The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1900-10-18
SHOULD MISSIONARIES 90
WHERE THEY ARE NOT
WANTED?

Editor Herald: The following
clipping is one have taken from the
Congregational Work, very fine
paper of whom Mr., S II. Cabb is
editor. The article is worthy of
every ones attention for it consists
of facts all the way through and
every word of it is truth, so kindly
ask if you will give it room in your
paper to the honor and glory of God.
CAPT. FENNELL,
Salvation Army.
"It is an easy thing to say that
Christian workers or missionaries
should go only where they are want
ed Almost anybody can say it, and
think he knows what he is talking
about. Editors of some of our news
paper say it,, writer's of unsigned
articles repeat it, and the deluding
phrase is caught up and passed on
even by some of the members of our
churches. Do they mean that no
Christian teacher should go any
where and begin work until every
body concerned want nnAg iilat
would even shut out most of the
pastors whom everybody desires. Or
must they wait until a majority
of the people call for Christian in
struction? That would prevent the
opening of any work in city missions
or in any new section of our country,
or almost anywhere in the world
Missionary Society and the Ameri-
| oa,, Snniatu "
have accomplished in our country
has been done upon wrong prin-
ciple. This principle would abolish
missions entirely land make their pro-
secution in the future Impossible.
| Had this rule prevailed in the
councils of heaven nineteen hundred
| years ago Christ would never have
| come to earth, for certainly the peo-
pie of the world, even an appreciable
minority, did not wish him. He
came unto his own, and even those
who were his own received Him not.
He was treated by the great majority
of the people of his time and country
worse than the Western saloon mer
and gamblers have ever treated the
home missionary, or the Boxers il
China the foreign missionary.
This expression, The Christian
missionary should not go where he il
not wanted,' contains more vicious
heresy than can be expressed in any
other possible combination of clever
words. If it should be accepted a.
the rule of the Christian Church, i
would become at once its epitaph. |
charges our Lord Christ with un
wisdom when he came to earth, ant
it is in open rebellion to his com
mands regarding discipleship and tn
kingdom. The Mohammedan cree
| or the Buddhist faith would be pre-
ferable, as a working religion, t
Christianity upon such basis,
lone grand characteristic of ou
faith is that it claims universally
2 God meant it for the world, for ever
man on every continent and islanC
g This is one Of the fundamental prir
= ciples as revealed in it's ancient hit
(: tory, in the Psalms, the prophets, ,th
teaching of Christ himself, and
the lives of the apostles. WhoeVe
accepts Christianity as his religio
e must accept the fact of it's unive
Il salty, or else he has not Christianit
n but something else. Whoever r
ri cognizes that this faith is to becon
.e the one saving faith to all men, mu
d recognize, at the same time, the du
II of carrying it to all men, wheth
# they wish it or not. All Christian
n are under marching orders, and VIII
Il ever will not march drops out of Il
h line, for the army is going on
.. victory.
=, "Our religion demands coura
e. and Drawn and perseverance al
IN sacrifice. To attack the Christi
he worker who goes in the face of G
RI position, attacks not the missiona
Il but the religion he breaches"