Short History of Christian Missions Author:George Smith General Books publication date: 2009 Original Publisher: T + T Clark Subjects: Religion / Christian Ministry / Missions Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.co... more »m where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER IIL CHRIST THE KING OF THE MISSIONARY HOST -- THE MISSIONARY CHARGE. The Fulness of the Time -- The Jesus of History, the Son of God and the Son of Man -- The Relation of Christ to Jews and Gentiles -- Christ's Missionary Methods -- The Missionary Charge and Prayer for every Disciple -- The Kingdom of Christ -- The Parables of the Kingdom. The Fulness of the Time came 1890 years ago, -- or four years before the current chronology introduced by the monk Dionysius in the sixth century, -- in the year 749 of the foundation of Romc, when " there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all tho empire should be enrolled" (Luke ii. 1). Then "God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, that He might redeem them which were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons " (GaL iv. 4, 5). The Emperor Augustus died nineteen years after this census, in which the name of the Son of God and the Saviour of men was enrolled among the eighty-fivo millions who formed the subjects of Rome. On the Emperor's death the vestal virgins produced his legacy to the Senate and to Tiberius, his successor, hi the shape of a Breviarium or ledger of the empire. This census report briefly recorded not only the number of the citizens, subjects, and allies, but the resources and administrative details of the commonwealth, the provinces, and the dependencies. It closed with a solemn warning not to extend the frontiers beyond the lines of the Rhone and the Danube, the Euphrates and the Red Sea, the Atlas and the Ocean. The " Pax Romana "...« less