all varieties and degrees of
vexations, frustrations, trials, and sorrows.
The Buddhists of Asia have just
recently celebrated the 2500th birth
anniversary of the Buddha. The great
problem which faced the Buddha was the
The causes and effects of a diseased
frustration caused by the swinging of the ciliary body are practically the same as
pendulum from joy to sorrow and back for a diseased iris; and the causes and
again. His answer to this was to turn effects of a diseased patience are practically
away from all sensations, impressions, the same as for a diseased temperance.
thoughts and from the whole mind- And what cures one will help to cure the
consciousness.

But

the

Christian

finds

this liberation from frustration through

patience. Whether our lot be joy or
sorrow, success or failure, health or ill
ness, life or death, the accommodation
muscle of patience can keep the soul of
man in focus.

It is the patience of Christ, and not

the Nirvana of the Buddha which can
release man from the frustrations of life.

other.

Sympathetic Eye

It sometimes occurs, although, fortu

nately, not very often, that an infection
in the ciliaiy body and iris of one eye

will set up an infection in the other eye.

In this case, it may be necessary to remove
the first eye in order to save the sight of
the second.

Diseases of intemperance and imr

patience have a great tendency to spread
from spiritual eye to spiritual eye. One
person with an infected temperance or

patience may quickly corrupt an entire

congregation. The danger of this is so
great that it is best, though painful, to
remove the affected eye in order to save
the unaffected.

" Deliver such an one

unto Satan for the destruction of the

flesh that the spirit may be saved in the

day of the Lord Jesus. Your glorying is
not good. Know ye not that a litde
leaven leaveneth the whole lump? Purge
out therefore the old leaven, that ye may
be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For
even Christ our passovcr is sacrificed for
us

But

now I

have written

hath sat down at the right hand of the

throne of God." Heb. 12:1, 2.
(5) " Take, brethren, for an example
of suffering and patience, the prophets
who spoke in the name of the Lord. Be
hold, we call them blessed who endured:
ye have heard of the patience of Job, and
have seen the end of the Lord, how that
the Lord is full of pity, and merciful."
James 5:10, 11.
Case Histories

In " Pilgrim's Progress," John Bunyan

tells of two boys. Patience and Passion
who are left to wait for the arrival of

unto : their Guardian who will divide his riches

you not to keep company if any man

that is called a brother be a fornicator,

or covetous, or an idolalor, or a railor, or

a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such
an one not to eat."

endured the cross, despising shame, and

I Cor. 5-5-7, 11.

among them. Patience is content to wait,

but Passion is restless. In the meantime,

Satan comes with a bag of treasures and

entices Passion away from his seat. After
Passion has squandered his lot, the
Guardian arrives and gives His true riches

Special Treatment for Patience

to Patience.

Here are some special pills which are

The Apostle Paul gave this testimony

of patience: "I have learned, in what

guaranteed

to

give you a

patience.

healtliy soever state I am, therein to be content.

I know how to be abased, and I know also

(1) "If we hope for that which we

see not, then do we with patience wait
for it."

Rom. 8:25.

(2) " And we desire that ye be imita

tors of them who through faith and
patience inherit the promises."
Heb.

how to abound: in everything and in all

things have I learned the secret both to
be filled and to be hungry, both to abound
and to be in want. I can do all things
in him that strengtheneth me." Phil.
4:11-13. There was nothing lacking in

6:12.

his muscle of accommodation.

(3) " For ye have need of patience,

that having done the will of God, ye
may receive the promise." Heb. 10:36.
(4) Therefore, let us also, seeing we
are compassed about with so great a
cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight,

William Carey, pioneer missionary in

India, returned to his station one day

and the sin which doth so easily beset

us, and let us run with patience the race
that is set before us, looking unto Jesus

the author and perfecter of our faith,

who for the joy that was set before him

to find that his buildings, presses, Bibles,

manuscripts, and dictionaries had been
destroyed in a fire. Without a word of
distress or anger, he knelt and thanked
God that he had the strength to do the
work all over again. The result was that
he not only did more, but he did it better
than before.

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BIBLE BOOK STORE NEWS

By J. C. Khan

The Bible Book Store at 112/352,

Swarup Nagar, Kanpur, U.P. is beginning
its third year of service to the people

Extracted from Balance of Truth Magazine

The Lord Jesus said to Martha, " And
whosoever livcth and belicveth in me shall
never die." The Lord also said to

Martha,

" He

that

believeth

in

me,

though he were dead, yet shall he live."

The meaning of the word death is
entirely removed from the life of a true
Christian. When a person without Christ
dies he loses everything and there is
great loss also to his friends and relatives.
But Paul says, " To die is gain."
In

death

the

Christian

does

not

lose

anything, but rather gains.

A few years ago when I was in Osaka,
Japan, I saw the house of an Indian
gentleman who had been living in Japan
for many years. He has permanently
settled down in Japan. Many of his
relatives in India, after he left India for

Japan, perhaps shall never see him again.

Yet he still lives in another country.
He has entirely disappeared from his
relatives although he still lives.
Of course, this is a very weak illustra
tion to illustrate the continuity of life after
deatli. A born-again man at death
disappears from one world but still lives in
the other w^orld. Death is just a boundary
line to cross from one country to another
country. After crossing the boundary
line, a born-again man has disappeared
from one country, but still lives in another
countrya better, heavenly, spiritual
countrv.

of India.

Our most popular item at the moment

is the Hindi edition of the Life of Christ

Visualized, Book Three. We also handle

the Tamil, Telegu, and Orion issues of

the same book.

The sale of these has increased the

demand for the English editions. We are

now able to supply these at Rs. 2/- each,
or

set

Rs. 5/-.

of three

different

books

for

One set contains three different

books on the Life of Christ. The second

set contains one book on the Parables

of Jesu.s, and two books on the Acts of the

Apostles.

We also have a new supply of Life of

Christ Picture Rolls at Rs. 16/8 per roll.
Part One contains 26 pictures depicting
from the birth of Jesus to His walking
on

the

water.

Part

Two

contains

26

more picture.s from Petur's Confession to

the Ascension of Christ.

We have some very beautiful multi

coloured Recognition Certificates at as. 4
each. These are ideal to give to your
Bible class students when they finish their
coui"se.

And we still have those beautiful sets

of Pictograph which will enliven your

Sunday School or sermons. We have
four sets that sell at Rs. 6/- each: The
Birth of Christ, The Fisher of Men, The
Great Physician, and Crucifixion and
Resurrection.

Bible Book Store News{Contd.)

verse and an attractive Indian design on
every sheet. The pads sell for Rs. 1/4, 2/-,
and 3/-. The pads at Pvs. 2/- are avail
able in either English or Hindi, the
others just in English.

These are selling at

Re. I/-each.

sell at Rs.

There are three sets that

10/- each: Parables, Early

Life of Paul, and Later Life of Paul.

We are down to our last three flannelgraph

boards at Rs. 10/- each.
We

are

now

stockists

Promises Stationary.

of

Precious

There is a scripture

the early advent of CHRISTIANITY IN INDIA

ByTHEOPHiL Kajur, Bilaspur, M.P.

Almost every Christian in India

today is well aware of the persecution
which has been raised against them which
moved the present Government to enquire

Let

us

see

recorded

stories

and

evidences.

The early Christian father

Eusebius,

the

father

of

ecclesiastical

history, and Jerome, the bishopof Carthage

of the third century A.D. record that

But those who oppose Ghi-istianity are Pantaneous, an Alexandrian scholar of
opposing God, and the consequences of I that age, had been sent as a missionary to
this are to be greatly feared. There is I India. It was in response to a request
nothing on earth, even blood-shed, which I from an ambassador of the Indian nation,
can stop the proclamation of the Truth. j When he arrived he found that Bartho
Christianity is being preached throughout lemew, one of the twelve apostles, had
the world to all humanity without preached the gospel according to
prejudice of caste, nationality, colour, or St. Matthew's Gospel in Hebrew. This
tongue: and it cannot be bounded by Gosepl was taken back by him to Alexan
human laws or regulations. God has dria where it is still preserved to this day.
ways past finding out for the fulfilment
Secondly, Hippolytus, the bishop of
of His purposes.
into the facts and fictions of the matter.

Pontus,

Some of those opposing Christians

have labelled Christianity as a " Foreign
Religion." But Christianity belongs to
God and not to any particular nation or
race.

In this respect, it will be well to

writes

about

220

A.D.

that

Thomas and Bartholemew preached the

gospel in India, and that St. Thomas
was slain in an Indian city, Calamina.
This city was located in central Asia
and was considered in those days to be

review the history of the early advent of

Christianity in India.
There arc many traditions to the
effect that Thomas and Bartholemew, who
were among the twelve original apostles
of Jesus, were the first to preach Christ

a part of the Indian nation.

in India.

Fourthly,
about
540
A.D.
an
Alexandrian monk, Cosmosindico Pleustes,
wrote regarding the existence of the

We do not know how true or

false these traditions may be, but they

nevertheless testify to the early arrival of
Christian preachers on our soil.
During the Jewish dispersions from

Palestine which occured during the first

century A.D., many Jewish traders came
to India following the routes of Roman
and Greek traders. They established a
Jewish colony near Bombay and Poona
by the name of Ben-Israel. In the ruins
some dinaris (silver coins) of the time
of Augustus and Tiberias Caesar have
been found.

Thirdly, in the middle of the 4th

century

A.D.,

the

orthodox

Frumentius, was sent by

the

bishop
church

father, Athnasius to India.

Christian church in Ceylon and one along

the Malabar coast.

These old records seem to bear out the

fact that Thomas and Bartholemew

preached along the coast of Malabar.

It is obvious that the access of Christia

nity into

India dates

from the

first

century A.D. So we can safely conclude

that the form of the earliest Christianity
in India was purely apostolic or the
church of Christ establishment.

THE TREACHERY OF Mr. FAITHFUL

Translated from Jiwan ka Pani
We have learned from our reporter, faith, meekness, temperance; against such
Mr. Talkative, that one Mr. Faithful

is causing some confusion in the City of

Destruction.

Our readers will remember that last

year this same Mr. Faithful was dis-

fellowshiped from the Destruction City

Church. He had urged an increase in
faith, which aroused Mr. Pride to charge
him with being proud. We had not
heard of him since that time.

It seems

that he was just waiting for an opportu

nity.

" In my own life I like to laugh."

" It is appointed unto man once to
die, but after this the judgement."
Mr. Good-Time was saddened to hear
this.

" Repent ye therefore, and be conver

ted that your sins may be blotted out,
when the times of refreshing shall come
from the presence of the Lord."

" Cannot I continue in riotous living

This opportunity came his way last

month when the members of the Destruc

tion Church voted to have a Bible Class.

You will remember that they elected

Mr. Lazy to be their teacher.
When Mr. Faithful heard about the

Bible Class, he at once enlisted as a

member.

there is no law."

When Mr. Bigpastor saw this,

he remembered the advice of Mr. Show-off

and introduced Mr. Faithful to Mr. GoodTime.

According to his duty, Mr. Good-Time

said to Mr. Faithful, " Come along, and
let us go to the Cinema. We will get more
good out of the Cinema than we would
out of a Bible Class."

" Labour

not

for

the

meat

which

perisheth but for that meat which endureth

unto everlasting life, which the Son of
man shall give unto you: for him hath

and still be saved?"

" I tell you, Nay:

but, except ye

repent, ye shall all likewise perish,"

After a good bit of thought, Mr. GoodTime said, " Today you have shown
me a new light. I have decide to join
the Bible Class with you."
In this way, Mr. Faithful deceived
Mr. Good-Time. But not only this; it
is learned that Mr. Good-Time is pre
paring to leave the City of Destruction.
As we go to press, Mr. Faithful and
his new disciple, Mr. Attention (for he
has changed his name) have been seen
going in the direction of Mr. Lazy's
house. We fear that some new treachery
will be manifested there.

