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Coles Missions From the Modern View (Classic Reprint) at Bayshore Shopping Centre in Ottawa, ON
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Excerpt from Missions From the Modern View The lectures following contribute to the solution of a problem at once intricate and fascinating. That problem is the readjustment of missionary ideals and methods to the modern state of knowledge. To admit the need of read justment in the field of missions is to place that field in the same honorable category with every other field of lofty human enterprise. Readjustment means growth, progress, aug mentation of power, as the effects of increased knowledge and experience. It would be mis taken loyalty to great leaders of the past to contend that their successors in work must occupy the same point of view and practice the same methods. The great leaders of the past, could they speak to us, would protest against such well-meant but erroneous conservatism. They themselves were prophets, gazing beyond the things they saw, and testifying beforetime of a better day to come after them. William Carey, of Serampore, was a statesman and a prophet. None can stand in his library, or look upon his buildings on the river bank, or trace the outline of his missionary policy with out realizing that his mind anticipated and. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from Missions From the Modern View The lectures following contribute to the solution of a problem at once intricate and fascinating. That problem is the readjustment of missionary ideals and methods to the modern state of knowledge. To admit the need of read justment in the field of missions is to place that field in the same honorable category with every other field of lofty human enterprise. Readjustment means growth, progress, aug mentation of power, as the effects of increased knowledge and experience. It would be mis taken loyalty to great leaders of the past to contend that their successors in work must occupy the same point of view and practice the same methods. The great leaders of the past, could they speak to us, would protest against such well-meant but erroneous conservatism. They themselves were prophets, gazing beyond the things they saw, and testifying beforetime of a better day to come after them. William Carey, of Serampore, was a statesman and a prophet. None can stand in his library, or look upon his buildings on the river bank, or trace the outline of his missionary policy with out realizing that his mind anticipated and. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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