The Missionary Review of the World Volume 30 (Paperback)

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. 1907 Excerpt: ...Without the personal observation which gives peculiar weight to warning words, we feel it important to lay the facts, forced upon our attention, before all devout students of the Word of God and observers of the signs of the times. YOUR MISSION If we can not be the watchman, Standing high on Zion's wall, Pointing out the path to heaven, Offering life and peace to all; With our prayers, and with our bounties We can do what heaven demands; We can be, like Aaron, Holding up the prophet's hands. Do not, then, stand idly waiting For some greater work to do, For time is a lazy goddess--She will never come to you. Go and toil in any vineyard. Do not fear to do or dare; If you want a field of labor You can find it anywhere.--ELLEN GA BY REV. JAMES S. GAL Author of " Korean Sketch In Pyeng-Yang, Korea, there lives a man called Keel, whose name means "Auspicious." He is blind when he walks out, tho he can see a little with the book close before his eyes. His external history reads, "Once he could see but now is blind," while, strange to say, he puts it, "Once I was blind but now I see." As he feels his way about, led by his son, or some other lad, he is the picture of helplessness, and we might reasonably ask, what place of service could such a poor blind Korean possibly fill? Keel's voice is soft, with a touch of far North accent, and is most pleasant to the ear. Keel is nearly forty years of age. Brought up in a heathen home where they prayed to spirits of the dead, where they worshiped the hills, where diseases were handled, hugged, and propitiated, where eternal darkness as to things spiritual reigned supreme, what should he know of God? Early in life, however, he got it into his tangled head that there must be a Great Being som...