God the Father sealed."

" Do I understand correctly that you

do not want to have a good time with me,"
Mr. Good-Time asked.

" Be not deceived: evil communications

corrupt good mannei-s."

" What joy do you get out of life?"

" The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy,

peace, longsuffering gentleness, goodness,

Mr.

Good-time,

Before

and

After

DON'T LET THIS HAPPEN TO YOU:

ARISE, YE CHRISTIANS
By John R. Singh, Bina

" Awake
not."

to righteousness and sin

I Cor. 15:34.

Stand up on your feet and fight!

Fight sin! Fight delinquency! Get out
of the rut before it becomes a grave!
Do your dutyplus!
Many Christians gaze on the world's
white harvest fields and say, " The harvest
is great, the reapers are few," and then
exclaim, " Why doesn't someone do
something about it?"
God is wanting to do something about
it. He wants a Spirit-filled Church,
aggressive, sacrificial, and eager for
faithful service.

HEAR HIS VOICE! Make your

ears ready to hear God's Floly Voice.
In Lev. 8:23, we read, " And he slew it,

workers who are full of good works, but

their labours are not based on the strong
foundation

of faith

atoning blood.

in

Some

Christ

day

as

they

His

will

awake and find that their labours have

been in vain. The kingdom of God

cannot be gained by meritorious works.
Men asked Jesus, " What must we do,
that we may work the works of God?"
These men were probably prepared to

invest their money and time in doing

good works. But Jesus told them, " This
is the work of God that ye believe on him
whom he sent." {John 6:28, 29).

Easy chair, complacent traditionalism

must be abandoned, and an aggressive
programme geared to New Testament
methods

must

lie

launched

under

the

guidance of the Holy Spirit.

and Moses took of the blood of it and

put it upon the tip of Aaron's right ear,

and upon the thumb o" ins right hand,
and upon the great toe of his right foot,"
Unless our ears be consecrated, we cannot

hear His Holy Voice.

In John 12:29,

we read that men heard the voice of God

and said it thundered. They did not know

the

difference.

But now in the

New

NOTICE TO AMERICAN SUBSCRIBERS

The subscription price for TheChrislasian

has now been reduced to only $1 per year.
This may be sent by regular Postal Money
Order either to Box 144, Clinton Ohio, or
112/352, Swarup Nagar, Kanpur, India.

Covenant, when the blood of our Saviour

Jesus Christ is applied, believers know the

voice

of God.

In

the

Revelation

pf

Jesus Christ to John, in His messages

the seven churches, Christ challengei^
" He that hath an ear, let him hear what

the Spirit saith unto the churches. The

true Christian always knows the voice
of the loving Father in Heaven.
DO HIS WORK. Our hands and
feet must also be consecrated to God's

work.

There are many so-called Christian

THR
Ralph R

[STASIAN

Harter

rlirnr inrl rirmT-nrr

112/352,
Swarup
Nagar,
Kanpur, U.P., India.
Annual Subscription Rales:

1 Copy, Rs. 2; 5 Copies, Rs, 6;

10 Copies, Rs. 10; 25 Copies, Rs. 20.

Edited and Puijiished by Mr. Ralph R. Harter ami Piintcci by Shri R. Ganesan at
THE JOB PRESS PRIVATE LIMITED, KANPUR.

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R Harte:^at 112/352,

13th August,i-:3i956

.P ,

operation,

the left eye, v/as

fifteen day absence.

7/hen i t cai/ie time to leave

I
I or Dr. Rambo had expected. only had $6 which was jusfe
Prom the sixth day, when the enough
for the 5 00 mile
bandage was removed, the eye trip. Since this would mean
has been working beautifully that I could leave no money
although we must hot work it with the bojT-s, I
v;as about
too hard
for a month or so.
to decide not to go. But the
The -right eye will have to
boys
insisted that I
have
its -fourth operation saying that they would make
some time, but it is not yet. out alright. So I v/ent, arr
more successful'

than either

decided whether this

sooner or l a t e r .

v/ill be

for the Miuigeli Hospital,

iving

at

Mungeli v/ith 65/

The folk at Mungeli accepted

The total expense involved postdated checks, and I sold

in the operation, including
enough books in 3ilaspur to
food and transportation was buy my ticket home.
only
This operation re
A boy for whom I had prev
quired much more prayer than iously bought medicine, died
money,
and
wo
arc
very of T.-B. -during my absonco.
grateful to those v/ho supp-- The mother, came to get money
l i e d us
with their prayers. for
the funeral,
and the
also surprized to boys
I
v/as
gave her $3*19* Ike
find the house in such a re
family are members
of the
markable state of pros orvat Pros by tori an Church,
when I
ion upon my retiu?h. As far asked who performed the fun
as I have been able to loai'n eral,
they said that the
the
boys
did no a+ coi;ii-ii"C
Roiiian Ga;cholic priest had
single misdemeanor during my conducted i t . The mother had
promised t:ie priest that if

tliG boy lived

he v;ould be-

ATE TOO MUCH ?

Church,
and if he died the
priest could have the funer

Last month I
wrote you
that
gastronomic ally
and
otherwise, I' had a good time

al.

on vacation in the hills. In

cotiG

meiiiber of the R .0.

This

is

what you cail

financial aid with political

strings attached. The Roman
Catholic Church is doing a
good job of increasing its
memberstiip in India nov/adays,

tiiat report .1 made the very

grave error of omitting the
names of two of my hostesses

and that is a very dangerous

thing to do. Mrs. Chester
Parker and Mrs. Max Jahn are

PRAY FOR CYRIL

In contrast

to the policy

also very good cooks and 1

don't know 'how I forgot to

of the Roman Catholic Chui'ch

mention them

we
of

tiiat I ate too much,

j^id in
Mung e li,
Mr s Ldui s e. R ambo
provided
delicious
meal
after
delicious ' meal
and

are pursuing our policy

making the
church of

Christ in .Indiva more reliant

upon its ov/n resources

than
upon foreign funds. In May,
we notified Brother Cyril
that he would no longer be
on our prayroll after Decem
ber. Brother Cyril is our
last employee, and v/e do not
intend to aiiploy any others.
The readjustment is going to
be very difficult for him,
and so we solicit your reg-'
ular prayers on his behalf.

unless

i t wasi

read to me to help pass the

time of convalescence.,

.83 FRIENDS
One of the first things I
not ic ed wit h my new : eye was
83 friends v;ho have been re
ceiving THE CHRISTASIAN reg
ularly but from v/hom v/e have
not

heard

for

more than a

year. Wo are sending notices

to these .83 friends

that if

they "want to continue to i->.receive the paper that "n

Kanpur this month and bap^ they had better -let us hear
from them in the very near
tized tv/o into Christ.
This
future.If you do not receive
proves that the Indian bre
thren can
baptize -without a notice it means that your
being on the mission payroll. subscription is s t i l l valid.
But
since we no longer pay
Ezra, we are prevented from
SMD CONTRIBUTIONS TOJ
Miss Florence Douglas
taking any credit for the
EZRA BAPTIZES TWO
Brother Ezra v/as
back in

baptisms

Flora,

Illinois

WHAT I

OWE TO ROY PLESBIAI^

like to think _that v/hen

Roy Pleshnian died at Moscow,

Ohio

in

19^ (?)

that his

mantle fell upon me and that

I received a double portion

of -his spirit.
also

seems

TMs feeling

Roy who taught me how to

logically outline a sermon
that

left

no

doubt

in the

mind of the congi^egation as

to what you were talking
about. Other preachers had

to be shared by

no .doubt tried to impress

this
on me,
but none suc
ceeded
so
well
as Roy.
the Moscow congregation.
There
v/ere,
of course,
Since Roy died at the age
Roy*s
powerful
of 26, ' his name v/ill be un~ baptisms.
known to but a very few. As
preaching, coupled with his
far as I know, he never app
singular methods of visitat
eared on a convention pro
ion, always brought results.
gram or had a sermon put in
Then after shov/ing irie how,
print. But his spirit of
he gave me a chance to put
evangelism was so infectious
into practice what he had
that I have not yet recov
taught me. He really made me
his widow and the members

ered from

of

work.

it.

In April, 19i|.3* I

vol

unteered to participate in
the annual Seminary Campaign
but v/as rejected--and very
dejected. I felt that i t was
m;^ poor
eyesight that dis
qualified mSj
and I
was.
feeling very sorry for my
self. After the closing ex
ercises, I was standing re
morsefully
on 'the chapel

steps thinking, "V/ell, what

do I do now," when Roy cariie
up

and

asked

singing
meeting
are

me

to

lead

in an evangelistic
near Moscow. There
whole

lot

of

us

who

still remember, that meeting

thirteen year^ ago.
If the preaching of Roy
Pleshman

v/as

like

that of

any other preacher, it was

probably like that
of Spur
geononly better.
It
was.

He set about to train

me to be a Gospel preacher
without lotting me know that
I v/as being taught.

After being fired up by

Roy Fleshmaxi, I went to vis
it my friend Paul, Weal at
Carlisle,
Kentucky.
That
Sunday,
at
the Mt.
zion
Church, I preached my fourth
sermon, "The Devices of the

Devil."

Many

folk

there

that

sermon.

of those good
still

remember

After another

two months,
in my Sophomore
at C.B.S., I began to

year,

minister

Church

to

neap

the

Mt. Carmel

Flemings burg,

Ky... Later,
I ministered to
the
East Union Church near
Carlisle.
der
if
I

Sometimes
I v/onwasn't a better

preacher then than I

am now*

I could use a refill of Roy

Pleshman's preaching fire*

FINANCIAL

Increased giving

tremendous

has been

help the past

several months. The Juno re

port, which had been delayed

in the mail is printed belov/
but the July report has not
yet reached us
in Konpur.

RECEIPTS FOR JUNE, 1950

REPORT

EXPENDITURES FOR JUl^lE

Jiwan ka Pani

$3ll.88

Christasian ..
Book Store
Std. pub. Co.

33.37

1.33
i|i|-.35

Boys

2lL.t2

Church

i)2.53

Hous ing
Bcalking
Salary for Ralph

21.27
.21

75.00
295.06

TOTAL

Illinois3
V/est Union
Paxton
Steven Elearn Friends
Indiana;

$6.00
20.00
10.00

recapitulation
Bala:'ice Forward

65.1+7

226.50
k8.l3

C ont r i but i ons

Burlington

10.00

Frank Reas

15.00

Book Store Receipts

TOTAL RECEIPTS

3I1.0.10

295.06
t5-(%

Less Expenses

I owal
Iiai5ipton pri. & Inter .

20.00

BALANCE

Kentucky;

17.00

C arlisle

B ladens burg Lo-^al

20.00

N orw a 11c Hodiemak or s

Mrs. Scott Nickerson
Church at Clinton
Branch Hill
Lewis Holdren
Nebraska;
Church a t Ord
TOTAL RECEIPTS

10.00

if

Steven Eleaiu

young friends

v/as

5.00

i].5.oo
5eOO

i|.0.00
3.50
22b .50
one

of

(aged 12)

in

the church at Flora. In June

he was

book STORK REPORT

During

Ohio;

fatally burned while

lighting a fire in the back

yard of his home.

The

gift

above was sent in his riiemory

Book

business.

sold

July,

Store

did
A3:Jiong

the

Bible

$5282
the

of

books

were 19 Bibles in five

languages, lb New Testaments

7 Portions, and b2 copies of
the
Life of, Ciirist
ized in Hindi.

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IJev/s of the'Work" of Ralph R, Har'tor at

Swarup Nagar, Kar.piir, U.P., India on l^th September, 195^

Increased

Juiy

gifts

enabled

" during

us to do liLore

during August.
AH' of the
four boys
got new shoes a;id
clothes, and I got a'pair Q.f
new shoes myself;
we pui'-

chased

"a'

contribution

to

the

H.T.

publications, Assn. 'The bicyeie, incidentally,

is the
only vehicle v/e own. (J-ifts
aunts

led us
clock

3ro. Victor

She

gives

50,"

aLid

her age as "over

it

certainly is.

