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him, go to disseminate anarchy and a bitter hatred of all religions? It is said that four-fifths of all the Chinese that have come to America in thq past fifty years have returned to China. Many of them found Christ in America and have gone back Christians. Many have gone back in love with our institutions. The presence of the stranger and sojourner presents the greatest missionary opportunity that has come to any people in any age. —M c M illan . II. M aking C hrist A ttractive to M exicans The Mexican work is a vast and far- reaching undertaking. It has to do with the people of two nations and has an im portant bearing upon our relations with the Republic of Mexico. The gospel is the agency of brotherhood between the races. The missionaries interpret the spirit and heart of America. The Mexicans are naturally appreciative and responsive to kindness. Hundreds of them will go back to Mexico. Every one o f them is a potential friend of America or a potential enemy. The church can make them friends. Some one has said that, if the money spent by the Government on the punitive expedition into Mexico in 1916 had been given to the church for missions, the Mexican border would be as safe as the Canadian border, where for four thousand miles there can not be seen a fort, a gun, or a soldier on either side of the line. W e can have such a neighbor on the south, with all that it means o f mutual trade, mutual under standing, and mutual good will, if we will give the gospel a free hand. —U nfinished T asks . III. A merica ' s M ission America holds the key to the world’s Christianization. America is the agent un der God to bring the gospel to all the world. America is the golden goblet for the bring ing of the water o f life to the famishing nations of the world. America is the golden candlestick that is to carry the light of life to the people that sit in darkness. —C. E. S chaeffer . IV. T ransmitting C hrist ’ s C ompassion “ But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, be cause they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd.” Like a flashlight, this language o f inspiration reveals the attitude of Christ toward hu man need. The seething, ; surging, wretched, scattered multitudes “as sheep having no shepherd” moved his compassion. It was the same compassion which influ enced him in eternity past to disrobe Him self of His glory, step down from His throne, and enter the arena as the Cham pion of wrong, and for the relief o f need, “bearing our sorrows and carrying our griefs.” Now seated on the throne of the universe, He looks down with the same compassion on still greater multitudes. Yet He has no hands to touch fevered brows, except your hands. He has no feet "to bring glad tidings of good things,” except your feet. He has no voice except yours to express His love and to utter the sweet invitation, “ Come unto me,, all ye that labour and are heavy laden.” Are we willing to be instruments, hands, feet, and voice, channels of blessing, that His com passion through us may touch these immi grants, strangers in a strange land, “scat tered abroad, as sheep having no shep herd,” in order that for us and for Christ they may touch the life of the whole wide world ? —S. L. M orris .
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In Jerusalem, for the day of Pentecost, God gathered “Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven.” This new Jew, this new Pentecostal type of manhood, began at once to perfect and perpetuate itself through the proclamation of the truth. Is it too much for us to believe that the Lord Jesus may be gathering in our good land “men out of every nation under heaven,” that through the renewing and unifying power of His Spirit, a new type of manhood may go forth to bring the nations to His feet? — P hillips . VI. How to Do I t In making Christ attractive to New Americans, learn to be: Comforting (Lk. 7:13). Humble (John 11:22-26). Resigned (Phil. 2:5, 6, 7; Lk. 9:46-48; Matt. 26f39). Interested (Lk. 8:43-48). Self-sacrificing (Matt. 8 :20; 2 Cor. 8 :9). Thoughtful (John 19:26, 27). Loving (John 13:1, 34). Interceding (Lk. 6:12; 5:16). Kind (Lk. 18:15, 16). Earnest (Matt. 23:37). VII. S ome Q uestions to D iscuss in the M eeting What agencies does the church employ in reaching after the new American ? What is your estimate of the importance of un derstanding the new American’s point of view ? Wherein lies his claim to sympathy ? What is his supreme need Why should the new American be evangelized? Can your Christian Endeavor Society do some thing definite to show Christ attractive to new Americans? Christ’s Zenith There is a suggestive fact in the material world. When the sun is immediately over head, it casts no shadow. So when Christ attains the zenith in our lives, when He soars in the meridian, fills our sky, shines His rays down vertically into our hearts, and we walk in His clear, unobstructed light, then we have undimmed sunshine, and the days are full o f brightness. — J ames Y oung F air . God Not Far Away A city hospital, recently enlarged and equipped with all the latest and most ap proved appliances, was thrown open to the inspection o f visitors. A physician con nected with the building explained the va rious improvements, and among others, the way in which patients could summon attendants. By the old method, a button beside the bed rang a bell, but it was pos sible for the bell to go unheard, or at least unheeded. The sound o f the bells was also confusing. “ But now,” said the physician, “a pa tient too weak to lift his arm may touch a button just at hand, and instantly four lights flash out—one in the office, one in the great hall, the two others in different parts of the building; and it is impossible for any one to turn them out until that call has been answered and that room visited.” Shall human skill and pity compass such things as these, and we yet question whether the Creator of all worlds has any system by which He can hear the cry of His children in need ? When the weakest hand touches the but ton of prayer, nor earth nor hell can hinder the signal, nor bar the answer. —T he C hristian A ge .
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