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Speaker No. 2: I have been reading late ly about the need for an intensive evangel istic campaign in China. I would like to send the money to our board to be used in securing more evangelists and sending them forth to carry the gospel to the un evangelized millions of China. ( Follow with a gripping illustration of evangelism.) Speaker No. 3: I think all that is great, but I am so fascinated by the mountain work in Tennessee and Kentucky, that I would love to send the money there. Those folks need chapels, schools, preachers, teachers, and community workers. You ought.to hear about their need. {Give a story.) Speaker No. 4: Well, I’ve a new place entirely. I want to send it to the colored people down South. They need the gospel and respond in such a wonderful way that I consider money sent there is a great in vestment. ( Name some colored leaders and tell of their work.) After all have taken part in the discus sion, let the vote be taken and the decision given as to where the money is needed most. This is merely a suggestion, but a live, wide-awake leader can develop the idea, and, with resourceful assistants, give a real missionary educational program. II. S e n t e n c e F acts Forty million heathen die every year. Every tick Of the watch sounds the death knell of a heathen soul. With every breath we draw, four souls perish, never having heard of Christ. In 1823, the first Chinese evangelist was ordained; in 1907, the centenary of Protes tant missions in China, there were 10,000 native helpers. _ _ _ _ _ Sentence Sermons All life is surrounded by a great circum ference of death; but to the believer in Jesus, beyond this surrounding death is a boundless sphere of life. He has only to die once to be done with death forever. — J a m e s H a m il t o n . The missionary is in practice what the man of liberal philosophy is in sentiment. — C h a l m e r s . Do you wish to be great ? Then begin by being little. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundations. Modest humility is beau ty’s crown.— A u g u s t in e . Everything it will honestly bear, you may pile upon the back of a divine promise. — L if e of F a it h A l m a n a c . “Ye trembling saints, fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread, Are big with mercy and shall break In blessings o’er your head.” If there be sacrifice in the giver, there will be spiritual power in the gift. —J. H. J owett . God’s children work because they love to, and the devil’s because they have to. — S elected . God is within easy reach everywhere. The experience of nearness is determined by the actual desire of each human heart. — W a t c h m a n - E x a m in e r .
APRIL 24, 1932 OPPORTUNITIES FOR LIFE INVESTMENT M a t t h e w 25:14-29 Suggestions (or the Meeting Hymns—“Give of Your Best to the Mas ter.” “Send the Light.” Prayer by the Chairman of the Mission ary Committee. Special Musical Number. Address by a Missionary. Quiet Hour (pray for missionaries by name). Benediction. Illustrations I R obert M o ffa t When Robert Moffat and his wife went to Africa as missionaries, they worked ten years before they had one convert. But behold, blessings at last! It had been a long night ; but at last came, almost with out warning, a marvelous outpouring of God’s Spirit, and the fruit of their loving, patient toil appeared at once. Men and women, with broken hearts and tearful eyes, flocked to the missionaries, confessing themselves sinners, and ac knowledging Christ as their Saviour. On all hands, it was a new birth, new crea tures, new practices. Prayer meetings and praise meetings were held by the natives from house to house, and often they lasted until morning dawn. Practical results grew out of the change. A church and school- house were built and paid for by the na tives, and the sick and dying were properly cared for. In Christ Jesus, we are all new crea tures, whether in Africa, China, or Amer ica. Such is the effect of evangelism every where the precious story of the cross is preached. II. F id e l ia F is k e On one occasion, Fidelia Fiske, the be loved and faithful missionary to Persia, had the joy of sitting down to the com munion table with ninety-two persons whom she had been the means of bringing to Christ. III. W a n l e s s of M ir a j A stirring example of medical work is that of Dr. Wanless of Miraj in India. He met, in his pre-medical days, a poor little girl who was dying of tuberculosis. She had accumulated a purse of forty cents, which on her deathbed she gave to Dr. Wanless with the charge that, if he ever succeeded in fulfilling his ambition to go as a medical missionary, he should take that little treasure of hers and make it of help to little children elsewhere in the world. Dr. Wanless kept telling the story wherever he went to speak before he finally sailed for India. When at last he went, he had gathered eight hundred dollars as a re sult of telling that child’s tale. With that and the support of the late John H. Con verse of Philadelphia, he began his med ical work in India in the native state of Miraj. Now he has about forty acres of ground with some thirty or forty build ings—operating rooms, wards, laborato ries, and convalescent homes. In the years that he has spent there, he has treated over half a million patients; he has performed nearly a hundred thou sand operations, many thousands for cat-
In the Heavenly Realm To live on resurrection ground Is blest indeed, For in the risen Lord is found All that I need. No more on earth, but in His love My spirit feasts; A banquet here I daily prove, From care released. Here in the place of victory, By faith I claim The finished work of Calvary, In Jesus’ name. And here I see God’s wondrous power O’er hell displayed, In answer to unceasing prayer Through Christ our Head. “How may I know the victory?” So many cry; Commit thyself to Calvary- Consent to die. God’s way of gain is seeming loss; We die to live, And His life comes, as to the cross My life I give. —H.E.J. aract. He has sent out from his medical school nearly two hundred medical stu dents to travel all over southern Asia. One Indian, who had been under Dr. Wanless’ teaching, said that he could tell in one phrase what made the work at Miraj so wonderful: “It is Jesus Christ,” said he, “and Dr. Wauless.” One would like to get bracketed in an association like that! W h a t to Do W it h o u t a M is s io n a r y As this is missionary Sunday, it would be well to secure a real missionary, either from the home or foreign field, to give a stirring message about the work. If there is no missionary available, appoint a com mittee known as “The Investment Com mittee,” who shall sit in “council” and plan how to invest a fifty-thousand-dollar leg acy which has been left to the society. . This makes an unusual meeting and, if worked out well, proves very profitable and enlightening. The discussion may be very informal and yet distinctly spoken, so that all may hear. A Sample Case'. Ten members of the society are seated in a group before a table. Leader ( reading from a legal docu ment ) : “I bequeath to the Christian En deavor Society of ........... 1........,.....Church the sum of fifty thousand dollars to be in vested by them in furthering the cause of missions as they deem best.” Let’s have some suggestions. Speaker No. 1: I think it was wonder ful of 'Mr. Grant to trust us with so much. I’d suggest we erect a small hospital and send out a doctor. I am much interested in medical missions. ( Tell one or two striking incidents from medical mission aries.) Discussion Material I.
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