p. 699 | EXAMPLE BEFORE SPEECH

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 10, 1894

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 44.

EXAMPLE BEFORE SPEECH.

THE London Daily News in an article prompted by a recently published book of Mr. Edwin Hodder on "Conquests of the Cross," makes the following remarks on the influence of life and character upon the heathen:—

"Mr. Mackay, of Uganda, began as a mechanical engineer. In religious teaching, by example, no doubt, craftsmanship is the best of all helps. Mr. Mackay was a miracle worker with ax, hammer, and saw. The 'native' seems best to apprehend goodness through service. The medical missionaries who have carried out the gospel according to Sir Edwin Chadwick are said to have given the people of India something like a new moral sense. John Eliot won the American Indians, not as a preacher alone, but as a social leader and civilizer.

"Character, of course, comes before all else as an influence for good. According to Livingstone, no one ever gains much influence in Africa without purity and uprightness. The savage seems to look first at what a man is, next at what he does, and only last at what he says. In this, as in so many other respects, he is very much like his civilized brother. Wherever his brother has gone wrong, it is in taking these things out of the proper order. Heroic dying is part of this truly noble art of being and doing."—Selected.