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Title: The churches at work
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: White, Charles Lincoln, 1863-1941
Subjects: Home missions Missions -- United States Church work
Publisher: New York, Missionary education movement of the United States and Canada
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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uded in the ministry of Christian agencies that willwork for their redemption. The Conquest of Superstition. If the Mormons areto be reached with the gospel of Christ, new methodsmust be determined. The efforts of the Mormons toconvert Christians to their faith seem, at the presenttime, to be stronger than those of the Christians to con-vert the Mormons to their belief. And yet, nearly everymissionary and church in Utah and in the several otherstates where these people are living in large numbershave reported converts from among them. But aggres-sive, continuous work should be attempted, and con-crete, popular literature created in order that the truthof Christ may be realized by those upon whom thedarkness of a dense superstition has fallen. What the Long Future Must Bring. Will there bean amalgamation of the various white races? Onehundred years from now is it not possible that a Presi-dent of the United States may have a foreign name?Perhaps it will end in vitch and belong to a man
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TYPE OF JAPANESE IMMIGRANTS. SEATTLE. WASHINGTON BRAR? THE CHURCH IN THE NATION 159 who can trace his ancestry along his maternal andpaternal lines through twenty nationalities which haveflowed together in the racial interminglings in Amer-ica. And yet, may not this President be an earnestChristian whose mother brought him up to fear theLord and led him early to the sanctuary ? Such a manwill take strong ground as a devoted Christian inWashington and everywhere. In his veins may flowthe blood of nearly all the European peoples, each ofwhich has helped to strengthen his life. May notGod produce such a man by processes that only Amer-ica can provide? St. Paul said at Athens that God made of one everynation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth,having determined their appointed seasons, and thebounds of their habitation; that they should seek God.if haply they might feel after him and find him, thoughhe is not far from each one of us. In America itwould seem that the process is re

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