Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-03-14

istic. publication, education, philon-
thropy, including free medical service,
hospitals, famine, relief and the like.
The problem | propose is this: find the
total value OF all church property of tho
Church of England and set down the en-
tire annual expenses of the es tablisment
with the interest OF the Same at 3 per
cent. Do the same with the Establish
ed Church OF Scotland. Make the same
computation in the case OF all the Non
conlormist bodies. Set down the inter-
est on the original cost of all education
al property from Oxford and Cambridge
and Edin burgh and Glasgow universe
ties TO tho common schools; find the to-
tai OF annual expenditure; 60 through
with similar computation in the case
OF all hospitals, asylumns and eleemos-
ynary institutions; calculate the CXpcnd-
iture of all Bible and other societies
publishing either Christian or school
literature and the work Of all famine
and relief boards; and when you have
added mp the column you will find to-
tai OF something quite different from the
paltry e., 900, 900 chat is called "lavish"
expenditure for the conversion of the
world with its | 400, 900, 900 sou Is.
There arc single men within the pale
Of the Christian church who could carry
that load for one year and not serious
~ trench upon their capital. Now
turn 10 the Church Year Book and the
year books of the several Christian
bodies and find the number Of additions
not from heathcns, mark, but from
Christian homcS--tO the Christian
churches. and find the average cost!
Is Christianity then n failure? Are
churches and the Christ ian ministry u
failure? Is education a failure? Is
philanthrophy a failure? am no pes
simist. Our day is not worse, it is bet
ter than those that have gone before.
But the problem OF sin is dark enough.
We need no jercmiads; VIC need buglc
calls and cheer answering TO cheer
along the ranks. The work
OF American missionaries in Turkey
proper was begun in 1882. At that
time it was the midnight of hope for all
races, especially for the three subject
Christian raccs-thc Bulgarian. the
Greek and the AmcriCan-numhcri
altogether n little more than 10000, coo
souls. Education among all these races
hardly existed. The priests were well
nigh as ignorant a. the masses OF the
people. Schools were few and pOCr
Under 400 years Of oppression aspira-
ton had died ont. Not alone rs a saw
ing influence hut in clcvating and
educating power the free Bible
in the living tongue Of men
is beyond all comparison 30 be placed
first. The first great work. therefore,
undertaken by American missionaries
in Turkey was TO give II all races the
whole Bible in their living speech.
This was 10 no done for Christian
as well as Moslcm. for Moslcm
as we'll rs Christian. 1t was
we'll understood that there could be
no successful work among Moslcms
except through reform and evanGel-
lizing OF the Oriental churches. The
corruption OF curly Christianity gave
Islam opportunity and scope when il
rose. The corruption OF Christianity,
both east and west, in the middle ARCS,
the ugly excrcsccncc OF Christianity in
the twelfth century, the Crusadcs,
thrust with such baleiul moral effect
upon tho attention Of the Moslem
world, had steclcd the heart against all
Christian influence. Therefore, Amcri-
can missionaries, understanding the
magnitude of the task they had under
taken, began with the translation Of the
Bible and with the creation OF
Christian literature about that center,
and began with the Christian races
The great Bible societies joined hands
with tho missionary society. The
Bible has been translated into all Ian
guages, published in many editions,
sold by the ten thousand, now by the
hundred thousand, COPIES year, and
goes everywhere; and with it 60 the
religious books and school books for all
grades OF school, published in editions
of three thousand or five thousand
copies.-Rev. George +. Herrick, ID.
d., in Missionary Herald.