Report for Fourth Quarter of 1907 by M. E.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Apr 16, 1908

Report for Fourth Quarter of 1907

By M. E.

FIGURES always speak. But seldom are these messengers freighted with more good cheer than those found in the last Missionary Volunteer Summary. (See the Youth's Instructor for April 21.) Those figures tell us that in many places the pages of truth are falling like autumn leaves, and that the Missionary Volunteers have caused another five thousand dollars to flow through the channels of missionary work both at home and abroad. This is by far the largest quarterly donation yet reported by our young people. The figures speak of new fields being entered, new victories being won, and of more recruits coming into the ranks of Prince Immanuel.

From all quarters come glad tidings. A society in California gave one thousand dollars to missions last year. One of the societies in Nebraska is raising fifteen dollars a week for the work in Nyassaland. The children in Louisiana are being interested in needy fields through their little “Penny Mission Bands.” Last quarter one of Quebec's young men sold three hundred books. There are less than three hundred Sabbath-keepers in Queensland, Australia, yet the young people there in ten months raised fifty pounds for the work in New Guinea,—about $25.10 a month. From Honolulu comes the good news that a promising young man has accepted the truth, and that one of the members of the Hawaiian Missionary Volunteer Society is sending a girl to school in India.

Such is the news from the standing army of Missionary Volunteers—an army of six thousand young men and women! What could thirty thousand do? “With such an army . . . how soon the message of a crucified, risen, and soon-coming Saviour might be carried to the world.” There is an urgent call for recruits. The enemy is an ever-prowling foe. His picket line is ambushed along Israel's route to capture those who lag behind in the march. But Prince Immanuel knows no defeat, and it is the privilege of every young man and every young woman to join with him in the great conflict of reclaiming the lost from the hands of the usurper. Wanted—your prayers, your means, yourself, to help save others.

You are wanted—

“To serve where the elbows jostle, To serve though it be alone; To serve in the lightened homeland, To serve in the heathen zone. Yes, without halting, without rest Ever to serve, where he sees best.”

M. E.