A Pressing Call-Who Will Respond? by A. G. DANIELLS.

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

A Pressing Call—Who Will Respond?

By A. G. DANIELLS.

On the last page of the REVIEW of July 28, a call was made for 120 volunteers for mission fields, as follows: 27 for China; 18 for India; 6 for South Africa; 6 for Japan; 11 for the West Indies; 34 for South America; 3 for the Philippine Islands; 7 for West Africa; 1 for the Straits Settlements; 6 for Great Britain; and 2 for Bermuda. Of this company 56 should be evangelists, 21 nurses, 26 canvassers, 4 physicians, 9 teachers, and 4 Bible workers.

This is the call now pressed upon the home land by our brethren who have gone from us to mission fields. They have great need of these workers to fill the openings of God's providences about them. Who will go?

The General Conference Committee is anxious to make the selection at once. Those selected will be asked to spend their first six or nine months in the Foreign Mission Seminary instead of in the mission fields. The responsibility of sending young men and women to all parts of the world is so great that the committee feels that in the future greater care must be exercised than in the past to become acquainted with those who are selected, and to give them the preliminary instruction nearly all need before going to foreign lands to live among, and work for, a strange people.

Therefore, those who are selected will be placed in the Seminary at the expense of the Mission Board, instead of being sent at once to the mission fields at greater expense and at far greater and more serious risks.

The call for 120 evangelists, physicians, nurses, canvassers, Bible workers, and teachers is a very definite one, and the arrangements for their final selection and preparation are the best we have ever made. And now there should be no delay in our movements. These workers must be substantial and reliable. They should be the very flower of our young people.

We earnestly appeal to our union and local conference officers, to our ministers, to the presidents of our colleges and academies, to our physicians, and to our sanitarium managers to help us in making this selection. And we ask for immediate action. The calls are already pressing us from the fields, and the Seminary is to open September 14. It will take time to obtain the full information we must have regarding each person before making an appointment. Therefore we request that prompt action be taken by all who can render help. We also request those who feel called to mission fields to communicate with us without delay. The president of the Seminary will furnish a blank which must be filled in by all applicants. In writing for the blank, or to notify us of the desire to go to a mission field, do not fail to give reliable references.

A. G. DANIELLS.