The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-04-03

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(lPASIOR RgSSEllJl H. Robson, as
Secretary Of the
Committee. announced that the Report
rs whole had been submitted to the
Association and was in the printer
hands, to appear In pamphlet form il.
Illustrated. 1t will shortly be procur-
able at the small price Of five cents per
copy. postpaid to any address-free to
the poor. The conclusion Of the Re-
port is in the nature of Summary.
(which he read. We note some of its
more salient points. as follows:-
Summary Of Report.
Oriental Christians are about as sin
cere, intelligent and earnest as the
average Of church attendants In Eu-
rope and America-few sanity.
Christianizing endeavors seem pref
~ generally to have ceased! Present
missionary endeavors are almost exclu-
sively along the line Of secular educa-
Zion and medical aid.
There is less need Of Academic and
Collegiate education, such as the mis-
sionaries forward. than for Common
Schooling. The general Common School
education could best be furnished by
the government and along unsectarian
lines, after the method followed under
the United States supervision In the
Philippine Islands. The tendency OF
the times in the Orient, as In the Occi-
dent, is toward unbclicf in any religion.
The Orientals are remarkably tOler-
ant of all religions, and are often per-
picked at the Missionary competition,
and opposition between Christian de-
nominations. They would accept Chris
tianity if 1t could demonstrate its SUI
periority.
Orientals are not heathen- savages.
but their educated classes include
splendid specimens of noble manhood,
the moral and intellectual peers Of Eu
ropeans and Americans. The masses
Of these people are less vicious, less
rude, more Kind and considerable than
are the masses of Europe and Ameri-
ca. Drunkenness and outward i'm
nodesty are almost unknown.
Many Of the churches are seIf-sus-
SHINING and the Orientals prefer to
have them so, as they desire native
preachers, and to manage their own
Affairs.
The very suggestion Of the worlds
conversion is ridiculous to the peoples
iof the East-including the Mission
aries. The interest on $780,
200, 600, or the principal multiplied
Thousand times, would accomplish lit
Ne except along the lines of secular
Notwithstanding as respects the
worlds conversion. Nothing short of
1.-THE Kingdom of Gods dear Son" can
meet the issue.
Pastor RusselPs discourse follows:
Pastor Russsil's Hippodroms Address.
ASK Of Me and iciU gtVe Thee the
hedthen for Thine inherttaxoe. and the
Attesmost parts Of the earth for Tht pos
lDcsston Psalm ii. 8
The prophetic words, addressed by
4ehevah to his Soa, the Messiah, con-
|4nuafly required to my mind as ]
mingled VITA and observed the peoples
~ India, China, Japan and the Fhiiic-
shines during our recent Word Tour.
u hen certain Questions came before my
mind, which with their answers l will
place before you.
The first question was. Why do we
call these people heathenr They are
not barbarous, not savages, not lawless
people. Indeed, long centuries ago,
when oar forefathers were rbarians,
these had much of the civilization
which they still retain. But. / said,
we call them heather because the BIZ
Bile so refers to them Let us see how
and why the Bible uses this term and
what is its significance. In Bible
usage the word rendered "heathen' is
The same as is sometimes rendered ma
Hons and Gentiles. For centuries 1t APP
piled to all peoples outside the little
nation of Israel. because that one ma
ton had entered into Covenant-rela
tionship with God, and had become
His people, His dominion.
All the other nations, not thus relat-
ed to God by Covenant. were styled
heather; all the outside nations were
aliens, strangers and foreigners from
the Covenants and promises made to
Israel. And this same term continued
to be applicable after the coming of
Jesus. Even though the Gospel favor.
which was originally offered to the
Jews. was later thrown open to Cor
nelius and all Gentiles, or heathens,
only those vdee accepted its terms, and
came into Covenaat-relstienshi with