Other Sheep by Harold Begbie

Other Sheep

A MISSIONARY COMPANION TO "TWICE-BORN MEN"

by Harold Begbie 

This book was published by Hodder and Stoughton New York George H. Doran Company in 1912.

Excerpt from the PREFACE

"Ask of Me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance."

BEYOND the narrow boundaries of Europe extends a vast territory thick-sown with a various population of heathen humanity. The pulse of civilization, throbbing so furiously in the West, seems over this enormous area scarcely to beat at all. It is as if evolution had circumscribed its energies to the coasts of Christendom, as if humanity had chosen Europe for its line of march and made Asia its perpetual camp of rest, as if the West represented the creative week-days of mankind and the East its everlasting sabbath.

In Europe, amid the roar of wheels and in the glare of the furnace, science seeks for truth, the politician labours for millennium, religion preaches struggle, and humanity wrestles for a destiny. In Asia, where sleep and silence brood upon the pensive earth, science sits with folded hands, the politician has yet hardly opened his eyes, an immemorial religion whispers to the soul to surrender, and humanity dreams of nothing but annihilation for its final good. The stream of existence floods through Europe turbulent and foaming to the invisible ocean of eternity; in Asia the waters of life are like a stagnant fen.

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