Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-07-01
STIRRING APPEAL OF
{ CHRISTIAN MISSIONARY
ALLIANCES PRESIDENT

/ PRESIDENT KEY. Paul ftaQef Will DC
at the Christian and Missionary AL
lance convention at Old Orchard,
Maine, Aug. 514. and will be the
! leading speaker and exponent of the
! Four fold Gospel of Jesus Christ, and
many members of the Augusta branch
are planning TO attend. In his appeal
! to Missionary workers he says:
II have come back. after my trip
around the. world. another man than
| was when | went away, | have look
ed into the, faces of perishing, dying
multitudes, and I can never be the
same | have come back with a brok-
en- heart. 1t is almost impossible to
tell my feeling. My heart bleeds-
that is all | can say.
Il would not be here for million
worlds, if God would let me stay over
/ there. | say to YOU in all kindness.
and surely Y love YOU. there is not a
man who would not love to be the
pastor of this church; we have labors
together; we had nights of prayer,
days OF communion and times of
blessing: we have seen these old
women seeking God when the invita-
ton was given-surely, | could not
ash; for a better place; but. Oh listen,
listen, while tell YOU as your pastor.
as a man who perhaps has preached
to every one in here dozens Of times
beforc-thcY are pcrishing without a
chance. and I do not care what tie
hardship is: in Gods name. it is only
square. it is only fair that they have
one chance to hear this message.
I Il plead with you Young men, as the
j Holy Ghost speaks to your heart. as
Jesus in His compassion, and in His
suffering died for every man just the
same as He did for YOU. | only ask
YOU. Young man, this: You have only
che life.
/ "G think have seen every angle
Of life. know it from West to East
I know it from the inside and from
the outside. | know it on the athletic
field, in the football team. in the col
lcce. in business, in services on the
public platform, with the crowds in
the cities whore | have spoken night
after night. | know it in friendship,
/ | know it in organizations. and the
! friendship of large church like this,
| know Il from being President of a
Missionary Society, end know what
a life of a missionary can offcr)
Hear me. ! ari seva'c with YOU
young fellows; dot i.noW- 4 place
on earth where yoH tar get the juice
and the glow out cf life that YOU can
get on the missionary field. Q put
Your life in Jesus hands and say to
i Him, Put mo on the mission field.
Do not simply get enthusiastic. I tell
YOU it will call for everything YOU are.
There is not 4 thing YOU ever knew
that YOU cannot use on the, field.
Everything YOU ever learned YOU can
put in action. AS has been said The
lure of it gets inside of YOU You
have never dreamed of the things that
Jesus will pull out to use. Powers
will come on YOU that YOU never
dreamed would come, and you will
know a bigger Christ than YOU knew
anywhere else. when there is nobody
TO help, no place to go. no one to
look to: when YOU are landed on the
shore out in the junsles. face to face
with human beings. thousands OF
them. Then YOU will know a bigger
Christ than YOU ever knew before
and YOU Will find out that He will
help them and flow through you like
a Niagara, like living water tc
drowning humanity, in the fevers OF
| hell. He will enable you to give your
self out, and, as you give out His life
will flow in.
Young men. | ask you to volunteer
| There is no better investment TO,
Your life. If God does not put you on
the field. that is His business, but il
is for YOU to say, Lord, here am
| send me- "