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MISSIONARY
Topic for Sunday, Decei
Home and Foreign Mission
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Monday: A missionary
yuesday: The Church A (
Wednesday: Missionary
Thursday: A serious tas
Friday: No shirking. J<
Saturday: The iraperati
thew 9:35-38.
It is well to close the yei
sonal responsibility.
God has given us a wond
workers with himself.
He will ask us to give a
hands. Have we turied th
He graciously offers all t
sponsibility laid.upon us.
be."
Christ's last words on eai
and preach the gospel unto
the command?
He himself gave exampl
Samaria, Phoenicia, Decap
dea heard from his lips th<
The foreigners who came
gracious message, as the ce
of Canaan, the Greeks at J
Home missions and forei
the one or the other the me
of the same Saviour to the
The Old Testament, Jew
sation, recognized the call
Bathsheba weje of heathei
lino of tV?o Prin^o of Poani
A whole book is devotee
heathen city. It is that <
greatest metropolitan reviv
ed from the mission and re
it on.
The early church took lo
and God had to scatter it t
it grasped the idea of mi<
from that day began to tab
and Peter's Joppa has an il
"The field is the world, a
angel is a messenger. Wc
white to the harvest." "Go
for the grain is ripe and
shall doubtless return rejo
you."
No effort In seeking to t<
or abroad, will be in vain,
the snow from heaven, and
the earth, and maketh it br
seed to the sower, and bre
be that goeth forth out of i
me void, but it shall accoi
shall prosper in the thing '
St. Augustine was wont
he might have seen Christ
have heard Paul preach, ai
Rome in its glory. We h
flesh?and never can, nor
glory, but if we have the
tian believers we may yet
ter some day a city far m<
rebuilt on the famous Sev<
THE PRESBYTERIAN
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RESPONSIBILITY.
Tiber 26: Our Responsibility for
s. Mntthpw 2R*1fi-2ft
r READINGS.
Kingdom. Nehemiah 9:20-23.
lood Samaritan. Luke 10:25-37.
commands. Psalm 119:2-8.
k. Ezekiel 3:16-21.
rnah 1:1-3; 3:14.
ve, Go! 1 Corinthians 9:16; Matir
with an emphasis upon our pererful
honor, in calling us to be coiccount
of the trust placed in our
e talent?
he aid we need in meeting the re"As
thy day, so shall thy strength
rth were, "Go ye into all the world
i evsrv crpatin-p " Are n-e nhpvlni?
le of what he would have us do.
tolls and Perea, no less than Jue
gospel of the kingdom.
! to the Jews' own doors heard his
mturian at Copernauin, the woman
ierusalem.
gn missions are one. Whether in
issenger is carrying the same story
same needs of the soul,
ish and Mosaic as was its dispenof
God to all men. Rahab, Ruth,
a lines, but they were put in the
i.
i to a missionary expedition to a
>f Jonah. Nineveh witnessed the
al known in history?Jonah recoilpined
at its result, but God carried
ng to learn the lesson of missions,
o accomplish the work. But when
ssions it quickly found itself, and
:e possesion of the world. Jonah's
lustrious history.
nd the reapers are the angels." An
>uld you be one? "The fields are
and reap and bring in the sheaves,
ready to- be garnered now. You
icing, bringing your sheaves with
ell the story of the cross, at home
"As the rain cometh down, and
returneth not thither, but watereth
ing forth and bud. that it may give
ad to the eater, so shall my word
uy mouth; it shall not return unto
nplish that which I please, and it
whereto I sent it."
to wish three things: First, that
in the flesh; second, that he might
nd third, that he might have seen
ave not seen Jesus Christ in the
can we look upon Rome in its
faith of humble, persistent Chrishear
Paul preach, and we may en
jre glorious than that which Nero
in Hills.
I OF THE SOUTH.
Prayer
THE VICTORIE
Week Beainnina Dee.
