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Title: Echoes from Edinburgh, 1910; an account and interpretation of the World missionary conference
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Gairdner, W. H. T. (William Henry Temple), 1873-1928 Mott, John Raleigh, 1865-1955
Subjects: World Missionary Conference (1910 : Edinburgh)
Publisher: New York, Chicago (etc.) Fleming H. Revell company
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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e daily more convinced of the unityof their humanity:—one world, waiting, surely, for whoshall carry to it and place in its empty hands one Faith—the only thing that can ever truly and fundamentallyunite it or deeply and truly satisfy it, bringing its one INTROIT 7 human race into one Catholic Church, through themessage of the One Body and One Spirit,One Lord, one Faith, one Baptism, One God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all,and in all. Such was the vision which called together the WorldMissionary Conference of igio ; such was the visionsplendid which was seen with ever more luminousdistinctness as the Conference proceeded ; and suchis the vision which any narrative or account of the Con-ference must seek to convey to the whole Church ofJesus Christ, since on the whole Churchs welcome andobedience to the heavenly vision depends its realisation.Thus, only thus, may be fulfilled that prayer of all theages AS IN HEAVEN, SO ON EARTH,THY KINGDOM COME. IONA, July 1910.
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CHAPTER I WORLD HISTORY AND THE WORLD MISSION The part that the world-wide enterprise of Christianmissions is playing in moulding the history of the worldis already a large one, and is destined to increase moreand more. This interlacing of world-history and the world-mission is a phenomenon which, as was lately wellsaid by one in highest position, will increasinglycompel the study of the statesman and all whokeep watch on the course of the world. But ithas also another aspect. If missions help to makehistory, world-history also reacts on the world-mission,deflecting the currents of its effort, giving definiteness toits ideals, causing modifications in its methods. Justbecause it is a mission that seeks to save the world, it isnecessarily sensitive to the occurrences of the world.And when there occurs one of those rare events which,like an earthquake-shock, affects every political seismo-graph all over the earth, it follows, with equal inevitable-ness, that the whole enterprise of the

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