The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-01-05
FOREIGN MISSIONS
REV. ALBERT DALE GANTZ MAKES
STRONG APPEAL FOR INTER-
EST IN THE NATTER.
Delivers Able Sermon on the Subject
Makes Preface to Address Re-
earding Week of Prayer.

Rev. Albert Dale Gantz, pastor Of the
First Presbyterian church. preached
Sunday morning on Foreign Missions
He introduced his remarks with an in
| terestng reference to the week OF
prayer, which is to be observed this
week by most of the protest.
ant churches. He said:
| For the -ritualistic churches
the week of prayer takes the place OF
holy week in the lenten services. 1t is
designed to be a week of prayer and
fasting and self-denial-but with more
of the idea of invoking the power of
God on the church at large in the
magnitude of its great enterprises than
the immediate design of the personal
life.
| Holy week represents the contem-
plative type of Christianity seen in
! such a saint as Kempis, while the
week of prayer represents the active,
aggressive type of Christianity shown
| in such a man as John Knox. The one
dwells on the kingdom of God within
you-the other in the kingdom Of God
in it's external worldwide aspect.
Either view by itself is incomplete. We
need church repenting in sackcloth
and ashes that she may attain person.
al holiness without which no man can
see God. And we need a church hold
| ing on to the horns of the altar that
| hi<rh tn
achieve victory as church militant.
| finally to be crowned as church tri-
umphant.
| Let us feel then that there is no
conflict between our varying denomi-
| nations, but unity in diversity, har-
many in variety. Let us, this week,
look to the God of Hosts for mighty
demonstrations of His Spirit in turn
ing the world upside down-that the
! Kingdoms and nations may become
the Kingdoms of our Lord and of His
| Christ. And let us when holy week
| is observed look to ourselves, lest any
| one of us should seem to come short
| of the grace of God. AS the blessed
Paul puts it, Lest having preached to
| others | myself become a castaWay.'
| May thy Kingdom come. O Lord with
| in us. Sit Thou enthrOned in our at
| fectiOnS, preside over our thoughts and
| actions. subdue our hayward and will
full spirits to myself. And let thy will
be done on earth as it IS done by the
obedient willing spirits in Heaven.
| Hasten the time when the shout of the
isles shall swell the thunder of the con-
tnents in the mighty hallalujah,-the
Lord God Omnipotent reigneth. let us
rejoice and be exceeding glad and let
us give glory unto His name forever
and ever. Amen"
On the theme of the day "Foreign
Missions" he made a strong plea for
our interest in world wide evangelism.
| He said in part:
| Il hope there is no one who will say
| he does not wish to hear anything
about foreign missions. That we
have missions enough at home. Be
cause such statement were it APP
piled to some subject such as our for
eign trade would brand us as mar
row and selfish and provincial in the
| extreme.
| N O one ever says. We've got enough
| trade at home. enough to keep us busy
right here in the United States with
out bothering our heads about trade
! with the Orient. If our merchants
| sell clothing to all the destitute. and
foodstuff to all the hungry they will
have enough to do. All. no. we say.
let us develop all the foreign trade we
can. it will help business at home.
land bring something back to us. I
make this claim for foreign missions.
They will bring us back hundred
fold. They may hurt the slave trade
and the rum and opium traffic, but
when nations are Christianized they
will want better clothing and better
homes and better educational insti-
buttons and the better arts of civiliZa-
ton of all kinds. And this will help
| legitimate business of all kinds. Some
one will say the heather nations will
| come to want these things anyway
without Christianity, as multitudes.
alas. in our own land do. l will not
deny this. but l will say that Christian
ity has uniformly preceded and opened
the way for civilization in the modern
| world 1t did so for the Anglo Saxon
| world. 1t is doing SO for Japan and
| China and India and darkest Africa.
| Again. what would you think of me
| if l should say that the religion of Je-
us Christ were too narrow a religion
ever to become universal That it
might suit the Anglo-Sax type of
mind very we'll. but was not compre-
hensive enough ever to be worldwide.
| That. like. Judaism, it has fulfilled its
mission and should now give place
to a new twentieth century religion
which would embrace all mankind. If
that be true, Christianity is not worth
propagating. 1t lacks the elements of
a religion which will appeal to the
] u-horo human race 1t is not then the