FOREIGN CHRISTIAN MISSIONARY SOCIETY SERIES. 
 
 No. VIII. 
 
 The Business of Missions.* 
 
 BY ROBERT T. MATHEWS. 
 
 “ Look ye out, therefore, brethren, from among 
 YOU seven men of good report, full of the Spirit and 
 wisdom, whom we maj appoint over this business.” 
 — Acts vii: 3. 
 
 There is a great deal of every-day sense in 
 the Bible. While it contains the revelation of 
 the deep things of God, it is also a storehouse 
 of homely counsels and worldly-wise methods. 
 Its Divine mysteries easily flow into material 
 channels, and become part and parcel of a 
 visible administration. The treasure of God 
 is in earthen vessels; and the earthen vessels, 
 so far from hiding or harming the treasure, 
 have their purpose rather in demonstrating 
 that the exceeding greatness of the power is 
 of God, and not from men. The secret of it 
 all, the reason that the mystery of God so 
 straightly has its practical method, the reason 
 that the eternal purpose of God becomes a 
 power of day or age, the reason that the in¬ 
 finite truth of God sometimes seems so point¬ 
 edly timely and sensible, is that man is the 
 medium of its expression and application. 
 
 So also is the text before us. The Apostles 
 
 * An Address before the Foreign Christian Mis¬ 
 sionary Society, Springfield, Ills., October 22, 1896. 
 
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were confronted with a problem of adminis¬ 
 tration. Inspired to preach the Gospel of 
 grace, and now burdened with the duty of 
 managing the abundant charities offered for 
 the poor, what will they do ? It was not fit 
 that they should forsake the'word of God, and 
 serve tables. Theirs must be the duty of 
 prayer and the ministry of the Word. What 
 will they do? Will they appoint a committee 
 to outline an organization, draft a constitution 
 and by-laws, duly consider names and terms, 
 tabulate a plan of work, and report at the 
 next Pentecost ? A year from that time, 
 would the Association for the Administration 
 of Alms among the Poor—the A. A. A. P.— 
 be born, ready to receive the offerings of the 
 brethren ? Or, would a mass-meeting be 
 called, plans discussed, resolutions voted down, 
 and adjournment take place without either 
 doxology or benediction? Not so. “Look 
 ye out therefore, brethren, from among you 
 seven 7nen.^'’ Not machinery first, but men. 
 Not methods first, but men. “Seven men of 
 good report, full of the Spirit and of wisdom.” 
 Men reputable, spiritual, wise—this was the 
 very first matter to be attended to. The 
 Apostles called for men with three supreme 
 qualifications—men esteemed among their fel¬ 
 low-men, men after God’s own heart, men 
 with executive ability. The right kind of men 
 first. Then what? “ Whom we may appoint 
 over this business.’’^ B-u-s, biz, i, bizi, n-e-ss, 
 
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business. The great Apostolic precedent of 
 business in Christianity! It was well named 
 “this business.” The money was already in 
 the treasury, _and there had gone out a clamor 
 against some mismanagement—one class neg¬ 
 lected in the distribution of the alms. It was 
 a business, if ever there was one, that would 
 test the reputation, the piety, the wisdom of 
 the men appointed to transact it. 
 
 The right kind of men in charge of the 
 Lord’s business—such is the principle of the 
 Apostolic precedent under study. It has al¬ 
 ways been so as regards any ministry that God 
 has richly blessed. The history of the Church 
 shines with the lesson a thousand times. Study 
 the origin of Bible societies, tract societies, 
 missionary societies, one after another of pio¬ 
 neer organizations of benevolence, and each 
 has its story of a man or a woman who, in a 
 vision, saw some need, heard some cry of dis¬ 
 tress in the night, and straightway sought to 
 go forth into a new Macedonia, concluding 
 that God had called him or her into a fresh 
 service of the Gospel. 
 
