The Foreign Missionary

Tore off their raiment, and with frothing jaws
Defiled their Christian bodies: wast Thou by?

"What had they wrought to merit such despite ?

Had they not wrought Thy will for all men's good?
Their feet, for Thine, had threaded reeking lanes

Of alien cities, seeking out the lost.

They said, 'They are the Shepherd's wandered ones.'
Their hands, for Thine, had healed whom others spurned,
Counting it joy to lay their palms, for Thine,

On the foul outcast, deeming him brother to Thee.
Their lips, for Thee, o'ercame the alien speech,
That they, for Thine, might voice Thy words of life
Which mend the sorrows and the sins of men.

Is it for this that they are done to death,
And down past death to loss of human form?

And when they perished, Master, where wast Thou?

"Or speak they truth who limit Thine intent
To the white nations of the happy West
And shut Thy mercy off from half the world,
Counting but fools who for no gain of gold
Lead lives laborious under Asian skies,
Vexing the simple Pagan with strange creeds?
Has then Thy pity bounds, and may it be
That all the yellow races live and die
Beyond the healing shadow of Thy cross?

When Thou commandedst, Into all the world!'
Didst Thou intend a narrower world than ours?
When on that Mount of Vision Thou didst see
The kingdoms of the world, and undertake
To win them by Thy sorrow, may it be
These coasts were sunk in mists beyond Thy ken,
Beyond Thy heart's horizon and Thy hope?
Or art Thou weary of a wicked world

Which swings so slowly sunward from its night?
Or have the ages sapped Thine ancient strength?
Or has Thy covenant lapsed with lapse of years?
Hast Thou kept faith, Thou Man of Galilee'?
So spake one in a bitterness of soul

That life so fair should fall to death so foul.

"Hush, child!' He chode, smiling thro' face of tears,

For when was furnace heated sevenfold
For one of Mine, but through its roaring flame,
Albeit unseen, there walked the Son of God?
Was I beside them, merely! Gave I not
A word of closer comfort to Mine own?
Upon their feet I walked those Sodom streets
To bring My fallen brothers back to God.
My hands in theirs, by couch of mortal pain,
Brought solace and the healing touch of love,
Thro' their hearts,

Wide with the wide compassion of the Cross,
I gave to all My pity and My love;

I lived in them and laboured, and was glad
And grieved in them, and in them suffered pain,
And thro' death's deepest shadow died in them.
Was I but by them, when that yelping pack

Tore down their lives to death! The rabble's gibes
Found target in My heart. The brutal blows
That rained upon them spent their force on Me.
Again, as in Mine own Gethsemane,

I bowed Myself in them to shadow of death,
Holding a bitter cup that might not pass.

The blood which crimsoned them was holy blood
Of the slain Christ,'

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Shall nourish healing herbs and trees of life
For earth re-paradised.'

"Ay, Master, ay;

But they for tears of whom those lilies blow,
Shall they behold them? They above whose dust
The Sabbath bells shall ring shall never hear

The minster's music.'

"Then there came

A voice that fell from starry silences;

So long as men shall live and die in Him,
They living in Him die but to toil and tears,
They dying in Him to undreamed glories live
That shall outlast the stars.'

"And one saw them walking close with Him
In festal robes beyond the sunrise fair
And dowered with the beauty of the Lord.
And thus He led them up the smiling streets
Thronged for their triumph, to the Sapphire Throne,
To bring them to the presence of the King.
And all the Holy Ones who bade them hail
Said

Blessed are the dead in whom He died!
They died, and live in him forever more.
From all their toils for Him they rest in Him,
And all their works for Him do follow them.'

"And one who heard and saw was comforted." 1

1 The striking poem from which these extracts have been quoted was written by the Rev. Charles K. Harrington, D. D., a Baptist missionary at Yokahoma, Japan, and was first published in The Japan Mail, December 15, 1905.

ACCIDENTS, 159, 160
Accountants, 54.

Index

Addresses, missionary, 219 sq., 230
Adherents, number of, 7

Administration, missionary, 44 sq.;
cost of, 55 sq.

Africa, 84, 110, 122, 127, 147, 148,
149, 150, 152, 158, 160, 172,
205, 260, 264, 276, 284, 319,
335, 338, 384

Age of candidates, 69, 78
Agents, business, 70; native, 36-
39, 42, 60, 103, 256, 291 sq., 305-
318

Agricultural schools, 70
Aim, 29 sq., 296, 310 sq.
Alexander, The Rev. Dr. George,
302

Allen, James Lane, 377, 386
America, 265, 268, 276, 280
American Board, 48, 49, 169
Amusements, 242
Ancestors, 286

Anglo-Saxons, early, 346

Anti-foreign feeling, 260 sq., 295,
296, 328

Antioch, Church of, 68, 224, 337
Ants, 357, 358
Apostles, 20

Applications, 76, 80 sq.
Appointments, 67 sq.

