Life and light for woman . and his associates in India; Morrison and his successors inChina; Moffatt, Livingstone, and Hannington in Africa; Dwight,Goodell, and Riggs in Turkey; Eh Smith and Van Dyck in Syria;Williams and Selwyn and Paton in the Pacific; all representing differ-ent lands, different communions, under widely different circum-stances, yet all led by the same Spirit, followed essentially the samecourse, adopted as the principle of their actions the idea that the I9i6] The Change of Emphasis 533 work of missions is something more than saving souls from death,it is the building up o
Life and light for woman . and his associates in India; Morrison and his successors inChina; Moffatt, Livingstone, and Hannington in Africa; Dwight,Goodell, and Riggs in Turkey; Eh Smith and Van Dyck in Syria;Williams and Selwyn and Paton in the Pacific; all representing differ-ent lands, different communions, under widely different circum-stances, yet all led by the same Spirit, followed essentially the samecourse, adopted as the principle of their actions the idea that the I9i6] The Change of Emphasis 533 work of missions is something more than saving souls from death,it is the building up of the Kingdom of God on earth. They be-lieved and taught that the foundations of the Kingdom lie in thecharacter of its members; that character is the product of trainingand development; that there is no limit to this development, itsideal being that likeness to God from which man has fallen; andthat the permanency and strength of the Christian Church is meas-ured by the degree to which that ideal has been attained. Hence. Bible Translation Committee of China at Work they set themselves to study. They studied languages, and theresult is the most marvelous collection of translations the world hasever known; they studied literature, and their contributions to ourknowledge of Vedas and Zend-Avesta, of Confucius and Mohammed,of African and Pacific folk-lore, have been wonderful; they studiednature, botany, zoology; they studied races and have taught moreethnology than any other class. They studied everything, butalways with the one purpose to make it tell in the building up ofChristian character. {To he Concluded.)lifelightforwoma4612woma
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