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Whom to Thank At the feet of a medical missionary a grateful father and mother knelt, to wor ship her as a god, for she had restored their child to health. Hastily the missionary cried out to them, “We are not gods. Worship the true God.” “You must be a god,” they said; “no one but a god could have saved our be loved child from death.” “Suppose,” said the missionary, “that 1 wished to bestow a valuable gift upon you and sent it by the hand of one of my coolies; whom would you thank, the coolie or.myself?” “We would thank you, of course; the coolie is your servant.” “And so I am God’s coolie, by whose hand God has been pleased to send you this gift of healing, and it is to Him you must now give thanks.”— Selected. —o— December 1, 1929 Why Is Christianity a Missionary Religion? (Consecration Meeting) Matt. 28:18-20 Nov. 25. It sees a lost world. Eph. 2:1-7. Nov. 26. It has a cure for sin. Rom. 1:16. Nov. 27. It has compassion. Matt. 9 :35-38. Nov. 28. It has love. 2 Cor. 5:14-21. Nov. 29. It has light. 2 Cor. 4 :l-7. Nov. 30. It has faith. Rom. 16:25-27. —o— C hoice N uggets Rudyard Kipling wrote:— East is East and West is West, And never the twain shall meet, Till earth and sky stand presently At God’s great Judgment Seat. A Missionary replied:— But Christ is Christ and rest is rest, And love, true love, must greet; In East and West hearts crave for rest, And so the twain shall meet,— The East still East, the West still West, At Christ’s nail-pierced feet!” A Baptist missionary came home from India just at the time when the old Gos pel hymn “Hold the Fort” wàs at the height of its popularity. Everywhere he heard it sung. The more he heard it the fnore he disliked it, until at last he went into one of the missionary gather ings of his denomination and protested against the use of the hymn. ‘Hold the Fort !’ he cried indignantly. ‘Hold the Fort!’ Why, that is the devil’s busi ness. Our business, as Christians, is to storm the fort.” Christianity was never intended by its divine author to be confined to the four walls of a church. Its mission is to enter the city and purge it of its moral leprosy, and to take hold of and cure men and women of all the moTal and physical ills which pollute and destroy both soul and body in hell. This it can do only by en tering each individual heart; and to do
What Christ has joined together, we may strive in vain to put asunder.— Rob ert E. Speer.
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Robert Speer says: “If you want to fol low Jesus Christ, you must follow Him to the ends of the earth, for that is where He is going.” In American history there are two great commissions. The first made Wash ington commander-in-chief of the Colo nial Army. It was a great commission that the patriots gave Washington, and in the end he led the thirteen colonies on to victory. The second great commission sent Franklin to the Court of France, by which America formed a most useful al liance. There have been commissions all through history, but THE Great Com mission is found in the twenty-eighth chapter of Matthew, and is well called “The Marching Orders of Jesus to His Church.” Fourteen Points On Foreign Missions 1. Every book in the New Testament was written by a foreign missionary. 2. Every letter in the New Testament that was written to an individual was written to a convert of a foreign mission ary. . 3. Every epistle in the New Testament that was written to a church was written to a foreign missionary church. 4. Every book in the New Testament that was written to a "community of be lievers was written to a general group of missionary churches. 5. The one book of prophecy in the New Testament was written to the seven foreign missionary churches, in Asia. 6 . The only authoritative history of the early Christian Church is a foreign missionary journal. 7. The disciples were called Christians first in a foreign missionary community. ‘ 8 . The language of the books of the New Testament is the missionary lan guage. 9. The map of the early Christian world is the tracing of the journeys of the first missionaries. 10. Of the twelve apostles chosen by Jesus, every apostle .except one became a missionary. 11. The only man among the twelve apostles who did not become a mission ary became a traitor. 12. The problems which arose in the early Church were largely questions of missionary procedure. 13. Only a foreign missionary could write an everlasting Gospel. 14. According to the apostles, mission ary service is the highest expression of Christian life.— W. A. B. in the “Way of Faith.” Talking '"TALKING is like playing a harp; there A is as much in laying the hands on the strings to stop their vibrations, as in twanging them to bring out their music. — Holmes.
this it must be carried personally and im pressed upon the individual conscience as a message of peace and good will. And the preachers and professed Christians who are not, in some effectual measure at least, so carrying and so presenting 'the Gospel to the lost, are a travesty on the name Christian. When Admiral Foote was in Siam he invited the royal dignitaries to a dinner on his vessel. As soon as the guests were seated at the table, he, as was his custom, asked a blessing upon the food. The king in surprise said he thought, only missionaries asked bles.sings. “True,” re plied the admiral quietly, “but e v e r y Christian is a missionary.” Every Chris tian should be a missionary. Every Chris tian could be a missionary. “The field is the world," our Lord de clared. “The world is my parish,” John Wesley replied. What changes would be wrought if the Church of Christ would wake up to the great fundamental truth, that she is designed to be not the. field, but the force; “the field is the world.’’— David McConaughy. In one of the wars a regiment received orders to plant a cannon on the top of a certain hill. The soldiers moved the cannon to the base of the hill, but could not get it to the top. “Men,” cried the of ficer, “it must be done; I’ve got the order in my pocket.” So the Church has re ceived her orders from her Lord, and the evangelization of the world must be done. It may cost money, men, and many sacrifices, but it must be done. When the Church sees that, it will be done.— R. P. Anderson, D.D. The two great phrases which fell last upon their ears as Christ was taken from them were: “The power of the Holy Ghost." “The uttermost part of the earth.”
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