. Along the lines at the front : A general survey of Baptist home and foreign missions. ship. Others may have this same aim before them asdistinctly, but we are less trammelled by the school-theory of the church, and look more for the demonstra-tion of the Spirit in actual regeneration. In thesethings, which are esteemed our weakness, we find greatstrength. Thus are our resources for world evangeliza-tion vastly augmented. Our mission record is denomination is being more blessed at present in itshome and foreign evangelizing labors. Our share of themission responsibility at presen
. Along the lines at the front : A general survey of Baptist home and foreign missions. ship. Others may have this same aim before them asdistinctly, but we are less trammelled by the school-theory of the church, and look more for the demonstra-tion of the Spirit in actual regeneration. In thesethings, which are esteemed our weakness, we find greatstrength. Thus are our resources for world evangeliza-tion vastly augmented. Our mission record is denomination is being more blessed at present in itshome and foreign evangelizing labors. Our share of themission responsibility at present is immense—from one-fourth to one-fifth, it is safe to assume, of all the vastmountain God has placed upon his churches. But withthe divine blessing we are equal to it. Not to do more,however, than we are now doing would be a sad still, we hinder others. Thousands of thefairest fields of the mission world we have pre-empted,and our neglect, in many of them, to use our resourcesmeans—for a long time, at least—total neglect of all theother Christian CHAPTER II. THE AMERICAN BAPTIST HOME MISSION SOCIETY. IN considering the question of the responsibihty ofAmerican Baptists in home-mission enterprise, thefield of our opportunity and obhgation broadens out soimmensely that it is difficult to see how the work can becarried on the most effectively without a division oflabor. Evidently, no board or executive officer is equalto the mastery and the management of all the details ofbusiness so extended, so complicated, so requiring theexercise of the best reason and judgment. Feeblechurches in all our States and Territories are to be as-sisted in the support of their ministry and in the erectionof their houses of worship. The religious interests of afifth, at least, of the enormous and constantly-increasingtide of immigration from all parts of the world must befostered. A like if not much larger proportion of the sixmillion five hundred thousand colored
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