"CURIOUS PERSONS CALLED MISSIONARIES"

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 223, 14 June 1919, Page 9

" CURIOUS PERSONS CALLED MISSIONARIES"

,- Bishop.-Brent.,(of'-Iho United- Statu.3)i ..preaching, .in. Paris .recently, exjiressed the wide view of missionary work in which the Church has been so far in: advance of the political 'rulers of" the nations. : He said:—'. .'

"This Ihcovy that the whole-ot , mankind is..the business of'each of-us-is not new. a> a theory. llut until now its chief devotees were'those curious-jipr- , sons called missionaries, who overleaped the' confining'-boundaries..of nations .and tongues and. behaved • as. though mankind ■were a family. ■ But they were.not in" .high, favpiir. . They' .were supported by a'fciv, 'tolerated by some, despised, bv many, and'ignored by the rest'; Now the- world has renin to a rude awakening. Tbo missionary..principle is pro-claimed-from seats of authority ;as : beirig the only principle that men: cnii live'by. Never again can; America, revert" to.-lier petty nationalism. It is-not a mailer iif choice, biitof sheer necessity. The Sun is'shining high in , God's heaven, and-nothing can cloud it. The light ia revealing In us the whole world as oure, iiud wo enn live in.nothing smaller. The political affairs and well-being of the distn nl parts of the earth are our .concern, just as aro the 'industrial', Ih'o moral, and the-religious. • It is .only by sketching things large, by laying (he national on the., background, 'not of tile international.'but of mankind hs/tlic supreme uiiit, that our' nation can live a full-sized life." ■•'■'.<