The nev; joy she has received

is readily seen in her face.

used'cycle at

'for St-ahley to go to v/orkj,

we .purchased' the stock of
Bibles held by Dipak Shop in
Dehra D'un;
and we' sent a

from

The mother of

Das was baptised, on* Sept. 2.

and uncles

hov/

that

none

of "the boys

are home during the day, I

have moved half of my office
into-the book store

so that

can handle both jobSo

enab

to purchase an alarra
and an electric

Stanley Nath has begun an.

apprenticeship with one
Kanpur's
leading garages,

toast

er ' 7/e were going to buy a

c^uilt v/ith the balance, but
"che balance is teiuporarily

frozen. (See page ij.). But it

isn't v/inter yet. anjr.vay.
Last month 'we reported
tiiat we were taking" Brother

Cyril off the prayrolli V7hat

we meant waS payroll. Sorry.
Keep himoh your prayrollt

G.S. Legi,

former

editor

of Jiwan ka Pani, .has evidentally had a relapse of

his

Ezra

tubercular

is

condition.

having

repeated

attacks ' of malaria.

Div;an
has not been heard from.

The next month

will bring

the annual meeting of the

New T es t asdent Pub 1 ic at ions ,
Assn.
follov/ed by the throe

Christiai Service Camps'.

ched at Platrpck, and -seven

ONLY ONE PLY

After chasing a fly ar'ound

the

breakfast

table

une

th at Moscow, Ohio-

istry

v/ith

My min

the East'Union,

morning, Dr Rambo prayed,

"Lord, we thank you that we

Ky., Church began on J^'une ij.,

only have one fly,"

Miss Douglas was . worried

istry with the Osgood, Ind.,

this

month,

late

in

because she \vas .

getting her report

to me.
When
she- returned
from
her
tv/o week vacation
a
notice
to serve on Grand

Jury was
av/aiting her. But
what is one fly compared to
all the blessings we rece'
ive.
And,
.-even when the
flies increase in number,

as

they
did at Dr. Rambo *s
table during the time he was

praying,

our

blessings are

still far greater.

hope

that

and a

seven month min

Church Was begun on Jan. lij.,

19^ Except for Platrock,

we continue to enjoy the

felloy/ship of all of those
congregations.

Before leav

ing for the mission field on

Septea-iiber 28th, 19^6,

preached I7I sermons

I had
in the

U.S.A., not counting 100 or

so talks on India. During my
nine month stay in England,
I preached 12 sermons in and
near
London,
and
once
at
Belfast, Ireland. Since then

have kept no record.

our friends

realize as well as we do the

EYES

great help v/hich Miss Doug

las
gives
us;
and we hope
that they will not be impat
ient, when,
at tirjies,
they
do not receive their receipt;
by return mail.

The success of the operat

ion on the left eye has re
sulted in quite a change in
my routine. Once again i-^eading is accomplished quickly
and easily; and this has had
its.

beneficial

effect

preaching,

erred last month in say

and the song service.

There
are,
as
yet,
no
definite
plans for the right eye.

ing that my fouri:!! sermon

W8^ preached at i'lt. Zion,
Ky.
My first
four sermons
were preached at Clinton,
Ohio. I
preached my first

sermon in the sumraer of 19^1-2

and began my first ministry
at Mto Carmel,
Ky.
on June
27th,
at
the age of

18. My fifth and eighth ser

mons v/ere preached at Mt.
Zion. Sixth sermon was'prea

DON^T

editorial

on

PULLER INPORMATION

work,

BE CONFUSED

This page and the one con

taining the July financial
report were prepa.red on Aug
27th to send Air Mail
Book
post to July cOiitributors.

Thege two pages will later

become part of the September
Sea ^^lail edition of H.T ,

PIIWCIAL REPORT PGR JULY, 1956_

During

these

firs t

s even

months of 1956^ our r eceipts

have averaged $2624 63 per
month.

July was the

these
seven months,
are very grateful
friends

best of
and we
to
the

listed belov/ who are

anxious to keep me at

work

Rittman, Ohio;

Loyal V/orkers h M.R. #ij.0.00

Missionary G-uild
Missionary Guild

P.M. & Mrs. Hawkins

Donald & Mrs.
Tennessee;

TOTAL

#20.00
20.00

70.00

25.00

Iowa;

Hampton Jrs. oc R.L.

Japan;
Harold & Mrs.
Kentucky;

.. 10.00

10.00

. . . #5VB.3'6

EXPENDITURES

CONTRIBUTIONS
Illinois;

Darlington
OSgood

10.60

Emch

Johnson City Central

in India.

Paxton
Indi ana:
Prank Reas

5-00
11.90

10.00

Jiwan ka Pani
Christasian

#18.55
21.59

Book Store
Boys

30.29
52.57

Church
Housing

ii.6.78
30.%

Medicine

I.8I

Bank

1-9^4-

Calver Fund
Sims

5.00

. 3.-63

Salary for Ralph

TOTAL

50.00
#238.20

19-63

East Union

RECAPITULATION

Kansas.;

As hi and
Michigan;

8.00;

Balance July 1st

#1^5-Oi|.

Sumner Jrs 0
Mira Miller

2.00
2.00

Contributions
Book Store Receipts
Total Receipts
Less Expenditures

"378-30
52.82
Zj.7t).22*
258.20

Missouri;
Liberty Ad*s,

b. Jr. s

Liberty (W McK.)

33.33
9oo

3.50

Bladens burg L.D.s

Miss Florence Douglas

Flora, Illinois

Ohio;
North Terrace
Branch Hill
Macedonia C.Ee
Clinton
N orw a Ik Homeric ak er s

218.OE

SEt-TD ALL CONTRIBUTIONS TO;

Nebraska;

Ord

Balance Aug. 1st

10.00

3.00

5.00
i6oo
20.00
10.00

PINAITGIAL REPORT FOR AUGUST, 1956

The month ahead looks rather

grim, but we know that It is

just
so that the Lord*s
glory might shine brighterWe

are

friends

"thankful

to

these

who' sent in August.'

CONTRIBUTIONS
Indiana;
.
*
-

hXPlilNDITURMS

u iv/an. ka Pani

$22 90

Ciiristasi'^.

27 .87
119

Book Store

77

kQ .06

Hous ing

21 .27

Bank
N .T. publications

21

The Raymond Colestoeks 20.00

Frank Reas

339-10

10.00

New York;

hast Rochester

Ip-OO

RECAPITULATION

Balance, Aug. 1st

I61.90

Book Store Receipts

102.12

Total Receipts

IpBB Oij.

10.00
20.00

"The Lewis Holdrens

-25.00

Less Expenditures.

20,00

Balance, S ept. Is't

Church at Clinton ..

.Branch Hill

$ 218.02

Contributions
Nor walk Homemakers
Old Stone

The P.M.

:a

Boys
Church

339-10

$ ii|.2. 9f

- 5-00

Hav/kins and

The Muss Robinsons' l500

Tiittman Guild

20.I[.0

Due to .-:loy/ receipts, we

are not taking any salary
for August.
.
:'

"Kentucky;

.11arry RandoIphJ('
U;"
TOTAL

1.50
, lDl.90

BOOK STORE REPORT

August

V/as

very good

month in the Book Store,* ex-

-X- Subscription,

-celled only by las-t December.

28 I'db1 es were sold

Mr^. and Mrs ., PoM.,-.Hawkins

of - Rittman haye a ; son in
Peru who
is
v/orking. as a

^tiis-&ionary vd.th the V/ycliffe

Translators.

in -four

.languag os j 13 New Tes t ar:iohts

Zl\.2 Portions, and;- 1^2 copies
of the Life .of Clirist yis.ualised in Hindi.,
Many- of
these wore sold through E'zra

Bro. George V/illiaifis, one.; v/ho -se-lls books- from the

6f the "Hoiiiemakers" at Nor- Book Store on a conmiission
walk

has

undergone surgery

'at Mayo Clinic, Minnesota. :

basis.

"

News of the Work of Ralph R. Harter at 112/3$2,

Swarup Nagar,
, U.P-, India on 10th October, 1930
COMVMTION SEASON

This is the tlnie

of

year

OTHER UPS AND DOWNS

Horatius
and Ssaiiuel,

as

when special meetings are in boys will, be, sv/ing from the
3fcjason Prom October 12th to angelic

to the unangelic.
we will be at Bija Stanley Nath is learning his
Camp. The First two work well, and is an excell
days of that period will be ent
help
in the Sunday-

20th,
Nagar

in connec-cion with the New School. SundaySchool attend

Testament publications Assn. ance
has
increased since

From
we

Ocxober 2l3t

to 28th, Stanley

are having special meet

ings

am

on our roof-top with a are

took

sure

getting

South Indian brother, fir. good

out
Ooxmnen, .delivering the mess attendance

ages.

charge, and I

that

the children

a great dealof

of

it.

Church

during Septaiiber

Prom Nov. Ist to ij-th, was very good,

but fell off

vve ?/ill
be, at the Bllaspur during the first of October.
Convention. I v/ill probably

drop out
eye check

to Mungell for an
before returning

home.

OTHER BITS

Cyril Loyal's tv/o youngest

children

had

been very i l l

but are now better,

tir. aid

THE BOOK STORE

r.irs.
Victor Das,
who were
-Business in the Bible Book married
at
our
house last
Store was rather dull during Feb. li^-th, were allotted one

September,
Even then, we of the nev/ Government-built
sold 5 Bibles, 3 New Testa houses.
A branch of the
ments,
and 23 copies of the Bible Society has been or

Life of Christ Visualized in ganized in Kanpur and I am

Kindle
Business
picked up one of the members of the
again during the first v/eek Executive Gonmiittee and of
of October,
2^0
calendars the Bible Distribution sub
nave arrived from
Standard committee.

publishing Foundation andare

on sale for the benefit
N.T Publications, Assn.

of

financial

Thank you.

REPORT

each and every

EXPEI'^DITURES

RECEIPTS DURING

32-05
35.35

Jiwaii ka-.Pani-^-

one.

Christasian
Book Store

SEPT.,

il..36

Boys
I ndi an a:

Sciiraj:iri 5^.00

Henry and Ers

Nebraska}

3.50

Church at Ord

Church

52.18
59-80

nous ing

21.27

Banhing
Henry Printing Co.

.il-7

(promotion)

Ve\7 York;

Church at E. Rochester

If^.OO

20.00

Voice of Evangelism

Ohio;

Lev;is a:id I'.irs. Holdren lj.0.00

Bladensburg

L.D.B.G.

Norwalk lionioriLaKors
Church at Clinton

20.00
20 00
20.00

Church at Sabina
1500
Sabina Sunshine CluvSs 15>00
TOTAL GONTRI BUTlOilS
19d-50

Due
ai''e

to
not

low receipts, v/e

taking a^iy salary

for S ept ti'.iber

REC/IPITULATION

Balance, Sept. 1

142.911-

,Oct Contributions
Each

class

in

the Bible

School at Sabina, Ohio,

Book Store Receipts

19 3.5:0
28.17

Total Income

3b9.bl

a particular mission field

for study. The church miss
ionary comr;iittee composed of
elders,
then tries to match
the gifts given through the
classes. The $30 vvhich they

Debits

2I1.5.O8

sent

bills totalling $273 remain

to

us

has

19.00

21^5.08

TOTAL DEBITS

t h i s month i s

great help to us.

George Williarns is back at
his

home

and

is

at Norwalk, Ohio,

reported by Lucille

to be doing fine.

Balance, Oct.