Jesus did not begin his minis
less regarded the difficulties that
pealing to those who were fam
life as a citizen. He accordingl
temptation in the wilderness, we
"in the power of the Spirit." Su
istry there that "a fame went ou
the region round about. And h<
being glorified of all."
He then felt justified in going
before his ministry began. Our
his former neighbors and the d
and the extraordinary impressioi
We are told that r.n pnmlnir tr?
brought up, he entered, as his
gogue on the Sabbath day." Tfc
he came to Nazareth at this par
been brought up" there, and he
in keeping with his uniform cus
home. Attendance at the syna
means of his intellectual and r<
the beautiful passage which he
came familiar to him in the wor
attended. Children were admit
early age and were required to i
of thirteen. There is a lesson
and children may well learn,
pointed for worship is not to
teemed. The example of our Ml
imnort.
Either of his own volitions, 01
"he stood up to read"; and ther<
book of the prophet Isaiah." ]
Scriptures were of first importa
Lord addressed his attention ai
book (or "unrolled the roll," for
books were made) and found tl
which he declares to be fulfill*
prophecy sets before us "The Vi
The first words declare our I
Spirit which was symbolized at
him the Spirit was given withoi
us, of the enduement of the sec
the third, must remain, but the i
none the less impressive. To th<
tion the divine Redeemer was co
To understand the import ol
nressert in metrical form wo m
cance of the year of jubilee. Ii
liglous life of the Jewish peopl
which might very reasonably b?
Messianic era. This was the ye
every fifty years. (See Lev. xi
for a periodical social restorati
had sold himself into bondage r
liberty. Those families from wh
alienated had their possession!
granted to persons imprisoned f<
types of the work of him who \
slaved spirits of men. to enrich
stance and pay the full price of
appropriate passage this is for
istry amidst the scenes of his h
On ^be first day of the year
throughout the land and with s
the blessings that the year w
year of the Lord." It is this c
probably referred to in the word
preaoh good tidings to the poor,
undoubtedly signifies that his
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Meeting
CS OF CHRIST.
19. Luke 4:16-22.
itry in Nazareth. He doubt.
would be encountered in apiliar
with his youth and his
y, after his baptism and the
nt into other parts of Galilee
ch was the effect of his minit
concerning him through all
2 taught in their synagogues
to those who had known him
lesson describes his visit to
Liscourse which he delivered
n that it at first made.
"Nazareth where he had been
custom was, into the synale
meaning seems to be that
ticular time because "he had
entered into the synagogue
torn while that had been his
gogue had no doubt been a
jligious education. Probably
here quotes from Isaiah heship
upon which he regularly
ted to public worship at an
ittend after reaching the age
l at this point that parents
Attendance on the place apbe
neglected nor lightly eslster
here is of unmistakable
because requested to do so,
3 was delivered unto him the
heading and expounding the
nee in wnrshin Tn thlo nnp
t this time. He opened the
this was the form in which
lie prophecy about himself
id in his own person. This
ctories of Christ."
bird's anointing by the Holy
the time of his baptism. To
it measure. The mystery to
ond person of the Trinity by
solemn and sublime reality is
5 work of the world's redempnsecrated
by the Spirit.
E this passage which is exust
bear in mind the signifi1
the civil as well as the ree
there was a year of grace
l nnnof piio/1 ?a ? 4V"?
/ wupn uwu ao a vjyv ui iuu
ar of jubilee, which returned
[vi). It was God's provision
on in Israel. The man who
night in this year regain his
ich their patrimony had been
i restored. Amnesty was
ar debt. These all were true
vub to give liberty to the enthem
with an enduring subtheir
redemption. What an
inaugurating our Lord's minitherto
lowly life,
of jubilee, the priests went
ounding trumpets announced
ould bring?"the acceptable
eremony or service which is
is. "lie hath anointed me to
As applied to our Lord It
mission was to provide and
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