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 A Brief Outline 
 of the 
 
 Foreign Work 
 of the 
 Christian 
 and 
 
 Missionary 
 
 Alliance 
 
 Christian and Missionary Alliance 
 690 Eighth Avenue 
 New York City 
 1918 
 
 
A Brief Outline of the Foreign Work 
 of the 
 
 Christian and Missionary Alliance. 
 
 The Christian and Missionary Alliance 
 is a union of Christians of all evangelical 
 denominations for fellowship, prayer and 
 effort in promoting the gospel of full sal¬ 
 vation and the evangelization of the neg¬ 
 lected classes at home and abroad. 
 
 1. Its Missionary Aim. To follow out 
 the command and commission of Jesus 
 Christ, “Go ye into all the world and 
 preach the gospel to every creature.” 
 
 2 . Its Missionary Conviction. That 
 the terms of our Lord’s commission make 
 tlie task of giving the gospel impartially 
 to the whole world one which claims pre¬ 
 cedence to every other enterprise; that 
 
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such missionary work has a vital bearing^ 
 upon the blessed hope of Christ’s second 
 coming, through the gathering out from 
 among all nations of a people for His 
 name, and that the fact that through the 
 Church’s negligence and apathy nearly 
 two-thirds of the world still remains un¬ 
 evangelized, after nineteen centuries, 
 adds tremendous emphasis to the duty of 
 the Church of today to make a supreme 
 effort to give to every nation and indi¬ 
 vidual the offer of salvation during the 
 present generation. 
 
 3 . Its Missionary Policy. Not to dupli¬ 
 cate the work of already existing Mis¬ 
 sionary Societies in any field, but, like the 
 Apostle Paul, to become pioneers in “the 
 regions beyond” and carry the gospel to 
 the darkest and most destitute parts of 
 every land. 
 
 4 . Its Missionary Method. While rec¬ 
 ognizing the need and value of all other 
 methods of missionary work, in their true 
 
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order and proportion, the methods pur¬ 
 sued by the Christian and Missionary Al¬ 
 liance, in keeping with its Aim and Con¬ 
 viction as above stated, is preeminently 
 evangelistic. By this term is meant, how¬ 
 ever, nothing narrow or superficial. It 
 includes the widest possible proclamation 
 of the gospel to the unsaved, by preach¬ 
 ing and the printed page; the develop¬ 
 ment of the spiritual life and activity of 
 the converts by pastoral care and Bible 
 teaching; and the preparation of the na¬ 
 tive churches for ultimate self-mainte¬ 
 nance and self-propagation by means of 
 preparatory and Bible schools for the 
 training of evangelists, teachers, pastors, 
 and Biblewomen. No educational work 
 is done merely for education’s sake, and 
 only such is carried on as contributes dis¬ 
 tinctly to direct evangelism. 
 
 5. Its Missionary Fields. These in¬ 
 clude : 
 
 India (Provinces of Berar, Khan- 
 
desh and Gujarat). 
 
 China (Provinces of Kwang Si, An- 
 huei, Hunan, Hupeh, Kansu and 
 City of Shanghai). 
 
 Tibet (Province of Amdo). 
 
 French Indo-China (Provinces of 
 Tonkin and Annam). 
 
 Japan (Province of Hiroshima). 
 
 Philippines (Island of Mindanao). 
 
 Palestine (Jerusalem, Hebron and 
 Southern Palestine). 
 
 Africa (Belgian and Portuguese Con¬ 
 go, Sierra Leone and adjacent 
 French Soudan). 
 
 South America (Republics of Ar¬ 
 gentina, Chile and Ecuador). 
 
 West Indies (Porto Rico and Ja¬ 
 maica) . 
 
 While it is of course not to be under¬ 
 stood that the Christian and Missionary 
 Alliance is the only agency at work in the 
 above fields, yet in many parts of them 
 this Society has been the pioneer, and a 
 
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careful estimate puts the number of souls 
 who within these areas are wholly de¬ 
 pendent upon Alliance missionaries for 
 their only chance to hear the gospel at no 
 less than FORTY MILLIONS. What 
 a startling fact! What an overwhelming 
 task! What a grave responsibility! 
 
