THE MISSIONARY MONTHLY - Huntington University

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THE NEED OF RECOVERY OF THE SPIRITUAL
The value of spiritual motives is realized not only in
the Church, but by educators, statesmen and leaders on
every line. Somehow we must recover emphasis on the
spiritual, on ideals, lost so largely in our dazzling material
progress.
The President of the Republic of China, in a recent address,
expressed the judgment that western civilization,
being essentially materialistic, could not offer to his country
a true remedy for its ills, or right guidance in its
progress. W e believe that western civilization is not
essentially materialistic; that its vigor is rooted in spiritual
faiths and ideals. How can we better disprove such
charges and commend our civilization as worthy and noble
than by sending men and women of the best type to teach
and exemplify the faith by which we live? That means
that our American Foreign Missionary enterprise is one
of the most patriotic, far-sighted and effective ways of
serving the cause of the world’s advancement and civilization.—
“ M. A .”
“ MISSIONARY AMMUNITION”
TH E TRUE M ISSIO N ARY CONSCIOUSNESS
Professor William Adam Brown
New York City
You cannot have a social Christianity in China and an
individualistic Christianity at home— not permanently,
that is. You cannot say Japan ought to treat China unselfishly,
care for the welfare o f the young girls in its
cotton factories, and make place for the teaching of religion
in its schools and yet allow America to make national
selfishness the controlling principle of its foreign policy,
treat disputes between capital and labor as private quarrels
between individual groups, and divorce the teaching
of the churches on Sunday from the practice of their
members on the other six days of the week.
This missionary consciousness, then, that we wish to
develop is something much bigger than a belief in foreign
missions. It is the belief that Christian principles ought
to be consistently applied in all human relations beginning
with those which lie nearest ourselves. The man who believes
this and acts accordingly has the missionary consciousness.—
International Review of Missions._
THE PRIMARY MOTIVE IN MISSIONS
By the late Dr. George Robson
Edinburgh
One of the mysteries of the ancient world was the source
of the river Nile. That mighty river, with its periodic
overflow fertilizing the rainless land of Egypt, was
worshipped with wonder, all the greater that no one could
tell the secret of its rise and fall. Down even into the
literature of the last century you find references to the
mystery of its birth. But now that mystery has been
unveiled. The p rim a ry sources of that wonderful river
have been found in those giant mountains on the line of
the equator, whose snow-clad summits pierce the heavens',
untrodden by human foot, and for the most part hidden
in haze from human sight. To find the primary motive
in missions, we must in like manner trace them back to
their primary source. The deep in the awful need of the
world has called to the deep in the infinite heart of God;
and there, unveiled to our view by His Word, we find the
primary source of the whole missionary enterprise, its
primary motive from beginning to end, “ God so loved the
world, that He gave His only-begotten Son, that whosoever
believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting
life.” The love of God— there is the well-head
of missions.
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