WITH CHRIST IN INDOCHINA - IndoChina1911

WITH CHRIST IN INDOCHINA
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
W
HEN the pioneer missionary finds himself in
a land where teeming multitudes have no
knowledge of Christ or His gospel, no Christian
background whatever, he realizes how hopeless it
is to expect to lift such people from their spiritual
darkness and moral degradation by teaching them a
new philosophy or a new religion. They have their
own philosophy, and they consider it better than that
of the foreigner. They are needy, but they are satisfied.
They are spiritually dead, but they do not
know it. They need not only to hear about the light;
they must see it, and it is the missionary's privilege
to point them to the One who is the Light of the
world.
Our Lord said, "Go ye into all the world and
preach the gospel." But He never said to go alone;
He accompanied the command with this promise,
"Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the
world." The commission is not just to go and tell
them about Jesus. It is to go with Him to the people
who sit in darkness, and introduce Him to them. He
will reveal Himself as the "new and living Way"
whereby man may approach God, and, being cleansed
from all sin through the sacrifice of Calvary, may
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