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own homes as have delayed baptism, but they, w ith others, are aw aiting a suitable opportunity for tak ing th a t step. Our"m otto is, “Whosoever will may come” , and we have dem onstrated be yond doubt th a t th e open door preach ing of the gospel has been blessed to the salvation of all classes of th is great city community. We have used no special methods to reach th e upper- classes, bu t these as well as those in humbler circumstances of life, have ac cepted the forgiveness of sins through the precious blood of Christ. Let th e twenty baptized th is year testify to this fact. Ten are. teachers and studen ts in the city public schools, five are m em bers of official families, one is a land proprietor, one is a business man, two are tradesm en and one is a lady from a good family. W hat a ttracts these people? All preachers of th e gospel need to have a pleasing and attractiv e personality; the Gospel Hall should be airy and well lighted; but these things in themselves are nothing and could never save souls. God has laid down two conditions, and has given the reason for these condi tions. It still pleases God to use the weak, the base things of the world, things which are despised, and things w h ic h 'a re not, to do His work; and in th e ligh t of th is is it any surprise th a t th e Apostle P aul gloried in his infirmi ties? Do you glory in your infirmities, or do you bemoan them and seek to hide them by a false pride in your talen ts? God is still pleased to use what men count foolishness to save lost men and women. Have you grown weary of th e old gospel? Have th e argum ents of these boastful men of letters caused you to d rift? The Cross of Christ is still foolishness to ..the Greek, b u f have you not found in your experience th a t it is still th e power of God to save sinners? God’s reason for these two principles is th a t no flesh should glory in H is pres ence. P reach the gospel of God’s bound less grace, and do not be satisfied w ith anything short of th e salvation of precious souls. • . NOTE}—R ev . A le x; R . Saunders, the w riter o f the fo llow in g article , is an hged and alm ost to ta lly blind m issionary, yet G od has g iv en him rem arkable stren gth and a m essage o f pow er to the Chinese. H e is d em o n stratin g th a t the m essage of the C ross is the on ly m agn et pow erful enough to overcom e th e g ra v ita tio n o f the soul of a C hin am an tow ard the flesh and the devil. Altogether Too Courteous to the Critics , A Letter Copied from “The Presbyterian’’
jN th eir desire to be kindly to wards th e Modernists, there is a tendency among good Christian people to look upon
Under the caption “Views and Voic e s” th e P resbyterian in a recent issue p rin ts a le tte r over the in itials “A. E. C.” which contains such a frank and faith fu l message and is so apropos th a t we tak e th e liberty of reproducing it herew ith. (The bold-faced type is ours, and not the w riter’s ) : E d ito r The P resbyterian: While it is enjoined upon the Chris tian to be courteous and kind, and to
articles that! deal definitely w ith assaults upon th e Word of God, th e person of Jesus Christ, H is virgin b irth and atoning death as too hard and Jmrsh, forgetting th a t it is impossible for one who is loyal to th e fundamentals of our faith to regard as “b reth ren ” those who deny these fundamentals.
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