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ru1 'Psalm oj' Pratse Make a joyful noiseunto the Lord, all ye lands. Serve the Lord with gladness: Come beforeHis presencewith sing·ing. }(nO'1.v ye that the Lord He is God: I t is Ii e that hath made 'Us,and not we ourselvesj l17eare his people, and the sheep of his jJastitre. Enter into H is gates "Lviththanksgiving, A nd into J-1is courts"Lvithpraise: Be ye thank/Itlunto Hi», and blessHis name. For the Lord is good; .His 1nercyis everlasting; A rul H is truth cnduretl: to all gelle1'atio1lS. -Psalm / J00. -- ." •• 1 11 . _ 11 111 •••• 1111 11'•••••••••••• 11 • • • 111 t1 ~" OPEN BIBLE MESSENGER VOL. I NOVEMBER, ASSOCIATE EDITOR-EUGENE LOUISE H. RICHEY NO.1 1932 EDITOR-EMILY GRACE WRIGHT WILLIAMS BUSINESS MANAGER-JOHN R. RICHEY EDITORIAL STAFF HAZEL F. HALSEY BRYANT MITCHELL . SECRETARY-TREASURER-LELA HAYCOOK TABLEOF CONTENTS A Message From the Staff 3 Thankful Hearts 4 By Rev. Hazel F. Halsey When The Bridegroom Shouts 5 By Rev. Bryant Mitchell Seven Fundamentals 6 By Rev. Fred Lohmann Convention Resume 7 The Message of the Open Bible 8 By Louise H. Richey My Call To India " 10 By Pearl Booten Grains From the Harvest Field 11 A New Book - 12 Open Bible Training School 12 Junior Bible School 13 i ~ ; ~ COpy . . TEN CENTS YEAR . . ONE DOLLAR SPECIAL RATES TO ALL OPEN BIBLE CHURCHES Published monthly by the Open Bible Evangelistic Association. Incorporated. Address all mall to 19th and Crocker Streets, Des Moines, Iowa. Remittance should be made payable to THE OPEN BIBLE MESSENGER. 1-: 11 ••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 111••••••• 11 •• 11••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 11 ••••••• 1, •• 11 •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• ~~: : ~ ; e E3 THE OPEN BIBLE MESSENGER November, 1932 A MessageFrom the Staff , .\I:i Hundreds of hearts today are breaking that every word be inspired of the Holy because of sorrows and cares that press in Spirit, and backed by the prayers of every upon them. Vainly the world is seeking Christian reader that the truth of the for something that will satisfy-a satisfac- message might he "quick and powerful and tion that will be a reality. God has provided sharper than any two-edged sword". Your responsibility individually and in His Divine plan for the fulfillment of your opportunity-for you may be a soul 'every need of man in the person of His Son, Christ Jesus. Today the Lord holds out in winner-is to spread this gospel publication that others out side His hands of love a of the ark of safety portion for this hunDEDICATION may read the mesgry, dying world; it I To the Church of -Iesus Christ, that is the Word of Life, sage, Thus will seed 1 grmtt invisible body throughout the world from which, if we be sown in the hearts I (of which Christ is the head), we prayerpartake, w e s hall of unbelievers. fully dedicate this publication. I never again hunger "Cast thy bread May the message of these pages bring I glory to the Father, blessing to tile saints, I or thirst. upon the waters: for qulokenfng words of truth to those I thou shalt find it It is our oppor- I and who Icnow not Christ. i tunity and privilege after many days." .+ . Eccl. 11:1. to spread the gospel message by means of the printed page, As "The Lord gave the word: great was a staff we pray that this publication will the company of those that published it." be a blessing to humanity in that it will Ps.68:11. bring words of life eternal. Desiring that HAndthe gospel must first be published its pages might contain the gospel in its among all nations." Mk. 13:10. simplicity, its beauty, and its whole truth, "And he said unto them, Go ye into all we rest on the promise from the fifty -fifth the world, and preach the gospel to every chapter of Isaiah: creature." Mk. 16:15.. "For as the rain cometh down, and the HAnd they went forth, and preached snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and mak- everywhere, the Lord working with them, eth it bring forth and bud, that it may give and confirming the word with signs folseed to the sower, and bread to the eater; lowing." Mk. 16:20. "The fruit of the righteous is a tree of so shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me life; and he that winneth souls is wise." void, but it shall accomplish that which I Provo 11:30. please, and it shall prosper in the thing "How beautiful upon the mountains whereto I sent it." are the feet of him that bringeth good tidPray with us that the printed message ings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth will be blessed of God to the salvation of good tidings of good, that publisheth salvasouls and to the edification of the Church tion; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reignof Jesus Christ. We desire above all things eth!" Isa. 52:7. +N-NII-I'"-lIl1~llll-llll_IIII_""_IIIl_""_IIIl_ltn_""";"'IIII_IlIl_"" _ 1111 _ ' + i I I +1-lIU-n1I-Ull-nl,_nll_"II_IlN_1I1l_all_III1_Il~_ •• _'"_1I11_1I11_1l._ Page Three November, 1932 THE OPEN BIBLE MESSENGER THANKFUL HEARTS Rev. Hazel F. Halsey, Co-pastor of Calvary Tabernacle, East Des Moines In I Chronicles 16:4 we read that Levites were appointed to minister before the ark of the Lord, and to record, and to thank and praise the Lord God of Israel! Israel as a type and shadow of that great Church of the blood washed throng which was to come, established for us the valuable precedent of a thankful and praiseful heart. "These things are written for our admonition upon whom the ends of the world are come." I Cor. 10:11. The Word tells us that we are made kings and priests unto God, not because of our righteousness but because of the righteousness of the Son of God who has called us with this high and holy calling. It is becoming, then, for us to follow the pattern God has given us through the priesthood and the Levites or ministers. The first requirement or duty of the Levitical order was to offer praise and thanks to God. Hallelujah! In other words we need a shout in the camp. When God washes a soul in the precious blood of His Son, that soul learns to shout the praises of the King; when He heals' a sick body a psean of praise must needs rise to the very throne of glory. When a mortal being is filled with the fullness of the Holy Ghost, that being must needs burst asunder the bands of mortality else he find an outlet in praiseful rejoicing. The angels could not inhabit heaven without rejoicing; neither can we, God's children on earth, receive His love, His tenderness, His daily blessings without thankful and praiseful hearts. A thankful heart is a receiving heart. God cannot pour in new blessings to ungrateful hearts. Too often this is why we receive so little from God. He is more willing to give than we are to receive but our hearts must be enlarged by genuine praise and thanksgiving for blessings already received and uncounted before they are large enough to receive more of Him. God is great, loving, merciful; yet