The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1903-12-31


of his heart He has a beautiful home
now, and everywhere he goes is telling
what dear Saviour he has found Are
some of you out in The darkness home
sick and sin-sick? Creep up to the II, pierced
wise YOU He'll just love you---love you out
of your shameful failure and loss, into the
glorious gain OF His cross, out of earth's
sorrows into His balm, out of Efe's storm
and into His calm, out of distress to JIbl-
liant psalm.
Children of God, apostles of Jesus, az
love was the master passion OF Him whom
| the Father sent, so must love be the con-
| straining motive of us whom the Son
sends. Humanity responds to the touch
| of love- Around on the sunny side OF even
the most frigid man there is always door
| that opens to the. pressure Of loving
pit" exclaimed Hezekiah, as he looked
back at his alarming illness; as II God:
| bending over His PROSTATE servant. bad
used His great heart as a magnet to lit
the sufferer from the grave. Love magne-
| tiled Hezeliah from death. BE ye, there.
fore. imitators of God, Paul urges. and
walk in love even as Christ also loved you.
| AS His sent ones, we are to go about low
ing people out of sin into forgiveness, out
of unrest into peace. Constrained, I'M
PEELED, urged on, held irresistib!y to one
aim by the love of Christ, we are sent to
them into fellowship with Him.
Continuing, as we do, Christ's mission.
our parish is the world. AS He was sent
into the world, even so has He also sent
u.s. His command to make disciples of all
| the nations has never been repealed.
Within every Christian church i wish
there hung a chart constructed on the ba-
sis of Acts is: eye shall be witnesses unto
Nc. both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea,.
| and in Samaria. and INTO the uttermost
part of the earth" -Four coucentric cir
cles. A picture of the local church at the
all Judea:" at the bottom. States Mis-
sions." The third circle at the top, I'm
Samaria:" at the bottom, "Home Mis-
sions" The outer circle at the ton. "Unto
the Uttermost Parts of the Earth" at the
bottom. Foreign Missions" Across them
gospel to every creature;" 'The Field Is
the World"
A sinful world, where men and women
are dying without God and without hope.
A sorrowful world. where bleeding hearts
need bandaging, where many man never
sees the stars shine through his cypress
trees A covetous world where greed
supplants creed, where the book of truth
and the bottles Of hell are struggling for
the supremacy: where, with eyes blinded
by the god of this age, many are Fastening
to become rich falling into temptation and
a snare and into many foolish and nurtful
lusts which drown men in destruction and
perdition. Into such a world are we sent:
vet must we keen ourselves unspotted
from the world. His figure of the salt
Jesus immediately followed with His figure
! of the light While mingling with people,
as salt is mixed with that which needs
preservation we must be as lights, above
and shining down upon the world. Some
times in the holy mount with the trans
figured Christ then down among the peo-
pie with the demoniac bow; keeping close
to the Master while keepirg touch of the
world; LAYING hold of sinful man with one
hand and the sinless Man with the other,
and bringing them face to face.
Tt is profitable to note Christ's interpre-
tation of His own mission, and to read our
mission in the light of that Interpretation.
Hear His words: ct came down from
heaven. not to do Mine own. will. but the
will of Him that sent Me-, As My Father e
hath sent Me. even so send you: L came
not to call the righteous, but sinners to
repentance. AS Ny Father hath sent Me,
even so send I you. The Son of man came
not to be ministered unto, but to. minister,
and to give His life a ransom for many;
AS My Father hath sent Me, even so send
I you. The Son of man came to seek and
to save that which was lost. As MY
Father hath sent Me, even so send J. YOU,
He came to minister, and He ministered
to all classes. He welcomed influential
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birth He took equal pains with the de-
spised woman of Samaria, and drew tor
Ter the living water The two accounts
are placed side by side. During dis lie
He mingled with the poor; in His death
He made His grave with the rich IN order
that He might save both. So is the Will OF
God in Christ Jesus concerning us we
are saved to serve. With hands full OF
helpful charity, with a word in season to
him that is weary, with a heart at leisure
from itself to soothe and sympathiZe, we
are sent to bring ourselves into contact
with humanity at the point of need
Ourselves, mark you, not merely our SUP
stance. The human soul is cavernous IN
it's. hunger, not for things, but for folks.
1t is easier often to give. money than sell.
It takes less prayer, and necessltateS less
nervous expenditure. Jesus touched men,
and virtue went out of Him. He gave dis
life. AS ransom that gift was unique IN
it's value and effect. As an offering for
sin it can never be duplicated. Yet may
we, in some true sense, give ourselves, as
bodies living sacrifice. We may pour out
our lives on the altar of the churchS faith,
and count it a Joy, as Paul did. We may
initiate the devotion which burned IN the
bosom and blazed in the life OF my revered
1 teacher. Martin Brewer Anderson, who
used to say: ct has been the purpose OF
nv life to live as far as | might for 9th.
ers. like nv divine Master, to give myself
for them, and so far to renew IN myself
that perfect life"
In view of our mighty mission, are we
in weakness, and in Fear and IN much
trembling? Let us be comf f9 by - our our
a complete equipment. When lie speaks
of sending US into the world, His word
means more than a mere sending 1t I'M
plies an official, authoritative commission,
TOGETHER with the necessary equipment
AS the Father equipped Him for His min
istry, SO He thoroughly furnishes us unto
every good work. He was anointea with
the Holy Ghost ana with power. 4e shall
i Ghost is come upon you, and We shall be
j Nv witnesses For witness bearing the
gift Of the Spirit is absolutely, essential
We must tarry until we are endq Se; We We
died at all Once, we are told, it took
one sermon to convert 5000 souls; now il
takes 5000 sermons to convert one soul; Ii
the statement be true, the reason is clear
Equipped with power, we are, gwen a
message Jesus went about teaching and