The Need for Foreign Missions
REV. A. J. BROWN (Presbyterian) leaves not a single shred of that worn-out excuse, when he affirms: “The argument that our own land is not yet evangelized would have kept Paul and Barnabas in Antioch, would have prevented Augustine from carrying the gospel to England, would have prevented the founding of churches in our own country, and would to-day cripple every home-missionary church in the United States, since there is no other part of the United States more godless than the cities of New York, Boston, and Philadelphia. I do not mean to undervalue the importance of our work at home, but seven thousand Presbyterian ministers for our own constituency of less than five million in the United States, and two hundred and sixty-two ordained men for our foreign constituency of one hundred and fifty million, is not an equitable division.”—Missionary Review.