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(Note from Pastor Dunham: This is a long article that I ran across in my studies today. To see it all, please go the post on our website.)
By E. A. Marshall
An address to the 1913 Graduating Class of The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago
Found in the September 1913 issue of “The Christian Workers Magazine.”
JESUS CHRIST is often considered as a preacher, a teacher, a personal worker, or as a healer; tonight we are to consider Him as a missionary. Among these various callings which may be attributed to Him, that of the missionary stands out pre-eminent. His characteristics, commission and work entitled Him to be placed as the file leader of the whole enterprise. No one who understands the spiritual needs of man, and the righteousness of God, will essay to step before Him and call upon the world’s benighted races to follow human guidance. In person, in teaching, in example and in service, Jesus stands alone and unapproachable; these making him the ideal pattern of the church for all people in all ages and times.

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