 Mark three notable examples. Thomas 
 Charles sees the famine of the Bible in his 
 native land. He finds his friend Tarn, and 
 speaks of the destitution. Tarn brings him 
 before a gathering of preachers, and begs for 
 more Bibles in Wales. Joseph Hughes hears 
 the cry, and replies: “ If for Wales, why not for 
 England, and for the world ? So was dropped 
 
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the fertile seed of one of the world-wide Bible 
 societies. A woman lies upon an invalid’s 
 bed, and, in her weakness and suffering, won¬ 
 ders what she can do for her Lord. She be¬ 
 gins to send flowers to the prisoner in his cell. 
 What poor felon, as he sees the summer rose 
 brought by the children’s hands, with the 
 child] ens smiles, does not see the red-blood 
 love of Jennie Casseday blushing in every 
 leaf? A preacher carries his young people on 
 his heart, in a burden of prayer for their good. 
 He prays, and waits, and watches; and God 
 opens the door of endeavor for millions of 
 young disciples in their faith and zeal. 
 
 This is God’s lesson. This is the Apostolic 
 way. Given the need, given the faith, given 
 the prayer, then God sends supplies, then 
 comes the call for honorable, pious, practical 
 men; for charity or missions then become a 
 tremendous business. There must be the use 
 of machinery and the skill of management, 
 d he Lord is dispensing bread to hungry thou¬ 
 sands. Let the people sit down on the green 
 grass. Let them arrange themselves in ranks, 
 by hundreds, and by fifties. Let the Lord’s 
 servants receive from His gracious hands the 
 multiplying loaves, and distribute them one 
 after another to the multitudes. Then, when 
 all have eaten, and are filled, let the broken 
 pieces be gathered up in baskets, that nothing 
 be lost. Order, comfort, abundance, dispatch, 
 economy—how these shine in the business of 
 
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the miracle, according to the Gospel story! 
 The Lord giving; His agents receiving, man¬ 
 aging, distributing! 
 
 Let us study the lesson for ourselves to-day, 
 as regards the world-wide mission of the Gospel. 
 The world-wide mission of the Gospel is the 
 greatest business of the world. It is the grace 
 of God that brings salvation to all men; and it 
 is the business of the Church to go into all the 
 world and preach the Gospel to the whole 
 creation. The Gospel as a grace and as a 
 business must have its healthy unity in a re¬ 
 spectable, prayerful, efficient administration. 
 
 The power of such success, instrumentally, 
 lies in men and women trusted by their fellows, 
 filled with the Spirit of God, and wise in their 
 ways and methods. With this ideal of the 
 business of missions, let us study some of its 
 principles and applications. 
 
 I. In this light we should save ourselves 
 from all controversy or anxiety over the sub¬ 
 ject of the organization of missions. It is alto¬ 
 gether our own fault that we have had a life¬ 
 time war of words over this matter. It has not 
 enough been our first concern in prayer, if need 
 be with fasting, to know the grace of God which 
 might be given in the churches of America, as 
 it was in those primitive churches of Macedonia, 
 when they, in affliction and poverty, gave ac¬ 
 cording to their power, and beyond their 
 power, so that the riches of their liberality as¬ 
 tonished even an Apostle. There has doubt- 
 
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less resulted some good from this long discus¬ 
 sion on plans and means of work. Now that 
 the smoke of debate has cleared away, we cau 
 see plainly forever the ancient landmarks of 
 liberty in work and worship. But it becomes 
 us now all the more, in the freedom of our 
 privileges, not to make organization the Alpha 
 and Omega of missions, and to neglect the 
 weightier matters—faith, and prayer, and ho[)e. 
 For this is the secret of organization every¬ 
 where—the life within; rising, expanding, un¬ 
 folding life; the larger and fuller the life, the 
 larger and finer the organism ; the su j)er-abound- 
 ing life requiring its reservoirs and conduits, 
 its centers of collection and its channels of dis¬ 
 tribution. When the Lord of hosts opens the 
 windows of heaven, then is the time to make a 
 business of His blessing, if ever thus we can 
 have room enough to receive it. 
 
 With a growing life of faith and prayer, we 
 need not be surprised that the organization of 
 our missionary work will grow “ from more to 
 more.” It is the last thing under the sun for 
 us Disciples to fear that we shall drift into an 
 ecclesiastical hierarchy. No ; our tendency is 
 to be guarded against another way. We are 
 more likely to run into a false individualism, in 
 which many a preacher becomes, like Ephraim, 
 a wild ass alone to himself.” We need, in 
 our very plea for the organic union of Christen¬ 
 dom, to drink more deeply of the unity of the 
 Spirit, especially in order that, in the business 
 
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: of world-wide missions, we may demonstrate 
 
 how strong we stand together in a united, uni¬ 
 versal propagation of the (lospel. 
 
