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THE PRESBYTERIA
ADDRESS READ BEFORE THE MEMPHIS
FRESBYTERLAL UMON
By Mrs. Kate W. Grafton.
We read in I Chronicles that when
David wished to buy Oman's threshing
floor for the purpose of building an
altar thereon, Oman offered to give him
not only the threshing-floor, but oxen
for burnt-offerings, wheat for mealoffering
and wood for fuel. "I give it
all." he says. But "King David said to
Ornan, nay, but I will verily buy it for
the full price; for I will not take that
which is thine for Jehovah, nor offer
a burnt-offering without cost."
King David lived in the twilight of
revelation, we in the noon-tide blaze;
lie under the old dispensation, we under
flhe new; yet how much more enlightened
his conception than ours of
what constitutes an acceptable offering
to God. He would only offer that which
cost!
We have come to regard our Father's
gift of the Son more as an act of love
than an act of self-sacrifice on the
Father's part. Truly it was both, but
the greatness of his love was proven by
the grentnesB of the sacrifice he made.
He so loved iis that he would not re'
deem us with that which cost him nothing,
nay he withheld not his own Son,
moreover with him also he freely gives
us all things. O matchless love! Does
* it not pass comprehension that God .
could so love us?
Rut hnw fin wo rotum tViic omowinor
Move? How do we give to him? Not
as did King David.
v "What can I spare?" we say,
"Ah, this and this
From mine array
I am not like to miss. . ?.
And here are crumbs to feed, some
hungry one,
They do hut grow a cumbrance on
myself."
And yet, we read our Father gave?
his Son,?our Master gave?Himself!
Suppose a messenger should enter
presently'with a cablegram announcing
that the Lord Jesus was again'on earth,
that he was in the famine district of
China and' in need. Would we "not
hasten to 8end to his relief before leaving
this house?those to whom he has
entruste'd much giving of their means. those
who have little of their poverty?
Or if we had no money Sve would pledge
those cherished' possessions that we
hold dearer than money. Family heirlooms,
pieces of jewelry, and other
treasures would he frfeely offered to
satisfy his necessities. Ah, my dear
sisters In Christ, we have forgotten?
have we not?that he said, "Inasmuch
as ye did It unto one of the-least of
these my brethren, ye did It unto me."
Surely we do not believe this. Can it be
true that in Africa, Brazil, China, Cuba,
Japan, Korea, and our own America, we
have opportunities of ministering to
our Lord, and do It not? Alas! too ,
true. While we thoughtlessly spend money
that might be saved, or keep that
which we might sell, those for whom
Christ died are dropping Into Christies*
graves. And yet now, as in the days of
his flesh, the master sits over against ,
the treasury observing how and what ,
wq give. Although seventy-flve cents
out of every dollar of the enormous
wealth of this country Is In the hands
of church members, missionary work Is
.crippled for the lack of money. My fel.1
low Christians, let us search and try
our ways <Do we give as much as possible,
or as little as possible? In what
have we denied ourselves that we
m'ght have more to give to him who for ,
on? sakes became poor? What shall we
give this year to missions? Is not a ,
vigorous .advance necessary and .shall ]
we not largely .lnorewe, .our offerings? ^
Me that.sowotb sparingly .shall..reap ]
also;B.DVinRlyT bnjt.he, tl*at sow^.^Qun- .
tlfully shall reap also bountifully. My |
N OP THE SOUTH
little children, let u? not love In word, neither
in tongue, but in deed and in "
truth. Freely ye have received, freely e
give! c
The Union to which 1 belong le a , t
practical one, and 1 am here to-day to t
urge upon the members of this Union t
the plan which we hav^Just adopted for s
increasing our offerings. It is this: Let I
each of you four hundred and fifty mem- , t
hers have a sacrifice bank this year, u
and by actB of self-denial put all in it s
that she possibly can. Let none curtail $
their regular offerings to this cause?or t
to any other?but let these little banks i
nuia extra onerings tnat nave cost real v
self-denial. Some of you feel keenly t
the stringency of the times, but the t
Ix>rd will lead you into new, hitherto s
unthought of methods of crucifying self r
for his dear sake, if you want him to t
do so. Therein lies the secret, an open t
secret it is, for we all know that lack l
of consecration is at the bottom of all g
this lack of money for the Lord's work. "
Has that woman any right to call her. t
self Christian who holds neither time, 1
talents, nor money at the disposal of 1
him whose name she bears? Does her a
selfish attitude represent, or mlsrepre- g
sent him who came not to be ministered r
unto but to minister, and who pleased c
not himself? c
To-day twenty-six men and women in a
our Southern Church are ready, anxious ' d
to carry ihe bread of life to the perish- t
lng, but in the face of most urgent t
appeals from our over-taxed mission- a
aries at the front, they are detained at y
home. Do you know why? The treas-* f
ury is empty. Is it not passing strange s
that the offering of life out-strips thai b
of money? 'Oh, Is It not time for'UB t
to awake, and'learn to give; not grudg- c
Ingly or of necessity, but like those will- 't
Ing-hearted' ones -of old that had to be 1
restrained from giving, or like the new- f
ly converted heathen of to-day, some of t
whom give all their scanty savings, oth- i
ers sell their beds to sleep on mud t
floors, and one, a Chinese woman, Is re- f
ported to have given out of poverty so i
severe that she mixed earth with her b
scanty food to make It seem to go a
farther towards satisfying her hunger. a
And just the other day, a missionary c
from Brazil said In my- hearing that
converts In her city have to be estopped t
from giving; for In order to do so, they . _
deprive themselves of food to such an T
extent that the missionaries are forced f
to speak authoritatively and say, "You ,
children need this money for bread, and j
we will not take It." Along with theBe -
one
of our own country-women is c
worthy of mention; living in one room t
of a tenement house, she gave $800 to t
Foreign Missions. When her pastor e
called to ask how It was possible for f
her to give so largely, she said, "I am v
comfortable on $200 a year, hut I would r
be ashamed to meet my Lord if I lived
on $800 and gave him but $200." Oh,
I wonder if some of us will not he .
