The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1910-04-29

OF conservation, Of talent and force
who, II they were utilized. could bs
made a tremendous power for the ad
yancement OF all the interests Of Gods
kingdom. Never before in the history
OF the church militant have the lay.
men ben so active. 50 Jealous and SO
thoroughly aroused to the tremen.
dous responsibilities which member
ship in the church impose as they are
today, They are ready to respond to
lany cali to duty. They realize now as
Inuever before that the Kingdom OF
God in this world means something:
that the Christian life. unless It be
void Of fruits. means a life Of service.
We do. therefore. insist that our pas
tors and church leaders shall see that
this great latent force is generated
into an active. living vital power.
The great object of our mission
work is the evangelization of the
world and whatever promotes the es-
Establishment OF the Kingdom of God
in this world brings us nearer to this
cherished goal. A church that is
without power and force in a commu-
nifty in which it has it's being cannot
have its share in the glorious achieve
ment of the divine purpose Whatever
hinders or retards the development
and progress of the church at home
should encounter our most determined
opposition. On the contrary whatever
promotes its sacred interests should
be sustained by our prayers and sup
ported by our substance.
Let our members ever keep in view
the divine command to go and teach
all creatures" 1t would, where posi-
BILE, be advisable to have at every
church during the conference year at
least one address from layman upon
our foreign missionary interests. The
fields are white for the harvest. The |
call comes from every foreign field
where the cross of Christ has been |
planted by our church for more labor |
ers. We cannot have the laborers |
without the funds to send them OPT
portunity invites our church to treble |
its efforts in Corea, in China, in ia
pan and from the Dark Continent |
comes an appeal that we cannot pass
Other fields, in part occu-
pied by our church invite us to press
We realize that the Chris
of our own land means I'LL
the evangeliZation of the
world and hence no interest of the
church at home should be neglected,
but opportunity waits on none and if
is to have its share in the
of the world to which it's
past record of glorious achievements
entitle It, no short sighted policy or
It's attitude toward the world prob
ems. More than an eighth of all the
money contributed for foreign mis-
sions by evangelical churches is now
given by the Methodists, but our
church cannot live upon it's past his
DRY, glorious as that history has been,
1ut must ever press forward. We re-
liize that the time is not far distant
when, if this great church is to meet
he full measure of its responsibility
Ind assume its whole obligation, our /
Missionary assessments must be in
,reased. That our members may be {
prepared we pray that our laymen and G
he women of our church may be so
lied with holy zeal that the divine '
command to carry the gospel to the a
parts of the earth may i,
urn with living fire into every heart O
nd be emblazoned upon every stand q
I'd of the church, and for this great h
FORK of preparing our members, of n
ringing them to full and adequate c
of the duties and respon- n
Utilities which membership in Gods /,
oily institution impose our consecrat- a.
d laymen are peculiarly equipped and a
lie carrying out of the suggestions m
ere embraced, will, we confidently n
elieve, do more than any other agen- ia
, for the accomplishment of the di- ii
ne WILL God has directed and pros q,
,red and sustained our church during =
) glorious history of more than
injury; may his spirit be upon her
embers and through the power of the
lily gospel may they be prepared for
e great work which Methodism must
if it is to be worthy Of its splen-
a heritage.
ion haste, thy mission high full
filling
To tell to all the world that God is
light: