Identifier: echoesfromedinbu00gair (find matches)
Title: Echoes from Edinburgh, 1910; an account and interpretation of the World missionary conference
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Gairdner, W. H. T. (William Henry Temple), 1873-1928 Mott, John Raleigh, 1865-1955
Subjects: World Missionary Conference (1910 : Edinburgh)
Publisher: New York, Chicago (etc.) Fleming H. Revell company
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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e, face pale and bleached, bare-sandalledfeet; one of a band which, with the spirit andmethod that derive from Assisi, preaches the Gospelof service in the endless plains and villages of NorthernIndia to-day. Chiefest among chiefs, a venerable figure,in whom length of service, golden wisdom of counsel,pre-eminence of reputation, marked him the Nestor ofthat Council of Leaders, Principal William Miller ofMadras ; as he was led slowly to the dais, with tardy stepsand darkening vision, not Nestor himself was everawaited with more respect to give his counsel to themustered leaders of the Greeks. 8. But possibly the most interesting, certainly by far themost significant figures of all, were those of the Orientaland African delegates, yellow, brown, or black in race,that were scattered among the delegates in that WorldConference. For not only by their presence but by theirfrequent contributions to the debates, they gave final proofthat the Christian religion is now rooted in all those great
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THE DELEGATES 57 countries of the Orient and the South ; and not only so,but that it possesses in those countries leaders who, forintellectual ability and all-round competence, were fullyworthy of standing beside the men who have beenmentioned, even without the traditions of two mil-lenniums of western Christianity at the back of them.Seated among the members of the Conference Business-Committee, which sat round the table just under thePresidents chair, was Kajinosuke Ibuka, in whose face,immobile as a Buddha, lurked the suspicion of theenigmatic twinkle of an Eastern image when somemissionary delegate, in a confidential moment, tells theConference what missionaries think about the Japanese,or what they suppose the Japanese think about them.This man is one of the foremost Christians of Japan, atheologian, a college Principal, one of the nine who wereformed into the first Protestant communion in Japan.Not far off is his friend and equally notable fellow-Christian, the first Japanese Bi

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