Foreign Mission Bands by L. L. Caviness

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

Foreign Mission Bands

By L. L. Caviness

THE report of the Foreign Mission Bands has been somewhat delayed. All the colleges have been heard from now except Pacific Union College. The best report comes from Berrien Springs. It reports sixty-one students definitely planning to go to foreign fields. Of these, four prefer China; seven prefer India; seventeen prefer Africa, one especially choosing Abyssinia; nine prefer Spanish fields, seven of these specifying South America; four prefer Japan; one chooses Mohammedan fields; the rest express no preference. Of the sixty-one, twenty-five are in college grades and thirty-six in the academic.

Walla Walla reports forty resident members, twenty-seven honorary members (now in the foreign field), and one hundred and three members now in the work here at home. Of these last, fifteen are in the ministry, twenty-four are teaching in our schools, four are State agents for our book work, twelve are nurses, five are bookkeepers and stenographers. Details of grade of work of resident members or their preferred fields were not given.

At Mount Vernon there are thirty-two students definitely planning on the foreign field. Their preferences are not specified, except in the case of two students, one choosing India and the other China. Three students are listed as in the college grades, and twenty-nine in the academic. Seven associate members are reported, who are studying the foreign mission question, but have not yet decided definitely to plan to go.

The Foreign Mission Seminary organized a band of twenty-five this year. Of these, five have already gone out this current year. It is expected four others will go out before the close of the school year. Of these twenty-five, three are college graduates, one a graduate from a fourteen-grade musical course, several are graduate nurses, and most of the others have at least finished an academic course.

Union College reports a band of twenty-two members definitely planning on the foreign field. Details of grade of work and preferred fields were not given. Union's honorary membership should number about one hundred, for over one hundred have gone from that college to the foreign field.

Deducting the five who have gone out from the Seminary this current year, there are one hundred and seventy-five young people at these four schools who are definitely planning on service in the foreign field. We cannot but take courage at the army which the Lord is providing. Let us pray both that these dear young people may be well prepared intellectually and spiritually and that their number

may be greatly increased. “Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth laborers into his harvest.”

L. L. CAVINESS, Interband Secretary.