Mathews, Basil. The World-Wide Upheaval of the Races (Wycliffe Wilson Lecture). London: The Livingstone Press, 1923. First Edition. [11431]
Blue printed wrapper, 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches, ex mission library with ink stamps on the front ,the title page, and the last page of text, a small chip top edge of the back of the wrapper. 20 pages. Good. Pamphlet.
Modern means of communication and transportation have made the whole world more interconnected than ever before. An industrial revolution is occurring, forcing thousands of children into factories in China. Feminists and Bolshevists are revolutionising the lives of the people, and Self-Determination for nations has been proclaimed both by Lenin and President Wilson. This has brought a challenge to the White Man as country after country seeks to expel European colonists.
"To confront and to solve this world-wide racial problem we must have a world-wide crusade of Christian forces. The Church - not of one denomination or of another, but of all, working in co-operation to avoid overlapping and to increase their efficiency; and the Church, not of the West alone, but of all races, working together in harmonious interdependence - the Holy Church throughout all the world - is alone adequate to this tremendous task." - p. 20.
Basil Joseph Mathews (1879-1951), English academic, librarian, journalist, and Editorical Secretary for the London Missionary Society. He was educated at Oxford, worked at the Bodleian Library, and was secretary to A. M. Fairbairn, the Principal of Mansfield College, Oxford. Mathews became a journalist for the Christian World, and was author of several biographies, including one of the missionary David Livingstone.
