What Dollars Will Do in China

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 3, 1910

What Dollars Will Do in China

The superintendent of one of our Washington Sabbath-schools wrote on the blackboard, “A dollar a day for missions,” as the aim in the class contributions. Dr. A. C. Selmon, of China, who has since returned to his field, happened to be present that day. His eye caught the motto, and he jotted down three things, any one of which “a dollar a day” for one year would do in China:—

“1. This $365 would fit up two dispensaries, where hundreds of patients could be treated and cured of sore eyes, ulcers, malaria, etc. Judging by our experience, these two dispensaries would save from fifty to a hundred lives from suicide by opium. Besides, thousands of pages of literature would be scattered, and gospel talks unlimited be given.

“2. It would support fifteen Chinese Bible women, who never fail to get the women and girls of non-Christian homes to listen to the gospel.

“3. It would support twenty-three boys or girls in one of our boarding schools, to be trained as workers among their people.”

This illustrates what regular systematic giving, even in small amounts, will accomplish for the cause of missions.