We must know how our fellow-men think and believe, in order to help them.

It is our duty to discover the pathways of approach to their minds and hearts.

We must show them, as our brethren and children of the same Heavenly Father, the common ground on which we all stand.

We must point them to the greater truth in the Bible and in Christ Jesus, and demonstrate wherein both the divinely inspired library and the truth written in a divine-human life fulfil that which is lacking in their books and masters.
To know just how to do this is knowledge to be coveted as a most excellent gift.

An understanding of the religion of our fellow-men is good, both for him who goes as a missionary and for him who at home prays, "Thy kingdom come." The theological seminary, which begins the systematic and sympathetic study of Comparative Religion and fills the chair with a professor who has a vital as well as academic interest in the welfare of his fellow-men who as yet know not Jesus as Christ and Lord, is sure to lead in effective missionary work.