The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1908-08-14

who, for Christ's sake and the gos-
pels, have laid themselves and all
they had, upon the altar, "to spend
and be spent for the HEATHEN. Sep
arated from home, country and loved
strangers they, in strange,
strange land-"In journeyings often;
in perils of waters; in perils of rob-
bers: in perils If their own country
men; in perils of the heather; in per-
lis of the city; in perils of the wilder
ness; in perils of the sea; in perils
among false brethren; in WEAKNESS
and painfulness; in watchings often;
in hunger and thirst; in Hastings Of
ten; in cold and nakedness; besides
those things which are without, that
which cometh upon them daily, the
CARE of ALL the CHURCHEs"-ThiS is
the story of the missionary they
have indeed drunk of the cup of which
their Savior drank, and yet have re-
joiced, and DO rejoice, that they were
counted WORTHY to SUFFER for His
sake"
But this is not all; the salvation of
the world has cost the time, the
thought, the energy and the means of
a host of consecrated men and women,
who, from their posts in the home
land, have engineered and prosecuted
this work. Men and women whose
own souls have been heavily burdened
and have planned and schemed, la
bored and sacrificed in order to burden
the souls of others. They have had to
grapple with ignorance, carelessness,
Indifference and seltishness, discourag
ing and disheartening, on the part of
those whose duty it was, and is, to be
just as intelligent, just as concerned
and just as self denying in the interest
of this cause, as they themselves.
They have struggled not with those
who NEVER HEARD the glorious Cos
pei of the Son of God, but with those
who have been Gospel surfeited and
Gospel hardened; and can testify from
bitter experience to the truth of the
saying, that there are ''none so blind
as those who WILL NOT see, and none
so deaf as those who WILL NOT HEAR"
These are they who have seen the
vision-not of ONE man only-but of
millions upon millions, all praying as
did the Macedonian of old: "Come
over and help us! COME OVER AND
HELP US. w
These are they who feel the "woe is
me" If we do not all in our power to
give the Gospel to EVERY CREATURE
These are they who have "Sown in
tears but shall reap in joy"
Thus, from first to last, all along
down the ages to the present time,
sacrifice OF self aud self interest, has
been the price paid for missious-the
of the world; your salvation
and mine. PRICELESS ENTERPRISE.
Have we so regarded ann VALUED
missions?
You may have heard the story of
the little girl whose mother had de
formed and crippled hands which were
but source Of admiration
TO the fast dious daughter.
One day the little girl ventured to
ask her mother what made her hands
SO crooked and ugly, and this is the
answer she received: ''My daughter,
when you were tiny babe, by acct.
dent you fell into the fire one Gay, and |
hearing your screams, l rushed 10 and |
you from the flames; / had |
a heroic struggle but succeeded in |
saving your life, and l am happy to
say, your BEAUTY, as well-but this
her shrivelled and distorted |
Is what it cost your
mother"
The yourg girls heart was touched,
she reached forward and clasping the |
crippled hands in both of hers, covered |
them with kisses, exclaiming as she |
did so! BEAUTIFUL HANDS. BEAUTI |
Full HANDSn'
The sacrifice which they repre-
sented, wrought complete transfer
and enhanced their valuation
an HUNDRED FOLD.
May it be so with us-maY the sac
ritices embodied in MISSIONS, make
them appeal to us, as they really are
paramount in import
lnce; and worthy the BEST OF ALL W.
have to GIVE.
Now, we have come to our secOud |
luestion-How do missions PAY? This
question sometimes takes another
form, |. e. DO missions pay? Implying
4 doubt in the mind Of the questiouer
as to missions being paylbg propO
,ition, but there is no doubts In TIE
minds of those who KNOW missions
They do pay, and pay with interest,
and double compounded
Some one has said that we "get out
If a thing just what We put into it,"
md without endorsing this statement.
can say with emphasis, that such
is all one can reasonably
expect; and further, if Baptlsts only
yOJ OUT OF missions what they put