 6 . Its Missionary Staff. This consists 
 of about 300 American and British mis¬ 
 sionaries, supplemented by some 600 na¬ 
 tive workers in the various fields. The 
 missionaries include both lay and clerical 
 candidates, and are selected with primary 
 reference to sound evangelical faith, deep 
 spirituality and consecration, and experi¬ 
 ence in soul-winning, coupled with a rea¬ 
 sonably good education, practical com¬ 
 mon sense and satisfactory physical con¬ 
 dition. 
 
 7 . Its Missionary Advances, The Al¬ 
 liance has been an effective pioneer agen¬ 
 cy in opening up a number of totally des¬ 
 titute and neglected fields, such as Kwang 
 
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Si, Hunan and South Kansu Provinces in 
 China, the Southern Philippines, the Por¬ 
 tuguese Congo and the Kuranko coun¬ 
 try of Sierra Leone. 
 
 It built the first Protestant churches 
 in Venezuela and Ecuador, has effected a 
 fruitful opening among the Mapuche In¬ 
 dians of Chile, and is novc seeking to 
 reach the totally unevangelized savage 
 Indians in the extreme eastern portion of 
 Ecuador. It has penetrated the sealed 
 land of Tibet on its northeast frontier and 
 occupies three stations within its borders. 
 It has effected an entrance into French 
 Indo-China with its 20,000,000 benighted 
 souls, and is as yet the only Protestant 
 missionary agency at work there, with the 
 exception of a representative of the B. & 
 F. Bible Society. And finally, it has with¬ 
 in the past year crossed the borders into 
 the unoccupied fields of French Soudan 
 and French Congo, is already with the 
 full permission of the French authorities 
 
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taking active steps to open a first station 
 in the great Western Soudan, and is lay¬ 
 ing plans to establish work very soon in 
 French Congo with 8,000,000 untouched 
 souls. 
 
 8 . Its Missionary Fruits. Recognizing 
 that spiritual results can never be ade¬ 
 quately expressed by mere figures, yet 
 the following statement may serve to in¬ 
 dicate in some measure what God has 
 been pleased to do through this humble 
 agency. 
 
 In its 16 distinct fields, distributed 
 throughout 14 different countries, many 
 hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of 
 souls have been brought under the sound 
 of the gospel for the first time. Up to the 
 end of 1917, 13,278 had been baptized 
 upon clear evidence of repentance from 
 sin and faith in the Saviour. There were 
 432 stations and outstations, 118 organ¬ 
 ized churches with over 9,000 baptized 
 adult members, 8,364 enrolled in Sunday 
 
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Schools, 5,570 in Primary Schools, 485 in 
 Middle Boarding Schools, and 166 in 
 Bible Training Schools. During 1917, 
 1,425 received baptism and 2,827 others 
 professed conversion and were under in¬ 
 struction with a view to early baptism. 
 
 g. It’s Missionary Outlook. Without 
 question this is brighter than ever be¬ 
 fore. The missionaries are more in num¬ 
 ber and matured by long experience. 
 The native workers have also greatly in¬ 
 creased in number and efficiency. The 
 cumulative effect of years of patient seed 
 sowing and sympathetic contact with na¬ 
 tive communities is being more and more 
 seen. Signal providences of God have 
 been operative in every field, opening 
 doors, removing obstacles, increasing fa¬ 
 cilities, and changing the attitude of the 
 peoples from hostility to open minded 
 inquiry into the gospel. Despite the 
 widespread effects of the world war, only 
 one of the 16 Alliance fields has suffered 
 
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any interruption in its work, and that for 
 only a short period. The other fields have 
 faced ever increasing- open doors and un¬ 
 limited opportunities. Indeed, the Lord 
 has made these years of war the very best 
 and most fruitful in the history of the 
 Society, and the situation on almost every 
 field is ripe for a new advance if only 
 recruits and resources are available. 
 
