This pastor knows how to do it. Other wise pastors will mention the best missionary books; they will see that their people know of the latest missionary literature.—F. P. Haggard, "Student Volunteer Movement," 1906.
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MISSIONARY MARTYRDOM
A convert from Islam took advantage of
the Ameer's visit to Kandahar and crossed
the frontier, unbidden and uninvited, to
preach Christianity in Afghanistan. He was
arrested, taken before the Ameer, and sent in
chains to Kabul, but was murdered before
reaching there. He was named Abdul
Karim, and was at one time one of the
workers at Bannu. Mrs. Pennell wrote that
when he was taken prisoner and refused to
repeat the "Kalima," saying he was a Christian,
he was taken to Kandahar. The Ameer
questioned him, and on his again refusing to
repeat the "Kalima," and saying he had come
to preach the gospel, he was ordered to be
flogged, put in chains, and to be taken to
Kabul, where he was to await the return of
the Ameer, and unless he changed his mind
would get due punishment.
Heavily chained hand and foot, he set out with an escort for Kabul; that at the villages he was spat upon, and the hairs of his beard pulled out—and at length the poor, weary sufferer, at a village before reaching Kabul, was murdered. (Text.)
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Missionary Power—See God in Missions.
MISSIONARY PRAYER
The late Joseph Cook is the author of this prayer in verse for the spread and triumph of God's kingdom:
One field the wheeling world,
Vast furrows open lie;
Broadcast let seed be hurled
By us before we die.
Winds, east or west,
Let no tares fall;
Wide waft the best;
God winnow all.
Heaven hath a single sun,
All gates swing open wide;
All lands at last are one,
And seas no more divide.
In every zone,
Arise and shine;
Earth's only throne,
Our God, be Thine.
On every desert rain,
Make green earth's flintiest sands;
Above the land and main
Reveal Thy pierced hands.
Thy cross heaven wins;
Lift it on high;
And in his sins
Let no man die.
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Missionary Preaching—See Text, Power of a.
MISSIONARY RESULTS
Charles Darwin, the scientist, described the
Terra Del Fuegans as the most degraded
specimens of humanity he had ever seen. He
considered them beyond the reach of civilization.
The missionaries carried the gospel
to them, and Darwin, seeing the change
wrought, said with great frankness and
willing publicity, "Truly the missionary's
message is a magician's wand."
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Rev. Egerton R. Young, a missionary among the Indians of Canada, tells of an obdurate old man whose heart had been touched by the missionary whose ministrations had brought his child back to health:
He attended an open-air meeting standing
at first a quarter of a mile off. At the next
meeting he drew a bit nearer, then nearer
still. Six weeks later he was among the
circle kneeling at the foot of the cross,
making his confession. "Missionary," he
said, "I was a fool, but now I have got the
moss out of my ears, and the sand out of
my eyes, and I see clearly, and I hear all
right. I am so glad I came."
Was it not of such scenes as these that the prophet was thinking when he wrote, "The eyes of the blind shall be opened and the ears of the deaf unstopt." (Text.)
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See Evil Turned to Good.
MISSIONARY SACRIFICE
San Quala was one of the first converts
among the degraded Karens. From the
lowest state the gospel raised him, with a
rapidity that no civilization ever knew, to a
noble Christian manhood. His first impulse
was to tell others of Jesus. He helped to
translate the Bible into the Karen tongue,
for fifteen years guided the missionaries
through the jungles, and then himself began
to preach and to plant new churches. In
