Let me remind you of that great painting called “Anno Domini,”
which perhaps some of you have seen, and which vividly
illustrates the unprecedented opportunity to-day in the
extreme Orient. It represents an Egyptian temple from whose
spacious courts a brilliant procession of soldiers, statesmen,
philosophers, artists, musicians, and priests is advancing in
triumphal march, bearing a huge idol, the challenge and the
boast of heathenism. Across the pathway of the procession is an
ass, whose bridle is held by a reverent-looking man, and upon
whose back is a fair young mother with her infant child. It is
Jesus entering Egypt in flight from the wrath of Herod, and thus
crossing the path of aggressive heathenism. The clock strikes
and the Christian era begins.--ARTHUR JUDSON BROWN,
“Student Volunteer Movement,” 1906.
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