Connecticut western news., 1900-10-04
SPREAD THE GOSPEL,
DR. TAlMAGE URGES CHRISTIANS TO
 SEEK NEW FIELDS.


 SEEK NEW FIELDS.
 Directed Toward Saving Sinners. They should Get In sympathy With Those ou<stde Their Pale.
 WASHINGTON, Sept. 30.-In this dis "ourseDr. Talmage points to fields of usefulness that are not yet thoroughly cultivated and shows the need of more activity. The text is Romans xv, 20, Lest I should build upon another man's foundation"
 In laying out the plan of his mission ary tour Paul sought out towns and cities which had not yet been preached to. He goes to Corinth, city famous for splendor and vice. and Jerusalem, where the priesthood and the sanhe- drin were ready to leap with both feet upon the Christian religion. He feels he has especial work to do, and he means to do It. What was the result :? The grandest hfe of usefulness that man ever lived. We modern Christian workers are not apt te initiate Paul. We build on other peoples founda- tions. If we erect a church, we prefer to have 1t filled with families .all of whom have been pious. Do we Hather Sabbath school class, we want good boys and girls, hair combed, faces washed, manners attractive. So a church In this day Is apt to be built out of other churches. Some ministers spend all their time In fishing in other peoples ponds, and they throw the line into that church pond and jerk out Q Methodist and throw the line into an- other church pond and bring out a Presbyterian, or there Is religious row In some neighboring church, and a whole school of fish swim of. from that pond, and we take them all in with one sweep of the net. What Is gained? Absolutely nothing for the cause of Christ. What strengthens an army Is new recruits. While courteous to those coming from other flocks, we should build our churches not out of other churches, but out of the world, lest we build on another mans foundation.
 The fact Is this Is big world. When in our schoolboy days we learned the diameter and circumference of this planet, we did not learn half. It 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 edness reaches across all zones, and if I were called to give its geographical I 6a6 on the north and south and east and west by the great heart of Gods sym pathy and love. Oh, 1t Is great world! Since o'clock this morning 6O,SOO per sons have been born, and all these mul- tiplied populations are to be reached by the gospel. In England or In our eastern American cities we are being much crowdeA,> and an acre of ground Is of great value, but in western Amer lea 500 acres is a small farm, and 20,- 900 acres Is no unusual possession. There Is a vast field here and every where unoccupied, plenty of room more, not building on another mans foundation.
 Need of Churches.
 We need as churches to stop bom- barding the old ironclad sinners that have been proof against 30 years of Christian assault. Alas for that church which lacks the spirit of evangelism, spending on one chandelier enough to light 800 souls to glory and in one carved pillar enough to have made thousand men pillars in the house of our God forever" and doing less good than many s log cabin meeting house with tallow candles stuck in wooden sockets and a minister who has never seen a college and does not know the differ ence between Greek and Choctaw! We need as churches to get into sympathy with the great outside world and let them know that none are so broken hearted or hardly bestead that they will not be welcomed. "No," says some fastidious Christian; 'I don't like to be crowded in church. Don't put any one in my pew"
 My brother, what will you do In heav- en? When great multitude that no man can number assemblies, they will Rut 50 in your pew. What are the se- fect few today assembled in the Chris tian churches compared with the might fer millions outside of them? Many of the churches are like a hospital that should advertise that It's patients must have nothing worse than toothache or run rounds" but no broken heads, no crushed ankles, no fractured thighs. Give us for treatment moderate sin ners, velvet coated sinners and sinners with a gloss on. It Is as though a man had a farm Of 5000 acres and put all his work on one acre. He may raise never so large ears of corn, never so big heads of wheat-he would remain poor. The church of God has bestow- ed it's chief care 6n one acre and has raised splendid men and women In that small inclosure, but the field Is the world. That means North and South America, Europe, Asia and Af- rica and all the islands of the sea. Ii Is as though. after great battle, there were left 50,0O0 wounded and dying on tlfe field and three surgeons gave all their time to three patients under their charge. The major general comes In and says to the doctors, Come oui hCkC anu iOOh al hhC hNdiAy oO,OOO oJ ing for lack of surgical attendancer :..Noy" say the three doctors, standing there flaming their patients; i've have three important cases here, and we arr attending to them, and when we ar, not positively busy with their wound, it takes all our time to keep the fife. ofY." In this awful battle of sin ant sorrow, where millions have fallen oI millions, do not let us spend all oul time In taking care of few people and when the command comes, "Go in to the world" say practically: No; cannot have hSre few choice cases and I am busy keeping off the flies There are multitudes today who hay, never had any Christian worker lool them in the eye and with earnestness iy, ha