 We do a great deal, as it is. We do a great 
 deal because of the very sini] licity and vitality 
 of the Gospel that we preach. It is an impres¬ 
 sive fact that every year, in this nation, more 
 than 50,000 are baptized according to the spe¬ 
 cific, historic proclamation of the Day of Pen¬ 
 tecost. It calls for gratitude that still disciples 
 go every-where preaching the Word, and asso¬ 
 ciating themselves as churches, without waiting 
 for the agencies of missionary boards. It chal¬ 
 lenges our admiration that hundreds of weak 
 congregations in the South, the West, the 
 North, the East, regularly partake of the Body 
 and Blood of the Lord, in the absence of the 
 stated preaching of the Word. We do all this 
 ■—we do it by weak individual efforts, we do it 
 in feeble, scattered congregations. It shows 
 vitality ; it evinces growth. But, with an un¬ 
 bound Gospel,.with the simplest tests of fellow¬ 
 ship, what ought we not to do, what might we 
 not expect, what stupendous growth would 
 there not be, if regularly in the closet, in the 
 congregation, we prayed to be filled with the 
 Holy Spirit, to be endued with the grace of 
 giving, and then united ourselves in the busi¬ 
 ness of universal missions. 
 
 With this unity of the Spirit, in faith and 
 ] prayer, organization would have to come. 
 Missionary work would have to be a business, 
 
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When Ciod gives His grace in the churches, 
 then is the time for smoothness of machinery ; 
 then is the demand for expeditious methods; 
 then is the call for honesty, economy, wisdom, 
 in the business of missions. There is a stage 
 in the grace of God when it becomes very 
 business-like and practical in its ministrations 
 to humanity, especially as to good works and 
 almsdeeds. Organization may just then be 
 the critical need to house the gifts of God in 
 abundance, to hold them in safety, to appro¬ 
 priate them in equity. Organization becomes 
 the standpipe whither the mighty enginery of 
 prayer pumps the blessings of God, whence 
 they flow in orderly distribution refreshingly 
 to thirsty souls. Organization means cer¬ 
 tainty, regularity, continuity, efficiency, equal¬ 
 ity, whether in the mercy of hospitals or in 
 the glory of missions. Ever let our first con¬ 
 cern be the grace of God in the heart, and or- 
 ganization there will be, organization there 
 must be, to make a business of this blessing. 
 
 2. The business of missions lays a special 
 obligation on the pulpil. It is also here first 
 the lesson of the grace of God is given in the 
 congregation. The pulpit must know this 
 grace in an acceptable time, and make a busi¬ 
 ness of it. Do you say that the ])ulpit is both 
 burdened and distracted by these incessant 
 missionary calls? It may be distracted by 
 them; but its heart can not be too heavily 
 burdened by them. The world-wide mission 
 
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of the Gospel ought to be a regular business 
 of the pulpit, neither neglected nor slighted. 
 
 Let the preacher’s conscience test him in a 
 severe self-examination over the discharge of 
 this duty. When did you last preach on a 
 missionary theme? When did you first preach 
 on it? Did you ever preach on it? Do you 
 wait for some one else to stir you up on the 
 matter? Do Priscilla and Aquila have to take 
 you unto them, and expound unto you the 
 business of missions more carefully ? Do 
 even Euodias and Syntyche have to urge you 
 to take up a collection ? Do you commit the 
 sin of David in numbering your little Israel— 
 a thousand members!—and boast of the num¬ 
 ber, while the Lord sees missionary fruitage on 
 hardly one bough of the leafy tree ? 
 
 Why, the preacher ought to be first and fore¬ 
 most of the men of God in the grace and busi¬ 
 ness of missions. By a profound study of the 
 Word, in fervent prayer, in a skillful homiletics, 
 the world-wide mission of the Gospel may be¬ 
 come the dominant, the fascinating, the en¬ 
 trancing note of the pulpit. Listen! “I ex¬ 
 hort, therefore, first of all, that supplications, 
 prayers, intercessions, thanksgivings, be made 
 for all men ”—the universal prayer ! Who of 
 us forgets it, or ignores it in the pulpit? That 
 prayer in the heart of the preacher, leading 
 the heart of the congregation, may so bring 
 down the grace of God upon all, that the 
 preacher will have to make a business of mis- 
 
