p. 24 | A Call for Missionary Funds

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Apr 9, 1908

A Call for Missionary Funds

The Methodist General Committee and Board of Foreign Missions is sending out through all the ranks of that denomination an earnest appeal for a fund of $1,400,000 to be raised during the year for use in missionary work in the less enlightened countries of the world. That appeal contains the following statements, which will be read with interest by our people:—

All pagan and Mohammedan lands are now open to the heralds of the cross. There is a seething restlessness in all non-Christian nations. The people are reaching out for something, and they know not what. They have a soul-hunger and there is no bread. Now is the opportune time to give them the bread of life. In all lands there are points of light in the midst of surrounding darkness. These points of light must be multiplied and enlarged until the darkness is dissipated. Everywhere the fields are white unto the harvest, but, alas, the laborers are too few.

This sudden opening of the world's doors to the heralds of the gospel constitutes the most striking miracle of modern times, and presages the completion of the gospel work in the earth.