Show The Ups and Downs of Foreign Missions Mis-sions The foreign missionary movement like every great continuous enterprise has Its times of prosperity and enthusiasm enthusi-asm and its seasons of hardship and upathy Unquestionably tho cause has I in recent years lacked something of the undoubting loyalty and ardor of sup I port which the churches were giving It fifteen or twenty years ago The lea sons are numerous and wo shall not attempt to make a catalogue of them Commerce and exploration have been opening up the Aslatlo and African con tinents In a most Unexampled fashion nod tho Western world fcus Invaded missionary ground with a Tiundrod dif ferent objects and crosspurposes In the uneasy transitional stiUe In which the great masses of Oriental populations popula-tions now find themselves t Is Illilcult to estimate the relative I jrtltlon and value of missionary work Moreover missionary methods have been to a large extent experimental Jill chang Ing conditions have mad requlslte somo new points of view afid nome altered al-tered modes of approach The careless assumption however that foreign missionary mis-sionary work In general hills been ri dlculously barren of results is not In the least justified The statistics of native na-tive churches established nod of converts con-verts enrolled form the finallcst port of the evidence that tho jeasoliable outside observer would father In missionary mis-sionary fields Medical mlialons and hospitals have had most xtruoi iii nary success and Christian educational Institutions In-stitutions primary collegiate and professional pro-fessional are accompllsnlng wonders In the Turkish empire In Japan In In dia and notably in China It Is not every missionary sent to the foreign field who has the tact and adaptability to gain the largest Influence among the natives But even where missionaries are somewhat lacking In mental qualities quali-ties and In winning manners they al most invariably gain the contidence or tho communities where they loUte by reason of the dally example they set of high personal character of devoted family life and of kindness and good neighborship From The ProgiebS of the World In the September Review of Reviews |