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Title: Christian missions and social progress; a sociological study of foreign missions
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Dennis, James S. (James Shepard), 1842-1914
Subjects: Missions Christian sociology
Publisher: New York, F. H. Revell
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Princeton Theological Seminary Library

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enign touch, the spiritual discernment, the noble ideal,the moral energy, and the all-conquering element of personality socharacteristic of Christianity. It should not be claimed that they allhave been entirely powerless for good and have had no worthy moralinfluence; still less should it be asserted that they have exercised nobeneficent power in history and have had no valuable message tomankind. They represent the best philosophical, moral, and religiousproduct of the human intellect, feeling after God in the darkness ofignorance and in the uncertain light of natural religion, with whateverhelp may have been derived from the residuum of revealed truth,which has never been entirely banished or obliterated from the Gen-tile mind. They are the fruit of struggle and aspiration and of thatimperfect adjustment which the human reason is capable of accom-plishing in the realm of religious doctrine and practice. That theycontain a measure of original truth cannot be denied; but it is a truth
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Photos by Elliot and Fry, and T. C. Turner e- Co. Bp. Hodges, of Travar.core and Cochin China. Up. Tucker of Eastn Equatorial Africa. The late Bp. Parker, of Eastn Equatorial Africa. The late Bp. Hill, of Westn Equatorial Africa. Bishop Phillips. Bishop Tugwell. Bishop Oluwole. All of Western Equatorial Africa. A Gr.oup of Missionary Bishops (C. M.S.I INEFFECTUAL REMEDIES-CAUSES OF FAILURE 395 that has been misinterpreted, misapplied, overlaid with human vagaries,and prostituted to evil ends.1 The natural religious development ofman has not been in the direction of truer vision and higher attain-ment, but rather towards lower views and baser practices. How sharpis the contrast between religions of human and those of divine origin!Christianity comes as a supreme gift from God, full of truth,energy, and unfailing capacity, to change the current of religious lifein the direction of regeneration and progressiveadvancement towards a perfect individual and Christianity Gods best gift to hum

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