The Cairo bulletin., 1904-07-24


ana SUFFERED. preached and worked ON
4 and on until the day when he was
crucified tho converts he had won
were only Il little handful Of followers
AT the foot of his cross If should
take you to country pastor ana say
REV. Mr.. So-and-so, how large ~ your
church" he would say; "Oh, very
small We have only siSscorc mem
bers all told But we are pArt Or the
great Presbyterian church with It's
hundreds VI thousands ana millions OF
members. Therefore We are proud
10 belong to the great body OF this
church mGlitanl." Bilt Jesus when he
died did not have any great church.
He was only the humble Naza-
rene with one hundred and twenty
disciples all told in Jerusalem. From
worldly standpoint Christs life
seemed to be an abject failure. Do
! you wonder that Christ said TO his
disciples in the words of my text, HE
that bclieveth on me. the works that
| DO shall he do also, ana greater works
than these shall he dot" How has the
promise been fulfilled il the great
/ preachers and organizers Of the Chris
tan church? Inspired Ly his life and
teaching men have arisen whose
1 achievements. as far us they cnn be
measured by numbers. have surpassed
| ihousandfold those Of their Divine
4 Master
Growth of the Y NJ &. A.
Compare If You will the rapid adj.
vancement of Christianity during the
century just passed with the seeming
/ ly paltry number of 100 whom Chrisi
gathered about him in Jerusalem dur
Ing his earthly ministry In 1914
George Williams of London organized
The first u N. G. A. association OF the
world. IortysS years later as di-
rect ontgrowth Of his work there were
6,12J different Y NJ G. A association
societies With their enrolment of 60,
600 members, with property worth over
SGT. 900 600 In 1865 William Booth,
\ humble Methodist minister, steppe1
out Of the church of his birth and in
Nottingham England organized the
Christian Mission, the outgrowth Of
which is the modern Salvation Army IL
thirty five years that army, as a direct
result of William Booths work, had
Its II 900 officers stationed N all parts
of the world. holding annually over
100000 meetings and possessing its
own printing presses. scattering forth
40 100000 pamphlets and papers OF
gospel news and with an income OF
nearly 100000 per year. In 1880
Francis T. Clark, 4 comparatively TN.
known minister. organized his young
people into n band Of Christian work
ers. called the Christian I.ndcaSor so
ciety He Is called Father" Clark
now. not, however. because he is an
old man. but because he was the IA
ther Of a movement which in twenty
years had society with nearly 1000,
600 members. Consider the work of
John Wesley Compare The iirsr band
Of l20 members with the conversions
under the power Of the Holy Ghost of
Whitefeld, Finncy. Moody These men
led the people by the tens Of thousands
10 lxneel at the foot OF the cross. Tell
me. in reference to the criterion OF
number, has not man rs a preacher
and Christian organizer done great /
or things" than did Christ?
But. again. in this worldwide sweep |
OF mans greater works" we must see !
how man is everywhere oycrnlrnins |
the heather doctrine That might |
makes right" rather than right makes /
might" We must see man as the de /
fender of the weak man, the hope Of |
the helpless man. the friend Of the be +
reft man and In one sense the rescuer I
of the lost Christ comes rs the friend /
of the friendess. But, oh. how friend I
less and helpless he himself becamel
James Morrison in 4 wonderful review /
of the works of Christs life pictures /
him as mighty conqueror Even in
his defeats he saw the oncoming con
quests Said this mighty pulpiteer.
lie strobe on 10 victory. From bis cl
evated standpoint he saw as the conse
ducnce of his triumphal ascent TO his
Father the overthrow of phariseeism
md Sadduecelsn lie looked farther
and saw the overthrow Of lioman and
Grecian and Scythian idoIatry lie
looked farther and saw the destruction
Of slavery. He looked farther and saw
the gradual emancipation Of the mass
os from the oppression Of tyrants and
their elevation into political and social
privileges He looked farther ami sasy
the erection of hospitals and other in
stitutionS of bcncvolencc. He saw the
on the one hand Of home
missions extending to the hundreds Of
thousands who have lapsei and the es
on the other hand OF for
nigu missions. sending the gospel Of
his grace TO the ends OF the earth in
hundreds of tongues" Put, though
Christ In his cxaltation and prophetic
vision may have seen al this. yet. like
Moses. with his eyes overlooking the
ver1ant fields OF the promised land,
christ was TO have no direct physical
contact I'm the contamination Of The
worlds salvation.
Christ Never Visited India.
al India was yet TO give UP its w.d- I
Nv burning and the tossing Of its help