Christian missions and social progress; a sociological study of foreign missions . ss shall arise with healing in Hiswings. In that high service of man which reaches the lowest depthsof his need, and searches for him in the dark and distant haunts of hisdegradation, a place of rare honor may surely be assigned to themessengers of Christ among unenlightened races. Into their handshave been entrusted the priceless treasures of the Gospel, the hopes, de-lights, and incentives of moral culture, and all the nobler possibilitiesof a true civilization. They are the bearers of the choicest gifts ofGod
Christian missions and social progress; a sociological study of foreign missions . ss shall arise with healing in Hiswings. In that high service of man which reaches the lowest depthsof his need, and searches for him in the dark and distant haunts of hisdegradation, a place of rare honor may surely be assigned to themessengers of Christ among unenlightened races. Into their handshave been entrusted the priceless treasures of the Gospel, the hopes, de-lights, and incentives of moral culture, and all the nobler possibilitiesof a true civilization. They are the bearers of the choicest gifts ofGod into the sterile and impoverished life of the old social systems. Poor world! if thou cravest a better day,Remember that Christ must have His own way;I mourn thou art not as thou mightest be,But the love of God would do all for thee. niiiimiiiiiiuiini. Rev. D. C. Greene, F. N. Brown, Rev. G. F. Verbeck, C. Hepburn, , , M. P. K. Fyson. Rev. S. R. Brown, Mr. Takahashi Goro. Rev. R. S. Maclay, Translators of the Bible into Japanese. The opposite group constituted the official committee. There were those besides who aided intranslating certain portions of Scripture, as the Rev. D. Thompson, , the Rev. R. Davidson,the Rev. J. Piper, the Rev. J. H. Ballagh, Mr. Ogawa, Mr. Uemura, and others. All work thuscontributed was revised and received the sanction of the responsible committee before publi-cation. The completed Bible was issued in 1888. Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2011 with funding from Princeton Theological Seminary Library Christian Missions and Social Progress A Sociological Study of Foreign Missions By the Rev. James S. Dennis, Students Lecturer on Missions, Princeton, 1893 and 18
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