The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-01-15
FROM H PULPTTS
Demands Generous Giving
and Active, Fervent Work to Spread
the Gospel Message Foreign
Missions and Personal
Service.
r~REsBYTERrAN CHURCH.

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Theme: "Christ for the World"
Text: Philip 2:1o, Ii. AT the name Of
Jesus every knee should bow, and every
tongue confess that Jesus Christ is
Lord"
The text states the result aimed at IN
the humiliation and e~xaltation OF Jesus.
Because of his condecension, and suffer
ing and death He was exalted, given a
"name. that is above every name" in
order that his sway over human hearts
might be universal and supreme.
The human race is thought to COM
prise about 1,250,oo0,00O living persons,
speaking 3,064 languages and processing
LOO forms of religion. The bible
teaches the unity of the human rice.
"God hath made of our blood all nations
OF men" Acts XVII &c.
/. Christianity is intended for all the
world. "Thou shall have no other gods
before me-" Elk. 20:3. "There is one
God and one mediator between God and
man, the man Christ Jesus" Tim. %.
"Neither is there salvation in any other
| Acts 4:12. "All the ends of the earth
shall see the salvation of onr God" LIS.
52:10 The redeemed in glory are a great
multitude whom no man can number out
| of all "natious and kindreds and people
and tongues" Rev. TO. Such is the
claim OF the religion of Jesus to univer-
sal spread and universal acceptance. No
other religion can compare with it either
in the authority with which it comes to
man or in the magnitude of the blessings
it conveys to to him. IF" says the In
terror, "Christianity has been placed on
a level with other religions, SO were
Pixies Peak and the gopher mounds
placed on a level"
2. The apostles gave the gospel to all
the world of their day. Says Farrar'
"While the glimmering taper OF the
Stoics was burning pale as though amid
the vapors of a charnel-house, the torch
of life upheld by the hands of the farsi
an tent-maker and the Galileean fisher
men had flashed from Damascus to An
tioch, from Antioch to Athens, from
Athens to Corintb, from Corinth U
Ephesus, from Ephesus to. Rome"
3. Cbrist's last command Is binding
upon the church to-day. The need wa
never greater OF the proclamation OF TIT
Gospel message to the perishing millions
of h~eatheadom. The opportunities wer
never better. We have Gee to al
nations and peoples.
4. The success of foreign missionar
effort sets the seal OF Christ's approve
upon the work. In China these are &c
day $1,000 Christians and 10000 VIII
are in sympathy with Christianity a
though they have not formally accepte
it. In japan there are $1,000 enrolle
church members. In India there ar
100000 Protestant christians.
B.. 1t we are bible christians we wi
have to be believers in foreign missionI
The bible, as we have seen, knows n
difference between Jew and Gentle, bs
tween the civilized European and th
Cannibal South Sea Islander. "All hav
sinned'' and "Christ died for all.
Plainly it is the Christians duty eithe
to go himself with the message Of ga
walton or send some one by his contr
buttons who will tell the Gospel story I
those who have never yet heardit. 18th
church must go" says Ingersoll. CeI
|, tainly she must go-into all the worl
and preach the gospel to every creatur
NJ. E. CHURCH
Morning theme: Ephesus-First Lov
! Lost. Text, Rev. "a.
!. Charles Edward Smith, author
World Lighted" says, in connectlo
. with these first three chapters Of Rev
~lation: "We see our Savior in the vel
: act of trimming the lamps of the churcl
, , es, that they may shed a clearer light
Our God is particular, exacting, b,
, just. Faithful to give credit, and
: give it first, as If to encourage to amen,
where defective. Ephesus is credite
with being a working church, patiel
in persecution, haters of evil, and all fl
his names sake. God is not only Omni
Gent to see evil, but good. All good
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