Article February 18, 1905 Issue

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with contributions from Daniel Dorchester

We speak of pagan lands, of paganism, as of things remote, not observable from either our front or back windows,—places to send missionaries to, and to support them by contributions in labors of which we are little conscious. We speak of the missionary spirit as of a different kind of religion from any with which we are practically acquainted, perhaps as of a holier and better kind.

Then in another great class we place Christian nations, so-called Christian institutions and civilization. Christian ideals, with a self-congratulatory feeling, a certain consciousness of superiority and of virtue.

But the fact is there is no such hard and fixed line as we believe. There are pagans in Christendom, and there may be Christians in the so-called pagan lands who never heard the name of Christ. We should be as liberal as Saint Paul was, as Jesus himself, who called those who did his works his followers, and those who were not against him his friends.—The Christian Register.

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