Missionary Survey As An Aid To Intelligent Co-Operation In Foreign Missions eBook

Roland Allen
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 133 pages of information about Missionary Survey As An Aid To Intelligent Co-Operation In Foreign Missions.

Missionary Survey As An Aid To Intelligent Co-Operation In Foreign Missions eBook

Roland Allen
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 133 pages of information about Missionary Survey As An Aid To Intelligent Co-Operation In Foreign Missions.
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Then there is a most important work which the educational evangelist does, or might do, outside the school.  Perhaps we ought to explain this; for many supporters of missions are unfamiliar with the idea.  They think of the work of educational missionaries as necessarily bound up with schools and institutions.  A teacher without a school, or outside a school, seems to them rather like a gunner without a gun.  If an educational missionary goes on an evangelistic tour it is, they think, as an evangelist that he goes, not as an educationalist.  Yet, if we understood the work of an evangelistic educationalist, we should not think it strange to meet an educational missionary on tour, doing evangelistic educational work.  Evangelistic work is educational to the core, and it leads to educational results.  No evangelistic work amongst an illiterate, or a literate, people can be really complete, if it does not lead at once to the organisation of education amongst the converts and hearers.  The illiterate must be taught to read the Gospels, and it demands an expert in the teaching of illiterates to direct their studies; the illiterate and the literate converts alike must be taught to transform that education which they all give daily to their children, whether in the home or in a school, into Christian education, and this too demands the attention of a skilled educationalist.  This work is invaluable and most exciting and interesting work, and must produce results which, for the establishment of the Church, are almost incalculably important.  As then for the medical missionaries, so for the educationalists we ask:—­

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When we turn to the immediate evangelistic results of the education given in the station district, we labour under difficulties even greater than those which we met when we tried to formulate tables to reveal the extent to which medical missions were effective as an evangelistic agency.

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