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THE PROMINENCE
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By Miss Eliz
The germ of missions
the Old Testament dispet
atmosphere of the Christ
for its development into a
ing leaves for the healing
God created man in Hi
in a garden in whicli the
to walk "in the cool of tl
this image was marred
estate, for "the Lord God
den of Eden"?forth fron
mankind by Adam's fall
But God never makes
so divinely made by sin t
loving heart had planne
man's direct need uttered
"I will nut enmitv bet we
between thy seed and li
head and thou shalt bruis
ise was after many apes
family, that of Abraham,
nation; then confined to 1
ant of Abraham ; then to
to a Prince?the Prince c
The purpose of all God*
to restore him to comm
through Christ the Son.
The Jewish Church wi
prophecy, existed that tin
consequently the idea of
with the growth of the 1
C!%AL*/? 111 ? - ^
-I'UIW. ill III) 111 IV. VI I ?l1 M I CI
Hear, and Malachi spoke
Messiah and his forerunr
messenger and he shall
and the Lord whom ye
his temple."
Then for four centurie
still and the chosen of G<
the temporal kingdom cri
sianic kingdom grew mot
of the centuries was brok
in the wilderness: "Prep
make his paths straight."
"Behold the Lamb of G<
of the world"; for the Ion;
and was entering upon h
ing man to communion
his fellowmen; and this a
ries, "Behold the Lamb of
umental figure of the age
right hand of God, yet <
hearts of men?to share
that the image so marred
Thus Christ came froi
after thirty years of sileni
upon his ministry?a mi
THE PRESBYTERIA]
ionary j
OF MISSIONS IN THE
tBLE.
abeth Alexander.
was embedded in the soil of
isation, but it is to the genial
ian era that we are indebted
great tree that is today bearof
the nations.
s own image and placed him
Creator himself was pleased
le day"; but sin entered and
nnrl man
....... ..... ...c ."S"
sent him forth from the Gari
His presence; and, alas! all
lost communion with God.
a failure; even before "man
inmadc himself," God's great
d a way of escape, and in
the vague, but firm, promise,
en thee and the woman, and
er seed; it shall bruise thy
c his heel." This vague promconcentrated
upon a single
destined to become a great
the seed of Israel, a descendthe
dynasty of David, then
)f Peace.
s dealings with man has been
union with God the Father
tli its sacrifices, its types, its
; Messiah might be revealed;
the Messianic kingdom grew
temporal kingdom. Isaiah
ms to those who had faith to
plainly and definitely of the
er? "Behold, I will send my
prepare the way before me;
seek shall suddenly come to
s the voice of prophecy was
od were scattered; but while
umbled, the idea of the Mes*c
distinct. Then the silence
en by the voice of one crying
are ye the way of the Lord,
Then the same voice cried,
3d that taketh away the sin
g-expected Messiah had come
is stupendous task of rcstorwith
God the Father and
roicc echoes down the centuGod!"
for Christ is the mon
s; who, while exalted to the
condescends to dwell in the
his divinity with fallen man
I may be restored,
n his seclusion in Nazareth
ce and obscurity and entered
nistry of thiee short years,
N OF THE SOUTH.
but so full of good works that J oh
by saying: "And there are many <
Jesus did, the which, if they shoul
one, I suppose the world itself coi
books that should be written."
Dr. Abbott says. "He came tc
diltll tn lmnn iti tlm liui
despair, and love for selfishness, ai
ousness. But this kingdom could n?
grow; so he gathered around him z
to instruct and to train to carry on
lishing the Kingdom of God in the i
died he left it as an heritage to those
after him, to all those who have th
beauty of such a kingdom and th
plish it, and the heroism to undert;
mcnt."
The geographical bounds of his ;
tine, a country about one-third the
Una, and he plainly declared to tl
that his work was confined to the
House of Israel," and though his f
his disciples was, "'Go teach all na
them that they should begin at Jer
e t-~ i? it. 1 _r
..miiirti i<i. rut 11c micw uic ueeii ui
execution of a plan that must final
world. The seed must be not on
must be tended and have time to g
we know some of these disciples nc
Christ emptied himself of his glo
and lived as a man among men, no
as men ought to live?"Left Heave
all the limitations and sufferings a
as the divine missionary to lost In
have in us the mind and the love th
aim of our lives too will be
we will be willing to lay asicl
Pharisaical exclusiveness and wil
mility and meekness the needs of i
"the ground principle of missions i<
thy for simple manhood in its hom<
xi.-i. xi x. i. _ r* 1. .x!
rows, uiai mere must ue vmristi;
those we would win for Christ;
means not simply heralding a me:
quickly done?but living a life; nc
our means, but ourselves.
Hear again the Great Commissioi
He went away, to his disciples, wh
his work in the world: "All power
in heaven and in earth. Go ye ther
nations, baptizing them in the na
and of the Son, and of the Holy Gh
to observe all things whatsoever 1
you: and, lo, I am with you alway
of the world."
Oh. the maernitude of it! as broa
long as time, as deep as truth.
Christianity is peculiarly fitted to
religion, complete, perfect, sanctif
the feelings, and .the will?the 01
agency of our wrecked being.
Lander College, Greenwood, S. C.
(To be Continued
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n closes hi srecord
ather things which
d be written every
dd not contain the
> establish a kingrts
of men for dull
nd faith for scnsuot
be made, it must
i few choice spirits
the work of estab.vorld,
and when he
: who should follow
ie vision to see the
e desire to accomake
its accoinplishactivity
was l'alcssize
of South Carole
Syro-phoenician
'"lost sheep of the
inal commission to
itions," yet he told
usalem, Judea, and
definiteness in the
ly affect the whole
ly planted; but it
row; and so far as
rvcr left Jerusalem.
iry and came down
t as men lived, but
n for earth and for
nd shame of earth,
imanity, and if we
at were in him, the
missionary," and
le our pride and
1 study with humen,
realizing that
; unfeigned sympaeliest
joys and soran
fellowship with
for evangelization
*sage?which were
>t simply spending
ii given, just before
o were to continue
* is given unto me
efore and teacli all
me of the Father,
ost; teaching them
have commanded
even unto the end
d as the world, as
become the world
ying the intellect,
ily reconstructing
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