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sions. A missionary pulpit is a safeguard 
 against heresy in the ministry. A missionary 
 pulpit is a remedy of worldliness among 
 church members. A missionary pulpit is a 
 cure of chronic devilism in the congregation. 
 A missionary pulpit is a converting power over 
 the prodigal sons of God. A missionary pul¬ 
 pit is an edifying force among the obedient 
 sons of God. A missionary pulpit engenders 
 the finest intelligence, stimulates the noblest 
 piety, promotes the largest serviceableness in 
 the churches of Christ. A missionary pulpit 
 gives breadth, depth, power, unity in all of 
 one’s preaching. A missionary pulpit is the 
 secret of an endlessly fresh and fruitful minis¬ 
 try of the-Word. The preacher can not make 
 too much of the business of missions in his 
 pulpit. That is his duty, first and foremost, 
 among the men of God. 
 
 Let us not shut our eyes to obstacles and dif¬ 
 ficulties in the way. Preachers are neither in¬ 
 fallible nor omnipotent. Sometimes they have 
 had to make a campaign of several summers 
 to succeed in taking the first collection in the 
 congregation. Ananias nowadays does not 
 bring even a part of the price of his posses¬ 
 sions, and lay it at the feet of our secretarial 
 apostles; and, when a missionary agent writes 
 somewhat unto a church or a newspaper, 
 Diotrephes, who still loveth to have the pre¬ 
 eminence, receives not the appeal, but forbids 
 it in his columns, or secures a writ of Caesar’s 
 
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law to silence it in the church. With covetous¬ 
 ness in the pew and officiousness among some 
 of the pillars and sleepers of the congregation, 
 the preacher would have hard enough a bat¬ 
 tle; but his ministry becomes a hopeless tangle 
 among the crowded and crowding appeals for 
 money that come from the four quarters of the 
 earth. 
 
 I emphasize the duty of the preacher in the 
 business of missions. Nay, I believe that, in 
 the collection of money for missions, more de¬ 
 pends upon the preacher than upon any one 
 else. When each minister has trained his 
 congregation to systematic, liberal giving, the 
 treasuries of our missionary societies will never 
 go begging. But, in order that he may thus 
 train his congregation, and that all of our mis¬ 
 sionary boards may be duly supplied with 
 means, there must come a change in this 
 whole business of annual collections. There are 
 too many missionary days, too many missionary 
 calls. Add the numerous other appeals for 
 money, especially in our city churches—the 
 round of charities besides current expenses—- 
 and the matter becomes distracting, “con¬ 
 fusion confounded,” and confounded confu¬ 
 sion ! Let the change come—fewer missionary 
 days, fewer missionary calls, but larger givin-g. 
 Do you ask how the change be made ? Let 
 there be for the foreign work one Lord’s day in 
 the year, as now; for the general home work, 
 one Lord’s day in the year, not three; for the 
 
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women’s work, one Lord’s day in the year, not 
 two; for state work, one Lord’s day in the 
 year, not four. Let the F. C M. S. continue 
 its Children’s Day in the Sunday-School. Let 
 the C. W. B. M. still train the Junior Societies 
 and Bands. Why should not the Y. P. S. C. 
 E , with its bugle-call to ‘‘good citizenship,” 
 become the special patron of the great mother 
 society of all, and pray and give for America? 
 
 Fewer missionary days, fewer missionary 
 calls, but larger giving! Four high Lord’s 
 days in the year for the fellowship of organized 
 missions ! The change must come, if we ex¬ 
 pect our preachers to be able to discharge the 
 supreme obligation resting so heavily upon 
 them. It takes time to train a congregation 
 to systematic, liberal giving—not a big spurt 
 one year, and a little ooze the next. Espec¬ 
 ially does it require preparation to make each 
 missionary day a high day of grace and giving. 
 With fewer days and fewer calls, our preach¬ 
 ers could have a free course in the business 
 of missions. They could mightily pray and 
 preach on the world-wide Gospel, and wisely 
 lay their plans for generous offerings by the 
 congregation. I believe that with this urgent 
 change the majority of our ministers can soon 
 be enlisted in the fellowship of organized 
 missions, where they will not be, and can not 
 be, in the present crowd and clamor of ap¬ 
 peals. Give the preachers the right oppor- 
 
tiinity to })rove their name, their faith, their 
 skill in the business of missions. 
 
