The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1895-03-30

After, with the hslp OF others. had buils
three churches in the same city, and moi
feeling called upon to undertake the super
human toll Of building fourth church.
Providence seemed to point to this place as
the field in which 1 could enlarge my work
and feel sense Of relief amounting to eS
ultation. Whereunto this work will grow
cannot prophesy. 1t is inviting and promis.
Ing beyond anything have ever touched.
The churches are the grandest institutions
, this world ever saw, and their pastors have
no superlors this side Of heaven, but there is
a work which must be done outside of the
churches. and to that work join myself fol
awhile, "Lest build on another man'a
The church is fortress divinely built.
Now, a fortress is for defense and for drill,
and for storing ammunition, but an army
must sometimes be on the march far outside
the fortress. In the campaign Of conquerins
this world for Christ the time has come for
an advance movement, for general en-
gagement," for massins the troops, for an
Invasion Of the enemies country. Confident
that the forts are we'll manned by the ablest
ministry that ever blessed the church, pro-
pose, with others, for awhile, to join the
cavalry and move out and on for service in
The open field.
In laying out the plan for his missionary
,our Paul. with more brain than any Of his
contemporaries or predecessors or success
sors, sought out towns and cities which had
not yet been preached to. He goes to Cor
nth, clty mentioned for splendor aud vice,
and Jerusalem, where the priesthood and
sanhedrin were rea iy to leap with both feet
upon the Christian religion. He feels he has
q spe ,ial work to do, aai he means to do 1t.
What was the result2 The grandest life Of
usefulness that mal ever lived. We modern
Christian workers are not apt to initiate
Paul. We build on other peoples founda-
ions. II We erect q church, we prefer to
have It filled with families all Of whom have
heen pious. Do we gather Sunday-school
GLASS, we want good boys and girls, hair
combed. faces washed, manners attractive.
So church In this city Is apt to be built out
of other churches. Some ministers spend all
their time In fishing in other peoples ponds,
and they throw the line into that church
pond and jerk our q Methodist, and throw
the line into another church pond and bring
out q Presbyterian, or there Is religious
row In some neighborinS church. and the
whole school Of fish swim Of from that pond,
and we take them all In with one sweep OF
the net. Whist is gsined2 Absolutely moth
Ing for The general cause OF Christ. 1t is only
az In an army, when 3 regiment is trans
ferred from one division to another, or from
the Fourteenth Regiment to the Sixty-ninth
Regiment. What strengthens the army Is
lew recruits.
The fact is, this Is big world. When Ii
our sohoclboy days we learned the diameter
and circumference Of this planet, we did not
learn halt. It is the latitude and longitude
and diameter and elrcunference OF want ana
woe and sin that no figures can calculate.
This one spiritual continent Of wretchedness
reaches across all gones, and II were called
to give its geographical boundary I would
say It is bounded on the north and south and
east and west by the great heart OF Gods
sympathy and love. Oh, 1t Is great world.
Since o'clock this morning at least 80, 900
have bean born, and all these multiplied
populations are to be reached Of the gospel.
In England or in Eastern American cities
we are being much crowded, and an
acre OF ground Is of great value. but out
West 500 acres Is small iarm, and TO-
900 acres is no unusual possession. There Is
vast field here and everywhere unoc-
cupied, plenty of room more, not building
on another mans foundation. We need
as churches to stop bombarding the
old iron clad sinners that have been proof
against thirty years Of Christian assault, and
aim for the salvation OF those who have
never yet had one warm hearted and point
blank invitation. There are churches whose
buildings might be worth $200, 900, who are
not averaging five new converts year and
doing less good than many log cabin meet
ing house with tallow candle stuck In wooden
socket and a minister who has never seen
college or known the difference between
Greek and Choctaw. We need churches to
get into sympathy with the great outside
world, and let them know that none are 80
broken hearted or hardly bestead that they
will not be welcomed. "No!' says some fas-
tidious Christian: IT don't like to be crowd
ed In church. Don't put any one in my
pew" My brother, what will you do In
heaven? When great multitude that no
man can number assemblies, they will put
f,fty in your pew. What ere the select few
today assembled in the Christian churches
compared With the mightier millions outside
Of them?
AT least 8, 1000, 900 people In this cluster Of
seaboard cities, and not more than 200, ,0G0 in
the churches. Many OF the churches are
like hospital that should advertise that its
patients must have nothing worse than tooth
ache or run arounds, but no broken heads.
no crushed ankles. no fractured thighs.
Give US for treatment moderate sinners, vel
vet coated sinners and sinners with gloss
on. 1t is as though q man had farm OF
5000 acres and put all his work on one acre.
He NAV raise never so large ears OF corn,
never SO big heads Of wheat, he would re-
main Door. The church OF God has bestowed
its chief care on one acre and has raised
snlendid men and women in that small in
closure but the field is the world That
means North and South America. Europe,
Asia and Africa and all the islands Of the
sea.
It is as though after great battle there
were left so 900 wounded and dying on the
field and three surgeons gave all their time
TO three patients under their charge. The
in 70 ho
tors. "Cone out here and look at the nearly
90 600 dying for lack OF surgical attendance"
tNo," say the three doctors, standing there
and tanning their patients; "we have three
important cases here, and we are attending
them. and when we are not positively busy
With their wounds it takes all our time to
kean the flies off," In this awful battle of
sin and SORROW, where millions have fallen
on millions, do not let us spend all our time
in taking care OF a few people, and when the
command comes, $50 into the world" say
practically: "No, cannot 90. have here
q few choice cases. and l am busy keeping of
the flies" There are muititudes to-day who
have never had any Christian worker look
them In the eye, and with esrnestness in the
accentuatton say, "Come!" or they would
long ago have been in the kingdom. My
f1ends. religion is either sham or tire.
mendous reality. II it be sham, let us cease
TO have anything to do with Christian as
sociation. II il be reality, then great
regulations are on their way to the bar OF
God untitled for the ordeal, and what are We
doing?
ers We must drop all technicalities out Of our
rslie1on. When we talk to people about the
hvpostatic union and French encyclopedian-
ism and erastianisrn and complntenstanism,
we are as impolittc and little understood as
If a physician should talk to an ordinary pa
tient about the pericardium and intn-costal
muscle and scorour1c symptoms. Many Of
No oone out Of the theological seminaries 30
loaded up that We take the first ten years to
show our people how much We know, and
the the next ten years to get our people to know
az much as we know. and at the end find
that neither OF us knows anything as we
onoht to know. Here are Thousands OF sin
nine. struggling end dying people who need
- oIaIf1o Snst ona thin0-that Jesus Christ