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June 16, 1909.
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THE DEFINITE /
By the Rev.
For what purposes ar
did the Lord Jesus Chi
world, why were they ga
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pany canea tnc aiscipu
"the ecclesia"?and in ot
Church"?. Why are we
ply of necessity, or is it f
pose and a view that Go"
our great mission in the
Our Mai
I am sure that all tha
is to consult our march
again the great commissi
Church of the Lord Jesi
with that word which sa
all the world and preach
making disciples of all n
Our theological profes
youthful minds this fact,
simply to witness to the
tation that the truth is lil
the more it shines, and 1
like the great statue of
York City, is the hand
thus we want to witness,
honestly believe that is 01
A Life !
The Church is soinethi
is something more than a
and yet that is the idea tf
the Church is sound; if t
ing to the Word of God
and if, perchance, some p
reach of the base of the 1
a nana ana '""Ml I "m in, a
or rubbing the lenses, t
object for. reaching out fc
To my mind, a lighthoi
that is not wrecked, bu
wrecked? What we nee
We* need to throw out 1
and strong; we need to r
is lost. How many chur<
found out, are like that lit
mond tells that made repi
casion in these words: '
attempted to reach then
but in the morning there
the sands." You can not
with a speaking trumpet
definite and more powerfi
'1 here are a creat mom
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lieve the Church is a kin
aim is to feed and develo]
and its object is to furnij
a number of goody-good
books for spiritual dyspe
THE PRESBYTER1A1
tributed
UM OF THE CHURCH.
A. A. Little, D. D.
c we here? For what reason
ist leave his disciples in this
thered together in a little com;s,"
or "those of the way," or
ir good old Anglo-Saxon?"the
an organized body? Is it simor
a definite and clear-cut purd
has for us, to see and feel in
world.
:ching Orders.
t we have to do in the world
ing orders, to read again and
on which God has given to the
is Christ. We are all familiar
ys to the Church, "Go ye into
the Gospel to every creature,
ations."
sor used to impress upon ou/
that the aim of the Church is
truth, using that familiar quoice
a. torch, the more it's shook,
the Church of the living God,
Liberty in the harbor of New
that holds the truth up, and
and to witness to the truth. I
uly part of the truth.
Saving Crew.
ng more than a lighthouse; it
stolid body that holds a-flame,
lat.many have. If the creed of
he ministers preach it accord,
that is all that is necessary,
oor wrecked soul floats within
light house, we may reach out
>d set him to oiling the lamps
lit as to any definite aim or
>r souls, we haven't it at all.
ise is indispensable to the ship
t wnai 01 tne snips tnat are
d, then, is a life-saving crew,
the life line, with hand quick
each out to save the man that
ches, my brother, as you have
e-saving crew of which Drumort
to headquarters 011 one oc'A
ship was wrecked, and we
1 with the speaking trumpet,
: were twenty dead bodies on
reach people who are wrecked
t; they need something more
jl than that.
; people in the world who oed
of nursery and hospital?its
p spiritual infants; its purpose
>h a diet of inane sermons, or
ly Sunday school literature
ptics.
M OF THE SOUTH.
Not a Nurs?rj
Oh, what a place the Church o
were turned into a nursery. It
there are weak and wounded Chr
there are men and women who ar<
who need to be reached and save
derly. "Oh, for the rarity of C
those who have gone out of the
way. What we need is the hand
and help them and set them on th
me remind you, my friends, of th
army ever went to battle with n<
corps. There are men that fall
on the firing line, and there mus
carry them to the rear; there mui
geons and nurses to care for then
this on your mind, that the object
to nurse these spiritual invalids, b
of the Lord Jesus Christ. The obj
simply to nurse wounded men b;
again. The army that resolves
corps is defeated at the very start, *;
Lord Jesus Christ that simolv d<
spiritual infants, and seeking to c
tics is a Church that will disastroi
mission.
To Lead to the M
What then, is the aim, definite
Church of the Lord Jesus Christ:
simple that I almost hesitate to nar
and to so live that we draw men
Jesus Christ; that we bring them
sin, and lead them to the Master,
great aim of the Church of the Loi
simply to hold up orthodoxy; it is
size the creed, or the right tenets <
simply to nurse the spiritually woi
The aim, definite and clear cut, i
gelistic work and gather in the ur
world, and when we have graspc
which is as simple as the gospel,
we have grasped it all, and we hav
v? ticii we tunic 10 press upon i
sin; when we come to hold out th
the Saviour of the human soul; wl
home the winsomeness of the gosp<
are doing what God commanded us
"Go ye into all the world and preac
creature."
Now, my friends, let us ask you
idea of the Church, is that the rt
Church? Or, are you simply in the
respectable, because you can hear
Sunday morning at a very small cc
tne sympathetic elbow touch of
woman, some being that has the i
him? Is that the reason you are
Well, I want to say you have nc
definite aim and the definite object
are in the Church to so speak and
save some other soul. Is this the
or do you ever hear it discussed in
7
f.
>f God would be if it
is true, my brethren,
"istians in the world;
i wrecked and broken
:d and cared for ten
nristian charity" for
road and out of the
that will touch them
eir feet again ; but let
is great fact, that no
Dthing but a hospital
wounded and broken
t be litter bearers to
st be physicians, suri,
and let me imprint
of the Church is not
ut to fight the enemy
ect of the army is not
ick to life and vigor
itself into a hospital
ind the Church of the
spends upon nursing
ure spiritual dyspepjsly
fail of its Divine
[aster.
and clear cut, of the
' My friends, it is so
ne it. It is to so speak
to the knowledge of
to the conviction of
In other words, the
rd Jesus Christ is not
not simply to empha}f
the creed; it is not
nnded in the Church,
s to go out in evanisaved
masses of the
:d that simple truth,
for it is the gospel,
e it in a single word,
he men the sense of
a r?lolme /-v? ?<"*
V VKU1IIO UI V^III I^L
ien we come to press
si of Jesus Christ, we
> to do when he said:
h the gospel to every
calmly, is that your
:ason you are in the
Church because it is
an intellectual treat
>st, because you need
some one man or
spirit of humanity in
in the Church?
?t begun to grasp the
of the Church. You
so live that you may
aim of your Church,
the session?how to