Christian missions and social progress; a sociological study of foreign missions . ng in London, speaking ofBishop Smythies, remarked: You call him my Lord, but I call himmy Father. Of the late Bishop Maples, of Likoma, in Central Africa,one of his colleagues said: I never knew one with a greater power ofinspiring love. He was able to shake off all European insularities, andto be to Africans a real brother. 3 The late Rev. Hugh Goldie, of theScotch United Presbyterian Mission in Old Calabar, on the West Coastof Africa, is another striking illustration of what a missionary life meansto heathen
Christian missions and social progress; a sociological study of foreign missions . ng in London, speaking ofBishop Smythies, remarked: You call him my Lord, but I call himmy Father. Of the late Bishop Maples, of Likoma, in Central Africa,one of his colleagues said: I never knew one with a greater power ofinspiring love. He was able to shake off all European insularities, andto be to Africans a real brother. 3 The late Rev. Hugh Goldie, of theScotch United Presbyterian Mission in Old Calabar, on the West Coastof Africa, is another striking illustration of what a missionary life meansto heathen society. The Rev. William Dickie writes of him: We can-not pretend to estimate the effect of a life like that of Mr. Goldie upon 1 The Missionary Revinu of the World, May, 1896, p. 370. 2 For biographical sketches, see Work and Workers in the Mission Field, June,1896, pp. 232-238, and The Review of Missions (Nashville, Tennessee), July, 1897,pp. 1-4. 3 For a biographical sketch of Bishop Maples, see Central Africa, December,1895, p. 185. Cf. also his biography, recently ?£ 33 <J THE DAWN OF A SOCIOLOGICAL ERA IN MISSIONS 53 the heathen people among whom he lived. He was one of the gentlestof men, with a quiet enthusiasm for souls. The impression which hisexalted piety made upon those around him was very deep. Had hecared to speak of the secret of his life, it would have been in the wordsof the Psalmist, Thy gentleness hath made me great. 1 In connection with work for the soldiers, especially in hospitals,during the late war between China and Japan, we have seen frequentreferences to the faithful ministries of one whomight be called the Florence Nightingale of The Florence Nightin-Japan. Miss Eliza Talcott, a missionary of the gale of japan. American Board, gave herself to service in thehospitals, visiting the sick and wounded soldiers both of China andJapan. Many a suffering soldier has been cheered and solaced by hergentle presence and the kindly ministry of her C
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