MISSION IN GERMANY. 
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gelists. Moreover, the mission would soon become 
a valuable recruiting-station. The ship-loads of 
immigrants wending their way to our shores would 
contain a greater or less number of souls who had 
been Avon to Christ by the labors of our mission- 
aries; and these would very naturally seek a home 
with us in this country. These and other consid- 
erations prompted the Board to make an appro- 
priation for the establishment of a mission in 
Germany, and to charge the Executive Committee 
Avith the duty of securing and appointing a mis- 
sionary to that important field. 
Shortly after, the coihmittee appointed Rev. C.’ 
Bischoft*, of Zanesville, Ohio, and in September, 
1869, he sailed for Germany. As had been expect- 
ed, he found an open door. The people Avere 
anxious to hear the Avord of God. In a feAV 
months he reported quite a number of souls con- 
verted and a society organized. It Avas not like 
going among a heathen people. They Avere 
educated. They read and believed the Bible. They 
only wanted some whose lips were touched Avith 
a live coal from the altar to teach them the doc- 
trine of a present, free, full, experimental salva- 
tion. Formalism and ritualism, a cold and life- 
less style of theorizing, which had no poAver to 
stir men’s souls to conviction or lead, them to the 
great Physician, had taken possession of the pulpit 
