THE MISSIONARY MONTHLY - Huntington University

an ulcerated leg. A Mohammedan would not have
touched the diseased leg with a pole.
“ A religion that can do things like that” said the visitor,
“ must have more in it than we Mohammedans have
given it credit for.”
A medical mission is love in action.
THE SENSE OF THE UNITY OF LIFE
We see today that life is w"hole. We cannot save a part
and leave the rest alone. This is true of a man, a nation,
a world. Water-tight compartments are a delusion. We
sink or swim together. All must be safe, or all is in
danger. The whole of life must be right, or all is wrong.
The Christian gospel is built on this conviction of the
solidarity of human life. It appeals to the whole man
and to the whole world. It is universal or nothing. Christianity
was the first great world movement in history in
which men and women of various races worshipped and
worked together, without distinction and as a matter of
course. Wherever the church has gone on its mission it
has carried this sense of the wholeness of life, a faith
that walks through barriers of prejudice, as if they were
not there. Foreign Missions is the biggest and bravest
demonstration of the working truth of this conviction
of the unity of life which is so powerful in the heart
and mind of our time.
THE POWER OF A SOCIAL IDEAL
The world of today believes in the power that comes
through winning the loyalty of a mass of people to a
single social ideal. Men are not helplessly held by hereditary,
or forever fixed by fate. Inculcate a great idea until
it becomes a dominant conviction in a nation, a race, a
mass of men, and literally “ anything becomes possible
within a single generation.” Germany has demonstrated
this in lurid and tragic fashion. Benjamin Kidd brilliantly
proves it in “ The Science of Power.”
The Foreign Mission enterprise of the Church is built
on this conviction. It has been educational from the
start and all the way, even when it did not mean to be so.
“ The evangelization of the world in a generation” is a
daring aim, but not a foolish one. Let one generation pour
adequate resources into the evangelistic and educational
work of missions, and, as masses of men everywhere
catch the inspiration of Christian truth and the motive
of loyalty to Jesus Christ, we shall see the Kingdom of
God come with power. This new sense of the power of a
social ideal ought to give new force to the appeal of Foreign
Missions which saw and followed this truth long before
the world as a wh61e grasped its significance.— “M.
A .”
THE INSTINCT OF HUMAN SERVICE
The desire to serve is one of the strongest impulses in
modern life. Those who have no faith believe in being
helpful. Those who have faith in God see more clearly
than it has ever been seen before, that that faith must be
justified by service of man. Social service is a keynote
of modern religion.
But it has long been a keynote of Foreign Missions.
The Church began its work in foreign lands as an enterprise
purely evangelistic in character. It must always
remain primarily an evangelistic effort. But from the
outset and all along the Foreign Missionary enterprise has
been among the best examples on earth of real social service.
Every mission compound is a social settlement.
Every missionary finds himself constrained by Christian
love to all varieties of service. Our missions are centers
of progress in education, medical care, treatment of un­
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fortunates, agriculture, forestry, famine relief and prevention,
and all else that lifts human life to a higher
level. William Carey, founder of modern Missions, engaged
in the manufacture of indigo, made the best type
and paper in India, published a newspaper, laid out an
experimental garden and founded the “ Agricultural and
Horticultural Society in India.” He began the movement
for care of lepers, abolition of widow burning and infanticide,
and the abatement of other social evils.
There is no greater or better humanitarian work in the
world, no finer social service, than the regular working
of Christian missions' in all lands. Done in the name of
Christ, it is the more effective. The Church should glory
in this fact and see the growth and extension of the
social influence of its missions evidence that they are becoming
more truly representatives of the spirit of the
Master and more effective in advancing the real Kingdom
of God on earth.— “M. A.”
GOOD TIDINGS
There were 43,265 more pupils in the public schools
of the Philippines in 1923 than in the preceding year.
Japan claims a high literacy rate for her people.
It is said that ninety per cent of them are able to read.
The Council of the League of Nations has voiced its
purpose to wage war on the international opium traffic.
Korean Christians give liberally to the Lord. Their
average contribution is said to be $3.70 per year while
their average income is only about $36.
The sale of Bibles for Christmas gifts is reported to
have increased, while there is a decrease in the whisky
flasks, cigarette holders, and similar articles sold.
The European Student Relief, by means of the Student
Friendship Fund, will this year provide assistance to
students of nineteen nations suffering the aftermath of
war.
An investigation by the Department of Labor shows
that more churches than amusement places were built
in 1922 in communities of 25,000 or more.
Mayor Arthur E. Nelson of St. Paul, Minnesota, advises
other mayors “ If you have a chief of police who is not
enforcing the laws to the limit, get another.” Mayor
Nelson recently forced the retirement of the head of
St. Paul Police because the chief was not in sympathy
with the prohibition law7.
More than one-half of the 750 freshmen at the University
of North Carolina are working their way through
college. The boys who earn their way during their college
course almost invariably make good in after life.
Milton S. Hershey, the multi-millionaire chocolate manufacturer,
who has just dedicated sixty million dollars to
the maintenance of an industrial school for boys, declares
that he found wealth only after he had changed his aim
from material riches to service.
Wayne B. Wheeler, counsel for the Anti-Saloon League,
is author for the statement that four years of national
prohibition have saved 873,000 lives and have added
$1,000,000,000 to savings accounts.
The student council of Pennsylvania State College has
unanimously adopted a resolution of protest against violations
of the prohibition law, and advocates total abstinence
as a duty of good citizenship.