Christian missions and social progress; a sociological study of foreign missions . fluential forces which sway andmould the progress of the race. Nothing would so fully vindicatethe claim of Christianity to stimulate, to inspire, to lead the worldsprogress. The reflex influence of this service would fan the graces ofthe Christian life and make the Church aflame with thoughts and deedswhich were Spirit-born and God-given!l If the Church could do itswork under the stimulus of a faith-quickened vision of a triumphantGospel and a redeemed humanity, it would feel the pulses of a newlife, and cheerf
Christian missions and social progress; a sociological study of foreign missions . fluential forces which sway andmould the progress of the race. Nothing would so fully vindicatethe claim of Christianity to stimulate, to inspire, to lead the worldsprogress. The reflex influence of this service would fan the graces ofthe Christian life and make the Church aflame with thoughts and deedswhich were Spirit-born and God-given!l If the Church could do itswork under the stimulus of a faith-quickened vision of a triumphantGospel and a redeemed humanity, it would feel the pulses of a newlife, and cheerfully give itself to sacrifice and toil, which God wouldquickly and grandly reward. How different is the reality! Thegreat thoughts of Christ are still misinterpreted and limited by the nar-row conceptions which many of us entertain of their patriotism is still a dim spiritual ideal which we contemplate 1 Cf. article by Miss Jane Addams on The Subjective Necessity for Social Set-tlements, in Philanthropy and Social Progress (New York, Crowell & Co., 1893).. Principal Wm. Miller, ,Madras Christian College. President Daniel Bliss, ,Syrian Protestant College. Principal J. Hector, ,Puff College, Calcutta. President G. Washburn, ,Robert College, Constantinople. Four College Presidents. THE SOCIOLOGICAL SCOPE OF CHRISTIAN MISSIONS 59 with patronizing incredulity. Love of humanity is still cut up intosections and fragments, and has only a partial hold upon our of the race is still regarded as coextensive with service of somecontiguous portion of the human family. The one blood, of which Godmade all men before they were separated by national distinctions, seemsto have lost its power to pulsate through our veins, yet the permanentlife of mankind flows in that blood. It is humanity which remainswhile nations rise and fall. He who works for the human race underthe stimulus of a generous and sympathetic insight into the splendidideals of Ch
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