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andeth all men every where to 70.

mandeth all men everywhere to 70.
pent."
But God has borne with our past mis-.
sionary ignorance as we'll AZ our past
social ignorance. We have a duty to
fulfill in reference 10 the kind OF homes
in which our brethren sleep and eat.
We must see that they have the right
kind of schools in which to be taught.
But above all we must see that they
are made acquainted with the gospel Of
Christ and the mercy Of the true God.
And yet some people who are members
Of Christian churches profess to believe
that they are not responsible for the
kind Of God their heather brethren
worship. BY their actions they practi-
cally say: Christ did not mean any.
thing when he said, Go We therefore
and teach all nations, baptzing them
In the name Of the Father and Of the
Son and Of the Holy Ghost But he does
mean for us simply to go and teach our
friends and our own families and our
own kith and kin"
All, my brother, when a man is indif-
ferent TO the missionary effort to
preach Christ unto all men and send
Christs missionaries into the farther
most parts Of the earth he resembles
in his religious sel1shness the sultan
Of Turkey. Tourists who have been to
Constantinople tell us that the Sick
man Of Europe" Is living in daily ter
ror OF his life. His bloody hand has
been against all his enemies. Murder
and rapine have gone wherever his rule
has gone. He dethroned his elder
brother and shut him up in prison for
many years. He is said to have slain
two of his nearest relatives. either one
of whom would have become sultan
had he died. He has killed scores and
hundreds and thousands Of his subjects
In the hope that their deaths might
make his life more assured and yet
there he trembles In his palace year in
and year ont, afraid Of his foreign foes
and fearful of his enemies, skuking
within his own capital.
The sultan's Fears.
But once a week the sultan. even in
spite Of hts own fears, goes regularly
to the mosque to prayer, He goes there
with one motive-to insure his own sal
walton. lis Of himself. his eternal safe
ty, that he thinks and not OF the vel
fare Of his people. Can it be possible
that any Christian resembles him in
this? Are there Christians whose sole
desire in worship Is their own salvation
and who care nothing for others?
The broader conceptions OF the Cos
pei never seem to enter their lives.
That because Christ is their Saviour
they should try to present him to those
who know him not, ali. this indeed has
never been the purpose Of their hearts.
| Now, all this narrow conception Of
Christianity must stop. We must be
eyes to the blind and ears to the deaf
and crutches to the lame and food for
the hungry But we must be more
than that-we must be the means,
through the missionaries, OF bringing
Christ to a dying world.
Thus in closing l would point you
to Mars hill, the most glorious pulpit
in the world with the exception of
Calvary. And then would point out
for your exemplar the mightiest Cos
pei preacher Of all times with the ex-
ception Of Jesus Christ himself. And
I would tell you that Paul did not 60
to Athens to preach Christ. He was
worn out with work. He was resting
there for Silas and Timotheus to come
10 him. But while he rested he saw
the AthenaDs in sin Then he could
not rest any longer. The Bible says,
Ills spirit was stirred in him when
he saw the city wholly given to idol
airy" Therefore he went forth to tell
the Athenians about his Christ. All,
my friends. in our modern Athens of
America will your hearts burn within
you as Paul's burned within him when
he saw the weaknesses Of mankind
Will you here and now promise not to
rest this side Of the grave until you
have told as many people az you can
about the Jesus who alone can save
them from their sins? May every hour
Of every day Of the coming year find
you proclaiming the gospel tidings
from some Mars hill until at last you
stand before the throne Of heaven
where Christ shall reveal himself tc
all his redeemed ones face to face.
copyright. 1905. BY Louis Klopsch1