you have something that takes the place of money; something to buy money with"; he then referred to the pigs that he had brought to the island on his first visit, and which had so increased that every family possest them; and he suggested that, if every family in the island would set apart a pig for causing the Word of God to grow, and, when the ships came, would sell the pigs for money, a large offering might be raised. The natives were delighted with the idea, and the next morning the squeaking of the pigs, which were receiving the "mark of the Lord" in their ears, was heard from one end of the settlement to the other.—Pierson, "The Miracles of Missions."
(2062)
See Courage, Christian.
MISSIONS
Carlyle, in his life of Cromwell, says that
he ranks the foreign missionary and his
convert with the greatest heroes in history.
It is in his story of Kapiolani. These Christian
teachers in the South Seas brought the
queen to faith in God, and to the new ideas
of home, school, government and social
progress. But the people still worshiped the
gods whose home was in the crater, whose
column of fire was on the sky. So the missionary
and the queen told the people that
they would dare the native god. They made
their way to the foot of the mountain. The
people shrieked, wept, implored, but these
two walked bravely on. They stood on the
edge of the crater, breathing the sulfurous
gases. The queen hurled stones into the
abyss and shouted her threats and denials.
When they came down, in safety, superstition
was dead. Carlyle says that a Christian
missionary slew a cult in that hour, and
that the event will always rank in history
with Elijah at Baal and the Christian convert
who cut down the sacred oak of Thor
for Germany. But foreign missions have
produced scores of heroes and heroines like
these. The history of missions is a sky
that is ablaze with light that will shine forever
and forever.—N. D. Hillis.
(2063)
See Advice to Missionaries
Atheist's Gift to Missions.
Barbarism.
Bible Fruit.
Bible, Testimony to.
Calls and Conveyances in the East.
Catholic Foreign Missions.
Child Religion, Changes Wrought by.
Christianity, Practical Proof of.
Confessions.
Conversion.
Christian Honesty.
Cruel Greed.
Cruelty, Chinese.
Death-bed Faith.
Deceit with God.
Demonology.
Diplomat, A, and Missions.
Embellishment of Preaching.
Enlightenment.
Expectorating.
Faith and Support.
False Inference.
Fidelity, Christian.
Following Christ.
Functions and Gifts in the East.
Gestures and Use of Hands in the East.
Harvest from Early Sowing.
Heathen Receptiveness.
Heathendom.
Husband and Wife, Relations Between.
Ignorance.
Ignorance, Palliations of.
Impression by Practise.
Inadequacy of Non-Christian Religions.
India, Medical Opportunities in.
Intelligence Outdoing Ignorance.
Investment Return.
Knowledge Comparative.
Living the Gospel.
Medical Missions.
Miracles, Evidential Value of.
Persistence in Missionaries.
Prayer for Common Needs.
Proof.
Propriety.
Propriety, Observing the Rules of.
Rapport.
Religions Contrasted.
Religious Infractions of Propriety.
Rescue.
Reservation.
Reward, Thousandfold.
Sabbath, Observing the.
Sacrifice.
Shut-in Missionary Work.
Song, Effective.
Speech and Missionaries.
Statesman on Missions.
Surgery in Korea.
Tabooed Topics in the East.
Testimony Indisputable.
Way, The Right.
MISSIONS A SUCCESS
The Christian Century says there are yet a
few intellectual provincials that scoff at the
missionary enterprise, but their ignorance is
