Educational Missions

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1913 Excerpt: ... Educational Missions CHAPTER I PLACE, STANDING AND GROWTH Educational missions constitute a part of the great enterprise, in which Divine and human forces cooperate, for world evangelization and world Christianization. In seeking first of all to estimate their character, we must consider their relation to the other parts of the whole undertaking. Educational missions is in reality a misnomer, if we mean by the term the establishment and propagation of educational work and educational institutions in mission countries, separate and apart from the methods and purposes of evangelization. The term. educational missions has come to be used with much frequency to express a particular phase of mission work. We use also the terms medical missions and evangelistic missions, each standing for a particular idea and method of work, or, to put it in another way, representing a department of missionary work. We err, however, if we assume that these departments are separate one from another, without vital relations between them. t- For relation of education to evangelism, see Hamlin's Among the Turks, Chapter XVIII.! For place of education in missionary enterprise, see Bliss' The I Missionary Enterprise, Chapter XI. 'See also Mott's Strategic Points in the World's Conquest, pp. 96-98. 4 All of these so-called missions, or departments, are but parts of a single, united whole, with only one definite, clear-cut object in view, the permanent establishment of the Kingdom of God in the lands to which the missionaries go. No one of these departments could survive isolation from evangelization for any length of time. An educational work could be carried on as a separated effort, as could also a medical or industrial work, but it could hardly be called missions i...