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FRIDAY EVENING, ' HARRIPBURG <&&&£ TELEGRAPH MAY 5, 1916
CITY IS CHURCH'S
GREAT PROBLEM
Dominating Civic Life in Di
minishing Degree; Needs
Broadminded Leadership
The International Sunday School Les
son for May 7 is "The Missionaries
of Antioeh." Acts 11:19-30
By William T. FJUs
The Bible, like the human race, be
gtns with a garden and ends with a
city. Christianity got its name and
its world vision in a city, and a big
heathen city at that. 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
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commentator calls this simple state- j
ment of the preaching to the Greeks j
at Antioeh "the climax of the Book of j
the Acts." It records in few and sim
ple words the beginning of a new era. '
The truth was established and sealed
by the Spirit that Christianity was no j
longer for the Jews alone, but for all
the world.
In somewhat of a panic, the Jeru- j
salem leaders sent their star preacher, I
Barnabas, down to Antloch to set the
Christians straight. and to safeguard
their orthodoxy. But Barnabas was \
bigger than his mission. He saw that
the hand of the Lord was with Antioch
Christians, and he was glad. N'o
heresy-hunting for him among men
who showed the Spirit of Christ. llis :
religion was so vital that he recognized
the real lest of discipleship. 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
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and heart of the city was a good move
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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
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fore and themselves in the back
ground. That is the test of preaching;
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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
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the of the Lord was calling to
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