Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-02-27
christian he must be a missionary.

' Speaking especially of the re- sponsibility of young peoples so- cieties in the church towards the missionary uprising among the stu dents, he said:
 First these societies should know about this missionary upris- ing; should understand it's breadth and significance, and should ap- preciate it's peculiar relation to them and their work. If any one Of us has brother on the mission field, what new aspect do missions take on. Everything about this cause suddenly becomes interesting. It is such personal interest in our brother missionaries who have gone abroad that we who remain at home need to cultivate. The world will never be converted until every christian realizes that because be is christian he must be missionary. He may stay at home to be sure, but he must no less be a missionary than the brother whose journey he follows to far off lands.
 Secondly, the young people at home cannot fulfill their responsi- blieies for the advancement of the kingdom of God until each one has asked and definitely settled the ques- tion, whether God would not have him go to the foreign field.
 Ut should be asked, in view of the great needs of the unevangelized continents, of the disproportion be- tween the number of laborers at home and the number abroad. It should be asked in view of the needs of the races dying without God and without hope ln the world. Itshould be asked in view of that eloquent map which we so often see at mis- sionary meetings, black with the unutterable woe and degredation of t+be heather world. Let every soci- ety seaA ;ts members. Let every society consiosr itself honored to have a representative among the volunteers, and then let each feel responsible for the support of his own or some other volunteer in the field to which he may be sent. l may be wrong in this matter, but more and more I believe the support of our missionary operations will become d personal matter. Each man at home will have his man abroad Each Christian worker in America will be responsible for an other worker, or for some part ot the time of another worker in Asia or Africa. Missionary operations will no longer be vague distractions and hay generalities; they will be personal, warm, individual, throb bing with life, because some brother is on the misoion field in our place, or rather we are on the field in the person of some other missionary.
 Thirdly, the responsibility rest ing upon the young peoples socie ties at home, in view of the great movement which God has raised UT to extend their influence abroad, in wolves a deep and personal consecra tion the part of every home stayel as well as of every distant voyager in the interests of missions. Int Christian at home can be no less consecrated than the missionary ir Africa, fl he would fulfill Gods plans for him. In fact, it is the prayer and corsecration and devoted ear nestness of the church at home tha will make the mission abroad effect i've
 But the Christian abroad anC the Christian at home will alike re member that the true source of sup plies is not in money, or means, ol men, valuable as are all these fac tors, but in the power of the spiri of the living God. The church 0 the future is beginning to learn th, quiet hour, the secret of the morn ing watch It is learning the loca ton of it's 'power-house, the vast ness of it's resources, the unlimited supplies which God can give; nor, and more it is learning to say to it self, God is able, God is able. Ant as the church of the future, througl the young people of the present leans this great lesson, the dawnins ing ray of missionary success grow bright with the radiance of God promises and Gods presence ant