Counsel from Returned Missionaries

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 1, 1916

Counsel from Returned Missionaries

A RETURNED missionary, forced home by ill health, was made acquainted with the experience of the workers who were sent out to follow up the work he had to lay down, and was requested to write to them. By a certain coincidence the letter written passed through the Mission Board office, with the request that it be read. It is so full of helpful encouragement, suggesting to the new missionaries some of the things learned by actual experience, that we are wondering if there are not other returned missionaries who could not likewise help their successors in bearing the burdens of the first year out, by passing back counsel as to dangers to be avoided, and pointing out things it would be well for them to do to preserve health and fortify their courage. No one can write such helpful letters as those who have been on the very ground, and know the conditions surrounding these volunteers at the front.