Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Homiletic Review, Vol. 40: From July to December, 1900
N 0 subject received greater attention than the self-support of the native churches. The experience of three generations has left a pro found conviction that if we are to look for great expansion, if the spread Of the Gospel and Christian institutions is to overtake the growth of population, if the sanguine hope for the evangelization of the world in this generation is even to approach its fulfilment, there must be a great change in missionary policy. The one thing which is clear and indubitable is that the teeming millions Of China, India, and Africa can not be evangelized by foreign money. Christian churches in the mission-fields to-day must be built, like those of apos tolic times, upon their own foundations; they must be largely self-sup porting and self-propagating, and must therefore be projected along their own level. It is thus that all great religions have made con quest of new countries and races. The situation is rendered more serious by the fact that intercourse with Western nations, and their more civilized ways and grades Of living, is rapidly raising the scale of prices in all lands Of the East, and that consequently instead of a gradual reduction Of the stipends contributed from mission funds for native labor there is a demand for increased amounts to meet the increasing cost of living. Even in older fields, where foreign funds have borne the expense Of missionary work for two or three generations on the scale of Eastern prices, and with scarcely any progress in self-support, the question now arises: How shall the work be extended when it rises to the scale of Western prices? And if the cost is to be borne from generation to generation by Europe and America, when will the millions of India and China be converted? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
