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business and governmental honesty, and it can
never have uiese until it has a new moral sense,
ami it can never have that until it has become
Christian. 1 my.seit am a rich man, as wealth
gi.es in uiiina. nicy are all invested in American
securities?because America is a Christian
counuy, ana that us tue only kind of a country
whcie an investment is ever sale."
In telling the story the traveler added: 4'I
don't quae know wnetner 1 was a Uhrisimn
when i went to China?but 1 know i was one
alter that taik!'" P.13.J.
"Believe the works," Brother. Mr. L. Ii.
Severance, a clear-headed, successful business
man came to us but shortly with the personal
witness that he bad seen what the Master is
working yonder in China, Japan, Korea and India,
and lias put his thousands through an active
faith in these works, while himself personally
peisuades other men to do likewise. Mr. \V. J.
Bryan is not only another of these open-eyed,
round-the-world observers, who believes these
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world, conspicuous for not being ashamed of
Jesus, "lor lie practiced, and on all proper occasions
avowed, his religious beliefs. Air. John
Wanamaker also went, saw, believed, and lias
invested his tens of thousands in obedience to the
Master's commands. " Believe the works,"
"Teach all nations." And now, to cite no more
from a rapidly increasing list, will you hear the
words of Air. W. T. Ellis, whose brilliant pen
shines from so many pages of the greatest periodicals
of our time: "As I have never known a
Christian man who has looked into the mission
woilc with any degree of thoroughness, who has
not become an earnest supporter of it; so, too,
1 have never known one whose devotion could be
shaken who has established it in a definite under
standing of things as they are in mission lands."
As your pastor, my friends, will you let me
interject one personal word just here? I have
never been in any of our so-called Foreign Mission
fields, 1 may never visit any of them; but I
tell .vou now, before our God, I am going to believe
what these my Christian brethren and many
more like them say and do as regards my Master
's works out yonder where they have been, in
spite of all that is said to the contrary by men
who do not believe or serve him either here or in
the reeking cities of vice in non-Christian lands.
And I call j'our attention to the fact that the
number of those who dare make that contrary
report is rapidly running towards zero.
Let me condense as briefly as possible a story,
no, a nistory, mat is last Decommg a classic in
the literature that tells of Jesus' works that he
asks m to believe: An American traveler in
Northern India one morning at day-break, when
hiR train came to a standstill, stepped to the
platform for a short stroll during the stop of the
train. As he walked along, a native who had
been studying him closely, fell before him, clasped
him about the ankles and beating his head
against the man's feet, cried, "I am your servant,
and you are my saviour!"' On the puzzled
inquiry of the traveler the native explained,
"You are Dr. Goueher, of America, are you not?
All that I am and have I owe to you. Hearing
that you were traveling on this train, I walked
more than twenty miles just to see your train
pass. But now God has let me look into your
face." My friends, do you know who this Dr.
Goueher is? "Well, he is the founder and now
* President Emeritus of the Woman's College,
Baltimore. About thirty years ago, as a young
pastor of the Methodist church there came to his
mind and heart the message of the Master, "Believe
the works!"
Having an income more than he personally
needed, he investigated these works of Jesus on
the Foreign fields and believed here, or there,
was a sane and wise investment. He became the
'KIBB1 TIftlAfi Of 1 A I SO
iounder ut the AL U. University iu Tokio, oi the
ax. li. -Mission ox V> est cuxua, una utso ox iu
mission in ivurea. ^iguiu, nis stuuies ied nun to
liie conviction mat a iunuanieiiuai necessity, it
inUia is ever to aoaiidon its idois, us primary
vernacular, was Christian scuoois in the villages
oi that land, and tnat taese souooia must oe ior
the lowest castes. iVirty viuages v\eie thus supplied.
in nve years tue attendance averaging
l.alA) bovs a veal-. Uiv IMltcliAr tlien ni?nn?H
mat thoie should be au equal number ox scnools
J or gins. Villages were not clamoring for sucil
schools, lor in Hinduism tue varying sects agree
on the sacredness of the cow and the inferiority
of woman. But the wonderful American insisted,
if a village would not accept a girls' school
it could not have a boy 's school. Bo, for the
boys' sake, this scandalous innovation was tolerated.
The wise Doctor promised scholarships for
boys and girls. 'Then as he was working this, his
schools with the lowest caste, the Ludras, he decreed
that once a week his scholarship boys and
girls should meet together socially. Alter a time
oue by-product of the Uoucher schools was an
average of over two hundred wedduigs a year,
when both parties had a Chrsitian education.
Behold the experiment in Christian eugenics.
The higher castes soon wanted the schools.
"Word came back from the strange man across
the seas, ''In America we know nothing of
castes. The schools arc established for the children
of men, whosoever will may attend them."
Sn nppfnpi-p th*? hivhpp ooctp hnva u-ppp r<?nt. tr?
the Christian schools, and the power of them
was ramified among high as well as low.
