The Minnesota fiery cross. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1924-19??, 1924-03-14

things. but l came upon this clipping
yesterday, an advertisement in one of
the New York dailies by a banking
firm in Broad Street, in which it is
declared that: Americas largest to-
bacco man says that hard times new
er affect the tobacco industry. We
that ever passed it's dividend" To
bacco dividends and nilsson deficits!
But / know of one little church that
has taken its foreign mission sub
scription recently, and it is $50 per
member for foreign missions alone.
If we could reach that average in
every church, we would have $780,
100000 to S60,000,000 for foreign mis-
sions in the Presbyterian church
alone. This deficit of ours which we
are confronting, we'll, God be thanked
for the summons and appeal such a
cal lfrom the lLader who is summon
ing us now, not to cleave to the old
and low levels from which DR.. Nudge
has been calling u.s., but to step for
ward to deal with our present re-
sponsibility in terms worthy of men
who believe in Jesus Christ, and who
measure the expression Of devotion
to the will of God by Christ's cross.
And as for the dread of division.
We are not divided. And no man
shall divide US. This is our church,
our fathers church. Who can sepa-
rate us from it? And in heart our
church is one great body, in heart and
faith. All of us here tonight would
stand as one man and say with I'M
qualified devotion and confidence ev-
cry article of the Apostles Greed.
We pillow our heads on every last
word of the New Testament Of our
Lord and Saviour. We are bound to-
gether in one great faith, in loyalty
to one great Lord. We have lived
through long generations Of unity,
the blood of Presbyterian ancestors
runs in our veins, and we intend to
hold together in loyalty. in common
faith, and common purpose and COM
mon devotion to our task until the
end, when unitedly we will welcome
our Lord back again. We stand con-
fronting this great task, and we know
the price, the price in pain to Him,
and in same to ourselves, and in eter.
nal loss to the world, if we do not
fulfill our duty.
was speaking this afternoon of
some of the things that must be
done, if this deficit and the needs OF
the year are not met. Consider them
again. If the work is to be cut
down, where will you cut it? In ia
pan, facing such conditions as DR..
Fulton's letter described? In India.
when today we are passing over the
administration of the missionary work
in India to the Christian church
there? This would be the last of all
DAYS for us to cut down our assist
ance for the evangelization OF India.
The Indian church would say: "Oh,
YES, you will trust Ms now when there
is nothing with which you are will
ing to trust u.s." Will you close the
hospitals? / was thinking of that
hospital in meshed. / got this week
letter from one of the doctors
there enclosing his check for $500,
which was his contribution in the
crisis we are facing. ! remember go
ing through the wards. At the head
of every bed was the tablet with the
mans name, the city from which he
came. 1t was lesson in Asiatic ge-
ography. They came from all over
western and central Asia to visit the
Mohammedan shrines in Meshed, and
they were going to bear the gospel
which they had heard to all western
Asia. Will you close that hospital!
The nearest westward is 700 miles
away; the nearest one to the south
east is 1000 miles. The nearest one
straight east is, suppose, 5000 miles:
The nearest one northeast, we'll. l
don't know that you would come to
one until you came to Pekin. Will
you close such an institution as that?
My friends, we simply cannot go
back. There is no voice behind US
saying, Backward is the way" The
voice calls straight on ahead. Yon-
der is the way. Walk We out into it.
A friend told me the other day Of
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ososoososooooosost