Note and Comment

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D.C. · Jan 8, 1914

A Great Mission Field

THERE is a great field for missionary work among nominal Christians who do not now make a practice of regularly attending church services. This is the view taken by Zion’s Herald of Dec. 24, 1913. It is stated that “there are thirty thousand nominally Protestant persons in the city of Lowell, Mass., who never or very seldom attend church. . . . The exceedingly significant thing about these figures is that they far outnumber those who are now counted as the regular attendants.” And these conditions, the editor claims, are not found among foreigners, but among those who have been brought up in Protestant families, and who naturally turn to Protestant churches for whatever spiritual ministry they receive. “The field—the legitimate field—of Protestantism in this section of the country is literally white unto harvest. For every man, woman, and child who attends church, there is another and more on the outside to be reached.”