And this gospel obtains the day of overcoming for which we plead and pray.  For tho an angel from heaven had any other, men do not respond; the charisma rests on no other message.  Possest of it, and possessing it, under the covenant of heaven and led by the Shepherd and Bishop of souls, we shall go forth determined to give it place in us and in our presentations as never before.  May nothing mar the solemn splendor of such a message from God unto men.  Let us subordinate our undue intellectualism and place our boasted freedom under restraints, so that the evangel may be preached without reserve and with abandon.  “For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, himself man, Christ Jesus, who gave himself a ransom for all.”

Such in one grand passage is the creed that breathes the very life and spirit of the most significant and overwhelming missionary period in the history of the Christian Church.

There is a new day due in missions because of the immense superiority in missionary methods.  The personnel of our administrations has been superb, and of nearly all the honored servants of God who have labored in domestic and foreign departments it could be said, “Thou hast loved righteousness and hated iniquity.”  But I presume these seasoned veterans would be the first to show us how the whole conception of propagandism has been readapted, and its vehicles of communication multiplied in various directions.  The onfall and sally of the earler evangelistic campaigns are now aided by the investment and siege of educational and medical work.

The trackways of a policy embedded in the wider interpretation of the gospel are laid and the new era takes shape before our comprehension.  Travel, exploration, and commerce have demanded and obtained the Lusitania on the sea; the railroad from the Cape to Cairo on the land, and they have left no spot of earth untrodden, no map obscure, no mart unvisited.  Keeping step with this stately and unprecedented development, and often anticipating it, the widening frontiers of our missionary kingdom have demonstrated again and again how the Church can make a bridal of the earth and sky, linking the lowliest needs to the loftiest truths.  And best of all in respect of methods is the dispersal of our native egotism.  We have come to see that the types of Christianity in Europe and America are perhaps aboriginal for us, but can not be transplanted to other shores.  “Manifest destiny” is a phrase that sits down when Japan and China wake up.  Not thus can Jesus be robbed of the fruits of His passion in any branch of the human family.  We are to plant and water, labor in faith, and die in hope, scattering the seed of the gospel in the hearts of these brothers of regions outside.  But God will ordain their harvests as it pleaseth Him.  What will be the joy of that harvest?  Throw your imagination across this new century, and as it dies and gives place to its successor, review