we are prone to look at hardship, sickness, defeat, and complain and murmur as did the children of Isrsel in the wilderness. As long as the Israslites believed and rejoiced, they were happy, victorious and constantly overcoming every foe. Let us cease to look at the difficulties Satan may cast upon our pathway (for until he is put down it will ever be thus) and let us look instead unto the Author and Finisher of our faith, even Jesus. As we behold Him, Rose of Sharon and Lily of the Valley, the fairest among ten thousand to our hearts, sin, sickness and sorrow will melt away and we will count our blessings, however small. As we rejoice a miracle will take place: our hearts, paltry, little Page Four and insignificant, as compared with the great heart of God's love, will expand and enlarge beneath the sunshine of His smile, and we will be the recipients of greater and far more abundant blessings in the future. "But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should show forth the praises of Him who hath called you out of darkness into His marvellous light." I Peter 2:9. Blessed is he whose faith is not offended, When all around his way The power of God is working out deliverance For others day by day; Though in some prison drear his own soul languish, Till life itself be spent, Yet still can trust His Father's love and purpose, And rest therein content. Blessed is he, who through long years of suffering, Cut off from active toil, Still shares by prayer and praise the work of others, And thus "divides the spoil". Blessed art thou, 0 child of God, who suffer est And canst not understand The reason for thy pain, yet gladly leavest Thy life in His blest Hand. Yea, blessed art thou whose faith is "not offended" By trials unexplained. By mysteries unsolved, past understanding, Until the goal is gained. -Selected. ~~ The Fort Des Moines Church of the Open Bible is carrying on a wonderful work for the Lord. Since the first of the year, ninety souls have been converted and forty have followed their Lord in the step of baptism. The Sunday school work is growing and the at~endance is gradually increasing. On Rally Day, this past month, the record attendance was 185. The ladies of the church have given their time in canning food stuffs for distribution among the poor this winter. Thanksgiving day will mark the first anniversary of the church. The congregation is now praying and planning for a revival to be held in the last part of November. THE OPEN BIBLE MESSENGER November, 1982 When the Bridegroom Shouts Rev. R. B. Mitcheli.Pastor Fort Des Moines Church of the Open Bible A sad little company of disciples stood on Mount Olivet gazing steadfastly into the heavens; vainly trying to peer through the cloud that received the Lord out of their sight. The Galilean sky that day seemed to be a blue burial vault with a white cloud for a covering stone. Their Lord was parted from them. Like a farewell song from heaven came the words of the two men in white apparel, "This same Jesus which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen Him go into heaven." With these words of comfort and promise ringing in their ears, the little band came down the mountainside and went up into the city to the upper room to tarry until the promised Comforter should come. Down through the two thousand years since that event, God's redeemed children have looked steadfastly into the heavens, waiting for their complete redemption. The disciples preached and wrote about it. The early Christians died with this hope quenching the pains of the martyr's death. All around in the heathen world, hope for the life beyond was speculative and hopeless. It is no wonder that Paul wrote about the second coming of Christ that the Thessalonians might not sorrow as "others which have no hope." Here are some inscriptions taken from the tombs of the heathen nations showing the darkness in their souls: "I, Procope, lift up my hands against the Gods who took me hence, though innocent." "Farewell, farewell, oh most sweet, for ever and eternally farewell." "Our hope was in our boy; now all is ashes and lamentation." "Fortune makes many promises, but keeps none; live for the present." , The following are inscriptions taken from the catacombs in Rome showing the blessed hope that the Christians had: "Fructuosus, thy soul is with the just." "Constantia, ever faithful, went to God." "Agape, thou shallt live forever." "Eternal peace be to thee, Timothea in Christ." Many who believe in the resurrection of the dead, know little about the second coming of Christ and care less. The actual fact is, that for the living child of God or the dead in Christ, the rapture, or appearing of our Lord in the clouds for His Bride, IS the ressurection. Not only is the New Testament aglow with its three hundred and eighteen references to the coming of the Lord, but the dominant note of the entire Old Testament is the redemption for both Jew and Gentile in the coming of the Redeemer from heaven. Christ's first coming as the Babe of Bethlehem was foretold and described by scores of prophecies, everyone of which was fulfilled to the very jot and tittle. Yet there are many times as many prophecies relating to His second coming. They await fulfillment, but will come to pass just as surely as did the others. If we were to look at the subject of our Lord's appearing in the light of eternity, we might be astounded to realize that most of the Bible topics which have occupied our minds are only PREPARATORY to the coming of the Lord. With this event, their importance ceases. They .are the "John the Baptist events," the forerunner events. The great theme of the incarnation holds us in wonder, but the Son of God became the Son of Man that sons of men might become sons of G(Jd. We shall awake in His likeness when He calls from the heavens at His coming. The Crucifixion draws us to the cross of love that we might receive our pure white bridal robes of righteousness to wear at the wedding in the air. The Holy Spirit is shed abroad in our hearts now to perfect in us tne image of Christ that we might be perfect and spotless in that great day. The coming of Christ is the great crowning event of the scriptures. Too many times we look at the great events of scripture from man's viewpoint and not God's viewpoint. We look through the telescope backwards. We look through the wrong end of i l. Instead of seeing God's large view of it :111,we squint our spiritual eyes and see only that which concerns us. To us, the coming of the Lord is our crowning day. To the Lord ,Tesus Christ, it is the great homecoming day for heaven. It is the bridal day, the culmination of His plan for Jew and Gentile; the day when the Lamb becomes the Lion and wields the sword of doom upon Satan and his hosts. It is the day when the heart of God is filled with joy, the day when He shall commune again, not with the twelve ransomed ones, but with ten thousand times ten thousand and thousands of thousands. It