At the November meeting of the Shanghai Missionary Association held on the Ist instant, the Rev. J. Whiteside read a paper on The Intellectasl Life of the Miseionary," Considerstions of space prevent the publication of the address in fall.
After referring to the fact that he was conrcioas of following ov already broken by the Maclagan, of Swatow, The Chinese Recorder," entitled Tatellectas! Recreation of the Missionary," and by Dr. A. J, Brown who had devoted a whole chapter to the iatellectoal life of the missionary la his on "The Foreign Missionary, Mr. Whiteside continued The intellectual demands upon the told the Mission Boards want missionary are very grest. We are
those who possess more than average intellectual ability. Dr. W. A. Martio says Men of superior training are needed, weak and ignorant men are out of place." So much emphasis id open thie side of the mission-y's equipment at the recent great conference in Ediobargh that "Once or twice," says an eye-witness, a slight protest was heard againat the suggestion that a higher standard of intellect taal at mean the weakening of the life, A plea was made for sufficient scope for the common-place missionary in the scheme of stady.
It is likely that the commonplace ike the poor, will be with and the danger of oar getting too many men and women who combine high intellectual endowments with their ety is indeed very remote, "considerable kis intellect daily problems require a trame Thoogh he may come to the field w thorough knowledge of the Bible, " fiom grasp upon the fundamental principles nf bia faith, aod a considerable degree of general mental coltare, yet he is la the infancy of his career. If he comes tv" China he ix confronted poo arrival by a difficalt Iangaage, the thorough mastery of which, some one has said, requires head of oak, lungs of brose,
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