The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-07-26

6T WILLIAM '. z GGlO
Certain Did. words are being inter.
preted more largely nowadays. Time
WAS when some persons declared
themselves In favor OF eVangeliAuc
missions. bur opposed 90 medical
missions Now We see that IN Very
real altho broad sense. medical and
educational missions are evanEelis'
tic. They interpret the religion oi
Jesus 20 communities and nation.
Their ministry mirrors the mind az
the Master They are actually toll.
Ing the story In comprehensive
terms 10 muititudes who never hear
the Gospel from the lips OF min
sionary,
The Great Physician surely counts
as in the true line Of succession TO
Himself all who Real the sick, give
eight 10 the blind and bind up othe
wounds OF the hurt in body
On the mission nold. as every
where else, Christianity has TO do
with men who work. In some lands,
notably in India, the missionaries
have had TO train their converts up
into new forms OF seli.support Re.
1ected from their old relationships
because they have become Chris
tians. those natives have 20 BE-
taught other industries. Thus Il a
that In India especially there are
great many industrial missions,
some OF which are almost selfsur
porting.
The lace-msking of Armenia.
China, India. japan and Korea
immense industries, which nov shp.
port tens Of thousands OF person
was taught 10 the natives by. mis-
rionaries, Protestant and Roman
Catholic. This II but one instancH
OF the Introduction OF new vocations
BY the representatives OF the Gospel
Nothing can take the place OF al.
turing men 10 new life by the proc
lamation OF the Story. The only sure
way OF making over this old earth.
with It's complex sins and problems,
is 10 win men TO personal salvation
In Jesus Christ.
Turnout China they have built
many educational establishments.
they have attracted into these cduca
tional establishments the men of the
student class. and there they hnve
taught them the great truths that
We believe some have been con
verified. some h4lf converted. some
have merely admired Christianity
from the outside. hut II IS by them
that China has been influenced
with one or two exceptions. such ~
ST.. stephens college ~ Hong Kons,
and the London Mission college az
Tien-tsin. We must allow that The
great bulk OF educational establish
inents are American and that The
greatest missionary work that hns
been done I'm modern times, the
work ty which China has been
changed from being an Oppressive
and heather autocracy to an en-
llghtened modern nation, had been
done by American modern energy
and American money. The new
China has been made in America:
that great. massive power that must
influence the whole industrial his.
tory OF the world draws most ~ It's
inspiratIons from the American
trained students. and II Ia not with
out meaning that in choosing a new
system OF government under the In
nuence OF these students China pre-
ferred a president TO a king.
After all the other aspects OF mis-.
sions have been recounted. II still
remains true that not the vast edu
cational or medical or literary or IN.
dustrial or exploration or political
achievements or missions are the
greatest work ~ Christianiiy's for
eign propaganda The work OF
works. the crown az crowns, cf
Christian missions has been In lead
ing myriads OF individual men. won.
en- and children into the new life
that IL In Jesus Christ. Missions
bear 20 the non Christian world tho
gift Of salvation. They preach the
Cospal Of rAdanDtion An elaa thai