The International Missionary Union
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Excerpt from The International Missionary Union: Report of the Twenty-Third Annual Conference, 1906 The Story of the Conference. I. M. U. It is like nothing in the heavens above, or the earth beneath, or the waters under the earth." Some college friend once said to a fellow student of missionary birth, "How is it that you missionary boys always seem to know each other. It seems to make no difference whether you come from the Sandwich Islands, China, India, Turkey or Africa, you are at once as familiar as if you had known each other all your lives." "It is one of the privileges of the missionary birthright," was the answer; Nowhere is that birthright realized more fully than at these conferences. Distinctions of denomination and even of field are largely forgotten, are certainly never emphasized. One missionary said that, for all he could see, all present might belong to the American Baptist Missionary Union, and that was the only hint of his church connection. All are one in the great work. Another feature is the quiet, unobtrusive, yet constantly apparent confidence in the success of the mission enterprise. There is no exuberance of enthusiasm, yet many a heart thrilled and many an eye moistened as one and another told of the victories of the "conquering Christ," and no more radiantly happy people could be found than the company of twenty-two who gathered on the platform at the farewell meeting and told of their hope for return to the field, with a semi-humorous reference to the "martyrs" who had to stay at home. Closely connected with this was the manifest faith to the native Christians as the chosen means for completing the great work of evangelizing these lands. That the missionary must decrease while the native pastor should increase was regarded not merely as inevitable, but greatly to be desired. The "decrease" did not, however, mean that the work of the missionary was done, or would be done, for many a year to come, but merely that it was changing from initiative to assistance. It was the existence of these features that made those present feel very strongly the value of the Conference to those who were going out for the first time, and occasioned one of the resolutions asking the Foreign Missions Boards, so far as possible, to encourage the attendance of their new missionaries. The story of the sessions can best be told by the detailed report which follows. Certain general facts, however, call for special mention. The devotional hour under the care of J. Campbell White, was a most helpful commencement of the day´s work, emphasizing as it did Biblical study in its various phases, while the "Quiet Hour," Sunday morning was led by Rev. H. F. LaFlamme. The recognition service, the basis of many pleasant acquaintanceships and its survey of the broad fields, furnished a fitting introduction to the sessions, while the memorial service, in its re calling of tender memories and joyous recognition of work done and victory achieved, seemed to bring the absent ones into closer fellowship. The general plan of the sessions included the presentation, first of the distinctively evangelistic work, then of the broader relations of the missionary enterprise. 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
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