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Let My People Go: The Life of Robert A. Jaffray is unavailable, but you can change that!

Robert Jaffray was a missionary statesman of the early 20th century who turned his back on wealth and power to serve in China. He helped open French Indochina to The Christian and Missionary Alliance, an evangelical Protestant denomination that began as two separate organizations to promote a higher Christian life and to mobilize Christians in the work of foreign missionary efforts. Jaffray...

of years. Too often it has confused pure Christianity with Christianity as modified by a particular culture. Its requirements for a person who desires to become a Christian have frequently followed a narrow and prejudiced conception of what constitutes a good life within one or another social bracket. Often missionaries have attempted unconsciously to make new converts good Canadians or Americans, forgetting entirely that the traits marking people as belonging to a particular nation have nothing
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