The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-30
nv WIILIAM T. ELLLs.

Interesting Missionary Item,' Ps.
44:1-4; Acts 2S:23-2s.
BY WILLIAM T. ELLIS.
The prayer test determines ones
real interest in missions. If we love
the world with any measure of the
passion which Christ loved 1t, we shall
pray for it, even as we almost inVolun-
tarily pray for those most dear to us.
Except a Christian find himself pray
ing for all the world, he may question
| the depth and sincerity of his devo-
| ton to that cause which was dearest
to the heart of his Lord.
The key to the conversion of any
| heather people is with the mothers
and the children. For even the most
privilege of moulding at their knees
| the faith of childhood. Christian
| mothers mean a Christian nation the
| world around.
! A foreign missionary says DR.. A. T.
Pierson, is a fellow worker with the
Father, a fellow sufferer with the Son,
| and a fellow witness with the Spirit.
In the extraordinary waking up of
religious forces which is now being
witnessed throughout the world, the
attention that is being paid to the
churches appear to realize that they
have only been playing at the city
problem. In it's bigness and far reach
ing consequences they are only now
beginning to grasp it. There is no
graver question confronting twentieth
century Christianity than this one of
how to effect the rescue OF the city
from the forces of evil which have
their strongholds therein.
The Endeavorer who is inclined to
be weak and yielding should follow, in
: imagination. the missionaries of the
cross. Once he had entered hostile
India with Carey, or penetrated
Africa's forest and jungles with Liv-
J ingstone and Mackay, or burned out
for God" with Martyr in Persia, OF
, lived as Chinaman with Gilmour, OF
: preached in the wilderness to the In
: dams with Brainard and Eliot. OIL
followed Allen Gardiner to martyr
j dom in the South Sea Islands, he will
! count as nothing the hardships of his
I present life, and will long for oppor-
n tunity to prove by great service his
n love of a gracious Savior.
The heather have no Joy in theil
J, religions. The thought of enjoying
). worship is to them inconceivable
r Travellers tell US of the pathetic sad
t ness that is written on the faces o.
s the non-Christian nations of the earth
= But Christ came to bring the fullnes
= of Joy into human lives. At our Faith
: er's right hand are pleasures forever
n more.
Every Christian is under commits
sion to be a missionary to the frs
person who may need him, and thi
u to know how to handle Alright tn
e Word of truth. We cannot be sou
= winners until we have learned how t
Q to use the Scriptures in the presenta
ss ton of Gods plan of salvation. Their
l. is no more practical use of the Bibl
.e than its use to make plain the wa
is of life.
ID Christ's greatness is one secret c
IT his missionary skill. No small ma
y. can be missionary, for the latte
3 must be able to rise above race preju
dices and above conditions Of time an
lg place. He must have the imaginatio
: to see a mans spiritual needs, regard
L less of his environment. The kinshi
D. of men in sin and salvation must al
IS. peal to him more strongly than the
OF difference in speech or color.
C We read about educational mission
"a and medical missions, and missional
exploration, but we must not forg
= that underneath it all is the one air
~, to bring salvation to lost men.
n The Kingdom of God was predom
" nant in Pauls thought, and should
n in ours. All our life should be oil
to prayer, "Thy Kingdom come"
lat
Il" In all our studying of the hero
deeds of missionaries let US rememb
that we are reading not merely abo
:. the acts of men, but of God. Our 10
-. to him should be strengthened as
~ read.
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