The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-11-09

hughes says that committee ct ones back Is a
very good thing, but a committee on ones back
~ ne thinks that II the building Of the ark
oeen done yet, which II . little hard on CON-
mittees l think. But, I say, let us not ex-
pect our really excellent organization to
must sss our.e,y seem, no, TO me that W. we
out, what can l not do? Have we sat
isiactory reasons to give, not to ourselves, but
, 70 our 1od. ior going away FROM this house
Are we sure that We do not need the sustaining
power OF the prayer-meeting, and that we can
saieiy omit III Does our conscience trouble US
tnat we did not make ourselves acquainted wi n
that stranger? Can we afford TO be outside the
current OF the missionary spirit OF the
agef And l know that in the ideal
church the most attractive thing, next to
purity, Is activity. For the disciple is
not above his Master. Jesus Christ gave all His
NE for the world every moment, just as much
develops just rs fast at the church wishes
Great things are not always done slowly. Some
times a Kingdom Is born in q day. Jesus
ceansed the temple with the dispatch of lynch
law. He passed through all their cities and vii
lagos Galilsa and Judea and Perea saw Him
again and again in three years. He must work
day. Biologists now tell us that much of the
world was formed not during ages bur in sud
den commissions This very Western coast is
volcanic. young church, like young coun-
try, will grow rapidly II its conditions are met.
We must have the holy activity OF Jesus
.. So we pass to the next point, that the ideal
church VIII be stirring, missionary church.
Its members will work outside of it as well as
IN IT, IL Will be stirring because the eternal
God Is inside of 1t.
There was q fire in Christ's eve and a sun
pressed energy in His tone that made mems
hearts burn within them. One glance OF Ais
was often sufficient TO convert a soul When
He turned and looked upon Peter at the trial
the look went TO Peters heart like a dagger.
The church will show His hidden fire. 1t was
God in Him that brought Zacchaeus down when
Jesus glanced up toward him Ii was vision
OF Jesus that made stephens face shine like
that of an angel, and afterwards the same look
cast Paul to the earth with binding stroke,
ano raised him up transformed man. There
was that in Jesus face that boded something
fatal to every form of sin. There was tirsless
energy IN His walk that made evil men tremble
II Christ il in the church, He il mountain,
is not Christike. This man dosth many things,
and where Christ is, there is the church. He
casts cas- out the spirits with word Jesus is like
the piague-He must be suppressed, or He will
Himl Where Jesus is there is commotion.
ns :1rssh the people; divine
to deliver; he had baptism to bs baptized with
and how he Strengthened until it was accom-.
plished! His time was short Conciseness was
necessary. Details were impossible. Abstruse-
ness would have been fatal. Oh! that the church
might feel pressed for time as Jesus wasl For
then 1t would confns itself to the eternal gos-
pei II is not enough to stir up the people We
must stir them to some purpose. There 10 diff.
ference between stirring mans mind and mix
ing it. The church's speech must be such not
to mix men, or befog them. We must wrap men,
- He did, in the great central truths
Jesus was stirring because OF the importance
OF His message. He delivered His message with
vfeor proportioned to the issue at stake. His
message was 80 important that it called forth
the supreme gift OF heavens best. He could
never go far enough tell too often the story of
Gods invitation. Hungry and thirsty, house.
less and wayworr, He pushed on from the will
derncss OF temptation TO the tree OF Golgotha.
time for the salvation OF msn-no time for that
which God has tims for Peter finds that in
stead of abiding in tabernacle on the mount
ain top Jesus starts down, with wistful look
upon His face, 10 help those disciples in the
plain who are being put to the worse before dia-
boicat powers. Christ was driven on by true
nights in prayer. Bot prayer was not rest; il
was wrestling with God Thus even In His
prayers His activities were evident. Prayer is
the supremest effort of the soul
And so ia prayer, So in preaching, He poured
Himself out. He believed and accordingly Hs
spoke He eould'not help il God stirred Him
His prayers in the wilderness full of the spirit
and OF power He was all on fire. The truth
flowed from His lips like torrent, and from
His very finger tips; from the hem of His gar
ments the stream OF blessed vitality flowed. He
was intensely and constantly conscious of all
that depended upon Him. He felt that He was
the CDalu WHICH BOuUO heaven anu eArtn
together, and every fiber in Him was at its ut
most tension. Every moment. by the bands of
His suble spiritual power-the ineffable purity
and beauty of His liie-He was drawing all men
unto Him, and the resistance was tremendous
Hcavenward followed the mighty host and in
Him and in Hin alone was the motive force
that drew them. Do we ask way, under such
circumstances, man is active? He must De
active or be lost. No great man is becoming
great without struggle. The churchs struggle
In the hour OF its opportunity. While 1t strug-
giles 1t Is on its way 70 the stars.
A church that is attractive, that IL busy with
In itself and that's stirring the world without,
will become the center of society: IL will be the
spring OF all that is great In education and bUsi
ness and government. The world which Is
wrong side up il Will turn upside down, as Paul
and sfias were accused of doing. Men viii look
toward such a church and see that Johns
vision Is become real-God himself shall be
with them and be their God The sid things
will pass away, and all things will become new
The church will be multiplied Christ, preach
ing the gospel TO the poor, healing the broken in
heart, viping away every tear, banishing pain
and mourning, and death shall be no more
When here the weary find rest, the sinful for
giveness, the weak strength, and the ignorant
knowledge; when here visions of the glory of
Christs presence break with morning splender
In the better day that's coming, then every
power of evil will lose its attraction, and the
spirits of darkness will utter despairing cry
the glory of saved men-"Behold how We prevail
nothing. Lo, the world in gone after Himi"