Mission Notes

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 6, 1907

THIS incident is related in a letter from Elder Babcock, of West Africa: “A young minister, formerly of the United Brethren Church, visited me, and finally decided in favor of the truth. His wife was much opposed. A few months ago she dreamed of seeing a large tent, and people coming to receive the ‘seal’ of God. She was unable to find out just what the ‘seal’ was. She said that in her dream she could not find her husband for some time, but at last he came, and was ‘sealed.’ For a while she would not come to the meetings in the tent. At the very first meeting she attended, I spoke on the ‘seal,’ and her heart was opened to the truth. She and her husband have had experience in mission work.”

WILLIAM CAREY, in point of winsomeness, was the very opposite of Robert Morrison. On Carey’s leaving his pastorate in Leicester, England, it is recorded that one of the obstacles presented to his going to India was: “The congregation to which Carey had ministered was loath to lose the services of their pastor; and so Thomas and Sutcliff had to visit Leicester to conciliate his hearers. With many heart pangs his congregation consented to the severance, a sense of duty prevailing. ‘We have been praying,’ said one of the members, ‘for the spread of Christ’s kingdom among the heathen, and now God requires us to make the first sacrifice to accomplish it.’ And upon their pastor’s leaving, they made an entry in their church book, so that his love to his poor miserable fellow creatures might be put on record; at the same time stating that while they concurred with him, it was at the expense of losing one whom they loved as their own souls.”