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"Except for minor editorial changes the pamphlet is identical with the address that Mrs. Buck delivered before a large audience of Presbyterian women at New York City on December 2, 1932. That address, containing as it did sharp criticism and analysis of Christian missions and a clear call for a higher type of missionary, attracted wide attention. It is to supply a demand from supporters of missions and from missionaries in all parts of the world that the address is now issued in this form."--Jacket flap
After 57 years of service involving Asia, Africa and Latin America, a veteran missionary is calling for a reformation in the way foreign missionary work is done. Bob Finley advocates the withdrawal of all American missionaries from foreign countries, and recommends supporting indigenous missions instead. He contends that there is no precedent formodern missions in the New Testament, no mention of apostles going to work in foreign countries, or anyone else being sent to serve where he did not know the local language.This book is a must read for pastors,missions committee members, professors of missions, and all other Christians who are interested in foreign missionary activities of American evangelicals.
Excerpt from The Case for Foreign Missions But one day Peter had a vision'which altered his point of. View. He' passed a lonely, meditative 'hour upon a house top hard by the sea, and when he came down from that housetop he 'had a new conception of his relation to us. He was given to know in a vision, that there were no realities corresponding to the boundary lines by which his world washedged about. He learned what men have had to relearn in every successive generation that any division between man and man is both arbitrary and artificial. The'middle wall of partition between Jew and Gentile, so high and so long standing, proved to bea fiction' and a falsehood. And Peter said, or a truth I percelve that God 'is no 'respecter/ of persons: But in every nation-he that feareth him and worketh/righteous ness is accepted with him. That was a far reaching dis covery. It meant ultimatelihristianity for us savages in Britain. For after Peter cam-e Paul preaching the peculiar religionsof a chosen'hpeople to the Gentile world. And eventually, after (paul, came Augustine. Of Canter bury, the (firsttmlss1onary to England. My forefathers were so far from being the'original recipients Of the gos pel, that Christianity was nearly six hundred years old and had run clean through its first great cycle of history, before they knew there was such a thing. Paul, Ignatius, Justin, Irenaeus, Clement, Athanas1us and Augustine had come and done theirwork andgone and we were still our unsuspecting and untroubled savagery. Not merely had the Fathers finished, however imperfectly, the tre mendous task ofwelding the mind of the old class1cal. World to the mind of Christ, but the ecclesiastics, from Cyprian to [gregory the Great had transmuted the con tagious spontaneity of Apostolic Christianity. Into the or ganized efficiency of the Catholic Church. It is much the fashion in these days to deplore the history (of these cen turies as a history of degeneration, the long, sad record of. The secularization of the gospel. And, truly, 'there was much unholy compromise. But the plain and simple fact still remains that out of these first centuries of re adjustment came thatraggressive institution with its res olute dogmatism, which by deliberate and definite for eign missions made Northern and Western Europenominally if not actually Christian. We are not dealing in the history of the early Church any more than in the history of contemporary Christian civilization, with an actual realization of that absolute ideal1sm, that doctrine of perfection which is the gospel of Jesus Christ. We are dealing, then as now, with those tendencies, those half realized ideals, those feebly followed purposes, those desires and inclinations which give to a society a right to be called Christian rather than pagan. And it was the Church, working consciously through foreign missions, which made the Middle Ages, those pregnant centuries from which finally issued our modern world, potentially Christian rather than actually barbarian. 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.
Excerpt from The Why and How of Foreign Missions The first edition of this book was prepared in 1908 in compliance with a request of the Young People's Missionary Movement for a succinct statement of the modern foreign missionary enterprise for busy people and mission study classes. About sixty thousand copies have been sold and many hundreds of mission study classes and summer conferences have used it in their courses. As the demand continues and as recent events have made many changes, not only in statistics but in problems and, to some extent at least, in points of view, this revised edition has been prepared. The design is to present the motives that prompt to foreign missionary effort, the objects that are sought, the methods of handling funds, the kind of persons appointed, the work that they are doing, the difficulties they encounter, the spirit they manifest, and the changing world conditions caused not only by the religious but by the political, commercial, and intellectual movements of our age and by the World War. Those who are familiar with the author's larger book, The Foreign Missionary (Revell), will note that some of the material for this book has been taken from that volume. 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.