The American Missionary — Volume 32, No. 12, December, 1878 — John Shaqi
The American Missionary — Volume 32, No. 12, December, 1878Various
Religion
The American Missionary — Volume 32, No. 12, December, 1878
Various
Congregational churches -- Missions -- Periodicals; Home missions -- Periodicals
passed through the thick and peril of opposition of every sort,
and taken by the hand the despised Mongolian, against whom so many
scowling faces were set, and so many angry hands raised, and called
him “Brother,” claiming kinship, and tendering the richest offices
of help. For this, especially, the constituency of this Association
should say to its management: “Vastly well done.” The old banner under
which the Society was organized is still “full high advanced.” It is
no small honor in these degenerate times to find men who are faithful
to their trust at any cost.
But more than this, it is believed that in this department the
Association is doing germinal work. The few early ears that have
ripened for our encouragement are types and prophecies of a greater
coming harvest. In any other view of the matter the religion of the
Gospel is spiritual class legislation. It is suited to the needs of
the few and not the many. The Cross loses its power under the shadow
of the Great Wall; and men scorn, as well they may, such a deduction
as that; they are shut up to the only other possible conclusion, that
the school, the mission work, the unfolded Word, will effect in the
Pacific Coast, and among the Chinese immigrants, just what it effects
here and among us. And, therefore, we say to the Association that its
high mission in this hour is to push its work. Let it turn a deaf ear
to all pleadings to stay its hand, however plausible those pleadings
may be, and from whatever quarter they may come. Let it distrust the
shallow expedients of so-called statesmen, who are even shallower than
their expedients. Let it give no heed to the unreasoning taunts and
empty rage of Communism, but push its work; secure in the fact that
back of its efforts is the intelligent Christian public sentiment of
the land; and still more encouraged by the greater fact, that the God
who has made of one blood all nations, and provided one Gospel for all
men, is saying with an emphasis that cannot be mistaken, “Go forward!”
REV. E. S. ATWOOD.
REV. G. R. W. SCOTT.
The report was discussed by Rev. E. S. Atwood, Rev. Jesse H. Jones, of
North Abington, Rev. Geo. E. Freeman, of Abington, Rev. A. P. Marvin,
of Lancaster, Rev. S. H. Emery, of Taunton, and Col. Amos Tappan, of
Ipswich. The report was accepted, and the resolution adopted.
Rev. Geo. A. Oviatt gave the report in behalf of the committee on the
“Work of the Association in Africa” as follows:
Your Committee on so much of the report of the Executive Committee
as relates to the Mendi Mission in Africa, beg leave to submit the
following:
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