Missionary Texts and Outlines
A foreign missionary recently told of a woman who, on a school teacher's sal- ary of $1000, lived on one-half, and with the other half supported a substitute in China. She then felt that she was realiy two persons, and carried out her life- long, devoted desire to be a foreign mis- sionary. She received a letter every week from her substitute, prayed for. her by name every day, and realized the truth of what a friend of hers had said, namely: "This teacher serves the Lord twenty-hours a day, and . thus prac- tically lives the life of the angels, who serve Him day and night; for at the antipodes her substitute is working while she sleeps." A short time before the late Mr. Cox, an American missionary, sailed for Af- rica, he visited the University of Mid- dletown. In conversation with one of the students he said, '"If I die in Africa, you must come after me and write my epitaph." To which the other replied, "I will. But what shall I write?" "Let a thousand missionaries die before Af- rica be given up," was the reply. In this spirit he died. As the missionary car moves onward it becomes more and more manifest that the power to conquer for the Lord lies in the resolution to obey Him. Faith is adventurous. Faith waits not the open- ing of the Red Sea passage, but advanc- ing to the divine charge "Forward" counts on the sea's cleavage by Him "whose biddings are enablings," as Ru- therford has said. Fichte, a distinguish- ed German metaphysician, defines faith as "the resolution of the will to admit the validity of knowledge." A good missionary definition of it would be to term it "A resolution of the will to ad- mit the reality of Christ's lead." What though the way be not macadamized to sense, the course is yet open—open to faith—for has He not said, "Forward." What though doors are still closed, to sense doubled locked and barred, is.there not to faith a talisman in the Master's imperative, "Go ye," which sets all doors open?—James Douglas, A. M., England. 22. The Missionary Motive. 2 Cor. 5: 14. God King of the Earth: Ps. 103: 18- Salting the Earth: Matt. 5: 13-16.
Your Nearest Neighbor: Acts 8: 5-12. Judging the Nations: Isa. 2: 2-4. Incentive to Missionary Work: 1 John 4: 19. Encouragements in Missionary Work. Ps. 22: 27-28. An Old Time Missionary: Jonah 9: 3- 10. A Thriving City Mission: Acts. 19: 8- 12. Home Missions in our Cities: Luke 19: 41-48. Realizing John's Vision of the Holy City: 1 Cor. 13: 1-8. Overcoming a City's Evils: Zech. 13. 1; John 4: 39-42. The First Island Mission: Acts 13: 4- 12. A Promise to the Isles: Isa. 66: 19-23. How May We Hope to Win China for Christ? Zech. 4: 6. An Ethiopian Forecast: 2 Chron. 14: 9-15. God's Power over Africa: Isa. 45. 14- 16. A Picture of Idolatry: Jer. 7: 17-20, "Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature." Mark 16: 15. 1. Because all men need the Gospel. 2. The world's spiritual destitution. 3. Other religions inadequate. 4. We need Christ ourselves. II. Because those who have the Gos- pel owe it to all men. III. Because to evangelize the world is essential to the life of the Christian Church. 1. Effect of disobedience. 2. Reflex influence of mission. "The field is the world." Mat. 13: 38. 1. Its vast extent—world-wide. "The field is the world"—not your corner of it. 2. The two kinds of seed, (a) The word of God, (b) the children of the kingdom. 3. The rapidity' and abundance of harvest Compare Amos 9: 13. The low- est measure indicated is thirty-fold. 4. The main dependence: Prayer to the Lord of the harvest. Compare his promise. Isa. 55: 13; Matt. 9: 38. 1. Christians are trustees. 2. No one else will teach it. 3. Example of Christ. 4. His command.
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