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The Old-Time Missionary Spirit

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 2, 1910

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 87, No. 22.

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The Old-Time Missionary Spirit

By F. M. W.

IT is indeed gratifying to see indications of a revival of the old-time missionary spirit in our churches. The value of some of the old-time methods of doing missionary work can not be overestimated. One plan has been particularly fruitful of excellent results,—the one so much in vogue some years ago of our churches taking clubs of missionary papers, sending them out to interested persons, and following up the work with missionary correspondence. By this means thousands of substantial men and women were brought to a knowledge of the truth. These have helped to form the very backbone of this great, last-day movement.
This field of missionary operation can be made as effective now as in days gone by, and it is in the power of every Seventh-day Adventist to do missionary work in this way. We heartily commend this plan to our brethren and sisters. Secure a club of one of our missionary papers, the Signs of the Times or the Watchman. Send these papers out from week to week to persons whose names may be secured. Accompany the first copies sent by a short letter of introduction, asking the person to read the journal; follow this by later letters of inquiry. You will be surprised at the interest which will be awakened in many hearts; you will be cheered by the letters which you write, and by those which you receive.
There is nothing so helpful to Christian life as active missionary labor for others, and the personal touch in missionary work is the most valuable and effective means of labor. We may give our money to missionary causes, we may assist others in the work they do, and all this is well and good, but it never can take the place of the quickening power of personal labor for those around us. Try this plan of work if you are not already engaged in a more effective plan, and see what blessings it will bring into your life.
F. M. W.