Excerpt from The Missionary's Service to the Home Churches, And, When the First Missionaries Went Out First - Foreign Missions'saves the Church from the charge that in no department of her life does she ex hibit a spirit that can fairly be called heroic. The absence of a real heroism in conventional and contemporary Christianity is a defect which is felt more often than it is mentioned. The reason Why multitudes oi men are not attracted by institutional Christianity, 1s that it seems to offer scant scope for the morally ...
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Excerpt from The Missionary's Service to the Home Churches, And, When the First Missionaries Went Out First - Foreign Missions'saves the Church from the charge that in no department of her life does she ex hibit a spirit that can fairly be called heroic. The absence of a real heroism in conventional and contemporary Christianity is a defect which is felt more often than it is mentioned. The reason Why multitudes oi men are not attracted by institutional Christianity, 1s that it seems to offer scant scope for the morally adventurous spirit. X Here is the reason why many high minded and eager young men passby the Christian ministry as their life' 5 vocation. 'president Eliot once put his finger upon it when he said that the missionary spirit seemed to him to have passed over from the profession of theinin istry to the profession of medicine. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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