Interest in Missions

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 23, 1910

Interest in Missions

THE following suggestion is made in the June number of the Homiletic Review as a means whereby interest in missions may be created:—

General statements of the number of unevangelized heathen or of the shortcomings of ethnic faiths have lost much of their power. Comparisons between the amounts annually spent for chewing-gum and missions are not very convincing. Mere reiterations of Christ's great missionary command, though they may convict, rarely inspire. But to show the inherently missionary nature of the gospel is likely to awaken and win some of your hearers; for men's hearts warm to the spirit of adventure: while to acquaint young men and women with the lives of those who have been not only self-sacrificing and devoted but effective, will bring recruits to the missionary societies as scarcely anything else can. Mazzini used to say that there was one appeal which never failed. It was the invitation, "Come and suffer."