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Title: Christian missions and social progress; a sociological study of foreign missions
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Dennis, James S. (James Shepard), 1842-1914
Subjects: Missions Sociology, Christian
Publisher: New York, F. H. Revell
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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ssionaries, both men and women,are being sent to Formosa.^ 1 The Japan Evangelist, February, 1896, p. I73- 2 In an article written by a native Christian lady, entitled New Fields for Japa-nese Women, occurs the following paragraph, which reveals a truly Christianinstinct concerning missionary obligation: Japan as a nation has been given thenoble privilege of being the first to receive and interpret the civilization of the West.Standing at Asias gateway, the task assigned her seems to be to open her mindto Western ideas, to assimilate them, and then to give them to her sister nations ina more or less modified form. The Christian religion, like many other gifts fromthe Occident, must first be studied and reduced to its purest fundamental elementsby minds other than P^uropean before it can be comprehended by the Asiatic mind.Christianity often comes in forms too highly colored with Western modes of thoughtfor our ready appreciation. It stands to reason, therefore, that we are better able
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THE SOCIAL RESULTS OF MISSIONS 201 A glance at what missions have done for woman in Korea opens tolis a fresh and almost romantic chapter of beginnings. We are dealingwith first things in this story of brightening hopesfor Korean womanhood. In The Korean Reposi- ^ romantic chapter of 1 ^ V r brightening prospects tory for January, 1896, we nave a sketch of for Korean women. Womans Work in Korea. It opens with thestatement that those who have recently arrived can scarcely realizethe difference between the Korea of to-day and the country to whichwe came more than ten years ago. The first girls school was es-tablished by the Methodist Mission in 1886. Many difficulties andembarrassments had to be overcome in securing pupils, but the lastreport states that there are now forty-seven in attendance. In theHeathen Womans Friend for September, 1895, is an article by Mrs.M. F. Scranton, of Seoul, entitled A Social Advance. The incidentto which she refers under the above title is that at a publi

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