The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-11-22

cation, and could so well appreciate their
virtues and see the door through which
the Christian missionary will most surely
enter to widest success.
I'VE must educate them III our learn
ing" he said. mo man, heather or
Christian, ever sent his son to college
to get religion. but. if the teacher is n
consecrated Christian he will lead the
studies" The doctor says that China is
him along in his instructions III secular
studies The doctor says that China is
being made willing to receive the gospel;
that the church needs to study how to
reach them through their literature, and
their leaders, as well as through the
hearts of the humble.
DIR. Allen left yesterday morning for
Durham to deliver an address there.
While in Raleigh. DR.. Allen was the
guest of Rev DR.. w. G. Norman, and Il
number of our citizens had the pleasure
of meeting him. He is II grand old
man, wise and vigorous, with many years
of usefulness before him i'll the work
in which he has labored with so much
success and distinction.
Rev. DR.. Cobb, missionary secretary at
Nashville who is travelling with DR..
Allen, preached Sunday morning at the
Central Methodist church and at night at
the Edenton street church.
His morning discourse. which was
founded on the I'd verse of the 9th chap
ter of IL Corinthians, might well have
been called Great Opportunities Bring
Great Responsibilities
Among other things, DR.. Cobb said i'll
the course of his remarks:
I'D rather he alive today than to
have been alive during the time of the
apostles. We are the heirs of all the
ages. 1t is day when to be living is
sublime. The countries of the world
once SO far apart are now next door
neighbors. Once to 90 to China took
over 200 days; now the trip is completed
in twenty-siX days. In tomorrow morn
ing's paper we read today's happenings
i'll all parts of the world
with these wonderful strides of prog
ress come great responsibilities. The
man who does not realize this and live
up to it is rs dead. Also with these
great advantages come great dangers.
I'VE have millionaires and multimil-
lionares How are we going to use
that weath-for God or for our own
selhshness?
"Once it was hard to get an education.
Today with endowed colleges. with free
public schools. with cheap books of the
best quality. not to be educated is little
short of Il crime.
Take the inventive world. No longer
we say this or that is impossible. We
Il. IL
Telegraphing without wires; the waves
of the sea harnessed to furnish light and
he: to great cities; air compressed I'M
til it becomes liquid, and II thousand
other things scarcely less startling. We
are living in II grand and glorious age
and it behooves us to take advantage of
the opportunities God has placed i'll our
hands.
by the recent war, / sometimes think,
God is carrying us around the world to
give us an opportunity to spread His
gospel among all people and i'll all
climes We are pushed out among the
heather nations of the world. Our flag
has already concur soldiers and our
ships of commerce are there. The ban
ner of Christianity must follow. The
doors of the world are opened to the
doors are off their hinges. There are no
doors.
With this opportunity comes your re-
sponsibiity. You have heard the gospel
so often that no doubt you ina CINE every
hod~ has heard it. Such is not the case.
The majority of the worlds population
know not the name of Christ"
Here the speaker gave some interest
ing statistics. showing how few are the
rearers and how great is the harvest
in China and other heather countries.
.'Then there is ba--unchristianized
and suffering. The soldiers of this coun-
the flag Of Christ follow? One or more
is needed IN every province
of this rich island. What shall we do
about it? Millions of money are needed
for the work there. Will we prove our
selves equal to this increased RESPONSE
bilitv?
THE time is coming when it will be
considered just as dishonorable and dis
honest not to pay the church assessment
as ii is to contract q debt at a grocer's
and not pay it. The time is coming when
the minimum in church contributions will
be the assessments and the maximum
will be the ability TO pay
THE church that is not missionary
is q dead church. As an illustration of
that / would point you to the Primitive
Baptist church. So one has said that
church is dying as fast rs the other de-
nominations can furnish collins"
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