Notes on the Summary by E. R. P.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 31, 1910

Notes on the Summary

By E. R. P.

WELCOME to Korea! This is the first report to our monthly summary from that interesting mission field.

Last month we had no report from Germany or Russia, hence the report in this summary for two months. Note also that the German Union Conference has been divided, and will appear hereafter as the East German and West German union conferences.

The Southeastern Union Conference, though one of the youngest and smallest in the sisterhood of union conferences in the United States, presents the largest report for the month of February. It would seem from the figures that a good per cent of the agents from the other conferences of that union conference have gone to Florida for their health. At any rate, the report from Florida shows a most remarkable growth.

As we look over the summary and compare the reports year by year, it is well to bear in mind what has been sacrificed by some of the union conferences during the past year, in sending their best men to be leaders in foreign fields. And yet the work moves onward, rising a little higher each year. It is one of the beautiful paradoxes of the gospel that we make progress in proportion to what we give. Although at times the home work seems to stagger when we send our best leaders abroad, yet somehow, under the Lord's direction, the reflex blessing from our gifts nerves our hands and cheers our hearts, and the work swings upward and onward with new force and power. We live by giving; we die by withholding. “It is good to see a man give until it hurts him, and then continue giving until it doesn’t hurt him.” E. R. P.