American messenger . lastbirthday message of David Livingston recordedin his diary, Oh, divine love, I have not lovedThee deeply, richly, tenderly enough. We havenot been equal to our work because we havebeen deficient in our love. At the close of thisunusual address there came upon the audiencethe desire and experience of silent prayer. The real work of the Congress was taken upon Friday morning, February n. The commis-sions or reports presented for discussionwere as follows: (i) Survey and Occupa-tion, (2) Message and Method, (3) Education,(4) Literature, (5) Womens Work, (6) TheChurch in th
American messenger . lastbirthday message of David Livingston recordedin his diary, Oh, divine love, I have not lovedThee deeply, richly, tenderly enough. We havenot been equal to our work because we havebeen deficient in our love. At the close of thisunusual address there came upon the audiencethe desire and experience of silent prayer. The real work of the Congress was taken upon Friday morning, February n. The commis-sions or reports presented for discussionwere as follows: (i) Survey and Occupa-tion, (2) Message and Method, (3) Education,(4) Literature, (5) Womens Work, (6) TheChurch in the Field, (7) The Home Base, (8)Co-operation and the Promotion of Unity. The discussion of the report on Survey andOccupation brought into the full light the al-most startling religious and moral needs otLatin America. It showed eighty millions otpeople long neglected so far as having receivedthe plain and simple Gospel Message that ChristJesus came into the world to save sinners! The American Meuenmjmr April, A SNAPSHOT OF OUR DELEGATE, DR. JUDSON SWT FT moral resultant has been a minimum. The sit-uation is set forth in the following words taken1from the report: The decline of faith is proceeding co-ex-tensively with modern education among bothmen and women of every social rank. Theresident forces able to check indefinitely with-out arresting the spread of free learning arenegligible. Several millions of savage or semi-civilized Indians are without any contact withvital Christianity or its representatives. Vastlylarger numbers of neglected classes of population are in a state nominally Christian but rela-tively pagan. They remain grossly supersti-tious and in stagnation spiritually without thevital forces of Christianity visibly workingamong them for moral transformation and forsocial uplift. Thus far the Church, outside thelimited evangelical Churches, maintains indif-ference toward movements for moral reformand openly or secretly opposes those calculatedto further soc
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