is no wonder that Paul says that the Lord shall descend from heaven with a SHOUT. This shout of victory has been reserved in waiting from before the foundation of the world. All heaven will join in it, including the voice of the archangel and the trump of God. The word in the Greek translated "shout" is the word used to describe the spout of a general to his victorious army. Thank God for that shout of victory which shall penetrate the stony vault, the earthen grave, and the (Continued on Page 13) Page Five November, 1932 THE 0 PEN BIB L E M E S"S ENG ER Seven Fundamentals ~~. Fred Lohmann, Pastor Trinity Tabernacle, St. Louis, Missouri There are many truths taught in the scriptures which may be essential to the happiness and pr:osperity of Christian believers, but the seven I wish to h~ve you consider are so vital that if one of them IS proven to be untrue then the whole Christian system must fall because it is founded upon falsehood. Each of these seven pillars of truth, as held by the church throughout the ages of its existance, is attacked today by skeptics and branded as superstition and classified with mythologies of the past. Let us consider these fundamental doctrines of the Christian faith in the light of reason, common sense, and the discoveries of modern science, and after we have considered at least a part of the evidences to be presented to support them as truths, then let us render a verdict upon the basis of what we have found to be facts. It is to be regretted indeed that many, if not most, of those who pass sentence upon the old-fashioned fundamentals of the Christian faith and relegate them to a place among the moth-eaten antiques of bygone ages, are men and women who have not actually gone into this matter from both sides and honestly considered the evidences in the case, No .man should pass judgment on any question until he has heard the evidence in the case. ~he inspiration of the scriptures is openly denied by some of the so-called great among our educators, and even among ministers, we find m~n who, while professing the Christian faith and fe~gnmg ,to p~each the Gospel of Christ, are tainted WIth this latest product of infidelity under the guise of higher education and science socalled. Such men have lost, if they ever had it, the. one and only thing which could ever make their message one of power to turn men to righteousness, namely, the fact that the Bible is indeed the Word of God and therefore inspired. The origin of the Bible has been called in question. Who is the author of this book we call the Bible? Where did it originate? Is it the product of mere man, or is it indeed true that it is a revelation from the Infinite God? Modern atheists who would like to assume the right to do the world's thinking, declare it to be the work of man, and therefore not inspired or "God breathed", as taught by the church. Let us consider some of the evidences to be presented in support of the inspiration of the book. t b e d erne led The unity of the Bibl 1 e canno even by its critics, and yet it is composed of sixt _ . books whose authors lived a es and a e y SIX and whose writings were wriften unde; diffPartt circumstances and in different Ian u s eren than thirty-five men took part in ~e~~:din~VIf~~ writings we call the Bible, and a period of about Page Six fifteen hundred years passed from the time it had its beginning until it was crowned upon the lonely Isle of Patmos where its last and final chapter, according to the unfolding of the divine revelation, was dictated to the Apostle John, by Him, whose "Voice was as the sound of many waters", who "walked in the midst of the candlesticks", and who "held the seven stars in His right hand." Yet it is but one book, with one unbroken theme, and holds before the gaze of sinful man the only hope of salvation. The same breath breathes through its every page, and it has painted upon its canvas, the history of the nations, foretelling in detail more than twenty-five hundred and thirty years of human history, touching every condition of the great world empires, their rise, fall, and the conditions which prevailed at the time of their existence, Not one phase of human life or history, political, spiritual, or economic has been over looked. The daily press of the nations at this hour, in recording current events, speak the language of the prophets. From ancient Babylon to the coming Kingdom of Messiah, this book which the Christian believes to be "the Inspired Word of God", has flung before the world a mighty panorama of coming events and brought moderns face to face with the greatest array of evide~lce of its inspirati~n that it is possible to c0.n~elve. S~e, upon this sc~een hung by ~he plvme hand in tJ:1epages of this book and passmg m ~ne 15ra~d r~vlew before our eyes, the eVI~enc,es o! ~ts mspIratlor;, From far away Eden with ItS smfu.l pair leaving the g~rden in ~hame, where the first promise of a SaVIOr was given, down to proud Mount Moriah where Abraham offered up Isaac, ~p.d wher,e ~undreds of years later "Immanu?l ga~e ~IIS life a. ra.nsom for all upon the world s sacrificial altar, It IS one grand and glorious s~stem of teaching a sinful race the way of salvatl.on a.nd proymg to wayward man the love of an infinite .SavlOur, .. . The ~eachm~ t~at t~e Blbl~ IS .out of date, mcorrect~ un~c~entlfic, and altogether a back num~e~ IS no~ true. In th,e real~ of astronomy, che.m.l~try, SCIence an,d. ll1VentlO~l, archeology, politics, finance, and .rel~glOn, the BIble has .spoken and to~lay stands vIr;dlCated by the findl~1gs.?f ~rue sCI~nce, There. IS not on,e proven scientific fact which contradicts the BIJ;>le, Scientists do not. al"~ays, make clea~' the difference between their theories and their facts, but facts which h b b t t' . . ,.ave~en proven, ear es nmony to th~ mspiration of the ~cnptures, Astronomers 111 recent ~ears, searching the, heavens with their giant telescopes, have venti.ed the statements of Job ~~d othe~s ho ~p~~e l~ the l7 ng ag~, concerning e mys en~~o~tinueg one~~:~ bodies, and the :v r3) THE OPEN BIBLE MESSENGER November, 1932 CONVENTION RESUME . .Convent~o~ week for the Open Bible Evangelistic ASSOCIatIOnopened at Des Moines Iowa Sunday evening, October 13. With a full' week'~ schedule of three sessions a day, ministers and delegates found the time not only enj oyable and interesting -as con v e n t ion s shouldbe-but profitable because God was in the midst. The Rev. F r e d Lohmann, pastor of Trinity Tabernacle, St. Louis, Missouri, opened the convention with a timely m e s sag e for the evangelistic service, using the subject, "When God S aid REV. AND MRS. J. R. RICHEY Goodby." Ministers met together for their first session on Monday afternoon. Rev. John R. Richey, pastor of the Church of the Open Bible, Nineteenth and Crocker Streets, Des Moines, Iowa, in speaking to the ministers, expressed the desire of every worker when he spoke of the need of lifting up high standards of holiness for the