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Published: 2015-07-12

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 9781331266419

Excerpt from Centenary Missionary Addresses: Delivered at Missionary Conferences and Elsewhere, Under the Auspices of the American Baptist Missionary Union, in the Years 1892 and 1893 The missionary conferences before which the following selected addresses were given were unique meetings. They originated in a deep conviction that if missions are to be genuinely rather than perfunctorily extended, the biblical and spiritual principles, out of which true missions spring, must be freshly and repeatedly studied. Though much employed in connection with the late endeavors of the Missionary Union to enlarge its work and increase its income, these conferences sprang from no secondary motive. They were, primarily, a call to a renewed study of the spiritual life and its practical corollaries. They afforded also an opportunity for such study and prayer as are impracticable at mere anniversary meetings. Such study and prayer we hold to be basal to any real advance in the method of extending Christ's work in the earth. Any attempt to deepen missionary zeal that overlooks the essential condition of a deepened spirituality must ever prove abortive and futile. In the range of thought and principles traversed in these numerous meetings, held in representative sections of the country, there was, of course, great variety of expression. One ringing keynote, however, characterized all the discussions. 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.