A Message from Missions to the Modern Ministry ■ 97 testimony as to the kind of preaching: “I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures” (1 Cor. 15:3). And this was done in a most earnest fashion. “I determined to know nothing among you save Jesus Christ and Him crucified (1 Cor. 2:2). So deeply did that first great missionary feel the importance of this truth that he prays a curse upon any one who preaches a different doctrine. So vital was this to Paul and so large a place has it in Scripture, that we believe the words of a recent writer are true: “The death of Christ has not the place assigned to it, either in preaching or in theology, which it has in the New Testament.” And again: “I t is not unjust to say that no man will so preach the Gospel as to leave the impression that he has the Word of God behind him if he is inwardly at war with the idea of the atonement (Denny—“Death of Christ”—Introduction and p. 285). Passing over the intervening ages till we come to the “Father of Modern Missions,” we find him saying: “It is absolutely necessary * * * that we keep to the example of Paul, and make the great subject of our preaching Christ, the crucified” (Carey’s Covenant). Look at. the Moravian Church; for every fifty-eight communicants in the home church they support one missionary in a foreign land, and for every member in the home church they have two and six- tenths members gathered in congregations among the heathen. What is the inspiration of this church which so inspired Carey that he exclaimed: “See what these Moravians have done 1” Their secretary of missions in a recent address tells us that the compulsion of the Moravian Church is not from the great commission, but from this prophecy: “When His soul shall make an offering for sin, He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in His hand. He shall see of the travail of His soul, and shall be satisfied * * * Therefore will I divide Him a por-
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