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Title: Church at Home and Abroad, The (Jan. - June 1895)
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.
Subjects: Missions -- Periodicals
Publisher: Philadelphia : Presbyterian Board of Publication and Sabbath-School Work
Contributing Library: Presbyterian Historical Society
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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me when barriers will falldown and we can march straight into thecitadel of heathenism and superstition. This is pre-eminently true in those landsstruggling in the throes of war. Japan isgetting into the condition in which she willneed from us little more than brotherly aidand inspiration, as the Church of Christin that land takes up the work by itself, andeven pushes out into other lands with a trulymissionary zeal. The result of the present war cannot beother than beneficial to poor down-troddenKorea—a people as helpless as a wretchedhermit who is compelled to abandon hisnoisome retreat and come out in the fullblaze of a world of activity he knows noth-ing about. That simple-hearted people arepeculiarly open to the Grospel message, andwe may be assured that our energetic corpsof young missionaries with their brethren ofother denominations in that far-away landwill take advantage of the open doors and,with Gods grace, effectually win those 1805.) THE DEEPENING CONFLICT IN JAPAN. 37
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DISPENSARY—MATEEIt HOSPITAL, WEI HIEN, CHINA. children of superstition to the knowledge ofthe true God. As for China, we are overawed by the pos-sibilities that lie before the Christian Churchas it turns to this last mighty strongholdof purely heathen philosophy and religion.The proud dictators of the Middle Kingdomwho have deigned to patronize an amusedworld, are unutterably humbled. Will someChinese Constantino the Great in this modernRoman Empire fancy a cross in the sky abovesome battle field which will indicate to himthe true source of national power? And willthe intellectual and moral and spiritual wallthat girds round this conglomerate nation-ality, made up of a quarter of the humanrace, fall at once? Or has God some otherplan? We must wait and pray and get readyto follow where a mightier than Constantinomay lead us. THE DEEPENING CONFLICT IN JAPAN.The Church of Christ in Japan is a nativeorganization, Presbyterian in its polity, whichconducts its work in close fellowship and

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