Need for a Revival of Faith:
Christian tions' Trust for Civilization: Missionary Duties at Home and Abroad:
Address to Foreign Missions Convention Fuoit Arn Own Washington, Jan. 28.
President Coolidge, a descendant of the Puritans, in an address here today opening' the Foreign Missions Convention of the United States and Onnada, asserted that a time had come when there was need "for revival of faith."
'Christian missionaries have failed some respects, however, the President declared," by not' carrying with them to non-Christian countries the spirit, the aims and the purposes of true Christianity. Too often they have been blinded, he said, by a failure to realize' that the none Christian peoples might not equipped by life to appreciate the worth of the teachings of Christ.
President Coolidge's address was made before a gathering of several thousand missionaries and. mission workers from all parte of the globe, including several from Shanghai fand other parts of China and the Far East.
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