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us, and also the one furthest away. It asks for the best which any man has of intelligence and ability to help solve the supreme problem o f the world. This is an enterprise into which the most resourceful o f men can put all they possess o f life and possessions, and then wish that they had manifold more to invest. No man can live the large life which God has planned for him unless he enters with his whole soul into the programi o f Christ for the redemption o f the race. Many o f our best pastors and lay workers at home have been developed by the missionary spirit. 4. The life-purpose being emphasized by the Laymen’s Movement, when..followed, satisfies the deepest spiritual ambitions of men. Most men are not satisfied with tho permanent output o f their lives. Noth ing can wholly satisfy the life o f Christ within His followers except the adoption o f Christ’s purpose toward the world He came to redeem. Fame, pleasure and riches are but husks and ashes in contrast with the boundless and abiding joy o f working with God for the fulfillment o f His eternal plans. The men who are putting , every thing into Christ’s, undertakings are get ting out o f life its sweetest and most price less rewards. 5. The effort to evangelize thp world presents the speediest and surest method o f saving the Church. Our material resources are so stupendous that we are in danger o f coming to trust in riches rather than in God. “ If a man is growing ------- O Our Student The Student Volunteer Band o f the Bible Institute^ o f Los Angeles now has an actual membership o f nineteen, and nine applications pending, while about fifteen o f the students who are not quite sure o f tfie Lord’s will are prayerfully and carefully considering the matter o f becoming volun teers. The officers o f the Band are: Miss Christine Suderman, president, at home on furlough from Africa, where she has been working under the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions; Kenneth Powlison, sec-
large in wealth, nothing but constant giv ing can keep him from growing small in soul.” The evangelization o f the world is the only enterprise large enough and important enough to provide an adequate outlet for the Church’s wealth. Another o f the subtle modern foes j o f the Church is rationalism. The final answer to this dangerous enemy is the standing miracle o f modern missions. In the aggres sive missionary operations o f the Church lies her fairest hope o f salvation from formalism, from materialism, from ration alism, from selfishness and from indiffer ence to the will o f God. 6. As all branches o f the Church co-op erate to accomplish the evangelization o f the world, there are multiplying evidences that the unity of the Church itself may be restored. In the mind o f Christ, the union o f His Church was associated with the salvation o f mankind. He prayed “that they all may be one that the world may believe.” Men believe in the Laymen’s Movement because" it is actually associat ing men o f all churches in co-operative work for the accomplishment o f Christ’s one great purpose through His Church. Professor Bosworth says that there are four things that bind men together: 1. A common hope; 2, A common work; 3, Deliverance from i f common peril; and, 4, Loyalty to a common friend. On this quadrilateral men o f all communions may unite to make Christ known and loved to earth’s remotest bound. Volunteers ' retary, and Pearl Callis, treasurer. In addi tion to the regular class hour in missions, on Friday mornings, the Volunteer Band has a meeting every Thursday evening from 7 to 8, the first Thursday o f the month being an open meeting, at which some returned missionary gives an address on his o f her field, usually illustrated with stereopticon views. A picture o f the band, with Superintendent Horton and Secretary Hunter, o f the faculty, is given on another page.
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