1NI53

Up to lOth October, $95 of

this
been

balance
spent

and

ho.s

already

there

ing to be paid.
We
rogr-^t
that,
for the
tii.ie being,
vie will have to
discontinue our practice of
sending THE CHRISTASIAll
by
fdrmrcil to each month* s

tributors.
C-Fr-1

HORIZONS Magazine
Box 964

Joliet, Illinois, U.S.A.

are

friends

con

We pray that our

v/ill understand.

cfVo.

CHRIS

ASIAM

All the churches of Christ salute you.'*

Rom. 16 :16

Vol. II, No. 11

NOVEMBER, 1956

Kanpnr, India

RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE
A Letter to the Editor of the Nagpur Times
Sir,

April the Spanish Government itself con

Much is being heard these days about

forced conversions by misguided Christian

books from the Foreign Bible Society's

missionaries and about the reaction of

equally misguided Hindus. It would be

interesting to know the denomination of
the churches involved in India.

Instances of religious intolerance are

far more common in so-called Christian

countries than in India.

For instance,

last December, fanatics in Colombia (a

predominantly Roman Catholic country in
South America), invited by a priest,
burnt a Protestant chapel, bringing to
46 the number of Protestant churches

and chapels destroyed in Colombia since

1948.

In addition to this, 200 Protestant

schools have been closed and 75 Protestants

murdered during the last eight years in

Colombia in the name of " true " religion.

fiscated 35,149 Bibles and other Protestant

premises in an outburst of fanaticism.

Religious intolerance appears to be

a distinctive feature of all Roman Catholic

countries and is spreading to Muslim

countries with a vengeance. As one
correspondent of ' Manchester Guardian'
puts it: " In the matter of toleration the
R. C. attitude seems to be: when we

are in a minority we ask for freedom in

the name of your Protestant principles;
when we are in the majority we deny it
to you in the name of our Catholic

principles. In India they ask for freedom

in the name of our constitution ! "

The Niyogi Report has been the subject

of much adverse comment.

It would

be interesting to know which are the

The intolerance in Spain is well Christian denominations which have

known. Under Franco's regime dozens occasioned the Report, for India has
of Protestant chapels have been closed always had a far better record of religious
and, except to some extent in Barcelona, toleration than any Roman Catholic
every possible obstacle is being put in country past or present.
the way of people's religious freedom.
Fanatics, incited by priests have been

raiding Protestant book-shops, burning

Bibles and manhandling the staff. Last

Osservatore Indiano,

Nagpur, August 20, 1956.

MN1TRIALS
After giving due information to their
Bishop and the District authorities, four

axe.

members of a denominational church in

A book entitled " Religious Leaders "

by Henry Thomas and Dona Lee Thomas,

Kanpur went on a hunger strike in an

effort to get their preacher transferred.
We don't know what the Bishop did about
it, but the police arrested them on a
charge of attempted suicide.
Following on the report concerning
missionaries which was released in July
in Madhya Pradesh, another report was
released in August by the Government of
Madhya Bharat. The latter report is
much more restrained and much more

acceptable than the former report. The

report warns against mass conversions, and
urges that conversions from one faith to
another should be registered in the office of
the district collector.

The committee also

emphasised the illegality of conversions

of minors against which there are existing
laws.

A " Christian" girl, described as a

member of an up-to-date family of

The owner quickly switched it off

and ran for his life.

published in America about fifteen years

ago, touched off riots in several cities of
India during September. Six persons
were killed in Orai, and three in
Moradabad.

Some features of the inci

dents appeared to be inspired by proPakistani elements and gave the impress

ion of being more political than religious.
The book had recently been repubUshed
in Bombay.
A youth in Nagpur has been denied an
opportunity to work as a messenger on
the grounds that he is too well qualified.
Although a matriculate, he was unable to
get a job as clerk because of stiff competi
tion. He then decided to get a job as
messenger to avoid the prospect of
starvation. The Employment Exchange,
however, refused to recommend his name

for the job since, they said, it would be

Allahabad, was converted to Hinduism degrading to other matriculates. At the
at Kanpur during August. This was saijie time, a young Christian man of
accomplished immediately preceding her our acquaintance, who failed in the Ninth
marriage to a Hindu youngman also of Class, strongly objected to the Employment
Allahabad. These two ceremonies were
Exchange when they put his name down
performed under the auspices of the to be a messenger. He felt that he was
Arya Samaj.
being discriminated against because he
A villager near Jagdalpur, hearing a was a Christian.
radio for the first time, concluded that
Two thousand one hundred and sixtyit could be none other than the village seven persons applied to fill 80 vacancies
diety. After paying obeisance to the of postmen at Kanpur recently. Although
radio, he asked it several times whether the qualifications for postman are only
he would get his tobacco and other middle pass, many of the applicants were
necessities for the day. Failing to get found to be Intermediate pass and B.A.
an answer, he threatened it with his pass.
{Contd, on Page 4 Col. 2)

THE ANATOMY AND DISEASES OF THE SPIRITUAL EYE

By Ralph R. Harter

Chapter VII
Brotherly LoveThe Retina of the Spiritual Eye

One morning an elderly lady sat down

as usual for her breakfast.

All of a

sudden she exclaimed, " Why, I can't

see! " In that brief moment, the retina
of her eye had detached.
The retina of the eye is like the film
in a camera.

Without this film which

lines the inside of the eye, eyesight is

impossible.

difficulty is clear. At home she was so

full of enmities that it was impossible for
her to receive the spiritual blessings which
were being proffered to her there. But
when she visited a strange place and
worshipped with strangers with whom
she had no enmity, she was then in a
position to receive some spiritual light.

The church at P. could never keep a

preacher for more than a year before he

either resigned or they fired him. The

congregation had defied the spiritual
progress offered to them by a dozen
former preachers. The trouble was not
in the preachers. The members of the
congregation had no love for each other,

and there was practically no fellowship

The Film in this Eye has become
detached.

between them.

A district rally of churches which, in

years before, had been a source of much

Without the film of brotherly love

lining the inside of the spiritual eye, it is

impossible to see spiritually.

spiritual refreshment, gradually began

to lose the power of its inspiration.
Attendance then began to drag, and, in
the end, the gathering was discontinued.

Some Examples

The root cause of this failure was than

Here are some examples of people

who can not see spiritually because they
lack brotherly love in their lives.

had bickered over leadership. They lacked

brotherly kindness, and so the gathering
lacked spiritual power.

Mrs. L. complained that she never

got anything out of church service. But
when she visited a church away from
home, she reported that it was the first
time in years that being in church had
helped her. When asked what the
preacher's sermon had been, she could
give no answer. The cause of her

and for the first two years was blessed

with a " mountain-top experience." The
third year, however, he failed to reach
the mountain-top. During the first two
years he had formed some prejudices
against his fellow campers that made him

the preachers had become jealous and

G.M. attended Christian Service Camp

blind to further spiritual growth.

Some Elements of-Brotherly Kimdness {ContinuedJirom-page 2)

A woman of near Bombay lost her
The person whose spiritual eye is
silver
ornaments in an attempt to get
lined with the film of brotherly love will
them changed into gold. According to
display these qualities in his or her life.
" Be kindly affectioned one to another the directions given her, she went to the
with brotherly love; in honour preferring cemetery with her ornaments, Rs. .300 in
one another."

cash, some milk, rice, and flowers.

Rom. 12:10.

She

was then told to put the flowers on a

shrine and offer prayers. While she was
as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven busy at the shrine, her benefactors made
off with the cash and the jewellery.
you." Eph. 4:32.
More than 500 persons answered an
" Put on therefore, as the elect of
advertisement
by the " Mehra Industries
God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies,
kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, at Farrukhabad" which had some
vacancies to be filled by educated persons.
longsuffering." Col. 3:12.
," Seeing ye have purified your souls Those who answered were then asked to
in obeying the truth through the Spirit make Rs. 500 security deposit. Just how
unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see many made the deposit has not been
that ye love one another with a pure reported, but two who did finally reported
the matter to the police when they were
heart fervently." I Per. 1:22
" And be ye kind one to another,
tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even

not called to their posts.

Blindness of Brotherly Ihitred

" He that saith he is in the light,
and hateth his brother, is in darkness
even until now." I John 2:9.
" Whosoever hateth his brother is a

murderer: and ye know that no murderer

hath eternal
IJn. 3:15.

life abiding

in

him."

Cure

The lady whose retina detached at

the breakfast table received prompt
medical attention. With new techniques
recently discovered, the eye surgeon was
able to restore part of her >dsion.
" This is my commandment, that ye
love one another, as I have loved you."
Jn. 15:12.
'*By this shall all men know that ye
are my disciples, if ye have love one to
another." Jn. 13:35.
" And the Lord make you to increase
and aboimd in love one toward another,
and toward all men, even as we do toward

you."

IThess. 3:12.

" Let love of the brethren continue."

Heb. 13:1.

Two young

men were arrested, but the " Director of

the Firm " is absconding.

A suggestion that ^^bition of films

after ten o'clock at night should be

banned has been made in New Delhi by
Veeraswamy, M.L.S. Veeraswamy said
that before the introduction of prohibition,
the health of the working classes had been
ruined by liquor. But today, it was
being ruined by late night film shows.
Nine persons were drowned in the
River Sone in Mirzapur district in an
attempt to escape a tiger which was
chasing them. In order to protect them
selves from the tiger they had climbed
a tree standing on the steep bank of
the river.

As the river was in flood the

fast curr^t washed away the tree along

with the nine persons.
Frustrated in his eflbrts to

find

suitable match for his 13-year old

daughter, a shopkeeper of Yamunanagar
battered to deam his two daughters with
an iron rod.

accused father wanted

to engage his elder daughter to a relation

of his brother's, wife, but his brother

objected to it.

Persons found at jesus' feet

Musanand Gardia, Orissa
I.

Unfortunate Sufferers

Vn.

" And great multitudes came unto him,

having with them those that were lame,
blind, dumb, maimed, and many others,
and they cast them down at his feet; and
he healed them."
n.

Mt. 15:30.

An Afflicted Father

" And there cometh one of the rulers

of the synagogue, Jairus by name; and

seeing hiim, he falleth at his feet, and

beseecheth him much, saying. My little
daughter is at the point of death: I
pray thee, that thou come and lay thy
hands on her, that she may be made
whole and live." Mk. 5:22, 23.
m. A Sorrowing Mother
" But straightway a woman, whose
little daughter had an unclean spirit,
having heard of him, came and fell down
at his feet."

rV.

Mk. 7:25.

A Sinful Woman

" And behold a woman which was in

the city, a sinner; and when she knew

that he was sitting at meat in the Pharisee's
house, she brought an alabaster cruse
of ointment, and standing behind at his
feet, weeping, she began to wet his feet
with her tears, and wiped them with the
hair of her head, and kissed his feet, and
anointed

them

with

the

ointment."

Lk. 7:37, 38.

V.

A Healed Demoniac

" And they went out to see what had

come to pass; and they came to Jesus, and
found the man, from whom the devils
were gone out, sitting, clothed and in his
right mind, at the feet of Jesus: and
they were afraid." Lk. 8:35.
VI,

A Seeker After Truth

" And she had a sister called Mary,

which also sat at the Lord's feet, and
heard his word."

Lk. 10:39.

A Bereaved Sister

" Then when Mary was come where

Jesus was, and saw him, she fell down at
his feet, saying unto him, Lord, if thou
hadst been here, my brother had not
died." Jn. 11:32.

VIII, A Reverent Worshipper

" And when I saw him, I fell at his

feet as one dead. And he laid his right

hand upon me, saying, Fear not; I am
the first and the last."

Rev. 1:17,

Conclusion

Are we at his feet?

