Year: 1873

,,dsf Of small people without churches religion.
How would be 20 to work form church The ques-
iron ,a common people and hold the root OF the church
to be simply the development Of social nnuences around
and warm hold to be impossible for masses Of men
70 develop spiritual element except by the manifesto
nS sos ,ocia ana feenss Set s" Stick on fire here and
another there and another here, and they VIII a 90
out but you put them together aud they viii burn 20
ashes The young minister Will ind probably not ton In
his church that will be OF any help TO him Then haS no no
can group together those ten persons perhaps, and
breathe into thema common life The first work Is 70
establish life and religious feeling and soclality. re
must wait for them to come TO him. for they won't
to then per with the BSs h IN f a hhns a ia anS
the servant, slave OF all. as the minister must.


look back TO my missionary period OF ire AS
bons transcendeotay the happiest period Of ny life


look back upon the days Of my ministry In the Wsst
as Containing some OF the greatest pleasures ever knew


remember going among these scattered people mostly
poor, and TO whom had to go and preach In the
cabins and houses gathering them together
in ftcs hundreds, aud preaching the gospel more
faculty Will be developed in you and will also develop
reality In your preaching large amount OF preaching
out by philosophical inquiry. He who goes into new
field goes where everything that he does must be done
rare There Is reality about 1t which does belong
TO an older parish He who goes into anew field goes
INTO one which will make him intensely practical and
real Going into a new field in this way one has, II
say So an emancpation or liberty when which the % con
And when he afterward resumes place ID
such society. IL he does, his experience becomes
Invaluable during the whole course and career OF his
life. IL gives him certain sort OF personality and
individuality. Men In such cases go alone and singly ;
We do what Others do We ask what Is the custom. SO
men gradually conform TO the ways Of others In new
field nothing OF this kind can take place; men can
unfold a great deal OF power. have seen men who,
think. wasted their lives in having represscd tueH
powers In Difference TO the community.


THE PRINcIPLE FOR BEGINNERS.


In making then your selection. those of you who are
soon to 90 out-al OF you, when you shall go out, the
principle which you select should not be what is best
for you but for the OF You should not ask
YOURSELF "Where be settled with refined and affec-
tionate peope :" though do not think that an oense
OF "A crime, "Where l obtain stipend that VIII
support all reasonable wants. or an appreciaye audi
ence where my refined tendencies will have ample OPP
pOrtunty ." There may be cases where man had bet
Ter stay In the Old communities do not dsbar him
from regular churches. But unless can be made
at 1a Young man should 20 into the work at the
bottom either in the open fields in cities II you go
such as belong 20 sparse populations, but you viii be
comparatively free from dealing with men OF vicious
neglected localities but the abors In cities often in
sinks and under such circumstances more sefdenisl IL
required than in forming churches In newer settlements
Yo have 10 deal with through mission schools and
by little prayer meetings. which are nascent churches
You have TO deal with en more by the power OF your
attractive personal Influence i2a masE yQk Y9 hesc
mems hearts, you must do for these men, In your meas
ure what the Lord Jesus Christ has done for you You
must carry their sorrows; must IN one sense take
the punishment OF their sins. You must sympathize
with the anu aDase yOurse 10 get uOWh 10 hor cOn-
dition.


preaching, of the eloquence OF preaching When shall
we hear of the power which comes from sefabasemeDt
in preaching-the losing Of themselves Do you know
how many hundreds, how many thousands there are
know how many churches, already formed there are in
the United States without ministers Yes thousand
ministers without churches and thousand churches
without ministers. Never there such opening
the world to-day. And yet these areinot drafted
into their departments who have not the spirit which
will lead them to spend and keep spending as the Apos
tie says " For the children ought not 70 lay up for
the parents but the parents for the children very
gladly spend and be spent for though with the more
abundance love you, the less he loved" Now there
do not think he said anything like gospel than
that We love those that love He willing 10 give
his very fes blood for these people who were SO dear
to him. That Is what want in our ministers. There
are difficulties In IL that not surm0untabe. The
Gospel not lost its power at ALL When Christianity
has passed away out OF this globe there will he nothing
left The man that desires to work for Christ Jesus Is
Just powerful as he ever was aud more. There was
no obstacle which could stop Christ in his love for


Then we go into the field Of labor and plead that the
that power. II we find ourselves limited 1t Is simply
because are not clothed with that moral power and
influence from which the Gospel took its origin aud
which still just competent to protect us. When we
find men with this mind which was in Jesus Christ will
ing TO make themselves little lower JUST long they
needed, just so soon az we nave snch
generation of such minister's We shall
see all these obstacles overcome. The world Will de-
cities You eau preach the gospel laws there with a
Christian spirit for the salvation OF souls When has
been a school he WILL when called out Of IL, Dd
himself qualified Tor any work he will feel love and
sympathy for all, and his sermons will be full or that
power which from this great Christian manhood