people of God. The closing hour of the afternoon conference was spent in prayer. Realizing their need of a deeper experience that they might lead others on to know God, each one rededicated his life unto the Lord. The memory of this time of prayer lingers in the hearts of those present because of the way 'the Holy Spirit dealt with the lives of men and women. "They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength." Brother Lohmann's topic, "Is the End of This Age at Hand?" proved to be most inspirational to the large congregation present at the evening service. Tuesday's schedule included a prayer meeting at 9:30 a. m., a sermon by Charles M. Learning, evangelist, at the afternoon session, and a message in the evening by the Rev. Wm. Watson, pastor of the Open Bible Church, Detroit, Michigan. Preparation for the ordination service of Wednesday, October 19, was begun at the morning prayer hour when Brother Lohmann spoke concerning the need of "open channels for the Spirit of God." In the afternoon the Rev. Louise H. Richey gave a resume of the message of the Open Bible. Officiating at the ordination service of the evening, the Rev. A. W. Kortcamp, pastor of the Moline, Illionis, Full Gospel Temple, dealt with the question "Is Anti-Christ at Hand?" The sacred ceremony at the close of the service included the ordination of forty-six ministers, fortyfour of whom were present. The following received certificates of ordination under the Open Bible Evangelistic Association: Arthur Adams, Roberta T. Adams, Harold L. Adams, Gwendolyn E. Adams, Marie Barnett, Pearl J. Booton, Evelyn L. Chamberlin, Maybelle Cutting, Emma Goehring, Hazel F. Halsey, Cline Halsey, Lela Haycock, Ora Hillan, Merrill King, Myrtle King, Nelly Keizer, Albertus M. Keizer, Roy M. Klopping, Rena V. Klopping, Daniel E. Buser, Elvelyn G. Euser, Charles M. Leaming, Pearl C. Leaming, Clarence E. La Mar, Don L. McArtor, Jean P. McArtor, Irvin MeDowell. Olive McDowell, George Martin, Landon W. Mendenhall, Hazel M. Mendenhall, R. B. Mitehell, Lola L, Mitchell, Edna L. Mosier, David E. Mofken, John R. Rlehey, Louise H. Richey, Wilbur L. Sterrett, Samuel Kelly, Mary A. Webb, W. A. Weyrauch, Eugene Williams, Florence Iil, Wixom, Emily G. Wright and William J. Watson. A day of prayer was observed 'I'hursday, A continuous time of communion with the Lord was maintained throughout the day until the time of the evening servlce. Tho Rev, Wilbur Sterett, pastor at Waterloo, Iowa, gave an instructive message on the Holy Spirit, and prayer war; resumed at the close of the meeting in the auditorium. At the end of the week, fourteen had received the Baptism of the Holy Spirit. A Divine Healing service with prayer for tho sick was conducted by Brother Lohmann, Saturday. The three services of Sunday with Brother Lohmann as speaker, climaxed a glorious week for Goe!. At the afternoon meeting parents were brought face to face with their responsibilities to their homes and families by a mesaage on "Family Religion". During his message, Brother Lohmann made this strtking statement: "The bulwark of our strength today Is in our Christian homos. We need to get back to the f a m il y standards of religion and bring God into our homes." The outstanding impression of the can v e n t Ion week was a feelIng of having been with the Lord. A burden for souls became a reality in the lives of the min i s tel's and delegates; a missionary vision ontercel i n tot he plans for the comHEV. AND MRS. CHAS. LFJAMING ing year, and an offering of one hundred and thirty-nine dollars was received for missions; Hauls were saved in tho evangelistic services. Praise God from whom all blessings flow! May He guide and direct each worker that the endeavors of this coming year will bring glory to His name. The next convention for the Association will be held in May, 1933. Page Seven November, 1932 THE OPEN BIBLE MESSENGER By LOUISE The message of the open Bible! What pleas- the hearts of poor lost sinners. The Book must ing, soothing words! They are such words as the be open, the truth must be known, that the Lord child of God loves to turn over and over in the Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God came to revolutions of his mind. They sift into his heart die for all men. His forerunner, John the Baptist, and cling to the walls of the inner shrine of his looked upon Him and said, "Behold the Lamb soul. They become as emeralds and rubies of God which taketh away the sin of the world". mounted and studded with gold as he meditates Today all the world must hear this "good izews", the gospel story of salvation. The red and white, upon their value and worth. "The message of the open Bible!" What is it? the black and yellow races must know that Jesus Let us ponder for a moment upon the meaning died for them too. They must hear of the cleansing power of the blood of Jesus Christ to cleanse of the words themselves. ''The message"-"communication"-what hungry soul does not enjoy from all sin, no matter how vile they may be. The communion and fellowship with a delightful com- Word of God must be an open book, presenting panion? ~~w let us consider the phrase, "of the salvation through the death of the Lord Jesus open Bible". The very tvord "open" is inviting. Christ upon the Cross of Calvary. It makes one think that he is standing before a . Let us look away to Calvary and see God's portal with the gates flung wide, and he feels as message to a lost, condemned, and perishing if something was beckoning for him to come in- world. There it is in a concrete form for all eyes side. The word "Bible" to see the old rugged m e a n s "the Book" and cross, an emblem of torsurely it is "the Book," for ture and death, and there "The Son of Man," who there is no other book like it i n all the world, for it is was the very "Son of God" God's Book. I t is a library died to set all men free. of records that contains He met the Divine judgGod's purpose and plan for ment there for all, and man; it is a treasury of bore in His own body the Divine Truth that God desins 0%the whole world as sires to reveal to those He died upon that cruel tree. Time has removed who love Him; it is a revelaton of His Son, the Lord the wooden structure of Jesus Christ, and the suthe cross but the work t h a t w a s accomplished preme sacrifice that He made for the salvation of there will live throughout lost humanity upon the &MESSAGE OF THE OPEN BIBLEV eternity. By faith today Cross of Calvary. There we can see that cross upon the cross through His death He unlocked planted upon Calvary's brow with its arms outGod's greatest treasury of truth and it stands open stretched to all the world and its upright beam today to all who will enter by way of the cross. pointing toward heaven, To me, the great per"The message of the open Bible" is God's coin- pendicular beam of the cross represents the Lord munication with man through the printed page of Himself, the left arm represents Jesus, the "Son His "Living