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The Missionary Spirit Essential to the most prolonged and vigorous and that God has so ordered it, that
every religion, or sect, or body, that
to Life.,
existence.
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This conclusion will be confirmed is devoid of th issoiriL—whatever_____
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n study
UYu'sechs of?^n'steiU mav Tie their excellencies, shall
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list is especially appropriate for the dom. The world is familiar with perish from the earth. The moral
brethren to read just before the the schism of the Baptists into mis­ is so plain that he who runs may
FRIDAY, OCT. 6, 1882
time for the State Cooperation :
sionary and anti-missionary. About read.
Our Music Books
Ours is an age of generalization. the beginning of the century, the
Facts, which in a less philosophical , abti-mission Baptists were as strong The Conversational Style of
We have been asked a number of age had no meaning are now group- ill llinili Iiej'S as their missionsi-y .................Pleaching*.. . ........... -
brethren, but with each succeeding
The following is from the Church
comparative merits of the new make a science. ' Thus have been census their numbers have lessened,
create«I the. various branches of
Christian Hymnal and the new physical science : a similar process and, at the present time, have lie- Advocate :
It was a rainy Sunday, and but
Hymn and Tune book. We have has created the science of mind, or come almost unknown. Upon the
taken plenty of time to examine mental philosophy ; a similar study <>ther ban« 1, the missionary Baptists- few were presept in the, litthicoun^
l>y
try church. As the preacher came
LbiTi'fpiitr fully liefbre giving any nf^lYfy^omlth'ss^b^
have grown to be a mighty host,
the
decendents
of.
the
Babel
build
in, some of the sisters gathered
report.
numbering two millions.
The
An examination shows us tliTit ers has resulted in Philology ; and
alxmt him, and said : “ Don't preach
a comparative examination of the churches of John 1 Wesley and
there is far more difference in the various religions of mankind' has
to us to-day, Brother---------. Just
George Fox were ushered into ex­
mechanical part than there is in wrought out discovery of certain
talk to us.” How many longsuffer-
istence in England. That-iff Fox
the price, and the difference is all principles ami rules which Eave
ing congregations, with systems
wasaihe older, but it carried its
called
the
Science
of
Religion.
been
in favor of the Hymnal. It is much
wearied, and nerves rasped under
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principles of peace to such an ex-i
There
is
one
lesson
impressed
by
better print, better paper, Tnd the
the loud, shrill, high-pitched, de­
this comparative study of religions, tent, that^it did not aggressively!
binding is very much superior. The whether true or false, which lias a
clamatory tone of the preacher, if
seek universal dominion. On the
Hymn and Tune Book is stiff in deep practical significance for us.
they could only find a voice «luring
other hand, the Methodist Church
the back and does not remain Every religion that has ever had an
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drns-breTrmtrn’suty"TRFlrveTTHcUBaS'
open ■wën7-^wTiïïë—TheHymnal existence^ which is not missionary,
pulpit, “ Don’t preach to Us any
sought every field of conquest. To­
opens out nicely and will lie is either dead’ or decaying, and
longer; do just talk to us !”
day
Friends ^are just learning
open at any desired page. The •loomed to a- speedy disappearance
Hooker, in his “ Ecclesiastical
the lesson, that their life as a body
effect of this difference in binding from the earth. Upon the. other
Polity,” tells of the complaint of the
depends
missionary activities,
will 1 >e that the Hymn and Tune hand the religions that are still vig-
people al tout the preaching in his.
and find themselves to number not
Book will break and'the cover come orous, which show no signs of decay
«lay : “ Some take but one word for
more than 100,000 in all the earth,
off like it always did from the ol<l and give promise of continued ex­
their text and afterward run into
while the centenary of Methodism,
Hymnal, while in our judgment the istence, are the aggressive Religions,
enabled this enterprising, but some­ the mountains that we cannot follow
Hymnal will be found to be a liook which aim at universal conquest,
them, not knowing how they went
what boastful people, to make a
—that will give a great deal of ser- and hence are all, each in its own
up, or how they will come down
count of millions. Proud of its
vice. We refer to the editions wav, intensely missionary.
