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It certainly is not benevolence to do for others what they can do as
well for themselves, or to do for them in a way to diminish either
their ability or disposition to provide for themselves. Missionaries
may be in danger of staying too long and doing too much for a
people, rather than of leaving them too soon after the gospel has
taken root among them.
Native pastors came into being at Tahiti simply because the French
drove off the missionaries. They were not ordained before, but at
once proved themselves equal to the work that Providence assigned
them; and after twenty years of French misrule, in spite of Popery
on the one hand and brandy and vice on the other, there are now more
church members under these native pastors than ever before.
Twenty years ago the European shepherds were driven from Madagascar,
and a few lambs left in the midst of wolves; but God raised up
native pastors, and, instead of tens of Christians under Europeans,
there are now hundreds, yea, thousands, under these natives.[1]
Those missionaries are wise who aim constantly at results like
these; and it is in such a spirit that work has been done among the
women of Persia.
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