Report of the Centenary Conference on the Protestant Missions of the World

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: MEETINGS OF MEMBERS IN SECTION. Third Session. MISSIONARY METHODS. (3) DEALING WITH SOCIAL CUSTOMS. The relation of the Missionary to national, religious, and social customs, such as (a) caste, (6) slavery, fc) polygamy, (d) Indian marriage law, etc. (Tuesday morning, June 12th, in the Lower Hall.) Albert...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: MEETINGS OF MEMBERS IN SECTION. Third Session. MISSIONARY METHODS. (3) DEALING WITH SOCIAL CUSTOMS. The relation of the Missionary to national, religious, and social customs, such as (a) caste, (6) slavery, fc) polygamy, (d) Indian marriage law, etc. (Tuesday morning, June 12th, in the Lower Hall.) Albert Spicer, Esq., in the chair. Acting Secretary, Rev. W. Stevenson, M.A. Hev. Professor Aiken, D.D. (Princeton, U.S.A.), offered prayer. The Chairman: My Christian friends, ?As I look round at this gathering this morning, and think of the many friends present who have seen years of service in the Mission-field, I confess I realise even more keenly than I have done in the thought of this meeting, the responsibility of presiding. I hold that the Chairman of a meeting like this is not called upon to traverse the whole ground which is to be occupied by those who have come to read Papers on the different subjects allotted to them. At the same time I think the Chairman is very largely responsible for giving the key-note to the after discussion, and for what we may look forward to as the happy result Sublect of a Conference like this. Our Conference this morning ofmecting. refers to the relations of the Christian Missionary to national, religious, and social customs, the aim being to turn to account the experience of the past for the improvement of the methods of Missionary enterprise in the foreign field. I should simply like to ask this question: What are the essentials to a successful Conference on such very difficult subjects as those which are to be placed before us this morning ? Need I say, in the first place, chat if this Conference is to be spint really useful, each one of us must realise the presence ofaucuision. Of our Master. We Live as...