THE K I N G ’ S B U S I N E S S ciple” all nations. God’s purpose is to evangelize all the world, not convert all the world. We are told to bring the Gospel to the world, hut need not expect to bring the world to the Gospel in this dispensation.—“Uurburt. There is not one hamlet where all have been converted. The average longevity is 33 years. The entire population of the world passes out three times in a cen tury. Two-thirds of the world have never yet heard the Gospel. What hope is there of overtaking this procession. Were that our commission, we should be discouraged.—C. W. Magazine. Lo I am with you. v—20. The larg est realization of the presence of Christ is in the widest fulfillment of the com mand of Christ, “go ye.”—Sel. The non-missionary church always lacks His presence.—Palmer. Suppose near your home was a deep gorge. One night during a big storm bridges spanning this gorge were washed out. The thousands who ordin arily crossed in trains and MY autos would doubtless go to GIRLS their doom that day unless some one told them. Would you be the one to tell them? Would you consider it a duty or a privilege? Or would you say, “I’m in no danger, I am safe at home so I’ll remain home and enjoy my safety.” Or would you tell only Americans and let the Italians and Japanese go to their doom? All Christians are privileged to save life by telling the sory of Jesus. Jesus not alone saves from eternal doom hut to life eternal. It is not for us to decide whether or not we will take the love story of Jesus to those who have not heard. God long ago decided that. He said “Go ye.” AH agree that “Come ye” (Matt. 11:28) means me. We try to excuse ourselves by saying that “Go ye” means a certain chosen few. God makes no distinction in the “ye’s.” What right have we? Many have the idea that only those are called to be
790 —Expos. Bible. Only as we shine with His light, in virtue of His indwelling Spirit, do we truly shine.—Jamieson. Under a bushel, v. 15. Christ's dis ciples must not muffle themselvès up in privacy and obscurity, under a pre tense of contemplation, modesty or self preservation, but as they have received the gift, must minister.— Henry. Let light shine, v. 16. We are not to make our light shine, but LET it shine.—Torrey. It is the light, not the candle that is to be seen. The source of the light is Psa. 18:28.—K. B. It will smoke with the wick too high; Too low 'twill burn too dim. Well trimmed, with oil in rich supply, 'twill brightly burn for Him.—-S. S. Times. Light is the symbol of truth.—Lowell. The light that shines farthest, shines bright est at home.—Sel. 28:18. All power given me. Who is this? If He is not a rank impostor, or a wild lunatic, then He is divine.— Torrey. Jesus now assumed what He had emptied Himself of (Phil. 2:5-7) the full use and prerogatives of deity. —Evans. As God, equal with the Father, all power was originally and essentially His, but as Mediator and God-man, all power was given Him.— Henry. In the next three verses we have the four “alls” of missions. The inspiration—-“all power” ; the scope, “all nations;” the work, “observe all things” ; the assurance, “with you all the days.”—Sel. Every impulse and 'stroke of missionary power on earth is from the heart of Christ.—Huntington. Go ye therefore, v. 19. What we want is the Gospel in shoe-leather.— Sunday. To say that all Christians are mission aries is the same thing as saying all Christians are Christians. The former must be true if the latter is. He says “go ye,” yet of every 100,000 com municants in America, only 21 go.— Sel. All the world. There is no “home” and i “foreign” in God’s missionary vocabulary.—Echoes. We are to “dis-
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