The Detroit times., 1915-05-28
(sy WILLIAM T. gLLIsJ

by WILLIAM T. ElLIs)
In the red school house OF war the
world Is today learning some new
lessons II seems es II II needed
such "A monstrous schoolmaster as
this present terrible experience TO
teach the great truths which mod
ern mankind simply must learn
After this war nobody can remain
Indifferent 10 other nations. peoples
and races. We have had the reality
OF the unity OF mankind revealed to
us Close and intricate and wonder
full f. ths bundle OF life that binds
M all MP together. our old notions
OF the near and the far, the foreign
and the familiar, have been strange.
Is jumOlCd by a war which has
touched every American cotton
field, grocery store, bank and eN
change. at the same time that II
has caused radical new operations
in Thibet. Singapore. Persia. China
mid.Afrlca and the islands OF the
South seas In all this the war has
spoken the missionary message that
We are members one of another"
For any intelligent person Ia fail TO
think In world terms today Is sim
ply ineXcusablc
There H. real danger nowadays
that the world win borrow the liv.
cry and vocabulary OF the church.
The master note ~ the new age Ia
social service. brotherhood is the
battlecry of the new freedom. From
soap boxes and curbstoncs, and cart.
tails TN thousand speakers are cry.
Ing daily. I'm the name OF socialism
OF some form or other, for realiza.
ton OF human welfare. Now what
S. all this but fresh stating OF the
old gospel message which has
burned * an unquenchahle impulse
in the heart OF the church. until she
has been constrained 20 send her
emissarics OF brotherhood into
earths darkest and remotest quar-.
tiers. az well as TO build her
asylums. hospitals homes and
schools in every Christian land W.
need 90 remind ourselves over and
over again that the supreme express.
sion OF the days social sense f. the
foreign misgon enterprise OF the
Christian church
II was an Americnntraincd Jap.
Rneses Christian, Joseph Hardy
Necslma. who sounded a missionary
skgan which is being accepted to-
.Gay as never before Let US ad.
vance upon our knees"
This extension work Of the Chris.
tan church which We call foreign
missions employs the lie and labor
OF more than twenty thousand mis-.
sionaries, and expcrds annually
about thirty million dollars There
is no better answer 10 the sheer
that Christianity Is petty thing.
and the interest OF people 81 small
callber than tho simple statement
OF the magnitude OF foreign mis-
sions. a project which Is the most
dazzling ambition that ever entered
mortal mind namely. the subiuga.
ton OF the whole world to Christs
reign
\ mistake s. made whenever the
work OF missions is separated from
lis human side, It's relation 10 indi.
vidual men and women The mis-.
slonarias are folks, like the rest of
MS. and so are the people 10 whom
they are sent. Tho personal aspect
OF missions In It's more romantic
side. is suggested by the meeting
and marriage Of young people on
thu mission field The Missionary
Survey. Of the Southern Presbyter.
Ian church, quotes these appropri-
ate lines In connection with the
marriage Of two OF its young people
in Seoul, Korea
1.-TWO shall be- born tho whole vide
world apart,
And these DER unknown seas 20 un.
known lands
Shall cross; escaping wreck and
wind and storm.
And all unconsciously shape every
act
To this one end that one day
out OF darkness they shall meet
And read HES meaning in each
others eyes.
And this is proyid ance
Two Niiri--rri} persons we're dis