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Title: Missionary Visitor, The (1905)
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Brethren's General Missionary and Tract Committee
Subjects: Church of the Brethren Priodicals Church of the Brethren- Missions
Publisher: Elgin, Ill.: Brethren Publishing House
Contributing Library: Bridgewater College, Alexander Mack Memorial Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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urage, O soul, on this Easter day;Where God leads, the stone shall be rolled away. For the Lord of Life breaks the bands ofdeath Or in tomb, or earth, or soul; Not holden of it, could He ever be In whom is Lifes perfect whole. Laugh, heart with the newborn spring to-day! All thy doubts with the stone shall berolled away. ■—Katharine Lente Stevenson. 420 THE MISSIONARY VISITORMissions in the Sunday School. (July, 1905 July 2, Sennacheribs Invasion.2 Chron. 32:9-23. The lesson affords an interesting study-on the mind and thought of the heathenin contrast with Christian life and be-lief. This great king, who had oftenprayed to his gods, and knew that hisprayers were of no avail, looked upon attending suffering, when the final out-come would be sure victory for him. But there is a difference between thegods of the Assyrians and the God ofIsrael. In the hour of greatest needIsraels God never failed. The onlytime the people suffered was, when, inlack of faith, they did not cling to Him.
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ELDER S. N. McCANN TEACHING THE RAJ PIPLA NATIVES.All rights reserved. the God of Israel from the same angle.Though king Sennacherib made offer-ings to the gods of the Assyrians, hewell knew that his success was all in hisown strength. He further knew that hisarmies were greater, and his opportu-nities for overcoming more favorablethan were Israels. For this reason heurges the people of Jerusalem not to ex-pose themselves to a useless famine and And so it is to-day. How pitiable, in-deed, would be the Christians conditionif he worshiped wood or stone and ex-pected no more response than such life-less things can give. Indeed it does ap-pear that we little realize how preciousthe Savior, a living Christ, is to us, orwe would worship Him and rely on Himmore and more. Then think, too, how much the heathen July, 1905) THE MISSIONARY VISITOR 421 must overcome. Our God no betterthan theirs! Could the heathen butonce believe and then realize what alife-giving power faith in the true Godgives,

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