. Heralds of the cross, or, The fulfilling of the command : chapters on missionary work . s themselves, and in concurrence with the knownwishes of the founder of this most successful mission, Mrs. Mason. The Karens are, as Mrs. Mason^s story abundantly proves, a peopleto whose welfare careful organisation and a strong leadership areabsolutely essential. When her able direction was withdrawn fromthe mission, the loss was at once plainly visible. There was no one ableeffectually to fill her place; the mission passed through a time of severetrouble, and many of the converts were beginning to rela
. Heralds of the cross, or, The fulfilling of the command : chapters on missionary work . s themselves, and in concurrence with the knownwishes of the founder of this most successful mission, Mrs. Mason. The Karens are, as Mrs. Mason^s story abundantly proves, a peopleto whose welfare careful organisation and a strong leadership areabsolutely essential. When her able direction was withdrawn fromthe mission, the loss was at once plainly visible. There was no one ableeffectually to fill her place; the mission passed through a time of severetrouble, and many of the converts were beginning to relapse intoheathenism. It was at this point that the Society for the Propagation of theGospel came forward, and under its auspices the mission appears to berapidly regaining its old hold upon the people, and even to be makingfurther progress. CHAPTER XL THE STORY OF BUDDHA. * Choose thouThe way of greatness or the way of good :To reign a king of kings, or wander lone,Crownless and homeless, that the world be helped. — Edwin Arnolds Light of Asia, l!lllf/i|l11llillliPf|l l(»,„ll|M Hi. lA. —/. irs. C i6S ) CHAPTER XI. THE STORY OF BUDDHA. If any of you have visited the Kensington Museum,you may remember to have seen in one of the greathalls there, an immense bronze image, far larger thanlife, of a man sitting cross-legged. Perhaps you weretold that this was an image of the god Buddha,* andyou turned for a moment to look at the strangefigure, and then passed on. But if you had been told that there are templesscattered over half the world containing images justlike this one, images that are worshipped by millionsof men and women: if you had been told how thename of Buddha is reverenced by millions who havenever heard the name of Christ; if you had knownsomething of the life of Buddha, you would, I think,have looked with a feeling of greater interest uponthe giant figure. I have spoken of the god Buddha, because inmany parts of the world Buddha is looked upon andprayed to as a g
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