Identifier: christianmissi01denn (find matches)
Title: Christian missions and social progress; a sociological study of foreign missions
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Dennis, James S. (James Shepard), 1842-1914
Subjects: Missions Christian sociology
Publisher: New York, F. H. Revell
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Princeton Theological Seminary Library

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aroused thehostility and treachery which lurk in his natural heart. There is nogood Indian but a regenerate one is the more kindly testimony of themissionary. Lieutenant W. H. Wassell, in Harpers Magazine forNovember, 1894, gives abundant testimony to confirm the truth ofthis happier verdict concerning the once barbarous and bloody Sioux.A few facts here, and only a few, can be quoted, gathered at randomfrom fresh missionary testimony in widely separated fields, as revealingthe power of Christianity at the present hour to transform the moralcharacter not only of individuals, but of whole communities. In November, 1894, on the east coast of Formosa, a sailing vesselwas slowly drifting landward in a dangerous sea. On the shore, faceto face with the doomed vessel, were a mission chapel and a village ofChristian converts, the fruit of the missionary toils of Dr. G. L. MacKay,of the Canadian Presbyterian Church. The native pastor, Mr. A-Hoa, 1 Records of Shanghai Conference, 1877, p. 103.
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Day School Bahia, Brazil. Mackenzie College, Sao Paulo, Brazil Educational Efforts in South Amerk(P. B. F. M. \.i CHRISTIANITY THE SOCIAL HOPE OE THE NATIONS 413 Dr. Mac Kays first convert on the island, hastily beat the drum as ifto call the villagers to worship, but his object was to gather them allfor the work of rescue. Some of them were sentto the ship through the heavy sea to let the crew Some representative facts gathered from know that there were no savages and that if they recent reports, wished to come ashore there was a Christian chapelwhich would be placed at their disposal. The captain, his wife andchild, and the entire ships crew were safely housed in that place ofrefuge, and before the close of the day twenty-one Europeans andAmericans met one hundred and forty-six native converts for a serviceof thanksgiving and worship in that house of prayer. Note well,says Dr. MacKay in reporting this incident, that twenty-five yearsago that crew would have been murdered, the vessel

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