A *View of the Field

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Apr 21, 1904

*A View of the Field***

IN the great mission fields of India, China, Japan, and Korea are massed seven hundred and sixty million idolatrous heathen, or about one half of the world's population. To enlarge the picture so as to embrace the vast aggregation of human beings in Southern and Eastern Asia, we have a vision that shocks our Christian sensibilities, fires our Christian consciences, and makes the blood of Christian sympathy leap in our veins.

Of every two infants in the world, one first sees the light in heathen Asia: to what instruction is it born?

Of every two brides, one offers her vows there: to what affection is she destined?

Of every two families, one spreads its table there: what love unites their circle?

Of every two widows, one is lamenting there: what consolation will soothe her?

Of every two orphan girls, one is wandering there: what charities will protect her?

Of every two wounded consciences, one is trembling there: what balm, what physician, does it know?

Of every two men that die, one is departing there: what shore is in his eye? — Selected.