Added to the difficulty of learning to speak the language was the greater difficulty of finding terms to express the ideas which the missionary had come to convey... in many languages the most precious truths of Christianity had to force their way by bending stubborn words to new ideas, and filling old terms with new content.


Western Women in Eastern Lands: An Outline Study of Fity Years of Woman's Work in Foreign Missions (ed. 1910)

Helen Barrett Montgomery Quotes

Added to the difficulty of learning to speak the language was the greater difficulty of finding terms to express the ideas which the missionary had...

Added to the difficulty of learning to speak the language was the greater difficulty of finding terms to express the ideas which the missionary had...

Added to the difficulty of learning to speak the language was the greater difficulty of finding terms to express the ideas which the missionary had...

Added to the difficulty of learning to speak the language was the greater difficulty of finding terms to express the ideas which the missionary had...