Voice of missions., 1900-02-01

ton made by CnrlStlan countries Vi
Il aimed intellects and consecrated
hearts. In recent years the number
prepared and willing to go is greater
than the ability of the societies to
send. A marked change from few
generations since, when it was next to
impossible to find clergymen willing
to take the risks and endure the tolls
involved in crossing oceans and bury
ing themselves in regions where saw
agery and superstition were supreme.
To these figures must be added a
native agency aggregating at least SO,-
900, of whom 5000 are ordained pas
tors, aud the others have been trained
to efficiency as preachers, teachers,
catechists, Bible readers, zenana work
ers, etc. Therefore an evangelizing
force of considerably more than 1OO,-
900 has been raised up and sent for
ward at the average rate of 1000 an
nually through the entire century. AS
compared with the ability and the
need, this is not much, but the entire
fifteen centuries preceding did not
produce an aggregate to match this
exhibit of love and zeal.
A survey of the money cost of all
this is next in order. The sum ex-
pended cannot be less than $500, 900,
900, and is likely to be nearer 5000,
900, 900, especially if home expenses
are included, and all such auxiliary
instrumentalities as Bible, tract and
other publishing societies, and the
cost of translating and printing, OF
producing the vast mass of literature
required for the educational work.
This sum, though large, is not tithe
of what is imperatively required, or OF
what might easily have been bestowed.
From many professed disciples OF
Christ not a penny was derived, most
were possessed of no sort OF concep-
ton of their obligation or privilege In
this great matter, and only the few
presented that which cost the least
self-denial and self-sacrifce. 1t re-
mains. however, that no generation of
saints can be named which gave so
generously as.this one does, to such a
host of good causes. This results no
doubt. in some considerable degree,
from the fact that the average human
of our time is easily able to procure
five or ten dollars where his brother
of former days could not add one dol
lar to his store. 1t was barter then,
instead of payment in hard cash. Our
mines are fairly pouring out their
stores of gold and silver. But, be-
sides, nothing is more certain than
that the beneficent spirit, the readi-
ess to give literally, has kept full
pace with the ability to impart. Time
was. and not long ago, when benefac-
tions like Astor's of $40O, 900, Smith
sons of $5OO,0O0 and Girard's OF
$4,000, 900 stood almost alone, and
were accounted phenomenal, whereas
now scores and hundreds are far out
doing them. Large numbers OF both
poor and rich are rapidly coming to
esteem themselves as literally not
their own, and their worldly posses
sions as only held in trust for the
Masters uses. By the ten thousand,
godly women pledge and pay five, ten,
twenty-cents a week for Missions
Twenty thousand Endeavorers have
already enlisted in the Tenth Legion,
thus engaging to tithe their earnings
for the direct furtherance Of the king
dom. As a result more has been lalc
on the altar to be employed IN the
spirit of the Good Samaritan since
Carey died than was offered between
that date and the death of the Apostle
Paul. The calls are many and def
mite. the whole world is brought near
and the sense of brotherhood is grow
ing, the sense of responsibility als'
for the well-being of others. Whel
the facts are plainly set forth, ant
wise methods are fashioned for gainint
access to purses, the gold and silve
will be forthcoming in abundance.
What becomes of the $15, 200, OO
more or less which the Protestan
churches are giving annually to sustain
the foreign work? That the mainten
ance of the working force, whethe
European or native, is looked afte
NAV of course be taken for granted
Beyond this the educational phase
Missions requires passing notice
Bv most who have bestowed intelllger
thought upon the matter, the convle
tion has been reached that mel
heralding of the glad tidings wit
the voice is far from sufficien
would be utterly inadequate
change the world from heather =
Christian, no matter how long n =,
tanned. Converts must be trai2" y
, intelligence, at least to a cerkr knoed "a
tent civilization must be intooIIIIou IIu
with various institutions ~ es
society in the western worA. IL par
) ticular native ministry ynuav 10 % %
. cured, and the multitue % %n e On
: abled to read the WoE oi ~. eo oJ,,as IN 8
sums therefore are r4ul,eu = tor - eoue~ o,-ar,
: orU arads from the 10, ,est to the highes
nnst he housed nd supplied with IN
[ .+rnc+ors Asa rule every missio
Saao .i | sahool sstem to meet its intel
: | lactual Q4CPoltAOos n
seen in Re5ert College, Syrian fr(
testant Cllege at Beirut, Lovedal'
: others irthe chief cities in India ma
= dozsn1n China, and the Doshisha
+ japan 7 The American board aloI
= snp suspta1s eighteen theological schOo
:, md Twelve colleges. Not far fro
J : 90 600 pupils are now under 4
= = Suction, and since the century ope
: Il probably 100000 have be'
helped toward true intelligence. But b
y sides, in many cases these schools ha
stirred Oriental churches, Romanis'
9 Moslems and others, in self-deten
. to-provide facilities for gaining at LEI
. smattering of knowledge, where hi
erto the masses had been left in abl'
ignorance. Let it not be forgotte
! mis- grand educational system enco
i nlssinr the globe has been reared fr'
i, saandatior to capstone within SIM