The College and the College Man in Foreign Missionary Achievement (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The College and the College Man in Foreign Missionary Achievement The careful student of the history of missions is deeply impressed with the uncommon service of the college to this great cause. Only a brief survey can here be attempted. We note: I. The college has been the birthplace and the nursery of foreign missionary movements. Christian societies of students have played a most important part in modern church history. This company needs only to be reminded of the Holy Club of Oxford, and to contemplate its far-reaching missionary consequences. John Wesley, the leader of that club, gave us the phrase which has become the missionary platform of the church - "The world is my parish." The "haystack prayer meeting" was held by a group of Williams College students, composed of Samuel J. Mills, James Richards, Francis L. Robbins, and Byram Green. They wrought a revolution in the religious life of the college and developed a missionary spirit which brought into existence the American Board of Foreign Missions, the first organized foreign missionary society in America. This "haystack prayer meeting" also originated a missionary movement, pronounced by Dr. McCosh the most remarkable since Pentecost. Mills went from Williams to Andover, where his zeal influenced not only his former classmates at Williams but also graduates of Yale, Harvard, Brown, and Union. In 1898 a band of five Yale students devoted a year to work among young people´s societies, visiting seventy cities. One of these was John Lawrence Thurston, of Yale (´98), who later went to China and became the founder of the Changsha Mission. Brownell Gage, of Yale (´98), and his wife went out in 1904. and later Warren B. Seabury, of the class of 1900, Edward H. Hume, of ´97, and William J. Hart, of ´05. They have a medical mission, with dispensary and hospital, and a general school with thirty pupils. All these arc but types of work which has from time to time been projected by college bands and college graduates. About eighteen years ago in Japan two student bands formed in extreme parts of the empire - one at Sapporo Agricultural College, the other at a boys´ school in Kumamoto. The former developed into a church; and a world observer has said that the city of Sapporo is more thoroughly permeated with Christianity than any other city he saw in Asia. The Kumamoto band entered Doshisha, then recently founded by Joseph Neesima, an Amherst graduate and the missionary apostle of Japan, and by the splendid scholarship of its members established Christianity in the confidence of the Japanese. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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