Note and Comment

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 4, 1915

Missions Go Begging

We clip the following from the Lutheran of October 21:—

Recently a communion service was held in a country parish of the ministerium of Pennsylvania, where everything was on a big scale, except the cause of missions. Over 1,500 people were present, 618 partook of the Holy Communion, a catechetical class of 50 was confirmed, and the pastor invited to administer private communion to 15 members who were unable to be present at the services. The services began promptly at nine o’clock and were dismissed at twelve o’clock noon. The enormous crowd of people in attendance was conveyed to the church in 182 teams and 106 automobiles. . . .

At this service the special offering for missions amounted to $56.67, or less than four cents per member present, and little more than nine cents per communicant. What a disproportion of the fitness of things! What need for education and enlightenment in the grace of giving! Surely missions went begging here.