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one year he had formed nine, with 741 converts; in less than three years the nine had grown to thirty, with 2,000 converts. He did his work without salary, and when the English Government offered him a position, with large compensation, he at once declined, tho his poverty was such as prevented him from taking his wife with him in his missionary tours.—, "The Miracles of Missions."

(2057)

See.

Missionary's Gallant Action—See.

Missionary's Liberation—See.

MISSIONARY TESTIMONY

Mr. Darwin was not regarded as a Christian, but he had the greatest respect for good in Christianity, and was candid enough to acknowledge it. This is the way in which he answered some shallow critics of foreign missionaries:

They forget, or will not remember, that human sacrifice and the power of an idolatrous priesthood; a system of profligacy unparalleled in any other part of the world; infanticide, a consequence of that system; bloody wars where the conquerors spared neither women nor children—that all these things have been abolished, and that dishonesty, intemperance, and licentiousness have been greatly reduced by the introduction of Christianity. For a voyager to forget these things is a base ingratitude; for should he chance to be at the point of shipwreck on some unknown coast, he will most devoutly pray that the lesson of the missionary may have extended thus far.

(2058)

F. A. McKenzie, the well-known foreign correspondent of the London Mail, says, in the London Christian World:

A stranger stopt me, one day. "I can not understand," said he, "why you, a newspaper man, should advocate missionary work; it is not your business. Why do you meddle with it?"

"I do so because I am a Christian imperialist," I replied. "The white man's civilization is the best the world has seen, and the white man's civilization is rooted in Christianity. I know that every missionary is an active campaigner, not merely for a new theology, but also for a new life, based on the foundation-stone of our civilization—the cross. I want the white man's ideas to triumph not for the glory of the whites, but for the betterment of woman-life and child-life throughout the world."

(2059)

Missionary Work—See.

Missionary Work Admired by Atheist—See .

MISSIONARY WORK AT HOME

Whitefield found himself in the presence of what seemed an urgent and overwhelming call to preach. Here were the Kingswood miners, a community ignorant, vicious, forgotten, who, beyond all others, needed the care and teaching of the Christian Church, and yet were left completely outside, not merely of its agencies, but even of its very remembrance. When Whitefield was setting out for America some wise and keen-sighted friend said to him, "If you have a mind to convert Indians, there are colliers enough in Kingswood."—, "Wesley and His Century."

(2060)

MISSIONARY WORK, VALUE OF

Belle M. Brain tells the following in her book, "The Transformation of Hawaii":

A visitor to the Hawaiian Islands a few years ago said to King Kamehameha V: "Really now, don't you think things are in a worse condition than before the advent of the missionaries?"

"I leave you to judge," answered the king. "Since you have come into my presence you have broken the ancient law of tabu in three ways. You walked into my presence instead of crawling, you crossed my shadow, you are even now sitting before me. In the old days any one of these things would have cost you your life."

(2061)

MISSIONARY ZEAL

If all Christians had the willing zeal of these poor South Sea islanders, the world would soon be converted to Christ:

On one occasion Mr. Williams explained the manner in which English Christians raised money to send the gospel to the heathen, and the natives of Raralonga exprest great regret at not having money that they might help in the same good work of causing the Word of God to grow. Mr. Williams replied: "If you have no money,