Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-11-03
MISSIONARY WORK.
Presbyterian Church. Sunday Eve
ming, Oct. :0th.

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on Sunday evening Oct. Goth. First of
all we took in all the Young Peoples
Society of both sexes, whose subject
for discourse was-"Giving." Being
called upon to say q few words, men,
toned that the name, or rather the
initials G. T., suggested three points to
my mind which | sought to press upon
them as of primary Importance LIST
Christ Everything; 2nd, Christ Every
where; Bird, Christ's, Everyone; and told
them the we'll known story of the egrate-
full Red Indian who offered his blanket,
then his dog, and next his wife, as
presents to the Great God who sent
His Son to die for him; and when as
sured by the missionary that these
were of no use, looked troubled and
finally said "Will the white mans God
accept poor Red Indian himself?'
This must be the basis of all true Civ
ing; and we repeated together those
lines of the hymn
Were the whole realm of nature mine
That were IL present far too small.
Love so amazing, so divine,
Demands my soul, my life my all!
The evening service was we'll attend
cd and the interest shown was encour-
aging.
The portion of scripture taken as the
subject was Acts xvii Is to A.
1t was not my intention to tell them
incidents and facts connected with
missionary work generally. much of
which they might read in any of the
innumerable magazines devoted tothat
purpose. 1t was my custom to dive
down into the first causes and get at
the root of things, and should deal
more with the question from the point
of view, as to what was missionary
work in it's broad aspect; and why, in
spite of much and marked success, it
had so far but touched the very fringe
=; of heathenism.
l showed how in case of the Athen-
ans, Paul pointed out to them that it
was not u question of intellectually;
that of itself brought people no nearer
God,s but forced from them an admis-
& sion of their failure to penetrate the
tsUnknown," and to the most cultivated
nation of the day he talks of 1.-THE times
IF this ignorance" History repeats
itself to-day. True missionary work
must commence individually in the
heart, the home, the life of each one;
it's two great characteristics are humil-
/ ity and love. ssHath made of one blood
\ vi nations of men, verse 90: We
it therefore go to heather nations
in the sense of Il fancied superior
or as if STOPPING down to then
om some high platform, but regarG
Crem as fellow creatures who have no
had the privileges and advantages WI
have had; that they often i'll their sim
plicity and devotion put us to shame
many that are first shall be last, ant
last first
pointed out the terrible need star
ing us in the face to day in all TIN
large cities in Christendom, of the tru,
missionary spirit to our own neglected
and lost fellow creatures; nowhere wa:
this a greater scandal, Il more crying
Injustice than in London to-day. as
could from personal observation ant
experience testify. The terrible pict
ure' portrayed so many years ago il
that remarkable book ".Alton Locke
was still more to-day; it was u boo
every one interested in social problem
should carefully study. How can w
expect to go out with any power o
prospect of success to the heathe
nations while such things exist in ou
midsts? It behooves us to cleans
our own Augean Stable, and then W
can go with pure practice as we'll a
pure preaching to foreign nation
America has never been behind hand j
missionary enterprise; and the life
her noble Judson and his wife in til
early part of this century, and devotio
to the work in Burmah, rememb'
reading when boy.
What was the secret of the succe
! of that most successful of all missio
aries-St. Paul? Did it not consi
largely in the fact of his being a tho
eoiigh man of the world, ready to /
sail things to all men," if by th'
means he could win them? Yet the
was complete self sacrifice; he was
the world but not of it; everythil
that the world counted dear was
him but dung and dross. Was not
Il one sided Christ preached today? r
presented as being gentle, mild, lovin
quite ignoring the fact that no la
Ruage is stronger than that with viii
he cursed and condemned hypocris
lies, cant, the Scribes, Pharisees, ct
the religious professors of his de
Christ. too was the great reformer.