Mission Field
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Excerpt from Mission Field: A Monthly Record of the Proceedings of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, at Home and Abroad It is a distinct entity, expressed in the customs and institutions of the nation, gradually formed and as gradually expressed; but when once existing, presenting a far more stubborn and tenacious resistance to innovation than any single individual can do. Take for example the English national character; that is the work of causes incessantly operating upon an isolated stage for well nigh a thousand years. The institutions which it has shaped for itself are essentially Christian. They act as a bulwark to the Christianity of the nation; and would oppose a steady resistance to any anti-Christian propaganda. We put the case hypothetically; but who can doubt that they are actually doing this at the present day; that the traditions of the English Sunday, the hallowed associations of Christmas and Easter, and the manifold ways in which the system of the English Church shapes the national life of England, are among the best preservatives of the rich from the positivism of one anti-Christian teacher, and of the poor from the bold secularism of another? But then national character is a factor which is found on both sides of the equation. It is just as powerful in India or in China against the Christian religion as it is in England and similar countries for it: and it is a fact with which we have seriously to reckon in our estimate of the rate of Missionary progress. The popular complaints of the slowness of Missionary advance fail to take account of this fact, and one and all proceed upon the false assumption that the character of a heathen nation which it has taken a thousand years to form, can be appreciably changed in a decade or a generation. We say therefore that the apparent slowness with which the Gospel spreads over the masses of heathen is mainly the normal and necessary slowness with which all great transformations of sentiment on the grand scale are brought about; and that we are unreasonable in complaining as if it stood altogether still. No doubt a keener interest in Missions and a large development of Mission agency would, to a certain extent, stimulate and accelerate the work. Subject to this proviso, it appears clear that the progress of Missions, if not so rapid as eager enthusiasm would have it to be, is not on the other hand, so slow as to dishearten those who support it or who carry it on. 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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