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THE K I N G ' S B U S I N E S S workers. As married or engaged they will n atu rally (and m issionaries are ju st men and women, however devoted) be much occupied w ith one another, and so have less tim e for converse and counsel w ith older workers. Most engaged couples (I was engaged for a couple ol years!) spend a good deal of tim e w rit ing to, thinking of, and praying for one another. Could not the tim e during th e first two or th ree years be spent more profitably? 4. I t unduly Increases Expenses and T ries F aith . Unmarried w orkers’ expenses are far ligh ter w ith regard to servants, etc., etc., as they have no sep arate establish ments to keep up. Many in th e home lands do not realize th a t Europeans in the tropics cannot cook, wash clothes, chop wood, carry w ater, etc. Even ii they could it would be unsound economy so to do, when you calculate th e value of th eir tim e and the comparative cheap ness of labor. F u rth e r, is it wise th a t those ju st stepping ou t in the life of faith should be thu s tested? ' The addi tional expense is great, and should th ere
be children, expenses multiply. They may be willing! But, as in o th er life, is it not well th a t there should be a time for grow th before heavy burdens are shouldered? 5. I t Increases th e Difficulty of Ac commodation. It is no easier fo r two fam ilies to live in one house in th e foreign field th an at home; as a m atter of fact far harder. In the foreign field you are thrown en tirely on one another* for company; at home you can pick your companions. Proverbs 25:17 still holds good. Sepa rate bungalows are usually necessary. In conclusion, a word about excep tional cases. At a conference I attended it was agreed th a t, except under excep tional circumstances, a certain procedure should not be perm itted. One attending said to me th a t he agreed w ith the find ing, “b u t,” said he, “all my cases are exceptional!” This is th e danger. The above particularly applies to con ditions in India, and in some points may not hold good for o th er countries. Yours in His service, WM. C. IRVINE. not already come. A fine article— ap parently quite im partial— appeared in a recent number of th e N orth American, th e well-known review published at Philadelphia. Speaking as a man of the world, th e w riter felt th a t, while he was dealing w ith things in which he took no part, yet th ere could be no ques tion of th e vast importance of the phe nomenon now appearing to every student, i. e., th a t all differences were being cemented so th a t Anglican, Metho dist, Baptist could all work together w ithout difficulty from th e denom ina tional point of view; bu t th a t a
Ms? i&y Cleavage Among Missionaries
—-What Liberalism Does to Our Foreign Work
9RTHUR T. UPTON, Nile Mis- 1 sion, Cairo, Egypt, recently w rote to th e editor of one of lo u r exchanges as follows:
Dear Sir,—A recent le tte r in th e Rec ord from the Rev. H. C. Burrough, a m issionary in Tunis, says: “Face to face w ith superstition and unbelief, one m ust have a firm hold on the Infallible Christ and th e Infallible Bible or else— pack up and re tu rn home. It is on these points th a t a cleavage is bound to come, not only at home, but on the m is sion field.” The only possible rem ark is a query as to whether the cleavage has
FOOD FOR THOUGHT. (See Page 261)
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