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her ae De Lao date ed in Oxford on a subject that increasingly calls for the attention of thinking people. It is a study of the contacts of West and East in polities, trade and thought, but especially and fully in the matter of. missionary enterprise. It gives a of philosophy of present-day history, if such a phrase may be al-. lowed, so' wide is the survey, 30 close is the-analysis, so sound is the judgment, reflected in eight long chap-
The changing attitude of the growth of knowledge and sympathy, Enh treat tae transformation of missionary methods, are traced here by one, who shows an intimate acquaint-parts of the wide field. Dr. Moore's enthusiasm for missions is attested by his presidency of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign. Missions, which gives him the right to speak with unusual author-trancing book will reap a harvest of Christian wisdom. Many are ihe Gonna ste ant Bal ies of mission fields, and they do not fail to serve a purpose, but their chief use is to provide raw material hope he is at the same time a popular interpreter, This hope is abundantly fulfilled by Dr. Moe enn resid Bia Here ix a shrewd observation.
"he Chinese wan ig bornees man yrexcelloncer. Ho i fully the pee merchant who ever waited' Me land, n"'the "West that Buch" more honest than'
"Japanese. Dishonest men may be found in either ywnt From atime when'
ughest "order "went "into, hi ess, while in Japan all but theo orders despised trade." (p. 171).
Here is an instance of his powers of comparison slam has really been far more in exile than, has Christianity. Tt has ar ess of naturalization ition." Tt has far Lesa of was tasse formed by the rong whom spread, "Our English, "Americ can, and' Geran Christianity fy ahet Through with elements which are "not Chriatian' in their' origin. They are are not Roman, they not Roman, they Take this illustration of his sympathy with other races and religiotis, in this case with Jépan:— teacher), Sie are, Not only of scaled loyalties (to Emperor, besa in Shomesiver: but they sie copra importance" to tha soil and ihe ising of rigicue the balan, "On vey form. One effect atleest. of the Christian propaganda, is evidently tobe, for the, present at. lea rative faiths "or they" themselves fed but "which they may be able make heir own." (280), Fitfully for his hardly-won optimism:—
"Our own faith must be transformed to meet the need of a new tine, oven heve in our "own lands, "Tt. must transformed to meet the need of differ lent lands in the name new time, The Oriental ain contact with' both it morals and our faith and, for that Matter, in contact with our Inck of Faith and with our treason to morale. He appropriates much that is worst in our situation an if he had. nor alvcady full measure of thay which ts bud of his own. 'The best that we can now do about It is to gee that ho comes in cone also with that which 19 best in our civilization and. with that which we believe to' be the source of all that Best. "The one thing which we can nov do. about itis to offer him that. which, as we see it, is the saving doment within Our own civilization. "We must. try, to offer it to him in such acmanner that fhe'cah really. mal own." (928).
These are just casual pluckings Jof corn ears as a means of simp-Hung-the harvest of ripe wisdom and real knowledge: that this book eon? twins, It will bring. stimulus and satisfaction to, all who are concern jed with race problems and all who enterprise. SAN. Jaze connected with missionary.
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