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THE

Spirit of Missions

AN ILLUSTRATED MONTHLY REVIEW
OF CHRISTIAN MISSIONS

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The Subscription Price of THE SPIRIT OF MISSIONS is ONE DOLLAR per year. Postage is prepaid in the United States, Porto Rico, the Philippines and Mexico For other countries in the Postal Union, including Canada, twenty-four cents per year should be added.

Subscriptions are continued until ordered discontinued

Change of Address: In all changes of address it is necessary that the old as well as the new address should be given.

How to Remit: Remittances, made payable to George C. Thomas, Treasurer, should be made by draft on New York, Postal Order or Express Order. One and two cent stamps are received. To checks on local banks ten cents should be added for collection. All Letters should be addressed to The Spirit of Missions, 281 Fourth Avenue, New York.

Published by the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society. President, RIght Reverend DANIEL S. TUTTLE, D.D. Secretary, REV. ARTHUR S. LLOYD, D.D. Treasurer, GEORGE C. THOMAS.

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Junior Grammar Age

9 to 1. Why Children Here Help Children Far Away, and How They Do It. 25 cts.; Postage, 2 cts.

Outline pictures for same to be colored, 5 cts.; postage, ct.

10 to 13. The Overcoming of the Dragon. Cloth, 50 cts: postage, 8 cts. Paper, 35 cts.; postage, 5 cts.

Leader's Helps for Teaching the Same, 10 cts.; postage, 2 cts.

10 to 14. Torchbearers on the King's Highway. (A biographical series: Whipple, Boone Rowe, Kemper, etc.)

Cloth, 40 cts.; postage, 7 cts. Paper, 25 cts.; postage, 5 cts.

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MAKE CHECKS AND Money ordeRS PAYABLE to george C. THOMAS, TREASURER. NOTE.-Teachers using this, or similar material of the Educational Department, can secure any free literature before the close of their Course by reporting their class on the card provided for the purpose.

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BISHOP KNIGHT IN HIS OFFICE IN THE EPISCOPAL RESIDENCE IN HAVANA

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news of a great victory," we are told. "It is the solution of a great perplexity. It is the assurance of a great triumph. It is the capture of an enemy's last stronghold. It crowns the work of Christ. It exhibits the love of God. It demonstrates the truth of conscience. .... This life is not the end of all things, and the course of this life is not enough to measure the reckoning of eternal justice. Right is stronger than wrong, and truth lasts longer than falsehood, and purity is more precious and more enduring than sin; for right and truth and purity are summed up in their champion Christ, and He has now vanquished death, the one unconquerable champion of the enemy." All this is eternally true. It needs to be repeated again and again to comfort and inspire Christian disciples. Of the countless sermons that will be preached on Easter Day, all will, in one form or another, stress this aspect of the Resurrection.

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Acceptance of the

But the Resurrection is not only for the comfort and confirmation of the faithful. It equips

Easter Gospel Involves the Obligation to Proclaim It

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sage, and bids them proclaim it. Just because it reveals one of the most inspiring facts about human life, it imposes a weighty obligation upon those who accept its revelation. Privilege and responsibility always go hand in hand. So the man who accepts the blessings of the Resurrection, who shares in the power of the Resurrection, by that fact obligates himself to become a witness of the Resurrection. It is inconceivable that any man, who thinks things through, can say, "I believe in the Easter Gospel for myself and for my own land, but I have no concern or desire to make it known in other lands." Such an attitude is a denial of the fact he professes to accept. The man who assumes it stultifies himself. He is appropriating the knowledge of a fact that concerns all men-a fact that can only be a fact so long as it does concern all men, whether or not they know the fact-for his personal advantage, and is withholding the knowledge of it from those who have a right to that knowledge.

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