One Hundred Sixteenth Annual Report
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Excerpt from One Hundred Sixteenth Annual Report: Board of Home Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America The Board of Home Missions has shared the experience of all Christian causes in a year of tragedy. The world´s tragedy has always been the Church´s opportunity. Everything Christian has had its responsibility deepened and its field widened by the outbreak of the world war. Such a tragedy does not put Christianity on trial before the world, for the world is not qualified to sit in judgment on it; but it does put Christians and their Church on trial before their Lord. They cannot be acquitted unless every impulse to help that would stir the Christ stirs them. The stress and distress through which mankind has been passing since August, 1914, has made the maintenance of pure and undefiled religion a more serious and responsible duty than ever it has been before. During the year America has been drawn into the vortex; and from now on she must bear a heavy share of the burden, and steel herself to the sacrifice and anguish that go with war. The Presbyterian Church has responded with all her historic unreserve to the call of patriotism and humanity. She could not do otherwise. The principles for which America is fighting are in her blood. They are a part of her heritage, and to shrink from the challenge thrown down by pagan materialism would be to repudiate both her history and her faith. She has not done so. Her sons were among the first to leap to the battle the instant the country called, and her Boards and Commissions and Agencies have withheld no effort that would serve the national cause. Home Missions and War Service The Board of Home Missions, by virtue of its character as an American agency, and in obedience to its essential purpose, at once sought to adjust itself to the war necessities of the country. It realized at the outset that there is a vast patriotic service which only the Church can perform, and girded itself to perform this service in the fields assigned to it. These, of course, are the remote fields of both the Church and the Nation. So the Board early organized movements to reach, in the interests of the national cause, two classes of remote men - the physically remote and the spiritually remote. Included among the physically remote is the farmer, scattered over the plains of the Southwest and the Northwest. 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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