Mexico weekly ledger., 1878-11-14
hose words, India and China.

we did but know their meaning, we
should scarcely need to hear the word
Drive on" and s'Rest and be thank
full would never cross our minds.
We should say, 'sspeed on! speed
on! the wings of angels are heard in
the air. God hastens on bis ever
lasting purposes. The great COM
mission is given to us, and we must
obey it," Go on, brethren, because
the need of the world Is something
terrible; and I charge you, do not be-
lieve those who would make the needs
of the world to be less than they are i.
Nowadays it seems that men are not
immortal, We have lived to grow
so wise that first we were informed
that we were next-ofkin to the ape !;
: now, at last, it becomes portion of
theology that we are apes till we are
converted, then we get souls. I do
not believe it, and believe that such
theology hamstrings activity, and
cuts the very throat Of earnestness,
and is to be denounced straightway.
believe that if men do not believe
in Jesus Christ they will be cast off
foi ever from the presence Of God and
the glory of his power and it Is ours
constantly to carry the remedy to the
utmost ends of the earth according
to our ability. Besides that, recol-
lect that if our Masters commission
and the worlds needs do not move
us, we have this reflection if we do
not drive on Satan will, and If we are
not active he will be. He is not
omnipresent; but though I cannot
say wherehe is, Ishould not like to say
where he is not, for he seems to be
everywhere, either by himself person.
ally or by his messengers, and he
compasses sea and land to win souls
for destruction. He is an example
to us in that, and I cannot help
thinking that the devils are an exam
pie to us in one other point-that you
never hear of their quarrelling. I
never heard that there were sects
among them, but they seem with an
awful unity to press forward in the
cause of evil with intense and terrible
earnestness, trying to maintain the
throne of darkness and death. Let
us be earnest because they are; let
us be united, lest our kingdom fall. d.
God help us to be strong in the Lord
and in the power of his might.
"Drive on" is my motto. Union is
strength; 'weave truth with trust
-yon wall can finish my sentence.
1t is one of the best lessons that
Christian church can ever learn.
THOSE 'So CHURCH, PEOPLE.
want to say to you, brethren,
that one great reason why the church
of God should go on is because of
the multitude of persons that remain
altogether unchristianized in this
land of ours. 1t has been very pro-
perly said that the Church of Eng.
lang is divided into three denomina-
tons - the platitudinarians, the lati-
tudinarians, and the attitudinarians.
1 demur to the first title, though it
may be somewhat deserved, for there
are great many of us that would be
obliged to wear the title just as gn,sca gsccai
rs rffe brethren te -y.s.ii,o,m 1t is given.
As for the latitudinarians, will say
little about them, for 1 am not in
their latitude; and as for the attitu-
dinarians, l can only say that they
must be seen to be appreciated. l
shall not depreciate them, however,
because my object tonight is to al
lude to a section of the church not
yet mentioned, neither High Church,
Broad Church, nor Low Church.
The people / am thinking most about
are the no-church people. We can
put up with great deal of differ
ence among those that are sincere in
the Masters service, and with many
mistakes, too, when we think of the
great masses around us that have no
religion at all. Oh! the thousands
and the tens of thousands who have
not heard of Jesus since they were in
the Sabbath school-thank God they
were ever there lin the land of the
Bibles which they have never read,
whose conceptions of religion are
drawn from newspapers which do not
understand religion, and therefore
misrepresent it. say not that all
newspapers do that; but many to
which some refer as their guide and
oracle do most distinctly, for want of
knowing better. And here we have
side by side with light as brilliant
as the sun darkness deep as death
shade. We want to send MissIona-
ries to China, India, and the like
LET us send them, but let us see to
our heathen population at our doors.
Oh! how many there are Of them
Brethren of the Baptist Union, i hope
/ shall be forgiven for having grum-
bled, but sometimes it seems to me
intolerable-you will excuse me for
grumbl;ng-when I see souls perish
ing for lack of knowledge, and lot
of you divlnes must be accurate about |
the cross of .st' or the dot of an
s.i.'' Cross them twice over, and