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hand protesting in brotherly love against all forms. of conceived error in thought and practice and on the other hand seeking to reconcile all men with the truth. The grievous blunder as I conceive of the Christian missionary movement lies in the fact of dogmatic aggressiveness--a spirit of antagonism to all other religions, which soon graduates into bitter denunciation. It first declares that all me kind--all human souls--are under the ban of divine; displeasure. It declares that all men are conceived in sin and born in iniquity, and denies to human nature every good thing. In this view all iner breathe naturally only corruption. The universal inind is a machine of evil and only evil. Its capabilities are toward destruction. Its capacities are reservoirs of darkness and sin. Its aspirations are downward toward perdition; its hopes, ill-founded, are blasting vagaries of corruption. It comes and goes eternally dooined. It cannot help itself and knows no source of help. This, in my view, is the Christian missionary's first postulate and ground of effort for the so-called redemption of mankind.
Its second declaration contains a scheme of redemiption-a plan of salvation, which to my thought (and not to mine alone) is as unreasonable and repulsive as its first proposition. It is that, meir must be saved through the merits and blood vicariously shed of a saviour. It declares that acceptance of that saviour and reliance in that
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