If not, then listen carefully to his

calling: "Come unto me, all ye that
labour and are heavy laden, and I will
give you rest. Take my yoke upon you,
and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly
in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your
souls. For my yoke is easy, and my
burden is light;" " Behold, I stand at
the door and knock: if any man hear my
voice and open the door, I will come in
to him, and will sup with him, and he
with me;" " And the Spirit and the bride
say, Come. And he that heareth, let him
say, Come. And he that is athirst, let
him come; he that will, let him take the
water of life freely." Mt. 11:28-30,
Rev. 3:20; Rev. 22:17,
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ON FEARING OUR FRIENDS

David Fredertck, Bilaspur

It is always a good policy to fear

our friends more than our enemies.

We are ever on guard against our

avowed enemies. At the first suggestion

Unless we stop every once in awhile

and observe the degree of Christianity
in our lives, we are likely soon to become
Christian souls with pagan consciences.

of approach, our defences are up. Since Have we lost our Christian sensibilities?
they have made no secret of their hostility, Have we surrendered to the pagan
they are never mistaken for friends. novelist, teacher, and actor?
Their threat to us may be formidable,
but we are not easily frightened for the
fight is an old battle. We know all their
tactics.

We know when to

expect

frontal attack, a feint, or a strategic

retreat. They seldom fool us.
But a friend can bring us down to a
more inglorious defeat than any ever
suffered from the hand of an enemy. To
have suffered defeat is bad enough; but
it is intolerable to have

been

led to

slaughter so tenderly, and to have had

the knife placed to the artery with so

light a touch.
The baptized believer must live in a
world of dangerous friends; a world which
holds that a movie is good if it relaxes
the mind; a world which says that divorce

is not wrong because John's other wife

loves Sue's husband, and love makes all

things right; a world which smiles in

dulgently on sins of the flesh because
they are signs of red blood, or black
beard, or something; a world which
delights in clothes designed to reveal
rather than to cover; a world which will

not recognize the wretchedness of sin.

These dangerous friends pretty well
run our world, and, to a surprising
degree, our lives. They mould our likes
and dislikes. They put thoughts in our
minds and words in our books.

They edit

. our daily newspapers; they teach in our

schools. They act in our movies, and
deliver milk to our kitchen door. They
are butcher, baker, and shoemaker. We
cannot escape them.

It would not all be so bad if we were

aware of what is happening to us; but

we are not. It is all so very subtle
great vices masquarading as pure virtues.
It is much as the French novelist said:

" Rarely does sin enter within us by

violence, but rather by cunning. It seeps
in like the air.

It has neither form nor

colour nor taste proper to itself; it assumes

all forms, all colours, all tastes.

It wears

us away inwardly." Had our faith been

^ openly attacked by our enemies we would
; have resisted to death. But we have
i surrendered to our good pagan friends
without our even knowing (and very likely
without their knowing) that there has
; even been a battle.
And, in the end, we become as one of
|
them. When, as repentent believers, we
were baptized, we received the gift of
the Holy Spirit. We can neglect this
Spirit within. It is a light which goes
out very slowlyso slowly that our eyes
become accustomed to the darkness with
out fear or alarm.

Yes, it is our good worldly friends

that we must fear. Not that they are all

one great lot of rakes and rasclals Not

at all! If they were we would not very
likely have to fear them. They are nice

pagans with a nice worldly way of thinking.

I Pray not that thou shouldest take
them from th. world, but that thou

shouldest keep them from the evil one.

They are not of the world, evenas I am
not of the world. John 17:15,16.

MR. PRIDE DIES IN THE CITY OF DESTRUCTION

Translated from Jiwan ka Pani Magazine
crowds gathered to hear Mrs. Backbiter

backbite; but now the bazaar has taken

on a deserted appearance.

Mrs. Talkative has stopped her visits

from house to house; and the fresh news

which she carried with her is no longer

available. Perhaps we ought to be happy

that people will now be dependent on our

paper for their news; but there are

certain types of items which we cannot

print, and we were all depenednt on

Mrs. Talkative for these.

Destruction will be grieved to learn

At the same time, Mrs. Lie has ^Iso

stopped her tours. If only one of these

that our beloved Mr. Pride has left our

midst to be with his lord below. But our

quences would not have been so bad.

All of our readers in the City of

sorrow is his loss.

Brother Pride had been sick for some

days. He had been suffering from a heart

ailment from the day that Mr. Good-Time
" repented " and became Mr. Attention.
He was also unable to suffer the " con

ladies had gone on strike, the conseq-

But when both of them are absent from

their work, the flavour of the City js

unsavourary.

Because of the strike by the women,

life in the City has become as tasteless
as food without pepper.

versions " of Mr. Lazy and Mr. Talkative.

The death of Mr. Pride is a direct result

of the treachery of Mr. Faithful.

Mr. Pride was held first in the hearts

Church News

A number of divisions have arisen in

the City Church as a result of the

of most of the citizens of our City, and preaching of Mr. Faithful. Mr. Bigpastor
there is no one who can possibly fill has announced that he is going to speak
the vacancy which he has left. It is on this subject next Sunday. We will
quite evident that our City can never bring you a report of this sermon in our
be the same again.
next issue. It is our greatest hope that
Mr. Bigpastor will speak some word
Women of the City on Strike
that will bring the people of our City
All of the women of the City of back to theip old ways.
Destruction have stopped working since
An Appeal to the City's Citizens
the death of Mr. Pride was announced.
Mrs. Backbiter is refusing to backbite,
and a graveyard quietness has settled
over the neighbourhood.

Her unlawful

wedded husband has been beating her and

insisting that she backbite, but she does
not obey him. This is causing some loss
to the shopkeepers since previously great i

Due to the treachery of Mr. Faithful,

we have been gradualy losing our subs
cribers. Since our newspaper was esta

blished out of a love for money, we are

not willing to suffer any financial loss.

We are afraid that we may have to stop

publicatonof theCity of Destruction News.

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BUSY MONTH EI'DED

On October 12th
the riierribers

ond 13th,

of New Testaiuent

p ub 110 at 1 ons , As s ' n.

Vijai

Nagar'

lue t

at

Canipslte. They

four messages -there. Bro. &

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than ample hospitality.
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for

book

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ajuounted to

stitution, reelected the ex

ecutive cormiiittee to serve a

Oct.

second

parrly

year,

and -replaced

t'vvo retiring iiieiiibers

of the
general
coirufiittee with two
new

members.

In

later

ijvcrease

in
duo

receipts

. to

is

the sale of

19b7 eaie'idars--300 have al

ready been sold.
Sales also
iri(;lude 9
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12 New

Tentar/i-ents,

the

ualized

edicor of jiwan-

Jlii.p.OS between.

1st ciTid j-lov, 12th. This

session, the executive comriittee chose Nathan James as

i'irs'c

store sales which

of

the

and

122 copies

L-^fe of Giirlst Vis

in Hindi.

Dip Magazine
and T.G-, Rash
as
circulation jcanager. In
the begin^iing I v/ill be ser
ving as editorial counsellor.
The nev; magazine will be

Book Store receipts arid an

unexp ected
mid-tionth gift

oublished

last month-,

-Nov.

in

Allahabad. On

12th- v/6 - sent

and'

the

last

fiiial issue of Jiv/an ka

Pani to the printers ^

From
we

spiration

the-

of

annual in

Vijai

Nagar

Camp^
From

we

had

October' gist to 23th

revival meetings on

:'op of our roof-, '

T-^om

Nov>

1st

to

Bro. Cyril--Loy-al has -had a

good deal of sickness in his

home

October ll|.th to 20th

enjoyed

from South Hairimond, Indiana,

helped U; to pay soBie of the
bills that were burdening us

i[.th i

for

this

past month. Pray

them... Horatlus has

bnd

cold and coughs

The otherboys are in tip-top shape.
This
month has brought
the beginning of v/inter
and
we hav;.^ all uxoved oui'
indoors for the .-^ext
montiiSc V/ai'm comforters

be-d.-^
four
for

attended the annual convent

the four boys are in process

ion at Bilaspur and preached

of maiiufacture'.

financial
It
that

v/as
we

uho
Lord's
will
should receive the

ii; P 0 R T

Mo"t;her

Harter

ai

Clinton,

Ohio. In that case your gift

f o 11owi n g c p nt r ib ut 1 o ns dur -

'v/ill not be'listed as a

ing October, 1956^

tribution but you. will rece

Indiana;

Store.

ive
Har.-irriond, .South Side

17-00

5-00

The John. Hills.

.

T-

. ,

Mrs.

O-^XL

Joe Mori'^is

vVayne ivicKinney

2.00

'

9-35

Liberty Adults & Priiu. . 29.03

i.cbraSii.a>
Church at Ord
Ohio; .
Church at Branch Hill
Mrs.

l^'[ .

3.50

au

10.00

'

Book Store

68.98

Boys

33.37

Church

84.50

Housing

28.06

N.T. puDlicatlons

21..6o

Bani:ing

20,00
2u. Ou

Ouxneun

ll^.OO

A Friend
Clinton Ladies

25.00
3 .00

TorAL EXPENDITURES

'sro'-bi

Mrs.. Aniick aesignatei. her

gira ior personal neeas

-R-RCAPTTTTtAFTOT^r

oalSxiCe; oca. isa

12[|..33

Oct. Contributions

2)4.3",6l

Book Store hecoipts

iLp'-OS

TOTAL RmCMEPTS

313^17

BALAiCE, HOV. Ist

303,8)j.
20)1133

Of T-his balance,
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expended

"The Douglas sisters' s t h a

very helpful Obristriias
ilt

Lovem'oer,

which

$313'^

not l i s t e d in

the

report.
Mother
and Dat
Barter also continue to nelp
.iron time to time.
COKTRT but"j:01:S SIIO'JIJ)

M'T ' r^^ROoGIi

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Salary

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KXPihCDITURFS

Jiwap ka Panl

r\

i,. Oj.

Miss ouri;

a rec^^ipt from the Book

^62.13

Frank Reas
I

con

sent throuJh

}!^70

has

alreadv * in
V

and there are out

standing

bills

to'ualling

This is r'eally 1101: as

fearsome

as

it may appear,-

but we do not want peonle to

thinx
that
fat bola-Uue

we
have
co coast

1 nice
x.

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two

months instead of e'ach"month.

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Svvar'up Naaar, Kaapi.a:*,

India on I5th I'ovembor, 19o''-^

four

BUSY MOFTH iSl^DED

On Octobei' l2th

and 13th,

the members of Rev/ Testament

P V1 7 ^ a ^
rj
AO, - I ">
J-

Vi j ai ' Nagar Camps it e. T hey

approved ana signed the-- con
stitution, reielected trie oxecutive corriiiiittee to

serve

soccnd year,
ana replaced
two retiring members
of the
generhl- coirujiittse with two
new
members.
In
a
lai^er
session, the execuiiive cnnimifcee
cnose i^atnan ciames as
'ane

x-li'So

ciOxu'jx'

oi

J-.i^/an

messages . there. Bro", &

Sister. Rolaiid provided more

Chan aiiiple hospltali'cy,
; l o;

for

book

store sales

aCiOUjitea ro

which

, o'B Detv/een

Oct. 1st i,jid fov. 12th." This

increase
y- I" yi ^

p ClJ- !- ,

in

receiots
is
"che sale of

lU-

i'9t7 calencia.rs--330 have al

ready bee.n sold. 'Sales also
include 9
Bibles,
12 New
cic{r. p>i! p.>nt (=3 .
of
the
uali-zea

ci-.nrj

12^ r:nr>1(=i

f e of Christ
in hinai.

Vis-

Book Suore receiprs and an

unexp.octed
mid-month gift
the beginning I will be ser
from South Hammond, Indiana,
ving as editorial counsellor. helped us to pay some of the
The new magazine will be
bills uiiU'C were hurdeiiing us
published in Allahabad.. On
l a s t month,
i.\oy 12iii
we
SeiiL/ one l a s t
Bro. U.yTii noyai nas nad a
good deal of sickness in his
ana ' fi.aal issue of Jiwan ka
Paiii to the printers,
home
this
past month. Pray
Dip itagazme

as

a^id

circulation

?rc::i

Td, Hash

managerIn

October Igth to 20th ' for them, Jioratius has a bad

cold and cough.
The other

jje
enjoyed the
annual in~
.spiration
of Vijal Kagar
C aiTip o
Prom

October 21st to 23^x1

we
had revival meetings on
top of our" roof , '
Prom Rov.
1st to ij.th I
attended the

annual convent

ion at Bilaspur and preached

boys are in tip-top shape.

