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Mission Monographs.standard bearer in the worid was. Forward 1 our Lord declares with solemn reiteration that" Go ye, therefore, and teach all nations " Aid no one can be His disciple who does not take upshall we not be as faithful to our slain Master as His cross, and no one who is not willing to givethe dumb color bearer was to his slain master ? up all for His sake. No suffering, no glory 1 NoThe standard of the cross is still floating on the narrow way, no large and wealthy place 1 Noshores of the Mediterranean in the very face of dying with and for Christ unto sin and self andthe foe Shall we not, believing victory near, the world and time, theo no joyful living withrally again with renewed purpose and effort in Him in the pure land of light —Alexanderits support? Brother, the church is saying to you Baleigh, D. D.to night. Go thou, and the Lord be with thee " No man having put hia hand to the plough,always.and looking back, is fitfor the kingdom of God."Brethren, by this act of sending out a new This saying of our Lord was addressed to onemissionary and all that it implies we pledge our- who volunteered to follow Him, but marred theselves anew to go in the spirit and prayer and grace of his offer by interposing a request. Thepower of a mission loving, mission sustaining answer he received shows plainly that the man'schurch. And the stiU smaU voice of the Master heart wa-* not yet thoroughly engaged in Christ'smay be heard saying, " Lo, I am with you always, service, and that he was therefore unfit to be aeven to the end oi the world. Amen." discipleif we are looking back to anything in thisCHRISTIAN SERVICE. .^orid, we are not fitto be his disciples. ThoseDo you see that young man, the very type and who look back want to go back. Jesus wUl notpattern in many respects of what a young man share his throne with any one—no, not with ourought to be, leaving the Master's presence in sor- dearest relatives. He must have all our heart,row? He will not be crucified. He wiU not or none. No doubt we are to honor father anddie. Do you see that scribe walking close be- mother, and love all around us. But when lovehind Christ, andthen venturing to speak : " Mas- to Christ and love to relatives come in coUision,ter, I will follow Thee whithersoever Thou go- Christ must have the preference. We must beest.'' A noble resolution, if he really meant ready, like Abraham, to come out from kindredit, and knew what it meant. But at any rate he and father's house for Christ's sake We mustshould know the whole case, and then foUow or be prepared in case of necessity, like Moses, toforsake as he will. " The foxes have holes, and turn our backs even on those who have broughtthe birds of the air have nests, but the Son of us up, if God calls us, and the path is plain.Man hath not where to lay hig head." Harder Such decided conduct may entaO sore trials onyet. Here is one who must not go even to his our affections. It may wring our hearts to gofather's funeral when he is needed to preach the contrary to those we love. But such conductkingdom of God; and one who, quite resolved may sometimes be positively necessary to our salnow,is hasting home to say farewell, when he is vation, and without it, when it becomes necessary,told that fareweU even must not be said, but we are unfit for the kingdom of God. The goodthat, if he puts his hand to the gospel plough, he soldif r will not allow his heart to be entangledmust hold it fast, and look the way the plough is too much with his home. If he daily gives waygoing, and draw the furrow atraight, or be judged to unmanly repinings about those he has left benotfitfor the kingdom of God. Something ex- hind him, he will never be fit for a campaign.ceptional there may have been in some cases. But His present duties—the watching, the marching,j^oi