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With such a subject it is evident that we can 

 deal, only, with its general features and broad 

 outlines ; our object being to suggest thoughts and 

 lines for personal and independent pursuit and 

 investigation. 



Our general approach to the subject may be 

 made in one or two ways, or by a combination of 

 the two. Those two ways are : 



First by moving from Christ up to the TWO Methods 

 Apostles, that is, by asking and endeavouring to 

 answer the question: &quot;What missionary con 

 ception of the Church did Jesus Christ intend to 

 plant in the minds of His Apostles, and how far 

 did they succeed, first in apprehending that con 

 ception, and, second in carrying it out into 

 practice ? 



Second by moving from the Apostles back to 

 their Master; thus trying to understand, in what 

 and how far the Missionary spirit and practice 

 of the Apostles corresponded to, and realized, the 

 teachings and conceptions set forward by Christ ? 



1 . Source one the Gospels corresponding to source one, 

 sphere one, Missionary Instruction. This is the The ( 

 first of our two methods of procedure : what mis 

 sionary conceptions of His Church did our Lord 

 intend to implant within the minds and convic 

 tions of His Apostles ? 



At this point a subsidiary consideration pre- A subsidiary 

 sents itself; about two-thirds of the Book of Acts, Con8ideration 

 and at least as much of the Epistles, concern the 

 missionary activities and the missionary ad 

 ministration of a man, who, as far as we know, 



