Christian Century . missions, the noteof urgency groAvs as the foreign boardsand the non-Christian nations callthrough open doors for the thousands ofmissionaries of all types—evangelistic,educational, medical, literary and in- dustrial—yet required to develop thenative Christian communities and leadthem in the task of evangelizing the un-reached world. Tavo things may be said regardingthese modern calls. First, they are im-mediately related to and arise out ofdiscovered human needs. From thisthey derive their primary meaning andappeal. There is a pull in them eventhough we link them up to no
Christian Century . missions, the noteof urgency groAvs as the foreign boardsand the non-Christian nations callthrough open doors for the thousands ofmissionaries of all types—evangelistic,educational, medical, literary and in- dustrial—yet required to develop thenative Christian communities and leadthem in the task of evangelizing the un-reached world. Tavo things may be said regardingthese modern calls. First, they are im-mediately related to and arise out ofdiscovered human needs. From thisthey derive their primary meaning andappeal. There is a pull in them eventhough we link them up to no divinecommand. Here are needs to be metwhich no one else can or will meet ifChristians do not respond. Here isAvork which ought to be done and whichcries for doers. These calls are expres-sions and tests of that new enthusiasmfor humanity, of that social sense ofbrotherhood and altruistic obligationwhich is the salient moral and spiritualAvatchword of our day, and which is do-ing much to rescue our profession of. Prof. Charles T. Paul, at his desk. Christianity from theoretical unrealityand sentimental sham. Theoretically Aveall recognize a general call to knoAv well enough that Christ sum-mons no one to merely passive or nomi-nal discipleship. Why call ye meLord, Lord, and do not the things whichI say? But do Ave really hear andrightly interpret the voices which tell usAvhat he Avants us to do? Have we toolightly regarded the appeals of our mis-sionary societies and other church or-ganizations? Have Ave grasped the factthat the calls of the boards have simplytranslated the general call to Chris-tian service into specific concrete terms,,and related it to the tasks and neces-sities of our own time? The call of theboards is the call of men and women andnations who need our help today, andAvhom it is Avithin our power and oppor-tunity to serve. THE CALL OF CHRIST. Second, the present calls to servicein so far as, and just because they dospring out of the needs of m
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