Christian missions and social progress; a sociological study of foreign missions (1897) (14593163329)

Identifier: christianmissi02denn (find matches)
Title: Christian missions and social progress; a sociological study of foreign missions
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Dennis, James S. (James Shepard), 1842-1914
Subjects: Missions Christian sociology
Publisher: New York, F. H. Revell
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Princeton Theological Seminary Library



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e functions ofmissions to let in the light of comparison and teach the saving graceof humility. Many absurd errors in scientific knowledge and practical economyare prevalent. Antiquated and childish restrictions upon travel abroadare still enforced in India. There is everywhere a reluctance to sub-stitute modern facilities for old and cumbersome methods. Violentrace prejudices separate non-Christian communities into hostile camps,hinder that free intermingling of humanity which disarms suspicion, and 1 Its legend runs thus: These few and insignificant nations that be on theoutskirts of this illustrious land are thorny and wild and all barbarian. Before theEuropean countries existed China was sage-educated. The teaching of Confuciusat last reached unto their barbarity, and reaching them reformed them. Yet anEnglishman ventures to come out and instruct us! Why, we are his teachers!(Signed) Master of the Club of Orthodoxy.—Quoted in The Baptist MissionaryMagazine, January, 1895, p. 27.
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