Missionary Register Volume 39 (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. 1851 Excerpt: ...of his power and ephemeral popularity in the year 1847; with her Emperors and Crowned Heads, and her 160 millions of devotees; and with all her " indulgences, applicable to the souls in purgatory," to be obtained by every subscriber of one halfpenny a week to her Mission Fund; did not contribute so much for the propagation of the Faith as the Dissenters of England Nay, not so much as the comparatively small fraction of the Protestants of the rest of Christendom If Missionary liberality be a mark of the true Church, then that Church is the Protestant If it be attempted to shift the comparison to the number of Missionaries employed by the Church of Rome, and the number employed by Protestant Missionary Societies, let the College of the Propaganda publish authorised lists of the agents employed in foreign lands. This has never yet been done. In the mean time, let it be remembered that the great principle of Protestant Missions is Native Agency under European superintendence. Hence our large and expensive Educational Establishments to raise up an educated class. And if all the European and Native Agents employed by the Protestant Societies be numbered, they make up a goodly company, which might probably shew a result not very different from the financial statement already alluded to. If the results of Missions be the subject of comparison, the first point to be settled is the standard of Conversion; and until this be done it is vain to attempt a comparison. Nominal conversions, compromises with idolatry, baptisms in infancy without Christian Sponsorship or instruction, form no part of the statistics of Protestant Missions. It is no difficult task to induce the worshippers of gods many and lords many to bow down before the Virgin Mary or the Crucifi...