The Dawn of the Modern Mission (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.1887 Excerpt: ... PREFATORY NOTE. The following Lectures were delivered in connection with the Duff Missionary Lectureship in Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Aberdeen, during the years 1884-1886. The Author, writing to the Secretary of the Duff Trustees in 1884, to ask an extension of time for their preparation, said: --"What I chose was to show Christianity in contact with the various heathen religions among which it has been placed by our modern Missions. This involves, of course, the endeavour to exhibit the characteristics of at least the more distinct heathen religions of our Founded by Mr. W. Pirie Duff as residuary legatee of his father, the Rev. Alexander Duff, D.D., the subject being Foreign Missions, or a cognate subject. Professor Thomas Smith was the first lecturer, Dr. Stevenson the second. time; what they had come to be when the Gospel touched them, and the character of life and conduct which had grown up with them in the countries'where they prevailed or prevail. "An interest gathers around the first contact that is felt in no other; and I proposed, therefore, though the treatment would be slight, to deal at this point with the more striking origins of our Missions of to-day (this word, however, covering two centuries) and with the story of their founders. "Having prepared the way, I proposed to show what effect the contact thus established had produced already upon the thought and conduct and elevation of the peoples--of each people--and to show what reason there was for believing in far larger changes to come. "And I proposed also to gather together from this survey, such hints, lessons, and encouragements as would serve for guidance and stimulus in the missionwork of the future. "Many minor questions, of course, must be taken up in the way--e.g., the difference be...