"For Christianity, Jet it be im: pressel, is a highly practical, as well 25's profoundly spiritual, mode. lof life. I loses nothing of its spiritual quality because of its practical helpfulness; but it touches all its practical workings with the spirit and purpose of lofty aspiration. Our confidence in it is justify Jed by our knowledge of its accom-pushments. Wherever it has been carried and made a force in the affairs of men, it has wrought for
also, that it has added greatly the complexity of human life and their good. But we must renal problems. Its encouragement to education, to knowledge, to scientific development, has created new forces in the world. 'The spirit of our organized, industrialized,—machine made and inter-related' world has. touched men wherever they live, profoundly affected their modes of life and thought. It has aroused in them new yearnings and new as-Pirations. It has truly" converted this planet into a brotherhood of Faces and nationalities, interdependent in a thousand ways, tending more and more to develop a common culture, a common thought and Purpose toward the great business of living. The problems which, in this new order of life, present them-elves, will not be solved except through a greater and constantly Rreater projection of the spirit of neighbourship and ce-operation, with ihe true basis of the: Christian Press On "So, ax the Christian nations have Jansumed the responsibility for bring-Ing this new and higher civilization in touch with all must recognize thei Jenlightenment, education, spiritual ization, Christianizing. There can be no hesitancy, no cessation of. effort. Not only must they go forward with this great task, but they: must be sure that they go with the right purposes. They must carry help and real serves "Let us look this part of our prt lem fairly in the face, and see we can find what is demanded of us. Not everything that the men of Christian countries have carried to the other peoples of the world has been good and helpful to those who have received it. Our civilization, ret far from perfect. Its aims fave liable to much distortion when it comes in contact with peoples not yet equipped through generations of race experience to absorb, to understand, to appreciate it. One of the groutest things thai a missionary movement could do for the favoured communities, would be ¢o assure that all who go'out from the [Christian to the non-Christian eomshould carry with them ims, the purposes of true Christianity The Snake in the Grass "We know that they have not al ways done this. We know that jon ary movements have been repeatedly hampered, and at 1" res frustrated, because some calling themselves Christians, and assuming to represent Christian civilization, have been actuated by un-Christian motives. Those who have been ing to carry the vices of our civilization among the weaker peoples and into the darker places, have often been more successful than those who have sought to implant the virtues, "The Christian churches and governments have no greater responsi-than to make sure that the best, and not the worst, of which Christian society is capable, shall be [given to the other peoples. To ai complish this is the dominating purpose of your missionary movement. It is one of the most important, the most absolutely necessary movements in the world to-day. We shall ourselves be the gainers, both spiritually and materially, by our efforts in behalf of those whom wi shall thus help. The early Eh tians fairly burned with missionary zeal. Our missionary efforts will be the more effective, just in proportion as we shall render them in the same spirit of brotherhood and banty which marked the exvliest Toleration and Brotherhood "Such a service as you aspire to do for mankind, can be rendered Jonly under the inspiration of Jbroad and genuine liberadiam. It must!
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