Word" and whosoever will may come 0.1 Man," and the right arm represents Cllrist, through His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, and enjoy "the Anointed One," the Son of God. These Divine fellowship. arms seem to be outstretched, beckoning to all God's message to man is through the Cross of the world to come and h e e l at the foot of the Calvary, and it is the only entrance into His Cross and accept the Lord Jesus Christ as their Word. Apart from the cross, the Bible is a "closed Saviour. Jesus died to provide universal salvabook" to man. Men have closed the Book unto tion and to make all men free, yet each individual themselves by their own reasoning; they have soul must yield in repentance at the Saviour's shackled its power in their own lives by the Bet- feet and know his own sins forgiven and his own ters of their unbelief; but God's Word is "quick heart cleansed with the precious blood 0.1 the and powerful" and cannot long be fettered by dying Lamb of God. The father cannot repent for men for it is God's present day communication his son, nor the mother for her daughter, but each with mankind and it must be open to speak to individual must come and accept salvation, I Page Eight , 1 THE OPEN BIBLE MESSENGER November, 1932 must 1cn.eel at the foot of that cross and accept bore it for you in the provision that He made for by faitlz what He has accomplished for me. I your physical healing at the whipping post, must lcneel at His blessed feet, myself, and ask "EIimself took our infirmities, and bare our sickHim to forgive and cleanse me and to accept me nesses." (Matt. %:17.) as His own. Loved ones and friends can pray Look at the other arm of the cross stretching for me and intercede in my behalf but I must forth as a sheltering wing over His Church. meet my Saviour alone. I remember now, how Christ is not only the Head of 1-3s Church, that I met Him there, when I was but a child of invisible, throbbing organism of His born again twelve, as I lmelt at an altar in a revival meeting believers, but He is the very life of His body, the and cried out for His forgiveness. Though young Church. When He went back to heaven from in years, I realized my l ~ e a r twas heavy with sin earth He left behind a small scattered group of and that I must uncover it before Him, that I-Ie weak disciples, who had proven thelnselves as might wash it clean with His precious blood. The failures in the crucial hour of I-Iis death. He had hot tears poured down my cheeks as I sobbed out commissioned them to go into all the world and my repentance, but He forgave me and cleansed preach the gospel to every creature. But how me from my sin and drew me close to Him, bless could a doubting Thomas and a denying Peter His dear Name. If you have never met the Sav- preach the Gospel? How could tlzese weak foliour there at the foot of His cross, dear reader, lowers of the Christ preach to a sin-cursed world? He is looking for you. He Ah, the Lord Jesus Christ wants to fofgive your sin; never intended them to EIe wants to gather you in preach, but He told them His strong embrace and to wait. "And behold I draw you close to Him, send the promise of my "And God shall wipc away all tows from their When Jesus, the Son of father upon you; but tarry eyes; and theye shall hc no morc death, neither Man, was here upon earth, ye in the city of Jerusorrow, nor crying; neither shall thoro bo any nioro He went about doing good salem until ye be endued pain; for the forlner things arc passed away." to all men. He healed the with power from on high." Rev. 21:4. sick of a11 manner of dis(Luke 24:49). When the day of His departure areases, young and old, rich rived and He was with and poor. None were overIn nmnory of Brother Frank Wcinmnn, lor years His disciples on Mount loolred who came to Him. a InithPul worker for God in the West Dcs Moincs Today I-Te is the same comOlivet, He went away Church, as Deacon, Elder, Assistant Sunday School saying, "Ye shall receive passionate Jesus. He has Supcrtntcndcnt, U ~ h c rand Bible tcnclier, who went power after that the Holy not lost His power and He to his reward on October 31, 1932. Ghost is come upon you: wants to heal all who come to Him. Paul reminds us and ye shall be witnesses that IIc is the same now as of yore. "Jesus unto me both in 3Terusalem, and in all Judaca, Christ tlze samo yesterday, and today, and lor- and in Samaria, a.nd unto the uttermost art ever." (I-Ieb. 13:8.) Today mcn and women need of the earth." (Acts 1:8.) While the Lord ~Gsus to know that Jesus lzas not lost His power to heal Christ was yet speaking these words to I-Iis the sick, and that t11e left arm of the cross points disciples He was taken up from them and a cloud to tlze whipping post where they scourged Him received I-Iim out of their sight. Recdling His command to tarry until they were filled with that Isaiah's prophecy might be fulfilled-"with His stripcs we are healed." (Ias, 53:5.) The apostle the power of the Holy Ghost, they made their Peter, looking baclr to the whipping post and be- way to Jerusalem to wait for the Promise of the holding the bloody stripes left upon the Master's Father. They gathered in an upper room-perbaclr by the scourger's lash, has written "by haps the same upper room where the Lord had whose slxipcs ye werc healed." Today Christian eaten the last Passover Feast with them, and reader, il you are suflcring in your body and you where He had blessed the bread and the wine and have found no remedy among physicians and had instituted the Lord's Supper-about one hunsurgeons, look away to Jesus as the healer of your dred and twenty in number and "these all conbody and accept Him as your physician, nothing tinued with one accord in prayer and supplicais too hard for Him, You do not have to carry tion." (Even the mother of Jesus was there.) (Continued on Page 10) that dreadful disease in your body any longer. He Page Nine . , November, 1932 THE OPEN BIBLE MESSENGER Rev. Pearl Booten, Pastor ~t VVezrer, Iowa ' "For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.'' Isa. 55.9. Little did I dream three years ago last Februruarv. while ~ l a n n i n n ", my future, tl& GO^ w o u 1d intervene a n d change the course of my life; but that is exactly what happened. Events took place so suddenly and in such a queer way. My mother received a missionary paper from W. K. Norton's work in Benares, India, each month and I read the news because it was interesting. I had never thought o% being a missionary, althourrh as a child, "I imagined I would like to be an orphanage worker. Then one day the Lord put this question to me, "Are you willing to go to India?" The very idea startled and frightened me. I didn't answer the Lord, and for several months kept my mind and heart as far removed from that subject as possible and tried to forget, it; but strange to say the Lord never forgot; He bothered me so much that I couldn't study. I had taken a course in I'ligh School which