This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1869 Excerpt: ... to modern missions no prominent place in their system of instruction. So far as I have yet been able to learn, they, with here and there an exception, give it no place at all; excepting an occasional address from a returned missionary, which is of course an excellent usage. The text-books, in this respect, seem to me ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1869 Excerpt: ... to modern missions no prominent place in their system of instruction. So far as I have yet been able to learn, they, with here and there an exception, give it no place at all; excepting an occasional address from a returned missionary, which is of course an excellent usage. The text-books, in this respect, seem to me not to be up to the demands of the times. I find no distinct reference to modern missions in any of the text-books I have consulted. Nor have I yet heard of any, which treat at all of the missions in our day. I see not how the textbooks in common use would be constructed differently, or the teaching be materially changed, were there no missions in existence, and were there no heathen world accessible to the churches. In a late Sabbath-school convention, no reference was made to this class of duties, nor to the development of Christian character in the rising generation, as having anything to do with the conversion of the unevangelized world. Yet certainly no Christian duties are more really important, and none, in this age, more fundamental in the development of Christian character, and as a test of its genuineness. The foundations for a hroad and elevated Christian character need to be laid in youth. Then is the time to inculcate the duty, to awaken an interest in the work, and to cultivate the habit of giving for its advancement. If this be not done then, it never will be done effectually. If additional text-books are needed for this purpose, let them be prepared, and judiciously introduced into the Sabbath-school instruction. Of course the Sabbath-school library will need attention. Sabbath-school libraries are greatly deficient in this department. The reading has too much of fiction, is too sensational, and creates in the minds of the chil...
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