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June 16, 1909. ' Con THE DEFINITE / By the Rev. For what purposes ar did the Lord Jesus Chi world, why were they ga 1 1 _ ? it 1 1 1 * * ? 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 C .......J 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