Men and Missions

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"Men and Missions."

This is a book of 215 pages published by the Sunday School Times Company, 1831 Walnut St., Philadelphia, Pa., and written by Mr. William T. Ellis, a secular journalist, who has looked into the entire missionary enterprise, both as a principle and in practical operation. His investigations led him entirely around the world, and over the main mission fields. He critically examined every aspect of the work, and in his book has sought to give an unbiased and fair judgment upon the missionary and his labors, telling the truth as he discovered it. He gives, besides, a vivid interpretation of present world-currents, and especially the marvelous awaking of the sleeping Oriental nations from the torpor of ages, to the morning sunlight of the gospel. From the sleep of millenniums, new Korea, new Japan, new China, new India, new Turkey, new Persia, with their uncounted millions, are reaching out groping hands for some new sovereign specific that will bring peace to the hearts of their aspiring, dissatisfied people. Every fibre of their being, he points out, is a-tingle with new life:

All these varied signs of the whole world's awaking which chord so signally with the enlarging vision of the men of the Christian Church, betoken a timeliness which argues a sovereign design. Reasoning from