Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1904-04-28
WORKERS FOR WORLD.

The war In the Far East brings the
subject of missions and missionaries
home to the average man. 1t also lends
a degree of timeliness to this Sunday
school lesson upon the first foreign
missionaries, if so we may designate
the sending of the seventy to the Gen
tiles of Perea. '~'Disciples". and 'apos-
Ties are words sometimes loosely in
t~erchanged. The latter were the chosen
band of twelve to whom vas entrusted
the establishing of the Christian
church. the disciples are the wider
company of believers. now universal
and innuinerable, of whom present day
Christians are IL part. All the apostles
We're disciples: only twelve disciples
were apostles.
chosen to precede Jesus into the towns
nnd villages where he was about to
come. They were evangelists and pre-
parers. The general instructions to
them as they set out apply to all Chris
tian workers everywhere-which shoul
include the entire church IF God upon
earth.
TWO eY TWO.
The Master walked a solitary way
himself. but he has provided a way of
fellowship for his disciples. He sent
them forth In pairs. We go to Christ
one by n for salvation, but he sends
us forth for service. two by two. The
hermit life is not his ideal for his
friends. God gave the first man n COM
rade II "A helpmeet, and he designs
that his work shall be carried on thus.
Fellowship In service is one of the joys
of service Wherever two go forth to
service in his name, Jesus himself
makes n third. These seventy forerun-
ners or prepafers-in a limited and
modified sense their work was like that
of John the B~aptist-were sent forth to
precede Jesus. He himself would later
follow In their footsteps: for he never
calls a disciple to a service which he
Is not willing to undertake himself. In
h life of faith the disciple is to fol-
low Jesus; In n life of service he is to
go before him. All gospel pioneering
must be done by human agents. The
heather world must wait for Christ UNI
I'll his messengers have gone before
him.
THE RIPE HARVEST.
Jesus possessed the world vision, and
. heart of love great enough to en-
brace all mankind. The burden of the
race was ever OH his spirit. Wherever
he went, through all the days of his
ministry, the sight of the plenteous har-
vest fields, ripe for the sickle. was al
ways before his eyes. Who shall say
thai this same vision did not sustain
him through all the lark hours of his
passion and death. The Lord of the
harvest loved IT. In his address to the
seventy he echoed this deepest senti-
ment of his heart. That noble company
of men and wome whose lives are ami
mated by the same zeal for the world
RaTvest r6uay arc foifowfns IN his
train.
The plenteous harvest is a theme OF
hope: linked with it. however. is the
sad truth that the laborers are few. So
much to he done. and so few to do IT.:
That is the cry echoed by the pioneers
of every great reform or charity, from
the time OF Jesus until now. There is
not a great altruistic enterprise in the
world which is not pleading for more
workers. From every mission field,
from the slums of the cities. from the
great churches and little missions. from
the ranks of the s~tOut-hearted soldiers
who battle for truth against error, for
purity against vice. comes the same re-
frain.-"the laborers are few So var
ied and wide-spreading is the need for
the workers that anyone with even the
least degree of fitness may find full
employment.
There's a work for me and a work for
you,
Something for each of us now to do"
A Sunday school class waits to be
taught, a young peoples society waits
for working members. the sick and poor
wait for sympathy and succor, the
lonely wait for letters of cheer-a pri-
Yates place in some one of the varied
regiments of the army of Christian
service and reform, awaits every Idle
one.
WHEN EARTH MOVES HEAVEN.
Jesus started. his disciples out with
instructions to pray. The very lack of
laborers for the ripe harvest was to
cOnstrain them to prayer. The object
Of their petition ia significant. They
were not hidden to pray for their OWE
comfort or safety or success; nor yet
pray We therefore the ord of the
harvest that he will send forth. labOrers
into his harvest" The worlds greatest
need Is for men-men who can anG
men who dare. The death Of Admiral
Makarof was a greater loss to Russie
than the destruction Of a dozen battle-
ships, for money and tools can make
men. Commentators say that q litera,
rendering OF this phrase would be.
Pray We therefore The Lord of the
harvest that he may thrust forth
laborers into his harvest" The I'm
pulse must come from God. Only tho
divinely sent are missionaries: the very
word missionary means "a sent man,
Man made ministers make NO converts
When the commander OF the Japan.
Gee fleet recently asked for volunteer
for q desperate service at Port Arthur
the entire fleet offered itself. * strongly
are the japanese animated by the spirit
OF patriotism. SO the spirit OF Jesu:
must impel laborers for this might:
task OF world, evangeltSatiOn.
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