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Title: Missionary Visitor, The (1916)
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: General Mission Board of the Church of the Brethren
Subjects: Church of the Brethren Priodicals Church of the Brethren- Missions
Publisher: Elgin, Ill.: Brethren Publishing House
Contributing Library: Bridgewater College, Alexander Mack Memorial Library
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t gets tothinking so. On the contrary the small-est organization of believers is a prettylarge affair. The size of a church isabsolutely dependent upon the mentalcondition of its membership. We havein mind a church that is large in num-bers but absolutely cold to missionaryappeal. Large it is in numbers, small invision, a narrowing horizon. We alsoremember another church that supportsa worker in China and plans to supportanother in India. It is numericallysmall, but who would dare attempt tosay that it is not a large church—largerthan the worldly-minded hundreds be-longing to its chilly neighbor? Greece is the only Christian statewhich denies the Scriptures in the ver-nacular of her people, the prohibitionhaving now been in force fourteen years.It is said that the two millions of pop-ulation which have passed under her rulesince the close of the Balkan War areworse off in this respect than they werewhile under Turkish rule.—MissionaryOutlook. 314 The Missionary Visitor October1916
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(The Tenyo Maru)Onthis ship our China Missionaries sailed from San Francisco. TO THE OUTWARD BOUND SOLDIERSOF THE CROSS Dearly Beloved in the Lord: I find myself greatly rejoicing that,under the blessing of God, you are onyour way to the important foreign mis-sion fields of India and China, openedand authorized by the Church of theBrethren and supported by our belovedBrotherhood. To this great field oflabor you have been called by the in-fluence of the Holy Ghost, through thechurch, by action of the Annual Con-ference and the Mission Board. Youmay rest assured that your call comesfrom God. I am a firm believer thatGod calls men and women into specialservice through His church. I have known a number who have claimed to becalled of the Lord and moved out inways not in accord with His DivineWord. By special and earnest request of theeditor of the Visitor I am giving ex-pression, in this public way, to my deepfeeling of interest in you all, as well asin those who are already out in the fi

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