Missionary Work Among Foreigners

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D.C. · Jan 2, 1908

Missionary Work Among Foreigners

OUR commission is to foreign peoples as well as to those who speak our language. We have been slow in going out to other peoples, and so God has brought them to us by the millions. We are mingling with them continually; they have been brought to our very doors; and it is all in the beneficent purpose of our Leader. He designs that we shall bring the truths of the last message to the minds and hearts of those whom he has brought to our shores and to our very doors, that they in turn may carry or send it on to the home lands. He has also led out in the preparation of plans designed to bring this about. We have periodicals, pamphlets, and books published in this country in the languages of these various nationalities. We do not need to learn their language, nor wait until they have learned ours, before beginning to do real, effectual missionary work among them. There are very few of us who do not have opportunity of doing work of this kind. An article bearing upon this matter will be found on page 17 of this issue of the REVIEW, and it is worthy of thoughtful consideration. We have too long neglected the "foreigners" in the home field, and have therefore not seen that swift progress of the work which we might have seen.