Excerpt from Missions and International Peace: Centennial Meeting of the American Board in Tremont Temple, Boston, Wednesday Evening, October 12, 1910

Christianity is a world religion. It carries the weight of the world on its shoulders and the horizon of the world in its eyes. It is a Good Shepherd reli gion, and its heart has no rest so long as a solitary sheep is out of the fold. As it goes on its way it picks up, one after another, the continents, the big ones and the little ones, and seeks diligently for all the islands of the sea. It wants to whisper some thing to them. It wants to tell them God is love.

From the nature of Christianity the Christian Church becomes an international institution. Her field is the world. You never see the Church at her best unless she is playing a part on a stage as wide as the planet. She never gives indubitable evidence of her Divine origin until she sets to work at an im measurable and impossible task. When you see her working in a limited field, petty in spirit and narrow in aim, pottering about things which are paltry, you wonder if this is the institution which was to come, or whether the world had better look for another. But when you see her laying her hands on the brows of nations, pouring fresh vigor into the veins of empires that were old when Jesus died on the cross, laying hold of backward and friendless races, and planting their feet on the steep and difficult ascent up which the leaders of humanity are making their way, there is borne in upon you the conviction that this is noneother than the servant of the Most High God, and that her commission was written in heaven.

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