The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-05-22
CHURCH MUST
RED|sCOVER THE
DEITY OF CHRIST
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ual unity expresses itseIff Does not
spiritual unity express itself rather in
organic unity or some kind of organic
federation which gives proof OF the
existence of that deeper and more sig
nifcant unity which we call spirituals
''The UNCONVENTIONAL contentious of
today can but impress the world most
unfavorably. What a waste of men
and money, and what for9 To bring
Christ to the worIda Alas, too often
to build up out particular sect, and
yet there still comes ringing down the
centuries that prayer of our Lord which
He offered in the very shadow of the
cross, That they all may be one. Can
we expect our Lord and the head of
the church to answer our prayer for
more and better men for the ministry
so long as we make such poor use
of those He has given US; and can we
expect His stewards, faithful to a
great trust, to furnish us more money
so long as we waste what they give
us in unseemly strife and unholy rival
ry for place and numbers?
1T may be that the church, like
truth, has its periods of analysis be-
fore it reaches its periods of synthe-
sis. Have we not come to the end Of
the period of analysis and shall we
not now, with an energy which has
the emphasis of tremendous convic-
tion enter into the period of synthe-
sis when the church of Jesus Christ
shall be one? Think of the power of
united Professionalism! When will
the day come when united Romanism
it,
and matched by a united Protestant
ism? OF course, you understand that
the church must be spiritualized be-
fore it can become one, and 1 am
not thinking of the carnal church that
said, I am of Paul, and I am of
ApoIlos,' but / am thinking of the
spiritual church that says, BY one
spirit are we all baptized into one
body
What then is the function of this
divine organization? In a word, to
mediate Jesus Christ, Gods Son and
the worlds Redeemer, to a world lost
IN sin, to give a whole gospel to all
men and to all of men. This means
hospitals for the bodily needs, schools
for the 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 AMI
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 it
was called, but who went ont to the
FnJ-
lums to administer to them in their
pressing needs. But why shall the
church longer hesitate while others do
the work to which it has been called
in the divine providence? l honor the
Young Mems Christian Association, as
I do the Young Women's Christian AS
ISOLATION and the Salvation Army, but
their existence is, in my judgment, an
awful rebuke to the organized church
of Jesus Christ. If the church of
London had reached the young men
of that metropolis, God would not have
impressed, in my judgment, a. young
man to start that great movement
known the world round as the Young
Mems Christian Association. The
Church of England was not reaching
the submerged tenth, and Genera!
Booth heard the call of God and went
out with drums and tambourines, sing
ing lads and lassies. and praying 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 mighty work
which the church in its organized ca
pacity too long neglected This the
church ought to have done. and, when
it gets the right view of it's 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 it may do the work to which in
the providence of God it has been
called? These fall naturally into two