Home Missionary Work

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Apr 8, 1915

Home Missionary Work

HOME missionary work begins at home. Many who have a burden to work for God in fields beyond, whose sympathy has been awakened by listening to the relation of touching missionary incidents, or who are attracted by the halo and romance which in their minds surround working in a foreign land, need to begin working for the Master in their own homes.

A man who will sit in the house and let his wife bring in the wood and water, who grumbles if his meals are not ready, who chafes under his wife’s reasonable requests for money with which to buy the necessities of life, or the woman who has no time to instruct her children, but sends them out with evil companions on the street in order to be rid of them, hardly measures up to the standard of those who should be licensed by conferences to preach or do Bible work, or to the standard of those who should be sent out as missionaries to foreign lands.

The true missionary will wait neither for a more opportune time nor for a more favorable place in which to begin work for God. He will seek to represent his Master right where he is. In the home, in the church, in his own neighborhood, he will manifest that spirit which will gather with Christ and not scatter abroad. He is a poor candidate for a larger field who cannot obtain the witness of his own family and brethren and sisters regarding his missionary spirit.