Giving to Missions by M. E.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 18, 1910

Giving to Missions

By M. E.

THE young people are receiving a great blessing through their gifts for home and foreign missions. A Massachusetts Missionary Volunteer society raised $100 that the new church building might be dedicated free from debt; another society in the same State presented $50 to one of its members who went to China as a missionary. The young people in Arkansas are raising $200 to apply on the conference debt. In New York the Missionary Volunteers last year sent some Indian boys to the school at Tunesassa. One society in British Columbia is supporting a student in the South. Last year the society at Mt. Vernon, Wash., gave $12 a month for the support of a church-school teacher in the South. Kentucky, Maine, Western Washington, and other conferences have been helping the Southern work. The Graysville (Tenn.) society has been supporting a student in the Oakwood school. The young people in Minnesota have raised money for a tent in which to hold their services at camp-meeting; so also have the youth of the Cumberland Conference. The Missionary Volunteers in the Columbia Union Conference are working on a $1,200 fund for a new water-plant for the college at Mt. Vernon, Ohio.

The West Michigan Missionary Volunteers are endeavoring to raise $1,000 to build a home for one of our missionaries in China. Western Oregon has just completed a fund of $150 for a gospel tent for Japan. Although the young people in Western Washington are trying to raise a conference educational fund, they have united with Upper Columbia in the effort to send Japan $250 for sanitarium supplies. The Iowa young people have been raising money for a denominational library for the sanitarium in that conference. Besides this the Elk Horn church has sent $12.50 for furnishing the teacher's room in the new school in China, and the Exira young people have raised $25 to pay a Fijian boy's tuition for one year. Wisconsin is raising $150 for the assembly-room

of the new school in China. One society in Ontario is raising $5 a month toward the support of a Chinese laborer. A society in Southern New England has just raised $10 for Africa. The Southern California secretary writes that they are raising money for a gospel tent in Japan, a stereopticon outfit for China, a chapel in Mexico, and have been supporting two students in the Fernando Academy.

A glance at our young people in foreign fields is equally cheering. In the British Union Conference our youth are aiding financially the work in north Scotland. The Scandinavian youth give of their means to help the missionaries on the borders of Abyssinia. In Australia the young people are supporting ten missionaries. These gleanings from the mail-bag suffice to show what our young people are doing, and what they may do. M. E.