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Everybody knows that the Church's greatest present problem is that of the modern city. Broadly speaking, the Church is suf fering a defeat in urban centers. She U dominating civic life in a diminish ing degree. Where problems are thickest, there churches are fewest. Worse yet, the Christian leader with a civic sense and spirit is rare almost to the degree of invisibility. Most min isters in great cities think in terms of iheir own parishes. It is notorious that no movement or leadership has ever been able to get the New York pastors together for active co-operation in any city-wide Christian service. Kach is overwhelmed by his own paro chial problems. A need that underlies most other needs in our modern church life is for a leadership that will think In large units. The City Problem Not New There is o\ erniuch wailing about the new problems which ha\e been created for the Church by the modern city. This lament seems to assume that Christianity was constructed in units of rural congregations. Frankly, this is nothing less than absurd. The Christian Church began in Jerusalem. Its first notable victories were won there, in the face of such opposition as is found nowhere in Christendom to day. The greatest conquest of the early Church was in the third city in the Roman empire, Antioeh, with lis half-million residents. Now Antioeh was rio modern Phila delphia, predisposed by tradition and aptitude toward Christianity. The utterness of its heathendom is glimpsed in "Ben-Hur," with its pic tures of the abominations of the Grove of Daphne, five miles out of Antioeh. It was from this great heathen city that Christianity received its name; and it was in Antioeh that there began the missionary enterprise for the con quest of the cities of the old world. In Antioeh a vast number turned to Christ. That result was won by lay men. average folk who had been scat tered from Jeiusalem by the tribu lations that arose over the martyrdom of Stephen. As they went they preached. The brands that had been sent flying far and wide by the foot of persecution each started a fire in some new place. Those early disciples were like the modern Korean Christians, who sometimes move their homes and their businesses to new communities for the Gospel's sake. The first and final dependence of the kingdom has been upon the "witnesses" who bear testimony, wherever they may be put, to the new life that is in Christ Jesus. New Light On Old Places One is surprised when he realizes 1 how cosmopolitan was the early i Church. We find the dispersed dis ciples soing to Cyprus, the British island in the Mediterranean, where now troops are garrisoned, and about which the warships are sailing to-day: and to old Phoenicia, the maritime nation lying along the upper coast of Palestine and Syria; and to the great city of Antioch. Antioch has recently come into the news because of the marvelous defense which its Armenian Christians made for fifty-three days on a mountain outside, of the city against the attacking Moslem hosts. The personnel of the Church at Antioch. which as the biggest city in the whole region became the natural rendezvous of fugitives from Jeru salem. was even more cosmopolitan yet. We find among the names Lucius, the Cyrenean—all students of peogra i phy identify Cyrene as within the ♦nodern Tripoli, which Italy lately seized from the Turks—and Manaen. the foster-brother of Herod: and Saul from the university city of Tarsus, and Simeon (he Black—who may have been the Simon of Cyrene who carried the cross of Jesus: and Barnabas of Jerusalem. With such leadership the new rhurch at Antoich could not be paro chial or provincial. It had to think in terms of the then known world. The sympathies and contact and outreach of the <"hurch membership ran as far as the Roman dominions. Intolerance was impossible to these men blazing with the zeal for the crucified Christ. It was easy for theni to slip over i the fence of Judaism and carry the Good News to the Gentiles also. Their breadth of vision made it impossible for them to be holden by the narrow i prejudices of Judaism. So their con verts among the Greeks grew with such rapidity that the news was quickly carried to the mother church at Jerusalem. A Radical Revival That news from Antioch upset the Jerusalem leaders. They were con servatives, and solicitous for the pre servation of the type. The fear of J heresy had gripped them. It was with i sincere and pious alarm thai they I learned that the Christians exiled to Antioch had preached to Gentiles as well as to Jews. Little did they know that this fact chronicled the high water mark of the history of the Apostolic Church. One SCALE ON SCALP | TWEWE YEARS Itching Was So Intense Obliged to Scratch. Then Would Pain. Hair Came Out. HEALED BY CUTICURA SOAP AND OINTMENT "My trouble began with a heavy scale on my scalp which lasted for about twelve years. At timet it would dliappear for a tfew months, then It would appear again and every time it seemed more severe. The Itching was so Intense that I was obliged to scratch and then it would pain. 