Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-10-01
SPREAD THE GOSPEL.
DR.. TALMAGE URGES CHRISTIANS TO
SEEK NEW FIELDS.

Directed Toward Saving Sinners.
They Should Get In sympathy With
Those Outside Their Pale.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 30.-In this dis
course DR.. Talmage points to fields of
usefulness that are not yet thoroughly
cultivated and shows the need of more
activity. The text is Romans XIV, 20,
''Lest L should build upon another
mans foundation
In laying out the plan of his mission
airy tour Paul sought out towns and
cities which had not yet been preached
to. He goes to Corinth, q 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 life of usefulness that Il
man ever lived. We modern Christian
workers are not apt to initiate Paul.
We build on other peoples founda-
tons. If we erect church, we prefer
to have it filled with families all of
whom have been pious. Do we gather
q Sabbath school class, we want good
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
Methodist and throw the line into an
other church pond and bring out a
Presbyterian, or there is a religious
row in some neighboring church. and
whole school of fish swim off 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 f1ocks. 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 a big world. When
in our schoolboy days we learned the
diameter and circumference of this
planet, we did not learn half. 1t 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
/ were called to give its geographical
boundary | would say it was bounded
on the north and south and east and
west by the great heart of Gods sym
pathy and love. Oh. it is a great world
Since 6 o'clock this morning G0.S00 per-
sons have been born. and all these null
tiplied 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 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.
I We need as churches to stop BON
harding the cd irOnclad sinners that
have been proof against so years Of
Christian assault. Alas for that church
which lacks the spirit of evangelism.
spending on one chandelier enough to
light500 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 Il log cabin meeting house with
tallow candles stuck in wooden sockets
and IL 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; Il don't like
to be crowded in church. Don't pat
any one in my pew
My brother what will you do in heav-
en-? When Il great multitude that no
man can number assemblies. they Will
put 80 in your pew. What are the Sc
lect few today assembled in the Chris
tian churches compared with the might
Ter 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 gloss on. 1t is as though a man
had q farm of 5000 acres and put all
his work OH 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 its chief care on one acre and has
raised splendid men and women in
that small Enclosure, but the field is
the world. That means North and
South America. Europe, Asia and At
RIGA and all the islands of the sea. It
is as though. after great battle, there
were left $4,000 wounded and dying on