umph, and praised their Saviour in the fire, "singing till their shriveled tongues , refused to form the sound." They are doing it in China, the little remnant of the decimated Churches gathering here and there upon the very spots of butch- ery and martyrdom, and renewing their covenant with the Lord. They are "fill- ing up that which is behind of the sufferings of Christ." They are doing it among the mission- o . - aries. James Hannington was doing It when he wrote this splendidly heroic word, when he was encountered by tre- mendous opposition "I refuse to be 4> disappointed; I will only praise! James Chalmers was doing it when, after long years of hardship and diffi- culty he proclaimed his unalterable Kg choice: "Recall the twenty-one years, give me back all its experience, give g | me its shipwrecks, give me its stand- ings in the face of death, give it me surrounded with savages with spears and clubs, give it me back again with spears flying about me, with the club knocking me to the ground—give it me back, and X will still be your mission- ary!" Are we in the succession?
from far and near can not reach my easeful soul. "Why do you wish to return?" I asked a noble young missionary who had been invalided home; "Why do you wish to return?" "Because I can't sleep for thinking of them!" But, my brethren, except when I spent a day with my Lord, the trend of my life is quite another way . I can not think about them because I am so inclined to sleep! . . . My brethren, I do not know how any Christian service is to be fruit- ful if the servant is not primarily bap- tized in the spirit of a suffering compas- sion We can never heal the needs we do not feel. Tearless hearts can never be the her- alds of the passion. We must pity if we would redeem. We must bleed if we would be the ministers of the saving blood. . . . Are we in the succession? Are we shedding our blood? Are we filling up "that which is behind of the sufferings of Christ?" They are doing it among the heathen. It was done in Uganda when that handful of lads, hav- ing been tortured, and their arms cut off, and while they were being slowly burned to death, raised a song of tn-
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