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Title: Rising churches in non-Christian lands : lectures delivered on the College of Missions lectureship, Indianapolis; the Severance lectureship, Western Theological Seminary, Pittsburgh
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Brown, Arthur Judson, 1856-1963 Missionary Education Movement of the United States and Canada
Subjects: Missions
Publisher: New York : Presbyterian Dept. of Missionary Education
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

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d of the new forces that have beenliberated, of the purification of society, the healing ofthe sick, the education of the young, the new standardsof truth and of duty? The enlightening and philan-thropic influence of Christian missions is enormous.At the beginning of the nineteenth century an ofhcer ofthe British East India Company exclaimed: The send-ing of missionaries into our eastern possessions is themaddest, most expensive, most unwarranted projectthat was ever proposed by a lunatic enthusiasm. Atthe end of the century, the good results were so evidentthat the British Lieutenant-governor of Bengal said:Tn my judgment Christian missionaries have donemore lasting good to the people of India than all otheragencies combined. The Japan Daily Mail reported Count Okuma, thegreatest statesman of Japan, as saying, in Tokyo, atthe semi-centennial of Protestant missions: The suc-cess of Christian work in Japan can be measured bythe extent to which it has been able to infuse the Anglo- 1 I,
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GROUP OF LEPERSGROUP OF INSANE THE t^lV/ YORKPUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR, Lf=HOKTILDEN FOUNDAriQNS PRESENT STRENGTH AND INFLUENCE 107 Saxon and the Christian spirit into the nation. It hasbeen the means of putting into these fifty years anadvance equivalent to that of one hundred years.Japan has a history of 2,500 years, but only by thecoming of the West in its missionary representativesand by the spread of the gospel did the nation enterupon world-wide thoughts and world-wide work. Thisis a great result of the Christian spirit. Hundreds of similar tributes and innumerable illus-trations might be cited. Native officials are as out-spoken as foreigners in recognizing the beneficent workof Christian missions. Several Asiatic governmentshave followed the advice of missionaries in adoptingvaccination to reduce the ravages of smallpox, in pro-viding for the care of lepers, and in enforcing regu-lations for the suppression of epidemics. When pneu-monic plague broke out in northern China, the autho

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