The Missionary Manifesto

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ANY one reading these passages of Scripture for the first time would certainly be quite as much impressed by their disparities as by their similarities. It is the custom of the Christian Church to speak of the commission of Jesus, as though there were but one, which the four evangelists record in different words. This conception is the result of superficial observation, and the measure in which it dominates our thinking is the measure in which we fail to recognize the spaciousness and inclusiveness of the missionary commission, and fail therefore to understand the real responsibility of the Church.