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The Duty of Foreign Missions

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Jan 24, 1884

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 4.

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The Duty of Foreign Missions

REV. PHILLIPS BROOKS says: “Some of you are saying in your hearts, ‘There are heathen enough at home. Let us convert them before we go to China.’ That plea we all know, and I think it sounds more cheap and more shameful every year. What can be more shameful than to make the imperfection of our Christianity at home an excuse for not doing our work abroad. It is as shameless as it is shameful. It pleads for exemption and indulgence, on the ground of its own neglect and sin. It is like the murderer of his father asking the judge to have pity upon his orphanhood. Even those who make such a plea feel, I think, how unheroic it is.”