Show j ESUS JESUS MESSAGE i FOR All PEOPLE Dr Young of First Methodist Church Makes Plea for Mis Missionary Missionary Missionary Movement Movement CHRISTIANITY IS BROAD DOCTRINE SHOULD BE GIVEN TO ALL ALLA ALLI I UA A Plea for the tile Missionary Movement was wa the subject of an eloquent sermon I yesterday morning at the First Methodist church by the pastor the Rev Benjamin BenjaminI I Young The speaker chose for his text tex I Mark 1615 Go ye unto all al the world and preach the gospel He said that Christianity is as broad as a the th world word and that all al people are entitled to learn of or its blessing Cosmopolitanism is a characteristic of the revelation of God said Dr Young God The Bible has ha been given to the world Its Is message is universal al The Jewish economy ordained of God was not for their particular benefit primarily but buttor for tor the welfare of the world Jesus Jeus Christ came into the tho world to save It It God so 80 loved the tho world says the apostle The doctrine of the Nazarene ap appeals appeals peals lp all men The universal heart re responds responds responds I to his claims and to his principles Jesus Jeus was wa a Galilean Galean but but a character o or of breadth and wide sympathies He did no not appeal solely soley to his own race His mes message message message sage is to men everywhere He spoke in inthe Int inthe t the vernacular vern cular of mens hearts He was above party lines and prejudices His in influence Influence fluence extended beyond national lines There was a world purview in his vision His plans were for men He recognized the inherent dignity of ot the man man Gautama Gautama came to the Hindus Mahomet came to certain peoples of the orient orent Confucius brought his message to his own in the far east east Jesus Christ came to the world There is a world plan in his work among the disciples before the ascension Christianity Is Broad In harmony barmon with the teaching teching of the theold theold theold old covenant and also In consonance with wih his claims and character Jesus told his disciples to go into all al the world and preach There is a rare sweep to the Christian Christan horizon The conception of Christianity is broad In it i there is a rec recognition of the fatherhood of God God The fatherhood means the brotherhood That Thatis is what it I meant In the teaching of the Master The missionary movement of the church is grounded right here ere There Thera I was much work for these apostles to do doat doat doat at Jerusalem Jersalem and in parts of Syria Sra but they were to be the evangels of a gos gospel gosI gospel I pel which recognized men everywhere as carrying in themselves the image of God Hence the messengers of the cross crossI I In that day did not stop in Jerusalem Jersalem but butI I went out into other cities In great cen centers centers geat lens the gospel became entrenched until the empire of Rome became beame leavened with wih the truth of ot the new kingdom Every Evet organization that hopes to de develop develop in strength and in power must heed I what is called caled the law of expansion expansion The energy generate within enery a system must be sent out in some sime legitimate channels For many organizations the law la is expansion expansion sion slon or contraction The latter later means death death So long as the church heeded hee this law of expansion it was a savior of life When it I became beame Inactive and lethargic and proud Its light was obscured An ac tive thc missionary spirit had saved saed the church from the disasters of the middle ages The church finds its It very life In giving and doing in harmony harmon with the command of the Master Need of the Gospel The Master said that men who knew him were to go preaching the gospel Men Ien were w re to o go telling te the good news pews Men t were to t preach the in all its al is I beauty and power Now this is the worlds greatest need There is selfishness and sin and misery in II the world To counter act the influence of that which is dark in human life there is the need of the gos pel of unselfishness and of or love loe There was never neer such a reaching out after the I 1 truths of the gospel as a in the present present There was never such a yearning earing at the heart hear of the world word for that which Is em bodied in the Christ character as a In this present It is a thrilling story that comes I to us out of our own missionary stations The he success of missionary enterprises Is one of or the marvels marels of the age The con of Jesus Christ must be the con of the church In its missionary ef fort tort The church must go out ing lag that men everywhere are ae made in Gods image and carry cal rich rih values in them She must have no less a purpose today tOda than in the beginning and that is To preach the gospel to every ever creature |