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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 13, 1910

Editorial

By W. A. S.

Facilities Needed Abroad Also

THE spirit of the third angel’s message has given every true Seventh-day Adventist a personal interest in all the world that God so loved, and a desire to share facilities with those afar off. This is why the suggestion of the $300,000 Fund to provide special facilities at points of need was received so heartily. The popular idea in such matters is thus expressed by Bishop Brent, of the Philippines, who says, in the Outlook:—

We have yet to contend against the old conception of missions and missionaries,—that they need little, less than people with much easier tasks, that they must not have the ordinary comforts of life, and must work miracles withal. One of the chief troubles with missionary institutions is that, with a work far more taxing and difficult than in ordinary conditions at home, they are supposed to be greatly favored if they receive pennies where home institutions of a similar character receive dollars. The harder the task, the poorer the equipment, is not a proverb found in the sayings of the wise man. W. A. S.