would help me in my training as a Latin and History teacher, but the year preceeding graduation (that was after the Lord had asked me that seemingly fatal question) I changed my mind so many times, that only the Lord would have known what I would have been, had He not so changed the direction of my life. One night while I was praying down at a little Foursquare church in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, the Lord toppled over my "tower of Babel" with all of its selfishness and He again asked me if I would go, and I gave the answer in the affirmative-("it is hard to kick against the pric1rs")-and then God gave me peace. After that episode, the Lord led me out to Angelus Temple Bible School (where I learned quite a few 1.essons on "Faith" and "Obedience"), giving me work most of the time I was there, for which I praise Him. I n September, 1932, a returned missionary from Dhond, Poona District, India, wrote to nie asking that I go back with her. The station in which she has been working is an independent Page Ten full gospel "Faith" orphanage, of which John E. Norton is director. He manages the station on the George Mueller plan, that is, he trusts God to send in the funds. God willing, I expect to go back with this woman missionary, and covet your prayers. My trust is in God, for He said, "Fear not, I will help thee." Sister Booton plans to mil for Inditl in tho spring, tho Lord willing. We ssli yo11 to p l y with us tlmt the Lord will proviilo tho nckcessury means Sol* 0111. Sister's tr:~11s1)o1*t:~l,io11 mid s ~ ~ p port. Miss 8oott.11 will bo visiting tho lluld , ch~~rches and speslring in tho inturesL of nlissions. THE MESSAGE O F THE OPEN BIBLE (Continued from Page 9 ) "And when tlie day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance." (Acts 2:1, 4.) This was the beginning of the Church of Christ, which was baptized and submerged in the power of the Holy Spirit, even as the Lord had promised to His disciples as He went away. Now Peter stood up with the eleven and witnessed before tlie great throng of people. This new found power, even the power of the Holy Ghost, the third person of the Eternal Godhead, enabled the denying Peter to become a witness for the m i s u n d e r s t o o d Messiah among the Jews who had so recently crucified I-Iim. They were so pricked in their hearts by the conviction of the Holy Spirit that they cried out "laen and brethern, what shall we do?" "And the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.'' The power of the Holy Ghost had wrought this great change in the little group of discipes until they feared no man and the city of Jerusalem and the country around about was stirred by the strange happenings that occurred daily through these Spirit-filled men of God. Why is the twentieth century church so weak and powerless? Because she lacks this power of the Holy Ghost. She needs to be submerged and baptized in that power until she can stand and bear witness for her Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and see wonders wrought in His mighty Name. Believer friend, that power is for you loo. Perhaps you find it hard to testify for your beloved Saviour and you wonder why you are so weak and fearful. You know that you love Him (Continued on Pagc 1 2 ) THE OPEN BIBLE "Pastors and members of the Iowa Falls Open Bible Tabernacle send greetings through the Open Bible 1Uessenger with a prayer that it shall truly bc n white winged messenger for God and do its work of winning souls for the Master. "We can report victory for Christ and I-Iis glory. Sister 1Uaybellc Cutting, from Long Beach, California, graduate of L, I. P'. E., has been with u s since July. "On August 30, members and friends gathercd on t.hc rivcr bank and witnessed a baptismal service conducted by Rev. John R. Richey and Brothc!r King, as thirty-two children of the living God :lbllowcd t h i r Lord i n water baptism. "For tlie past fivc weeks we have been carrying on in Uuckeyc, holding services in the I. 0. 0. F. hall. God has brought unto I-Iimself twentysix souls in thcsc mcctings." Mcrrill and King, Co-pastors. A glowing rcport was received from Brother and Sislcr IIclrold L, Adams who reccntly closed a six-wcel: revival campaign for the Church of tlx! Open J3iX11~1,Shcldoil, Iowa, oS which the Rev. and Mrs. A. M. Ihizcr arc pastors. Services are bcing corxductod in the Christian church oP that city. Tlw report is as follows: "Wr! sturtcd with only a Pcw pcoplc present but as thi:, rncctings continued the crowds incrc:zscd zmtil thc church, seating three hundred, was lillcd nxid many wcrc turncd away. During t11c spccial scrviccs, nine were baptizcd in water and sevcral miracles, including the healing ol' t i lady with tlzrcc tumors, and a woman alnictod with liuy Scvcr, were wrought by God i n answtv to pn~gc!r," Thc rcvivnl i s now being continued by Brother and Sistcr 31. W. McCdlough, Sorlner pastors at Milcs City, Mont,;una, and wo trust thcy will havc a n ahi.mtlan2. 1i:u.vrst of souls. MESSENGER November, 1932 under Christ's great leadership. Services are being held every Sunday morning and evening; also Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday nights. "Sunday School, Children's Church, and a Crusader movement are all an outgrowth of the revival. "It has been the joy of our lives to p o h t the people of Boone to Jesus, the only one who can save and forgive sins. We are expecting God to do great things in Boone in the future," Since the opening of the work in this town, Iifty souls have been led to Christ. Rcmember to pray for these dear wor1r;ers and their charge. $ & .= -- Des Moines is to have a fourth Open Bible Church. The new building which the people of I-Iighland Park are erccting will be ready for the opening service soon after the first of December. The work in Highland Park was begun by Evangelist Charles M. Learning, Services were held in the large tent used by the Learning evangelistic party. During thcir stay of nine weeks in this campaign, one hundred and nfty people gave their hearts to the Lord as they knelt at the rough board altars in the tent. While waiting for the completion of their church home, the Highland Park pcople are meeting in a home for services three nights each week. -- A rally lor the Open Bible Crusaclcrs of Iowa is being planned for December 2. At this time the young people from the four Des Moines churches and delegates from th.e Aeld churches arc espcctcd to attend. The day promises to be a profitable one. Groups from the field churches are urged to plan to come to Des Moines for this rally, which will bc held at tlie West Des Moincs church. &+==-' Brothers Samuel Kelly and Clarence LaMar 011May Zi, 1!1:12, thc c:hurch doors wcrc opcn- are co-pastors of a thriving church in Burlington, ccl m r l 111~lirsl sorviw hcld in Boone, Iowa, in Iowa. The scrviccs arc now bcing hcld in the St. thc O~)csi13ihlv Ch11rc-Ii. Brotlic~ra i d Sistcr Ilur- Paul's M. E. Church, which the congregation is old Adams i ~ ~ i111~othc~ tl :itid Sister Arthur Adams, purchasing. of 1,o:; An!:(11(>:;,Calil'ornin, coiiclud.cc1 the services Thi:; work was opcncd with a tent revival in ~ O L w(~(~I:s, I ~ d111*it1{; which t i m ~the iktt.