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Inasmuch 



Relation of 

 Foreign and 

 Home 



Conditions 

 Attached to 

 Primary 

 Command 



Lukex:2 



Himself was about to come.&quot; It is, apart from 

 any special and primary claim of the Jewish 

 nation upon the Messiah, the emphatic command 

 and basis of Home Missions. The man, therefore, 

 who says, &quot;Charity begins at home,&quot; is stating 

 an undoubted elementary Christian principle. 

 The error and evil in the phrase, &quot;Charity begins 

 at home,&quot; appears when he who utters it does 

 nothing at home ; or when by it the man who does 

 much at home is prevented, in sympathy and 

 spirit, from moving from the Primary Command, 

 through the Intermediate Statement, to the Great 

 Commission and Final Instruction of His Master. 



This error and evil is expressed in the retort 

 &quot;Charity begins at home, but does not end 

 there.&quot; The foreign missionary who forgets the 

 claims of home missions is lopsided, the home 

 missionary who ignores the claim of the great 

 world, to its uttermost borders, is a stunted and 

 undeveloped disciple of the Redeemer and Master 

 of souls. A true home-mission interest in those 

 immediately about us, bears its legitimate blossom 

 in a mental and spiritual concern for those dwell 

 ing on the circumference of wider circles, and its 

 proper fruitage in a consuming desire to carry 

 the complete Gospel to the whole world. 



Further, our Lord Himself attached very serious 

 conditions to the Primary Command &quot;The har 

 vest is plenteous, but the labourers are few, pray 

 ye therefore the Lord of the Harvest that he 

 send forth labourers into His harvest. &quot; A fore 

 shadowing surely of the shout of the Angel 



