THE
American Missionary.
Vol. XXXVI.
JANUARY, 1882.
No. 1.
1882.
We welcome the advent of the new year with praise and thanksgiving. The toils and burdens of 1881 are past. The husbandman has garnered his sheaves. The sower has cast in his seed, and awaits the spring time. We greet our friends with hope and gladness. The prosperity of the past is significant. We have a fuller experience, enlarged facilities for work, and a place in the confidence and esteem of the church and the nation that brings with it not only cheer and courage but an added weight of responsibility.
We are, doubtless, on the eve of great events in the world of missions. He who has taught all Christendom of every sect and every age to pray, “Thy kingdom come,” has never decreed such immense strides in the material world as our eyes have seen, without a purpose to overmatch them all by spiritual achievements.