The Chinese Recorder and Missionary byterian Mission Press.
Journal. February 1897. Shanghai:
Are foreign missions doing any good was & query recently answered in the afirmativo from the weighty and conclusive testimonies of a number of British officials, among whom we noticed such names as. the late Lord Lawrence (formerly Governor-General of India), Sir Donald Macleod (Lieut.-Governor of the Punjab), Sir Richard Temple (formerly Governor of Bombay), Sir Charles Aitchison (late Lieut.- Governor of the Punjab), Sir Charles E. Berugrd (late Commissioner of Burma), and meoy others. An important addition to this valuable evidence from men accustomed tg calmly judge and carefully discriminate yill be fond in the opening article of this mth's Recorder, Missionaries and Missionary Work," by the Hon. T. R. Jernigan, Consul-General at Shanghai. Refer-Ting to the American missionaries in Chins says:—" Many of these missionaries I know personally, and I have visited some at their homes and attended the services they conduct in their Chapels. They neod no witness to testify in their behalf. Their work isnot done in s comer; all can sea it, to a Knowledge of the sum total of all truth, Where there is life there must be variety, and the better this lifo is nurtured the greater and the more numerous will be the variations, This is the case in all culture, We should, therefore, rejoice over the rich variety in Protestantism and thank God for the same, but we must bear mind the fact that the same life, life from God, throbs in every living member, gad that the Sprit of Chests the bond of Among the other interesting articles in this -month's Recorder is one by the Rev. W. N. Brewster, "No Sermon: Paper in Stock." From the paucity of this article of stationery on the mission field, and the little demand there is for it, he is lod to think of the little attention he fears missionaries give to the art and practice of sermon making. OF course he charitably notes the fact that the average missionary has few opportunities to preach in his mother tongue; that when he does acquire the Chinese Janguage he is generally loaded with an amount of work that s0 consumes his time, absorbs his thought, and exhausts his energies, as to interfere with careful sermonising; besides, a growing, number are so pushed into school work, that a thorough Enowledge of the colloquial for becoming good preachers are lessened.
difiolt to soquro and opportunities Still, as Mz. Brewster points out, preaching of the Word is the preacher's rst works An important reason why the missionary should carefully prepare, and breath with
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