The Bolivar County Democrat. (Rosedale, Miss.) 1887-1969, 1907-06-15
MISSIONARIES SENT FORTH.

tain and calleth unto him whom he
would: aud they came unto him.
And he ordeined twelve, that
they should be with him and that
he might send them forth to preach,
And to have power to heal sickness
and cast out devils. And Simon
he summoned Peter: Aud James
the son of Zebedee, and John the
brother ef James, and he sur
named them Boanerges which is
The SONS of thundee.
And Andrew, and Philip, and
Bartholomew, and Matthew, and
Thomas and James, the son
of Alpheus, and 'Thaddeus
and Simon the Canaanite, and
Judas Iscariot, which also betrayed
him, and they went into all house. y
After Our Saviour, himself, these
meu were the first missionaries.
We all know the meaning of the
mission" an organized method
of propogating a religion; special
ly the propagandism of christianity
among the heathen and the lat
ter is based upon the command OF
our dear Lord-'Go ye unto all
the world and preach the Gospel
to every creature. This was said
upon that last day that He talked
with his eleven apostles, after bis
resurrection and just before his
ascension into Heaven. Could any
thing be more solemn, more love
compelling to these men who had
followed him from the beginning
of His career?
Nearly the whole world has been
visited-not Christianized by any
means-but visited by Jealous,
self-sacrificing missionaries, who
in response to this command OF the
Master, have braved every dan ger
and difficulty, have borne, uncom-
plainingly, every hardship, to car
ry the blessed good tidings" to
their brethren in heathen lands.
The apostles began their work,
preaching and teaching-even be-
fore the death of Christ, and dur
ing their lifetime they carried the
GOSPEL to many countries East and
North of the Mediterranean. st.
Paul who was mira culously COLI
verted while prosecuting the follow
ers of Christ, became the most sub
cessful of all the early mission
aries. He carried the Gospel OF
Christ as far west as Spain, and
some say even to Briton. How
ever that may be, we know that
within century after Christ
the Gospel had been preached over
large part Of the Roman World.
We often hear people say they
will give nothing to Foreign miss
ions-their money should be kept
at home-they do not believe III
Foreign missions. "
What would this, our country,
| its churches and Sunday schools,
it's schools and colleges, its elee-
mosynary institutions of all kindss
it's happy and God-fearing people
have been?-What all our mother
countries in Europe, had this been
the belief of such men as St. Paul,
St. Patrick, St. Augustine, Column
ba, Boniface and hund reds of other
devoted Christian men, who
thought it their duty to make
known to our barbarian and saw
age ancestors the doctrine of love,
peaca. and goodwill towards men.
The world today is full of love and
kindness-;t overflow; i'll golden
streams of sympathy to the suffer-
ing and dertitute in every land.
The past year has witnessed
examples of this universal brother
hood found only in Christian lands.
The earthquake and fire at San
Francisco brought relief to the des-
olate people from every quarter
of the globe. Fire, storm, Hood,
famine and earthquake have raw
aged the globe repeatedly IN the
last twelve months, but the world 5