New Paths for Old Purposes - World Challenges to Christianity in Our Generation

by Margaret E. Burton

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New Old World Challenges to Christianity in Our Generation By Margaret E. Burton MISSIONARY EDUCATION MOVEMENT and COUNCIL OF WOMEN FOR HOME MISSIONS New York MJS. MBa4 R B r Jfc BUKTON is xec- ti c eta y o3the Department of Education and Research of the National Boasd, of, tfie Young Womens Christian As socmti L r For many years she lias been a stuaent of the problems of ...moreNew Old World Challenges to Christianity in Our Generation By Margaret E. Burton MISSIONARY EDUCATION MOVEMENT and COUNCIL OF WOMEN FOR HOME MISSIONS New York MJS. MBa4 R B r Jfc BUKTON is xec- ti c eta y o3the Department of Education and Research of the National Boasd, of, tfie Young Womens Christian As socmti L r For many years she lias been a stuaent of the problems of Christian edu cation and of Christian missions in America and in the Orient. In 1908 and 1909 she traveled around the world with her father, the late Ernest D. Burton, then professor in and later president of the University of Chicago, who had been sent by the Uni versity to study education in the Near East. On her last visit to the Far East in 1921 she served as a member of the China Edu cation. Commission sent out by the foreign. mission, boards of North America and Oreat Britain. Miss Burton has had opportunities for intimate acquaintance with students visit ing the United States from other countries through her service for five years as Secre tary for Foreign Students of the National y. W. C. A. She is a member of the Board of Education of the Northern Baptist Con vention, and of the Executive Board of the Association for Adult Education, Other books by Miss Burton are Com rades in Service, Women Workers of the Orient, The Education of Women in China, The Education of Women in Japan, Notable Women of Modern China. COPYRIGHT, 1927, BY MISSIONARY EDUCATION MOVEMENT AND COUNCIL OF WOMEN FOE HOME MISSIONS Priced w the Umted 8tate of, 550051 CONTENTS I. NEW OCCASIONS ........ 1 New circumstances facing the Christian mission ary movement in the modern world. Interde pendence of the nations. Todays missionary message. Thetask of this generation. Todays unoccupied fields. The changeless need. An in divisible task. A call to heroic effort. IL A NEW FRONTIER OF CHRISTIAN MISSIONS . . 24 The industrialization of the East. A fresh chal lenge to world Christianity. Conditions in the three countries most affected by the coming of Western industry China. Women and children in the silk Ma tures and Cotton mills factory accidents changed relations between workers and employ ers social readjustments. Japan. Women in factories employment re cruiting disease among women workers factory dormitories working hours labor in mimes labor tod welfare legislation. India. Women and children in the milte in the mines Indias Mistrial importance out look for the future. IIL CaCBTOOmN MISSIONS Alf D MODHBW Cbnffitjoas of industry m America ani abundant, Kb. CM1 labor in field an factory. Waes of wnfcen worfeem Bteets of maehae tarilig. Industrial unrest and peace on earth. Significance vi CONTENTS PAGE to world missions of the industrial situation. Good beginnings toward Christian solutions. A new call to home missions in America. Ultimate responsibility of church members. A task of the worldwide church. IV. CHRISTIAN-MISSIONS AND AMERICAS RACIAL ATTI TUDES 90 Our attitude toward Oriental races. Oriental visitors and residents. Immigration legislation. The idea of racial inferiority. Race relations be tween white and Negro. Achievements of Negro citizens. Need for study of race problems. In terracial fellowship and the churches. V. CHRISTIAN MISSIONS AND AMERICAS INTERNA TIONAL ATTITUDES 129 Foreign missions and foreign policies of Western nations. The example of China extra-terri toriality, foreign concessions, tariff control.The need of new attitudes. Example of the United States and Mexico our Mexican population community welfare work by the churches the church faces its responsibility. Adventures in international fellowship. VI. GIVE AND TAKE 164 The call to fellowship among all nations. Appre ciation of other peoples. Sympathy with every search for God. Understanding of other ex pressions of Christianity. United loyalty to a common Lord. Effects of transplanted denomi nationalism in younger churches of the Orient. Growing cooperation among Christian agencies...(less)

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Published March 15th 2007 by Foster Press (first published 2007)

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