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Publication
Richmond, VA; Texarkana, Ark-Texas: Presbyterian Committee of Publication, 1909.
Physical description
220 p.; 21 cm
Notes
From the Prefatory Note:
For years the author had been conducting a brief study of Christian missions, using such text-books as had been available. He had given lectures supplementary to the text-books he at the time was using. His lectures had grown in volume, till he found little time for interlocutory study with the class after delivering them. These lectures had all along been informed by a unifying principle--the relation of the mental grasp of the Christian system to mission work. He had been asked repeatedly to publish them. Two years ago he began to rewrite those bearing on world-wide missions, as opportunity was given' and now offers these to the Christian public, and particularly to the ministers, elders, deacons and brotherhood-workers of his own communion.
It will be found that they constitute an attempt at a philosophy of missions; and, it is hoped, that they contain a relatively small amount of unessential detail. It has been a constant aim, at any rate, to burden the memory only with the essential facts; but to stir the thought. In a word, the aim has been to introduce to the proper study of missions.
CONTENTS
LECTURE I.
God's Ordained Missionary Society; its Members; Their Obligations as Such; and the Imperative and Exclusive Nature of Those Obligations.
LECTURE II.
The New Testament Principle to Regulate the Church's Missionary Effort; and Certain Corollaries Therefrom.
LECTURE III.
Paul's Sense of His Obligation to Missions and the Way in Which He Responded to It.
LECTURE IV.
Patristic Missions : Or Christian Missions from 100 to 590; and Nestorian Missions.
LECTURE V.
Mediaeval Missions, 590 to 1517. Raymund Lull.
LECTURE VI.
Erasmus' Missionary Ideals. Roman Catholic Missions, 1517 to the Present.
LECTURE VII.
The Attitude of the Protestant and Reformed Churches Toward Missions, 1517 to 1781.
LECTURE VIII,.
The Age of Voluntary Protestant MIssionary Societies, 1781 to 1829.
LECTURE IX.
The Church Becoming Conscious of Itself as a Missionary Society, 1829 to the Present.
LECTURE X.
Some Motives to Missionary Endeavor.
For years the author had been conducting a brief study of Christian missions, using such text-books as had been available. He had given lectures supplementary to the text-books he at the time was using. His lectures had grown in volume, till he found little time for interlocutory study with the class after delivering them. These lectures had all along been informed by a unifying principle--the relation of the mental grasp of the Christian system to mission work. He had been asked repeatedly to publish them. Two years ago he began to rewrite those bearing on world-wide missions, as opportunity was given' and now offers these to the Christian public, and particularly to the ministers, elders, deacons and brotherhood-workers of his own communion.
It will be found that they constitute an attempt at a philosophy of missions; and, it is hoped, that they contain a relatively small amount of unessential detail. It has been a constant aim, at any rate, to burden the memory only with the essential facts; but to stir the thought. In a word, the aim has been to introduce to the proper study of missions.
CONTENTS
LECTURE I.
God's Ordained Missionary Society; its Members; Their Obligations as Such; and the Imperative and Exclusive Nature of Those Obligations.
LECTURE II.
The New Testament Principle to Regulate the Church's Missionary Effort; and Certain Corollaries Therefrom.
LECTURE III.
Paul's Sense of His Obligation to Missions and the Way in Which He Responded to It.
LECTURE IV.
Patristic Missions : Or Christian Missions from 100 to 590; and Nestorian Missions.
LECTURE V.
Mediaeval Missions, 590 to 1517. Raymund Lull.
LECTURE VI.
Erasmus' Missionary Ideals. Roman Catholic Missions, 1517 to the Present.
LECTURE VII.
The Attitude of the Protestant and Reformed Churches Toward Missions, 1517 to 1781.
LECTURE VIII,.
The Age of Voluntary Protestant MIssionary Societies, 1781 to 1829.
LECTURE IX.
The Church Becoming Conscious of Itself as a Missionary Society, 1829 to the Present.
LECTURE X.
Some Motives to Missionary Endeavor.