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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