The Baptist Missionary Magazine Vol 86

Author : Baptist General Convention
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781527691360
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (913 download)

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Download or read book The Baptist Missionary Magazine, Vol. 21 written by Baptist General Convention and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-25 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Baptist Missionary Magazine, Vol. 21: January, 1841 God has mercifully employed hu man language as a medium for con veying truth to the human mind. That language missionaries must employ. To use any weapon adroitly and suc cessfully, requires great familiarity. Such a familiarity with a heathen lan guage as will render a missionary sure, when he uses it, that he utters truth in it, or at any rate, his impressions of truth, - cannot be acquired without protracted and painful effort, nor with out the lapse of years. The idea must never be indulged, that a missionary can soon acquire a sufficient know ledge of the language, to convey his ideas to a teacher, so that that teach ar may safely be left to convey the missionary's meaning to others. If he does know enough of the language to convey his meaning to his teacher with certainty, then he can also convey it to others, and needs not the intervention of a teacher. The missionary must, in short, be a perfect master of the language himself; then, and then only, can he successfully communicate the truth by it. No confidence whatever can be placed in books written after a year' study, or in accounts of preach ing after one or two years' study. Some truth may be indeed conveyed by them; but so much error or imper fection will be mingled with it, that little or no good can be anticipated in the result. Truth, like nitric acid and many other chemical agents, is power ful when uncombined and free, but may he so diluted and commingled, that all its native activity shall be lost. These remarks are almost equally ap plicable, whether truth is to be con veyed orally, or by written books; but as books are permanent, and are likely to make an impression on more minds, it is especially necessary that they be prepared only by those who are thor ough ndepts in the language in which the are written. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.