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Would I that the Barnabas spirit might domi nate the great religious meeting of this month of May, some of which are j i perturbed over heresies and ecclesi- ! astical procedure. It is the spirit of! Christ and the works of Christ that j mark the disciple of Christ. This is tht- one and only test. If Christ has j sealed a man or a cause, no church can unseal it. There is a beautiful portrait of Bar- j nabas in this lesson, a miniature that belongs high in the gallery of the I heroes of faith: "For he was a good \ man and was full of the Holy Spirit and of faith." Xo wonder that the Record continues, "And the number of believers in the Lord greatly in creased." A Churchman With City Sense It is part of my duty to watch the j trend of the times, especially in re ligion; and to study the strength and weakness of organized ■Christianity. I do not hesitate to say, unequivocally, on this appropriate occasion, that the need of needs of the Christian Church in the year 1916, excepting only the need for a baptism of the Holy Spirit, j is the need for more Barnabases— leaders who are big enough to meet tht- new conditions with commanding strategy. The Church's case cries aloud for leadership with a city sense, and with a nation sense. We suffer more from the smallness of the saints than from the bigness of the sinners. We are not thinking in large enough terms: for where we should look for great national leaders we find chiefly ecclesiastical politicians, stepping softly about their own con- ' cerns. Place-holders, place-seekers and partisans are easier to f*nd than self-effacing men of vision who know the greatness of the hour and the diffi culties of the task. Only the Barnabas spirit, which put aside all preconcep tions and all self-interest, and dared to do heroically the thing that the oc casion called for, will serve us in this destiny-laden day. A Man for a Big City What Barnabas found In Antioch sent him posting off to Tarsus for Saul. ! He knew his own limitations. The great man is one who understands how to use other men. Conditions in Antioch called for the gifts peculiar to Saul. So Barnabas got him, and they had a great revival that lasted for a year, and that has left its impress upon the Christian Church down to this very hour. If Antioch had needed a Billy Sun day, or a Graham Taylor, or a John R. Mott, or a Charles Stelzle, Barnabas would have sought htm out. He had no preconceived notions that made, him try to thrust the new life of the Antioch Church into the iron mold of his own prejudices. He wanted to meet the city's spiritual needs. If clty | vide cottage prayer meetings could do this, or a tabernacle evangelistic cam ; paign. or an industrial or social cru sade. Barnabas would not have hesi tated. If Sunday night services in a ; theater would draw men who would i not go to the synagogue, to the theater Saul and Barnabas would go. If a union service of city churches in the Auditorium would meet a special need. Barnabas would have provided it. If a masterly publicity presentation in 1 the city press was the most useful me -1 dium for carrying the Message, we may be sure that Barnabas would have j found the money for that. Did it seem 1 as if the people would be more re sponsive to a great concerted musical | presentation of the Gospel than any thing else? Then Barnabas would , have called in the Charles M. Alex- ' 1 and or of his day. Whatever would $1.49, $2.50, $4.00, $5.50 bring Christ nearest to the thought and heart of the city was a good move for Barnabas. Present-day innova tions are often challenged, not with the question, "How will it present Christ to this city," but "How wi'l it affect my own congregation?" Winning a New Name Some merry Koman Jester one day called these zealots, w ho were creating such a furore in Antioeh, "Christians." Probably all the young bloods in the. bath laughed over the well-coined word, and themselves later used it in derision. The followers of Christ had not so named themselves. They called one another "believers," "brethren," "disciples." "Followers of the Way." The appellation "Christian" was first affixed in scorn, but quickly welcomed by those who prized the precious Name which it enshrined. That word "Chris tian" is the one known product of Antioeh which remains to this way. It is the greatest word in the world. To bo a Christian means more than to be rieh. or to be great, or to be learned, or to be powerful. As a small mirror reflects a large landscape, so this designation, applied in scorn by enemies, reveals about the Antioeh Church. They were not called "Saulists" or "Barnabites." but "Chris tians." They had kept Christ to the fore and themselves in the back ground. That is the test of preaching; does it make people talk about the preacher, or about his message? Glowing. Growing, Going Three great events stand out in the experience of the Antiocli Church. The first was that it gave the new name to the disciples of Christ. The second was its bountiful gifts to the Church in Jerusalem, which had been o\ertaken by a famine. Then, as now. the of the Lord was calling to the people of the for succor in dire need. Most notable of all—and here, too. 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