The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-10-10
Rev. HI. ", McCleary De
livers an Able Sermon.
RALLY DAY NICELY OBSERVED
German M. E. League Rem
ders Fine Program.
Rev. J. y. Cuirin Gives Address ut
Laying of Corner Stone I'm City
Where His Father Was the First
Baptist Minister.


The one great object for which the
| church exists and the sole aim that
justlfes her existence and vitalizes
her frame is the glory OF God in the
| conversion of the world. In recogni-
tion of this truth and unable to with
draw from the shadow of it's power.
men and women have taken their
lives In their hands and gone TO the
ends OF the earth in obedience to the
divine command Out of the ashes of
countless martyr fires, and above the
groans of thousands who dared to be
u Daniel; and crossing streams of
human blood sacred from the veins
of those who toiled and suffered and
even tortured for conscience sake,
there Is an unmistakable voice re-
minding us of Gods great men who
represented God His holy Bible, coun
try and conscience. Germany with
Melanchthon and Luther, Switzer-
land with Calvin and Beza; John Huss
the Bohemian hero: The Huguenots
of France; the Pilgrims sailing from
a Holland Harbor; Knox of Scotland,
ST. Patrick of Ireland; Wycliffe Of
England were men of God and whose
blood was fired with patriotic and
missionary zeal
BY common consent we recognize
Christ as the great cohesive agent in
the moral and spiritual universe-He
is the great tie that binds our
hearts In Christian love. The cry from
Macedonia that filled the ears of st.
Paul came from shepardless fields.
dumb to their woeful need because un
conscious of it-Tonight there is such
an unconscious call, borne from the
pathetic loneliness of the foreign heart
who has been lured here through the
unChrist-like allurements and who 10
disappointed in the yeracity of Ameri-
cans. discouraged in failure TO dis
cover golden streets, and willing to
resort to means and measures that
make him odious in the eyes of those
who should support and rectify false
inducements. All nations have united
In making contributions of human
souls to America, some with strong
ideas OF republican rgovernment; some
with feeble notions OF citizenship;
some with slight reverence for God
and His holy day, and some with er-
roneous views Of obedience to .authorl
ty; and America must insist upon
Americanizing the European instead
of the European attempting
to Europeanize America, and no
agency can perform that work better
than that known az the missionary
propaganda of the church of Jesus
Christ And the duty of the church is
TO assist in raising the blood stain
banner of Calvary and say to native
and foreign borns,, In this land
and all lands, that the sight of this
banner means new life. new hope.
new thoughts, and world wide liber-
try through the Christ OF Calvary,
On the 10th of April, 1853 John G.
Patton left Glasgow for the New Heb
rides--Here he joined DR.. Geddie and
Rev. and Mrs Mathison of Nova
Scotia. In Nova Scotia there Is lit
tie town called Picton-In this town
there is church known as the Prince
street Presbyterian church, Late In
the Fifties there was a man who went
| from this church as missionary TO
the Cannbal Islands known as tine
| New Hebrides He was the first mis-
| sionary Nova Scotia sent to this part
OF tho world. His name was Geddie.
His father was a matchmaker He was
a great link in connecting Nova Sco-
tia to that part Of the world. The old
Scotch Captain of the boat on which
we sailed to st. Johns told mo he
knew Mr.. Gcddie very we'll He was
present the day he left He was there
when the news came of his death. In
1861 Rev. s. +. Johnston and his wife
also went from Nova Scotia TO aid
the work in these distant islands In
a few months Rev. Johnston was kill
ed by the savages. The Sabbath
Schools of Nova Scotia contributed
$l250.00 ANNUALLY to aid this work.
These people took great pride in build
ing a little boat they called THE
Dayspring" and sent 1t to their
workers and the Captain of the Day
spring was a cousin of the Captain
of our boat this summer.
What are the results2 When these
great martyrs went TO these barbar-
ian islands the natives were nude,
degradation was OF an unthinkable
kind polygamy was widely practised,in
fanticide was systematically practis-
ed. old and helpless parents were dis
patched; widows were murdered. all
the vices limited at in the first chap
ter of Romans were unblushingly
practised And today? In 1900 heard
the venerable standard bearer OF
the cross of John G. Patton, speak In
Princeton. He had the some Kind OF
fiber as David Livingston OF Africa
and / do not know a more fascinat-
ing story, than his autobiography
Read 1t. all ye who are unsympathe-
tic with mission work. Read II, ye
scoffers of the church and tell me II
you can produce anything Of superior
work or interest in all the annals
the of national history or the prog
ress of civilization. Today those Is
, lands are Christian and not cannibai
Men and boys go TO their knees In
prayer every morning before they 60
to work They have buried their hre
arms They are clothed in the garn
of civilization. And all over the age
OF twelve are followers OF Jesus
, Christ.
In thinking of the land OF Evange-
line remember not only Benedic'
Bellefontaine who was 1.-THE wealth
lest farmer of Grand Pre- that the
, 'i-Annapciss valley is famous for its
Re9p tliaDd fruit: that Cape BulPr
has extensive coal mines where hun