The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-12-01
THE MODERN CONCEPTION OF FOREIGN
MISSIONS.
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If sociological thinking other lines
thought would regard
the mat
the case With them the religious element entirely
dropped The proper of IS
according social
by exclusively educational and civizaonal
Such conception a onesded view
Of He individual both finite
and infinite Valid and valuable toobt concerning his life
activity his formation reformation always include both
poles of his being 1t because his that Gin
craby religious And religion finds man at his deepest points
In the final analysis religion gives his whole
life and affords the motives his conduct The of
foreign just
aeaby ehico religious bring
of alien thought of God and the world of life
They bring sympathetic mutually
ineligible standpoint the deepest levels of their being AS
matter of fact have been carried and
probably never can be successfully carried on aside from the
motives operative alike among goers
treme questionable if anything less than religious motive and
religious peoples
modify their civilizations fundamentally their lives
What does this mean' 1t that unitarian motives
socioogicay merraciay
the Only infinite
that to the Christian religious vaueof the individual
appreciated fundamental
his individual being and his relations motives
enough produce the missionary able maintain
his purpose throughout persuade
whom he leading like
Considered still carefully this that Christian
sions hold their
Society exists by and for sake of individual
improved society by improved Individuals and makes
possible wider improved type manhood Any
Geological Interpretation
altogether drops the individual be only
one-sded absolutely view missions
which conscious of ndviduac alone pronounced
the essential truth than sociological falsely called
which these The webaanced sociological concep
of foreign which, while does
individual nature and value does emphasize strongly the thought
society
vlda fully saved Foreign all their activities
the double individuals
tabshment kingdom through
dren OF God each OF whom contributes to all and all
1t would be mistake perhaps might be inferred
the discussion that
sociological forms of only after
because of the of sociological conceptions of On the
although foreign missions from frankly
ist theory Of religion and
practical and sociological would
thought regard foreign has become sociological
through observation Of actually
doing than through the of sociological speculation
lines thought Practice
the large is probably safe that the sociological
ton of the function and value of foreign
science
bes outline conception
1t widely held by intelligent pastors,
boards and MODERN still un-
fortunately misunderstood by large numbers of
~ unknown modern
work They
ndduastc burning theory foreign
but they fancy that that the exclusive
trolling missionary work. and they therefore look
ddain The evil this
apprehension The spendd
fore seriously limited today for lack of funds which
" forthcoming
nized and understood by Christian FFaymen'
1t is accordingly of to
but also to the international good will and the
evolution of both Christian peoples that pastors
and England should their peo
pie with this modern sociological
of foreign missiOnsThe Outlook