Appropriations, see Grants
Architecture, 281, 282
Armenians, 332

Armstrong, Gen. S. C., 247
Asia, 260, 264, 265 sq.; Asiatics,
260 sq., 265, 280

Assembly, Presbyterian General,
46, 48, 49, 300, 313, 314, 316,
317

Assignments, 81, 82, 89, 90
Associates, 362, 363

Astronomy, 172

Beds, 275

Bible, 27, 32, 103 sq., 183 sq., 265,
267, 304

Bible societies, 105

Bible translations, see Translations
Biographies, 164

Bird, Rev. Wm., 194

Bishop, Mrs. Isabella Bird, 235,
327, 397
Bishops, 48, 90

Blind, school for, 325

Boards, 44 sq., 67, 134, 197 sq.,
249-251, 278, 295, 296, 308,
311, 312, 317, 319, 329, 336,
337
Bookkeeping, 78

Books, 103, 104, 162 sq., 264, 292
Boston, churches in, 335, 336
Bovaird, Dr. David, Jr., 157
Bowels, diseases of, 155, 156
Boxer Uprising, 328, 333
Boycott, American, 266
Brahmans, 117, 170

Brainerd, David, 193, 233
Brazil, church in, 300, 302
Brinkley, Captain Frank, 321
Brockman, Mr. F. S., 292, 305
Brooks, Sidney, 342
Brotherhood of man, 15, 18, 22
Brown, Nathan, 373
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 19,
174, 180, 393

Browning, Robert, 118, 195
Bryan, Hon. Wm. J., 265, 270,

327

Bryant, Wm. Cullen, 173
Bryce, Hon. James, 244, 288
Buckley, Rev. Dr. James M., 52
Buddhists and Buddhism, 21, 103,
105, 117, 286, 346
Buildings, 324
Burma, 83, 128, 391
Burns, Robert, 283
Business agents, 70
Butterflies, 172

CALHOUN, REV. SIMEON H., 194
Call, to missionary service, 79
Calls of natives, 273
Calvert, James, 193
Cameron, Miss Donaldina, 371
Candidates, 67 sq.

Canterbury, Archbishop of, 223
Canton, 324, 325, 372

Carey, William, 30, 84, 190, 233
Carlyle, Thomas, 177, 192, 193,
283

Carroll, Dr. James, 153
Carroll, Rev. Dr. H. C., 308
Caste, 125, 189

Catechumens, 109, 112

Cathartics, 156, 157-159

Celibacy, see Marriage
Cess-pools, 151

Chairs, 275

Chalmers, Rev. Dr. James, 375
Chang Chih-tung, Viceroy, 280,
345

Chapel-preaching, 111, 112

Charity, 246, 247, 253, 254, 282,
283, 290

Chatterjee, Rev. Dr. K. C., 305,
306, 308
Chefoo, 111, 136, 173

Chesnut, Dr. Eleanor, 377, 399 sq.
Chester, Rev. Dr. S. H., 60
Chicago, churches in, 335, 336
Children, 76, 77, 99, 100, 110, 119,
124, 273, 274, 275, 339, 341,
363 sq.

China, 113, 116, 122, 125, 128,
147, 151, 167, 168, 170, 173,
204, 264, 266, 270, 280, 286,
292, 330, 336, 347, 365, 366,
368, 390; Church in, 305, 352
Chinese, 26, 27, 45, 105, 260, 265,
267, 272, 273, 275, 276, 277,
294, 295, 299, 328-330, 332,
333, 343, 345, 346, 367
Cholera, 356, 377
Christ, 13-21, 22, 26, 28, 29, 33,

34, 93; a missionary, III; com-
passion of, 17; example of, 289,
290; miracles of healing, 106;
quoted, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21,
31, 368, 386, 395
Christianity, effects of, 14, 23, 24,
25, 39, 40; for all, 15, 17-21,
42, 346; how to be presented,
21, 29-33, 34
Christianization, 34
Christians, American, 299 sq.; Eu-

ropean, 299 sq.; native, 33, 36,
38 sq., 89, 95, 98, 109, 299 sq.,
327, 328, 333, 340, 341, 351 sq.,
387

Church, 13, 19, 20; apostolic, 42,
233, 302; home, 19, 20, 37, 44,
45, 46, 47, 48, 57, 113, 135, 201,
202, 214, 215, 216sq., 218, 219-
234, 293, 299 sq., 334 sq., 352;
native, 33 sq., 38-43, 109, 112,
234, 250, 251, 291 sq., 299-318;
of England, 48
Cisterns, 154

Civilization, 22-24, 25, 26, 29, 32,
33, 38, 338, 340, 344, 390;
Western, 126, 129

Clarke, Rev. Dr. Wm. N., 45, 46,
51, 64, 65, 227

Climate, 68, 89, 146, 149, 160, 239,
356, 362, 377

Clothing, 121, 145, 151, 152, 275,
276, 280, 283

Coan, Rev. Titus, 172

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