Christian missions and social progress; a sociological study of foreign missions . however, the fact of an institution known throughout China, with a yearly ex-penditure amounting to many thousands of dollars, and with branches in differentparts of the suburbs and in country districts. Here again is an indirect result ofChristianity manifest in the alleviation of suffering through heathen benevolencebrought into play by the opposing force of Christian missions. Before missionswere established in the South of China private benevolence was no doubt exercisedby many of the wealthy Chinese. Some o
Christian missions and social progress; a sociological study of foreign missions . however, the fact of an institution known throughout China, with a yearly ex-penditure amounting to many thousands of dollars, and with branches in differentparts of the suburbs and in country districts. Here again is an indirect result ofChristianity manifest in the alleviation of suffering through heathen benevolencebrought into play by the opposing force of Christian missions. Before missionswere established in the South of China private benevolence was no doubt exercisedby many of the wealthy Chinese. Some of these may have combined to heal thesick, to help the destitute and famine-stricken, and to bestow coffins as gifts whendeserving families among their neighbors were found without the means to burytheir dead. But anything in the nature of a public society organized for the expresspurpose of systematic and regular benevolence, one may affirm, was an unheard-ofproject. — Rev. T. W. Pearce (L. M. S.), Hong Kong, Work and Workers in the Mission Field, May, 1897, p. J3 2 o S o >* •si & s •O K «— ?J •> .- o >X m c~ A 0 o <5 .> (J •C i p< •a < s gij .?cl o u o « iJ - ^ THE DAWN OF A SOCIOLOGICAL ERA IN MISSIONS be of little value and efficacy as an offset to almost universal tendenciesof an opposite character, but the winsome force of a noble and com-mendable example is often more powerful than the apparently formida-ble influence against which it Example that is right in itself,and that represents sincerity of conviction, is one of those little oneswhich shall chase a thousand. The personal equation is beginning towork in the influence of native Christian communities, and in the contri-bution here and there of capable leaders in the intellectual, social, andreligious life of the Orient. Nor is it too much to expect that Christianmissions will give birth in modern times to a St. Chrysostom or a , to a Luthe
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