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222 Our Yiews of Mission Work.trust should be promptly executed in due must show some suoh reaulta as the following:time before a Turkish tribunal, making the 1. Every native member received should,corporate body of the church at home the le- from tbe first, according to the measure ofgal owner of the property.ability, and there ia always some ability, be3. The law ot domicile ahould be used aa made a working member of the churoh. Infar as possible in the prosecution of our mis- Turkey especially, the natives need to learnsion work. This principle ot international law tbat in Christian hives there are to be nolias a most important application to our work drones. However little any one may be ablein Turkey. No part of that law ia more zeal-to do, it ahould be made sura tbat that littleously guarded. To secure the in lalculable is done. Eaeh convert should be made toadvantages of the law of domicile, tbe misaion underatand that whosoever receives the combuildingmuat be a domicUe in fact. It may fort and joy of the gospel ia under obligationbe more, but it must be that onu at least, of to labor to maka othera partakers of the sameour American missionaries must live in it. If bleaaioga. Careful instruction in the duty ofns American reaidea in it, or if only a native, honeat toU ia needed for thia. Chriatlans musta subject ofthe Turkish goverument, haa his work, and have to give of the fruits of theirdomicile there, it may be entered by the authoritiesat pleasure, and serious interruption the worda of the Lord Jeaua, " It ia moreown works, tbat they may know the truth ofof the work will be the result. But let an blessed to give than to receive." All who areAmerican subjeot have hia residence in the employed in any department of mission laborbuilding, and it ia most sacredly guarded by should be marked examples for other nativeathe law of doinioile.of the grace of liberality. If but little pecuniarymeans can be given, there can be III. The third teat query regards the or­timeganization and employment of native help. Aaerious objection urgfd againat Chriatian missionsis that tbey encourage weak and childlikedependence of iiativea on outside aid. Andthere is no little danger of affording occasionspent in helping forward the miaaion cause.Wise mission management wUl look after reanltsin giving and working from all who arereceived into the memberahip of the ohurch.2. Native evangeliata, properly qualifiedfor this objection, particularly iu tbe infancy and duly lioenaed aa preachers of the goapel,of a mission. The only sure way of avoiding ahould be aent out in aa large numbers and aatie evili-i by early and assiduous training in aoon as possible. Even before licensure wulltrainedaelf-aupport. Indeed, there can be no truenatives may do muoh evangeliatlo work.aucceas in inissioDary work unleaa it results intbe establishment of self-sustaicing congregations,But formal licensure clothes them with authority,secures for them a larger measure ofwhicb iu turn become miaaion workera respect, intensifies their own sease of respon­with tbeir influe»jce extending to othera. Any sibility, and thus greatly inoreaaea their infludrawamiasion must be counted a failure wbich simply ence for good.its reaources trom the churob at home, 3. Mission statious should be organized,and uses these from year toyear in trainiug up and tbese should be developed into oongregaalarger or smaller foice of subordinates to tions with native elders and deacons. Orhanglike so many dependencies on ber supportingganization is essential to effective work. Iso'arm. If answers to tbis third ques­lated memliers of the churob, or memberation are to be aatlafaotory in any dagree, they loosely aaaooiated, will do little. Organize