Notes of the Christian Life : a Selection of Sermons Preached
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He chose the weak things of the world and of the Church to confound the things that were mighty. It was less than seventy years after the ascension of Jesus when we obtain this bird''s-eye view of the Church, its organs, elements, and prospects; and comparing these with the work of the last seventy years, since the idea of Protestant missions first took possession of the Church of Christ, I think we have reason to take heart and hope from the comparison. I can, indeed, imagine a missionary begi...nning his work in a heathen land, with his heart overflowing with strong emotion, for which he has no adequate scope. A few children, a convert from some neigh- bouring station, an unsatisfactory servant or two, or a group of curious listeners, constitute the merest FAITHFULNESS UNTO DEATH. 363 nucleus of a Christian community. ' Is this/ he is disposed to say, ' the work that I have travelled ten thousand miles to do? Is nothing more than this to be anticipated ?' Under certain dispiriting circum- stances he is ready to wring his hands and exclaim with tearsj ' O God, why hast Thou made me thus ?
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