needs a Saviour. He needs to be led to understand that the first thing for him is to seek the Kingdom of God and His righteous- ness. When the Christian Church goes to the laboring man and preaches the Gospel in its fullness to the laboring man, there will be a spiritual awakening among laboring men and sinners will be converted unto God. And this applies to all sorts and condi- tions of men. The Church's inclusive mission is evangelism. When any man is regenerated by the Spirit of God, and is a true disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ', all subordinate needs of his life will be met. Hence evangelism is the all-comprehensive matter. When the Church is truly and continuously evangelistic in its spirit and work, no need of mankind will be foreign to it. When men seek first the Kingdom of God; when men are regenerated through the Spirit of God, when they follow in faith and obedience the Lord Jesus Christ, then all questions relating to their temporal well-being will be settled'rightly. The message of the Lord Jesus Christ to His Church is: "Preach the Gospel to EVERY creature; bear witness to My saving power to all men." EVERY CHURCH IN UNION W I TH THE HEAD OF THE CHURCH WI LL KEEP TO THE MAIN ISSUE.—Bible of Today. The Great Mistake. W. J. Erdman. I T is the fatal mistake to look upon Christianity as only a system of morals or source of high ideals, or the more equivalent of the Golden Rule. Christianity is more than conduct; it con- sists of facts, things done; ethics of things to do; and in the Christian life the things to do spring from a belief in things done, in essential realities. There are two facts, chief and supreme with' God, and which He regards with an infinite jealousy, the Deity of Jesus Christ and His death for sinners as His expression of the. deepest thing in God—even love. "Herei nis love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent His Son to be the propitiation of our sins." Apart from these facts there is no Chris- tianity, and there are no Christians. In the light of these facts, it is evident that merit from good
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