So some preachers no
triumphs, and ambitious as ever of again.”
bound in cloth.
A glance is sufficient to demon­
universa!- sway, -M-etlmdism enters sooner name their text than they
In theinatter of musical selection strate this principle. Though there
upon its second century with all the mount up into a high swelling tone
we think the difference still greater be gods many, and as many relig- |
as far removed from the ordinary
enthusiasm and vigor of youth.
in favor of the Hymnal. It has ions as gods, there are only three of j Notwithstanding the absurdities way in which a man talks as the
been our lot to conduct congrega the great faiths of the earth, that of Mormonism, our own country is East is from the West; and,having
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tional singing many years, and show at this' time a vitality that a witness to its vigor and tenacity
once mounted, they never come
*speak from experience in this mat­ seems to promise long life. These of life. Driven in succession from down again until the end of the
ter. The Hymn and Tune Book are Mahometanism, once seeking to - Ohio, from Missouri and from Illi­ sermon. Etymologically, the serm­
has been copied after the Hymnal force the Coran upon all nations by I nois, divided by schism and odious on or homily is a talk, and not a
both in the selections and arrange- the sword, l>ut now seeking the |
t<> civ i tization, It has still ~ thr i ven speech-;- a conversation, and not an
nTmt to a much greater extent than same end by meanx-ofits Ulemas ; and shows no signs of decay. Re­ oration. The best rule, then, for
is crmsiderr'UTmnrst in the book- Buddhism,whiiffi has~ "propâgâtëîT pulsive as are some of its features, the oidinarypreacKer is to n1al<c
making world, but enough changes its<d4L^yer all Southern Asia „by when missionaries are sent from the conversational style the basis of
have been made to spoil the book locant of its teachers; and Chris­
Utah by hundreds, and are found his delivery. Not that he is never
badly, for almost every changé D tianity, whose Founder has left the in England, Wales, Germany, to line from this, but let this be the
for the worse.
eternal charge to his followers ; Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, the point from which he starts out as
So far as the errors are con­ "Co into all the wmld and preach Sandwich Islands' and various hi^rvorleadsImhTand to which””
cerned we find about tile same the Gospel to every creature.” The States of the Union, none will deny he returns, after a short excursion.
number in each, but none in either other religions, religion’s of a race its intensely missionary character, The following advantages will re­
that are any detriment to the use­ or a class, narrow and selfish, not or fail to find in this feature, an ex­ sult: The preacher will not be so”
seeking to convey thefr Gospel to planation of its vigorous life.
fulness of the ljooks.
much in danger of wearying him­
A few churches, through the in­ the whole of mankind, are either
I)o not these additional facts self. One may talk for hours in
fluence of the Christian Standard, dead, or are waxing feebler and prove our conclusion to be well conversation without fatigue. It is
will adopt the Hymn and Tune feebler am,l are doomed to perish. founded ? Do they not teach us the unnatural declamatory tones
Book, but the Hymnal is being al ­ The examination may l>e extended that. any non missionary body, that make the throat ache. Again,
most uniformly adopted. We hope to all religions aiffl sects, but it whatever its profession, is weighed he will not lie so much in danger
* our Pacific coast brethren will would only serve to emphasize the in the balance ami found wanting, of wearying the people. One may
pursue a uniform course in the conclusion that the religion which ami that the kingdom will be taken listen to a conversation for hours
matter, and that we shall have but lacks tlm missionary element is from it and given to a worthier without.feeling tired, but one can­
one lxx>k in all our churches, for doomed to weaken, decay, and die. people,/
not listen te one declaiming in a
the two books will undoubtedly The religions that are aggressive,
The practical lesson is as Chd as JHlIfQFb} pitch for half an hour
prove a fruitful source of discord and seek to become universal are, life itself. It is evident that the without aching. Ip copyersatiun
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other things being equal, destined I mission spirit is a principle of life one varies his tone to suit the *
{¡unong the brethren.
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