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not be compared with the old. It is not a true gospel (Gal. 1: 6-9) but a coun– terfeit. They s'.ty we are dogmatic. We admit it. We cannot be dogmatic as concerns the fundamentals of the faith. We are ambassadors of Christ and have a divine message. THE GOLDEN GIFT Of all the golden gifs that there may be, I would be bold, my Lord, to ask !or this: Be it in all my glory and my bliss To make my little world think well of Thee. cannot pay Thee for Thy love to me; But since I am so greatly in Thy debt, I fain would give Thee all that I can get, And l!ve to make this world think well of Thee. Be this the aim of every work and word, The source and limit of my liberty, Life's blessedness and best prosperity To make the world think well of Thee, my Lord. - Contributed A SPEARING Boon.: When Dr. Paton was printing his first New Testament in the Aniwan language, Chief Namakei, ari old man eagerly watched the missionary and one day he said, "Does it speak?" "Yes/' said Paton. "It can talk now in your own language." "Oh, let it speak to me·-let me hear it speak." Paton then read a few lines, when the old man cried, "It does speak-0, give it to me." Grasping the book, ·he turned it round and round. Then, pressing it to his heart, he shouted, "O, make it speak to me again." Is not this the greatest work of the mis– sionary, makirug the Bible speak to men?
does not have positive, dogmatic teach– ing in regard to the fundamentals of the faith. This is now more and more realized. It is impossible, as Lincoln said, "to fool all the people all the ume." If liberty and reform and im– provement of conditions on the earth are the principal thing, in other words, if the deep religious needs of man, his longing for the living God and for sal– vation and communion with Him are neglected and ignored by the church, then the church cannot have a singu– larly important task to perform. If the Christian religion is not the founda– tion for true morality, then agencies for reform which do not claim to be churches would rather be needed. Un– less the church is willing to bear the reproach of Christ and stand for the truth of the Word, she can well be spared; she loses in fact her right to existence. " Since the Student Movement, and other missionary endeavors of Great Britain, have opened their doors to the modern unbelief, a new organization, apart from the Student Christian Move– ment, has been called into existence in various cities, under the name of the Student Christian Union. Another im– portant movement is now under way with the avowed aim to fight Modern– ism in the mission field. They propose to send out only missional'ies loyal to the whole Bible and trained in colleges untainted with higher criticism. The Board was planning to open a Bible College in London within a few months. Clearly British Christians are awaking to the fact that effort and money may be spent for a better purpose than to teach the heathen that they are right in their denial of the fundamentals of the Christian faith. I conclude by giving the principal thoughts of a sermon preached by Dr. Dinsdale T. Young at Wesleyan Central Hall, London, on December 3, from the text Col. 1: 28, "Whom we preach." Christ, as the prophets foretold and the evangelists and apostles portrayed ·Him, is the truly divine Saviour and as such alone He is able to meet the need of sinful man. On the other hand, the Jesus of liberalism is himself a failing mortal. This modernized Jesus does not exist except in the imagination of the higher critics. Even if he ex– isted, h e would not be in a position to help and to save. ' The new liberalistic gospel that comes under the old cloak differs radically from the old. It can-
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