By 1894 very few people saw the feasibility of evangelizing the world in the remaining years of the nineteenth century. Here he laboriously expounded the slow progress of the development of any great idea. As yet most of them take no baths at all, and underclothing is unknown. An experiment was once tried to test the rock in one part of the Rammelsburg Mine, in the Hartz Mountains. A man was directed to bore for a blast.
Heathenism is a rock harder than any which encases copper.
Smith then went on to assert that Christianity cannot really be known for what it is until three generations pass. In a period shorter than this, i.e., the present generation, Christianity could not hope to achieve all it could ultimately achieve. With this, he concluded that the task of world evangelization had been given to those who were still young and, perhaps, to their children. Rev. H. C. G. Moule of Cambridge was one of these. In 1895 he spoke on the need for a balanced view of evangelization.