The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1909-05-21


that says. by one spirit are we all
baptized into one body
What then IS the function OF this
divine organization? In word. to
mediate Jesus Christ. Gods Son and
the worlds redeemef to a world lost
! in sin, to give whole gospel to all
men and to all OF men This means
hosp Is FOR the bodily needs. schools
for tle intellect and the church with
It's activities for the spiritual Just as
It's divine head was for rich and poor,
learned and unlearned. high and low
alike. so is His church. His body to
be for all.
"All honor to those good men and
women who were not willing TO wait
upon the church in its organized ca.
pacity to do the work to which il was
called, but who went out to the poor
and sick with hospitals and asylums
70 administer to them In their press
ing needs. But why shall the church
longer hesitate while others do the
work to which II has been called in
the divine providence? l honor the
Young Mems Christian association, as
I do the Young Womens Christian
association and the Salvation Army
but their existence is in my Judge
ment an awful rebuke to the organlz-
al oh fAF
church of London had reached the
young men of that metropolis, God
would not have impressed. In by judg-
ment, a young man to start that great
movement known the world round as
the Young Mems Christian association.
The church of England was not reach
Ing the submerged tenth and General
Booth heard the call to God and went
out with drums and tambourinea.
singing lads and lassies. and pray
ing men and women, to the corners of |
the streets with the gospel of hope, |
with unskilled workmen to be sure In /
many cases, but he went and the /
Salvation Army is today doing a
work which the church in its organiz-
ed capacity too long neglected This
the church ought to have done and.
when II gets the right view Of its
functions, It will do
Having examined the functions of
the church and having discovered the
side reach OF these functions, what
then are the resources of the church.
that il may do the work to which IN
the providence OF God 1t has been
called These fall naturally into two
divisions The seen and the unseen.
Among the seen we may mention the
wealth of today Never was there
such an array of material resources
upon which the church may put its
hand as we have today. All OF this
Jesus Christ, as the head will put
under tribute to His church when He
discovers that il can be trusted with
Il. We are poor today not because
our Divine Head Is poor, but because
He has not dared 20 trust us with
the vast resources 10 which we az
the children Of God have become heirs
with Him.
Second Then consider the means
Of communication today by which this
tribute may be transmitted TO the na.
tions OF the world. The world has
been brought into one great neighbor.
hood Shanghai, Liverpool London
and New York are no longer separate
entities but are merely parts Of one
Shall the church remain
dumb and idle az a time when II may
speak to the nations Of the world in
a day?
Third Then consider her resour.
ses In the United States Of America
and throughout the world for TINT
matter IN the men and women found
within her ranks Here In America
are the potency and power for world
If we marshal these under
he banner Of our Great Captain; but,
{ we neglect II we hesitate we may
be called in the near future 10 face
hese as our most lnyeterate foe II
sc Christianize America In the pro.
.idence Of God and transmite that is
low mighty field into mightier
orce, we may expect to see nations
BORN unto God In a day. but to neg
ect this opportunity at a time like
his, when America is tremulous with
great possibilities is little short of
criminal In the sight of Almighty :
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