Selecting Missionaries for Foreign Fields
Bishop William H. Hare, after a visit to the China mission of the Episcopal Church, reported in the Spirit of Missions, expresses the belief that the wise method is not the sending of many workers, of whom not a few will of course be persons of small gifts and little force, but the careful selection of a picked few who have ability and training sufficient to enable them to occupy important points of central influence, whether institutional, evangelistic, or pastoral, and to work in them and out from them by means of native helpers. For such foreign fields as China and Japan he would have persons superior both by endowment and acquirement—just the persons whom everybody wants to keep at home.