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8 Nazarenes." The friwi with which they chara events and movements < not fail to find an appro religious sect that was sensation. I. Significa 1. It evidences the graphically and numer lem ntul Tiiflpa towns evangelized: the in Caesarea and Damas nahas had spent one v< was coming into imme< and it was making a pi itself was soon to becoti missionary enterprise, tinct power and influen a more definite designal ers," etc. The beginn marked by a new name ing and must be poured 2. It indicates an ? Church's mission and sj conferred by aliens, she erhood was no longer r< Jews, but as a society larger sphere. All nai being freely admitted o name fitly characterize: neither Greek nor Jew, cision, barbarian, Scythi is all and in all." The name became current i Jerusalem, the city of Jewish traditions, but in and Roman civilization: new dispensation of g "Then and there the ch its true and honorable 1 3. Jt points to Christ and worship. He was t ing and conversation, was finally appropriatec as most aptly defining All former designations word "Christian"; thev their Savior, "hrftl-irpn" and consecrated throug Christ their Master. T1 of an old European tov the form of a cross. T1 from every corner you o pile. So it is with the the midst," the focal poi activity. II. Thoughts S 1. What a wonderful What a growth of the doctrinal knowledge, sj three centuries that li hand grew to six mill fifty millions; and froi doubling in five hundr< entv-five and forty, nui * r THE PRESBYTERIAI lous and witty Antiochians cterized the various parties, >f the times, and they would priate nickname for this new beginning to make such a nee of the Text. n-mii.t K 1 ui me \^nurtn, |^coically. Myriads in Jerusam converted; the Samaritan (lospel preached with success cus; and now Paul and Barear in Antioch. Christianity liatc contact with paganism, rofound impression. Antioch ne the center of international Christianity was now a disce, and its adherents needed :ion than "disciples," "believing of a new era must be ; the new wine was fermentinto a new bottle, mlarged conception of the >here. This distinctive name, iws that the Christian broth:garded as a mere sect of the with a new missinn o tions and classes were now n equal terms, and this new s a Church "where there is , circumcision nor uncircuman, bond nor free, but Christ place and time in which this s significant. It was not in the old dispensation and of i the Oriental center of Greek >. And it was not until the race was fully inaugurated, urch received from the world lame." as the central object of faith lie constant theme of preachllence this term of contempt 1 by the disciples themselves their character and mission, were summed up in the one ? ?1 1! ?? wcic utuievers 111 t^nrist in Christ, "saints" purified jh Christ and "disciples" of lere is said to be in the center rn a lofty marble building in le streets are so laid out that btain a view of that cruciform Church: it is ever "Jesus in int of all life and worship and uggested by the Text. history that name has had! Church in territory, numbers, firituality and influence! In ttle despised and persecuted ions; in ten they numbered n that time they have been :d years, three hundred, sevmbering now about six hun M OF THE SOUTH. dred millions. The mustard tree and the Christian nation The name once an epithet oi the most influential in the w 2. How proud we should It is an ancient and honorabl it are Christ's namesakes, an credit it are promised even write unon him mv np?r 11a citizenship in the kingdom boast, "I am a Roman cit prouder claim, "I am a Chn in heaven" (Phil. 1:20). Let own that name. A Roman e build him a great theater, v massacre of Christians. In t of horror the architect stood am a Christian," and was tl "If ye be reproached for the are ye; on their part he is expart he is glorified. If any n let him not be ashamed, but this behalf." 3. We inherit the name; c implies? Or are we only " be a Christian is to be a Chi sonal relation to Christ?fai Saviour, loyalty to him as Lo tion to his service and con spirit. It is not to be a mere believer in a system of doci pure morality, but to have Jesus himself that we may ti is Christ"; so to witness fi conduct and conversation thz nize something different frc quiring a distinctive term, "1 so that if we should settle ii religion would be as recogni or business, or politics, or so 4. Let us dignify and not c words, once contemptuous e] Methodist, have become enot to whom they were applied honor, have become debased member of the Societv of T almost a synonym of Christ and abhorrence. The name depreciated in direct ratio w lives of those who bear it. that nameth the name of Chr Graham, N. C. It requires supreme tact, a nature, generous instincts, a with a firm loyalty to the trul to reprove, yet leave no lasi who attempts such a thankli quite superior to the infirmit he animadverts and which should always command the the person he tries to influent unimpeachable example of th ommends; otherwise his cha self and call down upon hi "Physician, heal thyself."?J< June 30, 1909. seed has grown into a is are the world powers, t derision is now one of orld's vocabulary, be to claim that name! le one. Those who bear d those who do not disa better one: "I will me.'' It is the title of of our Lord. The old izen," gives way to a istian ; my citizenship is us never be ashamed to mperor had an architect vhich lie opened with a he midst of the carnival up and shouted. "I. too, ung to the wild beasts. : name of Christ, happy il spoken of, but on your lan suffer as a Christian, let him glorify God on lo we exemplify what it called Christians"? To rist man; to have a perth in him as the divine rd and Master, consecraiformity to his life and : member of a church, or trines, or exemplar of a such loving loyalty to uly say, "For me to live jr him by our ordinary it the world must recog>m itself, something re"hat man is a Christian"; 11 a strange country, our zable as our nationality, cial nature. legrade that name. Many pithets, like Puritan and >led by the lives of those ; others, once terms of . Jesuit, which meant a esus, and was therefore ian, now excites distrust ^nristian is exalted or ith the noble or ignoble Therefore "'let every one ist depart from iniquity." large knowledge of human t fine moderation coupled th, in order to criticise and ting sting. Above all, he ess office must himself be ies and errors upon which lip cApI'C f a li/> confidence and esteem of :e, and ought do be a high, e quality or virtue he recrge will recoil upon hims own head the proverb, :>hn Sparhawk Jones.