 3. We may hence appreciate the place and 
 service of our missionary boards. Why do 
 they exist ? For the very best business reasons. 
 They are a necessity in the business of organ¬ 
 ized missions. For missions on a world-wide 
 scale inevitably become a business. An indi¬ 
 vidual mission, sustained by one disciple or by 
 one congregation, has its own right place in 
 the progress of the Gospel. Nay, God has 
 blessed the workers who have gone out into 
 the dark lands, moneyless and helpless, and 
 He has commanded the ravens to feed them 
 morning and evening. But in Paul’s day and 
 in our day, when missionary work grows, ex¬ 
 pands, interwines with civilization, becoming 
 knotted with all the needs and interests of 
 human society, then inevitably the missionaries 
 must rob many a church, taking wages of it, 
 that they may minister the Gospel in a large, 
 wise, settled continuity of seed-time and har¬ 
 vest. The churches giving money by tens of 
 thousands of dollars, dozens and hundreds of 
 missionaries banded together in preaching sal¬ 
 vation, the missionary board the mediating 
 power between the churches at home and the 
 missionaries in the field—this is the lo^ic of 
 the business of missions. It becomes a prac¬ 
 tical necessity. 
 
 The missionary board thus is neither self- 
 appointed nor autocratic. It is a representa- 
 
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tive body. The ideal of its personality is the 
 Apostolic ideal that pleased the people—“ men 
 of good report, full of the Spirit and of wis¬ 
 dom.” d'he rich history of this executive ad¬ 
 ministration throughout Christendom is the 
 best proof of the common sense of the organ¬ 
 ization. There is no gathering under the sun 
 where more strikingly do grace and business 
 meet together, where more chastely do prayer 
 and plan kiss each other, than in the regular 
 meeting of these representative men around 
 the missionary table. There is no body cor¬ 
 porate named among men that has a finer 
 credit in bank and market than the great his¬ 
 toric missionary societies. There is no service 
 of man that better incarnates the two highest 
 qualities of the natural man, intelligence and 
 force, and better incarnates the two highest 
 qualities of the spiritual man, light and love — 
 these in a vital unitv of character—than the 
 
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 service of missionary secretary. 
 
 Well may this type of men be looked out 
 and appointed over this business- Not a sine¬ 
 cure, but ‘‘this business”—that is the word 
 to describe the labor of the executive commit¬ 
 tee of a missionary co-operation. You would 
 have to see the committee in session, to ap¬ 
 preciate the magnitude of the work and the 
 multiplicity of the details. It is enough some¬ 
 times to tax the understanding of Solomon ; 
 enough sometimes to perplex the casuistry of 
 Socrates- enough sometimes (I speak it rever- 
 
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ently) to try the heart of the Lord Jesus. 
 These men have grown sober indeed, and they 
 have lost sleep, because of that which pressed 
 upon them daily, anxiety for the missionaries, 
 ddiey may have made mistakes. The surprise 
 rather is that the mistakes are so few. There 
 have been times when these counselors, bur¬ 
 dened with the tearful appeals, or the hard 
 strains, or perhaps the honest differences of the 
 workers in the far-off fields, could but fall with 
 their 
 
 “ weight of cares 
 
 Upon the great world’s altar-stairs 
 
 That slope through darkness up to God.” 
 
 For a decision must be arrived at. These 
 brethren, sitting in council, are not there to 
 theorize nor speculate, but to decide what 
 seems wise because of some present distress; 
 and they prayerfully give their “judgment,” as 
 those that have “obtained mercy of the Lord 
 to be faithful.’ 
 
 The missionary executive committee is, 
 therefore, a rational product in the evolution 
 of missions. Such a public office is a public 
 trust, the trust of the people not in one self- 
 willed leader, however industrious and aggres¬ 
 sive, but in a balance of counselors. We 
 select them for their personal reputation, their 
 spiritual character, their discreet understand¬ 
 ing, to transact the business of missions. Two 
 points of business we must steadily keep in 
 mind: first, whenever necessary, to enlarge 
 
