Sabbath Schools and Missions

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 9, 1913

Sabbath Schools and Missions

A LIVELY interest in missions was manifested by the 2,614 Sabbath-schools in the United States and Canada, as shown in the splendid offerings to missions during 1912, which amounted altogether to $188,421.82. This was the result of keeping constantly before old and young alike the need of supplying money to send missionaries to heathen lands to live and proclaim among these many nationalities the saving principles found alone in the gospel of Jesus Christ. This sum was not made up by penny gifts alone, but nickels, dimes, quarters, dollars, and even larger sums also found their way into the Sabbath-school envelopes, to be passed on entire to the mission treasury.

At ten years of age a certain boy began to work in a cotton factory. His hours were from six in the morning to six at night. Out of the first week’s wages he bought the “Rudiments of Latin.” At sixteen he could read Vergil and Horace. Then he went to the university. Then he became a missionary and a blessing to hundreds of degraded heathen. He died in Africa, but was buried in Westminster Abbey. His name was David Livingstone.