Christian missions and social progress; a sociological study of foreign missions . an object-lesson in this great city, and are not withoutconsiderable influence. The heathen do not have such homes. — Rev. ChaunceyGoodrich, (A. B. C. F. M.), Tungcho, China. The difference between Christians and non-Christians in conjugal and familyfaithfulness is well known all over the country. — Rev. J. B. Porter (P. B. F. M. N.),Kyoto, Japan. In many a village the Protestant houses might be pointed out by a stranger,because of the flower in the window, the tidily kept children, or the decent approach ;
Christian missions and social progress; a sociological study of foreign missions . an object-lesson in this great city, and are not withoutconsiderable influence. The heathen do not have such homes. — Rev. ChaunceyGoodrich, (A. B. C. F. M.), Tungcho, China. The difference between Christians and non-Christians in conjugal and familyfaithfulness is well known all over the country. — Rev. J. B. Porter (P. B. F. M. N.),Kyoto, Japan. In many a village the Protestant houses might be pointed out by a stranger,because of the flower in the window, the tidily kept children, or the decent approach ;and not unfrequently the first outward and visible sign of a man or womans in-terest in evangelical truth is the cleanlier person, the more careful attire, or theimproved style of living in the home. —Rev. Robert Thomson (A. B. C. F. M.),Constantinople, Turkey. 2 Storrs, The Divine Origin of Christianity, Lecture V. ; Schmidt, TheSocial Results of Early Christianity, pp. 188-208; Weir, Christianity in Civili-zation, pp. 47-62; The Biblical Wo7-ld, December, 1896, p. Christian Families in China and Syria. THE SOCIAL RESULTS OF MISSIONS 261 wrote the late Dr. E. A. Lawrence, is to establish a home. Heapproaches them not as a priest, not simply as a man, but as thehead of a family, presenting Christianity quite asmuch in its social as in its individual character- The missionarys homeistics. This Christian home is to be the transform- ^ object-lesson,ing centre of a new community. Into the midstof pagan masses, where society is coagulated rather than organized,where homes are degraded by parental tyranny, marital multiplicity,and female bondage, he brings the leaven of a redeemed family, whichis to be the nucleus of a redeemed society. . This new institution,with its monogamy, its equality of man and woman, its sympathy be-tween child and parent, its cooperative spirit of industry, its intelli-gence, its recreation, its worship, is at once a new revelation and astriking
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