The Mission Field: A Monthly Record of the Proceedings of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel at home and Abroad. March 1 1888

Instead of endorsing the language of despair they may be inclined to fall in with the estimate of the Bishop of Ripon who calls the Itge “great” which has produced “martyrs and heroes in the fields of discovery and benevolence and missionary enterprise ” such for instance as “Patteson and Ilannington.” In this paper I shall endeavour to point out some of the grounds upon which the ddty of supp [...] But further the Truth of Christ was not only enshrined in the pages of a Book : it was first committed to the care of a Divine Society the Church: The Church received from the Spirit of Christ the two tresures of grace and truth but with the distinct command—and with the power from on high necessary for such an achievement—to impart them to others to go and make disciples of all nations. [...] Ignatius the Church is called " the Catholic Church.' Catholicity is the genius of the Churchi The term I am aware is not confined to the notion of geographical extent but applies also to the completeness of the Church's teaching and powers. [...] 1 cE83..1 Holy Ghost shed abroad in the hearts of the Apostles on the Day of Pentecost ; and the tongue of fire was the emblem of the instrument which He would gmploy so that the sound " of the Apostles may go into all the earth and their words unto the end of the world and of that burning love which is " strong as death " and which Jesus came to send on the earth and was " straitened " until i [...] in the highest gift of all Divine truth the Gospel which according to the command of Christ was to be preached to all nations." Moreover those who have grasped the truth about the nature of sin its malice and hatefulness will long to bring the only remedy for sin the grace of the Bedeemer within the reach of the heathen ; that they may have the power to overcome the evil which is in their