Growing Needs in the Mission Fields

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Mar 2, 1911

Growing Needs in the Mission Fields

The manner in which the very progress of the work in the mission fields brings added responsibilities to us is shown by the following words from Elder C. L. Butterfield, of Korea:—

“Truly, the needs increase, whether new workers are sent out or not. We were surprised, in making up our budget for 1911, to find that although we have no more workers than in 1910, yet we need one third more than we had last year to carry us through this year. The message is going as a prairie fire before the breeze. That which met the needs of yesterday is insufficient for the needs of to-day. God is doing a quick work in the earth, and we must step fast.”

These are good words from that field where three ministers and a few associates face fifteen millions of people.