The Bible and Missions

Foreword

h Foreword THe CeNTRAL COMMITTee on the United Study of Foreign Missions celebrates its twentieth anniversary by the publication of the textbook, The Bible and Missions by Helen Barrett Montgomery. In these days of reconstruction of Church and State, it is important that we come back to the authority in the Word of god for our great missionary enterprise. Plans of men, however wise, change with the changing years and with crises in history , but the plan of god is eternal. We rest our study this year on his own missionary message. The year 1920 has been appointed by Bible societies in great Britain and America as Bible year, which gives an added reason for a careful study of this subject and a wide effort to secure a more general use of the Bible throughout the world, especially in lands and among peoples who have never had the opportunity to read the Word of god. The Committee is indebted to the American Bible Society for many of the unique and valuable illustrations in the book.* Mrs. Henry W. Peabody, Chairman Miss Olivia H. Lawrence Mrs. Frank Mason Norht Mrs. James A. Webb Jr. Mrs. A. V. Pohlman Miss Alice M. Kyle Deaconess Herietta goowin Miss grace T. Colburn, Secretary * These illustrations are not included in the present edition. h Part I ...