Mission Note

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 25, 1916

A MISSIONARY pictures mission life on one of the large African mission farms in these words: “You may picture us as plodding along, spending commonplace days, with neither missionary romance nor missionary hardship in them. And this is a very common kind of day in the life of every missionary. For these commonplace tasks have to be done, and we have this for comfort, that the lives of the greatest heroes are mostly made up of them. Then we must walk down on the level ourselves, and not weary, if we are to teach our native Christians how to do it. They learn all too easily, sometimes, to preach and to pray, but they often fail in the everyday life. It is just through the trivial round, the common task, that we may teach them how Christianity must sanctify their lives at every point,—by keeping our own tempers, by entering with loving sympathy into all their troubles and joys, by seeing them not only from the pulpit and the school platform, but on the common ground of their daily life and ours.”