General Conference Missionary Volunteer Report

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 23, 1916

General Conference Missionary Volunteer Report

AGAIN we present a report of our Missionary Volunteer work around the world. It is necessarily defective, because we have received no reports of work done from the continent of Europe. The number of societies, the membership, and the offerings given are for the whole Division, but the work reported represents the British Union only.

In spite of war and perplexity, however, the Adventist youth everywhere are responding to the call of the Master for workers. In Africa the Christian young people who have been redeemed from heathenism are being organized into Missionary Volunteer Societies, and the results are very gratifying. One of our missionaries on the old Solusi station writes:—

“The society has been in operation now for nearly three months, and I am glad to say it is a success. Every meeting makes it stronger. We organized with fifty-three members, and now we have a membership of sixty-six, and a Standard of Attainment class of seventy-five. Anybody who cares to do so may take the Standard of Attainment, but, of course, only church members can be members of the society. When our present baptismal class has been baptized, we shall very likely have a society of nearly one hundred members, for there are about forty in the class, and the majority of them will want to become members of the society.”

“I am glad to say that every one is a working member. It would do the young people at home good to step into one of our meetings some Sabbath afternoon, and hear these black boys and girls get up and give their reports.”