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8 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. THE MISSIONARY MONTHLY CASH ON SUBSCRIPTIONS— FEBRUARY 27 TO MARCH 28, 1924 Mrs M. E. Cole $6, Bertha Cotton $5, Miss Helen Wen- gard $3.55, Inez Forman $3, Mrs Walter Hagerman $2.50, Mrs Emma Munson $2.50, Mrs Chas. 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Corresponding S e c r e t a r y .......................... Mrs. F. A . Loew Huntington, Indiana General T r e a s u r e r ................................... M rs. Effie Kanage Ashley, Indiana, R. F. D. AN EASTER SONG “ A song of sunshine through the rain, Of spring across the snow, A balm to heal the hurts of pain, A peace surpassing woe. Lift up your heads ye sorrowing ones, And be ye glad of heart, For Calvary and Easter Day, Earth’s saddest day and gladdest day, Were just one day apart. No hint or whisper stirred the air, To tell what joy should be, The sad disciples grieving there, Nor help nor hope could see. Yet all the while the glad near sun, Made ready its swift dart, And Calvary and Easter Day, Earth’s darkest day and brightest day, Were just one day apart.” Easter Day comes at the Season of the year when its full meaning is brought to our minds by the changing life about us. All nature has just awakened, as it were, from the sleep of death. Leaf and grass, flower and fern are coming forth with new life, beautiful and impressive. They are cymbolical of the resurrection of our Savior, who arose from the dead. “ He hath abolished death.” He lives, and we too shall live after death and in proportion as we go toward those things that are of service for Him, shall we know the fullness of life that He is able to give. At Easter time the dominant note is— be glad and rejoice! The changing of the dull, gray days to days of warmth and sunshine, the blossoming flowers and budding trees, all these are incentives to gladness, and on Easter morning when we speak of Christ, who is risen, we feel that in our hearts there is rejoicing. Yet we must not forget the saddest day, which lay just beyond this gladdest day. That day, so full of suffering,— such suffering as we cannot realize. The betrayal, coming from one of the chosen disciples, the denial by another, must have caused heart-breaking sorrow, even though it was given to Christ to know these things would be. For awhile, He stood alone. God, the Father seemed to have forsaken Him. The agony of the cross, which caused indescribable physical suffering weighed heavily upon Him, yet the grave did not defeat Him. He arose and revealed Himself to His friends, and we are apt to think of the joy of these hours too much to the exclusion of the sad hours preceding them. Perhaps that is His wish, yet if we remember His suffering and remember also that in the THE MISSIONARY MONTHLY world today, are millions of people who are suffering for the need of Him who suffered for the needs of the world and so allow our deepened sympathy to go out to those who need His Gospel of Love, may we not help to make the saddest day and the gladdest day for many, more than one day apart? BOOK REVIEW The first volume in the Modern Series of Missionary Biographies, h e n r y M ARTIN'— Confessor Of The Faith, by Constance E. Padwick, published by the Student Christian Movement of Great Britain and Ireland and the United Society for Missionary Study, “ meets a distinctive need, and the extremely high standard set by the first volume assures a hearty welcome for those who come.” These biographies, which are being prepared by a group of distinguished writers, aim at giving to the world of to-day a fresh interpretation and a richer understanding of the life and works of great missionaries. In a fascinating way Miss Padwick has interpreted to the men and women of this generation a life which is one of the treasurers of our spiritual heritage— Martyn, the scholar, the lover, the adventurer for God. Price$1.50. Missionary societies and leaders, as well as teachers and parents will be glad to know that the great Missionary book for the young, t h e s t o r y o f JOHN g . p a t o n (Re- vised Edition) is again available. The wonderful story of thirty years’ experience among cannibals grip the imagination, and reveals in an unforgettable way some of the worst conditions missionaries have had to meet and the power of the Gospel to work an almost miraculous change. The author of this book, Dr. James Paton, the brilliant brother of the famous missionary, wrote the original “ Story of John G. Paton,” with unusual affection and devotion to each other these brothers shared in the noble and self-sacrificing work of extending the Kingdom of God among the savage tribes of the New Hebrides. The great missionary received the news of his brother’s death in Glasgow, as he lay ill in Australia, only a month before his own departure. The revision of the book was done by A. K. Langridge, beloved friend of John G. Paton and Hon. Organizing Secretary of the John G. Paton Mission. The changes do not in the least dim the lustre of a volume that has become a missionary classic, and there has been added a deeply interesting account of Dr. Paton’s later years and death. Price $1.50. i n c h i n a n o w China’s Need And The Christian Contribution, a readable, comprehensive, and authoritative handbook, suitable both for general reading and class use, was written in China, where the author, J. C. Keyte, M. A. is minister of the Peking Union Church. It was prepared expressly for the United Council for Missionary Education in Great Britain, for use in adult classes on China and Missions. The contents a re: Part I— China’s
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