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The Missionary Review of the World Volume 14

The Missionary Review of the World Volume 14

Sherwood, James Manning

Paperback

General World History

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ISBN10: 1231274131
ISBN13: 9781231274132
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 534
Weight: 2.08
Height: 1.08 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
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. 1891 Excerpt: ... billions of wealth in their hands--an amount so great that it staggers our mathematics to compute it. Yet the highest estimate of their gifts for foreign missions which we have heard is twenty-five cents per head annually. Shall we invite all our churches to look at their little sister, the United Bsethren, to whom we have just referred, and humble themselves? We can present a more startling contrast than even this. China reports 32,000 native Christians, who gave, year before last, $38,000 for missionary work. Thus the Church of China, out of her deep poverty, gives annually more than one dollar per member for the same sacred object on which the billionaire Church of America bestows twenty-five cents per member!' Now, how shall we restore the element of sacrifice to our missionary giving, and so lift our contributions out of the shameful parsimony which now characterizes them? 1. We must begin with ourselves, and set apart weekly a fixed proportion of our income, and hold it sacred to the Lord. When the Hebrew brought his gift to lay it on the altar it was his; but when he had withdrawn his hand from it it was God's; and thereafter it would have been an unpardonable sacrilege to have devoted it to common uses. Christians will never give as they onght until they begin to keep two purses--one for their own necessary expenses, and one for the Lord's work--from the latter of which they would no more draw for their own use than they would purloin from their neighbor's pocket. 2. We must so increase the proportion and frequency of our Church contributions that it shall be seen that we regard missions as our principal business, not as an outside charity. We have constantly maintained that a church should at least raise as much annually for missions ...

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