The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-04-12
EPWORTH LEAGUE.
April 24s "Christian Education L
Missionary Lands. Matt. fv, 1917.

Missionary Lands.'-Matt. iv, 1917.
The gospel of Christ changes COM
pletely the ideas and customs Ut every
people who accept it.
The habits and institutions Of life
are largely the outgrowth from the re-
ligion held. What one thinks Of God
and man and the world and the way
they are related will settle what he
will do and bow he will feel.
Jesus Christ is the first who taught
that God is Father and men are broth
ers. He said it in words and in deeds.
His life and death illustrated the idea
and demonstrated it as fact He was
the first one to arrive at conscious ex-
perience of sonship to God. Having
attained it, he promised power to at
tain it, to all who truly sought it. A
characteristic of those who really seek
it is an impulse TO teach others the
way. This fs revolutionary in ifs effect
1t overturns thea old way of regarding
things and all tine former manner Of
life 1t creates a nav life in the indi-
vidual and forms society on different
lines. 1t affects all arts, sciences, PHI
losophies and social customs.
From the first there have been some
peculiarly gifted to impart instruction
to others. Undoubtedly the gift of
teaching will be needed until the king
dom of God come in all its fullness.
This gift still continues in the church.
Its value is coming to greater appre
citation than ever before, and its use
fitness is greatly increased.
In every land education in righteous
lands particularly called missionary
its recent extension is mostly of much
attention. From kindergarten to theo-
logical seminary every appliance of
Christian education and culture is dill
gently utilized in the work of bring
ing the people from darkness of hea-
then superstition and degradation of
pagan worship to the knowledge of
God through Jesus Christ.
A series of photographs from the diff
ferent lands where our missionaries
are at work shows the condition of af-
fairs better than volumes of print can
do. Mexico, South America, Africa,
| India, China, Japan and all the other
lands have the little children of ma
tives and foreigners gathered into
| groups under the care of trained kin
dergarten instructors. Our best grad
yates of college and normal schools
and musical Conservatives are scat
! tered all over the world, teaching by
| the most improved methods the high
! est truths known to men in these lat
| est years. Our hest medical instruc-
ton and skill are in this service. Hos
| pitfalls and dispensaries are necessities
| of every mission Besides and beyond
all this we are giving training to ma
tives in this art and science of teach
ing and healing, who shall be able to
go out and do the work and also teach
others to do it. Theological schools
train preachers, and all other grades
! of schools cooperate to raise in each
land force which shall as soon as
possible be able to carry on the work
without assistance, or at least depend
ence, on outside help.
Then what swarms of. scholars! Pc
king, Foochow, Singapore, Madras,
Lucknow, Rome, Pueblo and all the
great centers between have gathered
the best talent of the natives and are
training the future rulers of many
lands intellectually, morally and spir-
itually fer the great tasks which await
the hands of the coming men and wo-
men.
More than any one can foretell, the
fate of the world in this century for
veal or woe rests on the teaching now
being given the bright boys and girls
in the mission schools of the Christian
church. The future of China, of In
dia, of Africa, of all these other lands,
is in the balance. Our future is weigh
ing in the same scales. God bless our
schools!