The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-05-14
THE MALL WORKERS MEET
ADDRESS BY REV. DR. PARKH URSI
 OF NEIV YORK.


 The American McAll association as- sembled in the city yesterday to hold its fourteenth annual meeting. Del egates were in attendance from the various auxiliaries of the country and the sessions were we'll attended in spite of the heavy rain.
 The morning ana afternoon sessions held in United church chapel were giV- en up to the usual routine work and reports, and were almost exclusively attended by members of the associa- ton. The work of these sessions is given at the close. The evening session was of a more public character and was held in the United church.
 The fame of Rev. Charles H. Park hurst, D. D., of New York, as preach CT and municipal reformer filled the church with an audience desirous of seeing and hearing him.
 Dean Francis Wayland presided. The meeting opened with devotional ser vice conducted by Rev. Theodore T. Munger, D. D.
 At the close of this service Dean Wayland made brief speech introduc- ing Dr. Parkhurst, who spoke on the subject of '"The Universal Gosper' in substance as follows:
 T am to say something to you this evening of the gospel of Jesus Christ as a universal gospel. While it is some times true that concentration intensitles effect, it is also true that it sometimes also narrows the horizon of the mind and heart.
 While we must concentrate our at teition upon the canvas upon which we paint and the field upon which we work our mind must continually draw an inspiration from the whole world. The whole world is the field of our work.
 "Our great master Jesus Christ, con- fined His labors to a small region in Judea and to a period of only about three and a half years of His life, and yet He was king for the salvation of the whole world and for all the ages. Like Jesus Christ we have got to get
 
 our endeavors It is a great deal easier to feel for the work here in America than for the work in Europe in China and in Asia. But the only thing that can give aim to our Christianity is a feeling and sympathy for the whole world. You shall be witnesses for Me in all the world were almost the good bye words of our Lord Jesus Christ. As uttered by Him centuries ago they were prophetic and to-day we witness the wonderful realization of that prophecy.
 These were the words of a poor man unknown at the time outside of his own country, but to-day in a land three thousand miles from that Judea we are treading in the path the Lord pointed out sixty generations ago.
 Surely little child has pointed out the way. This is one of the wonderful realities of this incomparable life. From Jerusalem he worked out into Ju- dea, from Judea out, out, continually out.
 "The twenty-seven chapters of the Book of Acts are but the history of this constant unfolding of the work of
 
 from these last words of Christ. The passage is the seed grain of apostolic history. It reaches on past Rome, out into the wide world out into the future and to the time when He shall descend from heaven with shout and with the voice of an archangel.
 There are two or three lessons which we can draw from this. It shows the divergence of Christianity outward from it's center, from Jerusalem out, from Judea out out east and west, north and south, through all the world. It shows that this divergent tendency is another name for missionary ten dency. It assumes that Christianity is essentially missionary as distinguished from Judaism which cared for nothing outside of Judea
 Christianity is constitutionally en- dowed with a constant push. The Christ life in Andrew worked out to Peter. Christianity cant keep still and still be Christianity. It is like light, which must constantly continue giving out light if it remains light.
 'The whole law of nature is one of constant motion. The sun moves, the stars move, the very particles that form the rocks move in cycles and epicycIes So Christianity is constantly itinerant. The Christianity that does not sympa- thize with all of mankind does not know what Christianity is.
 Christianity is peripatetic. Jesus went about all Galilee, it is related, and the whole gospel is filled with like ac- counts of Him. He was always going somewhere, preaching somewhere, do- ing good somewhere. Christianity is always starting out for new ground. ''St. Paul was above all else peripa- tetic. When you have read the account of his missionary journeys you know his life. Something was always beck oning him onward to new lands and fields of labor. I sometimes wonder if he was not unconsciously being beck oned onward to America while yet it was unknown to the old world and no Columbus had discovered it. Home and foreign mission fields are but supplemental parts of the same thing They are two half spheres, no more to be considered antagonistic, but coordinate members. Charity begins at home, but it lacks essentially of Christianity if it expects
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