Christ Himself, and pointing to the great world-field; and with the facts of awful spiritual destitution staring us in the face, the great bulk of the human family has perished, and will, in this century, continue to perish, not unsaved only, but unwarned! For such a state of things, no adequate apology or excuse is possible.



 Arthur T. Pierson, The Divine Enterprise of Missions (New York: Baker & Taylor Co., 1891), 155.