The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-04-27
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for those who have felt the constrain
ing impulse Of the Divine Spirit.
That Saul should become a mission
airy was written in his yer!
periaI vision and the pioneer hear
He himself expressed his deep puIpos'
when he said: Being ambitious t
preach the Gospel not where Chris
was already named, lest I should bull,
Gu another mans foundation Nos
of us know noble spirits today pos
sessed by the same ambition.
A Diversified Force.
It takes many forms of ability tt
do complete missionary work. Thi:
first company consisted of Saul an6
Barnahas and John Mark. the las
filing the role OF reporter and genera
assistant. The present-day mission
airy propaganda has not yet got tt
the point Of sending out q Journalistic
historian OF contemporary missiOnar!
effort for the sake Of the church al
home. Thus early began the mis-
Sionary practice Of q diversity Of eff
fort. Even as an army has many
forms or seryice-infantry, cavalry
artillery, signal corps, engineering
corps-so the modern missionary ad-
vance has many mes of approach
There IS the preaching missionary. the
teaching missionary. the healing mis-
SiOnarE. the mechanic missionary, anC
the author missionary, all seeking tile
same end by various routes This is
wisdom. Even When q frontal attacll
would fail. victory may be accom-
plished by q flank movement. There
IS such q thing as missions by indireC~
ton. This ia = branch OF missionary
science as yet largely undeYelopcG.
After High and Low.
\ round-the-World journey is q mere
episode in these days of travel facili-
ties. being Very much less hazardous
than The expedition which this first
missionary force undertook. although
the latter occupies Very small space
on our big nap Later on We shall
see what was involved in PauIs many
travels in the way Of personal hard
ship ana danger. From Antioch -hc
missionaries went down to the coast,
embarking at Seieucia for Cyprus. sal
amis being their point Of landing.
Thence they ~jOurneyed overland sOmo
one hundred and fifty miles to Pa
phOs. whore the particular incident
OF the lesson occurred.
The Roman ~prOconsul. SergiuS PAU
lus. desired to hear Saul and Barna-
has. The latter Were quick to per-
ceiva the advantage Of reaching the
official and influential classes. even rs
modern missions have been. Canada
has lately seen the tremendous pow
CT of having as q Christian leader a
missionary advocate, Sir Andrew
Frazer. for thirty-seyen years an emf
nent servant of the crown in India,
latterly Lieutenant Governor of Ben
gal. we cannot for an instant Con
CeiVe of Saul'S overlooking the com
mon people. To them he was bound
to go, following the fashion of his
Master. Yet he was no demagog'te.
and as q man of the world he realized
that the Gospel belongs in the palace
as Well as in the peasants hut.
A Fighting Missionary.
The p~rOconsul was too big to be
allowed to fall into the and of
this new religion without the most
desperate efforts on the part of the
forces of error. Whoever undertakes
to bring in the day Of truth and right
must expect to see consider
able hard fighting. Indeed, every re-
former and pioneer and apostle OF
the truth needs to be a tirst-clasS
fighting man. Saul filled this bill.
When Elymas the Sorcerer tried %
dissuade the ~prOconsul from the Way,
saul turned upon him in the awful
ness of righteous anger. 1t is not
advised by Scriptures that men be not
angry Certain forms of anger are
even commended. In this instance
it is to be noted that the record runs
that Saul, filled with the Holy Ghost.
fastened his eyes on the sorcerer, and
proceeded to arraign him in speech
that would be deemed highly improp-
er in many q placid, conventional
pulpit. 20 full of all guile and all
villainy. thou son Of the devil, thou
enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou
not cease to pervert the right ways
Of the Lord? Now behold, the hand
of the ord is upon thee, and thou
sha be blind, not seeing the sun for
a season. And Immediately there fell
upon him q mist and a darkness; and
he went about seeking some to Lead
him by the hand That incident
compelled attention and astonishmont
and turned many to faith.
1nnocuous, spineless, sugar-coatcG