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the number of secretaries; and, second, to 
 allow them liberty of methods, while we hold 
 them strictly responsible for efficient service. 
 Let us dictate to them no niggardly restric¬ 
 tions. Certainly the time has gone by for 
 either requiring, or for boasting, that money 
 by the thousands can be receipted, appro¬ 
 priated, disbursed without care or cost. Such 
 a picayunish notion is not piety; and, plainly 
 enough, it is not business. We ought to have 
 fewer missionary days and fewer missionary 
 calls; but the time has come, I verily believe, 
 for us to have not fewer, but more, missionary 
 secretaries. The investment in noble, faith¬ 
 ful, intelligent men, appointed by the churches 
 to travel in the business of this grace, to 
 organize and oversee missions, is a paying 
 investment. When they do their work right 
 they earn their salt, and deserve the honor of 
 their brethren. As the grace of God abounds 
 among us in prayers and gifts, the very next 
 business step is to enlarge the number of 
 secretaries at least on our national boards, that 
 they may transact daily the multiplying duties 
 of the council and the field. 
 
 The history of the Foreign Christian Mis¬ 
 sionary Society amply merits the praise and 
 trust of its constituents. Its record of business 
 is the record of an honorable and prayerful, 
 practical administration. Notably does its 
 simple organization, so congruous with the 
 Apostolic polity of the Church, elicit the 
 
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blessings and energies of brotherly fellowship. 
 For, brethren, when our individualism is recti¬ 
 fied as a people we Disciples know one an¬ 
 other. So many of us meet one another 
 every week, as it were, in the synagogues of 
 our journalism ; and better still, we gladly 
 hasten every year to Jerusalem, to enjoy the 
 Feast of Tabernacles in our national convoca¬ 
 tion. We know one another by name, by 
 face, in the service of our Lord; and the 
 more intimate the acquaintance grows, closer, 
 sweeter, diviner becomes our co-operation in 
 the Gospel. This national convention is hal¬ 
 lowed ground. Statistics, figures, reports— 
 the business of missions—glow with the 
 light of the presence of God. We are 
 learning, in the intercession of the Holy 
 Spirit, better how to pray, we are learning 
 better how to plan, for world-wide evangel¬ 
 ism. In and through the hours ‘ of these 
 sessions, the voices of the dead and the 
 voices of the living mingle in the sacred ac¬ 
 cents of memory and hope. Our pioneer 
 fathers, now a great cloud of witnesses, en¬ 
 compass our ground of work, while still old 
 men advise and exhort young men of the third 
 and now the fourth generation of our reform¬ 
 atory movement. It means so much for onr 
 good, it expresses the whole genius of our ex¬ 
 istence, that the first president of this Society, 
 unquestionably second to Alexander Campbell 
 in labor and honor, inherited and bequeathed 
 
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richly the sound tradition of our plea for the 
 unity of the Spirit and the progress of the 
 Gospel. It is a blessing of Providence, deeply 
 touching the heart, that succeeding Isaac 
 Errett, and still at his post in a green old age, 
 stands another coadjutor of Campbell, a ven¬ 
 erable representative of the past, untiring and 
 efficient in executive labor—his own soul white 
 with the chastening of the Lord in the sacrifice 
 of the daughter who magnified Christ first by 
 life, then by death, as a missionary heroine. 
 It makes this year’s gathering particularly no¬ 
 table that he who has served so long and so 
 wisely as secretary, comes home from his cir¬ 
 cuit of the globe, to fire our hearts with mis¬ 
 sionary zeal, while he redoubles his prayers 
 and sacrificial toils for universal evangelism. 
 Nor, as the missionary years go by—this our 
 21 St anniversary—is it a small matter of gratu- 
 lation that he who was so recently called as a 
 feliow secretary, “whose praise in the Gospel 
 is spread through all the churches,” has sig¬ 
 nally proved his force and skill, so that, in the 
 lengthening of cords and the strengthening of 
 stakes, we all have learned better than ever 
 the lesson of the business of missions. Facing 
 the future, to evangelize the world, as the 
 mighty work obligates us at home, proving the 
 good of this stalwart organization, proving the 
 faith and diligence of the pulpit, above all 
 proving the devotion and wisdom of the ex¬ 
 ecutive committee, let this be our prayer: 
 
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“Now, the God of peace, who brought again 
 from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep 
 with the blood of the eternal covenant, even 
 our Lord Jesus, make us perfect in every good 
 thing to do his will, working in us that which 
 is well-pleasing in his sight, through Jesus 
 Christ; to whom be the glory for ever and 
 ever. Amen.” 
 
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