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lions. and trace the Christian influence.
prompting them.

prompting them.
But 1t Is on mission ground that Pro-
testant Christianity has gained its
grandest victories during the presen.
century, demonstrating the fact that
the primitive power of the Gospel is
stu within the world subduina the
heathen hearts. bringing peaceful con
quests over superstition and shedding
light wherever 1t goes. 1t vas a strange
Idea to English statesmen when William
Carey proposed in 1893 to plant a mis-
sion in India, and though Andrew
RULER saw at that time "the gold mine
In India 80 deep as the center of the
earth, and Carey ventured ito 90 down
II Others would hold the ropes" it was
rIdIculed by Sidney Smith as IAN effort
TO save the world with tl3 IS 3D." ,h It
being the amount of the first collection
The East India COMPANY had brou ght
England into contact with the heather
for a century. II is perhaps somevhss
owing to this fact that daring the latter
part of tue eighteenth century there
were many efforts to arouse an interest
ia the peoples destitute of the Gospel.
For century the Society for Propagat-
ing the Gospel in Foreign Parts 1856
had carried the forms Of the Anglican
Church wherever British emigrants had
ventured, but labored With them alone.
In l734 the London Mission Society was
formed, which in 1873 sent four mis-
siOnaries to South Africa. Some 10
cieties had been formed in Douai as
early As l704, while the folio xers of
Zingendorf had pushed out to the West
Indies. Tartary, Algiers, South America
and Lapland as early as 1882 Yet 1t
may be said that modern missions as q
system are the creation of the nine
teenth century, and Ihe offspring of En-
glisn and American Protestant Chris
tlanity. MethOdism had come to
America in 1870 as A mission. The Pro-
testant Episcopal Church was sustained
as a mission III America until 1882. The
Baptists of England have had missions
IN India since 1898. The A. b. G. ID. NJ.
was organized in America in 1910, the
A. Is. L. u. in 1914. and other mission
societies have multiplied from that tiLae
onward. directing the peoples hearts to
their personal responsibility for ignOr-
ance beyond their national limits and
the open door for Christian work
throughout the world. The Church of
modern times" says McClint 1ck. has
returned to the apostolic need of mis-
slons. Hence missionary operations
now throughout the world are peaceful.
No more InquisitiOns, or crusades, or
auta de fes are employed for the pre-
tended advancement of Christianity"
Ihe field Is now more comprehensive
than ever before. Every continent and
island on the globe is not OAly known
by discovery, but accessible to Chris
tlan influence. The appliances and ad
vantages of Christian civilization, such
~ the press and general education, are
everywhere brought to the aid of mis-
sionary effort. The sympathles of the
Christian Church at large are extern
sively enlisted in the Christianizing of
the human race. The results and pro-
gress especially of Protestant missions
within the current century not only
Justify the efforts of the past, but give
most hopeful signs of the future. These
results comprise the conversion and sal
vation of individuals of every race and
condition of Humanity, the Christian
lZAtiOu of whole nations and the initial
steps towards bringing whole races to
embrace the Gospel (Hel. Cyc., p.
1913, Vol. VII The Bible has been
translated into 40 languages and dla-
lects, about 100 of which have first beeu
reduced to writing for the purpose of
transmitting the Gospel. McClintock' s
Cyciopedli gives list of 81 COntln-
entail, 33 British. II American aud eight
colonial mission societies, aggregating
ll5, all but SIX having their origin in tue
present century, 2S of which expend
each over $lOo,OO annually ,aggregatinR
SS.9i2, l34. while the other Sc probably
raise the amount to *l2,OOO,0OJ yearly
spent in mission work alone. There
were III 1903, according to an ex-
haustive list collected in the Ameri IAN
Register for August, 1880, by Rev. Is. b.
fConclnded on fourth page.