Forget Thine own People: an Appeal for Missions. By E.
J. Vaughan, D.D. (Henry S. King and Co.)—No one can read this im- passioned appeal without feeling its force, and even suffering some twinges of conscience, if he happen to have been indifferent to the cause which Dr. Vaughan pleads so earnestly. As the title suggests, the book is chiefly a call for workers who shall be thorough in their devotion.
"Home-sickness is the canker-worm of missions. Far, far better were it that there should be some old men, some sick and infirm men, among our Colonial or Missionary Bishops, if there might but be at last is those distant wilds a few Bishops' graves." This must be felt as a hard saying by the " Colonials ;" but Dr. Vaughan, for their comfort, allows exceptions to the rule which he lays down. While recognising the force of this stirring plea for Missions, we at the same time think that an equal, if not greater, amount of good might be done by a calm inves- tigation of the causes which tend to cheek missionary zeal in the Church of England. One or two of these lie on the surface. It will scarcely be disputed that there is no organisation having Missions as its object which is not in practice, if not in principle, narrower than the Church itself.. Also we think that the inadequate remuneration of missionary services, which is, we believe, the rule, must necessarily in the end produce as its result mediocrity in the services so requited.
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