The Task That Challenges

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Excerpt from The Task That Challenges: Home Mission Text Book The dawn of the Twentieth Century found the church facing a unique Home Mission situation in America. The existing regime which had identified Home Missions with denominational Operations for minis tering chiefly to pioneer conditions in frontier regions, came gradually to an end. New situations, involving acute problems, arising from eco nomic, social and moral conditions, thrust themselves into prominence everywhere. Political Economists, Social Reformers and Christian Philanthropists were beginning to exercise thought and enlist their sympathies to meet the domestic crisis, induced by increasing immigra tion, social unrest, the declining country church, overcrowding in cities, isolated mountain people, and other backward classes. The Church, occupied with its individual denominational propaganda, and in the throes of a nation-wide Forward Movement in Foreign Missions, failed to recognize promptly the Home Mission crisis which had sprung up over night. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.