The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-07-21

ing on in ones own neighborhood.
Most persons who read have come TO
have a measurably true understanding
OF China as a whole. Africa means
more than a vague dark continent
Turkey is being understood IN It's
many and dissiLnilar component parts
Japan is nc longer a mystery. In a
word, we WesternerS are taxing q new
and somewhat intelligent interest In
all the larger affairs OF the great
world which lies outside our own
borders. In this education. Christian
missions have played a considerable
part.
The person who knows most about
the greatest number Of countries
should be the most efficient citizen OF
his own land.
In one general phrase, missionary
betterment Of the character Of back
ward peoples; and that is good news.
| Problems multiply as races draw
| closer together. The missionary en-
terprise is eve increasing in it's COM
plexity. New phases and aspects are
w developing. But the glory Of
| the situation is that the new e
| are being met with increasing skill
and resourcefulness by the various
missionary agencies Of Christendom.
The exte nsion work OF the Church
was never before 10 efficiently done.
The number of able men n women
in mission service is increasing. but
so also is their ability to measure up
to the new tasks Of the hour.
A friend, who is a Skillful artist
and photographer, is at the present
time in the far East. making moving
pictures Of mission lands and mission
work. The photographs he is taking
will be displayed all over the CONT
nent, as a new form Of missionary
education. Even the motion picture
houses are interested to secure films
dealing with this most picturesque. as
well as most beneficent form of Chris
tian enterprise. Missions make ma
terial for the movies; eve as they
make material for literature, social
service and craftsmanship.
Over in Cairo. thu 'bloody angle
OF the conflict between Christianity
and Islam, a graet Christian univer-
sity is projected. to oun out the
work of the American Mission. II
anybody kinks missions a small mat
ter, run by narrow people in petty
fashion, he needs but look at the i'm
mense n costly colleges and univer-
sites which it maintains on ~civiliza.
/, tons frontier. Great methods are
, fully employed for the great task O.
: making over the worlds present or.
der.
While there are doubtless mort
> heather in the world today than wheT
: William Carey sailed for India, OWNS
to the natural increase OF population
: it is also true that the converts t.
: Christianity are increasing in som
lands-notably in India and Korea
in something like geometriCal ratio
: There are vast mass movement to
ward the church now under way. TIL,
pagan world which a century ago helt
= almost no Christians whatever, nov
can show millions whose lives bear tn,
= New Testament marks of discipleshi]
= = to Jesus Christ.
= More than a mood or q movement
missions are a definitely a%rticulate,
organization today. Such facts a
that in China there are specia
schools for missionaries children
y and at Marking a school for trainin
= missionaries in the Chinese Ian
+" guage, indicate the magnitude an,
outreach Of foreign missions. Thi
propaganda is, in the highest sense O
= the term. big business
In the missionary meeting of a fe,
: ~ueCdueS ago persons uScd TO pray fO
the opening Of doors to the gospe
- Now all doors are open; there are s
q few regions on earth closed to tn
: free entrance Of the Christian mis-
- siOnary that they are practically nee
50 1igible. The prayer now is for
"a church wise and willing to enter tn
~ doors which God has so wonderful
e swung wide open.
he
The best thing is done in thu. be,
n way for every human being on cart
Of his personal relationship to A
oI when he is brought to a r~ealizatio
II mighty God. Out Of that conyictio
ne all the fines fruits Of character groy
It's Soma Of tho Son+b Go. 1.-
DIS ceased to be pise;on f;o,ds. 4us nay
Christianized, the product Of foreie
al missions.
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