THE KING’ S BUSINESS The demand'of the foreign field is for men and women of splendid equipment—mental, moral, physical, spirit- ual. Epoch-making, nation-building men and women are needed. Do not Africa, China, India, and the
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other great fields exclaim :
“ Give me men to match my mountains, Give me men to match my plains, Men with empires in their purpose And new eras in their brains ?”
How strangely contradictory and grotesque do these words sound! Christmas —with its bells that chime out peace and goodwill on earth' among the sons of men, with its spirit of giving and good cheer, with its open
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hand and heart of blessing! War —with its clash and clamor of sword and can non, with its clanking of arms and musketry, with its garments dyed in blood, its devastated fields and dwellings, its widows, orphans, and millions of dead and wounded! Could two things be farther apart ? How little impress the Christ spirit has apparently made upon the warring nations of the earth! The chosen nation of Israel failed to bless the world. Then God took the reins of world-influence from the Jew and put them into the hands of the Gentiles, who, likewise, as we see in the present war condition, have failed in their world-mission. There is nothing left now, apparently, but for the Princd of Peace Himself to come and assume the reins of government and rule in right eousness. This is what is foretold in Scripture, what has been looked for dur ing the centuries, and what will soon happen in this hour of “ distress among the nations.” “ Even so, come, Lord Jesus, come quickly.” employ them, though certain sections of our large cities, where the poor herd and the foreign element predominate, are sadly neglected. But very little is being done along distinctively evangelistic lines. One of the most distressing things in our modern American life is the way in which so. many of our farmers and their families are growing up without God. In many places the village churches contiguous to the farming communities do not seem to be at all anx ious to get hold of the farmers and their families. Everything in the church life is conducted with a view to the convenience and tastes of the townspeople. But the rural field proves a fertile one for evangelism when it is wisely and faithfully worked. It was our privilege in September to have a. little part in an evangelistic movement among farmers, among the mountains of north eastern Pennsylvania. The country was three or four miles from a borough of 2000 inhabitants, with four thriving Protestant churches. But the churches are ministering for the most part to the people who live in the borough or very close to'it. The campaign was conducted by R. M. Honeyman, who devotes nine months of every year to this kind of work. The meetings were held in a schoolhouse, surrounded by very high hills on every hand. Last winter the There is no dearth of evangelism in our large cities and larger towns and villages. There are plenty of evangelists who are willing to go to these places, and the ministers for the most part seem disposed to Country Evangelism.
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