Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1890-05-10


pei "to every creature" in the next
ten years. Now, shall we make the
necessary effort to accomplish this
result? or, shall the work 90 on as it
is now being done ?--less than an av-
erage of one cent Ii Sabbath being
given now by each Protestant COM
municant Of ChristendOm for the use
of the means to present the gospel to
every creature according to the com
mand of our Lord and Redeemer
The next question is, how is this
amount of money to be raised to in
crease the number of workers?
LIST. "If there is will, there will
be way" and when we remember
that an average of less than one cent
a Sabbath to the thirty-four millions
| $4,000 00) of Protestant commune
cants, or an average of less than one>
fourth of cent Sabbath to the one
hundred and thlrtyfive million 1885,
0OO0O0) Protestants, embracing COM
municants and their families, gives
the present amount of twelve mill
ion $4,000, 0O0 dollars; and that
five times as much as is now raised
by the Protestant Church will be
reached by an average OF less than
| five cents per member each Sabbath,
it does seem as if the Church
ought to awake to this, the greatest
of all enterprises of the 10th century.
1t avails not to say that we have but
three millions $1,000, 000k of converts,
including COMMITMENTS and adher-
ents, or about that number, from the
heathens and Mohommedans it
makes. no difference, so far as our
duty is concerned. The work is ours,
the result is with the Lord, and those
to whom the gospel is to be preached
as testimony unto them. Besides,
they must be left without excuse.
"The gospel is SAVIOR of life unto
life or of death unto DEATH" The
number of those that offer to go is
beyond the means supplied for send
ing them. Hence, the responsibility
of the failure to obey the Masters
; command, given after his resurrec-
, ton, rests upon those who neglect to
: supply the money necessary to the
work.
Hope is a great thing of action,
5 and if the Christian world could be
persuaded to hope and believe that
t in ten years the gospel could be
4 preached to every creature, by a
l combination of effort on their part,
= and that an average of between four
J, and five cents Sabbath to each Pro-
i testant communicate, or a little over
: one cent each Sabbath to the COM
: municants and their families, would
n provide the means of support for the
: work necessary to be done to reach
e this end, might not a strong hope
d and expectation be entertained that
: this average would be reached by the
s Protestant Churches of America,
h Europe, and Great Britain; and g
e stronger hope still be INDUCED, if the
: professors Of the Christian religion
It were impressed with the fact which
i the Lord Jesus Christ declared, thai
e if they loved Him they must keel
+, his commandments, and realized thai
j. failure to comply with his com.
o mands would make his decision al
q the judgment day adverse to theil
s. entering the heavenly home, because
It of his own utterance in the gospel il
a reference to his mode Of procedure a
5, the last great day of decision in re
TT gard to the destiny of each person o
e the human race, wherein he make
% it appear that failure to have exhibi
'e ted love to our fellow-men'in distres
1t will be considered by him as barring
% the gate to our entrance into tn
J heavenly Jerusalem AS those wht
" had no compassion on the sin-sicl
N souls of earth will make it perfect.
plain to him that they loved hin
is not, and loved not their fellow-men
y and hence, that they must necessari
y ly miss being with him in the stat
RS of the blessed.
IN Again, will it do to plead ignOr
y ance Of the facts connected with thi
a matter, when there is so much ligh
a. on every hand? Are not sins c
e. wilful ignorance, with regard to fact
re which would stimulate to create
1t energy in the individual to evangel
Pr ize the worlds, sins of presumption
1t is not also an imperative duty o
he the part of any who are in measur
ii awake to this great matter, to exhor