The beginning was in 18S3. The influence
has become so great that this message was not
singular, "Our whole ward is likely to become
Christian. For if this man who never saw us
so loves our children because of his religion, we
want this kind of religion for ourselves." At
the end of the first twelve years at least four
hundred of the native preachers, evangelists, etc.,
were "Goueher bo vs." Manv others have been
elevated to places of honor and responsibility by
the Government. These men, be it remembered,
were from the lowest castes. Under the pastoral
care of seventy of these "Goueher Boys" are
more than fifty thousand native Christians. A
stroke of business! One man who believed the
works to the extent of twenty-five years of support
in thought with money amounting to something
over $100,000 has set these forces in motion
to work in ever widening circles, throughnut
thp Arms tn cnrne (of "Mpn ?nd Missions "
by W. I. Ellis). And the debt on the cause of
Foreign Missions in the Southern Presbyterian
Church is just something over $100,000!
' I have said nothing of our Master's just as
striking and compelling miracles that He is
working through our own stations in Korea,
China, Africa and all the others, nor of the
special men of our own church who in their way
have heeded the Kings last great argument, "Believe
the Works!" The time permits me as your
pastor only to ask you pointedly and personally,
if ah Kol'invn flinon nfAi?lro f TTaw o rtflVO i Q til
faith T By His works, we are to know the
Master? himself has said. But also, and just as
inexorably, ne has said of those professing His
name, "By their fruits ye shall know them."
Yes, poor and mean is the rule, in spiritual life,
that does not work both ways.
It is now an old story, my brethren, for years
the Church of Christ, and your fathers and
mothers, some of them, as members of that
church, kept on their knees praying to God in
whose hands are the hearts of all men. that the
doors of the nations might be opened to the works
of our Master. That prayer-answering God has
thrown wide every door of the world's nations
to-day. There, went up the prayer of church
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and people?some of them?that the spirit would
thrust lorth of our young men and women,
volunteers who believing the Master's works,
would enter and possess in ills name these opened
doors. And io! what hath God wrought! The
volunteers are here, in numbers suoh that they
must wait until their support has been provided,
while the doors are straining wide to receive
them. Now, that is no bit of turgid pulpit
rhetoric. Mr. Ellis puts in permanent print
this, as said to him by the editor of a North
ChiiiA newananer: "Rnoadlv snpnkintr it. La a
fact that the only white man in China for
China's good is the missionary. It never occurs
to the average business man here that he has any
obligation to the Chinese. Yet only on that
ground can he justify his presence."
The doors are open, the volunteers are ready
to enter. What next? Prayer and money to
send and support them!
"Believe the works." I)o you? Most of you
before mo this morniug have no longer the
privilege of going. You cannot volunteer! Your
opportunity for that is gone1 You are over
thirty years of age. You are not available. But
much remains you can and ought and must do.
You are at and in the midst of the productive
period, financially considered, of the allotted
span of life God gives to man. We must give.
Of our prayer and of our money. Nor can'we
truly give of one without of the other. Indeed,
we are as a congregation already thoroughly
committed. I freely acknowledge to you, my
friends, that it is to me. as vour nastor. a real
satisfaction that in the financial support of this
great work of our Master's this church averaged
last year something over $1) per member. But
on the other hand, I would be false and unworthy,
as your pastor, if I did not tell you the
truth, and I pray it may sink into our hearts,
that if all of us, the members of this church, gave
to this cause in the proportion that some of us
are giving to it, our average would be easily
double what it was last year. And in the presence
of Him, who pleads with us, "Believe the
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should not be so. Can you ?
One word, before I close, as to that debt. I
think I know as well as any of you the objections,
reasons, and arguments against it, and
against its ever having been made. I believe 1
can state them as strongly and fully, and. I do
not think any of vou feel them more deeply than
I do. But, I, for one, roust admit, in the light
of all the facts, the needs o-f our fields, our ability
to meet those needs, and the overwhelming
force of the Master's argument, "Believe the
works," that the only shame and regret attaching
to the debt is that we did not meet it as
its several accumulating items fell due. Let us,
then, all show our belief in these the Master's
works, by entering heartily upon the Self-Denial
Campaign of Prayer and Means, that at the close
of our year on March 31st, the last vestige of
that debt may have disappeared.
THE PEACEMAKER.
iT ViaIa/I 1 and mtr boort harnma
Ah dry and hard as crust.
Holding this evil thing, It died,
And crumbled lr.to dust.
I gazed upon its crumbled walls.
With terror, and with fear,?
When, lo! a friend with angel face,
And heavenly mien drew near.
She kissed me on my pal'id cheeks,
My trembling form she pressed,
And let her tears fall on that dust
That once lived in my breast.
1 lovea: ana in its surging puwrr
My heart's float knit anew!
In cactaales <>f Joy I wept,
And In uiy tears it grew!
Savannah, Qa. ?Edna A. Plgman.
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