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OUR MISSIONARY WORK

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jun 24, 1880

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 6, No. 24.

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OUR MISSIONARY WORK.

By Editor

WE have nothing of which to boast in our labors; we are well aware that, as a people, we are not doing all that we should do to place the light of present truth before the multitudes that sit in darkness. But we are counseled to not "despise the day of small things." We feel that we have great reason to congratulate the friends of the truth over what is being accomplished in the missionary work. We call especial attention to the evidences of good being done in the ship work, and in sending the SIGNS to foreign fields. In our last week's paper the report of missionary work in England by Eld. Loughborough, and the article entitled The Ship Work, contained news which can only be very gratifying to every one interested in our pioneer paper.
The amount of good which has been done by visiting ships in San Francisco harbor will never be known till the revelation of the great day. We have reason to believe that but a small proportion of it ever comes to the notice of the workers. When the Lord shall cut short his work in righteousness we believe a great and glorious result will be shown of the work now being done so silently and unobtrusively in scattering our publications. Our hearts swell with grateful delight when we learn how highly our tracts and papers are prized by those "who go down to the sea in ships." Thousands, both on the seas and in strange lands, will thus hear of the great truths of the third angel's message, who would probably never hear of them in any other way. Certain it is that the preachers can never reach those classes who are reached by the ship service. The importance of this branch of our work is beyond computation, and it is such as to invite the prayerful interests of all who truly love God and their fellow-men. Those who desire to manifest their interest, or to take part in it, will bear in mind that we have a fund devoted to this special purpose, donations to which will always be timely.