Church at Home and Abroad, The (July - Dec1898) . n outsiderhow much the foreigners pay him to attend servicesand unite with the church. 2. A danger involved with the first is the diffi-culty of distinguishing between the true and falseprofessors of Christianity. 3. The system hasa reflex injurious in-fluence on the mis-sionary. Instead ofbeing a spiritualteacher and saver ofmens souls, he be-comes a mere pay-master. Most of thenative helpers comemore frequently,more regularly tothe missionary fortheir salaries thanfor spiritual instruc-tion and help. 4. The system isan injury to the station f
Church at Home and Abroad, The (July - Dec1898) . n outsiderhow much the foreigners pay him to attend servicesand unite with the church. 2. A danger involved with the first is the diffi-culty of distinguishing between the true and falseprofessors of Christianity. 3. The system hasa reflex injurious in-fluence on the mis-sionary. Instead ofbeing a spiritualteacher and saver ofmens souls, he be-comes a mere pay-master. Most of thenative helpers comemore frequently,more regularly tothe missionary fortheir salaries thanfor spiritual instruc-tion and help. 4. The system isan injury to the station from which the helper istaken, for he is not, as a rule, employed in his na-tive place. A superior man in the church goeselsewhere, and the work in his native place suffers. 5. An injury is inflicted upon the people towhom he is sent to minister, as the system almostaltogether stops voluntary work on the part of theChurch members. They think : This man is senthere to preach the gospel, and receives a good liv-ing for his work and he should do Professor H. V. Hilprecht(From The Sunday School Times.) 260 WORTH READING—BOOK NOTICE8. [September, The system does not lay the foundation for a per-manent work. If it should be necessary some dayfor every foreigner to leave the country—a possiblecontingency—and if all foreign support were with-drawn, would the work in and around Peking goon and propagate itself vigorously ? Many churcheswould dwindle, and those which continued toflourish would be almost exclusively the ones inwhich the spirit of self-support and self-propaga-tion has been most cultivated. After citing several illustrations to show that ameasure of self support is possible anywhere, andthat the measure of self-support will be determinedby the enthusiastic yet judicious pressing of thematter upon the heart and conscience of the nativechurch, Mr. Fenn makes the following sugges-tions : (a) a gradual cutting off of foreign supportin the old fields and the old work
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