ashamed at his coming! "Sell that ye ^
have and give alms" is a command that .
has never been abrogated, however . .
little it may be regarded. It is a fearful
thing to run the r'Bk of death catchng
us with our hands full. And what if .
our Lord himself should come tonight
and find in our possession lands, houses,
plate, Jewels which might have been ^
transmitted into treasure in the heav
ens? "Come now. ye -rich, weep and "
howl for the miseries that are eom'ng f
upon you. Your riches are corrupted
?
and your garments are moth-eaten. ^
Your eold and your silver are rusted. ^
and their rust"?their rust?"shall he ^
ror a testimony against you and shall
eat your flesh as fire. Ye have laid up ^
your treasure"?unfortunately for your- . ^
selves?"In the last days. Ye have ^
lived delicately on the earth and tafcen
pout pleasure. Ye have nourished vour hearts.in
a da,v of slaughter." "Behold.
Ihls was the Iniquity of ,flodom, pride , v
fulness of bread, and prosperous ease." II
m
February 14, 1918
-not Tery bad things, war# thsy??
pride, fulness of bread, and prosperous
as# were In her and in her daughters,
ielther did she strengthen the hand of
he poor and the needy, therefore I
ook them away." Let no woman in
his audience quiet her conscience by
aying: "I give tithes of all I possess."
8 this a day for the giving of tithes?
his?. Our missionaries are calling to
is for an immediate reinforcement of
eventy-six missionaries, a debt of
116,000 rests on our foreign work, and
he home fields are white unto harvest.
Tithes might have sufficed for the Jew
vho had no Gospel of grace to publish
o the world, though even he gave about
wo tithes when all his offerings were
ummed up. "Whom did our Lord comnend
for giving, the Pharisee who gave
ithes of all, not excepting the herbs of
no gaiueui ?ui bu, dui me ricn pudican
who gave more than half of his
roods, the poor widow who gave all.
Existing conditions are ever winged,
tut unprecedented opportunities, limitess
possibilities are ours today. How
ong these will wait upon our tardy
iction, our dull appreciation, our nlgrardly
and puerile penuriousness, our
inrrow-mlnded and selfish prejudices,
iur suicidal and blind self-interest, who
an tell? Rise up, ye women that are
.t ease, and hear my voice; ye careless
laughters, give ear unto my speech;
remble, ye women that are at ease, be
roubled, ye careless oneB; strip you,
md make bare, and gird sackcloth upon
-our loins. Thus sa'th Jehovah of
Tosts; Consider your wavs. The
liver Is mine, and the gold is mine,
latth Jehovah of Hosts. Set not your
lope on the uncertainty of riches but
in God. Be rich In good works, ready
o distribute, willing to communicate,
aiylng up in store for yourselves a good
oundatlon agalrtst the time to come,
hat ye may lay hold on the life ^whlch
a life iftdeed.' And you shall not go
inrewarded. Gbd is not unrighteous to
orget your work. No, when he comes
n clouds of glory and every eye shall
ee him?they also who, by their llllberillty
pierced him afresh and put him to
in open shame?he will Issue the deTee
?
"Gather my saints together unto me,
hose that made a covenant w'th me by
?sacrifice." ' And he who seeth not as
nan seeth has a different standard
rom man's. He measures our gifts by
rhat we keep. Judged by this standard,
he poor widow who gave two copper
:olns, together equal to one-fourth of a
ent. caBt more Into the treasury than
he rloh of whom It Is recorded that
hey "cast In much." For, as our Tx>rd
Ifcnir r>aa? In nl '-Vi r>?? nn?n_
lu'ty, but she of her want. DoeB any
roman In this house know the Joy of
astlng In of her want? Do not we also
Ive of our superfluity?
But, beloved,' T am persuaded better
hlngs of you though T thus speak: and,
iy faith, T see the women of this TTnlon
ofn'ng forces with the women of the
llsslsslppl Union to blaze a way
hrough the rugged oversrrown. almost
orgotten path of self-sacrlflce for other
Tnlons to follow. Bet me urae you to
lse to the level of your prlvlleee In th's
tatter. Tn this monev-gettlng, money,
tvlng age. mfty not God have broneht *
s to the Kingdom for Jnst this crisis,
hat we mnv deliver our beio^od church*
rom Us thralldom of worldllneas and
ently lead It hack to the old paths?
rou see your calling, b'ess vou. do not
'on nee vonr calling. T beseech yon do
ot be disobedient onto the heavenly
lslon.' T hsve aecomnllshed tnv errand,
have delivered mv message. "Andnow
' ye will deal fclndlv ahd trnlv with my
faster, fell me, and If not. tell me."
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That Is an Incomnleie day In which
on have dopft, nothing to brighten the
Ives of others.