Your ShelfYour Projects

What Youth and Children Can Do for Missions

14%

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 5, 1908

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 85, No. 10.

Read the full edition

What Youth and Children Can Do for Missions

By E. H. GATES

E. H. GATES
SOME months ago when the Australasian Union Conference began to lay plans for opening a mission in New Guinea, the secretary of the Queensland Tract Society asked that the young people of the Brisbane churches might have the privilege of sending a native missionary to that place, and of supporting him for a year.
A letter just received from the secretary tells of a deep interest in this mission enterprise on the part of the youth and children of these churches. Our people in the Queensland Conference are nearly all poor, on account of the hard times that have been experienced in that State for many years, due to the droughts that have prevailed there. The amount that the young people started out to raise was thirty pounds to send into the field and support for a year a native worker from our school in Fiji. This letter from the secretary states that when she made up the figures at the end of ten months, she found that fifty pounds had been collected. Now they have set out to make this up to sixty pounds by the end of this year (1907), and have already a part of this amount.
As soon as the amount is raised,—which I am sure will be soon,—the young people propose to donate a quarter's collection to the different island enterprises. The first thing on their list is Singapore. This will be very welcome to the workers here, as it has been a heavy expense to get this school enterprise on its feet. Everything is expensive here, and few of the students can pay cash for their board and tuition.
Now I am sure that if the youth and children of this poverty-stricken State (Queensland), and in one city too, can in a year collect sixty pounds (three hundred dollars) for the opening of a new mission, the more highly favored people of the United States could raise several funds the size of the one that is being raised for the important enterprise in that great country.
* Singapore, Straits Settlements.