This
month has brought
the beginning of winter
and
we have ali moved our
indoors for the xO.ext
months .> iioTx-i comforters

ceds
four
for

the four boys are in process

of manufaot.cire.

PIHANCIAL
It

was

that

the

we

Lord's

will

should receive the

REPORT

Mother -Harter at Clinton,

Ohio. In that case your gift

following, contributions dur

will not be

ing October, 195b.

tribution but you will rece

ive a receipt from the Book

Indiana;

listed

as ' a

con

Store.

Hariiniond, South Side

^ 62.13
17.00

Frank Reas
The John Hills

lUrs,

Henry vVeicker

5*00
5oo

Mrs.

Joe Morris

2,00

EXPEHDITIIRES

Jiv/an ka Pan!

$26,3$

Ghristasian

l$-35

Book Store

63.93

Boys

iliss ouri;

38,57

Liberty Adults & Priixi^ 29-03

Church
Housing

84.50
28.06

Mebrac ka;

K.T, publications

21,60

V/ay;io McKinney

Church

9.35

3.50

at Ord.

Ohio;
Church at Br'airch Hill
T he P, ivi, Hawk ins
Mrs. Scott Nickerson
Cnurch at Olinron

10.00
10.00
20.00
20, ou

MrvS, Ralph Aiuick

l[j..00

A Friend
Clinton Ladies

25.00

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The Earl G-ravis *

TOTAL OOHTRJBHTIOKS

Banking

.[|.3

Salary
TOTAL EXPEifDTTLHES

2$ ,00
308-hij.

RECAPITULATION

Balaiice, Oct. 1st

12[i..3

Oct. C'ontributions

2[|.36l

Book Store Receipts

ll+.$,03

.TOTAL Receipts

513,17

6.00

Less Exx)enditures

3Q9>81[.

RrrsTbi

balance, uov.1st

204.33

JJ- Mrs. Ai:^iick designated her

gift for personal needs.

Of this balance,
^70 "has
been expended
already in

The Douglas sisters sent a

very helpful Christnias
gift

Novei;ibor,

which

$315'-

is

not l i s t e d in the

report, .Mother and Dad

Harter also continue to help
from time t o time,

OCHTRlHUTIOrS SHOULD

IT

T m 0 JO -:

DOi)i.H..AS,

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o'therwise you caiiiiot receive

an

official

receipt.

Sub

scriptions of $1 for CHRISTASJAH

may

be

sent through

bills

totalling

This is really not as

fearsome as it Diay appear,

but we do not want people to
thinlc

BE

and there are out

standing

far.

that

we

balance to

have a
coasu

nice

on.

During 19?7. HAf^TIiR THROBS

will be published every
months

instead of

two

each month,

JAN 29 3957

^ke

ASIAN

CHRIS

" All the churches of Christ salute you.'"

Rom. 16 :16

DECEMBER, 1956

Vol. II, No. 12

Kanpur, India

FEAR NOT

By Madhur Minz, Surguja

Because of fear, many preachers today
are not ol:eying the Lord's command to
" Preach the gospel to the whole creation."
For a time like this, it is good to
remember that the Word of God is full of

encouraging " Fear Nots ".

the

We should not fear since our God is

Eternal Father. " And the Lord

appeared unto him the same night, and

said, I am the God of Abraham thy father.
Fear not, for I am with thee, and I will
bless thee and multiply thy seed for my
servant Abraham's sake."

Gen. 26:24.

Elijah did not fear during the famine,

but encouraged the poor widow and her
son. " And Elijah said unto her, Fear
not; and do as thou hast said: but make
me thereof a little cake first, and luring
it unto me, and after make for thee and
for thy son." (I Kings 17:13).

Isaiah did not fear because he found

his strength from the Lord. " Fear not

thou: for I am with thee: be not dismayed;
for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee,
yea, I will help thee: yea, X will uphold
thee with the right hand of my righteous
ness." (Isaiah 41:10).
And God is a companion in our trials.
" Fear not, for I have redeemed thee,
I have called thee by thy name; thou art
mine." (Isaiah 43:1.)
God is never unmindful of our needs.

" But the very hairs of your head are all

numbered. Fear ye not therefore, ye are
of more value than many sparrows."
Matt. 10:30, 31.

The greatest reason we have for not

fearing is that Christ gives us life beyond
the grave. " And when I saw Him,
I fell at His feet as dead.

And he laid

His right hand upon me, saying unto me.

Elisha was not afraid since he was

well aware of the host of angels that

protected him. " Fear not: for they that
be with us are more than they that be
with them." (2 Kings 6:16).

Fear not; I am the first and the last:

I am He that liveth, and was dead: and
behold I am alive for evermore. Amen;

and have the keys of hell and death."

Rev. 1:17, 18.

THERE IS NO FEAR IN LOVE: BUT PERFECT LOVE CASTETH OUT FEAR.

I John 4:18.

CHRISTASIAN TO CONTINUE

According to Page Eight, the Destruction articles should be republished in booklet

City Times is being discontinued for lack form.
of a pencil. At the same time, Jiwan ka
Purpose ReafiTirmed
Pani, our five-year old Hindi language

paper is being discontinued in favour of

Jeevan-Dip, the new publication of New

Our purpose is: To strengthen the

bonds of fellowship between the Christian

Testament
Publications,
Assn.
The
Christasian, however, will begin its third
year of publication next month.

brethren

The 1957 issues of The Christasian will

have a new look. The cover will be

illustrated and will be printed on art

of Asia

and

their

brethren

throughout the world; To disseminate the

wisdom of the Asian Christians throughout
the world; To influence the non-Christian

for Christ; and to further the perfection

of the saints. This is our purpose and our

paper. Each issue will contain sixteen prayer.

pages instead of eight as previously.
We aim to publish ardcles of deep
The only drawback will be that the spiritual content by the Christians of
magazine will be published once every
two months instead of every month as

Asia. These include experiences, illus

trations, expositions of scripture, as well
previously. Asians may now subscribe as news reports. As the Lord gives us
to the magazine for Re. 1-8-0 or its wisdom, all articles are true to the
equivilent.
Scriptures and do not contain any divisive
From our very first issue, our most teaching or phiaseology. We pray that
popular feature appears to have been we may be a blessing to those who hunger
Monitorials. We did, only recently, and thirst after righteousness.
receive an anonymous criticism of the

page from an Indian reader. The writer

was evidentally not aware that most of
the items published in Monitorials have
previously been published in the Indian

Press. We publish them for the same

reason that the newspapers publish them

they are interesting and they awaken us
to existing circumstances which we might
not

otherwise

realize.

In

order

to

emphasize the original source of our

items, the department will hereafter
receive the new name of Clippings, etc.
A new department in future issues
will be, " Shoes of Preparedness," which
will be composed of sermon and lesson
outlines.

Our articles on the Spiritual Eye are

being terminated in this present issue.
We would appreciate advice from our
readers

as

to

whether

or not

these

Greetings From Your Editor

" Beloved, I pray that in all things

thou mayest prosper and he in health, even
as thy soul prospereth." Ill Jn. 2.

THE ANATOMY AND DISEASES OF THE SPIRITUAL EYE

CHAPTER VIII

LoveThe Optic Nerve of the Spiritual Eye

My own scrapbook, begun in 1953, is,
" But now abideth faith, hope, love,
these three; and the greatest of these is at present, divided into eighteen different

Even so abideth the orbit, cornea,

sections based on I Cor. 13. I will give

you a sample from each section, and
this will give you an idea for your own
scrapbook.
1. The Importance of Love.Pastor
Sundar Lai of Mahoba, India, once re

conjunctiva, iris, ciliary body, lens, retina,

and optic nerve in the physical eye;
and the most important of these is the
optic nerve.

missionary that, " She learned our

language, but never learned to speak it
with love." If we don't speak the tongues

Each part of the physical eye and of

of men with love, it were better we did

the spiritual eye is precious in its own

right, but the most precious has been saved

not speak at all.

2. Love Sujfereth Long." That is, love
puts up with a lot. When a young high
school student needed the family car
for some high school activity he would
ask his parents if they were going to
need it at that time. They always
replied that they were not going to use it
and that he could. During those days his
parents did not seem to go places very

love."

I Cor. 13:13.

And now abideth faith, virtue, know

ledge, self-control, patience, godliness,
brotherly kindness, and love; and the
topmost of these is love.

until last.

Dr. Victor Rambo of Mungeli has

told us of a man who had been brought to
him who had been shot in the back of the

head.

The shot had severed the optic

nerve and so he was unable to see.

There

was nothing in the least bit wrong with

any other part of the eye; but since the
all-important optic nerve had been
severed, there was not the least bit chance
that the man should ever see again.

" If I speak with the tongues of men

and of angels, but have not love, I am
become sounding brass, or a clanging
cymbal. And if I have the gift of
prophecy and know all mysteries and all
knowledge: and if I have all faith, so as
to remove mountains, but have not love,
I am nothing. And if I bestow all my
goods to feed the poor, and if I give my
body to be burned, but have not love, it
profiteth me nothing." I Cor. 13:1-3.
Begin A Scrapbook On Love
There would no doubt be a lot less

scraps in the world if more people kept

a scrapbook on love.

marked

much.

about

Later,

certain

Pentecostal

when the boy entered

college, he received letters from his mother

saying that they were going here and
there. Then the boy realized that they
would have gone places during his high
school days but they that gave up the car
for him.
Love had put up with a lot."
Thomas Overton.

3. Love is Kind." The greatest thing,

says some one, a man can do for his
Heavenly Father is to be kind to some
of His other children. I wonder why it
is that we are not all kinder than we
are? How much the world needs it.

How easily it is done. How instanta

neously it acts. How infallibly it is
remembered. How superabundantly it
pays itself backfor there is no debtor in
the world so honourable, so superbly
honourable, as Love." Henry Drummond.

4.

Love Envieih jSfot.Whenever you

attempt a good work you will find other

men doing the same kind of work, and
probably doing it better. Envy them not.
Envy is a feeling of ill-will to those who
are in the same line as ourselves, a spirit
of

covetousness

and

detraction.

How

little Christian work even is a protection

against un-Christian feeling." Henry
Drummond.

9. Love is Not Provoked." The man

without love dares a man to cross his

path."

Thomas Overton.

10. Love Taketh Not Account of Evil.

Ruth Morris of Madras, India, confided
to us one of her secrets for marital happi
ness.

" When

Art

makes

she said, " I just forget it.

mistake,

And Art

does the same for me."

5. Love vaunteth not itself." A person

can do a great work if he doesn't care
who gels the credit for it." Radio

11. Rejoiceth Not In Unrighteousness.

" A young person without love is one who
enjoys seeing someone get lower marks

Preacher.

than himself,"

6.

Love Is Not Puffed Up." Some

Porta Rican children had been invited to

attend Daily Vacation Bible School in a

negro church in New York City. The
negro children came dressed spic and span
and shining with cleanliness; but the
Porta Rican children came filthy and
ragged. The teachers, who happened to
be two girls from the Lincoln Bible
Institute, showed no partiality but treated
the negro and Porta Rican children alike.
The Porta Rican children not only
returned the next day, but, because they

were loved, they cleaned up." Lelan Tyrell.

Thomas Overton.

12. Love Rejoiceth With The Truth.

This is the qu^ity of encouraging others.

