PERIOD OF THE REFORMATION

From Luther to the Halle
Missionaries (1517-1650). Indirectly, "the reformation was perhaps
responsible for their effort on the part of the Latin Church. Inasmuch
as it was the loss of so much territory in the old world that stirred
up the papal powers to seek fresh conquests in the new. Up to
reformation in the Missionary work of the Christian church was
undivided Catholic, but from the reformation onward it became separated
into two distinctive and often times antagonistic forces," Roman
Catholics and Protestantism. Of missionary efforts on the parts of the
reformation church there is sadly little to record. But the truth is
that neither the new church itself nor it yet its leaders, were ready
for a missionary movements, and it was not until the middle of the 17th
century that the agitations and efforts of the few individuals who was
a real of their times in discerning. The church's true mission in the
world gathered sufficient momentum to set in modern missionary plans
once more.