The Cairo bulletin., 1908-03-13
MISSION WORK
IN THE CHURCH
PRESIDENT OF HARTFORD THEO-
LOGICAL SEMINARY SPEAKS
OF ITS IMPORTANCE.
AS A CHRISTIAN DUTY
Study Of Conditions in Foreign Land3
Broader Vision OF GOSPELS
Purpose and Posi-
bilities.

Pittsburg, March l2.-At the Inter
Peoples Missionary Movement today
the principal speaker was DIR. William
Douglas Mackenzie, president of
Hartford Theological Seminary of
Hartford. Conn, who spoke on The
Place of Missionary Education in the
Life Of the Church" He said in part:
Illustrations can be drawn from the
history Of missions. Lectures can
frequently be given from the field Of
missionary hiograpay and modern
missionary achievement. What can
be more marvellous than the story Of
the marvtrdoms Cf Madagascar, the
conversion of Uganda within a gener-
alton, the Transformation of many a
Pacific island, the romance of Ameri.
can missionary education in Turkey,
as we'll rs the more striking and more
widely known marca OF the Christian
faith among the great civilizations OF
the Orient?
But the work G. tie pastor must
be associated with other agencies,
such as regular teaching special
classes, confined to the study or the
missionary cause, may be formed, or
this study may be made a part of the
parish program at certain periods OF
the rear. The Sunday school forces
sre enkindled with new visions of the
irstructional and spiritual results of
mission study Evidently we are at
the beginning of a movement that
must spread rapidly over the country.
The. Home and Foreign Missionary
boards have II within their power to
guide the movement Tor missionary
education TO success. This brings us
To consider the topics of missionary
edr cation. Is there really enough OF
4 field to constitute missionary in
Istruction n department of church
education? Yes. 1t would first, in
dude a study of Christianity as the
missionary religion and it will be
found that everything conyerges upon
a better knowledge and understanding
Of Christ, his place IN history his in
fiuence upon mans relations with
Cod his constituting the body of be-
levers, the church. and his permanent
relation to it and to the history OF
the whole world.
In the second place the missionary
education would open to the mind the
actual condition Of the world as it
needs the gospel This will involve
0 grasp of the forms of religion which
Obtain in the various parts of the
world. both of their positive teach
pgs and their practical results. 1t
must also include a study of the
various races and of the relation Of
the gcsnel to their development.
Once more. missionary education
must seek to make familiar the actual
process which may oe described as
the history of missions. This touches
and irumines all and dignifies the
march of civilization.
Thus 1t will be seen that education
in missions comprises a large part oi
liberal education. II opens mp fields
of study and thought which will make
the Christian citizr1 of this or any
land more interested in the world as
whole The political movements IN
China. the educational enterprises OF
Japan the economic conditions of In
9ia. the dawning intelligence in Afri-
can tribes. the terrific crash of re-
iigions in Turkey. have for him new
meaning; and it is not too much TO
say that to he a student of missions
is to be a studen, o. humanity, and
such lover of the race as none
other can be.