The Necessity of Home Missions in Our Day

In writing about a subject like this, it seems proper and fitting that before we discuss the subject itself, we should first have in mind some of the fundamental teachings of Scripture, and our Confessions that may apply here. First, let us remember that which we believe concerning the holy catholic church of Christ, namely “That the Son of God, from the beginning to the end of the world, gathers, defends and preserves to himself by his spirit and word out of the whole human race, a church...