The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1904-01-27

Reno in Ringoes Baptist Church Janu-
airy "a. 1901.
Considering the lack ofinterestshown
i'll the carrying of the gospel of Christ
to all people one finds it necessary to
stop ut times and ask if we have
sufficient basis upon which to rest our
call for strenuous effort to World
Wide Evangelization.
This morning let ~ notice that
World Wide Missions rest back upon;
|. The Scriptures
And upon them from these positions
l. The nature OF God. Paul tells
us in Tim ,; 4-6 that God desires all
men to be saved. That there is one
God and one mediator between God
and men, the man Christ Jesus.
That Christ Jesus gave himself ran
som for us all
Now if there he but one God instead
of many as the heather believe and if
there is only one method of mans
approach to God, and if | knew ofthat
God and that way and the other fellow
does not il is my duty to tell him.
Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said
there is no name under Heaven given
among men whereby we must be savedi'
Acts. i;l2. II there is only one name
and know that name must tell the
one who does not.
>. The needs and unity of men.
Paul in his letter to Romans 3 9, - .
states the conclusion of his argument in
the three chapters as;-"For all have
sinned and come short of the glory OF
God. . He has included the heather
III his argument. In Rom 6;.13 he
tells lis that "the wages of sin is death"
In Rom. 10;l2-l5 he tells us that Christ's
atonement is for all, heather as we'll as
jew, if they call upon Him. But
proves that they cannot call if they do
not know, and cannot know if we do
not 90 and tell them
So much for the needs of men how
about their unity. In preaching 10 the
people of Athens. Paul tells H. that
God has made Of oHl blood all ia
tons. History has proven and sci
ence has demonstrated this fact OF di-
vine inspiration and therefore the man
in China is my brother and the woman
in India is my sister. Foreign Mis-
sions so called, then Is only lae telling
of the story of Christ 10 my own family
a little farther away
3 The Mission and Command OF
Christ. His mission is expressed in
Luke l6il0 TO seek and to save the
lost, and John tells us thai mean,
"the whole world. John 2;;22.
His command is clear, Mark l6l-
"(;o We into all the world and preach
the gospel to every creature This is
] the last commandments of our ascend
= ing Christ 'Eo il all the Old Tesla.
ment leads. All of Christ's life va,
but the making it possible and the
= making it clear The Bible from theme,
forward bnt records the attempts o.
His disciples TO accomplish it. Arounc
those words all history eliminates
II. The need.
There is not n city, village, or hamlet
' in all our homeland where there is moi
q an urgent need lor christian work. Bui
in our homeland there is one Minister
not counting the other christian work.
ers of all sorts, for every 80 people
while in Africa there is one Missionary
to 1873, goo, i'll South America to say
every 100000 in Japan ! to every
$1,000, in China to every 366, 600. i'm
India to every $4,000 If there i,
need here how much more need there
The Fast is like great house Will
many rooms In one room there is
a light while the millions in Others
| are crying for the light-let Us take il
, To them.
Ill. The Ability.
: Ne matter how plain the teaching OF
: Scripture or how clear the call of God:
no matter how loud the cry of the
heather nor how deep their needs, the
Basis of Missions would be wanting il
we had not the ability To obey the
Scripture and meet the needs. We
have the ability
1. We have the money. If the
Christians of the United States and
Canada would give one tenth of their
income to the work oflGod, and of this
tenth if they We're to give one eighth
to the World wide field we could send
forth Ice, 900 Missionaries next year.
: As it is, United States, Canada, Eng
land, and the Continent have less than
10000.
,. We have the moral force | mean
the heroism in the Spanish American
war it was not '"Who will enlist" but
"who will be permitted to enlist. =
When a particularly hard or dangerous
place was to be filled many times the