<>~?di~ncc July by Brothm LaMar and Brother Austin Ashstcaclily inclwscd ley. During tht: first month uS mcctings, thirty of' 1,lict lirst month ol meetings, souls wcre saved. At the closc ol this month's At, t h ( ~c~lo:.;(~ 13roth(~r;11ic1 Sist(>rIIi11~)ldAclams went to New- scrviccs, Brother Ashley 1cCI for school, and Rev. ton, Iowa, 10 assist th(1 Lcaming party, leaving David Morkcn assisted Erothcr LaMar for a Pew Brother i~nrl Sist.c>rArthur Aclnms as pastors in weeks until the arrival of Brother Kelly. c1i;lrgc:. 7'11c~1x~ is a ring ol victory in their rcport They writc in their letter that thcy are going ol' tllc work, wl~ichrcucls: "Six months Iiuvc: slipped by with the revival on to "deeper dcpths and higher heights". God fires still bwning andl the work: steadily growing bless them as they labor for Him. Page Eleven November, 1932 THE OPEN BIBLE ANEW BOOK ~~ An attractive booklet, "Are You Ready for the Harvest?" written by A. A. Sandy, Des Moines physician, and superintendent of the Open Bible Sunday school, Ninteenth and Crocker streets, has just been published and is now ready for distribution. The object of the book, states Dr. Sandy on the introductory page, is not so much to instruct the student and believer in the glorious truth of our Lord's second coming, but rather to convince the unbelieving multitude, both in and out of our churches of the rapid fulfillment of prophecy pertaining to Christ's second advent. Excerpts from two of twenty definite signs pointing to the imminent return of Christ, set forth in the publication, are as follows: "The political sign: The sea and waves roaring stand for war and revolution. Human governments are being tested as never before. Scepters are breaking and thrones tottering. Justice is breaking down, law courts are failing. Fear is in the hearts of many, both the millionaire and the beggar. "There are no less than ten million men unemployed in the United States today. "Sir George Paish, the great British economist, made the following statement in 1930: 'World trade now lies in the shadow of the worst financial crisis in history. We are drinking and making merry for tomorrow we die. I say with the highest authority and challenge anyone to deny it, that we are threatened with the greatest financial crisis the world has ever seen . . . . We are face to face with the crisis now ... it means disaster to the world. Weare now trying to see a way out-we are just dancing. I am not exaggerating-I wish I were.' "Moral sign: Professor Pitkin of Columbia University, is reported by "TIME" as saying 'Almost everything that we have done in the United States in education, and especially higher education, has been wrong . . . I cannot be proud of an educational system that turns out guilty barbarians.' "Warden Lewis of Sing Sing prison says, 'There is no moral force in the class room . . . . The failure of our schools and general educational methods is filling our juvenile homes, our reformatories and prisons.' " Space will not permit printing additional excerpts from the booklet but copies may be obtained by writing to the OPEN BIBLE MESSENGER. (Price fifty cents each.) MESSENGER OPEN BIBLE TRAINING SCHOOL ~~. "Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth." II Timothy 2:15. With this scripture for their motto, the Open Bible Training School opened in September for their third year of study, with one hundred and fifty students enrolled. The curriculum offers classes in preparation for bible training, evangelism, and pastoral work, and includes the following courses of study: Bible Evangelism, Bible Doctrine, Four Gospels, Prophecy, Types and Shadows, Philosophy of the Cross, Practical Theology, Divine Healing, Pentateuch, Homiletics, Pauline Epistles, Personal Work, Church History, English, and Children's Work. Classes are to be held at night, two evenings a week, from seven to nine thirty. The next enrollment will be September 1, 1933. No new students will be admitted for the midyear term. ~~ THE MESSAGE OF THE OPEN BIBLE (Continued from Page 10) but you seem powerless to tell others about Him. ~ ou need the power. of the Holy Ghost in your life to make you a Witness. "But," you say, "that experience is not for me. I'll just have to do the best I can." Oh, no! Your best is not enough. You need the power of the Holy Ghost, even as Peter of old, who said "For the promise is unto you and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call." (Acts 2:39.) If you know that you have been called from the world of sin to follow after the Master then that promise includes you, does it not? Begin now to search your heart and wait upon the Lord for the Promised Baptizer and He will come into your life to dwell and to empower you for greater service for your Lord and Saviour. As the upright beam of the cross points heavenward, so the believer who kneels at the foot of the cross and accepts the Saviour as his own, should live looking upward, watching and praying for the return of the Lord Jesus Christ. When He was taken up into heaven from his disciples, two men in white apparel ap.peared before them saying, "This same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven." (Acts IrLl.) So we are to live looking Ior the return of the same Jesus who suffered and died for us upon the cross, and ascended into heaven where He is seated at the right hand of the Fathe; interceding for His own, and some day-we know not the day nor the hour-He is coming even as ~~ He said. The Church of Jesus Christ should labor Mr. and Mrs. William Dexter are the proud and live "Looking for that blessed hope and the parents of a baby boy, born November 1, 1932. glorious appearing of the great God 'and our The young son has been named David Eugene. (Continued on page 13) Page Twelve THE OPEN BIBLE WHEN THE BRIDEGROOM SHOUTS MESSENGER November, 1932 - THE MESSAGE OF THE OPEN BIBLE (Continued from Page 12) (Continued from Page 5) caverns of the sea to bring forth the glorified bodies of the redeemed dead. It will also be the summoning call to the living saints to meet their heavenly Bridegroom i n the clouds of glory. Old Job knew about this "shout from heaven" over three' thousand years ago. He was sitting on 'the ash heap outside his city covered with the Devil's boils from the crown of his shaven head to the soles of his feet. I-Ie asked for death but it wouldn't come. He called to God, but the heavens were silent. His soul was in sore travail, goods were gone, children gone, the joy of earthly life gone. His three remaining friends were seated around him like vultures waiting for their prey to die. There was no fear of death for him. Indeed there was a great hope for the call of the Redeemer. He said, "All