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Title: Church at Home and Abroad, The (July - Dec. 1898)
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.
Subjects: Missions -- Periodicals
Publisher: Philadelphia : Presbyterian Board of Publication and Sabbath-School Work
Contributing Library: Presbyterian Historical Society
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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book, we have more attention given to the literaryquality in style, form, phrase and paragraph. Intrue literature there is a sacredness. The Man-of-Letters-Hero, as Carlyle puts it, is a perpetualpriesthood from age to age. He is the Light of theWorld, guiding it like a sacred pillar of fire. He isa preacher not to this parish or that, on this day orthat, but to all men, in all times and places. Whatbuilt St. Pauls Cathedral? Was it not the divineHebrew book? So of missionary literature. Itmust not be a secretarys address, ministers ser-mon or laymens talk, all good in their place withthe fire of the living speaker behind them. Butthey will not stand cold type. Millions of inspir-ing sermons have stood being preached ; not one ina million will stand printing. When it comes tothe printed page it is the literary style, not theoratorical, that tells. Let us have one literary secretary that willimbue our missionary literature with the attractive-ness and power that have made the Bible and
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Departure of the Pilgrims from Delfshaven. Frontispiece to Griffis The Pilgrims in their Three Homes.From aii old Dutch painting owned by Geo. 11. Boughtou, by permission of S. P. Avery, Jr., New York City. 164 A MISSIONARY READING CIRCLE—A STRANGE HOUSE OF WORSHIP. (August, secular literature such a mighty influence in theworld. We have been satisfied with too mediocrework here. Our missionary secretary should be aman who knows the power of the literary art andcan wield it in telling the story of heathen conver-sions and missionary sacrifices like a Dickens couldthrill our lives with the common events of daily life.He should be a man like Charles Dudley Warner,who can scent the track of literary merit and giveus a Library of the Worlds Best MissionaryLiterature. A man understanding the beauty ofcorrect phrase and telling sentence, keen to perceivethe vital points of any experience, can portraythem for the Christian Church in language thatcharms, interests and stirs to action. Let o

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