Excerpt from The Problem of the Churchless and Poor in Our Large Towns: With Special Reference to the Home Mission Work of the Church of Scotland But, amid all the variations of outward ecclesias tical constitution and government, this principle of aggressiveness on the kingdom of darkness remains the same. That Church which most zealously car ries out the parting commission of the Divine Founder of our religion to preach the Gospel to every creature, that is not only zealous in the build ing up of believers, but in bringing in the outcasts, whether She can lay claim to so-called Apostolical succession or not, is surely carrying out Christ's own idea of what His Church Should be. Every Christian worker, fired with zeal for the extension of Christ's kingdom, be he minister or layman, pres hyter or priest, is a successor of the apostles in the sense in which he can truly be - viz., in wit ness-bearing for Christ. It is with the second function of a Christian Church that which respects the in'gathering of the Churchless - that we have in these pages chiefly to do. And, in considering the various Christian Churches in this land that claim to fulfil this im portant function, I Select the one that has the greatest responsibility, as well as the greatest ad vantages for this end - the Church of Scotland. 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.