The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1913-07-10
BY william T. Ellis.


One Of tho great travel experiences OF
earth which win be Impossible 20 years
hsnos Is to go over the route OF the
Apostle Paul In Asia Minor. Many of the
psaFes OF Paul's day, and the same old
Roman highway through the beautiful
Csciian gates which he used still per
RAPIDLY introducing the ways of the west.
and the reminders OF Paul will soon be-
sCIs extiRct. This msr experience makes
APOSTLE. His feet were ~tireless in service.
His tours covered most of the known
.gcrld Of his day. He sowed beside all
1ors today are following. The mission
airy spirit. throughout the centuries, has
been . restless. o~ut-reaehins one ant
yospel where Christ was not already
named. .Ea III
terrain missionary in Japan, Rev. DIR. A.
ID. Hall, celebrated the 18th anniversary
Of HIS service in that land The japanese
Seted and honored him on this occasion,
and he narrated early experiences In
one region all foreigners were for a time
called Hail" because the people sup.
posed that his name was descriptive or
non-Japanese, For more than o genera
ton this man has been touring. rural
Japan. n thus has established for MS
message q CO.. dial hearing and a wide
discipleshi1 which nanght can shake
rhe one way to become truly &C,
IL its rural parts. The itinerating mis-
aioneries have many advantages over
those who MI q fixed post. They under;
ssno ths WITH nsti indi hfe nss!, is Closest. The
people they meet are not commonly In
conSact with foreigners. n SO are
f Eyanseii 81 !iit tineration is the most IN
terestfng, and most directly profitable
forum Of mission work; n ".
Sailing about among the ~innumerable
islands Of the beautiful Inland Sea OF
Japan is the 'Fuluin Maru," or ''Good
Tfdings," the Baptist mission ship Of
navigator and missionary. This is q
novel method of touring. Little villages
which no other foreigners has ever
The people. mostly simple fisher folk.
thus associate Christianity and foreign
erg. This mariner messenger isows be-
aide all waters" q true pioneer OF Chris
To the comfortable stay-at-home this
touring In mission lands may sound Pic
.turesQue and romantic. But it's prosaic
ssetde IL uppermost with the. person who
experiences II. Thus, to ride on q Chi
nese wheei-barrow sounds like good run;
1 but f.iet him Jest at scars who never feit
q wound Al native Chinese inn pro-
ytdes material for the writer but its
cold and filth aud yermin and discomfort
DO not suggest literature to the one who
q experiencing them. a. Chinese house
boat locks well In photographs, but the
core bones OF one who knows the hard
and the discomfort of the opium fumes
from the compartment of ones neighbors,
IL not soothed by photographs. The mis-
and a. part OF his days work, expe-
yianccs which people I'm Christian lands
know nothing about. ~ /
we admire the great heroisms of the
Apostle Paul IN his missionary tours; but
we forget all about the Verminep. the
poor khans, the noontide heat, the dust
other minor difficuities which he endured
without mentioning.
when Miss Gaines of the HiroshIms
Girls. school in Japan the scene orrTht
Lady OF the Decoration") was visiting
among the villages back, In the interior
not ,iSng ago: she wr ran w aSross e9 3 a%9sssaei !
Sunday school, Inquiry. developed tina
the wife and mother had been converted
. years 6y 2 sermon py yn an it tSsf IN
mote village, She had prayed and Ia
bored for more than a score OF years FOL
the conversion o. her family; Nov sh.
Christian home, and doing Christian worl
IN q village where there Is no churct
ard where no missionary reg9lsSiy , Eisitss
M IL |n LNNU w MNNAEG ~ 49,
dead: and he probably never heard o
fhss fruit OF his labor. For the mission
airy on tour does not expcctsto reap from
ali his sowing
The Pauline principle Of taking tn
mesEaKe where the people are has eve
bean sound. Some English ~cathedrals-
ara one church on Broadway In Ney
York city follows this example-have pull
nita outside the walls for open al
preaching 70 those who Will not entei
Markell place gospellng has many mod
arn forrns-fumner tent work. stree
n1eetings, newspaper advertising, hote
Ynsetings, etc. The wayside ministry
never beneath the dignity of the gospt
that was first preached in the fields an
highways. Hl#
a. paul visited the mission churchst
30 today IL Is increasingly the usage 70
6ha Observation-Disclosures to be given the mis-
eion field. Most Of the non-episcopai a
nominations are establishing overseer'
vhO 70 about strengthening and coul
eniling the native churches, and keepin
fhNm in living touch wtth the entli
Ibrntherhood OF believers.
THE Tactful pon'ts.
From the Christian Herald,
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