They Want to Get Back by W. A. S.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 9, 1914

They Want to Get Back

By W. A. S.

WITH hundreds of workers spread through the tropical regions of the earth, it is inevitable that now and then a worker will break in health and be compelled under medical advice to return to more northern climes to recuperate. A hundred years of missions has taught the missionary societies that these changes to prevent complete disablement are decided economies in missionary administration.

One thing the Mission Board notices, however, and that is, invariably the workers are most earnestly anxious to get back to the fields as soon as the furlough time is over. Anxious letters are written, and interviews had with medical authorities to make sure that the word to return comes as soon as the health is satisfactorily restored. The interests

of the great mission fields in darkness root themselves into the hearts of the workers until life itself is wrapped up in laboring for souls in the needy regions beyond.

A friend wrote us some time ago, reporting satisfactory progress being made by one of our missionaries on sick leave from the Orient, who was obliged to pass through a serious operation in one of our sanitariums. The first query of the worker on coming out of the operation was, “Will I be able to go back to ——?” This is the burden carried upon the heart of the worker held in the homeland to fight the battle for renewed health.

W. A. S.