El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-05-02

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humanity. the need constitutes q call.
A Kind hearted Christian with a desire
10 help the poor and neeqy goes forth
and meets some little half clothed,
6aIf fed waif upon the street de does
not need a special revelation to tell
him to 20 and help that unfortunate
child. The need is his vision Let
ne look at the world in its relation to
Mammalian countries among the people
that are not heather upon b ground
that they worship the one GOD we
would still find that .one-haif Of the
world is heather But II we put the
Nrohammedan people where they be-
Ionr-among the people who have no
ADEQUATE saving falth-We IND that
there are 1858 62, 00O heathen people
in the world, not counting among them
the peopIe Of the darker papal coun-
trfes- me Jews who have no Messiah,
nor the members OF the corrupt Greek
church in the east
The Black Pail OF Heathenism."
Now stare at those figures, that is
all we ever do with figures anyway
Firures do not lie, but they often fail
to tell all the truth. BACK or these
figures is a moral degradation and
blackness that no figures or words can
ten. Under the black pail OF the class
ificatiOn of heather IS dishonesty,
intemperance, impurity, cruelty and
murder-everything that Is lowest and
worst. If any think that It does not
matter what a man believes; that one
religion is as good as an0Iner, let him
compare the ~nOn-ChrlSI1an countries
with the people who believe that Jesus
is the Christ Of God. The only influ-
ence that can raise the fallen and heal
the worlds hurt is evangelical Christ
iauity. ~Infidelity boasts Of its moral
itv. but X is not trying to tmpart that
s4ipnosed morality to the heather
world. COmmercialism, miitaryism
and all the forms Of secular civilization
recognize no obligation here and it is
just as well that they do not for they
have nothing with which TO meet it.
And vet how little the church is do
ingi In this country we have n Or
dained minister to every SO people
while In heather lands there is only
one to every 1864. Do we who live
in the land where churches so often
overlap, and where people are surfeited
on sermons hear NJ man Of Macedonia
calling, see no outstretched hands
The Efncncy of the Gospel.
There is another thing mat cOnsti-
tuues the Macedonian call Of today. and
that is the efficacy OF the gospel No
matter how badly the heather peoples
need something, If Christianity is not
that something, there is no call If
Christianity cannot take hold OF them
and does not thrive among Lhems then
there is no obligation.
A little over q century & the un-
civilized peoples had been left out OF
all consideration in connection with
Christianity, but at the opening OF the
20th century there were 1900, 600 con-
verts 10 the Christian religion in the
pagan world. These were people Of
every race, condition and temDerma-
ment. proving the adaptability Of
Christianity for all the people Of the
earth.
When Marsden went to New Zealand
to labor for its ChristianizatiOn. he
went 10 what all men regarded as an
impossible task. He was assured by
the C~annibals there that the only rea-
son that they did not eat him was be-
cause the English people were such
great salt eaters that their flesh was
spoiled for food But he preached TO
them on Christmas day 1914 through an
Interpreter Onsthe text Behold. I bring
you goo Udings Of great JOY" They
began TO believe and be baptized. and
in a Few years those people who had
been naked saVages with their and
red with human blood, more like
demons tina men, constituted a peace
full community. deCently clad, assemb-
ling for worship, and ~deToutly using
the church service printed in their own
tongue When AT the g Of y he left
them to 90 home and rest i'll God
should call him home, he lifted up his
n in benecicJiOn yer 5000 peO-
pie who bore testimony tina the good
tidings had not been in vain.
A century ago when mission work
was begun among the Brahmin people
Of India, the British East India com
pany put on record its conviction that
the sending Of missionaries into our
eastern possessions is the maddest.
most expensive, most unwarranted
project that was ever proposed by a
lunatic enthusiast" At that time there
were no English Christians who rose
up to defend our Lords enterprise
against that outrageous assault. and
there were many IN parliament and IT.
the ecclesiastical courts who gave pos
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only a few years & sir Rivers Thomp-
son. lieutenant governor Of Bengal,
said. christian missionaries have done
more real and lasting good in India
tha all Other agencies combined"
Face to Face With Ond Worker.
There is one thing tina gives that
call special force and gives Gods peo-
pie special encouragement TO obey II.
and that is the special manifestations
OF GOd presence n pOwer IN con
nection with this work. There are
things happening on the mission field
that bring the whole church face 10
face with the wonder worker. They are
things hat beyond all doubt or denial
reveal q divine factor at work on the
field These incidents are not few nor
scattered, nor hidden, but conspicuous
and many. They may not take the
form OF bible miracles, but God is not
poor In n they do not need
to. But h essence and fact Of a su-
-pernatural activity is there, and tina
is what concerns US most
Evidence Of Gods Presence.
When I see the hosts Of Joshua. after
rolling away all spiritual reproach,
march on Jericho armed only with
trumpets, N blow the blast OF faith
that brings b walls crumbling to the
ground, I know that God-the God of
Moses Is there. When I see the quick
and resistless prOstration OF heather
forces before the blast from the rams
horns Of truth. I know that the same
God is there. When I read of how the
bread multiplied in the disciples hands
as he sent them out to feed the multi
tude, I know that God is there. When
I see that mission faith which has dis
tricted the field. and planned for Ia
borers. and ignored in~adeQuacy OF re-
sources. and then how God has re-
warded that faith, I know that the God
of the barrel Of meal and the cruise
Of oil and Of the 1naNas and fishes is