p. 4 | The Plan to Work To by William Ambrose Spicer

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Aug 17, 1905

The Plan to Work To

By William Ambrose Spicer

THREE new countries are now to be entered. This cheering word comes, too, at a time when the Mission Board must hold back some workers on account of lack of funds for missions.

The new fields are to be entered without adding to the roll of workers. Older missions, themselves needy fields, are sharing help so that lands entirely neglected may have at least a witness for the message.

Algeria, in northern Africa, is to be opened by Brother and Sister Jesperson, transferred to that field by the Latin Union Mission in its recent conference in Switzerland.

Hayti, the French-speaking republic just off our own shores, is to be entered by Elder W. J. Tanner, transferred from Jamaica.

Bolivia, that great inland state of the South American republics, hitherto one of the most inaccessible of countries, is to be opened at once by colporteurs from Chile, who plan to make it a permanent occupation of the country.

There is a forward movement on in this work which even a shortage of mission funds can not stop. If in a time of shortage, when the Board must counsel delay and retrenchment in all the fields, three new lands are added to our missionary list, what might not be done if eighty thousand people bent every energy to the hastening on of the advent message? It might be said in a twelve-month that there was scarcely a land left without at least a witness. It is a most inspiring plan to work to, for when this message has been carried as a witness to all nations, the end will come. There is no other way of finishing this work, but this way will finish it. It is the Lord’s own plan.

W. A. S.