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June 23, 1909. Cont THE DEFINITE A By the Rev. J (C01 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 C liar!p? ^niirnr/inn'i! mini ?w O 1 I I 1 I I 1 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 AA/ ViOM ttfA f nn 1 4-l-?r*4- C 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 7 >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. 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