Indications of Christian Service by M. E.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 25, 1909

Indications of Christian Service

By M. E.

HERE are a few indications of Christian service. A Missionary Volunteer Society in Ontario is sending a young lady to Lornedale academy. A society in New Jersey has sent two boxes of clothing to the Jamaica school. A young lady in Atlanta, Ga., in about two months sold nearly two thousand copies of Life and Health. Last year the children's Mission Bands in Louisiana raised sixty dollars for India. Nine hundred young people in Southern California are reading the Bible through. The Missionary Volunteers in Victoria, Australia, have recently presented the Java Mission with an organ and a typewriter. A worker in that mission is being supported by the young people in New South Wales, Australia. Truly “God has made the youth his helping hand.”

FOURTEEN thousand Morning Watch Calendars have been sold this year. That is nearly two hundred fifty per cent of last year's sales. This fact, we trust, means that at least fourteen thousand

young people are daily delving in the mine of heavenly treasures. That mine never disappoints. Its inexhaustible ore increases in value as the pickax goes deeper. Young friend, Satan heard your good resolution to learn each day the text assigned in the Morning Watch Calendar. He made a note of it, and has tried to thwart your purpose. What is the record for the first quarter? Has it sometimes been defeat? Take courage. You can learn those verses. Serve notice upon every hindering habit, to vacate premises. Then, by heavenly grace, determine day by day that Satan shall not rob you of that, which to lose means eternal poverty, and to gain means eternal wealth.

QUITE a number of our Missionary Volunteers have become Members of Attainment. Many others both at home and abroad are striving to reach that standard. The first in the foreign field to pass the examination were eleven young people in the West Indies. The Standard of Attainment is a race in which all may win. The reasons for urging all to participate in this race are obvious; for to reach the goal necessitates a knowledge both of our denominational history and of the cardinal points of our faith. A Methodist worker once said if the young people of that church knew its history, they would be proud to be Methodists. Surely, if our young people could look back through the decades, and see how God has made from the small beginning of this work the great missionary enterprise which today is operating in nearly every country, on the globe, they would esteem it a privilege to be Seventh-day Adventists. The other requirement of the Standard of Attainment is in accordance with the Saviour's words, “Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” That knowledge must become a personal possession; and then as the great principles of truth are assimilated by the individual, his life will demonstrate to the world the wonderful keeping power of God's work. Such is the knowledge needed. Such is the anchor that will be both “steadfast and sure” while storms of modern theology rage. M. E.