" When Sir Walter Scott was a boy, he

was considered a great dullard. His
accustomed place in the schoolroom was
the ignominious dunce corner with the
high pointed paper cap of shame on his
head. One evening when he was twelve
or fourteen, he chanced to be in a home

where famous literary guests were being

entertained. The great Robert Burns was
standing admiring a picture under which
was written the couplet of a stanza. He
inquired concerning the author. None of

the great people present knew. Timidly

7. Love Doth Not Behave Itself Un
seemly." If boys and girls talked to their a boy crept up to his side, whispered the
dogs like they talk to their parents, the name of the author, and quoted the rest
dogs would leave home. Love makes a of the poem. Burns was surprised and
lady out of a girl, and a gentleman out of delighted. Laying his hand on the youth's
a boy."
8.

Thomas Overton.

Love Seekelh Not Its Own.Many

people come to marry because it is the

popular thing to do, and not to marry
would be a personal disgrace. Others
marry it order to make themselves more
comfortable and secure.

There seems to

head, he exclaimed, ' Ah, bairnie, ye will

be a great mon yet in Scotland some day!'
From that day, Walter Scott was a changed
lad. One of the greatest men in the
world believed that he would do great
things." Gospel Herald.
13.

Love Beareth All Things."Love

takes away the sting of responsibility.

be little thought that one is marrying

because he wants to make his partner
happy. And, in this way, people marry
because they love themselves and not
because they love the person whom they
are marrying. They are seeking their

his son through Bible College does not

feel he is suffering any hardship." Louis

own, and this is not true love.

Detro.

The little girl carrying her baby brother

does not feel his weight. The God-fearing
father who works harder in order to send

14. Love Believeth All Things:^-Ot)&:

Sunday morning in the Efimalyian moun
tains, I sat down in a secluded spot for
some private devotions. As I sat diere, a
peasant boy came on the scene and we
started taMng. Mention was somehow
made of cigarettes, and then the boy
told me that he had seen one of our

Christian preachers smoking.

This
troubled me greatly, and so I immediately
located the preacher and asked him about
it. When the preacher denied it, we went
hunting for the boy to corroborate the
story ; but the boy could not be found.
Then I remembered that " Love believeth

all things," and I decided to believe

the preacher when he said he had not
been smoking. A week later I happened
to be with this preacher when the szime

Tchildren not getting on well together.

A missionary came to me for a talk and

told me how hard it was to get on with
her fellow worker. When I saw her again
she said, ' We have decided to live in

separate houses, and now we get along

much better." I said, *Oh, what you
have missed! You have robbed your
own soul of God's little school of discipline."

Her immediate problem remained imsolyed.

The love that can fit in with a

difficult nature was not there."

Aletta

N. Jacobsz.
17. Love Never Faileth." When love
is hurt it does not withdraw and live at

a distance. *I'll keep out of her way

this is the easy way. Love will make
excuses for the one that has failed.

Love

will put the best construction on that

peasant boy came along. " Is this the one's actions. If one betrays. Love says,
man you saw smoking?" I asked. "No," ' You are still my Wend, my loved one.
he answered, "It must have been someone You betrayed my confidence, but I will
else."
be true. You were unfaitldul, but I will
If, in dealing with
15. Love Hopeth All Things."George remain faithful.'
Fredrick Watts' painting, ' Hope' pictures one who does not respond, you weary of
a blindfolded girl sitting , on a globe. the. strain, and slip from under the
The night is dark. Clouds obscure the burden, then you know nothing of Calvary
sky, except for a single star. Even this love." Aletta N. Jacobsz.
the girl can not see, for she has the fold
18. That Which Is Perfect.Love is
over her eyes. However, the implication is the magic potion that dissolves all
plain. She knows the star is there. She bitterness and ends unseemly strife. Love
strums a harp with but one string. The
picture has become familiar to many
homes. It is a picture to give us courage.
One string, one star^these are left in
the midst of blindness and storm.

No

matter about all the rest. Hope is the

power to hold on when all the rest is
gone." Richard L. James.
16. Love Endureth All Tkmgs. ^hoye
will get on well with those who do not
treat it wellwith difficult people. Oh,
how it must grieve God to see His

is

the

master

workman

that

fashions

diverse personalities into one harmonious

body. Love is the unfailing power that
gives wings to all our efforts and lifts
them over obstacles to the goal. And
love is the mystic alchemy that trans
mutes all of life into joy." . Orrin Root.

Perfect love is perfection itself. If

we loved our God and our fellowmen

with a perfect love, there would, indeed,

be notmng lacking in our perfection at
all.

THE DENIAL
David Frederick, Bilaspur
No one understood Peter better than

our Lord. None were more appreciative

of his earliest love, deep sincerity, and
disarming candor. Peter's wealmesses
of character were such that given the

for the benefit of Peter alone.

" Verily

I say unto thee, that this night, before the

cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice."

Mt. 26:32. Peter, forgetting h^elf,

answered: " Yea, though I should die with

prop direction and supernatural assis

tance they could be, and actually were,

thee I will not deny thee." And all the rest

turned into great assets for God, for th<e

Lord made answer and said the same thing.

taking their cue from Peter and not the

Events happened quickly and suddenly.

The prince of the Apostles had merited Peter ran away with a bloody sword in
not only our Lord's special selection but his grasp. Then, shame and humiliation
also His especial attention. The Master forced him to retrace his steps and find
had Warned Simon Peter frequently of out how things went with the Master. On
the way he met John who had access to
dangers in store for both of them.
On one occasion we see the stubborn the house of Caiphas. He entered into
apostle roundly rebuked for lack of under the. courtyard where his uneasy manner
standing. Jesus had begun to show HKs called attention to himself. A maidservant,
disciples that he must go to Jerusalem probably recognizing Peter as the
and suffer many things of the dders and constant companion of Jesus, came up to
chief priests and scribes, and be killed^ and him and declared, " Thou also wast with
the t^d day be raised up. " And Peter Jesus the Galilean." But he denied
took him and began to rebuke him, saying. before them all, saying, " I know not what
Be it far from thee. Lord: this sh^ never thou sayest." Another serving woman
Church, and for his own salyation.

be unto thee. But he turned, and said

imto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan:

made the same observation. Again Peter

denied Jesus, and with an oath. And

thou art a stumbling-block unto me: for

thou mindest not the things of God, but

after a little while others came and said,

the things of men." Mt. 16:21-23.

Finally, at the Last Supper, when the
foreknowledge of His Passion towered
over the occasion, Jesus told His disciples
that He was about to leave them and that
none of them could follow Him at that

time. Peter, feeling left out, exclaimed,

" Why cannot I follow thee now? I will
lay down my life for thee. Lord, I am
ready to go with thee both to jirison and
to d^th." John 13:36. The Saviour again
clearly foretold events. " You will all
be scandalized in my regard this night."
Mt. 26:31.

Peter

again

interjected:

Although all shall be scandalized in thee,

I

will never be scandalized in thee."

Jesus now made a very pointed warning

" Surely thou art one of them, for even

thy speech doth discover thee." Then
Peter began to curse and to swear that
he knew not the man. And immediately
the cock crew. (Mt. 26:70-74).
Here, one after another in rapid
succession, were the denials which Jesus
had foretold. How easy it is to ^o from
one sin to another.

TWs was the result

of bad companionship. Had Peter stayed

with St. John he would not have laid
himself, open to temptation. But, instead,

he drew near to ^e fire, feeling worse

for himself than for Jesus. Why did he
seek out Christ's enemies? Why did he
converse with them ? Peter's undoing was

in seeking comforts from men instead of

having recourse to God.

MR. BiGFAS*raR^S SERMON

Translated from Jiwan ka Pam
In our last issue we promised that we

would publish a report of Mr. Bigpastor's

sermon.

We must admit that the only

reason we are publishing it now is because

we had promised to do so. It is not the
sort of news we had hoped it might be.
It was evident from Mr. Bigpastor's

opening prayer that all was not well.

In days gone by he used to prayer for

Now that the Pastor Sahib has been

the flowers, etc., but now he prays for
sinners. What sort of idiosyncrasy is this? immersed, the people of the church are

There has Jilso been a change in the

calling him hfc. Humble-Heart instead

songs. Some songs, such as, " What Can of Mr. Bigpastor. He no longer wears
W^sh Away My Sins? Nothing But the the gaudy clothes we enjoyed so much,
Blood of Jesus," and " All Hail the but has taken to a more simple habit.

Power of Jesus' Name," were entirely uri- His hrimense weight has begun to reduce,
knowh to us people. Not a single tune and he has forsworn cigarettes,and other
from the films was heard in the entire pleasant vices. We are no longer able to
service. It appears that the people of have the same compaiuonship with him
the church have begim to despise cinema as previously.
In the church bulletin the news is
songs. What strange behaviour!
In the beginning of his message, published that the house of worship will
Mr. Bigpastor said that he had repented be removed from the City of Destruction
from his old hfe. At this point my pencil and will be built at Holy City. The
dropped and I was imable to record the reason for this is that the people who
remainder of the sermon. It is a good " repent" are leaving the City of Destruc
tion to live at Holy (Sty. Our population
thing that my pencil dropped.

After the se^ce, Mr. Bigpastor, along has already been greatly decreased on this
with thirty other people, was immersed. accoimt. The bulletin adds that the
I could not understand all of this, so I

preaching of the Gospel will not be

did not linger to see. I do remember that stopped in our City. In all fairness to
when Mr. Bigpastor was a child eight ourselves, however, I think it should be

daysold that lusfather had him sprinkled. forbidden since it is contrary to our
Up to the coming of Mr. Faithful, he had principles.
In the meantime, people are not
always been satisfied with this. It is

renewing their subscriptions to the Des

truction City Times. They are instead
subscribing to the magazine, "Jiwan-Dip"
that wretch!
If my views still mean .anything in of Holy Ckty. We request the citizens of
this changing city, I would like to say the (Sty not to subscribe to "Jiwan-Dip "
that if those 31 persons had been true to lest they also begin to desire to live at
the ide^s of
Pride (that departed Holy City. The danger of the Destruc
beloved), they would not have a^eed to tion City Times ceasing publication is

understood that this matter of immersion

is a part of the teaching of Mr. Faithful,

be immersed.

also growing.

CITY OF DESniUC^dN NWS CgASES PUBUCATICN

Translatedfrom Jiwan ka Pani
Conditions in the City of Destruction
have untruly become very wretched.
Complaints are being , heard from all
sections of the City. Cinema tickets are

selling for as little as two anriaseach, but

people are still not attending. Biris

us up and lets us fall. I am not, however,

prepared to " repent," since being holy
appears to be too difficult.

Some Parting Adivice

are selling for one anna a bundle, but

As we have already stated, it is our
people are not smoKng them. People are hope that the people who are at this
saying that they have "repented" and time fleeing from the City of Destruction
that they are leaving the: City of will return: after a few days. In the
Destruction.
pursuance of this hope, we offer the
So many people have stopped receiving following advice:
the " City of Destruction Times," that,
(1) Think often of the City of Destruc
what can we say! They all say that from tion and remember the pleasures we enjoy
January they are subscribing to " Jeevan- here. '
Dip " Magazine and that Aey no longer
^ (2) When you tire of the upward
want to spoil their lives with the Destruc

tion City Times. Continuous listening to

such opinions has made us quite dis

climb, rest awhile.

(3) Let your Bible reading taper off.

couraged.

At the most, read the Bible through only

to sit.

but a rupee a month will be more than

But this foolishness will only last a few once: and be satisfied with this.
(4) Never get fervent in prayer. Do
days. People will tire of living in Holy as much
as necessary, but no more.
City and, after a short time, will want
(5) Don't be so simple as to attqnd
to return. They will become hungry
for our films and cigarettes and will all the services of the church. If you
quickly retiun. When you do return attend one service a week, consider that
remerhber that Mr. Sit-Write is ready to your responsibility has been ftilfilled.
write for you again when he gets a place
(6) Dogive something in the offering;

Right now your editor no longer has sufficient. This will maintain your
a place to sit. On account of our debts, reputation.
the printers have confiscated our last

(7) Begin to indulge in some secret

chair. Our typewriter has also been

sins which no one else can know about.

dispossessed and we have to do all of our

There are many people who smoke and

writing with pencil. Since our stub of drii^^ in private without even their
a pencil is almost finished, there is no families knowing about it.
possible way in which we can continue
our work any further.
We are not able to tell at this time

just what our immediate future will be.

