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By Rev. R.
Come with me to a hill
scene where his .disciples
Calvary is behind. Geth<
Judgment Hall. The gra
take his eternal place ;
Around him is a little b;
tnte his church upon ear
and he is about to speak
ing to the Father. Is hi
throne and the Father's
going over the memories
the friends who have foil
him? Xo, he is thinking
pose that he would thin
him: but not so: turnin
heart bursting with con
tarewell charge, "Go ye i
the gospel to every crea
Jesus teaches as the i
, that all authority in heav
He is exalted to the rig
idle honors. His throne
death to be used in com
eousness. Through this
ciples, and this is the re
never get around mission
get around the authority
neglects missions is disr
of her Lord.
It is often said that th<
to meet the demands in
whole world. That ma\
Christian is a preacher.
preach Jesus without tak
pulpit. You are preachi
is the sermons in shoes t
You preachers of this
world to come to Christ,
every creature. A Chrisl
and you can not obey him
of missions. Some say t
to the needs of every n;
that there are better wa
world : others still, that
worth the pains taken,
ments by which to answ
objections. But there is
together. The Captain
marchinsr orders and we
what he is doing elsewl
what is best. Ours is t
batteries. If the enemy'
nable. remember that Jes
other side at work also.
Our little heart with it
to be the measure of oi
Christ's outlook is the
CtrivP f/~\r W ?*1-?
V- IV?I, v? 1111 II1C lie
upon him, he looks at n
the world for him. Let
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THE PRESBYTERIA
ributed
kST SCENE.
D. Carmichael.
over against Bethany to that
? are bidding Jesus farewell,
semane is over and Pilate's
ive is past and he is about to
it the right of the Father,
and of followers who constith.
It is the hour of parting
his last words before ascende
thinking of himself, of the
smile awaiting him? Is he
of the past and thinking of
owed him and now will miss
about you. One might supk
mainly of those who love
g to his disciples, his great
lpassion, he gives them his
ntn nil th#? wnrlA and
ture."
foundation of this command
en and earth is given to him.
lit hand of God, but not to
is one of power over sin and
quering the world for rightauthority
he directs his disason
for missions. You can
s until you find some way to
of Christ. The church that
egarding the express orders
ere are not preachers enough
preaching the gospel to the
' be true. But even' living
There are a hundred ways to
ing a text and standing in a
ng some kind of gospel. It
hat must convert the world,
gospel must not wait for the
You must go and preach to
:ian is one who obeys Christ,
i without furthering the cause
hat Christianity is not suited
ition and people; others say
ys of doing good to all the
what is accomplished is not
There are many good arguer
singly these and all other
one which refutes them all
of our army has given us
must obey. W'e do not know
lere and so we can not tell
o go forward and storm the
s fortifications seem impreghis
may have a force on the
:s sometime little hope is not
it effort. The amplitude of
fulness which we ought to
shness of resurrection power
ionl'in/1 otirl lvt/4? ?- --- -?
??ivi u.-> tuiiijucr
the greatness of what he has
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N OF THE SOUTH.
done for you inspire your ardoi
It is not enough simply to
The gospel is spread not only
definite instruction. Teach no
every creature. The most unl
to receive it. Therefore pre
What! to the hoarv-headed
\t*ro -?% 1? - - ' ?
i ci|'|'v/ii up in 111^ ncainemsi
To the fierce cannibal gloatin
evenr creature. To the wile
whose intellect puts him but s
of the field? To every creatur
a distinction here.
These brethren are perishing
Are you saying: "I can not g
But are you going as far as 3
you doing? Christ has given 1
this duty: his teachings, his
presence. The presence of C
the church. Without him it w
has secured it till today and w
This is a factor in church life
at it from the outside, do not
that it will die because of th
have, always been saying that
all the time its prosperity has
a mighty force invisible?the p
I am with you always, even to
LIFE ON THE OC]
At Sea July 2
Our new staunch Mediterra
er left New York upon one oi
of June with the thermometi
nineties, so that the thousand c
vessel found ourselves fully re
weather and the ocean breezi
faces; when outside of Sandy .
? a 1 1 -' - ??
a iv_/u vi ^UUU uy c 10 xne tsu
York, after waving farewell to
at the Hoboken long wharf. T
ly many sad hearts or faces
ship hoard or those left on sf
we judge of those around us,an
tell of the future or if many of
Although our proud ship sv
into the harbor at II A. M.f
steamer just ahead of us, that
learned that eleven other stea
ours, were leaving New York *
for Europe with perhaps an avi
or 1.500 passengers each. So<
.\arrows ana tiie 1-ight Ship;
into a little row boat by a 1c
way, we saw him rowed with
to the screw pilot steamer awa
lands of Nevesink" and the
soon faded from sight, as we
the rate of a mile in three min
out of sight of land, upon the (
ocean then begins to seem tcr n
like the heavens nhov#? nc nr o
and man begins better to real
its vastness. After our last li
can shores, and a swift survey
August 18. 1909.
- of soul for him.
go among the heathen,
by life, but also through
t only to nations but to
ikely are often the first
ach to every creature,
heathen whose life is
ii? To every creature,
g over his victim? To
1 tenant of the woods
lightly above the beasts
e. High aud low is not
j?dying by the million.
;o.*' Perhaps it is true.
>-ou can go? What are
nuch to encourage us in
life, his memories, his
hrist is a vital force in
'ould die. His presence
.-ill secure it to the end.
i which persons, looking
reckon with. They say
?- ti
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the church will die, and
continued. Oh, there is
iresence of Christ. "Lo,
the end of the world."
EAN WAVE.
I, 1509nean
twin-screw steam:
the most melting days
?r mounting above the
>r less passengers on our
rady for less exhausting
js that soon found our
Hook?of course we bid
sky scrapers of Xew
our hundreds of friends
here were not apparent
among eitner tnose on
lore; yet how little can
d how little can we foreus
shall meet again,
vung down the Hudson
we found another large
we could not pass, and
mers, more or less like
on that Saturday, bound
erage of more than 1,000
on we passed down the
letting down our pilot
>ng ladder at our gang?
"?- < i "
v/ui pai uii^ man i;dj^
titing him. "The Highshores
of Long Island,
: plied swiftly away at
utes; and we were soon
jpen boundless sea. The
lortal eyes, without end,
s an emblem of eternity ;
ize his insignificance, in
ingering look at Ameriof
the mighty ocean, we