MISSION TO MEN.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVI, Issue 108, 3 November 1908, Page 4

MISSION TO MEN.

REV. D. RUSSELL'S ADDEESS. "Thou art not far from the Kingdom of Heaven." From this thought tho Rev. David Russell, of South Africa, addressed a large gathering of men at the V.M.C.A. Rooms last evening. Prior to the advent of Jesus Christ, he said, society was divided into three sections — the religious community, the intellectual section, and people who were believers in Herod ; they had the idea that the King could do no wrong so long as he was king. But when Jesus Christ came, those three sections' drew together. The inference that one drew from the text, he added, was that the kingdom loomed largely before the mind of Jesus Christ. If a man missed the kingdom in this world, nothing that he could gain would make up for that great loss. But if he gained the kingdom it would matter little .what else he gained. Holding a Bible, the speaker said : "It a man gives this book its proper place he cannot be far from the kingdom. There are a large number of young men who don't give it a chance. Is it fair ?" A great many people, he said, were not far from the kingdom, and they did not enter in because they had misconceptions of what the Christian life meant; many did not enter because they were afraid that they would have to give up so much. "It is not what you give," answered the speaker. "It is what you receive." God, he declared, never violated a man's reason or intelligence. Truth, purity, holiness, wisdom, love, — were not these the very things that made a man a man, and worthy of the name of man ? If he gave up the worldly life he became a clean liver and a man with a spiritual mind.