It must be admitted that our lord below

BUSINESS AS

USUAL

DEGEiTFUL'CARD GO.
LARGE STOCK FOR CHRISTMAS

does not ^ve^ us proper consideration; Even your worst Enemies won't guess

but, according to his own profit, he raises

That these ore old cards.

MNITRIALS
The life of a cowherd near Darwha

was recently saved by the cattle which

he was grazing.
As the cowherd was
cutting under bushes, a leopard, which
was hiding there, pounced on him. When

say that Rs. 100 was urgently needed in

order to fetch a prominent doctor.
This was readily given by the lawyer who
continued his wait outside.

the bullocks saw their master being

attacked, they joined the fight, and the

been victim of a
home to find his

panther fled.

healthy.

Ten people near Bhopal recently beat

a man with shoes who had come to their

village to preach the removal of untouchability.

The preacher was an
organiser of the All India Harijan Seva
Sangh.

The villagers of a village near Nellore

have entrusted the management of their
village to an all-women board. Not
interested in politics, the women are
concentrating their efforts on health
services, sanitation, artistic planning of the
village, and provision of social amenities.
A

four-month

old

child

flew from

London to Bombay all alone on its way

to its grandparents in Calcutta. The

parents of the child are undergoing higher

studies in medicine in England.

An extra

air-hostess was sent from London to look

after the child.

A well-dressed young man recently

approached a lawyer at Triveliore and
informed

him that his son-in-law had

been injured in an accident and had

been taken to the hospital. When they
reached the hospital, the young man asked
the lawyer to wait outside. After a
short while the young man returned to

But as time

passed he grew suspicious that he had

hoax. He returned
son-in-law hale and

Trials by jury have been abolished in

Bombay state, except in greater Bombay.
Announcing the decision, a Government
press note said, " Government is aware
of the

theoretical

considerations

which

weigh in favour of the continuance of the

jury system such as that an accused person
has the right to be found guilty by his

fellow countrymen and that this system

associated the people with the adminis
tration of justice. It is, however, the
experience of the Government that in
many places it is difficult to get the
required number of jurors. Moreover, a
majority of them look upon duties to
serve as a juror as a burden to be avoided.
Besides, trials by jury have resulted in
trials becoming protracted and expensive."

Last month we reported that objection

had been made to shows beginning after
ten o'clock at night since they were
endangering public health. This month,
others have been aroused against shows

which begin at noon.

It seems that these

afternoon shows have been the cause of

much absenteeism from school. A number
of students have been found to sell their

school books in order to get money for

their cinema tickets.

10

LEPERS, TOO ARE PART OF SOCIETY

By Dr. T. R. Savan, Ahmedabad

From Sunday Standard of Bombay

Leprosy is a disease that attacks rich
and poor alike. It is found in palaces and
huts. It is a disease which belongs to a
certain stage of civilisation. Its spread
depends chiefly on the movements of
large bodies of people, such as armies,
slaves and free labour, from endemic to
previously unaffected areas.
History shows that its decline and

eradication depend on the adoption of

the community of certain simple means of
prevention and on improvement in their
mode of living.
Not "Unclean"

Leprosy is not a disease of the

" unclean " as was proved 75 years ago,
when the Norwegian, Dr. Armauer G. H.
Hansen, isolated the germ which causes
it.

It is a microbe closely related to the

tuberculosis bacillus and as hard to kill or

perhaps hardereven boiling does not

destroy mycobacterium leprae.
At present leprosy is mostly a disease
of tropical and sub-tropical countries,
although there are some foci in the
temperate and even in cool countries.
The total number of persons suffering
from leprosy in the world is roughly
estimated to be 40 to 50 lakhs (4 to 5

million). In India there are about 20

lakhs (two million) cases of leprosy. They
are found throughout India, but the
disease is not equally distributed. Out
of 20 lakhs lepers in India, 70 per cent
are of non-infective type, while 30 per
cent are infective.

There is accommoda

tion for only 20,000 lepers in India and

others are let loose and they infact
others daily. The problem of acco
mmodation for lepers should be solved
without delay.

Heredity
Heredity has been ruled out as a
factor

in

ti-ansmission

in

the

disease.

" Babies of parents with leprosy are

always born healthy," says Dr. Brownlow
David Molesworth, Medical Superinten
dent of Sungei Buloh Leprosarium in
Malaya.
It

is

the

close

contact

after

birth

with an infectious parent that finally

infects the child.

Childhood history is important. Un

less a person has been exposed to leprosy
as a child, it is a 99.9 per cent certainty
that he will not contract the disease later,
whatever he may do. A person must be
exposed to leprosy not only once, but
repeatedly in childhood to contract it.
It is a series of infections added together
that finally win a foothold.
Once it is established, the disease lies
dormant for maybe one, two, four,
eight or even twenty years, before it
breaks out.

The Hansen bacilli enter the

body through cuts, wounds and abrasions

in the skin.
Dedicated Doctors Needed

Leprosy cannot be wiped out of India

by offering high remuneration to medical
practitioners. Doctors wich many degrees,
who

have been

attracted

to work

on

leprosy only for the sake of money always

keep lepers 10 feet away from them.
Only dedicated souls can help to solve
the problem: " My purpose is to serve
lepers and I must serve my purpose."
Persons with this motto have the right to
work in leprosy institutions and they
alone will wipe out leprosy from India.

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THE WALK OF BELIEVERS

Musanand Gardia, Orissa
" He hath shewed thee, O man, what

is good; and what doth the Lord require of

thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy,
and to walk humbly with thy God?"
Micah 6:8.

light, we have fellowshipone with another,

and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanseth
us from all sin," I Jn. 1:7.
7.

Believers Walk in Christ's Likeness.

" He that saith he abideth in him ought

1. Believers Walk A J^ew Life." We

were buried therefore with him through

baptism into death: that like as Chnst
was raised from the dead through the
glory of the Father, so we also might
walk in newness of life."

Rom. 6:4.

himself also to walk even as he walked."

I Jn. 2:6.
Conclusion

Brothers and Sisters, these are the

seven ways in which a believer should

walk in order to get eternal life and

the crown of righteousness in God's
Kingdom. Every one should ask of his
3. Believers Walk In Spirituality. own life whether he is spending his life
" But I say. Walk by the Spirit, and ye with these seven steps or not. If not,
shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh."
then let us guide our steps into a more
2. Believers Walk by Faith."(for we
walk by faith, not by sight) ."II Cor. 5:7.

Gal. 5:16.

righteous life in this world so that those

4. Believers Walk in Consistency." I

therefore, the prisoner in the Lord,
beseech you to walk worthily of the

who live about us might glorify our

Heavenly Father.

calling wherewith ye were called, with

all lowliness and meekness, with long-

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Reporting the work of Ralph R. Haj'ter at 112 352,Swarupnagar,

Kanpur, India, on December 20, 1956.
for the needs of Horatius and Stanley

MOMENTOUS YEAR AHEAD

India needs your prayers eveiy day of

1957. This year I ndia will celebrate the
lOCth anniversary of its "first struggle for
independence,"^ .and it is also India's elec
tion year. At the same time, the church
in India has reached a new height of
maturity and is able now, more than ever
before, to advance under its own auspi
ces. The new year may hold some per
secution, but.it will alaio be a year of nar
vest. But, in our'opinion, it will be the
lii'dian brethren, and not the missionaries,
who will do the reaping.
MISSIONS DECREASE
But this should be

a matter of joy rather than of sorrow.

means

that

misdons

are

It

decreasing

because, the church is increasing. We,

ourselves, are now without a single paid
worker.

Our medical work is also, on the

BIBLE BOOK STORE

More and more people are taking ad

vantage of the service we offer through

the Bible Book Store. Besides selling to

local customers, others take froni us and

resell at other places. We also receive
many mail orders; and wherever we go to

preach or visit we take a display with lis.

During the past month we sold 26 Bibles,'

29 New Testaments, and 80 copies of the

Life of Christ Visu^ized in Hindi.

1957

calendars are enjoying a brisk sale.

Generally speaking, missions are on

the decrease in India.

Nath.

increase again.

Those who work in the church

of Christ at Kanpur do so without any re

muneration from the ' mission: they are
employed in the factories of the city.
BUSY AS -EVER

Sinde we can no longer delegate our

duties to paid workers, we are actually
busier than ever. Besides preaching in
the church at Kanpur, we accept many
invitations to speak at other places. Be
sides editing CHRISTASIAN, we also
help in the publication of JEEWANDEEP Magazine. At home I am kept
busy with the Bible Book Store and caring

THEBOYS

Stanley Nath is still working as an un

paid apprentice at the J.Edwards Garage.

Horatius shows a keen interest in science,"
but was caught twice recently playing
hookey firom school. Samuel Singh is
first in his class, and is living at present
with his mother. Stanley Samuel is still
at school at Bilaspur. Stephen Samuel
is on his own now although he is still un
employed. A long-over-due card has
been received firom Diwan Singh repor
ting that he is quite well but in .need of
medicine. We are sendn^g him the me
dicine he needs.
FINANCIAL REPORT

The generous

contributions

listed

below will help us to begin the new year

with most of our bills paid, after a very
happy Christmas."

Contributions for Nbyombei', 1956

Illinois:
Donald F, Peel

.10.00

Indiana:
Mr. Frank Reas

Mr. and Mrs. Henry Schramm

Mr. arid Mrs. Glen Morrical
Harlan Church of Christ

Bookstore

Boys
Church.

10.00
50.00
10.00
20.00

Michigan:
Joinior Bible Class, Sumner

EXPENDITURES
Jiwan ka Pan!
Christasian ( Two months )

Hoiising

Loyal Daughters,-Bladensburg^
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis ^Holdren.
Old Stone Bible School

Mr. arid Mrs. F.E; Dusenbei ry

Branch Hill Church ^of Christ
Mt.:rindiMrs. PiM. Hawkins

Homemakers'Class, Norwalk
Nebraska:
Christian Church, Ord

ll;85

Standard Publishing
Salary

40:23
4o;o9<

2 00 total expenditures

591.36

Balance Brought. Forward

Gontrfbutions

-292:04

Book-Store Receipts'.

M20;06'

TOTAL RECEIPTS

. 616.43r

Less Expenditures

591.3fe.

Balance, Dec. d5fh

$25.07

These accounts have beeri iigurrid at

3.50

the current exchritigerrite of Rs. 478/8/k

per $ 100,
THE days AHEAD

15:00

Tennessee:

Central Church, Johnson City.

15.00

TOTAL CONTRIBUTIONS

$29104

The'gfit from the.Ha>yKins' was desig

nated farj com^ters. Last month; Aye
failed to note that the gift of. Mrs; Grace
Nickerson was desigriated. for personal
needs.

tlS

SUMMARY
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20.00^
;50!0020-00!
15i00^
5.0010;00
10.00'

NewTork:
Castle Road Church of Christ

56.36
201.14
88.90
90.01
44.58

Bank
N.T. Publications Assn

Ohio:

Rocky .Fork Bible School

$17,16

I am due at Mungeli Christian Hos.|

pital onJanuary 4th for what we all tppe

will be my final eye operation.

. .
'
Before the next issue of .HA;RTE,R

THROBS, :I am hopipg.tOr visit hydras

and stations,in bptwpen, . ,^

All Contribution^ and Subscriptions

May

rSent, fp

Miss Florence Douglris

134! E. North AvC.

Flora, Illlriois