Missionary Recruits and Mission Gifts

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 18, 1916

Missionary Recruits and Mission Gifts

LETTERS coming in, from the mission fields tell of the anxious expectancy with which the workers are watching for the new recruits. The conferences and schools in the North American Division are yielding up a good number of missionary recruits, and we shall soon be announcing departures that will cheer all hearts. Yet fields that need help most urgently will still have to wait for another year unless by some special blessing an extra inflow of mission gifts comes into the mission treasury. In correspondence from the mission fields the workers again and again express their thanks to God for the regular and constant remembrance of their needs on the part of the churches in the older fields.

A LETTER from Elder R. T. Baer, president of the Argentine Conference, mentions the recent meetings in South America for the organization of the new division conference. He says, “We enjoyed the visits of the General Conference brethren very much. The studies given and the counsels were a source of great encouragement to all our workers. We had nearly seventy-five workers present, and this small army went out to their fields better prepared to win the lost for Christ. The organization of the South American Division Conference was a forward move for the work in this country, and I believe that the officers chosen for these responsibilities are men whom the Lord will bless. It does seem good to have other workers come to the field and help to cheer up the missionary who plods along year after year and sees few changes, if any. Our Argentine Conference work is getting on nicely. In 1914 the tithe of the conference was $8,854; in 1915 it was $14,298, the largest ever paid into the treasury. Our present membership is 1,084.” So the good words come in from the far fields.