“You have made possible a beginning what now? Shall we drew back? Shall we proceed at the same speed? Shall we quicken our pace? Shan we not make an all out effort to possess the land?” Sentiments such as these taken from an article written by Missionary William Kosten of Formosa in writing about the Taiwan […]
From a missionary standpoint, Catholic Action poses a problem. The governments of younger nations are still in the infant state of free and democratic development. Political parties are numerous, and racial-religious pressure groups complicate every issue. In many of the newly independent countries it is not yet certain whether democracy as it is known in the […]
The question posed by our title is one that is being asked by very many people today. We believe they have a right to an answer, and this article seeks to make it clear what that answer is. Perhaps it would clear the air if we state first our conclusion, and then note the factors which […]
The first Protestant missionaries ever to come to Japan were mostly from the U.S.A. When they came to this strange land of Buddhists and sun-worshippers they found no Christians. Today, 100 years after their arrival, one out of every 200 persons is a Christian. I agree, one half of one per cent is a small amount. […]
PRESENT-DAY TURMOIL The continent of Africa is in deep turmoil. Revolutions, terrorism, hatred, and a rising militant nationalism are the order of the day, In fact the white man is continually being pushed out. This is often true of tho missionary as well as of business men, farmers, administrators and advisors. Fanatical religious-political groups have arisen to […]
The Reformation Translation Fellowship has been at work 12 years, seeking to extend the fruits of the Reformed faith to Chinese-speaking peoples. If its success were to be measured by comparison, in money expended or in volume of output, with other areas of human effort, we must conclude that, while it has existed, it has hardly […]
Throughout the world men and women work with the soil wherever conditions permit. Some do not produce enough food for their own families. This is true in areas in which there is not sufficient moisture, or where there is not enough warmth. Others, however, produce enough food to sell to others. They are able to sell […]
Dear Friends: We left San Francisco on Tuesday, May 24th, for Honolulu. It was good to spend a day on the Oahu Island to see the pineapples grow. We recommend that you go there and get a drink of fresh pineapple juice at the fruitstand. While on a four-hour sightseeing tour the tidal wave warnings […]
The Rev. Dr. Cornelius Van Til of Westminster Theological Seminary and Dr. Gilbert Den Dulk of the Reformed Fellowship visited Formosa for one week from May 28th to June 4th, 1960. Of this visit an observer who has been on the Island for moro than a decade remarked, “God sent Dr. Van Til to Formosa […]
It was only three and a half centuries after Brazil was discovered that the first missionaries arrived to evangelize that nation. Dr. Robert Reid Kalley, a medical missionary who had worked in Portugal, was now fleeing from a terrible religious persecution in an island called Madeira, where he was laboring. He came to Brazil in 1855 […]