My Pilgrimage in Mission
My Pilgrimage in Mission Olav Guttorm Myklebust I have, in retrospect, sometimes thought that "be an influence that it would be difficult to overestimate. Oldhamwas I yondness" has been a distinctive feature of my life. I a fearless and farsighted thinker. In the Christian mission , in the was born and grew up in Bergen, Norway-for 900 years an im words of his celebrated dictum, "we must dare in order to portant center of seafaring and contact with foreign countries. know." As editor of the International Review of Missions (of which My earliest memory is of a huge crowd of people gathered to already in my youth I became an enthusiastic reader), and celebrate the opening of the Bergen-Oslo railway. At school my through his books (of which Christianity and the Race Problem favorite subject was geography, more especially that part of it that should be specifically mentioned), Oldham greatly helped to open dealt with the non-Western continents. The encounter, through my eyes to the magnitude and complexity of the problems with reading and traveling, with peoples and cultures other than my which the Christian world mission is wrestling, and, equally im own, has always fascinated me. portant, to understand that these problems can be solved only However, the decisive factor in the shaping of my life was a through sustained intellectual labor and by taking wide and com beyondness of a different kind. I refer to the expanding horizons prehensive views. that are an integral part of the Christian message. In the home Other missionary thinkers upon whom I look back with pro in which I was privileged to grow up I learned not only to look found gratitude are, to mention only the names of some of those upon daily devotions, Bible reading, and church attendance as who are no longer amongst us, J.
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