The Detroit times., 1916-01-28
BY WILLIAM T. ELLIS.

BY WILLIAM T. ELLIS.
Not all the great men are dead.
We should look around us in the
present, as well as behind us I'm Tho
past, 10 hnd the great missionaries.
venture to say tnat TINS new gen.
GRAFTON Of workers I'm the foreign
field surpasses. as a whole. any pre-
yious generation OF missionaries, for
thoroughness ~ preparation. breath
OF view. grasp OF conditions and far
sighted efficiency Nor are they one
whit lacking IN that supreme quail
ity Of holiness which is the mission
ary's chief equipment. AS / write
these words there pass swiftly ia re-
view before M eyes long process
sion Of men and women whom per
sonally have met on the various mis-
sion fields of earth, and ind
among them characteristics Of great
ness surpassed b. none OF the mis-
sionaries OF early days.
Great tasks have a habi' OF i'm
parting their own greatness 70 the
men and women who attempt them
One time Il visited the leper sta
tion at Alahabad with the mission
airy, Mr.. Samuel Higginbotham who
has IL In charge We stayed OUT OF
doors until past noon and the rem
peraturC was one hundred and fifty
degrees IN consequence Z became
seriously I'D. But the only time MI.
Higginhotham gets for his leper
asylum work Is these between
hours when he should be resting IN
the shelter of his home Ny own
little experience. hazardous As it
was, taught ne the price that some
missionaries are paving for the
service they are doing and l am in
clined 10 include many OF these un-
distinguished missionaries OF the
present day in the role Of heroes.
Three short years were all that
Captain Allan r. Gardiner the pio.
neer missionary 20 South America.
and the founder OF the South Amer.
lean Missionary society was privi.
legged TO spend in his work I'm South
America; for il was not until lS+s
that the mission was established
and I'm 1851 he and his companion
perished from starvation in their
desperate effort 10 keep alive This
forlorn hope In the desolatc country
OF TERRA del Fuego. Yet the work
has continued, and TODAY in every
country OF South America some De-.
llgious society IS az work for the
cvangellzation Of the people.
David Livingstone. the son OF a
poor Scotch weaver was born in
Blantyre. Scotland. March 80. 1913.
Among thc names Of men OF achieve
ment Of the nineteenth century bis
stands pre-emineatly as dIscovcrer
explorer and missiouars Living
stones great work iu Africa was ez.
ploration. opening up She Iamhrs.
country from sea 20 sea and the rec
Rion around the great African lakes.
Yet IN all his work OF exploration
his one supreme object was 10 blaze
a path for the missionary work OF
the future
When Carey went TO India and
hudson tn Burma. practically all the
world was closed against foreign
missions. now. practically all t.'
world ia omen to tn,m. with the ai
bic translated into more than four
hundred languages and dialects. COW
ering the vast majority Of the peo.
PIE OF The globe.
ANY one who has looked into 'oe
face Ct John G.. Patton The Apostle
to the New Hebrides" has seen ina'
outward shining OF an Inner ire
which Is tho surest sign OF sanctity
The Transformation which Patton was
,hs means Of Erecting IN the lives
~ his dusky parishioners was
.carreiv more wonderful than me
,ransformation wrought in the mir-
slonaf,,s own person. For nearly %
yanra John q. Patton watched Chrisi
~.ort nnd worked Nth Christ, 'h
,h. New Hebrides. and proved 'he
usoros,i,on that the way % know mo
aoctr,ne f. % 90 81: that The PROOF
- cod comes in putting him to 'h'
test
xccs,mn q on" of great names
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