Lectures on medical missions : delivered at the instance of the Edinburgh Medical Missionary Society.

Date:
1849
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    the frown of His displeasure, began to decline, and hide itself amidst the storms of wrathful controversy, or sink beneath a gloomy horizon, laden with freez- ing rites and soul-withering forms. The Church never wholly decayed. God has never left Himself without a witness. She waxed and waned as her Missionary efforts did. In the Protestant Church of this land, at the close of the Reformation era— the Reformation itself intrinsically a grand evange- listic movement—it seemed as if the very windows of heaven had then opened, and the showers of grace had descended in an inundation of spiritual gifts and graces—converting the parched lands into pools of water, and the barren wilderness into gar- dens that bloomed and blossomed as the rose. And yet that same Church afterwards became a poor, torpid, shrunken, shrivelled thing; having under- gone the blight and mildew of Jehovah's displea- sure, on account of a neglected and unfaithful stew- ardship. In these, our own times, there has been a marked revival in Evangelical Christendom ; and, parallel with that, there has been as marked a re- vival of Missionary enterprise. Let the Church be but steadfast now in this as in her other high functions, and she need not fear a fall. Let her nobly resolve to assume the entire Evangelistic character, and implement the Divine condition of
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