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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 12, 1914

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 91, No. 11.

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The 1914 Goal

By M. E.

Of North American Missionary Volunteers

I. FIFTEEN hundred young people added to the church and to our Missionary Volunteer organization.
2. Five hundred new Members of Attainment.
3. One thousand Reading Course certificates.
4. Twenty-five thousand dollars for missions from our Missionary Volunteer Societies.

How to Reach the Goal

1. Every Missionary Volunteer,—
a. An observer of the morning watch.
b. Determined to win at least one soul.
c. Studying for Attainment membership.
d. A Reading Course member.
e. Give $2.50 for foreign missions through the Missionary Volunteer Society.
2. “At it, all at it, and always at it.”—Wesley.
3. Determine to reach the goal. “The best way to succeed is to determine not to fail.”
4. Strive to pass the goal in every point possible.
That, in brief, is the goal toward which our young people are working. From almost every conference come most enthusiastic letters. The words of Samuel J. Mills, “We can do it if we will,” used so often in later years by other Christian workers, are sounding through our ranks today as our young people lift their eyes to the 1914 goal. And several conferences are planning not only to reach their proportionate goals, but to go beyond in every point possible.
The young people almost everywhere are doing splendidly. What are you doing to encourage and help those in your community? It will be a great blessing for our young people to reach the goal. Think what it will mean to each young person to be a faithful observer of the morning watch this year, to endeavor earnestly to save at least one relative or friend who is out of the ark of safety, to strive to become rooted and grounded in the truth through the Standard of Attainment plan, to cultivate a taste for wholesome reading, and to enlist his own interests in the regions beyond through his gifts to missions. Surely, striving for this goal cannot fail to bring to every young person who participates a deeper consecration and a better preparation for service.
On the other hand, the gifts of our Senior and Junior Missionary Volunteers will be felt in the regions beyond. What will $25,000 do for the Orient? It will do all the following things during 1914:—
Support the educational work in south China.
Support the medical work in south China.
Support the educational work in central China.
Support all the native workers in central China.
Support the medical work in central China.
Equip the China Union Training School.
Provide five chapels for east China.
Support the medical work in east China.
Support the native colporteurs in east China.
Support the native workers in east China.
Support native workers in the Malaysian Mission.
Provide three chapels for the Malaysian Mission.
Pay running expenses of the Malaysian school.
Support the medical work in Japan.
Support five nurses in Korea.
Support four native Bible women in Korea.
Support thirteen native teachers in Korea.
Support one native evangelist in Korea.
Equip the new school building in Korea.
Build two homes for missionaries in China.
Because of your interest in foreign missions, and especially because of your interest in the boys and girls and the young men and young women around you, will not you do what you can to encourage them to reach the goal?
Nothing else will hold the young people and the boys and girls as will Christian service, and nothing else is needed so much as is soul-winning work. Robert E. Speer, in an address on South America, tells of a soldier who, having nothing to do, fell asleep on the unfenced deck. Nobody noticed him, and while sound asleep he rolled off, waking up only to utter a cry of despair. He was lost, for no one on that river boat could rescue him from the dark, tumbling waters. There is another picture equally true, and far, far more pathetic. It is that of our own dear young people who are sleeping on unfenced decks. Not one but hundreds of them are slipping off into the world’s swift current.
How is it in your church? How many have you lost? How can your conference Missionary Volunteer secretary help you more in saving your young people? Write your conference secretary about your problems.
And finally, in your efforts for the youth, never despair. In Isa. 49:25 God gives you who are contending with the enemy for the salvation of the youth, this promise: “I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children.” M. E.