The weekly intelligencer., 1900-10-06


washed, manners attractive. So
church in this day is apt TO be built
out 5f other churches. Some ministers
spend all their time in fishing in other
peoples ponds. and they threw the line
Into that church pond, ard they jerk
but Methodist. and throw the line
Into another church pond and bring
out . Presbyterian, or there IL a reli-
gioss row in some neighboring church.
and q whole school OF fish swim of
from that pond. and we take them all
in with one sweep Of the net. What
is galned7 Absolutely nothing for the
cause Of Christ. What strengthens an
army Is new recruits. While courteous
TO those coming from other iocks, We
should build our churches not out OF
other churches, but out Of the world,
lest ue build on another mans foun-
dation.
The fact Is, this Is a big world.
When In our sehoolboy days We learned |
the diameter and circumference OF this |
planet We did not learn half. II is the |
latitude and longitude and diameter
and circumference OF want and woe
and sin that no figures can calculate.
This one spiritual continent Of wretch
sdness reaches across all zones, and II
] were called 20 give its geographical
boundary I would say II was bounded
on the north and south and east and
west BY the great heart Of Gods sym
patty and love. oh. itisa great world
Since six o'clock this morning 6o.sco
persons have been born, and all these
multiplied populations are TO be
reached by the Gospel. In England or
In our eastern American cities we are
being much crowded, and an acre OF
ground is Of great value. but in western
America 500 acres is a small farm, and
10000 acres Is no unusual possession.
There IL q vast field here and every
where unoceupied, plenty Of room
more, not building on another mans
foundation.
We need as churches TO step bonn
harding the old ironclad sinners that
have been proof against % years Of
Christian assault. Alas for that church
which lacks the spirit of evangelism,
spending on one chandelier enough to
light 500 souls to glory, and in one
carved pillar enough to have made a
thousand men pillars in the house Of
our God forever" and doing less good
than many log cabin meeting house
with tallow candles stuck in wooden
aoekets and . minister who has never
seen a college and does not know this
dInerence between Greek and Choc.
taw. We need as churches to get into
sympathy with the great outside world
and let them know that none are SC
broken-hearted or hardly bestead that
}, they will not be welcomed. mol" sayi
some fastidious Christian. II don't lik,
to be crowded in church. Don't pui
!. anyone in my pew"
q Ny brother, what win you do il
Heaven? When great multitude tha'
: no man can number assemblies, thel
will put 50 In your pew. What are th'
seleet few to-day assembled in tn
Christian churches compared with tn,
mightier millions outside OF them
Many OF the churches are like hospi
10 tai that should advertise that its pa
tients must have nothing worse thai
toothache or "runrounds," but NJ
, broken heads, no crushed ankles, NJ
II fractured thighs. Give us for treat
70 ment moderate sinners, yelvet-coate'
D. sinners and sinners with a gloss on
Is II Is as though a man had farm o
5000 acres and put all his work on on
acre. He may raise never so larg
ears OF corn, never so big heads o
wheat, he would remain poor. Tn
church Of God has bestowed its chic
care on one acre and has raised splen
ct did men and women In that small in
&c closure, but the field is the world. Tha
IN means North and South America, EU
D. rope, Asia and Africa and all the il
G. lands Of the sea. 1t is as though afte
e . grest battle there were left 5000
" wounded and dying on the field an
= = three surgeons gave all their time {
= three patients under their charge. Tn
- major general comes in and says to tn
doctors: "Come out here and look a
I'd the nearly $1,000 dying for lack OF SUI
Is gieal attendance" NO. say the thre
doctors, standing there tanning thel
to patients; I'VE have three importan
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