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From: Brodnax <sto...@fo...> - 2009-09-02 19:42:59
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Are willing to become their teachers in a missionary spirit." * * * * * THE WORK OF THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION AND FOREIGN MISSIONS. BY REV. FRANK B. JENKINS. The American Missionary Association has done both home and foreign missionary work. There is nothing in its constitution or traditions to prevent its doing the same again. Providence, however, seems to indicate clearly that its work at present be within the United States. While in this sense it does home missionary work, the peculiar conditions of the people among whom it mostly labors require largely the methods of foreign missions. It must supply the school, as well as the church; industrial training as well as that which is intellectual and moral. It must create a native ministry and develop native workers of all kinds. In fact, it would be hard to find on foreign mission fields a single kind of activity which is not duplicated in the fields of the American Missionary Association. Home missions aid foreign missions by creating the conditions of more income and more missionaries for foreign fields. The work of this Association has done this already to some extent; without doubt it is to do it to a far g |