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Title: Christian missions and social progress; a sociological study of foreign missions
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Dennis, James S. (James Shepard), 1842-1914
Subjects: Missions Sociology, Christian
Publisher: New York, F. H. Revell
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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nscribed this legend: A memorial of the jubilee of the re-ligion of Jesus Christ in this land; this stone is erected over the graveof Pao, who first brought the Word of God to this country. « In thesavage island of New Guinea there is at the present day a large num-ber of native missionaries, mostly from the Malua Training Institutionin the distant Samoan Group, who will some day be worthy of the sametribute from grateful Christian communities. The Queen of Manua (a small group of islands in the SamoanArchipelago), shortly before her death, made an address at the dedica- 1 Montgomery, The Light of Melanesia, pp. 47-52. 2 Ibid., pp. 68, 198. 3 Ibid., p. 208. * Mason, Round the Round World on a Church Mission, p. 301. 5 The Church Missionary Intelligencer, June, 1894, pp. 422, 423. ^ King, Ten Decades: The Australian Centenary Story of the London Mis-sionary Society, p. 196. The Rev. George Cousins, in The Story of the SouthSeas (pp. 148-154), has given an account of Paos work in Lifu.
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H X H THE DAWN OF A SOCIOLOGICAL ERA IN MISSIONS 19 tion of a house of worship in her capital, in which we have surely anew and strange message from the royal lips of a South Sea potentate.After voicing on behalf of the people her gratitude for the gifts andblessings of Christianity, the queen remarked in closing: My last wordto you is to urge you to accept and obey Christs new commandmentwhich He gave to His disciples, and to us, each and all: * Love oneanother. How can a people be blessed if Gods Word is not obeyed? ^The history of missions in the Hawaiian Islands also reveals the powerof Christianity to create strong and noble characters.^ The bestspecimen of the Christian hero that I ever met was one of these nativemissionaries, writes the late Mr. R. L. Stevenson, after his visit to theGilbert Islands.^ He referred to Maka, the Hawaiian missionary atButaritari. In the same chapter he relates an interview with Kauwea-loha, another pastor, who told him the story of the rescue of an

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