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world for ?, To save it. Why did He leave His church on earth ? That the
churchy earner on the good work which he had started. Jesus could not, in
the flesh, preach to all the world. As a man He could not be in but one
place at a time. It was best,therefore that He leave the world and /
commission a great many men and women to carry forward the work. That
very thing He did. He intended that every Christian should be an enthusi-
astic worker^ , and that the church should be a great working organization
—a mighty missionary body.
The Christian who is antimissionary,in word or deed, is destined to have
churches have
rather rough sailing thro' this world. The JskKxskxkax not always been
awake to kKrxduiws^xlaiat their duties, but they are fairly well awake
now, and growing more active and aggressive every day. The time was
when a church member could be an antimissionary and not have much trouble^
about it, but that day has passed. This is peculiarly an age of tremen-
dous missionary activity. All live churches are talking missions, praying
missions and preaching missions. Xh«yxaxMxsXsHxdaxRgxmxsstaMKX The preach-
ers are talking missions, the deacons are talking missions, the Sunday
schools are talking missions, the aid societies are talking missions,
the young people are talking missions—and all are doing missions. The
antimission brother is going to feel unfortable—and more and more so
as the world moves on. The path he has marked out is sure to be a very
lonesome journey. He must hear missions in the church, in the prayer
meeting, in the^tores, at the postoffice, on the streets, on the farms,
on the railway trains—everywhere. The farmers, many of them, dedicate
a certain number of acres o^their erpps to missions; the business man
sets apart a certain per cnM. of his / income to missions; the cow man
promises and pays such and such a part of the increase of his cattle to
missions; the women and children set hens and raise chiokens^o^jmissions.
The antinission brother is worth less to the cause of Christ a hen. One
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old hen made $5.oo in one year, all of which was turned over to missions
—I have known many a professed Christian who was not worth as much to
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Baten, A. E. The Great Commission, text, April 19, 1903; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1401935/m1/4/: accessed July 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Howard Payne University Library.