Lanterna Rally

Author: Presbyterian Church In The U. S. A.

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-01-13

Total Pages: 620

ISBN-13: 9780428993290

Excerpt from The Church at Home and Abroad, 1889, Vol. 5 Rev. Edward Chester, M.D., of the Mad ras Mission of the American Board, has been feeling the pulse, as he expresses it, of the American churches. In one church not a thousand miles from Boston he was permitted to speak on missions, the church having no pastor. He was told at the close of the service that it was the first missionary sermon that had been delivered in that pul pit in fifteen years. On the whole, Dr. Chester thinks that there is a more normal pulse upon the subject of foreign mis sions than there was fifteen years ago. At that time he visited a church in Maine, where it required three quarters of an hour to persuade the pastor that it was a good thing to have a talk on foreign missions. 'he car ried his point at last because earnestly sup ported by the pastor's mother. There were several sea captains in the church who did not believe in foreign missions, and their sedative influence was supposed to be greater than it should have been with the pastor. There are still many churches on whose wrist it would be well for this beloved physician to lay his professional finger. 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.