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June 23, 1909.
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THE DEFINITE A
By the Rev. J
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The Church of the Lo
aim and a more definite rr
and higher and mightier t
repentance, and to the a
Cleansed insi
Now, I am just going
closing. I want to say thz
the Church of the Lord J
ment, it includes all thes(
to saving a man's soul, y
that man's body. An emin
some years ago stood in I
Tabernacle of London, c
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that mighty audience an
pronounced, he said: "I 1
gation anybody that was i
gry looking. I thought yc
out of the slums."
And Mr. SpurgeoiT said
"No, because when we ge
of Christ's righteousness,
put on good clothes. W
he soon gets clean outsid<
It is true. When you
and convert his soul by t
you have gone a long w
upon his feet from a m;
view. There were a great
of the Apostle Paul. W<
lections he took were co
rusalcm, but I bid you n(
. saw to the conversion of
feed the poor body.
He did not run a kind o.
the soul, and I think the k
with a soup house will e
must begin with saving a
begin to take care of his r
The Gospel Con
There were a great man
of the Apostle Paul, my
sal, and not the kind of si
people remember about a
that was cruel as death;
slave not only no rights
was even a human being;
of the domestic animal of
Paul go around and invr
all. The Apostle Paul V
if he could get the Gospel
the heart of the master, ai
so they realized that with
bond nor free, the very mc
Empire would be destroy
Yet, my friends, some lea<
the Church had better go
THE PRESBYTERI/
"ributed
JM OF THE CHURCH.
\. A. Little, D. D.
icluded.)
rd Jesus Christ has a higher
lotive. It is something greater,
han that. It is to bring man to
cceptance of the Lord Jesus,
de, Then Outside.
to emphasize two thoughts in
it if this is the definite aim of
esus Christ, that in my judg;
things. The moment you set
ou will begin to take care of
ent minister from this country
the pulpit of the Metropolitan
luring the time of the great
stry, and as he looked over
d the benediction had been
lave not seen in your congreraggcd
or pooily clad, or hun>u
gathered a great many such
, with that homely wit of his,
t a man clothed with the robe
the next thing he does is to
hen we get him clean inside
:. He is cleansed every whit."
take a man out of the gutter
he power of the Divine Spirit
ay toward putting that man
itcrial and ordinary point of
many poor people in the days
: are told about the only colillections
for the poor in Je>tice,
if you please, that Paul
the soul before he began to
f soup house in order to reach '
:ind of evangelism that begins
;nd with the soup house. It
man's soul, and then we can
naterial wants next,
ects Social Wrongs,
y ordinary wrongs in the days
friends. Slavery was univerlavery
that some of you older
few years ago, but a slavery
a slavery that gave the poor
; but never imagined that he
that put him below the level
the house. Did the Apostle
igh against slavery? Not at
mew this, my brethren, that
of the Lord Jesus Christ into
id into the heart of the slave,
Christians there was neither
nstrous slavery of the Roman
ed by that very simple fact,
ling lights told me today that
to preaching about the mod
ln of the south.
em slavery of labor to cap
are current in the communi
My friends, the greates
could possibly make would
away from the simple Gos
began to discuss the ordina
The aesthetic taste was d
did not nr<*arh t #?c 11i I
?j,. uvubiiVCIVlOIII
to his sermon did not go i
beautiful poem we heard 1
morning." They heard sor
friends, the religion of the 1
us the divinest poetry that 1
has spoken to us in a voice
the very angels might cove
paintings and in sculpture,
highest aesthetic sense of
Lord Jesus Christ takes in 2
The One Aim
The last thought that I br
aim of the Church energize
partment of its labor. The
the Church's activities that
energize to its fullest extent,
Let the Church of God b
save souls, and evprv in^tm
that the church employs wil
Our orphanages are not
some clothes on the bodies a
of certain poor children. W
phanages are a great cvang<
bringing to the knowledge
scores of children; that the
beautiful land men and won
ion to take their places in t!
I believe we will not have t
dollars to take hold of th
Home.
My friends, when the Ch
a single church building; t
was hiding in the catacom
Uhland tells us in his great
Christianity" that the Churc
thousand orphans. Why, tl
dren-; they bought the babie
they might make Christians
When the appeal comes 1
our orphanages, don't think
and clothes for those little (
evangelistic agency which r
When we begin to feel 1
tutions are not simply to 1<
the minds of our boys and
the hand of grace upon the
ucational Institutions will 1
to pay their debts, or to su
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tt uvii wv- x v.aii/.v< iiiai iuj
thing more than selling co
or covering the nakedness o
alize that it means s'omethin
commerce and the flag to tli
of $256,000 from 256 thousai
the million dollars without
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>ital and ordinary evils that
tyt
mistake that the Church
be just that?when it turned
pel of the Son of God and
iry evils and their remedies.
eveloped in Paul, and yet he
. The women that listened
ivvay and say, "Oh, what a
trom the Apostle Paul this
nething better, and yet, my
Lord Jesus Christ has given
the world has ever had, and
of music with the sweetness
t, and has left us upon the
images that appeal to the
men. The religion of the
ill, includes all.
Energizes All.
ing is this: that this definite
s all of its work; every dere
is not a single sphere of
: this definite aim will not
e aflame with the desire to
mentality and every agency
1 be full of a divine power,
simply institutions to put
md some food in the mouths
hen we realize that out* orilistic
agency; that they are
of the Lord Jesus Christ,
:y are sending out into our
len fitted by reason of relighe
great work of the world,
o beg you to give your few
e hundred orphans in our
urch of Rome did not have
>vhen the Church of Rome
bs beneath that great city,
: "Conflict of Atheism with
:h of Rome took care of ten
bey bought the slaves' chil
:s in tne public market that
> of them.
;o you men and women for
it is to buy flour and meat
:hildren ; it is to support an
eachcs the souls of men.
:hat our Educational Insti?ave
a religious imprint on
girls, but above all to lay
souls of our youth, our Ed
lot nave to beg tor money
pport them.
reign missions mean someitton
cloth to the Chinese,
f the African ; when we rcg
else than merely carrying
e ends of the earth, instead
nd Christians, we will have
any trouble. What I am