 10 . Its Missionary Support. The mis¬ 
 sionaries are guaranteed no fixed salaries. 
 They go to their fields cheerfully under¬ 
 taking to unite with the Board at home 
 in trusting the Lord for the supply of 
 their every need, temporal as well as 
 spiritual. Moderate living allowances on 
 the pro rata principle are sent them 
 month by month, according as the funds 
 received by the Board permit. 
 
 11. Its Missionary Revenue. The work 
 is prosecuted in a spirit of humble and 
 prayerful dependence upon God for His 
 support through the voluntary offerings 
 
of His people. The Society does not in¬ 
 cur debt nor borrow money for the main¬ 
 tenance of its work. No personal solici¬ 
 tation of funds is made. Printed Reports 
 are circulated annually, and missionary 
 addresses are g'iven at conventions and 
 other gatherings, setting forth the needs 
 and opportunities of the fields abroad, 
 and the duty and privilege which these 
 entail upon God’s children of loyal and 
 wholehearted response by prayer, gift and 
 personal service. The Scriptural mode of 
 giving—voluntary, proportionate and reg¬ 
 ular—is urged, and to foster this, pledge 
 cards are used. The idea is that instead 
 of giving spasmodically and emotionally, 
 under the momentary influence of a 
 touching appeal, one should prayerfully 
 enter upon a definite aim and effort, in 
 dependence upon God, to reach some ob¬ 
 jective point. The pledge card aids to 
 this end. It is not a promissory note for 
 which payment will ever be asked, but an 
 
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expression of consecrated endeavor, and 
 a stimulus to systematic and sustained 
 giving, the whole year round. It becomes 
 a token of partnership with God in a sa¬ 
 cred, mutual trust. Experience has proven 
 repeatedly that this method of distribut¬ 
 ing the effort over all the days of the 
 year not only secures the largest results 
 as to the offerings but also brings the 
 fullest blessing to the offerer. 
 
 12. Its Missionary Opportunities of 
 Investment. 
 
 $20 a year (a trifle over 5c. a day) sup¬ 
 ports an orphan in India, or a pupil in 
 one of the boarding schools on several 
 fields. 
 
 $25 s year (50c. a week) supports an 
 adult student-in-training in one of the 
 Bible Schools. 
 
 $ 25“$40 (50c. to 75c. a week) supports a 
 native Bible Woman or female teacher. 
 $50-$200 a year supports a trained native 
 evangelist, pastor or male teacher, ac- 
 
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cording to field and standing of worker. 
 $360 a year is a missionary’s personal al¬ 
 lowance on most fields, $480 on the re¬ 
 mainder. 
 
 These figures place it within the reach 
 of almost everyone to have a personal 
 representative in some missionary land, 
 and supporters, if they desire and request 
 it, can be put in touch with special repre¬ 
 sentatives, and the bonds of fellowship 
 and prayer thus strengthened. 
 
 It may be stated that, in addition to 
 ordinary offerings for the missionary 
 work, the Board is prepared to accept an¬ 
 nuities, and by their investment in cer¬ 
 tain departments of the work during the 
 lifetime of the annuitant to pay interest 
 thereon at six per cent, per annum. This 
 plan has been welcomed my many, as en¬ 
 abling them to see their money safely in¬ 
 vested in the Lord’s work at once, obviat¬ 
 ing the risk of its miscarriage after their 
 death, and at the same time providing for 
 
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their own support during their remaining 
 years. 
 
 Any further information will be cheer¬ 
 fully given, assignments made, deputa- 
 tional visits arranged for where practi¬ 
 cable, and applications by missionary can¬ 
 didates considered, if communications 
 are addressed to the Foreign Secretary, 
 Christian and Missionary Alliance, 690 
 Eighth Ave., New York City, U. S. A. 
 
 Contributions may be sent to the 
 Treasurer, Christian and Missionary Al¬ 
 liance, at the same address. 
 
Copies of this tract, as well pis of others dealing 
 with the various foreign fields of the Christian 
 and Missionary Alliance and the missionary 
 enterprise in general, may be secured FREE by 
 addressing Free Literature Department, 
 
 Christian Alliance Pub. Co., 
 
 318 West 39th Street, 
 
 NEW YORK CITY. 
 
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