p. 16 | Mission Notes

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 23, 1908

Mission Notes

A PATIENT at the Wahroonga Sanitarium, Australia, recently paid for seven hundred twenty copies of the Smoker’s Number of the Australasian Good Health, the sanitarium workers promising to place these in the hands of smokers. A good temperance work, surely.

RECENTLY a missionary in South China, who labored earnestly for women, wrote a touching article entitled “Is It Worth While?” Soon after this she died. A colaborer, in relating the circumstances of her sudden death, writes: “Perhaps some would even now still ask, ‘Is it worth while?’ and add, ‘When you have to lay down your life in so short a time;’ but let us remember that all the great wonders that have been accomplished in missions have been through God’s using of these broken bits, it may seem, of many consecrated lives. It is estimated that the average missionary life is only six years. Some live on for forty, fifty, and sixty years, but many die after only a few years’ service, and some even with a few months’ service. But God uses it all, and it is this united missionary effort that has brought about such wonders for the salvation of the lost all over the heathen world.”