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November 10, igog. | Miss THE PROMINENCE B1 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 # 7 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 )