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GREETINGS OF THE AMERICAN BIBLE
SOCIETY AND OPEN CONFERENCE
DR. S. H. KIRKBRIDE
YOU know there are just two means of evangelization. The
evangel may be given by a man, or it may come through the
message of a book. When the Roman Catholics want to evan-
gelize they send a man and after him another man, and after these
two, other men. But when Protestants want to do any evangelizing,
they send out a man and put in the hand of the man a book. It would
be appropriate this afternoon to speak about the power of the preached
Word, but I want to emphasize the power of the written Word. I
don’t think that the Christian church needs any exhortation to have
faith in the power of preaching. We believe that if we can send out
men filled with the Spirit to preach Jesus Christ, men will come to
know Jesus as their Saviour. The church believes that, but I do not
think the Christian church believes, as it ought to, in the power of
the written Word, the power of the work that Dr. Brooks has given
his life to, and the power of the work that is done by the Bible
societies of the world. I do not think the church believes as it ought
to in the power of the written Word. Send a man when you can, and
let him preach Christ; but I find where a man can not go, a book can
go. How many foundations of missions have been laid, not because
a man was there to preach, but because the Word was left there.
If Russia is going to be evangelized, you must have men that have
given themselves to the work; and you must also have the Word of
God. You will have to get it for them in their own mother tongue.
Our God has said, "My Word shall not return unto me void," and it is
true. The American Bible Society is now about to take steps to print
a Russian Bible, and I am certain you will all be interested to learn
of this. In a little while we will be able to furnish the Russian Bible
and millions will be necessary. Now we are your servants, and if
we can help you, we want to do so. We have prayed for months past
that the way may open so that we can give the Word of God to the
Slavs and the Bohemians and the Poles and the Russians over there.
MR. JOHN WASYIiKIEV, Scranton, Pa.
I represent the Ukrainian Christian people. There are over thirty
million Ukrainian people belonging to Russia, but now independent of
Russia, and over three million Ukrainian people living in Austria.
I am from Austria and I bring to you the thanks of my brothers whom
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