Missionary Issues of the Twentieth Century

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Excerpt from Missionary Issues of the Twentieth Century: Papers and Addresses of the General Missionary Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Held in New Orleans April 24-30, 1901, With a Number of Maps and Charts in Illustration of the Work of Missions, the Latest Statistical Tables, and a Selec The most eloquent souvenir of a civic kind that I have ever seen is the key of the Bastile, as it hangs and rusts in the home of Washington at Mt. Vernon. The most eloquent souvenir of a religious kind which I have ever seen is the old shoemaker's hammer which William Carey, "the sanctified cobbler, " laid down when he took up the trumpet of the gospel in the Orient. The wooden handle of that hammer is still unimpaired by age, and there are men still in the flesh who were babes when William Carey began his great work. That which has occurred in the progress of this great thought, from the time in which William Carey glowed and burned as the morning star of modern missions to this day in which we meet in such an assembly, is the supreme miracle of the century. Possibly the largest religious gathering of modern times was the Ecumenical Conference on Foreign Missions held in New York City one year ago in this month. It may be that when all the streams of its influence have been measured in their results, it will be pronounced the greatest meeting since the day of Pentecost. On the first night of that meeting, when Carnegie Hall was taxed to its utmost, even to the vestibules, and hundreds were going away in disappointment, a resident of the city, himself in sympathy with the purposes of the meeting, consoled one of the disappointed comers with the assurance that the greatness of the crowd that night was due to the fact that the meeting was being opened by the President of the United States, and he kindly assured the stranger that after that evening there would be no more trouble about room. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.