the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come. THOU SHALT CALL, and I will answer thee; thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands." Job was looking forward to that shout from heaven. A little while later he got so happy over it that we hear him shout, "I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that He shall stand at the latter day upon the earth; . . . in my flesh shall I see God." We praise our Saviour for the certainty and glory of His coming. The next great event for the invisible Church of Christ today is the sounding of that shout from heaven which shall call her from service here to worship up there. Every heart that is in tune with that voice will respond and be raised in the twinkling of an eye by the power of the indwelling Spirit of God. May the Lord Jesus make us ready to respond to that shout, keeping our eyes on the heavens and our lives in His hand until the dawn of that great day. ds=--, Since the opening of services at Pella, Iowa, in June, 85 souls have knelt at the altar seeking Christ. Thirty-one have been baptised in water, and many sick bodies have been healed by the Lord in answer to prayer. Cottage prayer meetings are held each week with an average attendance of 50, many of which are waiting upon God for the infilling of the Holy Spirit. Preaching services are held each Saturday and Sunday cvcning in the American Legion Hall. The incetings have been well attended and intcrest is increasing. Brothcr and Sister Clarencc Truitt, workers in charge, have been assisted by the Misses Mildrcd and Lillian Nelson of Forest City, Iowa. All arc stuclcnts of the Open Biblc Training School of Dcs Moinrs. Iowa. Saviour Jesus Christ." (Titus 2:13.) The next time the Lord comes He is not coming t o die for the world; but He is coming for the Church Bride who has washed her garments white and is adorned and waiting for her Bridegroom. What a glorious day of meeting that will be "For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air; and so shall we ever be with the Lord." The Church will not behold a thorny crown upon the Master's brow when she sees Him, but a golden crown with many diadems will adorn His head and He shall be hailed as King of Kings and Lord of Lords and before Him ever knee shall bow. Dear reader, if you wish to be among those to behold the Lord when I-Ie comes, make sure that you have lmelt at the foot of the cross in repentance and that your garments have been washed white in the blood of the Lamb-that you have crowned Him as the King of your heart and life. If you have not already made your decision and accepted ETim as your Saviour, why not do it now lest some future time might be too late? "The message of the open Bible?" What is it? It is God's love communicated to man through the death of His crucified Son upon the cross of Calvary. What is this message? It is the Lord Jesus Christ as the Saviour for the sin-sick soul; it is the Lord Jesus Christ as the Healer of the sick body; it is the Lord Jesus Christ as the Baptizer of the Holy Ghost upon the consecrated believer; it is the Lord Jesus Christ as the Coming King for His Church. That is God's message through His crucfied Son to the whole wide world. %&9-- SEVEN FUNDAMENTALS (Continued from Page 6) greatness of the universal being. Among the facts were the secret of the preserving and handling of high explosives. One of the leading chemists during the World War, proved the correctness of the Bible and took from the writings of Job the formula for making T. N. 2'. safe to handle. In this ancient book is also found the first and finest description ever given of the radio and its mysteries. Yct the wise ones who would have us discard the Bible as a relic of an outgrown age, get all excited when they make some so-called "new discovery", when in fact they have not :found something "new", but are merely digging up facts recorded in the Bible, and often times stated in the language of the moderns. (Continued in next issue) Page Thirteen November, THE 1932 OPEN BIBLE MESSENGER GRAINS FROM THE, HARVEST FIELD ATTENTION READERS! (Continued from Page 13) If you have enjoyed this copy of the OPEN BIBLE MESSENGER we urge you to send in your subscription now so that you will receive your copies regularly. Fill in the blank below, printing your name and address plainly and mail to Tl}:E OPEN BIBLE MESSENGER, Nineteenth and Crocker streets, Des Moines, Iowa. Make all remittances payable to the OPEN BIBLE MESSENGER. No individual copies will be mailed for December. All subscriptions will begin January, 1933. If you desire to have the December copy mailed to you, send ten cents extra with your subscription order. 'I'he subscription price in U. S. A. and possessions, one dollar per year; Canada, one dollar and twenty-five cents. The magazine is published monthly (twelve copies per year). ~-------------------.~ THE OPEN BIBLE MESSENGER, Nineteenth and Crocker Sts., Des Moines, Iowa. Enclosed find one dollar for which please send the OPEN :sIBLE MESSENGER for one year, beginning January, 1933. Name _ ~ After closing a two months' tent meeting in Highland Park, assisted by Brother and Sister Harold Adams, Brother and Sister Charles M. Learning accepted a call for revival services in Osceola with Sisters Caroline Paul, and Edna Mosier. The meeting was conducted in a tent in a tourist park in that city and from the first service, God placed His stamp of approval upon the work. Every service during the three weeks was blessed in a most unusual manner. People attended the meetings from a radius of over fifty miles. During the services one hundred confessed Christ as their Savior. The Learnings write as follows: "Several real miracles of healing took place in answer to believing prayer; among them a lady almost totally blind for eight years, to the extent that she had to be led about, was instantly healed in so much that she walked off the platform with no assistance and continued to attend the services. Her testimony was one that stirred the entire community. The sick and afflicted came from many miles seeking a touch from the Great Physician. "A young man, unsaved, afflicted with a disease that baffled doctors, was saved upon his bed and healed by simple faith in Jesus Christ. He was prayed for on Thursday, and attended services on the following Sunday, giving a testimony that stirred hearts. "On the last Sunday of the tent meeting, an old-fashioned water baptismal service was conducted in a small lake located in the city park. Twenty-seven followed the Lord in baptism. It was estimated that over seven hundred people witnessed the scene." A tabernacle is now being erected to be known as the Osceola Gospel Tabernacle which will be ready for opening on November 19. Brother and Sister Harold Adams are carrying on with Sister Carolyn Paul in this new work. The Leamings are now in the midst of a revival in Dover, Ohio, where Brother Corliss Coe is pastor. 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