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fhe supreme and controlling aim of Foreign Missions is to n1ake the Lord Jesus Christ knov1n to all men as their Divine Saviour and to p,rsuade them to become His disciples; to bather these disciples :te into Christian churches vThich sr:all be self rop0'--ating, self-supporting, self-governin3; to cooperate, so long ~ s necessary, with these churches in the evangelizing f their countrymen, and in bringing to bear on all human life the spirit and principles of Christ.
HISTORICAL ST~4i.T.t.~.;Iv1ENT
The Hunan bible Institute, China department of the Bible In– stitute of Los Angeles, was founded by the late Mr. Lyman Stewart because of his firm belief in the Bible as the very Word of God, ana .. as "tl1e pov1er of God unto salvation to every o.ne that believeth 11 , and also because of his loyalty to the command of our' Lord Jesus Christ to Pree~ch the Gospel to every Creature." Mr. Stewart believed that the quickest and most effective way to reach the tkdrty-five millions of people in Hunan, and the hundreds of millions in adjoining provinces, was through consecrated and well- trained Chinese evangelists, and so one, and later two, and still . later additional bands of Chinese evangelists were organized and- sent out into unevangelized districts to proclaim the glorious messa6e of salvation in places where Christ had not yet been named. Soon the need was felt for n1ore thorough training for the evange- lists and a Bible school was started at Chan ~sha for this purpose. Miss - ionaries of various societies learning of this school asked if some of t 'heir promising young men and wo1 ..en mie;ht share in its opportunities and privileges, and so the work grew until in 1924-25, 156 men were at work in 12 evangelistic bands a d 140 students in the Bible school
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