2 Missionary Duty. 
On the field of that disaster He raised this ground and pillar of 
Hope. Standing amid His weeping people, now awakened to 
a sense of their disfranchisement, and degradation and doom, He 
uttered those mighty words, by which He detached the Promise 
from that wrecked nation, and fixed it to the rock of His own 
indestructible existence. 
“The world’s Hope shall no longer be tied to your life, but to 
Mine. It is not—as truly as you live, but as truly as I live. You 
may perish, but Iremain, And I have sworn by myself that the 
whole earth shall be filled with my glory.” 
Jesus CHRIST Is THE GLory or Gop. And that promise 
of the desert began to blossom when He was planted in Judea, 
and it reached its perfection when He ascended up on high that 
He might fill all things. 
For then the two great hemispheres—Heaven and Earth— 
so long parted, came together in His hand; and the power of 
both was given Him, that He might rule them both on the 
same principles of nghteousness and fill them both with His 
glory. 
No sooner was He clothed with this all-power in Heaven and 
Earth than He set in motion the machinery which He had al- 
ready prepared. “Go ye, therefore,” He said to His disciples, 
“and teach all nations.—Go ye into all the world, and preach 
the Gospel to every creature.” 
These were—these still are, the Church’s “ MARCHING 
ORDERS.” She has no alternative but to obey them. 
And when Christian men and women go forth to encounter 
the dangers of missionary enterprise, and to place themselves in. 
contact with the pollutions of heathenism, it is not to be con- 
cluded that they are actuated by the mere impulses of humanity, 
or the love of sacrificing themselves. But the heathen belong 
to Christ. He has asked and obtained them as His inheritance 
and possession, and has commanded His disciples to claim 
them and christianise them for Him. For His sake, and for 
