Missionary Principles and Practice by Robert E. Speer

A handbook on missionary principles by the American Presbyterian missiologist Robert Elliott Speer [1867-1947]. My thanks to Redcliffe College for providing a copy of this public domain book for digitisation.

Robert E. Speer [1867-1947], Missionary Principles and Practice. A Discussion of Christian Missions and of some Criticisms upon them, 3rd edn. New York/London: Fleming H. Revell Co., 1902. Hbk. pp.552. [Click to visit the Robert Speer page to download this and other titles by this author]

Contents

• Preface
• Part I. General Principles Stated

1. Missions—Primary and Essential in Christianity
2. Common Honesty and Foreign Missions
3. The Need of the Non-Christian World for Christ
4. What are Christian Missionaries Trying to Do?
5. The Aim of Christian Missions
6. The Science of Missions
7. The Kind of Men Needed in Foreign Missions
8. Some Current Criticisms of Missions
9. The Assumption Underlying Missionary Criticism
10. Missions and Spiritual Life
11. Missionaries and Their Rights
12. Christianity the Solitary and Sufficient Religion
    
    Part II. General Principles Applied
    
13. The Iniquity of Christian Missions in China
14. Are the Missionaries Responsible for the Troubles in China?
15. The Scuttle Policy in China
16. Has Missionary Work in China Been Worth While?
17. Minister Wu’s Confucian Propaganda
18. A Roman Catholic View of Missions in China
19. Higher Education in Missions with Special Reference to Conditions in China
20. Truth or Tolerance
21. Some Missionary Aspects of Paul’s First Itineration
22. Some Missionary Aspects of Paul’s Second Itineration
    
    Part III. Need and Results
    
23. Impressions of Christian Missions in Asia
24. Persian Mohammedans and Mohammedanism
25. Glimpses of Life on a Persian Highway
26. On the Corpse Road
27. Why Christianity Appeals to the Japanese
28. Shosaburo Aoyama, A Japanese Christian Gentleman
29. Four Life Stories
30. Pastor Tsiang’s Story
31. A Chinese Preacher
32. Two Korean Christians
33. Missionary Biographies
34. Missionary Heroism I Have Known
35. Li Hung Chang and Christian Missions
36. The Civilizing Influence of Missions
37. The Propagation of Christianity in the Last Century
    
    Part IV. Privilege and Duty
    
38. The Missionary Spirit of the Christian Life
39. Christ, the Desire of the Nations
40. What Christ Has Done for Woman
41. Prayer and Missions
42. The Holy Spirit and Missions
43. The Resources of the Christian Church
44. The Evangelization of the World in this Generation
45. The Speedy Bringing of the World to Christ