THE AXGLO-SAXOX AXD THE WOKLD'S FUTURE. 209 



was no accident that the great reformation of the six- 

 teenth century originated among a Teutonic, rather than 

 a Latin people. It was- the fire of liberty burning in the 

 Saxon heart that flamed up against the absolutism of the 

 Pope. Speaking roughly, the peoples of Europe which 

 are Celtic are Roman Catholic, and those which are Teu- 

 tonic are Protestant ; and where the Teutonic race was 

 purest, there Protestantism spread with the greatest rapid- 

 ity. But, with beautiful exceptions, Protestantism on the 

 continent has degenerated into mere formalism. By con- 

 firmation at a certain age, the state churches are filled 

 with members who generally know nothing of a personal 

 spiritual experience. In obedience to a military order, 

 a regiment of G-erman soldiers files into church and par- 

 takes of the sacrament, just as it would shoulder arms 

 or obey any other word of command. It is said that, in 

 Berlin and Leipsic, only a little over one per cent, of the 

 Protestant population are found in church. Protestant- 

 ism on the continent seems to be about as poor in spirit- 

 ual life and power as Romanism. That means that most 

 of the spiritual Christianity in the world is found among 

 Anglo-Saxons and their converts ; for this is the great 

 missionarj^ race. If we take all of the German mission- 

 ary societies together, we find that, in the number of 

 workers and amount of contributions, they do not 

 equal the smallest of the three great English missionary 

 societies. The year that the Congregationalists in the 

 United States gave one dollar and thirty-seven cents per 

 caput to foreign missions, the members of the great Ger- 

 man State Church gave only three-quarters of a cent per 

 caput to the same cause. ^ Evidently it is chiefly to the 

 English and American peoples that Ave must look for the 

 evangelization of the world. 



It is not necessary to argue to those for whom I write 

 that the two great needs of mankind, that all men may 

 be lifted up into the light of the highest Christian civiliza- 

 tion, are, first, a pure, spiritual Christianity, and second, 



1 Christlieb's Protestant Foreign Missions, pp. 34 and 37. 



