Americus times-recorder., 1919-05-13
BISHOPS SOUND.
)PENINC GUN OF
,ENTENARYDRIVE

A summons to all Methodists
tend church Sunday, May 49," wri
by Senior Bishop e. r. Hendrix G
ehalf Of the bishops, has just been r,
lived by Americus Methodists as Il
1ening gun of the great Centenal
rive which will be launched through
1t the land by Methodists next MOI
ay, May 10. Following the appei
the bishops:
The hour has come-God's hour
and mans hour Other churches
are also planning to observe this
hour but on a smaller scale, but
the world is challenged to OBJ
serve the dignity of the observ-
ance of Methodism which at once
celebrates a hundred years of or
ganized missionary effort and the
close of the worlds war Before
peace was planned we were pre-
pairing to share in the campaign
to follow the great war by wor-
thy campaign with Christ as our
leader to extend his kingdom
throughout a sorrowing world. 1t
was to be a campaign CT Thanks
giving, of Conservation, OF Re-an-
forcement, of Reconstruction. 1t
implied the following up of the
plowshare of war with the seed
basket and the sickle of peace. Ev-
cry mission field at home and
abroad made its askings in the
light at once of it's needs and its
opportunities. With the New
Testament now in six hundred
languages we feel that the time is
ripe for our church to send out
i've hundred additional missiona-
ries in the next five years. What
heroes they follow, fit though few,
in the great mission fields which
have been pioneered. Our con-
quering Lord has opened the
world to us to occupy in His name,
has guarded the seas, has short
ened the distances until now the
world has become a great neigh
borhood where the watchmen can
see eye to eye.
a4 hn ION XErla n
on May 18th be ushered in by a
great churchgoing Sunday that
shall fill all our churches, both
with crowds of worshippers and
The spirit of faith ana prayer. 1t is
our Lord who summons us to
meet Him in the place of worship.
Let ours be the church's answer
to His gracious call for service,
He is mobilizing His army. Let
the foundations of hell tremble
under the footballs of the hosts of
the Lord as the cry goes up to
heaven, the Lord of hosts is with
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We are summoned under new
sense of the unlimited resoGces of
Christ who declares afresh, "All
power is given unto me in heaven
and in earth" His resources are
ours if we seek them, We dare
not look alone to our own re-
sources which God has put in our
hands until the wealth of the
world is in Christian lands. He
g4tl1-ctn thee the power to get
wealth." But it is the spiritual
resources hid in Christ that we
most need. Happy the result of
the world war that has given us a
deeper knowledge of the resources
in Christ, the riches of His COM
passion, of his patience and His
grace, until the bleeding world
calls out our compassion as did
Jerusalem when our Lord wept
over it, The worlds greatest need
today is the necessary Christ and
those who know him and his re-
sources. While the world is NOV
ed by those who have made the
supreme sacrifice during the
greatest war in human history let
all men know who made the su-
preme sacrifice for all men.
1t was on the eve of passion
week as our Lords life was clos
ing that Jesus sat down over
against the treasury" He was OBJ
serving with loving solicitude men
in their relation to their property.
His eye rested upon the widow,
possibly the victim of the rich,
who devoured Widows houses, yet
she cast in her all, being meas
ured in the sight of her Lord not
by what she gave but what she
had left. 1t was then "our Lord
took the widows mite and placed
it in his crown He still sits
over against the treasury, and
these gifts will be tests of our
gratitude and our faith. None
will be too large to measure fully
our gratitude, or too small to es-
cape his notice as a tribut efrom a
grateful heart. 1t is the habit
and motive of giving that will be
most pleasing unto Christ.
Take and give for me and
Al.lnfs