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...shambles the militia left. During his trial and in the days he waited for the scaffold, old John Brown was at his fanatical best. Few who saw him then thought him insane; even his jailer felt sympathy for him, admired him for the way he bore himself. To a Methodist preacher, a slavery-believer who came to see him, old John Brown said: "My dear sir, you know nothing about Christianity; you will have to learn its A, B and C. I respect you as a gentleman, of course, but as a heathen gentleman." The Virginians were reluctant but they...
...Methodist Henry Gerhard Appenzeller (1858-1902), described as "bold as a lion, tender as a woman, aflame with zeal," found Korea reactionary and pagan, gave it a school, a religious newspaper, a tract society, a printing and publishing house...
...then went to India and built up social and evangelistic organizations which lasted because their roots were native. Presbyterian Dr. James Curtis Hepburn (1815-1911), slight and shrivelled, mastered Malay and Chinese, was for 33 years a surgeon, oculist, translator, healer and teacher throughout the Orient. Methodist Bishop James Mills Thoburn went to India, was joined by his sister Isabella (1840-1901) who founded Lucknow Women's College (India's first for females), held her first class of seven while a sturdy boy with a club guarded against intruders. Long afraid of street cars, she died of cholera...
Shall Christian Churches in the missionary field be subsidized by home churches? No, says the Commission, "no church in any land will be robust and virile until it supports itself." Burma leads the Orient, with some 80% of the Baptist churches and 50% of the Methodist on their own feet. In China and Japan, about one-third are selfsupporting; in India even less...
...Baptist, Congregational, Dutch Reformed, Protestant Episcopal, Methodist Episcopal, Presbyterian, United Presbyterian...