Heathen England and what to do for it Author:William Booth Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Heathen England. 23 CHAPTER III. THE CHBISTIAN MISSION. It is scarcely possible for an organization to be devised beforehand to meet those peculiar circ... more »umstances which exist in society at various periods. God has contented himself with the general direction to his servants to go everywhere and gather all they can out of the world unto His kingdom, leaving it to them to adapt their measures and invitations to the various classes whom they may have to deal with. And therefore we may notice how repeatedly individuals and societies, longing to accomplish some purpose of love for Hun, have only by slow degrees, and patient, laboured efforts discovered the processes necessary and most calculated to ensure success. It is a matter for thankfulness that so much of past experience has been stored up for our benefit, and that entering into the labours of others for our Master we may hope at least to leave behind us a record which may aid the farther progress of the great discovery which all the Lord's people must needs be so intent upon, and which even now seems so far from attainment—how to turn the tide of human thought and feeling to the largest possible extent in the direction of heaven. The Christian Mission, although as yet but in its infancy, and having done but little throughout this crowded countryfor the attainment of this great end, has, we think, become sufficiently developed and established in the twelve years of its past existence to demonstrate the value of certain appliances for the salvation of souls. And if it should never, as we trust under God it shall, mightily affect the whole population of the country by its own operations, yet at the least it may serve as a torch to show Christians everywhere the road into the ice-bound fastnesses where so many millions...« less