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Handout #268 |
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The World Missionary Conference, Edinburgh 1910 |
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This conference was considered to be the
starting point for the ecumenism which ended in the formation of the World
Council of Churches. Here are the words of a delegate from a Far Eastern
church, as reported by Pastor Boegner:
You have sent us missionaries who have made Jesus Christ known to us, and we are grateful to you for that. But you have also brought us your distinctions: some preach Methodism to us, others Lutheranism Congregationalism or Episcopalianism. We ask that you should preach the gospel to us, and leave Jesus Christ himself to raise up from the midst of our peoples, by the action of his Spirit, a church in keeping with his demands, in keeping also with the genius of our church, which will be the church of Christ in China, the church of Christ in India, free from all the -isms which you bring in when preaching gospel among us. |
