Excerpt from The Princeton Seminary Bulletin, Vol. 55: January, 1962 When the World Alliance of Re formed and Presbyterian Churches met in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in 1959 to discuss The Servant Lord and His Servant People, it was in the awareness that the Church is faced with a situation that is new and unprecedented. One report referred to the Church's having been planted throughout the world as a testimony to the saving power of the Gospel, and, at the same time, to the world's increasing alienation from the spirit of the Gospel. In the face of this alienation the Church has become con fused both at home and abroad and has adopted the stance of theological co existence. She is confused before the resurgence of the old ethnic religions, baffled by the increasing secularization of life, and she has begun to wonder openly if there is any word from the Lord, with the lurking suspicion that if the answer is affirmative that word is not to be heard within the Church. No more pressing problem faces the Church than that of mission, her own mission to the world in which she has been planted and for which she is responsible. She must discover anew in our own time the reality of the Church militant. 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.