Los Angeles herald., 1892-06-01
THE ALLIANCE CONVENTION,
Features Of the Services Helt
Yesterday.
Rev. DR.. Simpsons Views on Mis-
sionary Work.
Missions the Subject Of the Dsy-The
Speakers Ideas Of the Work.
Many Volunteers Offer
Themselves.

The Christian ALLIANCES convention be-
ing held at the First Baptist church was
well attended yesterday afternoon.
The subject was Missions. Mr.. Full
Ter gave the first talk. He said in
Mathew, 3d chapter, 18th verse, notice
one part of the work of Christ. The
great work of Christ is not only to inn
part His work to us, giving us streangth
in time of temptation, but part OF
this verse means to baptise us into the
same spirit that came upon him. We
speak about it as a preparation for what
we are going to talk about today,
namely, Missions. 81
While millions in the world are Ky .
waiting for the gospel that you Ast = =
have, yet to 90 to them without the
paration of the Holy Spirit. would ls.s
useless. 1t is this baptism Of the holy
Ghost which Jesus wants to give you.
know there are young people who
are thinking of the foreign field. am
glad to know there are as many as there
are. We hope there will be more. Let
us take then the equivalent of the mis-
sionsry, which is the power of the Holy
Ghost, not some power apart fram it.
Not an experience of power but the lower
himself abiding in US. We muAt not
forget that the most important part Of
the evangelism of the world is done on
our knees. have found in my own
experience that there is possibility of
preaching too much and praying too
little, and if the missionary in the field
must pray, much more must those at
home pray for him.
He gave many illustrations from his
own experience, showing that many
conversions had occurred among the
heathen in answer to prayers OF Chris
tian friends at home.
"Let us find out all we can about
some mission, its work, its needs, its
people. Then let us pray. Let us ask
the Holy Spirit to lead us in prayer, 80
we will not pray at random. When we
come together to pray, do we really ex.
pect that God is going to do something
for US? Do we expect at an evening
meeting where one hundred Chfistians
have Joined in season of prayer for
half an hour, that the world is Yoing to-
be made any better? If not We had
better not pray at al"
He gave many instances in hiD own
personal experience Of the miraculous
manner in which God cared for and pSo-
vided him with the means to carry on
the work.
DIR. Reed then made . few refnNrI1 in
which he expressed his hearty c})-otora-
tion and good fellowship with hot only
this alliance, but all who put th4Ir trust
in God and rely upon Him f. every
need. Later in the day he gav9 an ac@,
c0unt9f the stand the BGptist church,
hsSlF hae taken townx6 y z1sxiox& uH4'
what they have already proposed to do.
DR.. Simpson told briefly how the Chris
tian alliance was started, what they hid
done in the past, and what they con-
template doing in the future. He said:
The Christian alliance is q fellow
ship of all the Christian churches who
believe in Jesus az crucified Savior and
coming Lord. We do not form
churches and denominations; we stand
in harmony with all churches, even if
we differ from them in some views or
doctrines. We are in Christ; this is the
spirit OF the alliance and always will be.
There are too many divisions and de-
nominations already, and what we de-.
sire is to unite them in sweet fellow
ship Of peace and love-
He said the object of the alliance was
to send q class of men who had not
hitherto been sent. We do not object
to an educated man if he has got a heart
as we'll az head, but we don't make
education an Important and especial
question. The question is, are you fred
called by God? Is there necessity laid
upon you? Are you willing to 90 and
labor for lost men for your expenses?
He then told of the wonderful manner
in which the mission on the Soudan was
established by seven young men, who,
by trusting in God, were enabled to be-
gin great work.
"God has enabled US to send mission-
aries to China, where we have about
twenty. We have four or five stations
on the Congo. We are sending back
with Brother Fuller to India about
thirty altogether, and are not going to
stop until we give them fifty. We have
also three missionaries in Jerusalem
among the Jews. We have oth-
era in Bulgaria, West indies, Alaska and
South America. It is great work. We
look to God for the means"
In the afternoon DIR. Simpson again
held the audience spellbound while
continuing his discourse on missions.
lido not think you quite realize that
the dying message from Jesus to us was
to take care Of the poor heather world.
In these eighteen centuries do You know
how many have died without Christ?
Why beloved, fifty thousand millions
Of living souls are lost since Jesus
aecended, and some where they are
waiting in the endless world to look you
and me in the face and say: ''No man
cared for u.s. A thousand millions in
our own generation are dying without
Christ. We are not responsible for the
generations that went before or the one
which follows. But we are responsible
for the one that is living today. One
hundred Thousand died yesterday. A
population as great as this city will be
in eternity before midnight. And
jesus parting word to us was to leave
them in our care. According to Matthew,
Christ says: "All power Is given unto
Ne in heaven and in earth; 20 ye and
Disciple all nations \" and" 10 am with
you, even unto the ends of the earth.''
DR.. Simpson spoke Of the messages
which are found in Luke, John and
Thessalonians expressed in different